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2009-09-29Merge remote branch 'drbd/drbd'Stephen Rothwell
2009-09-29Merge remote branch 'hwlat/for-linus'Stephen Rothwell
2009-09-29Merge remote branch 'fsnotify/for-next'Stephen Rothwell
2009-09-29Merge remote branch 'trivial/for-next'Stephen Rothwell
2009-09-29Merge remote branch 'osd/linux-next'Stephen Rothwell
2009-09-29Merge remote branch 'slab/for-next'Stephen Rothwell
2009-09-29Merge remote branch 'backlight/for-mm'Stephen Rothwell
2009-09-29Merge remote branch 'block/for-next'Stephen Rothwell
Conflicts: fs/fs-writeback.c mm/page-writeback.c
2009-09-29Merge remote branch 'scsi/master'Stephen Rothwell
2009-09-29Merge remote branch 'infiniband/for-next'Stephen Rothwell
2009-09-29Merge remote branch 'kbuild/master'Stephen Rothwell
2009-09-29Merge branch 'quilt/i2c'Stephen Rothwell
2009-09-29Merge remote branch 'nfsd/nfsd-next'Stephen Rothwell
2009-09-29Merge remote branch 'fatfs/master'Stephen Rothwell
2009-09-29Merge remote branch 'ext3/for_next'Stephen Rothwell
2009-09-29i2c-voodoo3: DeleteJean Delvare
Superseded by tdfxfb. I2C/DDC support used to live in a separate driver but this caused driver conflicts. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
2009-09-29i2c: Minor documentation updateJean Delvare
The sysfs path to i2c adapters has changed recently, update the documentation to reflect that change. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2009-09-29ltc4215/ltc4245: Discard obsolete detect methodsJean Delvare
There is no point in implementing a detect callback for the LTC4215 and LTC4245, as these devices can't be detected. It was there solely to handle "force" module parameters to instantiate devices, but now we have a better sysfs interface that can do the same. So we can get rid of the ugly module parameters and the detect callbacks. This shrinks the binary module sizes by 36% and 46%, respectively. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
2009-09-29ds2482: Discard obsolete detect methodJean Delvare
There is no point in implementing a detect callback for the DS2482, as this device can't be detected. It was there solely to handle "force" module parameters to instantiate devices, but now we have a better sysfs interface that can do the same. So we can get rid of the ugly module parameters and the detect callback. This shrinks the binary module size by 21%. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Ben Gardner <gardner.ben@gmail.com>
2009-09-29max6875: Discard obsolete detect methodJean Delvare
There is no point in implementing a detect callback for the MAX6875, as this device can't be detected. It was there solely to handle "force" module parameters to instantiate devices, but now we have a better sysfs interface that can do the same. So we can get rid of the ugly module parameters and the detect callback. This basically divides the binary module size by 2. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Ben Gardner <gardner.ben@gmail.com>
2009-09-29i2c: Move misc devices documentationJean Delvare
Some times ago the eeprom and max6875 drivers moved to drivers/misc/eeprom, but their documentation did not follow. It's finally time to get rid of Documentation/i2c/chips. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Ben Gardner <gardner.ben@gmail.com> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2009-09-28nfsd41: use sv_max_mesg for forechannel max sizesAndy Adamson
ca_maxresponsesize and ca_maxrequest size include the RPC header. sv_max_mesg is sv_max_payolad plus a page for overhead and is used in svc_init_buffer to allocate server buffer space for both the request and reply. Note that this means we can service an RPC compound that requires ca_maxrequestsize (MAXWRITE) or ca_max_responsesize (MAXREAD) but that we do not support an RPC compound that requires both ca_maxrequestsize and ca_maxresponsesize. Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com> [bfields@citi.umich.edu: more documentation updates] Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-09-28nfsd: fix Documentation typoJ. Bruce Fields
Caught by Benny, thanks! Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-09-27trivial: some small fixes in exofs documentationThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Add exofs.txt to filesystems Documentation index and fix some typos, identation and grammar. Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2009-09-27backlight/thinkpad-acpi: issue backlight class eventsHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Take advantage of the new events capabilities of the backlight class to notify userspace of backlight changes. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-26Merge branch 'thinkpad-2.6.32-part2' into releaseLen Brown
2009-09-25kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generatedSam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-09-24Merge branch 'origin' into for-linusRussell King
Conflicts: MAINTAINERS
2009-09-24Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: truncate: use new helpers truncate: new helpers fs: fix overflow in sys_mount() for in-kernel calls fs: Make unload_nls() NULL pointer safe freeze_bdev: grab active reference to frozen superblocks freeze_bdev: kill bd_mount_sem exofs: remove BKL from super operations fs/romfs: correct error-handling code vfs: seq_file: add helpers for data filling vfs: remove redundant position check in do_sendfile vfs: change sb->s_maxbytes to a loff_t vfs: explicitly cast s_maxbytes in fiemap_check_ranges libfs: return error code on failed attr set seq_file: return a negative error code when seq_path_root() fails. vfs: optimize touch_time() too vfs: optimization for touch_atime() vfs: split generic_forget_inode() so that hugetlbfs does not have to copy it fs/inode.c: add dev-id and inode number for debugging in init_special_inode() libfs: make simple_read_from_buffer conventional
