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2011-09-18USB: document ehci-hcd's "companion" sysfs attributeAlan Stern1-0/+46
This patch (as1484) adds documentation for ehci-hcd's "companion" sysfs attribute, which was added to the kernel over four years ago but never documented. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-09-15Merge branch 'master' into for-nextJiri Kosina3-0/+36
Fast-forward merge with Linus to be able to merge patches based on more recent version of the tree.
2011-09-07Input: wacom - add Intuos4 LED and OLED controlEduard Hasenleithner2-10/+64
This commit enables control of the LEDs and OLED displays found on the Wacom Intuos4 M, L, and XL. For this purpose, a new "wacom_led" attribute group is added to the sysfs entry of the USB device. This "wacom_led" group only shows up when the correct device (M, L, or XL) is detected. The attributes are described in Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-wacom Signed-off-by: Eduard Hasenleithner <eduard@hasenleithner.at> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2011-08-29[SCSI] genhd: add a new attribute "alias" in gendiskNao Nishijima1-0/+13
This patch allows the user to set an "alias" of the disk via sysfs interface. This patch only adds a new attribute "alias" in gendisk structure. To show the alias instead of the device name in kernel messages, we need to revise printk messages and use alias_name() in them. Example: (current) printk("disk name is %s\n", disk->disk_name); (new) printk("disk name is %s\n", alias_name(disk)); Users can use alphabets, numbers, '-' and '_' in "alias" attribute. A disk can have an "alias" which length is up to 255 bytes. This attribute is write-once. Suggested-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Suggested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Nao Nishijima <nao.nishijima.xt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
2011-08-23[SCSI] isci: Adding documentation to API change and fixup sysfs registrationDave Jiang1-0/+13
Adding API update for adding isci_id entry scsi_host sysfs entry. Also fixing up the sysfs registration to the scsi_host template Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
2011-08-22batman-adv: implement AP-isolation on the receiver sideAntonio Quartulli1-0/+8
When a node receives a unicast packet it checks if the source and the destination client can communicate or not due to the AP isolation Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-08-09Merge branch 'next-evm' of ↵James Morris1-0/+23
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/ima-2.6 into next Conflicts: fs/attr.c Resolve conflict manually. Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2011-08-08cciss: add transport mode attribute to sysJoe Handzik1-0/+7
Signed-off-by: Joseph Handzik <joseph.t.handzik@beardog.cce.hp.com> Acked-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-08-05ideapad: define cfg bits and create sysfs node for cfgIke Panhc1-0/+17
Create /sys/devices/platform/ideapad/cfg for showing cfg value. Signed-off-by: Ike Panhc <ike.pan@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2011-08-05Documentation/ABI/: update version number references from 2.6.x to 3.xJesper Juhl3-13/+13
Update the version number references from 2.6.x to 3.x Also correct spelling of "May" (was spelled "Mai"). Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-08-04HID: lg4ff - Document sysfs interface for range settingMichal Malý1-0/+7
Adds documentation of the sysfs interface used to set the wheel range. Signed-off-by: Michal Malý <madcatxster@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Wood <simon@mungewell.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-08-01Merge branch 'pstore-efi' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+6
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 * 'pstore-efi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: efivars: Introduce PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTES efivars: Use string functions in pstore_write efivars: introduce utf16_strncmp efivars: String functions efi: Add support for using efivars as a pstore backend pstore: Allow the user to explicitly choose a backend pstore: Make "part" unsigned pstore: Add extra context for writes and erases pstore: Extend API for more flexibility in new backends
2011-07-25Merge branch 'usb-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+23
