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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi index 5ac1e01bbd4..5f500977b42 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi @@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ MAJOR:MINOR non-block filesystems which provide their own BDI, such as NFS and FUSE. +MAJOR:MINOR-fuseblk + + Value of st_dev on fuseblk filesystems. + default The default backing dev, used for non-block device backed diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl index 77c42f40be5..2510763295d 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl @@ -703,6 +703,31 @@ </sect1> </chapter> +<chapter id="trylock-functions"> + <title>The trylock Functions</title> + <para> + There are functions that try to acquire a lock only once and immediately + return a value telling about success or failure to acquire the lock. + They can be used if you need no access to the data protected with the lock + when some other thread is holding the lock. You should acquire the lock + later if you then need access to the data protected with the lock. + </para> + + <para> + <function>spin_trylock()</function> does not spin but returns non-zero if + it acquires the spinlock on the first try or 0 if not. This function can + be used in all contexts like <function>spin_lock</function>: you must have + disabled the contexts that might interrupt you and acquire the spin lock. + </para> + + <para> + <function>mutex_trylock()</function> does not suspend your task + but returns non-zero if it could lock the mutex on the first try + or 0 if not. This function cannot be safely used in hardware or software + interrupt contexts despite not sleeping. + </para> +</chapter> + <chapter id="Examples"> <title>Common Examples</title> <para> diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 9c93a03ea33..118ca6e9404 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -327,6 +327,52 @@ Some people also put extra tags at the end. They'll just be ignored for now, but you can do this to mark internal company procedures or just point out some special detail about the sign-off. +If you are a subsystem or branch maintainer, sometimes you need to slightly +modify patches you receive in order to merge them, because the code is not +exactly the same in your tree and the submitters'. If you stick strictly to +rule (c), you should ask the submitter to rediff, but this is a totally +counter-productive waste of time and energy. Rule (b) allows you to adjust +the code, but then it is very impolite to change one submitter's code and +make him endorse your bugs. To solve this problem, it is recommended that +you add a line between the last Signed-off-by header and yours, indicating +the nature of your changes. While there is nothing mandatory about this, it +seems like prepending the description with your mail and/or name, all +enclosed in square brackets, is noticeable enough to make it obvious that +you are responsible for last-minute changes. Example : + + Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org> + [lucky@maintainer.example.org: struct foo moved from foo.c to foo.h] + Signed-off-by: Lucky K Maintainer <lucky@maintainer.example.org> + +This practise is particularly helpful if you maintain a stable branch and +want at the same time to credit the author, track changes, merge the fix, +and protect the submitter from complaints. Note that under no circumstances +can you change the author's identity (the From header), as it is the one +which appears in the changelog. + +Special note to back-porters: It seems to be a common and useful practise +to insert an indication of the origin of a patch at the top of the commit +message (just after the subject line) to facilitate tracking. For instance, +here's what we see in 2.6-stable : + + Date: Tue May 13 19:10:30 2008 +0000 + + SCSI: libiscsi regression in 2.6.25: fix nop timer handling + + commit 4cf1043593db6a337f10e006c23c69e5fc93e722 upstream + +And here's what appears in 2.4 : + + Date: Tue May 13 22:12:27 2008 +0200 + + wireless, airo: waitbusy() won't delay + + [backport of 2.6 commit b7acbdfbd1f277c1eb23f344f899cfa4cd0bf36a] + +Whatever the format, this information provides a valuable help to people +tracking your trees, and to people trying to trouble-shoot bugs in your +tree. + 13) When to use Acked-by: and Cc: diff --git a/Documentation/cciss.txt b/Documentation/cciss.txt index e65736c6b8b..63e59b8847c 100644 --- a/Documentation/cciss.txt +++ b/Documentation/cciss.txt @@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ This driver is known to work with the following cards: * SA E200 * SA E200i * SA E500 + * SA P212 + * SA P410 + * SA P410i + * SA P411 + * SA P812 Detecting drive failures: ------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups.txt index c298a6690e0..824fc027447 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups.txt @@ -310,8 +310,8 @@ and then start a subshell 'sh' in that cgroup: cd /dev/cgroup mkdir Charlie cd Charlie - /bin/echo 2-3 > cpus - /bin/echo 1 > mems + /bin/echo 2-3 > cpuset.cpus + /bin/echo 1 > cpuset.mems /bin/echo $$ > tasks sh # The subshell 'sh' is now running in cgroup Charlie diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt index 6a9c55bd556..dcec0564d04 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt @@ -129,14 +129,6 @@ to its default value of '80' it means that between the checking intervals the CPU needs to be on average more than 80% in use to then decide that the CPU frequency needs to be increased. -sampling_down_factor: this parameter