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57 files changed, 922 insertions, 253 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-savu b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-savu index f1e02a98bd9d..99fda67fce18 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-savu +++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-savu @@ -3,9 +3,10 @@ Date: Mai 2012 Contact: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> Description: The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the press of a button. A profile is split into general settings and - button settings. buttons holds informations about button layout. - When written, this file lets one write the respective profile - buttons to the mouse. The data has to be 47 bytes long. + button settings. The buttons variable holds information about + button layout. When written, this file lets one write the + respective profile buttons to the mouse. The data has to be + 47 bytes long. The mouse will reject invalid data. Which profile to write is determined by the profile number contained in the data. @@ -26,8 +27,8 @@ Date: Mai 2012 Contact: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> Description: The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the press of a button. A profile is split into general settings and - button settings. profile holds informations like resolution, sensitivity - and light effects. + button settings. A profile holds information like resolution, + sensitivity and light effects. When written, this file lets one write the respective profile settings back to the mouse. The data has to be 43 bytes long. The mouse will reject invalid data. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7 b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7 index f893337570c1..ec27c6c9e737 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7 +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Contact: Linux on PowerPC Developer List <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org> Description: Provides access to the binary "24x7 catalog" provided by the hypervisor on POWER7 and 8 systems. This catalog lists events - avaliable from the powerpc "hv_24x7" pmu. Its format is + available from the powerpc "hv_24x7" pmu. Its format is documented here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jmesmon/catalog-24x7/master/hv-24x7-catalog.h diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-picolcd b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-picolcd index 08579e7e1e89..98fd81ad76a1 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-picolcd +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-picolcd @@ -39,5 +39,5 @@ Description: Make it possible to adjust defio refresh rate. Note: As device can barely do 2 complete refreshes a second it only makes sense to adjust this value if only one or two tiles get changed and it's not appropriate to expect the application - to flush it's tiny changes explicitely at higher than default rate. + to flush its tiny changes explicitly at higher than default rate. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi index b4436cca97a8..c7fc72d4495c 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ Description: to enable/disable/clear ACPI interrupts in user space, which can be used to debug some ACPI interrupt storm issues. - Note that only writting to VALID GPE/Fixed Event is allowed, + Note that only writing to VALID GPE/Fixed Event is allowed, i.e. user can only change the status of runtime GPE and Fixed Event with event handler installed. diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/controls.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/controls.xml index 81efa883f67d..e2e5484d2d9b 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/controls.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/controls.xml @@ -2841,7 +2841,7 @@ for a GOP and keep it below or equal the set bitrate target. Otherwise the rate overall average bitrate for the stream and keeps it below or equal to the set bitrate. In the first case the average bitrate for the whole stream will be smaller then the set bitrate. This is caused because the average is calculated for smaller number of frames, on the other hand enabling this setting will ensure that -the stream will meet tight bandwidth contraints. Applicable to encoders. +the stream will meet tight bandwidth constraints. Applicable to encoders. </entry> </row> <row><entry></entry></row> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-raw-vbi.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-raw-vbi.xml index f4b61b6ce3c2..78599bbd58f7 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-raw-vbi.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-raw-vbi.xml @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ initialize all fields of the &v4l2-vbi-format; results of <constant>VIDIOC_G_FMT</constant>, and call the &VIDIOC-S-FMT; ioctl with a pointer to this structure. Drivers return an &EINVAL; only when the given parameters are ambiguous, otherwise -they modify the parameters according to the hardware capabilites and +they modify the parameters according to the hardware capabilities and return the actual parameters. When the driver allocates resources at this point, it may return an &EBUSY; to indicate the returned parameters are valid but the required resources are currently not diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-selection.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-selection.xml index 9523bc5650f9..997f4e96f297 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-selection.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-selection.xml @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ or the <structfield>flags</structfield> argument is not valid.</para> <term><errorcode>ERANGE</errorcode></term> <listitem> <para>It is not possible to adjust &v4l2-rect; <structfield> -r</structfield> rectangle to satisfy all contraints given in the +r</structfield> rectangle to satisfy all constraints given in the <structfield>flags</structfield> argument.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> diff --git a/Documentation/IRQ-domain.txt b/Documentation/IRQ-domain.txt index 8d990bde8693..82001a25a14b 100644 --- a/Documentation/IRQ-domain.txt +++ b/Documentation/IRQ-domain.txt @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ of the reverse map types are described below: ==== Linear ==== irq_domain_add_linear() +irq_domain_create_linear() The linear reverse map maintains a fixed size table indexed by the hwirq number. When a hwirq is mapped, an irq_desc is allocated for @@ -81,10 +82,16 @@ map are fixed time lookup for IRQ numbers, and irq_descs are only allocated for in-use IRQs. The disadvantage is that the table must be as large as the largest possible hwirq number. +irq_domain_add_linear() and irq_domain_create_linear() are functionally +equivalent, except for the first argument is different - the former +accepts an Open Firmware specific 'struct device_node', while the latter +accepts a more general abstraction 'struct fwnode_handle'. + The majority of drivers should use the linear map. ==== Tree ==== irq_domain_add_tree() +irq_domain_create_tree() The irq_domain maintains a radix tree map from hwirq numbers to Linux IRQs. When an hwirq is mapped, an irq_desc is allocated and the @@ -95,6 +102,11 @@ since it doesn't need to allocate a table as large as the largest hwirq number. The disadvantage is that hwirq to IRQ number lookup is dependent on how many entries are in the table. +irq_domain_add_tree() and irq_domain_create_tree() are functionally +equivalent, except for the first argument is different - the former +accepts an Open Firmware specific 'struct device_node', while the latter +accepts a more general abstraction 'struct fwnode_handle'. + Very few drivers should need this mapping. ==== No Map ===- diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index f3b04d22957c..de955e151af8 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -subdir-y := accounting auxdisplay blackfin connector \ +subdir-y := accounting auxdisplay blackfin \ filesystems filesystems ia64 laptops mic misc-devices \ networking pcmcia prctl ptp timers vDSO watchdog diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt index 370ca006db7a..9bccf16736f7 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt @@ -176,13 +176,13 @@ a history of how Linux changed RCU more than RCU changed Linux which Mathieu Desnoyers is now maintaining [MathieuDesnoyers2009URCU] [MathieuDesnoyersPhD]. TINY_RCU [PaulEMcKenney2009BloatWatchRCU] made its appearance, as did expedited RCU [PaulEMcKenney2009expeditedRCU]. -The problem of resizeable RCU-protected hash tables may now be on a path +The problem of resizable RCU-protected hash tables may now be on a path to a solution [JoshTriplett2009RPHash]. A few academic researchers are now using RCU to solve their parallel problems [HariKannan2009DynamicAnalysisRCU]. 2010 produced a simpler preemptible-RCU implementation based on TREE_RCU [PaulEMcKenney2010SimpleOptRCU], lockdep-RCU -[PaulEMcKenney2010LockdepRCU], another resizeable RCU-protected hash +[PaulEMcKenney2010LockdepRCU], another resizable RCU-protected hash table [HerbertXu2010RCUResizeHash] (this one consuming more memory, but allowing arbitrary changes in hash function, as required for DoS avoidance in the networking code), realization of the 2009 RCU-protected @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ the RCU API [PaulEMcKenney2010RCUAPI]. [LinusTorvalds2011Linux2:6:38:rc1:NPigginVFS], an RCU-protected red-black tree using software transactional memory to protect concurrent updates (strange, but true!) [PhilHoward2011RCUTMRBTree], yet another variant of -RCU-protected resizeable hash tables [Triplett:2011:RPHash], the 3.0 RCU +RCU-protected resizable hash tables [Triplett:2011:RPHash], the 3.0 RCU trainwreck [PaulEMcKenney2011RCU3.0trainwreck], and Neil Brown's "Meet the Lockers" LWN article [NeilBrown2011MeetTheLockers]. Some academic work looked at debugging uses of RCU [Seyster:2011:RFA:2075416.2075425]. diff --git a/Documentation/adding-syscalls.txt b/Documentation/adding-syscalls.txt index cc2d4ac4f404..bbb31e091b28 100644 --- a/Documentation/adding-syscalls.txt +++ b/Documentation/adding-syscalls.txt @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ an fxyzzy(3) operation for free: - xyzzyat(fd, "", ..., AT_EMPTY_PATH) is equivalent to fxyzzy(fd, ...) (For more details on the rationale of the *at() calls, see the openat(2) man -page; for an example of AT_EMPTY_PATH, see the statat(2) man page.) +page; for an example of AT_EMPTY_PATH, see the fstatat(2) man page.) If your new xyzzy(2) system call involves a parameter describing an offset within a file, make its type loff_t so that 64-bit offsets can be supported diff --git a/Documentation/arm/SA1100/Assabet b/Documentation/arm/SA1100/Assabet index 08b885d35674..e08a6739e72c 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/SA1100/Assabet +++ b/Documentation/arm/SA1100/Assabet @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ RedBoot scripting ----------------- All the commands above aren't so useful if they have to be typed in every -time the Assabet is rebooted. Therefore it's possible to automatize the boot +time the Assabet is rebooted. Therefore it's possible to automate the boot process using RedBoot's scripting capability. For example, I use this to boot Linux with both the kernel and the ramdisk diff --git a/Documentation/block/00-INDEX b/Documentation/block/00-INDEX index e840b47613f7..e55103ace382 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/block/00-INDEX @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ - This file biodoc.txt - Notes on the Generic Block Layer Rewrite in Linux 2.5 +biovecs.txt + - Immutable biovecs and biovec iterators capability.txt - Generic Block Device Capability (/sys/block/<device>/capability) cfq-iosched.txt @@ -14,6 +16,8 @@ deadline-iosched.txt - Deadline IO scheduler tunables ioprio.txt - Block io priorities (in CFQ scheduler) +pr.txt + - Block layer support for Persistent Reservations null_blk.txt - Null block for block-layer benchmarking. queue-sysfs.txt diff --git a/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt index ff71e16cc752..b14abf217239 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt @@ -280,17 +280,9 @@ the amount of kernel memory used by the system. Kernel memory is fundamentally different than user memory, since it can't be swapped out, which makes it possible to DoS the system by consuming too much of this precious resource. -Kernel memory won't be accounted at all until limit on a group is set. This -allows for existing setups to continue working without disruption. The limit -cannot be set if the cgroup have children, or if there are already tasks in the -cgroup. Attempting to set the limit under those conditions will return -EBUSY. -When use_hierarchy == 1 and a group is accounted, its children will -automatically be accounted regardless of their limit value. - -After a group is first limited, it will be kept being accounted until it -is removed. The memory limitation itself, can of course be removed by writing --1 to memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes. In this case, kmem will be accounted, but not -limited. +Kernel memory accounting is enabled for all memory cgroups by default. But +it can be disabled system-wide by passing cgroup.memory=nokmem to the kernel +at boot time. In this case, kernel memory will not be accounted at all. Kernel memory limits are not imposed for the root cgroup. Usage for the root cgroup may or may not be accounted. The memory used is accumulated into diff --git a/Documentation/connector/connector.txt b/Documentation/connector/connector.txt index f6215f95149b..ab7ca897fab7 100644 --- a/Documentation/connector/connector.txt +++ b/Documentation/connector/connector.txt @@ -186,3 +186,11 @@ only cn_test.c test module used it. Some work in netlink area is still being done, so things can be changed in 2.6.15 timeframe, if it will happen, documentation will be updated for that kernel. + +/*****************************************/ +Code samples +/*****************************************/ + +Sample code for a connector test module and user space can be found +in samples/connector/. To build this code, enable CONFIG_CONNECTOR +and CONFIG_SAMPLES. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/arizona.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/arizona.txt index 9b30011ecabe..a6e2ea41160c 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/arizona.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/arizona.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Cirrus Logic/Wolfson Microelectronics Arizona class audio SoCs -These devices are audio SoCs with extensive digital capabilites and a range +These devices are audio SoCs with extensive digital capabilities and a range of analogue I/O. Required properties: diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt index e89f7b51f243..7281fb4b4316 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt @@ -268,6 +268,9 @@ IIO devm_iio_trigger_alloc() devm_iio_trigger_free() +INPUT + devm_input_allocate_device() + IO region devm_release_mem_region() devm_release_region() diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/README b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/README index 2d5622f60e11..a54788405429 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/README +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/README @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows: same domain (e.g. running winbind or nss_ldap) and the server supports the Unix Extensions then the uid and gid can be retrieved from the server (and uid - and gid would not have to be specifed on the mount. + and gid would not have to be specified on the mount. For servers which do not support the CIFS Unix extensions, the default uid (and gid) returned on lookup of existing files will be the uid (gid) of the person diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/design_notes.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/design_notes.txt index 8aef91335701..106d17fbb05f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/design_notes.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/design_notes.txt @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Main features of this FS include: * Read request (data read, directory listing, lookup requests) balancing between multiple servers. * Write requests are replicated to multiple servers and completed only when all of them are acked. * Ability to add and/or remove servers from the working set at run-time. - * Strong authentification and possible data encryption in network channel. + * Strong authentication and possible data encryption in network channel. * Extended attributes support. POHMELFS is based on transactions, which are potentially long-standing objects that live diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/qnx6.