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6 * 'usb-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (115 commits) EHCI: fix direction handling for interrupt data toggles USB: serial: add IDs for WinChipHead USB->RS232 adapter USB: OHCI: fix another regression for NVIDIA controllers usb: gadget: m66592-udc: add pullup function usb: gadget: m66592-udc: add function for external controller usb: gadget: r8a66597-udc: add pullup function usb: renesas_usbhs: support multi driver usb: renesas_usbhs: inaccessible pipe is not an error usb: renesas_usbhs: care buff alignment when dma handler USB: PL2303: correctly handle baudrates above 115200 usb: r8a66597-hcd: fixup USB_PORT_STAT_C_SUSPEND shift usb: renesas_usbhs: compile/config are rescued usb: renesas_usbhs: fixup comment-out usb: update email address in ohci-sh and r8a66597-hcd usb: r8a66597-hcd: add function for external controller EHCI: only power off port if over-current is active USB: mon: Allow to use usbmon without debugfs USB: EHCI: go back to using the system clock for QH unlinks ehci: add pci quirk for Ordissimo and RM Slate 100 too ehci: refactor pci quirk to use standard dmi_check_system method ... Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
2011-07-25drivers/misc: add support the FSA9480 USB SwitchDonggeun Kim1-0/+21
The FSA9480 is a USB port accessory detector and switch. This patch adds support the FSA9480 USB Switch. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make a couple of things static] Signed-off-by: Donggeun Kim <dg77.kim@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Minkyu Kang <mk7.kang@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25oom: remove references to old badness() functionDavid Rientjes1-1/+1
The badness() function in the oom killer was renamed to oom_badness() in a63d83f427fb ("oom: badness heuristic rewrite") since it is a globally exported function for clarity. The prototype for the old function still existed in linux/oom.h, so remove it. There are no existing users. Also fixes documentation and comment references to badness() and adjusts them accordingly. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-22Merge branch 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+27
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86-64, vdso: Do not allocate memory for the vDSO clocksource: Change __ARCH_HAS_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA to a CONFIG option x86, vdso: Drop now wrong comment Document the vDSO and add a reference parser ia64: Replace clocksource.fsys_mmio with generic arch data x86-64: Move vread_tsc and vread_hpet into the vDSO clocksource: Replace vread with generic arch data x86-64: Add --no-undefined to vDSO build x86-64: Allow alternative patching in the vDSO x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative x86-64: Improve vsyscall emulation CS and RIP handling x86-64: Emulate legacy vsyscalls x86-64: Fill unused parts of the vsyscall page with 0xcc x86-64: Remove vsyscall number 3 (venosys) x86-64: Map the HPET NX x86-64: Remove kernel.vsyscall64 sysctl x86-64: Give vvars their own page x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S x86-64: Fix alignment of jiffies variable
2011-07-22pstore: Allow the user to explicitly choose a backendMatthew Garrett1-0/+6
pstore only allows one backend to be registered at present, but the system may provide several. Add a parameter to allow the user to choose which backend will be used rather than just relying on load order. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-07-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-0/+18
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid: (31 commits) HID: fix support for Microsoft comfort mouse 4500 HID: hid-multitouch: add one new multitouch device's VID/PID HID: prodikeys: remove a redundant forward declaration of struct pcmidi_snd HID: prodikeys: make needlessly global symbols static HID: emsff: properly handle emsff_init failure HID: ACRUX - add missing hid_hw_stop() in ax_probe() error path HID: fix horizontal wheel for ms comfort mouse 4500 HID: uclogic: Add support for UC-Logic WP1062 HID: wiimote: Add sysfs support to wiimote driver HID: wiimote: Cache wiimote led state HID: wiimote: Add wiimote led request HID: wiimote: Add wiimote input button parser HID: wiimote: Add wiimote event handler HID: wiimote: Add output queue for wiimote driver HID: wiimote: Add wiimote send function HID: wiimote: Synchronize wiimote input and hid event handling HID: wiimote: Register input device in wiimote hid driver HID: wiimote: Add wiimote device structure HID: wiimote: Register wiimote hid driver stub HID: wiimote: Add Nintendo Wii Remote driver stub ...
