21 Jan, 2011

1 commit

  • The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
    is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
    only small devices.

    This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
    references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
    option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
    can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
    considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).

    Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
    expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
    are making should enable it.

    Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar
    Acked-by: David Woodhouse
    Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
    Cc: Greg KH
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Jens Axboe
    Cc: Arnd Bergmann
    Cc: Robin Holt
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David Rientjes
     

14 Jan, 2011

2 commits


17 Dec, 2010

1 commit


29 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • * 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: (38 commits)
    kbuild: convert `arch/tile' to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade
    README: cite nconfig
    Revert "kconfig: Temporarily disable dependency warnings"
    kconfig: Use PATH_MAX instead of 128 for path buffer sizes.
    kconfig: Fix realloc usage()
    kconfig: Propagate const
    kconfig: Don't go out from read config loop when you read new symbol
    kconfig: fix menuconfig on debian lenny
    kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade
    kconfig: expand file names
    kconfig: use the file's name of sourced file
    kconfig: constify file name
    kconfig: don't emit warning upon rootmenu's prompt redefinition
    kconfig: replace KERNELVERSION usage by the mainmenu's prompt
    kconfig: delay gconf window initialization
    kconfig: expand by default the rootmenu's prompt
    kconfig: add a symbol string expansion helper
    kconfig: regen parser
    kconfig: implement the `mainmenu' directive
    kconfig: allow PACKAGE to be defined on the compiler's command-line
    ...

    Fix up trivial conflict in arch/mn10300/Kconfig

    Linus Torvalds
     

28 Oct, 2010

2 commits

  • Use new 'datap' variable in order to remove unnecessary castings.

    Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim
    Cc: Chris Zankel
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Namhyung Kim
     
  • Fix up the arguments to arch_ptrace() to take account of the fact that
    @addr and @data are now unsigned long rather than long as of a preceding
    patch in this series.

    Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim
    Cc:
    Acked-by: Roland McGrath
    Acked-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
    Acked-by: David S. Miller
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Namhyung Kim
     

27 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • Since we no longer need to provide KM_type, the whole pte_*map_nested()
    API is now redundant, remove it.

    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Acked-by: Chris Metcalf
    Cc: David Howells
    Cc: Hugh Dickins
    Cc: Rik van Riel
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
    Cc: Steven Rostedt
    Cc: Russell King
    Cc: Ralf Baechle
    Cc: David Miller
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Peter Zijlstra
     

25 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
    Update broken web addresses in arch directory.
    Update broken web addresses in the kernel.
    Revert "drivers/usb: Remove unnecessary return's from void functions" for musb gadget
    Revert "Fix typo: configuation => configuration" partially
    ida: document IDA_BITMAP_LONGS calculation
    ext2: fix a typo on comment in ext2/inode.c
    drivers/scsi: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
    drivers/s390: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
    net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
    drivers/infiniband: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
    drivers/gpu/drm: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
    kernel/pm_qos_params.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
    fs/ecryptfs: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
    fs/seq_file.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
    arm: uengine.c: remove C99 comments
    arm: scoop.c: remove C99 comments
    Fix typo configue => configure in comments
    Fix typo: configuation => configuration
    Fix typo interrest[ing|ed] => interest[ing|ed]
    Fix various typos of valid in comments
    ...

    Fix up trivial conflicts in:
    drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
    drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c
    net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c

    Linus Torvalds
     

22 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-irqflags:
    Fix IRQ flag handling naming
    MIPS: Add missing #inclusions of
    smc91x: Add missing #inclusion of
    Drop a couple of unnecessary asm/system.h inclusions
    SH: Add missing consts to sys_execve() declaration
    Blackfin: Rename IRQ flags handling functions
    Blackfin: Add missing dep to asm/irqflags.h
    Blackfin: Rename DES PC2() symbol to avoid collision
    Blackfin: Split the BF532 BFIN_*_FIO_FLAG() functions to their own header
    Blackfin: Split PLL code from mach-specific cdef headers

    Linus Torvalds
     

12 Oct, 2010

1 commit


07 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • Fix the IRQ flag handling naming. In linux/irqflags.h under one configuration,
    it maps:

    local_irq_enable() -> raw_local_irq_enable()
    local_irq_disable() -> raw_local_irq_disable()
    local_irq_save() -> raw_local_irq_save()
    ...

    and under the other configuration, it maps:

    raw_local_irq_enable() -> local_irq_enable()
    raw_local_irq_disable() -> local_irq_disable()
    raw_local_irq_save() -> local_irq_save()
    ...

