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Len Brown
3e0fe36483 Merge branch 'misc' into release 2008-11-11 21:14:11 -05:00
Len Brown
597e4fabb0 Merge branch 'bugzilla-11312' into release 2008-11-11 21:13:50 -05:00
David S. Miller
7e452baf6b Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c
	drivers/net/sfc/ethtool.c
	net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c
2008-11-11 15:43:02 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
09eb3b5b1b Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  ring-buffer: prevent infinite looping on time stamping
  ftrace: disable tracing on resize
  ftrace: fix breakage in bin_fmt results
  ftrace: ftrace.txt version update
  ftrace: update txt document
2008-11-11 10:51:50 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
9ee670fd87 x86/doc: spelling fix for grub
Impact: documentation fix

I met okuji-san (GRUB maintainer) yesterday.
He said GRuB isn't correct spelled and he want to fix it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 19:30:31 +01:00
Jiri Slaby
a4c52791fa x86, 64-bit: update address space documentation
Impact: documentation update

Commit a6523748bd
(paravirt/x86, 64-bit: move __PAGE_OFFSET to leave a space for hypervisor)
changed address space without changing the documentation.

Change it according to the code change -- direct mapping start:
ffff810000000000 => ffff880000000000 which gives 57 TiB, something
between 45 and 46 bits.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 19:30:28 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
853041f089 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6: (35 commits)
  V4L/DVB (9516): cx18: Move DVB buffer transfer handling from irq handler to work_queue
  V4L/DVB (9557): gspca: Small changes for the sensor HV7131B in zc3xx.
  V4L/DVB (9556): gspca: Bad init sequence for sensor HV7131B in zc3xx.
  V4L/DVB (9549): gspca: Fix a typo in one of gspca chips name.
  V4L/DVB (9515): cx18: Use correct Mailbox IRQ Ack values and misc IRQ handling cleanup
  V4L/DVB (9493): kconfig patch
  V4L/DVB (9527): af9015: fix compile warnings
  V4L/DVB (9524): af9013: fix bug in status reading
  V4L/DVB (9511): cx18: Mark CX18_CPU_DE_RELEASE_MDL as a slow API call
  V4L/DVB (9510): cx18: Fix write retries for registers that always change - part 2.
  V4L/DVB (9506): ivtv/cx18: fix test whether modules should be loaded or not.
  V4L/DVB (9499): cx88-mpeg: final fix for analogue only compilation + de-alloc fix
  V4L/DVB (9496): cx88-blackbird: bugfix: cx88-blackbird-mpeg-users
  V4L/DVB (9495): cx88-blackbird: bugfix: cx88-blackbird-poll-fix
  V4L/DVB (9494): anysee: initialize anysee_usb_mutex statically
  V4L/DVB (9492): unplug oops from dvb_frontend_init...
  V4L/DVB (9486): ivtv/ivtvfb: no longer experimental
  V4L/DVB (9485): ivtv: remove incorrect V4L1 & tvaudio dependency
  V4L/DVB (9482): Documentation, especially regarding audio and informational links
  V4L/DVB (9475): cx18: Disable write retries for registers that always change - part 1.
  ...
2008-11-11 09:25:21 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
e892873c5d Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
  powerpc: Update desktop/server defconfigs
  powerpc: Fix msr check in compat_sys_swapcontext
  powerpc: Repair device bindings documentation
  powerpc: Updated Freescale PPC related defconfigs
  powerpc: Update QE/CPM2 usb_ctlr structures for USB support
  powerpc/86xx: Correct SOC bus-frequency in GE Fanuc SBC610 DTS
  powerpc: Fix Book-E watchdog timer interval setting
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Fix synchronization bug w/local tlb invalidates
2008-11-11 09:24:31 -08:00
Dmitri Vorobiev
4f48544797 Input: fix the example of an input device driver
This patch fixes a wrong interrupt handler example given in the "Hello,
world!"-like input driver in Documentation/input/input-programming.txt.

Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.fi>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-11-11 11:41:49 -05:00
Bharata B Rao
934352f214 sched: add hierarchical accounting to cpu accounting controller
Impact: improve CPU time accounting of tasks under the cpu accounting controller

Add hierarchical accounting to cpu accounting controller and include
cpuacct documentation.

Currently, while charging the task's cputime to its accounting group,
the accounting group hierarchy isn't updated. This patch charges the cputime
of a task to its accounting group and all its parent accounting groups.

