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* Fix minor documentation typoMichael Hayes2006-04-011-1/+1
| | | | | | This patch fixes a minor typo in Documentation/acpi-hotkey.txt. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* BFP->BPF in Documentation/networking/tuntap.txtCal Peake2006-04-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | BFP should be BPF (BSD Packet Filter) Signed-off-by: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* Doc/kernel-parameters.txt: slightly reword sentence about restrictionsStefan Richter2006-04-011-3/+4
| | | | | | | | The previous patch somewhat diverted the train of thought. Here I am trying to bring the valued reader back on track. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* Doc/kernel-parameters.txt: mention modinfo and sysfsStefan Richter2006-04-011-0/+7
| | | | | | | Doc/kernel-parameters.txt: mention modinfo and sysfs Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* Doc/kernel-parameters.txt: delete false version information and historyStefan Richter2006-04-011-15/+1
| | | | | | | Doc/kernel-parameters.txt: delete false version information and history Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* Documentation: Make fujitsu/frv/kernel-ABI.txt 80 columns wideHorms2006-04-011-82/+110
| | | | | | | | | | Documentation: Make kernel-ABI.txt 80 columns wide Note that this only has line-wrapping and white-space changes. No text was changed at all. Signed-Off-By: Horms <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* Documentation: Reorder documentation of nomca and nomceHorms2006-04-011-2/+2
| | | | | | | | My patch to add brief documentation of the nomca boot parameter added it out of alphabetical order. Signed-Off-By: Horms <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* fix typo "Suposse" -> "Suppose"Uwe Zeisberger2006-04-011-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* typos: s/ducument/document/Adrian Bunk2006-04-011-1/+1
| | | | | | s/ducument/document/ Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* [PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers [try #7]David Howells2006-03-311-0/+1913
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The attached patch documents the Linux kernel's memory barriers. I've updated it from the comments I've been given. The per-arch notes sections are gone because it's clear that there are so many exceptions, that it's not worth having them. I've added a list of references to other documents. I've tried to get rid of the concept of memory accesses appearing on the bus; what matters is apparent behaviour with respect to other observers in the system. Interrupts barrier effects are now considered to be non-existent. They may be there, but you may not rely on them. I've added a couple of definition sections at the top of the document: one to specify the minimum execution model that may be assumed, the other to specify what this document refers to by the term "memory". I've made greater mention of the use of mmiowb(). I've adjusted the way in which caches are described, and described the fun that can be had with cache coherence maintenance being unordered and data dependency not being necessarily implicit. I've described (smp_)read_barrier_depends(). I've rearranged the order of the sections, so that memory barriers are discussed in abstract first, and then described the memory barrier facilities available on Linux, before going on to more real-world discussions and examples. I've added information about the lack of memory barriering effects with atomic ops and bitops. I've added information about control dependencies. I've added more diagrams to illustrate caching interactions between CPUs. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fs/namei.c: make lookup_hash() staticAdrian Bunk2006-03-311-7/+0
| | | | | | | | | As announced, lookup_hash() can now become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] LED: class documentationRichard Purdie2006-03-311-0/+71
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The LED class/subsystem takes John Lenz's work and extends and alters it to give what I think should be a fairly universal LED implementation. The series consists of several logical units: * LED Core + Class implementation * LED Trigger Core implementation * LED timer trigger (example of a complex trigger) * LED device drivers for corgi, spitz and tosa Zaurus models * LED device driver for locomo LEDs * LED device driver for ARM ixp4xx LEDs * Zaurus charging LED trigger * IDE disk activity LED trigger * NAND MTD activity LED trigger Why? ==== LEDs are really simple devices usually amounting to a GPIO that can be turned on and off so why do we need all this code? On handheld or embedded devices they're an important part of an often limited user