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authorMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>2012-08-26 13:58:41 -0300
committerMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>2012-08-26 13:58:41 -0300
commitc78aa4c4b94b5b148be576a9f1570e31fe282b46 (patch)
tree6d5801eb3e60bcec6a91c7b13a334c6d2ea11b05 /Documentation
parent90993cdd1800dc6ef9587431a0c625b978584e81 (diff)
parent9acb172543aecb783e2e1e53e3f447d4c0f5c150 (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into queue
Merging critical fixes from upstream required for development. * upstream/master: (809 commits) libata: Add a space to " 2GB ATA Flash Disk" DMA blacklist entry Revert "powerpc: Update g5_defconfig" powerpc/perf: Use pmc_overflow() to detect rolled back events powerpc: Fix VMX in interrupt check in POWER7 copy loops powerpc: POWER7 copy_to_user/copy_from_user patch applied twice powerpc: Fix personality handling in ppc64_personality() powerpc/dma-iommu: Fix IOMMU window check powerpc: Remove unnecessary ifdefs powerpc/kgdb: Restore current_thread_info properly powerpc/kgdb: Bail out of KGDB when we've been triggered powerpc/kgdb: Do not set kgdb_single_step on ppc powerpc/mpic_msgr: Add missing includes powerpc: Fix null pointer deref in perf hardware breakpoints powerpc: Fixup whitespace in xmon powerpc: Fix xmon dl command for new printk implementation xfs: check for possible overflow in xfs_ioc_trim xfs: unlock the AGI buffer when looping in xfs_dialloc xfs: fix uninitialised variable in xfs_rtbuf_get() powerpc/fsl: fix "Failed to mount /dev: No such device" errors powerpc/fsl: update defconfigs ... Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-ideapad-laptop11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-tuner.xml2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/block/00-INDEX10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt77
-rw-r--r--Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt64
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/fsl-imx-esdhc.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/tps6586x.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt19
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pinctrl.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/security/Yama.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm2
13 files changed, 219 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-ideapad-laptop b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-ideapad-laptop
index 814b01354c4..b31e782bd98 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-ideapad-laptop
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-ideapad-laptop
@@ -5,4 +5,15 @@ Contact: "Ike Panhc <ike.pan@canonical.com>"
Description:
Control the power of camera module. 1 means on, 0 means off.
+What: /sys/devices/platform/ideapad/fan_mode
+Date: June 2012
+KernelVersion: 3.6
+Contact: "Maxim Mikityanskiy <maxtram95@gmail.com>"
+Description:
+ Change fan mode
+ There are four available modes:
+ * 0 -> Super Silent Mode
+ * 1 -> Standard Mode
+ * 2 -> Dust Cleaning
+ * 4 -> Efficient Thermal Dissipation Mode
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-tuner.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-tuner.xml
index 72039512790..701138f1209 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-tuner.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-tuner.xml
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ the structure refers to a radio tuner the
<constant>V4L2_TUNER_CAP_NORM</constant> flags can't be used.</para>
<para>If multiple frequency bands are supported, then
<structfield>capability</structfield> is the union of all
-<structfield>capability></structfield> fields of each &v4l2-frequency-band;.
+<structfield>capability</structfield> fields of each &v4l2-frequency-band;.
</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
diff --git a/Documentation/block/00-INDEX b/Documentation/block/00-INDEX
index d111e3b23db..d18ecd827c4 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/block/00-INDEX
@@ -3,15 +3,21 @@
biodoc.txt
- Notes on the Generic Block Layer Rewrite in Linux 2.5
capability.txt
- - Generic Block Device Capability (/sys/block/<disk>/capability)
+ - Generic Block Device Capability (/sys/block/<device>/capability)
+cfq-iosched.txt
+ - CFQ IO scheduler tunables
+data-integrity.txt
+ - Block data integrity
deadline-iosched.txt
- Deadline IO scheduler tunables
ioprio.txt
- Block io priorities (in CFQ scheduler)
+queue-sysfs.txt
+ - Queue's sysfs entries
request.txt
- The members of struct request (in include/linux/blkdev.h)
stat.txt
- - Block layer statistics in /sys/block/<dev>/stat
+ - Block layer statistics in /sys/block/<device>/stat
switching-sched.txt
- Switching I/O schedulers at runtime
writeback_cache_control.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt b/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt
index 6d670f57045..d89b4fe724d 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+CFQ (Complete Fairness Queueing)
+===============================
+
+The main aim of CFQ scheduler is to provide a fair allocation of the disk
+I/O bandwidth for all the processes which requests an I/O operation.
