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Michael Opdenacker
ac76cff2ec Documentation: sysctl/kernel.txt: fix documentation reference
This patch fixes a reference to Documentation/kmod.txt
which was apparently renamed to Documentation/debugging-modules.txt

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-13 16:21:20 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
f1a5955d90 docbook: drop z85230 library from kernel-api
Drop z85230 support library info from kernel-api since it's duplicated in
the Z85230 book.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-13 16:21:19 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
bc2cda1ebd docbook: make a networking book and fix a few errors
Move networking (core and drivers) docbook to its own networking book.
Fix a few kernel-doc errors in header and source files.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-13 16:21:19 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
65b6e42cdc docbook: sunrpc filenames and notation fixes
Use updated file list for docbook files and
fix kernel-doc warnings in sunrpc:
Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c:689): No description found for parameter 'rpc_client'
Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c:765): No description found for parameter 'flags'
Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//net/sunrpc/clnt.c:584): No description found for parameter 'tk_ops'
Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//net/sunrpc/clnt.c:618): No description found for parameter 'bufsize'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-13 16:21:19 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
073b86dacc docbook: move pipe and splice to filesystems docbook
Move pipes and splice docbook to filesystems book.
kernel-api book is huge (10x most other books) & slow to process.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-13 16:21:19 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
df24d9a6a9 Documentation: prune redundant SubmitChecklist items
Kernel style is mentioned twice, and the git apply trick is a bit redundant
given the checkpatch.pl recommendation (which also checks for bad
whitespace).

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-13 16:21:18 -08:00
Harvey Harrison
b5606c2d44 remove final fastcall users
fastcall always expands to empty, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-13 16:21:18 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
9f0c1e560c sched: rt-group: interface
Change the rt_ratio interface to rt_runtime_us, to match rt_period_us.
This avoids picking a granularity for the ratio.

Extend the /sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/ interface to allow setting
the group's rt_runtime.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-13 15:45:39 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
0b6ca82af8 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86: (32 commits)
  x86: cpa, strict range check in try_preserve_large_page()
  x86: cpa, enable CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC on 64-bit
  x86: cpa, use page pool
  x86: introduce page pool in cpa
  x86: DEBUG_PAGEALLOC: enable after mem_init()
  brk: help text typo fix
  lguest: accept guest _PAGE_PWT page table entries
  x86 PM: update stale comments
  x86 PM: consolidate suspend and hibernation code
  x86 PM: rename 32-bit files in arch/x86/power
  x86 PM: move 64-bit hibernation files to arch/x86/power
  x86: trivial printk optimizations
  x86: fix early_ioremap pagetable ops
  x86: construct 32-bit boot time page tables in native format.
  x86, core: remove CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING
  x86: avoid unused variable warning in mm/init_64.c
  x86: fixup more paravirt fallout
  brk: document randomize_va_space and CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK (was Re:
  x86: fix sparse warnings in acpi/bus.c
  x86: fix sparse warning in topology.c
  ...
2008-02-09 23:29:57 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
bfc1de0c40 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: (24 commits)
  [SPARC]: Add solaris/sunos binary support to feature removal schedule.
  [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/a.out.h
  [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/fb.h
  [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/errno.h
  [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/emergency-restart.h
  [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/div64.h
  [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/device.h
  [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/current.h
  [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/cputime.h
  [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/cache.h
  [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/byteorder.h
  [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/bugs.h
  [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/bug.h
  [SPARC]: Kill BSD errno translation table and header files.
  [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/bpp.h
  [SPARC]: Merge include/asm-sparc{,64}/auxvec.h
  [SPARC]: Merge include/asm-sparc{,64}/of_device.h
  [SPARC]: Merge include/asm-sparc{,64}/prom.h
  [SPARC]: Remove of_platform_device_create
  [SPARC64]: Add kretprobe support.
  ...
2008-02-09 23:28:26 -08:00
David S. Miller
e88bb41595 [SPARC]: Add solaris/sunos binary support to feature removal schedule.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-09 23:08:53 -08:00
Harvey Harrison
185c045c24 x86, core: remove CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING
Other than the defconfigs, remove the entry in compiler-gcc4.h,
Kconfig.debug and feature-removal-schedule.txt.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-09 23:24:09 +01:00
Jiri Kosina
1ec7fd50ba brk: document randomize_va_space and CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK (was Re:
Document randomize_va_space and CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-09 23:24:08 +01:00
Carlos Corbacho
16111c7979 acer-wmi - Add documentation
Add some initial documentation detailing what acer-wmi is, and how to use
it. Update the Kconfig entry with a reference to the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-09 04:16:07 -05:00
Carlos Corbacho
018a651a9c sonypi - Move sonypi.txt to Documentation/laptops
Also update references to sonypi.txt in Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
CC: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-09 04:15:53 -05:00
Carlos Corbacho
f04b7c402b sony-laptop - Move sony-laptop.txt to Documentation/laptops
Also update references to sony-laptop.txt in Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
CC: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-09 04:15:40 -05:00
Carlos Corbacho
f191dc6b55 thinkpad-acpi - Move thinkpad-acpi.txt to Documentation/laptops
Also update references to thinkpad-acpi.txt in Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
CC: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-09 04:15:23 -05:00
Carlos Corbacho
d6ff365577 Documentation - Create laptops sub-directory
There are currently various laptop drivers floating about with no central
place for their documentation, which is currently scattered around the top
level Documentation/ directory.

