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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-usb14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-ib_srp25
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb19
-rw-r--r--Documentation/IRQ-domain.txt71
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/trace.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/acpi/gpio-properties.txt96
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/firmware.txt28
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/sunxi/README16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm64/legacy_instructions.txt45
-rw-r--r--Documentation/atomic_ops.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/block/biodoc.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/hugetlb.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt26
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/resource_counter.txt197
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt37
-rw-r--r--Documentation/device-mapper/cache-policies.txt24
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/amlogic.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arm-boards65
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/cygnus.txt31
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fsl.txt38
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/idle-states.txt20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/marvell,berlin.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mediatek.txt19
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/omap.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/rockchip.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/samsung-boards.txt19
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/ste-nomadik.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/sunxi.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/ux500/power_domain.txt35
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/bus/brcm,gisb-arb.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/bus/mvebu-mbus.txt17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/bcm-cygnus-clock.txt34
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/vf610-clock.txt15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/xilinx/xilinx_vdma.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ltc2978.txt39
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-s3c2410.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/brcm,bcm7120-l2-intc.txt26
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/memory-controllers/mvebu-sdram-controller.txt21
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/memory-controllers/nvidia,tegra-mc.txt36
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/atmel-hlcdc.txt51
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/max77686.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/max77693.txt21
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/s2mps11.txt22
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/exynos-dw-mshc.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/img-dw-mshc.txt29
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/sdhci-pxa.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nios2/nios2.txt62
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nios2/timer.txt19
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/layerscape-pci.txt42
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/power-controller.txt18
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power_supply/imx-snvs-poweroff.txt23
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/act8865-regulator.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/max77802.txt35
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt22
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/sky81452-regulator.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reset/st,sti-picophyreset.txt42
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/atmel,at91sam9-rtc.txt23
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/rtc-omap.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/marvell,armada-370-xp-timer.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,mtu2.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,tmu.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/w1/omap-hdq.txt17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/marvel.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting23
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt22
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gpio/consumer.txt18
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/lm755
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/lm9523415
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/lm9524514
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/nct677514
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/nct780232
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/tmp4018
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt33
-rw-r--r--Documentation/locking/lglock.txt166
-rw-r--r--Documentation/memory-barriers.txt51
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/nios2/README23
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt82
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt66
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scsi/st.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scsi/wd719x.txt21
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt40
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/usb/power-management.txt17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt234
99 files changed, 2006 insertions, 568 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-usb b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-usb
index e2bc700a6f9..831f15d9672 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-usb
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-usb
@@ -32,10 +32,9 @@ Date: January 2008
KernelVersion: 2.6.25
Contact: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com>
Description:
- If CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME is enabled then this file
- is present. When read, it returns the total time (in msec)
- that the USB device has been connected to the machine. This
- file is read-only.
+ If CONFIG_PM is enabled, then this file is present. When read,
+ it returns the total time (in msec) that the USB device has been
+ connected to the machine. This file is read-only.
Users:
PowerTOP <powertop@lists.01.org>
https://01.org/powertop/
@@ -45,10 +44,9 @@ Date: January 2008
KernelVersion: 2.6.25
Contact: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com>
Description:
- If CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME is enabled then this file
- is present. When read, it returns the total time (in msec)
- that the USB device has been active, i.e. not in a suspended
- state. This file is read-only.
+ If CONFIG_PM is enabled, then this file is present. When read,
+ it returns the total time (in msec) that the USB device has been
+ active, i.e. not in a suspended state. This file is read-only.
Tools can use this file and the connected_duration file to
compute the percentage of time that a device has been active.
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-ib_srp b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-ib_srp
index b9688de8455..7049a2b5035 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-ib_srp
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-ib_srp
@@ -55,12 +55,12 @@ Description: Interface for making ib_srp connect to a new target.
only safe with partial memory descriptor list support enabled
(allow_ext_sg=1).
* comp_vector, a number in the range 0..n-1 specifying the
- MSI-X completion vector. Some HCA's allocate multiple (n)
- MSI-X vectors per HCA port. If the IRQ affinity masks of
- these interrupts have been configured such that each MSI-X
- interrupt is handled by a different CPU then the comp_vector
- parameter can be used to spread the SRP completion workload
- over multiple CPU's.
+ MSI-X completion vector of the first RDMA channel. Some
+ HCA's allocate multiple (n) MSI-X vectors per HCA port. If
+ the IRQ affinity masks of these interrupts have been
+ configured such that each MSI-X interrupt is handled by a
+ different CPU then the comp_vector parameter can be used to
+ spread the SRP completion workload over multiple CPU's.
* tl_retry_count, a number in the range 2..7 specifying the
IB RC retry count.
* queue_size, the maximum number of commands that the
@@ -88,6 +88,13 @@ Description: Whether ib_srp is allowed to include a partial memory
descriptor list in an SRP_CMD when communicating with an SRP
target.
+What: /sys/class/scsi_host/host<n>/ch_count
+Date: April 1, 2015
+KernelVersion: 3.19
+Contact: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
+Description: Number of RDMA channels used for communication with the SRP
+ target.
+
What: /sys/class/scsi_host/host<n>/cmd_sg_entries
Date: May 19, 2011
KernelVersion: 2.6.39
@@ -95,6 +102,12 @@ Contact: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Description: Maximum number of data buffer descriptors that may be sent to
the target in a single SRP_CMD request.
+What: /sys/class/scsi_host/host<n>/comp_vector
+Date: September 2, 2013
+KernelVersion: 3.11
+Contact: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
+Description: Completion vector used for the first RDMA channel.
+
What: /sys/class/scsi_host/host<n>/dgid
Date: June 17, 2006
KernelVersion: 2.6.17
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
index ee6c0403649..b3bc50f650e 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
@@ -281,3 +281,16 @@ Description:
opt-out of driver binding using a driver_override name such as
"none". Only a single driver may be specified in the override,
there is no support for parsing delimiters.
+
+What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../numa_node
+Date: Oct 2014
+Contact: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
+Description:
+ This file contains the NUMA node to which the PCI device is
+ attached, or -1 if the node is unknown. The initial value
+ comes from an ACPI _PXM method or a similar firmware
+ source. If that is missing or incorrect, this file can be
+ written to override the node. In that case, please report
+ a firmware bug to the system vendor. Writing to this file
+ taints the kernel with TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, which
+ reduces the supportability of your system.
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
index 614d451cee4..e5cc7633d01 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
@@ -104,16 +104,15 @@ What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/usb2_hardware_lpm
Date: September 2011
Contact: Andiry Xu <andiry.xu@amd.com>
Description:
- If CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME is set and a USB 2.0 lpm-capable device
- is plugged in to a xHCI host which support link PM, it will
- perform a LPM test; if the test is passed and host supports
- USB2 hardware LPM (xHCI 1.0 feature), USB2 hardware LPM will
- be enabled for the device and the USB device directory will
- contain a file named power/usb2_hardware_lpm. The file holds
- a string value (enable or disable) indicating whether or not
- USB2 hardware LPM is enabled for the device. Developer can
- write y/Y/1 or n/N/0 to the file to enable/disable the
- feature.
+ If CONFIG_PM is set and a USB 2.0 lpm-capable device is plugged
+ in to a xHCI host which support link PM, it will perform a LPM
+ test; if the test is passed and host supports USB2 hardware LPM
+ (xHCI 1.0 feature), USB2 hardware LPM will be enabled for the
+ device and the USB device directory will contain a file named
+ power/usb2_hardware_lpm. The file holds a string value (enable
+ or disable) indicating whether or not USB2 hardware LPM is
+ enabled for the device. Developer can write y/Y/1 or n/N/0 to
+ the file to enable/disable the feature.
What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../removable
Date: February 2012
diff --git a/Documentation/IRQ-domain.txt b/Documentation/IRQ-domain.txt
index 8a8b82c9ca5..39cfa72732f 100644
--- a/Documentation/IRQ-domain.txt
+++ b/Documentation/IRQ-domain.txt
@@ -151,3 +151,74 @@ used and no descriptor gets allocated it is very important to make sure
that the driver using the simple domain call irq_create_mapping()
before any irq_find_mapping() since the latter will actually work
for the static IRQ assignment case.
+
+==== Hierarchy IRQ domain ====
+On some architectures, there may be multiple interrupt controllers
+involved in delivering an interrupt from the device to the target CPU.
+Let's look at a typical interrupt delivering path on x86 platforms:
+
+Device --> IOAPIC -> Interrupt remapping Controller -> Local APIC -> CPU
+
+There are three interrupt controllers involved:
+1) IOAPIC controller
+2) Interrupt remapping controller
+3) Local APIC controller
+
+To support such a hardware topology and make software architecture match
+hardware architecture, an irq_domain data structure is built for each
+interrupt controller and those irq_domains are organized into hierarchy.
+When building irq_domain hierarchy, the irq_domain near to the device is
+child and the irq_domain near to CPU is parent. So a hierarchy structure
+as below will be built for the example above.
+ CPU Vector irq_domain (root irq_domain to manage CPU vectors)
+ ^
+ |
+ Interrupt Remapping irq_domain (manage irq_remapping entries)
+ ^
+ |
+ IOAPIC irq_domain (manage IOAPIC delivery entries/pins)
+
+There are four major interfaces to use hierarchy irq_domain:
+1) irq_domain_alloc_irqs(): allocate IRQ descriptors and interrupt
+ controller related resources to deliver these interrupts.
+2) irq_domain_free_irqs(): free IRQ descriptors and interrupt controller
+ related resources associated with these interrupts.
+3) irq_domain_activate_irq(): activate interrupt controller hardware to
+ deliver the interrupt.
+3) irq_domain_deactivate_irq(): deactivate interrupt controller hardware
+ to stop delivering the interrupt.
+
+Following changes are needed to support hierarchy irq_domain.
+1) a new field 'parent' is added to struct irq_domain; it's used to
+ maintain irq_domain hierarchy information.
+2) a new field 'parent_data' is added to struct irq_data; it's used to
+ build hierarchy irq_data to match hierarchy irq_domains. The irq_data
+ is used to store irq_domain pointer and hardware irq number.
+3) new callbacks are added to struct irq_domain_ops to support hierarchy
+ irq_domain operations.
+
+With support of hierarchy irq_domain and hierarchy irq_data ready, an
+irq_domain structure is built for each interrupt controller, and an
+irq_data structure is allocated for each irq_domain associated with an
+IRQ. Now we could go one step further to support stacked(hierarchy)
+irq_chip. That is, an irq_chip is associated with each irq_data along
+the hierarchy. A child irq_chip may implement a required action by
+itself or by cooperating with its parent irq_chip.
+
+With stacked irq_chip, interrupt controller driver only needs to deal
+with the hardware managed by itself and may ask for services from its
+parent irq_chip when needed. So we could achieve a much cleaner
+software architecture.
+
+For an interrupt controller driver to support hierarchy irq_domain, it
+needs to:
+1) Implement irq_domain_ops.alloc and irq_domain_ops.free
+2) Optionally implement irq_domain_ops.activate and
+ irq_domain_ops.deactivate.
+3) Optionally implement an irq_chip to manage the interrupt controller
+ hardware.
+4) No need to implement irq_domain_ops.map and irq_domain_ops.unmap,
+ they are unused with hierarchy irq_domain.
+
+Hierarchy irq_domain may also be used to support other architectures,
+such as ARM, ARM64 etc.
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt b/Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt
index bf778332a28..745f429fda7 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ o How can the updater tell when a grace period has completed
executed in user mode, or executed in the idle loop, we can
safely free up that item.
- Preemptible variants of RCU (CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU) get the
+ Preemptible variants of RCU (CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU) get the
same effect, but require that the readers manipulate CPU-local
counters. These counters allow limited types of blocking within
RCU read-side critical sections. SRCU also uses CPU-local
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ o I hear that RCU is patented? What is with that?
o I hear that RCU needs work in order to support realtime kernels?
This work is largely completed. Realtime-friendly RCU can be
- enabled via the CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU kernel configuration
+ enabled via the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU kernel configuration
parameter. However, work is in progress for enabling priority
boosting of preempted RCU read-side critical sections. This is
needed if you have CPU-bound realtime threads.
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt
index ef5a2fd4ff7..ed186a902d3 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt
@@ -26,12 +26,6 @@ CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
Stall-warning messages may be enabled and disabled completely via
/sys/module/rcupdate/parameters/rcu_cpu_stall_suppress.
-CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
-
- This kernel configuration parameter causes the stall warning to
- also dump the stacks of any tasks that are blocking the current
- RCU-preempt grace period.
-
CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO
This kernel configuration parameter causes the stall warning to
@@ -77,7 +71,7 @@ This message indicates that CPU 5 detected that it was causing a stall,
and that the stall was affecting RCU-sched. This message will normally be
followed by a stack dump of the offending CPU. On TREE_RCU kernel builds,
RCU and RCU-sched are implemented by the same underlying mechanism,
-while on TREE_PREEMPT_RCU kernel builds, RCU is instead implemented
+while on PREEMPT_RCU kernel builds, RCU is instead implemented
by rcu_preempt_state.
On the other hand, if the offending CPU fails to print out a stall-warning
@@ -89,7 +83,7 @@ INFO: rcu_bh_state detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 3 5 } (detected by 2, 2502 j
This message indicates that CPU 2 detected that CPUs 3 and 5 were both
causing stalls, and that the stall was affecting RCU-bh. This message
will normally be followed by stack dumps for each CPU. Please note that
-TREE_PREEMPT_RCU builds can be stalled by tasks as well as by CPUs,
+PREEMPT_RCU builds can be stalled by tasks as well as by CPUs,
and that the tasks will be indicated by PID, for example, "P3421".
It is even possible for a rcu_preempt_state stall to be caused by both
CPUs -and- tasks, in which case the offending CPUs and tasks will all
@@ -205,10 +199,10 @@ o A CPU-bound real-time task in a CONFIG_PREEMPT kernel, which might
o A CPU-bound real-time task in a CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT kernel that
is running at a higher priority than the RCU softirq threads.
This will prevent RCU callbacks from ever being invoked,
- and in a CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU kernel will further prevent
+ and in a CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU kernel will further prevent
RCU grace periods from ever completing. Either way, the
system will eventually run out of memory and hang. In the
- CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU case, you might see stall-warning
+ CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU case, you might see stall-warning
messages.
o A hardware or software issue shuts off the scheduler-clock
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt b/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
index 910870b15ac..b63b9bb3bc0 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ The following sections describe the debugfs files and formats, first
for rcutree and next for rcutiny.
-CONFIG_TREE_RCU and CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU debugfs Files and Formats
+CONFIG_TREE_RCU and CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU debugfs Files and Formats
These implementations of RCU provide several debugfs directories under the
top-level directory "rcu":
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ rcu/rcu_preempt
rcu/rcu_sched
Each directory contains files for the corresponding flavor of RCU.
-Note that rcu/rcu_preempt is only present for CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU.
+Note that rcu/rcu_preempt is only present for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU.
For CONFIG_TREE_RCU, the RCU flavor maps onto the RCU-sched flavor,
so that activity for both appears in rcu/rcu_sched.
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
index e48c57f1943..88dfce182f6 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ rcu_read_lock()
Used by a reader to inform the reclaimer that the reader is
entering an RCU read-side critical section. It is illegal
to block while in an RCU read-side critical section, though
- kernels built with CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU can preempt RCU
+ kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU can preempt RCU
read-side critical sections. Any RCU-protected data structure
accessed during an RCU read-side critical section is guaranteed to
remain unreclaimed for the full duration of that critical section.
diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/gpio-properties.txt b/Documentation/acpi/gpio-properties.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ae36fcf86dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/acpi/gpio-properties.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+_DSD Device Properties Related to GPIO
+--------------------------------------
+
+With the release of ACPI 5.1 and the _DSD configuration objecte names
+can finally be given to GPIOs (and other things as well) returned by
+_CRS. Previously, we were only able to use an integer index to find
+the corresponding GPIO, which is pretty error prone (it depends on
+the _CRS output ordering, for example).
+
+With _DSD we can now query GPIOs using a name instead of an integer
+index, like the ASL example below shows:
+
+ // Bluetooth device with reset and shutdown GPIOs
+ Device (BTH)
+ {
+ Name (_HID, ...)
+
+ Name (_CRS, ResourceTemplate ()
+ {
+ GpioIo (Exclusive, PullUp, 0, 0, IoRestrictionInputOnly,
+ "\\_SB.GPO0", 0, ResourceConsumer) {15}
+ GpioIo (Exclusive, PullUp, 0, 0, IoRestrictionInputOnly,
+ "\\_SB.GPO0", 0, ResourceConsumer) {27, 31}
+ })
+
+ Name (_DSD, Package ()
+ {
+ ToUUID("daffd814-6eba-4d8c-8a91-bc9bbf4aa301"),
+ Package ()
+ {
+ Package () {"reset-gpio", Package() {^BTH, 1, 1, 0 }},
+ Package () {"shutdown-gpio", Package() {^BTH, 0, 0, 0 }},
+ }
+ })
+ }
+
+The format of the supported GPIO property is:
+
+ Package () { "name", Package () { ref, index, pin, active_low }}
+
+ ref - The device that has _CRS containing GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources,
+ typically this is the device itself (BTH in our case).
+ index - Index of the GpioIo()/GpioInt() resource in _CRS starting from zero.
+ pin - Pin in the GpioIo()/GpioInt() resource. Typically this is zero.
+ active_low - If 1 the GPIO is marked as active_low.
+
+Since ACPI GpioIo() resource does not have a field saying whether it is
+active low or high, the "active_low" argument can be used here. Setting
+it to 1 marks the GPIO as active low.
+
+In our Bluetooth example the "reset-gpio" refers to the second GpioIo()
+resource, second pin in that resource with the GPIO number of 31.
+
+ACPI GPIO Mappings Provided by Drivers
+--------------------------------------
+
+There are systems in which the ACPI tables do not contain _DSD but provide _CRS
+with GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources and device drivers still need to work with
+them.
+
+In those cases ACPI device identification objects, _HID, _CID, _CLS, _SUB, _HRV,
+available to the driver can be used to identify the device and that is supposed
+to be sufficient to determine the meaning and purpose of all of the GPIO lines
+listed by the GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources returned by _CRS. In other words,
+the driver is supposed to know what to use the GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources for
+once it has identified the device. Having done that, it can simply assign names
+to the GPIO lines it is going to use and provide the GPIO subsystem with a
+mapping between those names and the ACPI GPIO resources corresponding to them.
+
+To do that, the driver needs to define a mapping table as a NULL-terminated
+array of struct acpi_gpio_mapping objects that each contain a name, a pointer
+to an array of line data (struct acpi_gpio_params) objects and the size of that
+array. Each struct acpi_gpio_params object consists of three fields,
+crs_entry_index, line_index, active_low, representing the index of the target
+GpioIo()/GpioInt() resource in _CRS starting from zero, the index of the target
+line in that resource starting from zero, and the active-low flag for that line,
+respectively, in analogy with the _DSD GPIO property format specified above.
