pm24.git/init, branch v2.6.30-rc4

Driver Core: early platform driver

2009-04-16T23:17:10Z

V3 of the early platform driver implementation. Platform drivers are great for embedded platforms because we can separate driver configuration from the actual driver. So base addresses, interrupts and other configuration can be kept with the processor or board code, and the platform driver can be reused by many different platforms. For early devices we have nothing today. For instance, to configure early timers and early serial ports we cannot use platform devices. This because the setup order during boot. Timers are needed before the platform driver core code is available. The same goes for early printk support. Early in this case means before initcalls. These early drivers today have their configuration either hard coded or they receive it using some special configuration method. This is working quite well, but if we want to support both regular kernel modules and early devices then we need to have two ways of configuring the same driver. A single way would be better. The early platform driver patch is basically a set of functions that allow drivers to register themselves and architecture code to locate them and probe. Registration happens through early_param(). The time for the probe is decided by the architecture code. See Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt for more details. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm Cc: Paul Mundt Cc: Kay Sievers Cc: David Brownell Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

initramfs: fix initramfs to work with hardlinked init

2009-04-13T22:04:31Z

Change cb6ff208076b5f434db1b8c983429269d719cef5 ("NOMMU: Support XIP on initramfs") seems to have broken booting from initramfs with /sbin/init being a hardlink. It seems like the logic required for XIP on nommu, i.e. ftruncate to reported cpio header file size (body_len) is broken for hardlinks, which have a reported size of 0, and the truncate thus nukes the contents of the file (in my case busybox), making boot impossible and ending with runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000 - and of course 0000 is not a valid binary format. My fix is to only call ftruncate if size is non-zero which fixes things for me, but I'm not certain whether this will break XIP for those files on nommu systems, although I would guess not. Signed-off-by: Randy Robertson Acked-by: David Howells Acked-by: Paul Mundt Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

init/initramfs: fix warning with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=n

2009-04-13T22:04:28Z

init/initramfs.c:520: warning: 'clean_rootfs' defined but not used Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kbuild: make it possible for the linker to discard local symbols from vmlinux

2009-04-11T06:18:10Z

Make it possible for the linker to discard local symbols from vmlinux as they cause vmlinux to balloon when CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y and they cause dump_stack() and get_wchan() to produce useless information under some circumstances. With this we add a config option (CONFIG_STRIP_ASM_SYMS) that will cause the build to supply -X to the linker to tell it to strip temporary local symbols. This doesn't seem to cause gdb any problems. Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

namespaces: mqueue namespace: adapt sysctl

2009-04-07T15:31:09Z

Largely inspired from ipc/ipc_sysctl.c. This patch isolates the mqueue sysctl stuff in its own file. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

namespaces: mqueue ns: move mqueue_mnt into struct ipc_namespace

2009-04-07T15:31:09Z

Move mqueue vfsmount plus a few tunables into the ipc_namespace struct. The CONFIG_IPC_NS boolean and the ipc_namespace struct will serve both the posix message queue namespaces and the SYSV ipc namespaces. The sysctl code will be fixed separately in patch 3. After just this patch, making a change to posix mqueue tunables always changes the values in the initial ipc namespace. Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Make CONFIG_SLOW_WORK an automatic rather than manual config option

2009-04-06T21:31:28Z

Make CONFIG_SLOW_WORK an automatic rather than manual config option so that people configuring their kernels don't have to make the choice. It can be selected automatically by those things that require it (such as FS-Cache). Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Jeff Garzik Acked-by: Kyle McMartin Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2009-04-05T18:04:19Z

* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (413 commits) tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free function-graph: allow unregistering twice trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve() blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly blktrace: extract duplidate code blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos blktrace: make classic output more classic blktrace: fix off-by-one bug blktrace: fix the original blktrace blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release() x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix ... Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h include/linux/memory.h kernel/extable.c kernel/module.c

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2009-04-03T22:24:35Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (28 commits) trivial: Update my email address trivial: NULL noise: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_*test.c trivial: NULL noise: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drx397xD_fw.h trivial: Fix misspelling of "Celsius". trivial: remove unused variable 'path' in alloc_file() trivial: fix a pdlfush -> pdflush typo in comment trivial: jbd header comment typo fix for JBD_PARANOID_IOFAIL trivial: wusb: Storage class should be before const qualifier trivial: drivers/char/bsr.c: Storage class should be before const qualifier trivial: h8300: Storage class should be before const qualifier trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to trivial: Give the right path in Documentation example trivial: MTD: remove EOL from MODULE_DESCRIPTION trivial: Fix typo in bio_split()'s documentation trivial: PWM: fix of #endif comment trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware trivial: cgroups: documentation typo and spelling corrections trivial: Update contact info for Jochen Hein trivial: fix typo "resgister" -> "register" ...

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache

2009-04-03T17:07:43Z

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache: (41 commits) NFS: Add mount options to enable local caching on NFS NFS: Display local caching state NFS: Store pages from an NFS inode into a local cache NFS: Read pages from FS-Cache into an NFS inode NFS: nfs_readpage_async() needs to be accessible as a fallback for local caching NFS: Add read context retention for FS-Cache to call back with NFS: FS-Cache page management NFS: Add some new I/O counters for FS-Cache doing things for NFS NFS: Invalidate FsCache page flags when cache removed NFS: Use local disk inode cache NFS: Define and create inode-level cache objects NFS: Define and create superblock-level objects NFS: Define and create server-level objects NFS: Register NFS for caching and retrieve the top-level index NFS: Permit local filesystem caching to be enabled for NFS NFS: Add FS-Cache option bit and debug bit NFS: Add comment banners to some NFS functions FS-Cache: Make kAFS use FS-Cache CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem CacheFiles: Export things for CacheFiles ...