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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block index cbbd3e06994..5f3bedaf8e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block @@ -94,28 +94,37 @@ What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/physical_block_size Date: May 2009 Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Description: - This is the smallest unit the storage device can write - without resorting to read-modify-write operation. It is - usually the same as the logical block size but may be - bigger. One example is SATA drives with 4KB sectors - that expose a 512-byte logical block size to the - operating system. + This is the smallest unit a physical storage device can + write atomically. It is usually the same as the logical + block size but may be bigger. One example is SATA + drives with 4KB sectors that expose a 512-byte logical + block size to the operating system. For stacked block + devices the physical_block_size variable contains the + maximum physical_block_size of the component devices. What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/minimum_io_size Date: April 2009 Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Description: - Storage devices may report a preferred minimum I/O size, - which is the smallest request the device can perform - without incurring a read-modify-write penalty. For disk - drives this is often the physical block size. For RAID - arrays it is often the stripe chunk size. + Storage devices may report a granularity or preferred + minimum I/O size which is the smallest request the + device can perform without incurring a performance + penalty. For disk drives this is often the physical + block size. For RAID arrays it is often the stripe + chunk size. A properly aligned multiple of + minimum_io_size is the preferred request size for + workloads where a high number of I/O operations is + desired. What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/optimal_io_size Date: April 2009 Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Description: Storage devices may report an optimal I/O size, which is - the device's preferred unit of receiving I/O. This is - rarely reported for disk drives. For RAID devices it is - usually the stripe width or the internal block size. + the device's preferred unit for sustained I/O. This is + rarely reported for disk drives. For RAID arrays it is + usually the stripe width or the internal track size. A + properly aligned multiple of optimal_io_size is the + preferred request size for workloads where sustained + throughput is desired. If no optimal I/O size is + reported this file contains 0. diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl index a50d6cd5857..992e67e6be7 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl @@ -449,8 +449,8 @@ printk(KERN_INFO "i = %u\n", i); </para> <programlisting> -__u32 ipaddress; -printk(KERN_INFO "my ip: %d.%d.%d.%d\n", NIPQUAD(ipaddress)); +__be32 ipaddress; +printk(KERN_INFO "my ip: %pI4\n", &ipaddress); </programlisting> <para> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/mac80211.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/mac80211.tmpl index e3698666357..f3f37f141db 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/mac80211.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/mac80211.tmpl @@ -184,8 +184,6 @@ usage should require reading the full document. !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_ctstoself_get !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_ctstoself_duration !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_generic_frame_duration -!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_hdrlen_from_skb -!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_hdrlen !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_wake_queue !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_stop_queue !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_wake_queues diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt b/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt index 93cb28d05dc..18f9651ff23 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt @@ -83,11 +83,12 @@ not detect it missed following items in original chain. obj = kmem_cache_alloc(...); lock_chain(); // typically a spin_lock() obj->key = key; -atomic_inc(&obj->refcnt); /* * we need to make sure obj->key is updated before obj->next + * or obj->refcnt */ smp_wmb(); +atomic_set(&obj->refcnt, 1); hlist_add_head_rcu(&obj->obj_node, list); unlock_chain(); // typically a spin_unlock() @@ -159,6 +160,10 @@ out: obj = kmem_cache_alloc(cachep); lock_chain(); // typically a spin_lock() obj->key = key; +/* + * changes to obj->key must be visible before refcnt one + */ +smp_wmb(); atomic_set(&obj->refcnt, 1); /* * insert obj in RCU way (readers might be traversing chain) diff --git a/Documentation/arm/memory.txt b/Documentation/arm/memory.txt index 43cb1004d35..9d58c7c5edd 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm/memory.txt @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ ffff8000 ffffffff copy_user_page / clear_user_page use. For SA11xx and Xscale, this is used to setup a minicache mapping. +ffff4000 ffffffff cache aliasing on ARMv6 and later CPUs. + ffff1000 ffff7fff Reserved. Platforms must not use this address range. diff --git a/Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt b/Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt index e8ca040ba2c..2d735b0ae38 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ encouraged them to allow separation of the data and integrity metadata scatter-gather lists. The controller will interleave the buffers on write and split them on -read. This means that the Linux can DMA the data buffers to and from +read. This means that Linux can DMA the data buffers to and from host memory without changes to the page cache. Also, the 16-bit CRC checksum mandated by both the SCSI and SATA specs @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ software RAID5). The IP checksum is weaker than the CRC in terms of detecting bit errors. However, the strength is really in the separation of the data -buffers and the integrity metadata. These two distinct buffers much +buffers and the integrity metadata. These two distinct buffers must match up for an I/O to complete. The separation of the data and integrity metadata buffers as well as diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt index f9ca389dddf..1d7e9784439 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt @@ -777,6 +777,18 @@ in cpuset directories: # /bin/echo 1-4 > cpus -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4 # /bin/echo 1,2,3,4 > cpus -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4 +To add a CPU to a cpuset, write the new list of CPUs including the +CPU to be added. To add 6 to the above cpuset: + +# /bin/echo 1-4,6 > cpus -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4,6 + +Similarly to remove a CPU from a cpuset, write the new list of CPUs +without the CPU to be removed. + +To remove all the CPUs: + +# /bin/echo "" > cpus -> clear cpus list + 2.3 Setting flags ----------------- diff --git a/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c b/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c index f688eba8770..6a5be5d5c8e 100644 --- a/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c +++ b/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* * cn_test.c * - * 2004-2005 Copyright (c) Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> + * 2004+ Copyright (c) Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> * All rights reserved. * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify @@ -194,5 +194,5 @@ module_init(cn_test_init); module_exit(cn_test_fini); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); -MODULE_AUTHOR("Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>"); +MODULE_AUTHOR("Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Connector's test module"); diff --git a/Documentation/connector/ucon.c b/Documentation/connector/ucon.c index d738cde2a8d..c5092ad0ce4 100644 --- a/Documentation/connector/ucon.c +++ b/Documentation/connector/ucon.c @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* * ucon.c * - * Copyright (c) 2004+ Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> + * Copyright (c) 2004+ Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> * * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/driver.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/driver.txt index 82132169d47..60120fb3b96 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-model/driver.txt +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/driver.txt @@ -207,8 +207,8 @@ Attributes ~~~~~~~~~~ struct driver_attribute { struct attribute attr; - ssize_t (*show)(struct device_driver *, char * buf, size_t count, loff_t off); - ssize_t (*store)(struct device_driver *, const char * buf, size_t count, loff_t off); + ssize_t (*show)(struct device_driver *driver, char *buf); + ssize_t (*store)(struct device_driver *, const char * buf, size_t count); }; Device drivers can export attributes via their sysfs directories. diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware b/Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware index a52adfc9a57..3d1b0ab70c8 100644 --- a/Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware +++ b/Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ use IO::Handle; "tda10046lifeview", "av7110", "dec2000t", "dec2540t", "dec3000s", "vp7041", "dibusb", "nxt2002", "nxt2004", "or51211", "or51132_qam", "or51132_vsb", "bluebird", - "opera1", "cx231xx", "cx18", "cx23885", "pvrusb2" ); + "opera1", "cx231xx", "cx18", "cx23885", "pvrusb2", "mpc718" ); # Check args syntax() if (scalar(@ARGV) != 1); @@ -381,6 +381,57 @@ sub cx18 { $allfiles; } +sub mpc718 { + my $archive = 'Yuan MPC718 TV Tuner Card 2.13.10.1016.zip'; + my $url = "ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/desktop/aspire_idea510/vista/Drivers/$archive"; + my $fwfile = "dvb-cx18-mpc718-mt352.fw"; + my $tmpdir = tempdir(DIR => "/tmp", CLEANUP => 1); + + checkstandard(); + wgetfile($archive, $url); + unzip($archive, $tmpdir); + + my $sourcefile = "$tmpdir/Yuan MPC718 TV Tuner Card 2.13.10.1016/mpc718_32bit/yuanrap.sys"; + my $found = 0; + + open IN, '<', $sourcefile or die "Couldn't open $sourcefile to extract $fwfile data\n"; + binmode IN; + open OUT, '>', $fwfile; + binmode OUT; + { + # Block scope because we change the line terminator variable $/ + my $prevlen = 0; + my $currlen; + + # Buried in the data segment are 3 runs of almost identical + # register-value pairs that end in 0x5d 0x01 which is a "TUNER GO" + # command for the MT352. + # Pull out the middle run (because it's easy) of register-value + # pairs to make the "firmware" file. + + local $/ = "\x5d\x01"; # MT352 "TUNER GO" + + while (<IN>) { + $currlen = length($_); + if ($prevlen == $currlen && $currlen <= 64) { + chop; chop; # Get rid of "TUNER GO" + s/^\0\0//; # get rid of leading 00 00 if it's there + printf OUT "$_"; + $found = 1; + last; + } + $prevlen = $currlen; + } + } + close OUT; + close IN; + if (!