5947 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Hidetoshi Seto
62fdac5913 x86, mce: Add boot options for corrected errors
This patch introduces three boot options (no_cmci, dont_log_ce
and ignore_ce) to control handling for corrected errors.

The "mce=no_cmci" boot option disables the CMCI feature.

Since CMCI is a new feature so having boot controls to disable
it will be a help if the hardware is misbehaving.

The "mce=dont_log_ce" boot option disables logging for corrected
errors. All reported corrected errors will be cleared silently.
This option will be useful if you never care about corrected
errors.

The "mce=ignore_ce" boot option disables features for corrected
errors, i.e. polling timer and cmci.  All corrected events are
not cleared and kept in bank MSRs.

Usually this disablement is not recommended, however it will be
a help if there are some conflict with the BIOS or hardware
monitoring applications etc., that clears corrected events in
banks instead of OS.

[ And trivial cleanup (space -> tab) for doc is included. ]

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A30ACDF.5030408@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-11 11:42:18 +02:00
Dmitry Torokhov
4894e4aca8 Merge commit 'v2.6.30' into next 2009-06-11 01:58:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8623661180 Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits)
  Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support"
  tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format
  ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name
  tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK
  tracing: add protection around module events unload
  tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface
  tracing: fix the block trace points print size
  tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()
  ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp
  ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock
  tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded
  tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic
  tracing/events: fix output format of user stack
  tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack
  tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header
  ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer
  ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps
  ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit
  ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled
  tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag
  ...
2009-06-10 19:53:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
57eee9ae7b Merge branch 'oprofile-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'oprofile-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  oprofile: introduce module_param oprofile.cpu_type
  oprofile: add support for Core i7 and Atom
  oprofile: remove undocumented oprofile.p4force option
  oprofile: re-add force_arch_perfmon option
2009-06-10 19:51:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
20f3f3ca49 Merge branch 'rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  rcu: rcu_sched_grace_period(): kill the bogus flush_signals()
  rculist: use list_entry_rcu in places where it's appropriate
  rculist.h: introduce list_entry_rcu() and list_first_entry_rcu()
  rcu: Update RCU tracing documentation for __rcu_pending
  rcu: Add __rcu_pending tracing to hierarchical RCU
  RCU: make treercu be default
2009-06-10 19:50:03 -07:00
James Morris
73fbad283c Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2009-06-11 11:03:14 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
3f6280ddf2 Merge branch 'iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (61 commits)
  amd-iommu: remove unnecessary "AMD IOMMU: " prefix
  amd-iommu: detach device explicitly before attaching it to a new domain
  amd-iommu: remove BUS_NOTIFY_BOUND_DRIVER handling
  dma-debug: simplify logic in driver_filter()
  dma-debug: disable/enable irqs only once in device_dma_allocations
  dma-debug: use pr_* instead of printk(KERN_* ...)
  dma-debug: code style fixes
  dma-debug: comment style fixes
  dma-debug: change hash_bucket_find from first-fit to best-fit
  x86: enable GART-IOMMU only after setting up protection methods
  amd_iommu: fix lock imbalance
  dma-debug: add documentation for the driver filter
  dma-debug: add dma_debug_driver kernel command line
  dma-debug: add debugfs file for driver filter
  dma-debug: add variables and checks for driver filter
  dma-debug: fix debug_dma_sync_sg_for_cpu and debug_dma_sync_sg_for_device
  dma-debug: use sg_dma_len accessor
  dma-debug: use sg_dma_address accessor instead of using dma_address directly
  amd-iommu: don't free dma adresses below 512MB with CONFIG_IOMMU_STRESS
  amd-iommu: don't preallocate page tables with CONFIG_IOMMU_STRESS
  ...
2009-06-10 16:19:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
75063600fd Merge branch 'futexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'futexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  futex: fix restart in wait_requeue_pi
  futex: fix restart for early wakeup in futex_wait_requeue_pi()
  futex: cleanup error exit
  futex: remove the wait queue
  futex: add requeue-pi documentation
  futex: remove FUTEX_REQUEUE_PI (non CMP)
  futex: fix futex_wait_setup key handling