Reported-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 12:13:28 +01:00
Tobias Lorenz
6aadf82eb8 V4L/DVB (9482): Documentation, especially regarding audio and informational links
This patch adds a recommendation to select SND_USB_AUDIO for listing and
adds a documentation file for si470x.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Lorenz <tobias.lorenz@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-11-11 08:11:24 -02:00
Rafael Diniz
0d0f1e0a1d V4L/DVB (9369): Documentation update for cx88
Attached is a patch that updates the cx88 documentation to add the fact the
closed caption works for at least NTSC capture.

ps: I also updated the wiki at:
http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Text_capture#cx88_devices

Signed-off-by: Rafael Diniz <diniz@wimobilis.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-11-11 08:11:23 -02:00
Jean Delvare
f737899595 V4L/DVB (9337b): remove tuner-3036 and dpc7146 drivers from feature-removal-schedule.txt
The tuner-3036 and dpc7146 drivers have been deleted now so we can
remove the corresponding entries from feature-removal-schedule.txt.
(Thanks for doing this, BTW.)

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-11-11 08:09:44 -02:00
Ingo Molnar
e0cb4ebcd9 Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/ftrace
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/trace.c
2008-11-11 09:40:18 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
45b86a96f1 Merge branch 'devel' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/urgent 2008-11-11 09:16:20 +01:00
Trent Piepho
ec5d7657f7 powerpc: Repair device bindings documentation
Commit d0fc2eaaf4 "powerpc/fsl: Refactor
device bindings" split out a number of device bindings from
booting-without-of.txt into separate files.  Having them all in one file
was a frequent source of merge conflicts.

However, in the next merge, 49997d7515, there
was another conflict.  Some of the bindings removed from
booting-without-of.txt were mistakenly added back in and the copies in
dts-bindings were kept as well.

This patch re-removes "Freescale Display Interface" and "Freescale on board
FPGA" and fixes the table of contents.

Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-11-10 15:17:52 -06:00
Ingo Molnar
a6b0786f7f Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/fastboot', 'tracing/nmisafe' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-11-08 09:34:35 +01:00
Thomas Renninger
c3d6de698c ACPI video: if no ACPI backlight support, use vendor drivers
If an ACPI graphics device supports backlight brightness functions (cmp. with
latest ACPI spec Appendix B), let the ACPI video driver control backlight and
switch backlight control off in vendor specific ACPI drivers (asus_acpi,
thinkpad_acpi, eeepc, fujitsu_laptop, msi_laptop, sony_laptop, acer-wmi).

Currently it is possible to load above drivers and let both poke on the
brightness HW registers, the video and vendor specific ACPI drivers -> bad.

This patch provides the basic support to check for BIOS capabilities before
driver loading time. Driver specific modifications are in separate follow up
patches.

"acpi_backlight=vendor"
	Prever vendor driver over ACPI driver for backlight.
"acpi_backlight=video" (default)
	Prever ACPI driver over vendor driver for backlight.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-07 23:57:55 -05:00
Bjorn Helgaas
a0d84a92df ACPI: update debug parameter documentation
Reformat acpi.debug_layer and acpi.debug_level documentation so it's
more readable, add some clues about how to figure out the mask bits that
enable a specific ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statement, and include some useful
examples.

Move the list of masks to Documentation/acpi/debug.txt (these are
copies of the authoritative values in acoutput.h and acpi_drivers.h).

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-07 21:45:29 -05:00
David S. Miller
167c6274c3 Merge branch 'davem-next' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 2008-11-07 01:37:16 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
258594a138 Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core 2008-11-07 10:29:58 +01:00
David S. Miller
9eeda9abd1 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
	net/8021q/vlan_core.c
2008-11-06 22:43:03 -08:00
Niv Sardi
dcd7b4e5c0 Merge branch 'master' of git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/linux-2.6 2008-11-07 15:07:12 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
a15a82f42c Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  Revert "x86: default to reboot via ACPI"
  x86: align DirectMap in /proc/meminfo
  AMD IOMMU: fix lazy IO/TLB flushing in unmap path
  x86: add smp_mb() before sending INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR
  x86: remove VISWS and PARAVIRT around NR_IRQS puzzle
  x86: mention ACPI in top-level Kconfig menu
  x86: size NR_IRQS on 32-bit systems the same way as 64-bit
  x86: don't allow nr_irqs > NR_IRQS
  x86/docs: remove noirqbalance param docs
  x86: don't use tsc_khz to calculate lpj if notsc is passed
  x86, voyager: fix smp_intr_init() compile breakage
  AMD IOMMU: fix detection of NP capable IOMMUs
2008-11-06 15:57:24 -08:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
dfc209c006 fat: Fix ATTR_RO for directory
FAT has the ATTR_RO (read-only) attribute. But on Windows, the ATTR_RO
of the directory will be just ignored actually, and is used by only
applications as flag. E.g. it's setted for the customized folder by
Explorer.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa969337.aspx

This adds "rodir" option. If user specified it, ATTR_RO is used as
read-only flag even if it's the directory. Otherwise, inode->i_mode
is not used to hold ATTR_RO (i.e. fat_mode_can_save_ro() returns 0).