controls the rate that the CPU -makes a decision on when to decrease the frequency. When set to its -default value of '5' it means that at 1/5 the sampling_rate the kernel -makes a decision to lower the frequency. Five "lower rate" decisions -have to be made in a row before the CPU frequency is actually lower. -If set to '1' then the frequency decreases as quickly as it increases, -if set to '2' it decreases at half the rate of the increase. - ignore_nice_load: this parameter takes a value of '0' or '1'. When set to '0' (its default), all processes are counted towards the 'cpu utilisation' value. When set to '1', the processes that are diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt index fb7b361e6ee..353504de308 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpusets.txt @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ using the sched_setaffinity, mbind and set_mempolicy system calls. The following rules apply to each cpuset: - Its CPUs and Memory Nodes must be a subset of its parents. - - It can only be marked exclusive if its parent is. + - It can't be marked exclusive unless its parent is. - If its cpu or memory is exclusive, they may not overlap any sibling. These rules, and the natural hierarchy of cpusets, enable efficient @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ is modified to perform an inline check for this PF_SPREAD_PAGE task flag, and if set, a call to a new routine cpuset_mem_spread_node() returns the node to prefer for the allocation. -Similarly, setting 'memory_spread_cache' turns on the flag +Similarly, setting 'memory_spread_slab' turns on the flag PF_SPREAD_SLAB, and appropriately marked slab caches will allocate pages from the node returned by cpuset_mem_spread_node(). @@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ otherwise initial value -1 that indicates the cpuset has no request. 2 : search cores in a package. 3 : search cpus in a node [= system wide on non-NUMA system] ( 4 : search nodes in a chunk of node [on NUMA system] ) - ( 5~ : search system wide [on NUMA system]) + ( 5 : search system wide [on NUMA system] ) This file is per-cpuset and affect the sched domain where the cpuset belongs to. Therefore if the flag 'sched_load_balance' of a cpuset @@ -709,7 +709,10 @@ Now you want to do something with this cpuset. In this directory you can find several files: # ls -cpus cpu_exclusive mems mem_exclusive mem_hardwall tasks +cpu_exclusive memory_migrate mems tasks +cpus memory_pressure notify_on_release +mem_exclusive memory_spread_page sched_load_balance +mem_hardwall memory_spread_slab sched_relax_domain_level Reading them will give you information about the state of this cpuset: the CPUs and Memory Nodes it can use, the processes that are using diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 3c35d452b1a..5b3f31faed5 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -289,6 +289,14 @@ Who: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> --------------------------- +What: old style serial driver for ColdFire (CONFIG_SERIAL_COLDFIRE) +When: 2.6.28 +Why: This driver still uses the old interface and has been replaced + by CONFIG_SERIAL_MCF. +Who: Sebastian Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> + +--------------------------- + What: /sys/o2cb symlink When: January 2010 Why: /sys/fs/o2cb is the proper location for this information - /sys/o2cb diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt index 560f88dc709..0c5086db835 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt @@ -139,8 +139,16 @@ commit=nrsec (*) Ext4 can be told to sync all its data and metadata Setting it to very large values will improve performance. -barrier=1 This enables/disables barriers. barrier=0 disables - it, barrier=1 enables it. +barrier=<0|1(*)> This enables/disables the use of write barriers in + the jbd code. barrier=0 disables, barrier=1 enables. + This also requires an IO stack which can support + barriers, and if jbd gets an error on a barrier + write, it will disable again with a warning. + Write barriers enforce proper on-disk ordering + of journal commits, making volatile disk write caches + safe to use, at some performance penalty. If + your disks are battery-backed in one way or another, + disabling barriers may safely improve performance. orlov (*) This enables the new Orlov block allocator. It is enabled by default. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt index 5daa2aaec2c..68ef48839c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ files, each with their own function. local_cpus nearby CPU mask (cpumask, ro) resource PCI resource host addresses (ascii, ro) resource0..N PCI resource N, if present (binary, mmap) + resource0_wc..N_wc PCI WC map resource N, if prefetchable (binary, mmap) rom PCI ROM resource, if present (binary, ro) subsystem_device PCI subsystem device (ascii, ro) subsystem_vendor PCI subsystem vendor (ascii, ro) diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/adt7473 b/Documentation/hwmon/adt7473 index 22d8b19046a..2126de34c71 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/adt7473 +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/adt7473 @@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ point2: Set the pwm speed at a higher temperature bound. The ADT7473 will scale the pwm between the lower and higher pwm speed when the temperature is between the two temperature boundaries. PWM values range -from 0 (off) to 255 (full speed). +from 0 (off) to 255 (full speed). Fan speed will be set to maximum when the +temperature sensor associated with the PWM control exceeds temp#_max. Notes ----- diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/ibmaem b/Documentation/hwmon/ibmaem new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..2fefaf582a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/ibmaem @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Kernel driver ibmaem +====================== + +Supported systems: + * Any recent IBM System X server with Active Energy Manager support. + This includes the x3350, x3550, x3650, x3655, x3755, x3850 M2, + x3950 M2, and certain HS2x/LS2x/QS2x blades. The IPMI host interface + driver ("ipmi-si") needs to be loaded for this driver to do anything. + Prefix: 'ibmaem' + Datasheet: Not available + +Author: Darrick J. Wong + +Description +----------- + +This driver implements sensor reading support for the energy and power +meters available on various IBM System X hardware through the BMC. All +sensor banks will be exported as platform devices; this driver can talk +to both v1 and v2 interfaces. This driver is completely separate from the +older ibmpex driver. + +The v1 AEM interface has a simple set of features to monitor energy use. +There is a register that displays an estimate of raw energy consumption +since the last BMC reset, and a power sensor that returns average power +use over a configurable interval. + +The v2 AEM interface is a bit more sophisticated, being able to present +a wider range of energy and power use registers, the power cap as +set by the AEM software, and temperature sensors. + +Special Features +---------------- + +The "power_cap" value displays the current system power cap, as set by +the Active Energy Manager software. Setting the power cap from the host +is not currently supported. diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface index f4a8ebc1ef1..2d845730d4e 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface @@ -2,17 +2,12 @@ Naming and data format standards for sysfs files ------------------------------------------------ The libsensors library offers an interface to the raw sensors data -through the sysfs interface. See libsensors documentation and source for -further information. As of writing this document, libsensors -(from lm_sensors 2.8.3) is heavily chip-dependent. Adding or updating -support for any given chip requires modifying the library's code. -This is because libsensors was written for the procfs interface -older kernel modules were using, which wasn't standardized enough. -Recent versions of libsensors (from lm_sensors 2.8.2 and later) have -support for the sysfs interface, though. - -The new sysfs interface was designed to be as chip-independent as -possible. +through the sysfs interface. Since lm-sensors 3.0.0, libsensors is +completely chip-independent. It assumes that all the kernel drivers +implement the standard sysfs interface described in this document. +This makes adding or updating support for any given chip very easy, as +libsensors, and applications using it, do not need to be modified. +This is a major improvement compared to lm-sensors 2. Note that motherboards vary widely in the connections to sensor chips. There is no standard that ensures, for example, that the second @@ -35,19 +30,17 @@ access this data in a simple and consistent way. That said, such programs will have to implement conversion, labeling and hiding of inputs. For this reason, it is still not recommended to bypass the library. -If you are developing a userspace application please send us feedback on -this standard. - -Note that this standard isn't completely established yet, so it is subject -to changes. If you are writing a new hardware monitoring driver those -features can't seem to fit in this interface, please contact us with your -extension proposal. Keep in mind that backward compatibility must be -preserved. - Each chip gets its own directory in the sysfs /sys/devices tree. To find all sensor chips, it is easier to follow the device symlinks from /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon*. +Up to lm-sensors 3.0.0, libsensors looks for hardware monitoring attributes +in the "physical" device directory. Since lm-sensors 3.0.1, attributes found +in the hwmon "class" device directory are also supported. Complex drivers +(e.g. drivers for multifunction chips) may want to use this possibility to +avoid namespace pollution. The only drawback will be that older versions of +libsensors won't support the driver in question. + All sysfs values are fixed point numbers. There is only one value per file, unlike the older /proc specification. diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt index 2075c0658bf..0bd32748a46 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt @@ -1,6 +1,105 @@ kernel-doc nano-HOWTO ===================== +How to format kernel-doc comments +--------------------------------- + +In order to provide embedded, 'C' friendly, easy to maintain, +but consistent and extractable documentation of the functions and +data structures in the Linux kernel, the Linux kernel has adopted +a consistent style for documenting functions and their parameters, +and structures and their members. + +The format for this documentation is called the kernel-doc format. +It is documented in this Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt file. + +This style embeds the documentation within the source files, using +a few simple conventions. The scripts/kernel-doc perl script, some +SGML templates in Documentation/DocBook, and other tools understand +these conventions, and are used to