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@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 06c3aa5ef1c9491f4c94483ca52afc420bc58c5a
+refs/heads/master: ea38280c2a6e22997cf05bfea0d9391ddea1da24

trunk/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-usb_host → trunk/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-uwb_rc-wusbhc

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-What:           /sys/class/usb_host/usb_hostN/wusb_chid
+What:           /sys/class/uwb_rc/uwbN/wusbhc/wusb_chid
 Date:           July 2008
 KernelVersion:  2.6.27
 Contact:        David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Description:
 
                 Set an all zero CHID to stop the host controller.
 
-What:           /sys/class/usb_host/usb_hostN/wusb_trust_timeout
+What:           /sys/class/uwb_rc/uwbN/wusbhc/wusb_trust_timeout
 Date:           July 2008
 KernelVersion:  2.6.27
 Contact:        David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>

trunk/Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt

@@ -64,14 +64,14 @@ be used to view the printk buffer of a remote machine, even with live update.
 
 Bernhard Kaindl enhanced firescope to support accessing 64-bit machines
 from 32-bit firescope and vice versa:
-- ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/tools/firescope-0.2.2.tar.bz2
+- http://halobates.de/firewire/firescope-0.2.2.tar.bz2
 
 and he implemented fast system dump (alpha version - read README.txt):
-- ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/tools/firedump-0.1.tar.bz2
+- http://halobates.de/firewire/firedump-0.1.tar.bz2
 
 There is also a gdb proxy for firewire which allows to use gdb to access
 data which can be referenced from symbols found by gdb in vmlinux:
-- ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/tools/fireproxy-0.33.tar.bz2
+- http://halobates.de/firewire/fireproxy-0.33.tar.bz2
 
 The latest version of this gdb proxy (fireproxy-0.34) can communicate (not
 yet stable) with kgdb over an memory-based communication module (kgdbom).
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ Step-by-step instructions for using firescope with early OHCI initialization:
 
 Notes
 -----
-Documentation and specifications: ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/docs
+Documentation and specifications: http://halobates.de/firewire/
 
 FireWire is a trademark of Apple Inc. - for more information please refer to:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireWire

trunk/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

@@ -418,6 +418,14 @@ When:	2.6.33
 Why:	Should be implemented in userspace, policy daemon.
 Who:	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
 
+---------------------------
+
+What:	CONFIG_INOTIFY
+When:	2.6.33
+Why:	last user (audit) will be converted to the newer more generic
+	and more easily maintained fsnotify subsystem
+Who:	Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
+
 ----------------------------
 
 What:	lock_policy_rwsem_* and unlock_policy_rwsem_* will not be
@@ -451,3 +459,33 @@ Why:	OSS sound_core grabs all legacy minors (0-255) of SOUND_MAJOR
 	will also allow making ALSA OSS emulation independent of
 	sound_core.  The dependency will be broken then too.
 Who:	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What:	Support for VMware's guest paravirtuliazation technique [VMI] will be
+	dropped.
+When:	2.6.37 or earlier.
+Why:	With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies
+	from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these
+	techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform.
+	These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the
+	performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware
+	expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of
+	years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this
+	feature from the hypervisor. We will be removing this feature from the
+	Kernel too. Right now we are targeting 2.6.37 but can retire earlier if
+	technical reasons (read opportunity to remove major chunk of pvops)
+	arise.
+
+	Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels
+	still work fine on VMware's platform.
+	Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are,
+	Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence
+	releases for these products will continue supporting VMI.
+
+	For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this,
+	http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html
+
+Who:	Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
+
+----------------------------

trunk/Documentation/flexible-arrays.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Using flexible arrays in the kernel
-Last updated for 2.6.31
+Last updated for 2.6.32
 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
 
 Large contiguous memory allocations can be unreliable in the Linux kernel.
@@ -40,6 +40,13 @@ argument is passed directly to the internal memory allocation calls.  With
 the current code, using flags to ask for high memory is likely to lead to
 notably unpleasant side effects.
 