interface. Both users and developers want to be able to control and configure what the LED does and the number of different things they'd potentially want the LED to show is large. A subsystem is needed to try and provide all this different functionality in an architecture independent, simple but complete, generic and scalable manner. The alternative is for everyone to implement just what they need hidden away in different corners of the kernel source tree and to provide an inconsistent interface to userspace. Other Implementations ===================== I'm aware of the existing arm led implementation. Currently the new subsystem and the arm code can coexist quite happily. Its up to the arm community to decide whether this new interface is acceptable to them. As far as I can see, the new interface can do everything the existing arm implementation can with the advantage that the new code is architecture independent and much more generic, configurable and scalable. I'm prepared to make the conversion to the LED subsystem (or assist with it) if appropriate. Implementation Details ====================== I've stripped a lot of code out of John's original LED class. Colours were removed as LED colour is now part of the device name. Multiple colours are to be handled as multiple led devices. This means you get full control over each colour. I also removed the LED hardware timer code as the generic timer isn't going to add much overhead and is just as useful. I also decided to have the LED core track the current LED status (to ease suspend/resume handling) removing the need for brightness_get implementations in the LED drivers. An underlying design philosophy is simplicity. The aim is to keep a small amount of code giving as much functionality as possible. The major new idea is the led "trigger". A trigger is a source of led events. Triggers can either be simple or complex. A simple trigger isn't configurable and is designed to slot into existing subsystems with minimal additional code. Examples are the ide-disk, nand-disk and zaurus-charging triggers. With leds disabled, the code optimises away. Examples are nand-disk and ide-disk. Complex triggers whilst available to all LEDs have LED specific parameters and work on a per LED basis. The timer trigger is an example. You can change triggers in a similar manner to the way an IO scheduler is chosen (via /sys/class/leds/somedevice/trigger). So far there are only a handful of examples but it should easy to add further LED triggers without too much interference into other subsystems. Known Issues ============ The LED Trigger core cannot be a module as the simple trigger functions would cause nightmare dependency issues. I see this as a minor issue compared to the benefits the simple trigger functionality brings. The rest of the LED subsystem can be modular. Some leds can be programmed to flash in hardware. As this isn't a generic LED device property, I think this should be exported as a device specific sysfs attribute rather than part of the class if this functionality is required (eg. to keep the led flashing whilst the device is suspended). Future Development ================== At the moment, a trigger can't be created specifically for a single LED. There are a number of cases where a trigger might only be mappable to a particular LED. The addition of triggers provided by the LED driver should cover this option and be possible to add without breaking the current interface. A CPU activity trigger similar to that found in the arm led implementation should be trivial to add. This patch: Add some brief documentation of the design decisions behind the LED class and how it appears to users. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: schedule find_trylock_page() removalNick Piggin2006-03-311-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | find_trylock_page() is an odd interface in that it doesn't take a reference like the others. Now that XFS no longer uses it, and its last remaining caller actually wants an elevated refcount, opencode that callsite and schedule find_trylock_page() for removal. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2006-03-311-4/+43
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev * 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: [PATCH] sata_mv: three bug fixes [PATCH] libata: ata_dev_init_params() fixes [PATCH] libata: Fix interesting use of "extern" and also some bracketing [PATCH] libata: Simplex and other mode filtering logic [PATCH] libata - ATA is both ATA and CFA [PATCH] libata: Add ->set_mode hook for odd drivers [PATCH] libata: BMDMA handling updates [PATCH] libata: kill trailing whitespace [PATCH] libata: add FIXME above ata_dev_xfermask() [PATCH] libata: cosmetic changes in ata_bus_softreset() [PATCH] libata: kill E.D.D.