  sparc64: extend TI_RESTART_BLOCK space by 8 bytes
  futex: fixup unlocked requeue pi case
  futex: add requeue_pi functionality
  futex: split out futex value validation code
  futex: distangle futex_requeue()
  futex: add FUTEX_HAS_TIMEOUT flag to restart.futex.flags
  rt_mutex: add proxy lock routines
  futex: split out fixup owner logic from futex_lock_pi()
  futex: split out atomic logic from futex_lock_pi()
  futex: add helper to find the top prio waiter of a futex
  futex: separate futex_wait_queue_me() logic from futex_wait()
2009-06-10 16:16:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
bb7762961d Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (22 commits)
  x86: fix system without memory on node0
  x86, mm: Fix node_possible_map logic
  mm, x86: remove MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE related code
  x86: make sparse mem work in non-NUMA mode
  x86: process.c, remove useless headers
  x86: merge process.c a bit
  x86: use sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions() on UMA
  x86: unify 64-bit UMA and NUMA paging_init()
  x86: Allow 1MB of slack between the e820 map and SRAT, not 4GB
  x86: Sanity check the e820 against the SRAT table using e820 map only
  x86: clean up and and print out initial max_pfn_mapped
  x86/pci: remove rounding quirk from e820_setup_gap()
  x86, e820, pci: reserve extra free space near end of RAM
  x86: fix typo in address space documentation
  x86: 46 bit physical address support on 64 bits
  x86, mm: fault.c, use printk_once() in is_errata93()
  x86: move per-cpu mmu_gathers to mm/init.c
  x86: move max_pfn_mapped and max_low_pfn_mapped to setup.c
  x86: unify noexec handling
  x86: remove (null) in /sys kernel_page_tables
  ...
2009-06-10 16:13:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c44e3ed539 Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: cpu_debug: Remove model information to reduce encoding-decoding
  x86: fixup numa_node information for AMD CPU northbridge functions
  x86: k8 convert node_to_k8_nb_misc() from a macro to an inline function
  x86: cacheinfo: complete L2/L3 Cache and TLB associativity field definitions
  x86/docs: add description for cache_disable sysfs interface
  x86: cacheinfo: disable L3 ECC scrubbing when L3 cache index is disabled
  x86: cacheinfo: replace sysfs interface for cache_disable feature
  x86: cacheinfo: use cached K8 NB_MISC devices instead of scanning for it
  x86: cacheinfo: correct return value when cache_disable feature is not active
  x86: cacheinfo: use L3 cache index disable feature only for CPUs that support it
2009-06-10 15:51:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
082b63ae45 Merge branch 'sched-docs-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-docs-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: Document memory barriers implied by sleep/wake-up primitives
2009-06-10 15:48:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
99e97b860e Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: fix typo in sched-rt-group.txt file
  ftrace: fix typo about map of kernel priority in ftrace.txt file.
  sched: properly define the sched_group::cpumask and sched_domain::span fields
  sched, timers: cleanup avenrun users
  sched, timers: move calc_load() to scheduler
  sched: Don't export sched_mc_power_savings on multi-socket single core system
  sched: emit thread info flags with stack trace
  sched: rt: document the risk of small values in the bandwidth settings
  sched: Replace first_cpu() with cpumask_first() in ILB nomination code
  sched: remove extra call overhead for schedule()
  sched: use group_first_cpu() instead of cpumask_first(sched_group_cpus())
  wait: don't use __wake_up_common()
  sched: Nominate a power-efficient ilb in select_nohz_balancer()
  sched: Nominate idle load balancer from a semi-idle package.
  sched: remove redundant hierarchy walk in check_preempt_wakeup
2009-06-10 15:32:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
82782ca77d Merge branch 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (46 commits)
  x86, boot: add new generated files to the appropriate .gitignore files
  x86, boot: correct the calculation of ZO_INIT_SIZE
  x86-64: align __PHYSICAL_START, remove __KERNEL_ALIGN
  x86, boot: correct sanity checks in boot/compressed/misc.c
  x86: add extension fields for bootloader type and version
  x86, defconfig: update kernel position parameters
  x86, defconfig: update to current, no material changes
  x86: make CONFIG_RELOCATABLE the default
  x86: default CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START and CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN to 16 MB
  x86: document new bzImage fields
  x86, boot: make kernel_alignment adjustable; new bzImage fields
  x86, boot: remove dead code from boot/compressed/head_*.S
  x86, boot: use LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR on 64 bits
  x86, boot: make symbols from the main vmlinux available
  x86, boot: determine compressed code offset at compile time
  x86, boot: use appropriate rep string for move and clear
  x86, boot: zero EFLAGS on 32 bits
  x86, boot: set up the decompression stack as early as possible
  x86, boot: straighten out ranges to copy/zero in compressed/head*.S
  x86, boot: stylistic cleanups for boot/compressed/head_64.S
  ...

