Merge ../linux-2.6

62 files changed, 1239 insertions, 673 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX
index 1977fab3865..6de71308a90 100644
--- a/Documentation/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX
@@ -361,8 +361,6 @@ telephony/
 	- directory with info on telephony (e.g. voice over IP) support.
 time_interpolators.txt
 	- info on time interpolators.
-tipar.txt
-	- information about Parallel link cable for Texas Instruments handhelds.
 tty.txt
 	- guide to the locking policies of the tty layer.
 uml/
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7a16fe1e227
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+What:		/sys/devices/system/memory
+Date:		June 2008
+Contact:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
+Description:
+		The /sys/devices/system/memory contains a snapshot of the
+		internal state of the kernel memory blocks. Files could be
+		added or removed dynamically to represent hot-add/remove
+		operations.
+
+Users:		hotplug memory add/remove tools
+		https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/powerpc-utils/
+
+What:		/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/removable
+Date:		June 2008
+Contact:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
+Description:
+		The file /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/removable
+		indicates whether this memory block is removable or not.
+		This is useful for a user-level agent to determine
+		identify removable sections of the memory before attempting
+		potentially expensive hot-remove memory operation
+
+Users:		hotplug memory remove tools
+		https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/powerpc-utils/
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..190d523ac15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+What:		/sys/kernel/mm
+Date:		July 2008
+Contact:	Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>, VM maintainers
+Description:
+		/sys/kernel/mm/ should contain any and all VM
+		related information in /sys/kernel/.
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e21c00571cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+What:		/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/
+Date:		June 2008
+Contact:	Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>, hugetlb maintainers
+Description:
+		/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/ contains a number of subdirectories
+		of the form hugepages-<size>kB, where <size> is the page size
+		of the hugepages supported by the kernel/CPU combination.
+
+		Under these directories are a number of files:
+			nr_hugepages
+			nr_overcommit_hugepages
+			free_hugepages
+			surplus_hugepages
+			resv_hugepages
+		See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle
index 6caa1461557..1875e502f87 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingStyle
+++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle
@@ -474,25 +474,29 @@ make a good program).
 So, you can either get rid of GNU emacs, or change it to use saner
 values.  To do the latter, you can stick the following in your .emacs file:
 
-(defun linux-c-mode ()
-  "C mode with adjusted defaults for use with the Linux kernel."
-  (interactive)
-  (c-mode)
-  (c-set-style "K&R")
-  (setq tab-width 8)
-  (setq indent-tabs-mode t)
-  (setq c-basic-offset 8))
-
-This will define the M-x linux-c-mode command.  When hacking on a
-module, if you put the string -*- linux-c -*- somewhere on the first
-two lines, this mode will be automatically invoked. Also, you may want
-to add
-
-(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("/usr/src/linux.*/.*\\.[ch]$" . linux-c-mode)
-			auto-mode-alist))
-
-to your .emacs file if you want to have linux-c-mode switched on
-automagically when you edit source files under /usr/src/linux.
+(defun c-lineup-arglist-tabs-only (ignored)
+  "Line up argument lists by tabs, not spaces"
+  (let* ((anchor (c-langelem-pos c-syntactic-element))
+	 (column (c-langelem-2nd-pos c-syntactic-element))
+	 (offset (- (1+ column) anchor))
+	 (steps (floor offset c-basic-offset)))
+    (* (max steps 1)
+       c-basic-offset)))
+
+(add-hook 'c-mode-hook
+          (lambda ()
+            (let ((filename (buffer-file-name)))
+              ;; Enable kernel mode for the appropriate files
+              (when (and filename
+                         (string-match "~/src/linux-trees" filename))
+                (setq indent-tabs-mode t)
+                (c-set-style "linux")
+                (c-set-offset 'arglist-cont-nonempty
+                              '(c-lineup-gcc-asm-reg
+                                c-lineup-arglist-tabs-only))))))
+
+This will make emacs go better with the kernel coding style for C
+files below ~/src/linux-trees.
 