+
+CFQ maintains the per process queue for the processes which request I/O
+operation(syncronous requests). In case of asynchronous requests, all the
+requests from all the processes are batched together according to their
+process's I/O priority.
+
CFQ ioscheduler tunables
========================
@@ -25,6 +36,72 @@ there are multiple spindles behind single LUN (Host based hardware RAID
controller or for storage arrays), setting slice_idle=0 might end up in better
throughput and acceptable latencies.
+back_seek_max
+-------------
+This specifies, given in Kbytes, the maximum "distance" for backward seeking.
+The distance is the amount of space from the current head location to the
+sectors that are backward in terms of distance.
+
+This parameter allows the scheduler to anticipate requests in the "backward"
+direction and consider them as being the "next" if they are within this
+distance from the current head location.
+
+back_seek_penalty
+-----------------
+This parameter is used to compute the cost of backward seeking. If the
+backward distance of request is just 1/back_seek_penalty from a "front"
+request, then the seeking cost of two requests is considered equivalent.
+
+So scheduler will not bias toward one or the other request (otherwise scheduler
+will bias toward front request). Default value of back_seek_penalty is 2.
+
+fifo_expire_async
+-----------------
+This parameter is used to set the timeout of asynchronous requests. Default
+value of this is 248ms.
+
+fifo_expire_sync
+----------------
+This parameter is used to set the timeout of synchronous requests. Default
+value of this is 124ms. In case to favor synchronous requests over asynchronous
+one, this value should be decreased relative to fifo_expire_async.
+
+slice_async
+-----------
+This parameter is same as of slice_sync but for asynchronous queue. The
+default value is 40ms.
+
+slice_async_rq
+--------------
+This parameter is used to limit the dispatching of asynchronous request to
+device request queue in queue's slice time. The maximum number of request that
+are allowed to be dispatched also depends upon the io priority. Default value
+for this is 2.
+
+slice_sync
+----------
+When a queue is selected for execution, the queues IO requests are only
+executed for a certain amount of time(time_slice) before switching to another
+queue. This parameter is used to calculate the time slice of synchronous
+queue.
+
+time_slice is computed using the below equation:-
+time_slice = slice_sync + (slice_sync/5 * (4 - prio)). To increase the
+time_slice of synchronous queue, increase the value of slice_sync. Default
+value is 100ms.
+
+quantum
+-------
+This specifies the number of request dispatched to the device queue. In a
+queue's time slice, a request will not be dispatched if the number of request
+in the device exceeds this parameter. This parameter is used for synchronous
+request.
+
+In case of storage with several disk, this setting can limit the parallel
+processing of request. Therefore, increasing the value can imporve the
+performace although this can cause the latency of some I/O to increase due
+to more number of requests.
+
CFQ IOPS Mode for group scheduling
===================================
Basic CFQ design is to provide priority based time slices. Higher priority
diff --git a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
index 6518a55273e..e54ac1d5340 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
@@ -9,20 +9,71 @@ These files are the ones found in the /sys/block/xxx/queue/ directory.
Files denoted with a RO postfix are readonly and the RW postfix means
read-write.
+add_random (RW)
+----------------
+This file allows to trun off the disk entropy contribution. Default
+value of this file is '1'(on).
+
+discard_granularity (RO)
+-----------------------
+This shows the size of internal allocation of the device in bytes, if
+reported by the device. A value of '0' means device does not support
+the discard functionality.
+
+discard_max_bytes (RO)
+----------------------
+Devices that support discard functionality may have internal limits on
+the number of bytes that can be trimmed or unmapped in a single operation.
+The discard_max_bytes parameter is set by the device driver to the maximum
+number of bytes that can be discarded in a single operation. Discard
+requests issued to the device must not exceed this limit. A discard_max_bytes
+value of 0 means that the device does not support discard functionality.
+
+discard_zeroes_data (RO)
+------------------------
+When read, this file will show if the discarded block are zeroed by the
+device or not. If its value is '1' the blocks are zeroed otherwise not.
+
hw_sector_size (RO)
-------------------
This is the hardware sector size of the device, in bytes.
+iostats (RW)
+-------------
+This file is used to control (on/off) the iostats accounting of the
+disk.
+
+logical_block_size (RO)
+-----------------------
+This is the logcal block size of the device, in bytes.
+
max_hw_sectors_kb (RO)
----------------------
This is the maximum number of kilobytes supported in a single data transfer.
+max_integrity_segments (RO)
+---------------------------
+When read, this file shows the max limit of integrity segments as
+set by block layer which a hardware controller can handle.
