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2010-02-18Merge branches 'bugzilla-14886', 'bugzilla-15000', 'bugzilla-15040', ↵Len Brown
'bugzilla-15108', 'pdc', 'hotplug-null-ref' and 'thinkpad' into release
2010-02-17smp: Use nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids earlyYinghai Lu
On x86, before prefill_possible_map(), nr_cpu_ids will be NR_CPUS aka CONFIG_NR_CPUS. Add nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids. so we can simulate cpus <=8 are installed on normal config. -v2: accordging to Christoph, acpi_numa_init should use nr_cpu_ids in stead of NR_CPUS. -v3: add doc in kernel-parameters.txt according to Andrew. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1265793639-15071-34-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2010-02-18doc: typo - Table 1-2 should refer to "status", not "statm"Mulyadi Santosa
Fixes a typo in proc.txt documentation. Table 1-2 should refer to "status", not "statm" Signed-off-by: Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-02-17[SCSI] megaraid_sas: version and documentation updateYang, Bo
Signed-off-by Bo Yang<bo.yang@lsi.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2010-02-17pcmcia: use ops_mutex for rsrc_{mgr,nonstatic} lockingDominik Brodowski
Tested-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2010-02-17pcmcia: assert locking to struct pcmcia_deviceDominik Brodowski
Tested-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2010-02-17pcmcia: add locking documentationDominik Brodowski
Tested-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2010-02-17powerpc/of: added documentation for spi chipselectsErnst Schwab
Added devicetree binding documentation for gpios used as chipselect. The code to evaluate these is already present in spi_mpc8xxx.c. Signed-off-by: Ernst Schwab <eschwab@online.de> Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2010-02-17Merge branch 'fix/misc' into topic/miscTakashi Iwai
Conflicts: sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c
2010-02-17kbuild: fix a couple of typos in DocumentationKirill Smelkov
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-02-17tracing: Unify arch_syscall_addr() implementationsMike Frysinger
Most implementations of arch_syscall_addr() are the same, so create a default version in common code and move the one piece that differs (the syscall table) to asm/syscall.h. New arch ports don't have to waste time copying & pasting this simple function. The s390/sparc versions need to be different, so document why. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1264498803-17278-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-02-16Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
2010-02-16powerpc: doc/dts-bindings: document mpc5121 psc uart dts-bindingsAnatolij Gustschin
Support for MPC5121 PSC UART in the mpc52xx_uart driver added new DTS properties for FSL MPC5121 PSC FIFO Controller. Provide documentation of the new properties and some examples. Signed-off-by: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2010-02-17powerpc: Extended ptrace interfaceDave Kleikamp
powerpc: Extended ptrace interface From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Based on patches originally written by Torez Smith. Add a new extended ptrace interface so that user-space has a single interface for powerpc, without having to know the specific layout of the debug registers. Implement: PPC_PTRACE_GETHWDEBUGINFO PPC_PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG PPC_PTRACE_DELHWDEBUG Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Torez Smith <lnxtorez@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@br.ibm.com> Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev list <Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-02-16CAPI: Schedule capifs for removalJan Kiszka
With dynamic TTY nodes and the help of udev, we no longer need this special filesystem. Schedule it for removal in one year from now. As a last duty to this feature, move its help to right option so that users can read the rationale. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-16Merge branch 'topic/misc' of ↵Jaroslav Kysela
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 into devel
2010-02-16Merge branch 'fixes' into develJaroslav Kysela
2010-02-15x86, numa: Remove configurable node size support for numa emulationDavid Rientjes
Now that numa=fake=<size>[MG] is implemented, it is possible to remove configurable node size support. The command-line parsing was already broken (numa=fake=*128, for example, would not work) and since fake nodes are now interleaved over physical nodes, this support is no longer required. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1002151343080.26927@chino.kir.corp.google.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-02-15x86, numa: Add fixed node size option for numa emulationDavid Rientjes
numa=fake=N specifies the number of fake nodes, N, to partition the system into and then allocates them by interleaving over physical nodes. This requires knowledge of the system capacity when attempting to allocate nodes of a certain size: either very large nodes to benchmark scalability of code that operates on individual nodes, or very small nodes to find bugs in the VM. This patch introduces numa=fake=<size>[MG] so it is possible to specify the size of each node to allocate. When used, nodes of the size specified will be allocated and interleaved over the set of physical nodes. FAKE_NODE_MIN_SIZE was also moved to the more-appropriate include/asm/numa_64.h. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1002151342510.26927@chino.kir.corp.google.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-02-15ARM: 5930/1: Add PKMAP area description to memory.txt.Fenkart/Bostandzhyan
Also adapts delimiters of neighbouring modules area. Tested-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Fenkart <andreas.fenkart@streamunlimited.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-02-15Merge branch 'for-rmk' of git://git.marvell.com/orion into devel-stableRussell King
Conflicts: arch/arm/Makefile
2010-02-14Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2010-02-13ALSA: hda - Add support for Lenovo IdeaPad U150Greg Alexander
Add patch for the Conexant 5066 HDA codec to support the Lenovo IdeaPad U150 Signed-off-by: Greg Alexander <greigs@galexander.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2010-02-13nilfs2: issue discard request after cleaning segmentsJiro SEKIBA
This adds a function to send discard requests for given array of segment numbers, and calls the function when garbage collection succeeded. Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-02-12dccp: allow probing of CCID-array lengthGerrit Renker
This fixes a problem in the DCCP getsockopt() API: currently there is no way for a user to a priori know the number of built-in CCIDs, other than trying DCCP_SOCKOPT_AVAILABLE_CCIDS in a loop, incrementing the option length until EINVAL is no longer returned. This patch truncates the array to the user-provided length. No copy is made when the length is <= 0. Due to the length restriction in do_dccp_getsockopt() to sizeof(int), the minimum array length remains 4, which is a reasonable default (only 3 CCIDs, CCID-2..4, are currently defined). Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-10Input: schedule corgi_ssp and corgi_ts to be removedEric Miao
