The basic issue is that despite have been deprecated and warned about as a
very bad thing in the man pages since its inception there are a few real
users of sys_sysctl. It was my assumption that because sysctl had been
deprecated for all of 2.6 there would be no user space users by this point,
so I initially gave sys_sysctl a very short deprecation period.
Now that I know there are a few real users the only sane way to proceed
with deprecation is to push the time limit out to a year or two work and
work with distributions that have big testing pools like fedora core to
find these last remaining users.
Which means that the sys_sysctl interface needs to be maintained in the
meantime.
Since I have provided a technical measure that allows us to add new sysctl
entries without reserving more binary numbers I believe that is enough to
fix the sys_sysctl binary interface maintenance problems, because there is
no longer a need to change the binary interface at all.
Since the sys_sysctl implementation needs to stay around for a while and
the worst of the maintenance issues that caused us to occasionally break
the ABI have been addressed I don't see any advantage in continuing with
the removal of sys_sysctl.
So instead of merely increasing the deprecation period this patch removes
the deprecation of sys_sysctl and modifies the kernel to compile the code
in by default.
With committing to maintain sys_sysctl we get all of the advantages of a
fast interface for anything that needs it. Currently sys_sysctl is about
5x faster than /proc/sys, for the same string data.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
set_mb() is used by set_current_state() which needs mb(), not wmb(). I
think it would be right to assume that set_mb() implies mb(), all arches
seem to do just this.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6:
USB: use MII hooks only if CONFIG_MII is enabled
USB Storage: unusual_devs.h entry for Sony Ericsson P990i
USB: xpad: additional USB id's added
USB: fix compiler issues with newer gcc versions
USB: HID: add blacklist AIRcable USB, little beautification
USB: usblp: fix system suspend for some systems
USB: failure in usblp's error path
usbtouchscreen: use endpoint address from endpoint descriptor
USB: sierra: Fix id for Sierra Wireless MC8755 in new table
USB: new VID/PID-combos for cp2101
hid-core: big-endian fix fix
USB: usb-storage: Unusual_dev update
USB: add another sierra wireless device id
Add a swsusp debugging mode. This does everything that's needed for a suspend
except for actually suspending. So we can look in the log messages and work
out a) what code is being slow and b) which drivers are misbehaving.
(1)
# echo testproc > /sys/power/disk
# echo disk > /sys/power/state
This should turn off the non-boot CPU, freeze all processes, wait for 5
seconds and then thaw the processes and the CPU.
(2)
# echo test > /sys/power/disk
# echo disk > /sys/power/state
This should turn off the non-boot CPU, freeze all processes, shrink
memory, suspend all devices, wait for 5 seconds, resume the devices etc.
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Move journal-api into filesystems.tmpl as a Chapter. Applies on top of the
previous docbook: make a filesystems book patch.
Remove trailing whitespace from journal-api chapter. Align some of the
tags.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Correct a few comments in kernel-doc Doc and source files.
(akpm: note: the patch removes a non-ascii character and might have to be
applied by hand..)
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch add AIRcable USBto USB-HID blacklist, makes some little
changes things in the Kconfig to make AIRcable USB look as all the rest
of drivers. And it removes the readme part that was on
Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt because it is not needed anymore.
Signed-off-by: Naranjo Manuel Francisco <naranjo.manuel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Since we already moved to GENERIC_TIME, we should implement alternatives
of old do_gettimeoffset routines to get sub-jiffies resolution from
gettimeofday(). This patch includes:
* MIPS clocksource support (based on works by Manish Lachwani).
* remove unused gettimeoffset routines and related codes.
* remove unised 64bit do_div64_32().
* simplify mips_hpt_init. (no argument needed, __init tag)
* simplify c0_hpt_timer_init. (no need to write to c0_count)
* remove some hpt_init routines.
* mips_hpt_mask variable to specify bitmask of hpt value.
* convert jmr3927_do_gettimeoffset to jmr3927_hpt_read.
* convert ip27_do_gettimeoffset to ip27_hpt_read.
* convert bcm1480_do_gettimeoffset to bcm1480_hpt_read.