Fixed trivial conflict in arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig manually
2009-06-10 15:30:41 -07:00
Russell King
547c32aeb5 Merge branch for-rmk-devel of git://aeryn.fluff.org.uk/bjdooks/linux into devel 2009-06-10 22:41:06 +01:00
Mike Frysinger
bc5c6c043d ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name
The function graph tracer is called just "function_graph" (no trailing
"_tracer" needed).

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
LKML-Reference: <1244623722-6325-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-10 13:06:25 -04:00
Ryusuke Konishi
fb6e7113ae nilfs2: modify list of unsupported features in caveats
This clarifies missing features of nilfs as a regular filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-06-10 23:41:11 +09:00
Takashi Iwai
45d60e3648 Merge branch 'topic/sc6000' into for-linus
* topic/sc6000:
  ALSA: sc6000: enable joystick port
  ALSA: sc6000: fix older card initialization
  ALSA: sc6000: add support for SC-6600 and SC-7000
2009-06-10 07:26:45 +02:00
Takashi Iwai
9dea75c709 Merge branch 'topic/oxygen' into for-linus
* topic/oxygen:
  sound: virtuoso: add Xonar Essence ST support
  sound: virtuoso: enable HDAV S/PDIF input
  sound: virtuoso: add another DX PCI ID
  sound: oxygen: reset DMA when stream is closed
2009-06-10 07:26:39 +02:00
Takashi Iwai
ed8cc176c9 Merge branch 'topic/maya44' into for-linus
* topic/maya44:
  ALSA: ice1724 - Add ESI Maya44 support
  ALSA: ice1724 - Allow spec driver to create own routing controls
  ALSA: ice1724 - Add PCI postint to reset sequence
  ALSA: ice1724 - Clean up definitions of DMA records
  ALSA: ice1724 - Check error in set_rate function
2009-06-10 07:26:36 +02:00
Takashi Iwai
03cece06c4 Merge branch 'topic/lx6464es' into for-linus
* topic/lx6464es:
  ALSA: Add missing description of lx6464es to ALSA-Configuration.txt
  ALSA: lx6464es - Disable lx_message_send()
  ALSA: lx6464es - Use snd_card_create()
  ALSA: lx6464es - driver for the digigram lx6464es interface
2009-06-10 07:26:34 +02:00
Takashi Iwai
81ad969dbf Merge branch 'topic/hda' into for-linus
* topic/hda: (51 commits)
  ALSA: hda - Fix the previous tagra-8ch patch
  ALSA: hda - Add 7.1 support for MSI GX620
  ALSA: support Sony Vaio TT
  ALSA: hda_intel: fix build error when !PM
  ALSA: hda - More Aspire 8930G fixes
  ALSA: hda - Acer Aspire 8930G support
  ALSA: hda - Limit codec-verb retry to limited hardwares
  ALSA: hda - Add codec bus reset and verb-retry at critical errors
  ALSA: hda - Reorder and clean-up ALC268 quirk table
  ALSA: hda - fix audio on LG R510
  ALSA: hda - Macbook[Pro] 5 6ch support
  ALSA: hda-intel: improve initialization for ALC262_HP_BPC model
  ALSA: hda - Jack Mode changes for Sigmatel boards
  ALSA: hda - Support NVIDIA 8 channel HDMI audio
  ALSA: hda - Fix a typo in the previous patch
  ALSA: hda - Fix reverted LED setup for HP
