Requiring userspace to close and re-open sysfs attributes has been the
policy since before 2.6.12.  It allows userspace to get a consistent
snapshot of kernel state and consume it with incremental reads and seeks.

Now, if the file position is zero the kernel assumes userspace wants to see
the new value.  The application for this change is to allow a userspace
RAID metadata handler to check the state of an array without causing any
memory allocations.  Thus not causing writeback to a raid array that might
be blocked waiting for userspace to take action.

Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Add /sysfs/firmware/ibft/[initiator|targetX|ethernetX] directories along with
text properties which export the the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT)
structure.

What is iSCSI Boot Firmware Table?  It is a mechanism for the iSCSI tools to
extract from the machine NICs the iSCSI connection information so that they
can automagically mount the iSCSI share/target.  Currently the iSCSI
information is hard-coded in the initrd.  The /sysfs entries are read-only
one-name-and-value fields.

The usual set of data exposed is:

# for a in `find /sys/firmware/ibft/ -type f -print`; do  echo -n "$a: ";  cat $a; done
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/target-name: iqn.2007.com.intel-sbx44:storage-10gb
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/nic-assoc: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/chap-type: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/lun: 00000000
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/port: 3260
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/ip-addr: 192.168.79.116
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/flags: 3
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/index: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/mac: 00:11:25:9d:8b:01
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/vlan: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/gateway: 192.168.79.254
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/origin: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/subnet-mask: 255.255.252.0
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/ip-addr: 192.168.77.41
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/flags: 7
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/index: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/initiator/initiator-name: iqn.2007-07.com:konrad.initiator
/sys/firmware/ibft/initiator/flags: 3
/sys/firmware/ibft/initiator/index: 0

For full details of the IBFT structure please take a look at:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/systems/support/system_x_pdf/ibm_iscsi_boot_firmware_table_v1.02.pdf

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek <konradr@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Source file was removed.  Need to remove docbook reference also.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Modify the PM core to protect its data structures, specifically the
dpm_active list, from being corrupted if a child of the currently
suspending device is registered concurrently with its ->suspend()
callback.  In that case, since the new device (the child) is added
to dpm_active after its parent, the PM core will attempt to
suspend it after the parent, which is wrong.

Introduce a new member of struct dev_pm_info, called 'sleeping',
and use it to check if the parent of the device being added to
dpm_active has been suspended, in which case the device registration
fails.  Also, use 'sleeping' for checking if the ordering of devices
on dpm_active is correct.

Introduce variable 'all_sleeping' that will be set to 'true' once all
devices have been suspended and make new device registrations fail
until 'all_sleeping' is reset to 'false', in order to avoid having
unsuspended devices around while the system is going into a sleep state.

Remove pm_sleep_rwsem which is not necessary any more.

Special thanks to Alan Stern for discussions and suggestions that
lead to the creation of this patch.
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Move the firmware_class sample drivers to samples/ so that they are
buildable and can be maintained.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Add the security= boot parameter. This is done to avoid LSM
registration clashes in case of more than one bult-in module.

User can choose a security module to enable at boot. If no
security= boot parameter is specified, only the first LSM
asking for registration will be loaded. An invalid security
module name will be treated as if no module has been chosen.

LSM modules must check now if they are allowed to register
by calling security_module_enable(ops) first. Modify SELinux
and SMACK to do so.

Do not let SMACK register smackfs if it was not chosen on
boot. Smackfs assumes that smack hooks are registered and
the initial task security setup (swapper->security) is done.
Signed-off-by: NAhmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

/sys/fs is where we really want file system specific sysfs objects.

Ocfs2-tools has been updated to look in /sys/fs/o2cb. We can maintain
backwards compatibility with old ocfs2-tools by using a sysfs symlink. After
some time (2 years), the symlink can be safely removed. This patch also adds
documentation to make it easier for people to figure out what /sys/fs/o2cb
is used for.
Signed-off-by: NMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>

Add ABI documentation for these files:

	/sys/fs/ocfs2/max_locking_protocol
	/sys/fs/ocfs2/loaded_cluster_plugins
	/sys/fs/ocfs2/active_cluster_plugin
	/sys/fs/ocfs2/cluster_stack
Signed-off-by: NJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>

This way firewire-ohci can be used for remote debugging like ohci1394.
Version with amendment from Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:08:08 +0200.
Signed-off-by: NStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: NBernhard Kaindl <bk@suse.de>

Mention how DMAPI affects default for noikeep.
Slightly modified since Josef's patch was based on
an old xfs.txt prior to Dave's (dgc) checkin which
missed going to oss.
Signed-off-by: NJosef Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net>
Signed-off-by: NTim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>

Update xfs docs for:
* In memory inode hashes has been removed.
* noikeep is now the default.

SGI-PV: 969561
SGI-Modid: 2.6.x-xfs-melb:linux:29481b
Signed-off-by: NDavid Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NTim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>

* Remove obsoleted "idex=noprobe" kernel parameter.

* Remove no longer needed hwif->noprobe quirk from ide_hwif_configure()
  and hwif->noprobe checking from cmd640.c.

v2:
* "ide?=noprobe" -> "ide?=ata66" in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_4DRIVES deserves its own host driver:

* Add drivers/ide/legacy/ide-4drives.c and move "4drives" support there.

* Add ide-4drives.o in the link order after all other legacy host
  drivers enabled by "ide0=" options (they all are mutually exclusive).

* Make ide-4drives host driver probe itself for IDE devices instead of
  indirectly depending on ide_generic host driver.

