8245 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Mike Galbraith
5091faa449 sched: Add 'autogroup' scheduling feature: automated per session task groups
A recurring complaint from CFS users is that parallel kbuild has
a negative impact on desktop interactivity.  This patch
implements an idea from Linus, to automatically create task
groups.  Currently, only per session autogroups are implemented,
but the patch leaves the way open for enhancement.

Implementation: each task's signal struct contains an inherited
pointer to a refcounted autogroup struct containing a task group
pointer, the default for all tasks pointing to the
init_task_group.  When a task calls setsid(), a new task group
is created, the process is moved into the new task group, and a
reference to the preveious task group is dropped.  Child
processes inherit this task group thereafter, and increase it's
refcount.  When the last thread of a process exits, the
process's reference is dropped, such that when the last process
referencing an autogroup exits, the autogroup is destroyed.

At runqueue selection time, IFF a task has no cgroup assignment,
its current autogroup is used.

Autogroup bandwidth is controllable via setting it's nice level
through the proc filesystem:

  cat /proc/<pid>/autogroup

Displays the task's group and the group's nice level.

  echo <nice level> > /proc/<pid>/autogroup

Sets the task group's shares to the weight of nice <level> task.
Setting nice level is rate limited for !admin users due to the
abuse risk of task group locking.

The feature is enabled from boot by default if
CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y is selected, but can be disabled via
the boot option noautogroup, and can also be turned on/off on
the fly via:

  echo [01] > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled

... which will automatically move tasks to/from the root task group.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
[ Removed the task_group_path() debug code, and fixed !EVENTFD build failure. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1290281700.28711.9.camel@maggy.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-30 16:03:35 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
2d999e03b7 rcu: update documentation/comments for Lai's adoption patch
Lai's RCU-callback immediate-adoption patch changes the RCU tracing
output, so update tracing.txt.  Also update a few comments to clarify
the synchronization design.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-11-29 22:01:59 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
8e79e1f961 rcu: document TINY_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU tracing.
Add the required verbiage to Documentation/RCU/trace.txt.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-11-29 22:01:56 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a01af8e4a4 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (27 commits)
  af_unix: limit recursion level
  pch_gbe driver: The wrong of initializer entry
  pch_gbe dreiver: chang author
  ucc_geth: fix ucc halt problem in half duplex mode
  inet: Fix __inet_inherit_port() to correctly increment bsockets and num_owners
  ehea: Add some info messages and fix an issue
  hso: fix disable_net
  NET: wan/x25_asy, move lapb_unregister to x25_asy_close_tty
  cxgb4vf: fix setting unicast/multicast addresses ...
  net, ppp: Report correct error code if unit allocation failed
  DECnet: don't leak uninitialized stack byte
  au1000_eth: fix invalid address accessing the MAC enable register
  dccp: fix error in updating the GAR
  tcp: restrict net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win_scale (#20312)
  netns: Don't leak others' openreq-s in proc
  Net: ceph: Makefile: Remove unnessary code
  vhost/net: fix rcu check usage
  econet: fix CVE-2010-3848
  econet: fix CVE-2010-3850
  econet: disallow NULL remote addr for sendmsg(), fixes CVE-2010-3849
  ...
2010-11-29 14:36:33 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
555bdaefd5 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bp/bp
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bp/bp:
  EDAC: Fix typos in Documentation/edac.txt
  EDAC, MCE: Fix edac_init_mce_inject error handling
  EDAC: Remove deprecated kbuild goal definitions
2010-11-29 14:10:44 -08:00
Victor Gallardo
d164f6d4f9 powerpc/4xx: Add suspend and idle support
Add suspend/resume support for 4xx compatible CPUs.
See /sys/power/state for available power states configured in.

Add two different idle states (idle-wait and idle-doze) controlled via sysfs.
Default is idle-wait.
	cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/idle
	[wait] doze

To save additional power, use idle-doze.
	echo doze > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/idle
	cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/idle
	wait [doze]

Signed-off-by: Victor Gallardo <vgallardo@apm.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-11-29 10:05:06 -05:00
Takashi Iwai
dc42717075 ALSA: hda - Remove dead md2 quirk code
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2010-11-29 08:12:43 +01:00
Will Schmidt
4e89a2d8e2 powerpc/pseries: Add kernel parameter to disable batched hcalls
This introduces a pair of kernel parameters that can be used to disable
the MULTITCE and BULK_REMOVE h-calls.

