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Linus Torvalds 0581445007 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial 2006-01-09 15:09:03 -08:00
Linus Torvalds f17578decc Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb 2006-01-09 13:03:58 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan 682e852e26 [PATCH] Fix more "if ((err = foo() < 0))" typos
Another reason to use:

	ret = foo();
	if (ret < 0)
		goto out;

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-09 13:02:51 -08:00
Michael Krufky cec418346e V4L/DVB (3336): Bluebird firmware hosting moved to common dvb firmware dir on linuxtv.org
- Get_dvb_firmware script updated accordingly:
- my $url = "http://www.linuxtv.org/~mkrufky/dvb-usb-bluebird-01.fw";
+ my $url = "http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvb/firmware/dvb-usb-blue$

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 18:21:40 -02:00
Chris Pascoe 43eabb4e22 V4L/DVB (3311): DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Digital PCI support
- Support for DVB reception on the PCI half of the DViCO DVB-T Dual Digital.

Signed-off-by: Chris Pascoe <c.pascoe@itee.uq.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 18:21:28 -02:00
Linus Torvalds 6150c32589 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge 2006-01-09 10:03:44 -08:00
Knut Petersen 44637a12f8 [PATCH] Update cyblafb driver
This is a major update to the cyblafb framebuffer driver. Most
of the stuff has been tested in the mm tree.

Main advantages:
============
  - vxres > xres support
  - ywrap and xpan support
  - much faster for almost all modes (e.g. 1280x1024-16bpp
     draws more than 41 full screens of text instead of about 25
     full screens of text per second on authors Epia 5000)
  - module init/exit code fixed
  - bugs triggered by console rotation fixed
  - lots of minor improvements
  - startup modes suitable for high performance scrolling
     in all directions

This diff  also contains a lot of white space fixes.

No side effects are possible, only one single graphics core is affected.

Signed-off-by: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-09 10:00:36 -08:00
Peter Missel 4aa6ba513e V4L/DVB (3295): Add analog support for LifeView FlyDVB Trio.
- Add support for LifeView FlyDVB Trio.
- all analog inputs are supported and working, including FM radio
- TO DO: dvb & remote control

Signed-off-by: Peter Missel <peter.missel@onlinehome.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:32:45 -02:00
Manenti Marco f39624fda0 V4L/DVB (3294): Add Kworld/Vstream Xpert DVB-T card with cx22702 tuner.
- Add Kworld/Vstream Xpert DVB-T card with cx22702 tuner.

Signed-off-by: Manenti Marco <marco_manenti@colman.it>
Signed-off-by: Nickolay V. Shmyrev <nshmyrev@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:32:45 -02:00
Michael Krufky d8e6acf2ec V4L/DVB (3287): Add DViCO Bluebird firmware to dvb_get_firmware script
- Add DViCO Bluebird firmware to dvb_get_firmware script,
for FusionHDTV USB devices.
- Use usb alt setting 0 for EP4 transfer (dvb-t),
- Use usb alt setting 7 for EP2 transfer (atsc)
- Added comment to lgdt330x.c to indicate support for
DViCO FusionHDTV5 USB Gold.
Thanks to: Jeff Lee <JeffLee@dvico.com>

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:32:42 -02:00
Ville Skytt\ä 12e66f6573 V4L/DVB (3242): make the firmware dir docs consistent in the v4l-dvb tree.
- make the firmware dir documentation and comments consistent in the v4l-dvb tree.

Signed-off-by: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:38 -02:00
Chris Pascoe fc40b261db V4L/DVB (3220): Add support for VP-3054 HDTV board
- Added support for VP-3054 (aka DigitalNow DNTV Live! DVB-T Pro!).
- This board has a secondary I2C bus and remote control.
- Added a new module to handle secondary I2C bus on this board.

Signed-off-by: Chris Pascoe <c.pascoe@itee.uq.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:35 -02:00
Michael Krufky 50c25fff53 V4L/DVB (3218): Whitespace cleanups
- minor whitespace cleanups

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:34 -02:00
Ricardo Cerqueira 41d70c26c6 V4L/DVB (3216): saa7134 card #58 has a newer revision with a new subsystem ID
- Added new ID for different revision of card #58. It's the same card,
but with a tda8275a instead of a tda8275

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Cerqueira <v4l@cerqueira.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:34 -02:00
Michael Krufky 83ac8722be V4L/DVB (3196): correct Thomson DTT 761x frequency ranges
- Corrected Thomson DTT 7611 tuner programming, based on spec sheet
- renamed to Thomson DTT 761x
- applies to DTT 7611 7611A 7612 7613 7613A 7614 7615 7615A
(DTT 7610 is similar, but slightly different programming)
- corrected frequency ranges for analog and digital modes

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:29 -02:00
Michael Krufky 5ea892f156 V4L/DVB (3166): "Philips 1236D ATSC/NTSC dual in" - fix typo.
- "Philips 1236D ATSC/NTSC dual in" - fix typo.

