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2010-12-26Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
2010-12-24Documentation/networking: Update Intel Wired LAN docsJeff Kirsher
- Update the Intel Wired LAN documentation with the latest URL for ethtool. - replace "Ethtool" with "ethtool" Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Tested-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
2010-12-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: [SCSI] fix up documentation for change in ->queuecommand to lockless calling [SCSI] bfa: rename log_level to bfa_log_level
2010-12-22taskstats: pad taskstats netlink response for aligment issues on ia64Jeff Mahoney
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 <jeffm@suse.com> Reported-by: Brian Rogers <brian@xyzw.org> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@gmail.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-22mm: vmscan: tracepoint: account for scanned pages similarly for both ftrace ↵Mel Gorman
and vmstat 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 <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-21[SCSI] fix up documentation for change in ->queuecommand to lockless callingJames Bottomley
The current doc still says we call it with the host lock held, which is going to cause confusion. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2010-12-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: x86: avoid high BIOS area when allocating address space x86: avoid E820 regions when allocating address space x86: avoid low BIOS area when allocating address space resources: add arch hook for preventing allocation in reserved areas Revert "resources: support allocating space within a region from the top down" Revert "PCI: allocate bus resources from the top down" Revert "x86/PCI: allocate space from the end of a region, not the beginning" Revert "x86: allocate space within a region top-down" Revert "PCI: fix pci_bus_alloc_resource() hang, prefer positive decode" PCI: Update MCP55 quirk to not affect non HyperTransport variants
2010-12-17Revert "resources: support allocating space within a region from the top down"Bjorn Helgaas
This reverts commit e7f8567db9a7f6b3151b0b275e245c1cef0d9c70. Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-12-16net: Add batman-adv meshing protocolSven Eckelmann
B.A.T.M.A.N. (better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking) is a routing protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. The networks may be wired or wireless. See http://www.open-mesh.org/ for more information and user space tools. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-16PM / Runtime: Fix pm_runtime_suspended()Rafael J. Wysocki
There are some situations (e.g. in __pm_generic_call()), where pm_runtime_suspended() is used to decide whether or not to execute a device's (system) ->suspend() callback. The callback is not executed if pm_runtime_suspended() returns true, but it does so for devices that don't even support runtime PM, because the power.disable_depth device field is ignored by it. This leads to problems (i.e. devices are not suspened when they should), so rework pm_runtime_suspended() so that it returns false if the device's power.disable_depth field is different from zero. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-12-14Merge branch 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: NFS: Fix panic after nfs_umount() nfs: remove extraneous and problematic calls to nfs_clear_request nfs: kernel should return EPROTONOSUPPORT when not support NFSv4 NFS: Fix fcntl F_GETLK not reporting some conflicts nfs: Discard ACL cache on mode update NFS: Readdir cleanups NFS: nfs_readdir_search_for_cookie() don't mark as eof if cookie not found NFS: Fix a memory leak in nfs_readdir Call the filesystem back whenever a page is removed from the page cache NFS: Ensure we use the correct cookie in nfs_readdir_xdr_filler
2010-12-13net: change ip_default_ttl documentationEric Dumazet
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-10Documentation/networking/ixgbevf.txt: Update documentationJeff Kirsher
Update Intel Wired LAN ixgbevf documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2010-12-10Documentation/networking/ixgbe.txt: Update ixgbe documentationJeff Kirsher
Update Intel Wired LAN ixgbe documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2010-12-10Documentation/networking/igbvf.txt: Update documentationJeff Kirsher
Update Intel Wired LAN igbvf documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2010-12-10Documentation/networking/igb.txt: update documentationJeff Kirsher
Update Intel Wired LAN igb documentation. v2- Updated the ethtool support link, removed the LRO section and anti-spoofing sections. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2010-12-10Documentation/networking/e1000e.txt: Update documentationJeff Kirsher
Update Intel Wired LAN e1000e documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2010-12-10Documentation/networking/e1000.txt: Update documentationJeff Kirsher
Update Intel Wired LAN e1000 documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2010-12-10Merge branch 'for-davem' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_eeprom.c
2010-12-08Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_eeprom.c net/llc/af_llc.c
2010-12-07Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86: wmi: use memcmp instead of strncmp to compare GUIDs ACPI, hp-wmi: Fix memory leak in acpi query msi-wmi: fix semantically incorrect use of keycode instead of scancode msi-wmi: Add mute key support asus-laptop: add wimax and wwan support eeepc-wmi: fix compiler warning ibm_rtl: _RTL_ is not available in UEFI mode ibm_rtl: Loosen the DMI criteria to all IBM machines drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c: delete double assignment eeepc-wmi: add cpufv sysfs documentation toshiba_acpi.c: Add key_entry for a lone FN keypress ibm_rtl: fix printk format warning