2009-09-24Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/mdLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (97 commits) md: raid-1/10: fix RW bits manipulation md: remove unnecessary memset from multipath. md: report device as congested when suspended md: Improve name of threads created by md_register_thread md: remove sparse warnings about lock context. md: remove sparse waring "symbol xxx shadows an earlier one" async_tx/raid6: add missing dma_unmap calls to the async fail case ioat3: fix uninitialized var warnings drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v2.c: fix warnings raid6test: fix stack overflow ioat2: clarify ring size limits md/raid6: cleanup ops_run_compute6_2 md/raid6: eliminate BUG_ON with side effect dca: module load should not be an error message ioat: driver version 4.0 dca: registering requesters in multiple dca domains async_tx: remove HIGHMEM64G restriction dmaengine: sh: Add Support SuperH DMA Engine driver dmaengine: Move all map_sg/unmap_sg for slave channel to its client fsldma: Add DMA_SLAVE support ...
2009-09-24Merge branch 'hwpoison' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 * 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (21 commits) HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page on btrfs HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4 HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page for NFS HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7 HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2 HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2 HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler v2 HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3 HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2 HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world ...
2009-09-24drivers/char/uv_mmtimer.c: add memory mapped RTC driver for UVDimitri Sivanich
This driver memory maps the UV Hub RTC. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24exec: let do_coredump() limit the number of concurrent dumps to pipesNeil Horman
Introduce core pipe limiting sysctl. Since we can dump cores to pipe, rather than directly to the filesystem, we create a condition in which a user can create a very high load on the system simply by running bad applications. If the pipe reader specified in core_pattern is poorly written, we can have lots of ourstandig resources and processes in the system. This sysctl introduces an ability to limit that resource consumption. core_pipe_limit defines how many in-flight dumps may be run in parallel, dumps beyond this value are skipped and a note is made in the kernel log. A special value of 0 in core_pipe_limit denotes unlimited core dumps may be handled (this is the default value). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reported-by: Earl Chew <earl_chew@agilent.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: 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>
2009-09-24memory controller: soft limit documentationBalbir Singh
Soft limits is a new feature for the memory resource controller, something similar has existed in the group scheduler in the form of shares. The CPU controllers interpretation of shares is very different though. Soft limits are the most useful feature to have for environments where the administrator wants to overcommit the system, such that only on memory contention do the limits become active. The current soft limits implementation provides a soft_limit_in_bytes interface for the memory controller and not for memory+swap controller. The implementation maintains an RB-Tree of groups that exceed their soft limit and starts reclaiming from the group that exceeds this limit by the maximum amount. This patch: Add documentation for soft limits Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24memcg: remove the overhead associated with the root cgroupBalbir Singh
Change the memory cgroup to remove the overhead associated with accounting all pages in the root cgroup. As a side-effect, we can no longer set a memory hard limit in the root cgroup. A new flag to track whether the page has been accounted or not has been added as well. Flags are now set atomically for page_cgroup, pcg_default_flags is now obsolete and removed. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix a few documentation glitches] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24cgroups: let ss->can_attach and ss->attach do whole threadgroups at a timeBen Blum
Alter the ss->can_attach and ss->attach functions to be able to deal with a whole threadgroup at a time, for use in cgroup_attach_proc. (This is a pre-patch to cgroup-procs-writable.patch.) Currently, new mode of the attach function can only tell the subsystem about the old cgroup of the threadgroup leader. No subsystem currently needs that information for each thread that's being moved, but if one were to be added (for example, one that counts tasks within a group) this bit would need to be reworked a bit to tell the subsystem the right information. [hidave.darkstar@gmail.com: fix build] Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24cgroups: support named cgroups hierarchiesPaul Menage