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:26 -02:00
Steven Toth c432a072b6 V4L/DVB (3092): Add support for another Nova-T-PCI PCI subdevice 0x9001
- Add support for another Nova-T-PCI PCI subdevice 0x9001

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@hauppauge.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:13 -02:00
Steven Toth 611900c185 V4L/DVB (3089): Adding support for the Hauppauge HVR1100 and HVR1100-LP products.
- Add support for the Hauppauge HVR1100 and HVR1100-LP products.
- Add i2c_gate_ctrl callback function to dvb_frontend_ops struct.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@hauppauge.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:12 -02:00
Vadim Catana 0e0351e370 V4L (1007): Add support for KWorld DVB-S 100
- Add support for KWorld DVB-S 100, based on the same chips as Hauppauge
Nova-S Plus (CX23883/CX24123/CX24109), without the Intersil ISL6421,
which is used for LNB control.
- LNB voltage and tone are controled by LNBDC and LNBTone bits from
register 0x29 of the CX24123 demodulator.
- The MO_GP0_IO register from CX23883 is used to turn LNB power on and off.

Signed-off-by: Vadim Catana <skystar@moldova.cc>
Acked-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:02 -02:00
Steven Toth fb56cb65e4 V4L (0990): Enable IR support for the Nova-S-Plus
- Enable IR support for the Nova-S-Plus.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@hauppauge.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:02 -02:00
Steven Toth 0fa14aa621 V4L (0979): Added V4L support for the Nova-S-Plus and Nova-SE2 DVB-S products
- Added V4L support for the Nova-S-Plus and Nova-SE2 DVB-S products.
- Basic DVB-S support is working, analog video inputs work.
- It has one or two fixme comments, primarily analog GPIOs (audio) and eeprom parsing.
- CX24123 code (in cx88-dvb.c) disabled until the
- cx24123 module is added to dvb-kernel cvs.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@hauppauge.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:02 -02:00
Steven Toth cd1257d860 V4L (1023): Added Hauppauge ImpactVCB board
- Modifications to bttv to support the Hauppauge ImpactVCB product
(Model #64900).

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@hauppauge.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:01 -02:00
Jörg Schummer f639c9b21b V4L (1019): Added basic support (tv + radio) for TerraTec Cinergy 250 PCI
- Added "TerraTec Cinergy 250 PCI" board (tv and radio).
- svideo not tested
- IR yet not working

Signed-off-by: Jörg Schummer <joerg.schummer@web.de>
Signed-off-by:  Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:01 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 17cbe2e583 V4L (963): Explicit compat_ioctl32 handler to em28xx
- Included explicit compat_ioctl32 handler.
- removed extra line on cardlist.


Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:24:58 -02:00
Eric Paris 8fad6939af [PATCH] update bonding.txt to not show ip address on slaves
ifenslave, as of abi version 2, does not set the ip address on the slave
interfaces.  The documentation example however still shows that the
ensalved interfaces should have the same IP as the master.  The patch
simply removes the lines from the example which should no longer appear.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

 bonding.txt |    2 --
 1 files changed, 2 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-09 10:48:09 -05:00
Arjan van de Ven a771f2b82a [PATCH] Add a section about inlining to Documentation/CodingStyle
Adds a bit of text to Documentation/Codingstyle to state that inlining
everything "just because" is a bad idea

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:06 -08:00
Randy Dunlap 58591e8a1f [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: diffstat options
Add desired 'diffstat' options to use for kernel patches.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:04 -08:00
Andrew Morton a136564702 [PATCH] remove gcc-2 checks
Remove various things which were checking for gcc-1.x and gcc-2.x compilers.

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

    Some documentation updates and removes some code paths for gcc < 3.2.

Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:02 -08:00
Andy Isaacson 37a327957e [PATCH] block/stat.txt
I couldn't find any docs explaining the contents of /sys/block/<dev>/stat,
so I wrote up the following.  I'm not completely sure it's accurate - Jens,
could you give a yea or nay on this?

