linux/lib/Makefile, branch v2.6.38

decompressors: add boot-time XZ support

2011-01-13T16:03:25Z

This implements the API defined in which is used for kernel, initramfs, and initrd decompression. This patch together with the first patch is enough for XZ-compressed initramfs and initrd; XZ-compressed kernel will need arch-specific changes. The buffering requirements described in decompress_unxz.c are stricter than with gzip, so the relevant changes should be done to the arch-specific code when adding support for XZ-compressed kernel. Similarly, the heap size in arch-specific pre-boot code may need to be increased (30 KiB is enough). The XZ decompressor needs memmove(), memeq() (memcmp() == 0), and memzero() (memset(ptr, 0, size)), which aren't available in all arch-specific pre-boot environments. I'm including simple versions in decompress_unxz.c, but a cleaner solution would naturally be nicer. Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Alain Knaff Cc: Albin Tonnerre Cc: Phillip Lougher Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

decompressors: add XZ decompressor module

2011-01-13T16:03:24Z

In userspace, the .lzma format has become mostly a legacy file format that got superseded by the .xz format. Similarly, LZMA Utils was superseded by XZ Utils. These patches add support for XZ decompression into the kernel. Most of the code is as is from XZ Embedded . It was written for the Linux kernel but is usable in other projects too. Advantages of XZ over the current LZMA code in the kernel: - Nice API that can be used by other kernel modules; it's not limited to kernel, initramfs, and initrd decompression. - Integrity check support (CRC32) - BCJ filters improve compression of executable code on certain architectures. These together with LZMA2 can produce a few percent smaller kernel or Squashfs images than plain LZMA without making the decompression slower. This patch: Add the main decompression code (xz_dec), testing module (xz_dec_test), wrapper script (xz_wrap.sh) for the xz command line tool, and documentation. The xz_dec module is enough to have a usable XZ decompressor e.g. for Squashfs. Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Alain Knaff Cc: Albin Tonnerre Cc: Phillip Lougher Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

flex_array: export symbols to modules

2011-01-13T16:03:11Z

Alex said: I want to use flex_array to store a sparse array of ATM cell re-assembly buffers for my ATM over Ethernet driver. Using the per-vcc user_back structure causes problems when stacked with things like br2684. Add EXPORT_SYMBOL() for all publically accessible flex array functions and move to obj-y so that modules may use this library. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Paul Mundt Reported-by: Alex Bennee Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6

2011-01-06T20:30:19Z

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1436 commits) cassini: Use local-mac-address prom property for Cassini MAC address net: remove the duplicate #ifdef __KERNEL__ net: bridge: check the length of skb after nf_bridge_maybe_copy_header() netconsole: clarify stopping message netconsole: don't announce stopping if nothing happened cnic: Fix the type field in SPQ messages netfilter: fix export secctx error handling netfilter: fix the race when initializing nf_ct_expect_hash_rnd ipv4: IP defragmentation must be ECN aware net: r6040: Return proper error for r6040_init_one dcb: use after free in dcb_flushapp() dcb: unlock on error in dcbnl_ieee_get() net: ixp4xx_eth: Return proper error for eth_init_one include/linux/if_ether.h: Add #define ETH_P_LINK_CTL for HPNA and wlan local tunnel net: add POLLPRI to sock_def_readable() af_unix: Avoid socket->sk NULL OOPS in stream connect security hooks. net_sched: pfifo_head_drop problem mac80211: remove stray extern mac80211: implement off-channel TX using hw r-o-c offload mac80211: implement hardware offload for remain-on-channel ...

timers: Rename timerlist infrastructure to timerqueue

2010-12-10T19:52:17Z

Thomas pointed out a namespace collision between the new timerlist infrastructure I introduced and the existing timer_list.c So to avoid confusion, I've renamed the timerlist infrastructure to timerqueue. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: John Stultz

timers: Introduce timerlist infrastructure.

2010-12-03T00:41:39Z

The timerlist infrastructure is a thin layer over the rbtree code that implements a simple list of timers sorted by an expires value, and a getnext function that provides a pointer to the earliest timer. This infrastructure allows drivers and other kernel infrastructure to easily implement timers without duplicating code. Signed-off-by: John Stultz LKML Reference: <1290136329-18291-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner CC: Alessandro Zummo CC: Thomas Gleixner CC: Richard Cochran

lib: Add generic exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) function

2010-11-18T19:21:52Z

This adds generic functions for calculating Exponentially Weighted Moving Averages (EWMA). This implementation makes use of a structure which keeps the EWMA parameters and a scaled up internal representation to reduce rounding errors. The original idea for this implementation came from the rt2x00 driver (rt2x00link.c). I would like to use it in several places in the mac80211 and ath5k code and I hope it can be useful in many other places in the kernel code. Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

Merge branch 'async' of macbook:git/btrfs-unstable

2010-08-09T09:36:44Z

Conflicts: drivers/md/Makefile lib/raid6/unroll.pl

lmb: rename to memblock

2010-07-14T07:14:00Z

via following scripts FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/lmb/memblock/g' \ -e 's/LMB/MEMBLOCK/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name lmb.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/lmb/memblock/g') mv $N $M done and remove some wrong change like lmbench and dlmb etc. also move memblock.c from lib/ to mm/ Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6

2010-05-28T21:42:18Z

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (27 commits) ACPI: Don't let acpi_pad needlessly mark TSC unstable drivers/acpi/sleep.h: Checkpatch cleanup ACPI: Minor cleanup eliminating redundant PMTIMER_TICKS to NS conversion ACPI: delete unused c-state promotion/demotion data strucutures ACPI: video: fix acpi_backlight=video ACPI: EC: Use kmemdup drivers/acpi: use kasprintf ACPI, APEI, EINJ injection parameters support Add x64 support to debugfs ACPI, APEI, Use ERST for persistent storage of MCE ACPI, APEI, Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) support ACPI, APEI, Generic Hardware Error Source memory error support ACPI, APEI, UEFI Common Platform Error Record (CPER) header Unified UUID/GUID definition ACPI Hardware Error Device (PNP0C33) support ACPI, APEI, PCIE AER, use general HEST table parsing in AER firmware_first setup ACPI, APEI, Document for APEI ACPI, APEI, EINJ support ACPI, APEI, HEST table parsing ACPI, APEI, APEI supporting infrastructure ...