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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-11-02 16:07:27 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-11-02 16:07:27 -0700
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tree616ceb54b7671ccc13922ae9e002b8b972f6e09e /Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
parent80c2861672bbf000f6af838656959ee937e4ee4d (diff)
parentc1e2ee2dc436574880758b3836fc96935b774c32 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's incoming - part two)
Says Andrew: "60 patches. That's good enough for -rc1 I guess. I have quite a lot of detritus to be rechecked, work through maintainers, etc. - most of the remains of MM - rtc - various misc - cgroups - memcg - cpusets - procfs - ipc - rapidio - sysctl - pps - w1 - drivers/misc - aio" * akpm: (60 commits) memcg: replace ss->id_lock with a rwlock aio: allocate kiocbs in batches drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c: fix typo in code comment drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c: determine page allocation flag can_sleep outside loop w1: disable irqs in critical section drivers/w1/w1_int.c: multiple masters used same init_name drivers/power/ds2780_battery.c: fix deadlock upon insertion and removal drivers/power/ds2780_battery.c: add a nolock function to w1 interface drivers/power/ds2780_battery.c: create central point for calling w1 interface w1: ds2760 and ds2780, use ida for id and ida_simple_get() to get it pps gpio client: add missing dependency pps: new client driver using GPIO pps: default echo function include/linux/dma-mapping.h: add dma_zalloc_coherent() sysctl: make CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL default to n sysctl: add support for poll() RapidIO: documentation update drivers/net/rionet.c: fix ethernet address macros for LE platforms RapidIO: fix potential null deref in rio_setup_device() RapidIO: add mport driver for Tsi721 bridge ...
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@@ -133,41 +133,6 @@ Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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-What: sys_sysctl
-When: September 2010
-Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL
-Why: The same information is available in a more convenient from
- /proc/sys, and none of the sysctl variables appear to be
- important performance wise.
-
- Binary sysctls are a long standing source of subtle kernel
- bugs and security issues.
-
- When I looked several months ago all I could find after
- searching several distributions were 5 user space programs and
- glibc (which falls back to /proc/sys) using this syscall.
-
- The man page for sysctl(2) documents it as unusable for user
- space programs.
-
- sysctl(2) is not generally ABI compatible to a 32bit user
- space application on a 64bit and a 32bit kernel.
-
- For the last several months the policy has been no new binary
- sysctls and no one has put forward an argument to use them.
-
- Binary sysctls issues seem to keep happening appearing so
- properly deprecating them (with a warning to user space) and a
- 2 year grace warning period will mean eventually we can kill
- them and end the pain.
-
- In the mean time individual binary sysctls can be dealt with
- in a piecewise fashion.
-
-Who: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
-
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-
What: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj
When: August 2012
Why: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj allows userspace to influence the oom killer's