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<title>hwmon: (jc42) do not allow writing to locked registers</title>
<updated>2011-02-24T22:54:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Clemens Ladisch</name>
<email>clemens@ladisch.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-16T13:02:38+00:00</published>
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commit 2c6315da6a1657a49e03970a4084dc3d1958ad70 upstream.

On systems where the temperature sensor is actually used, the BIOS is
likely to have locked the alarm registers.  In that case, all writes
through the corresponding sysfs files would be silently ignored.

To prevent this, detect the locks and make the affected sysfs files
read-only.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;guenter.roeck@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 2c6315da6a1657a49e03970a4084dc3d1958ad70 upstream.

On systems where the temperature sensor is actually used, the BIOS is
likely to have locked the alarm registers.  In that case, all writes
through the corresponding sysfs files would be silently ignored.

To prevent this, detect the locks and make the affected sysfs files
read-only.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;guenter.roeck@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>hwmon: (jc42) more helpful documentation</title>
<updated>2011-02-24T22:54:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Clemens Ladisch</name>
<email>clemens@ladisch.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-16T13:02:08+00:00</published>
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commit d5622f5b6c4671d1588ccc9056705366d4eb312a upstream.

The documentation lists standard numbers and chip names in excruciating
detail, but that's all it does.  To help mere mortals in deciding
whether to enable this driver, mention what this sensor is for and in
which systems it might be found.

Also add a link to the actual JC 42.4 specification.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;guenter.roeck@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit d5622f5b6c4671d1588ccc9056705366d4eb312a upstream.

The documentation lists standard numbers and chip names in excruciating
detail, but that's all it does.  To help mere mortals in deciding
whether to enable this driver, mention what this sensor is for and in
which systems it might be found.

Also add a link to the actual JC 42.4 specification.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;guenter.roeck@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>hwmon: (k10temp) add support for AMD Family 12h/14h CPUs</title>
<updated>2011-02-24T22:54:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Clemens Ladisch</name>
<email>clemens@ladisch.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-17T08:22:40+00:00</published>
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commit aa4790a6287818078ca968164a5f0d0870326602 upstream.

Add the PCI ID to support the internal temperature sensor of the
AMD "Llano" and "Brazos" processor families.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;guenter.roeck@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit aa4790a6287818078ca968164a5f0d0870326602 upstream.

Add the PCI ID to support the internal temperature sensor of the
AMD "Llano" and "Brazos" processor families.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;guenter.roeck@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Input: i8042 - introduce 'notimeout' blacklist for Dell Vostro V13</title>
<updated>2011-02-17T23:14:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-08T09:37:26+00:00</published>
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commit f8313ef1f448006207f12c107123522c8bc00f15 upstream.

i8042 controller present in Dell Vostro V13 errorneously signals spurious
timeouts.

Introduce i8042.notimeout parameter for ignoring i8042-signalled timeouts
and apply this quirk automatically for Dell Vostro V13, based on DMI match.

In addition to that, this machine also needs to be added to nomux blacklist.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: Tim Gardner &lt;tcanonical@tpi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit f8313ef1f448006207f12c107123522c8bc00f15 upstream.

i8042 controller present in Dell Vostro V13 errorneously signals spurious
timeouts.

Introduce i8042.notimeout parameter for ignoring i8042-signalled timeouts
and apply this quirk automatically for Dell Vostro V13, based on DMI match.

In addition to that, this machine also needs to be added to nomux blacklist.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: Tim Gardner &lt;tcanonical@tpi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>remove trim_fs method from Documentation/filesystems/Locking</title>
<updated>2011-01-04T19:01:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-04T06:14:24+00:00</published>
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The -&gt;trim_fs has been removed meanwhile, so remove it from the documentation
as well.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reported-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The -&gt;trim_fs has been removed meanwhile, so remove it from the documentation
as well.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reported-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>watchdog: Improve initialisation error message and documentation</title>
<updated>2011-01-03T04:25:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>ben@decadent.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-02T23:02:42+00:00</published>
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The error message 'NMI watchdog failed to create perf event...'
does not make it clear that this is a fatal error for the
watchdog.  It also currently prints the error value as a
pointer, rather than extracting the error code with PTR_ERR().
Fix that.

Add a note to the description of the 'nowatchdog' kernel
parameter to associate it with this message.

Reported-by: Cesare Leonardi &lt;celeonar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: 599368@bugs.debian.org
Cc: 608138@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Don Zickus &lt;dzickus@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # .37.x and later
LKML-Reference: &lt;1294009362.3167.126.camel@localhost&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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The error message 'NMI watchdog failed to create perf event...'
does not make it clear that this is a fatal error for the
watchdog.  It also currently prints the error value as a
pointer, rather than extracting the error code with PTR_ERR().
Fix that.

Add a note to the description of the 'nowatchdog' kernel
parameter to associate it with this message.