| * [PATCH] libata: Simplex and other mode filtering logicAlan Cox2006-03-301-4/+43
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a field to the host_set called 'flags' (was host_set_flags changed to suit Jeff) Add a simplex_claimed field so we can remember who owns the DMA channel Add a ->mode_filter() hook to allow drivers to filter modes Add docs for mode_filter and set_mode Filter according to simplex state Filter cable in core This provides the needed framework to support all the mode rules found in the PATA world. The simplex filter deals with 'to spec' simplex DMA systems found in older chips. The cable filter avoids duplicating the same rules in each chip driver with PATA. Finally the mode filter is neccessary because drive/chip combinations have errata that forbid certain modes with some drives or types of ATA object. Drive speed setup remains per channel for now and the filters now use the framework Tejun put into place which cleans them up a lot from the older libata-pata patches. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* | Merge branch 'upstream' of ↵Jeff Garzik2006-03-301-0/+36
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| * [PATCH] bcm43xx: update READMEMichael Buesch2006-03-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
| * [PATCH] bcm43xx: Move README file to Documentation directory.Michael Buesch2006-03-271-0/+36
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-03-291-18/+0
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [NETFILTER]: Rename init functions. [TCP]: Fix RFC2465 typo. [INET]: Introduce tunnel4/tunnel6 [NET]: deinline 200+ byte inlines in sock.h [ECONET]: Convert away from SOCKOPS_WRAPPED [NET]: Fix ipx/econet/appletalk/irda ioctl crashes [NET]: Kill Documentation/networking/TODO [TG3]: Update version and reldate [TG3]: Skip timer code during full lock [TG3]: Speed up SRAM access [TG3]: Fix PHY loopback on 5700 [TG3]: Fix bug in 40-bit DMA workaround code [TG3]: Fix probe failure due to invalid MAC address
| * | [NET]: Kill Documentation/networking/TODODavid S. Miller2006-03-291-18/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sorely out of date. Add the linux-net wiki web site to the NETWORKING maintainers entry, on which we maintain the current networking TODO list. Noticed by Randy Dunlap. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | Merge ../linux-2.6Paul Mackerras2006-03-2915-65/+549
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| * | Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds2006-03-282-2/+2
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] 3388/1: ixp23xx: add core ixp23xx support [ARM] 3417/1: add support for logicpd pxa270 card engine [ARM] 3387/1: ixp23xx: add defconfig [ARM] 3377/2: add support for intel xsc3 core [ARM] Move ice-dcc code into misc.c [ARM] Fix decompressor serial IO to give CRLF not LFCR [ARM] proc-v6: mark page table walks outer-cacheable, shared. Enable NX. [ARM] nommu: trivial patch for arch/arm/lib/Makefile [ARM] 3416/1: Update LART site URL [ARM] 3415/1: Akita: Add missing EXPORT_SYMBOL [ARM] 3414/1: ep93xx: reset ethernet controller before uncompressing
| | * | [ARM] 3416/1: Update LART site URLErik Mouw2006-03-272-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch from Erik Mouw The LART website moved to http://www.lartmaker.nl/. This patch updates the URL in ARM specific files. Signed-off-by: Erik Mouw <erik@bitwizard.nl> Acked-by: Jan-Derk Bakker <jdb@lartmaker.nl> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| * | | [PATCH] Typo fixesAlexey Dobriyan2006-03-282-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix a lot of typos. Eyeballed by jmc@ in OpenBSD. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] trivial typos in Documentation/cputopology.txtJesper Juhl2006-03-281-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix a few trivial mistakes in Documentation/cputopology.txt Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] Replace 0xff.. with correct DMA_xBIT_MASKMatthias Gehre2006-03-281-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace all occurences of 0xff.. in calls to function pci_set_dma_mask() and pci_set_consistant_dma_mask() with the corresponding DMA_xBIT_MASK from linux/dma-mapping.h. Signed-off-by: Matthias Gehre <M.Gehre@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c: remove the obsolete microcode_ioctlAdrian Bunk2006-03-281-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Nowadays, even Debian stable ships a microcode_ctl utility recent enough to no longer use this ioctl. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian <tigran_aivazian@symantec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] Docs update: missing files and descriptions for filesystems/00-INDEXJesper Juhl2006-03-281-7/+47
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add missing files and descriptions to Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: documentaionKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2006-03-282-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu. Modifies occurences in documentaion. for_each_cpu in whatisRCU.txt should be for_each_online_cpu ??? (I'm not sure..) Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2006-03-271-2/+12
