New packet socket feature that makes packet socket more efficient for
transmission.
- It reduces number of system call through a PACKET_TX_RING mechanism,
based on PACKET_RX_RING (Circular buffer allocated in kernel space
which is mmapped from user space).
- It minimizes CPU copy using fragmented SKB (almost zero copy).
Signed-off-by: Johann Baudy <johann.baudy@gnu-log.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch documents the CAN netowrk device drivers interface, removes
obsolete documentation and adds some useful links to CAN resources.
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver.hartkopp@volkswagen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Drop the kernel config option GIGASET_UNDOCREQ, permanently
activating the code it controlled, as there have been no reports
of problems caused by its activation but many problems caused by
it being disabled.
Also fix a few bad comments while we're at it.
Impact: cleanup
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mention handling of unregisteted DECT wireless datasets in README.gigaset.
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb:
kgdb: gdb documentation fix
kgdb,i386: use address that SP register points to in the exception frame
sysrq, intel_fb: fix sysrq g collision
gdb command "set remote debug 1" is not valid, change to correct command.
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
This reverts commit fafd688e4c.
Work is progressing to switch away from pdflush as the process backing
for flushing out dirty data. So it seems pointless to add more knobs
to control pdflush threads. The original author of the patch did not
have any specific use cases for adding the knobs, so we can easily
revert this before 2.6.30 to avoid having to maintain this API
forever.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Change last "i386" to X86-32 as is used throughout the rest of the file.
Change combination of X86-32,X86-64 to just X86, as is done throughout the
rest of the file.
Add a note that hyphens and underscores are equivalent in parameter names,
with examples.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Christopher Sylvain <chris.sylvain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel boot parameter `hashdist' now defaults on for all 64bit NUMA.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This should be very safe compared with full enabled, so I see
no reason why it shouldn't be done right away. As ECN can only
be negotiated if the SYN sending party is also supporting it,
somebody in the loop probably knows what he/she is doing. If
SYN does not ask for ECN, the server side SYN-ACK is identical
to what it is without ECN. Thus it's quite safe.
The chosen value is safe w.r.t to existing configs which
choose to currently set manually either 0 or 1 but
silently upgrades those who have not explicitly requested
ECN off.
Whether to just enable both sides comes up time to time but
unless that gets done now we can at least make the servers
aware of ECN already. As there are some known problems to occur
if ECN is enabled, it's currently questionable whether there's
any real gain from enabling clients as servers mostly won't
support it anyway (so we'd hit just the negative sides). After
enabling the servers and getting that deployed, the client end
enable really has some potential gain too.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
Input: document the multi-touch (MT) protocol
Input: add detailed multi-touch finger data report protocol
Input: allow certain EV_ABS events to bypass all filtering
Input: bcm5974 - add documentation for the driver
Input: bcm5974 - augment debug information
Input: bcm5974 - Add support for the Macbook 5 (Unibody)
Input: bcm5974 - add quad-finger tapping
Input: bcm5974 - prepare for a new trackpad header type
Input: appletouch - fix DMA to/from stack buffer
Input: wacom - fix TabletPC touch bug
Input: lifebook - add DMI entry for Fujitsu B-2130
Input: ALPS - add signature for Toshiba Satellite Pro M10
Input: elantech - make sure touchpad is really in absolute mode
Input: elantech - provide a workaround for jumpy cursor on firmware 2.34
Input: ucb1400 - use disable_irq_nosync() in irq handler
Input: tsc2007 - use disable_irq_nosync() in irq handler
Input: sa1111ps2 - use disable_irq_nosync() in irq handlers
Input: omap-keypad - use disable_irq_nosync() in irq handler
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes:
kbuild, modpost: Check the section flags, to catch missing "ax"/"aw"
kbuild: fix comment in modpost.c
kbuild: fix scripts/setlocalversion with git
kbuild: fix Module.markers permission error under cygwin
docs: also clean index.html
kbuild: remove a tag file before it is regenerated
kbuild: "make prepare" should be "make modules_prepare"
kbuild: clean Module.markers and modules.order for out-of-tree modules
avr32: drop unused CLEAN_FILES
scripts/kernel-doc can (incorrectly) delete struct members that are
surrounded by /* ... */ <struct members> /* ... */ if there is a /*
private: */ comment in there somewhere also.
Fix that by making the "/* private:" only allow whitespace between /* and
"private:", not anything/everything in the world.
This fixes some erroneous kernel-doc warnings that popped up while
processing include/linux/usb/composite.h.
Signed-off-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>
Change page_mkwrite to allow implementations to return with the page
locked, and also change it's callers (in page fault paths) to hold the
lock until the page is marked dirty. This allows the filesystem to have
full control of page dirtying events coming from the VM.
Rather than simply hold the page locked over the page_mkwrite call, we
call page_mkwrite with the page unlocked and allow callers to return with
it locked, so filesystems can avoid LOR conditions with page lock.
The problem with the current scheme is this: a filesystem that wants to
associate some metadata with a page as long as the page is dirty, will
perform this manipulation in its ->page_mkwrite. It currently then must
return with the page unlocked and may not hold any other locks (according
to existing page_mkwrite convention).