  ALSA: hda - Add more register bits definitions
  ALSA: hda - Always sync writes in single_cmd mode
  ALSA: hda - Support sync after writing a verb
  ALSA: hda - Allow concurrent RIRB access in single_cmd mode
  ...
2009-06-10 07:26:31 +02:00
Takashi Iwai
e618a5609e Merge branch 'topic/ctxfi' into for-linus
* topic/ctxfi: (35 commits)
  ALSA: ctxfi - Clear PCM resources at hw_params and hw_free
  ALSA: ctxfi - Check the presence of SRC instance in PCM pointer callbacks
  ALSA: ctxfi - Add missing start check in atc_pcm_playback_start()
  ALSA: ctxfi - Add use_system_timer module option
  ALSA: ctxfi - Fix wrong model id for UAA
  ALSA: ctxfi - Clean up probe routines
  ALSA: ctxfi - Fix / clean up hw20k2 chip code
  ALSA: ctxfi - Fix possible buffer pointer overrun
  ALSA: ctxfi - Remove useless initializations and cast
  ALSA: ctxfi - Fix DMA mask for emu20k2 chip
  ALSA: ctxfi - Make volume controls more intuitive
  ALSA: ctxfi - Optimize the native timer handling using wc counter
  ALSA: ctxfi - Add missing inclusion of linux/math64.h
  ALSA: ctxfi - Set device 0 for mixer control elements
  ALSA: ctxfi - Clean up / optimize
  ALSA: ctxfi - Set periods_min to 2
  ALSA: ctxfi - Use native timer interrupt on emu20k1
  ALSA: ctxfi - Fix previous fix for 64bit DMA
  ALSA: ctxfi - Fix endian-dependent codes
  ALSA: ctxfi - Allow 64bit DMA
  ...
2009-06-10 07:26:27 +02:00
Takashi Iwai
ba252af8d6 Merge branch 'topic/asoc' into for-linus
* topic/asoc: (135 commits)
  ASoC: Apostrophe patrol
  ASoC: codec tlv320aic23 fix bogus divide by 0 message
  ASoC: fix NULL pointer dereference in soc_suspend()
  ASoC: Fix build error in twl4030.c
  ASoC: SSM2602: assign last substream to the master when shutting down
  ASoC: Blackfin: document how anomaly 05000250 is handled
  ASoC: Blackfin: set the transfer size according the ac97_frame size
  ASoC: SSM2602: remove unsupported sample rates
  ASoC: TWL4030: Check the interface format for 4 channel mode
  ASoC: TWL4030: Use reg_cache in twl4030_init_chip
  ASoC: Initialise dev for the dummy S/PDIF DAI
  ASoC: Add dummy S/PDIF codec support
  ASoC: correct print specifiers for unsigneds
  ASoC: Modify mpc5200 AC97 driver to use V9 of spin_event_timeout()
  ASoC: Switch FSL SSI DAI over to symmetric_rates
  ASoC: Mark MPC5200 AC97 as BROKEN until PowerPC merge issues are resolved
  ASoC: Fabric bindings for STAC9766 on the Efika
  ASoC: Support for AC97 on Phytec pmc030 base board.
  ASoC: AC97 driver for mpc5200
  ASoC: Main rewite of the mpc5200 audio DMA code
  ...
2009-06-10 07:26:18 +02:00
Markus Heidelberg
98f540d31b kconfig: resort the documentation of the environment variables
All the KCONFIG_ environment variables were previously located in a
section "Environment variables in 'menuconfig'", but neither are they
restricted to 'menuconfig' nor are they all used by 'menuconfig'.