By default, those hcalls are enabled, active, and good for throughput
and performance.  The ability to disable them will be useful for some of
the PREEMPT_RT related investigation and work occurring on Power.

Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com>
cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-11-29 15:48:18 +11:00
Lennert Buytenhek
475fc7c011 powerpc: Fix two typos in Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-11-29 15:48:18 +11:00
Mimi Zohar
d00a1c72f7 keys: add new trusted key-type
Define a new kernel key-type called 'trusted'.  Trusted keys are random
number symmetric keys, generated and RSA-sealed by the TPM.  The TPM
only unseals the keys, if the boot PCRs and other criteria match.
Userspace can only ever see encrypted blobs.

Based on suggestions by Jason Gunthorpe, several new options have been
added to support additional usages.

The new options are:
migratable=  designates that the key may/may not ever be updated
             (resealed under a new key, new pcrinfo or new auth.)

pcrlock=n    extends the designated PCR 'n' with a random value,
             so that a key sealed to that PCR may not be unsealed
             again until after a reboot.

keyhandle=   specifies the sealing/unsealing key handle.

keyauth=     specifies the sealing/unsealing key auth.

blobauth=    specifies the sealed data auth.

Implementation of a kernel reserved locality for trusted keys will be
investigated for a possible future extension.

Changelog:
- Updated and added examples to Documentation/keys-trusted-encrypted.txt
- Moved generic TPM constants to include/linux/tpm_command.h
  (David Howell's suggestion.)
- trusted_defined.c: replaced kzalloc with kmalloc, added pcrlock failure
  error handling, added const qualifiers where appropriate.
- moved to late_initcall
- updated from hash to shash (suggestion by David Howells)
- reduced worst stack usage (tpm_seal) from 530 to 312 bytes
- moved documentation to Documentation directory (suggestion by David Howells)
- all the other code cleanups suggested by David Howells
- Add pcrlock CAP_SYS_ADMIN dependency (based on comment by Jason Gunthorpe)
- New options: migratable, pcrlock, keyhandle, keyauth, blobauth (based on
  discussions with Jason Gunthorpe)
- Free payload on failure to create key(reported/fixed by Roberto Sassu)
- Updated Kconfig and other descriptions (based on Serge Hallyn's suggestion)
- Replaced kzalloc() with kmalloc() (reported by Serge Hallyn)

Signed-off-by: David Safford <safford@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-11-29 08:55:25 +11:00
Alexey Dobriyan
0147fc058d tcp: restrict net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win_scale (#20312)
tcp_win_from_space() does the following:

      if (sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale <= 0)
              return space >> (-sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale);
      else
              return space - (space >> sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale);

"space" is int.

As per C99 6.5.7 (3) shifting int for 32 or more bits is
undefined behaviour.

Indeed, if sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale is exactly 32,
space >> 32 equals space and function returns 0.

Which means we busyloop in tcp_fixup_rcvbuf().

Restrict net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win_scale to [-31, 31].

Fix https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20312

Steps to reproduce:

      echo 32 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_adv_win_scale
      wget www.kernel.org
      [softlockup]

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-28 10:39:45 -08:00
Raoul Bhatia
5989f11ba1 EDAC: Fix typos in Documentation/edac.txt
Fix trivial typos in edac.txt