2011-07-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-0/+225
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6: firewire: document the sysfs ABIs firewire: cdev: ABI documentation enhancements firewire: cdev: prevent race between first get_info ioctl and bus reset event queuing firewire: cdev: return -ENOTTY for unimplemented ioctls, not -EINVAL firewire: ohci: skip soft reset retries after card ejection firewire: ohci: fix PHY reg access after card ejection firewire: ohci: add a comment on PHY reg access serialization firewire: ohci: reduce potential context_stop latency firewire: ohci: remove superfluous posted write flushes firewire: net: replacing deprecated __attribute__((packed)) with __packed
2011-07-22Merge branches 'roccat', 'upstream' and 'wiimote' into for-linusJiri Kosina6-5/+243
2011-07-18evm: re-releaseMimi Zohar1-0/+23
EVM protects a file's security extended attributes(xattrs) against integrity attacks. This patchset provides the framework and an initial method. The initial method maintains an HMAC-sha1 value across the security extended attributes, storing the HMAC value as the extended attribute 'security.evm'. Other methods of validating the integrity of a file's metadata will be posted separately (eg. EVM-digital-signatures). While this patchset does authenticate the security xattrs, and cryptographically binds them to the inode, coming extensions will bind other directory and inode metadata for more complete protection. To help simplify the review and upstreaming process, each extension will be posted separately (eg. IMA-appraisal, IMA-appraisal-directory). For a general overview of the proposed Linux integrity subsystem, refer to Dave Safford's whitepaper: http://downloads.sf.net/project/linux-ima/linux-ima/Integrity_overview.pdf. EVM depends on the Kernel Key Retention System to provide it with a trusted/encrypted key for the HMAC-sha1 operation. The key is loaded onto the root's keyring using keyctl. Until EVM receives notification that the key has been successfully loaded onto the keyring (echo 1 > <securityfs>/evm), EVM can not create or validate the 'security.evm' xattr, but returns INTEGRITY_UNKNOWN. Loading the key and signaling EVM should be done as early as possible. Normally this is done in the initramfs, which has already been measured as part of the trusted boot. For more information on creating and loading existing trusted/encrypted keys, refer to Documentation/keys-trusted-encrypted.txt. A sample dracut patch, which loads the trusted/encrypted key and enables EVM, is available from http://linux-ima.sourceforge.net/#EVM. Based on the LSMs enabled, the set of EVM protected security xattrs is defined at compile. EVM adds the following three calls to the existing security hooks: evm_inode_setxattr(), evm_inode_post_setxattr(), and evm_inode_removexattr. To initialize and update the 'security.evm' extended attribute, EVM defines three calls: evm_inode_post_init(), evm_inode_post_setattr() and evm_inode_post_removexattr() hooks. To verify the integrity of a security xattr, EVM exports evm_verifyxattr(). Changelog v7: - Fixed URL in EVM ABI documentation Changelog v6: (based on Serge Hallyn's review) - fix URL in patch description - remove evm_hmac_size definition - use SHA1_DIGEST_SIZE (removed both MAX_DIGEST_SIZE and evm_hmac_size) - moved linux include before other includes - test for crypto_hash_setkey failure - fail earlier for invalid key - clear entire encrypted key, even on failure - check xattr name length before comparing xattr names Changelog: - locking based on i_mutex, remove evm_mutex - using trusted/encrypted keys for storing the EVM key used in the HMAC-sha1 operation. - replaced crypto hash with shash (Dmitry Kasatkin) - support for additional methods of verifying the security xattrs (Dmitry Kasatkin) - iint not allocated for all regular files, but only for those appraised - Use cap_sys_admin in lieu of cap_mac_admin - Use __vfs_setxattr_noperm(), without permission checks, from EVM Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
2011-07-16firewire: document the sysfs ABIsStefan Richter1-0/+122
of firewire-core and firewire-sbp2. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2011-07-16firewire: cdev: ABI documentation enhancementsStefan Richter1-0/+103
Add overview documentation in Documentation/ABI/stable/firewire-cdev. Improve the inline reference documentation in firewire-cdev.h: - Add /* available since kernel... */ comments to event numbers consistent with the comments on ioctl numbers. - Shorten some documentation on an event and an ioctl that are less interesting to current programming because there are newer preferable variants. - Spell Configuration ROM (name of an IEEE 1212 register) in upper case. - Move the dummy FW_CDEV_VERSION out of the reader's field of vision. We should remove it from the header next year or so. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2011-07-14Document the vDSO and add a reference parserAndy Lutomirski1-0/+27
It turns out that parsing the vDSO is nontrivial if you don't already have an ELF dynamic loader around. So document it in Documentation/ABI and add a reference CC0-licenced parser. This code is dedicated to Go issue 1933: http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=1933 Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a315a9514cd71bcf29436cc31e35aada21a5ff21.1310563276.git.luto@mit.edu Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-07-11HID: wiimote: Add sysfs support to wiimote driverDavid Herrmann1-0/+10
