linux-toradex.git/Documentation, branch v2.6.27.10

AMD IOMMU: enable device isolation per default

2008-12-18T17:13:34+00:00

commit 3ce1f93c6d53c3f91c3846cf66b018276c8ac2e7 upstream.

Impact: makes device isolation the default for AMD IOMMU

Some device drivers showed double-free bugs of DMA memory while testing
them with AMD IOMMU. If all devices share the same protection domain
this can lead to data corruption and data loss. Prevent this by putting
each device into its own protection domain per default.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

epoll: introduce resource usage limits

2008-12-05T18:55:12+00:00

commit 7ef9964e6d1b911b78709f144000aacadd0ebc21 upstream.

It has been thought that the per-user file descriptors limit would also
limit the resources that a normal user can request via the epoll
interface.  Vegard Nossum reported a very simple program (a modified
version attached) that can make a normal user to request a pretty large
amount of kernel memory, well within the its maximum number of fds.  To
solve such problem, default limits are now imposed, and /proc based
configuration has been introduced.  A new directory has been created,
named /proc/sys/fs/epoll/ and inside there, there are two configuration
points:

  max_user_instances = Maximum number of devices - per user

  max_user_watches   = Maximum number of "watched" fds - per user

The current default for "max_user_watches" limits the memory used by epoll
to store "watches", to 1/32 of the amount of the low RAM.  As example, a
256MB 32bit machine, will have "max_user_watches" set to roughly 90000.
That should be enough to not break existing heavy epoll users.  The
default value for "max_user_instances" is set to 128, that should be
enough too.

This also changes the userspace, because a new error code can now come out
from EPOLL_CTL_ADD (-ENOSPC).  The EMFILE from epoll_create() was already
listed, so that should be ok.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use get_current_user()]
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi 
Cc: Michael Kerrisk 
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cciss: new hardware support

2008-11-13T17:55:57+00:00

commit 77ca7286d10b798e4907af941f29672bf484db77 upstream

cciss: new hardware support

Add support for 2 new SAS/SATA controllers.

Signed-off-by: Mike Miller 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

i2c: The i2c mailing list is moving

2008-11-07T03:05:46+00:00

commit 846557d3ceb6c7493e090921db5d6158ec237228 upstream

Replace all references to the old i2c mailing list.

This isn't a bug fix, but I would hate to miss bug reports because
they're sent to a dead mailing list.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

DVB: au0828: add support for another USB id for Hauppauge HVR950Q

2008-10-22T21:21:29+00:00

(cherry picked from commit a636da6bab3307fc8c6e6a22a63b0b25ba0687be)

DVB: au0828: add support for another USB id for Hauppauge HVR950Q

Add autodetection support for a new revision of the Hauppauge HVR950Q (2040:721e)

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky 
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6

2008-10-09T19:23:54+00:00

* '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

[CPUFREQ] correct broken links and email addresses

2008-10-09T17:52:40+00:00

Replace the no longer working links and email address in the
documentation and in source code.

Signed-off-by: Márton Németh 
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones

hwmon: (adt7473) Fix some bogosity in documentation file

2008-10-09T13:33:58+00:00

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong 
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare

hwmon: Define sysfs interface for energy consumption register

2008-10-09T13:33:58+00:00

Describe the sysfs files that were introduced in the ibmaem driver.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong 
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare

Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb

2008-10-06T21:27:15+00:00

* '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.
  ...