Signed-off-by: Raoul Bhatia <r.bhatia@ipax.at>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
2010-11-25 17:32:47 +01:00
Simon Horman
db6857c6e7 kdump: update kexec-tools URL and Vivek's email
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-11-25 14:36:38 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
e5fa506173 Merge branch 'fbdev-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/fbdev-2.6
* 'fbdev-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/fbdev-2.6:
  sisfb: delete osdef.h
  sisfb: move the CONFIG warning to sis_main.c
  sisfb: replace SiS_SetMemory with memset_io
  sisfb: remove InPort/OutPort wrappers
  sisfb: use CONFIG_FB_SIS_301/315 instead of SIS301/315H
  sisfb: delete redudant #define SIS_LINUX_KERNEL
  sisfb: delete dead SIS_XORG_XF86 code
  sisfb: delete fallback code for pci_map_rom()
  sisfb: delete obsolete PCI ROM bug workaround
  fbdev: Update documentation index file.
  lxfb: Program panel v/h sync output polarity correctly
  fbcmap: integer overflow bug
  fbcmap: cleanup white space in fb_alloc_cmap()
  MAINTAINERS: Add fbdev patchwork entry, tidy up file patterns.
  fbdev: da8xx: punt duplicated FBIO_WAITFORVSYNC define
  fbdev: sh_mobile_lcdcfb: fix bug in reconfig()
2010-11-25 06:58:56 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
3070fb888b Merge branch 'sh-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* 'sh-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
  sh: clkfwk: Build fix for non-legacy CPG changes.
  sh: Use GCC __builtin_prefetch() to implement prefetch().
  sh: fix vsyscall compilation due to .eh_frame issue
  sh: avoid to flush all cache in sys_cacheflush
  sh: clkfwk: Disable init clk op for non-legacy clocks.
  sh: clkfwk: Kill off now unused algo_id in set_rate op.
  sh: clkfwk: Kill off unused clk_set_rate_ex().
2010-11-25 06:58:19 +09:00
Michal Hocko
a42c390cfa cgroups: make swap accounting default behavior configurable
Swap accounting can be configured by CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
configuration option and then it is turned on by default.  There is a boot
option (noswapaccount) which can disable this feature.

This makes it hard for distributors to enable the configuration option as
this feature leads to a bigger memory consumption and this is a no-go for
general purpose distribution kernel.  On the other hand swap accounting
may be very usuful for some workloads.

This patch adds a new configuration option which controls the default
behavior (CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED).  If the option is selected
then the feature is turned on by default.

It also adds a new boot parameter swapaccount[=1|0] which enhances the
original noswapaccount parameter semantic by means of enable/disable logic
(defaults to 1 if no value is provided to be still consistent with
noswapaccount).

The default behavior is unchanged (if CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP is
enabled then CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED is enabled as well)

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-25 06:50:45 +09:00
Corentin Chary
ba1ff5be52 asus-laptop: add wimax and wwan support
Asus UL30A has a 3G chip, but the radio is disabled by default.
The DSDT also reference a WIMAX device, which is not present on this model.

This patch adds two new files: wwan and wimax to control WWAN and
WIMAX devices. It does not use rfkill, because like WLED and BLED,
we don't know yet that the two ACPI functions will always control the
radio, they may control only the leds on some hardware.

We may add rfkill switchs later.

Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2010-11-24 12:00:15 -05:00
Chris Bagwell
e599ab2556 eeepc-wmi: add cpufv sysfs documentation
Based on cpufv text from sysfs-platform-eeepc-laptop that
has almost same behavior.

Signed-off-by: Chris Bagwell <chris@cnpbagwell.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
2010-11-24 11:59:43 -05:00
Andres Salomon
f830673f6a Documentation/development-process: more staging info
Document things that I would've liked to have known when submitting a driver
to gregkh for staging.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-18 15:00:47 -08:00
Andres Salomon
e4fabad30e Documentation/development-process: use -next trees instead of staging
This is confusing, as we have "staging" trees for drivers/staging.  Call
them -next trees.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-18 15:00:47 -08:00
Hans J. Koch
f99e0e98f9 Documentation: change email address for Hans Koch
My old mail address doesn't exist anymore. This changes all occurrences
to my new address.

Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@hansjkoch.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-18 15:00:46 -08:00
Bernhard Walle
ebde7b062c Documentation/gpio.txt: explain poll/select usage
Add a bit more information how to use poll(2) on GPIO value files
correctly. For me it was not clear that I need to poll(2) for
POLLPRI|POLLERR or select(2) for exceptfds.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <walle@corscience.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-18 15:00:46 -08:00
Dan Carpenter
09c9feb946 Documentation: make configfs example code simpler, clearer
If "p" is NULL then it will cause an oops when we pass it to
simple_strtoul().  In this case "p" can not be NULL so I removed the
check.  I also changed the check a little to make it more explicit that
we are testing whether p points to the NUL char.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-18 15:00:46 -08:00
Vicente Jimenez Aguilar
89c8fb7a01 fbdev: Update documentation index file.
This is a simple update of the file Documentation/fb/00-INDEX based on
the directory content.