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: [PATCH] Don't make debugfs depend on DEBUG_KERNEL [PATCH] Fix blktrace compile with sysfs not defined [PATCH] unused label in drivers/block/cciss. [BLOCK] increase size of disk stat counters [PATCH] blk_execute_rq_nowait-speedup [PATCH] ide-cd: quiet down GPCMD_READ_CDVD_CAPACITY failure [BLOCK] ll_rw_blk: kmalloc -> kzalloc conversion [PATCH] kzalloc() conversion in drivers/block [PATCH] update max_sectors documentation
| | * | | [PATCH] update max_sectors documentationMike Christie2006-03-271-2/+12
| | | |/ | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The max_sectors has been split into max_hw_sectors and max_sectors for some time. A patch to have blk_queue_max_sectors enforce this was sent by me and it broke IDE. This patch updates the documentation. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
| * | | [PATCH] pnp: PNP: adjust pnp_register_driver signatureBjorn Helgaas2006-03-271-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the assumption that pnp_register_driver() returns the number of devices claimed. Returning the count is unreliable because devices may be hot-plugged in the future. This changes the convention to "zero for success, or a negative error value," which matches pci_register_driver(), acpi_bus_register_driver(), and platform_driver_register(). Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] lightweight robust futexes updatesIngo Molnar2006-03-272-3/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - fix: initialize the robust list(s) to NULL in copy_process. - doc update - cleanup: rename _inuser to _inatomic - __user cleanups and other small cleanups Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] lightweight robust futexes: docsIngo Molnar2006-03-272-0/+402
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add robust-futex documentation. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | [PATCH] knfsd: Update rpc-cache.txt to match recent changesNeilBrown2006-03-271-45/+76
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* / / [PATCH] powerpc: Kill _machine and hard-coded platform numbersBenjamin Herrenschmidt2006-03-281-0/+5
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This removes statically assigned platform numbers and reworks the powerpc platform probe code to use a better mechanism. With this, board support files can simply declare a new machine type with a macro, and implement a probe() function that uses the flattened device-tree to detect if they apply for a given machine. We now have a machine_is() macro that replaces the comparisons of _machine with the various PLATFORM_* constants. This commit also changes various drivers to use the new macro instead of looking at _machine. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [PATCH] more s/fucn/func/ typo fixesAkinobu Mita2006-03-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | s/fucntion/function/ typo fixes Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] EDAC: documentation spelling fixesDave Peterson2006-03-261-17/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix spelling errors in EDAC documentation. Signed-off-by: David S. Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] 3c59x: documentation updateSteffen Klassert2006-03-261-39/+42
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update driver documentation. Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Add flush_kernel_dcache_page() APIJames Bottomley2006-03-261-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We have a problem in a lot of emulated storage in that it takes a page from get_user_pages() and does something like kmap_atomic(page) modify page kunmap_atomic(page) However, nothing has flushed the kernel cache view of the page before the kunmap. We need a lightweight API to do this, so this new API would specifically be for flushing the kernel cache view of a user page which the kernel has modified. The driver would need to add flush_kernel_dcache_page(page) before the final kunmap. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Add API for flushing Anon pagesJames Bottomley2006-03-261-0/+9
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, get_user_pages() returns fully coherent pages to the kernel for anything other than anonymous pages. This is a problem for things like fuse and the SCSI generic ioctl SG_IO which can potentially wish to do DMA to anonymous pages passed in by users. The fix is to add a new memory management API: flush_anon_page() which is used in get_user_pages() to make anonymous pages coherent. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/aoe-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-03-252-0/+3
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/aoe-2.6: [PATCH] aoe [3/3]: update version to 22 [PATCH] aoe [2/3]: don't request ATA device ID on ATA error [PATCH] aoe [1/3]: support multiple AoE listeners [PATCH] aoe: do not stop retransmit timer when device goes down [PATCH] aoe [8/8]: update driver version number [PATCH] aoe [7/8]: update driver compatibility string [PATCH] aoe [6/8]: update device information on last close [PATCH] aoe [5/8]: allow network interface migration on packet retransmit [PATCH] aoe [4/8]: use less confusing driver name [PATCH] aoe [3/8]: increase allowed outstanding packets [PATCH] aoe [2/8]: support dynamic resizing of AoE devices [PATCH] aoe [1/8]: zero packet data after skb allocation
