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author | Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> | 2012-04-19 17:06:26 -0300 |
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committer | Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> | 2012-04-19 17:06:26 -0300 |
commit | eac0556750e727ff39144a9a9e59d5ccf1fc0e2a (patch) | |
tree | f5ccff7795b2ad5e47f17fb475599c526f533e79 /Documentation | |
parent | f71fa31f9f7ac33cba12b8897983f950ad2c7a5b (diff) | |
parent | 19853301ef3289bda2d5264c1093e74efddaeab9 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'linus' into queue
Merge reason: development work has dependency on kvm patches merged
upstream.
Conflicts:
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-usb-usbtmc | 14 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-rssd | 18 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-cfq-target-latency | 8 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 9 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/usb/URB.txt | 22 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt | 6 |
9 files changed, 73 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-usb-usbtmc b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-usb-usbtmc index 2a7f9a00cb0..e960cd027e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-usb-usbtmc +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-usb-usbtmc @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/devices/*/interface_capabilities -What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/devices/*/device_capabilities +What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/interface_capabilities +What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/device_capabilities Date: August 2008 Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Description: @@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ Description: The files are read only. -What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/devices/*/usb488_interface_capabilities -What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/devices/*/usb488_device_capabilities +What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/usb488_interface_capabilities +What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/usb488_device_capabilities Date: August 2008 Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Description: @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Description: The files are read only. -What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/devices/*/TermChar +What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/TermChar Date: August 2008 Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Description: @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Description: sent to the device or not. -What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/devices/*/TermCharEnabled +What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/TermCharEnabled Date: August 2008 Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Description: @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Description: published by the USB-IF. -What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/devices/*/auto_abort +What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/auto_abort Date: August 2008 Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Description: diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-rssd b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-rssd new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..d535757799f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-rssd @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +What: /sys/block/rssd*/registers +Date: March 2012 +KernelVersion: 3.3 +Contact: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com> +Description: This is a read-only file. Dumps below driver information and + hardware registers. + - S ACTive + - Command Issue + - Allocated + - Completed + - PORT IRQ STAT + - HOST IRQ STAT + +What: /sys/block/rssd*/status +Date: April 2012 +KernelVersion: 3.4 +Contact: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com> +Description: This is a read-only file. Indicates the status of the device. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-cfq-target-latency b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-cfq-target-latency new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..df0f7828c5e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-cfq-target-latency @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +What: /sys/block/<device>/iosched/target_latency +Date: March 2012 +contact: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com> +Description: + The /sys/block/<device>/iosched/target_latency only exists + when the user sets cfq to /sys/block/<device>/scheduler. + It contains an estimated latency time for the cfq. cfq will + use it to calculate the time slice used for every task. diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index 4c95c0034a4..9b1067afb22 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -34,8 +34,7 @@ Current Status: linux-2.6.34-mmotm(development version of 2010/April) Features: - accounting anonymous pages, file caches, swap caches usage and limiting them. - - private LRU and reclaim routine. (system's global LRU and private LRU - work independently from each other) + - pages are linked to per-memcg LRU exclusively, and there is no global LRU. - optionally, memory+swap usage can be accounted and limited. - hierarchical accounting - soft limit @@ -154,7 +153,7 @@ updated. page_cgroup has its own LRU on cgroup. 2.2.1 Accounting details All mapped anon pages (RSS) and cache pages (Page Cache) are accounted. -Some pages which are never reclaimable and will not be on the global LRU +Some pages which are never reclaimable and will not be on the LRU are not accounted. We just account pages under usual VM management. RSS pages are accounted at page_fault unless they've already been accounted diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index d6dd84fbea8..223fe9fcfd9 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -534,7 +534,16 @@ Who: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> ---------------------------- +What: setitimer accepts user NULL pointer (value) +When: 3.6 +Why: setitimer is not returning -EFAULT if user pointer is NULL. This + violates the spec. +Who: Sasikantha Babu <sasikanth.v19@gmail.com> + +---------------------------- + What: KVM debugfs statistics When: 2013 Why: KVM tracepoints provide mostly equivalent information in a much more flexible fashion. + diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index e916e3d3648..0d049202808 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ members are defined: struct file_system_type { const char *name; int fs_flags; - struct dentry (*mount) (struct file_system_type *, int, + struct dentry *(*mount) (struct file_system_type *, int, const char *, void *); void (*kill_sb) (struct super_block *); struct module *owner; diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt index d97d992ced1..03f7897c641 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt @@ -43,7 +43,9 @@ ALC680 ALC882/883/885/888/889 ====================== - N/A + acer-aspire-4930g Acer Aspire 4930G/5930G/6530G/6930G/7730G + acer-aspire-8930g Acer Aspire 8330G/6935G + acer-aspire Acer Aspire others ALC861/660 ========== diff --git a/Documentation/usb/URB.txt b/Documentation/usb/URB.txt index 8ffce746d49..00d2c644068 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/URB.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/URB.txt @@ -168,6 +168,28 @@ that if the completion handler or anyone else tries to resubmit it they will get a -EPERM error. Thus you can be sure that when usb_kill_urb() returns, the URB is totally idle. +There is a lifetime issue to consider. An URB may complete at any +time, and the completion handler may free the URB. If this happens +while usb_unlink_urb or usb_kill_urb is running, it will cause a +memory-access violation. The driver is responsible for avoiding this, +which often means some sort of lock will be needed to prevent the URB +from being deallocated while it is still in use. + +On the other hand, since usb_unlink_urb may end up calling the +completion handler, the handler must not take any lock that is held +when usb_unlink_urb is invoked. The general solution to this problem +is to increment the URB's reference count while holding the lock, then +drop the lock and call usb_unlink_urb or usb_kill_urb, and then +decrement the URB's reference count. You increment the reference +count by calling + + struct urb *usb_get_urb(struct urb *urb) + +(ignore the return value; it is the same as the argument) and +decrement the reference count by calling usb_free_urb. Of course, +none of this is necessary if there's no danger of the URB being freed +by the completion handler. + 1.7. What about the completion handler? diff --git a/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt b/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt index 5335fa8b06e..c42bb9cd3b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt @@ -183,10 +183,10 @@ An input control transfer to get a port status. d5ea89a0 3575914555 S Ci:1:001:0 s a3 00 0000 0003 0004 4 < d5ea89a0 3575914560 C Ci:1:001:0 0 4 = 01050000 -An output bulk transfer to send a SCSI command 0x5E in a 31-byte Bulk wrapper -to a storage device at address 5: +An output bulk transfer to send a SCSI command 0x28 (READ_10) in a 31-byte +Bulk wrapper to a storage device at address 5: -dd65f0e8 4128379752 S Bo:1:005:2 -115 31 = 55534243 5e000000 00000000 00000600 00000000 00000000 00000000 000000 +dd65f0e8 4128379752 S Bo:1:005:2 -115 31 = 55534243 ad000000 00800000 80010a28 20000000 20000040 00000000 000000 dd65f0e8 4128379808 C Bo:1:005:2 0 31 > * Raw binary format and API |