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@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 516cbf3730c49739629d66313b20bdc50c98aa2c
+refs/heads/master: af2d237bf574f89ae5a1b67f2556a324c8f64ff5

trunk/.mailmap

@@ -96,4 +96,6 @@ Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
 Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
 Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
 Tsuneo Yoshioka <Tsuneo.Yoshioka@f-secure.com>
+Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
+Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
 Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>

trunk/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-sgi_uv

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+What:		/sys/firmware/sgi_uv/
+Date:		August 2008
+Contact:	Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
+Description:
+		The /sys/firmware/sgi_uv directory contains information
+		about the SGI UV platform.
+
+		Under that directory are a number of files:
+
+			partition_id
+			coherence_id
+
+		The partition_id entry contains the partition id.
+		SGI UV systems can be partitioned into multiple physical
+		machines, which each partition running a unique copy
+		of the operating system.  Each partition will have a unique
+		partition id.  To display the partition id, use the command:
+
+			cat /sys/firmware/sgi_uv/partition_id
+
+		The coherence_id entry contains the coherence id.
+		A partitioned SGI UV system can have one or more coherence
+		domain.  The coherence id indicates which coherence domain
+		this partition is in.  To display the coherence id, use the
+		command:
+
+			cat /sys/firmware/sgi_uv/coherence_id

trunk/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+What:		/sys/class/gpio/
+Date:		July 2008
+KernelVersion:	2.6.27
+Contact:	David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
+Description:
+
+  As a Kconfig option, individual GPIO signals may be accessed from
+  userspace.  GPIOs are only made available to userspace by an explicit
+  "export" operation.  If a given GPIO is not claimed for use by
+  kernel code, it may be exported by userspace (and unexported later).
+  Kernel code may export it for complete or partial access.
+
+  GPIOs are identified as they are inside the kernel, using integers in
+  the range 0..INT_MAX.  See Documentation/gpio.txt for more information.
+
+    /sys/class/gpio
+	/export ... asks the kernel to export a GPIO to userspace
+	/unexport ... to return a GPIO to the kernel
+	/gpioN ... for each exported GPIO #N
+	    /value ... always readable, writes fail for input GPIOs
+	    /direction ... r/w as: in, out (default low); write: high, low
+	/gpiochipN ... for each gpiochip; #N is its first GPIO
+	    /base ... (r/o) same as N
+	    /label ... (r/o) descriptive, not necessarily unique
+	    /ngpio ... (r/o) number of GPIOs; numbered N to N + (ngpio - 1)
+

trunk/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/GPIO.txt

@@ -13,6 +13,21 @@ Introduction
   data-sheet/users manual to find out the complete list.
 
 
+GPIOLIB
+-------
+
+  With the event of the GPIOLIB in drivers/gpio, support for some
+  of the GPIO functions such as reading and writing a pin will
+  be removed in favour of this common access method.
+
+  Once all the extant drivers have been converted, the functions
+  listed below will be removed (they may be marked as __deprecated
+  in the near future).
+
+  - s3c2410_gpio_getpin
+  - s3c2410_gpio_setpin
+
+
 Headers
 -------
 

trunk/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt

@@ -8,9 +8,10 @@ Introduction
 
   The Samsung S3C24XX range of ARM9 System-on-Chip CPUs are supported
   by the 's3c2410' architecture of ARM Linux. Currently the S3C2410,
-  S3C2412, S3C2413, S3C2440 and S3C2442 devices are supported.
+  S3C2412, S3C2413, S3C2440, S3C2442 and S3C2443 devices are supported.
+
+  Support for the S3C2400 and S3C24A0 series are in progress.
 
-  Support for the S3C2400 series is in progress.
 
 Configuration
 -------------
@@ -38,6 +39,22 @@ Layout
   Register, kernel and platform data definitions are held in the
   arch/arm/mach-s3c2410 directory./include/mach
 
+arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx:
+
+  Files in here are either common to all the s3c24xx family,
+  or are common to only some of them with names to indicate this
+  status. The files that are not common to all are generally named
+  with the initial cpu they support in the series to ensure a short
+  name without any possibility of confusion with newer devices.
+
+  As an example, initially s3c244x would cover s3c2440 and s3c2442, but
+  with the s3c2443 which does not share many of the same drivers in
+  this directory, the name becomes invalid. We stick to s3c2440-<x>
+  to indicate a driver that is s3c2440 and s3c2442 compatible.
+
+  This does mean that to find the status of any given SoC, a number
+  of directories may need to be searched.
+
 
 Machines
 --------
@@ -159,6 +176,17 @@ NAND
   For more information see Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/NAND.txt
 
 
+SD/MMC
+------
+
+  The SD/MMC hardware pre S3C2443 is supported in the current
+  kernel, the driver is drivers/mmc/host/s3cmci.c and supports
+  1 and 4 bit SD or MMC cards.
+
+  The SDIO behaviour of this driver has not been fully tested. There is no
+  current support for hardware SDIO interrupts.
+
+
 Serial
 ------
 
@@ -178,6 +206,9 @@ GPIO
   The core contains support for manipulating the GPIO, see the
   documentation in GPIO.txt in the same directory as this file.
 
