- 04 Apr, 2015 1 commit
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Fu Wei authored
This is a Chinese translated version of Documentation/arm64/legacy_instructions.txt It is based on the modifications of Documentation/arm64/legacy_instructions.txt in submission: "587064b6", "bd35a4ad", "2d888f48", "c852f320". Signed-off-by: Fu Wei <wefu@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- 26 Mar, 2015 2 commits
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Michael Opdenacker authored
This fixes the bibliography hyperlink to "http://www.eia.org" which now redirects to a page with a "404 Not found" error. The latest update to the document referred to is now available on the Consumer Electronics Association website. Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Jonathan Corbet authored
The previous maintainer didn't want translation patches, but I'll happily take them. Also note a few subdirectories where the subsystem maintainers would prefer to handle docs patches themselves. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- 20 Mar, 2015 14 commits
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Yaowei Bai authored
Kernel.org is only hosting patches and kernel compressed with xz, so change the old gzip/bzip2 instances to xz. Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Jeff Kirsher authored
When 4.0 is released, the README should reflect the new numbering. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Masanari Iida authored
This patch fix spelling typo in Documentation/PCI. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Liviu Dudau authored
The documentation is trying to describe accessing a field through a pointer, but it is using '-<' instead of '->'. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Leonid V. Fedorenchik authored
Remove mentioning of block barriers since they were removed. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Leonid V. Fedorenchik <leonidsbox@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Giedrius Statkevičius authored
Fix one grammar mistake (Allows->Allow) and add extra information about the external editor add-on of Thunderbird: the developer must make sure that their editor doesn't fork (IOW it mustn't return before closing) thus they should be careful how they configure the addon. Furthermore, add a tip how to do it with gvim. Signed-off-by: Giedrius Statkevičius <giedrius.statkevicius@gmail.com> [jc: some minor wording/formatting tweaks] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Li Bin authored
The patch 125e5645("Move Kconfig.instrumentation to arch/Kconfig and init/Kconfig") had removed the "Instrumentation Support" menu, and the configurations under this had be moved to "General setup". Update Documentation/kprobes.txt to reflect this change. Signed-off-by: Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Wolfram Sang authored
We can remove the i2o documentation because a) the subsystem has been moved to staging with commit 2cbf7fe2 (i2o: move to staging) anyhow and b) the here removed files are present in the subsystem directory again. There, README even has an additional paragraph and the ioctl docs only differ in whitespaces. Well... Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Wang Long authored
The CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC option now is located under "Kernel hacking" / "Memory Debugging" / "Debug page memory allocations". so we should update the description in kmemcheck.txt. Signed-off-by: Wang Long <long.wanglong@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Sheng Yong authored
Fix a trivial typo in Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt. Signed-off-by: Sheng Yong <shengyong1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
The documentation and the code disagrees; fix the former. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Valentin Rothberg authored
The IRQF_DISABLED is a NOOP and scheduled to be removed. According to Ingo Molnar in commit e58aa3d2 (genirq: Run irq handlers with interrupts disabled), running IRQ handlers with interrupts enabled can cause stack overflows when the interrupt line of the issuing device is still active. This patch removes IRQF_DISABLED from this documentation. It was mentioned to be a solution to avoid deadlocks when a device uses multiple interrupts. As the flag is a NOOP this solution does not work anymore. Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <Valentin.Rothberg@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Ebru Akagunduz authored
max_ptes_none specifies how many extra small pages (that are not already mapped) can be allocated when collapsing a group of small pages into one large page. /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_none A higher value leads to use additional memory for programs. A lower value leads to gain less thp performance. Value of max_ptes_none can waste cpu time very little, you can ignore it. Signed-off-by: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Wang Long authored
as the commit: "lib/vsprintf: implement bitmap printing through '%*pb[l]'" add an easy way to print bitmaps. so printk-formats.txt should reflect it. Signed-off-by: Wang Long <long.wanglong@huawei.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- 19 Mar, 2015 1 commit