extract this embedded documentation +into various documents. + +In order to provide good documentation of kernel functions and data +structures, please use the following conventions to format your +kernel-doc comments in Linux kernel source. + +We definitely need kernel-doc formatted documentation for functions +that are exported to loadable modules using EXPORT_SYMBOL. + +We also look to provide kernel-doc formatted documentation for +functions externally visible to other kernel files (not marked +"static"). + +We also recommend providing kernel-doc formatted documentation +for private (file "static") routines, for consistency of kernel +source code layout. But this is lower priority and at the +discretion of the MAINTAINER of that kernel source file. + +Data structures visible in kernel include files should also be +documented using kernel-doc formatted comments. + +The opening comment mark "/**" is reserved for kernel-doc comments. +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 should be placed just before the function +or data structure being described. + +Example kernel-doc function comment: + +/** + * foobar() - short function description of foobar + * @arg1: Describe the first argument to foobar. + * @arg2: Describe the second argument to foobar. + * One can provide multiple line descriptions + * for arguments. + * + * A longer description, with more discussion of the function foobar() + * that might be useful to those using or modifying it. Begins with + * empty comment line, and may include additional embedded empty + * comment lines. + * + * The longer description can have multiple paragraphs. + **/ + +The first line, with the short description, must be on a single line. + +The @argument descriptions must begin on the very next line following +this opening short function description line, with no intervening +empty comment lines. + +Example kernel-doc data structure comment. + +/** + * struct blah - the basic blah structure + * @mem1: describe the first member of struct blah + * @mem2: describe the second member of struct blah, + * 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. + +The kernel-doc data structure comments describe each structure member +in the data structure, with the @name lines. + +The longer description formatting is "reflowed", losing your line +breaks. So presenting carefully formatted lists within these +descriptions won't work so well; derived documentation will lose +the formatting. + +See the section below "How to add extractable documentation to your +source files" for more details and notes on how to format kernel-doc +comments. + +Components of the kernel-doc system +----------------------------------- + Many places in the source tree have extractable documentation in the form of block comments above functions. The components of this system are: diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt index 5a4ef48224a..28cdc2af213 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt @@ -715,14 +715,14 @@ * Name: "Gary's Encyclopedia - The Linux Kernel" Author: Gary (I suppose...). - URL: http://www.lisoleg.net/cgi-bin/lisoleg.pl?view=kernel.htm - Keywords: links, not found here?. + URL: http://slencyclopedia.berlios.de/index.html + Keywords: linux, community, everything! Description: Gary's Encyclopedia exists to allow the rapid finding of documentation and other information of interest to GNU/Linux users. It has about 4000 links to external pages in 150 major categories. This link is for kernel-specific links, documents, - sites... Look there if you could not find here what you were - looking for. + sites... This list is now hosted by developer.Berlios.de, + but seems not to have been updated since sometime in 1999. * Name: "The home page of Linux-MM" Author: The Linux-MM team. diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index cdd5b934f43..e07c432c731 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -398,9 +398,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file cio_ignore= [S390] See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. - cio_msg= [S390] - See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. - clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. [Deprecated] Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used @@ -689,6 +686,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file floppy= [HW] See Documentation/floppy.txt. + force_pal_cache_flush + [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on + buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this + parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call + ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. + gamecon.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) diff --git a/Documentation/kobject.txt b/Documentation/kobject.txt index bf3256e0402..51a8021ee53 100644 --- a/Documentation/kobject.txt +++ b/Documentation/kobject.txt @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ should not be manipulated by any other user. A kset keeps its children in a standard kernel linked list. Kobjects point back to their containing kset via their kset field. In almost all cases, -the kobjects belonging to a ket have that kset (or, strictly, its embedded +the kobjects belonging to a kset have that kset (or, strictly, its embedded kobject) in their parent. As a kset contains a kobject within it, it should always be dynamically diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt index 01c6c3d8a7e..64b3f146e4b 100644 --- a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt +++ b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt @@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ generate input device EV_KEY events. In addition to the EV_KEY events, thinkpad-acpi may also issue EV_SW events for switches: -SW_RADIO T60 and later hardare rfkill rocker switch +SW_RFKILL_ALL T60 and later hardare rfkill rocker switch SW_TABLET_MODE Tablet ThinkPads HKEY events 0x5009 and 0x500A Non hot-key ACPI HKEY event map: diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c index 3be8ab2a886..82fafe0429f 100644 --- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c +++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c @@ -157,6 +157,9 @@ struct virtqueue /* The routine to call when the Guest pings us. */ void (*handle_output)(int fd, struct virtqueue *me); + + /* Outstanding buffers */ + unsigned int inflight; }; /* Remember the arguments to the program so we can "reboot" */ @@ -702,6 +705,7 @@ static unsigned get_vq_desc(struct virtqueue *vq, errx(1, "Looped descriptor"); } while ((i = next_desc(vq, i)) != vq->vring.num); + vq->inflight++; return head; } @@ -719,6 +723,7 @@ static void add_used(struct virtqueue *vq, unsigned int head, int len) /* Make sure buffer is written before we update index. */ wmb(); vq->vring.used->idx++; + vq->inflight--; } /* This actually sends the interrupt for this virtqueue */ @@ -726,8 +731,9 @@ static void trigger_irq(int fd, struct virtqueue *vq) { unsigned long buf[] = { LHREQ_IRQ, vq->config.irq }; - /* If they don't want an interrupt, don't send one. */ - if (vq->vring.avail->flags & VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT) + /* If they don't want an interrupt, don't send one, unless empty. */ + if ((vq->vring.avail->flags & VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT) + && vq->inflight) return; /* Send the Guest an interrupt tell them we used something up. */ @@ -1107,6 +1113,7 @@ static void add_virtqueue(struct device *dev, unsigned int num_descs, vq->next = NULL; vq->last_avail_idx = 0; vq->dev = dev; + vq->inflight = 0; /* Initialize the configuration. */ vq->config.num = num_descs; @@ -1368,6 +1375,7 @@ static void setup_tun_net(const char *arg) /* Tell Guest what MAC address to use. */ add_feature(dev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC); + add_feature(dev, VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY); set_config(dev, sizeof(conf), &conf); /* We don't need the socket any more; setup is done. */ diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index e5a819a4f0c..f5b7127f54a 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -994,7 +994,17 @@ The Linux kernel has eight basic CPU memory barriers: DATA DEPENDENCY read_barrier_depends() smp_read_barrier_depends() -All CPU memory barriers unconditionally imply compiler barriers. +All memory barriers except the data dependency barriers imply a compiler +barrier. Data dependencies do not impose any additional compiler ordering. + +Aside: In the case of data dependencies, the compiler would be expected to +issue the loads in the correct order (eg. `a[b]` would have to load the value +of b before loading a[b]), however there is no guarantee in the C specification +that the compiler may not speculate the value of b (eg. is equal to 1) and load +a before b (eg. tmp = a[1]; if (b != 1) tmp = a[b]; ). There is also the +problem of a compiler reloading b after having loaded a[b], thus having a newer +copy of b than a[b]. A consensus has not yet been reached about these problems, +however the ACCESS_ONCE macro is a good place to start looking. SMP memory barriers are reduced to compiler barriers on uniprocessor compiled systems because it is assumed that a CPU will appear to be self-consistent, diff --git a/Documentation/networking/arcnet.txt b/Documentation/networking/arcnet.txt index 770fc41a78e..79601254038 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/arcnet.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/arcnet.txt @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ These are the ARCnet drivers for Linux. This new release (2.91) has been put together by David Woodhouse -<dwmw2@cam.ac.uk>, in an attempt to tidy up the driver after adding support +<dwmw2@infradead.org>, in an attempt to tidy up the driver after adding support for yet another chipset. Now the generic support has been separated from the individual chipset drivers, and the source files aren't quite so packed with #ifdefs! I've changed this file a bit, but kept it in the first person from diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bridge.txt b/Documentation/networking/bridge.txt index bdae2db4119..bec69a8a169 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bridge.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bridge.