Merge branch 'master' into upstream

[PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: remove display of counters for unconfigured zones

eventcounters: Do not display counters for zones that are not available on an
arch

Do not define or display counters f

[PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: remove display of counters for unconfigured zones

eventcounters: Do not display counters for zones that are not available on an
arch

Do not define or display counters for the DMA32 and the HIGHMEM zone if such
zones were not configured.

[akpm@osdl.org: s390 fix]
[heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: s390 fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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Merge branch 'master' of /home/sam/kernel/linux-2.6/

Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/

Merge rsync://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Conflicts:

include/linux/kernel.h

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial:
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
remove obsolete swsusp_en

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial:
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
remove obsolete swsusp_encrypt
arch/arm26/Kconfig typos
Documentation/IPMI typos
Kconfig: Typos in net/sched/Kconfig
v9fs: do not include linux/version.h
Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl: typo fixes
typo fixes: specfic -> specific
typo fixes in Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
typo fixes: occuring -> occurring
typo fixes: infomation -> information
typo fixes: disadvantadge -> disadvantage
typo fixes: aquire -> acquire
typo fixes: mecanism -> mechanism
typo fixes: bandwith -> bandwidth
fix a typo in the RTC_CLASS help text
smb is no longer maintained

Manually merged trivial conflict in arch/um/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S

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[PATCH] Light weight event counters

The remaining counters in page_state after the zoned VM counter patches
have been applied are all just for show in /proc/vmstat. They have no
essential function

[PATCH] Light weight event counters

The remaining counters in page_state after the zoned VM counter patches
have been applied are all just for show in /proc/vmstat. They have no
essential function for the VM.

We use a simple increment of per cpu variables. In order to avoid the most
severe races we disable preempt. Preempt does not prevent the race between
an increment and an interrupt handler incrementing the same statistics
counter. However, that race is exceedingly rare, we may only loose one
increment or so and there is no requirement (at least not in kernel) that
the vm event counters have to be accurate.

In the non preempt case this results in a simple increment for each
counter. For many architectures this will be reduced by the compiler to a
single instruction. This single instruction is atomic for i386 and x86_64.
And therefore even the rare race condition in an interrupt is avoided for
both architectures in most cases.

The patchset also adds an off switch for embedded systems that allows a
building of linux kernels without these counters.

The implementation of these counters is through inline code that hopefully
results in only a single instruction increment instruction being emitted
(i386, x86_64) or in the increment being hidden though instruction
concurrency (EPIC architectures such as ia64 can get that done).

Benefits:
- VM event counter operations usually reduce to a single inline instruction
on i386 and x86_64.
- No interrupt disable, only preempt disable for the preempt case.
Preempt disable can also be avoided by moving the counter into a spinlock.
- Handling is similar to zoned VM counters.
- Simple and easily extendable.
- Can be omitted to reduce memory use for embedded use.

References:

RFC http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113512330605497&w=2
RFC http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114988082814934&w=2
local_t http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114991748606690&w=2
V2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=115014808400007&r=1&w=2
V3 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115024767022346&w=2
V4 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115047968808926&w=2

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_pagecache to per zone counter

Currently a single atomic variable is used to establish the size of the page
cache in the whole machine. The zoned VM count

[PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_pagecache to per zone counter

Currently a single atomic variable is used to establish the size of the page
cache in the whole machine. The zoned VM counters have the same method of
implementation as the nr_pagecache code but also allow the determination of
the pagecache size per zone.

Remove the special implementation for nr_pagecache and make it a zoned counter
named NR_FILE_PAGES.

Updates of the page cache counters are always performed with interrupts off.
We can therefore use the __ variant here.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

merge linus into release branch

Conflicts:

drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c

Merge ../linus

Conflicts:

drivers/char/agp/Kconfig

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (28 commits)
[S390] rework of channel measurement facili

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (28 commits)
[S390] rework of channel measurement facility.
[S390] appldata enhancements.
[S390] Add vmpanic parameter.
[S390] add PAV support to the dasd driver.
[S390] remove export of sys_call_table
[S390] remove unused macros from binfmt_elf32.c
[S390] fix duplicate export of overflow{ug}id
[S390] cio chpid offline.
[S390] avenrun export in appdata_base.c
Convert s390_collect_crw_info() in s390mach.c from being started
[S390] dasd eer data format.
[S390] preempt_count initialization.
[S390] head.S code moving.
[S390] dasd whitespace and other cosmetics.
[S390] virtual cpu accounting vs. machine checks.
[S390] add __cpuinit to appldata cpu hotplug notifier.
[S390] dasd_eckd_dump_sense bug.
[S390] missing check in dasd_eer_open.
[S390] modular 3270 driver.
[S390] console_unblank woes.
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[S390] appldata enhancements.

Add CPU ID and steal time, and make OS record size variable.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm

[S390] appldata enhancements.

Add CPU ID and steal time, and make OS record size variable.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

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Merge /spare/repo/netdev-2.6/ branch 'ieee80211'

Merge /spare/repo/linux-2.6/

Merge /spare/repo/linux-2.6/

Merge with rsync://fileserver/linux
Update to Linus latest

Merge upstream (approx. 2.6.12-git8) into 'janitor' branch of netdev-2.6.

Merge /spare/repo/linux-2.6/

Merge /spare/repo/linux-2.6/

Merge upstream kernel changes into 'C/H/S support' branch of libata.

Merge with /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

Merge with /home/shaggy/git/linus-clean/

Merge /spare/repo/linux-2.6/

Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git