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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/Changes4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/CodingStyle18
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DMA-API.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl418
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl377
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl88
-rw-r--r--Documentation/IO-mapping.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/PCI/PCIEBUS-HOWTO.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/block/biodoc.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt63
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt65
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt24
-rw-r--r--Documentation/connector/cn_test.c6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-model/device.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt28
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt50
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c101
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ja_JP/stable_kernel_rules.txt15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/lguest/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/alias.txt25
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/mpc5200.txt180
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx-device-tree-bindings.txt277
-rw-r--r--Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/usb/dma.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/video4linux/v4lgrab.c25
34 files changed, 1075 insertions, 806 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap
index 0d99ee6ae02e..eca0d65087dc 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
What: /sys/firmware/memmap/
Date: June 2008
-Contact: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
+Contact: Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle@gmx.de>
Description:
On all platforms, the firmware provides a memory map which the
kernel reads. The resources from that memory map are registered
diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes
index cb2b141b1c3e..b95082be4d5e 100644
--- a/Documentation/Changes
+++ b/Documentation/Changes
@@ -33,10 +33,12 @@ o Gnu make 3.79.1 # make --version
o binutils 2.12 # ld -v
o util-linux 2.10o # fdformat --version
o module-init-tools 0.9.10 # depmod -V
-o e2fsprogs 1.29 # tune2fs
+o e2fsprogs 1.41.4 # e2fsck -V
o jfsutils 1.1.3 # fsck.jfs -V
o reiserfsprogs 3.6.3 # reiserfsck -V 2>&1|grep reiserfsprogs
o xfsprogs 2.6.0 # xfs_db -V
+o squashfs-tools 4.0 # mksquashfs -version
+o btrfs-progs 0.18 # btrfsck
o pcmciautils 004 # pccardctl -V
o quota-tools 3.09 # quota -V
o PPP 2.4.0 # pppd --version
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle
index 1875e502f872..72968cd5eaf3 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingStyle
+++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle
@@ -483,17 +483,25 @@ values. To do the latter, you can stick the following in your .emacs file:
(* (max steps 1)
c-basic-offset)))
+(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook
+ (lambda ()
+ ;; Add kernel style
+ (c-add-style
+ "linux-tabs-only"
+ '("linux" (c-offsets-alist
+ (arglist-cont-nonempty
+ c-lineup-gcc-asm-reg
+ c-lineup-arglist-tabs-only))))))
+
(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))
+ (string-match (expand-file-name "~/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))))))
+ (c-set-style "linux-tabs-only")))))
This will make emacs go better with the kernel coding style for C
files below ~/src/linux-trees.
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
index 52441694fe03..2a3fcc55e981 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
This document describes the DMA API. For a more gentle introduction
phrased in terms of the pci_ equivalents (and actual examples) see
-DMA-mapping.txt
+Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt.
This API is split into two pieces. Part I describes the API and the
corresponding pci_ API. Part II describes the extensions to the API
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
index dc3154e49279..1462ed86d40a 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
# To add a new book the only step required is to add the book to the
# list of DOCBOOKS.
-DOCBOOKS := z8530book.xml mcabook.xml \
+DOCBOOKS := z8530book.xml mcabook.xml device-drivers.xml \
kernel-hacking.xml kernel-locking.xml deviceiobook.xml \
procfs-guide.xml writing_usb_driver.xml networking.xml \
kernel-api.xml filesystems.xml lsm.xml usb.xml kgdb.xml \
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..94a20fe8fedf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl
@@ -0,0 +1,418 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []>
+
+<book id="LinuxDriversAPI">
+ <bookinfo>
+ <title>Linux Device Drivers</title>
+
+ <legalnotice>
+ <para>
+ This documentation is free software; you can redistribute
+ it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
+ License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+ version.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
+ useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
+ warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+ See the GNU General Public License for more details.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
+ License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
+ Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
+ MA 02111-1307 USA
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For more details see the file COPYING in the source
+ distribution of Linux.
+ </para>
+ </legalnotice>
+ </bookinfo>
+
+<toc></toc>
+
+ <chapter id="Basics">
+ <title>Driver Basics</title>
+ <sect1><title>Driver Entry and Exit points</title>
+!Iinclude/linux/init.h
+ </sect1>
+
+ <sect1><title>Atomic and pointer manipulation</title>
+!Iarch/x86/include/asm/atomic_32.h
+!Iarch/x86/include/asm/unaligned.h
+ </sect1>
+
+ <sect1><title>Delaying, scheduling, and timer routines</title>
+!Iinclude/linux/sched.h
+!Ekernel/sched.c
+!Ekernel/timer.c
+ </sect1>
+ <sect1><title>High-resolution timers</title>
+!Iinclude/linux/ktime.h
+!Iinclude/linux/hrtimer.h
+!Ekernel/hrtimer.c
+ </sect1>
+ <sect1><title>Workqueues and Kevents</title>
+!Ekernel/workqueue.c
+ </sect1>
+ <sect1><title>Internal Functions</title>
+!Ikernel/exit.c
+!Ikernel/signal.c
+!Iinclude/linux/kthread.h
+!Ekernel/kthread.c
+ </sect1>
+
+ <sect1><title>Kernel objects manipulation</title>
+<!--
+X!Iinclude/linux/kobject.h
+-->
+!Elib/kobject.c
+ </sect1>
+
+ <sect1><title>Kernel utility functions</title>
+!Iinclude/linux/kernel.h
+!Ekernel/printk.c
+!Ekernel/panic.c
+!Ekernel/sys.c
+!Ekernel/rcupdate.c
+ </sect1>
+
+ <sect1><title>Device Resource Management</title>
+!Edrivers/base/devres.c
+ </sect1>
+
+ </chapter>
+
+ <chapter id="devdrivers">
+ <title>Device drivers infrastructure</title>
+ <sect1><title>Device Drivers Base</title>
+<!--
+X!Iinclude/linux/device.h
+-->
+!Edrivers/base/driver.c
+!Edrivers/base/core.c
+!Edrivers/base/class.c
+!Edrivers/base/firmware_class.c
+!Edrivers/base/transport_class.c
+<!-- Cannot be included, because
+ attribute_container_add_class_device_adapter
+ and attribute_container_classdev_to_container
+ exceed allowed 44 characters maximum
+X!Edrivers/base/attribute_container.c
+-->
+!Edrivers/base/sys.c
+<!--
+X!Edrivers/base/interface.c
+-->
+!Edrivers/base/platform.c
+!Edrivers/base/bus.c
+ </sect1>
+ <sect1><title>Device Drivers Power Management</title>
+!Edrivers/base/power/main.c
+ </sect1>
+ <sect1><title>Device Drivers ACPI Support</title>
+<!-- Internal functions only
+X!Edrivers/acpi/sleep/main.c
+X!Edrivers/acpi/sleep/wakeup.c
+X!Edrivers/acpi/motherboard.c
+X!Edrivers/acpi/bus.c
+-->
+!Edrivers/acpi/scan.c
+!Idrivers/acpi/scan.c
+<!-- No correct structured comments
+X!Edrivers/acpi/pci_bind.c
+-->
+ </sect1>
+ <sect1><title>Device drivers PnP support</title>
+!Idrivers/pnp/core.c
+<!-- No correct structured comments
+X!Edrivers/pnp/system.c
+ -->
+!Edrivers/pnp/card.c
+!Idrivers/pnp/driver.c
+!Edrivers/pnp/manager.c
+!Edrivers/pnp/support.c
+ </sect1>
+ <sect1><title>Userspace IO devices</title>
+!Edrivers/uio/uio.c
+!Iinclude/linux/uio_driver.h
+ </sect1>
+ </chapter>
+
+ <chapter id="parportdev">
+ <title>Parallel Port Devices</title>
+!Iinclude/linux/parport.h
+!Edrivers/parport/ieee1284.c
+!Edrivers/parport/share.c
+!Idrivers/parport/daisy.c
+ </chapter>
+
+ <chapter id="message_devices">
+ <title>Message-based devices</title>
+ <sect1><title>Fusion message devices</title>
+!Edrivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
+!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
+!Edrivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c
+!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c
+!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c
+!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c
+!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptfc.c
+!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c
+ </sect1>
+ <sect1><title>I2O message devices</title>
+!Iinclude/linux/i2o.h
+!Idrivers/message/i2o/core.h
+!Edrivers/message/i2o/iop.c
+!Idrivers/message/i2o/iop.c
+!Idrivers/message/i2o/config-osm.c
+!Edrivers/message/i2o/exec-osm.c
+!Idrivers/message/i2o/exec-osm.c
+!Idrivers/message/i2o/bus-osm.c
+!Edrivers/message/i2o/device.c
+!Idrivers/message/i2o/device.c
+!Idrivers/message/i2o/driver.c
+!Idrivers/message/i2o/pci.c
+!Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c
+!Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_scsi.c
+!Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_proc.c
+ </sect1>
+ </chapter>
+
+ <chapter id="snddev">
+ <title>Sound Devices</title>
+!Iinclude/sound/core.h
+!Esound/sound_core.c
+!Iinclude/sound/pcm.h
+!Esound/core/pcm.c
+!Esound/core/device.c
+!Esound/core/info.c
+!Esound/core/rawmidi.c
+!Esound/core/sound.c
+!Esound/core/memory.c
+!Esound/core/pcm_memory.c
+!Esound/core/init.c
+!Esound/core/isadma.c
+!Esound/core/control.c
+!Esound/core/pcm_lib.c
+!Esound/core/hwdep.c
+!Esound/core/pcm_native.c
+!Esound/core/memalloc.c
+<!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
+X!Isound/sound_firmware.c
+-->
+ </chapter>
+
+ <chapter id="uart16x50">
+ <title>16x50 UART Driver</title>
+!Iinclude/linux/serial_core.h
+!Edrivers/serial/serial_core.c
+!Edrivers/serial/8250.c
+ </chapter>
+
+ <chapter id="fbdev">
+ <title>Frame Buffer Library</title>
+
+ <para>
+ The frame buffer drivers depend heavily on four data structures.
+ These structures are declared in include/linux/fb.h. They are
+ fb_info, fb_var_screeninfo, fb_fix_screeninfo and fb_monospecs.
+ The last three can be made available to and from userland.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ fb_info defines the current state of a particular video card.
+ Inside fb_info, there exists a fb_ops structure which is a
+ collection of needed functions to make fbdev and fbcon work.