+
+For the example Bluetooth device discussed previously the data structures in
+question would look like this:
+
+static const struct acpi_gpio_params reset_gpio = { 1, 1, false };
+static const struct acpi_gpio_params shutdown_gpio = { 0, 0, false };
+
+static const struct acpi_gpio_mapping bluetooth_acpi_gpios[] = {
+ { "reset-gpio", &reset_gpio, 1 },
+ { "shutdown-gpio", &shutdown_gpio, 1 },
+ { },
+};
+
+Next, the mapping table needs to be passed as the second argument to
+acpi_dev_add_driver_gpios() that will register it with the ACPI device object
+pointed to by its first argument. That should be done in the driver's .probe()
+routine. On removal, the driver should unregister its GPIO mapping table by
+calling acpi_dev_remove_driver_gpios() on the ACPI device object where that
+table was previously registered.
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/firmware.txt b/Documentation/arm/firmware.txt
index c2e468fe7b0..da6713adac8 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm/firmware.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm/firmware.txt
@@ -7,32 +7,14 @@ world, which changes the way some things have to be initialized. This makes
a need to provide an interface for such platforms to specify available firmware
operations and call them when needed.
-Firmware operations can be specified using struct firmware_ops
-
- struct firmware_ops {
- /*
- * Enters CPU idle mode
- */
- int (*do_idle)(void);
- /*
- * Sets boot address of specified physical CPU
- */
- int (*set_cpu_boot_addr)(int cpu, unsigned long boot_addr);
- /*
- * Boots specified physical CPU
- */
- int (*cpu_boot)(int cpu);
- /*
- * Initializes L2 cache
- */
- int (*l2x0_init)(void);
- };
-
-and then registered with register_firmware_ops function
+Firmware operations can be specified by filling in a struct firmware_ops
+with appropriate callbacks and then registering it with register_firmware_ops()
+function.
void register_firmware_ops(const struct firmware_ops *ops)
-the ops pointer must be non-NULL.
+The ops pointer must be non-NULL. More information about struct firmware_ops
+and its members can be found in arch/arm/include/asm/firmware.h header.
There is a default, empty set of operations provided, so there is no need to
set anything if platform does not require firmware operations.
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/sunxi/README b/Documentation/arm/sunxi/README
index 7945238453e..e68d163df33 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm/sunxi/README
+++ b/Documentation/arm/sunxi/README
@@ -37,16 +37,26 @@ SunXi family
http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/A20/A20%20User%20Manual%202013-03-22.pdf
- Allwinner A23
- + Not Supported
+ + Datasheet
+ http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/A23/A23%20Datasheet%20V1.0%2020130830.pdf
+ + User Manual
+ http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/A23/A23%20User%20Manual%20V1.0%2020130830.pdf
* Quad ARM Cortex-A7 based SoCs
- Allwinner A31 (sun6i)
+ Datasheet
- http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/A31/A31%20Datasheet%20-%20v1.00%20(2012-12-24).pdf
+ http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/A31/A3x_release_document/A31/IC/A31%20datasheet%20V1.3%2020131106.pdf
+ + User Manual
+ http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/A31/A3x_release_document/A31/IC/A31%20user%20manual%20V1.1%2020130630.pdf
- Allwinner A31s (sun6i)
+ Not Supported
+ + Datasheet
+ http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/A31/A3x_release_document/A31s/IC/A31s%20datasheet%20V1.3%2020131106.pdf
+ + User Manual
+ http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/A31/A3x_release_document/A31s/IC/A31s%20User%20Manual%20%20V1.0%2020130322.pdf
* Quad ARM Cortex-A15, Quad ARM Cortex-A7 based SoCs
- Allwinner A80
- + Not Supported \ No newline at end of file
+ + Datasheet
+ http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/A80/A80_Datasheet_Revision_1.0_0404.pdf
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/legacy_instructions.txt b/Documentation/arm64/legacy_instructions.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a3b3da2ec6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/legacy_instructions.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+The arm64 port of the Linux kernel provides infrastructure to support
+emulation of instructions which have been deprecated, or obsoleted in
+the architecture. The infrastructure code uses undefined instruction
+hooks to support emulation. Where available it also allows turning on
+the instruction execution in hardware.
+
+The emulation mode can be controlled by writing to sysctl nodes
+(/proc/sys/abi). The following explains the different execution
+behaviours and the corresponding values of the sysctl nodes -
+
+* Undef
+ Value: 0
+ Generates undefined instruction abort. Default for instructions that
+ have been obsoleted in the architecture, e.g., SWP
+
+* Emulate
+ Value: 1
+ Uses software emulation. To aid migration of software, in this mode
+ usage of emulated instruction is traced as well as rate limited
+ warnings are issued. This is the default for deprecated
+ instructions, .e.g., CP15 barriers
+
+* Hardware Execution
+ Value: 2
+ Although marked as deprecated, some implementations may support the
+ enabling/disabling of hardware support for the execution of these
+ instructions. Using hardware execution generally provides better
+ performance, but at the loss of ability to gather runtime statistics
+ about the use of the deprecated instructions.
+
+The default mode depends on the status of the instruction in the
+architecture. Deprecated instructions should default to emulation
+while obsolete instructions must be undefined by default.
+
+Supported legacy instructions
+-----------------------------
+* SWP{B}
+Node: /proc/sys/abi/swp
+Status: Obsolete
+Default: Undef (0)
+
+* CP15 Barriers
+Node: /proc/sys/abi/cp15_barrier
+Status: Deprecated
+Default: Emulate (1)
diff --git a/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
index 68542fe13b8..183e41bdcb6 100644
--- a/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
+++ b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
@@ -7,12 +7,13 @@
maintainers on how to implement atomic counter, bitops, and spinlock
interfaces properly.
- The atomic_t type should be defined as a signed integer.
-Also, it should be made opaque such that any kind of cast to a normal
-C integer type will fail. Something like the following should
-suffice:
+ The atomic_t type should be defined as a signed integer and
+the atomic_long_t type as a signed long integer. Also, they should
+be made opaque such that any kind of cast to a normal C integer type
+will fail. Something like the following should suffice:
typedef struct { int counter; } atomic_t;
+ typedef struct { long counter; } atomic_long_t;
Historically, counter has been declared volatile. This is now discouraged.
See Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt for the complete rationale.
@@ -37,6 +38,9 @@ initializer is used before runtime. If the initializer is used at runtime, a
proper implicit or explicit read memory barrier is needed before reading the
value with atomic_read from another thread.
+As with all of the atomic_ interfaces, replace the leading "atomic_"
+with "atomic_long_" to operate on atomic_long_t.
+
The second interface can be used at runtime, as in:
struct foo { atomic_t counter; };
diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
index 2101e718670..6b972b28779 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
@@ -827,10 +827,6 @@ but in the event of any barrier requests in the tag queue we need to ensure
that requests are restarted in the order they were queue. This may happen
if the driver needs to use blk_queue_invalidate_tags().
-Tagging also defines a new request flag, REQ_QUEUED. This is set whenever
-a request is currently tagged. You should not use this flag directly,
-blk_rq_tagged(rq) is the portable way to do so.
-
3.3 I/O Submission
The routine submit_bio() is used to submit a single io. Higher level i/o
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/hugetlb.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/hugetlb.txt
index a9faaca1f02..106245c3aec 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/hugetlb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/hugetlb.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Brief summary of control files
hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.limit_in_bytes # set/show limit of "hugepagesize" hugetlb usage
hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.max_usage_in_bytes # show max "hugepagesize" hugetlb usage recorded
- hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.usage_in_bytes # show current res_counter usage for "hugepagesize" hugetlb
+ hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.usage_in_bytes # show current usage for "hugepagesize" hugetlb
hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.failcnt # show the number of allocation failure due to HugeTLB limit
For a system supporting two hugepage size (16M and 16G) the control
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
index 02ab997a1ed..46b2b508031 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
Memory Resource Controller
+NOTE: This document is hopelessly outdated and it asks for a complete
+ rewrite. It still contains a useful information so we are keeping it
+ here but make sure to check the current code if you need a deeper
+ understanding.
+
NOTE: The Memory Resource Controller has generically been referred to as the
memory controller in this document. Do not confuse memory controller
used here with the memory controller that is used in hardware.
@@ -52,9 +57,9 @@ Brief summary of control files.
tasks # attach a task(thread) and show list of threads
cgroup.procs # show list of processes
cgroup.event_control # an interface for event_fd()
- memory.usage_in_bytes # show current res_counter usage for memory
+ memory.usage_in_bytes # show current usage for memory
(See 5.5 for details)
- memory.memsw.usage_in_bytes # show current res_counter usage for memory+Swap
+ memory.memsw.usage_in_bytes # show current usage for memory+Swap
(See 5.5 for details)
memory.limit_in_bytes # set/show limit of memory usage
memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes # set/show limit of memory+Swap usage
@@ -116,16 +121,16 @@ The memory controller is the first controller developed.
2.1. Design
-The core of the design is a counter called the res_counter. The res_counter
-tracks the current memory usage and limit of the group of processes associated
-with the controller. Each cgroup has a memory controller specific data
-structure (mem_cgroup) associated with it.
+The core of the design is a counter called the page_counter. The
+page_counter tracks the current memory usage and limit of the group of
+processes associated with the controller. Each cgroup has a memory controller
+specific data structure (mem_cgroup) associated with it.
2.2. Accounting
+--------------------+
- | mem_cgroup |
- | (res_counter) |
+ | mem_cgroup |
+ | (page_counter) |
+--------------------+
/ ^ \
/ | \
@@ -352,9 +357,8 @@ set:
0. Configuration
a. Enable CONFIG_CGROUPS
-b. Enable CONFIG_RESOURCE_COUNTERS
-c. Enable CONFIG_MEMCG
-d. Enable CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP (to use swap extension)
+b. Enable CONFIG_MEMCG
+c. Enable CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP (to use swap extension)
d. Enable CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM (to use kmem extension)
1. Prepare the cgroups (see cgroups.txt, Why are cgroups needed?)
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/resource_counter.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/resource_counter.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 762ca54eb92..00000000000
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/resource_counter.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,197 +0,0 @@
-
- The Resource Counter
-
-The resource counter, declared at include/linux/res_counter.h,
-is supposed to facilitate the resource management by controllers
-by providing common stuff for accounting.
-
-This "stuff" includes the res_counter structure and routines
-to work with it.
-
-
-
-1. Crucial parts of the res_counter structure
-
- a. unsigned long long usage
-
- The usage value shows the amount of a resource that is consumed
- by a group at a given time. The units of measurement should be
- determined by the controller that uses this counter. E.g. it can
- be bytes, items or any other unit the controller operates on.
-
- b. unsigned long long max_usage
-
- The maximal value of the usage over time.
-
- This value is useful when gathering statistical information about
- the particular group, as it shows the actual resource requirements
- for a particular group, not just some usage snapshot.
-
- c. unsigned long long limit
-
- The maximal allowed amount of resource to consume by the group. In
- case the group requests for more resources, so that the usage value
- would exceed the limit, the resource allocation is rejected (see
- the next section).
-
- d. unsigned long long failcnt
-
- The failcnt stands for "failures counter". This is the number of
- resource allocation attempts that failed.
-
- c. spinlock_t lock
-
- Protects changes of the above values.
-
-
-
-2. Basic accounting routines
-
- a. void res_counter_init(struct res_counter *rc,
- struct res_counter *rc_parent)
-
- Initializes the resource counter. As usual, should be the first
- routine called for a new counter.
-
- The struct res_counter *parent can be used to define a hierarchical
- child -> parent relationship directly in the res_counter structure,
- NULL can be used to define no relationship.
-
- c. int res_counter_charge(struct res_counter *rc, unsigned long val,
- struct res_counter **limit_fail_at)
-
- When a resource is about to be allocated it has to be accounted
- with the appropriate resource counter (controller should determine
- which one to use on its own). This operation is called "charging".
-
- This is not very important which operation - resource allocation
- or charging - is performed first, but
- * if the allocation is performed first, this may create a
- temporary resource over-usage by the time resource counter is
- charged;
- * if the charging is performed first, then it should be uncharged
- on error path (if the one is called).
-
- If the charging fails and a hierarchical dependency exists, the
- limit_fail_at parameter is set to the particular res_counter element
- where the charging failed.
-
- d. u64 res_counter_uncharge(struct res_counter *rc, unsigned long val)
-
- When a resource is released (freed) it should be de-accounted
- from the resource counter it was accounted to. This is called
- "uncharging". The return value of this function indicate the amount
- of charges still present in the counter.
-
- The _locked routines imply that the res_counter->lock is taken.
-
- e. u64 res_counter_uncharge_until
- (struct res_counter *rc, struct res_counter *top,
- unsigned long val)
-
- Almost same as res_counter_uncharge() but propagation of uncharge
- stops when rc == top. This is useful when kill a res_counter in
- child cgroup.
-
- 2.1 Other accounting routines
-
- There are more routines that may help you with common needs, like
- checking whether the limit is reached or resetting the max_usage
- value. They are all declared in include/linux/res_counter.h.
-
-
-
-3. Analyzing the resource counter registrations
-
- a. If the failcnt value constantly grows, this means that the counter's
- limit is too tight. Either the group is misbehaving and consumes too
- many resources, or the configuration is not suitable for the group
- and the limit should be increased.
-
- b. The max_usage value can be used to quickly tune the group. One may
- set the limits to maximal values and either load the container with
- a common pattern or leave one for a while. After this the max_usage
- value shows the amount of memory the container would require during
- its common activity.
-
- Setting the limit a bit above this value gives a pretty good
- configuration that works in most of the cases.
-
- c. If the max_usage is much less than the limit, but the failcnt value
- is growing, then the group tries to allocate a big chunk of resource
- at once.
-
- d. If the max_usage is much less than the limit, but the failcnt value
- is 0, then this group is given too high limit, that it does not
- require. It is better to lower the limit a bit leaving more resource
- for other groups.
-
-
-
-4. Communication with the control groups subsystem (cgroups)
-
-All the resource controllers that are using cgroups and resource counters
-should provide files (in the cgroup filesystem) to work with the resource
-counter fields. They are recommended to adhere to the following rules:
-
- a. File names
-
- Field name File name
- ---------------------------------------------------
- usage usage_in_<unit_of_measurement>
- max_usage max_usage_in_<unit_of_measurement>
- limit limit_in_<unit_of_measurement>
- failcnt failcnt
- lock no file :)
-
- b. Reading from file should show the corresponding field value in the
- appropriate format.
-
- c. Writing to file
-
- Field Expected behavior
- ----------------------------------
- usage prohibited
- max_usage reset to usage
- limit set the limit
- failcnt reset to zero
-
-
-
-5. Usage example
-
- a. Declare a task group (take a look at cgroups subsystem for this) and
- fold a res_counter into it
-
- struct my_group {
- struct res_counter res;
-
- <other fields>
- }
-
- b. Put hooks in resource allocation/release paths
-
- int alloc_something(...)
- {
- if (res_counter_charge(res_counter_ptr, amount) < 0)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- <allocate the resource and return to the caller>
- }
-
- void release_something(...)
- {
- res_counter_uncharge(res_counter_ptr, amount);
-
- <release the resource>
- }
-
- In order to keep the usage value self-consistent, both the
- "res_counter_ptr" and the "amount" in release_something() should be
- the same as they were in the alloc_something() when the releasing
- resource was allocated.
-
- c. Provide the way to read res_counter values and set them (the cgroups
- still can help with it).
-
- c. Compile and run :)
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt
index a69ffe1d54d..765d7fc0e69 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt
@@ -1,17 +1,28 @@
Intel P-state driver
--------------------
-This driver implements a scaling driver with an internal governor for
-Intel Core processors. The driver follows the same model as the
-Transmeta scaling driver (longrun.c) and implements the setpolicy()
-instead of target(). Scaling drivers that implement setpolicy() are
-assumed to implement internal governors by the cpufreq core. All the
-logic for selecting the current P state is contained within the
-driver; no external governor is used by the cpufreq core.
-
-Intel SandyBridge+ processors are supported.
-
-New sysfs files for controlling P state selection have been added to
+This driver provides an interface to control the P state selection for
+SandyBridge+ Intel processors. The driver can operate two different
+modes based on the processor model legacy and Hardware P state (HWP)
+mode.
+
+In legacy mode the driver implements a scaling driver with an internal
+governor for Intel Core processors. The driver follows the same model
+as the Transmeta scaling driver (longrun.c) and implements the
+setpolicy() instead of target(). Scaling drivers that implement
+setpolicy() are assumed to implement internal governors by the cpufreq
+core. All the logic for selecting the current P state is contained
+within the driver; no external governor is used by the cpufreq core.
+
+In HWP mode P state selection is implemented in the processor
+itself. The driver provides the interfaces between the cpufreq core and
+the processor to control P state selection based on user preferences
+and reporting frequency to the cpufreq core. In this mode the
+internal governor code is disabled.
+
+In addtion to the interfaces provided by the cpufreq core for
+controlling frequency the driver provides sysfs files for
+controlling P state selection. These files have been added to
/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/
max_perf_pct: limits the maximum P state that will be requested by
@@ -33,7 +44,9 @@ frequency is fiction for Intel Core processors. Even if the scaling
driver selects a single P state the actual frequency the processor
will run at is selected by the processor itself.
-New debugfs files have also been added to /sys/kernel/debug/pstate_snb/
+For legacy mode debugfs files have also been added to allow tuning of
+the internal governor algorythm. These files are located at
+/sys/kernel/debug/pstate_snb/ These files are NOT present in HWP mode.
deadband
d_gain_pct
diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/cache-policies.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/cache-policies.txt
index 66c2774c0c6..0d124a97180 100644
--- a/Documentation/device-mapper/cache-policies.txt
+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/cache-policies.txt
@@ -47,20 +47,26 @@ Message and constructor argument pairs are:
'discard_promote_adjustment <value>'
The sequential threshold indicates the number of contiguous I/Os
-required before a stream is treated as sequential. The random threshold
+required before a stream is treated as sequential. Once a stream is
+considered sequential it will bypass the cache. The random threshold
is the number of intervening non-contiguous I/Os that must be seen
before the stream is treated as random again.
The sequential and random thresholds default to 512 and 4 respectively.
-Large, sequential ios are probably better left on the origin device
-since spindles tend to have good bandwidth. The io_tracker counts
-contiguous I/Os to try to spot when the io is in one of these sequential
-modes.