Add sysfs files for each led of the wiimote. Writing 1 to the file enables the led and 0 disables the led. We do not need memory barriers when checking wdata->ready since we use a spinlock directly after it. Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-07-08USB: EHCI: Allow users to override 80% max periodic bandwidthKirill Smelkov1-0/+23
There are cases, when 80% max isochronous bandwidth is too limiting. For example I have two USB video capture cards which stream uncompressed video, and to stream full NTSC + PAL videos we'd need NTSC 640x480 YUV422 @30fps ~17.6 MB/s PAL 720x576 YUV422 @25fps ~19.7 MB/s isoc bandwidth. Now, due to limited alt settings in capture devices NTSC one ends up streaming with max_pkt_size=2688 and PAL with max_pkt_size=2892, both with interval=1. In terms of microframe time allocation this gives NTSC ~53us PAL ~57us and together ~110us > 100us == 80% of 125us uframe time. So those two devices can't work together simultaneously because the'd over allocate isochronous bandwidth. 80% seemed a bit arbitrary to me, and I've tried to raise it to 90% and both devices started to work together, so I though sometimes it would be a good idea for users to override hardcoded default of max 80% isoc bandwidth. After all, isn't it a user who should decide how to load the bus? If I can live with 10% or even 5% bulk bandwidth that should be ok. I'm a USB newcomer, but that 80% set in stone by USB 2.0 specification seems to be chosen pretty arbitrary to me, just to serve as a reasonable default. NOTE 1 ~~~~~~ for two streams with max_pkt_size=3072 (worst case) both time allocation would be 60us+60us=120us which is 96% periodic bandwidth leaving 4% for bulk and control. Alan Stern suggested that bulk then would be problematic (less than 300*8 bittimes left per microframe), but I think that is still enough for control traffic. NOTE 2 ~~~~~~ Sarah Sharp expressed concern that maxing out periodic bandwidth could lead to vendor-specific hardware bugs on host controllers, because > It's entirely possible that you'll run into > vendor-specific bugs if you try to pack the schedule with isochronous > transfers. I don't think any hardware designer would seriously test or > validate their hardware with a schedule that is basically a violation of > the USB bus spec (more than 80% for periodic transfers). So far I've only tested this patch on my HP Mini 5103 with N10 chipset kirr@mini:~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8059 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 11) and the system works stable with 110us/uframe (~88%) isoc bandwith allocated for above-mentioned isochronous transfers. NOTE 3 ~~~~~~ This feature is off by default. I mean max periodic bandwidth is set to 100us/uframe by default exactly as it was before the patch. So only those of us who need the extreme settings are taking the risk - normal users who do not alter uframe_periodic_max sysfs attribute should not see any change at all. NOTE 4 ~~~~~~ I've tried to update documentation in Documentation/ABI/ thoroughly, but only "TBD" was put into Documentation/usb/ehci.txt -- the text there seems to be outdated and much needing refreshing, before it could be amended. Cc: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-06-15backlight: new driver for the ADP8870 backlight devicesMichael Hennerich1-0/+56
Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-13HID: roccat: Add "Roccat Talk" support for koneplusStefan Achatz1-0/+8
Added binary sysfs attribute to support new functionality the manufacturer added to koneplus. Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-05-26Merge branch 'linux-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-5/+4
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2 * 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2: (28 commits) Ocfs2: Teach local-mounted ocfs2 to handle unwritten_extents correctly. ocfs2/dlm: Do not migrate resource to a node that is leaving the domain ocfs2/dlm: Add new dlm message DLM_BEGIN_EXIT_DOMAIN_MSG Ocfs2/move_extents: Set several trivial constraints for threshold. Ocfs2/move_extents: Let defrag handle partial extent moving. Ocfs2/move_extents: move/defrag extents within a certain range. Ocfs2/move_extents: helper to calculate the defraging length in one run. Ocfs2/move_extents: move entire/partial extent. Ocfs2/move_extents: helpers to update the group descriptor and global bitmap inode. Ocfs2/move_extents: helper to probe a proper region to move in an alloc group. Ocfs2/move_extents: helper to validate and adjust moving goal. Ocfs2/move_extents: find the victim alloc group, where the given #blk fits. Ocfs2/move_extents: defrag a range of extent. Ocfs2/move_extents: move a range of extent. Ocfs2/move_extents: lock allocators and reserve metadata blocks and data clusters for extents moving. Ocfs2/move_extents: Add basic framework and source files for extent moving. Ocfs2/move_extents: Adding new ioctl code 'OCFS2_IOC_MOVE_EXT' to ocfs2. Ocfs2/refcounttree: Publicize couple of funcs from refcounttree.c Ocfs2: Add a new code 'OCFS2_INFO_FREEFRAG' for o2info ioctl. Ocfs2: Add a new code 'OCFS2_INFO_FREEINODE' for o2info ioctl. ...