+  Newer kernels carry GPIOLIB, and support is being moved towards
+  this with some of the older support in line to be removed.
+
 
 Clock Management
 ----------------

trunk/Documentation/cpusets.txt

@@ -635,14 +635,16 @@ prior 'mems' setting, will not be moved.
 
 There is an exception to the above.  If hotplug functionality is used
 to remove all the CPUs that are currently assigned to a cpuset,
-then the kernel will automatically update the cpus_allowed of all
-tasks attached to CPUs in that cpuset to allow all CPUs.  When memory
-hotplug functionality for removing Memory Nodes is available, a
-similar exception is expected to apply there as well.  In general,
-the kernel prefers to violate cpuset placement, over starving a task
-that has had all its allowed CPUs or Memory Nodes taken offline.  User
-code should reconfigure cpusets to only refer to online CPUs and Memory
-Nodes when using hotplug to add or remove such resources.
+then all the tasks in that cpuset will be moved to the nearest ancestor
+with non-empty cpus.  But the moving of some (or all) tasks might fail if
+cpuset is bound with another cgroup subsystem which has some restrictions
+on task attaching.  In this failing case, those tasks will stay
+in the original cpuset, and the kernel will automatically update
+their cpus_allowed to allow all online CPUs.  When memory hotplug
+functionality for removing Memory Nodes is available, a similar exception
+is expected to apply there as well.  In general, the kernel prefers to
+violate cpuset placement, over starving a task that has had all
+its allowed CPUs or Memory Nodes taken offline.
 
 There is a second exception to the above.  GFP_ATOMIC requests are
 kernel internal allocations that must be satisfied, immediately.

trunk/Documentation/dontdiff

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 *.css
 *.dvi
 *.eps
+*.fw.gen.S
+*.fw
 *.gif
 *.grep
 *.grp

trunk/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

@@ -322,3 +322,11 @@ Why:  Accounting can now be enabled/disabled without kernel recompilation.
       controlled by a kernel/module/sysfs/sysctl parameter.
 Who:  Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>
 
+---------------------------
+
+What: ide-scsi (BLK_DEV_IDESCSI)
+When: 2.6.29
+Why:  The 2.6 kernel supports direct writing to ide CD drives, which
+      eliminates the need for ide-scsi. The new method is more
+      efficient in every way.
+Who:  FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>

trunk/Documentation/filesystems/Locking

@@ -144,8 +144,8 @@ prototypes:
 	void (*kill_sb) (struct super_block *);
 locking rules:
 		may block	BKL
-get_sb		yes		yes
-kill_sb		yes		yes
+get_sb		yes		no
+kill_sb		yes		no
 
 ->get_sb() returns error or 0 with locked superblock attached to the vfsmount
 (exclusive on ->s_umount).
@@ -409,12 +409,12 @@ ioctl:			yes	(see below)
 unlocked_ioctl:		no	(see below)
 compat_ioctl:		no
 mmap:			no
-open:			maybe	(see below)
+open:			no
 flush:			no
 release:		no
 fsync:			no	(see below)
 aio_fsync:		no
-fasync:			yes	(see below)
+fasync:			no
 lock:			yes
 readv:			no
 writev:			no
@@ -431,13 +431,6 @@ For many filesystems, it is probably safe to acquire the inode
 semaphore.  Note some filesystems (i.e. remote ones) provide no
 protection for i_size so you will need to use the BKL.
 
-->open() locking is in-transit: big lock partially moved into the methods.
-The only exception is ->open() in the instances of file_operations that never
-end up in ->i_fop/->proc_fops, i.e. ones that belong to character devices
-(chrdev_open() takes lock before replacing ->f_op and calling the secondary
-method. As soon as we fix the handling of module reference counters all
-instances of ->open() will be called without the BKL.
-
 Note: ext2_release() was *the* source of contention on fs-intensive
 loads and dropping BKL on ->release() helps to get rid of that (we still
 grab BKL for cases when we close a file that had been opened r/w, but that

trunk/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt

@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ Mailing list: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
 
     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git
 
+  - Note that it is highly important to install the mke2fs.conf file
+    that comes with the e2fsprogs 1.41.x sources in /etc/mke2fs.conf. If
+    you have edited the /etc/mke2fs.conf file installed on your system,
+    you will need to merge your changes with the version from e2fsprogs
+    1.41.x.
+
   - Create a new filesystem using the ext4dev filesystem type:
 
     	# mke2fs -t ext4dev /dev/hda1

trunk/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Web site
 ========
 
 There is plenty of additional information on the linux-ntfs web site
-at http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/
+at http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
 
