The persistent-data library offers a re-usable framework for the storage
and management of on-disk metadata in device-mapper targets.
It's used by the thin-provisioning target in the next patch and in an
upcoming hierarchical storage target.
For further information, please read
Documentation/device-mapper/persistent-data.txt
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This UML breakage:
linux-2.6.30.1[3800] vsyscall fault (exploit attempt?) ip:ffffffffff600000 cs:33 sp:7fbfb9c498 ax:ffffffffff600000 si:0 di:606790
linux-2.6.30.1[3856] vsyscall fault (exploit attempt?) ip:ffffffffff600000 cs:33 sp:7fbfb13168 ax:ffffffffff600000 si:0 di:606790
Is caused by commit 3ae36655 ("x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add
vsyscall= parameter") - the vsyscall emulation code is not fully cooked
yet as UML relies on some rather fragile SIGSEGV semantics.
Linus suggested in https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/9/376 to default
to vsyscall=native for now, this patch implements that.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111005214047.GE14406@localhost.pp.htv.fi
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The second hunk fixes rps_sock_flow_table but has to re-wrap the paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* git://github.com/davem330/net:
ipv6-multicast: Fix memory leak in IPv6 multicast.
ipv6: check return value for dst_alloc
net: check return value for dst_alloc
ipv6-multicast: Fix memory leak in input path.
bnx2x: add missing break in bnx2x_dcbnl_get_cap
bnx2x: fix WOL by enablement PME in config space
bnx2x: fix hw attention handling
net: fix a typo in Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
ath9k: Fix a dma warning/memory leak
rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix unitialized struct
iwlagn: fix dangling scan request
batman-adv: do_bcast has to be true for broadcast packets only
cfg80211: Fix validation of AKM suites
iwlegacy: do not use interruptible waits
iwlegacy: fix command queue timeout
ath9k_hw: Fix Rx DMA stuck for AR9003 chips
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://github.com/groeck/linux:
hwmon: (coretemp) remove struct platform_data * parameter from create_core_data()
hwmon: (coretemp) constify static data
hwmon: (coretemp) don't use kernel assigned CPU number as platform device ID
hwmon: (ds620) Fix handling of negative temperatures
hwmon: (w83791d) rename prototype parameter from 'register' to 'reg'
hwmon: (coretemp) Don't use threshold registers for tempX_max
hwmon: (coretemp) Let the user force TjMax
hwmon: (coretemp) Drop duplicate function get_pkg_tjmax
Commit e27e6151b1 ("mm/thp: use conventional format for boolean
attributes") changed
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag
to be tuned by using 1 (enabled) or 0 (disabled) instead of "yes" and
"no", respectively.
Update the documentation.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With commit c814a4c7c4, the meaning of tempX_max
was changed. It no longer returns the value of bits 8:15 of
MSR_IA32_TEMPERATURE_TARGET, but instead returns the value of CPU threshold
register T1. tempX_max_hyst was added to reflect the value of temperature
threshold register T0.
As it turns out, T0 and T1 are used on some systems, presumably by the BIOS.
Also, T0 and T1 don't have a well defined meaning. The thresholds may be used
as upper or lower limits, and it is not guaranteed that T0 <= T1. Thus, the new
attribute mapping does not reflect the actual usage of the threshold registers.
Also, register contents are changed during runtime by an entity other than the
hwmon driver, meaning the values cached by the driver do not reflect actual
register contents.
Revert most of c814a4c7c4 to address the problem.
Support for T0 and T1 will be added back in with a separate commit, using new
attribute names.
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Durgadoss R <durgadoss.r@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
On old CPUs (and even some recent Atom CPUs) TjMax can't be read from
the CPU registers, so it is guessed by the driver using a complex
heuristic which isn't reliable. So let users who know their CPU's
TjMax pass it as a module parameter.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: "R, Durgadoss" <durgadoss.r@intel.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Cc: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>
Acked-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
* git://github.com/davem330/net: (62 commits)
ipv6: don't use inetpeer to store metrics for routes.
can: ti_hecc: include linux/io.h
IRDA: Fix global type conflicts in net/irda/irsysctl.c v2
net: Handle different key sizes between address families in flow cache
net: Align AF-specific flowi structs to long
ipv4: Fix fib_info->fib_metrics leak
caif: fix a potential NULL dereference
sctp: deal with multiple COOKIE_ECHO chunks
ibmveth: Fix checksum offload failure handling
ibmveth: Checksum offload is always disabled
ibmveth: Fix issue with DMA mapping failure
ibmveth: Fix DMA unmap error
pch_gbe: support ML7831 IOH
pch_gbe: added the process of FIFO over run error
pch_gbe: fixed the issue which receives an unnecessary packet.
sfc: Use 64-bit writes for TX push where possible
Revert "sfc: Use write-combining to reduce TX latency" and follow-ups
bnx2x: Fix ethtool advertisement
bnx2x: Fix 578xx link LED
bnx2x: Fix XMAC loopback test
...