2011-05-26Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+11
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djm/tmem * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djm/tmem: xen: cleancache shim to Xen Transcendent Memory ocfs2: add cleancache support ext4: add cleancache support btrfs: add cleancache support ext3: add cleancache support mm/fs: add hooks to support cleancache mm: cleancache core ops functions and config fs: add field to superblock to support cleancache mm/fs: cleancache documentation Fix up trivial conflict in fs/btrfs/extent_io.c due to includes
2011-05-26mm/fs: cleancache documentationDan Magenheimer1-0/+11
This patchset introduces cleancache, an optional new feature exposed by the VFS layer that potentially dramatically increases page cache effectiveness for many workloads in many environments at a negligible cost. It does this by providing an interface to transcendent memory, which is memory/storage that is not otherwise visible to and/or directly addressable by the kernel. Instead of being discarded, hooks in the reclaim code "put" clean pages to cleancache. Filesystems that "opt-in" may "get" pages from cleancache that were previously put, but pages in cleancache are "ephemeral", meaning they may disappear at any time. And the size of cleancache is entirely dynamic and unknowable to the kernel. Filesystems currently supported by this patchset include ext3, ext4, btrfs, and ocfs2. Other filesystems (especially those built entirely on VFS) should be easy to add, but should first be thoroughly tested to ensure coherency. Details and a FAQ are provided in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt This first patch of eight in this cleancache series only adds two new documentation files. [v8: minor documentation changes by author] [v3: akpm@linux-foundation.org: document sysfs API] [v3: hch@infradead.org: move detailed description to Documentation/vm] Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik Van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
2011-05-25Merge branch 'for-2.6.40/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds1-0/+64
* 'for-2.6.40/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (40 commits) cfq-iosched: free cic_index if cfqd allocation fails cfq-iosched: remove unused 'group_changed' in cfq_service_tree_add() cfq-iosched: reduce bit operations in cfq_choose_req() cfq-iosched: algebraic simplification in cfq_prio_to_maxrq() blk-cgroup: Initialize ioc->cgroup_changed at ioc creation time block: move bd_set_size() above rescan_partitions() in __blkdev_get() block: call elv_bio_merged() when merged cfq-iosched: Make IO merge related stats per cpu cfq-iosched: Fix a memory leak of per cpu stats for root group backing-dev: Kill set but not used var in bdi_debug_stats_show() block: get rid of on-stack plugging debug checks blk-throttle: Make no throttling rule group processing lockless blk-cgroup: Make cgroup stat reset path blkg->lock free for dispatch stats blk-cgroup: Make 64bit per cpu stats safe on 32bit arch blk-throttle: Make dispatch stats per cpu blk-throttle: Free up a group only after one rcu grace period blk-throttle: Use helper function to add root throtl group to lists blk-throttle: Introduce a helper function to fill in device details blk-throttle: Dynamically allocate root group blk-cgroup: Allow sleeping while dynamically allocating a group ...