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06 15:41:21 -08:00
Bart Trojanowski
8986ab5963 fat: document additional vfat mount options
While debugging a sync mount regression on vfat I noticed that there were
mount options parsed by the driver that were not documented.

[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: fix some parts]
Signed-off-by: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06 15:41:20 -08:00
Li Zefan
b225d44e27 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: update 'isolcpus' kernel option
cpuset can be used to move a process onto or off an isolated CPU.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
dann frazier
fd96feb258 cciss: add P700m to list of supported controllers
P700m support was added in:
  9cff3b383d

Update cciss.txt to match.

Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.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>
2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
Tim Hockin
1b6bcdbe7e Documentation/email-clients.txt: add some info about gmail
Signed-off-by: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
Mike Miller
77ca7286d1 cciss: new hardware support
Add support for 2 new SAS/SATA controllers.

Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.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>
2008-11-06 15:41:16 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
90080bf4b8 sched, documentation: update scheduler header file paths
Impact: update documentation

Update Documentation/scheduler/ files to reflect changed header files locations.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 09:02:15 +01:00
Jay Vosburgh
fd989c8332 bonding: alternate agg selection policies for 802.3ad
This patch implements alternative aggregator selection policies
for 802.3ad.  The existing policy, now termed "stable," selects the active
aggregator by greatest bandwidth, and only reselects a new aggregator
if the active aggregator is entirely disabled (no more ports or all ports
down).

	This patch adds two new policies: bandwidth and count, selecting
the active aggregator by total bandwidth (like the stable policy) or by
the number of ports in the aggregator, respectively.  These two policies
also differ from the stable policy in that they will reselect the active
aggregator when availability-related changes occur in the bond (e.g.,
link state change).

	This permits "gang failover" within 802.3ad, allowing redundant
aggregators along parallel paths to always maintain the "best" aggregator
as the active aggregator (rather than having to wait for the active to
entirely fail).

	This patch also updates the driver version to 3.5.0.

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-11-06 00:49:47 -05:00
Brian Haley
305d552acc bonding: send IPv6 neighbor advertisement on failover
This patch adds better IPv6 failover support for bonding devices,
especially when in active-backup mode and there are only IPv6 addresses
configured, as reported by Alex Sidorenko.

- Creates a new file, net/drivers/bonding/bond_ipv6.c, for the
   IPv6-specific routines.  Both regular bonds and VLANs over bonds
   are supported.

- Adds a new tunable, num_unsol_na, to limit the number of unsolicited
   IPv6 Neighbor Advertisements that are sent on a failover event.
   Default is 1.

- Creates two new IPv6 neighbor discovery functions:

   ndisc_build_skb()
   ndisc_send_skb()

   These were required to support VLANs since we have to be able to
   add the VLAN id to the skb since ndisc_send_na() and friends
   shouldn't be asked to do this.  These two routines are basically
   __ndisc_send() split into two pieces, in a slightly different order.

- Updates Documentation/networking/bonding.txt and bumps the rev of bond
   support to 3.4.0.

On failover, this new code will generate one packet:

- An unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisement, which helps the switch
   learn that the address has moved to the new slave.

Testing has shown that sending just the NA results in pretty good
behavior when in active-back mode, I saw no lost ping packets for example.

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-11-06 00:49:37 -05:00
Serge E. Hallyn
1f29fae297 file capabilities: add no_file_caps switch (v4)
Add a no_file_caps boot option when file capabilities are
compiled into the kernel (CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES=y).

This allows distributions to ship a kernel with file capabilities
compiled in, without forcing users to use (and understand and
trust) them.

When no_file_caps is specified at boot, then when a process executes
a file, any file capabilities stored with that file will not be
used in the calculation of the process' new capability sets.

This means that booting with the no_file_caps boot option will
not be the same as booting a kernel with file capabilities
compiled out - in particular a task with  CAP_SETPCAP will not
have any chance of passing capabilities to another task (which
isn't "really" possible anyway, and which may soon by killed
altogether by David Howells in any case), and it will instead
be able to put new capabilities in its pI.  However since fI
will always be empty and pI is masked with fI, it gains the
task nothing.