2010-12-07dccp: Policy-based packet dequeueing infrastructureTomasz Grobelny
This patch adds a generic infrastructure for policy-based dequeueing of TX packets and provides two policies: * a simple FIFO policy (which is the default) and * a priority based policy (set via socket options). Both policies honour the tx_qlen sysctl for the maximum size of the write queue (can be overridden via socket options). The priority policy uses skb->priority internally to assign an u32 priority identifier, using the same ranking as SO_PRIORITY. The skb->priority field is set to 0 when the packet leaves DCCP. The priority is supplied as ancillary data using cmsg(3), the patch also provides the requisite parsing routines. Signed-off-by: Tomasz Grobelny <tomasz@grobelny.oswiecenia.net> Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2010-12-06Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem
2010-12-03qlcnic: LICENSE file for qlcnicSritej Velaga
Signed-off-by: Sritej Velaga <sritej.velaga@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-02Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: fix ->repeasepage() descriptionAndrew Morton
->releasepage() does not remove the page from the mapping. Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-02Merge branch 'driver-core-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6 * 'driver-core-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: uio: Change mail address of Hans J. Koch driver core: prune docs about device_interface driver core: the development tree has switched to git
2010-12-02mac80211: publish SMPS docsJohannes Berg
Create a new chapter about SMPS in the driver API part of the mac80211 book and populate it with the existing docs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-02mac80211: document station handlingJohannes Berg
Add some existing documentation about station handling to a new chapter about advanced APIs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-02mac80211: publish interface iteration docsJohannes Berg
Publish the documentation for the interface iteration functions in the right section of the book. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-02mac80211: document aggregationJohannes Berg
Include the aggregation documentation in the docbook, split up by public and internal docs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-02mac80211: publish some rate control docsJohannes Berg
Add an API chapter to the rate control part of the mac80211 book and populate it with some existing documentation. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-02mac80211: publish some misc docsJohannes Berg
There isn't a clear TX documentation yet, so put these into the misc section for now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-02mac80211: publish docs for _ni functionsJohannes Berg
Put them along with their "regular" versions for now, we should write more docs in the future. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-02mac80211: document workqueueJohannes Berg
Create a new chapter for the mac80211 workqueue that contains the documentation written for it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-02cfg80211: include CQM packet loss docsJohannes Berg
Just include them in the list of functions, there aren't any more detailed docs (yet). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-02Merge branch 'rbd-sysfs' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client * 'rbd-sysfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client: rbd: replace the rbd sysfs interface
2010-12-02Call the filesystem back whenever a page is removed from the page cacheLinus Torvalds
NFS needs to be able to release objects that are stored in the page cache once the page itself is no longer visible from the page cache. This patch adds a callback to the address space operations that allows filesystems to perform page cleanups once the page has been removed from the page cache. Original patch by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [trondmy: cover the cases of invalidate_inode_pages2() and truncate_inode_pages()] Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-12-01rbd: replace the rbd sysfs interfaceYehuda Sadeh
The new interface creates directories per mapped image and under each it creates a subdir per available snapshot. This allows keeping a cleaner interface within the sysfs guidelines. The ABI documentation was updated too. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net> Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
2010-11-29Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (27 commits) af_unix: limit recursion level pch_gbe driver: The wrong of initializer entry pch_gbe dreiver: chang author ucc_geth: fix ucc halt problem in half duplex mode inet: Fix __inet_inherit_port() to correctly increment bsockets and num_owners ehea: Add some info messages and fix an issue hso: fix disable_net NET: wan/x25_asy, move lapb_unregister to x25_asy_close_tty cxgb4vf: fix setting unicast/multicast addresses ... net, ppp: Report correct error code if unit allocation failed DECnet: don't leak uninitialized stack byte au1000_eth: fix invalid address accessing the MAC enable register dccp: fix error in updating the GAR tcp: restrict net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win_scale (#20312) netns: Don't leak others' openreq-s in proc Net: ceph: Makefile: Remove unnessary code vhost/net: fix rcu check usage econet: fix CVE-2010-3848 econet: fix CVE-2010-3850 econet: disallow NULL remote addr for sendmsg(), fixes CVE-2010-3849 ...
