Introduce a function to register failure in an inode construction path. This
includes marking the inode under construction as bad, unlocking it and
releasing it.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
David Howellsauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-07 08:42:26 -08:00
Update cpuset documentation to match the October 2007 "Fix cpusets
update_cpumask" changes that now apply changes to a cpusets 'cpus' allowed
mask immediately to the cpus_allowed of the tasks in that cpuset.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paul Jacksonauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-07 08:42:23 -08:00
Adds a new sysctl, 'oom_dump_tasks', that enables the kernel to produce a
dump of all system tasks (excluding kernel threads) when performing an
OOM-killing. Information includes pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, cpu,
oom_adj score, and name.
This is helpful for determining why there was an OOM condition and which
rogue task caused it.
It is configurable so that large systems, such as those with several
thousand tasks, do not incur a performance penalty associated with dumping
data they may not desire.
If an OOM was triggered as a result of a memory controller, the tasklist
shall be filtered to exclude tasks that are not a member of the same
cgroup.
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
David Rientjesauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-07 08:42:19 -08:00
Change the interface to use bytes instead of pages. Page sizes can vary
across platforms and configurations. A new strategy routine has been added
to the resource counters infrastructure to format the data as desired.
Suggested by David Rientjes, Andrew Morton and Herbert Poetzl
Tested on a UML setup with the config for memory control enabled.
[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: possible race fix in res_counter]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: 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>
Balbir Singhauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-07 08:42:18 -08:00
Move the calls to the cgroup subsystem destroy() methods from
cgroup_rmdir() to cgroup_diput(). This allows control file reads and
writes to access their subsystem state without having to be concerned with
locking against cgroup destruction - the control file dentry will keep the
cgroup and its subsystem state objects alive until the file is closed.
The documentation is updated to reflect the changed semantics of destroy();
additionally the locking comments for destroy() and some other methods were
clarified and decrustified.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paul Menageauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-07 08:42:18 -08:00
This comment is not helpful (no reason given) and is incorrect.
Just stick to facts that are useful regarding working on Linux.
(akpm: I've used sylpheed+imap for years)
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Randy Dunlapauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
The top-level Documentation/ directory is unmanageably large, so we
should take any obvious opportunities to move stuff into subdirectories.
These sched-*.txt files seem an obvious easy case.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
J. Bruce Fieldsauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
This documentation is also vfs-related.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
J. Bruce Fieldsauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
I'm inclined to think dnotify belongs in filesystems/.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
J. Bruce Fieldsauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
There's no reason for edac.txt for being at this unusual place.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Doug Thompson <norsk5@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adrian Bunkauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
As discussed on LKML some notion of 'function' is needed in
LED naming. This patch adds this to the documentation and
standardises existing LED drivers.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
The acpi_no_initrd_override parameter permits to disable the load of an ACPI
table from the initramfs.
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Éric Pielauthored and Len Browncommited 2008-02-07 04:00:24 -05:00
See Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi
Based-on-original-patch-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
The basics of DSDT from initramfs. In case this option is selected,
populate_rootfs() is called a bit earlier to have the initramfs content
available during ACPI initialization.
This is a very similar path to the one available at
http://gaugusch.at/kernel.shtml but with some update in the
documentation, default set to No and the change of populate_rootfs() the
"Jeff Mahony way" (which avoids reading the initramfs twice).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Markus Gauguschauthored and Len Browncommited 2008-02-06 22:07:41 -05:00
Docbook fatal error, file was moved:
docproc: linux-2.6.24-git15/drivers/base/dmapool.c: No such file or directory
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Randy Dunlapauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-06 16:45:02 -08:00
This allows userspace to control resync/reshape progress and synchronise it
with other activities, such as shared access in a SAN, or backing up critical
sections during a tricky reshape.
Writing a number of sectors (which must be a multiple of the chunk size if
such is meaningful) causes a resync to pause when it gets to that point.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
NeilBrownauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-06 10:41:18 -08:00
Convert fb defio from nopage to fault.
