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Bjorn Helgaas
97ef062bbe PNP: add CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES and pnp_dbg()
This adds the core function pnp_dbg() and a new config option to
enable it.

The PNP core debugging messages can be enabled at boot-time with the
"pnp.debug" kernel parameter.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-10 23:33:53 -04:00
Hidehiro Kawai
5bf5683a33 ext4: add an option to control error handling on file data
If the journal doesn't abort when it gets an IO error in file data
blocks, the file data corruption will spread silently.  Because
most of applications and commands do buffered writes without fsync(),
they don't notice the IO error.  It's scary for mission critical
systems.  On the other hand, if the journal aborts whenever it gets
an IO error in file data blocks, the system will easily become
inoperable.  So this patch introduces a filesystem option to
determine whether it aborts the journal or just call printk() when
it gets an IO error in file data.

If you mount an ext4 fs with data_err=abort option, it aborts on file
data write error.  If you mount it with data_err=ignore, it doesn't
abort, just call printk().  data_err=ignore is the default.

Here is the corresponding patch of the ext3 version:
3239374

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10 22:12:43 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
03010a3350 ext4: Rename ext4dev to ext4
The ext4 filesystem is getting stable enough that it's time to drop
the "dev" prefix.  Also remove the requirement for the TEST_FILESYS
flag.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10 20:02:48 -04:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
061b1bd394 Staging: add TAINT_CRAP for all drivers/staging code
We need to add a flag for all code that is in the drivers/staging/
directory to prevent all other kernel developers from worrying about
issues here, and to notify users that the drivers might not be as good
as they are normally used to.

Based on code from Andreas Gruenbacher and Jeff Mahoney to provide a
TAINT flag for the support level of a kernel module in the Novell
enterprise kernel release.

This is the kernel portion of this feature, the ability for the flag to
be set needs to be done in the build process and will happen in a
follow-up patch.

Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-10 15:31:05 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b922df7383 Merge branch 'rcu-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'rcu-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (21 commits)
  rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU, fix
  rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU
  rcu: add rcu_read_lock_sched() / rcu_read_unlock_sched()
  rcu: fix sparse shadowed variable warning
  doc/RCU: fix pseudocode in rcuref.txt
  rcuclassic: fix compiler warning
  rcu: use irq-safe locks
  rcuclassic: fix compilation NG
  rcu: fix locking cleanup fallout
  rcu: remove redundant ACCESS_ONCE definition from rcupreempt.c
  rcu: fix classic RCU locking cleanup lockdep problem
  rcu: trace fix possible mem-leak
  rcu: just rename call_rcu_bh instead of making it a macro
  rcu: remove list_for_each_rcu()
  rcu: fixes to include/linux/rcupreempt.h
  rcu: classic RCU locking and memory-barrier cleanups
  rcu: prevent console flood when one CPU sees another AWOL via RCU
  rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods, cleanups
  rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods
  rcu classic: new algorithm for callbacks-processing(v2)
  ...
2008-10-10 13:10:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c54dcd8ec9 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
  selinux: Fix an uninitialized variable BUG/panic in selinux_secattr_to_sid()
  selinux: use default proc sid on symlinks
  file capabilities: uninline cap_safe_nice
  Update selinux info in MAINTAINERS and Kconfig help text
  SELinux: add gitignore file for mdp script
  SELinux: add boundary support and thread context assignment
  securityfs: do not depend on CONFIG_SECURITY
  selinux: add support for installing a dummy policy (v2)
  security: add/fix security kernel-doc
  selinux: Unify for- and while-loop style
  selinux: conditional expression type validation was off-by-one
  smack: limit privilege by label
  SELinux: Fix a potentially uninitialised variable in SELinux hooks
  SELinux: trivial, remove unneeded local variable
  SELinux: Trivial minor fixes that change C null character style
  make selinux_write_opts() static
2008-10-10 12:44:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b11ce8a26d Merge branch 'sched-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (38 commits)
  sched debug: add name to sched_domain sysctl entries
  sched: sync wakeups vs avg_overlap
  sched: remove redundant code in cpu_cgroup_create()
  sched_rt.c: resch needed in rt_rq_enqueue() for the root rt_rq
  cpusets: scan_for_empty_cpusets(), cpuset doesn't seem to be so const
  sched: minor optimizations in wake_affine and select_task_rq_fair
  sched: maintain only task entities in cfs_rq->tasks list
  sched: fixup buddy selection
  sched: more sanity checks on the bandwidth settings
  sched: add some comments to the bandwidth code
  sched: fixlet for group load balance
  sched: rework wakeup preemption
  CFS scheduler: documentation about scheduling policies
  sched: clarify ifdef tangle
  sched: fix list traversal to use _rcu variant
  sched: turn off WAKEUP_OVERLAP
  sched: wakeup preempt when small overlap
  kernel/cpu.c: create a CPU_STARTING cpu_chain notifier
  kernel/cpu.c: Move the CPU_DYING notifiers
  sched: fix __load_balance_iterator() for cfq with only one task
  ...
2008-10-10 12:42:31 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
e4a1afaeb1 [S390] cio: Exorcise cio_msg= from documentation.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-10-10 21:33:49 +02:00
Cornelia Huck
d45387d8bc [S390] cio: Update cio_ignore documentation.
Add documentation for the new "purge" cio_ignore parameter.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-10-10 21:33:48 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
ef5bef357c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (37 commits)
  [SCSI] zfcp: fix double dbf id usage
  [SCSI] zfcp: wait on SCSI work to be finished before proceeding with init dev
  [SCSI] zfcp: fix erp list usage without using locks
  [SCSI] zfcp: prevent fc_remote_port_delete calls for unregistered rport
  [SCSI] zfcp: fix deadlock caused by shared work queue tasks
  [SCSI] zfcp: put threshold data in hba trace
  [SCSI] zfcp: Simplify zfcp data structures
  [SCSI] zfcp: Simplify get_adapter_by_busid
  [SCSI] zfcp: remove all typedefs and replace them with standards
  [SCSI] zfcp: attach and release SAN nameserver port on demand
  [SCSI] zfcp: remove unused references, declarations and flags
  [SCSI] zfcp: Update message with input from review
  [SCSI] zfcp: add queue_full sysfs attribute
  [SCSI] scsi_dh: suppress comparison warning
  [SCSI] scsi_dh: add Dell product information into rdac device handler
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: remove the unused SCSI_QLOGIC_FC_FIRMWARE option
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: fix printk format warnings
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.02.01-k8.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Ignore payload reserved-bits during RSCN processing.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Additional residual-count corrections during UNDERRUN handling.
  ...
2008-10-10 10:53:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e26feff647 Merge branch 'for-2.6.28' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.28' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (132 commits)
  doc/cdrom: Trvial documentation error, file not present
  block_dev: fix kernel-doc in new functions
  block: add some comments around the bio read-write flags
  block: mark bio_split_pool static
  block: Find bio sector offset given idx and offset
  block: gendisk integrity wrapper
  block: Switch blk_integrity_compare from bdev to gendisk
  block: Fix double put in blk_integrity_unregister
  block: Introduce integrity data ownership flag
  block: revert part of d7533ad0e132f92e75c1b2eb7c26387b25a583c1
  bio.h: Remove unused conditional code
  block: remove end_{queued|dequeued}_request()
  block: change elevator to use __blk_end_request()
  gdrom: change to use __blk_end_request()
  memstick: change to use __blk_end_request()
  virtio_blk: change to use __blk_end_request()
  blktrace: use BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE as the name size for setup structure
  block: add lld busy state exporting interface
  block: Fix blk_start_queueing() to not kick a stopped queue
  include blktrace_api.h in headers_install
  ...
2008-10-10 10:52:45 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
725c25819e Merge branches 'core/iommu', 'x86/amd-iommu' and 'x86/iommu' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase3-B
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c
	include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
2008-10-10 19:47:12 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
d403a6484f Merge phase #1 of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
This merges phase 1 of the x86 tree, which is a collection of branches:

  x86/alternatives, x86/cleanups, x86/commandline, x86/crashdump,
  x86/debug, x86/defconfig, x86/doc, x86/exports, x86/fpu, x86/gart,
  x86/idle, x86/mm, x86/mtrr, x86/nmi-watchdog, x86/oprofile,
  x86/paravirt, x86/reboot, x86/sparse-fixes, x86/tsc, x86/urgent and
  x86/vmalloc

and as Ingo says: "these are the easiest, purely independent x86 topics
with no conflicts, in one nice Octopus merge".

