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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (96 commits)
apic, x86: Use BIOS settings for IBS and MCE threshold interrupt LVT offsets
apic, x86: Check if EILVT APIC registers are available (AMD only)
x86: ioapic: Call free_irte only if interrupt remapping enabled
arm: Use ARCH_IRQ_INIT_FLAGS
genirq, ARM: Fix boot on ARM platforms
genirq: Fix CONFIG_GENIRQ_NO_DEPRECATED=y build
x86: Switch sparse_irq allocations to GFP_KERNEL
genirq: Switch sparse_irq allocator to GFP_KERNEL
genirq: Make sparse_lock a mutex
x86: lguest: Use new irq allocator
genirq: Remove the now unused sparse irq leftovers
genirq: Sanitize dynamic irq handling
genirq: Remove arch_init_chip_data()
x86: xen: Sanitise sparse_irq handling
x86: Use sane enumeration
x86: uv: Clean up the direct access to irq_desc
x86: Make io_apic.c local functions static
genirq: Remove irq_2_iommu
x86: Speed up the irq_remapped check in hot pathes
intr_remap: Simplify the code further
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Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/Kconfig
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-vmware-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, paravirt: Remove alloc_pmd_clone hook, only used by VMI
x86, vmware: Remove deprecated VMI kernel support
Fix up trivial #include conflict in arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-bios-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, bios: Make the x86 early memory reservation a kernel option
x86, bios: By default, reserve the low 64K for all BIOSes
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (29 commits)
sched: Export account_system_vtime()
sched: Call tick_check_idle before __irq_enter
sched: Remove irq time from available CPU power
sched: Do not account irq time to current task
x86: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
sched: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING, finer accounting of irq time
sched: Add a PF flag for ksoftirqd identification
sched: Consolidate account_system_vtime extern declaration
sched: Fix softirq time accounting
sched: Drop group_capacity to 1 only if local group has extra capacity
sched: Force balancing on newidle balance if local group has capacity
sched: Set group_imb only a task can be pulled from the busiest cpu
sched: Do not consider SCHED_IDLE tasks to be cache hot
sched: Drop all load weight manipulation for RT tasks
sched: Create special class for stop/migrate work
sched: Unindent labels
sched: Comment updates: fix default latency and granularity numbers
tracing/sched: Add sched_pi_setprio tracepoint
sched: Give CPU bound RT tasks preference
sched: Try not to migrate higher priority RT tasks
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (163 commits)
tracing: Fix compile issue for trace_sched_wakeup.c
[S390] hardirq: remove pointless header file includes
[IA64] Move local_softirq_pending() definition
perf, powerpc: Fix power_pmu_event_init to not use event->ctx
ftrace: Remove recursion between recordmcount and scripts/mod/empty
jump_label: Add COND_STMT(), reducer wrappery
perf: Optimize sw events
perf: Use jump_labels to optimize the scheduler hooks
jump_label: Add atomic_t interface
jump_label: Use more consistent naming
perf, hw_breakpoint: Fix crash in hw_breakpoint creation
perf: Find task before event alloc
perf: Fix task refcount bugs
perf: Fix group moving
irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks
perf_events: Fix transaction recovery in group_sched_in()
perf_events: Fix bogus AMD64 generic TLB events
perf_events: Fix bogus context time tracking
tracing: Remove parent recording in latency tracer graph options
tracing: Use one prologue for the preempt irqs off tracer function tracers
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (52 commits)
sched: fix RCU lockdep splat from task_group()
rcu: using ACCESS_ONCE() to observe the jiffies_stall/rnp->qsmask value
sched: suppress RCU lockdep splat in task_fork_fair
net: suppress RCU lockdep false positive in sock_update_classid
rcu: move check from rcu_dereference_bh to rcu_read_lock_bh_held
rcu: Add advice to PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY kernel config parameter
rcu: Add tracing data to support queueing models
rcu: fix sparse errors in rcutorture.c
rcu: only one evaluation of arg in rcu_dereference_check() unless sparse
kernel: Remove undead ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
rcu: fix _oddness handling of verbose stall warnings
rcu: performance fixes to TINY_PREEMPT_RCU callback checking
rcu: upgrade stallwarn.txt documentation for CPU-bound RT processes
vhost: add __rcu annotations
rcu: add comment stating that list_empty() applies to RCU-protected lists
rcu: apply TINY_PREEMPT_RCU read-side speedup to TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
rcu: combine duplicate code, courtesy of CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
rcu: Upgrade srcu_read_lock() docbook about SRCU grace periods
rcu: document ways of stalling updates in low-memory situations
rcu: repair code-duplication FIXMEs
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Merge reason: update to almost-final-.36
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch adds IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING option on x86 and runtime enables it
when TSC is enabled.