The dmfe module is a orphan driver, and with this was removed the maintainer
of the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.mage@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Revert the post-3.0 commit 82f9d486e5 ("memcg: add
memory.vmscan_stat").
The implementation of per-memcg reclaim statistics violates how memcg
hierarchies usually behave: hierarchically.
The reclaim statistics are accounted to child memcgs and the parent
hitting the limit, but not to hierarchy levels in between. Usually,
hierarchical statistics are perfectly recursive, with each level
representing the sum of itself and all its children.
Since this exports statistics to userspace, this may lead to confusion
and problems with changing things after the release, so revert it now,
we can try again later.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://bedivere.hansenpartnership.com/git/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: (25 commits)
[SCSI] bnx2i: Fixed the endian on TTT for NOP out transmission
[SCSI] libfc: fix referencing to fc_fcp_pkt from the frame pointer via fr_fsp()
[SCSI] libfc: block SCSI eh thread for blocked rports
[SCSI] libfc: fix fc_eh_host_reset
[SCSI] fcoe: Fix deadlock between fip's recv_work and rtnl
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.03.07.07-k.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Set the task attributes after memsetting fcp cmnd.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct inadvertent loop state transitions during port-update handling.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Save and restore irq in the response queue interrupt handler.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Double check for command completion if abort mailbox command fails.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Acquire hardware lock while manipulating dsd list.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Fix qla24xx revision check while enabling interrupts.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: T10 DIF - Fix incorrect error reporting.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: T10 DIF - Handle uninitalized sectors.
[SCSI] hpsa: fix physical device lun and target numbering problem
[SCSI] hpsa: fix problem that OBDR devices are not detected
[SCSI] isci: add version number
[SCSI] isci: fix event-get pointer increment
[SCSI] isci: dynamic interrupt coalescing
[SCSI] isci: Leave requests alone if already terminating.
...
The LTTng 2.0 kernel tracer (stand-alone module package, available at
http://lttng.org) uses the 0xF6 ioctl range for tracer control and
transport operations.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fixed missing ids of the codec controls description in the controls.xml file.
Signed-off-by: Kamil Debski <k.debski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
The chips supported by the max16065 driver should not be accessed using direct
i2ctools commands. Add warning to driver documentation to alert users.
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
xfs: fix ->write_inode return values
xfs: fix xfs_mark_inode_dirty during umount
xfs: deprecate the nodelaylog mount option
The description of pm_runtime_irq_safe() has to be updated to follow
the code after commit 02b2677 (PM / Runtime: Allow _put_sync() from
interrupts-disabled context).
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (29 commits)
bridge: fix a possible net_device leak
net: Documentation: RFC 2553bis is now RFC 3493
atm: br2684: Fix oops due to skb->dev being NULL
ipv6: Fix ipv6_getsockopt for IPV6_2292PKTOPTIONS
net: netdev-features.txt update to Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
vlan: reset headers on accel emulation path
forcedeth: call vlan_mode only if hw supports vlans
via-velocity: remove non-tagged packet filtering
bonding:reset backup and inactive flag of slave
net_sched: fix port mirror/redirect stats reporting
sit tunnels: propagate IPv6 transport class to IPv4 Type of Service
gianfar: reduce stack usage in gianfar_ethtool.c
net: minor update to Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
net: add missing entries to Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
gianfar: prevent buggy hw rx vlan tagging
net: sh_eth: Fix build by forgot including linux/interrupt.h
drivers/net/can/sja1000/plx_pci.c: eliminate double free
usbnet/cdc_ncm: Don't use stack variables for DMA
vmxnet3: Don't enable vlan filters in promiscuous mode.
iwlagn: sysfs couldn't find the priv pointer
...
Adding API update for adding isci_id entry scsi_host sysfs entry.
Also fixing up the sysfs registration to the scsi_host template
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (23 commits)
Revert "cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs."
block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags
block: improve rq_affinity placement
blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support
Move some REQ flags to the common bio/request area
allow blk_flush_policy to return REQ_FSEQ_DATA independent of *FLUSH
xen/blkback: Make description more obvious.
cfq-iosched: Add documentation about idling
block: Make rq_affinity = 1 work as expected
block: swim3: fix unterminated of_device_id table
block/genhd.c: remove useless cast in diskstats_show()
drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: relax check on dvd manufacturer value
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c: use bitmap_parse instead of __bitmap_parse
bsg-lib: add module.h include
cfq-iosched: Reduce linked group count upon group destruction
blk-throttle: correctly determine sync bio
loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other
loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices
loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation
loop: replace linked list of allocated devices with an idr index
...