* simplify sb1250 hpt functions. (no need to subtract and shift)
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Make a filesystems DocBook book/file by moving all filesystems info from
kernel-api.tmpl. Will also merge journal-api.tmpl into it soon (with
permission from Roger Gammans). Localizes filesystem info and reduces size
of the huge (produced) kernel-api output files.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix cut'n'paste typo - &a and &b are used in other examples, in this one
the doc uses &u and &v.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/hwmon-2.6:
hwmon: Fix debug messages in w83781d
hwmon: Let w83781d and lm78 load again
w83627ehf: Fix the detection of fan5
k8temp: Documentation update
smsc47m1: List the SMSC LPC47M112 as supported
hwmon: Fix documentation typos
adm9240: Update Grant Coady's email address
w83791d: Fix unchecked return status
Update the documentation for the k8temp driver.
Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The SMSC LPC47M112 Super-I/O chip appears to be compatible with the
LPC47M10x and LPC47M13x as far as hardware monitoring is concerned.
The device ID is even the same, so it's really only a documentation
update.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Replace a bouncing email that I cannot recover from Mr Google.
Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
I suspect that not many people is subscribed to the bugzilla mailing list,
not surprising since the URLs doesn't seem to be in the tree :)
After fixing my english, I wonder if the following patch could be applied...
Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Problem:
New Dell PowerEdge servers have 2 embedded ethernet ports, which are
labeled NIC1 and NIC2 on the chassis, in the BIOS setup screens, and
in the printed documentation. Assuming no other add-in ethernet ports
in the system, Linux 2.4 kernels name these eth0 and eth1
respectively. Many people have come to expect this naming. Linux 2.6
kernels name these eth1 and eth0 respectively (backwards from
expectations). I also have reports that various Sun and HP servers
have similar behavior.
Root cause:
Linux 2.4 kernels walk the pci_devices list, which happens to be
sorted in breadth-first order (or pcbios_find_device order on i386,
which most often is breadth-first also). 2.6 kernels have both the
pci_devices list and the pci_bus_type.klist_devices list, the latter
is what is walked at driver load time to match the pci_id tables; this
klist happens to be in depth-first order.
On systems where, for physical routing reasons, NIC1 appears on a
lower bus number than NIC2, but NIC2's bridge is discovered first in
the depth-first ordering, NIC2 will be discovered before NIC1. If the
list were sorted breadth-first, NIC1 would be discovered before NIC2.
A PowerEdge 1955 system has the following topology which easily
exhibits the difference between depth-first and breadth-first device
lists.
-[0000:00]-+-00.0 Intel Corporation 5000P Chipset Memory Controller Hub
+-02.0-[0000:03-08]--+-00.0-[0000:04-07]--+-00.0-[0000:05-06]----00.0-[0000:06]----00.0 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708S Gigabit Ethernet (labeled NIC2, 2.4 kernel name eth1, 2.6 kernel name eth0)
+-1c.0-[0000:01-02]----00.0-[0000:02]----00.0 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708S Gigabit Ethernet (labeled NIC1, 2.4 kernel name eth0, 2.6 kernel name eth1)
Other factors, such as device driver load order and the presence of
PCI slots at various points in the bus hierarchy further complicate
this problem; I'm not trying to solve those here, just restore the
device order, and thus basic behavior, that 2.4 kernels had.
Solution:
The solution can come in multiple steps.
Suggested fix#1: kernel
Patch below optionally sorts the two device lists into breadth-first
ordering to maintain compatibility with 2.4 kernels. It adds two new
command line options:
pci=bfsort
pci=nobfsort
to force the sort order, or not, as you wish. It also adds DMI checks
for the specific Dell systems which exhibit "backwards" ordering, to
make them "right".
Suggested fix#2: udev rules from userland
Many people also have the expectation that embedded NICs are always
discovered before add-in NICs (which this patch does not try to do).
Using the PCI IRQ Routing Table provided by system BIOS, it's easy to
determine which PCI devices are embedded, or if add-in, which PCI slot
they're in. I'm working on a tool that would allow udev to name
ethernet devices in ascending embedded, slot 1 .. slot N order,
subsort by PCI bus/dev/fn breadth-first. It'll be possible to use it
independent of udev as well for those distributions that don't use
udev in their installers.