 But even if you fail in getting emacs to do sane formatting, not
 everything is lost: use "indent".
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
index 80d150458c8..d8b63d164e4 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
@@ -298,10 +298,10 @@ recommended that you never use these unless you really know what the
 cache width is.
 
 int
-dma_mapping_error(dma_addr_t dma_addr)
+dma_mapping_error(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr)
 
 int
-pci_dma_mapping_error(dma_addr_t dma_addr)
+pci_dma_mapping_error(struct pci_dev *hwdev, dma_addr_t dma_addr)
 
 In some circumstances dma_map_single and dma_map_page will fail to create
 a mapping. A driver can check for these errors by testing the returned
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
index 2510763295d..084f6ad7b7a 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
@@ -219,10 +219,10 @@
    </para>
 
    <sect1 id="lock-intro">
-   <title>Three Main Types of Kernel Locks: Spinlocks, Mutexes and Semaphores</title>
+   <title>Two Main Types of Kernel Locks: Spinlocks and Mutexes</title>
 
    <para>
-     There are three main types of kernel locks.  The fundamental type
+     There are two main types of kernel locks.  The fundamental type
      is the spinlock 
      (<filename class="headerfile">include/asm/spinlock.h</filename>),
      which is a very simple single-holder lock: if you can't get the 
@@ -240,14 +240,6 @@
      use a spinlock instead.
    </para>
    <para>
-     The third type is a semaphore
-     (<filename class="headerfile">include/linux/semaphore.h</filename>): it
-     can have more than one holder at any time (the number decided at
-     initialization time), although it is most commonly used as a
-     single-holder lock (a mutex).  If you can't get a semaphore, your
-     task will be suspended and later on woken up - just like for mutexes.
-   </para>
-   <para>
      Neither type of lock is recursive: see
      <xref linkend="deadlock"/>.
    </para>
@@ -278,7 +270,7 @@
     </para>
 
     <para>
-      Semaphores still exist, because they are required for
+      Mutexes still exist, because they are required for
       synchronization between <firstterm linkend="gloss-usercontext">user 
       contexts</firstterm>, as we will see below.
     </para>
@@ -289,18 +281,17 @@
 
      <para>
        If you have a data structure which is only ever accessed from
-       user context, then you can use a simple semaphore
-       (<filename>linux/linux/semaphore.h</filename>) to protect it.  This
-       is the most trivial case: you initialize the semaphore to the number 
-       of resources available (usually 1), and call
-       <function>down_interruptible()</function> to grab the semaphore, and 
-       <function>up()</function> to release it.  There is also a 
-       <function>down()</function>, which should be avoided, because it 
+       user context, then you can use a simple mutex
+       (<filename>include/linux/mutex.h</filename>) to protect it.  This
+       is the most trivial case: you initialize the mutex.  Then you can
+       call <function>mutex_lock_interruptible()</function> to grab the mutex,
+       and <function>mutex_unlock()</function> to release it.  There is also a 
+       <function>mutex_lock()</function>, which should be avoided, because it 
        will not return if a signal is received.
      </para>
 
      <para>
-       Example: <filename>linux/net/core/netfilter.c</filename> allows 
+       Example: <filename>net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c</filename> allows 
        registration of new <function>setsockopt()</function> and 
        <function>getsockopt()</function> calls, with
        <function>nf_register_sockopt()</function>.  Registration and 
@@ -515,7 +506,7 @@
       <listitem>
 	<para>
           If you are in a process context (any syscall) and want to
-	lock other process out, use a semaphore.  You can take a semaphore
+	lock other process out, use a mutex.  You can take a mutex
 	and sleep (<function>copy_from_user*(</function> or
 	<function>kmalloc(x,GFP_KERNEL)</function>).
       </para>
@@ -662,7 +653,7 @@
 <entry>SLBH</entry>
 <entry>SLBH</entry>
 <entry>SLBH</entry>
-<entry>DI</entry>
+<entry>MLI</entry>
 <entry>None</entry>
 </row>
 
@@ -692,8 +683,8 @@
 <entry>spin_lock_bh</entry>
 </row>
 <row>
-<entry>DI</entry>
-<entry>down_interruptible</entry>
+<entry>MLI</entry>
+<entry>mutex_lock_interruptible</entry>
 </row>
 
 </tbody>
@@ -1310,7 +1301,7 @@ as Alan Cox says, <quote>Lock data, not code</quote>.
     <para>
       There is a coding bug where a piece of code tries to grab a
       spinlock twice: it will spin forever, waiting for the lock to
-      be released (spinlocks, rwlocks and semaphores are not
+      be released (spinlocks, rwlocks and mutexes are not
       recursive in Linux).  This is trivial to diagnose: not a
       stay-up-five-nights-talk-to-fluffy-code-bunnies kind of
       problem.
@@ -1335,7 +1326,7 @@ as Alan Cox says, <quote>Lock data, not code</quote>.
 