We also support the extra prctl options, setting securebits and
dropping capabilities from the per-process bounding set.

The other remaining difference is that killpriv, task_setscheduler,
setioprio, and setnice will continue to be hooked.  That will
be noticable in the case where a root task changed its uid
while keeping some caps, and another task owned by the new uid
tries to change settings for the more privileged task.

Changelog:
	Nov 05 2008: (v4) trivial port on top of always-start-\
		with-clear-caps patch
	Sep 23 2008: nixed file_caps_enabled when file caps are
		not compiled in as it isn't used.
		Document no_file_caps in kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-06 07:14:51 +08:00
Takashi Iwai
c238b4f403 ALSA: hda - Split ALC268 acer model
There are actually two variants of ALC268 Acer implementation, one
with an analog built-in mic (pin 0x19) and another with a digital
mic (pin 0x12).  Created a new model, acer-dmic, for the latter case
now.

So far, all known models are assigned to be analog-mic, according to
the BIOS setup.  If this doesn't match with the actual case, one needs
to try model=acer-dmic, and fix the entry to point ALC268_ACER_DMIC
if it works.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2008-11-05 14:57:20 +01:00
Takashi Iwai
13c947444f ALSA: hda - Add ASUS V1Sn support
Asus V1s series laptops have an ALC660VD with PCI id: 0x1043, 0x1633.
1.) remove the previous behaviour of mapping that to the ALC861VD_LENOVO
    device.
2.) add a new ALC660VD_V1S device based on ALC861VD_LENOVO, with an
    added digital out.

Signed-off-by: Tristan Aston <astrotris@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2008-11-05 08:09:10 +01:00
Mark McLoughlin
e4ab1b3cbb x86/docs: remove noirqbalance param docs
Impact: documentation fix

irqbalance was removed by:

  commit 8b8e8c1bf7
  Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
  Date:   Tue Aug 19 20:50:23 2008 -0700

Remove the associated documentation for noirqbalance.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 14:50:34 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
42ec632e7b ftrace: ftrace.txt version update
Impact: Documentation update only

Update the version that the ftrace document was written for.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 10:12:24 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
9b803c0fc3 ftrace: update txt document
Impact: Documentation update only

A lot of changes have gone into ftrace. This patch updates
the ftrace.txt document.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 10:12:23 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
da4a22cba7 Merge branch 'io-mappings-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'io-mappings-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  io mapping: clean up #ifdefs
  io mapping: improve documentation
  i915: use io-mapping interfaces instead of a variety of mapping kludges
  resources: add io-mapping functions to dynamically map large device apertures
  x86: add iomap_atomic*()/iounmap_atomic() on 32-bit using fixmaps
2008-11-03 10:15:40 -08:00
Keith Packard
8d5c6603c4 io mapping: improve documentation
Impact: add documentation

Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-03 18:21:44 +01:00
Takashi Iwai
26f5df265f ALSA: hda - Add ALC299 fujitsu preset model
Added a preset model for FSC Amilo with ALC269 codec chip.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2008-11-03 17:39:46 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
5b9a0e14eb x86: nmi - nmi_watchdog boot param docs cleanup
Impact: documentation update

1) nmi_watchdog boot parameter is common to 32/64 bit modes. So
   move it from Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt to
   Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and integrate with.

2) Also fix [panic] keyword placement -- it ought to be at first
   position otherwise it will not be recognized.

3) Document lapic and ioapic keywords.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-03 09:17:39 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
d9e540762f ftrace: ftrace_dump_on_oops=[tracer]
Impact: add new (optional) debug boot option

In order to facilitate early boot trouble, allow one to specify a tracer
on the kernel boot line.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-03 09:12:39 +01:00
Andy Gospodarek
3f8b4b1378 bonding: update docs to correctly reflect arp_ip_target behavior
This documentation patch hopes to clarify that the '+' was only needed
for Fedora 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 and 5.1.  After that the
IP addreses could be added as a comma separated list just like the
module option.

Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-11-02 08:38:32 -05:00
Alok Kataria
395628ef4e x86: Skip verification by the watchdog for TSC clocksource.
Impact: Changes timekeeping on Vmware (or with tsc=reliable).

This is achieved by resetting the CLOCKSOURCE_MUST_VERIFY flag.