Introduce the following three sections for these variables:
  * Environment variables for '*config'
  * Environment variables for '{allyes/allmod/allno/rand}config'
  * Environment variables for 'silentoldconfig'

Furthermore this puts MENUCONFIG_MODE next to MENUCONFIG_COLOR into a
common section "User interface options for 'menuconfig'".

Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-06-09 22:37:47 +02:00
David VomLehn
3e56f08bff kbuild/Documentation: Incorrect makefile syntax in example
There is an error in the make syntax for one of the kbuild examples

Signed-off-by: David VomLehn <dvomlehn@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-06-09 22:37:45 +02:00
Sergey Lapin
02cf228639 ieee802154: add documentation about our stack
Add MAINTAINERS entry and a small text describing our stack interfaces,
how to hook the drivers, etc.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Lapin <slapin@ossfans.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-09 05:25:33 -07:00
James Morris
0b4ec6e4e0 Merge branch 'master' into next 2009-06-09 09:27:53 +10:00
David Heidelberger
64a8be7435 ALSA: hda - Add 7.1 support for MSI GX620
Added 7.1 support for MSI GX620 and jack quirk.

Reference: kernel bug#13430
	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13430

Signed-off-by: David Heidelberger <d.okias@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2009-06-08 16:18:31 +02:00
David Woodhouse
e635a01ea0 Merge branch 'next-mtd' of git://aeryn.fluff.org.uk/bjdooks/linux 2009-06-08 12:21:27 +01:00
Tilman Schmidt
fe93299a00 isdn: extend INTERFACE.CAPI document
Clarify calling context and return codes of callback methods, and
add a description of the _cmsg structure and helper functions.

Impact: documentation
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-08 00:45:52 -07:00
Tilman Schmidt
4e32997205 isdn: rename capi_ctr_reseted() to capi_ctr_down()
Change the name of the Kernel CAPI exported function capi_ctr_reseted()
to something representing its purpose better.

Impact: renaming, no functional change
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-08 00:45:50 -07:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
075affcbe0 ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2)
From the perspective of most users of recent systems, disabling Host
Protected Area (HPA) can break vendor RAID formats, GPT partitions and
risks corrupting firmware or overwriting vendor system recovery tools.

Unfortunately the original (kernels < 2.6.30) behavior (unconditionally
disabling HPA and using full disk capacity) was introduced at the time
when the main use of HPA was to make the drive look small enough for the
BIOS to allow the system to boot with large capacity drives.

Thus to allow the maximum compatibility with the existing setups (using
HPA and partitioned with HPA disabled) we automically disable HPA if
any partitions overlapping HPA are detected.  Additionally HPA can also
be disabled using the "nohpa" module parameter (i.e. "ide_core.nohpa=0.0"
to disable HPA on /dev/hda).

v2:
Fix ->resume HPA support.

While at it:
- remove stale "idebus=" entry from Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: "Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
[patch description was based on input from Alan Cox and Frans Pop]
Emphatically-Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
5f4457a4f6 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/cpu 2009-06-07 12:22:15 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
62a6f465f6 Merge branch 'dma-debug/2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/linux-2.6-iommu into core/iommu 2009-06-07 11:36:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
56fdd18c7b Merge branch 'linus' into core/iommu
Merge reason: This branch was on an -rc5 base so pull almost-2.6.30
              to resync with the latest upstream fixes and make sure
              the combination works fine.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-07 11:35:05 +02:00
Jonathan Corbet
f89d7eaf6c Document the debugfs API
This is an updated document covering the internal API for the debugfs
filesystem.  Thanks to Shen Feng for suggesting that I put this text here
and noting that the old LWN version was rather out of date.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Reported-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-06-06 10:28:14 -06:00
Rohit Hagargundgi
5988af2319 mtd: Flex-OneNAND support
Add support for Samsung Flex-OneNAND devices.