    This is quite confusing. There should be one set of names expected of the
    arch, and this should be wrapped to give another set of names that are expected
    by users of this facility.

    Change this to have the arch provide:

    flags = arch_local_save_flags()
    flags = arch_local_irq_save()
    arch_local_irq_restore(flags)
    arch_local_irq_disable()
    arch_local_irq_enable()
    arch_irqs_disabled_flags(flags)
    arch_irqs_disabled()
    arch_safe_halt()

    Then linux/irqflags.h wraps these to provide:

    raw_local_save_flags(flags)
    raw_local_irq_save(flags)
    raw_local_irq_restore(flags)
    raw_local_irq_disable()
    raw_local_irq_enable()
    raw_irqs_disabled_flags(flags)
    raw_irqs_disabled()
    raw_safe_halt()

    with type checking on the flags 'arguments', and then wraps those to provide:

    local_save_flags(flags)
    local_irq_save(flags)
    local_irq_restore(flags)
    local_irq_disable()
    local_irq_enable()
    irqs_disabled_flags(flags)
    irqs_disabled()
    safe_halt()

    with tracing included if enabled.

    The arch functions can now all be inline functions rather than some of them
    having to be macros.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells [X86, FRV, MN10300]
    Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf [Tile]
    Signed-off-by: Michal Simek [Microblaze]
    Tested-by: Catalin Marinas [ARM]
    Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen [AVR]
    Acked-by: Tony Luck [IA-64]
    Acked-by: Hirokazu Takata [M32R]
    Acked-by: Greg Ungerer [M68K/M68KNOMMU]
    Acked-by: Ralf Baechle [MIPS]
    Acked-by: Kyle McMartin [PA-RISC]
    Acked-by: Paul Mackerras [PowerPC]
    Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky [S390]
    Acked-by: Chen Liqin [Score]
    Acked-by: Matt Fleming [SH]
    Acked-by: David S. Miller [Sparc]
    Acked-by: Chris Zankel [Xtensa]
    Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson [Alpha]
    Reviewed-by: Yoshinori Sato [H8300]
    Cc: starvik@axis.com [CRIS]
    Cc: jesper.nilsson@axis.com [CRIS]
    Cc: linux-cris-kernel@axis.com

    David Howells
     

24 Sep, 2010

1 commit


20 Sep, 2010

1 commit


18 Aug, 2010

1 commit

  • Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
    correctly on ARM:

    arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

    This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
    the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to. This is
    because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
    copy_strings_kernel(). A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
    pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().

    do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
    or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
    const should be fine.

    Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.

    This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Tested-by: Ralf Baechle
    Acked-by: Russell King
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David Howells
     

14 Aug, 2010

1 commit

  • Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but
    aren't. The list includes:

    (*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes
    syscalls and some mount syscalls.

    (*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above.

    (*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: David S. Miller
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David Howells
     

11 Aug, 2010

6 commits

  • Architectures implement dma_is_consistent() in different ways (some
    misinterpret the definition of API in DMA-API.txt). So it hasn't been so
    useful for drivers. We have only one user of the API in tree. Unlikely
    out-of-tree drivers use the API.

    Even if we fix dma_is_consistent() in some architectures, it doesn't look
    useful at all. It was invented long ago for some old systems that can't
    allocate coherent memory at all. It's better to export only APIs that are
    definitely necessary for drivers.

    Let's remove this API.

    Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori
    Cc: James Bottomley
    Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    FUJITA Tomonori
     
  • dma_get_cache_alignment returns the minimum DMA alignment. Architectures
    defines it as ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN (formally ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN). So we
    can unify dma_get_cache_alignment implementations.

    Note that some architectures implement dma_get_cache_alignment wrongly.
    dma_get_cache_alignment() should return the minimum DMA alignment. So
    fully-coherent architectures should return 1. This patch also fixes this
    issue.

    Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    FUJITA Tomonori
     
  • Now each architecture has the own dma_get_cache_alignment implementation.

    dma_get_cache_alignment returns the minimum DMA alignment. Architectures
    define it as ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN (it's used to make sure that malloc'ed
    buffer is DMA-safe; the buffer doesn't share a cache with the others). So
    we can unify dma_get_cache_alignment implementations.