* 'x86-v28-for-linus-phase1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (147 commits)
  x86: mtrr_cleanup: treat WRPROT as UNCACHEABLE
  x86: mtrr_cleanup: first 1M may be covered in var mtrrs
  x86: mtrr_cleanup: print out correct type v2
  x86: trivial printk fix in efi.c
  x86, debug: mtrr_cleanup print out var mtrr before change it
  x86: mtrr_cleanup try gran_size to less than 1M, v3
  x86: mtrr_cleanup try gran_size to less than 1M, cleanup
  x86: change MTRR_SANITIZER to def_bool y
  x86, debug printouts: IOMMU setup failures should not be KERN_ERR
  x86: export set_memory_ro and set_memory_rw
  x86: mtrr_cleanup try gran_size to less than 1M
  x86: mtrr_cleanup prepare to make gran_size to less 1M
  x86: mtrr_cleanup safe to get more spare regs now
  x86_64: be less annoying on boot, v2
  x86: mtrr_cleanup hole size should be less than half of chunk_size, v2
  x86: add mtrr_cleanup_debug command line
  x86: mtrr_cleanup optimization, v2
  x86: don't need to go to chunksize to 4G
  x86_64: be less annoying on boot
  x86, olpc: fix endian bug in openfirmware workaround
  ...
2008-10-10 08:28:58 -07:00
David Vrabel
99ee3a6d45 Merge branch 'for-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dvrabel/uwb into for-upstream 2008-10-10 11:47:31 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
8eb95f28f6 Merge commit 'v2.6.27' into timers/hpet 2008-10-10 09:25:29 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
b911e473d2 doc/cdrom: Trvial documentation error, file not present
The sbpcd tester program is not included in the kernel source tree,
so remove the reference to it.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Nick Warne <nick@ukfsn.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-10 08:22:44 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan
3bbfe05967 proc: remove kernel.maps_protect
After commit 831830b5a2 aka
"restrict reading from /proc/<pid>/maps to those who share ->mm or can ptrace"
sysctl stopped being relevant because commit moved security checks from ->show
time to ->start time (mm_for_maps()).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
2008-10-10 04:24:51 +04:00
James Morris
9ac684fc38 Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2008-10-10 11:09:47 +11:00
Russell King
c97f68145e Merge branch 'for-rmk' of git://source.mvista.com/git/linux-davinci-2.6.git
Merge branch 'davinci' into devel
2008-10-09 21:33:05 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
07f4055418 Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6:
  hwmon: (abituguru3) Enable DMI probing feature on Abit AT8 32X
  hwmon: (abituguru3) Enable reading from AUX3 fan on Abit AT8 32X
  hwmon: (adt7473) Fix some bogosity in documentation file
  hwmon: Define sysfs interface for energy consumption register
  hwmon: (it87) Prevent power-off on Shuttle SN68PT
  eeepc-laptop: Fix hwmon interface
2008-10-09 12:23:54 -07:00
Németh Márton
8d59225720 [CPUFREQ] correct broken links and email addresses
Replace the no longer working links and email address in the
documentation and in source code.

Signed-off-by: Márton Németh <nm127@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-10-09 13:52:40 -04:00
Darrick J. Wong
c73c556c1a hwmon: (adt7473) Fix some bogosity in documentation file
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-10-09 15:33:58 +02:00
Darrick J. Wong
ddedc658fc hwmon: Define sysfs interface for energy consumption register
Describe the sysfs files that were introduced in the ibmaem driver.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-10-09 15:33:58 +02:00
FUJITA Tomonori
79eb014578 fix an example of scatterlists handling in DMA-API.txt
This example isn't the proper way to handle scatterlists (can't handle
sg chaining).