So, as a first step, lets create a Documentation sub-directory, and update
the relevant index files. The work of then moving the existing laptop
driver related documentation will then be handled later.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
CC: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
CC: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-09 04:14:59 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
03054de1e0 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  Enhanced partition statistics: documentation update
  Enhanced partition statistics: remove old partition statistics
  Enhanced partition statistics: procfs
  Enhanced partition statistics: sysfs
  Enhanced partition statistics: aoe fix
  Enhanced partition statistics: update partition statitics
  Enhanced partition statistics: core statistics
  block: fixup rq_init() a bit

Manually fixed conflict in drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c due to statistics
support.
2008-02-08 09:42:46 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
7b791d4455 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
  acer-wmi, tc1100-wmi: select ACPI_WMI
  ACPI: WMI: Improve Kconfig description
  ACPI: DMI: add Panasonic CF-52 and Thinpad X61
  ACPI: thermal: syntax, spelling, kernel-doc
  intel_menlo: build on X86 only
  ACPI: build WMI on X86 only
  ACPI: cpufreq: Print _PPC changes via cpufreq debug layer
  ACPI: add newline to printk
2008-02-08 09:25:58 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
10e6f32bdf getdelays: fix gcc warnings
Fix gcc warnings in getdelays.c:

Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: In function 'task_context_switch_counts':
Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:214: warning: format '%15lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type '__u64'
Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:214: warning: format '%15lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type '__u64'
Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: In function 'main':
Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:402: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 2 has type 'long unsigned int'
Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: In function 'get_family_id':
Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:171: warning: 'id' may be used uninitialized in this function

One warning is not a problem and can be dismissed:
Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: In function 'main':
Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:236: warning: 'cmd_type' may be used uninitialized in this function

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:41 -08:00
Andi Kleen
d20894a237 Remove a.out interpreter support in ELF loader
Following the deprecation schedule the a.out ELF interpreter support
is removed now with this patch. a.out ELF interpreters were an transition
feature for moving a.out systems to ELF, but they're unlikely to be still
needed. Pure a.out systems will still work of course. This allows to
simplify the hairy ELF loader.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:41 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
f84e3f521e mount options: add documentation
This series addresses the problem of showing mount options in
/proc/mounts.

Several filesystems which use mount options, have not implemented a
.show_options superblock operation.  Several others have implemented
this callback, but have not kept it fully up to date with the parsed
options.

Q: Why do we need correct option showing in /proc/mounts?
A: We want /proc/mounts to fully replace /etc/mtab.  The reasons for
   this are:
    - unprivileged mounters won't be able to update /etc/mtab
    - /etc/mtab doesn't work with private mount namespaces
    - /etc/mtab can become out-of-sync with reality

Q: Can't this be done, so that filesystems need not bother with
   implementing a .show_mounts callback, and keeping it up to date?
A: Only in some cases.  Certain filesystems allow modification of a
   subset of options in their remount_fs method.  It is not possible
   to take this into account without knowing exactly how the
   filesystem handles options.