Signed-off-by: Vicente Jimenez Aguilar <googuy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2010-11-18 15:01:54 +09:00
Jeremy Eder
d67ef35fff clarify documentation for net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships
This patch helps clarify documentation for
net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships by providing a formula for
calculating the maximum number of multicast groups that can be
subscribed to, plus defining the theoretical limit.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Eder <jeder@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-17 11:22:06 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
1e8703b2e6 Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6
* 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
  PM / PM QoS: Fix reversed min and max
  PM / OPP: Hide OPP configuration when SoCs do not provide an implementation
  PM: Allow devices to be removed during late suspend and early resume
2010-11-16 15:18:17 -08:00
Alan Stern
fcc4a01eb8 USB: use the runtime-PM autosuspend implementation
This patch (as1428) converts USB over to the new runtime-PM core
autosuspend framework.  One slightly awkward aspect of the conversion
is that USB devices will now have two suspend-delay attributes: the
old power/autosuspend file and the new power/autosuspend_delay_ms
file.  One expresses the delay time in seconds and the other in
milliseconds, but otherwise they do the same thing.  The old attribute
can be deprecated and then removed eventually.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-16 14:03:41 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
23308ba54d console: add /proc/consoles
It allows users to see what consoles are currently known to the system
and with what flags.

It is based on Werner's patch, the part about traversing fds was
removed, the code was moved to kernel/printk.c, where consoles are
handled and it makes more sense to me.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> [cleanups]
Signed-off-by: "Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-16 12:50:17 -08:00
Jens Axboe
5fbf856392 Merge branch 'for-2.6.38/rc2-holder' into for-2.6.38/core 2010-11-16 10:10:12 +01:00
Paul Mundt
96f8d864af fbdev: move udlfb out of staging.
udlfb has undergone a fair bit of cleanup recently and is effectively at
the point where it can be liberated from staging purgatory and promoted
to a real driver.

The outstanding cleanups are all minor, with some of them dependent on
drivers/video headers, so these will be done incrementally from udlfb's
new home.

Requested-by: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2010-11-16 14:00:24 +09:00
Paul Mundt
849653372d Merge branch 'common/clkfwk' into sh-fixes-for-linus 2010-11-16 10:11:20 +09:00
Michael Witten
c996d8b9a8 Docs/Kconfig: Update: osdl.org -> linuxfoundation.org
Some of the documentation refers to web pages under
the domain `osdl.org'. However, `osdl.org' now
redirects to `linuxfoundation.org'.

Rather than rely on redirections, this patch updates
the addresses appropriately; for the most part, only
documentation that is meant to be current has been
updated.

The patch should be pretty quick to scan and check;
each new web-page url was gotten by trying out the
original URL in a browser and then simply copying the
the redirected URL (formatting as necessary).

There is some conflict as to which one of these domain
names is preferred:

  linuxfoundation.org
  linux-foundation.org

So, I wrote:

  info@linuxfoundation.org

and got this reply:

  Message-ID: <4CE17EE6.9040807@linuxfoundation.org>
  Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:41:42 -0800
  From: David Ames <david@linuxfoundation.org>

  ...

  linuxfoundation.org is preferred. The canonical name for our web site is
  www.linuxfoundation.org. Our list site is actually
  lists.linux-foundation.org.

  Regarding email linuxfoundation.org is preferred there are a few people
  who choose to use linux-foundation.org for their own reasons.

Consequently, I used `linuxfoundation.org' for web pages and
`lists.linux-foundation.org' for mailing-list web pages and email addresses;
the only personal email address I updated from `@osdl.org' was that of
Andrew Morton, who prefers `linux-foundation.org' according `git log'.

Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-11-15 23:50:13 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
fe9d1159b2 Merge branch 'i2c-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging:
  i2c: Sanity checks on adapter registration
  i2c: Mark i2c_adapter.id as deprecated
  i2c: Drivers shouldn't include <linux/i2c-id.h>
  i2c: Delete unused adapter IDs
  i2c: Remove obsolete cleanup for clientdata
2010-11-15 14:03:17 -08:00
Jean Delvare
e1e18ee1cb i2c: Mark i2c_adapter.id as deprecated
It's about time to make it clear that i2c_adapter.id is deprecated.
Hopefully this will remind the last user to move over to a different
strategy.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
2010-11-15 22:40:38 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
bdc85df7a8 blk-cgroup: Allow creation of hierarchical cgroups
o Allow hierarchical cgroup creation for blkio controller

o Currently we disallow it as both the io controller policies (throttling
  as well as proportion bandwidth) do not support hierarhical accounting
  and control. But the flip side is that blkio controller can not be used with
  libvirt as libvirt creates a cgroup hierarchy deeper than 1 level.

