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Yinghai Lu c64df70793 x86: memtest bootparam
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:41:21 +02:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com d27554d874 x86: PAT documentation
Documentation about PAT related interfaces, intended usage and memory attribute
relationship.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:41:19 +02:00
Pavel Machek b552da8740 x86 iommu: add more documentation
Fix coding style in pci-dma_64.c and add stubs for documentation. I
hope someone fills the rest, I understand maybe off and soft...

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:40:59 +02:00
Ian Campbell 87253d1b4f x86: boot protocol updates
Also update field names to simply payload_{offset,length} so as to not rule
out uncompressed images.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:40:48 +02:00
Ian Campbell 7d6e737c8d x86: add a crc32 checksum to the kernel image.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17 17:40:46 +02:00
Ian Campbell 099e137726 x86: use ELF format in compressed images.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17 17:40:46 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 00d1c5e057 x86: add gbpages switches
These new controls toggle experimental support for a new CPU feature,
the straightforward extension of largepages from the pmd level to the
pud level, which allows 1GB (kernel) TLBs instead of 2MB TLBs.

Turn it off by default, as this code has not been tested well enough yet.

Use the CONFIG_DIRECT_GBPAGES=y .config option or gbpages on the
boot line can be used to enable it. If enabled in the .config then
nogbpages boot option disables it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17 17:40:45 +02:00
Linus Torvalds b4b8f57965 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  [TCP]: Add return value indication to tcp_prune_ofo_queue().
  PS3: gelic: fix the oops on the broken IE returned from the hypervisor
  b43legacy: fix DMA mapping leakage
  mac80211: remove message on receiving unexpected unencrypted frames
  Update rt2x00 MAINTAINERS entry
  Add rfkill to MAINTAINERS file
  rfkill: Fix device type check when toggling states
  b43legacy: Fix usage of struct device used for DMAing
  ssb: Fix usage of struct device used for DMAing
  MAINTAINERS: move to generic repository for iwlwifi
  b43legacy: fix initvals loading on bcm4303
  rtl8187: Add missing priv->vif assignments
  netconsole: only set CON_PRINTBUFFER if the user specifies a netconsole
  [CAN]: Update documentation of struct sockaddr_can
  MAINTAINERS: isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de is subscribers-only
  [TCP]: Fix never pruned tcp out-of-order queue.
  [NET_SCHED] sch_api: fix qdisc_tree_decrease_qlen() loop
2008-04-16 07:44:27 -07:00
Nishanth Aravamudan 423bec4307 Documentation: correct overcommit caveat in hugetlbpage.txt
As shown by Gurudas Pai recently, we can put hugepages into the surplus
state (by echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages), even when
/proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages is 0. This is actually correct, to
allow the original goal (shrink the static pool to 0) to succeed (we are
converting hugepages to surplus because they are in use). However, the
documentation does not accurately reflect this case. Update it.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-15 19:35:41 -07:00
Dmitri Vorobiev b82d4043b3 Fix typos in Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
A couple of typos crept into the newly added document about the seq_file
interface.  This patch corrects those typos and simultaneously deletes
unnecessary trailing spaces.

Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-15 19:35:40 -07:00
Oliver Hartkopp 56690c2151 [CAN]: Update documentation of struct sockaddr_can
The struct sockaddr_can has been simplified in the code review
process.  This patch updates this simplification also in the
associated documentation in can.txt .

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-15 00:46:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 14897e35fd Merge branch 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
* 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
  Add additional examples in Documentation/spinlocks.txt
  Move sched-rt-group.txt to scheduler/
  Documentation: move rpc-cache.txt to filesystems/
  Documentation: move nfsroot.txt to filesystems/
  Spell out behavior of atomic_dec_and_lock() in kerneldoc
  Fix a typo in highres.txt
  Fixes to the seq_file document
  Fill out information on patch tags in SubmittingPatches
  Add the seq_file documentation
2008-04-11 13:24:16 -07:00
Mark Fasheh 14dadf1d5e Add additional examples in Documentation/spinlocks.txt
Checkpatch will throw an error if code doesn't use the correct initializers
for static spinlocks:

ERROR: Use of SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED is deprecated: see Documentation/spinlocks.txt

This is fine, but Documentation/spinlocks.txt isn't very clear on how to
_use_ the new initializers for static variables. To save people time in the
future, I added two small examples of how to fix old-style static
initializers to be more lockdep friendly.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-11 13:21:14 -06:00
J. Bruce Fields d396c5f158 Move sched-rt-group.txt to scheduler/
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-11 13:21:03 -06:00
J. Bruce Fields 8bcd1cc293 Documentation: move rpc-cache.txt to filesystems/
This file is nfs-related.  (Maybe Documentation/filesystems/ would
benefit from a separate nfs/ directory at some point.)

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-11 13:20:52 -06:00
J. Bruce Fields 6ded55da6b Documentation: move nfsroot.txt to filesystems/
Documentation/ is a little large, and filesystems/ seems an obvious
place for this file.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-11 13:18:01 -06:00
David Brownell 6395bee7e9 spi: documentation tweaks
Update SPI documentation to clarify some areas of recent confusion: clock
polarity takes effect when chipselect goes active; and zero length buffers are
OK in certain cases.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-08 18:25:53 -07:00
Paul Menage 8bab8dded6 cgroups: add cgroup support for enabling controllers at boot time
The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:

- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in a single hierarchy
- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable subsystem

As a result there will only ever be one call to foo->create(), at init time;
all processes will stay in this group, and the group will never be mounted on
a visible hierarchy.  Any additional effects (e.g.  not allocating metadata)
are up to the foo subsystem.

