)]}' { "log": [ { "commit": "9ba16087d9f996a93ab6f4453a52a4b24bc1f25c", "tree": "98a292c556b646aec40ce137b1ec689b3469f120", "parents": [ "a25d644fc0e232f242d1f3baa63c149c42536ff0" ], "author": { "name": "Jan Beulich", "email": "jbeulich@novell.com", "time": "Wed Oct 15 22:01:38 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Thu Oct 16 11:21:31 2008 -0700" }, "message": "Kconfig: eliminate \"def_bool n\" constructs\n\nUsing \"def_bool n\" is pointless, simply using bool here appears more\nappropriate.\n\nFurther, retaining such options that don\u0027t have a prompt and aren\u0027t\nselected by anything seems also at least questionable.\n\nSigned-off-by: Jan Beulich \u003cjbeulich@novell.com\u003e\nCc: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nCc: Tony Luck \u003ctony.luck@intel.com\u003e\nCc: Thomas Gleixner \u003ctglx@linutronix.de\u003e\nCc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz \u003cbzolnier@gmail.com\u003e\nCc: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "accba5f3965d6a9d1bf7c1e1a7995d17e9d521b6", "tree": "8fb40782e79472ed882ff2098d4dd295557278ee", "parents": [ "6852fd9b86d05063c6ef49d2e12e061cc7f6a105", "4480f15b3306f43bbb0310d461142b4e897ca45b" ], "author": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Mon Oct 13 11:05:51 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Mon Oct 13 11:05:51 2008 +0200" }, "message": "Merge branch \u0027linus\u0027 into oprofile-v2\n\nConflicts:\n\tarch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c\n\tarch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c\n\tinclude/linux/pci_ids.h\n" }, { "commit": "1f5a4ad97a0e7b663d527ecc02aabe203d000d91", "tree": "83f01115a0c1abfa375d6a0edd5ddabd122676f5", "parents": [ "828c365cc8b8d38c346fccb19fa80d28f2240831" ], "author": { "name": "Roland McGrath", "email": "roland@redhat.com", "time": "Fri Jul 25 19:45:57 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Sat Jul 26 12:00:09 2008 -0700" }, "message": "tracehook: CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK\n\nThis adds the generic HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK kconfig item. Each arch should\nadd to some Kconfig file:\n\n\tselect HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK\n\nif the arch code uses all the latest hooks to enable newfangled tracing\nand debugging code. The comment in arch/Kconfig lists all the\nprerequisite arch support. When all these are available, setting\nHAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK will allow enabling any new features that depend on\nthe modern arch interfaces.\n\nSigned-off-by: Roland McGrath \u003croland@redhat.com\u003e\nCc: Oleg Nesterov \u003coleg@tv-sign.ru\u003e\nReviewed-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "852402cc27bfa1200164e9e8dc7f6e5f0a4fbd46", "tree": "0194e23373230888de9115f5ffaacb09e005b57a", "parents": [ "6aa360e6c16c145edf1837690e0f7aaea6b86ef3" ], "author": { "name": "Robert Richter", "email": "robert.richter@amd.com", "time": "Tue Jul 22 21:09:06 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Sat Jul 26 11:48:13 2008 +0200" }, "message": "x86/oprofile: add CONFIG_OPROFILE_IBS option\n\nSigned-off-by: Robert Richter \u003crobert.richter@amd.com\u003e\nCc: oprofile-list \u003coprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net\u003e\nCc: Robert Richter \u003crobert.richter@amd.com\u003e\nCc: Barry Kasindorf \u003cbarry.kasindorf@amd.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "58340a07c194e0aed7bc58b61ff24330bb2a409f", "tree": "907a53c71b3092e3a3a95c6641d4839e20214efd", "parents": [ "e0ce0da9fefcc723dc006c35a7f91a32750abd40" ], "author": { "name": "Johannes Berg", "email": "johannes@sipsolutions.net", "time": "Fri Jul 25 01:45:33 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Fri Jul 25 10:53:27 2008 -0700" }, "message": "introduce HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Kconfig symbol\n\nIn many cases, especially in networking, it can be beneficial to know at\ncompile time whether the architecture can do unaligned accesses efficiently.