This change just enables fine grained irq time accounting, isn't used yet.
Following patches use it for different purposes.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-6-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Merge reason: update from -rc5 to -almost-final
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Update kprobes.txt about interrupts disabled state inside
kprobes handlers, because optimized probe/boosted kretprobe
run without disabling interrrupts on x86.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
LKML-Reference: <20101014031018.4100.64883.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (27 commits)
net: clear heap allocation for ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL
isdn: strcpy() => strlcpy()
Revert "mac80211: use netif_receive_skb in ieee80211_tx_status callpath"
mac80211: delete AddBA response timer
ath9k_hw: fix regression in ANI listen time calculation
caif: fix two caif_connect() bugs
bonding: fix WARN_ON when writing to bond_master sysfs file
skge: add quirk to limit DMA
MAINTAINERS: update Intel LAN Ethernet info
e1000e.txt: Add e1000e documentation
e1000.txt: Update e1000 documentation
ixgbevf.txt: Update ixgbevf documentation
cls_u32: signedness bug
Bluetooth: Disallow to change L2CAP_OPTIONS values when connected
sctp: Fix out-of-bounds reading in sctp_asoc_get_hmac()
sctp: prevent reading out-of-bounds memory
ipv4: correct IGMP behavior on v3 query during v2-compatibility mode
netdev: Depend on INET before selecting INET_LRO
Revert "ipv4: Make INET_LRO a bool instead of tristate."
net: Fix the condition passed to sk_wait_event()
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Merge reason: Update from -rc3 to -rc7.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu into core/rcu
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The page-types utility still uses an out of date name for the
unpoison interface: debugfs:hwpoison/renew-pfn
This patch renames and fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
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Adds documentation for the e1000e networking driver.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Updated the e1000 networking driver documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Update the documentation for the ixgbevf (ixgbe virtual
function driver).
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The current tracing data is not sufficient to deduce the average time
that a callback spends waiting for a grace period to end. Add three
per-CPU counters recording the number of callbacks invoked (ci), the
number of callbacks orphaned (co), and the number of callbacks adopted
(ca). Given the existing callback queue length (ql), the average wait
time in absence of CPU hotplug operations is ql/ci. The units of wait
time will be in terms of the duration over which ci was measured.
In the presence of CPU hotplug operations, there is room for argument,
but ql/(ci-co+ca) won't steer you too far wrong.
Also fixes a typo called out by Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Merge reason: Pick up the latest fixes in -rc5.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The attribute reflects an interval, not a rate.
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lrg/voltage-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lrg/voltage-2.6:
regulator: wm8350-regulator - fix the logic of checking REGULATOR_MODE_STANDBY mode
regulator: wm831x-ldo - fix the logic to set REGULATOR_MODE_IDLE and REGULATOR_MODE_STANDBY modes
regulator: ab8500 - fix off-by-one value range checking for selector
regulator: 88pm8607 - fix value range checking for accessing info->vol_table
regulator: isl6271a-regulator - fix regulator_desc parameter for regulator_register()
regulator: ad5398 - fix a memory leak
regulator: Update e-mail address for Liam Girdwood
regulator: set max8998->dev to &pdev->dev.
regulator: tps6586x-regulator - fix bit_mask parameter for tps6586x_set_bits()
regulator: tps6586x-regulator - fix value range checking for val
regulator: max8998 - set max8998->num_regulators
regulator: max8998 - fix memory allocation size for max8998->rdev
regulator: tps6507x - remove incorrect comments
regulator: max1586 - improve the logic of choosing selector
regulator: ab8500 - fix the logic to remove already registered regulators in error path
regulator: ab3100 - fix the logic to remove already registered regulators in error path
regulator/ab8500: move dereference below the check for NULL
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: add documentation
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Update copyright notice and add Documentation/workqueue.txt.
Randy Dunlap, Dave Chinner: misc fixes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-By: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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Fix docbook templates that reference files that do not contain the
expected kernel-doc notation.
Fixes these warnings:
Warning(arch/x86/include/asm/unaligned.h): no structured comments found
Warning(lib/vsprintf.c): no structured comments found
These cause errors in the generated html output, like below, so drop
these lines.
Name
arch/x86/include/asm/unaligned.h - Document generation inconsistency
Oops
Warning
The template for this document tried to insert the structured comment from the file arch/x86/include/asm/unaligned.h at this point, but none was found. This dummy section is inserted to allow generation to continue.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When you don't use !E or !I but only !F, then it's very easy to miss
including some functions, structs etc. in documentation. To help
finding which ones were missed, allow printing out the unused ones as
warnings.