+ fb_info is only visible to the kernel.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ fb_var_screeninfo is used to describe the features of a video card
+ that are user defined. With fb_var_screeninfo, things such as
+ depth and the resolution may be defined.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The next structure is fb_fix_screeninfo. This defines the
+ properties of a card that are created when a mode is set and can't
+ be changed otherwise. A good example of this is the start of the
+ frame buffer memory. This "locks" the address of the frame buffer
+ memory, so that it cannot be changed or moved.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The last structure is fb_monospecs. In the old API, there was
+ little importance for fb_monospecs. This allowed for forbidden things
+ such as setting a mode of 800x600 on a fix frequency monitor. With
+ the new API, fb_monospecs prevents such things, and if used
+ correctly, can prevent a monitor from being cooked. fb_monospecs
+ will not be useful until kernels 2.5.x.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Memory</title>
+!Edrivers/video/fbmem.c
+ </sect1>
+<!--
+ <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Console</title>
+X!Edrivers/video/console/fbcon.c
+ </sect1>
+-->
+ <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Colormap</title>
+!Edrivers/video/fbcmap.c
+ </sect1>
+<!-- FIXME:
+ drivers/video/fbgen.c has no docs, which stuffs up the sgml. Comment
+ out until somebody adds docs. KAO
+ <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Generic Functions</title>
+X!Idrivers/video/fbgen.c
+ </sect1>
+KAO -->
+ <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Video Mode Database</title>
+!Idrivers/video/modedb.c
+!Edrivers/video/modedb.c
+ </sect1>
+ <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Macintosh Video Mode Database</title>
+!Edrivers/video/macmodes.c
+ </sect1>
+ <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Fonts</title>
+ <para>
+ Refer to the file drivers/video/console/fonts.c for more information.
+ </para>
+<!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
+X!Idrivers/video/console/fonts.c
+-->
+ </sect1>
+ </chapter>
+
+ <chapter id="input_subsystem">
+ <title>Input Subsystem</title>
+!Iinclude/linux/input.h
+!Edrivers/input/input.c
+!Edrivers/input/ff-core.c
+!Edrivers/input/ff-memless.c
+ </chapter>
+
+ <chapter id="spi">
+ <title>Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)</title>
+ <para>
+ SPI is the "Serial Peripheral Interface", widely used with
+ embedded systems because it is a simple and efficient
+ interface: basically a multiplexed shift register.
+ Its three signal wires hold a clock (SCK, often in the range
+ of 1-20 MHz), a "Master Out, Slave In" (MOSI) data line, and
+ a "Master In, Slave Out" (MISO) data line.
+ SPI is a full duplex protocol; for each bit shifted out the
+ MOSI line (one per clock) another is shifted in on the MISO line.
+ Those bits are assembled into words of various sizes on the
+ way to and from system memory.
+ An additional chipselect line is usually active-low (nCS);
+ four signals are normally used for each peripheral, plus
+ sometimes an interrupt.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The SPI bus facilities listed here provide a generalized
+ interface to declare SPI busses and devices, manage them
+ according to the standard Linux driver model, and perform
+ input/output operations.
+ At this time, only "master" side interfaces are supported,
+ where Linux talks to SPI peripherals and does not implement
+ such a peripheral itself.
+ (Interfaces to support implementing SPI slaves would
+ necessarily look different.)
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver,
+ and two kinds of device.
+ A "Controller Driver" abstracts the controller hardware, which may
+ be as simple as a set of GPIO pins or as complex as a pair of FIFOs
+ connected to dual DMA engines on the other side of the SPI shift
+ register (maximizing throughput). Such drivers bridge between
+ whatever bus they sit on (often the platform bus) and SPI, and
+ expose the SPI side of their device as a
+ <structname>struct spi_master</structname>.
+ SPI devices are children of that master, represented as a
+ <structname>struct spi_device</structname> and manufactured from
+ <structname>struct spi_board_info</structname> descriptors which
+ are usually provided by board-specific initialization code.
+ A <structname>struct spi_driver</structname> is called a
+ "Protocol Driver", and is bound to a spi_device using normal
+ driver model calls.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The I/O model is a set of queued messages. Protocol drivers
+ submit one or more <structname>struct spi_message</structname>
+ objects, which are processed and completed asynchronously.
+ (There are synchronous wrappers, however.) Messages are
+ built from one or more <structname>struct spi_transfer</structname>
+ objects, each of which wraps a full duplex SPI transfer.
+ A variety of protocol tweaking options are needed, because
+ different chips adopt very different policies for how they
+ use the bits transferred with SPI.
+ </para>
+!Iinclude/linux/spi/spi.h
+!Fdrivers/spi/spi.c spi_register_board_info
+!Edrivers/spi/spi.c
+ </chapter>
+
+ <chapter id="i2c">
+ <title>I<superscript>2</superscript>C and SMBus Subsystem</title>
+
+ <para>
+ I<superscript>2</superscript>C (or without fancy typography, "I2C")
+ is an acronym for the "Inter-IC" bus, a simple bus protocol which is
+ widely used where low data rate communications suffice.
+ Since it's also a licensed trademark, some vendors use another
+ name (such as "Two-Wire Interface", TWI) for the same bus.
+ I2C only needs two signals (SCL for clock, SDA for data), conserving
+ board real estate and minimizing signal quality issues.
+ Most I2C devices use seven bit addresses, and bus speeds of up
+ to 400 kHz; there's a high speed extension (3.4 MHz) that's not yet
+ found wide use.
+ I2C is a multi-master bus; open drain signaling is used to
+ arbitrate between masters, as well as to handshake and to
+ synchronize clocks from slower clients.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The Linux I2C programming interfaces support only the master
+ side of bus interactions, not the slave side.
+ The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver,
+ and two kinds of device.
+ An I2C "Adapter Driver" abstracts the controller hardware; it binds
+ to a physical device (perhaps a PCI device or platform_device) and
+ exposes a <structname>struct i2c_adapter</structname> representing
+ each I2C bus segment it manages.
+ On each I2C bus segment will be I2C devices represented by a
+ <structname>struct i2c_client</structname>. Those devices will
+ be bound to a <structname>struct i2c_driver</structname>,
+ which should follow the standard Linux driver model.
+ (At this writing, a legacy model is more widely used.)
+ There are functions to perform various I2C protocol operations; at
+ this writing all such functions are usable only from task context.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The System Management Bus (SMBus) is a sibling protocol. Most SMBus
+ systems are also I2C conformant. The electrical constraints are
+ tighter for SMBus, and it standardizes particular protocol messages
+ and idioms. Controllers that support I2C can also support most
+ SMBus operations, but SMBus controllers don't support all the protocol
+ options that an I2C controller will.
+ There are functions to perform various SMBus protocol operations,
+ either using I2C primitives or by issuing SMBus commands to
+ i2c_adapter devices which don't support those I2C operations.
+ </para>
+
+!Iinclude/linux/i2c.h
+!Fdrivers/i2c/i2c-boardinfo.c i2c_register_board_info
+!Edrivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
+ </chapter>
+
+</book>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
index 5818ff75786a..bc962cda6504 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
@@ -38,58 +38,6 @@
<toc></toc>
- <chapter id="Basics">
- <title>Driver Basics</title>
- <sect1><title>Driver Entry and Exit points</title>
-!Iinclude/linux/init.h
- </sect1>
-
- <sect1><title>Atomic and pointer manipulation</title>
-!Iarch/x86/include/asm/atomic_32.h
-!Iarch/x86/include/asm/unaligned.h
- </sect1>
-
- <sect1><title>Delaying, scheduling, and timer routines</title>
-!Iinclude/linux/sched.h
-!Ekernel/sched.c
-!Ekernel/timer.c
- </sect1>
- <sect1><title>High-resolution timers</title>
-!Iinclude/linux/ktime.h
-!Iinclude/linux/hrtimer.h
-!Ekernel/hrtimer.c
- </sect1>
- <sect1><title>Workqueues and Kevents</title>
-!Ekernel/workqueue.c
- </sect1>
- <sect1><title>Internal Functions</title>
-!Ikernel/exit.c
-!Ikernel/signal.c
-!Iinclude/linux/kthread.h
-!Ekernel/kthread.c
- </sect1>
-
- <sect1><title>Kernel objects manipulation</title>
-<!--
-X!Iinclude/linux/kobject.h
--->
-!Elib/kobject.c
- </sect1>
-
- <sect1><title>Kernel utility functions</title>
-!Iinclude/linux/kernel.h
-!Ekernel/printk.c
-!Ekernel/panic.c
-!Ekernel/sys.c
-!Ekernel/rcupdate.c
- </sect1>
-
- <sect1><title>Device Resource Management</title>
-!Edrivers/base/devres.c
- </sect1>
-
- </chapter>
-
<chapter id="adt">
<title>Data Types</title>
<sect1><title>Doubly Linked Lists</title>
@@ -298,62 +246,6 @@ X!Earch/x86/kernel/mca_32.c
!Ikernel/acct.c
</chapter>
- <chapter id="devdrivers">
- <title>Device drivers infrastructure</title>
- <sect1><title>Device Drivers Base</title>
-<!--
-X!Iinclude/linux/device.h
--->
-!Edrivers/base/driver.c
-!Edrivers/base/core.c
-!Edrivers/base/class.c
-!Edrivers/base/firmware_class.c
-!Edrivers/base/transport_class.c
-<!-- Cannot be included, because
- attribute_container_add_class_device_adapter
- and attribute_container_classdev_to_container
- exceed allowed 44 characters maximum
-X!Edrivers/base/attribute_container.c
--->
-!Edrivers/base/sys.c
-<!--
-X!Edrivers/base/interface.c
--->
-!Edrivers/base/platform.c
-!Edrivers/base/bus.c
- </sect1>
- <sect1><title>Device Drivers Power Management</title>
-!Edrivers/base/power/main.c
- </sect1>
- <sect1><title>Device Drivers ACPI Support</title>
-<!-- Internal functions only
-X!Edrivers/acpi/sleep/main.c
-X!Edrivers/acpi/sleep/wakeup.c
-X!Edrivers/acpi/motherboard.c
-X!Edrivers/acpi/bus.c
--->
-!Edrivers/acpi/scan.c
-!Idrivers/acpi/scan.c
-<!-- No correct structured comments
-X!Edrivers/acpi/pci_bind.c
--->
- </sect1>
- <sect1><title>Device drivers PnP support</title>
-!Idrivers/pnp/core.c
-<!-- No correct structured comments
-X!Edrivers/pnp/system.c
- -->
-!Edrivers/pnp/card.c
-!Idrivers/pnp/driver.c
-!Edrivers/pnp/manager.c
-!Edrivers/pnp/support.c
- </sect1>
- <sect1><title>Userspace IO devices</title>
-!Edrivers/uio/uio.c
-!Iinclude/linux/uio_driver.h
- </sect1>
- </chapter>
-
<chapter id="blkdev">
<title>Block Devices</title>
!Eblock/blk-core.c
@@ -381,275 +273,6 @@ X!Edrivers/pnp/system.c
!Edrivers/char/misc.c
</chapter>
- <chapter id="parportdev">
- <title>Parallel Port Devices</title>
-!Iinclude/linux/parport.h
-!Edrivers/parport/ieee1284.c
-!Edrivers/parport/share.c
-!Idrivers/parport/daisy.c
- </chapter>
-
- <chapter id="message_devices">
- <title>Message-based devices</title>
- <sect1><title>Fusion message devices</title>
-!Edrivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
-!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
-!Edrivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c
-!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c
-!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c
-!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c
-!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptfc.c
-!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c
- </sect1>
- <sect1><title>I2O message devices</title>
-!Iinclude/linux/i2o.h
-!Idrivers/message/i2o/core.h
-!Edrivers/message/i2o/iop.c
-!Idrivers/message/i2o/iop.c
-!Idrivers/message/i2o/config-osm.c
-!Edrivers/message/i2o/exec-osm.c
-!Idrivers/message/i2o/exec-osm.c
-!Idrivers/message/i2o/bus-osm.c
-!Edrivers/message/i2o/device.c
-!Idrivers/message/i2o/device.c
-!Idrivers/message/i2o/driver.c
-!Idrivers/message/i2o/pci.c
-!Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c
-!Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_scsi.c
-!Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_proc.c
- </sect1>
- </chapter>
-
- <chapter id="snddev">
- <title>Sound Devices</title>
-!Iinclude/sound/core.h
-!Esound/sound_core.c
-!Iinclude/sound/pcm.h
-!Esound/core/pcm.c
-!Esound/core/device.c
-!Esound/core/info.c
-!Esound/core/rawmidi.c
-!Esound/core/sound.c
-!Esound/core/memory.c
-!Esound/core/pcm_memory.c
-!Esound/core/init.c
-!Esound/core/isadma.c
-!Esound/core/control.c
-!Esound/core/pcm_lib.c
-!Esound/core/hwdep.c
-!Esound/core/pcm_native.c
-!Esound/core/memalloc.c
-<!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
-X!Isound/sound_firmware.c
--->
- </chapter>
-
- <chapter id="uart16x50">
- <title>16x50 UART Driver</title>
-!Iinclude/linux/serial_core.h
-!Edrivers/serial/serial_core.c
-!Edrivers/serial/8250.c
- </chapter>
-
- <chapter id="fbdev">
- <title>Frame Buffer Library</title>
-
- <para>
- The frame buffer drivers depend heavily on four data structures.