-
-Internally the mq policy maintains a promotion threshold variable. If
-the hit count of a block not in the cache goes above this threshold it
-gets promoted to the cache. The read, write and discard promote adjustment
+Large, sequential I/Os are probably better left on the origin device
+since spindles tend to have good sequential I/O bandwidth. The
+io_tracker counts contiguous I/Os to try to spot when the I/O is in one
+of these sequential modes. But there are use-cases for wanting to
+promote sequential blocks to the cache (e.g. fast application startup).
+If sequential threshold is set to 0 the sequential I/O detection is
+disabled and sequential I/O will no longer implicitly bypass the cache.
+Setting the random threshold to 0 does _not_ disable the random I/O
+stream detection.
+
+Internally the mq policy determines a promotion threshold. If the hit
+count of a block not in the cache goes above this threshold it gets
+promoted to the cache. The read, write and discard promote adjustment
tunables allow you to tweak the promotion threshold by adding a small
value based on the io type. They default to 4, 8 and 1 respectively.
If you're trying to quickly warm a new cache device you may wish to
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/amlogic.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/amlogic.txt
index 7eece72b1a3..8fe81504614 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/amlogic.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/amlogic.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ Amlogic MesonX device tree bindings
-------------------------------------------
Boards with the Amlogic Meson6 SoC shall have the following properties:
+ Required root node property:
+ compatible: "amlogic,meson6"
-Required root node property:
-
-compatible = "amlogic,meson6";
+Boards with the Amlogic Meson8 SoC shall have the following properties:
+ Required root node property:
+ compatible: "amlogic,meson8";
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt
index 37b2cafa4e5..256b4d8bab7 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt
@@ -22,6 +22,14 @@ to deliver its interrupts via SPIs.
- always-on : a boolean property. If present, the timer is powered through an
always-on power domain, therefore it never loses context.
+** Optional properties:
+
+- arm,cpu-registers-not-fw-configured : Firmware does not initialize
+ any of the generic timer CPU registers, which contain their
+ architecturally-defined reset values. Only supported for 32-bit
+ systems which follow the ARMv7 architected reset values.
+
+
Example:
timer {
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arm-boards b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arm-boards
index c554ed3d44f..556c8665fdb 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arm-boards
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arm-boards
@@ -92,3 +92,68 @@ Required nodes:
- core-module: the root node to the Versatile platforms must have
a core-module with regs and the compatible strings
"arm,core-module-versatile", "syscon"
+
+ARM RealView Boards
+-------------------
+The RealView boards cover tailored evaluation boards that are used to explore
+the ARM11 and Cortex A-8 and Cortex A-9 processors.
+
+Required properties (in root node):
+ /* RealView Emulation Baseboard */
+ compatible = "arm,realview-eb";
+ /* RealView Platform Baseboard for ARM1176JZF-S */
+ compatible = "arm,realview-pb1176";
+ /* RealView Platform Baseboard for ARM11 MPCore */
+ compatible = "arm,realview-pb11mp";
+ /* RealView Platform Baseboard for Cortex A-8 */
+ compatible = "arm,realview-pba8";
+ /* RealView Platform Baseboard Explore for Cortex A-9 */
+ compatible = "arm,realview-pbx";
+
+Required nodes:
+
+- soc: some node of the RealView platforms must be the SoC
+ node that contain the SoC-specific devices, withe the compatible
+ string set to one of these tuples:
+ "arm,realview-eb-soc", "simple-bus"
+ "arm,realview-pb1176-soc", "simple-bus"
+ "arm,realview-pb11mp-soc", "simple-bus"
+ "arm,realview-pba8-soc", "simple-bus"
+ "arm,realview-pbx-soc", "simple-bus"
+
+- syscon: some subnode of the RealView SoC node must be a
+ system controller node pointing to the control registers,
+ with the compatible string set to one of these tuples:
+ "arm,realview-eb-syscon", "syscon"
+ "arm,realview-pb1176-syscon", "syscon"
+ "arm,realview-pb11mp-syscon", "syscon"
+ "arm,realview-pba8-syscon", "syscon"
+ "arm,realview-pbx-syscon", "syscon"
+
+ Required properties for the system controller:
+ - regs: the location and size of the system controller registers,
+ one range of 0x1000 bytes.
+
+Example:
+
+/dts-v1/;
+#include <dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/irq.h>
+#include "skeleton.dtsi"
+
+/ {
+ model = "ARM RealView PB1176 with device tree";
+ compatible = "arm,realview-pb1176";
+
+ soc {
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <1>;
+ compatible = "arm,realview-pb1176-soc", "simple-bus";
+ ranges;
+
+ syscon: syscon@10000000 {
+ compatible = "arm,realview-syscon", "syscon";
+ reg = <0x10000000 0x1000>;
+ };
+
+ };
+};
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/cygnus.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/cygnus.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4c77169bb53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/cygnus.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+Broadcom Cygnus device tree bindings
+------------------------------------
+
+
+Boards with Cygnus SoCs shall have the following properties:
+
+Required root node property:
+
+BCM11300
+compatible = "brcm,bcm11300", "brcm,cygnus";
+
+BCM11320
+compatible = "brcm,bcm11320", "brcm,cygnus";
+
+BCM11350
+compatible = "brcm,bcm11350", "brcm,cygnus";
+
+BCM11360
+compatible = "brcm,bcm11360", "brcm,cygnus";
+
+BCM58300
+compatible = "brcm,bcm58300", "brcm,cygnus";
+
+BCM58302
+compatible = "brcm,bcm58302", "brcm,cygnus";
+
+BCM58303
+compatible = "brcm,bcm58303", "brcm,cygnus";
+
+BCM58305
+compatible = "brcm,bcm58305", "brcm,cygnus";
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt
index fc446347ab6..b2aacbe16ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt
@@ -227,6 +227,15 @@ nodes to be present and contain the properties described below.
# List of phandles to idle state nodes supported
by this cpu [3].
+ - rockchip,pmu
+ Usage: optional for systems that have an "enable-method"
+ property value of "rockchip,rk3066-smp"
+ While optional, it is the preferred way to get access to
+ the cpu-core power-domains.
+ Value type: <phandle>
+ Definition: Specifies the syscon node controlling the cpu core
+ power domains.
+
Example 1 (dual-cluster big.LITTLE system 32-bit):
cpus {
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fsl.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fsl.txt
index e935d7d4ac4..4e8b7df7fc6 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fsl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fsl.txt
@@ -74,3 +74,41 @@ Required root node properties:
i.MX6q generic board
Required root node properties:
- compatible = "fsl,imx6q";
+
+
+Freescale LS1021A Platform Device Tree Bindings
+------------------------------------------------
+
+Required root node compatible properties:
+ - compatible = "fsl,ls1021a";
+
+Freescale LS1021A SoC-specific Device Tree Bindings
+-------------------------------------------
+
+Freescale SCFG
+ SCFG is the supplemental configuration unit, that provides SoC specific
+configuration and status registers for the chip. Such as getting PEX port
+status.
+ Required properties:
+ - compatible: should be "fsl,ls1021a-scfg"
+ - reg: should contain base address and length of SCFG memory-mapped registers
+
+Example:
+ scfg: scfg@1570000 {
+ compatible = "fsl,ls1021a-scfg";
+ reg = <0x0 0x1570000 0x0 0x10000>;
+ };
+
+Freescale DCFG
+ DCFG is the device configuration unit, that provides general purpose
+configuration and status for the device. Such as setting the secondary
+core start address and release the secondary core from holdoff and startup.
+ Required properties:
+ - compatible: should be "fsl,ls1021a-dcfg"
+ - reg : should contain base address and length of DCFG memory-mapped registers
+
+Example:
+ dcfg: dcfg@1ee0000 {
+ compatible = "fsl,ls1021a-dcfg";
+ reg = <0x0 0x1ee0000 0x0 0x10000>;
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt
index c7d2fa15667..b38608af66d 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Main node required properties:
"arm,cortex-a7-gic"
"arm,arm11mp-gic"
"brcm,brahma-b15-gic"
+ "arm,arm1176jzf-devchip-gic"
- interrupt-controller : Identifies the node as an interrupt controller
- #interrupt-cells : Specifies the number of cells needed to encode an
interrupt source. The type shall be a <u32> and the value shall be 3.
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/idle-states.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/idle-states.txt
index 37375c7f3cc..a8274eabae2 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/idle-states.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/idle-states.txt
@@ -317,6 +317,26 @@ follows:
In such systems entry-latency-us + exit-latency-us
will exceed wakeup-latency-us by this duration.
+ - status:
+ Usage: Optional
+ Value type: <string>
+ Definition: A standard device tree property [5] that indicates
+ the operational status of an idle-state.
+ If present, it shall be:
+ "okay": to indicate that the idle state is
+ operational.
+ "disabled": to indicate that the idle state has
+ been disabled in firmware so it is not
+ operational.
+ If the property is not present the idle-state must
+ be considered operational.
+
+ - idle-state-name:
+ Usage: Optional
+ Value type: <string>
+ Definition: A string used as a descriptive name for the idle
+ state.
+
In addition to the properties listed above, a state node may require
additional properties specifics to the entry-method defined in the
idle-states node, please refer to the entry-method bindings
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/marvell,berlin.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/marvell,berlin.txt
index 904de5781f4..a99eb9eb14c 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/marvell,berlin.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/marvell,berlin.txt
@@ -106,11 +106,21 @@ Required subnode-properties:
- groups: a list of strings describing the group names.
- function: a string describing the function used to mux the groups.
+* Reset controller binding
+
+A reset controller is part of the chip control registers set. The chip control
+node also provides the reset. The register set is not at the same offset between
+Berlin SoCs.
+
+Required property:
+- #reset-cells: must be set to 2
+
Example:
chip: chip-control@ea0000 {
compatible = "marvell,berlin2-chip-ctrl";
#clock-cells = <1>;
+ #reset-cells = <2>;
reg = <0xea0000 0x400>;
clocks = <&refclk>, <&externaldev 0>;
clock-names = "refclk", "video_ext0";
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mediatek.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mediatek.txt
index fa252261dfa..3be40139cfb 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mediatek.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mediatek.txt
@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
-Mediatek MT6589 Platforms Device Tree Bindings
+MediaTek mt65xx & mt81xx Platforms Device Tree Bindings
-Boards with a SoC of the Mediatek MT6589 shall have the following property:
+Boards with a MediaTek mt65xx/mt81xx SoC shall have the following property:
Required root node property:
-compatible: must contain "mediatek,mt6589"
+compatible: Must contain one of
+ "mediatek,mt6589"
+ "mediatek,mt6592"
+ "mediatek,mt8127"
+ "mediatek,mt8135"
Supported boards:
@@ -12,3 +16,12 @@ Supported boards:
- bq Aquaris5 smart phone:
Required root node properties:
- compatible = "mundoreader,bq-aquaris5", "mediatek,mt6589";
+- Evaluation board for MT6592:
+ Required root node properties:
+ - compatible = "mediatek,mt6592-evb", "mediatek,mt6592";
+- MTK mt8127 tablet moose EVB:
+ Required root node properties:
+ - compatible = "mediatek,mt8127-moose", "mediatek,mt8127";
+- MTK mt8135 tablet EVB:
+ Required root node properties:
+ - compatible = "mediatek,mt8135-evbp1", "mediatek,mt8135";
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/omap.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/omap.txt
index ddd9bcdf889..4f6a82cef1d 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/omap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/omap.txt
@@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ Boards:
- AM335X Bone : Low cost community board
compatible = "ti,am335x-bone", "ti,am33xx", "ti,omap3"
+- AM335X OrionLXm : Substation Automation Platform
+ compatible = "novatech,am335x-lxm", "ti,am33xx"
+
- OMAP5 EVM : Evaluation Module
compatible = "ti,omap5-evm", "ti,omap5"
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/rockchip.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/rockchip.txt
index 857f12636eb..eaa3d1a0eb0 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/rockchip.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/rockchip.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
Rockchip platforms device tree bindings
---------------------------------------
+- MarsBoard RK3066 board:
+ Required root node properties:
+ - compatible = "haoyu,marsboard-rk3066", "rockchip,rk3066a";
+
- bq Curie 2 tablet:
Required root node properties:
- compatible = "mundoreader,bq-curie2", "rockchip,rk3066a";
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/samsung-boards.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/samsung-boards.txt
index 2168ed31e1b..43589d2466a 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/samsung-boards.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/samsung-boards.txt
@@ -1,11 +1,20 @@
-* Samsung's Exynos4210 based SMDKV310 evaluation board
-
-SMDKV310 evaluation board is based on Samsung's Exynos4210 SoC.
+* Samsung's Exynos SoC based boards
Required root node properties:
- compatible = should be one or more of the following.
- (a) "samsung,smdkv310" - for Samsung's SMDKV310 eval board.
- (b) "samsung,exynos4210" - for boards based on Exynos4210 SoC.
+ - "samsung,monk" - for Exynos3250-based Samsung Simband board.
+ - "samsung,rinato" - for Exynos3250-based Samsung Gear2 board.
+ - "samsung,smdkv310" - for Exynos4210-based Samsung SMDKV310 eval board.
+ - "samsung,trats" - for Exynos4210-based Tizen Reference board.
+ - "samsung,universal_c210" - for Exynos4210-based Samsung board.
+ - "samsung,smdk4412", - for Exynos4412-based Samsung SMDK4412 eval board.
+ - "samsung,trats2" - for Exynos4412-based Tizen Reference board.
+ - "samsung,smdk5250" - for Exynos5250-based Samsung SMDK5250 eval board.
+ - "samsung,xyref5260" - for Exynos5260-based Samsung board.
+ - "samsung,smdk5410" - for Exynos5410-based Samsung SMDK5410 eval board.
+ - "samsung,smdk5420" - for Exynos5420-based Samsung SMDK5420 eval board.
+ - "samsung,sd5v1" - for Exynos5440-based Samsung board.
+ - "samsung,ssdk5440" - for Exynos5440-based Samsung board.
Optional:
- firmware node, specifying presence and type of secure firmware:
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/ste-nomadik.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/ste-nomadik.txt
index 6256ec31666..2fdff5a806c 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/ste-nomadik.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/ste-nomadik.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ Required root node property: src
Boards with the Nomadik SoC include:
+Nomadik NHK-15 board manufactured by ST Microelectronics:
+
+Required root node property:
+
+compatible="st,nomadik-nhk-15";
+
S8815 "MiniKit" manufactured by Calao Systems:
Required root node property:
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/sunxi.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/sunxi.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..42941fdefb1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/sunxi.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+Allwinner sunXi Platforms Device Tree Bindings
+
+Each device tree must specify which Allwinner SoC it uses,
+using one of the following compatible strings:
+
+ allwinner,sun4i-a10
+ allwinner,sun5i-a10s
+ allwinner,sun5i-a13
+ allwinner,sun6i-a31
+ allwinner,sun7i-a20
+ allwinner,sun8i-a23
+ allwinner,sun9i-a80
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/ux500/power_domain.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/ux500/power_domain.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5679d1742d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/ux500/power_domain.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+* ST-Ericsson UX500 PM Domains
+
+UX500 supports multiple PM domains which are used to gate power to one or
+more peripherals on the SOC.
+
+The implementation of PM domains for UX500 are based upon the generic PM domain
+and use the corresponding DT bindings.
+
+==PM domain providers==
+
+Required properties:
+ - compatible: Must be "stericsson,ux500-pm-domains".
+ - #power-domain-cells : Number of cells in a power domain specifier, must be 1.
+
+Example:
+ pm_domains: pm_domains0 {
+ compatible = "stericsson,ux500-pm-domains";
+ #power-domain-cells = <1>;
+ };
+
+==PM domain consumers==
+
+Required properties:
+ - power-domains: A phandle and PM domain specifier. Below are the list of
+ valid specifiers:
+
+ Index Specifier
+ ----- ---------
+ 0 DOMAIN_VAPE
+
+Example:
+ sdi0_per1@80126000 {
+ compatible = "arm,pl18x", "arm,primecell";
+ power-domains = <&pm_domains DOMAIN_VAPE>
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/bus/brcm,gisb-arb.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/bus/brcm,gisb-arb.txt
index e2d501d20c9..1eceefb20f0 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/bus/brcm,gisb-arb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/bus/brcm,gisb-arb.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@ Broadcom GISB bus Arbiter controller
Required properties:
-- compatible: should be "brcm,gisb-arb"
+- compatible:
+ "brcm,gisb-arb" or "brcm,bcm7445-gisb-arb" for 28nm chips
+ "brcm,bcm7435-gisb-arb" for newer 40nm chips
+ "brcm,bcm7400-gisb-arb" for older 40nm chips and all 65nm chips
+ "brcm,bcm7038-gisb-arb" for 130nm chips
- reg: specifies the base physical address and size of the registers
- interrupt-parent: specifies the phandle to the parent interrupt controller
this arbiter gets interrupt line from
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/bus/mvebu-mbus.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/bus/mvebu-mbus.txt
index 5fa44f52a0b..5e16c3ccb06 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/bus/mvebu-mbus.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/bus/mvebu-mbus.txt
@@ -48,9 +48,12 @@ Required properties:
- compatible: Should be set to "marvell,mbus-controller".
- reg: Device's register space.
- Two entries are expected (see the examples below):
- the first one controls the devices decoding window and
- the second one controls the SDRAM decoding window.
+ Two or three entries are expected (see the examples below):
+ the first one controls the devices decoding window,
+ the second one controls the SDRAM decoding window and
+ the third controls the MBus bridge (only with the
+ marvell,armada370-mbus and marvell,armadaxp-mbus
+ compatible strings)
Example:
@@ -67,7 +70,7 @@ Example:
mbusc: mbus-controller@20000 {
compatible = "marvell,mbus-controller";
- reg = <0x20000 0x100>, <0x20180 0x20>;
+ reg = <0x20000 0x100>, <0x20180 0x20>, <0x20250 0x8>;
};
/* more children ...*/
@@ -126,7 +129,7 @@ are skipped.
mbusc: mbus-controller@20000 {
compatible = "marvell,mbus-controller";
- reg = <0x20000 0x100>, <0x20180 0x20>;
+ reg = <0x20000 0x100>, <0x20180 0x20>, <0x20250 0x8>;
};
/* more children ...*/
@@ -170,7 +173,7 @@ Using this macro, the above example would be:
mbusc: mbus-controller@20000 {
compatible = "marvell,mbus-controller";
- reg = <0x20000 0x100>, <0x20180 0x20>;
+ reg = <0x20000 0x100>, <0x20180 0x20>, <0x20250 0x8>;
};
/* other children */
@@ -266,7 +269,7 @@ See the example below, where a more complete device tree is shown:
ranges = <0 MBUS_ID(0xf0, 0x01) 0 0x100000>;
mbusc: mbus-controller@20000 {
- reg = <0x20000 0x100>, <0x20180 0x20>;
+ reg = <0x20000 0x100>, <0x20180 0x20>, <0x20250 0x8>;
};
interrupt-controller@20000 {
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/bcm-cygnus-clock.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/bcm-cygnus-clock.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..00d26edec8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/bcm-cygnus-clock.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+Broadcom Cygnus Clocks
+
+This binding uses the common clock binding:
+Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-bindings.txt
+
+Currently various "fixed" clocks are declared for peripheral drivers that use
+the common clock framework to reference their core clocks. Proper support of
+these clocks will be added later
+
+Device tree example:
+
+ clocks {
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <1>;
+ ranges;
+
+ osc: oscillator {
+ compatible = "fixed-clock";
+ #clock-cells = <1>;
+ clock-frequency = <25000000>;
+ };
+
+ apb_clk: apb_clk {
+ compatible = "fixed-clock";
+ #clock-cells = <0>;
+ clock-frequency = <1000000000>;
+ };
+
+ periph_clk: periph_clk {
+ compatible = "fixed-clock";
+ #clock-cells = <0>;
+ clock-frequency = <500000000>;
+ };
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/vf610-clock.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/vf610-clock.txt
index c80863d344a..63f9f1ac343 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/vf610-clock.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/vf610-clock.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,19 @@ Required properties:
- reg: Address and length of the register set
- #clock-cells: Should be <1>
+Optional properties:
+- clocks: list of clock identifiers which are external input clocks to the
+ given clock controller. Please refer the next section to find
+ the input clocks for a given controller.