For example, using this on mac80211 yields a lot of warnings like this:
Warning: didn't use docs for DOC: mac80211 workqueue
Warning: didn't use docs for ieee80211_max_queues
Warning: didn't use docs for ieee80211_bss_change
Warning: didn't use docs for ieee80211_bss_conf
when generating the documentation for it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
block: Range check cpu in blk_cpu_to_group
scatterlist: prevent invalid free when alloc fails
writeback: Fix lost wake-up shutting down writeback thread
writeback: do not lose wakeup events when forking bdi threads
cciss: fix reporting of max queue depth since init
block: switch s390 tape_block and mg_disk to elevator_change()
block: add function call to switch the IO scheduler from a driver
fs/bio-integrity.c: return -ENOMEM on kmalloc failure
bio-integrity.c: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL
BLOCK: fix bio.bi_rw handling
block: put dev->kobj in blk_register_queue fail path
cciss: handle allocation failure
cfq-iosched: Documentation help for new tunables
cfq-iosched: blktrace print per slice sector stats
cfq-iosched: Implement tunable group_idle
cfq-iosched: Do group share accounting in IOPS when slice_idle=0
cfq-iosched: Do not idle if slice_idle=0
cciss: disable doorbell reset on reset_devices
blkio: Fix return code for mkdir calls
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
ALSA: rawmidi: fix the get next midi device ioctl
ALSA: hda - Fix wrong HP pin detection in snd_hda_parse_pin_def_config()
ALSA: seq/oss - Fix double-free at error path of snd_seq_oss_open()
ALSA: msnd-classic: Fix invalid cfg parameter
ALSA: hda - Enable PC-beep for EeePC with ALC269 codec
ALSA: hda - Add errata initverb sequence for CS42xx codecs
ALSA: usb - Release capture substream URBs properly
ALSA: virtuoso: fix setting of Xonar DS line-in/mic-in controls
ALSA: virtuoso: work around missing reset in the Xonar DS Windows driver
ALSA: hda - Add quirk for Lenovo T400s
ALSA: usb-audio: fix detection of vendor-specific device protocol settings
ALSA: usb-audio: Assume first control interface is for audio
ALSA: hda - Add a new hp-laptop model for Conexant 5066, tested on HP G60
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There's been some recent confusion about error checking GPIO numbers.
briefly, it should be handled mostly during setup, when gpio_request() is
called, and NEVER by expectig gpio_is_valid to report more than
never-usable GPIO numbers.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: terminate unterminated comment]
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Eric Miao" <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ryan Mallon" <ryan@bluewatersys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Create attributes:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/book_id
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/book_siblings
which show the book id and the book siblings of a cpu.
Unlike the attributes for SMT and MC these attributes are only present if
CONFIG_SCHED_BOOK is set. There is no reason to pollute sysfs for every
architecture with unused attributes.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100831082844.435648457@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
gcc-4.6: kernel/*: Fix unused but set warnings
mutex: Fix annotations to include it in kernel-locking docbook
pid: make setpgid() system call use RCU read-side critical section
MAINTAINERS: Add RCU's public git tree
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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:
PCI: bus speed strings should be const
PCI hotplug: Fix build with CONFIG_ACPI unset
PCI: PCIe: Remove the port driver module exit routine
PCI: PCIe: Move PCIe PME code to the pcie directory
PCI: PCIe: Disable PCIe port services during port initialization
PCI: PCIe: Ask BIOS for control of all native services at once
ACPI/PCI: Negotiate _OSC control bits before requesting them
ACPI/PCI: Do not preserve _OSC control bits returned by a query
ACPI/PCI: Make acpi_pci_query_osc() return control bits
ACPI/PCI: Reorder checks in acpi_pci_osc_control_set()
PCI: PCIe: Introduce commad line switch for disabling port services
PCI: PCIe AER: Introduce pci_aer_available()
x86/PCI: only define pci_domain_nr if PCI and PCI_DOMAINS are set
PCI: provide stub pci_domain_nr function for !CONFIG_PCI configs
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: use zalloc_cpumask_var() for gcwq->mayday_mask
workqueue: fix GCWQ_DISASSOCIATED initialization
workqueue: Add a workqueue chapter to the tracepoint docbook
workqueue: fix cwq->nr_active underflow
workqueue: improve destroy_workqueue() debuggability
workqueue: mark lock acquisition on worker_maybe_bind_and_lock()
workqueue: annotate lock context change
workqueue: free rescuer on destroy_workqueue
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Fix kernel-doc notation in linux/mutex.h and kernel/mutex.c,
then add these 2 files to the kernel-locking docbook as the
Mutex API reference chapter.