     <para>
       This complete lockup is easy to diagnose: on SMP boxes the
-      watchdog timer or compiling with <symbol>DEBUG_SPINLOCKS</symbol> set
+      watchdog timer or compiling with <symbol>DEBUG_SPINLOCK</symbol> set
       (<filename>include/linux/spinlock.h</filename>) will show this up 
       immediately when it happens.
     </para>
@@ -1558,7 +1549,7 @@ the amount of locking which needs to be done.
    <title>Read/Write Lock Variants</title>
 
    <para>
-      Both spinlocks and semaphores have read/write variants:
+      Both spinlocks and mutexes have read/write variants:
       <type>rwlock_t</type> and <structname>struct rw_semaphore</structname>.
       These divide users into two classes: the readers and the writers.  If
       you are only reading the data, you can get a read lock, but to write to
@@ -1681,7 +1672,7 @@ the amount of locking which needs to be done.
  #include &lt;linux/slab.h&gt;
  #include &lt;linux/string.h&gt;
 +#include &lt;linux/rcupdate.h&gt;
- #include &lt;linux/semaphore.h&gt;
+ #include &lt;linux/mutex.h&gt;
  #include &lt;asm/errno.h&gt;
 
  struct object
@@ -1913,7 +1904,7 @@ machines due to caching.
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
         <para>
-          <function> put_user()</function>
+          <function>put_user()</function>
         </para>
        </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
@@ -1927,13 +1918,13 @@ machines due to caching.
 
      <listitem>
       <para>
-      <function>down_interruptible()</function> and
-      <function>down()</function>
+      <function>mutex_lock_interruptible()</function> and
+      <function>mutex_lock()</function>
       </para>
       <para>
-       There is a <function>down_trylock()</function> which can be
+       There is a <function>mutex_trylock()</function> which can be
        used inside interrupt context, as it will not sleep.
-       <function>up()</function> will also never sleep.
+       <function>mutex_unlock()</function> will also never sleep.
       </para>
      </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
@@ -2023,7 +2014,7 @@ machines due to caching.
       <para>
         Prior to 2.5, or when <symbol>CONFIG_PREEMPT</symbol> is
         unset, processes in user context inside the kernel would not
-        preempt each other (ie. you had that CPU until you have it up,
+        preempt each other (ie. you had that CPU until you gave it up,
         except for interrupts).  With the addition of
         <symbol>CONFIG_PREEMPT</symbol> in 2.5.4, this changed: when
         in user context, higher priority tasks can "cut in": spinlocks
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/procfs-guide.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/procfs-guide.tmpl
index 1fd6a1ec759..8a5dc6e021f 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/procfs-guide.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/procfs-guide.tmpl
@@ -29,12 +29,12 @@
 
     <revhistory>
       <revision>
-	<revnumber>1.0&nbsp;</revnumber>
+	<revnumber>1.0</revnumber>
 	<date>May 30, 2001</date>
 	<revremark>Initial revision posted to linux-kernel</revremark>
       </revision>
       <revision>
-	<revnumber>1.1&nbsp;</revnumber>
+	<revnumber>1.1</revnumber>
 	<date>June 3, 2001</date>
 	<revremark>Revised after comments from linux-kernel</revremark>
       </revision>
diff --git a/Documentation/Intel-IOMMU.txt b/Documentation/Intel-IOMMU.txt
index c2321903aa0..21bc416d887 100644
--- a/Documentation/Intel-IOMMU.txt
+++ b/Documentation/Intel-IOMMU.txt
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ IOVA generation is pretty generic. We used the same technique as vmalloc()
 but these are not global address spaces, but separate for each domain.
 Different DMA engines may support different number of domains.
 
-We also allocate gaurd pages with each mapping, so we can attempt to catch
+We also allocate guard pages with each mapping, so we can attempt to catch
 any overflow that might happen.
 