+
max_sectors_kb (RW)
-------------------
This is the maximum number of kilobytes that the block layer will allow
for a filesystem request. Must be smaller than or equal to the maximum
size allowed by the hardware.
+max_segments (RO)
+-----------------
+Maximum number of segments of the device.
+
+max_segment_size (RO)
+---------------------
+Maximum segment size of the device.
+
+minimum_io_size (RO)
+--------------------
+This is the smallest preferred io size reported by the device.
+
nomerges (RW)
-------------
This enables the user to disable the lookup logic involved with IO
@@ -45,11 +96,24 @@ per-block-cgroup request pool. IOW, if there are N block cgroups,
each request queue may have upto N request pools, each independently
regulated by nr_requests.
+optimal_io_size (RO)
+--------------------
+This is the optimal io size reported by the device.
+
+physical_block_size (RO)
+------------------------
+This is the physical block size of device, in bytes.
+
read_ahead_kb (RW)
------------------
Maximum number of kilobytes to read-ahead for filesystems on this block
device.
+rotational (RW)
+---------------
+This file is used to stat if the device is of rotational type or
+non-rotational type.
+
rq_affinity (RW)
----------------
If this option is '1', the block layer will migrate request completions to the
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/fsl-imx-esdhc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/fsl-imx-esdhc.txt
index 70cd49b1caa..1dd622546d0 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/fsl-imx-esdhc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/fsl-imx-esdhc.txt
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ Required properties:
- compatible : Should be "fsl,<chip>-esdhc"
Optional properties:
-- fsl,cd-internal : Indicate to use controller internal card detection
-- fsl,wp-internal : Indicate to use controller internal write protection
+- fsl,cd-controller : Indicate to use controller internal card detection
+- fsl,wp-controller : Indicate to use controller internal write protection
Examples:
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ esdhc@70004000 {
compatible = "fsl,imx51-esdhc";
reg = <0x70004000 0x4000>;
interrupts = <1>;
- fsl,cd-internal;
- fsl,wp-internal;
+ fsl,cd-controller;
+ fsl,wp-controller;
};
esdhc@70008000 {
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/tps6586x.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/tps6586x.txt
index d156e1b5db1..da80c2ae091 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/tps6586x.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/tps6586x.txt
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ Required properties:
- regulators: list of regulators provided by this controller, must have
property "regulator-compatible" to match their hardware counterparts:
sm[0-2], ldo[0-9] and ldo_rtc
-- sm0-supply: The input supply for the SM0.
-- sm1-supply: The input supply for the SM1.
-- sm2-supply: The input supply for the SM2.
+- vin-sm0-supply: The input supply for the SM0.
+- vin-sm1-supply: The input supply for the SM1.
+- vin-sm2-supply: The input supply for the SM2.
- vinldo01-supply: The input supply for the LDO1 and LDO2
- vinldo23-supply: The input supply for the LDO2 and LDO3
- vinldo4-supply: The input supply for the LDO4
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ Example:
#gpio-cells = <2>;
gpio-controller;
- sm0-supply = <&some_reg>;
- sm1-supply = <&some_reg>;
- sm2-supply = <&some_reg>;
+ vin-sm0-supply = <&some_reg>;
+ vin-sm1-supply = <&some_reg>;
+ vin-sm2-supply = <&some_reg>;
vinldo01-supply = <...>;
vinldo23-supply = <...>;
vinldo4-supply = <...>;
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
index ead764b2728..de1e6c4dccf 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
@@ -137,6 +137,17 @@ errors=panic|continue|remount-ro
without doing anything or remount the partition in
read-only mode (default behavior).
+discard -- If set, issues discard/TRIM commands to the block
+ device when blocks are freed. This is useful for SSD devices
+ and sparse/thinly-provisoned LUNs.
+
+nfs -- This option maintains an index (cache) of directory
+ inodes by i_logstart which is used by the nfs-related code to
+ improve look-ups.
+
+ Enable this only if you want to export the FAT filesystem
+ over NFS
+
<bool>: 0,1,yes,no,true,false
TODO
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
index 8d022073e3e..2e9e0ae2cd4 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
@@ -51,8 +51,23 @@ Built-in netconsole starts immediately after the TCP stack is
initialized and attempts to bring up the supplied dev at the supplied
address.
-The remote host can run either 'netcat -u -l -p <port>',
-'nc -l -u <port>' or syslogd.