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com> Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2010-02-10Input: mark {corgi,spitz,tosa}kbd drivers deprecatedEric Miao
Provided that now keyboards on these devices are fully supported by generic GPIO based matrix keypad driver, mark these hardcoded and difficult to maintain drivers as deprecated. Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2010-02-09tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixesDaniel Mack
In particular, several occurances of funny versions of 'success', 'unknown', 'therefore', 'acknowledge', 'argument', 'achieve', 'address', 'beginning', 'desirable', 'separate' and 'necessary' are fixed. Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-02-08mac80211: remove get_tx_stats() driver opKalle Valo
get_tx_stats() driver operation is not currently used anywhere in mac80211 and there are no plans to use it in the not-so-near future. So it can go without anyone missing it. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08Merge branch 'fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq * 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: [CPUFREQ] Fix ondemand to not request targets outside policy limits [CPUFREQ] Fix use after free of struct powernow_k8_data [CPUFREQ] fix default value for ondemand governor
2010-02-08Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Merge dependent fix, update to latest -rc. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-07ima: rename PATH_CHECK to FILE_CHECKMimi Zohar
With the movement of the ima hooks functions were renamed from *path* to *file* since they always deal with struct file. This patch renames some of the ima internal flags to make them consistent with the rest of the code. Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-02-05packet: Kill CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP.David S. Miller
Early on this was an experimental facility that few people other than Alexey Kuznetsov played with. Now it's a pretty fundamental thing and as people add more features to AF_PACKET sockets this config options creates ifdef spaghetti. So kill it off. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-05doc: capitalization and other minor fixes in pnp docThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-02-05doc: fix Defaultd -> Defaults typo in EISA docThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-02-05doc: update 00-INDEX for Documentation/laptops/Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-02-05doc: fix leve -> level typo in pm-runtime docThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-02-05Fix spelling of 'platform' in comments and docStefan Weil
Replace platfrom -> platform. This is a frequent spelling bug. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-02-04doc: document IPv6 parametersBrian Haley
Update documentation to describe IPv6 parameters. Reported by <greg@enjellic.com>. Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-04doc: fix checking socket() in net tstamp exampleAli Gholami Rudi
Signed-off-by: Ali Gholami Rudi <ali@rudi.ir> Acked-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-02-02fault injection: correct function names in documentationAnton Blanchard
init_fault_attr_entries() should be init_fault_attr_dentries(). cleanup_fault_attr_entries() should be cleanup_fault_attr_dentries(). Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-02-02fsldma: simplify IRQ probing and handlingIra Snyder
The IRQ probing is needlessly complex. All off the 83xx device trees in arch/powerpc/boot/dts/ specify 5 interrupts per DMA controller: one for the controller, and one for each channel. These interrupts are all attached to the same IRQ line. This causes an interesting situation if two channels interrupt at the same time. The per-controller handler will handle the first channel, and the per-channel handler will handle the remaining channels. Instead of this mess, we fix the bug in the per-controller handler, and make it handle all channels that generated an interrupt. When a per-controller handler is specified in the device tree, we prefer to use the shared handler instead of the per-channel handler. The 85xx/86xx controllers do not have a per-controller interrupt, and instead use a per-channel interrupt. This behavior has not been changed. Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2010-02-01Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: tracing/documentation: Cover new frame pointer semantics tracing/documentation: Fix a typo in ftrace.txt ring-buffer: Check for end of page in iterator ring-buffer: Check if ring buffer iterator has stale data tracing: Prevent kernel oops with corrupted buffer
2010-01-29Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: update multi-touch protocol documentation Input: add the ABS_MT_PRESSURE event Input: winbond-cir - remove dmesg spam Input: lifebook - add another Lifebook DMI signature Input: ad7879 - support auxiliary GPIOs via gpiolib
2010-01-29Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: We want to queue up a dependent patch. Also update to later -rc's. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-29block: Added in stricter no merge semantics for block I/OAlan D. Brunelle
Updated 'nomerges' tunable to accept a value of '2' - indicating that _no_ merges at all are to be attempted (not even the simple one-hit cache). The following table illustrates the additional benefit - 5 minute runs of a random I/O load were applied to a dozen devices on a 16-way x86_64 system. nomerges Throughput %System Improvement (tput / %sys) -------- ------------ ----------- ------------------------- 0 12.45 MB/sec 0.669365609 1 12.50 MB/sec 0.641519199 0.40% / 2.71% 2 12.52 MB/sec 0.639849750 0.56% / 2.96% Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-01-28Input: update multi-touch protocol documentationHenrik Rydberg
This patch documents a new ABS_MT parameter and adds further text to clarify some points around the MT protocol. Requested-by: Yoonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@samsung.com> Requested-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@nokia.com> Requested-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2010-01-28ALSA: hda - Allow override more fields via patch loaderTakashi Iwai
Allow the override of vendor-id, subsystem-id, revision-id and chip name via patch loading. Updated the document, too. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2010-01-26tracing/documentation: Cover new frame pointer semanticsMike Frysinger
Update the graph tracer examples to cover the new frame pointer semantics (in terms of passing it along). Move the HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST docs out of the Kconfig, into the right place, and expand on the details. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> LKML-Reference: <1264165967-18938-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-26tracing/documentation: Fix a typo in ftrace.txtYang Hongyang
'ftrace' is no longer the name of the function tracer, to activate the function trace 'echo function > current_tracer' is to be used instead of 'echo ftrace > current_tracer'. Update the documentation to reflect the current implementation. Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang <yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4B5D0BA8.20106@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>