+- clock-names: list of names of clocks which are exteral input clocks to the
+ given clock controller.
+
+Input clocks for top clock controller:
+ - sxosc (external crystal oscillator 32KHz, recommended)
+ - fxosc (external crystal oscillator 24MHz, recommended)
+ - audio_ext
+ - enet_ext
+
The clock consumer should specify the desired clock by having the clock
ID in its "clocks" phandle cell. See include/dt-bindings/clock/vf610-clock.h
for the full list of VF610 clock IDs.
@@ -15,6 +28,8 @@ clks: ccm@4006b000 {
compatible = "fsl,vf610-ccm";
reg = <0x4006b000 0x1000>;
#clock-cells = <1>;
+ clocks = <&sxosc>, <&fxosc>;
+ clock-names = "sxosc", "fxosc";
};
uart1: serial@40028000 {
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/xilinx/xilinx_vdma.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/xilinx/xilinx_vdma.txt
index 1405ed071bb..e4c4d47f813 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/xilinx/xilinx_vdma.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/xilinx/xilinx_vdma.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Required child node properties:
- compatible: It should be either "xlnx,axi-vdma-mm2s-channel" or
"xlnx,axi-vdma-s2mm-channel".
- interrupts: Should contain per channel VDMA interrupts.
-- xlnx,data-width: Should contain the stream data width, take values
+- xlnx,datawidth: Should contain the stream data width, take values
{32,64...1024}.
Optional child node properties:
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ltc2978.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ltc2978.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ed2f09dc248
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ltc2978.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+ltc2978
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible: should contain one of:
+ * "lltc,ltc2974"
+ * "lltc,ltc2977"
+ * "lltc,ltc2978"
+ * "lltc,ltc3880"
+ * "lltc,ltc3883"
+ * "lltc,ltm4676"
+- reg: I2C slave address
+
+Optional properties:
+- regulators: A node that houses a sub-node for each regulator controlled by
+ the device. Each sub-node is identified using the node's name, with valid
+ values listed below. The content of each sub-node is defined by the
+ standard binding for regulators; see regulator.txt.
+
+Valid names of regulators depend on number of supplies supported per device:
+ * ltc2974 : vout0 - vout3
+ * ltc2977 : vout0 - vout7
+ * ltc2978 : vout0 - vout7
+ * ltc3880 : vout0 - vout1
+ * ltc3883 : vout0
+ * ltm4676 : vout0 - vout1
+
+Example:
+ltc2978@5e {
+ compatible = "lltc,ltc2978";
+ reg = <0x5e>;
+ regulators {
+ vout0 {
+ regulator-name = "FPGA-2.5V";
+ };
+ vout2 {
+ regulator-name = "FPGA-1.5V";
+ };
+ };
+};
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-s3c2410.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-s3c2410.txt
index 278de8e64bb..89b3250f049 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-s3c2410.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-s3c2410.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Optional properties:
specified, default value is 0.
- samsung,i2c-max-bus-freq: Desired frequency in Hz of the bus. If not
specified, the default value in Hz is 100000.
+ - samsung,sysreg-phandle - handle to syscon used to control the system registers
Example:
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt
index fbde415078e..605dcca5dbe 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ gmt,g751 G751: Digital Temperature Sensor and Thermal Watchdog with Two-Wire In
infineon,slb9635tt Infineon SLB9635 (Soft-) I2C TPM (old protocol, max 100khz)
infineon,slb9645tt Infineon SLB9645 I2C TPM (new protocol, max 400khz)
isl,isl12057 Intersil ISL12057 I2C RTC Chip
+isil,isl29028 (deprecated, use isl)
+isl,isl29028 Intersil ISL29028 Ambient Light and Proximity Sensor
maxim,ds1050 5 Bit Programmable, Pulse-Width Modulator
maxim,max1237 Low-Power, 4-/12-Channel, 2-Wire Serial, 12-Bit ADCs
maxim,max6625 9-Bit/12-Bit Temperature Sensors with I²C-Compatible Serial Interface
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/brcm,bcm7120-l2-intc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/brcm,bcm7120-l2-intc.txt
index ff812a8a82b..bae1f218722 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/brcm,bcm7120-l2-intc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/brcm,bcm7120-l2-intc.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,12 @@ Such an interrupt controller has the following hardware design:
or if they will output an interrupt signal at this 2nd level interrupt
controller, in particular for UARTs
-- not all 32-bits within the interrupt controller actually map to an interrupt
+- typically has one 32-bit enable word and one 32-bit status word, but on
+ some hardware may have more than one enable/status pair
+
+- no atomic set/clear operations
+
+- not all bits within the interrupt controller actually map to an interrupt
The typical hardware layout for this controller is represented below:
@@ -48,7 +53,9 @@ The typical hardware layout for this controller is represented below:
Required properties:
- compatible: should be "brcm,bcm7120-l2-intc"
-- reg: specifies the base physical address and size of the registers
+- reg: specifies the base physical address and size of the registers;
+ multiple pairs may be specified, with the first pair handling IRQ offsets
+ 0..31 and the second pair handling 32..63
- interrupt-controller: identifies the node as an interrupt controller
- #interrupt-cells: specifies the number of cells needed to encode an interrupt
source, should be 1.
@@ -59,18 +66,21 @@ Required properties:
- brcm,int-map-mask: 32-bits bit mask describing how many and which interrupts
are wired to this 2nd level interrupt controller, and how they match their
respective interrupt parents. Should match exactly the number of interrupts
- specified in the 'interrupts' property.
+ specified in the 'interrupts' property, multiplied by the number of
+ enable/status register pairs implemented by this controller. For
+ multiple parent IRQs with multiple enable/status words, this looks like:
+ <irq0_w0 irq0_w1 irq1_w0 irq1_w1 ...>
Optional properties:
- brcm,irq-can-wake: if present, this means the L2 controller can be used as a
wakeup source for system suspend/resume.
-- brcm,int-fwd-mask: if present, a 32-bits bit mask to configure for the
- interrupts which have a mux gate, typically UARTs. Setting these bits will
- make their respective interrupts outputs bypass this 2nd level interrupt
- controller completely, it completely transparent for the interrupt controller
- parent
+- brcm,int-fwd-mask: if present, a bit mask to configure the interrupts which
+ have a mux gate, typically UARTs. Setting these bits will make their
+ respective interrupt outputs bypass this 2nd level interrupt controller
+ completely; it is completely transparent for the interrupt controller
+ parent. This should have one 32-bit word per enable/status pair.
Example:
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/memory-controllers/mvebu-sdram-controller.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/memory-controllers/mvebu-sdram-controller.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..89657d1d4cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/memory-controllers/mvebu-sdram-controller.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+Device Tree bindings for MVEBU SDRAM controllers
+
+The Marvell EBU SoCs all have a SDRAM controller. The SDRAM controller
+differs from one SoC variant to another, but they also share a number
+of commonalities.
+
+For now, this Device Tree binding documentation only documents the
+Armada XP SDRAM controller.
+
+Required properties:
+
+ - compatible: for Armada XP, "marvell,armada-xp-sdram-controller"
+ - reg: a resource specifier for the register space, which should
+ include all SDRAM controller registers as per the datasheet.
+
+Example:
+
+sdramc@1400 {
+ compatible = "marvell,armada-xp-sdram-controller";
+ reg = <0x1400 0x500>;
+};
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/memory-controllers/nvidia,tegra-mc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/memory-controllers/nvidia,tegra-mc.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f3db93c85ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/memory-controllers/nvidia,tegra-mc.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+NVIDIA Tegra Memory Controller device tree bindings
+===================================================
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible: Should be "nvidia,tegra<chip>-mc"
+- reg: Physical base address and length of the controller's registers.
+- clocks: Must contain an entry for each entry in clock-names.
+ See ../clocks/clock-bindings.txt for details.
+- clock-names: Must include the following entries:
+ - mc: the module's clock input
+- interrupts: The interrupt outputs from the controller.
+- #iommu-cells: Should be 1. The single cell of the IOMMU specifier defines
+ the SWGROUP of the master.
+
+This device implements an IOMMU that complies with the generic IOMMU binding.
+See ../iommu/iommu.txt for details.
+
+Example:
+--------
+
+ mc: memory-controller@0,70019000 {
+ compatible = "nvidia,tegra124-mc";
+ reg = <0x0 0x70019000 0x0 0x1000>;
+ clocks = <&tegra_car TEGRA124_CLK_MC>;
+ clock-names = "mc";
+
+ interrupts = <GIC_SPI 77 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+
+ #iommu-cells = <1>;
+ };
+
+ sdhci@0,700b0000 {
+ compatible = "nvidia,tegra124-sdhci";
+ ...
+ iommus = <&mc TEGRA_SWGROUP_SDMMC1A>;
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/atmel-hlcdc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/atmel-hlcdc.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f64de95a8e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/atmel-hlcdc.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+Device-Tree bindings for Atmel's HLCDC (High LCD Controller) MFD driver
+
+Required properties:
+ - compatible: value should be one of the following:
+ "atmel,sama5d3-hlcdc"
+ - reg: base address and size of the HLCDC device registers.
+ - clock-names: the name of the 3 clocks requested by the HLCDC device.
+ Should contain "periph_clk", "sys_clk" and "slow_clk".
+ - clocks: should contain the 3 clocks requested by the HLCDC device.
+ - interrupts: should contain the description of the HLCDC interrupt line
+
+The HLCDC IP exposes two subdevices:
+ - a PWM chip: see ../pwm/atmel-hlcdc-pwm.txt
+ - a Display Controller: see ../drm/atmel-hlcdc-dc.txt
+
+Example:
+
+ hlcdc: hlcdc@f0030000 {
+ compatible = "atmel,sama5d3-hlcdc";
+ reg = <0xf0030000 0x2000>;
+ clocks = <&lcdc_clk>, <&lcdck>, <&clk32k>;
+ clock-names = "periph_clk","sys_clk", "slow_clk";
+ interrupts = <36 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH 0>;
+ status = "disabled";
+
+ hlcdc-display-controller {
+ compatible = "atmel,hlcdc-display-controller";
+ pinctrl-names = "default";
+ pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_lcd_base &pinctrl_lcd_rgb888>;
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <0>;
+
+ port@0 {
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <0>;
+ reg = <0>;
+
+ hlcdc_panel_output: endpoint@0 {
+ reg = <0>;
+ remote-endpoint = <&panel_input>;
+ };
+ };
+ };
+
+ hlcdc_pwm: hlcdc-pwm {
+ compatible = "atmel,hlcdc-pwm";
+ pinctrl-names = "default";
+ pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_lcd_pwm>;
+ #pwm-cells = <3>;
+ };
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/max77686.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/max77686.txt
index 678f3cf0b8f..75fdfaf4183 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/max77686.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/max77686.txt
@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ to get matched with their hardware counterparts as follow:
-BUCKn : for BUCKs, where n can lie in range 1 to 9.
example: BUCK1, BUCK5, BUCK9.
+ Regulators which can be turned off during system suspend:
+ -LDOn : 2, 6-8, 10-12, 14-16,
+ -BUCKn : 1-4.
+ Use standard regulator bindings for it ('regulator-off-in-suspend').
+
+
Example:
max77686@09 {
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/max77693.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/max77693.txt
index 11921cc417b..01e9f30fe67 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/max77693.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/max77693.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,20 @@ Optional properties:
[*] refer Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt
+- haptic : The MAX77693 haptic device utilises a PWM controlled motor to provide
+ users with tactile feedback. PWM period and duty-cycle are varied in
+ order to provide the approprite level of feedback.
+
+ Required properties:
+ - compatible : Must be "maxim,max77693-hpatic"
+ - haptic-supply : power supply for the haptic motor
+ [*] refer Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt
+ - pwms : phandle to the physical PWM(Pulse Width Modulation) device.
+ PWM properties should be named "pwms". And number of cell is different
+ for each pwm device.
+ To get more informations, please refer to documentaion.
+ [*] refer Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm.txt
+
Example:
max77693@66 {
compatible = "maxim,max77693";
@@ -52,4 +66,11 @@ Example:
regulator-boot-on;
};
};
+
+ haptic {
+ compatible = "maxim,max77693-haptic";
+ haptic-supply = <&haptic_supply>;
+ pwms = <&pwm 0 40000 0>;
+ pwm-names = "haptic";
+ };
};
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/s2mps11.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/s2mps11.txt
index 0e4026a6cbb..57a045016fc 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/s2mps11.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/s2mps11.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-* Samsung S2MPS11, S2MPS14 and S2MPU02 Voltage and Current Regulator
+* Samsung S2MPS11, S2MPS13, S2MPS14 and S2MPU02 Voltage and Current Regulator
The Samsung S2MPS11 is a multi-function device which includes voltage and
current regulators, RTC, charger controller and other sub-blocks. It is
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ interfaced to the host controller using an I2C interface. Each sub-block is
addressed by the host system using different I2C slave addresses.
Required properties:
-- compatible: Should be "samsung,s2mps11-pmic" or "samsung,s2mps14-pmic"
- or "samsung,s2mpu02-pmic".
+- compatible: Should be "samsung,s2mps11-pmic" or "samsung,s2mps13-pmic"
+ or "samsung,s2mps14-pmic" or "samsung,s2mpu02-pmic".
- reg: Specifies the I2C slave address of the pmic block. It should be 0x66.
Optional properties:
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ Optional properties:
- interrupts: Interrupt specifiers for interrupt sources.
Optional nodes:
-- clocks: s2mps11 and s5m8767 provide three(AP/CP/BT) buffered 32.768 KHz
- outputs, so to register these as clocks with common clock framework
+- clocks: s2mps11, s2mps13 and s5m8767 provide three(AP/CP/BT) buffered 32.768
+ KHz outputs, so to register these as clocks with common clock framework
instantiate a sub-node named "clocks". It uses the common clock binding
documented in :
[Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-bindings.txt]
@@ -30,12 +30,12 @@ Optional nodes:
the clock which they consume.
Clock ID Devices
----------------------------------------------------------
- 32KhzAP 0 S2MPS11, S2MPS14, S5M8767
- 32KhzCP 1 S2MPS11, S5M8767
- 32KhzBT 2 S2MPS11, S2MPS14, S5M8767
+ 32KhzAP 0 S2MPS11, S2MPS13, S2MPS14, S5M8767
+ 32KhzCP 1 S2MPS11, S2MPS13, S5M8767
+ 32KhzBT 2 S2MPS11, S2MPS13, S2MPS14, S5M8767
- - compatible: Should be one of: "samsung,s2mps11-clk", "samsung,s2mps14-clk",
- "samsung,s5m8767-clk"
+ - compatible: Should be one of: "samsung,s2mps11-clk", "samsung,s2mps13-clk",
+ "samsung,s2mps14-clk", "samsung,s5m8767-clk"
- regulators: The regulators of s2mps11 that have to be instantiated should be
included in a sub-node named 'regulators'. Regulator nodes included in this
@@ -81,12 +81,14 @@ as per the datasheet of s2mps11.
- LDOn
- valid values for n are:
- S2MPS11: 1 to 38
+ - S2MPS13: 1 to 40
- S2MPS14: 1 to 25
- S2MPU02: 1 to 28
- Example: LDO1, LDO2, LDO28
- BUCKn
- valid values for n are:
- S2MPS11: 1 to 10
+ - S2MPS13: 1 to 10
- S2MPS14: 1 to 5
- S2MPU02: 1 to 7
- Example: BUCK1, BUCK2, BUCK9
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/exynos-dw-mshc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/exynos-dw-mshc.txt
index 6cd3525d0e0..ee4fc0576c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/exynos-dw-mshc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/exynos-dw-mshc.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ Required Properties:
specific extensions.
- "samsung,exynos5420-dw-mshc": for controllers with Samsung Exynos5420
specific extensions.
+ - "samsung,exynos7-dw-mshc": for controllers with Samsung Exynos7
+ specific extensions.
+ - "samsung,exynos7-dw-mshc-smu": for controllers with Samsung Exynos7
+ specific extensions having an SMU.
* samsung,dw-mshc-ciu-div: Specifies the divider value for the card interface
unit (ciu) clock. This property is applicable only for Exynos5 SoC's and
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/img-dw-mshc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/img-dw-mshc.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..85de99fcaa2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/img-dw-mshc.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+* Imagination specific extensions to the Synopsys Designware Mobile Storage
+ Host Controller
+
+The Synopsys designware mobile storage host controller is used to interface
+a SoC with storage medium such as eMMC or SD/MMC cards. This file documents
+differences between the core Synopsys dw mshc controller properties described
+by synopsys-dw-mshc.txt and the properties used by the Imagination specific
+extensions to the Synopsys Designware Mobile Storage Host Controller.
+
+Required Properties:
+
+* compatible: should be
+ - "img,pistachio-dw-mshc": for Pistachio SoCs
+
+Example:
+
+ mmc@18142000 {
+ compatible = "img,pistachio-dw-mshc";
+ reg = <0x18142000 0x400>;
+ interrupts = <GIC_SHARED 39 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+
+ clocks = <&system_clk>, <&sdhost_clk>;
+ clock-names = "biu", "ciu";
+
+ fifo-depth = <0x20>;
+ bus-width = <4>;
+ num-slots = <1>;
+ disable-wp;
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/sdhci-pxa.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/sdhci-pxa.txt
index 86223c3eda9..4dd6deb9071 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/sdhci-pxa.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/sdhci-pxa.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ Required properties:
* for "marvell,armada-380-sdhci", two register areas. The first one
for the SDHCI registers themselves, and the second one for the
AXI/Mbus bridge registers of the SDHCI unit.