Add one API function to mutex-design.txt and correct a typo in
that file.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <20100902154816.6cc2f9ad.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This new model adds the following functionality to HP G60:
- Automute of internal speakers
- Autoswitch of internal/external mics
- Remove SPDIF not physically present
BugLink: http://launchpad.net/bugs/587388
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
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Add a workqueue chapter to the traceopint docbook.
Current book is at: http://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/tracepoint/
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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These days the headers we use are in glibc. If those are too old, you can
add the -I lines to get the kernel headers.
In file included from ../../include/linux/if_tun.h:19,
from lguest.c:33:
../../include/linux/types.h:13:2: warning: #warning "Attempt to use kernel headers from user space, see http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelHeaders"
lguest.c: In function ‘setup_tun_net’:
lguest.c:1456: warning: dereferencing pointer ‘sin’ does break strict-aliasing rules
lguest.c:1457: warning: dereferencing pointer ‘sin’ does break strict-aliasing rules
lguest.c:1450: note: initialized from here
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Add a kernel command-line option so the x86 early memory reservation
size can be adjusted at runtime instead of only at compile time.
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <tip-d0cd7425fab774a480cce17c2f649984312d0b55@git.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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After commit 852972acff8f10f3a15679be2059bb94916cba5d (ACPI: Disable
ASPM if the platform won't provide _OSC control for PCIe) control of
the PCIe Capability Structure is unconditionally requested by
acpi_pci_root_add(), which in principle may cause problems to
happen in two ways. First, the BIOS may refuse to give control of
the PCIe Capability Structure if it is not asked for any of the
_OSC features depending on it at the same time. Second, the BIOS may
assume that control of the _OSC features depending on the PCIe
Capability Structure will be requested in the future and may behave
incorrectly if that doesn't happen. For this reason, control of
the PCIe Capability Structure should always be requested along with
control of any other _OSC features that may depend on it (ie. PCIe
native PME, PCIe native hot-plug, PCIe AER).
Rework the PCIe port driver so that (1) it checks which native PCIe
port services can be enabled, according to the BIOS, and (2) it
requests control of all these services simultaneously. In
particular, this causes pcie_portdrv_probe() to fail if the BIOS
refuses to grant control of the PCIe Capability Structure, which
means that no native PCIe port services can be enabled for the PCIe
Root Complex the given port belongs to. If that happens, ASPM is
disabled to avoid problems with mishandling it by the part of the
PCIe hierarchy for which control of the PCIe Capability Structure
has not been received.
Make it possible to override this behavior using 'pcie_ports=native'
(use the PCIe native services regardless of the BIOS response to the
control request), or 'pcie_ports=compat' (do not use the PCIe native
services at all).
Accordingly, rework the existing PCIe port service drivers so that
they don't request control of the services directly.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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Introduce kernel command line switch pcie_ports= allowing one to
disable all of the native PCIe port services, so that PCIe ports
are treated like PCI-to-PCI bridges.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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git://xenbits.xensource.com/people/ianc/linux-2.6
* 'for-upstream/pvhvm' of git://xenbits.xensource.com/people/ianc/linux-2.6:
xen: pvhvm: make it clearer that XEN_UNPLUG_* define bits in a bitfield
xen: pvhvm: rename xen_emul_unplug=ignore to =unnnecessary
xen: pvhvm: allow user to request no emulated device unplug
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CPU-bound real-time processes can cause RCU CPU stall warnings, and
much other trouble as well. Document the fact that they can cause
RCU CPU stall warnings.
Suggested-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies
from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these
techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform.
These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the
performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware
expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of
years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this
feature from the hypervisor.
Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels
still work fine on VMware's platform.
Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are,
Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence
releases for these products will continue supporting VMI.
For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this,
http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html
This feature removal was scheduled for 2.6.37 back in September 2009.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
LKML-Reference: <1282600151.19396.22.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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It is not immediately clear what this option causes to become
ignored. The actual meaning is that it is not necessary to unplug the
emulated devices to safely use the PV ones, even if the platform does
not support the unplug protocol. (pressumably the user will only add
this option if they have ensured that their domain configuration is
safe).
I think xen_emul_unplug=unnecessary better captures this.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
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this allows the user to disable pvhvm and revert to emulated devices
in case of a system misconfiguration (e.g. initramfs with only
emulated drivers in it).
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
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Some documentation to provide help with tunables.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu into core/rcu
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This list moved to lists.ozlabs.org quite some time ago.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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