Flex-OneNAND combines SLC and MLC technologies into a single device.
SLC area provides increased reliability and speed, suitable for storing
code such as bootloader, kernel and root file system.  MLC area
provides high density and is suitable for storing user data.

SLC and MLC regions can be configured through kernel parameter.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export flexoand_region and onenand_addr]
Signed-off-by: Rohit Hagargundgi <h.rohit@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Cc: Vishak G <vishak.g@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-06-05 18:59:21 +01:00
Guido Günther
3e1647c5b5 ALSA: support Sony Vaio TT
with BIOS probing only we offer a non functional headphone swith and
volume slider.

Signed-off-by: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2009-06-05 12:12:26 +02:00
Theodore Ts'o
2ae19acaa5 Documentation: Add "how to write a good patch summary" to SubmittingPatches
Unfortunately many patch submissions are arriving with painfully poor
patch descriptions.   As a result of the discussion on LKML:

      http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/15/296

explain how to submit a better patch description, in the (perhaps
vain) hope that maintainers won't end up having to rewrite the git
commit logs as often as they do today.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-06-04 10:34:33 -06:00
Pavel Machek
5801da1b2f SubmittingPatches: fix typo
Fix typo.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-06-04 10:33:24 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
5d98932ab0 docs: Encourage better changelogs in the development process document
Add a couple of paragraphs to the "patch formatting" section on how patches
should be described.  This text is shamelessly cribbed from suggestions
posted by Rusty Russell.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-06-04 10:32:49 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
bbb0a4247a Document Reported-by in SubmittingPatches
Randy pointed out that the Reported-By tag should be documented with the
others in SubmittingPatches.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-06-04 10:32:49 -06:00
Andi Kleen
3c0797925f x86, mce: switch x86 machine check handler to Monarch election.
On Intel platforms machine check exceptions are always broadcast to
all CPUs.  This patch makes the machine check handler synchronize all
these machine checks, elect a Monarch to handle the event and collect
the worst event from all CPUs and then process it first.

This has some advantages:

- When there is a truly data corrupting error the system panics as
  quickly as possible. This improves containment of corrupted
  data and makes sure the corrupted data never hits stable storage.

- The panics are synchronized and do not reenter the panic code
  on multiple CPUs (which currently does not handle this well).

- All the errors are reported. Currently it often happens that
  another CPU happens to do the panic first, but reports useless
  information (empty machine check) because the real error
  happened on another CPU which came in later.
  This is a big advantage on Nehalem where the 8 threads per CPU
  lead to often the wrong CPU winning the race and dumping
  useless information on a machine check.  The problem also occurs
  in a less severe form on older CPUs.

- The system can detect when no CPUs detected a machine check
  and shut down the system.  This can happen when one CPU is so
  badly hung that that it cannot process a machine check anymore
  or when some external agent wants to stop the system by
  asserting the machine check pin.  This follows Intel hardware
  recommendations.

- This matches the recommended error model by the CPU designers.

- The events can be output in true severity order

- When a panic happens on another CPU it makes sure to be actually
  be able to process the stop IPI by enabling interrupts.

The code is extremly careful to handle timeouts while waiting
for other CPUs. It can't rely on the normal timing mechanisms
(jiffies, ktime_get) because of its asynchronous/lockless nature,
so it uses own timeouts using ndelay() and a "SPINUNIT"

The timeout is configurable. By default it waits for upto one
second for the other CPUs.  This can be also disabled.

From some informal testing AMD systems do not see to broadcast
machine checks, so right now it's always disabled by default on
non Intel CPUs or also on very old Intel systems.