* Add "probe" module parameter to ide-4drives and update documentation.

v2:
* s/paramater/parameter/ in ide.txt. (Noticed by Randy Dunlap)

v3:
* s/ide_4drives.probe/ide-4drives.probe/ in help entry.
  (Noticed by Sergei Shtylyov)
Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

* Remove obsoleted "idex=base[,ctl[,irq]]" kernel parameters
  and update Documentation/ide/ide.txt.

* Remove no longer needed ide_forced chipset type.

v2:
* is_chipset_set[] -> is_chipset_set in ide.c.

* Documentation/ide/ide.txt fix.
Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

* Remove CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD hack from init_hwif_default()
  ("hda=noprobe hdb=noprobe" kernel parameters should be used
  instead if somebody wishes to use the old "hd" driver).

* Make CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY config option available also when
  IDE subsystem is used and update help entry.

* Remove no longer needed CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE config option.

v2:
* Update documentation to suggest "hda=noprobe hdb=noprobe"
  instead of obsoleted "ide0=noprobe".

* Update Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

* Add 'struct class ide_port_class' ('ide_port' class) and a 'struct
  device *portdev' ('ide_port' class device) in ide_hwif_t.

* Register 'ide_port' class in ide_init() and unregister it in
  cleanup_module().

* Create ->portdev in ide_register_port () and unregister it in
  ide_unregister().

* Add "delete_devices" class device attribute for unregistering IDE devices
  on a port and "scan" one for probing+registering IDE devices on a port.

* Add ide_sysfs_register_port() helper for registering "delete_devices"
  and "scan" attributes with ->portdev.  Call it in ide_device_add_all().

* Document IDE warm-plug support in Documentation/ide/warm-plug-howto.txt.

v2:
* Convert patch from using 'struct class_device' to use 'struct device'.
  (thanks to Kay Sievers for doing it)
Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

This option is obsolete and can be removed safely.

It allows us to remove the pci_get_device_reverse() function from the
PCI core.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

Minor cleanups to kgdb docs.
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add in the kgdb documentation for kgdb.
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

document the kgdboc module/boot parameter.
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

use of the bzImage symlinks in developer scripts is still widespread,
so lets extend the removal period by 2 years. These symlinks cost
us near nothing.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Documentation about PAT related interfaces, intended usage and memory attribute
relationship.
Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Fix coding style in pci-dma_64.c and add stubs for documentation. I
hope someone fills the rest, I understand maybe off and soft...
Signed-off-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Also update field names to simply payload_{offset,length} so as to not rule
out uncompressed images.
Signed-off-by: NIan Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Signed-off-by: NIan Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

These new controls toggle experimental support for a new CPU feature,
the straightforward extension of largepages from the pmd level to the
pud level, which allows 1GB (kernel) TLBs instead of 2MB TLBs.

Turn it off by default, as this code has not been tested well enough yet.

Use the CONFIG_DIRECT_GBPAGES=y .config option or gbpages on the
boot line can be used to enable it. If enabled in the .config then
nogbpages boot option disables it.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

We have two directories with timer related information in
Documentation/: hrtimers/ and hrtimer/. timer_stats are not restricted
to hrtimers. Move all those files into Documentation/timers where we
can pile up other timer related docs as well.
Pointed-out-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

The new function supports setting of permissions for the debugfs files
created by the debug feature. In addition to that, the function provides
uid and gid as parameters for future use. Currently only root is allowed
for uid and gid.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>

As shown by Gurudas Pai recently, we can put hugepages into the surplus
state (by echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages), even when
/proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages is 0. This is actually correct, to
allow the original goal (shrink the static pool to 0) to succeed (we are
converting hugepages to surplus because they are in use). However, the
documentation does not accurately reflect this case. Update it.
Signed-off-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

A couple of typos crept into the newly added document about the seq_file
interface.  This patch corrects those typos and simultaneously deletes
unnecessary trailing spaces.
Signed-off-by: NDmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The struct sockaddr_can has been simplified in the code review
process.  This patch updates this simplification also in the
associated documentation in can.txt .
Signed-off-by: NOliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Robert P. J. Day spotted that my removal of the Sangoma drivers missed
a few bits.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Checkpatch will throw an error if code doesn't use the correct initializers
for static spinlocks:

ERROR: Use of SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED is deprecated: see Documentation/spinlocks.txt

This is fine, but Documentation/spinlocks.txt isn't very clear on how to
_use_ the new initializers for static variables. To save people time in the
future, I added two small examples of how to fix old-style static
initializers to be more lockdep friendly.
Signed-off-by: NMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Signed-off-by: NJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This file is nfs-related.  (Maybe Documentation/filesystems/ would
benefit from a separate nfs/ directory at some point.)
Signed-off-by: NJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Documentation/ is a little large, and filesystems/ seems an obvious
place for this file.
Signed-off-by: NJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Update SPI documentation to clarify some areas of recent confusion: clock
polarity takes effect when chipselect goes active; and zero length buffers are
OK in certain cases.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Show the current binary tape driver and mode options is sysfs. A file
(options) is created in each directory in /sys/class/scsi_tape. The files
contain masks showing the options. The mask bit definitions are the same as
used when setting the options using the MTSETDRVBUFFER function in the
MTIOCTOP ioctl (defined in include/linux/mtio.h). For example:
> cat /sys/class/scsi_tape/nst0/options
0x00000d07

[jejb: updated doc with correction from Randy Dunlap]
Signed-off-by: NKai Makisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>