For the simple case (no remount or remount resets all options) the
patchset introduces two helpers:

  generic_show_options()
  save_mount_options()

These can also be used to emulate the old /etc/mtab behavior, until
proper support is added.  Even if this is not 100% correct, it's still
better than showing no options at all.

The following patches fix up most in-tree filesystems, some have been
compile tested only, some have been reviewed and acked by the
maintainer.

Table displaying status of all in-kernel filesystems:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
legend:

  none - fs has options, but doesn't define ->show_options()
  some - fs defines ->show_options(), but some only options are shown
  good - fs shows all options
  noopt - fs does not have options
  patch - a patch will be posted
  merged - a patch has been merged by subsystem maintainer

9p          good
adfs        patch
affs        patch
afs         patch
autofs      patch
autofs4     patch
befs        patch
bfs         noopt
cifs        some
coda        noopt
configfs    noopt
cramfs      noopt
debugfs     noopt
devpts      patch
ecryptfs    good
efs         noopt
ext2        patch
ext3        good
ext4        merged
fat         patch
freevxfs    noopt
fuse        patch
fusectl	    noopt
gfs2        good
gfs2meta    noopt
hfs         good
hfsplus     good
hostfs      patch
hpfs        patch
hppfs       noopt
hugetlbfs   patch
isofs       patch
jffs2       noopt
jfs         merged
minix       noopt
msdos       ->fat
ncpfs       patch
nfs         some
nfsd        noopt
ntfs        good
ocfs2       good
ocfs2/dlmfs noopt
openpromfs  noopt
proc        noopt
qnx4        noopt
ramfs       noopt
reiserfs    patch
romfs       noopt
smbfs       good
sysfs       noopt
sysv        noopt
udf         patch
ufs         good
vfat        ->fat
xfs         good

mm/shmem.c                                    patch
drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c                 noopt
drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_fs.c        noopt
drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c                noopt
drivers/usb/core (usbfs)                      merged
drivers/usb/gadget (gadgetfs)                 noopt
drivers/isdn/capi/capifs.c                    patch
kernel/cpuset.c                               noopt
fs/binfmt_misc.c                              noopt
net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c                         noopt
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs             patch
arch/s390/hypfs                               good
ipc/mqueue.c                                  noopt
security (securityfs)                         noopt
security/selinux/selinuxfs.c                  noopt
kernel/cgroup.c                               good
security/smack/smackfs.c                      noopt

in -mm:

reiser4     some
unionfs     good
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

This patch:

Document the rules for handling mount options in the .show_options
super operation.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:39 -08:00
Jan Kara
9b7880e7bb isofs: implement dmode option
Implement dmode option for iso9660 filesystem to allow setting of access
rights for directories on the filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: "Ilya N. Golubev" <gin@mo.msk.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:38 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
a36219ac93 The scheduled 'time' option removal
The scheduled removal of the 'time' option.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:36 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin
262bf54144 aoe: user can ask driver to forget previously detected devices
When an AoE device is detected, the kernel is informed, and a new block device
is created.  If the device is unused, the block device corresponding to remote
device that is no longer available may be removed from the system by telling
the aoe driver to "flush" its list of devices.

Without this patch, software like GPFS and LVM may attempt to read from AoE
devices that were discovered earlier but are no longer present, blocking until
the I/O attempt times out.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin
468fc53050 aoe: clean up udev configuration example
This patch adds a known default location for the udev configuration file and
uses the more recent "==" syntax for SUBSYSTEM and KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
David Howells
b920de1b77 mn10300: add the MN10300/AM33 architecture to the kernel
Add architecture support for the MN10300/AM33 CPUs produced by MEI to the
kernel.