- These structures are declared in include/linux/fb.h. They are
- fb_info, fb_var_screeninfo, fb_fix_screeninfo and fb_monospecs.
- The last three can be made available to and from userland.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- fb_info defines the current state of a particular video card.
- Inside fb_info, there exists a fb_ops structure which is a
- collection of needed functions to make fbdev and fbcon work.
- fb_info is only visible to the kernel.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- fb_var_screeninfo is used to describe the features of a video card
- that are user defined. With fb_var_screeninfo, things such as
- depth and the resolution may be defined.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The next structure is fb_fix_screeninfo. This defines the
- properties of a card that are created when a mode is set and can't
- be changed otherwise. A good example of this is the start of the
- frame buffer memory. This "locks" the address of the frame buffer
- memory, so that it cannot be changed or moved.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The last structure is fb_monospecs. In the old API, there was
- little importance for fb_monospecs. This allowed for forbidden things
- such as setting a mode of 800x600 on a fix frequency monitor. With
- the new API, fb_monospecs prevents such things, and if used
- correctly, can prevent a monitor from being cooked. fb_monospecs
- will not be useful until kernels 2.5.x.
- </para>
-
- <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Memory</title>
-!Edrivers/video/fbmem.c
- </sect1>
-<!--
- <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Console</title>
-X!Edrivers/video/console/fbcon.c
- </sect1>
--->
- <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Colormap</title>
-!Edrivers/video/fbcmap.c
- </sect1>
-<!-- FIXME:
- drivers/video/fbgen.c has no docs, which stuffs up the sgml. Comment
- out until somebody adds docs. KAO
- <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Generic Functions</title>
-X!Idrivers/video/fbgen.c
- </sect1>
-KAO -->
- <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Video Mode Database</title>
-!Idrivers/video/modedb.c
-!Edrivers/video/modedb.c
- </sect1>
- <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Macintosh Video Mode Database</title>
-!Edrivers/video/macmodes.c
- </sect1>
- <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Fonts</title>
- <para>
- Refer to the file drivers/video/console/fonts.c for more information.
- </para>
-<!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
-X!Idrivers/video/console/fonts.c
--->
- </sect1>
- </chapter>
-
- <chapter id="input_subsystem">
- <title>Input Subsystem</title>
-!Iinclude/linux/input.h
-!Edrivers/input/input.c
-!Edrivers/input/ff-core.c
-!Edrivers/input/ff-memless.c
- </chapter>
-
- <chapter id="spi">
- <title>Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)</title>
- <para>
- SPI is the "Serial Peripheral Interface", widely used with
- embedded systems because it is a simple and efficient
- interface: basically a multiplexed shift register.
- Its three signal wires hold a clock (SCK, often in the range
- of 1-20 MHz), a "Master Out, Slave In" (MOSI) data line, and
- a "Master In, Slave Out" (MISO) data line.
- SPI is a full duplex protocol; for each bit shifted out the
- MOSI line (one per clock) another is shifted in on the MISO line.
- Those bits are assembled into words of various sizes on the
- way to and from system memory.
- An additional chipselect line is usually active-low (nCS);
- four signals are normally used for each peripheral, plus
- sometimes an interrupt.
- </para>
- <para>
- The SPI bus facilities listed here provide a generalized
- interface to declare SPI busses and devices, manage them
- according to the standard Linux driver model, and perform
- input/output operations.
- At this time, only "master" side interfaces are supported,
- where Linux talks to SPI peripherals and does not implement
- such a peripheral itself.
- (Interfaces to support implementing SPI slaves would
- necessarily look different.)
- </para>
- <para>
- The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver,
- and two kinds of device.
- A "Controller Driver" abstracts the controller hardware, which may
- be as simple as a set of GPIO pins or as complex as a pair of FIFOs
- connected to dual DMA engines on the other side of the SPI shift
- register (maximizing throughput). Such drivers bridge between
- whatever bus they sit on (often the platform bus) and SPI, and
- expose the SPI side of their device as a
- <structname>struct spi_master</structname>.
- SPI devices are children of that master, represented as a
- <structname>struct spi_device</structname> and manufactured from
- <structname>struct spi_board_info</structname> descriptors which
- are usually provided by board-specific initialization code.
- A <structname>struct spi_driver</structname> is called a
- "Protocol Driver", and is bound to a spi_device using normal
- driver model calls.
- </para>
- <para>
- The I/O model is a set of queued messages. Protocol drivers
- submit one or more <structname>struct spi_message</structname>
- objects, which are processed and completed asynchronously.
- (There are synchronous wrappers, however.) Messages are
- built from one or more <structname>struct spi_transfer</structname>
- objects, each of which wraps a full duplex SPI transfer.
- A variety of protocol tweaking options are needed, because
- different chips adopt very different policies for how they
- use the bits transferred with SPI.
- </para>
-!Iinclude/linux/spi/spi.h
-!Fdrivers/spi/spi.c spi_register_board_info
-!Edrivers/spi/spi.c
- </chapter>
-
- <chapter id="i2c">
- <title>I<superscript>2</superscript>C and SMBus Subsystem</title>
-
- <para>
- I<superscript>2</superscript>C (or without fancy typography, "I2C")
- is an acronym for the "Inter-IC" bus, a simple bus protocol which is
- widely used where low data rate communications suffice.
- Since it's also a licensed trademark, some vendors use another
- name (such as "Two-Wire Interface", TWI) for the same bus.
- I2C only needs two signals (SCL for clock, SDA for data), conserving
- board real estate and minimizing signal quality issues.
- Most I2C devices use seven bit addresses, and bus speeds of up
- to 400 kHz; there's a high speed extension (3.4 MHz) that's not yet
- found wide use.
- I2C is a multi-master bus; open drain signaling is used to
- arbitrate between masters, as well as to handshake and to
- synchronize clocks from slower clients.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The Linux I2C programming interfaces support only the master
- side of bus interactions, not the slave side.
- The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver,
- and two kinds of device.
- An I2C "Adapter Driver" abstracts the controller hardware; it binds
- to a physical device (perhaps a PCI device or platform_device) and
- exposes a <structname>struct i2c_adapter</structname> representing
- each I2C bus segment it manages.
- On each I2C bus segment will be I2C devices represented by a
- <structname>struct i2c_client</structname>. Those devices will
- be bound to a <structname>struct i2c_driver</structname>,
- which should follow the standard Linux driver model.
- (At this writing, a legacy model is more widely used.)
- There are functions to perform various I2C protocol operations; at
- this writing all such functions are usable only from task context.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The System Management Bus (SMBus) is a sibling protocol. Most SMBus
- systems are also I2C conformant. The electrical constraints are
- tighter for SMBus, and it standardizes particular protocol messages
- and idioms. Controllers that support I2C can also support most
- SMBus operations, but SMBus controllers don't support all the protocol
- options that an I2C controller will.
- There are functions to perform various SMBus protocol operations,
- either using I2C primitives or by issuing SMBus commands to
- i2c_adapter devices which don't support those I2C operations.
- </para>
-
-!Iinclude/linux/i2c.h
-!Fdrivers/i2c/i2c-boardinfo.c i2c_register_board_info
-!Edrivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
- </chapter>
-
<chapter id="clk">
<title>Clock Framework</title>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
index b787e4721c90..52e1b79ce0e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
@@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ GPL version 2.
<revhistory>
<revision>
+ <revnumber>0.7</revnumber>
+ <date>2008-12-23</date>
+ <authorinitials>hjk</authorinitials>
+ <revremark>Added generic platform drivers and offset attribute.</revremark>
+ </revision>
+ <revision>
<revnumber>0.6</revnumber>
<date>2008-12-05</date>
<authorinitials>hjk</authorinitials>
@@ -312,6 +318,16 @@ interested in translating it, please email me
pointed to by addr.
</para>
</listitem>
+<listitem>
+ <para>
+ <filename>offset</filename>: The offset, in bytes, that has to be
+ added to the pointer returned by <function>mmap()</function> to get
+ to the actual device memory. This is important if the device's memory
+ is not page aligned. Remember that pointers returned by
+ <function>mmap()</function> are always page aligned, so it is good
+ style to always add this offset.
+ </para>
+</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>
@@ -594,6 +610,78 @@ framework to set up sysfs files for this region. Simply leave it alone.
</para>
</sect1>
+<sect1 id="using_uio_pdrv">
+<title>Using uio_pdrv for platform devices</title>
+ <para>
+ In many cases, UIO drivers for platform devices can be handled in a
+ generic way. In the same place where you define your
+ <varname>struct platform_device</varname>, you simply also implement
+ your interrupt handler and fill your
+ <varname>struct uio_info</varname>. A pointer to this
+ <varname>struct uio_info</varname> is then used as
+ <varname>platform_data</varname> for your platform device.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ You also need to set up an array of <varname>struct resource</varname>
+ containing addresses and sizes of your memory mappings. This
+ information is passed to the driver using the
+ <varname>.resource</varname> and <varname>.num_resources</varname>
+ elements of <varname>struct platform_device</varname>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ You now have to set the <varname>.name</varname> element of
+ <varname>struct platform_device</varname> to
+ <varname>"uio_pdrv"</varname> to use the generic UIO platform device
+ driver. This driver will fill the <varname>mem[]</varname> array
+ according to the resources given, and register the device.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The advantage of this approach is that you only have to edit a file
+ you need to edit anyway. You do not have to create an extra driver.