This doesn't handle early_init subsystems (their "disabled" bit isn't set be,
but it could easily be extended to do so if any of the early_init systems
wanted it - I think it would just involve some nastier parameter processing
since it would occur before the command-line argument parser had been run.

Hugh said:

  Ballpark figures, I'm trying to get this question out rather than
  processing the exact numbers: CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR adds 15% overhead
  to the affected paths, booting with cgroup_disable=memory cuts that back to
  1% overhead (due to slightly bigger struct page).

  I'm no expert on distros, they may have no interest whatever in
  CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=y; and the rest of us can easily build with or
  without it, or apply the cgroup_disable=memory patches.

Unix bench's execl test result on x86_64 was

== just after boot without mounting any cgroup fs.==
mem_cgorup=off : Execl Throughput       43.0     3150.1      732.6
mem_cgroup=on  : Execl Throughput       43.0     2932.6      682.0
==

[lizf@cn.fujitsu.com: fix boot option parsing]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-04 14:46:26 -07:00
Jim Meyering f2b2ea692e doc: fix typo in SubmittingPatches
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-02 15:28:19 -07:00
Dmitri Vorobiev e8d49f3a6f Fix typos in Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt
This patch deletes a couple of superfluous word occurrences in the
document Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt.

Thanks to Sebastien Dugue for the remark about English usage.

Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-02 15:28:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 2f819ae881 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (45 commits)
  [VLAN]: Proc entry is not renamed when vlan device name changes.
  [IPV6]: Fix ICMP relookup error path dst leak
  [ATM] drivers/atm/iphase.c: compilation warning fix
  IPv6: do not create temporary adresses with too short preferred lifetime
  IPv6: only update the lifetime of the relevant temporary address
  bluetooth : __rfcomm_dlc_close lock fix
  bluetooth : use lockdep sub-classes for diffrent bluetooth protocol
  [ROSE/AX25] af_rose: rose_release() fix
  mac80211: correct use_short_preamble handling
  b43: Fix PCMCIA IRQ routing
  b43: Add DMA mapping failure messages
  mac80211: trigger ieee80211_sta_work after opening interface
  [LLC]: skb allocation size for responses
  [IP] UDP: Use SEQ_START_TOKEN.
  [NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt
  [ATM] atm/idt77252.c: Make 2 functions static
  [ATM]: Make atm/he.c:read_prom_byte() static
  [IPV6] MCAST: Ensure to check multicast listener(s).
  [LLC]: Kill llc_station_mac_sa symbol export.
  forcedeth: fix locking bug with netconsole
  ...
2008-04-02 07:46:18 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 7731ce63d9 ACPI PM: Restore the 2.6.24 suspend ordering
Some time ago it turned out that our suspend code ordering broke some
NVidia-based systems that hung if _PTS was executed with one of the PCI
devices, specifically a USB controller, in a low power state.

Then, it was noticed that the suspend code ordering was not compliant
with ACPI 1.0, although it was compliant with ACPI 2.0 (and later), and
it was argued that the code had to be changed for that reason (ref.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9528).

So we did, but evidently we did wrong, because it's now turning out that
some systems have been broken by this change. Refs:
	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10340
	https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=374217#c16

[ I said at that time that something like this might happend, but the
  majority of people involved thought that it was improbable due to the
  necessity to preserve the compliance of hardware with ACPI 1.0. ]

This actually is a quite serious regression from 2.6.24.

Moreover, the ACPI 1.0 ordering of suspend code introduced another issue
that I have only noticed recently.  Namely, if the suspend of one of
devices fails, the already suspended devices will be resumed without
executing _WAK before, which leads to problems on some systems (for
example, in such situations thermal management is broken on my HP
nx6325).  Consequently, it also breaks suspend debugging on the affected
systems.

Note also, that the requirement to execute _PTS before suspending
devices does not really make sense, because the device in question may
be put into a low power state at run time for a reason unrelated to a
system-wide suspend.

For the reasons outlined above, the change of the suspend ordering
should be reverted, which is done by the patch below.

[ Felix Möller: "I am the reporter from the original Novell Bug:

	https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=374217

  I just tried current git head (two hours ago) with the patch (the one
  from the beginning of this thread) from Rafael and without it.  With
  the patch my MacBook does suspend without it does not." ]

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Tested-by: Felix Möller <felix@derklecks.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-01 11:21:08 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 5e0751f57a [NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt
Since the driver is gone there's no point in keeping the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-31 19:36:47 -07:00
Will Newton b40b5162ac Fix a typo in highres.txt
A small patch for the highres timers documentation:

Signed-off-by: Will newton <will.newton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-03-30 11:05:04 -06:00
Jan Engelhardt f3271f6564 Fixes to the seq_file document
On Friday 2008-03-28 19:20, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>commit 9756ccfda31b4c4544aa010aacf71b6672d668e8
>Date:   Fri Mar 28 11:19:56 2008 -0600
>
>    Add the seq_file documentation

patch on top:

  - add const qualifiers
  - remove void* casts
  - use proper specifier (%Ld is not valid)

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
2008-03-30 11:05:04 -06:00