  <top-level-cgroup-dir>/<controller>/libvirt/qemu/<virtual-machine-groups>

o So this patch will allow creation of cgroup hierarhcy but at the backend
  everything will be treated as flat. So if somebody created a an hierarchy
  like as follows.

			root
			/  \
		     test1 test2
			|
		     test3

  CFQ and throttling will practically treat all groups at same level.

				pivot
			     /  |   \  \
			root  test1 test2  test3

o Once we have actual support for hierarchical accounting and control
  then we can introduce another cgroup tunable file "blkio.use_hierarchy"
  which will be 0 by default but if user wants to enforce hierarhical
  control then it can be set to 1. This way there should not be any
  ABI problems down the line.

o The only not so pretty part is introduction of extra file "use_hierarchy"
  down the line. Kame-san had mentioned that hierarhical accounting is
  expensive in memory controller hence they keep it off by default. I
  suspect same will be the case for IO controller also as for each IO
  completion we shall have to account IO through hierarchy up to the root.
  if yes, then it probably is not a very bad idea to introduce this extra
  file so that it will be used only when somebody needs it and some people
  might enable hierarchy only in part of the hierarchy.

o This is how basically memory controller also uses "use_hierarhcy" and
  they also allowed creation of hierarchies when actual backend support
  was not available.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Ciju Rajan K <ciju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Ciju Rajan K <ciju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-11-15 19:37:36 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
7023166959 Merge branch 'fbdev-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/fbdev-2.6
* 'fbdev-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/fbdev-2.6:
  fsl-diu-fb: drop dead ioctl define
  MAINTAINERS: Add an fbdev git tree entry.
  OMAP: DSS: Fix documentation regarding 'vram' kernel parameter
  OMAP: VRAM: Fix boot-time memory allocation
  OMAP: VRAM: improve VRAM error prints
  sisfb: limit POST memory test according to PCI resource length
  fbdev: sh_mobile_lcdc: use correct number of modes, when using the default
  fbdev: sh_mobile_lcdc: use the standard CEA-861 720p timing
  fbdev: sh_mobile_hdmi: properly clean up modedb on monitor unplug
2010-11-15 08:42:07 -08:00
Paul Mundt
9a1683d1dd sh: clkfwk: Kill off unused clk_set_rate_ex().
With the refactoring of the SH7722 clock framework some time ago this
abstraction has become unecessary. Kill it off before anyone else gets
the bright idea to start using it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2010-11-15 18:25:12 +09:00
David S. Miller
c25ecd0a21 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-11-14 11:57:05 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
9457b24a09 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (66 commits)
  can-bcm: fix minor heap overflow
  gianfar: Do not call device_set_wakeup_enable() under a spinlock
  ipv6: Warn users if maximum number of routes is reached.
  docs: Add neigh/gc_thresh3 and route/max_size documentation.
  axnet_cs: fix resume problem for some Ax88790 chip
  ipv6: addrconf: don't remove address state on ifdown if the address is being kept
  tcp: Don't change unlocked socket state in tcp_v4_err().
  x25: Prevent crashing when parsing bad X.25 facilities
  cxgb4vf: add call to Firmware to reset VF State.
  cxgb4vf: Fail open if link_start() fails.
  cxgb4vf: flesh out PCI Device ID Table ...
  cxgb4vf: fix some errors in Gather List to skb conversion
  cxgb4vf: fix bug in Generic Receive Offload
  cxgb4vf: don't implement trivial (and incorrect) ndo_select_queue()
  ixgbe: Look inside vlan when determining offload protocol.
  bnx2x: Look inside vlan when determining checksum proto.
  vlan: Add function to retrieve EtherType from vlan packets.
  virtio-net: init link state correctly
  ucc_geth: Fix deadlock
  ucc_geth: Do not bring the whole IF down when TX failure.
  ...
2010-11-12 17:17:55 -08:00
Ben Greear
cbaf087a9f docs: Add neigh/gc_thresh3 and route/max_size documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-12 14:03:20 -08:00
Giuseppe Cavallaro
f5539b5bfa stmmac: update the driver documentation
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-12 12:43:34 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
8a9f772c14 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (27 commits)
  block: remove unused copy_io_context()
  Documentation: remove anticipatory scheduler info
  block: remove REQ_HARDBARRIER
  ioprio: rcu_read_lock/unlock protect find_task_by_vpid call (V2)
  ioprio: fix RCU locking around task dereference
  block: ioctl: fix information leak to userland
  block: read i_size with i_size_read()
  cciss: fix proc warning on attempt to remove non-existant directory
  bio: take care not overflow page count when mapping/copying user data
  block: limit vec count in bio_kmalloc() and bio_alloc_map_data()
  block: take care not to overflow when calculating total iov length
  block: check for proper length of iov entries in blk_rq_map_user_iov()
  cciss: remove controllers supported by hpsa
  cciss: use usleep_range not msleep for small sleeps
  cciss: limit commands allocated on reset_devices
  cciss: Use kernel provided PCI state save and restore functions
  cciss: fix board status waiting code
  drbd: Removed checks for REQ_HARDBARRIER on incomming BIOs
  drbd: REQ_HARDBARRIER -> REQ_FUA transition for meta data accesses
  drbd: Removed the BIO_RW_BARRIER support form the receiver/epoch code
  ...
2010-11-12 08:52:47 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
fb1cb7b27b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
  xfs: remove incorrect assert in xfs_vm_writepage
  xfs: use hlist_add_fake
  xfs: fix a few compiler warnings with CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=n
  xfs: tell lockdep about parent iolock usage in filestreams
  xfs: move delayed write buffer trace
  xfs: fix per-ag reference counting in inode reclaim tree walking
  xfs: xfs_ioctl: fix information leak to userland
  xfs: remove experimental tag from the delaylog option
2010-11-12 08:11:03 -08:00
Samu Onkalo
5991e154b2 Documentation: led drivers lp5521 and lp5523
Create sub directory Documentation/leds and add short documentation for
LP5521 and LP5523 drivers.