+The remote host has several options to receive the kernel messages,
+for example:
+
+1) syslogd
+
+2) netcat
+
+ On distributions using a BSD-based netcat version (e.g. Fedora,
+ openSUSE and Ubuntu) the listening port must be specified without
+ the -p switch:
+
+ 'nc -u -l -p <port>' / 'nc -u -l <port>' or
+ 'netcat -u -l -p <port>' / 'netcat -u -l <port>'
+
+3) socat
+
+ 'socat udp-recv:<port> -'
Dynamic reconfiguration:
========================
diff --git a/Documentation/pinctrl.txt b/Documentation/pinctrl.txt
index e40f4b4e197..1479aca2374 100644
--- a/Documentation/pinctrl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pinctrl.txt
@@ -840,9 +840,9 @@ static unsigned long i2c_pin_configs[] = {
static struct pinctrl_map __initdata mapping[] = {
PIN_MAP_MUX_GROUP("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0", "i2c0"),
- PIN_MAP_MUX_CONFIGS_GROUP("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0", i2c_grp_configs),
- PIN_MAP_MUX_CONFIGS_PIN("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0scl", i2c_pin_configs),
- PIN_MAP_MUX_CONFIGS_PIN("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0sda", i2c_pin_configs),
+ PIN_MAP_CONFIGS_GROUP("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0", i2c_grp_configs),
+ PIN_MAP_CONFIGS_PIN("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0scl", i2c_pin_configs),
+ PIN_MAP_CONFIGS_PIN("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0sda", i2c_pin_configs),
};
Finally, some devices expect the mapping table to contain certain specific
diff --git a/Documentation/security/Yama.txt b/Documentation/security/Yama.txt
index e369de2d48c..dd908cf64ec 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/Yama.txt
+++ b/Documentation/security/Yama.txt
@@ -46,14 +46,13 @@ restrictions, it can call prctl(PR_SET_PTRACER, PR_SET_PTRACER_ANY, ...)
so that any otherwise allowed process (even those in external pid namespaces)
may attach.
-These restrictions do not change how ptrace via PTRACE_TRACEME operates.
-
-The sysctl settings are:
+The sysctl settings (writable only with CAP_SYS_PTRACE) are:
0 - classic ptrace permissions: a process can PTRACE_ATTACH to any other
process running under the same uid, as long as it is dumpable (i.e.
did not transition uids, start privileged, or have called
- prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE...) already).
+ prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE...) already). Similarly, PTRACE_TRACEME is
+ unchanged.
1 - restricted ptrace: a process must have a predefined relationship
with the inferior it wants to call PTRACE_ATTACH on. By default,
@@ -61,12 +60,13 @@ The sysctl settings are:
classic criteria is also met. To change the relationship, an
inferior can call prctl(PR_SET_PTRACER, debugger, ...) to declare
an allowed debugger PID to call PTRACE_ATTACH on the inferior.
+ Using PTRACE_TRACEME is unchanged.
2 - admin-only attach: only processes with CAP_SYS_PTRACE may use ptrace
- with PTRACE_ATTACH.
+ with PTRACE_ATTACH, or through children calling PTRACE_TRACEME.
-3 - no attach: no processes may use ptrace with PTRACE_ATTACH. Once set,
- this sysctl cannot be changed to a lower value.
+3 - no attach: no processes may use ptrace with PTRACE_ATTACH nor via
+ PTRACE_TRACEME. Once set, this sysctl value cannot be changed.
The original children-only logic was based on the restrictions in grsecurity.
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
index f8551b3879f..4ac359b7aa1 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
@@ -299,11 +299,17 @@ map_hugetlb.c.
*******************************************************************
/*
- * hugepage-shm: see Documentation/vm/hugepage-shm.c
+ * map_hugetlb: see tools/testing/selftests/vm/map_hugetlb.c
*/
*******************************************************************
/*
- * hugepage-mmap: see Documentation/vm/hugepage-mmap.c
+ * hugepage-shm: see tools/testing/selftests/vm/hugepage-shm.c
+ */
+
+*******************************************************************
+
+/*
+ * hugepage-mmap: see tools/testing/selftests/vm/hugepage-mmap.c
*/
diff --git a/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm b/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm
index 0403aaaba87..874a8ca93fe 100644
--- a/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm
+++ b/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Kernel driver w1_therm
Supported chips:
* Maxim ds18*20 based temperature sensors.
+ * Maxim ds1825 based temperature sensors.
Author: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
@@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ supported family codes:
W1_THERM_DS18S20 0x10
W1_THERM_DS1822 0x22
W1_THERM_DS18B20 0x28
+W1_THERM_DS1825 0x3B
Support is provided through the sysfs w1_slave file. Each open and
read sequence will initiate a temperature conversion then provide two