In this window, the VM could write out the page, clearing page-dirty. The
filesystem has no good way to detect that a dirty pte is about to be
attached, so it will happily write out the page, at which point, the
filesystem may manipulate the metadata to reflect that the page is no
longer dirty.
It is not always possible to perform the required metadata manipulation in
->set_page_dirty, because that function cannot block or fail. The
filesystem may need to allocate some data structure, for example.
And the VM cannot mark the pte dirty before page_mkwrite, because
page_mkwrite is allowed to fail, so we must not allow any window where the
page could be written to if page_mkwrite does fail.
This solution of holding the page locked over the 3 critical operations
(page_mkwrite, setting the pte dirty, and finally setting the page dirty)
closes out races nicely, preventing page cleaning for writeout being
initiated in that window. This provides the filesystem with a strong
synchronisation against the VM here.
- Sage needs this race closed for ceph filesystem.
- Trond for NFS (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12913).
- I need it for fsblock.
- I suspect other filesystems may need it too (eg. btrfs).
- I have converted buffer.c to the new locking. Even simple block allocation
under dirty pages might be susceptible to i_size changing under partial page
at the end of file (we also have a buffer.c-side problem here, but it cannot
be fixed properly without this patch).
- Other filesystems (eg. NFS, maybe btrfs) will need to change their
page_mkwrite functions themselves.
[ This also moves page_mkwrite another step closer to fault, which should
eventually allow page_mkwrite to be moved into ->fault, and thus avoiding a
filesystem calldown and page lock/unlock cycle in __do_fault. ]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix derefs of NULL ->mapping]
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patchs adds documentation for the multi-touch protocol to
Documentation/input/.
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: grammar fixes]
Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (24 commits)
e100: do not go D3 in shutdown unless system is powering off
netfilter: revised locking for x_tables
Bluetooth: Fix connection establishment with low security requirement
Bluetooth: Add different pairing timeout for Legacy Pairing
Bluetooth: Ensure that HCI sysfs add/del is preempt safe
net: Avoid extra wakeups of threads blocked in wait_for_packet()
net: Fix typo in net_device_ops description.
ipv4: Limit size of route cache hash table
Add reference to CAPI 2.0 standard
Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.CAPI
update Documentation/isdn/00-INDEX
ixgbe: Fix WoL functionality for 82599 KX4 devices
veth: prevent oops caused by netdev destructor
xfrm: wrong hash value for temporary SA
forcedeth: tx timeout fix
net: Fix LL_MAX_HEADER for CONFIG_TR_MODULE
mlx4_en: Handle page allocation failure during receive
mlx4_en: Fix cleanup flow on cq activation
vlan: update vlan carrier state for admin up/down
netfilter: xt_recent: fix stack overread in compat code
...
This patch adds documentation for the bcm5974 to Documentation/input/.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
This reverts commit 8032b526d1.
Hey, it was only meant to be a single release. Now they can all die as
far as I'm concerned.
[ Just kidding. They're cute and cuddly.
Except when they have horrible nasty facial diseases. Oh, and I guess
they're not actually that cuddly even when disease-free. ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
PCI: only save/restore existent registers in the PCIe capability
x86/PCI: don't bother with root quirks if _CRS is used
docbooks: add/fix PCI kernel-doc
PCI: cleanup debug output resources
x86/PCI: set_pci_bus_resources_arch_default cleanups
x86/PCI: Move set_pci_bus_resources_arch_default into arch/x86
x86/PCI: don't call e820_all_mapped with -1 in the mmconfig case
PCI quirk: disable MSI on VIA VT3364 chipsets
Move the entry about CAPI 2.0 to the beginning and add a URL.
Incorporate changes suggested by Randy Dunlap, thanks for proofreading.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
isdn: document Kernel CAPI driver interface
Create a file Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.CAPI describing the
interface between the kernel CAPI subsystem and ISDN device drivers,
analogous to the existing Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE for the old
isdn4linux subsystem. Also add kerneldoc comments to the exported
functions in drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c.
Impact: Documentation
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
After the merging of mISDN, state which files refer only to the
old isdn4linux subsystem. Also add a few missing files.
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, hpet: Stop soliciting hpet=force users on ICH4M
x86: check boundary in setup_node_bootmem()
uv_time: add parameter to uv_read_rtc()
x86: hpet: fix periodic mode programming on AMD 81xx
x86: more than 8 32-bit CPUs requires X86_BIGSMP
x86: avoid theoretical spurious NMI backtraces with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y
x86: fix boot crash in NMI watchdog with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y and flat APIC
x86-64: fix FPU corruption with signals and preemption
x86/uv: fix for no memory at paddr 0
docs, x86: add nox2apic back to kernel-parameters.txt
x86: mm/numa_32.c calculate_numa_remap_pages should use __init
x86, kbuild: make "make install" not depend on vmlinux
x86/uv: fix init of cpu-less nodes
x86/uv: fix init of memory-less nodes
From source code of get_usage_char(), the previous note is not correct,
so fix it.
static char get_usage_char(struct lock_class *class, enum lock_usage_bit bit)
{
char c = '.';
if (class->usage_mask & lock_flag(bit + 2))/*LOCK_ENABLED_##STATE*/
c = '+';
if (class->usage_mask & lock_flag(bit)) {/*LOCK_USED_IN_##STATE*/
c = '-';
if (class->usage_mask & lock_flag(bit + 2))
c = '?';
}
return c;
}
note:
1) The 'bit' parameter always is passed as LOCK_USED_IN_##STATE
or LOCK_USED_IN_##STATE_READ , from get_usage_chars().