\nThis patch introduces a new Kconfig symbol\n\n\tHAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS\n\nfor that purpose and adds it to the powerpc and x86 architectures. Also add\nsome documentation about alignment and networking, and especially one intended\nuse of this symbol.\n\nSigned-off-by: Johannes Berg \u003cjohannes@sipsolutions.net\u003e\nAcked-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\nAcked-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e [x86 architecture part]\nCc: \u003clinux-arch@vger.kernel.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "28b2ee20c7cba812b6f2ccf6d722cf86d00a84dc", "tree": "e8f1efd05c38c1cb26ca3ee051a454eb685fd122", "parents": [ "0d71d10a4252a3938e6b70189bc776171c02e076" ], "author": { "name": "Rik van Riel", "email": "riel@redhat.com", "time": "Wed Jul 23 21:27:05 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Thu Jul 24 10:47:15 2008 -0700" }, "message": "access_process_vm device memory infrastructure\n\nIn order to be able to debug things like the X server and programs using\nthe PPC Cell SPUs, the debugger needs to be able to access device memory\nthrough ptrace and /proc/pid/mem.\n\nThis patch:\n\nAdd the generic_access_phys access function and put the hooks in place\nto allow access_process_vm to access device or PPC Cell SPU memory.\n\n[riel@redhat.com: Add documentation for the vm_ops-\u003eaccess function]\nSigned-off-by: Rik van Riel \u003criel@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Benjamin Herrensmidt \u003cbenh@kernel.crashing.org\u003e\nCc: Dave Airlie \u003cairlied@linux.ie\u003e\nCc: Hugh Dickins \u003chugh@veritas.com\u003e\nCc: Paul Mackerras \u003cpaulus@samba.org\u003e\nCc: Arnd Bergmann \u003carnd@arndb.de\u003e\nAcked-by: Peter Zijlstra \u003ca.p.zijlstra@chello.nl\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "9483a578df27fe7603605d565eefe039c1ba5845", "tree": "e8f071d503b26d23d22556ec5d115cd67a45d47c", "parents": [ "d7ce20b2024d318b9ba88859226af1441270d99f" ], "author": { "name": "David Brownell", "email": "dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net", "time": "Wed Jul 23 21:26:48 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Thu Jul 24 10:47:13 2008 -0700" }, "message": "add HAVE_CLK to Kconfig, for driver dependencies\n\nFlag platforms as HAVE_CLK (or not) in Kconfig, based on whether they\nsupport \u003clinux/clk.h\u003e calls, so that otherwise portable drivers which need\nthose calls can list that dependency.\n\nSomething like this is a prerequisite for merging the musb_hdrc driver,\ncurrently used on platforms including Davinci, OMAP2430, OMAP3xx ... and\nthe discrete TUSB6010 chip, which doesn\u0027t have a natural platform\ndependency. (Used with OMAP 2420 in current Nokia N8x0 tablets.)\n\nSigned-off-by: David Brownell \u003cdbrownell@users.sourceforge.net\u003e\nCc: Russell King \u003crmk@arm.linux.org.uk\u003e\nAcked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen \u003chskinnemoen@atmel.com\u003e\nCc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt \u003cbenh@kernel.crashing.org\u003e\nCc: Paul Mackerras \u003cpaulus@samba.org\u003e\nCc: Paul Mundt \u003clethal@linux-sh.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "3d4422332711ef48ef0f132f1fcbfcbd56c7f3d1", "tree": "9fd3cfa9825e8cb0b7e08dfae85cc9a722442849", "parents": [ "543cf4cb3fe6f6cae3651ba918b9c56200b257d0" ], "author": { "name": "Jens Axboe", "email": "jens.axboe@oracle.com", "time": "Thu Jun 26 11:21:34 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Jens Axboe", "email": "jens.axboe@oracle.com", "time": "Thu Jun 26 11:21:34 2008 +0200" }, "message": "Add generic helpers for arch IPI function calls\n\nThis adds kernel/smp.c which contains helpers for IPI function calls. In\naddition to supporting the existing smp_call_function() in a more efficient\nmanner, it also adds a more scalable variant called smp_call_function_single()\nfor calling a given function on a single CPU only.