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Transform some calls to kmalloc/memset to a single kzalloc (or kcalloc).
Here is a short excerpt of the semantic patch performing
this transformation:
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type T2;
expression x;
identifier f,fld;
expression E;
expression E1,E2;
expression e1,e2,e3,y;
statement S;
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x =
- kmalloc
+ kzalloc
(E1,E2)
... when != \(x->fld=E;\|y=f(...,x,...);\|f(...,x,...);\|x=E;\|while(...) S\|for(e1;e2;e3) S\)
- memset((T2)x,0,E1);
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expression E1,E2,E3;
@@
- kzalloc(E1 * E2,E3)
+ kcalloc(E1,E2,E3)
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: get kcalloc args the right way around]
Signed-off-by: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This version brings a number of new checks, and a number of bug
fixes. Of note:
- warnings for multiple assignments per line
- warnings for multiple declarations per line
- checks for single statement blocks with braces
This patch includes an update for feature-removal-schedule.txt to
better target checks.
Andy Whitcroft (12):
Version: 0.08
only apply printk checks where there is a string literal
allow suppression of errors for when no patch is found
warn about multiple assignments
warn on declaration of multiple variables
check for kfree() with needless null check
check for single statement braced blocks
check for aggregate initialisation on the next line
handle the => operator
check for spaces between function name and open parenthesis
move to explicit Check: entries in feature-removal-schedule.txt
handle pointer attributes
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch adds the documentation for /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove include/linux/rmap.h from kernel-api.tmpl since it no longer
contains kernel-doc. Fixes this warning:
Warning(linux-2.6.22//include/linux/rmap.h): no structured comments found
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add kernel-doc tools info in Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The purpose of audit_bprm() is to log the argv array to a userspace daemon at
the end of the execve system call. Since user-space hasn't had time to run,
this array is still in pristine state on the process' stack; so no need to
copy it, we can just grab it from there.
In order to minimize the damage to audit_log_*() copy each string into a
temporary kernel buffer first.
Currently the audit code requires that the full argument vector fits in a
single packet. So currently it does clip the argv size to a (sysctl) limit,
but only when execve auditing is enabled.
If the audit protocol gets extended to allow for multiple packets this check
can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com>
Cc: <linux-audit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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AFAICT now that jprobe.entry is a void *, JPROBE_ENTRY doesn't do anything
useful - so remove it ..
I've left a do-nothing version so that out-of-tree jprobes code will still
compile without modifications.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Clarify that drivers using the GPIO operations don't need to issue io
barrier instructions themselves. Previously this wasn't clear, and at
least one platform assumed otherwise (and would thus break various
otherwise-portable drivers which don't issue barriers).
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Make it possible to register hibernation and suspend notifiers, so that
subsystems can perform hibernation-related or suspend-related operations that
should not be carried out by device drivers' .suspend() and .resume()
routines.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Change ->fault prototype. We now return an int, which contains
VM_FAULT_xxx code in the low byte, and FAULT_RET_xxx code in the next byte.
FAULT_RET_ code tells the VM whether a page was found, whether it has been
locked, and potentially other things. This is not quite the way he wanted
it yet, but that's changed in the next patch (which requires changes to
arch code).
This means we no longer set VM_CAN_INVALIDATE in the vma in order to say
that a page is locked which requires filemap_nopage to go away (because we
can no longer remain backward compatible without that flag), but we were
going to do that anyway.
struct fault_data is renamed to struct vm_fault as Linus asked. address
is now a void __user * that we should firmly encourage drivers not to use
without really good reason.
The page is now returned via a page pointer in the vm_fault struct.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There seems to be very little documentation about this callback in general.
The locking in particular is a bit tricky, so it's worth having this in
writing.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nonlinear mappings are (AFAIKS) simply a virtual memory concept that encodes
the virtual address -> file offset differently from linear mappings.
->populate is a layering violation because the filesystem/pagecache code
should need to know anything about the virtual memory mapping. The hitch here
is that the ->nopage handler didn't pass down enough information (ie. pgoff).
But it is more logical to pass pgoff rather than have the ->nopage function
calculate it itself anyway (because that's a similar layering violation).
Having the populate handler install the pte itself is likewise a nasty thing
to be doing.
This patch introduces a new fault handler that replaces ->nopage and
->populate and (later) ->nopfn. Most of the old mechanism is still in place
so there is a lot of duplication and nice cleanups that can be removed if
everyone switches over.
The rationale for doing this in the first place is that nonlinear mappings are
subject to the pagefault vs invalidate/truncate race too, and it seemed stupid
to duplicate the synchronisation logic rather than just consolidate the two.