+ </para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="using_uio_pdrv_genirq">
+<title>Using uio_pdrv_genirq for platform devices</title>
+ <para>
+ Especially in embedded devices, you frequently find chips where the
+ irq pin is tied to its own dedicated interrupt line. In such cases,
+ where you can be really sure the interrupt is not shared, we can take
+ the concept of <varname>uio_pdrv</varname> one step further and use a
+ generic interrupt handler. That's what
+ <varname>uio_pdrv_genirq</varname> does.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The setup for this driver is the same as described above for
+ <varname>uio_pdrv</varname>, except that you do not implement an
+ interrupt handler. The <varname>.handler</varname> element of
+ <varname>struct uio_info</varname> must remain
+ <varname>NULL</varname>. The <varname>.irq_flags</varname> element
+ must not contain <varname>IRQF_SHARED</varname>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ You will set the <varname>.name</varname> element of
+ <varname>struct platform_device</varname> to
+ <varname>"uio_pdrv_genirq"</varname> to use this driver.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The generic interrupt handler of <varname>uio_pdrv_genirq</varname>
+ will simply disable the interrupt line using
+ <function>disable_irq_nosync()</function>. After doing its work,
+ userspace can reenable the interrupt by writing 0x00000001 to the UIO
+ device file. The driver already implements an
+ <function>irq_control()</function> to make this possible, you must not
+ implement your own.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Using <varname>uio_pdrv_genirq</varname> not only saves a few lines of
+ interrupt handler code. You also do not need to know anything about
+ the chip's internal registers to create the kernel part of the driver.
+ All you need to know is the irq number of the pin the chip is
+ connected to.
+ </para>
+</sect1>
+
</chapter>
<chapter id="userspace_driver" xreflabel="Writing a driver in user space">
diff --git a/Documentation/IO-mapping.txt b/Documentation/IO-mapping.txt
index 86edb61bdee6..78a440695e11 100644
--- a/Documentation/IO-mapping.txt
+++ b/Documentation/IO-mapping.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
[ NOTE: The virt_to_bus() and bus_to_virt() functions have been
- superseded by the functionality provided by the PCI DMA
- interface (see Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt). They continue
+ superseded by the functionality provided by the PCI DMA interface
+ (see Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt). They continue
to be documented below for historical purposes, but new code
must not use them. --davidm 00/12/12 ]
diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/PCIEBUS-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/PCI/PCIEBUS-HOWTO.txt
index 9a07e38631b0..6bd5f372adec 100644
--- a/Documentation/PCI/PCIEBUS-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/PCI/PCIEBUS-HOWTO.txt
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ the PCI Express Port Bus driver from loading a service driver.
int pcie_port_service_register(struct pcie_port_service_driver *new)
-This API replaces the Linux Driver Model's pci_module_init API. A
+This API replaces the Linux Driver Model's pci_register_driver API. A
service driver should always calls pcie_port_service_register at
module init. Note that after service driver being loaded, calls
such as pci_enable_device(dev) and pci_set_master(dev) are no longer
diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
index 3c5434c83daf..ecad6ee75705 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
@@ -186,8 +186,9 @@ a virtual address mapping (unlike the earlier scheme of virtual address
do not have a corresponding kernel virtual address space mapping) and
low-memory pages.
-Note: Please refer to DMA-mapping.txt for a discussion on PCI high mem DMA
-aspects and mapping of scatter gather lists, and support for 64 bit PCI.
+Note: Please refer to Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt for a discussion
+on PCI high mem DMA aspects and mapping of scatter gather lists, and support
+for 64 bit PCI.
Special handling is required only for cases where i/o needs to happen on
pages at physical memory addresses beyond what the device can support. In these
@@ -953,14 +954,14 @@ elevator_allow_merge_fn called whenever the block layer determines
results in some sort of conflict internally,
this hook allows it to do that.
-elevator_dispatch_fn fills the dispatch queue with ready requests.
+elevator_dispatch_fn* fills the dispatch queue with ready requests.
I/O schedulers are free to postpone requests by
not filling the dispatch queue unless @force
is non-zero. Once dispatched, I/O schedulers
are not allowed to manipulate the requests -
they belong to generic dispatch queue.
-elevator_add_req_fn called to add a new request into the scheduler
+elevator_add_req_fn* called to add a new request into the scheduler
elevator_queue_empty_fn returns true if the merge queue is empty.
Drivers shouldn't use this, but rather check
@@ -990,7 +991,7 @@ elevator_activate_req_fn Called when device driver first sees a request.
elevator_deactivate_req_fn Called when device driver decides to delay
a request by requeueing it.
-elevator_init_fn
+elevator_init_fn*
elevator_exit_fn Allocate and free any elevator specific storage
for a queue.
diff --git a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e164403f60e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+Queue sysfs files
+=================
+
+This text file will detail the queue files that are located in the sysfs tree
+for each block device. Note that stacked devices typically do not export
+any settings, since their queue merely functions are a remapping target.
+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.
+
+hw_sector_size (RO)
+-------------------
+This is the hardware sector 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_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.
+
+nomerges (RW)
+-------------
+This enables the user to disable the lookup logic involved with IO merging
+requests in the block layer. Merging may still occur through a direct
+1-hit cache, since that comes for (almost) free. The IO scheduler will not
+waste cycles doing tree/hash lookups for merges if nomerges is 1. Defaults
+to 0, enabling all merges.
+
+nr_requests (RW)
+----------------
+This controls how many requests may be allocated in the block layer for
+read or write requests. Note that the total allocated number may be twice
+this amount, since it applies only to reads or writes (not the accumulated
+sum).
+
+read_ahead_kb (RW)
+------------------
+Maximum number of kilobytes to read-ahead for filesystems on this block
+device.
+
+rq_affinity (RW)
+----------------
+If this option is enabled, the block layer will migrate request completions
+to the CPU that originally submitted the request. For some workloads
+this provides a significant reduction in CPU cycles due to caching effects.
+
+scheduler (RW)
+--------------
+When read, this file will display the current and available IO schedulers
+for this block device. The currently active IO scheduler will be enclosed
+in [] brackets. Writing an IO scheduler name to this file will switch
+control of this block device to that new IO scheduler. Note that writing
+an IO scheduler name to this file will attempt to load that IO scheduler
+module, if it isn't already present in the system.
+
+
+
+Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>, February 2009
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
index d9e5d6f41b92..93feb8444489 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
@@ -252,10 +252,8 @@ cgroup file system directories.
When a task is moved from one cgroup to another, it gets a new
css_set pointer - if there's an already existing css_set with the
desired collection of cgroups then that group is reused, else a new
-css_set is allocated. Note that the current implementation uses a
-linear search to locate an appropriate existing css_set, so isn't
-very efficient. A future version will use a hash table for better
-performance.
+css_set is allocated. The appropriate existing css_set is located by
+looking into a hash table.
To allow access from a cgroup to the css_sets (and hence tasks)
that comprise it, a set of cg_cgroup_link objects form a lattice;
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
index 5c86c258c791..0611e9528c7c 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ into the rest of the kernel, none in performance critical paths:
- in fork and exit, to attach and detach a task from its cpuset.
- in sched_setaffinity, to mask the requested CPUs by what's
allowed in that tasks cpuset.
- - in sched.c migrate_all_tasks(), to keep migrating tasks within
+ - in sched.c migrate_live_tasks(), to keep migrating tasks within
the CPUs allowed by their cpuset, if possible.
- in the mbind and set_mempolicy system calls, to mask the requested
Memory Nodes by what's allowed in that tasks cpuset.
@@ -175,6 +175,10 @@ files describing that cpuset:
- mem_exclusive flag: is memory placement exclusive?
- mem_hardwall flag: is memory allocation hardwalled
- memory_pressure: measure of how much paging pressure in cpuset
+ - memory_spread_page flag: if set, spread page cache evenly on allowed nodes
+ - memory_spread_slab flag: if set, spread slab cache evenly on allowed nodes
+ - sched_load_balance flag: if set, load balance within CPUs on that cpuset
+ - sched_relax_domain_level: the searching range when migrating tasks
In addition, the root cpuset only has the following file:
- memory_pressure_enabled flag: compute memory_pressure?
@@ -252,7 +256,7 @@ is causing.
This is useful both on tightly managed systems running a wide mix of
submitted jobs, which may choose to terminate or re-prioritize jobs that
-are trying to use more memory than allowed on the nodes assigned them,
+are trying to use more memory than allowed on the nodes assigned to them,
and with tightly coupled, long running, massively parallel scientific
computing jobs that will dramatically fail to meet required performance
goals if they start to use more memory than allowed to them.
@@ -378,7 +382,7 @@ as cpusets and sched_setaffinity.
The algorithmic cost of load balancing and its impact on key shared
kernel data structures such as the task list increases more than
linearly with the number of CPUs being balanced. So the scheduler
-has support to partition the systems CPUs into a number of sched
+has support to partition the systems CPUs into a number of sched
domains such that it only load balances within each sched domain.
Each sched domain covers some subset of the CPUs in the system;
no two sched domains overlap; some CPUs might not be in any sched
@@ -485,17 +489,22 @@ of CPUs allowed to a cpuset having 'sched_load_balance' enabled.
The internal kernel cpuset to scheduler interface passes from the
cpuset code to the scheduler code a partition of the load balanced
CPUs in the system. This partition is a set of subsets (represented
-as an array of cpumask_t) of CPUs, pairwise disjoint, that cover all
-the CPUs that must be load balanced.
-
-Whenever the 'sched_load_balance' flag changes, or CPUs come or go
-from a cpuset with this flag enabled, or a cpuset with this flag
-enabled is removed, the cpuset code builds a new such partition and
-passes it to the scheduler sched domain setup code, to have the sched
-domains rebuilt as necessary.
+as an array of struct cpumask) of CPUs, pairwise disjoint, that cover
+all the CPUs that must be load balanced.
+
+The cpuset code builds a new such partition and passes it to the
+scheduler sched domain setup code, to have the sched domains rebuilt
+as necessary, whenever:
+ - the 'sched_load_balance' flag of a cpuset with non-empty CPUs changes,
+ - or CPUs come or go from a cpuset with this flag enabled,
+ - or 'sched_relax_domain_level' value of a cpuset with non-empty CPUs
+ and with this flag enabled changes,
+ - or a cpuset with non-empty CPUs and with this flag enabled is removed,
+ - or a cpu is offlined/onlined.
This partition exactly defines what sched domains the scheduler should
-setup - one sched domain for each element (cpumask_t) in the partition.
+setup - one sched domain for each element (struct cpumask) in the
+partition.
The scheduler remembers the currently active sched domain partitions.
When the scheduler routine partition_sched_domains() is invoked from
@@ -559,7 +568,7 @@ domain, the largest value among those is used. Be careful, if one
requests 0 and others are -1 then 0 is used.
Note that modifying this file will have both good and bad effects,
-and whether it is acceptable or not will be depend on your situation.
+and whether it is acceptable or not depends on your situation.
Don't modify this file if you are not sure.
If your situation is:
@@ -600,19 +609,15 @@ to allocate a page of memory for that task.