+- clocks: Array of clocks required for SDHCI; requires at least one for
+ I/O clock.
+- clock-names: Array of names corresponding to clocks property; shall be
+ "io" for I/O clock and "core" for optional core clock.
Optional properties:
- mrvl,clk-delay-cycles: Specify a number of cycles to delay for tuning.
@@ -23,6 +27,8 @@ sdhci@d4280800 {
reg = <0xd4280800 0x800>;
bus-width = <8>;
interrupts = <27>;
+ clocks = <&chip CLKID_SDIO1XIN>, <&chip CLKID_SDIO1>;
+ clock-names = "io", "core";
non-removable;
mrvl,clk-delay-cycles = <31>;
};
@@ -32,5 +38,6 @@ sdhci@d8000 {
reg = <0xd8000 0x1000>, <0xdc000 0x100>;
interrupts = <0 25 0x4>;
clocks = <&gateclk 17>;
+ clock-names = "io";
mrvl,clk-delay-cycles = <0x1F>;
};
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nios2/nios2.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nios2/nios2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d6d0a94cb3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nios2/nios2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+* Nios II Processor Binding
+
+This binding specifies what properties available in the device tree
+representation of a Nios II Processor Core.
+
+Users can use sopc2dts tool for generating device tree sources (dts) from a
+Qsys system. See more detail in: http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/Sopc2dts
+
+Required properties:
+
+- compatible: Compatible property value should be "altr,nios2-1.0".
+- reg: Contains CPU index.
+- interrupt-controller: Specifies that the node is an interrupt controller
+- #interrupt-cells: Specifies the number of cells needed to encode an
+ interrupt source, should be 1.
+- clock-frequency: Contains the clock frequency for CPU, in Hz.
+- dcache-line-size: Contains data cache line size.
+- icache-line-size: Contains instruction line size.
+- dcache-size: Contains data cache size.
+- icache-size: Contains instruction cache size.
+- altr,pid-num-bits: Specifies the number of bits to use to represent the process
+ identifier (PID).
+- altr,tlb-num-ways: Specifies the number of set-associativity ways in the TLB.
+- altr,tlb-num-entries: Specifies the number of entries in the TLB.
+- altr,tlb-ptr-sz: Specifies size of TLB pointer.
+- altr,has-mul: Specifies CPU hardware multipy support, should be 1.
+- altr,has-mmu: Specifies CPU support MMU support, should be 1.
+- altr,has-initda: Specifies CPU support initda instruction, should be 1.
+- altr,reset-addr: Specifies CPU reset address
+- altr,fast-tlb-miss-addr: Specifies CPU fast TLB miss exception address
+- altr,exception-addr: Specifies CPU exception address
+
+Optional properties:
+- altr,has-div: Specifies CPU hardware divide support
+- altr,implementation: Nios II core implementation, this should be "fast";
+
+Example:
+
+cpu@0x0 {
+ device_type = "cpu";
+ compatible = "altr,nios2-1.0";
+ reg = <0>;
+ interrupt-controller;
+ #interrupt-cells = <1>;
+ clock-frequency = <125000000>;
+ dcache-line-size = <32>;
+ icache-line-size = <32>;
+ dcache-size = <32768>;
+ icache-size = <32768>;
+ altr,implementation = "fast";
+ altr,pid-num-bits = <8>;
+ altr,tlb-num-ways = <16>;
+ altr,tlb-num-entries = <128>;
+ altr,tlb-ptr-sz = <7>;
+ altr,has-div = <1>;
+ altr,has-mul = <1>;
+ altr,reset-addr = <0xc2800000>;
+ altr,fast-tlb-miss-addr = <0xc7fff400>;
+ altr,exception-addr = <0xd0000020>;
+ altr,has-initda = <1>;
+ altr,has-mmu = <1>;
+};
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nios2/timer.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nios2/timer.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..904a5846d7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nios2/timer.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+Altera Timer
+
+Required properties:
+
+- compatible : should be "altr,timer-1.0"
+- reg : Specifies base physical address and size of the registers.
+- interrupt-parent: phandle of the interrupt controller
+- interrupts : Should contain the timer interrupt number
+- clock-frequency : The frequency of the clock that drives the counter, in Hz.
+
+Example:
+
+timer {
+ compatible = "altr,timer-1.0";
+ reg = <0x00400000 0x00000020>;
+ interrupt-parent = <&cpu>;
+ interrupts = <11>;
+ clock-frequency = <125000000>;
+};
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/layerscape-pci.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/layerscape-pci.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6286f049bf1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/layerscape-pci.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+Freescale Layerscape PCIe controller
+
+This PCIe host controller is based on the Synopsis Designware PCIe IP
+and thus inherits all the common properties defined in designware-pcie.txt.
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible: should contain the platform identifier such as "fsl,ls1021a-pcie"
+- reg: base addresses and lengths of the PCIe controller
+- interrupts: A list of interrupt outputs of the controller. Must contain an
+ entry for each entry in the interrupt-names property.
+- interrupt-names: Must include the following entries:
+ "intr": The interrupt that is asserted for controller interrupts
+- fsl,pcie-scfg: Must include two entries.
+ The first entry must be a link to the SCFG device node
+ The second entry must be '0' or '1' based on physical PCIe controller index.
+ This is used to get SCFG PEXN registers
+
+Example:
+
+ pcie@3400000 {
+ compatible = "fsl,ls1021a-pcie", "snps,dw-pcie";
+ reg = <0x00 0x03400000 0x0 0x00010000 /* controller registers */
+ 0x40 0x00000000 0x0 0x00002000>; /* configuration space */
+ reg-names = "regs", "config";
+ interrupts = <GIC_SPI 177 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>; /* controller interrupt */
+ interrupt-names = "intr";
+ fsl,pcie-scfg = <&scfg 0>;
+ #address-cells = <3>;
+ #size-cells = <2>;
+ device_type = "pci";
+ num-lanes = <4>;
+ bus-range = <0x0 0xff>;
+ ranges = <0x81000000 0x0 0x00000000 0x40 0x00010000 0x0 0x00010000 /* downstream I/O */
+ 0xc2000000 0x0 0x20000000 0x40 0x20000000 0x0 0x20000000 /* prefetchable memory */
+ 0x82000000 0x0 0x40000000 0x40 0x40000000 0x0 0x40000000>; /* non-prefetchable memory */
+ #interrupt-cells = <1>;
+ interrupt-map-mask = <0 0 0 7>;
+ interrupt-map = <0000 0 0 1 &gic GIC_SPI 91 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
+ <0000 0 0 2 &gic GIC_SPI 188 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
+ <0000 0 0 3 &gic GIC_SPI 190 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
+ <0000 0 0 4 &gic GIC_SPI 192 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/power-controller.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/power-controller.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4f7a3bc9c40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/power-controller.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+* Generic system power control capability
+
+Power-management integrated circuits or miscellaneous hardware components are
+sometimes able to control the system power. The device driver associated with these
+components might need to define this capability, which tells the kernel that
+it can be used to switch off the system. The corresponding device must have the
+standard property "system-power-controller" in its device node. This property
+marks the device as able to control the system power. In order to test if this
+property is found programmatically, use the helper function
+"of_device_is_system_power_controller" from of.h .
+
+Example:
+
+act8846: act8846@5 {
+ compatible = "active-semi,act8846";
+ status = "okay";
+ system-power-controller;
+}
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power_supply/imx-snvs-poweroff.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power_supply/imx-snvs-poweroff.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..dc7c9bad63e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power_supply/imx-snvs-poweroff.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+i.mx6 Poweroff Driver
+
+SNVS_LPCR in SNVS module can power off the whole system by pull
+PMIC_ON_REQ low if PMIC_ON_REQ is connected with external PMIC.
+If you don't want to use PMIC_ON_REQ as power on/off control,
+please set status='disabled' to disable this driver.
+
+Required Properties:
+-compatible: "fsl,sec-v4.0-poweroff"
+-reg: Specifies the physical address of the SNVS_LPCR register
+
+Example:
+ snvs@020cc000 {
+ compatible = "fsl,sec-v4.0-mon", "simple-bus";
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <1>;
+ ranges = <0 0x020cc000 0x4000>;
+ .....
+ snvs_poweroff: snvs-poweroff@38 {
+ compatible = "fsl,sec-v4.0-poweroff";
+ reg = <0x38 0x4>;
+ };
+ }
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/act8865-regulator.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/act8865-regulator.txt
index 865614b34d6..dad6358074a 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/act8865-regulator.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/act8865-regulator.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ Required properties:
- compatible: "active-semi,act8846" or "active-semi,act8865"
- reg: I2C slave address
+Optional properties:
+- system-power-controller: Telling whether or not this pmic is controlling
+ the system power. See Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/power-controller.txt .
+
Any standard regulator properties can be used to configure the single regulator.
The valid names for regulators are:
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/max77802.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/max77802.txt
index 5aeaffc0f1f..79e5476444f 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/max77802.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/max77802.txt
@@ -25,6 +25,29 @@ with their hardware counterparts as follow. The valid names are:
example: LDO1, LDO2, LDO35.
-BUCKn : for BUCKs, where n can lie in range 1 to 10.
example: BUCK1, BUCK5, BUCK10.
+
+The max77802 regulator supports two different operating modes: Normal and Low
+Power Mode. Some regulators support the modes to be changed at startup or by
+the consumers during normal operation while others only support to change the
+mode during system suspend. The standard regulator suspend states binding can
+be used to configure the regulator operating mode.
+
+The regulators that support the standard "regulator-initial-mode" property,
+changing their mode during normal operation are: LDOs 1, 3, 20 and 21.
+
+The possible values for "regulator-initial-mode" and "regulator-mode" are:
+ 1: Normal regulator voltage output mode.
+ 3: Low Power which reduces the quiescent current down to only 1uA
+
+The list of valid modes are defined in the dt-bindings/clock/maxim,max77802.h
+header and can be included by device tree source files.
+
+The standard "regulator-mode" property can only be used for regulators that
+support changing their mode to Low Power Mode during suspend. These regulators
+are: BUCKs 2-4 and LDOs 1-35. Also, it only takes effect if the regulator has
+been enabled for the given suspend state using "regulator-on-in-suspend" and
+has not been disabled for that state using "regulator-off-in-suspend".
+
Example:
max77802@09 {
@@ -36,11 +59,23 @@ Example:
#size-cells = <0>;
regulators {
+ ldo1_reg: LDO1 {
+ regulator-name = "vdd_1v0";
+ regulator-min-microvolt = <1000000>;
+ regulator-max-microvolt = <1000000>;
+ regulator-always-on;
+ regulator-initial-mode = <MAX77802_OPMODE_LP>;
+ };
+
ldo11_reg: LDO11 {
regulator-name = "vdd_ldo11";
regulator-min-microvolt = <1900000>;
regulator-max-microvolt = <1900000>;
regulator-always-on;
+ regulator-state-mem {
+ regulator-on-in-suspend;
+ regulator-mode = <MAX77802_OPMODE_LP>;
+ };
};
buck1_reg: BUCK1 {
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt
index 86074334e34..abb26b58c83 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,24 @@ Optional properties:
design requires. This property describes the total system ramp time
required due to the combination of internal ramping of the regulator itself,
and board design issues such as trace capacitance and load on the supply.
+- regulator-state-mem sub-root node for Suspend-to-RAM mode
+ : suspend to memory, the device goes to sleep, but all data stored in memory,
+ only some external interrupt can wake the device.
+- regulator-state-disk sub-root node for Suspend-to-DISK mode
+ : suspend to disk, this state operates similarly to Suspend-to-RAM,
+ but includes a final step of writing memory contents to disk.
+- regulator-state-[mem/disk] node has following common properties:
+ - regulator-on-in-suspend: regulator should be on in suspend state.
+ - regulator-off-in-suspend: regulator should be off in suspend state.
+ - regulator-suspend-microvolt: regulator should be set to this voltage
+ in suspend.
+ - regulator-mode: operating mode in the given suspend state.
+ The set of possible operating modes depends on the capabilities of
+ every hardware so the valid modes are documented on each regulator
+ device tree binding document.
+- regulator-initial-mode: initial operating mode. The set of possible operating
+ modes depends on the capabilities of every hardware so each device binding
+ documentation explains which values the regulator supports.
Deprecated properties:
- regulator-compatible: If a regulator chip contains multiple
@@ -34,6 +52,10 @@ Example:
regulator-max-microvolt = <2500000>;
regulator-always-on;
vin-supply = <&vin>;
+
+ regulator-state-mem {
+ regulator-on-in-suspend;
+ };
};
Regulator Consumers:
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/sky81452-regulator.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/sky81452-regulator.txt
index 882455e9b36..f9acbc1f3c6 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/sky81452-regulator.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/sky81452-regulator.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
SKY81452 voltage regulator
Required properties:
+- regulator node named lout.
- any required generic properties defined in regulator.txt
Optional properties:
@@ -9,8 +10,9 @@ Optional properties:
Example:
regulator {
- /* generic regulator properties */
- regulator-name = "touch_en";
- regulator-min-microvolt = <4500000>;
- regulator-max-microvolt = <8000000>;
+ lout {
+ regulator-name = "sky81452-lout";
+ regulator-min-microvolt = <4500000>;
+ regulator-max-microvolt = <8000000>;
+ };
};
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reset/st,sti-picophyreset.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reset/st,sti-picophyreset.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..54ae9f747e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reset/st,sti-picophyreset.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+STMicroelectronics STi family Sysconfig Picophy SoftReset Controller
+=============================================================================
+
+This binding describes a reset controller device that is used to enable and
+disable on-chip PicoPHY USB2 phy(s) using "softreset" control bits found in
+the STi family SoC system configuration registers.
+
+The actual action taken when softreset is asserted is hardware dependent.
+However, when asserted it may not be possible to access the hardware's
+registers and after an assert/deassert sequence the hardware's previous state
+may no longer be valid.
+
+Please refer to Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reset/reset.txt
+for common reset controller binding usage.
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible: Should be "st,stih407-picophyreset"
+- #reset-cells: 1, see below
+
+Example:
+
+ picophyreset: picophyreset-controller {
+ compatible = "st,stih407-picophyreset";
+ #reset-cells = <1>;
+ };
+
+Specifying picophyreset control of devices
+=======================================
+
+Device nodes should specify the reset channel required in their "resets"
+property, containing a phandle to the picophyreset device node and an
+index specifying which channel to use, as described in
+Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reset/reset.txt.
+
+Example:
+
+ usb2_picophy0: usbpicophy@0 {
+ resets = <&picophyreset STIH407_PICOPHY0_RESET>;
+ };
+
+Macro definitions for the supported reset channels can be found in:
+include/dt-bindings/reset-controller/stih407-resets.h
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/atmel,at91sam9-rtc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/atmel,at91sam9-rtc.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6ae79d1843f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/atmel,at91sam9-rtc.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Atmel AT91SAM9260 Real Time Timer
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible: should be: "atmel,at91sam9260-rtt"
+- reg: should encode the memory region of the RTT controller
+- interrupts: rtt alarm/event interrupt
+- clocks: should contain the 32 KHz slow clk that will drive the RTT block.
+- atmel,rtt-rtc-time-reg: should encode the GPBR register used to store
+ the time base when the RTT is used as an RTC.
+ The first cell should point to the GPBR node and the second one
+ encode the offset within the GPBR block (or in other words, the
+ GPBR register used to store the time base).
+
+
+Example:
+
+rtt@fffffd20 {
+ compatible = "atmel,at91sam9260-rtt";
+ reg = <0xfffffd20 0x10>;
+ interrupts = <1 4 7>;
+ clocks = <&clk32k>;
+ atmel,rtt-rtc-time-reg = <&gpbr 0x0>;
+};
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/rtc-omap.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/rtc-omap.txt
index 5a0f02d34d9..4ba4dbd3428 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/rtc-omap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/rtc-omap.txt
@@ -5,11 +5,17 @@ Required properties:
- "ti,da830-rtc" - for RTC IP used similar to that on DA8xx SoC family.
- "ti,am3352-rtc" - for RTC IP used similar to that on AM335x SoC family.
This RTC IP has special WAKE-EN Register to enable
- Wakeup generation for event Alarm.
+ Wakeup generation for event Alarm. It can also be
+ used to control an external PMIC via the
+ pmic_power_en pin.
- reg: Address range of rtc register set
- interrupts: rtc timer, alarm interrupts in order
- interrupt-parent: phandle for the interrupt controller
+Optional properties:
+- system-power-controller: whether the rtc is controlling the system power
+ through pmic_power_en
+
Example:
rtc@1c23000 {
@@ -18,4 +24,5 @@ rtc@1c23000 {
interrupts = <19
19>;
interrupt-parent = <&intc>;
+ system-power-controller;
};
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/marvell,armada-370-xp-timer.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/marvell,armada-370-xp-timer.txt
index f455182b108..e9c78ce880e 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/marvell,armada-370-xp-timer.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/marvell,armada-370-xp-timer.txt
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@ Marvell Armada 370 and Armada XP Timers
---------------------------------------
Required properties:
-- compatible: Should be either "marvell,armada-370-timer" or
- "marvell,armada-xp-timer" as appropriate.
+- compatible: Should be one of the following
+ "marvell,armada-370-timer",
+ "marvell,armada-375-timer",
+ "marvell,armada-xp-timer".
- interrupts: Should contain the list of Global Timer interrupts and
then local timer interrupts
- reg: Should contain location and length for timers register. First
@@ -13,7 +15,8 @@ Required properties:
Clocks required for compatible = "marvell,armada-370-timer":
- clocks : Must contain a single entry describing the clock input
-Clocks required for compatible = "marvell,armada-xp-timer":
+Clocks required for compatibles = "marvell,armada-xp-timer",
+ "marvell,armada-375-timer":
- clocks : Must contain an entry for each entry in clock-names.
- clock-names : Must include the following entries:
"nbclk" (L2/coherency fabric clock),
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,mtu2.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,mtu2.txt
index d9a8d5af1a2..ba0a34d97eb 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,mtu2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,mtu2.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-* Renesas R-Car Multi-Function Timer Pulse Unit 2 (MTU2)
+* Renesas Multi-Function Timer Pulse Unit 2 (MTU2)
The MTU2 is a multi-purpose, multi-channel timer/counter with configurable
clock inputs and programmable compare match.
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,tmu.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,tmu.txt
index 7db89fb2544..cd5f20bf258 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,tmu.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,tmu.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-* Renesas R-Car Timer Unit (TMU)
+* Renesas R-Mobile/R-Car Timer Unit (TMU)
The TMU is a 32-bit timer/counter with configurable clock inputs and
programmable compare match.
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ are independent. The TMU hardware supports up to three channels.
