linux/Documentation, branch v2.6.16

[PATCH] Page migration documentation update

2006-03-15T05:43:02Z

Update the documentation for page migration. - Fix up bits and pieces in cpusets.txt - Rework text in vm/page-migration to be clearer and reflect the final version of page migration in 2.6.16. Mention Andi Kleen's numactl package that contains user space tools for page migration via libnuma. Add reference to numa_maps and to the manpage in numactl. - Add todo list for outstanding issues Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Acked-by: Paul Jackson Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[MIPS] Threaten removal of code for NEC DDB5074 and DDB5476 evaluation boards.

2006-03-09T18:05:07Z

What: Support for NEC DDB5074 and DDB5476 evaluation boards. When: June 2006 Why: Board specific code doesn't build anymore since ~2.6.0 and no users have complained indicating there is no more need for these boards. This should really be considered a last call. Who: Ralf Baechle

[PATCH] i386: port ATI timer fix from x86_64 to i386 II

2006-03-09T02:10:31Z

ATI chipsets tend to generate double timer interrupts for the local APIC timer when both the 8254 and the IO-APIC timer pins are enabled. This is because they route it to both and the result is anded together and the CPU ends up processing it twice. This patch changes check_timer to disable the 8254 routing for interrupt 0. I think it would be safe on all chipsets actually (i tested it on a couple and it worked everywhere) and Windows seems to do it in a similar way, but to be conservative this patch only enables this mode on ATI (and adds options to enable/disable too) Ported over from a similar x86-64 change. I reused the ACPI earlyquirk infrastructure for the ATI bridge check, but tweaked it a bit to work even without ACPI. Inspired by a patch from Chuck Ebbert, but redone. Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Cc: "Brown, Len" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb

2006-03-09T00:59:34Z

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: Merge branch 'work-fixes' V4L/DVB (3413): Typos grab bag of the month V4L/DVB (3403): Workaround to fix initialization for Nexus CA Merge branch 'work-fixes' V4L/DVB (3395): Fixed Pinnacle 300i DVB-T support V4L/DVB (3399): ELSA EX-VISION 500TV: fix incorrect PCI subsystem ID V4L/DVB (3382): Fix stv0297 for qam128 on tt c1500 (saa7146) V4L/DVB (3300a): Removing personal email from DVB maintainers V4L/DVB (3385): Dvb: fix __init/__exit section references in av7110 driver V4L/DVB (3378): Restore power on defaults of tda9887 after tda8290 probe V4L/DVB (3354): Fix maximum for the saturation and contrast controls. V4L/DVB (3352): Cxusb: fix lgdt3303 naming V4L/DVB (3348): Fixed saa7134 ALSA initialization with multiple cards V4L/DVB (3347): Pinnacle PCTV 40i: add filtered Composite2 input V4L/DVB (3341): Upstream sync - make 2 structs static V4L/DVB (3340): Make a struct static V4L/DVB (3337): Drivers/media/dvb/frontends/mt312.c: cleanups V4L/DVB (3336): Bt8xx documentation authors fix

[PATCH] rcu batch tuning

2006-03-08T22:14:01Z

This patch adds new tunables for RCU queue and finished batches. There are two types of controls - number of completed RCU updates invoked in a batch (blimit) and monitoring for high rate of incoming RCUs on a cpu (qhimark, qlowmark). By default, the per-cpu batch limit is set to a small value. If the input RCU rate exceeds the high watermark, we do two things - force quiescent state on all cpus and set the batch limit of the CPU to INTMAX. Setting batch limit to INTMAX forces all finished RCUs to be processed in one shot. If we have more than INTMAX RCUs queued up, then we have bigger problems anyway. Once the incoming queued RCUs fall below the low watermark, the batch limit is set to the default. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'work-fixes'

2006-03-03T19:17:43Z

V4L/DVB (3399): ELSA EX-VISION 500TV: fix incorrect PCI subsystem ID

2006-03-03T17:18:19Z

- ELSA EX-VISION 500TV was incorrectly programmed to have the same subsystem ID as ELSA EX-VISION 300TV, (1048:226b) - This changeset replaces the incorrect subsystem ID (1048:226b) with the correct one (1048:226a) for the ELSA EX-VISION 500TV. Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

V4L/DVB (3347): Pinnacle PCTV 40i: add filtered Composite2 input

2006-03-03T17:17:55Z

This patch adds another composite input to the Pinnacle PCTV 100i definition which filters the chrominace signal from the luma input. This improves video quality for Composite signals on the S-Video connector of the card. In addition the name string of the card is changed to include PCTV 40i and 50i since these cards are identical. Signed-off-by: Karsten Suehring Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

V4L/DVB (3336): Bt8xx documentation authors fix

2006-03-03T17:17:32Z

- use one Author per line, which allows us to add more authors later without creating a mess. - Add Michael Krufky due to -git commit 2cbeddc976645262dbe036d6ec0825f96af70da3 Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

[IA64] Document the "nomca" boot parameter

2006-02-27T23:29:57Z

"nomca" can be used to disable machine check handling Signed-Off-By: Horms Signed-off-by: Tony Luck