| * [PATCH] aoe [2/8]: support dynamic resizing of AoE devicesEd L. Cashin2006-03-242-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow the driver to recognize AoE devices that have changed size. Devices not in use are updated automatically, and devices that are in use are updated at user request. Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds2006-03-254-84/+198
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (46 commits) kbuild: remove obsoleted scripts/reference_* files kbuild: fix make help & make *pkg kconfig: fix time ordering of writes to .kconfig.d and include/linux/autoconf.h Kconfig: remove the CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_* options kbuild: add -fverbose-asm to i386 Makefile kbuild: clean-up genksyms kbuild: Lindent genksyms.c kbuild: fix genksyms build error kbuild: in makefile.txt note that Makefile is preferred name for kbuild files kbuild: replace PHONY with FORCE kbuild: Fix bug in crc symbol generating of kernel and modules kbuild: change kbuild to not rely on incorrect GNU make behavior kbuild: when warning symbols exported twice now tell user this is the problem kbuild: fix make dir/file.xx when asm symlink is missing kbuild: in the section mismatch check try harder to find symbols kbuild: fix section mismatch check for unwind on IA64 kbuild: kill false positives from section mismatch warnings for powerpc kbuild: kill trailing whitespace in modpost & friends kbuild: small update of allnoconfig description kbuild: make namespace.pl CROSS_COMPILE happy ... Trivial conflict in arch/ppc/boot/Makefile manually fixed up
| * | kbuild: in makefile.txt note that Makefile is preferred name for kbuild filesSam Ravnborg2006-03-101-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As noted by Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> makefiles.txt told one to use the name 'Kbuild' as preferred name for kbuild files. This is not yet true so let makefiles.txt reflect reality. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
| * | kbuild: change kbuild to not rely on incorrect GNU make behaviorPaul Smith2006-03-061-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The kbuild system takes advantage of an incorrect behavior in GNU make. Once this behavior is fixed, all files in the kernel rebuild every time, even if nothing has changed. This patch ensures kbuild works with both the incorrect and correct behaviors of GNU make. For more details on the incorrect behavior, see: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2006-03/msg00003.html Changes in this patch: - Keep all targets that are to be marked .PHONY in a variable, PHONY. - Add .PHONY: $(PHONY) to mark them properly. - Remove any $(PHONY) files from the $? list when determining whether targets are up-to-date or not. Signed-off-by: Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
| * | kbuild: remove checkconfig.plBrian Gerst2006-02-191-4/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | checkconfig.pl is no longer needed now that autoconf.h is automatically included. Remove it and all references to it. Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
| * | kbuild: make cc-version available in kbuild filesSam Ravnborg2006-02-191-69/+97
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move $(CC) support functions to Kbuild.include so they are available in the kbuild files. In addition the following was done: o as-option documented in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt o Moved documentation to new section to match new scope of functions o added cc-ifversion used to conditionally select a text string dependent on actual $(CC) version o documented cc-ifversion o change so Kbuild.include is read before the kbuild file Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
| * | kbuild: improved modversioning support for external modulesSam Ravnborg2006-02-191-7/+80
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With following patch a second option is enabled to obtain symbol information from a second external module when a external module is build. The recommended approach is to use a common kbuild file but that may be impractical in certain cases. With this patch one can copy over a Module.symvers from one external module to make symbols (and symbol versions) available for another external module. Updated documentation in Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
| * | kbuild: support building individual files for external modulesSam Ravnborg2006-02-191-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Support building individual files when dealing with separate modules. So say you have a module named "foo" which consist of two .o files bar.o and fun.o. You can then do: make -C $KERNELSRC M=`pwd` bar.o make -C $KERNELSRC M=`pwd` bar.lst make -C $KERNELSRC M=`pwd` bar.i make -C $KERNELSRC M=`pwd` / <= will build all .o files and link foo.o make -C $KERNELSRC M=`pwd` foo.ko <= will build the module and do the modpost step to create foo.ko The above will also work if the external module is placed in a subdirectory using a hirachy of kbuild files. Thanks to Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> for initial feature request / bug report. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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