Required Properties:
- compatible: must contain one or more of the following:
+ - "renesas,tmu-r8a7740" for the r8a7740 TMU
+ - "renesas,tmu-r8a7778" for the r8a7778 TMU
- "renesas,tmu-r8a7779" for the r8a7779 TMU
- "renesas,tmu" for any TMU.
This is a fallback for the above renesas,tmu-* entries
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
index a344ec2713a..2417cb0b493 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ dallas Maxim Integrated Products (formerly Dallas Semiconductor)
davicom DAVICOM Semiconductor, Inc.
denx Denx Software Engineering
digi Digi International Inc.
+digilent Diglent, Inc.
dlg Dialog Semiconductor
dlink D-Link Corporation
dmo Data Modul AG
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ innolux Innolux Corporation
intel Intel Corporation
intercontrol Inter Control Group
isee ISEE 2007 S.L.
+isil Intersil (deprecated, use isl)
isl Intersil
karo Ka-Ro electronics GmbH
keymile Keymile GmbH
@@ -91,6 +93,7 @@ lltc Linear Technology Corporation
marvell Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
maxim Maxim Integrated Products
mediatek MediaTek Inc.
+merrii Merrii Technology Co., Ltd.
micrel Micrel Inc.
microchip Microchip Technology Inc.
micron Micron Technology Inc.
@@ -112,6 +115,7 @@ nxp NXP Semiconductors
onnn ON Semiconductor Corp.
opencores OpenCores.org
panasonic Panasonic Corporation
+pericom Pericom Technology Inc.
phytec PHYTEC Messtechnik GmbH
picochip Picochip Ltd
plathome Plat'Home Co., Ltd.
@@ -149,6 +153,7 @@ st STMicroelectronics
ste ST-Ericsson
stericsson ST-Ericsson
synology Synology, Inc.
+tbs TBS Technologies
thine THine Electronics, Inc.
ti Texas Instruments
tlm Trusted Logic Mobility
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/w1/omap-hdq.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/w1/omap-hdq.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fef794741bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/w1/omap-hdq.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+* OMAP HDQ One wire bus master controller
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible : should be "ti,omap3-1w"
+- reg : Address and length of the register set for the device
+- interrupts : interrupt line.
+- ti,hwmods : "hdq1w"
+
+Example:
+
+- From omap3.dtsi
+ hdqw1w: 1w@480b2000 {
+ compatible = "ti,omap3-1w";
+ reg = <0x480b2000 0x1000>;
+ interrupts = <58>;
+ ti,hwmods = "hdq1w";
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/marvel.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/marvel.txt
index 97223fddb7b..858ed9221ac 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/marvel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/marvel.txt
@@ -17,6 +17,18 @@ For "marvell,armada-375-wdt" and "marvell,armada-380-wdt":
- reg : A third entry is mandatory and should contain the
shared mask/unmask RSTOUT address.
+Clocks required for compatibles = "marvell,orion-wdt",
+ "marvell,armada-370-wdt":
+- clocks : Must contain a single entry describing the clock input
+
+Clocks required for compatibles = "marvell,armada-xp-wdt"
+ "marvell,armada-375-wdt"
+ "marvell,armada-380-wdt":
+- clocks : Must contain an entry for each entry in clock-names.
+- clock-names : Must include the following entries:
+ "nbclk" (L2/coherency fabric clock),
+ "fixed" (Reference 25 MHz fixed-clock).
+
Optional properties:
- interrupts : Contains the IRQ for watchdog expiration
@@ -30,4 +42,5 @@ Example:
interrupts = <3>;
timeout-sec = <10>;
status = "okay";
+ clocks = <&gate_clk 7>;
};
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
index 3a863f69272..88ab81c7910 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ file.
struct dentry *parent,
struct debugfs_regset32 *regset);
- int debugfs_print_regs32(struct seq_file *s, struct debugfs_reg32 *regs,
+ void debugfs_print_regs32(struct seq_file *s, struct debugfs_reg32 *regs,
int nregs, void __iomem *base, char *prefix);
The "base" argument may be 0, but you may want to build the reg32 array
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
index 2cca5a25ef8..e0950c483c2 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
@@ -122,6 +122,10 @@ disable_ext_identify Disable the extension list configured by mkfs, so f2fs
inline_xattr Enable the inline xattrs feature.
inline_data Enable the inline data feature: New created small(<~3.4k)
files can be written into inode block.
+inline_dentry Enable the inline dir feature: data in new created
+ directory entries can be written into inode block. The
+ space of inode block which is used to store inline
+ dentries is limited to ~3.4k.
flush_merge Merge concurrent cache_flush commands as much as possible
to eliminate redundant command issues. If the underlying
device handles the cache_flush command relatively slowly,
@@ -131,6 +135,9 @@ nobarrier This option can be used if underlying storage guarantees
If this option is set, no cache_flush commands are issued
but f2fs still guarantees the write ordering of all the
data writes.
+fastboot This option is used when a system wants to reduce mount
+ time as much as possible, even though normal performance
+ can be sacrificed.
================================================================================
DEBUGFS ENTRIES
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting
index c8f036a9b13..520a4becb75 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting
@@ -72,24 +72,11 @@ c/ Helper routines to allocate anonymous dentries, and to help attach
DCACHE_DISCONNECTED) dentry is allocated and attached.
In the case of a directory, care is taken that only one dentry
can ever be attached.
- d_splice_alias(inode, dentry) or d_materialise_unique(dentry, inode)
- will introduce a new dentry into the tree; either the passed-in
- dentry or a preexisting alias for the given inode (such as an
- anonymous one created by d_obtain_alias), if appropriate. The two
- functions differ in their handling of directories with preexisting
- aliases:
- d_splice_alias will use any existing IS_ROOT dentry, but it will
- return -EIO rather than try to move a dentry with a different
- parent. This is appropriate for local filesystems, which
- should never see such an alias unless the filesystem is
- corrupted somehow (for example, if two on-disk directory
- entries refer to the same directory.)
- d_materialise_unique will attempt to move any dentry. This is
- appropriate for distributed filesystems, where finding a
- directory other than where we last cached it may be a normal
- consequence of concurrent operations on other hosts.
- Both functions return NULL when the passed-in dentry is used,
- following the calling convention of ->lookup.
+ d_splice_alias(inode, dentry) will introduce a new dentry into the tree;
+ either the passed-in dentry or a preexisting alias for the given inode
+ (such as an anonymous one created by d_obtain_alias), if appropriate.
+ It returns NULL when the passed-in dentry is used, following the calling
+ convention of ->lookup.
Filesystem Issues
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 0f3a1390bf0..fa2db081505 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -463,3 +463,11 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
of the in-tree instances did). inode_hash_lock is still held,
of course, so they are still serialized wrt removal from inode hash,
as well as wrt set() callback of iget5_locked().
+--
+[mandatory]
+ d_materialise_unique() is gone; d_splice_alias() does everything you
+ need now. Remember that they have opposite orders of arguments ;-/
+--
+[mandatory]
+ f_dentry is gone; use f_path.dentry, or, better yet, see if you can avoid
+ it entirely.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
index 8ea3e90ace0..b797ed38de4 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
@@ -180,23 +180,19 @@ output must be passed to the seq_file code. Some utility functions have
been defined which make this task easy.
Most code will simply use seq_printf(), which works pretty much like
-printk(), but which requires the seq_file pointer as an argument. It is
-common to ignore the return value from seq_printf(), but a function
-producing complicated output may want to check that value and quit if
-something non-zero is returned; an error return means that the seq_file
-buffer has been filled and further output will be discarded.
+printk(), but which requires the seq_file pointer as an argument.
For straight character output, the following functions may be used:
- int seq_putc(struct seq_file *m, char c);
- int seq_puts(struct seq_file *m, const char *s);
- int seq_escape(struct seq_file *m, const char *s, const char *esc);
+ seq_putc(struct seq_file *m, char c);
+ seq_puts(struct seq_file *m, const char *s);
+ seq_escape(struct seq_file *m, const char *s, const char *esc);
The first two output a single character and a string, just like one would
expect. seq_escape() is like seq_puts(), except that any character in s
which is in the string esc will be represented in octal form in the output.
-There is also a pair of functions for printing filenames:
+There are also a pair of functions for printing filenames:
int seq_path(struct seq_file *m, struct path *path, char *esc);
int seq_path_root(struct seq_file *m, struct path *path,
@@ -209,6 +205,14 @@ root is desired, it can be used with seq_path_root(). Note that, if it
turns out that path cannot be reached from root, the value of root will be
changed in seq_file_root() to a root which *does* work.
+A function producing complicated output may want to check
+ bool seq_has_overflowed(struct seq_file *m);
+and avoid further seq_<output> calls if true is returned.
+
+A true return from seq_has_overflowed means that the seq_file buffer will
+be discarded and the seq_show function will attempt to allocate a larger
+buffer and retry printing.
+
Making it all work
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 20bf204426c..43ce0507ee2 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ struct file_operations {
ssize_t (*splice_read)(struct file *, struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned int);
int (*setlease)(struct file *, long arg, struct file_lock **, void **);
long (*fallocate)(struct file *, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len);
- int (*show_fdinfo)(struct seq_file *m, struct file *f);
+ void (*show_fdinfo)(struct seq_file *m, struct file *f);
};
Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless
diff --git a/Documentation/gpio/consumer.txt b/Documentation/gpio/consumer.txt
index 6ce544191ca..859918db36b 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpio/consumer.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gpio/consumer.txt
@@ -219,6 +219,24 @@ part of the IRQ interface, e.g. IRQF_TRIGGER_FALLING, as are system wakeup
capabilities.
+GPIOs and ACPI
+==============
+
+On ACPI systems, GPIOs are described by GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources listed by
+the _CRS configuration objects of devices. Those resources do not provide
+connection IDs (names) for GPIOs, so it is necessary to use an additional
+mechanism for this purpose.
+
+Systems compliant with ACPI 5.1 or newer may provide a _DSD configuration object
+which, among other things, may be used to provide connection IDs for specific
+GPIOs described by the GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources in _CRS. If that is the
+case, it will be handled by the GPIO subsystem automatically. However, if the
+_DSD is not present, the mappings between GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources and GPIO
+connection IDs need to be provided by device drivers.
+
+For details refer to Documentation/acpi/gpio-properties.txt
+
+
Interacting With the Legacy GPIO Subsystem
==========================================
Many kernel subsystems still handle GPIOs using the legacy integer-based
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/lm75 b/Documentation/hwmon/lm75
index c6a5ff1b464..67691a0aa41 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/lm75
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/lm75
@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ Supported chips:
http://www.ti.com/product/tmp75
http://www.ti.com/product/tmp175
http://www.ti.com/product/tmp275
+ * NXP LM75B
+ Prefix: 'lm75b'
+ Addresses scanned: none
+ Datasheet: Publicly available at the NXP website
+ http://www.nxp.com/documents/data_sheet/LM75B.pdf
Author: Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl>
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/lm95234 b/Documentation/hwmon/lm95234
index a0e95ddfd37..32b777ef224 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/lm95234
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/lm95234
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ Kernel driver lm95234
=====================
Supported chips:
+ * National Semiconductor / Texas Instruments LM95233
+ Addresses scanned: I2C 0x18, 0x2a, 0x2b
+ Datasheet: Publicly available at the Texas Instruments website
+ http://www.ti.com/product/lm95233
* National Semiconductor / Texas Instruments LM95234
Addresses scanned: I2C 0x18, 0x4d, 0x4e
Datasheet: Publicly available at the Texas Instruments website
@@ -13,11 +17,12 @@ Author: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Description
-----------
-LM95234 is an 11-bit digital temperature sensor with a 2-wire System Management
-Bus (SMBus) interface and TrueTherm technology that can very accurately monitor
-the temperature of four remote diodes as well as its own temperature.
-The four remote diodes can be external devices such as microprocessors,
-graphics processors or diode-connected 2N3904s. The LM95234's TruTherm
+LM95233 and LM95234 are 11-bit digital temperature sensors with a 2-wire
+System Management Bus (SMBus) interface and TrueTherm technology
+that can very accurately monitor the temperature of two (LM95233)
+or four (LM95234) remote diodes as well as its own temperature.
+The remote diodes can be external devices such as microprocessors,
+graphics processors or diode-connected 2N3904s. The chip's TruTherm
beta compensation technology allows sensing of 90 nm or 65 nm process
thermal diodes accurately.
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/lm95245 b/Documentation/hwmon/lm95245
index 77eaf2812d2..d755901f58c 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/lm95245
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/lm95245
@@ -2,10 +2,14 @@ Kernel driver lm95245
==================
Supported chips:
- * National Semiconductor LM95245
+ * TI LM95235
+ Addresses scanned: I2C 0x18, 0x29, 0x4c
+ Datasheet: Publicly available at the TI website
+ http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm95235.pdf
+ * TI / National Semiconductor LM95245
Addresses scanned: I2C 0x18, 0x19, 0x29, 0x4c, 0x4d
- Datasheet: Publicly available at the National Semiconductor website
- http://www.national.com/mpf/LM/LM95245.html
+ Datasheet: Publicly available at the TI website
+ http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm95245.pdf
Author: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>
@@ -13,10 +17,10 @@ Author: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>
Description
-----------
-The LM95245 is an 11-bit digital temperature sensor with a 2-wire System
+LM95235 and LM95245 are 11-bit digital temperature sensors with a 2-wire System
Management Bus (SMBus) interface and TruTherm technology that can monitor
the temperature of a remote diode as well as its own temperature.
-The LM95245 can be used to very accurately monitor the temperature of
+The chips can be used to very accurately monitor the temperature of
external devices such as microprocessors.
All temperature values are given in millidegrees Celsius. Local temperature
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/nct6775 b/Documentation/hwmon/nct6775
index 4e9ef60e8c6..f0dd3d2fec9 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/nct6775
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/nct6775
@@ -8,11 +8,15 @@ Kernel driver NCT6775
=====================
Supported chips:
+ * Nuvoton NCT6102D/NCT6104D/NCT6106D
+ Prefix: 'nct6106'
+ Addresses scanned: ISA address retrieved from Super I/O registers
+ Datasheet: Available from the Nuvoton web site
* Nuvoton NCT5572D/NCT6771F/NCT6772F/NCT6775F/W83677HG-I
Prefix: 'nct6775'
Addresses scanned: ISA address retrieved from Super I/O registers
Datasheet: Available from Nuvoton upon request
- * Nuvoton NCT5577D/NCT6776D/NCT6776F
+ * Nuvoton NCT5573D/NCT5577D/NCT6776D/NCT6776F
Prefix: 'nct6776'
Addresses scanned: ISA address retrieved from Super I/O registers
Datasheet: Available from Nuvoton upon request
@@ -20,6 +24,14 @@ Supported chips:
Prefix: 'nct6779'
Addresses scanned: ISA address retrieved from Super I/O registers
Datasheet: Available from Nuvoton upon request
+ * Nuvoton NCT6791D
+ Prefix: 'nct6791'
+ Addresses scanned: ISA address retrieved from Super I/O registers
+ Datasheet: Available from Nuvoton upon request
+ * Nuvoton NCT6792D
+ Prefix: 'nct6792'
+ Addresses scanned: ISA address retrieved from Super I/O registers
+ Datasheet: Available from Nuvoton upon request
Authors:
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/nct7802 b/Documentation/hwmon/nct7802
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2e00f5e344b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/nct7802
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+Kernel driver nct7802
+=====================
+
+Supported chips:
+ * Nuvoton NCT7802Y
+ Prefix: 'nct7802'
+ Addresses scanned: I2C 0x28..0x2f
+ Datasheet: Available from Nuvoton web site
+
+Authors:
+ Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+This driver implements support for the Nuvoton NCT7802Y hardware monitoring
+chip. NCT7802Y supports 6 temperature sensors, 5 voltage sensors, and 3 fan
+speed sensors.
+
+The chip also supports intelligent fan speed control. This functionality is
+not currently supported by the driver.
+
+Tested Boards and BIOS Versions
+-------------------------------
+
+The driver has been reported to work with the following boards and
+BIOS versions.
+
+Board BIOS version
+---------------------------------------------------------------
+Kontron COMe-bSC2 CHR2E934.001.GGO
+Kontron COMe-bIP2 CCR2E212
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/tmp401 b/Documentation/hwmon/tmp401
index f91e3fa7e5e..8eb88e97405 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/tmp401
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/tmp401
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ Supported chips:
Prefix: 'tmp432'
Addresses scanned: I2C 0x4c, 0x4d
Datasheet: http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tmp432.html
+ * Texas Instruments TMP435
+ Prefix: 'tmp435'
+ Addresses scanned: I2C 0x37, 0x48 - 0x4f
+ Datasheet: http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tmp435.html
Authors:
Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
@@ -27,8 +31,8 @@ Description
-----------
This driver implements support for Texas Instruments TMP401, TMP411,
-TMP431, and TMP432 chips. These chips implement one or two remote and
-one local temperature sensors. Temperature is measured in degrees
+TMP431, TMP432 and TMP435 chips. These chips implement one or two remote
+and one local temperature sensors. Temperature is measured in degrees
Celsius. Resolution of the remote sensor is 0.0625 degree. Local
sensor resolution can be set to 0.5, 0.25, 0.125 or 0.0625 degree (not
supported by the driver so far, so using the default resolution of 0.5
diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
index 6c0b9f27e46..bc4bd5a44b8 100644
--- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -471,6 +471,13 @@ format. Crash is available on Dave Anderson's site at the following URL:
http://people.redhat.com/~anderson/
+Trigger Kdump on WARN()
+=======================
+
+The kernel parameter, panic_on_warn, calls panic() in all WARN() paths. This
+will cause a kdump to occur at the panic() call. In cases where a user wants
+to specify this during runtime, /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_warn can be set to 1
+to achieve the same behaviour.
Contact
=======
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 479f33204a3..10b8cc1bda8 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1446,6 +1446,18 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
disable
Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
scaling driver for the supported processors
+ force
+ Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
+ in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
+ instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
+ as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
+ P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
+ should be used with caution. This option does not work with
+ processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
+ or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
+ no_hwp
+ Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
+ if available.
intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
@@ -2509,6 +2521,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Format: <timeout>
+ panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
+ on a WARN().
+
crash_kexec_post_notifiers
Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
@@ -2940,6 +2955,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
+ rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU
+ per-CPU kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also
+ used for the priority of the RCU boost threads
+ (rcub/N). Valid values are 1-99 and the default
+ is 1 (the least-favored priority).
+
rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
defaults to the square root of the number of
@@ -3089,6 +3111,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
to zero.
+ rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
+ Run the RCU early boot self tests
+
+ rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
+ Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
+
+ rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
+ Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
+
rdinit= [KNL]
Format: <full_path>
Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
@@ -3501,7 +3532,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
are saved.
trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
- [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size.