Signed-off-by: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-12 07:55:32 -08:00
Johannes Berg
5ada28bf76 led-class: always implement blinking
Currently, blinking LEDs can be awkward because it is not guaranteed that
all LEDs implement blinking.  The trigger that wants it to blink then
needs to implement its own timer solution.

Rather than require that, add led_blink_set() API that triggers can use.
This function will attempt to use hw blinking, but if that fails
implements a timer for it.  To stop blinking again, brightness_set() also
needs to be wrapped into API that will stop the software blink.

As a result of this, the timer trigger becomes a very trivial one, and
hopefully we can finally see triggers using blinking as well because it's
always easy to use.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-12 07:55:32 -08:00
Dan Rosenberg
eaf06b241b Restrict unprivileged access to kernel syslog
The kernel syslog contains debugging information that is often useful
during exploitation of other vulnerabilities, such as kernel heap
addresses.  Rather than futilely attempt to sanitize hundreds (or
thousands) of printk statements and simultaneously cripple useful
debugging functionality, it is far simpler to create an option that
prevents unprivileged users from reading the syslog.

This patch, loosely based on grsecurity's GRKERNSEC_DMESG, creates the
dmesg_restrict sysctl.  When set to "0", the default, no restrictions are
enforced.  When set to "1", only users with CAP_SYS_ADMIN can read the
kernel syslog via dmesg(8) or other mechanisms.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: explain the config option in kernel.txt]
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-12 07:55:32 -08:00
David Rientjes
203f40a5a0 oom: document obsolete oom_adj tunable
/proc/pid/oom_adj was deprecated in August 2010 with the introduction of
the new oom killer heuristic.

This patch copies the Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt entry for
this tunable to the Documentation/ABI/obsolete directory so nobody misses
it.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-12 07:55:31 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
c751e17b53 x86: Add CE4100 platform support
Add CE4100 platform support. CE4100 needs early setup like
moorestown.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <94720fd7f5564a12ebf202cf2c4f4c0d619aab35.1289331834.git.dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-11-12 00:45:41 +01:00
Claudio Scordino
63295cb2ff serial: add Documentation about RS485 serial communications
Documentation about RS485 serial communications

Signed-off-by: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-11 11:35:59 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
17a9e7bbae Documentation: remove anticipatory scheduler info
Remove anticipatory block I/O scheduler info from Documentation/
since the code has been deleted.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Reported-by: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01:00