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  1. Feb 02, 2010
    • Don Zickus's avatar
      scripts: change scripts to use system python instead of env · 94a47083
      Don Zickus authored
      
      
      Just a small change to a couple of scripts to go from
      
       #!/usr/bin/env python
      
      to
      
       #!/usr/bin/python
      
      This shouldn't effect anyone, unless they don't install python there.
      
      In preparation for python3, Fedora is doing a big push to change the scripts
      to use the system python.  This allows developers to put the python3 in
      their path without fear of breaking existing scripts.
      
      Now I am pretty sure anyone using python3 for testing purposes will probably
      not run any of the scripts I changed, but Fedora has this automated tool
      that checks for this stuff so I thought I would try to push it upstream.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDon Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarJarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      94a47083
    • Himanshu Chauhan's avatar
      scripts/kallsyms: suppress build warning · 71d41aed
      Himanshu Chauhan authored
      
      
      Suppress a warn_unused_result warning.
      
      fgets is called as a part of error handling.  It is called just to drop a
      line and return immediately.  read_map is reading the file in a loop and
      read_symbol reads line by line.  So I think there is no point in using
      return value for useful checking.  Other checks like 3 items were returned
      or !EOF have already been done.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHimanshu Chauhan <hschauhan@nulltrace.org>
      Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
      Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      71d41aed
    • Michal Marek's avatar
      scripts/mkcompile_h: don't test for hardcoded paths · d4987bd7
      Michal Marek authored
      
      
      Don't test for /bin/{dnsdomainname,domainname}, simply try to execute
      the command and check if it returned something.
      
      Reported-by: default avatarGlenn Sommer <glemsom@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarGlenn Sommer <glemsom@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      d4987bd7
    • Andi Kleen's avatar
      Improve kconfig symbol hashing · e66f25d7
      Andi Kleen authored
      
      
      While looking for something else I noticed that the symbol
      hash function used by kconfig is quite poor. It doesn't
      use any of the standard hash techniques but simply
      adds up the string and then uses power of two masking,
      which is both known to perform poorly.
      
      The current x86 kconfig has over 7000 symbols.
      
      When I instrumented it showed that the minimum hash chain
      length was 16 and a significant number of them was over
      30.
      
      It didn't help that the hash table size was only 256 buckets.
      
      This patch increases the hash table size to a larger prime
      and switches to a FNV32 hash. I played around with a couple of hash
      functions, but that one seemed to perform best with reasonable
      hash table sizes.
      
      Increasing the hash table size even further didn't
      seem like a good idea, because there are a couple of global
      walks which walk the complete hash table.
      
      I also moved the unnamed bucket to 0. It's still the longest
      of all the buckets (44 entries), but hopefully it's not
      often hit except for the global walk which doesn't care.
      
      The result is a much nicer distribution:
      (first column bucket length, second number of buckets with that length)
      
      1: 3505
      2: 1236
      3: 294
      4: 52
      5: 3
      47: 1		<--- this is the unnamed symbols bucket
      
      There are still some 5+ buckets, but increasing the hash table
      even more would be likely not worth it.
      
      This also cleans up the code slightly by removing hard coded
      magic numbers.
      
      I didn't notice a big performance difference either way
      on my Nehalem system, but I presume it'll help somewhat
      on slower systems.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      e66f25d7
    • Joe Perches's avatar
    • David Rientjes's avatar
      kbuild: improve version string logic · 85a256d8
      David Rientjes authored
      
      
      The LOCALVERSION= string passed to "make" will now always be appended to
      the kernel version after CONFIG_LOCALVERSION, if it exists, regardless of
      whether CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is set or not.  This allows users to
      uniquely identify their kernel builds with a string.
      
      If CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is enabled, the unique SCM tag reported by
      setlocalversion (or .scmversion) is appended to the kernel version, if it
      exists.  When CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is not enabled, a `+' is appended
      to the kernel version to represent that the kernel has been revised since
      the last release unless "make LOCALVERSION=" was used to uniquely identify
      the build.
      