2011-05-25Merge branch 'timers-ptp-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+98
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-ptp-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: ptp: Fix dp83640 build warning when building statically ptp: Added a clock driver for the National Semiconductor PHYTER. ptp: Added a clock driver for the IXP46x. ptp: Added a clock that uses the eTSEC found on the MPC85xx. ptp: Added a brand new class driver for ptp clocks.
2011-05-23ocfs2: remove the /sys/o2cb symlinkAmerigo Wang1-5/+4
It is obsoleted since Dec 2005. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
2011-05-23Merge branch 'linux-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+9
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 * 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (27 commits) PCI: Don't use dmi_name_in_vendors in quirk PCI: remove unused AER functions PCI/sysfs: move bus cpuaffinity to class dev_attrs PCI: add rescan to /sys/.../pci_bus/.../ PCI: update bridge resources to get more big ranges when allocating space (again) KVM: Use pci_store/load_saved_state() around VM device usage PCI: Add interfaces to store and load the device saved state PCI: Track the size of each saved capability data area PCI/e1000e: Add and use pci_disable_link_state_locked() x86/PCI: derive pcibios_last_bus from ACPI MCFG PCI: add latency tolerance reporting enable/disable support PCI: add OBFF enable/disable support PCI: add ID-based ordering enable/disable support PCI hotplug: acpiphp: assume device is in state D0 after powering on a slot. PCI: Set PCIE maxpayload for card during hotplug insertion PCI/ACPI: Report _OSC control mask returned on failure to get control x86/PCI: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Panther Point DeviceIDs PCI: handle positive error codes PCI: check pci_vpd_pci22_wait() return PCI: Use ICH6_GPIO_EN in ich6_lpc_acpi_gpio ... Fix up trivial conflicts in include/linux/pci_ids.h: commit a6e5e2be4461 moved the intel SMBUS ID definitons to the i2c-i801.c driver.
2011-05-23ptp: Added a brand new class driver for ptp clocks.Richard Cochran1-0/+98
This patch adds an infrastructure for hardware clocks that implement IEEE 1588, the Precision Time Protocol (PTP). A class driver offers a registration method to particular hardware clock drivers. Each clock is presented as a standard POSIX clock. The ancillary clock features are exposed in two different ways, via the sysfs and by a character device. Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-05-23Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-13/+16
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid: (36 commits) HID: hid-multitouch: cosmetic changes, sort classes and devices HID: hid-multitouch: class MT_CLS_STANTUM is redundant with MT_CLS_CONFIDENCE HID: hid-multitouch: add support for Unitec panels HID: hid-multitouch: add support for Touch International panels HID: hid-multitouch: add support for GoodTouch panels HID: hid-multitouch: add support for CVTouch panels HID: hid-multitouch: add support for ActionStar panels HID: hiddev: fix race between hiddev_disconnect and hiddev_release HID: magicmouse: ignore 'ivalid report id' while switching modes HID: fix a crash in hid_report_raw_event() function. HID: hid-multitouch: add support for Elo TouchSystems 2515 IntelliTouch Plus HID: assorted usage updates from hut 1.12 HID: roccat: fix actual/startup profile sysfs attribute in koneplus HID: hid-multitouch: Add support for Lumio panels HID: 'name' and 'phys' in 'struct hid_device' can never be NULL HID: hid-multitouch: add support for Ilitek dual-touch panel HID: picolcd: Avoid compile warning/error triggered by copy_from_user() HID: add support for Logitech G27 wheel HID: hiddev: fix error path in hiddev_read when interrupted HID: add support for Sony Navigation Controller ...