If a cpuset has its 'cpus' modified, then each task in that cpuset
will have its allowed CPU placement changed immediately. Similarly,
-if a tasks pid is written to a cpusets 'tasks' file, in either its
-current cpuset or another cpuset, then its allowed CPU placement is
-changed immediately. If such a task had been bound to some subset
-of its cpuset using the sched_setaffinity() call, the task will be
-allowed to run on any CPU allowed in its new cpuset, negating the
-affect of the prior sched_setaffinity() call.
+if a tasks pid is written to another cpusets 'tasks' file, then its
+allowed CPU placement is changed immediately. If such a task had been
+bound to some subset of its cpuset using the sched_setaffinity() call,
+the task will be allowed to run on any CPU allowed in its new cpuset,
+negating the effect of the prior sched_setaffinity() call.
In summary, the memory placement of a task whose cpuset is changed is
updated by the kernel, on the next allocation of a page for that task,
-but the processor placement is not updated, until that tasks pid is
-rewritten to the 'tasks' file of its cpuset. This is done to avoid
-impacting the scheduler code in the kernel with a check for changes
-in a tasks processor placement.
+and the processor placement is updated immediately.
Normally, once a page is allocated (given a physical page
of main memory) then that page stays on whatever node it
@@ -681,10 +686,14 @@ and then start a subshell 'sh' in that cpuset:
# The next line should display '/Charlie'
cat /proc/self/cpuset
-In the future, a C library interface to cpusets will likely be
-available. For now, the only way to query or modify cpusets is
-via the cpuset file system, using the various cd, mkdir, echo, cat,
-rmdir commands from the shell, or their equivalent from C.
+There are ways to query or modify cpusets:
+ - via the cpuset file system directly, using the various cd, mkdir, echo,
+ cat, rmdir commands from the shell, or their equivalent from C.
+ - via the C library libcpuset.
+ - via the C library libcgroup.
+ (http://sourceforge.net/proects/libcg/)
+ - via the python application cset.
+ (http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Cpuset)
The sched_setaffinity calls can also be done at the shell prompt using
SGI's runon or Robert Love's taskset. The mbind and set_mempolicy
@@ -756,7 +765,7 @@ mount -t cpuset X /dev/cpuset
is equivalent to
-mount -t cgroup -ocpuset X /dev/cpuset
+mount -t cgroup -ocpuset,noprefix X /dev/cpuset
echo "/sbin/cpuset_release_agent" > /dev/cpuset/release_agent
2.2 Adding/removing cpus
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt
index 19533f93b7a2..523a9c16c400 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
Memory Resource Controller(Memcg) Implementation Memo.
-Last Updated: 2008/12/15
-Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.28-rc8-mm.
+Last Updated: 2009/1/19
+Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.29-rc2.
Because VM is getting complex (one of reasons is memcg...), memcg's behavior
is complex. This is a document for memcg's internal behavior.
@@ -340,3 +340,23 @@ Under below explanation, we assume CONFIG_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP=y.
# mount -t cgroup none /cgroup -t cpuset,memory,cpu,devices
and do task move, mkdir, rmdir etc...under this.
+
+ 9.7 swapoff.
+ Besides management of swap is one of complicated parts of memcg,
+ call path of swap-in at swapoff is not same as usual swap-in path..
+ It's worth to be tested explicitly.
+
+ For example, test like following is good.
+ (Shell-A)
+ # mount -t cgroup none /cgroup -t memory
+ # mkdir /cgroup/test
+ # echo 40M > /cgroup/test/memory.limit_in_bytes
+ # echo 0 > /cgroup/test/tasks
+ Run malloc(100M) program under this. You'll see 60M of swaps.
+ (Shell-B)
+ # move all tasks in /cgroup/test to /cgroup
+ # /sbin/swapoff -a
+ # rmdir /test/cgroup
+ # kill malloc task.
+
+ Of course, tmpfs v.s. swapoff test should be tested, too.
diff --git a/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c b/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c
index be7af146dd30..6977c178729a 100644
--- a/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c
+++ b/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ static void cn_test_timer_func(unsigned long __data)
memcpy(m + 1, data, m->len);
- cn_netlink_send(m, 0, gfp_any());
+ cn_netlink_send(m, 0, GFP_ATOMIC);
kfree(m);
}
@@ -160,10 +160,8 @@ static int cn_test_init(void)
goto err_out;
}
- init_timer(&cn_test_timer);
- cn_test_timer.function = cn_test_timer_func;
+ setup_timer(&cn_test_timer, cn_test_timer_func, 0);
cn_test_timer.expires = jiffies + HZ;
- cn_test_timer.data = 0;
add_timer(&cn_test_timer);
return 0;
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt
index e3443ddcfb89..917918f84fc7 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt
@@ -195,19 +195,3 @@ scaling_setspeed. By "echoing" a new frequency into this
you can change the speed of the CPU,
but only within the limits of
scaling_min_freq and scaling_max_freq.
-
-
-3.2 Deprecated Interfaces
--------------------------
-
-Depending on your kernel configuration, you might find the following
-cpufreq-related files:
-/proc/cpufreq
-/proc/sys/cpu/*/speed
-/proc/sys/cpu/*/speed-min
-/proc/sys/cpu/*/speed-max
-
-These are files for deprecated interfaces to cpufreq, which offer far
-less functionality. Because of this, these interfaces aren't described
-here.
-
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt
index a05ec50f8004..a7cbfff40d07 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt
+++ b/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt
@@ -127,9 +127,11 @@ void unlock_device(struct device * dev);
Attributes
~~~~~~~~~~
struct device_attribute {
- struct attribute attr;
- ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, char * buf, size_t count, loff_t off);
- ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, const char * buf, size_t count, loff_t off);
+ struct attribute attr;
+ ssize_t (*show)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
+ char *buf);
+ ssize_t (*store)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
+ const char *buf, size_t count);
};
Attributes of devices can be exported via drivers using a simple
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index bbebc3a43ac0..a87be42f8211 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -2027,6 +2027,34 @@ 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
+and is then updated according to its CPU time (utime + stime) and the
+run time (uptime - start time). The longer it runs the smaller is the score.
+Badness score is divided by the square root of the CPU time and then by
+the double square root of the run time.
+
+Swapped out tasks are killed first. Half of each child's memory size is added to
+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_score shows process' current badness score.
+
+The following heuristics are then applied:
+ * if the task was reniced, its score doubles
+ * superuser or direct hardware access tasks (CAP_SYS_ADMIN, CAP_SYS_RESOURCE
+ or CAP_SYS_RAWIO) have their score divided by 4
+ * if oom condition happened in one cpuset and checked task does not belong
+ to it, its score is divided by 8
+ * the resulting score is multiplied by two to the power of oom_adj, i.e.
+ points <<= oom_adj when it is positive and
+ points >>= -(oom_adj) otherwise
+
+The task with the highest badness score is then selected and its children
+are killed, process itself will be killed in an OOM situation when it does
+not have children or some of them disabled oom like described above.
+
2.13 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score
-------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
index 68ef48839c04..9f8740ca3f3b 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ that support it. For example, a given bus might look like this:
| |-- class
| |-- config
| |-- device
+ | |-- enable
| |-- irq
| |-- local_cpus
| |-- resource
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ files, each with their own function.
class PCI class (ascii, ro)
config PCI config space (binary, rw)
device PCI device (ascii, ro)
+ enable Whether the device is enabled (ascii, rw)
irq IRQ number (ascii, ro)
local_cpus nearby CPU mask (cpumask, ro)
resource PCI resource host addresses (ascii, ro)
@@ -57,10 +59,19 @@ used to do actual device programming from userspace. Note that some platforms
don't support mmapping of certain resources, so be sure to check the return
value from any attempted mmap.
+The 'enable' file provides a counter that indicates how many times the device
+has been enabled. If the 'enable' file currently returns '4', and a '1' is
+echoed into it, it will then return '5'. Echoing a '0' into it will decrease
+the count. Even when it returns to 0, though, some of the initialisation
+may not be reversed.
+
The 'rom' file is special in that it provides read-only access to the device's
ROM file, if available. It's disabled by default, however, so applications
should write the string "1" to the file to enable it before attempting a read
-call, and disable it following the access by writing "0" to the file.
+call, and disable it following the access by writing "0" to the file. Note
+that the device must be enabled for a rom read to return data succesfully.
+In the event a driver is not bound to the device, it can be enabled using the
+'enable' file, documented above.
Accessing legacy resources through sysfs
----------------------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
index 9e9c348275a9..7e81e37c0b1e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@
sysfs - _The_ filesystem for exporting kernel objects.
Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
+Mike Murphy <mamurph@cs.clemson.edu>
-10 January 2003
+Revised: 22 February 2009
+Original: 10 January 2003
What it is:
@@ -64,12 +66,13 @@ An attribute definition is simply:
struct attribute {
char * name;
+ struct module *owner;
mode_t mode;
};
-int sysfs_create_file(struct kobject * kobj, struct attribute * attr);
-void sysfs_remove_file(struct kobject * kobj, struct attribute * attr);
+int sysfs_create_file(struct kobject * kobj, const struct attribute * attr);
+void sysfs_remove_file(struct kobject * kobj, const struct attribute * attr);
A bare attribute contains no means to read or write the value of the
@@ -80,9 +83,11 @@ a specific object type.
For example, the driver model defines struct device_attribute like:
struct device_attribute {
- struct attribute attr;
- ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, char * buf);
- ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, const char * buf);
+ struct attribute attr;
+ ssize_t (*show)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
+ char *buf);
+ ssize_t (*store)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
+ const char *buf, size_t count);
};
int device_create_file(struct device *, struct device_attribute *);
@@ -90,12 +95,8 @@ void device_remove_file(struct device *, struct device_attribute *);
It also defines this helper for defining device attributes:
-#define DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store) \
-struct device_attribute dev_attr_##_name = { \
- .attr = {.name = __stringify(_name) , .mode = _mode }, \
- .show = _show, \
- .store = _store, \
-};
+#define DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store) \
+struct device_attribute dev_attr_##_name = __ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store)
For example, declaring
@@ -107,9 +108,9 @@ static struct device_attribute dev_attr_foo = {
.attr = {
.name = "foo",
.mode = S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO,
+ .show = show_foo,
+ .store = store_foo,
},
- .show = show_foo,
- .store = store_foo,
};
@@ -161,10 +162,12 @@ To read or write attributes, show() or store() methods must be
specified when declaring the attribute. The method types should be as
simple as those defined for device attributes:
- ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, char * buf);
- ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, const char * buf);
+ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute * attr,
+ char * buf);
+ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute * attr,
+ const char * buf);
-IOW, they should take only an object and a buffer as parameters.
+IOW, they should take only an object, an attribute, and a buffer as parameters.
sysfs allocates a buffer of size (PAGE_SIZE) and passes it to the
@@ -299,14 +302,16 @@ The following interface layers currently exist in sysfs:
Structure:
struct device_attribute {
- struct attribute attr;
- ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, char * buf);
- ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, const char * buf);
+ struct attribute attr;
+ ssize_t (*show)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
+ char *buf);
+ ssize_t (*store)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
+ const char *buf, size_t count);
};
Declaring:
-DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _str, _mode, _show, _store);
+DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store);
Creation/Removal:
@@ -342,7 +347,8 @@ Structure:
struct driver_attribute {
struct attribute attr;
ssize_t (*show)(struct device_driver *, char * buf);
- ssize_t (*store)(struct device_driver *, const char * buf);
+ ssize_t (*store)(struct device_driver *, const char * buf,
+ size_t count);
};
Declaring:
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt
index 84da2a4ba25a..12fedb7834c6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt
@@ -79,13 +79,6 @@ Mount options
(*) == default.