 The web site has a lot of additional information, such as a comprehensive
 FAQ, documentation on the NTFS on-disk format, information on the Linux-NTFS
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ And you would know that /dev/hda2 has a size of 37768814 - 4209030 + 1 =
 For Win2k and later dynamic disks, you can for example use the ldminfo utility
 which is part of the Linux LDM tools (the latest version at the time of
 writing is linux-ldm-0.0.8.tar.bz2).  You can download it from:
-	http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html
+	http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
 Simply extract the downloaded archive (tar xvjf linux-ldm-0.0.8.tar.bz2), go
 into it (cd linux-ldm-0.0.8) and change to the test directory (cd test).  You
 will find the precompiled (i386) ldminfo utility there.  NOTE: You will not be

trunk/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

@@ -1339,6 +1339,25 @@ Enables/Disables the protection of the per-process proc entries "maps" and
 "smaps".  When enabled, the contents of these files are visible only to
 readers that are allowed to ptrace() the given process.
 
+msgmni
+------
+
+Maximum number of message queue ids on the system.
+This value scales to the amount of lowmem. It is automatically recomputed
+upon memory add/remove or ipc namespace creation/removal.
+When a value is written into this file, msgmni's value becomes fixed, i.e. it
+is not recomputed anymore when one of the above events occurs.
+Use auto_msgmni to change this behavior.
+
+auto_msgmni
+-----------
+
+Enables/Disables automatic recomputing of msgmni upon memory add/remove or
+upon ipc namespace creation/removal (see the msgmni description above).
+Echoing "1" into this file enables msgmni automatic recomputing.
+Echoing "0" turns it off.
+auto_msgmni default value is 1.
+
 
 2.4 /proc/sys/vm - The virtual memory subsystem
 -----------------------------------------------
@@ -2394,6 +2413,8 @@ The following 4 memory types are supported:
   - (bit 1) anonymous shared memory
   - (bit 2) file-backed private memory
   - (bit 3) file-backed shared memory
+  - (bit 4) ELF header pages in file-backed private memory areas (it is
+            effective only if the bit 2 is cleared)
 
   Note that MMIO pages such as frame buffer are never dumped and vDSO pages
   are always dumped regardless of the bitmask status.

trunk/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Similarly to JFFS2, UBIFS supports on-the-flight compression which makes
 it possible to fit quite a lot of data to the flash.
 
 Similarly to JFFS2, UBIFS is tolerant of unclean reboots and power-cuts.
-It does not need stuff like ckfs.ext2. UBIFS automatically replays its
+It does not need stuff like fsck.ext2. UBIFS automatically replays its
 journal and recovers from crashes, ensuring that the on-flash data
 structures are consistent.
 

trunk/Documentation/hwmon/ibmaem

@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 Kernel driver ibmaem
 ======================
 
+This driver talks to the IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager, known
+henceforth as AEM.
+
 Supported systems:
-  * Any recent IBM System X server with Active Energy Manager support.
+  * Any recent IBM System X server with AEM support.
     This includes the x3350, x3550, x3650, x3655, x3755, x3850 M2,
     x3950 M2, and certain HS2x/LS2x/QS2x blades.  The IPMI host interface
     driver ("ipmi-si") needs to be loaded for this driver to do anything.
@@ -14,24 +17,22 @@ Author: Darrick J. Wong
 Description
 -----------
 
-This driver implements sensor reading support for the energy and power
-meters available on various IBM System X hardware through the BMC.  All
-sensor banks will be exported as platform devices; this driver can talk
-to both v1 and v2 interfaces.  This driver is completely separate from the
-older ibmpex driver.
+This driver implements sensor reading support for the energy and power meters
+available on various IBM System X hardware through the BMC.  All sensor banks
+will be exported as platform devices; this driver can talk to both v1 and v2
+interfaces.  This driver is completely separate from the older ibmpex driver.
 
-The v1 AEM interface has a simple set of features to monitor energy use.
-There is a register that displays an estimate of raw energy consumption
-since the last BMC reset, and a power sensor that returns average power
-use over a configurable interval.
+The v1 AEM interface has a simple set of features to monitor energy use.  There
+is a register that displays an estimate of raw energy consumption since the
+last BMC reset, and a power sensor that returns average power use over a
+configurable interval.
 
-The v2 AEM interface is a bit more sophisticated, being able to present
-a wider range of energy and power use registers, the power cap as
-set by the AEM software, and temperature sensors.
+The v2 AEM interface is a bit more sophisticated, being able to present a wider
+range of energy and power use registers, the power cap as set by the AEM
+software, and temperature sensors.
 
 Special Features
 ----------------
 
-The "power_cap" value displays the current system power cap, as set by
-the Active Energy Manager software.  Setting the power cap from the host
-is not currently supported.
+The "power_cap" value displays the current system power cap, as set by the AEM
+software.  Setting the power cap from the host is not currently supported.