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ In order to use the Ethernet bridging functionality, you'll need the userspace tools. These programs and documentation are available -at http://bridge.sourceforge.net. The download page is +at http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Net:Bridge. The download page is http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/bridge. If you still have questions, don't hesitate to post to the mailing list diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.cx23885 b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.cx23885 index 929b90c8387..191194ea1e2 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.cx23885 +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.cx23885 @@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ 4 -> DViCO FusionHDTV5 Express [18ac:d500] 5 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1500Q [0070:7790,0070:7797] 6 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1500 [0070:7710,0070:7717] - 7 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1200 [0070:71d1] + 7 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1200 [0070:71d1,0070:71d3] 8 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1700 [0070:8101] 9 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1400 [0070:8010] diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.cx88 b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.cx88 index 54395734646..7cf5685d364 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.cx88 +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.cx88 @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ 59 -> DViCO FusionHDTV 5 PCI nano [18ac:d530] 60 -> Pinnacle Hybrid PCTV [12ab:1788] 61 -> Winfast TV2000 XP Global [107d:6f18] - 62 -> PowerColor Real Angel 330 [14f1:ea3d] + 62 -> PowerColor RA330 [14f1:ea3d] 63 -> Geniatech X8000-MT DVBT [14f1:8852] 64 -> DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T PRO [18ac:db30] 65 -> DViCO FusionHDTV 7 Gold [18ac:d610] diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.em28xx b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.em28xx index f40e09296f3..1d6a245c828 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.em28xx +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.em28xx @@ -14,4 +14,4 @@ 13 -> Terratec Prodigy XS (em2880) [0ccd:0047] 14 -> Pixelview Prolink PlayTV USB 2.0 (em2820/em2840) 15 -> V-Gear PocketTV (em2800) - 16 -> Hauppauge WinTV HVR 950 (em2880) [2040:6513] + 16 -> Hauppauge WinTV HVR 950 (em2880) [2040:6513,2040:6517,2040:651b,2040:651f] diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/cx18.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/cx18.txt index 077d56ec3f3..6842c262890 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/cx18.txt +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/cx18.txt @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@ Some notes regarding the cx18 driver for the Conexant CX23418 MPEG encoder chip: -1) The only hardware currently supported is the Hauppauge HVR-1600. +1) The only hardware currently supported is the Hauppauge HVR-1600 + card and the Compro VideoMate H900 (note that this card only + supports analog input, it has no digital tuner!). 2) Some people have problems getting the i2c bus to work. Cause unknown. The symptom is that the eeprom cannot be read and the card is diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ce72c0fe617 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +pagemap, from the userspace perspective +--------------------------------------- + +pagemap is a new (as of 2.6.25) set of interfaces in the kernel that allow +userspace programs to examine the page tables and related information by +reading files in /proc. + +There are three components to pagemap: + + * /proc/pid/pagemap. This file lets a userspace process find out which + physical frame each virtual page is mapped to. It contains one 64-bit + value for each virtual page, containing the following data (from + fs/proc/task_mmu.c, above pagemap_read): + + * Bits 0-55 page frame number (PFN) if present + * Bits 0-4 swap type if swapped + * Bits 5-55 swap offset if swapped + * Bits 55-60 page shift (page size = 1<<page shift) + * Bit 61 reserved for future use + * Bit 62 page swapped + * Bit 63 page present + + If the page is not present but in swap, then the PFN contains an + encoding of the swap file number and the page's offset into the + swap. Unmapped pages return a null PFN. This allows determining + precisely which pages are mapped (or in swap) and comparing mapped + pages between processes. + + Efficient users of this interface will use /proc/pid/maps to + determine which areas of memory are actually mapped and llseek to + skip over unmapped regions. + + * /proc/kpagecount. This file contains a 64-bit count of the number of + times each page is mapped, indexed by PFN. + + * /proc/kpageflags. This file contains a 64-bit set of flags for each + page, indexed by PFN. + + The flags are (from fs/proc/proc_misc, above kpageflags_read): + + 0. LOCKED + 1. ERROR + 2. REFERENCED + 3. UPTODATE + 4. DIRTY + 5. LRU + 6. ACTIVE + 7. SLAB + 8. WRITEBACK + 9. RECLAIM + 10. BUDDY + +Using pagemap to do something useful: + +The general procedure for using pagemap to find out about a process' memory +usage goes like this: + + 1. Read /proc/pid/maps to determine which parts of the memory space are + mapped to what. + 2. Select the maps you are interested in -- all of them, or a particular + library, or the stack or the heap, etc. + 3. Open /proc/pid/pagemap and seek to the pages you would like to examine. + 4. Read a u64 for each page from pagemap. + 5. Open /proc/kpagecount and/or /proc/kpageflags. For each PFN you just + read, seek to that entry in the file, and read the data you want. + +For example, to find the "unique set size" (USS), which is the amount of +memory that a process is using that is not shared with any other process, +you can go through every map in the process, find the PFNs, look those up +in kpagecount, and tally up the number of pages that are only referenced +once. + +Other notes: + +Reading from any of the files will return -EINVAL if you are not starting +the read on an 8-byte boundary (e.g., if you seeked an odd number of bytes +into the file), or if the size of the read is not a multiple of 8 bytes. |