2011-05-21PCI: add rescan to /sys/.../pci_bus/.../Yinghai Lu1-0/+9
After remove the device from /sys, we have to rescan all or find out the bridge and access /sys../device/rescan there. this patch add /sys/.../pci_bus/.../rescan. So user can rescan more easy. that is more clean and easy to understand. like after remove 0000:c4:00.0, you can rescan 0000:c4 directly. -v2: According to Jesse, use function instead of exposing attr, so could hide #ifdef in header file. also add code to remove rescan file in remove path. -v3: GregKH pointed out that we should use dev_attrs to avoid racing. So add pcibus_attrs and make it to be member of pcibus_attrs. -v4: Change name to pcibus_dev_attrs according to GregKH Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2011-05-20Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6Linus Torvalds1-0/+31
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1446 commits) macvlan: fix panic if lowerdev in a bond tg3: Add braces around 5906 workaround. tg3: Fix NETIF_F_LOOPBACK error macvlan: remove one synchronize_rcu() call networking: NET_CLS_ROUTE4 depends on INET irda: Fix error propagation in ircomm_lmp_connect_response() irda: Kill set but unused variable 'bytes' in irlan_check_command_param() irda: Kill set but unused variable 'clen' in ircomm_connect_indication() rxrpc: Fix set but unused variable 'usage' in rxrpc_get_transport() be2net: Kill set but unused variable 'req' in lancer_fw_download() irda: Kill set but unused vars 'saddr' and 'daddr' in irlan_provider_connect_indication() atl1c: atl1c_resume() is only used when CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is defined. rxrpc: Fix set but unused variable 'usage' in rxrpc_get_peer(). rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'local' in rxrpc_UDP_error_handler() rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'sp' in rxrpc_process_connection() rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'sp' in rxrpc_rotate_tx_window() pkt_sched: Kill set but unused variable 'protocol' in tc_classify() isdn: capi: Use pr_debug() instead of ifdefs. tg3: Update version to 3.119 tg3: Apply rx_discards fix to 5719/5720 ... Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/Kconfig and net/mac80211/agg-tx.c as per Davem.
2011-05-19Merge branch 'driver-core-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds4-9/+82
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6 * 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (44 commits) debugfs: Silence DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS=y warning sysfs: remove "last sysfs file:" line from the oops messages drivers/base/memory.c: fix warning due to "memory hotplug: Speed up add/remove when blocks are larger than PAGES_PER_SECTION" memory hotplug: Speed up add/remove when blocks are larger than PAGES_PER_SECTION SYSFS: Fix erroneous comments for sysfs_update_group(). driver core: remove the driver-model structures from the documentation driver core: Add the device driver-model structures to kerneldoc Translated Documentation/email-clients.txt RAW driver: Remove call to kobject_put(). reboot: disable usermodehelper to prevent fs access efivars: prevent oops on unload when efi is not enabled Allow setting of number of raw devices as a module parameter Introduce CONFIG_GOOGLE_FIRMWARE driver: Google Memory Console driver: Google EFI SMI x86: Better comments for get_bios_ebda() x86: get_bios_ebda_length() misc: fix ti-st build issues params.c: Use new strtobool function to process boolean inputs debugfs: move to new strtobool ... Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/debugfs/file.c due to the same patch being applied twice, and an unrelated cleanup nearby.
2011-05-19Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-17/+17
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, cpu: Fix detection of Celeron Covington stepping A1 and B0 Documentation, ABI: Update L3 cache index disable text x86, AMD, cacheinfo: Fix L3 cache index disable checks x86, AMD, cacheinfo: Fix fallout caused by max3 conversion x86, cpu: Change NOP selection for certain Intel CPUs x86, cpu: Clean up and unify the NOP selection infrastructure x86, percpu: Use ASM_NOP4 instead of hardcoding P6_NOP4 x86, cpu: Move AMD Elan Kconfig under "Processor family" Fix up trivial conflicts in alternative handling (commit dc326fca2b64 "x86, cpu: Clean up and unify the NOP selection infrastructure" removed some hacky 5-byte instruction stuff, while commit d430d3d7e646 "jump label: Introduce static_branch() interface" renamed HAVE_JUMP_LABEL to CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL in the code that went away)
2011-05-18Merge branch 'master' into upstream.Jiri Kosina19-40/+176
This is sync with Linus' tree to receive KEY_IMAGES definition that went in through input tree.
