linux/Documentation, branch v3.5-rc3

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

2012-06-14T12:33:55Z

Pull networking fixes from David S. Miller: This has the fix for the wireless issues I ran into the other week as well as: 1) Fix CAN c_can driver transmit handling resulting in BUG check triggers, from AnilKumar Ch. 2) Fix packet drop monitor sleeping in atomic context, from Eric Dumazet. 3) Fix mv643xx_eth driver build regression, from Andrew Lunn. 4) Inetpeer freeing needs an RCU grace period in order to avoid races during tree invalidation. From Eric Dumazet. 5) Fix endianness bugs in xt_HMARK netfilter module, from Hans Schillstrom. 6) Add proper module refcounting to l2tp_eth to avoid crash on module unload, from Eric Dumazet. 7) Fix truncation of neighbour entry dumps due to logic errors in neigh_dump_info() and friends, from Eric Dumazet. 8) The conversion of fib6_age() to dst_neigh_lookup() accidently reversed the logic of a flags test, fix from Thomas Graf. 9) Fix checksum configuration in newer sky2 chips, from Stephen Hemminger. 10) Revert BQL support in NIU driver, doesn't work. 11) l2tp_ip_sendmsg() illegally uses a route without a proper reference. From Eric Dumazet. 12) be2net driver references an SKB after it's potentially been freed, also from Eric Dumazet. 13) Fix RCU stalls in dummy net driver init. Also from Eric Dumazet. 14) lpc_eth has several bugs in it's transmit engine leading to packet leaks and improper queue wakes, from Eric Dumazet. 15) Apply short DMA workaround to more tg3 chips, from Matt Carlson. 16) Add tilegx network driver. 17) Bonding queue mapping for a packet can get corrupted, fix from Eric Dumazet. 18) Fix bug in netpoll_send_udp() SKB management that can leave garbage in the payload in certain situations. From Eric Dumazet. 19) bnx2x driver interprets chip RX checksum offload incorrectly in encapsulation situations. Fix from Eric Dumazet. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (75 commits) bnx2x: fix checksum validation netpoll: fix netpoll_send_udp() bugs bonding: Fix corrupted queue_mapping bonding:record primary when modify it via sysfs tilegx network driver: initial support tg3: Apply short DMA frag workaround to 5906 net: stmmac: Fix clock en-/disable calls lpc_eth: fix tx completion lpc_eth: add missing ndo_change_mtu() dummy: fix rcu_sched self-detected stalls net: Reorder initialization in ip_route_output to fix gcc warning virtio-net: fix a race on 32bit arches r8169: avoid NAPI scheduling delay. net: Make linux/tcp.h C++ friendly (trivial) netdev: fix drivers/net/phy/ kernel-doc warnings net/core: fix kernel-doc warnings be2net: fix a race in be_xmit() l2tp: fix a race in l2tp_ip_sendmsg() mac80211: add back channel change flag NFC: Fix possible NULL ptr deref when getting the name of a socket ...

stmmac: update driver's doc

2012-06-06T16:34:56Z

Fixed the driver's documentation that was obsolete and didn't report new platform fields (recently added). Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'i2c-embedded/for-current' of git://git.pengutronix.de/git/wsa/linux

2012-06-05T17:55:31Z

Pull embedded i2c update from Wolfram Sang: "This only contains one new driver which had multiple dependencies (pinctrl, i2c-mux-rework, new devm_* functions), so I decided to wait for rc1. Plus, it had to wait a little for the ack of a devicetree maintainer since the bindings were not trivial enough for me to pass through. So, given that, I hope there is still something like the "new driver rule", so we could have the driver in 3.5 and people can start using it. That would make merging support for some boards easier for 3.6 since the dependency on this driver is gone then." * 'i2c-embedded/for-current' of git://git.pengutronix.de/git/wsa/linux: i2c: Add generic I2C multiplexer using pinctrl API

Merge tag 'stable/frontswap.v16-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/mm

2012-06-04T19:28:45Z

Pull frontswap feature from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk: "Frontswap provides a "transcendent memory" interface for swap pages. In some environments, dramatic performance savings may be obtained because swapped pages are saved in RAM (or a RAM-like device) instead of a swap disk. This tag provides the basic infrastructure along with some changes to the existing backends." Fix up trivial conflict in mm/Makefile due to removal of swap token code changing a line next to the new frontswap entry. This pull request came in before the merge window even opened, it got delayed to after the merge window by me just wanting to make sure it had actual users. Apparently IBM is using this on their embedded side, and Jan Beulich says that it's already made available for SLES and OpenSUSE users. Also acked by Rik van Riel, and Konrad points to other people liking it too. So in it goes. By Dan Magenheimer (4) and Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (2) via Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk * tag 'stable/frontswap.v16-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/mm: frontswap: s/put_page/store/g s/get_page/load MAINTAINER: Add myself for the frontswap API mm: frontswap: config and doc files mm: frontswap: core frontswap functionality mm: frontswap: core swap subsystem hooks and headers mm: frontswap: add frontswap header file

Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-06-04T18:25:31Z

Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner: "The clocksource driver is pure hardware enablement and the skew option is default off, well tested and non dangerous." * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: tick: Move skew_tick option into the HIGH_RES_TIMER section clocksource: em_sti: Add DT support clocksource: em_sti: Emma Mobile STI driver clockevents: Make clockevents_config() a global symbol tick: Add tick skew boot option

i2c: Add generic I2C multiplexer using pinctrl API

2012-06-04T14:49:43Z

This is useful for SoCs whose I2C module's signals can be routed to different sets of pins at run-time, using the pinctrl API. +-----+ +-----+ | dev | | dev | +------------------------+ +-----+ +-----+ | SoC | | | | /----|------+--------+ | +---+ +------+ | child bus A, on first set of pins | |I2C|---|Pinmux| | | +---+ +------+ | child bus B, on second set of pins | \----|------+--------+--------+ | | | | | +------------------------+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ | dev | | dev | | dev | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren Acked-by: Linus Walleij Acked-by: Rob Herring Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang

Merge tag 'dm-3.5-changes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm

2012-06-03T00:39:40Z

Pull device-mapper updates from Alasdair G Kergon: "Improve multipath's retrying mechanism in some defined circumstances and provide a simple reserve/release mechanism for userspace tools to access thin provisioning metadata while the pool is in use." * tag 'dm-3.5-changes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm: dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata dm thin: use slab mempools dm mpath: allow ioctls to trigger pg init dm mpath: delay retry of bypassed pg dm mpath: reduce size of struct multipath

dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata

2012-06-02T23:30:01Z

This patch implements two new messages that can be sent to the thin pool target allowing it to take a snapshot of the _metadata_. This, read-only snapshot can be accessed by userland, concurrently with the live target. Only one metadata snapshot can be held at a time. The pool's status line will give the block location for the current msnap. Since version 0.1.5 of the userland thin provisioning tools, the thin_dump program displays the msnap as follows: thin_dump -m Available here: https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools Now that userland can access the metadata we can do various things that have traditionally been kernel side tasks: i) Incremental backups. By using metadata snapshots we can work out what blocks have changed over time. Combined with data snapshots we can ensure the data doesn't change while we back it up. A short proof of concept script can be found here: https://github.com/jthornber/thinp-test-suite/blob/master/incremental_backup_example.rb ii) Migration of thin devices from one pool to another. iii) Merging snapshots back into an external origin. iv) Asyncronous replication. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-06-02T23:17:03Z

Pull straggler x86 fixes from Peter Anvin: "Three groups of patches: - EFI boot stub documentation and the ability to print error messages; - Removal for PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL for x32 (obsolete interface which should never have been ported, and the port is broken and potentially dangerous.) - ftrace stack corruption fixes. I'm not super-happy about the technical implementation, but it is probably the least invasive in the short term. In the future I would like a single method for nesting the debug stack, however." * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, x32, ptrace: Remove PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL for x32 x86, efi: Add EFI boot stub documentation x86, efi; Add EFI boot stub console support x86, efi: Only close open files in error path ftrace/x86: Do not change stacks in DEBUG when calling lockdep x86: Allow nesting of the debug stack IDT setting x86: Reset the debug_stack update counter ftrace: Use breakpoint method to update ftrace caller ftrace: Synchronize variable setting with breakpoints

Merge tag 'fbdev-updates-for-3.5' of git://github.com/schandinat/linux-2.6

2012-06-01T23:57:51Z

Pull fbdev updates from Florian Tobias Schandinat: - driver for AUO-K1900 and AUO-K1901 epaper controller - large updates for OMAP (e.g. decouple HDMI audio and video) - some updates for Exynos and SH Mobile - various other small fixes and cleanups * tag 'fbdev-updates-for-3.5' of git://github.com/schandinat/linux-2.6: (130 commits) video: bfin_adv7393fb: Fix cleanup code video: exynos_dp: reduce delay time when configuring video setting video: exynos_dp: move sw reset prioir to enabling sw defined function video: exynos_dp: use devm_ functions fb: handle NULL pointers in framebuffer release OMAPDSS: HDMI: OMAP4: Update IRQ flags for the HPD IRQ request OMAPDSS: Apply VENC timings even if panel is disabled OMAPDSS: VENC/DISPC: Delay dividing Y resolution for managers connected to VENC OMAPDSS: DISPC: Support rotation through TILER OMAPDSS: VRFB: remove compiler warnings when CONFIG_BUG=n OMAPFB: remove compiler warnings when CONFIG_BUG=n OMAPDSS: remove compiler warnings when CONFIG_BUG=n OMAPDSS: DISPC: fix usage of dispc_ovl_set_accu_uv OMAPDSS: use DSI_FIFO_BUG workaround only for manual update displays OMAPDSS: DSI: Support command mode interleaving during video mode blanking periods OMAPDSS: DISPC: Update Accumulator configuration for chroma plane drivers/video: fsl-diu-fb: don't initialize the THRESHOLDS registers video: exynos mipi dsi: support reverse panel type video: exynos mipi dsi: Properly interpret the interrupt source flags video: exynos mipi dsi: Avoid races in probe() ...