After this patch, MAP_NONBLOCK no longer sets up ptes for pages present in
pagecache. Seems like a fringe functionality anyway.
NOPAGE_REFAULT is removed. This should be implemented with ->fault, and no
users have hit mainline yet.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: doc. fixes for readahead]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6:
eHEA: Fix bonding support
Blackfin ethernet driver: on chip ethernet MAC controller driver
fix wrong argument of tc35815_read_plat_dev_addr()
ARM/ETHER3: Handle multicast frames.
SAA9730: Handle multicast frames.
NI5010: Handle multicast frames.
NS83820: Handle multicast frames.
Fix RGMII-ID handling in gianfar
Fix Vitesse RGMII-ID support
Add phy-connection-type to gianfar nodes
Fix Vitesse 824x PHY interrupt acking
[PATCH] zd1211rw: Add ID for Siemens Gigaset USB Stick 54
[PATCH] zd1211rw: Add ID for Planex GW-US54GXS
[PATCH] Update version ipw2200 stamp to 1.2.2
[PATCH] ipw2200: Fix ipw_isr() comments error on shared IRQ
[PATCH] Fix ipw2200 set wrong power parameter causing firmware error
[PATCH] ipw2100: Fix `iwpriv set_power` error
[PATCH] softmac: Channel is listed twice in scan output
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/docs-2.6:
zh_CN/HOWTO: update URLs of git trees
Chinese translation of Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt
HOWTO: add Chinese translation of Documentation/HOWTO
Documentation: add Japanese translated stable_api_nonsense.txt
HOWTO: add Japanese translation of Documentation/HOWTO
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
sysfs: cosmetic clean up on node creation failure paths
sysfs: kill an extra put in sysfs_create_link() failure path
Driver core: check return code of sysfs_create_link()
HOWTO: Add the knwon_regression URI to the documentation
dev_vdbg() documentation
dev_vdbg(), available with -DVERBOSE_DEBUG
sysfs: make sysfs_init_inode() static
sysfs: fix sysfs root inode nlink accounting
Documentation fix devres.txt: lib/iomap.c -> lib/devres.c
sysfs: avoid kmem_cache_free(NULL)
PM: remove deprecated dpm_runtime_* routines
PM: Remove deprecated sysfs files
Driver core: accept all valid action-strings in uevent-trigger
debugfs: remove rmdir() non-empty complaint
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/uio-2.6:
UIO: Hilscher CIF card driver
UIO: Documentation
UIO: Add the User IO core code
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: (29 commits)
IB/mthca: Simplify use of size0 in work request posting
IB/mthca: Factor out setting WQE UD segment entries
IB/mthca: Factor out setting WQE remote address and atomic segment entries
IB/mlx4: Factor out setting other WQE segments
IB/mlx4: Factor out setting WQE data segment entries
IB/mthca: Factor out setting WQE data segment entries
IB/mlx4: Return receive queue sizes for userspace QPs from query QP
IB/mlx4: Increase max outstanding RDMA reads as target
RDMA/cma: Remove local write permission from QP access flags
IB/mthca: Use uninitialized_var() for f0
IB/cm: Make internal function cm_get_ack_delay() static
IB/ipath: Remove ipath_get_user_pages_nocopy()
IB/ipath: Make a few functions static
mlx4_core: Reset device when internal error is detected
IB/iser: Make a couple of functions static
IB/mthca: Fix printk format used for firmware version in warning
IB/mthca: Schedule MSI support for removal
IB/ehca: Fix warnings issued by checkpatch.pl
IB/ehca: Restructure ehca_set_pagebuf()
IB/ehca: MR/MW structure refactoring
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Addressing patch from Stefan Richter:
HOWTO: update URLs of git trees
(It will be better if we update this to commit-id later)
Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This is a Chinese translated version of
Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt.
From: TripleX <zhongyu@18mail.cn>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This is a Chinese translated version of Documentation/HOWTO. Currently
Chinese involvement in Linux kernel is very low, especially comparing to
its largest population base. Language could be the main obstacle. Hope
this document will help more Chinese to contribute to Linux kernel.
Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: TripleX Chung <xxx.phy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Maggie Chen <chenqi@beyondsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: IKEDA, Munehiro <m-ikeda@ds.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Add the japanese translation of the Documentation/HOWTO file.