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Masanari Iida authored
This patch fix spelling typos in Documentations/input. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- 27 Feb, 2015 5 commits
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Heinrich Schuchardt authored
Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt describes that a callback function can be added to the notification chain by calling hotplug_memory_notifier(). The function prototype of the callback function is mssing. This missing information is added by the patch. The description of the arguments of the callback function is reworked. The constants for the event types are corrected. The possible return values are explained. Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Pavel Kretov authored
Try to make coding style documentation look a bit more readable and consistent with the following: - indent every code example in C to first tab-stop; - surround every code example with empty lines, both top and bottom; - remove empty lines where text looked way too spare; - do not indent examples in elisp and kconfig; - do not do any non-whitespace changes. Signed-off-by: Pavel Kretov <firegurafiku@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Pavel Kretov authored
Coding style description has a irregular mixture of tabs and spaces in two places which is bad by any means and can possibly hurt somebody's sense of beauty. Signed-off-by: Pavel Kretov <firegurafiku@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Robert P. J. Day authored
Even "private" structure members need a leading "@" in their kernel-doc; otherwise, they will be treated as new section names in the resulting manual. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Acked-By: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Gregory Fong authored
The documentation specified that a machine type is mandatory and made that assumption in a few places. However, for DT-only platforms, the current advice is that no machine type should be registered, so update accordingly. Signed-off-by: Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- 23 Feb, 2015 3 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
.. after extensive statistical analysis of my G+ polling, I've come to the inescapable conclusion that internet polls are bad. Big surprise. But "Hurr durr I'ma sheep" trounced "I like online polls" by a 62-to-38% margin, in a poll that people weren't even supposed to participate in. Who can argue with solid numbers like that? 5,796 votes from people who can't even follow the most basic directions? In contrast, "v4.0" beat out "v3.20" by a slimmer margin of 56-to-44%, but with a total of 29,110 votes right now. Now, arguably, that vote spread is only about 3,200 votes, which is less than the almost six thousand votes that the "please ignore" poll got, so it could be considered noise. But hey, I asked, so I'll honor the votes.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4Linus Torvalds authored
Pull ext4 fixes from Ted Ts'o: "Ext4 bug fixes. We also reserved code points for encryption and read-only images (for which the implementation is mostly just the reserved code point for a read-only feature :-)" * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: fix indirect punch hole corruption ext4: ignore journal checksum on remount; don't fail ext4: remove duplicate remount check for JOURNAL_CHECKSUM change ext4: fix mmap data corruption in nodelalloc mode when blocksize < pagesize ext4: support read-only images ext4: change to use setup_timer() instead of init_timer() ext4: reserve codepoints used by the ext4 encryption feature jbd2: complain about descriptor block checksum errors
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro: "Assorted stuff from this cycle. The big ones here are multilayer overlayfs from Miklos and beginning of sorting ->d_inode accesses out from David" * 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (51 commits) autofs4 copy_dev_ioctl(): keep the value of ->size we'd used for allocation procfs: fix race between symlink removals and traversals debugfs: leave freeing a symlink body until inode eviction Documentation/filesystems/Locking: ->get_sb() is long gone trylock_super(): replacement for grab_super_passive() fanotify: Fix up scripted S_ISDIR/S_ISREG/S_ISLNK conversions Cachefiles: Fix up scripted S_ISDIR/S_ISREG/S_ISLNK conversions VFS: (Scripted) Convert S_ISLNK/DIR/REG(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_*(dentry) SELinux: Use d_is_positive() rather than testing dentry->d_inode Smack: Use d_is_positive() rather than testing dentry->d_inode TOMOYO: Use d_is_dir() rather than d_inode and S_ISDIR() Apparmor: Use d_is_positive/negative() rather than testing dentry->d_inode Apparmor: mediated_filesystem() should use dentry->d_sb not inode->i_sb VFS: Split DCACHE_FILE_TYPE into regular and special types VFS: Add a fallthrough flag for marking virtual dentries VFS: Add a whiteout dentry type VFS: Introduce inode-getting helpers for layered/unioned fs environments Infiniband: Fix potential NULL d_inode dereference posix_acl: fix reference leaks in posix_acl_create autofs4: Wrong format for printing dentry ...