Reported-by: Cesare Leonardi &lt;celeonar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: 599368@bugs.debian.org
Cc: 608138@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Don Zickus &lt;dzickus@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # .37.x and later
LKML-Reference: &lt;1294009362.3167.126.camel@localhost&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>update Documentation/filesystems/Locking</title>
<updated>2010-12-30T18:00:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-16T11:04:54+00:00</published>
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Mostly inspired by all the recent BKL removal changes, but a lot of older
updates also weren't properly recorded.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Mostly inspired by all the recent BKL removal changes, but a lot of older
updates also weren't properly recorded.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-12-24T20:58:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-24T20:58:43+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6:
  [SCSI] fix up documentation for change in -&gt;queuecommand to lockless calling
  [SCSI] bfa: rename log_level to bfa_log_level
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6:
  [SCSI] fix up documentation for change in -&gt;queuecommand to lockless calling
  [SCSI] bfa: rename log_level to bfa_log_level
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<entry>
<title>taskstats: pad taskstats netlink response for aligment issues on ia64</title>
<updated>2010-12-23T03:43:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Mahoney</name>
<email>jeffm@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-22T01:24:30+00:00</published>
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The taskstats structure is internally aligned on 8 byte boundaries but the
layout of the aggregrate reply, with two NLA headers and the pid (each 4
bytes), actually force the entire structure to be unaligned.  This causes
the kernel to issue unaligned access warnings on some architectures like
ia64.  Unfortunately, some software out there doesn't properly unroll the
NLA packet and assumes that the start of the taskstats structure will
always be 20 bytes from the start of the netlink payload.  Aligning the
start of the taskstats structure breaks this software, which we don't
want.  So, for now the alignment only happens on architectures that
require it and those users will have to update to fixed versions of those
packages.  Space is reserved in the packet only when needed.  This ifdef
should be removed in several years e.g.  2012 once we can be confident
that fixed versions are installed on most systems.  We add the padding
before the aggregate since the aggregate is already a defined type.

Commit 85893120 ("delayacct: align to 8 byte boundary on 64-bit systems")
previously addressed the alignment issues by padding out the pid field.
This was supposed to be a compatible change but the circumstances
described above mean that it wasn't.  This patch backs out that change,
since it was a hack, and introduces a new NULL attribute type to provide
the padding.  Padding the response with 4 bytes avoids allocating an
aligned taskstats structure and copying it back.  Since the structure
weighs in at 328 bytes, it's too big to do it on the stack.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney &lt;jeffm@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: Brian Rogers &lt;brian@xyzw.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Mahoney &lt;jeffm@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Guillaume Chazarain &lt;guichaz@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Balbir Singh &lt;balbir@in.ibm.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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The taskstats structure is internally aligned on 8 byte boundaries but the
layout of the aggregrate reply, with two NLA headers and the pid (each 4
bytes), actually force the entire structure to be unaligned.  This causes
the kernel to issue unaligned access warnings on some architectures like
ia64.  Unfortunately, some software out there doesn't properly unroll the
NLA packet and assumes that the start of the taskstats structure will
always be 20 bytes from the start of the netlink payload.  Aligning the
start of the taskstats structure breaks this software, which we don't
want.  So, for now the alignment only happens on architectures that
require it and those users will have to update to fixed versions of those
packages.  Space is reserved in the packet only when needed.  This ifdef
should be removed in several years e.g.  2012 once we can be confident
that fixed versions are installed on most systems.  We add the padding
before the aggregate since the aggregate is already a defined type.

Commit 85893120 ("delayacct: align to 8 byte boundary on 64-bit systems")
previously addressed the alignment issues by padding out the pid field.
This was supposed to be a compatible change but the circumstances
described above mean that it wasn't.  This patch backs out that change,
since it was a hack, and introduces a new NULL attribute type to provide
the padding.  Padding the response with 4 bytes avoids allocating an
aligned taskstats structure and copying it back.  Since the structure
weighs in at 328 bytes, it's too big to do it on the stack.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney &lt;jeffm@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: Brian Rogers &lt;brian@xyzw.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Mahoney &lt;jeffm@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Guillaume Chazarain &lt;guichaz@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Balbir Singh &lt;balbir@in.ibm.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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<entry>
<title>mm: vmscan: tracepoint: account for scanned pages similarly for both ftrace and vmstat</title>
<updated>2010-12-23T03:43:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mel@csn.ul.ie</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-22T01:24:18+00:00</published>
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When correlating ftrace results with /proc/vmstat, I noticed that the
reporting scripts value for "pages scanned" differed significantly.  Both
values were "right" depending on how you look at it.

The difference is due to vmstat only counting scanning of the inactive
list towards pages scanned.  The analysis script for the tracepoint counts
active and inactive list yielding a far higher value than vmstat.  The
resulting scanning/reclaim ratio looks much worse.  The tracepoint is ok
but this patch updates the reporting script so that the report values for
scanned are similar to vmstat.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&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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When correlating ftrace results with /proc/vmstat, I noticed that the
reporting scripts value for "pages scanned" differed significantly.  Both
values were "right" depending on how you look at it.

The difference is due to vmstat only counting scanning of the inactive
list towards pages scanned.  The analysis script for the tracepoint counts
active and inactive list yielding a far higher value than vmstat.  The
resulting scanning/reclaim ratio looks much worse.  The tracepoint is ok
but this patch updates the reporting script so that the report values for
scanned are similar to vmstat.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&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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