-norm_unmount (*) commit on unmount; the journal is committed
- when the file-system is unmounted so that the
- next mount does not have to replay the journal
- and it becomes very fast;
-fast_unmount do not commit on unmount; this option makes
- unmount faster, but the next mount slower
- because of the need to replay the journal.
bulk_read read more in one go to take advantage of flash
media that read faster sequentially
no_bulk_read (*) do not bulk-read
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c b/Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bbea1ccfd46a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+/* Disk protection for HP machines.
+ *
+ * Copyright 2008 Eric Piel
+ * Copyright 2009 Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
+ *
+ * GPLv2.
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <signal.h>
+
+void write_int(char *path, int i)
+{
+ char buf[1024];
+ int fd = open(path, O_RDWR);
+ if (fd < 0) {
+ perror("open");
+ exit(1);
+ }
+ sprintf(buf, "%d", i);
+ if (write(fd, buf, strlen(buf)) != strlen(buf)) {
+ perror("write");
+ exit(1);
+ }
+ close(fd);
+}
+
+void set_led(int on)
+{
+ write_int("/sys/class/leds/hp::hddprotect/brightness", on);
+}
+
+void protect(int seconds)
+{
+ write_int("/sys/block/sda/device/unload_heads", seconds*1000);
+}
+
+int on_ac(void)
+{
+// /sys/class/power_supply/AC0/online
+}
+
+int lid_open(void)
+{
+// /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state
+}
+
+void ignore_me(void)
+{
+ protect(0);
+ set_led(0);
+
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+ int fd, ret;
+
+ fd = open("/dev/freefall", O_RDONLY);
+ if (fd < 0) {
+ perror("open");
+ return EXIT_FAILURE;
+ }
+
+ signal(SIGALRM, ignore_me);
+
+ for (;;) {
+ unsigned char count;
+
+ ret = read(fd, &count, sizeof(count));
+ alarm(0);
+ if ((ret == -1) && (errno == EINTR)) {
+ /* Alarm expired, time to unpark the heads */
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ if (ret != sizeof(count)) {
+ perror("read");
+ break;
+ }
+
+ protect(21);
+ set_led(1);
+ if (1 || on_ac() || lid_open()) {
+ alarm(2);
+ } else {
+ alarm(20);
+ }
+ }
+
+ close(fd);
+ return EXIT_SUCCESS;
+}
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d b/Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d
index 0fcfc4a7ccdc..287f8c902656 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d
@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ rate - reports the sampling rate of the accelerometer device in HZ
This driver also provides an absolute input class device, allowing
the laptop to act as a pinball machine-esque joystick.
+Another feature of the driver is misc device called "freefall" that
+acts similar to /dev/rtc and reacts on free-fall interrupts received
+from the device. It supports blocking operations, poll/select and
+fasync operation modes. You must read 1 bytes from the device. The
+result is number of free-fall interrupts since the last successful
+read (or 255 if number of interrupts would not fit).
+
+
Axes orientation
----------------
diff --git a/Documentation/ja_JP/stable_kernel_rules.txt b/Documentation/ja_JP/stable_kernel_rules.txt
index b3ffe870de33..14265837c4ce 100644
--- a/Documentation/ja_JP/stable_kernel_rules.txt
+++ b/Documentation/ja_JP/stable_kernel_rules.txt
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ file at first.
==================================
これは、
-linux-2.6.24/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
+linux-2.6.29/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
の和訳です。
翻訳団体: JF プロジェクト < http://www.linux.or.jp/JF/ >
-翻訳日: 2007/12/30
+翻訳日: 2009/1/14
翻訳者: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata at ab dot jp dot nec dot com>
校正者: 武井伸光さん、<takei at webmasters dot gr dot jp>
かねこさん (Seiji Kaneko) <skaneko at a2 dot mbn dot or dot jp>
@@ -38,12 +38,15 @@ linux-2.6.24/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
- ビルドエラー(CONFIG_BROKENになっているものを除く), oops, ハング、デー
タ破壊、現実のセキュリティ問題、その他 "ああ、これはダメだね"という
ようなものを修正しなければならない。短く言えば、重大な問題。
+ - 新しい device ID とクオークも受け入れられる。
- どのように競合状態が発生するかの説明も一緒に書かれていない限り、
"理論的には競合状態になる"ようなものは不可。
- いかなる些細な修正も含めることはできない。(スペルの修正、空白のクリー
ンアップなど)
- - 対応するサブシステムメンテナが受け入れたものでなければならない。
- Documentation/SubmittingPatches の規則に従ったものでなければならない。
+ - パッチ自体か同等の修正が Linus のツリーに既に存在しなければならない。
+  Linus のツリーでのコミットID を -stable へのパッチ投稿の際に引用す
+ ること。
-stable ツリーにパッチを送付する手続き-
@@ -52,8 +55,10 @@ linux-2.6.24/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
- 送信者はパッチがキューに受け付けられた際には ACK を、却下された場合
には NAK を受け取る。この反応は開発者たちのスケジュールによって、数
日かかる場合がある。
- - もし受け取られたら、パッチは他の開発者たちのレビューのために
- -stable キューに追加される。
+ - もし受け取られたら、パッチは他の開発者たちと関連するサブシステムの
+ メンテナーによるレビューのために -stable キューに追加される。
+ - パッチに stable@kernel.org のアドレスが付加されているときには、それ
+ が Linus のツリーに入る時に自動的に stable チームに email される。
- セキュリティパッチはこのエイリアス (stable@kernel.org) に送られるべ
きではなく、代わりに security@kernel.org のアドレスに送られる。
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
index d73fbd2b2b45..026ec7d57384 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ Only comments so marked will be considered by the kernel-doc scripts,
and any comment so marked must be in kernel-doc format. Do not use
"/**" to be begin a comment block unless the comment block contains
kernel-doc formatted comments. The closing comment marker for
-kernel-doc comments can be either "*/" or "**/".
+kernel-doc comments can be either "*/" or "**/", but "*/" is
+preferred in the Linux kernel tree.
Kernel-doc comments should be placed just before the function
or data structure being described.
@@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ Example kernel-doc function comment:
* comment lines.
*
* The longer description can have multiple paragraphs.
- **/
+ */
The first line, with the short description, must be on a single line.
@@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ Example kernel-doc data structure comment.
* perhaps with more lines and words.
*
* Longer description of this structure.
- **/
+ */
The kernel-doc function comments describe each parameter to the
function, in order, with the @name lines.
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index d8362cf9909e..0ed3234125e3 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86-64,i386]
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
- Format: { force | off | ht | strict | noirq }
+ Format: { force | off | ht | strict | noirq | rsdt }
force -- enable ACPI if default was off
off -- disable ACPI if default was on
noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
@@ -868,8 +868,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
icn= [HW,ISDN]
Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
- ide= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
- Format: ide=nodma or ide=doubler
+ ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
+ Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
+ .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .noprobe .nowerr .cdrom
+ .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
idebus= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - VLB/PCI bus speed
@@ -937,6 +939,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
+ on
+ Enable intel iommu driver.
off
Disable intel iommu driver.
igfx_off [Default Off]
diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/Makefile b/Documentation/lguest/Makefile
index 725eef81cd48..1f4f9e888bd1 100644
--- a/Documentation/lguest/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/lguest/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
# This creates the demonstration utility "lguest" which runs a Linux guest.
-CFLAGS:=-Wall -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -O3 -I../../include -I../../arch/x86/include
+CFLAGS:=-Wall -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -O3 -I../../include -I../../arch/x86/include -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE
LDLIBS:=-lz
all: lguest
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/alias.txt b/Documentation/networking/alias.txt
index cd12c2ff518a..85046f53fcfc 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/alias.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/alias.txt
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
IP-Aliasing:
============
-IP-aliases are additional IP-addresses/masks hooked up to a base
-interface by adding a colon and a string when running ifconfig.
-This string is usually numeric, but this is not a must.
-
-IP-Aliases are avail if CONFIG_INET (`standard' IPv4 networking)
-is configured in the kernel.
+IP-aliases are an obsolete way to manage multiple IP-addresses/masks
+per interface. Newer tools such as iproute2 support multiple
+address/prefixes per interface, but aliases are still supported
+for backwards compatibility.
+An alias is formed by adding a colon and a string when running ifconfig.
+This string is usually numeric, but this is not a must.
o Alias creation.
Alias creation is done by 'magic' interface naming: eg. to create a
@@ -38,16 +38,3 @@ o Relationship with main device
If the base device is shut down the added aliases will be deleted
too.
-
-
-Contact
--------
-Please finger or e-mail me:
- Juan Jose Ciarlante <jjciarla@raiz.uncu.edu.ar>
-
-Updated by Erik Schoenfelder <schoenfr@gaertner.DE>
-
-; local variables:
-; mode: indented-text
-; mode: auto-fill
-; end:
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/mpc5200.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/mpc5200.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8447fd7090d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/mpc5200.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,180 @@
+MPC5200 Device Tree Bindings
+----------------------------
+
+(c) 2006-2009 Secret Lab Technologies Ltd
+Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
+
+Naming conventions
+------------------
+For mpc5200 on-chip devices, the format for each compatible value is
+<chip>-<device>[-<mode>]. The OS should be able to match a device driver
+to the device based solely on the compatible value. If two drivers
+match on the compatible list; the 'most compatible' driver should be
+selected.
+
+The split between the MPC5200 and the MPC5200B leaves a bit of a
+conundrum. How should the compatible property be set up to provide
+maximum compatibility information; but still accurately describe the
+chip? For the MPC5200; the answer is easy. Most of the SoC devices
+originally appeared on the MPC5200. Since they didn't exist anywhere
+else; the 5200 compatible properties will contain only one item;
+"fsl,mpc5200-<device>".
+
+The 5200B is almost the same as the 5200, but not quite. It fixes
+silicon bugs and it adds a small number of enhancements. Most of the
+devices either provide exactly the same interface as on the 5200. A few
+devices have extra functions but still have a backwards compatible mode.
+To express this information as completely as possible, 5200B device trees
+should have two items in the compatible list:
+ compatible = "fsl,mpc5200b-<device>","fsl,mpc5200-<device>";
+
+It is *strongly* recommended that 5200B device trees follow this convention
+(instead of only listing the base mpc5200 item).
+
+ie. ethernet on mpc5200: compatible = "fsl,mpc5200-fec";
+ ethernet on mpc5200b: compatible = "fsl,mpc5200b-fec", "fsl,mpc5200-fec";
+
+Modal devices, like PSCs, also append the configured function to the
+end of the compatible field. ie. A PSC in i2s mode would specify
+"fsl,mpc5200-psc-i2s", not "fsl,mpc5200-i2s". This convention is chosen to
+avoid naming conflicts with non-psc devices providing the same
+function. For example, "fsl,mpc5200-spi" and "fsl,mpc5200-psc-spi" describe
+the mpc5200 simple spi device and a PSC spi mode respectively.