\n\nThe core of this is based on the x86-64 patch from Nick Piggin, lots of\nchanges since then. \"Alan D. Brunelle\" \u003cAlan.Brunelle@hp.com\u003e has\ncontributed lots of fixes and suggestions as well. Also thanks to\nPaul E. McKenney \u003cpaulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com\u003e for reviewing RCU usage\nand getting rid of the data allocation fallback deadlock.\n\nAcked-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nReviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney \u003cpaulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Jens Axboe \u003cjens.axboe@oracle.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "74bc7ceebfa1c84ddd3a843ebfb56df013bf7ef5", "tree": "548155250fbc7410273125019c70a7c5c085e895", "parents": [ "d2ba7e2ae206e9ab24e8937d99d0d5513bfd08e5" ], "author": { "name": "Arthur Kepner", "email": "akepner@sgi.com", "time": "Tue Apr 29 01:00:30 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue Apr 29 08:06:11 2008 -0700" }, "message": "dma: add dma_*map*_attrs() interfaces\n\nIntroduce new interfaces, dma_*map*_attrs(), for passing architecture-specific\nattributes when memory is mapped and unmapped for DMA. Give the interfaces\ndefault implementations which ignore attributes. Also introduce the\ndma_{set|get}_attr() interfaces for setting and retrieving individual\nattributes. Define one attribute, DMA_ATTR_WRITE_BARRIER, in anticipation of\nits use by ia64/sn. Select whether architectures implement arch-specific\nversions of the dma_*map*_attrs() interfaces via HAVE_DMA_ATTRS in Kconfig.\n\n[markn@au1.ibm.com: dma_{set,get}_attr() have to be static inline]\nSigned-off-by: Arthur Kepner \u003cakepner@sgi.com\u003e\nCc: Tony Luck \u003ctony.luck@intel.com\u003e\nCc: Jesse Barnes \u003cjbarnes@virtuousgeek.org\u003e\nCc: Jes Sorensen \u003cjes@sgi.com\u003e\nCc: Randy Dunlap \u003crandy.dunlap@oracle.com\u003e\nCc: Roland Dreier \u003crdreier@cisco.com\u003e\nCc: James Bottomley \u003cJames.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com\u003e\nCc: David Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\nCc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt \u003cbenh@kernel.crashing.org\u003e\nCc: Grant Grundler \u003cgrundler@parisc-linux.org\u003e\nCc: Michael Ellerman \u003cmichael@ellerman.id.au\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Mark Nelson \u003cmarkn@au1.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "9edddaa200df18e08fe0cf21036e8ae467b1363c", "tree": "26f5319fac24fb6c76b1276b19725caeb5ec24bc", "parents": [ "8182ec49a73729334f5a6c65a607ba7009ebd6d6" ], "author": { "name": "Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli", "email": "ananth@in.ibm.com", "time": "Tue Mar 04 14:28:37 2008 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue Mar 04 16:35:11 2008 -0800" }, "message": "Kprobes: indicate kretprobe support in Kconfig\n\nAdd CONFIG_HAVE_KRETPROBES to the arch/\u003carch\u003e/Kconfig file for relevant\narchitectures with kprobes support. This facilitates easy handling of\nin-kernel modules (like samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c) that depend on\nkretprobes being present in the kernel.\n\nThanks to Sam Ravnborg for helping make the patch more lean.\n\nPer Mathieu\u0027s suggestion, added CONFIG_KRETPROBES and fixed up dependencies.\n\nSigned-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli \u003cananth@in.ibm.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers \u003cmathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca\u003e\nAcked-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "125e564582cbce6219397fc64556438420efae4c", "tree": "501bb3cdb3f17bfbe3b9a43bd89b48ac801a1e38", "parents": [ "3f550096dede4430f83b16457da83bf429155ac2" ], "author": { "name": "Mathieu Desnoyers", "email": "mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca", "time": "Sat Feb 02 15:10:36 2008 -0500" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sun Feb 03 08:58:08 2008 +0100" }, "message": "Move Kconfig.instrumentation to arch/Kconfig and init/Kconfig\n\nMove the instrumentation Kconfig to\n\narch/Kconfig for architecture dependent options\n - oprofile\n - kprobes\n\nand\n\ninit/Kconfig for architecture independent options\n - profiling\n - markers\n\nRemove the \"Instrumentation Support\" menu. Everything moves to \"General setup\".