In particular, the counts of read/write IOs and read/write sectors are
incremented in different places - it looks like they both increment as the
request is being finished, but I'm not completely sure of that.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:01 -08:00
Rob Landley 99aef427e2 [PATCH] update to the initramfs docs
Based on questions people have asked me.  Repeatedly.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:00 -08:00
Jesper Juhl 90f2447d08 [PATCH] Documentation: Small applying-patches.txt update
Minor update to Documentation/applying-patches.txt

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:59 -08:00
Johann Lombardi 71b9625744 [PATCH] ext3: external journal device as a mount option
The patch below adds a new mount option to allow the external journal
device to be specified.

The syntax is as follows:
# mount -t ext3 -o journal_dev=0x0820 ...
where 0x0820 means major=8 and minor=32.

Signed-off-by: Johann Lombardi <johann.lombardi@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:56 -08:00
Ashok Raj c809406b4f [PATCH] Updated CPU hotplug documentation
Thanks to Nathan Lynch for the review and comments.  Thanks to Joel Schopp
for the pointer to add user space scipts.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:55 -08:00
Xose Vazquez Perez 5b0ed2c64d [PATCH] docs: updated some code docs
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:53 -08:00
David Howells b5f545c880 [PATCH] keys: Permit running process to instantiate keys
Make it possible for a running process (such as gssapid) to be able to
instantiate a key, as was requested by Trond Myklebust for NFS4.

The patch makes the following changes:

 (1) A new, optional key type method has been added. This permits a key type
     to intercept requests at the point /sbin/request-key is about to be
     spawned and do something else with them - passing them over the
     rpc_pipefs files or netlink sockets for instance.

     The uninstantiated key, the authorisation key and the intended operation
     name are passed to the method.

 (2) The callout_info is no longer passed as an argument to /sbin/request-key
     to prevent unauthorised viewing of this data using ps or by looking in
     /proc/pid/cmdline.

     This means that the old /sbin/request-key program will not work with the
     patched kernel as it will expect to see an extra argument that is no
     longer there.

     A revised keyutils package will be made available tomorrow.

 (3) The callout_info is now attached to the authorisation key. Reading this
     key will retrieve the information.

 (4) A new field has been added to the task_struct. This holds the
     authorisation key currently active for a thread. Searches now look here
     for the caller's set of keys rather than looking for an auth key in the
     lowest level of the session keyring.

     This permits a thread to be servicing multiple requests at once and to
     switch between them. Note that this is per-thread, not per-process, and
     so is usable in multithreaded programs.

     The setting of this field is inherited across fork and exec.

 (5) A new keyctl function (KEYCTL_ASSUME_AUTHORITY) has been added that
     permits a thread to assume the authority to deal with an uninstantiated
     key. Assumption is only permitted if the authorisation key associated
     with the uninstantiated key is somewhere in the thread's keyrings.

     This function can also clear the assumption.

 (6) A new magic key specifier has been added to refer to the currently
     assumed authorisation key (KEY_SPEC_REQKEY_AUTH_KEY).

 (7) Instantiation will only proceed if the appropriate authorisation key is
     assumed first. The assumed authorisation key is discarded if
     instantiation is successful.

 (8) key_validate() is moved from the file of request_key functions to the
     file of permissions functions.

 (9) The documentation is updated.

From: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>

    Build fix.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Alexander Zangerl <az@bond.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:53 -08:00
David Howells cab8eb594e [PATCH] keys: Discard duplicate keys from a keyring on link
Cause any links within a keyring to keys that match a key to be linked into
that keyring to be discarded as a link to the new key is added.  The match is
contingent on the type and description strings being the same.

This permits requests, adds and searches to displace negative, expired,
revoked and dead keys easily.  After some discussion it was concluded that
duplicate valid keys should probably be discarded also as they would otherwise
hide the new key.