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:18 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
710027a48e Add some block/ source files to the kernel-api docbook. Fix kernel-doc notation in them as needed. Fix changed function parameter names. Fix typos/spellos. In comments, change REQ_SPECIAL to REQ_TYPE_SPECIAL and REQ_BLOCK_PC to REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:03 +02:00
Aaron Carroll
6a421c1dc9 block: update documentation for deadline fifo_batch tunable
Update the description of fifo_batch to match the current implementation,
and include a description of how to tune it.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Carroll <aaronc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:03 +02:00
Jiri Kosina
36d9573928 Input: document i8042.debug in kernel-parameters.txt
i8042.debug parameter was missing in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Add it.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-10-08 23:46:13 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
cdbb92b31d Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcu 2008-10-09 00:17:25 +02:00
David S. Miller
4dd565134e Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c
	drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
2008-10-08 14:56:41 -07:00
Carlos Corbacho
7d9a06de61 acer-wmi: Remove wireless and bluetooth sysfs entries
These are now replaced by the rfkill interface.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-08 16:56:04 -04:00
KOVACS Krisztian
d2f26037a3 netfilter: Add documentation for tproxy
Add basic usage instructions to Documentation/networking.

Signed-off-by: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@sch.bme.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-08 11:35:12 +02:00
Jan Engelhardt
079aa88fe7 netfilter: xt_recent: IPv6 support
This updates xt_recent to support the IPv6 address family.
The new /proc/net/xt_recent directory must be used for this.
The old proc interface can also be configured out.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-08 11:35:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
990d0f2ced Merge branches 'sched/devel', 'sched/cpu-hotplug', 'sched/cpusets' and 'sched/urgent' into sched/core 2008-10-08 11:31:02 +02:00
Sonic Zhang
a5ac012924 Blackfin arch: add supporting for kgdb
Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-10-13 14:07:19 +08:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
94576b22ce powerpc: Remove outdated Documentation/powerpc/smp.txt
Documentation/powerpc/smp.txt is so outdated that it makes sense to just
remove it.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-10-07 14:26:19 +11:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
1b483a6a7b powerpc: Remove remains of /proc/ppc_htab
commit 14cf11af6c ("powerpc: Merge enough to
start building in arch/powerpc.") unwired /proc/ppc_htab, and commit
917f0af9e5 ("powerpc: Remove arch/ppc and
include/asm-ppc") removed the rest of the /proc/ppc_htab support, but there are
still a few references left. Kill them for good.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-10-07 14:26:19 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
11f9b020fa Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (33 commits)
  V4L/DVB (9103): em28xx: HVR-900 B3C0 - fix audio clicking issue
  V4L/DVB (9099): em28xx: Add detection for K-WORLD DVB-T 310U
  V4L/DVB (9092): gspca: Bad init values for sonixj ov7660.
  V4L/DVB (9080): gspca: Add a delay after writing to the sonixj sensors.
  V4L/DVB (9075): gspca: Bad check of returned status in i2c_read() spca561.
  V4L/DVB (9053): fix buffer overflow in uvc-video
  V4L/DVB (9043): S5H1420: Fix size of shadow-array to avoid overflow
  V4L/DVB (9037): Fix support for Hauppauge Nova-S SE
  V4L/DVB (9029): Fix deadlock in demux code
  V4L/DVB (8979): sms1xxx: Add new USB product ID for Hauppauge WinTV MiniStick
  V4L/DVB (8978): sms1xxx: fix product name for Hauppauge WinTV MiniStick
  V4L/DVB (8967): Use correct XC3028L firmware for AMD ATI TV Wonder 600
  V4L/DVB (8963): s2255drv field count fix
  V4L/DVB (8961): zr36067: Fix RGBR pixel format
  V4L/DVB (8960): drivers/media/video/cafe_ccic.c needs mm.h
  V4L/DVB (8958): zr36067: Return proper bytes-per-line value
  V4L/DVB (8957): zr36067: Restore the default pixel format
  V4L/DVB (8955): bttv: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in radio_open
  V4L/DVB (8935): em28xx-cards: Remove duplicate entry (EM2800_BOARD_KWORLD_USB2800)
  V4L/DVB (8933): gspca: Disable light frquency for zc3xx cs2102 Kokom.
  ...
2008-10-06 14:27:15 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
e496e3d645 Merge branches 'x86/alternatives', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/commandline', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/doc', 'x86/exports', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/gart', 'x86/idle', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/oprofile', 'x86/paravirt', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/tsc', 'x86/urgent' and 'x86/vmalloc' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase1 2008-10-06 18:17:07 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
2c10c22af0 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/devel 2008-10-06 08:13:18 +02:00
Rémi Denis-Courmont
95430c0b14 Phonet: pipe end-point protocol documentation
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-05 11:16:36 -07:00
Darron Broad
da3808e10f V4L/DVB (9099): em28xx: Add detection for K-WORLD DVB-T 310U
Correct firmware type to MTS
Correct audio routing for composite/s-video
Add DVB-T detection.

