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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 ->queuecommand to lockless calling
[SCSI] bfa: rename log_level to bfa_log_level
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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 <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>
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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>
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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>
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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
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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>
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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
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* '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
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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
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->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>
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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
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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
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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>
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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>
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* 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
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* '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
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Add suspend/resume support for 4xx compatible CPUs.
See /sys/power/state for available power states configured in.
Add two different idle states (idle-wait and idle-doze) controlled via sysfs.
Default is idle-wait.
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/idle
[wait] doze
To save additional power, use idle-doze.
echo doze > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/idle
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/idle
wait [doze]
Signed-off-by: Victor Gallardo <vgallardo@apm.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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This introduces a pair of kernel parameters that can be used to disable
the MULTITCE and BULK_REMOVE h-calls.
By default, those hcalls are enabled, active, and good for throughput
and performance. The ability to disable them will be useful for some of
the PREEMPT_RT related investigation and work occurring on Power.
Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com>
cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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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>
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Fix trivial typos in edac.txt
Signed-off-by: Raoul Bhatia <r.bhatia@ipax.at>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
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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()
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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().
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Add a bit more information how to use poll(2) on GPIO value files
correctly. For me it was not clear that I need to poll(2) for
POLLPRI|POLLERR or select(2) for exceptfds.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <walle@corscience.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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If "p" is NULL then it will cause an oops when we pass it to
simple_strtoul(). In this case "p" can not be NULL so I removed the
check. I also changed the check a little to make it more explicit that
we are testing whether p points to the NUL char.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This is a simple update of the file Documentation/fb/00-INDEX based on
the directory content.
Signed-off-by: Vicente Jimenez Aguilar <googuy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6
* 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
PM / PM QoS: Fix reversed min and max
PM / OPP: Hide OPP configuration when SoCs do not provide an implementation
PM: Allow devices to be removed during late suspend and early resume
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging:
i2c: Sanity checks on adapter registration
i2c: Mark i2c_adapter.id as deprecated
i2c: Drivers shouldn't include <linux/i2c-id.h>
i2c: Delete unused adapter IDs
i2c: Remove obsolete cleanup for clientdata
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It's about time to make it clear that i2c_adapter.id is deprecated.
Hopefully this will remind the last user to move over to a different
strategy.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
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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:
fsl-diu-fb: drop dead ioctl define
MAINTAINERS: Add an fbdev git tree entry.
OMAP: DSS: Fix documentation regarding 'vram' kernel parameter
OMAP: VRAM: Fix boot-time memory allocation
OMAP: VRAM: improve VRAM error prints
sisfb: limit POST memory test according to PCI resource length
fbdev: sh_mobile_lcdc: use correct number of modes, when using the default
fbdev: sh_mobile_lcdc: use the standard CEA-861 720p timing
fbdev: sh_mobile_hdmi: properly clean up modedb on monitor unplug
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With the refactoring of the SH7722 clock framework some time ago this
abstraction has become unecessary. Kill it off before anyone else gets
the bright idea to start using it.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (66 commits)
can-bcm: fix minor heap overflow
gianfar: Do not call device_set_wakeup_enable() under a spinlock
ipv6: Warn users if maximum number of routes is reached.
docs: Add neigh/gc_thresh3 and route/max_size documentation.
axnet_cs: fix resume problem for some Ax88790 chip
ipv6: addrconf: don't remove address state on ifdown if the address is being kept
tcp: Don't change unlocked socket state in tcp_v4_err().
x25: Prevent crashing when parsing bad X.25 facilities
cxgb4vf: add call to Firmware to reset VF State.
cxgb4vf: Fail open if link_start() fails.
cxgb4vf: flesh out PCI Device ID Table ...
cxgb4vf: fix some errors in Gather List to skb conversion
cxgb4vf: fix bug in Generic Receive Offload
cxgb4vf: don't implement trivial (and incorrect) ndo_select_queue()
ixgbe: Look inside vlan when determining offload protocol.
bnx2x: Look inside vlan when determining checksum proto.
vlan: Add function to retrieve EtherType from vlan packets.
virtio-net: init link state correctly
ucc_geth: Fix deadlock
ucc_geth: Do not bring the whole IF down when TX failure.
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Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (27 commits)
block: remove unused copy_io_context()
Documentation: remove anticipatory scheduler info
block: remove REQ_HARDBARRIER
ioprio: rcu_read_lock/unlock protect find_task_by_vpid call (V2)
ioprio: fix RCU locking around task dereference
block: ioctl: fix information leak to userland
block: read i_size with i_size_read()
cciss: fix proc warning on attempt to remove non-existant directory
bio: take care not overflow page count when mapping/copying user data
block: limit vec count in bio_kmalloc() and bio_alloc_map_data()
block: take care not to overflow when calculating total iov length
block: check for proper length of iov entries in blk_rq_map_user_iov()
cciss: remove controllers supported by hpsa
cciss: use usleep_range not msleep for small sleeps
cciss: limit commands allocated on reset_devices
cciss: Use kernel provided PCI state save and restore functions
cciss: fix board status waiting code
drbd: Removed checks for REQ_HARDBARRIER on incomming BIOs
drbd: REQ_HARDBARRIER -> REQ_FUA transition for meta data accesses
drbd: Removed the BIO_RW_BARRIER support form the receiver/epoch code
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* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
xfs: remove incorrect assert in xfs_vm_writepage
xfs: use hlist_add_fake
xfs: fix a few compiler warnings with CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=n
xfs: tell lockdep about parent iolock usage in filestreams
xfs: move delayed write buffer trace
xfs: fix per-ag reference counting in inode reclaim tree walking
xfs: xfs_ioctl: fix information leak to userland
xfs: remove experimental tag from the delaylog option
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Create sub directory Documentation/leds and add short documentation for
LP5521 and LP5523 drivers.
Signed-off-by: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently, blinking LEDs can be awkward because it is not guaranteed that
all LEDs implement blinking. The trigger that wants it to blink then
needs to implement its own timer solution.
Rather than require that, add led_blink_set() API that triggers can use.
This function will attempt to use hw blinking, but if that fails
implements a timer for it. To stop blinking again, brightness_set() also
needs to be wrapped into API that will stop the software blink.
As a result of this, the timer trigger becomes a very trivial one, and
hopefully we can finally see triggers using blinking as well because it's
always easy to use.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The kernel syslog contains debugging information that is often useful
during exploitation of other vulnerabilities, such as kernel heap
addresses. Rather than futilely attempt to sanitize hundreds (or
thousands) of printk statements and simultaneously cripple useful
debugging functionality, it is far simpler to create an option that
prevents unprivileged users from reading the syslog.
This patch, loosely based on grsecurity's GRKERNSEC_DMESG, creates the
dmesg_restrict sysctl. When set to "0", the default, no restrictions are
enforced. When set to "1", only users with CAP_SYS_ADMIN can read the
kernel syslog via dmesg(8) or other mechanisms.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: explain the config option in kernel.txt]
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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/proc/pid/oom_adj was deprecated in August 2010 with the introduction of
the new oom killer heuristic.
This patch copies the Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt entry for
this tunable to the Documentation/ABI/obsolete directory so nobody misses
it.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove anticipatory block I/O scheduler info from Documentation/
since the code has been deleted.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Reported-by: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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drivers/base/intf.c was removed before the beginning of (git) time but
its Documentation stuck around. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Since the OPP API is only useful with an appropraite SoC-specific
implementation there is no point in offering the ability to enable
the API on general systems. Provide an ARCH_HAS OPP Kconfig symbol
which masks out the option unless selected by an implementation.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Acked-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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