\nDelete the kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation file.\n\nSigned-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers \u003cmathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca\u003e\nCc: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nCc: \u003clinux-arch@vger.kernel.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "fb32e03fdc170251a381449a8d9b82cf7e811a6f", "tree": "9b7c0ad2f097bdc0498e6ca07b9e83b1f2aac1bc", "parents": [ "c0ffa3a951668734a635cd1e26bf7583795854c5" ], "author": { "name": "Mathieu Desnoyers", "email": "mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca", "time": "Sat Feb 02 15:10:33 2008 -0500" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sun Feb 03 08:58:07 2008 +0100" }, "message": "Create arch/Kconfig\n\nPuts the content of arch/Kconfig in the \"General setup\" menu.\n\nLinus:\n\n\u003e Should it come with a re-duplication of it\u0027s content into each\n\u003e architecture, which was the case previously ? The oprofile and kprobes\n\u003e menu entries were litteraly cut and pasted from one architecture to\n\u003e another. Should we put its content in init/Kconfig then ?\n\nI don\u0027t think it\u0027s a good idea to go back to making it per-architecture,\nalthough that extensive \"depends on \u003clist-of-archiectures-here\u003e\" might\nindicate that there certainly is room for cleanup there.\n\nAnd I don\u0027t think it\u0027s wrong keeping it in kernel/Kconfig.xyz per se, I\njust think it\u0027s wrong to (a) lump the code together when it really doesn\u0027t\nnecessarily need to and (b) show it to users as some kind of choice that\nis tied together (whether it then has common code or not).\n\nOn the per-architecture side, I do think it would be better to *not* have\ninternal architecture knowledge in a generic file, and as such a line like\n\n depends on X86_32 || IA64 || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || X86_64 || AVR32\n\nreally shouldn\u0027t exist in a file like kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation.\n\nIt would be much better to do\n\n depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES\n\nin that generic file, and then architectures that do support it would just\nhave a\n\n bool ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES\n default y\n\nin *their* architecture files. That would seem to be much more logical,\nand is readable both for arch maintainers *and* for people who have no\nclue - and don\u0027t care - about which architecture is supposed to support\nwhich interface...\n\nSam Ravnborg:\n\nStuff it into a new file: arch/Kconfig\nWe can then extend this file to include all the \u0027trailing\u0027\nKconfig things that are anyway equal for all ARCHs.\n\nBut it should be kept clean - so if we introduce such a file\nthen we should use ARCH_HAS_whatever in the arch specific Kconfig\nfiles to enable stuff that is not shared.\n\n[...]\n\nThe above suggestion is actually not exactly the best way to do it...\nFirst the naming..\nA quick grep shows following usage today (in Kconfig files)\nARCH_HAS 51\nARCH_SUPPORTS 4\nHAVE_ARCH 7\n\nARCH_HAS is the clear winner.\n\nIn the common Kconfig file do:\n\nconfig FOO\n depends on ARCH_HAS_FOO\n bool \"bla bla\"\n\nconfig ARCH_HAS_FOO\n def_bool n\n\nIn the arch specific Kconfig file in a suitable place do:\n\nconfig SUITABLE_OPTION\n select ARCH_HAS_FOO\n\nThe naming of ARCH_HAS_ is fixed and shall be:\nARCH_HAS_\u003cconfig option it will enable\u003e\n\nOnly a single line added pr. architecture.\nAnd we will end up with a (maybe even commented) list of trivial selects.\n\n- Yet another update :\n\nMoving to HAVE_* now.\n\nSigned-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers \u003cmathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca\u003e\nCc: Jeff Dike \u003cjdike@addtoit.com\u003e\nCc: David Howells \u003cdhowells@redhat.com\u003e\nCc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli \u003cananth@in.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" } ] }