2010-11-29Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bp/bpLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bp/bp: EDAC: Fix typos in Documentation/edac.txt EDAC, MCE: Fix edac_init_mce_inject error handling EDAC: Remove deprecated kbuild goal definitions
2010-11-28tcp: restrict net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win_scale (#20312)Alexey Dobriyan
tcp_win_from_space() does the following: if (sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale <= 0) return space >> (-sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale); else return space - (space >> sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale); "space" is int. As per C99 6.5.7 (3) shifting int for 32 or more bits is undefined behaviour. Indeed, if sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale is exactly 32, space >> 32 equals space and function returns 0. Which means we busyloop in tcp_fixup_rcvbuf(). Restrict net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win_scale to [-31, 31]. Fix https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20312 Steps to reproduce: echo 32 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_adv_win_scale wget www.kernel.org [softlockup] Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-25EDAC: Fix typos in Documentation/edac.txtRaoul Bhatia
Fix trivial typos in edac.txt Signed-off-by: Raoul Bhatia <r.bhatia@ipax.at> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
2010-11-25Merge branch 'fbdev-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/fbdev-2.6 * 'fbdev-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/fbdev-2.6: sisfb: delete osdef.h sisfb: move the CONFIG warning to sis_main.c sisfb: replace SiS_SetMemory with memset_io sisfb: remove InPort/OutPort wrappers sisfb: use CONFIG_FB_SIS_301/315 instead of SIS301/315H sisfb: delete redudant #define SIS_LINUX_KERNEL sisfb: delete dead SIS_XORG_XF86 code sisfb: delete fallback code for pci_map_rom() sisfb: delete obsolete PCI ROM bug workaround fbdev: Update documentation index file. lxfb: Program panel v/h sync output polarity correctly fbcmap: integer overflow bug fbcmap: cleanup white space in fb_alloc_cmap() MAINTAINERS: Add fbdev patchwork entry, tidy up file patterns. fbdev: da8xx: punt duplicated FBIO_WAITFORVSYNC define fbdev: sh_mobile_lcdcfb: fix bug in reconfig()
2010-11-25Merge branch 'sh-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6 * 'sh-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: sh: clkfwk: Build fix for non-legacy CPG changes. sh: Use GCC __builtin_prefetch() to implement prefetch(). sh: fix vsyscall compilation due to .eh_frame issue sh: avoid to flush all cache in sys_cacheflush sh: clkfwk: Disable init clk op for non-legacy clocks. sh: clkfwk: Kill off now unused algo_id in set_rate op. sh: clkfwk: Kill off unused clk_set_rate_ex().
2010-11-25cgroups: make swap accounting default behavior configurableMichal Hocko
Swap accounting can be configured by CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP configuration option and then it is turned on by default. There is a boot option (noswapaccount) which can disable this feature. This makes it hard for distributors to enable the configuration option as this feature leads to a bigger memory consumption and this is a no-go for general purpose distribution kernel. On the other hand swap accounting may be very usuful for some workloads. This patch adds a new configuration option which controls the default behavior (CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED). If the option is selected then the feature is turned on by default. It also adds a new boot parameter swapaccount[=1|0] which enhances the original noswapaccount parameter semantic by means of enable/disable logic (defaults to 1 if no value is provided to be still consistent with noswapaccount). The default behavior is unchanged (if CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP is enabled then CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED is enabled as well) Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-24asus-laptop: add wimax and wwan supportCorentin Chary
Asus UL30A has a 3G chip, but the radio is disabled by default. The DSDT also reference a WIMAX device, which is not present on this model. This patch adds two new files: wwan and wimax to control WWAN and WIMAX devices. It does not use rfkill, because like WLED and BLED, we don't know yet that the two ACPI functions will always control the radio, they may control only the leds on some hardware. We may add rfkill switchs later. Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2010-11-24eeepc-wmi: add cpufv sysfs documentationChris Bagwell
Based on cpufv text from sysfs-platform-eeepc-laptop that has almost same behavior. Signed-off-by: Chris Bagwell <chris@cnpbagwell.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
2010-11-18Documentation/development-process: more staging infoAndres Salomon
Document things that I would've liked to have known when submitting a driver to gregkh for staging. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-18Documentation/development-process: use -next trees instead of stagingAndres Salomon
This is confusing, as we have "staging" trees for drivers/staging. Call them -next trees. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-18Documentation: change email address for Hans KochHans J. Koch
My old mail address doesn't exist anymore. This changes all occurrences to my new address. Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@hansjkoch.de> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>