 
@@ -112,4 +112,4 @@ TBD
 
 - For compatibility testing, could use unity map domain for all devices, just
   provide a 1-1 for all useful memory under a single domain for all devices.
-- API for paravirt ops for abstracting functionlity for VMM folks.
+- API for paravirt ops for abstracting functionality for VMM folks.
diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt b/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt
index 1443cd71d26..8a12f0730c9 100644
--- a/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt
+++ b/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ the delays experienced by a task while
 a) waiting for a CPU (while being runnable)
 b) completion of synchronous block I/O initiated by the task
 c) swapping in pages
+d) memory reclaim
 
 and makes these statistics available to userspace through
 the taskstats interface.
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@ this structure. See
      include/linux/taskstats.h
 for a description of the fields pertaining to delay accounting.
 It will generally be in the form of counters returning the cumulative
-delay seen for cpu, sync block I/O, swapin etc.
+delay seen for cpu, sync block I/O, swapin, memory reclaim etc.
 
 Taking the difference of two successive readings of a given
 counter (say cpu_delay_total) for a task will give the delay
@@ -94,7 +95,9 @@ CPU	count	real total	virtual total	delay total
 	7876	92005750	100000000	24001500
 IO	count	delay total
 	0	0
-MEM	count	delay total
+SWAP	count	delay total
+	0	0
+RECLAIM	count	delay total
 	0	0
 
 Get delays seen in executing a given simple command
@@ -108,5 +111,7 @@ CPU	count	real total	virtual total	delay total
 	6	4000250		4000000		0
 IO	count	delay total
 	0	0
-MEM	count	delay total
+SWAP	count	delay total
+	0	0
+RECLAIM	count	delay total
 	0	0
diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
index 40121b5cca1..3f7755f3963 100644
--- a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
+++ b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
@@ -196,14 +196,18 @@ void print_delayacct(struct taskstats *t)
 	       "      %15llu%15llu%15llu%15llu\n"
 	       "IO    %15s%15s\n"
 	       "      %15llu%15llu\n"
-	       "MEM   %15s%15s\n"
+	       "SWAP  %15s%15s\n"
+	       "      %15llu%15llu\n"
+	       "RECLAIM  %12s%15s\n"
 	       "      %15llu%15llu\n",
 	       "count", "real total", "virtual total", "delay total",
 	       t->cpu_count, t->cpu_run_real_total, t->cpu_run_virtual_total,
 	       t->cpu_delay_total,
 	       "count", "delay total",
 	       t->blkio_count, t->blkio_delay_total,
-	       "count", "delay total", t->swapin_count, t->swapin_delay_total);
+	       "count", "delay total", t->swapin_count, t->swapin_delay_total,
+	       "count", "delay total",
+	       t->freepages_count, t->freepages_delay_total);
 }
 
 void task_context_switch_counts(struct taskstats *t)
diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt
index cd784f46bf8..e7512c061c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt
+++ b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This document contains an explanation of the struct taskstats fields.
 There are three different groups of fields in the struct taskstats:
 
 1) Common and basic accounting fields
-    If CONFIG_TASKSTATS is set, the taskstats inteface is enabled and
+    If CONFIG_TASKSTATS is set, the taskstats interface is enabled and
     the common fields and basic accounting fields are collected for
     delivery at do_exit() of a task.
 2) Delay accounting fields
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ There are three different groups of fields in the struct taskstats:
 
 5) Time accounting for SMT machines
 
+6) Extended delay accounting fields for memory reclaim
+
 Future extension should add fields to the end of the taskstats struct, and
 should not change the relative position of each field within the struct.
 
@@ -170,4 +172,9 @@ struct taskstats {
 	__u64	ac_utimescaled;		/* utime scaled on frequency etc */
 	__u64	ac_stimescaled;		/* stime scaled on frequency etc */
 	__u64	cpu_scaled_run_real_total; /* scaled cpu_run_real_total */
+
+6) Extended delay accounting fields for memory reclaim
+	/* Delay waiting for memory reclaim */
+	__u64	freepages_count;
+	__u64	freepages_delay_total;
 }
diff --git a/Documentation/bt8xxgpio.txt b/Documentation/bt8xxgpio.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d8297e4ebd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/bt8xxgpio.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+===============================================================
+==  BT8XXGPIO driver                                         ==
+==                                                           ==
+==  A driver for a selfmade cheap BT8xx based PCI GPIO-card  ==
+==                                                           ==
+==  For advanced documentation, see                          ==
+==  http://www.bu3sch.de/btgpio.php                          ==
+====