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- 22 Feb, 2015 14 commits
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git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-armLinus Torvalds authored
Pull ARM fix from Russell King: "Just one fix this time around. __iommu_alloc_buffer() can cause a BUG() if dma_alloc_coherent() is called with either __GFP_DMA32 or __GFP_HIGHMEM set. The patch from Alexandre addresses this" * 'fixes' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: ARM: 8305/1: DMA: Fix kzalloc flags in __iommu_alloc_buffer()
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Al Viro authored
X-Coverup: just ask spender Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
use_pde()/unuse_pde() in ->follow_link()/->put_link() resp. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
As it is, we have debugfs_remove() racing with symlink traversals. Supply ->evict_inode() and do freeing there - inode will remain pinned until we are done with the symlink body. And rip the idiocy with checking if dentry is positive right after we'd verified debugfs_positive(), which is a stronger check... Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Konstantin Khlebnikov authored
I've noticed significant locking contention in memory reclaimer around sb_lock inside grab_super_passive(). Grab_super_passive() is called from two places: in icache/dcache shrinkers (function super_cache_scan) and from writeback (function __writeback_inodes_wb). Both are required for progress in memory allocator. Grab_super_passive() acquires sb_lock to increment sb->s_count and check sb->s_instances. It seems sb->s_umount locked for read is enough here: super-block deactivation always runs under sb->s_umount locked for write. Protecting super-block itself isn't a problem: in super_cache_scan() sb is protected by shrinker_rwsem: it cannot be freed if its slab shrinkers are still active. Inside writeback super-block comes from inode from bdi writeback list under wb->list_lock. This patch removes locking sb_lock and checks s_instances under s_umount: generic_shutdown_super() unlinks it under sb->s_umount locked for write. New variant is called trylock_super() and since it only locks semaphore, callers must call up_read(&sb->s_umount) instead of drop_super(sb) when they're done. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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David Howells authored
Fanotify probably doesn't want to watch autodirs so make it use d_can_lookup() rather than d_is_dir() when checking a dir watch and give an error on fake directories. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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David Howells authored
Fix up the following scripted S_ISDIR/S_ISREG/S_ISLNK conversions (or lack thereof) in cachefiles: (1) Cachefiles mostly wants to use d_can_lookup() rather than d_is_dir() as it doesn't want to deal with automounts in its cache. (2) Coccinelle didn't find S_IS* expressions in ASSERT() statements in cachefiles. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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David Howells authored
Convert the following where appropriate: (1) S_ISLNK(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_symlink(dentry). (2) S_ISREG(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_reg(dentry). (3) S_ISDIR(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_dir(dentry). This is actually more complicated than it appears as some calls should be converted to d_can_lookup() instead. The difference is whether the directory in question is a real dir with a ->lookup op or whether it's a fake dir with a ->d_automount op. In some circumstances, we can subsume checks for dentry->d_inode not being NULL into this, provided we the code isn't in a filesystem that expects d_inode to be NULL if the dirent really *is* negative (ie. if we're going to use d_inode() rather than d_backing_inode() to get the inode pointer). Note that the dentry type field may be set to something other than DCACHE_MISS_TYPE when d_inode is NULL in the case of unionmount, where the VFS manages the fall-through from a negative dentry to a lower layer. In such a case, the dentry type of the negative union dentry is set to the same as the type of the lower dentry. However, if you know d_inode is not NULL at the call site, then you can use the d_is_xxx() functions even in a filesystem. There is one further complication: a 0,0 chardev dentry may be labelled DCACHE_WHITEOUT_TYPE rather than DCACHE_SPECIAL_TYPE. Strictly, this was intended for special directory entry types that don't have attached inodes. The following perl+coccinelle script was used: use strict; my @callers; open($fd, 'git grep -l \'S_IS[A-Z].*->d_inode\' |') || die "Can't grep for S_ISDIR and co. callers"; @callers = <$fd>; close($fd); unless (@callers) { print "No matches\n"; exit(0); } my @cocci = ( '@@', 'expression E;', '@@', '', '- S_ISLNK(E->d_inode->i_mode)', '+ d_is_symlink(E)', '', '@@', 'expression E;', '@@', '', '- S_ISDIR(E->d_inode->i_mode)', '+ d_is_dir(E)', '', '@@', 'expression E;', '@@', '', '- S_ISREG(E->d_inode->i_mode)', '+ d_is_reg(E)' ); my $coccifile = "tmp.sp.cocci"; open($fd, ">$coccifile") || die $coccifile; print($fd "$_\n") || die $coccifile foreach (@cocci); close($fd); foreach my $file (@callers) { chomp $file; print "Processing ", $file, "\n"; system("spatch", "--sp-file", $coccifile, $file, "--in-place", "--no-show-diff") == 0 || die "spatch failed"; } [AV: overlayfs parts skipped] Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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David Howells authored
Use d_is_positive() rather than testing dentry->d_inode in SELinux to get rid of direct references to d_inode outside of the VFS. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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David Howells authored
Use d_is_positive() rather than testing dentry->d_inode in Smack to get rid of direct references to d_inode outside of the VFS. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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David Howells authored
Use d_is_dir() rather than d_inode and S_ISDIR(). Note that this will include fake directories such as automount triggers. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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David Howells authored
Use d_is_positive(dentry) or d_is_negative(dentry) rather than testing dentry->d_inode as the dentry may cover another layer that has an inode when the top layer doesn't or may hold a 0,0 chardev that's actually a whiteout. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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David Howells authored
mediated_filesystem() should use dentry->d_sb not dentry->d_inode->i_sb and should avoid file_inode() also since it is really dealing with the path. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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