linux/init, branch v2.6.25

ACPI: Remove ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_INITRD option

2008-03-15T18:58:04Z

This essentially reverts commit 71fc47a9adf8ee89e5c96a47222915c5485ac437 ("ACPI: basic initramfs DSDT override support"), because the code simply isn't ready. It did ugly things to the init sequence to populate the rootfs image early, but that just ended up showing other problems with the whole approach. The fact is, the VFS layer simply isn't initialized this early, and the relevant ACPI code should either run much later, or this shouldn't be done at all. For 2.6.25, we'll just pick the latter option. We can revisit this concept later if necessary. Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Tilman Schmidt Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Thomas Renninger Cc: Eric Piel Cc: Len Brown Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Markus Gaugusch Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

rcu: move PREEMPT_RCU config option back under PREEMPT

2008-03-11T01:01:20Z

The original preemptible-RCU patch put the choice between classic and preemptible RCU into kernel/Kconfig.preempt, which resulted in build failures on machines not supporting CONFIG_PREEMPT. This choice was therefore moved to init/Kconfig, which worked, but placed the choice between classic and preemptible RCU at the top level, a very obtuse choice indeed. This patch changes from the Kconfig "choice" mechanism to a pair of booleans, only one of which (CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU) is user-visible, and is located in kernel/Kconfig.preempt, where one would expect it to be. The other (CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU) is in init/Kconfig so that it is available to all architectures, hopefully avoiding build breakage. Thanks to Roman Zippel for suggesting this approach. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Steven Rostedt Cc: Dipankar Sarma Cc: Josh Triplett Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Roman Zippel Cc: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6

2008-03-05T00:37:35Z

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: debugfs: fix sparse warnings Driver core: Fix cleanup when failing device_add(). driver core: Remove dpm_sysfs_remove() from error path of device_add() PM: fix new mutex-locking bug in the PM core PM: Do not acquire device semaphores upfront during suspend kobject: properly initialize ksets sysfs: CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED fix driver core: fix up Kconfig text for CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED

Memory controller: rename to Memory Resource Controller

2008-03-05T00:35:12Z

Rename Memory Controller to Memory Resource Controller. Reflect the same changes in the CONFIG definition for the Memory Resource Controller. Group together the config options for Resource Counters and Memory Resource Controller. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh Cc: Paul Menage Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Fix "Malformed early option 'loglevel'"

2008-03-05T00:35:10Z

Keith Mannthey said: The parameter hotadd_percent is setup right but there is a "Malformed early option 'numa'" message. Rusty Russell said: This happens when the function registered with early_param() returns non-zero. __setup() functions return 1 if OK, module_param() and early_param() return 0 or a -ve error code. For instance: Linux version 2.6.25-rc3-t (raa@steel) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) #22 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 26 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000003fff0000 - 000000003fff3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000003fff3000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) Malformed early option 'loglevel' 127MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.25-t ro root=809 ro console=ttyS0,57600n8 console=tty0 loglevel=5 Acked-by: Yinghai Lu Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Keith Mannthey Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sysfs: CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED fix

2008-03-04T22:47:04Z

CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y changed its meaning recently and causes regressions in working setups that had SYSFS_DEPRECATED disabled. so rename it to SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 so that testers pick up the new default via 'make oldconfig', even if their old .config's disabled CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED ... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Kay Sievers Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: fix up Kconfig text for CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED

2008-03-04T22:47:04Z

As things get moved into this config option, the hard date of 2006 does not work anymore, so update the text to be more descriptive. Cc: Kay Sievers Cc: Jiri Slaby Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cgroup memory controller: document huge memory/cache overhead in Kconfig

2008-02-24T01:12:16Z

Document huge memory/cache overhead of memory controller in Kconfig I was a little surprised that 2.6.25-rc* increased struct page for the memory controller. At least on many x86-64 machines it will not fit into a single cache line now anymore and also costs considerable amounts of RAM. At earlier review I remembered asking for a external data structure for this. It's also quite unobvious that a innocent looking Kconfig option with a single line Kconfig description has such a negative effect. This patch attempts to document these disadvantages at least so that users configuring their kernel can make a informed decision. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Balbir Singh Acked-by: Paul Menage Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Use struct path in fs_struct

2008-02-15T05:13:33Z

* Use struct path in fs_struct. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched: rt-group: make rt groups scheduling configurable

2008-02-13T14:45:40Z

Make the rt group scheduler compile time configurable. Keep it experimental for now. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar