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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-06-24 20:01:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-06-24 20:01:36 -0700 |
| commit | 1e467e68e51b116e026247d0defc806b462c095e (patch) | |
| tree | 87203f5dbb1cb24402aa966153ce49d176cc47db /Documentation | |
| parent | 14738e03312ff1137109d68bcbf103c738af0f4a (diff) | |
| parent | 36f95a0b34cb980dcfff9c1082ca5d8f0dc5e78b (diff) | |
Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"The main thing here is Ingo's big subdirectory documenting feature
support for each architecture. Beyond that, it's the usual pile of
fixes, tweaks, and small additions"
* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: (79 commits)
doc:md: fix typo in md.txt.
Documentation/mic/mpssd: don't build x86 userspace when cross compiling
Documentation/prctl: don't build tsc tests when cross compiling
Documentation/vDSO: don't build tests when cross compiling
Doc:ABI/testing: Fix typo in sysfs-bus-fcoe
Doc: Docbook: Change wikipedia's URL from http to https in scsi.tmpl
Doc: Change wikipedia's URL from http to https
Documentation/kernel-parameters: add missing pciserial to the earlyprintk
Doc:pps: Fix typo in pps.txt
kbuild : Fix documentation of INSTALL_HDR_PATH
Documentation: filesystems: updated struct file_operations documentation in vfs.txt
kbuild: edit explanation of clean-files variable
Doc: ja_JP: Fix typo in HOWTO
Move freefall program from Documentation/ to tools/
Documentation: ARM: EXYNOS: Describe boot loaders interface
Doc:nfc: Fix typo in nfc-hci.txt
vfs: Minor documentation fix
Doc: networking: txtimestamp: fix printf format warning
Documentation, intel_pstate: Improve legacy mode internal governors description
Documentation: extend use case for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
85 files changed, 1916 insertions, 249 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-fcoe b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-fcoe index 21640eaad371..657df13b100d 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-fcoe +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-fcoe @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Description: 'FCoE Controller' instances on the fcoe bus. Attributes: - fcf_dev_loss_tmo: Device loss timeout peroid (see below). Changing + fcf_dev_loss_tmo: Device loss timeout period (see below). Changing this value will change the dev_loss_tmo for all FCFs discovered by this controller. @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Attributes: lesb/err_block: Link Error Status Block (LESB) block error count. lesb/fcs_error: Link Error Status Block (LESB) Fibre Channel - Serivces error count. + Services error count. Notes: ctlr_X (global increment starting at 0) @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Attributes: fabric. selected: 1 indicates that the switch has been selected for use; - 0 indicates that the swich will not be used. + 0 indicates that the switch will not be used. fc_map: The Fibre Channel MAP @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ Attributes: mac: The FCF's MAC address - fka_peroid: The FIP Keep-Alive peroid + fka_period: The FIP Keep-Alive period fabric_state: The internal kernel state "Unknown" - Initialization value @@ -101,9 +101,9 @@ Attributes: "Connected" - Host is connected to the FCF "Deleted" - FCF is being removed from the system - dev_loss_tmo: The device loss timeout peroid for this FCF. + dev_loss_tmo: The device loss timeout period for this FCF. -Notes: A device loss infrastructre similar to the FC Transport's +Notes: A device loss infrastructure similar to the FC Transport's is present in fcoe_sysfs. It is nice to have so that a link flapping adapter doesn't continually advance the count used to identify the discovered FCF. FCFs will exist in a diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle index f4b78eafd92a..b713c35f8543 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingStyle +++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle @@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ functions: typeof(x) ret; \ ret = calc_ret(x); \ (ret); \ -)} +}) ret is a common name for a local variable - __foo_ret is less likely to collide with an existing variable. diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt index aef8cc5a677b..55b70b903ead 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ the case would look like this: if (!dma_set_mask_and_coherent(dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(64))) { using_dac = 1; - consistent_using_dac = 1; + consistent_using_dac = 1; } else if (!dma_set_mask_and_coherent(dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32))) { using_dac = 0; consistent_using_dac = 0; @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ There are two types of DMA mappings: transfer, unmapped right after it (unless you use dma_sync_* below) and for which hardware can optimize for sequential accesses. - This of "streaming" as "asynchronous" or "outside the coherency + Think of "streaming" as "asynchronous" or "outside the coherency domain". Good examples of what to use streaming mappings for are: diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl index e84f09467cd7..589b40cc5eb5 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl @@ -954,6 +954,8 @@ printk(KERN_INFO "my ip: %pI4\n", &ipaddress); <function>MODULE_LICENSE()</function> that specifies a GPL compatible license. It implies that the function is considered an internal implementation issue, and not really an interface. + Some maintainers and developers may however + require EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() when adding any new APIs or functionality. </para> </sect1> </chapter> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/scsi.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/scsi.tmpl index 324b53494f08..4b9b9b286cea 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/scsi.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/scsi.tmpl @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ SAS, Fibre Channel, FireWire, and ATAPI devices. SCSI packets are also commonly exchanged over Infiniband, <ulink url='http://i2o.shadowconnect.com/faq.php'>I20</ulink>, TCP/IP - (<ulink url='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI'>iSCSI</ulink>), even + (<ulink url='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI'>iSCSI</ulink>), even <ulink url='http://cyberelk.net/tim/parport/parscsi.html'>Parallel ports</ulink>. </para> diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt index f29bcbc463e7..370ca006db7a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt @@ -1496,7 +1496,7 @@ Canis Rufus and Zoicon5 and Anome and Hal Eisen" ,month="July" ,day="8" ,year="2006" -,note="\url{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-copy-update}" +,note="\url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-copy-update}" ,annotation={ Wikipedia RCU page as of July 8 2006. [Viewed August 21, 2006] diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index b03a832a08e2..27e7e5edeca8 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -299,7 +299,9 @@ toward the stable maintainers by putting a line like this: Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org -into your patch. +into the sign-off area of your patch (note, NOT an email recipient). You +should also read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt in addition to this +file. Note, however, that some subsystem maintainers want to come to their own conclusions on which patches should go to the stable trees. The networking diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Samsung/Bootloader-interface.txt b/Documentation/arm/Samsung/Bootloader-interface.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..b96ead9a6919 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arm/Samsung/Bootloader-interface.txt @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ + Interface between kernel and boot loaders on Exynos boards + ========================================================== + +Author: Krzysztof Kozlowski +Date : 6 June 2015 + +The document tries to describe currently used interface between Linux kernel +and boot loaders on Samsung Exynos based boards. This is not a definition +of interface but rather a description of existing state, a reference +for information purpose only. + +In the document "boot loader" means any of following: U-boot, proprietary +SBOOT or any other firmware for ARMv7 and ARMv8 initializing the board before +executing kernel. + + +1. Non-Secure mode +Address: sysram_ns_base_addr +Offset Value Purpose +============================================================================= +0x08 exynos_cpu_resume_ns System suspend +0x0c 0x00000bad (Magic cookie) System suspend +0x1c exynos4_secondary_startup Secondary CPU boot +0x1c + 4*cpu exynos4_secondary_startup (Exynos4412) Secondary CPU boot +0x20 0xfcba0d10 (Magic cookie) AFTR +0x24 exynos_cpu_resume_ns AFTR +0x28 + 4*cpu 0x8 (Magic cookie, Exynos3250) AFTR + + +2. Secure mode +Address: sysram_base_addr +Offset Value Purpose +============================================================================= +0x00 exynos4_secondary_startup Secondary CPU boot +0x04 exynos4_secondary_startup (Exynos542x) Secondary CPU boot +4*cpu exynos4_secondary_startup (Exynos4412) Secondary CPU boot +0x20 exynos_cpu_resume (Exynos4210 r1.0) AFTR +0x24 0xfcba0d10 (Magic cookie, Exynos4210 r1.0) AFTR + +Address: pmu_base_addr +Offset Value Purpose +============================================================================= +0x0800 exynos_cpu_resume AFTR +0x0814 exynos4_secondary_startup (Exynos4210 r1.1) Secondary CPU boot +0x0818 0xfcba0d10 (Magic cookie, Exynos4210 r1.1) AFTR +0x081C exynos_cpu_resume (Exynos4210 r1.1) AFTR + + +3. Other (regardless of secure/non-secure mode) +Address: pmu_base_addr +Offset Value Purpose +============================================================================= +0x0908 Non-zero (only Exynos3250) Secondary CPU boot up indicator diff --git a/Documentation/arm/vlocks.txt b/Documentation/arm/vlocks.txt index 415960a9bab0..45731672c564 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/vlocks.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm/vlocks.txt @@ -206,6 +206,6 @@ References [1] Lamport, L. "A New Solution of Dijkstra's Concurrent Programming Problem", Communications of the ACM 17, 8 (August 1974), 453-455. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport%27s_bakery_algorithm + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport%27s_bakery_algorithm [2] linux/arch/arm/common/vlock.S, www.kernel.org. diff --git a/Documentation/blackfin/gptimers-example.c b/Documentation/blackfin/gptimers-example.c index b1bd6340e748..283eba993d9d 100644 --- a/Documentation/blackfin/gptimers-example.c +++ b/Documentation/blackfin/gptimers-example.c @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ #define DRIVER_NAME "gptimer_example" +#ifdef IRQ_TIMER5 +#define SAMPLE_IRQ_TIMER IRQ_TIMER5 +#else +#define SAMPLE_IRQ_TIMER IRQ_TIMER2 +#endif + struct gptimer_data { uint32_t period, width; }; @@ -57,7 +63,8 @@ static int __init gptimer_example_init(void) } /* grab the IRQ for the timer */ - ret = request_irq(IRQ_TIMER5, gptimer_example_irq, IRQF_SHARED, DRIVER_NAME, &data); + ret = request_irq(SAMPLE_IRQ_TIMER, gptimer_example_irq, + IRQF_SHARED, DRIVER_NAME, &data); if (ret) { printk(KERN_NOTICE DRIVER_NAME ": IRQ request failed\n"); peripheral_free(P_TMR5); @@ -65,7 +72,8 @@ static int __init gptimer_example_init(void) } /* setup the timer and enable it */ - set_gptimer_config(TIMER5_id, WDTH_CAP | PULSE_HI | PERIOD_CNT | IRQ_ENA); + set_gptimer_config(TIMER5_id, + WDTH_CAP | PULSE_HI | PERIOD_CNT | IRQ_ENA); enable_gptimers(TIMER5bit); return 0; @@ -75,7 +83,7 @@ module_init(gptimer_example_init); static void __exit gptimer_example_exit(void) { disable_gptimers(TIMER5bit); - free_irq(IRQ_TIMER5, &data); + free_irq(SAMPLE_IRQ_TIMER, &data); peripheral_free(P_TMR5); } module_exit(gptimer_example_exit); diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt index 77ec21574fb1..c15aa75f5227 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Contents: 1. What Is A CPUFreq Governor? ============================== -Most cpufreq drivers (in fact, all except one, longrun) or even most +Most cpufreq drivers (except the intel_pstate and longrun) or even most cpu frequency scaling algorithms only offer the CPU to be set to one frequency. In order to offer dynamic frequency scaling, the cpufreq core must be able to tell these drivers of a "target frequency". So diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt index 655750743fb0..be8d4006bf76 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt @@ -3,24 +3,25 @@ Intel P-state driver 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 leg |