This patch also adds board support for the ASB2303 with the ASB2308 daughter
board, and the ASB2305.  The only processor supported is the MN103E010, which
is an AM33v2 core plus on-chip devices.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuke cvs control strings]
Signed-off-by: Masakazu Urade <urade.masakazu@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:30 -08:00
Jerome Marchand
0e53c2be04 Enhanced partition statistics: documentation update
Update the documentation to reflect the change in userspace interface.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-02-08 12:42:11 +01:00
Len Brown
2e6c4e5101 Merge branches 'release', 'dmi' and 'misc' into release 2008-02-08 01:22:26 -05:00
Len Brown
543a956140 ACPI: thermal: syntax, spelling, kernel-doc
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-07 23:48:04 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
d7511ec811 Merge branch 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6
* 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6: (59 commits)
  hwmon: (lm80) Add individual alarm files
  hwmon: (lm80) De-macro the sysfs callbacks
  hwmon: (lm80) Various cleanups
  hwmon: (w83627hf) Refactor beep enable handling
  hwmon: (w83627hf) Add individual alarm and beep files
  hwmon: (w83627hf) Enable VBAT monitoring
  hwmon: (w83627ehf) The W83627DHG has 8 VID pins
  hwmon: (asb100) Add individual alarm files
  hwmon: (asb100) De-macro the sysfs callbacks
  hwmon: (asb100) Various cleanups
  hwmon: VRM is not written to registers
  hwmon: (dme1737) fix Super-IO device ID override
  hwmon: (dme1737) fix divide-by-0
  hwmon: (abituguru3) Add AUX4 fan input for Abit IP35 Pro
  hwmon: Add support for Texas Instruments/Burr-Brown ADS7828
  hwmon: (adm9240) Add individual alarm files
  hwmon: (lm77) Add individual alarm files
  hwmon: Discard useless I2C driver IDs
  hwmon: (lm85) Make the pwmN_enable files writable
  hwmon: (lm85) Return standard values in pwmN_enable
  ...
2008-02-07 19:15:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
c00f08d705 Merge branch 'slub-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/christoph/vm
* 'slub-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/christoph/vm:
  SLUB: fix checkpatch warnings
  Use non atomic unlock
  SLUB: Support for performance statistics
  SLUB: Alternate fast paths using cmpxchg_local
  SLUB: Use unique end pointer for each slab page.
  SLUB: Deal with annoying gcc warning on kfree()
2008-02-07 18:22:29 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
8ff12cfc00 SLUB: Support for performance statistics
The statistics provided here allow the monitoring of allocator behavior but
at the cost of some (minimal) loss of performance. Counters are placed in
SLUB's per cpu data structure. The per cpu structure may be extended by the
statistics to grow larger than one cacheline which will increase the cache
footprint of SLUB.

There is a compile option to enable/disable the inclusion of the runtime
statistics and its off by default.

The slabinfo tool is enhanced to support these statistics via two options:

-D 	Switches the line of information displayed for a slab from size
	mode to activity mode.

-A	Sorts the slabs displayed by activity. This allows the display of
	the slabs most important to the performance of a certain load.

-r	Report option will report detailed statistics on

Example (tbench load):

slabinfo -AD		->Shows the most active slabs

Name                   Objects    Alloc     Free   %Fast
skbuff_fclone_cache         33 111953835 111953835  99  99
:0000192                  2666  5283688  5281047  99  99
:0001024                   849  5247230  5246389  83  83
vm_area_struct            1349   119642   118355  91  22
:0004096                    15    66753    66751  98  98
:0000064                  2067    25297    23383  98  78
dentry                   10259    28635    18464  91  45
:0000080                 11004    18950     8089  98  98
:0000096                  1703    12358    10784  99  98
:0000128                   762    10582     9875  94  18
:0000512                   184     9807     9647  95  81
:0002048                   479     9669     9195  83  65
anon_vma                   777     9461     9002  99  71
kmalloc-8                 6492     9981     5624  99  97
:0000768                   258     7174     6931  58  15

So the skbuff_fclone_cache is of highest importance for the tbench load.
Pretty high load on the 192 sized slab. Look for the aliases

slabinfo -a | grep 000192
:0000192     <- xfs_btree_cur filp kmalloc-192 uid_cache tw_sock_TCP
	request_sock_TCPv6 tw_sock_TCPv6 skbuff_head_cache xfs_ili

Likely skbuff_head_cache.


Looking into the statistics of the skbuff_fclone_cache is possible through

slabinfo skbuff_fclone_cache	->-r option implied if cache name is mentioned


.... Usual output ...

Slab Perf Counter       Alloc     Free %Al %Fr
--------------------------------------------------
Fastpath             111953360 111946981  99  99
Slowpath                 1044     7423   0   0
Page Alloc                272      264   0   0
Add partial                25      325   0   0
Remove partial             86      264   0   0
RemoteObj/SlabFrozen      350     4832   0   0
Total                111954404 111954404

Flushes       49 Refill        0
Deactivate Full=325(92%) Empty=0(0%) ToHead=24(6%) ToTail=1(0%)

Looks good because the fastpath is overwhelmingly taken.


skbuff_head_cache:

Slab Perf Counter       Alloc     Free %Al %Fr
--------------------------------------------------
Fastpath              5297262  5259882  99  99
Slowpath                 4477    39586   0   0
Page Alloc                937      824   0   0
Add partial                 0     2515   0   0
Remove partial           1691      824   0   0
RemoteObj/SlabFrozen     2621     9684   0   0
Total                 5301739  5299468

Deactivate Full=2620(100%) Empty=0(0%) ToHead=0(0%) ToTail=0(0%)


Descriptions of the output:

Total:		The total number of allocation and frees that occurred for a
		slab

Fastpath:	The number of allocations/frees that used the fastpath.

Slowpath:	Other allocations

Page Alloc:	Number of calls to the page allocator as a result of slowpath
		processing

Add Partial:	Number of slabs added to the partial list through free or
		alloc (occurs during cpuslab flushes)

Remove Partial:	Number of slabs removed from the partial list as a result of
		allocations retrieving a partial slab or by a free freeing
		the last object of a slab.

RemoteObj/Froz:	How many times were remotely freed object encountered when a
		slab was about to be deactivated. Frozen: How many times was
		free able to skip list processing because the slab was in use
		as the cpuslab of another processor.

Flushes:	Number of times the cpuslab was flushed on request
		(kmem_cache_shrink, may result from races in __slab_alloc)

Refill:		Number of times we were able to refill the cpuslab from
		remotely freed objects for the same slab.

Deactivate:	Statistics how slabs were deactivated. Shows how they were
		put onto the partial list.

In general fastpath is very good. Slowpath without partial list processing is
also desirable. Any touching of partial list uses node specific locks which
may potentially cause list lock contention.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
2008-02-07 17:47:41 -08:00
Jean Delvare
cbe311f2a4 hwmon: (w83627ehf) The W83627DHG has 8 VID pins
While the W83627EHF/EHG has only 6 VID pins, the W83627DHG has 8 VID
pins, to support VRD 11.0. Add support for this.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07 20:39:45 -05:00
Steve Hardy
5812f9283e hwmon: Add support for Texas Instruments/Burr-Brown ADS7828
Signed-off-by: Steve Hardy <steve@linuxrealtime.co.uk>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07 20:39:44 -05:00
Jean Delvare
05663368d2 hwmon: (w83781d) Drop W83627HF support
The W83627HF hardware monitoring features are supported by the
w83627hf driver for several years now. Support by the w83781d has
been advertised as deprecated 6 months ago, it's about time to see
it go.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07 20:39:43 -05:00
Jean Delvare
f1d8e33263 hwmon: (it87) Discard a dead e-mail address
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07 20:39:42 -05:00
Jean Delvare
ec1d86c457 hwmon: Update the lm-sensors website address
It's about time to reflect the move of the lm-sensors project to
lm-sensors.org.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07 20:39:42 -05:00
Jean Delvare
c7fa373796 hwmon: (lm87) Add support for the Analog Devices ADM1024
It happens that the Analog Devices ADM1024 is fully compatible with
the National Semiconductor LM87, so support for the former can easily
be added to the lm87 driver.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07 20:39:40 -05:00
Kevin Lo
85f03bccd6 hwmon: Add support for Winbond W83L786NG/NR
Signed-off-by: Kevin Lo <kevlo@kevlo.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07 20:39:40 -05:00
Jean Delvare
6722feada7 hwmon: (lm78/w83781d) Probe fewer I2C addresses
We've never seen any device supported by the lm78 or w83781d driver at
addresses 0x20-0x27, so let's stop probing these addresses. Extra probes cost
time, and have potential for confusing or misdetecting other I2C devices.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07 20:39:40 -05:00
Nick Cheng
76d78300a6 [SCSI] arcmsr: updates (1.20.00.15)
- add arcmsr_enable_eoi_mode()and readl(reg->iop2drv_doorbell_reg) in
  arcmsr_handle_hbb_isr() on adapter Type B in case of the doorbell
  interrupt clearance is cached

