From 46dfa040f6c26f416a0979a7cd5a2d81f08121d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: FUJITA Tomonori Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:22:34 +0200 Subject: add deprecated ide-scsi to feature-removal-schedule.txt Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index eb1a47b97427..83c88cae1eda 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -322,3 +322,11 @@ Why: Accounting can now be enabled/disabled without kernel recompilation. controlled by a kernel/module/sysfs/sysctl parameter. Who: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki +--------------------------- + +What: ide-scsi (BLK_DEV_IDESCSI) +When: 2.6.29 +Why: The 2.6 kernel supports direct writing to ide CD drives, which + eliminates the need for ide-scsi. The new method is more + efficient in every way. +Who: FUJITA Tomonori -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b From 024994310e10cd7632f43b6873558820308c1af1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Zefan Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:33:09 -0700 Subject: cpuset: hotplug documentation fix If all the cpus in a cpuset are offlined, the tasks in it will be moved to the nearest ancestor with non-empty cpus. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: Paul Jackson Cc: Paul Menage Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/cpusets.txt | 18 ++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt index 1f5a924d1e56..47e568a9370a 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpusets.txt @@ -635,14 +635,16 @@ prior 'mems' setting, will not be moved. There is an exception to the above. If hotplug functionality is used to remove all the CPUs that are currently assigned to a cpuset, -then the kernel will automatically update the cpus_allowed of all -tasks attached to CPUs in that cpuset to allow all CPUs. When memory -hotplug functionality for removing Memory Nodes is available, a -similar exception is expected to apply there as well. In general, -the kernel prefers to violate cpuset placement, over starving a task -that has had all its allowed CPUs or Memory Nodes taken offline. User -code should reconfigure cpusets to only refer to online CPUs and Memory -Nodes when using hotplug to add or remove such resources. +then all the tasks in that cpuset will be moved to the nearest ancestor +with non-empty cpus. But the moving of some (or all) tasks might fail if +cpuset is bound with another cgroup subsystem which has some restrictions +on task attaching. In this failing case, those tasks will stay +in the original cpuset, and the kernel will automatically update +their cpus_allowed to allow all online CPUs. When memory hotplug +functionality for removing Memory Nodes is available, a similar exception +is expected to apply there as well. In general, the kernel prefers to +violate cpuset placement, over starving a task that has had all +its allowed CPUs or Memory Nodes taken offline. There is a second exception to the above. GFP_ATOMIC requests are kernel internal allocations that must be satisfied, immediately. -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b From b261dfea48e81636516f4fa653667097638a8a62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hidehiro Kawai Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:33:10 -0700 Subject: coredump_filter: add description of bit 4 There is no description of bit 4 of coredump_filter in the documentation. This patch adds it. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Mel Gorman Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 394eb2cc1c39..f566ad9bcb7b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -2413,6 +2413,8 @@ The following 4 memory types are supported: - (bit 1) anonymous shared memory - (bit 2) file-backed private memory - (bit 3) file-backed shared memory + - (bit 4) ELF header pages in file-backed private memory areas (it is + effective only if the bit 2 is cleared) Note that MMIO pages such as frame buffer are never dumped and vDSO pages are always dumped regardless of the bitmask status. -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b From 9f986a8cdf94a5855201cf67db6ffdf926bc4cd9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Brownell Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:33:20 -0700 Subject: Documentation/ABI: /sys/class/gpio Provide summary ABI docs about the /sys/class/gpio files. Signed-off-by: David Brownell Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8aab8092ad35 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +What: /sys/class/gpio/ +Date: July 2008 +KernelVersion: 2.6.27 +Contact: David Brownell +Description: + + As a Kconfig option, individual GPIO signals may be accessed from + userspace. GPIOs are only made available to userspace by an explicit + "export" operation. If a given GPIO is not claimed for use by + kernel code, it may be exported by userspace (and unexported later). + Kernel code may export it for complete or partial access. + + GPIOs are identified as they are inside the kernel, using integers in + the range 0..INT_MAX. See Documentation/gpio.txt for more information. + + /sys/class/gpio + /export ... asks the kernel to export a GPIO to userspace + /unexport ... to return a GPIO to the kernel + /gpioN ... for each exported GPIO #N + /value ... always readable, writes fail for input GPIOs + /direction ... r/w as: in, out (default low); write: high, low + /gpiochipN ... for each gpiochip; #N is its first GPIO + /base ... (r/o) same as N + /label ... (r/o) descriptive, not necessarily unique + /ngpio ... (r/o) number of GPIOs; numbered N to N + (ngpio - 1) + -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b From 6675ce13ed783f88ea5d82f0d855462b76ff0dad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marin Mitov Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:57:46 -0700 Subject: Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt: update for pci_dma_mapping_error() changes Make the example code consistent with changed API. Signed-off-by: Marin Mitov Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt b/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt index b463ecd0c7ce..c74fec8c2351 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt @@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ failure can be determined by: dma_addr_t dma_handle; dma_handle = pci_map_single(pdev, addr, size, direction); - if (pci_dma_mapping_error(dma_handle)) { + if (pci_dma_mapping_error(pdev, dma_handle)) { /* * reduce current DMA mapping usage, * delay and try again later or -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b From b4d19cc84e8e6838f4aa0b26b3afcdc8c7f71505 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Morton Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:57:51 -0700 Subject: Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: fix softlockup_thresh description - s/s/seconds/ - s/10 seconds/60 seconds/ - Mention the zero-disables-it feature. Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 276a7e637822..e1ff0d920a5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -351,9 +351,10 @@ kernel. This value defaults to SHMMAX. softlockup_thresh: -This value can be used to lower the softlockup tolerance -threshold. The default threshold is 10s. If a cpu is locked up -for 10s, the kernel complains. Valid values are 1-60s. +This value can be used to lower the softlockup tolerance threshold. The +default threshold is 60 seconds. If a cpu is locked up for 60 seconds, +the kernel complains. Valid values are 1-60 seconds. Setting this +tunable to zero will disable the softlockup detection altogether. ============================================================== -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b From 697e04db5678fadf96d437806b676403ebee806d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oliver Neukum Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:52:08 +0200 Subject: USB: update of Documentation/usb/anchors.txt The extended anchor API is documented Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/usb/anchors.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/usb/anchors.txt b/Documentation/usb/anchors.txt index 7304bcf5a306..5e6b64c20d25 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/anchors.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/anchors.txt @@ -42,9 +42,21 @@ This function kills all URBs associated with an anchor. The URBs are called in the reverse temporal order they were submitted. This way no data can be reordered. +usb_unlink_anchored_urbs() +-------------------------- + +This function unlinks all URBs associated with an anchor. The URBs +are processed in the reverse temporal order they were submitted. +This is similar to usb_kill_anchored_urbs(), but it will not sleep. +Therefore no guarantee is made that the URBs have been unlinked when +the call returns. They may be unlinked later but will be unlinked in +finite time. + usb_wait_anchor_empty_timeout() ------------------------------- This function waits for all URBs associated with an anchor to finish or a timeout, whichever comes first. Its return value will tell you whether the timeout was reached. + + -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b From d0eb40628e29c2bb3b5f8242b1d2f50b1a88d9da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Márton Németh Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:32:17 +0200 Subject: cdrom: update ioctl documentation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Correct copy-paste problem: CDROMCLOSETRAY is about closing the tray, not opening it. Signed-off-by: Márton Németh Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz --- Documentation/ioctl/cdrom.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/ioctl/cdrom.txt b/Documentation/ioctl/cdrom.txt index 62d4af44ec4a..59df81c8da2b 100644 --- a/Documentation/ioctl/cdrom.txt +++ b/Documentation/ioctl/cdrom.txt @@ -271,14 +271,14 @@ CDROMCLOSETRAY pendant of CDROMEJECT usage: - ioctl(fd, CDROMEJECT, 0); + ioctl(fd, CDROMCLOSETRAY, 0); inputs: none outputs: none error returns: - ENOSYS cd drive not capable of ejecting + ENOSYS cd drive not capable of closing the tray EBUSY other processes are accessing drive, or door is locked notes: -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b