To simplify referring to cgroup hierarchies in mount statements, and to allow disambiguation in the presence of empty hierarchies and multiply-bindable subsystems this patch adds support for naming a new cgroup hierarchy via the "name=" mount option A pre-existing hierarchy may be specified by either name or by subsystems; a hierarchy's name cannot be changed by a remount operation. Example usage: # To create a hierarchy called "foo" containing the "cpu" subsystem mount -t cgroup -oname=foo,cpu cgroup /mnt/cgroup1 # To mount the "foo" hierarchy on a second location mount -t cgroup -oname=foo cgroup /mnt/cgroup2 Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24page-types: add feature for walking process address spaceWu Fengguang
Introduce "-p|--pid <pid>" for walking the process address space. The default action is to walk raw memory PFNs. Both the virtual address and physical address of each present pages will be listed: # ./tools/vm/page-types -lp $$ | head -3 voffset offset len flags 400 11bebe 1 __RU_lA____M______________________ 402 11bebc 1 __RU_lA____M______________________ Note that voffset/offset/len are now showed as hex numbers. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24Documentation/vm/.gitignore: add page-typesJosh Triplett
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24includecheck fix: Documentation, cfag12864b-example.cJaswinder Singh Rajput
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning: Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b-example.c: string.h is included more than once. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24Documentation: update stale definition of file-nr in fs.txtXiaotian Feng
In "documentation: update Documentation/filesystem/proc.txt and Documentation/sysctls" (commit 760df93ec) we merged /proc/sys/fs documentation in Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt and Documentation/filesystem/proc.txt, but stale file-nr definition remained. This patch adds back the right fs-nr definition for 2.6 kernel. Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng<dfeng@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24doc/filesystems: more mount cleanupsPeng Tao
Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt needs updating because the mount command in util-linux package is well aware of shared subtree features now. The patch also fixes two typos in sharedsubtree.txt. Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24doc/filesystems: remove smount programRandy Dunlap
mount(8) handles shared subtrees just fine, so remove the smount program from Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt. Fix annoying "Lets" -> "Let's". Insert space between '#' prompt and "mount" command. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-nextJens Axboe
2009-09-24truncate: new helpersnpiggin@suse.de
Introduce new truncate helpers truncate_pagecache and inode_newsize_ok. vmtruncate is also consolidated from mm/memory.c and mm/nommu.c and into mm/truncate.c. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-09-23Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-nextLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (30 commits) Use macros for .data.page_aligned section. Use macros for .bss.page_aligned section. Use new __init_task_data macro in arch init_task.c files. kbuild: Don't define ALIGN and ENTRY when preprocessing linker scripts. arm, cris, mips, sparc, powerpc, um, xtensa: fix build with bash 4.0 kbuild: add static to prototypes kbuild: fail build if recordmcount.pl fails kbuild: set -fconserve-stack option for gcc 4.5 kbuild: echo the record_mcount command gconfig: disable "typeahead find" search in treeviews kbuild: fix cc1 options check to ensure we do not use -fPIC when compiling checkincludes.pl: add option to remove duplicates in place markup_oops: use modinfo to avoid confusion with underscored module names checkincludes.pl: provide usage helper checkincludes.pl: close file as soon as we're done with it ctags: usability fix kernel hacking: move STRIP_ASM_SYMS from General gitignore usr/initramfs_data.cpio.bz2 and usr/initramfs_data.cpio.lzma kbuild: Check if linker supports the -X option kbuild: introduce ld-option ... Fix trivial conflict in scripts/basic/fixdep.c
2009-09-23Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs: 9p: Update documentation to add fscache related bits 9p: Add fscache support to 9p 9p: Fix the incorrect update of inode size in v9fs_file_write() 9p: Use the i_size_[read, write]() macros instead of using inode->i_size directly.
2009-09-23Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging * 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging: hwmon: (ltc4245) Clear faults at startup hwmon: (ltc4215) Clear faults at startup hwmon: (coretemp) Add Lynnfield CPU hwmon: (coretemp) Add support for Penryn mobile CPUs hwmon: (coretemp) Fix Atom CPUs support hwmon: Delete deprecated FSC drivers hwmon: (adm1031) Add sysfs files for temperature offsets
2009-09-23hwmon: (coretemp) Add Lynnfield CPUHuaxu Wan
Add Lynnfield processor support. Lynnfield is a quad-core Nehalem based microprocessor for Desktop market, which is introduced in September 2009. Signed-off-by: Huaxu Wan <huaxu.wan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kent Liu <kent.liu@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2009-09-23hwmon: (coretemp) Add support for Penryn mobile CPUsRudolf Marek
Following patch adds support for mobile Penryn CPUs. Intel documents this poorly. I asked the Coretemp author for some help. This is totally untested and may not work. Please test! Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz> Cc: Huaxu Wan <huaxu.wan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kent Liu <kent.liu@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>