Suggested fix#3: system board routing rules
One can constrain the system board layout to put NIC1 ahead of NIC2
regardless of breadth-first or depth-first discovery order. This adds
a significant level of complexity to board routing, and may not be
possible in all instances (witness the above systems from several
major manufacturers). I don't want to encourage this particular train
of thought too far, at the expense of not doing #1 or #2 above.
Feedback appreciated. Patch tested on a Dell PowerEdge 1955 blade
with 2.6.18.
You'll also note I took some liberty and temporarily break the klist
abstraction to simplify and speed up the sort algorithm. I think
that's both safe and appropriate in this instance.
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Adds support for dance pads to the xpad driver. Dance pads require the
d-pad to be mapped to four buttons instead of two axes, so that
combinations of up/down and left/right can be hit simultaneously.
Known dance pads are detected, and there is a module parameter added
to default unknown xpad devices to map the d-pad to buttons if this is
desired. (dpad_to_buttons). Minor modifications were made to port the
changes in the original patch to a newer kernel version.
This patch was originally from Dominic Cerquetti originally written
for kernel 2.6.11.4, with minor modifications (API changes for USB,
spelling fixes to the documentation added in the original patch) made
to apply to the current kernel. I have modified Dominic's original
patch per some suggestions from Dmitry Torokhov. (There was nothing
in the patch format description about multiple From: lines, so I
haven't added myself.)
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
As this module is now part of the kernel tree, there is no need
for instructions on how to download it and build an external module.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Document the wan feature Jeremy Fitzhardinge added to ibm_acpi.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Deianov <borislav@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Document the change of the experimental flag for brightness and volume.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Deianov <borislav@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
The WinTV-HVR3000 is currently defined for analog support only. This
patch adds full DVB-T support. (DVB-S support will be added soon)
Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@hauppauge.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
I was looking at lockdep-desing.txt and i guess i am confused with the
changes with respect to fd7bcea35e. It
says
+ '.' acquired while irqs enabled
+ '+' acquired in irq context
+ '-' acquired in process context with irqs disabled
+ '?' read-acquired both with irqs enabled and in irq context
+
But the get_usage_chars() function does this for '-'
if (class->usage_mask & LOCKF_ENABLED_HARDIRQS)
*c1 = '-';
So i guess what would be correct would be
'.' acquired while irqs disabled
'+' acquired in irq context
'-' acquired with irqs enabled
'?' read acquired in irq context with irqs enabled.
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The pipe-a-coredump-to-a-program feature was undocumented.
*Grumble*.
NB: a good enhancement to that patch would be: save all the stuff that a
core file can get from the %x expansions in the environment.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This file, ext4.txt, was put together with information from Andrew Morton,
Andreas Dilger, Suparna Bhattacharya, and Ted Ts'o.
I copied the mount options, with the exception of "extents", from ext3.txt,
so if anyone is aware of anything out-of-date, please let me know.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch sets timeout of max 180 seconds for ioctl completion.
It also updates the Changelog and hikes the version to 3.05.
Signed-off-by: Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb:
V4L/DVB (4712): Fix warning when compiling on x86_i64
V4L/DVB (4711): Radio: No need to return void
V4L/DVB (4708): Add tveeprom support for Philips FM1236/FM1216ME MK5
V4L/DVB (4707): 4linux: complete conversion to hotplug safe PCI API
V4L/DVB (4706): Do not enable VIDEO_V4L2 unconditionally
V4L/DVB (4704): SAA713x: fixed compile warning in SECAM fixup
V4L/DVB (4703): Add support for the ASUS EUROPA2 OEM board
V4L/DVB (4702): Fix: set antenna input for DVB-T for Asus P7131 Dual hybrid
V4L/DVB (4701): Saa713x audio fixes
V4L/DVB (4676a): Remove Kconfig item for DiB7000M support
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (25 commits)
[POWERPC] Add support for the mpc832x mds board
[POWERPC] Add initial support for the e300c2 core
[POWERPC] Add MPC8360EMDS default dts file
[POWERPC] Add MPC8360EMDS board support
[POWERPC] Add QUICC Engine (QE) infrastructure
[POWERPC] Add QE device tree node definition
[POWERPC] Don't try to just continue if xmon has no input device
[POWERPC] Fix a printk in pseries_mpic_init_IRQ
[POWERPC] Get default baud rate in udbg_scc
[POWERPC] Fix zImage.coff on oldworld PowerMac
[POWERPC] Fix xmon=off and cleanup xmon initialisation
[POWERPC] Cleanup include/asm-powerpc/xmon.h
[POWERPC] Update swim3 printk after blkdev.h change
[POWERPC] Cell interrupt rework
POWERPC: mpc82xx merge: board-specific/platform stuff(resend)
POWERPC: 8272ads merge to powerpc: common stuff
POWERPC: Added devicetree for mpc8272ads board
[POWERPC] iSeries has no legacy I/O
[POWERPC] implement BEGIN/END_FW_FTR_SECTION
[POWERPC] iSeries does not need pcibios_fixup_resources
...