+
+At the time of writing, exact chip may be either 'fsl,mpc5200' or
+'fsl,mpc5200b'.
+
+The soc node
+------------
+This node describes the on chip SOC peripherals. Every mpc5200 based
+board will have this node, and as such there is a common naming
+convention for SOC devices.
+
+Required properties:
+name description
+---- -----------
+ranges Memory range of the internal memory mapped registers.
+ Should be <0 [baseaddr] 0xc000>
+reg Should be <[baseaddr] 0x100>
+compatible mpc5200: "fsl,mpc5200-immr"
+ mpc5200b: "fsl,mpc5200b-immr"
+system-frequency 'fsystem' frequency in Hz; XLB, IPB, USB and PCI
+ clocks are derived from the fsystem clock.
+bus-frequency IPB bus frequency in Hz. Clock rate
+ used by most of the soc devices.
+
+soc child nodes
+---------------
+Any on chip SOC devices available to Linux must appear as soc5200 child nodes.
+
+Note: The tables below show the value for the mpc5200. A mpc5200b device
+tree should use the "fsl,mpc5200b-<device>","fsl,mpc5200-<device>" form.
+
+Required soc5200 child nodes:
+name compatible Description
+---- ---------- -----------
+cdm@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-cdm Clock Distribution
+interrupt-controller@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-pic need an interrupt
+ controller to boot
+bestcomm@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-bestcomm Bestcomm DMA controller
+
+Recommended soc5200 child nodes; populate as needed for your board
+name compatible Description
+---- ---------- -----------
+timer@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-gpt General purpose timers
+gpio@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-gpio MPC5200 simple gpio controller
+gpio@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-gpio-wkup MPC5200 wakeup gpio controller
+rtc@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-rtc Real time clock
+mscan@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-mscan CAN bus controller
+pci@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-pci PCI bridge
+serial@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-psc-uart PSC in serial mode
+i2s@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-psc-i2s PSC in i2s mode
+ac97@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-psc-ac97 PSC in ac97 mode
+spi@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-psc-spi PSC in spi mode
+irda@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-psc-irda PSC in IrDA mode
+spi@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-spi MPC5200 spi device
+ethernet@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-fec MPC5200 ethernet device
+ata@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-ata IDE ATA interface
+i2c@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-i2c I2C controller
+usb@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-ohci,ohci-be USB controller
+xlb@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-xlb XLB arbitrator
+
+fsl,mpc5200-gpt nodes
+---------------------
+On the mpc5200 and 5200b, GPT0 has a watchdog timer function. If the board
+design supports the internal wdt, then the device node for GPT0 should
+include the empty property 'fsl,has-wdt'.
+
+An mpc5200-gpt can be used as a single line GPIO controller. To do so,
+add the following properties to the gpt node:
+ gpio-controller;
+ #gpio-cells = <2>;
+When referencing the GPIO line from another node, the first cell must always
+be zero and the second cell represents the gpio flags and described in the
+gpio device tree binding.
+
+An mpc5200-gpt can be used as a single line edge sensitive interrupt
+controller. To do so, add the following properties to the gpt node:
+ interrupt-controller;
+ #interrupt-cells = <1>;
+When referencing the IRQ line from another node, the cell represents the
+sense mode; 1 for edge rising, 2 for edge falling.
+
+fsl,mpc5200-psc nodes
+---------------------
+The PSCs should include a cell-index which is the index of the PSC in
+hardware. cell-index is used to determine which shared SoC registers to
+use when setting up PSC clocking. cell-index number starts at '0'. ie:
+ PSC1 has 'cell-index = <0>'
+ PSC4 has 'cell-index = <3>'
+
+PSC in i2s mode: The mpc5200 and mpc5200b PSCs are not compatible when in
+i2s mode. An 'mpc5200b-psc-i2s' node cannot include 'mpc5200-psc-i2s' in the
+compatible field.
+
+
+fsl,mpc5200-gpio and fsl,mpc5200-gpio-wkup nodes
+------------------------------------------------
+Each GPIO controller node should have the empty property gpio-controller and
+#gpio-cells set to 2. First cell is the GPIO number which is interpreted
+according to the bit numbers in the GPIO control registers. The second cell
+is for flags which is currently unused.
+
+fsl,mpc5200-fec nodes
+---------------------
+The FEC node can specify one of the following properties to configure
+the MII link:
+- fsl,7-wire-mode - An empty property that specifies the link uses 7-wire
+ mode instead of MII
+- current-speed - Specifies that the MII should be configured for a fixed
+ speed. This property should contain two cells. The
+ first cell specifies the speed in Mbps and the second
+ should be '0' for half duplex and '1' for full duplex
+- phy-handle - Contains a phandle to an Ethernet PHY.
+
+Interrupt controller (fsl,mpc5200-pic) node
+-------------------------------------------
+The mpc5200 pic binding splits hardware IRQ numbers into two levels. The
+split reflects the layout of the PIC hardware itself, which groups
+interrupts into one of three groups; CRIT, MAIN or PERP. Also, the
+Bestcomm dma engine has it's own set of interrupt sources which are
+cascaded off of peripheral interrupt 0, which the driver interprets as a
+fourth group, SDMA.
+
+The interrupts property for device nodes using the mpc5200 pic consists
+of three cells; <L1 L2 level>
+
+ L1 := [CRIT=0, MAIN=1, PERP=2, SDMA=3]
+ L2 := interrupt number; directly mapped from the value in the
+ "ICTL PerStat, MainStat, CritStat Encoded Register"
+ level := [LEVEL_HIGH=0, EDGE_RISING=1, EDGE_FALLING=2, LEVEL_LOW=3]
+
+For external IRQs, use the following interrupt property values (how to
+specify external interrupts is a frequently asked question):
+External interrupts:
+ external irq0: interrupts = <0 0 n>;
+ external irq1: interrupts = <1 1 n>;
+ external irq2: interrupts = <1 2 n>;
+ external irq3: interrupts = <1 3 n>;
+'n' is sense (0: level high, 1: edge rising, 2: edge falling 3: level low)
+
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx-device-tree-bindings.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx-device-tree-bindings.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 6f12f1c79c0c..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx-device-tree-bindings.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,277 +0,0 @@
-MPC5200 Device Tree Bindings
-----------------------------
-
-(c) 2006-2007 Secret Lab Technologies Ltd
-Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
-
-********** DRAFT ***********
-* WARNING: Do not depend on the stability of these bindings just yet.
-* The MPC5200 device tree conventions are still in flux
-* Keep an eye on the linuxppc-dev mailing list for more details
-********** DRAFT ***********
-
-I - Introduction
-================
-Boards supported by the arch/powerpc architecture require device tree be
-passed by the boot loader to the kernel at boot time. The device tree
-describes what devices are present on the board and how they are
-connected. The device tree can either be passed as a binary blob (as
-described in Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt), or passed
-by Open Firmware (IEEE 1275) compatible firmware using an OF compatible
-client interface API.
-
-This document specifies the requirements on the device-tree for mpc5200
-based boards. These requirements are above and beyond the details
-specified in either the Open Firmware spec or booting-without-of.txt
-
-All new mpc5200-based boards are expected to match this document. In
-cases where this document is not sufficient to support a new board port,
-this document should be updated as part of adding the new board support.
-
-II - Philosophy
-===============
-The core of this document is naming convention. The whole point of
-defining this convention is to reduce or eliminate the number of
-special cases required to support a 5200 board. If all 5200 boards
-follow the same convention, then generic 5200 support code will work
-rather than coding special cases for each new board.
-
-This section tries to capture the thought process behind why the naming
-convention is what it is.
-
-1. names
----------
-There is strong convention/requirements already established for children
-of the root node. 'cpus' describes the processor cores, 'memory'
-describes memory, and 'chosen' provides boot configuration. Other nodes
-are added to describe devices attached to the processor local bus.
-
-Following convention already established with other system-on-chip
-processors, 5200 device trees should use the name 'soc5200' for the
-parent node of on chip devices, and the root node should be its parent.
-
-Child nodes are typically named after the configured function. ie.
-the FEC node is named 'ethernet', and a PSC in uart mode is named 'serial'.
-
-2. device_type property
------------------------
-similar to the node name convention above; the device_type reflects the
-configured function of a device. ie. 'serial' for a uart and 'spi' for
-an spi controller. However, while node names *should* reflect the
-configured function, device_type *must* match the configured function
-exactly.
-
-3. compatible property
-----------------------
-Since device_type isn't enough to match devices to drivers, there also
-needs to be a naming convention for the compatible property. Compatible
-is an list of device descriptions sorted from specific to generic. For
-the mpc5200, the required format for each compatible value is
-<chip>-<device>[-<mode>]. The OS should be able to match a device driver
-to the device based solely on the compatible value. If two drivers
-match on the compatible list; the 'most compatible' driver should be
-selected.
-
-The split between the MPC5200 and the MPC5200B leaves a bit of a
-conundrum. How should the compatible property be set up to provide
-maximum compatibility information; but still accurately describe the
-chip? For the MPC5200; the answer is easy. Most of the SoC devices
-originally appeared on the MPC5200. Since they didn't exist anywhere
-else; the 5200 compatible properties will contain only one item;
-"mpc5200-<device>".
-
-The 5200B is almost the same as the 5200, but not quite. It fixes
-silicon bugs and it adds a small number of enhancements. Most of the
-devices either provide exactly the same interface as on the 5200. A few
-devices have extra functions but still have a backwards compatible mode.
-To express this information as completely as possible, 5200B device trees
-should have two items in the compatible list;
-"mpc5200b-<device>\0mpc5200-<device>". It is *strongly* recommended
-that 5200B device trees follow this convention (instead of only listing
-the base mpc5200 item).
-
-If another chip appear on the market with one of the mpc5200 SoC
-devices, then the compatible list should include mpc5200-<device>.
-
-ie. ethernet on mpc5200: compatible = "mpc5200-ethernet"
- ethernet on mpc5200b: compatible = "mpc5200b-ethernet\0mpc5200-ethernet"
-
-Modal devices, like PSCs, also append the configured function to the
-end of the compatible field. ie. A PSC in i2s mode would specify
-"mpc5200-psc-i2s", not "mpc5200-i2s". This convention is chosen to
-avoid naming conflicts with non-psc devices providing the same
-function. For example, "mpc5200-spi" and "mpc5200-psc-spi" describe
-the mpc5200 simple spi device and a PSC spi mode respectively.
-
-If the soc device is more generic and present on other SOCs, the
-compatible property can specify the more generic device type also.
-
-ie. mscan: compatible = "mpc5200-mscan\0fsl,mscan";
-
-At the time of writing, exact chip may be either 'mpc5200' or
-'mpc5200b'.
-
-Device drivers should always try to match as generically as possible.