+ [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
trace_event=[event-list]
[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
diff --git a/Documentation/locking/lglock.txt b/Documentation/locking/lglock.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a6971e34fab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/locking/lglock.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
+lglock - local/global locks for mostly local access patterns
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Origin: Nick Piggin's VFS scalability series introduced during
+ 2.6.35++ [1] [2]
+Location: kernel/locking/lglock.c
+ include/linux/lglock.h
+Users: currently only the VFS and stop_machine related code
+
+Design Goal:
+------------
+
+Improve scalability of globally used large data sets that are
+distributed over all CPUs as per_cpu elements.
+
+To manage global data structures that are partitioned over all CPUs
+as per_cpu elements but can be mostly handled by CPU local actions
+lglock will be used where the majority of accesses are cpu local
+reading and occasional cpu local writing with very infrequent
+global write access.
+
+
+* deal with things locally whenever possible
+ - very fast access to the local per_cpu data
+ - reasonably fast access to specific per_cpu data on a different
+ CPU
+* while making global action possible when needed
+ - by expensive access to all CPUs locks - effectively
+ resulting in a globally visible critical section.
+
+Design:
+-------
+
+Basically it is an array of per_cpu spinlocks with the
+lg_local_lock/unlock accessing the local CPUs lock object and the
+lg_local_lock_cpu/unlock_cpu accessing a remote CPUs lock object
+the lg_local_lock has to disable preemption as migration protection so
+that the reference to the local CPUs lock does not go out of scope.
+Due to the lg_local_lock/unlock only touching cpu-local resources it
+is fast. Taking the local lock on a different CPU will be more
+expensive but still relatively cheap.
+
+One can relax the migration constraints by acquiring the current
+CPUs lock with lg_local_lock_cpu, remember the cpu, and release that
+lock at the end of the critical section even if migrated. This should
+give most of the performance benefits without inhibiting migration
+though needs careful considerations for nesting of lglocks and
+consideration of deadlocks with lg_global_lock.
+
+The lg_global_lock/unlock locks all underlying spinlocks of all
+possible CPUs (including those off-line). The preemption disable/enable
+are needed in the non-RT kernels to prevent deadlocks like:
+
+ on cpu 1
+
+ task A task B
+ lg_global_lock
+ got cpu 0 lock
+ <<<< preempt <<<<
+ lg_local_lock_cpu for cpu 0
+ spin on cpu 0 lock
+
+On -RT this deadlock scenario is resolved by the arch_spin_locks in the
+lglocks being replaced by rt_mutexes which resolve the above deadlock
+by boosting the lock-holder.
+
+
+Implementation:
+---------------
+
+The initial lglock implementation from Nick Piggin used some complex
+macros to generate the lglock/brlock in lglock.h - they were later
+turned into a set of functions by Andi Kleen [7]. The change to functions
+was motivated by the presence of multiple lock users and also by them
+being easier to maintain than the generating macros. This change to
+functions is also the basis to eliminated the restriction of not
+being initializeable in kernel modules (the remaining problem is that
+locks are not explicitly initialized - see lockdep-design.txt)
+
+Declaration and initialization:
+-------------------------------
+
+ #include <linux/lglock.h>
+
+ DEFINE_LGLOCK(name)
+ or:
+ DEFINE_STATIC_LGLOCK(name);
+
+ lg_lock_init(&name, "lockdep_name_string");
+
+ on UP this is mapped to DEFINE_SPINLOCK(name) in both cases, note
+ also that as of 3.18-rc6 all declaration in use are of the _STATIC_
+ variant (and it seems that the non-static was never in use).
+ lg_lock_init is initializing the lockdep map only.
+
+Usage:
+------
+
+From the locking semantics it is a spinlock. It could be called a
+locality aware spinlock. lg_local_* behaves like a per_cpu
+spinlock and lg_global_* like a global spinlock.
+No surprises in the API.
+
+ lg_local_lock(*lglock);
+ access to protected per_cpu object on this CPU
+ lg_local_unlock(*lglock);
+
+ lg_local_lock_cpu(*lglock, cpu);
+ access to protected per_cpu object on other CPU cpu
+ lg_local_unlock_cpu(*lglock, cpu);
+
+ lg_global_lock(*lglock);
+ access all protected per_cpu objects on all CPUs
+ lg_global_unlock(*lglock);
+
+ There are no _trylock variants of the lglocks.
+
+Note that the lg_global_lock/unlock has to iterate over all possible
+CPUs rather than the actually present CPUs or a CPU could go off-line
+with a held lock [4] and that makes it very expensive. A discussion on
+these issues can be found at [5]
+
+Constraints:
+------------
+
+ * currently the declaration of lglocks in kernel modules is not
+ possible, though this should be doable with little change.
+ * lglocks are not recursive.
+ * suitable for code that can do most operations on the CPU local
+ data and will very rarely need the global lock
+ * lg_global_lock/unlock is *very* expensive and does not scale
+ * on UP systems all lg_* primitives are simply spinlocks
+ * in PREEMPT_RT the spinlock becomes an rt-mutex and can sleep but
+ does not change the tasks state while sleeping [6].
+ * in PREEMPT_RT the preempt_disable/enable in lg_local_lock/unlock
+ is downgraded to a migrate_disable/enable, the other
+ preempt_disable/enable are downgraded to barriers [6].
+ The deadlock noted for non-RT above is resolved due to rt_mutexes
+ boosting the lock-holder in this case which arch_spin_locks do
+ not do.
+
+lglocks were designed for very specific problems in the VFS and probably
+only are the right answer in these corner cases. Any new user that looks
+at lglocks probably wants to look at the seqlock and RCU alternatives as
+her first choice. There are also efforts to resolve the RCU issues that
+currently prevent using RCU in place of view remaining lglocks.
+
+Note on brlock history:
+-----------------------
+
+The 'Big Reader' read-write spinlocks were originally introduced by
+Ingo Molnar in 2000 (2.4/2.5 kernel series) and removed in 2003. They
+later were introduced by the VFS scalability patch set in 2.6 series
+again as the "big reader lock" brlock [2] variant of lglock which has
+been replaced by seqlock primitives or by RCU based primitives in the
+3.13 kernel series as was suggested in [3] in 2003. The brlock was
+entirely removed in the 3.13 kernel series.
+
+Link: 1 http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/2/81
+Link: 2 http://lwn.net/Articles/401738/
+Link: 3 http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/3/9/205
+Link: 4 https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/24/185
+Link: 5 http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/18/189
+Link: 6 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/
+ patch series - lglocks-rt.patch.patch
+Link: 7 http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/5/26
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index 22a969cdd47..7ee2ae6d545 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -121,22 +121,22 @@ For example, consider the following sequence of events:
The set of accesses as seen by the memory system in the middle can be arranged
in 24 different combinations:
- STORE A=3, STORE B=4, x=LOAD A->3, y=LOAD B->4
- STORE A=3, STORE B=4, y=LOAD B->4, x=LOAD A->3
- STORE A=3, x=LOAD A->3, STORE B=4, y=LOAD B->4
- STORE A=3, x=LOAD A->3, y=LOAD B->2, STORE B=4
- STORE A=3, y=LOAD B->2, STORE B=4, x=LOAD A->3
- STORE A=3, y=LOAD B->2, x=LOAD A->3, STORE B=4
- STORE B=4, STORE A=3, x=LOAD A->3, y=LOAD B->4
+ STORE A=3, STORE B=4, y=LOAD A->3, x=LOAD B->4
+ STORE A=3, STORE B=4, x=LOAD B->4, y=LOAD A->3
+ STORE A=3, y=LOAD A->3, STORE B=4, x=LOAD B->4
+ STORE A=3, y=LOAD A->3, x=LOAD B->2, STORE B=4
+ STORE A=3, x=LOAD B->2, STORE B=4, y=LOAD A->3
+ STORE A=3, x=LOAD B->2, y=LOAD A->3, STORE B=4
+ STORE B=4, STORE A=3, y=LOAD A->3, x=LOAD B->4
STORE B=4, ...
...
and can thus result in four different combinations of values:
- x == 1, y == 2
- x == 1, y == 4
- x == 3, y == 2
- x == 3, y == 4
+ x == 2, y == 1
+ x == 2, y == 3
+ x == 4, y == 1
+ x == 4, y == 3
Furthermore, the stores committed by a CPU to the memory system may not be
@@ -694,6 +694,24 @@ Please note once again that the stores to 'b' differ. If they were
identical, as noted earlier, the compiler could pull this store outside
of the 'if' statement.
+You must also be careful not to rely too much on boolean short-circuit
+evaluation. Consider this example:
+
+ q = ACCESS_ONCE(a);
+ if (a || 1 > 0)
+ ACCESS_ONCE(b) = 1;
+
+Because the second condition is always true, the compiler can transform
+this example as following, defeating control dependency:
+
+ q = ACCESS_ONCE(a);
+ ACCESS_ONCE(b) = 1;
+
+This example underscores the need to ensure that the compiler cannot
+out-guess your code. More generally, although ACCESS_ONCE() does force
+the compiler to actually emit code for a given load, it does not force
+the compiler to use the results.
+
Finally, control dependencies do -not- provide transitivity. This is
demonstrated by two related examples, with the initial values of
x and y both being zero:
@@ -2465,10 +2483,15 @@ functions:
Please refer to the PCI specification for more information on interactions
between PCI transactions.
- (*) readX_relaxed()
+ (*) readX_relaxed(), writeX_relaxed()
- These are similar to readX(), but are not guaranteed to be ordered in any
- way. Be aware that there is no I/O read barrier available.
+ These are similar to readX() and writeX(), but provide weaker memory
+ ordering guarantees. Specifically, they do not guarantee ordering with
+ respect to normal memory accesses (e.g. DMA buffers) nor do they guarantee
+ ordering with respect to LOCK or UNLOCK operations. If the latter is
+ required, an mmiowb() barrier can be used. Note that relaxed accesses to
+ the same peripheral are guaranteed to be ordered with respect to each
+ other.
(*) ioreadX(), iowriteX()
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt
index 412f45ca2d7..1d6d02d6ba5 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID:
This option is implemented only for transmit timestamps. There, the
timestamp is always looped along with a struct sock_extended_err.
- The option modifies field ee_info to pass an id that is unique
+ The option modifies field ee_data to pass an id that is unique
among all possibly concurrently outstanding timestamp requests for
that socket. In practice, it is a monotonically increasing u32
(that wraps).
diff --git a/Documentation/nios2/README b/Documentation/nios2/README
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..054a67d5556
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/nios2/README
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Linux on the Nios II architecture
+=================================
+
+This is a port of Linux to Nios II (nios2) processor.
+
+In order to compile for Nios II, you need a version of GCC with support for the generic
+system call ABI. Please see this link for more information on how compiling and booting
+software for the Nios II platform:
+http://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/Documentation/NiosIILinuxUserManual
+
+For reference, please see the following link:
+http://www.altera.com/literature/lit-nio2.jsp
+
+What is Nios II?
+================
+Nios II is a 32-bit embedded-processor architecture designed specifically for the
+Altera family of FPGAs. In order to support Linux, Nios II needs to be configured
+with MMU and hardware multiplier enabled.
+
+Nios II ABI
+===========
+Please refer to chapter "Application Binary Interface" in Nios II Processor Reference
+Handbook.
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt b/Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt
index 3cc9c7843e1..8cac6492aad 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt
@@ -226,9 +226,6 @@ static int register_sas_ha(struct my_sas_ha *my_ha)
my_ha->sas_ha.lldd_dev_found = my_dev_found;
my_ha->sas_ha.lldd_dev_gone = my_dev_gone;
- my_ha->sas_ha.lldd_max_execute_num = lldd_max_execute_num; (1)
-
- my_ha->sas_ha.lldd_queue_size = ha_can_queue;
my_ha->sas_ha.lldd_execute_task = my_execute_task;
my_ha->sas_ha.lldd_abort_task = my_abort_task;
@@ -247,28 +244,6 @@ static int register_sas_ha(struct my_sas_ha *my_ha)
return sas_register_ha(&my_ha->sas_ha);
}
-(1) This is normally a LLDD parameter, something of the
-lines of a task collector. What it tells the SAS Layer is
-whether the SAS layer should run in Direct Mode (default:
-value 0 or 1) or Task Collector Mode (value greater than 1).
-
-In Direct Mode, the SAS Layer calls Execute Task as soon as
-it has a command to send to the SDS, _and_ this is a single
-command, i.e. not linked.
-
-Some hardware (e.g. aic94xx) has the capability to DMA more
-than one task at a time (interrupt) from host memory. Task
-Collector Mode is an optional feature for HAs which support
-this in their hardware. (Again, it is completely optional
-even if your hardware supports it.)
-
-In Task Collector Mode, the SAS Layer would do _natural_
-coalescing of tasks and at the appropriate moment it would
-call your driver to DMA more than one task in a single HA
-interrupt. DMBS may want to use this by insmod/modprobe
-setting the lldd_max_execute_num to something greater than
-1.
-
(2) SAS 1.1 does not define I_T Nexus Reset TMF.
Events
@@ -325,71 +300,22 @@ PHYE_SPINUP_HOLD -- SATA is present, COMWAKE not sent.
The Execute Command SCSI RPC:
- int (*lldd_execute_task)(struct sas_task *, int num,
- unsigned long gfp_flags);
+ int (*lldd_execute_task)(struct sas_task *, gfp_t gfp_flags);
-Used to queue a task to the SAS LLDD. @task is the tasks to
-be executed. @num should be the number of tasks being
-queued at this function call (they are linked listed via
-task::list), @gfp_mask should be the gfp_mask defining the
-context of the caller.
+Used to queue a task to the SAS LLDD. @task is the task to be executed.
+@gfp_mask is the gfp_mask defining the context of the caller.
This function should implement the Execute Command SCSI RPC,
-or if you're sending a SCSI Task as linked commands, you
-should also use this function.
-That is, when lldd_execute_task() is called, the command(s)
+That is, when lldd_execute_task() is called, the command
go out on the transport *immediately*. There is *no*
queuing of any sort and at any level in a SAS LLDD.
-The use of task::list is two-fold, one for linked commands,
-the other discussed below.
-
-It is possible to queue up more than one task at a time, by
-initializing the list element of struct sas_task, and
-passing the number of tasks enlisted in this manner in num.
-
Returns: -SAS_QUEUE_FULL, -ENOMEM, nothing was queued;
0, the task(s) were queued.
-If you want to pass num > 1, then either
-A) you're the only caller of this function and keep track
- of what you've queued to the LLDD, or
-B) you know what you're doing and have a strategy of
- retrying.
-
-As opposed to queuing one task at a time (function call),
-batch queuing of tasks, by having num > 1, greatly
-simplifies LLDD code, sequencer code, and _hardware design_,
-and has some performance advantages in certain situations
-(DBMS).
-
-The LLDD advertises if it can take more than one command at
-a time at lldd_execute_task(), by setting the
-lldd_max_execute_num parameter (controlled by "collector"
-module parameter in aic94xx SAS LLDD).
-
-You should leave this to the default 1, unless you know what
-you're doing.
-
-This is a function of the LLDD, to which the SAS layer can
-cater to.
-
-int lldd_queue_size
- The host adapter's queue size. This is the maximum
-number of commands the lldd can have pending to domain
-devices on behalf of all upper layers submitting through
-lldd_execute_task().
-
-You really want to set this to something (much) larger than
-1.
-
-This _really_ has absolutely nothing to do with queuing.
-There is no queuing in SAS LLDDs.
-
struct sas_task {
dev -- the device this task is destined to
- list -- must be initialized (INIT_LIST_HEAD)
task_proto -- _one_ of enum sas_proto
scatter -- pointer to scatter gather list array
num_scatter -- number of elements in scatter
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt
index d6a9bdeee7f..731bc4f4c5e 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ scsi_add_host() ---->
scsi_scan_host() -------+
|
slave_alloc()
- slave_configure() --> scsi_adjust_queue_depth()
+ slave_configure() --> scsi_change_queue_depth()
|
slave_alloc()
slave_configure()
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ scsi_scan_host() -------+
------------------------------------------------------------
If the LLD wants to adjust the default queue settings, it can invoke
-scsi_adjust_queue_depth() in its slave_configure() routine.
+scsi_change_queue_depth() in its slave_configure() routine.
*** For scsi devices that the mid level tries to scan but do not
respond, a slave_alloc(), slave_destroy() pair is called.
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ LLD mid level LLD
scsi_add_device() ------+
|
slave_alloc()
- slave_configure() [--> scsi_adjust_queue_depth()]
+ slave_configure() [--> scsi_change_queue_depth()]
------------------------------------------------------------
In a similar fashion, an LLD may become aware that a SCSI device has been
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ init_this_scsi_driver() ----+
| scsi_register()
|
slave_alloc()
- slave_configure() --> scsi_adjust_queue_depth()
+ slave_configure() --> scsi_change_queue_depth()
slave_alloc() ***
slave_destroy() ***
|
@@ -271,9 +271,9 @@ init_this_scsi_driver() ----+
slave_destroy() ***
------------------------------------------------------------
-The mid level invokes scsi_adjust_queue_depth() with tagged queuing off and
-"cmd_per_lun" for that host as the queue length. These settings can be
-overridden by a slave_configure() supplied by the LLD.
+The mid level invokes scsi_change_queue_depth() with "cmd_per_lun" for that
+host as the queue length. These settings can be overridden by a
+slave_configure() supplied by the LLD.
*** For scsi devices that the mid level tries to scan but do not
respond, a slave_alloc(), slave_destroy() pair is called.
@@ -366,13 +366,11 @@ is initialized. The functions below are listed alphabetically and their
names all start with "scsi_".
Summary:
- scsi_activate_tcq - turn on tag command queueing
scsi_add_device - creates new scsi device (lu) instance
scsi_add_host - perform sysfs registration and set up transport class
- scsi_adjust_queue_depth - change the queue depth on a SCSI device
+ scsi_change_queue_depth - change the queue depth on a SCSI device
scsi_bios_ptable - return copy of block device's partition table
scsi_block_requests - prevent further commands being queued to given host
- scsi_deactivate_tcq - turn off tag command queueing
scsi_host_alloc - return a new scsi_host instance whose refcount==1
scsi_host_get - increments Scsi_Host instance's refcount
scsi_host_put - decrements Scsi_Host instance's refcount (free if 0)
@@ -390,24 +388,6 @@ Summary:
Details:
/**
- * scsi_activate_tcq - turn on tag command queueing ("ordered" task attribute)
- * @sdev: device to turn on TCQ for
- * @depth: queue depth
- *
- * Returns nothing
- *
- * Might block: no
- *
- * Notes: Eventually, it is hoped depth would be the maximum depth
- * the device could cope with and the real queue depth
- * would be adjustable from 0 to depth.