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
[libata] pata_artop: kill gcc warning
[PATCH] libata: turn off NCQ if queue depth is adjusted to 1
[PATCH] libata: cosmetic changes to constants
[libata] DocBook minor updates, fixes
[libata] PCI ID table cleanup in various drivers
[libata] Print out Status register, if a BSY-sleep takes too long
[libata] init probe_ent->private_data in a common location
[libata] minor PCI IDE probe fixes and cleanups
[libata] Use new PCI_VDEVICE() macro to dramatically shorten ID lists
[PATCH] Fix reference of uninitialised memory in ata_device_add()
This patch contains the scheduled removal of OSS drivers that:
- have ALSA drivers for the same hardware without known regressions and
- whose Kconfig options have been removed in 2.6.17.
[michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kill a hard-to-calculate 'rsinterval' boot parameter and per-cpu
rcu_data.last_rs_qlen. Instead, it adds adds a flag rcu_ctrlblk.signaled,
which records the fact that one of CPUs has sent a resched IPI since the
last rcu_start_batch().
Roughly speaking, we need two rcu_start_batch()s in order to move callbacks
from ->nxtlist to ->donelist. This means that when ->qlen exceeds qhimark
and continues to grow, we should send a resched IPI, and then do it again
after we gone through a quiescent state.
On the other hand, if it was already sent, we don't need to do it again
when another CPU detects overflow of the queue.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Implement torture testing for the "sched" variant of RCU, which uses
preempt_disable, preempt_enable, and synchronize_sched.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Use the newly-generic synchronous deferred free function to implement torture
testing for rcu_bh using synchronize_rcu_bh rather than the asynchronous
call_rcu_bh.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Use the newly-generic synchronous deferred free function to implement torture
testing for RCU using synchronize_rcu rather than the asynchronous call_rcu.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
rcutorture currently has one writer and an arbitrary number of readers. To
better exercise some of the code paths in RCU implementations, add fake
writer threads which call the synchronize function for the RCU variant in a
loop, with a delay between calls to arrange for different numbers of
writers running in parallel.
[bunk@stusta.de: cleanup]
Acked-by: Paul McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipkanar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adds SRCU operations to rcutorture and updates rcutorture documentation.
Also increases the stress imposed by the rcutorture test.
[bunk@stusta.de: make needlessly global code static]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Updated patch adding a variant of RCU that permits sleeping in read-side
critical sections. SRCU is as follows:
o Each use of SRCU creates its own srcu_struct, and each
srcu_struct has its own set of grace periods. This is
critical, as it prevents one subsystem with a blocking
reader from holding up SRCU grace periods for other
subsystems.
o The SRCU primitives (srcu_read_lock(), srcu_read_unlock(),
and synchronize_srcu()) all take a pointer to a srcu_struct.
o The SRCU primitives must be called from process context.
o srcu_read_lock() returns an int that must be passed to
the matching srcu_read_unlock(). Realtime RCU avoids the
need for this by storing the state in the task struct,
but SRCU needs to allow a given code path to pass through
multiple SRCU domains -- storing state in the task struct
would therefore require either arbitrary space in the
task struct or arbitrary limits on SRCU nesting. So I
kicked the state-storage problem up to the caller.
Of course, it is not permitted to call synchronize_srcu()
while in an SRCU read-side critical section.
o There is no call_srcu(). It would not be hard to implement
one, but it seems like too easy a way to OOM the system.
(Hey, we have enough trouble with call_rcu(), which does
-not- permit readers to sleep!!!) So, if you want it,
please tell me why...
[josht@us.ibm.com: sparse notation]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