    This patch:

    dma_get_cache_alignment() needs to know if an architecture defines
    ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN or not (needs to know if architecture has DMA
    alignment restriction). However, slab.h define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN if
    architectures doesn't define it.

    Let's rename ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN.
    ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is used only in the internals of slab/slob/slub
    (except for crypto).

    Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    FUJITA Tomonori
     
  • Conflicts:
    fs/exofs/inode.c

    Jiri Kosina
     
  • * 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (149 commits)
    block: make sure that REQ_* types are seen even with CONFIG_BLOCK=n
    xen-blkfront: fix missing out label
    blkdev: fix blkdev_issue_zeroout return value
    block: update request stacking methods to support discards
    block: fix missing export of blk_types.h
    writeback: fix bad _bh spinlock nesting
    drbd: revert "delay probes", feature is being re-implemented differently
    drbd: Initialize all members of sync_conf to their defaults [Bugz 315]
    drbd: Disable delay probes for the upcomming release
    writeback: cleanup bdi_register
    writeback: add new tracepoints
    writeback: remove unnecessary init_timer call
    writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeups
    writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeups
    writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker thread
    writeback: restructure bdi forker loop a little
    writeback: move last_active to bdi
    writeback: do not remove bdi from bdi_list
    writeback: simplify bdi code a little
    writeback: do not lose wake-ups in bdi threads
    ...

    Fixed up pretty trivial conflicts in drivers/block/virtio_blk.c and
    drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c as per Jens.

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • This patch is against the 2.6.34 source.

    Paraphrased from the 1989 BSD patch by David Borman @ cray.com:

    These are the changes needed for the kernel to support
    LINEMODE in the server.

    There is a new bit in the termios local flag word, EXTPROC.
    When this bit is set, several aspects of the terminal driver
    are disabled. Input line editing, character echo, and mapping
    of signals are all disabled. This allows the telnetd to turn
    off these functions when in linemode, but still keep track of
    what state the user wants the terminal to be in.

    New ioctl:
    TIOCSIG Generate a signal to processes in the
    current process group of the pty.

    There is a new mode for packet driver, the TIOCPKT_IOCTL bit.
    When packet mode is turned on in the pty, and the EXTPROC bit
    is set, then whenever the state of the pty is changed, the
    next read on the master side of the pty will have the TIOCPKT_IOCTL
    bit set. This allows the process on the server side of the pty
    to know when the state of the terminal has changed; it can then
    issue the appropriate ioctl to retrieve the new state.

    Since the original BSD patches accompanied the source code for telnet
    I've left that reference here, but obviously the feature is useful for
    any remote terminal protocol, including ssh.

    The corresponding feature has existed in the BSD tty driver since 1989.
    For historical reference, a good copy of the relevant files can be found
    here:

    http://anonsvn.mit.edu/viewvc/krb5/trunk/src/appl/telnet/?pathrev=17741

    Signed-off-by: Howard Chu
    Cc: Alan Cox
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    hyc@symas.com
     

10 Aug, 2010

1 commit


09 Aug, 2010

1 commit

  • To avoid more patches, I also fixed other spelling
    and grammar bugs when they were in the same or
    following line:

    successfull -> successful
    parse -> parses
    controler -> controller
    controlers -> controllers

    Cc: Jiri Kosina
    Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil
    Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

    Stefan Weil
     

08 Aug, 2010

1 commit


07 Aug, 2010

2 commits

  • …x/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

    * 'timers-timekeeping-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
    um: Fix read_persistent_clock fallout
    kgdb: Do not access xtime directly
    powerpc: Clean up obsolete code relating to decrementer and timebase
    powerpc: Rework VDSO gettimeofday to prevent time going backwards
    clocksource: Add __clocksource_updatefreq_hz/khz methods
    x86: Convert common clocksources to use clocksource_register_hz/khz
    timekeeping: Make xtime and wall_to_monotonic static
    hrtimer: Cleanup direct access to wall_to_monotonic
    um: Convert to use read_persistent_clock
    timkeeping: Fix update_vsyscall to provide wall_to_monotonic offset
    powerpc: Cleanup xtime usage
    powerpc: Simplify update_vsyscall
    time: Kill off CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME
    time: Implement timespec_add
    x86: Fix vtime/file timestamp inconsistencies

    Trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

    Much less trivial conflicts in arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c resolved as
    per Thomas' earlier merge commit 47916be4e28c ("Merge branch
    'powerpc.cherry-picks' into timers/clocksource")

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • …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: (162 commits)
    tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex
    perf: expose event__process function
    perf events: Fix mmap offset determination
    perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period
    perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t
    perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected
    perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree
    perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place
    x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction
    perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers
    perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class
    perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic
    perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable
    perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing
    perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings
    perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states
    perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events
    perf: New migration tool overview
    tracing: Drop cpparg() macro
    perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call
    ...

    Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c

    Linus Torvalds
     

03 Aug, 2010

2 commits


27 Jul, 2010

1 commit

  • Now that all arches have been converted over to use generic time via
    clocksources or arch_gettimeoffset(), we can remove the GENERIC_TIME
    config option and simplify the generic code.

    Signed-off-by: John Stultz
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    John Stultz
     

18 Jun, 2010

1 commit


09 Jun, 2010

1 commit

  • On 64bit, local_t is of size long, and thus we make local64_t an alias.
    On 32bit, we fall back to atomic64_t. (architecture can provide optimized
    32-bit version)

    (This new facility is to be used by perf events optimizations.)

    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Cc: Linus Torvalds
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Peter Zijlstra
     

05 Jun, 2010

1 commit

  • As explained in commit 1c0fe6e3bd ("mm: invoke oom-killer from page
    fault") , we want to call the architecture independent oom killer when
    getting an unexplained OOM from handle_mm_fault, rather than simply
    killing current.

    Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
    Acked-by: David Rientjes
    Cc: Chris Zankel
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Nick Piggin
     

28 May, 2010

1 commit


25 May, 2010

3 commits

  • fix the following 'make includecheck' warnings:

    arch/xtensa/kernel/vectors.S: asm/processor.h is included more than once.
    arch/xtensa/kernel/vectors.S: asm/ptrace.h is included more than once.

    Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput
    Cc: Chris Zankel
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jaswinder Singh Rajput
     
  • Also remove lots of unused irq_cpustat fields.

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Cc: Chris Zankel
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Christoph Hellwig
     
  • Architectures that handle DMA-non-coherent memory need to set
    ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to make sure that kmalloc'ed buffer is DMA-safe: the
    buffer doesn't share a cache with the others.

    Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori
    Cc: Chris Zankel
    Acked-by: Pekka Enberg
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    FUJITA Tomonori
     

21 May, 2010

1 commit

  • * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (44 commits)
    vlynq: make whole Kconfig-menu dependant on architecture
    add descriptive comment for TIF_MEMDIE task flag declaration.
    EEPROM: max6875: Header file cleanup
    EEPROM: 93cx6: Header file cleanup
    EEPROM: Header file cleanup
    agp: use NULL instead of 0 when pointer is needed
    rtc-v3020: make bitfield unsigned
    PCI: make bitfield unsigned
    jbd2: use NULL instead of 0 when pointer is needed
    cciss: fix shadows sparse warning
    doc: inode uses a mutex instead of a semaphore.
    uml: i386: Avoid redefinition of NR_syscalls
    fix "seperate" typos in comments
    cocbalt_lcdfb: correct sections
    doc: Change urls for sparse
    Powerpc: wii: Fix typo in comment
    i2o: cleanup some exit paths
    Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate
    UML: Fix compiler warning due to missing task_struct declaration
    UML: add kernel.h include to signal.c
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

20 May, 2010

1 commit

  • …ernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

    * 'timers-for-linus-cleanups' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
    avr32: Fix typo in read_persistent_clock()
    sparc: Convert sparc to use read/update_persistent_clock
    cris: Convert cris to use read/update_persistent_clock
    m68k: Convert m68k to use read/update_persistent_clock
    m32r: Convert m32r to use read/update_peristent_clock
    blackfin: Convert blackfin to use read/update_persistent_clock
    ia64: Convert ia64 to use read/update_persistent_clock
    avr32: Convert avr32 to use read/update_persistent_clock
    h8300: Convert h8300 to use read/update_persistent_clock
    frv: Convert frv to use read/update_persistent_clock
    mn10300: Convert mn10300 to use read/update_persistent_clock
    alpha: Convert alpha to use read/update_persistent_clock
    xtensa: Fix unnecessary setting of xtime
    time: Clean up direct xtime usage in xen

    Linus Torvalds
     

17 May, 2010

1 commit