-
-III - Structure
-===============
-The device tree for an mpc5200 board follows the structure defined in
-booting-without-of.txt with the following additional notes:
-
-0) the root node
-----------------
-Typical root description node; see booting-without-of
-
-1) The cpus node
-----------------
-The cpus node follows the basic layout described in booting-without-of.
-The bus-frequency property holds the XLB bus frequency
-The clock-frequency property holds the core frequency
-
-2) The memory node
-------------------
-Typical memory description node; see booting-without-of.
-
-3) The soc5200 node
--------------------
-This node describes the on chip SOC peripherals. Every mpc5200 based
-board will have this node, and as such there is a common naming
-convention for SOC devices.
-
-Required properties:
-name type description
----- ---- -----------
-device_type string must be "soc"
-ranges int should be <0 baseaddr baseaddr+10000>
-reg int must be <baseaddr 10000>
-compatible string mpc5200: "mpc5200-soc"
- mpc5200b: "mpc5200b-soc\0mpc5200-soc"
-system-frequency int Fsystem frequency; source of all
- other clocks.
-bus-frequency int IPB bus frequency in HZ. Clock rate
- used by most of the soc devices.
-#interrupt-cells int must be <3>.
-
-Recommended properties:
-name type description
----- ---- -----------
-model string Exact model of the chip;
- ie: model="fsl,mpc5200"
-revision string Silicon revision of chip
- ie: revision="M08A"
-
-The 'model' and 'revision' properties are *strongly* recommended. Having
-them presence acts as a bit of a safety net for working around as yet
-undiscovered bugs on one version of silicon. For example, device drivers
-can use the model and revision properties to decide if a bug fix should
-be turned on.
-
-4) soc5200 child nodes
-----------------------
-Any on chip SOC devices available to Linux must appear as soc5200 child nodes.
-
-Note: The tables below show the value for the mpc5200. A mpc5200b device
-tree should use the "mpc5200b-<device>\0mpc5200-<device> form.
-
-Required soc5200 child nodes:
-name device_type compatible Description
----- ----------- ---------- -----------
-cdm@<addr> cdm mpc5200-cmd Clock Distribution
-pic@<addr> interrupt-controller mpc5200-pic need an interrupt
- controller to boot
-bestcomm@<addr> dma-controller mpc5200-bestcomm 5200 pic also requires
- the bestcomm device
-
-Recommended soc5200 child nodes; populate as needed for your board
-name device_type compatible Description
----- ----------- ---------- -----------
-gpt@<addr> gpt fsl,mpc5200-gpt General purpose timers
-gpt@<addr> gpt fsl,mpc5200-gpt-gpio General purpose
- timers in GPIO mode
-gpio@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-gpio MPC5200 simple gpio
- controller
-gpio@<addr> fsl,mpc5200-gpio-wkup MPC5200 wakeup gpio
- controller
-rtc@<addr> rtc mpc5200-rtc Real time clock
-mscan@<addr> mscan mpc5200-mscan CAN bus controller
-pci@<addr> pci mpc5200-pci PCI bridge
-serial@<addr> serial mpc5200-psc-uart PSC in serial mode
-i2s@<addr> sound mpc5200-psc-i2s PSC in i2s mode
-ac97@<addr> sound mpc5200-psc-ac97 PSC in ac97 mode
-spi@<addr> spi mpc5200-psc-spi PSC in spi mode
-irda@<addr> irda mpc5200-psc-irda PSC in IrDA mode
-spi@<addr> spi mpc5200-spi MPC5200 spi device
-ethernet@<addr> network mpc5200-fec MPC5200 ethernet device
-ata@<addr> ata mpc5200-ata IDE ATA interface
-i2c@<addr> i2c mpc5200-i2c I2C controller
-usb@<addr> usb-ohci-be mpc5200-ohci,ohci-be USB controller
-xlb@<addr> xlb mpc5200-xlb XLB arbitrator
-
-Important child node properties
-name type description
----- ---- -----------
-cell-index int When multiple devices are present, is the
- index of the device in the hardware (ie. There
- are 6 PSC on the 5200 numbered PSC1 to PSC6)
- PSC1 has 'cell-index = <0>'
- PSC4 has 'cell-index = <3>'
-
-5) General Purpose Timer nodes (child of soc5200 node)
-On the mpc5200 and 5200b, GPT0 has a watchdog timer function. If the board
-design supports the internal wdt, then the device node for GPT0 should
-include the empty property 'fsl,has-wdt'.
-
-6) PSC nodes (child of soc5200 node)
-PSC nodes can define the optional 'port-number' property to force assignment
-order of serial ports. For example, PSC5 might be physically connected to
-the port labeled 'COM1' and PSC1 wired to 'COM1'. In this case, PSC5 would
-have a "port-number = <0>" property, and PSC1 would have "port-number = <1>".
-
-PSC in i2s mode: The mpc5200 and mpc5200b PSCs are not compatible when in
-i2s mode. An 'mpc5200b-psc-i2s' node cannot include 'mpc5200-psc-i2s' in the
-compatible field.
-
-7) GPIO controller nodes
-Each GPIO controller node should have the empty property gpio-controller and
-#gpio-cells set to 2. First cell is the GPIO number which is interpreted
-according to the bit numbers in the GPIO control registers. The second cell
-is for flags which is currently unsused.
-
-8) FEC nodes
-The FEC node can specify one of the following properties to configure
-the MII link:
-"fsl,7-wire-mode" - An empty property that specifies the link uses 7-wire
- mode instead of MII
-"current-speed" - Specifies that the MII should be configured for a fixed
- speed. This property should contain two cells. The
- first cell specifies the speed in Mbps and the second
- should be '0' for half duplex and '1' for full duplex
-"phy-handle" - Contains a phandle to an Ethernet PHY.
-
-IV - Extra Notes
-================
-
-1. Interrupt mapping
---------------------
-The mpc5200 pic driver splits hardware IRQ numbers into two levels. The
-split reflects the layout of the PIC hardware itself, which groups
-interrupts into one of three groups; CRIT, MAIN or PERP. Also, the
-Bestcomm dma engine has it's own set of interrupt sources which are
-cascaded off of peripheral interrupt 0, which the driver interprets as a
-fourth group, SDMA.
-
-The interrupts property for device nodes using the mpc5200 pic consists
-of three cells; <L1 L2 level>
-
- L1 := [CRIT=0, MAIN=1, PERP=2, SDMA=3]
- L2 := interrupt number; directly mapped from the value in the
- "ICTL PerStat, MainStat, CritStat Encoded Register"
- level := [LEVEL_HIGH=0, EDGE_RISING=1, EDGE_FALLING=2, LEVEL_LOW=3]
-
-2. Shared registers
--------------------
-Some SoC devices share registers between them. ie. the i2c devices use
-a single clock control register, and almost all device are affected by
-the port_config register. Devices which need to manipulate shared regs
-should look to the parent SoC node. The soc node is responsible
-for arbitrating all shared register access.
diff --git a/Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt b/Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt
index cde23b4a12a1..5731c67abc55 100644
--- a/Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt
@@ -78,12 +78,10 @@ to view your kernel log and look for "mmiotrace has lost events" warning. If
events were lost, the trace is incomplete. You should enlarge the buffers and
try again. Buffers are enlarged by first seeing how large the current buffers
are:
-$ cat /debug/tracing/trace_entries
+$ cat /debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb
gives you a number. Approximately double this number and write it back, for
instance:
-$ echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
-$ echo 128000 > /debug/tracing/trace_entries
-$ echo 1 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
+$ echo 128000 > /debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb
Then start again from the top.
If you are doing a trace for a driver project, e.g. Nouveau, you should also
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/dma.txt b/Documentation/usb/dma.txt
index e8b50b7de9d9..cfdcd16e3abf 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/dma.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/dma.txt
@@ -6,8 +6,9 @@ in the kernel usb programming guide (kerneldoc, from the source code).
API OVERVIEW
The big picture is that USB drivers can continue to ignore most DMA issues,
-though they still must provide DMA-ready buffers (see DMA-mapping.txt).
-That's how they've worked through the 2.4 (and earlier) kernels.
+though they still must provide DMA-ready buffers (see
+Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt). That's how they've worked through
+the 2.4 (and earlier) kernels.
OR: they can now be DMA-aware.
@@ -62,8 +63,8 @@ and effects like cache-trashing can impose subtle penalties.
force a consistent memory access ordering by using memory barriers. It's
not using a streaming DMA mapping, so it's good for small transfers on
systems where the I/O would otherwise thrash an IOMMU mapping. (See
- Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt for definitions of "coherent" and "streaming"
- DMA mappings.)
+ Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt for definitions of "coherent" and
+ "streaming" DMA mappings.)
Asking for 1/Nth of a page (as well as asking for N pages) is reasonably
space-efficient.
@@ -93,7 +94,7 @@ WORKING WITH EXISTING BUFFERS
Existing buffers aren't usable for DMA without first being mapped into the
DMA address space of the device. However, most buffers passed to your
driver can safely be used with such DMA mapping. (See the first section
-of DMA-mapping.txt, titled "What memory is DMA-able?")
+of Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt, titled "What memory is DMA-able?")
- When you're using scatterlists, you can map everything at once. On some
systems, this kicks in an IOMMU and turns the scatterlists into single
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/v4lgrab.c b/Documentation/video4linux/v4lgrab.c
index 079b628481cf..d6e70bef8ad0 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/v4lgrab.c
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/v4lgrab.c
@@ -4,12 +4,21 @@
*
* Compile with:
* gcc -s -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes v4lgrab.c -o v4lgrab
- * Use as:
- * v4lgrab >image.ppm
+ * Use as:
+ * v4lgrab >image.ppm
*
* Copyright (C) 1998-05-03, Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
- * Copied from http://www.tazenda.demon.co.uk/phil/vgrabber.c
- * with minor modifications (Dave Forrest, drf5n@virginia.edu).
+ * Copied from http://www.tazenda.demon.co.uk/phil/vgrabber.c
+ * with minor modifications (Dave Forrest, drf5n@virginia.edu).
+ *
+ *
+ * For some cameras you may need to pre-load libv4l to perform
+ * the necessary decompression, e.g.:
+ *
+ * export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so
+ * ./v4lgrab >image.ppm
+ *
+ * see http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/3636.html for details.
*
*/
@@ -24,7 +33,7 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/videodev.h>
-#define FILE "/dev/video0"
+#define VIDEO_DEV "/dev/video0"
/* Stole this from tvset.c */
@@ -90,7 +99,7 @@ int get_brightness_adj(unsigned char *image, long size, int *brightness) {
int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
- int fd = open(FILE, O_RDONLY), f;
+ int fd = open(VIDEO_DEV, O_RDONLY), f;
struct video_capability cap;
struct video_window win;
struct video_picture vpic;
@@ -100,13 +109,13 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv)
unsigned int i, src_depth;
if (fd < 0) {
- perror(FILE);
+ perror(VIDEO_DEV);
exit(1);
}
if (ioctl(fd, VIDIOCGCAP, &cap) < 0) {
perror("VIDIOGCAP");
- fprintf(stderr, "(" FILE " not a video4linux device?)\n");
+ fprintf(stderr, "(" VIDEO_DEV " not a video4linux device?)\n");
close(fd);
exit(1);
}