Since request_key() is intended to be the primary method by which keys are
added to a keyring, duplicate valid keys wouldn't be an issue there as that
function would return an existing match in preference to creating a new key.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Alexander Zangerl <az@bond.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:53 -08:00
David Howells 017679c4d4 [PATCH] keys: Permit key expiry time to be set
Add a new keyctl function that allows the expiry time to be set on a key or
removed from a key, provided the caller has attribute modification access.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Alexander Zangerl <az@bond.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:53 -08:00
Tom Zanussi 6b34350f49 [PATCH] relayfs: Documentation cleanup, remove obsolete info
librelay and relay-app.h have been retired - update Documentation to reflect
that.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:51 -08:00
Tom Zanussi df49af8f33 [PATCH] relayfs: add Documentation on global relay buffers
Documentation update for creating global buffers.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:50 -08:00
Tom Zanussi 03d78d11d9 [PATCH] relayfs: add Documentation on relay files in other filesystems
Documentation update for creating relay files in other filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:50 -08:00
Tom Zanussi 925ac8a2b6 [PATCH] relayfs: add Documention for non-relay files
Documentation update for non-relay files.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:50 -08:00
Nick Piggin 095975da26 [PATCH] rcu file: use atomic primitives
Use atomic_inc_not_zero for rcu files instead of special case rcuref.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:48 -08:00
Paul Jackson 90c9cc4043 [PATCH] cpuset: remove marker_pid documentation
Remove documentation for the cpuset 'marker_pid' feature, that was in the
patch "cpuset: change marker for relative numbering" That patch was previously
pulled from *-mm at my (pj) request.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:43 -08:00
Paul Jackson bd5e09cf70 [PATCH] cpuset: document additional features
Document the additional cpuset features:
	notify_on_release
	marker_pid
	memory_pressure
	memory_pressure_enabled

Rearrange and improve formatting of existing documentation for
cpu_exclusive and mem_exclusive features.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:43 -08:00
Paul Jackson 45b07ef31d [PATCH] cpusets: swap migration interface
Add a boolean "memory_migrate" to each cpuset, represented by a file
containing "0" or "1" in each directory below /dev/cpuset.

It defaults to false (file contains "0").  It can be set true by writing
"1" to the file.

If true, then anytime that a task is attached to the cpuset so marked, the
pages of that task will be moved to that cpuset, preserving, to the extent
practical, the cpuset-relative placement of the pages.

Also anytime that a cpuset so marked has its memory placement changed (by
writing to its "mems" file), the tasks in that cpuset will have their pages
moved to the cpusets new nodes, preserving, to the extent practical, the
cpuset-relative placement of the moved pages.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:12:43 -08:00
Rohit Seth 8ad4b1fb82 [PATCH] Make high and batch sizes of per_cpu_pagelists configurable
As recently there has been lot of traffic on the right values for batch and
high water marks for per_cpu_pagelists.  This patch makes these two
variables configurable through /proc interface.

A new tunable /proc/sys/vm/percpu_pagelist_fraction is added.  This entry
controls the fraction of pages at most in each zone that are allocated for
each per cpu page list.  The min value for this is 8.  It means that we
don't allow more than 1/8th of pages in each zone to be allocated in any
single per_cpu_pagelist.

The batch value of each per cpu pagelist is also updated as a result.  It
is set to pcp->high/4.  The upper limit of batch is (PAGE_SHIFT * 8)

Signed-off-by: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:12:40 -08:00
Andrew Morton 9d0243bca3 [PATCH] drop-pagecache
Add /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches.  When written to, this will cause the kernel to
discard as much pagecache and/or reclaimable slab objects as it can.  THis
operation requires root permissions.

It won't drop dirty data, so the user should run `sync' first.

Caveats:

a) Holds inode_lock for exorbitant amounts of time.

b) Needs to be taught about NUMA nodes: propagate these all the way through
   so the discarding can be controlled on a per-node basis.

This is a debugging feature: useful for getting consistent results between
filesystem benchmarks.  We could possibly put it under a config option, but
it's less than 300 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:12:40 -08:00
Nicolas Kaiser 2c066042ec [PATCH] Documentation/powerpc: index update
Add three files not mentioned in Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX.
Sort alphabetically.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 14:53:34 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann 67207b9664 [PATCH] spufs: The SPU file system, base
This is the current version of the spu file system, used
for driving SPEs on the Cell Broadband Engine.

This release is almost identical to the version for the
2.6.14 kernel posted earlier, which is available as part
of the Cell BE Linux distribution from
http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/.

The first patch provides all the interfaces for running
spu application, but does not have any support for
debugging SPU tasks or for scheduling. Both these
functionalities are added in the subsequent patches.

See Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt on how to use
spufs.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 14:49:12 +11:00
Dave Jones a61c2d78ce [SERIAL] Make the number of UARTs registered configurable.
Also add a nr_uarts module option to the 8250 code to override
this, up to a maximum of CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS

This should appease people who complain about a proliferation
of /dev/ttyS & /sysfs nodes whilst at the same time allowing
a single kernel image to support the rarer occasions of
lots of devices.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-01-07 23:18:19 +00:00