Signed-off-by: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com>
Cc: IKEDA Munehiro <m-ikeda@ds.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Documentation for the UIO interface
From: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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We should let everybody know about where the regression
list is hosted. The more is known the more it is used.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Cc: TripleX Chung <xxx.phy@gmail.com>
Cc: Maggie Chen <chenqi@beyondsoft.com>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com>
Cc: IKEDA Munehiro <m-ikeda@ds.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Update CodingStyle to talk about "-DDEBUG" message conventions and the
new "-DVERBOSE_DEBUG" convention.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch (as933) removes the deprecated dpm_runtime_suspend() and
dpm_runtime_resume() routines from the PM core. The only user of
those routines is the PCMCIA ds driver; local replacements are added.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
CC: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch (as932) removes the deprecated sysfs .../power/state
attribute files.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The TSEC/eTSEC automatically detect their PHY interface type, unless
the type is RGMII-ID (RGMII with internal delay). In that situation,
it just detects RGMII. In order to fix this, we need to pass in rgmii-id
if that is the connection type.
Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
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Better way of creating and loading the firmware used.
Update for get_dvb_firmware script to extract the files for opera usb-box
Help file for creating the firmware added
Signed-off-by: Marco Gittler <g.marco@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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add analog video support for DViCO FusionHDTV 2
Thanks to Todd Ignasiak for donating the card.
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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The old description was "Philips 1236D ATSC/NTSC dual in", which can be
confused with other Philips tuner models. This patch corrects the name
to "Philips FCV1236D ATSC/NTSC dual in", and updates the range and params
array names to match the description.
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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Add Trust Powerc@m 970Z (0x06d6:0x003b) to the list of supported devices.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Jacquet <royale@zerezo.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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Get_dvb_firmware: update script for new location of sp8870 firmware
This url is no longer valid:
http://www.technotrend.de/new/217g/tt_Premium_217g.zip
Replace with:
http://www.softwarepatch.pl/9999ccd06a4813cb827dbb0005071c71/tt_Premium_217g.zip
Thanks-to: Tobias Stoeber <tobi@to-st.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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- Add support for pair OV7630+SN9C120
- Better and safe locking mechanism of the device structure on open(),
close() and disconnect()
- Use kref for handling device deallocation
- Generic cleanups
Signed-off-by: Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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This patch synchronizes the Documentation for bt8xx-based cards to the
actual state of kernel 2.6.22-rc1.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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Signed-off-by: Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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Support the 10moons TM300 TV card (so called TV Master 3), which is a
10moons saa7130 based board. Here not include features for the
IR-remote.
It has been tested using TVTIME. The card was auto-detected and all the
input sources worked correct with sound.
Signed-off-by: Tony Wan <wankai@sjtu.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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This driver were made based on tea5761 specs.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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The mthca driver supports both MSI and MSI-X. However, MSI-X works with
all hardware that the driver handles, and provides a superset of what
MSI does, so there's no point in having code for both. Schedule MSI
support for removal in 2008 to give anyone who actually needs MSI and
who can't use MSI time to speak up.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hcegtvedt@atmel.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This adds a driver for the LM70-LLP parport adapter, which is an eval board
for the LM70 temperature sensor. For those without that board, it may be a
simpler example of a parport-to-SPI adapter then spi_butterfly.
Signed-off-by: Kaiwan N Billimoria <kaiwan@designergraphix.com>
Doc, coding style, and interface updates; build fixes. Minor rename.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add CRC7 routines, used for example in MMC over SPI communication.
Kerneldoc updates
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix funny mix of const and non-const]
Signed-off-by: Jan Nikitenko <jan.nikitenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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If the kernel OOPSed or BUGed then it probably should be considered as
tainted. Thus, all subsequent OOPSes and SysRq dumps will report the
tainted kernel. This saves a lot of time explaining oddities in the
calltraces.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Added parisc patch from Matthew Wilson -Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.
It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.
The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Changes the error reporting format to loosely follow lockdep.
If data corruption is detected then we generate the following lines:
============================================
BUG <slab-cache>: <problem>
--------------------------------------------
INFO: <more information> [possibly multiple times]
<object dump>
FIX <slab-cache>: <remedial action>
This also adds some more intelligence to the data corruption detection. Its
now capable of figuring out the start and end.
Add a comment on how to configure SLUB so that a production system may
continue to operate even though occasional slab corruption occur through
a misbehaving kernel component. See "Emergency operations" in
Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch adds a new parameter for sizing ZONE_MOVABLE called
movablecore=. While kernelcore= is used to specify the minimum amount of
memory that must be available for all allocation types, movablecore= is
used to specify the minimum amount of memory that is used for migratable
allocations. The amount of memory used for migratable allocations
determines how large the huge page pool could be dynamically resized to at
runtime for example.
How movablecore is actually handled is that the total number of pages in
the system is calculated and a value is set for kernelcore that is
kernelcore == totalpages - movablecore
Both kernelcore= and movablecore= can be safely specified at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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