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1240585806-5744-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Adjust the CacheFiles documentation to use the correct names of the credential
pointers in task_struct.
The documentation was using names from the old versions of the credentials
patches.
Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (34 commits)
ACPI, i915: Register ACPI video even when not modesetting
Revert "ACPICA: delete check for AML access to port 0x81-83"
I/O port protection: update for windows compatibility.
sony-laptop: always try to unblock rfkill on load
sony-laptop: fix bogus error message display on resume
ACPI: EC: Fix ACPI EC resume non-query interrupt message
sony-laptop: SNC input event 38 fix
sony-laptop: SNC 127 Initialization Fix
sony-laptop: Duplicate SNC 127 Event Fix
ACPI: prevent processor.max_cstate=0 boot crash
ACPI/hpet: prevent boot hang when hpet=force used on ICH-4M
ACPI: delete obsolete "bus master activity" proc field
ACPI: idle: mark_tsc_unstable() at init-time, not run-time
ACPI: add /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/sci_not counter
ACPI video: fix an error when the brightness levels on AC and on Battery are same
acpi-cpufreq: Do not let get_measured perf depend on internal variable
acpi-cpufreq: style-only: add parens to math expression
acpi-cpufreq: Cleanup: Use printk_once
x86, acpi_cpufreq: Fix the NULL pointer dereference in get_measured_perf
thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.23
...
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
powerpc: Fix modular build of ide-pmac when mediabay is built in
powerpc/pasemi: Fix build error on UP
powerpc: Make macintosh/mediabay driver depend on CONFIG_BLOCK
maintainers: Fix PS3 patterns
powerpc/ps3: Fix CONFIG_PS3_FLASH=n build warning
powerpc/32: Don't clobber personality flags on exec
powerpc: Fix crash on CPU hotplug
powerpc/85xx: Remove defconfigs that mpc85xx_{smp_}defconfig cover
powerpc/85xx: Added SMP defconfig
powerpc/85xx: Enabled a bunch of FSL specific drivers/options
powerpc/85xx: Updated generic mpc85xx_defconfig
powerpc: don't disable SATA interrupts on Freescale MPC8610 HPCD
fsl_rio: Pass the proper device to dma mapping routines
powerpc: Fix of_node_put() exit path in of_irq_map_one()
powerpc/5200: defconfig updates
powerpc/5200: Add FLASH nodes to lite5200 device tree
powerpc/device-tree: Document MTD nodes with multiple "reg" tuples
powerpc/of-device-tree: Factor MTD physmap bindings out of booting-without-of
powerpc/5200: Bring the legacy fsl_spi_platform_data hooks back
Add drivers/pci/*.c source files to DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
and update those pci/*.c source files that need kernel-doc fixes.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
We don't currently support antenna or rate setting, so remove
that. Also update the link -- the current one is dead and the
wiki can be kept updated easier.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Almost all drivers do not support user_claim, so remove it
completely and always report -EOPNOTSUPP to userspace. Since
userspace cannot really drive rfkill _anyway_ (due to the
odd restrictions imposed by the documentation) having this
code is just pointless.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is a doc-only patch which I hope will reduce the number of
spi_master controller driver patches starting out with a common
implementation bug.
(As in: almost every spi_master driver I see starts out with its
version of this bug. Sigh.)
It just re-emphasizes that the setup() method may be called for one
device while a transfer is active on another ... which means that most
driver implementations shouldn't touch any registers.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt incorrectly states that the kernel is
locked during the call to statfs (Documentation/filesystems/Locking
correctly says it is not). This patch removes the offending sentence.
remove reference to BKL being held in statfs
Signed-off-by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Robert noted that we don't actually document that lguest is 32-bit only,
nor that PAE must be off (CONFIG_PAE is now prompted for if HIGHMEM is
set to "off).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: lguest@ozlabs.org
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Following patch introduce support for setting options
to gcc that has effect for current directory and all
subdirectories.
The typical use case are an architecture or a subsystem that
decide to cover all files with -Werror.
Today alpha, mips and sparc uses -Werror in almost all their
Makefile- with subdir-ccflag-y it is now simpler to do so
as only the top-level directories needs to be covered.
Likewise if we decide to cover a full subsystem such
as net/ with -Werror this is done by adding a single
line to net/Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Re-add missing kernel-parameters documentation that was accidentally
deleted in commit 0cb55ad2.
Thanks to Ingo and Weidong Han for the heads-up on this.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