- add conditional declaration for arcmsr_pci_error_detected() and
  arcmsr_pci_slot_reset

- check if the sg list member number exceeds arcmsr default limit in
  arcmsr_build_ccb()

- change the returned value type of arcmsr_build_ccb()from "void" to
  "int" returns FAILED in arcmsr_queue_command()

- modify arcmsr_drain_donequeue() to ignore unknown command and let
  kernel process command timeout.  This could handle IO request violating
  maximum segments, i.e.  Linux XFS over DM-CRYPT.  Thanks to Milan Broz's
  comments <mbroz@redhat.com>

- fix the release of dma memory for type B in arcmsr_free_ccb_pool()

- fix the arcmsr_polling_hbb_ccbdone()

Signed-off-by: Nick Cheng <nick.cheng@areca.com.tw>
Cc: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Cc: <thenzl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-02-07 18:02:44 -06:00
James Bottomley
99cb813794 [SCSI] update my email address
This updates steeleye -> hansenpartnership in the documentation since
some email has been going astray because of this.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-02-07 18:02:42 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
6e5565f949 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (34 commits)
  Input: i8042 - non-x86 build fix
  Input: pxa27x_keypad - also enable on PXA3xx
  Input: pxa27x_keypad - add debounce_interval to the keypad platform data
  Input: pxa27x_keypad - use device resources for I/O memory mapping and IRQ
  Input: pxa27x_keypad - enable rotary encoders and direct keys
  Input: pxa27x_keypad - introduce pxa27x_keypad_config()
  Input: pxa27x_keypad - introduce driver structure and use KEY() to define matrix keys
  Input: pxa27x_keypad - remove pin configuration from the driver
  Input: pxa27x_keypad - rename the driver (was pxa27x_keyboard)
  Input: constify function pointer tables (seq_operations)
  Input: i8042 - add Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro 2010 to nomux list
  Input: i8042 - enable DMI quirks on x86-64
  Input: i8042 - add Dritek quirk for Acer Aspire 9110
  Input: add input event to APM event bridge
  Input: mousedev - use BIT_MASK instead of BIT
  Input: remove duplicate includes
  Input: remove cdev from input_dev structure
  Input: remove duplicated headers in drivers/char/keyboard.c
  Input: i8042 - add Dritek keyboard extension quirk
  Input: add Tosa keyboard driver
  ...
2008-02-07 12:57:44 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
f0f1b3364a Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (112 commits)
  ACPI: fix build warning
  Revert "cpuidle: build fix for non-x86"
  ACPI: update intrd DSDT override console messages
  ACPI: update DSDT override documentation
  ACPI: Add "acpi_no_initrd_override" kernel parameter
  ACPI: its a directory not a folder....
  ACPI: misc cleanups
  ACPI: add missing prink prefix strings
  ACPI: cleanup acpi.h
  ACPICA: fix CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG_FUNC_TRACE build
  ACPI: video: Ignore ACPI video devices that aren't present in hardware
  ACPI: video: reset brightness on resume
  ACPI: video: call ACPI notifier chain for ACPI video notifications
  ACPI: create notifier chain to get hotkey events to graphics driver
  ACPI: video: delete unused display switch on hotkey event code
  ACPI: video: create "brightness_switch_enabled" modparam
  cpuidle: Add a poll_idle method
  ACPI: cpuidle: Support C1 idle time accounting
  ACPI: enable MWAIT for C1 idle
  ACPI: idle: Fix acpi_safe_halt usages and interrupt enabling/disabling
  ...
2008-02-07 09:45:58 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
3d50337f62 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-leds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-leds:
  leds: Add HP Jornada 6xx driver
  leds: Remove the now uneeded ixp4xx driver
  leds: Add power LED to the wrap driver
  leds: Fix led-gpio active_low default brightness
  leds: hw acceleration for Clevo mail LED driver
  leds: Add support for hardware accelerated LED flashing
  leds: Standardise LED naming scheme
  leds: Add clevo notebook LED driver
2008-02-07 09:45:14 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
3796958130 Merge branch 'for-2.6.25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'for-2.6.25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (69 commits)
  [POWERPC] Add SPE registers to core dumps
  [POWERPC] Use regset code for compat PTRACE_*REGS* calls
  [POWERPC] Use generic compat_sys_ptrace
  [POWERPC] Use generic compat_ptrace_request
  [POWERPC] Use generic ptrace peekdata/pokedata
  [POWERPC] Use regset code for PTRACE_*REGS* requests
  [POWERPC] Switch to generic compat_binfmt_elf code
  [POWERPC] Switch to using user_regset-based core dumps
  [POWERPC] Add user_regset compat support
  [POWERPC] Add user_regset_view definitions
  [POWERPC] Use user_regset accessors for GPRs
  [POWERPC] ptrace accessors for special regs MSR and TRAP
  [POWERPC] Use user_regset accessors for SPE regs
  [POWERPC] Use user_regset accessors for altivec regs
  [POWERPC] Use user_regset accessors for FP regs
  [POWERPC] mpc52xx: fix compile error introduce when rebasing patch
  [POWERPC] 4xx: PCIe indirect DCR spinlock fix.
  [POWERPC] Add missing native dcr dcr_ind_lock spinlock
  [POWERPC] 4xx: Fix offset value on Warp board
  [POWERPC] 4xx: Add 440EPx Sequoia ehci dts entry
  ...
2008-02-07 09:02:26 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
1c45607ad3 Char: mxser, remove it
(Old) mxser is obsoleted by mxser_new and scheduled for removal on Dec 2007.
Remove it by renaming mxser_new to mxser.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:34 -08:00
David Howells
12debc4248 iget: remove iget() and the read_inode() super op as being obsolete
Remove the old iget() call and the read_inode() superblock operation it uses
as these are really obsolete, and the use of read_inode() does not produce
proper error handling (no distinction between ENOMEM and EIO when marking an
inode bad).

Furthermore, this removes the temptation to use iget() to find an inode by
number in a filesystem from code outside that filesystem.

iget_locked() should be used instead.  A new function is added in an earlier
patch (iget_failed) that is to be called to mark an inode as bad, unlock it
and release it should the get routine fail.  Mark iget() and read_inode() as
being obsolete and remove references to them from the documentation.

Typically a filesystem will be modified such that the read_inode function
becomes an internal iget function, for example the following:

	void thingyfs_read_inode(struct inode *inode)
	{
		...
	}

would be changed into something like:

	struct inode *thingyfs_iget(struct super_block *sp, unsigned long ino)
	{
		struct inode *inode;
		int ret;

		inode = iget_locked(sb, ino);
		if (!inode)
			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
		if (!(inode->i_state & I_NEW))
			return inode;

		...
		unlock_new_inode(inode);
		return inode;
	error:
		iget_failed(inode);
		return ERR_PTR(ret);
	}

and then thingyfs_iget() would be called rather than iget(), for example:

	ret = -EINVAL;
	inode = iget(sb, ino);
	if (!inode || is_bad_inode(inode))
		goto error;

becomes:

	inode = thingyfs_iget(sb, ino);
	if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
		ret = PTR_ERR(inode);
		goto error;
	}

Note that is_bad_inode() does not need to be called.  The error returned by
thingyfs_iget() should render it unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:29 -08:00