Switch from OOM to SIGBUS if the resource is not available.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Nick Pigginauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-06 10:41:15 -08:00
Add a GPIO 1-wire bus master driver. The driver used the GPIO API to
control the wire and the GPIO pin can be specified using platform data
similar to i2c-gpio. The driver was tested with AT91SAM9260 + DS2401.
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjala <syrjala@sci.fi>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ville Syrjalaauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-06 10:41:15 -08:00
No functional changes here, just tighten up style/whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mike Frysingerauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-06 10:41:14 -08:00
Document the proper use of the irq_set_freq function.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mike Frysingerauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-06 10:41:14 -08:00
Provide support to add an optional user defined callback to be run at
function entry of a kretprobe'd function. Also modify the kprobe smoke
tests to include an entry-handler during the kretprobe sanity test.
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Abhishek Sagarauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-06 10:41:11 -08:00
Here's a couple of small additions to BUG-HUNTING.
1. point out that you can list code in gdb with only one command
(gdb) l *(<symbol> + offset)
2. give a very brief hint how to decode module symbols in call traces
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Richard Kennedyauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-06 10:41:09 -08:00
Just converting this documentation semaphore reference, since we don't
want to promote semaphore usage.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Daniel Walkerauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-06 10:41:09 -08:00
I converted some of the document to reflect mutex usage instead of
semaphore usage. Since we shouldin't be promoting semaphore usage when
it's on it's way out..
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Daniel Walkerauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-06 10:41:07 -08:00
Here's a document I wrote after figuring out what unaligned memory access
is all about. I've tried to cover the information I was looking for when
trying to learn about this, without producing a hopelessly detailed/complex
spew. I hope it is useful to others.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Daniel Drakeauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-06 10:41:07 -08:00
NR_OPEN (historically set to 1024*1024) actually forbids processes to open
more than 1024*1024 handles.
Unfortunatly some production servers hit the not so 'ridiculously high
value' of 1024*1024 file descriptors per process.
Changing NR_OPEN is not considered safe because of vmalloc space potential
exhaust.
This patch introduces a new sysctl (/proc/sys/fs/nr_open) wich defaults to
1024*1024, so that admins can decide to change this limit if their workload
needs it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export it for sparc64]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Eric Dumazetauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-06 10:41:06 -08:00
This patch contains the scheduled removal of OSS drivers whose config
options have been removed in 2.6.23.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adrian Bunkauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2008-02-06 10:41:02 -08:00
The ICAP device in Xilinx FPGAs differs slightly between different
FPGAs. The driver needs an additional attribute in the device tree to
distinguish this.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Stephen Neuendorfferauthored and Grant Likelycommited 2008-02-06 10:23:52 -07:00
with module_param macro, the __setup code can be killed now:
const __setup("all-generic-ide", ide_generic_all_on);
and the module name "generic.ko" is not descriptive to its functionality,
can be changed in Makefile, the "ide-pci-generic.ko" is better.
the ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide parameter also documented
in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Denis Chengauthored and Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewiczcommited 2008-02-06 02:57:49 +01:00
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] make pfm_get_task work with virtual pids
[IA64] honor notify_die() returning NOTIFY_STOP
[IA64] remove dead code: __cpu_{down,die} from !HOTPLUG_CPU
[IA64] Appoint kvm/ia64 Maintainers
[IA64] ia64_set_psr should use srlz.i
[IA64] Export three symbols for module use
[IA64] mca style cleanup
[IA64] sn_hwperf semaphore to mutex
[IA64] generalize attribute of fsyscall_gtod_data
[IA64] efi.c Add /* never reached */ annotation
[IA64] efi.c Spelling/punctuation fixes
[IA64] Make efi.c mostly fit in 80 columns
[IA64] aliasing-test: fix gcc warnings on non-ia64
[IA64] Slim-down __clear_bit_unlock
[IA64] Fix the order of atomic operations in restore_previous_kprobes on ia64
[IA64] constify function pointer tables
[IA64] fix userspace compile error in gcc_intrin.h
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