      The end result is this:
      
       - when LOCALVERSION= is passed to "make", it is appended to the kernel
         version,
      
       - when CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is enabled, a unique SCM identifier is
         appended if the respository has been revised beyond a tagged commit,
         and
      
       - when CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is disabled, a `+' is appended if the
         repository has been revised beyond a tagged commit and LOCALVERSION=
         was not passed to "make".
      
      Examples:
      
      With CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO: "make" results in
      v2.6.32-rc4-00149-ga3ccf63.  If there are uncommited changes to the
      respository, it results in v2.6.32-rc4-00149-ga3ccf63-dirty.  If
      "make LOCALVERSION=kbuild" were used, it results in
      v2.6.32-rc4-kbuild-00149-ga3ccf63-dirty.
      
      Without CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO, "make" results in v2.6.32-rc4+
      unless the repository is at the Linux v2.6.32-rc4 commit (in which
      case the version would be v2.6.32-rc4).  If "make LOCALVERSION=kbuild"
      were used, it results in v2.6.32-rc4-kbuild.
      
      Also renames variables such as localver-auto and _localver-auto to more
      accurately describe what they represent: localver-extra and
      scm-identifier, respectively.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      85a256d8
    • Nir Tzachar's avatar
      nconfig: minor fix · 68c16edd
      Nir Tzachar authored
      
      
      This patch fixes two problems reported by Jan Engelhardt:
      1) Border is now properly placed, to always be visible
      2) Long menu items are properly displayed
      
      Reported-by: default avatarJan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNir Tzachar <nir.tzachar@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      68c16edd
    • Michal Marek's avatar
      nconfig: mark local functions as such · 851190c9
      Michal Marek authored
      
      
      scripts/kconfig/nconf.gui.c:23: warning: no previous prototype for 'set_normal_colors'
      scripts/kconfig/nconf.gui.c:68: warning: no previous prototype for 'normal_color_theme'
      scripts/kconfig/nconf.gui.c:100: warning: no previous prototype for 'no_colors_theme'
      scripts/kconfig/nconf.c:455: warning: no previous prototype for 'process_special_keys'
      scripts/kconfig/nconf.c:487: warning: no previous prototype for 'get_next_hot'
      scripts/kconfig/nconf.c:506: warning: no previous prototype for 'canbhot'
      scripts/kconfig/nconf.c:514: warning: no previous prototype for 'is_hot'
      scripts/kconfig/nconf.c:522: warning: no previous prototype for 'make_hot'
      scripts/kconfig/nconf.c:582: warning: no previous prototype for 'item_make'
      scripts/kconfig/nconf.c:626: warning: no previous prototype for 'item_add_str'
      scripts/kconfig/nconf.c:656: warning: no previous prototype for 'item_tag'
      scripts/kconfig/nconf.c:668: warning: no previous prototype for 'curses_item_index'
      scripts/kconfig/nconf.c:673: warning: no previous prototype for 'item_data'
      scripts/kconfig/nconf.c:684: warning: no previous prototype for 'item_is_tag'
      scripts/kconfig/nconf.c:691: warning: no previous prototype for 'set_config_filename'
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      851190c9
    • nir.tzachar@gmail.com's avatar
      kconfig: new configuration interface (nconfig) · 692d97c3
      nir.tzachar@gmail.com authored
      
      
      This patch was inspired by the kernel projects page, where an ncurses
      replacement for menuconfig was mentioned (by Sam Ravnborg).
      