This patch uses the eeprom hash method for detection as the vendor/product
ids are also used for the DIGIVOX_AD. This may be a clone of the same
product. Explanatory text has been added prior to the hask look-up in
anticipation that it may help others.

The following has been tested to work:
Analogue TV (PAL-I)
Composite In
DVB-T (UK Crystal Palace)
USB AUDIO

The following has not been tested but probably works:
S-Video In

Signed-off-by: Darron Broad <darron@kewl.org>
Signed-off-by: Douglas Schilling Landgraf <dougsland@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-04 23:15:17 -03:00
Michael Kerrisk
09b05f5ee0 Documentation/HOWTO: info about interface changes should CC linux-api@vger
The "Documentation" section of this file mentions that when an interface
change is made, I should be CCed with info about the change (so that
man-pages can document it).  Additionally request that this info be CCed
to the new linux-api@vger.kernel.org list.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-03 18:22:18 -07:00
Michael Kerrisk
1d992ce905 SubmitChecklist: interfaces changes should CC linux-api@
Mention that patches that change the kernel-userland interface should
be CCed to the new list linux-api@vger.kernel.org.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-03 18:22:18 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
c4b929b85b vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface
Basic vfs-level fiemap infrastructure, which sets up a new ->fiemap
inode operation.

Userspace can get extent information on a file via fiemap ioctl. As input,
the fiemap ioctl takes a struct fiemap which includes an array of struct
fiemap_extent (fm_extents). Size of the extent array is passed as
fm_extent_count and number of extents returned will be written into
fm_mapped_extents. Offset and length fields on the fiemap structure
(fm_start, fm_length) describe a logical range which will be searched for
extents. All extents returned will at least partially contain this range.
The actual extent offsets and ranges returned will be unmodified from their
offset and range on-disk.

The fiemap ioctl returns '0' on success. On error, -1 is returned and errno
is set. If errno is equal to EBADR, then fm_flags will contain those flags
which were passed in which the kernel did not understand. On all other
errors, the contents of fm_extents is undefined.

As fiemap evolved, there have been many authors of the vfs patch. As far as
I can tell, the list includes:
Kalpak Shah <kalpak.shah@sun.com>
Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
2008-10-08 19:44:18 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
240799cdf2 ext4: Use readahead when reading an inode from the inode table
With modern hard drives, reading 64k takes roughly the same time as
reading a 4k block.  So request readahead for adjacent inode table
blocks to reduce the time it takes when iterating over directories
(especially when doing this in htree sort order) in a cold cache case.
With this patch, the time it takes to run "git status" on a kernel
tree after flushing the caches via "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"
is reduced by 21%.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-09 23:53:47 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
37515facd0 ext4: Improve the documentation for ext4's /proc tunables
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Alex Tomas <bzzz@sun.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
2008-10-09 23:21:54 -04:00
Andrew Vasquez
a30c3f69e6 [SCSI] fc_transport: Add an API to allow an LLD to create vports
There's already a fc_vport_termintate() call exported by
the transport.  This patch adds a symmetric call to the API to allow
an NPIV-capable LLD to instantiate vports sans user intervention.

Additional comments/updates:

   Re: scsi_fc_transport.txt
     Add a function prototype for fc_vport_terminate similar to what's
     done for fc_vport_create

   Re: fc_vport_create
     I recommend we pass the channel number in fc_vport_create rather
     than fixing it at zero.

     Also, ids->vport_type should be set to FC_PORTTYPE_NPIV prior to
     calling fc_vport_create. The comment is also meaningless.

Added-by and
Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-10-03 11:46:15 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
b5259d9442 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc8' into core/rcu 2008-10-03 10:34:36 +02:00
David S. Miller
b262e60309 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c
	drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c
	net/core/dev.c
2008-10-01 06:12:56 -07:00
Rémi Denis-Courmont
ac2dc8ca14 Phonet: improve documentation
Fix grammar errors spotted by Randy Dunlap,
and adds some more details.

Signed-off-by: Remi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-30 02:52:01 -07:00