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/qnx6.txt index 408679789136..4f3d6a882bdc 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/qnx6.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/qnx6.txt @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ qnx6fs shares many properties with traditional Unix filesystems. It has the concepts of blocks, inodes and directories. On QNX it is possible to create little endian and big endian qnx6 filesystems. This feature makes it possible to create and use a different endianness fs -for the target (QNX is used on quite a range of embedded systems) plattform +for the target (QNX is used on quite a range of embedded systems) platform running on a different endianness. The Linux driver handles endianness transparently. (LE and BE) diff --git a/Documentation/firmware_class/README b/Documentation/firmware_class/README index 71f86859d7d8..cafdca8b3b15 100644 --- a/Documentation/firmware_class/README +++ b/Documentation/firmware_class/README @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ 1), kernel(driver): - calls request_firmware(&fw_entry, $FIRMWARE, device) - - kernel searchs the fimware image with name $FIRMWARE directly + - kernel searches the firmware image with name $FIRMWARE directly in the below search path of root filesystem: User customized search path by module parameter 'path'[1] "/lib/firmware/updates/" UTS_RELEASE, diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/abituguru b/Documentation/hwmon/abituguru index 915f32063a26..f1d4fe4c366c 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/abituguru +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/abituguru @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Supported chips: 1) For revisions 2 and 3 uGuru's the driver can autodetect the sensortype (Volt or Temp) for bank1 sensors, for revision 1 uGuru's this doesnot always work. For these uGuru's the autodection can - be overriden with the bank1_types module param. For all 3 known + be overridden with the bank1_types module param. For all 3 known revison 1 motherboards the correct use of this param is: bank1_types=1,1,0,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,1 You may also need to specify the fan_sensors option for these boards diff --git a/Documentation/infiniband/ipoib.txt b/Documentation/infiniband/ipoib.txt index f2cfe265e836..47c1dd9818f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/infiniband/ipoib.txt +++ b/Documentation/infiniband/ipoib.txt @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Partitions and P_Keys main interface for a subinterface is in "parent." Child interface create/delete can also be done using IPoIB's - rtnl_link_ops, where childs created using either way behave the same. + rtnl_link_ops, where children created using either way behave the same. Datagram vs Connected modes diff --git a/Documentation/ja_JP/HOWTO b/Documentation/ja_JP/HOWTO index 52ef02b33da9..581c14bdd7be 100644 --- a/Documentation/ja_JP/HOWTO +++ b/Documentation/ja_JP/HOWTO @@ -290,12 +290,6 @@ Linux カーネルの開発プロセスは現在幾つかの異なるメイン - このプロセスはカーネルが 「準備ができた」と考えられるまで継続しま す。このプロセスはだいたい 6週間継続します。 - - 各リリースでの既知の後戻り問題(regression: このリリースの中で新規 - に作り込まれた問題を指す) はその都度 Linux-kernel メーリングリスト - に投稿されます。ゴールとしては、カーネルが 「準備ができた」と宣言 - する前にこのリストの長さをゼロに減らすことですが、現実には、数個の - 後戻り問題がリリース時にたびたび残ってしまいます。 - Andrew Morton が Linux-kernel メーリングリストにカーネルリリースについ て書いたことをここで言っておくことは価値があります- 「カーネルがいつリリースされるかは誰も知りません。なぜなら、これは現 diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt index fe217c1c2f7f..1dafc52167b0 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt @@ -194,15 +194,15 @@ simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the hardware) involves managing network packets in memory". - * Title: "Writing Linux Device Drivers" + * Title: "Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide" Author: Michael K. Johnson. - URL: http://users.evitech.fi/~tk/rtos/writing_linux_device_d.html - Keywords: files, VFS, file operations, kernel interface, character - vs block devices, I/O access, hardware interrupts, DMA, access to - user memory, memory allocation, timers. - Description: Introductory 50-minutes (sic) tutorial on writing - device drivers. 12 pages written by the same author of the "Kernel - Hackers' Guide" which give a very good overview of the topic. + URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html + Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs + block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory, + memory allocation, timers. + Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the + concepts that are not intuitevly obvious, and to document the internal + structures of Linux. * Title: "The Venus kernel interface" Author: Peter J. Braam. @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ * Title: "Analysis of the Ext2fs structure" Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau. - URL: http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/files/FileSystems/ext2fs/ + URL: http://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS2002/fs-ext2/ Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs. Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes, bitmaps, invariants... @@ -266,14 +266,14 @@ * Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.0 to 2.2" Author: Richard Gooch. - URL: - http://www.linuxhq.com/guides/LKMPG/node28.html + |