      Building on menuconfig, this patch implements a more modern look
      interface using ncurses and ncurses' satellite libraries (menu, panel,
      form). The implementation does not depend on lxdialog, which is
      currently distributed with the kernel.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNir Tzachar <nir.tzachar@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      692d97c3
    • Alexander Beregalov's avatar
      genksyms: close ref_file after use · c64152bf
      Alexander Beregalov authored
      
      
      It is the last place when the file is read, so close it.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      c64152bf
    • Vadim Bendebury (вб)'s avatar
      menuconfig: wrap long help lines · da60fbbc
      Vadim Bendebury (вб) authored
      
      
      Help text for certain config options is very extensive (the text
      includes the names of all  other options the option in question depends
      on). Long lines are not wrapped, making it impossible to see the list
      without scrolling horizontally.
      
      This patch adds some logic which wraps help screen lines at word
      boundaries to prevent truncating.
      
      Tested by running
      
        ARCH=powerpc make menuconfig O=/tmp/build
      
      which shows that the long lines are now wrapped, and
      
       ARCH=powerpc make xconfig O=/tmp/build
      
      to demonstrate that it still compiles and operates as expected.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarVadim Bendebury <vbendeb@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      da60fbbc
    • Rabin Vincent's avatar
      scripts: add ARM support to decodecode · 5358db0b
      Rabin Vincent authored
      
      
      This patch adds support for decoding ARM oopses to scripts/decodecode.
      The following things are handled:
      
       - ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE environment variables are respected.
      
       - The Code: in x86 oopses is in bytes, while it is in either words (4
         bytes) or halfwords for ARM.
      
       - Some versions of ARM objdump refuse to disassemble instructions
         generated by literal constants (".word 0x...").  The workaround is to
         strip the object file first.
      
       - The faulting instruction is marked (liked so) in ARM, but <like so>
         in x86.
      
       - ARM mnemonics may include characters such as [] which need to be
         escaped before being passed to sed for the "<- trapping instruction"
         substitution.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      5358db0b
    • Roland McGrath's avatar
      kconfig CROSS_COMPILE option · 84336466
      Roland McGrath authored
      
      
      This adds CROSS_COMPILE as a kconfig string so you can store it in
      .config.  Then you can use plain "make" in the configured kernel build
      directory to do the right cross compilation without setting the
      command-line or environment variable every time.
      
      With this, you can set up different build directories for different kernel
      configurations, whether native or cross-builds, and then use the simple:
      
      	make -C /build/dir M=module-source-dir
      
      idiom to build modules for any given target kernel, indicating which one
      by nothing but the build directory chosen.
      
      I tried a version that defaults the string with env="CROSS_COMPILE" so
      that in a "make oldconfig" with CROSS_COMPILE in the environment you can
      just hit return to store the way you're building it.  But the kconfig
      prompt for strings doesn't give you any way to say you want an empty
      string instead of the default, so I punted that.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
      Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      Cc: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      84336466
    • Jiafu He's avatar
      kbuild: Fix linking error built-in.o no such file or directory · 4b024242
      Jiafu He authored
      
      
      This patch fixes the link error "built-in.o: no such file or directory".
      The problem happens if "dirx/Makefile" contains only "obj-m += diry/
      dirz/" and the empty "dirx/built-in.o" is missing. Adding $(subdir-m)
      into check for builtin-target fixes this error.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJiafu He <jay@goldhive.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      4b024242
  2. Jan 30, 2010
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 2.6.33-rc6 · abe94c75
      Linus Torvalds authored
      v2.6.33-rc6
      abe94c75
    • Dmitry Artamonow's avatar
      mfd: Fix asic3 build · 4995c0b3
      Dmitry Artamonow authored
      
      
      asic3 also needs tmio_core or otherwise will fail to build.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDmitry Artamonow <mad_soft@inbox.ru>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSamuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
      4995c0b3
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input · 499a2673
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
        Input: update multi-touch protocol documentation
        Input: add the ABS_MT_PRESSURE event
        Input: winbond-cir - remove dmesg spam
        Input: lifebook - add another Lifebook DMI signature
        Input: ad7879 - support auxiliary GPIOs via gpiolib
      499a2673
    • Hugh Dickins's avatar
      mm: fix migratetype bug which slowed swapping · a7016235
      Hugh Dickins authored
      After memory pressure has forced it to dip into the reserves, 2.6.32's
      5f8dcc21
      
       "page-allocator: split per-cpu
      list into one-list-per-migrate-type" has been returning MIGRATE_RESERVE
      pages to the MIGRATE_MOVABLE free_list: in some sense depleting reserves.
      