We add a tsc=reliable commandline option to enable this.
This enables legacy hardware without HPET, LAPIC, or ACPI timers
to enter high-resolution timer mode.

Along with that have extended this to be used in virtualization environement
too. Now we also set this flag if the X86_FEATURE_TSC_RELIABLE bit is set.

This is important since there is a wrap-around problem with the acpi_pm timer.
The acpi_pm counter is just 24bits and this can overflow in ~4 seconds. With
the NO_HZ kernels in virtualized environment, there can be situations when
the guest is descheduled for longer duration, as a result we may miss the wrap
of the acpi counter. When TSC is used as a clocksource and acpi_pm timer is
being used as the watchdog clocksource this error in acpi_pm results in TSC
being marked as unstable, and essentially results in time dropping in chunks
of 4 seconds whenever this wrap is missed. Since the virtualized TSC is
reliable on VMware, we should always use the TSCs clocksource on VMware, so
we skip the verfication at runtime, by checking for the feature bit.

Since we reset the flag for mgeode systems too, i have combined
the mgeode case with the feature bit check.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hansen <jhansen@cardaccess-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-11-01 18:59:03 -07:00
Johannes Berg
be3d48106c wireless: remove struct regdom hinting
The code needs to be split out and cleaned up, so as a
first step remove the capability, to add it back in a
subsequent patch as a separate function. Also remove the
publically facing return value of the function and the
wiphy argument. A number of internal functions go from
being generic helpers to just being used for alpha2
setting.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:02:30 -04:00
Johannes Berg
d2372b3152 wireless: make regdom passing semantics simpler
The regdom struct is given to the core, so it might as well
free it in error conditions.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:02:30 -04:00
Tim Gardner
5c7f9b7363 ipw2x00: change default policy for auto-associate
Do not attempt association until directed to do so by a user space
application. In particular, this avoids race conditions with
NetworkManager association state.

Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:24 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
d003922dab rfkill: add master_switch_mode and EPO lock to rfkill and rfkill-input
Add of software-based sanity to rfkill and rfkill-input so that it can
reproduce what hardware-based EPO switches do, blocking all transmitters
and locking down any further attempts to unblock them until the switch is
deactivated.

rfkill-input is responsible for issuing the EPO control requests, like
before.

While an rfkill EPO is active, all transmitters are locked to one of the
BLOCKED states and all attempts to change that through the rfkill API
(userspace and kernel) will be either ignored or return -EPERM errors.

The lock will be released upon receipt of EV_SW SW_RFKILL_ALL ON by
rfkill-input, or should modular rfkill-input be unloaded.

This makes rfkill and rfkill-input extend the operation of an existing
wireless master kill switch to all wireless devices in the system, even
those that are not under hardware or firmware control.

Since the above is the expected operational behavior for the master rfkill
switch, the EPO lock functionality is not optional.

Also, extend rfkill-input to allow for three different behaviors when it
receives an EV_SW SW_RFKILL_ALL ON input event.  The user can set which
behavior he wants through the master_switch_mode parameter:

master_switch_mode = 0: EV_SW SW_RFKILL_ALL ON just unlocks rfkill
controller state changes (so that the rfkill userspace and kernel APIs can
now be used to change rfkill controller states again), but doesn't change
any of their states (so they will all remain blocked).  This is the safest
mode of operation, as it requires explicit operator action to re-enable a
transmitter.

master_switch_mode = 1: EV_SW SW_RFKILL_ALL ON causes rfkill-input to
attempt to restore the system to the state before the last EV_SW
SW_RFKILL_ALL OFF event, or to the default global states if no EV_SW
SW_RFKILL_ALL OFF ever happened.   This is the recommended mode of
operation for laptops.

master_switch_mode = 2: tries to unblock all rfkill controllers (i.e.
enable all transmitters) when an EV_SW SW_RFKILL_ALL ON event is received.
This is the default mode of operation, as it mimics the previous behavior
of rfkill-input.

In order to implement these features in a clean way, the entire event
handling of rfkill-input was refactored into a single worker function.

Protection against input event DoS (repeatedly firing rfkill events for
rfkill-input to process) was removed during the code refactoring.  It will
be added back in a future patch.

Note that with these changes, rfkill-input doesn't need to explicitly
handle any radio types for which KEY_<radio type> or SW_<radio type> events
do not exist yet.

Code to handle EV_SW SW_{WLAN,WWAN,BLUETOOTH,WIMAX,...} was added as it
might be needed in the future (and its implementation is not that obvious),
but is currently #ifdef'd out to avoid wasting resources.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:09 -04:00