$found) { + unlink $fwfile; + die "Couldn't find valid register-value sequence in $sourcefile for $fwfile\n"; + } + $fwfile; +} + sub cx23885 { my $url = "http://linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/"; diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index f8cd450be9a..09e031c5588 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -458,3 +458,13 @@ Why: Remove the old legacy 32bit machine check code. This has been but the old version has been kept around for easier testing. Note this doesn't impact the old P5 and WinChip machine check handlers. Who: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> + +---------------------------- + +What: lock_policy_rwsem_* and unlock_policy_rwsem_* will not be + exported interface anymore. +When: 2.6.33 +Why: cpu_policy_rwsem has a new cleaner definition making it local to + cpufreq core and contained inside cpufreq.c. Other dependent + drivers should not use it in order to safely avoid lockdep issues. +Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt index bf8080640eb..6208f55c44c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt @@ -123,6 +123,9 @@ available from the same CVS repository. There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs). +A stand-alone version of the module (which should build for any 2.6 kernel) +is available via (http://github.com/ericvh/9p-sac/tree/master) + News and other information is maintained on SWiK (http://swik.net/v9fs). Bug reports may be issued through the kernel.org bugzilla diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt index 12ad6c7f4e5..ffef91c4e0d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt @@ -23,15 +23,13 @@ it does support include: (*) Security (currently only AFS kaserver and KerberosIV tickets). - (*) File reading. + (*) File reading and writing. (*) Automounting. -It does not yet support the following AFS features: - - (*) Write support. + (*) Local caching (via fscache). - (*) Local caching. +It does not yet support the following AFS features: (*) pioctl() system call. @@ -56,7 +54,7 @@ They permit the debugging messages to be turned on dynamically by manipulating the masks in the following files: /sys/module/af_rxrpc/parameters/debug - /sys/module/afs/parameters/debug + /sys/module/kafs/parameters/debug ===== @@ -66,9 +64,9 @@ USAGE When inserting the driver modules the root cell must be specified along with a list of volume location server IP addresses: - insmod af_rxrpc.o - insmod rxkad.o - insmod kafs.o rootcell=cambridge.redhat.com:172.16.18.73:172.16.18.91 + modprobe af_rxrpc + modprobe rxkad + modprobe kafs rootcell=cambridge.redhat.com:172.16.18.73:172.16.18.91 The first module is the AF_RXRPC network protocol driver. This provides the RxRPC remote operation protocol and may also be accessed from userspace. See: @@ -81,7 +79,7 @@ is the actual filesystem driver for the AFS filesystem. Once the module has been loaded, more modules can be added by the following procedure: - echo add grand.central.org 18.7.14.88:128.2.191.224 >/proc/fs/afs/cells + echo add grand.central.org 18.9.48.14:128.2.203.61:130.237.48.87 >/proc/fs/afs/cells Where the parameters to the "add" command are the name of a cell and a list of volume location servers within that cell, with the latter separated by colons. @@ -101,7 +99,7 @@ The name of the volume can be suffixes with ".backup" or ".readonly" to specify connection to only volumes of those types. The name of the cell is optional, and if not given during a mount, then the -named volume will be looked up in the cell specified during insmod. +named volume will be looked up in the cell specified during modprobe. Additional cells can be added through /proc (see later section). @@ -163,14 +161,14 @@ THE CELL DATABASE The filesystem maintains an internal database of all the cells it knows and the IP addresses of the volume location servers for those cells. The cell to which -the system belongs is added to the database when insmod is performed by the +the system belongs is added to the database when modprobe is performed by the "rootcell=" argument or, if compiled in, using a "kafs.rootcell=" argument on the kernel command line. Further cells can be added by commands similar to the following: echo add CELLNAME VLADDR[:VLADDR][:VLADDR]... >/proc/fs/afs/cells - echo add grand.central.org 18.7.14.88:128.2.191.224 >/proc/fs/afs/cells + echo add grand.central.org 18.9.48.14:128.2.203.61:130.237.48.87 >/proc/fs/afs/cells No other cell database operations are available at this time. @@ -233,7 +231,7 @@ insmod /tmp/kafs.o rootcell=cambridge.redhat.com:172.16.18.91 mount -t afs \%root.afs. /afs mount -t afs \%cambridge.redhat.com:root.cell. /afs/cambridge.redhat.com/ -echo add grand.central.org 18.7.14.88:128.2.191.224 > /proc/fs/afs/cells +echo add grand.central.org 18.9.48.14:128.2.203.61:130.237.48.87 > /proc/fs/afs/cells mount -t afs "#grand.central.org:root.cell." /afs/grand.central.org/ mount -t afs "#grand.central.org:root.archive." /afs/grand.central.org/archive mount -t afs "#grand.central.org:root.contrib." /afs/grand.central.org/contrib diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index fad18f9456e..ffead13f944 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1167,13 +1167,11 @@ CHAPTER 3: PER-PROCESS PARAMETERS 3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score ------------------------------------------------------ -This file can be used to adjust the score used to select which processes should -be killed in an out-of-memory situation. The oom_adj value is a characteristic -of the task's mm, so all threads that share an mm with pid will have the same -oom_adj value. A high value will increase the likelihood of this process being -killed by the oom-killer. Valid values are in the range -16 to +15 as -explained below and a special value of -17, which disables oom-killing -altogether for threads sharing pid's mm. +This file can be used to adjust the score used to select which processes +should be killed in an out-of-memory situation. Giving it a high score will +increase the likelihood of this process being killed by the oom-killer. Valid +values are in the range -16 to +15, plus the special value -17, which disables +oom-killing altogether for this process. The process to be killed in an out-of-memory situation is selected among all others based on its badness score. This value equals the original memory size of the process @@ -1187,9 +1185,6 @@ the parent's score if they do not share the same memory. Thus forking servers are the prime candidates to be killed. Having only one 'hungry' child will make parent less preferable than the child. -/proc/<pid>/oom_adj cannot be changed for kthreads since they are immune from -oom-killing already. - /proc/<pid>/oom_score shows process' current badness score. The following heuristics are then applied: diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt index 7e81e37c0b1..b245d524d56 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt @@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ interface. Using sysfs ~~~~~~~~~~~ -sysfs is always compiled in. You can access it by doing: +sysfs is always compiled in if CONFIG_SYSFS is defined. You can access +it by doing: mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys diff --git a/Documentation/gcov.txt b/Documentation/gcov.txt index e716aadb3a3..40ec6335276 100644 --- a/Documentation/gcov.txt +++ b/Documentation/gcov.txt @@ -188,13 +188,18 @@ Solution: Exclude affected source files from profiling by specifying GCOV_PROFILE := n or GCOV_PROFILE_basename.o := n in the corresponding Makefile. +Problem: Files copied from sysfs appear empty or incomplete. +Cause: Due to the way seq_file works, some tools such as cp or tar + may not correctly copy files from sysfs. +Solution: Use 'cat' to read .gcda files and 'cp -d' to copy links. + Alternatively use the mechanism shown in Appendix B. + Appendix A: gather_on_build.sh ============================== Sample script to gather coverage meta files on the build machine (see 6a): - #!/bin/bash KSRC=$1 @@ -226,7 +231,7 @@ Appendix B: gather_on_test.sh Sample script to gather coverage data files on the test machine (see 6b): -#!/bin/bash +#!/bin/bash -e DEST=$1 GCDA=/sys/kernel/debug/gcov @@ -236,11 +241,13 @@ if [ -z "$DEST" ] ; then exit 1 fi -find $GCDA -name '*.gcno' -o -name '*.gcda' | tar cfz $DEST -T - +TEMPDIR=$(mktemp -d) +echo Collecting data.. +find $GCDA -type d -exec mkdir -p $TEMPDIR/\{\} \; +find $GCDA -name '*.gcda' -exec sh -c 'cat < $0 > '$TEMPDIR'/$0' {} \; +find $GCDA -name '*.gcno' -exec sh -c 'cp -d $0 '$TEMPDIR'/$0' {} \; +tar czf $DEST -C $TEMPDIR sys +rm -rf $TEMPDIR -if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then - echo "$DEST successfully created, copy to build system and unpack with:" - echo " tar xfz $DEST" -else - echo "Could not create file $DEST" -fi +echo "$DEST successfully created, copy to build system and unpack with:" +echo " tar xfz $DEST" diff --git a/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt b/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt index 7bb0d934b6d..dbea4f95fc8 100644 --- a/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt +++ b/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt @@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ Code Seq# Include File Comments 'm' all linux/synclink.h conflict! 'm' 00-1F net/irda/irmod.h conflict! 'n' 00-7F linux/ncp_fs.h +'n' 80-8F linux/nilfs2_fs.h NILFS2 'n' E0-FF video/matrox.h matroxfb 'o' 00-1F fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_fs.h OCFS2 'o' 00-03 include/mtd/ubi-user.h conflict! (OCFS2 and UBI overlaps) diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index d08759aa090..7936b801fe6 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1115,6 +1115,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. + + libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit + libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) + libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume when set. @@ -1720,8 +1724,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type This might be useful if you have an older oprofile userland or if you want common events. - Format: { archperfmon } - archperfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural + Format: { arch_perfmon } + arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the CPU specific event set. @@ -1915,6 +1919,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file |