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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2008-12-05T05:39:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2008-12-05T05:39:41+00:00</published>
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* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  check_hung_task(): unsigned sysctl_hung_task_warnings cannot be less than 0
  documentation: local_ops fix on_each_cpu
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* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  check_hung_task(): unsigned sysctl_hung_task_warnings cannot be less than 0
  documentation: local_ops fix on_each_cpu
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<entry>
<title>DMA-API.txt: fix description of pci_map_sg/dma_map_sg scatterlists handling</title>
<updated>2008-12-02T03:55:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>FUJITA Tomonori</name>
<email>fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-01T21:14:01+00:00</published>
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- pci_map_sg/dma_map_sg are used with a scatter gather list that doesn't
  come from the block layer (e.g.  some network drivers do).

- how IOMMUs merge adjacent elements of the scatter/gather list is
  independent of how the block layer determines sees elements.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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- pci_map_sg/dma_map_sg are used with a scatter gather list that doesn't
  come from the block layer (e.g.  some network drivers do).

- how IOMMUs merge adjacent elements of the scatter/gather list is
  independent of how the block layer determines sees elements.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>epoll: introduce resource usage limits</title>
<updated>2008-12-02T03:55:24+00:00</updated>
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<name>Davide Libenzi</name>
<email>davidel@xmailserver.org</email>
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<published>2008-12-01T21:13:55+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;davidel@xmailserver.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegardno@ifi.uio.no&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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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 &lt;davidel@xmailserver.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegardno@ifi.uio.no&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>spi documentation: use __initdata on struct</title>
<updated>2008-12-02T03:55:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>roel kluin</name>
<email>roel.kluin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-01T21:13:51+00:00</published>
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Use __initdata for data, not __init.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin &lt;roel.kluin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Brownell &lt;dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Use __initdata for data, not __init.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin &lt;roel.kluin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Brownell &lt;dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ocfs2: Small documentation update</title>
<updated>2008-12-01T22:46:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Fasheh</name>
<email>mfasheh@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-18T23:08:42+00:00</published>
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Remove some features from the "not-supported" list that are actually
supported now.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh &lt;mfasheh@suse.com&gt;
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Remove some features from the "not-supported" list that are actually
supported now.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh &lt;mfasheh@suse.com&gt;
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<title>documentation: local_ops fix on_each_cpu</title>
<updated>2008-12-01T12:51:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mathieu Desnoyers</name>
<email>mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-01T10:46:38+00:00</published>
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Impact: update code example in documentation

* Dr. David Alan Gilbert (dave@treblig.org) wrote:
[...]
&gt;  I noticed while looking at something else that the example in
&gt;  local_ops.txt still has the 4 operand on_each_cpu in the latest git;
&gt;  I don't know the rest of the code around there very well so I thought
&gt;  it best to mention it rather than post a patch.

Reported-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert &lt;dave@treblig.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Impact: update code example in documentation

* Dr. David Alan Gilbert (dave@treblig.org) wrote:
[...]
&gt;  I noticed while looking at something else that the example in
&gt;  local_ops.txt still has the 4 operand on_each_cpu in the latest git;
&gt;  I don't know the rest of the code around there very well so I thought
&gt;  it best to mention it rather than post a patch.

Reported-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert &lt;dave@treblig.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2008-11-30T21:05:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-30T21:05:31+00:00</published>
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* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  ftrace: prevent recursion
  tracing, doc: update mmiotrace documentation
  x86, mmiotrace: fix buffer overrun detection
  function tracing: fix wrong position computing of stack_trace
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* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  ftrace: prevent recursion
  tracing, doc: update mmiotrace documentation
  x86, mmiotrace: fix buffer overrun detection
  function tracing: fix wrong position computing of stack_trace
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq</title>
<updated>2008-11-30T19:43:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-30T19:43:41+00:00</published>
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* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: ignore out-of-range PstateStatus value
  [CPUFREQ] Documentation: Add Blackfin to list of supported processors
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* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: ignore out-of-range PstateStatus value
  [CPUFREQ] Documentation: Add Blackfin to list of supported processors
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<title>Trivial Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt fix</title>
<updated>2008-11-30T19:40:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>frans</name>
<email>fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-22T14:39:06+00:00</published>
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A very minor patch on ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt: update the location
where CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE lives in menuconfig

Signed-off-by: Frans Meulenbroeks &lt;fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rob Landley &lt;rob@landley.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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A very minor patch on ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt: update the location
where CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE lives in menuconfig

Signed-off-by: Frans Meulenbroeks &lt;fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rob Landley &lt;rob@landley.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6</title>
<updated>2008-11-30T19:36:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-30T19:36:57+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
  ALSA: hda - Check model for Dell 92HD73xx laptops
  ALSA: hda - mark Dell studio 1535 quirk
  ALSA: hda - No 'Headphone as Line-out' swich without line-outs
  ALSA: hda - Fix AFG power management on IDT 92HD* codecs
  ALSA: hda - Fix caching of SPDIF status bits
  ALSA: hda - Add a quirk for Dell Studio 15
  ALSA: hda: Add STAC_DELL_M4_3 quirk
  sound/sound_core: Fix sparse warnings
  ALSA: hda: STAC_DELL_M6 EAPD
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
  ALSA: hda - Check model for Dell 92HD73xx laptops
  ALSA: hda - mark Dell studio 1535 quirk
  ALSA: hda - No 'Headphone as Line-out' swich without line-outs
  ALSA: hda - Fix AFG power management on IDT 92HD* codecs
  ALSA: hda - Fix caching of SPDIF status bits
  ALSA: hda - Add a quirk for Dell Studio 15
  ALSA: hda: Add STAC_DELL_M4_3 quirk
  sound/sound_core: Fix sparse warnings
  ALSA: hda: STAC_DELL_M6 EAPD
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