Includes fixes from Ying Huang
Fixed a "ecception" in a comment (H.Seto)
Moved global_nwo reset later based on suggestion from H.Seto
v2: Avoid duplicate messages

[ Impact: feature, fixes long standing problems. ]

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-06-03 14:45:12 -07:00
Johannes Berg
f71fea23a2 rfkill: document /dev/rfkill
Add some blurb about /dev/rfkill to the documentation and
fix the "transmiter" spelling error.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03 14:06:15 -04:00
Johannes Berg
c64fb01627 rfkill: create useful userspace interface
The new code added by this patch will make rfkill create
a misc character device /dev/rfkill that userspace can use
to control rfkill soft blocks and get status of devices as
well as events when the status changes.

Using it is very simple -- when you open it you can read
a number of times to get the initial state, and every
further read blocks (you can poll) on getting the next
event from the kernel. The same structure you read is
also used when writing to it to change the soft block of
a given device, all devices of a given type, or all
devices.

This also makes CONFIG_RFKILL_INPUT selectable again in
order to be able to test without it present since its
functionality can now be replaced by userspace entirely
and distros and users may not want the input part of
rfkill interfering with their userspace code. We will
also write a userspace daemon to handle all that and
consequently add the input code to the feature removal
schedule.

In order to have rfkilld support both kernels with and
without CONFIG_RFKILL_INPUT (or new kernels after its
eventual removal) we also add an ioctl (that only exists
if rfkill-input is present) to disable rfkill-input.
It is not very efficient, but at least gives the correct
behaviour in all cases.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03 14:06:14 -04:00
Johannes Berg
19d337dff9 rfkill: rewrite
This patch completely rewrites the rfkill core to address
the following deficiencies:

 * all rfkill drivers need to implement polling where necessary
   rather than having one central implementation

 * updating the rfkill state cannot be done from arbitrary
   contexts, forcing drivers to use schedule_work and requiring
   lots of code

 * rfkill drivers need to keep track of soft/hard blocked
   internally -- the core should do this

 * the rfkill API has many unexpected quirks, for example being
   asymmetric wrt. alloc/free and register/unregister

 * rfkill can call back into a driver from within a function the
   driver called -- this is prone to deadlocks and generally
   should be avoided

 * rfkill-input pointlessly is a separate module

 * drivers need to #ifdef rfkill functions (unless they want to
   depend on or select RFKILL) -- rfkill should provide inlines
   that do nothing if it isn't compiled in

 * the rfkill structure is not opaque -- drivers need to initialise
   it correctly (lots of sanity checking code required) -- instead
   force drivers to pass the right variables to rfkill_alloc()

 * the documentation is hard to read because it always assumes the
   reader is completely clueless and contains way TOO MANY CAPS

 * the rfkill code needlessly uses a lot of locks and atomic
   operations in locked sections

 * fix LED trigger to actually change the LED when the radio state
   changes -- this wasn't done before

Tested-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> [thinkpad]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03 14:06:13 -04:00
Denis Karpov
85c7859190 FAT: add 'errors' mount option
On severe errors FAT remounts itself in read-only mode. Allow to
specify FAT fs desired behavior through 'errors' mount option:
panic, continue or remount read-only.

`mount -t [fat|vfat] -o errors=[panic,remount-ro,continue] \
	<bdev> <mount point>`

This is analog to ext2 fs 'errors' mount option.

Signed-off-by: Denis Karpov <ext-denis.2.karpov@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
2009-06-04 02:34:51 +09:00
Joerg Roedel
016ea6874a dma-debug: add documentation for the driver filter
This patch adds the driver filter feature to the dma-debug
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2009-06-02 16:21:42 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
1745de5e56 dma-debug: add dma_debug_driver kernel command line
This patch add the dma_debug_driver= boot parameter to enable the driver
filter for early boot.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2009-06-02 16:21:41 +02:00
vibi sreenivasan
dbdc9dd342 Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
File Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt does not exist.
 Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt contains DMA Mapping details

Signed-off-by: vibi sreenivasan <vibi_sreenivasan@cms.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-06-02 14:52:32 +02:00