- *
- * Defined (inline) in: include/scsi/scsi_tcq.h
- **/
-void scsi_activate_tcq(struct scsi_device *sdev, int depth)
-
-
-/**
* scsi_add_device - creates new scsi device (lu) instance
* @shost: pointer to scsi host instance
* @channel: channel number (rarely other than 0)
@@ -456,11 +436,8 @@ int scsi_add_host(struct Scsi_Host *shost, struct device * dev)
/**
- * scsi_adjust_queue_depth - allow LLD to change queue depth on a SCSI device
+ * scsi_change_queue_depth - allow LLD to change queue depth on a SCSI device
* @sdev: pointer to SCSI device to change queue depth on
- * @tagged: 0 - no tagged queuing
- * MSG_SIMPLE_TAG - simple tagged queuing
- * MSG_ORDERED_TAG - ordered tagged queuing
* @tags Number of tags allowed if tagged queuing enabled,
* or number of commands the LLD can queue up
* in non-tagged mode (as per cmd_per_lun).
@@ -471,15 +448,12 @@ int scsi_add_host(struct Scsi_Host *shost, struct device * dev)
*
* Notes: Can be invoked any time on a SCSI device controlled by this
* LLD. [Specifically during and after slave_configure() and prior to
- * slave_destroy().] Can safely be invoked from interrupt code. Actual
- * queue depth change may be delayed until the next command is being
- * processed. See also scsi_activate_tcq() and scsi_deactivate_tcq().
+ * slave_destroy().] Can safely be invoked from interrupt code.
*
* Defined in: drivers/scsi/scsi.c [see source code for more notes]
*
**/
-void scsi_adjust_queue_depth(struct scsi_device * sdev, int tagged,
- int tags)
+int scsi_change_queue_depth(struct scsi_device *sdev, int tags)
/**
@@ -515,20 +489,6 @@ void scsi_block_requests(struct Scsi_Host * shost)
/**
- * scsi_deactivate_tcq - turn off tag command queueing
- * @sdev: device to turn off TCQ for
- * @depth: queue depth (stored in sdev)
- *
- * Returns nothing
- *
- * Might block: no
- *
- * Defined (inline) in: include/scsi/scsi_tcq.h
- **/
-void scsi_deactivate_tcq(struct scsi_device *sdev, int depth)
-
-
-/**
* scsi_host_alloc - create a scsi host adapter instance and perform basic
* initialization.
* @sht: pointer to scsi host template
@@ -1254,7 +1214,7 @@ of interest:
for disk firmware uploads.
cmd_per_lun - maximum number of commands that can be queued on devices
controlled by the host. Overridden by LLD calls to
- scsi_adjust_queue_depth().
+ scsi_change_queue_depth().
unchecked_isa_dma - 1=>only use bottom 16 MB of ram (ISA DMA addressing
restriction), 0=>can use full 32 bit (or better) DMA
address space
@@ -1294,7 +1254,7 @@ struct scsi_cmnd
Instances of this structure convey SCSI commands to the LLD and responses
back to the mid level. The SCSI mid level will ensure that no more SCSI
commands become queued against the LLD than are indicated by
-scsi_adjust_queue_depth() (or struct Scsi_Host::cmd_per_lun). There will
+scsi_change_queue_depth() (or struct Scsi_Host::cmd_per_lun). There will
be at least one instance of struct scsi_cmnd available for each SCSI device.
Members of interest:
cmnd - array containing SCSI command
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/st.txt b/Documentation/scsi/st.txt
index f346abbdd6f..0d5bdb153d3 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/st.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/st.txt
@@ -506,9 +506,11 @@ user does not request data that far.)
DEBUGGING HINTS
-To enable debugging messages, edit st.c and #define DEBUG 1. As seen
-above, debugging can be switched off with an ioctl if debugging is
-compiled into the driver. The debugging output is not voluminous.
+Debugging code is now compiled in by default but debugging is turned off
+with the kernel module parameter debug_flag defaulting to 0. Debugging
+can still be switched on and off with an ioctl. To enable debug at
+module load time add debug_flag=1 to the module load options, the
+debugging output is not voluminous.
If the tape seems to hang, I would be very interested to hear where
the driver is waiting. With the command 'ps -l' you can see the state
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/wd719x.txt b/Documentation/scsi/wd719x.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0816b022023
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/wd719x.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+Driver for Western Digital WD7193, WD7197 and WD7296 SCSI cards
+---------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The card requires firmware that can be cut out of the Windows NT driver that
+can be downloaded from WD at:
+http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=801&sid=27&lang=en
+
+There is no license anywhere in the file or on the page - so the firmware
+probably cannot be added to linux-firmware.
+
+This script downloads and extracts the firmware, creating wd719x-risc.bin and
+d719x-wcs.bin files. Put them in /lib/firmware/.
+
+#!/bin/sh
+wget http://support.wdc.com/download/archive/pciscsi.exe
+lha xi pciscsi.exe pci-scsi.exe
+lha xi pci-scsi.exe nt/wd7296a.sys
+rm pci-scsi.exe
+dd if=wd7296a.sys of=wd719x-risc.bin bs=1 skip=5760 count=14336
+dd if=wd7296a.sys of=wd719x-wcs.bin bs=1 skip=20096 count=514
+rm wd7296a.sys
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 57baff5bdb8..b5d0c8501a1 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -54,8 +54,9 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
- overflowuid
- panic
- panic_on_oops
-- panic_on_unrecovered_nmi
- panic_on_stackoverflow
+- panic_on_unrecovered_nmi
+- panic_on_warn
- pid_max
- powersave-nap [ PPC only ]
- printk
@@ -527,19 +528,6 @@ the recommended setting is 60.
==============================================================
-panic_on_unrecovered_nmi:
-
-The default Linux behaviour on an NMI of either memory or unknown is
-to continue operation. For many environments such as scientific
-computing it is preferable that the box is taken out and the error
-dealt with than an uncorrected parity/ECC error get propagated.
-
-A small number of systems do generate NMI's for bizarre random reasons
-such as power management so the default is off. That sysctl works like
-the existing panic controls already in that directory.
-
-==============================================================
-
panic_on_oops:
Controls the kernel's behaviour when an oops or BUG is encountered.
@@ -563,6 +551,30 @@ This file shows up if CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW is enabled.
==============================================================
+panic_on_unrecovered_nmi:
+
+The default Linux behaviour on an NMI of either memory or unknown is
+to continue operation. For many environments such as scientific
+computing it is preferable that the box is taken out and the error
+dealt with than an uncorrected parity/ECC error get propagated.
+
+A small number of systems do generate NMI's for bizarre random reasons
+such as power management so the default is off. That sysctl works like
+the existing panic controls already in that directory.
+
+==============================================================
+
+panic_on_warn:
+
+Calls panic() in the WARN() path when set to 1. This is useful to avoid
+a kernel rebuild when attempting to kdump at the location of a WARN().
+
+0: only WARN(), default behaviour.
+
+1: call panic() after printing out WARN() location.
+
+==============================================================
+
perf_cpu_time_max_percent:
Hints to the kernel how much CPU time it should be allowed to
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
index 4da42616939..8408e040f06 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
@@ -234,6 +234,11 @@ of ftrace. Here is a list of some of the key files:
will be displayed on the same line as the function that
is returning registers.
+ If the callback registered to be traced by a function with
+ the "ip modify" attribute (thus the regs->ip can be changed),
+ an 'I' will be displayed on the same line as the function that
+ can be overridden.
+
function_profile_enabled:
When set it will enable all functions with either the function
@@ -680,9 +685,11 @@ The above is mostly meaningful for kernel developers.
needs to be fixed to be only relative to the same CPU.
The marks are determined by the difference between this
current trace and the next trace.
- '!' - greater than preempt_mark_thresh (default 100)
- '+' - greater than 1 microsecond
- ' ' - less than or equal to 1 microsecond.
+ '$' - greater than 1 second
+ '#' - greater than 1000 microsecond
+ '!' - greater than 100 microsecond
+ '+' - greater than 10 microsecond
+ ' ' - less than or equal to 10 microsecond.
The rest is the same as the 'trace' file.
@@ -1951,6 +1958,8 @@ want, depending on your needs.
+ means that the function exceeded 10 usecs.
! means that the function exceeded 100 usecs.
+ # means that the function exceeded 1000 usecs.
+ $ means that the function exceeded 1 sec.
- The task/pid field displays the thread cmdline and pid which
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt b/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt
index 7b90fe034c4..b5f83911732 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt
@@ -47,14 +47,15 @@ dynamic PM is implemented in the USB subsystem, although system PM is
covered to some extent (see Documentation/power/*.txt for more
information about system PM).
-Note: Dynamic PM support for USB is present only if the kernel was
-built with CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND enabled (which depends on
-CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME). System PM support is present only if the kernel
-was built with CONFIG_SUSPEND or CONFIG_HIBERNATION enabled.
-
-(Starting with the 3.10 kernel release, dynamic PM support for USB is
-present whenever the kernel was built with CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME enabled.
-The CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND option has been eliminated.)
+System PM support is present only if the kernel was built with CONFIG_SUSPEND
+or CONFIG_HIBERNATION enabled. Dynamic PM support for USB is present whenever
+the kernel was built with CONFIG_PM enabled.
+
+[Historically, dynamic PM support for USB was present only if the
+kernel had been built with CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND enabled (which depended on
+CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME). Starting with the 3.10 kernel release, dynamic PM support
+for USB was present whenever the kernel was built with CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME
+enabled. The CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND option had been eliminated.]
What is Remote Wakeup?
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt b/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4472ed2ad92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,234 @@
+1. Intel(R) MPX Overview
+========================
+
+Intel(R) Memory Protection Extensions (Intel(R) MPX) is a new capability
+introduced into Intel Architecture. Intel MPX provides hardware features
+that can be used in conjunction with compiler changes to check memory
+references, for those references whose compile-time normal intentions are
+usurped at runtime due to buffer overflow or underflow.
+
+For more information, please refer to Intel(R) Architecture Instruction
+Set Extensions Programming Reference, Chapter 9: Intel(R) Memory Protection
+Extensions.
+
+Note: Currently no hardware with MPX ISA is available but it is always
+possible to use SDE (Intel(R) Software Development Emulator) instead, which
+can be downloaded from
+http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-development-emulator
+
+
+2. How to get the advantage of MPX
+==================================
+
+For MPX to work, changes are required in the kernel, binutils and compiler.
+No source changes are required for applications, just a recompile.
+
+There are a lot of moving parts of this to all work right. The following
+is how we expect the compiler, application and kernel to work together.
+
+1) Application developer compiles with -fmpx. The compiler will add the
+ instrumentation as well as some setup code called early after the app
+ starts. New instruction prefixes are noops for old CPUs.
+2) That setup code allocates (virtual) space for the "bounds directory",
+ points the "bndcfgu" register to the directory and notifies the kernel
+ (via the new prctl(PR_MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT)) that the app will be using
+ MPX.
+3) The kernel detects that the CPU has MPX, allows the new prctl() to
+ succeed, and notes the location of the bounds directory. Userspace is
+ expected to keep the bounds directory at that locationWe note it
+ instead of reading it each time because the 'xsave' operation needed
+ to access the bounds directory register is an expensive operation.
+4) If the application needs to spill bounds out of the 4 registers, it
+ issues a bndstx instruction. Since the bounds directory is empty at
+ this point, a bounds fault (#BR) is raised, the kernel allocates a
+ bounds table (in the user address space) and makes the relevant entry
+ in the bounds directory point to the new table.
+5) If the application violates the bounds specified in the bounds registers,
+ a separate kind of #BR is raised which will deliver a signal with
+ information about the violation in the 'struct siginfo'.
+6) Whenever memory is freed, we know that it can no longer contain valid
+ pointers, and we attempt to free the associated space in the bounds
+ tables. If an entire table becomes unused, we will attempt to free
+ the table and remove the entry in the directory.
+
+To summarize, there are essentially three things interacting here:
+
+GCC with -fmpx:
+ * enables annotation of code with MPX instructions and prefixes
+ * inserts code early in the application to call in to the "gcc runtime"
+GCC MPX Runtime:
+ * Checks for hardware MPX support in cpuid leaf
+ * allocates virtual space for the bounds directory (malloc() essentially)
+ * points the hardware BNDCFGU register at the directory
+ * calls a new prctl(PR_MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT) to notify the kernel to
+ start managing the bounds directories
+Kernel MPX Code:
+ * Checks for hardware MPX support in cpuid leaf
+ * Handles #BR exceptions and sends SIGSEGV to the app when it violates
+ bounds, like during a buffer overflow.
+ * When bounds are spilled in to an unallocated bounds table, the kernel
+ notices in the #BR exception, allocates the virtual space, then
+ updates the bounds directory to point to the new table. It keeps
+ special track of the memory with a VM_MPX flag.
+ * Frees unused bounds tables at the time that the memory they described
+ is unmapped.
+
+
+3. How does MPX kernel code work
+================================
+
+Handling #BR faults caused by MPX
+---------------------------------
+
+When MPX is enabled, there are 2 new situations that can generate
+#BR faults.
+ * new bounds tables (BT) need to be allocated to save bounds.
+ * bounds violation caused by MPX instructions.
+
+We hook #BR handler to handle these two new situations.
+
+On-demand kernel allocation of bounds tables
+--------------------------------------------
+
+MPX only has 4 hardware registers for storing bounds information. If
+MPX-enabled code needs more than these 4 registers, it needs to spill
+them somewhere. It has two special instructions for this which allow
+the bounds to be moved between the bounds registers and some new "bounds
+tables".
+
+#BR exceptions are a new class of exceptions just for MPX. They are
+similar conceptually to a page fault and will be raised by the MPX
+hardware during both bounds violations or when the tables are not
+present. The kernel handles those #BR exceptions for not-present tables
+by carving the space out of the normal processes address space and then
+pointing the bounds-directory over to it.
+
+The tables need to be accessed and controlled by userspace because
+the instructions for moving bounds in and out of them are extremely
+frequent. They potentially happen every time a register points to
+memory. Any direct kernel involvement (like a syscall) to access the
+tables would obviously destroy performance.
+
+Why not do this in userspace? MPX does not strictly require anything in
+the kernel. It can theoretically be done completely from userspace. Here
+are a few ways this could be done. We don't think any of them are practical
+in the real-world, but here they are.
+
+Q: Can virtual space simply be reserved for the bounds tables so that we
+ never have to allocate them?
+A: MPX-enabled application will possibly create a lot of bounds tables in
+ process address space to save bounds information. These tables can take
+ up huge swaths of memory (as much as 80% of the memory on the system)
+ even if we clean them up aggressively. In the worst-case scenario, the
+ tables can be 4x the size of the data structure being tracked. IOW, a
+ 1-page structure can require 4 bounds-table pages. An X-GB virtual
+ area needs 4*X GB of virtual space, plus 2GB for the bounds directory.
+ If we were to preallocate them for the 128TB of user virtual address
+ space, we would need to reserve 512TB+2GB, which is larger than the
+ entire virtual address space today. This means they can not be reserved
+ ahead of time. Also, a single process's pre-popualated bounds directory
+ consumes 2GB of virtual *AND* physical memory. IOW, it's completely
+ infeasible to prepopulate bounds directories.
+
+Q: Can we preallocate bounds table space at the same time memory is
+ allocated which might contain pointers that might eventually need
+ bounds tables?
+A: This would work if we could hook the site of each and every memory
+ allocation syscall. This can be done for small, constrained applications.
+ But, it isn't practical at a larger scale since a given app has no
+ way of controlling how all the parts of the app might allocate memory
+ (think libraries). The kernel is really the only place to intercept
+ these calls.
+
+Q: Could a bounds fault be handed to userspace and the tables allocated
+ there in a signal handler intead of in the kernel?
+A: mmap() is not on the list of safe async handler functions and even
+ if mmap() would work it still requires locking or nasty tricks to
+ keep track of the allocation state there.
+
+Having ruled out all of the userspace-only approaches for managing
+bounds tables that we could think of, we create them on demand in
+the kernel.
+
+Decoding MPX instructions
+-------------------------
+
+If a #BR is generated due to a bounds violation caused by MPX.
+We need to decode MPX instructions to get violation address and
+set this address into extended struct siginfo.
+
+The _sigfault feild of struct siginfo is extended as follow:
+
+87 /* SIGILL, SIGFPE, SIGSEGV, SIGBUS */
+88 struct {
+89 void __user *_addr; /* faulting insn/memory ref. */
+90 #ifdef __ARCH_SI_TRAPNO
+91 int _trapno; /* TRAP # which caused the signal */
+92 #endif
+93 short _addr_lsb; /* LSB of the reported address */
+94 struct {
+95 void __user *_lower;
+96 void __user *_upper;
+97 } _addr_bnd;
+98 } _sigfault;
+
+The '_addr' field refers to violation address, and new '_addr_and'
+field refers to the upper/lower bounds when a #BR is caused.
+
+Glibc will be also updated to support this new siginfo. So user
+can get violation address and bounds when bounds violations occur.
+
+Cleanup unused bounds tables
+----------------------------
+
+When a BNDSTX instruction attempts to save bounds to a bounds directory
+entry marked as invalid, a #BR is generated. This is an indication that
+no bounds table exists for this entry. In this case the fault handler
+will allocate a new bounds table on demand.
+
+Since the kernel allocated those tables on-demand without userspace
+knowledge, it is also responsible for freeing them when the associated
+mappings go away.
+
+Here, the solution for this issue is to hook do_munmap() to check
+whether one process is MPX enabled. If yes, those bounds tables covered
+in the virtual address region which is being unmapped will be freed also.
+
+Adding new prctl commands
+-------------------------
+
+Two new prctl commands are added to enable and disable MPX bounds tables
+management in kernel.
+
+155 #define PR_MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT 43
+156 #define PR_MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT 44
+
+Runtime library in userspace is responsible for allocation of bounds
+directory. So kernel have to use XSAVE instruction to get the base
+of bounds directory from BNDCFG register.
+
+But XSAVE is expected to be very expensive. In order to do performance
+optimization, we have to get the base of bounds directory and save it
+into struct mm_struct to be used in future during PR_MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT
+command execution.
+
+
+4. Special rules
+================
+
+1) If userspace is requesting help from the kernel to do the management
+of bounds tables, it may not create or modify entries in the bounds directory.
+
+Certainly users can allocate bounds tables and forcibly point the bounds
+directory at them through XSAVE instruction, and then set valid bit
+of bounds entry to have this entry valid. But, the kernel will decline
+to assist in managing these tables.
+
+2) Userspace may not take multiple bounds directory entries and point
+them at the same bounds table.
+
+This is allowed architecturally. See more information "Intel(R) Architecture
+Instruction Set Extensions Programming Reference" (9.3.4).
+
+However, if users did this, the kernel might be fooled in to unmaping an
+in-use bounds table since it does not recognize sharing.