      Fix that in the most straightforward way (which, considering the overheads
      of alternative approaches, is Mel's preference): the right migratetype is
      already in page_private(page), but free_pcppages_bulk() wasn't using it.
      
      How did this bug show up?  As a 20% slowdown in my tmpfs loop kbuild
      swapping tests, on PowerMac G5 with SLUB allocator.  Bisecting to that
      commit was easy, but explaining the magnitude of the slowdown not easy.
      
      The same effect appears, but much less markedly, with SLAB, and even
      less markedly on other machines (the PowerMac divides into fewer zones
      than x86, I think that may be a factor).  We guess that lumpy reclaim
      of short-lived high-order pages is implicated in some way, and probably
      this bug has been tickling a poor decision somewhere in page reclaim.
      
      But instrumentation hasn't told me much, I've run out of time and
      imagination to determine exactly what's going on, and shouldn't hold up
      the fix any longer: it's valid, and might even fix other misbehaviours.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
      Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a7016235
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable · 67f15b06
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable:
        Btrfs: check total number of devices when removing missing
        Btrfs: check return value of open_bdev_exclusive properly
        Btrfs: do not mark the chunk as readonly if in degraded mode
        Btrfs: run orphan cleanup on default fs root
        Btrfs: fix a memory leak in btrfs_init_acl
        Btrfs: Use correct values when updating inode i_size on fallocate
        Btrfs: remove tree_search() in extent_map.c
        Btrfs: Add mount -o compress-force
      67f15b06
    • David Miller's avatar
      sparc: TIF_ABI_PENDING bit removal · 94673e96
      David Miller authored
      
      
      Here are the sparc bits to remove TIF_ABI_PENDING now that
      set_personality() is called at the appropriate place in exec.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      94673e96
    • H. Peter Anvin's avatar
      x86: get rid of the insane TIF_ABI_PENDING bit · 05d43ed8
      H. Peter Anvin authored
      
      
      Now that the previous commit made it possible to do the personality
      setting at the point of no return, we do just that for ELF binaries.
      And suddenly all the reasons for that insane TIF_ABI_PENDING bit go
      away, and we can just make SET_PERSONALITY() just do the obvious thing
      for a 32-bit compat process.
      
      Everything becomes much more straightforward this way.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      05d43ed8
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Split 'flush_old_exec' into two functions · 221af7f8
      Linus Torvalds authored
      
      
      'flush_old_exec()' is the point of no return when doing an execve(), and
      it is pretty badly misnamed.  It doesn't just flush the old executable
      environment, it also starts up the new one.
      
      Which is very inconvenient for things like setting up the new
      personality, because we want the new personality to affect the starting
      of the new environment, but at the same time we do _not_ want the new
      personality to take effect if flushing the old one fails.
      
      As a result, the x86-64 '32-bit' personality is actually done using this
      insane "I'm going to change the ABI, but I haven't done it yet" bit
      (TIF_ABI_PENDING), with SET_PERSONALITY() not actually setting the
      personality, but just the "pending" bit, so that "flush_thread()" can do
      the actual personality magic.
      
      This patch in no way changes any of that insanity, but it does split the
      'flush_old_exec()' function up into a preparatory part that can fail
      (still called flush_old_exec()), and a new part that will actually set
      up the new exec environment (setup_new_exec()).  All callers are changed
      to trivially comply with the new world order.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      221af7f8
  3. Jan 29, 2010