2011-05-18HID: roccat: fix actual/startup profile sysfs attribute in koneplusStefan Achatz2-13/+16
startup_profile and actual_profile didn't work as expected. Also as the actual profile is persistent, the distinction between the two was ambiguous, so both use the same code now and startup_profile has been deprecated. Also the event is now propagated through chardev. The userland tool has been updated to support this change. Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-05-18block: Add sysfs documentation for the discard topology parametersMartin K. Petersen1-0/+64
Add documentation for the discard I/O topology parameters exported in sysfs. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-17PM / Hibernate: Add sysfs knob to control size of memory for driversRafael J. Wysocki1-0/+14
Martin reports that on his system hibernation occasionally fails due to the lack of memory, because the radeon driver apparently allocates too much of it during the device freeze stage. It turns out that the amount of memory allocated by radeon during hibernation (and presumably during system suspend too) depends on the utilization of the GPU (e.g. hibernating while there are two KDE 4 sessions with compositing enabled causes radeon to allocate more memory than for one KDE 4 session). In principle it should be possible to use image_size to make the memory preallocation mechanism free enough memory for the radeon driver, but in practice it is not easy to guess the right value because of the way the preallocation code uses image_size. For this reason, it seems reasonable to allow users to control the amount of memory reserved for driver allocations made after the hibernate preallocation, which currently is constant and amounts to 1 MB. Introduce a new sysfs file, /sys/power/reserved_size, whose value will be used as the amount of memory to reserve for the post-preallocation reservations made by device drivers, in bytes. For backwards compatibility, set its default (and initial) value to the currently used number (1 MB). References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34102 Reported-and-tested-by: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@Lichtvoll.de> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-05-16Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville1-0/+31
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-tx.c net/mac80211/sta_info.h
2011-05-16Documentation, ABI: Update L3 cache index disable textBorislav Petkov1-17/+17
Change contact person to AMD kernel mailing list, update text and external references, drop "Users:" tag. Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305553188-21061-4-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-05-10bcma: add Broadcom specific AMBA bus driverRafał Miłecki1-0/+31
Broadcom has released cards based on a new AMBA-based bus type. From a programming point of view, this new bus type differs from AMBA and does not use AMBA common registers. It also differs enough from SSB. We decided that a new bus driver is needed to keep the code clean. In its current form, the driver detects devices present on the bus and registers them in the system. It allows registering BCMA drivers for specified bus devices and provides them basic operations. The bus driver itself includes two important bus managing drivers: ChipCommon core driver and PCI(c) core driver. They are early used to allow correct initialization. Currently code is limited to supporting buses on PCI(e) devices, however the driver is designed to be used also on other hosts. The host abstraction layer is implemented and already used for PCI(e). Support for PCI(e) hosts is working and seems to be stable (access to 80211 core was tested successfully on a few devices). We can still optimize it by using some fixed windows, but this can be done later without affecting any external code. Windows are just ranges in MMIO used for accessing cores on the bus. Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Michael Büsch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: George Kashperko <george@znau.edu.ua> Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Andy Botting <andy@andybotting.com> Cc: linuxdriverproject <devel@linuxdriverproject.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-29driver: Google Memory ConsoleMike Waychison1-0/+7
This patch introduces the 'memconsole' driver. Our firmware gives us access to an in-memory log of the firmware's output. This gives us visibility in a data-center of headless machines as to what the firmware is doing. The memory console is found by the driver by finding a header block in the EBDA. The buffer is then copied out, and is exported to userland in the file /sys/firmware/log. Signed-off-by: San Mehat <san@google.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-29driver: Google EFI SMIMike Waychison1-0/+58
The "gsmi" driver bridges userland with firmware specific routines for accessing hardware. Currently, this driver only supports NVRAM and eventlog information. Deprecated functions have been removed from the driver, though their op-codes are left in place so that they are not re-used. This driver works by trampolining into the firmware via the smi_command outlined in the FADT table. Three protocols are used due to various limitations over time, but all are included herein. This driver should only ever load on Google boards, identified by either a "Google, Inc." board vendor string in DMI, or "GOOGLE" in the OEM strings of the FADT ACPI table. This logic happens in gsmi_system_valid(). Signed-off-by: Duncan Laurie <dlaurie@google.com> Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>