Update netdev-features.txt entry in 00-INDEX to incorporate
feedback by Michał Mirosław.
v2: restored tabs that were inadvertently changed to spaces in v1.
sorry for the error.
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'docs-move' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs:
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: MSI -> MSIs
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Insert a comma
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: can -> could
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Use `unknown ...' rather than `... know about.'
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: may -> might
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Insert a comma
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: API -> function
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: , -> ;
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Move a sentence to another paragraph
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Insert `that'
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Offset modifier with a comma, and insert `yet' for emphasis
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Put the `because' subordinate clause first
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Streamline some wording
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: `asked for' -> `requested'
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Use present tense and streamline some wording
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Use the subjunctive, and change `can' to `may'
The CONFIG_RELOCATABLE code tries to align the unpack destination to
the value of 'kernel_alignment' in the setup_hdr. If that's 0, it
tries to unpack to address 0, which in fact causes the gunzip code
to call 'error("Out of memory while allocating output buffer")'.
The bootloader (ie. the lguest Launcher in this case) should be doing
setting this field; the normal bzImage is 16M, we can use the same.
Reported-by: Stefanos Geraggelos <sgerag@cslab.ece.ntua.gr>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Remove the name of Sergey Kostyliov as maintainer of befs.
In the MAINTAINERS file, befs is orphaned.
Signed-off-by: Marcos Souza <marcos.mage@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
General cleanups to kernel-parameters.txt:
- add missing $ARCH that are being used/referenced
- alphabetize the parameter restrictions list
- spell "IA-64" as listed in arch/ia64/Kconfig instead of "IA64"
- remove trailing whitespace
- use hyphen in 32-bit etc.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Usually kernel parameters are documented in kernel-parameters.txt
but user_debug is only documented in the Kconfig. Document the
option and point to the Kconfig help text for more info.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Dropping LSD (Linux Source Driver) since it hasn't been available
for a long time.
Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt <luis@debethencourt.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Incorporate last comments about hyperthreading, interrupt coalescing and
the definition of cache domains into the network scaling document scaling.txt
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
A simple janitor duty patch that adds a one sentence overview to
00-INDEX for all files that lacked it.
- does not add entries for subdirectories
- does not modify existing entries.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-tip:
x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add vsyscall= parameter
x86-64: Wire up getcpu syscall
x86: Remove unnecessary compile flag tweaks for vsyscall code
x86-64: Add vsyscall:emulate_vsyscall trace event
x86-64: Add user_64bit_mode paravirt op
x86-64, xen: Enable the vvar mapping
x86-64: Work around gold bug 13023
x86-64: Move the "user" vsyscall segment out of the data segment.
x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary
Commit cdefba03e4 changed pnp.debug from a boot param to a module param,
which means it needs a value when used on the command line.
CC: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
There are three choices:
vsyscall=native: Vsyscalls are native code that issues the
corresponding syscalls.
vsyscall=emulate (default): Vsyscalls are emulated by instruction
fault traps, tested in the bad_area path. The actual contents of
the vsyscall page is the same as the vsyscall=native case except
that it's marked NX. This way programs that make assumptions about
what the code in the page does will not be confused when they read
that code.
vsyscall=none: Trying to execute a vsyscall will segfault.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8449fb3abf89851fd6b2260972666a6f82542284.1312988155.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Describes RSS, RPS, RFS, accelerated RFS, and XPS.
This version incorporates comments by Randy Dunlap and Rick Jones.
Besides text cleanup, it adds an explicit "Suggested Configuration"
heading to each section.
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Acked-By: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit 655f8919d5
bonding: add min links parameter to 802.3ad
and commit ebd8e4977a
bonding: add all_slaves_active parameter
introduced new options to bonding, but didn't provide the documentation
for those options.
V2: add the default value for both options.
V3: document the exact behavior of min_links default value.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patch reviewers now recommend not splitting long user-visible strings,
such as printk messages, even if they exceed 80 columns. This avoids
breaking grep. However, that recommendation did not actually appear
anywhere in Documentation/CodingStyle.
See, for example, the thread at
http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c1312215262.11635.15.camel%40Joe%2dLaptop%3e
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently the use of pm_runtime_put_sync() is not safe from
interrupts-disabled context because rpm_idle() will release the
spinlock and enable interrupts for the idle callbacks. This enables
interrupts during a time where interrupts were expected to be
disabled, and can have strange side effects on drivers that expected
interrupts to be disabled.
This is not a bug since the documentation clearly states that only
_put_sync_suspend() is safe in IRQ-safe mode.
However, pm_runtime_put_sync() could be made safe when in IRQ-safe
mode by releasing the spinlock but not re-enabling interrupts, which
is what this patch aims to do.
Problem was found when using some buggy drivers that set
pm_runtime_irq_safe() and used _put_sync() in interrupts-disabled
context.
Reported-by: Colin Cross <ccross@google.com>
Tested-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