+It is also possible to define flexible arrays at compile time with:
+
+    DEFINE_FLEX_ARRAY(name, element_size, total);
+
+This macro will result in a definition of an array with the given name; the
+element size and total will be checked for validity at compile time.
+
 Storing data into a flexible array is accomplished with a call to:
 
     int flex_array_put(struct flex_array *array, unsigned int element_nr,
@@ -76,16 +83,30 @@ particular element has never been allocated.
 Note that it is possible to get back a valid pointer for an element which
 has never been stored in the array.  Memory for array elements is allocated
 one page at a time; a single allocation could provide memory for several
-adjacent elements.  The flexible array code does not know if a specific
-element has been written; it only knows if the associated memory is
-present.  So a flex_array_get() call on an element which was never stored
-in the array has the potential to return a pointer to random data.  If the
-caller does not have a separate way to know which elements were actually
-stored, it might be wise, at least, to add GFP_ZERO to the flags argument
-to ensure that all elements are zeroed.
-
-There is no way to remove a single element from the array.  It is possible,
-though, to remove all elements with a call to:
+adjacent elements.  Flexible array elements are normally initialized to the
+value FLEX_ARRAY_FREE (defined as 0x6c in <linux/poison.h>), so errors
+involving that number probably result from use of unstored array entries.
+Note that, if array elements are allocated with __GFP_ZERO, they will be
+initialized to zero and this poisoning will not happen.
+
+Individual elements in the array can be cleared with:
+
+    int flex_array_clear(struct flex_array *array, unsigned int element_nr);
+
+This function will set the given element to FLEX_ARRAY_FREE and return
+zero.  If storage for the indicated element is not allocated for the array,
+flex_array_clear() will return -EINVAL instead.  Note that clearing an
+element does not release the storage associated with it; to reduce the
+allocated size of an array, call:
+
+    int flex_array_shrink(struct flex_array *array);
+
+The return value will be the number of pages of memory actually freed.
+This function works by scanning the array for pages containing nothing but
+FLEX_ARRAY_FREE bytes, so (1) it can be expensive, and (2) it will not work
+if the array's pages are allocated with __GFP_ZERO.
+
+It is possible to remove all elements of an array with a call to:
 
     void flex_array_free_parts(struct flex_array *array);
 

trunk/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface

@@ -353,10 +353,20 @@ power[1-*]_average		Average power use
 				Unit: microWatt
 				RO
 
-power[1-*]_average_interval	Power use averaging interval
+power[1-*]_average_interval	Power use averaging interval.  A poll
+				notification is sent to this file if the
+				hardware changes the averaging interval.
 				Unit: milliseconds
 				RW
 
+power[1-*]_average_interval_max	Maximum power use averaging interval
+				Unit: milliseconds
+				RO
+
+power[1-*]_average_interval_min	Minimum power use averaging interval
+				Unit: milliseconds
+				RO
+
 power[1-*]_average_highest	Historical average maximum power use
 				Unit: microWatt
 				RO
@@ -365,6 +375,18 @@ power[1-*]_average_lowest	Historical average minimum power use
 				Unit: microWatt
 				RO
 
+power[1-*]_average_max		A poll notification is sent to
+				power[1-*]_average when power use
+				rises above this value.
+				Unit: microWatt
+				RW
+
+power[1-*]_average_min		A poll notification is sent to
+				power[1-*]_average when power use
+				sinks below this value.
+				Unit: microWatt
+				RW
+
 power[1-*]_input		Instantaneous power use
 				Unit: microWatt
 				RO
@@ -381,6 +403,39 @@ power[1-*]_reset_history	Reset input_highest, input_lowest,
 				average_highest and average_lowest.
 				WO
 
+power[1-*]_accuracy		Accuracy of the power meter.
+				Unit: Percent
+				RO
+
+power[1-*]_alarm		1 if the system is drawing more power than the
+				cap allows; 0 otherwise.  A poll notification is
+				sent to this file when the power use exceeds the
+				cap.  This file only appears if the cap is known
+				to be enforced by hardware.
+				RO
+
+power[1-*]_cap			If power use rises above this limit, the
+				system should take action to reduce power use.
+				A poll notification is sent to this file if the
+				cap is changed by the hardware.  The *_cap
+				files only appear if the cap is known to be
+				enforced by hardware.
+				Unit: microWatt
+				RW
+
+power[1-*]_cap_hyst		Margin of hysteresis built around capping and
+				notification.
+				Unit: microWatt
+				RW
+
+power[1-*]_cap_max		Maximum cap that can be set.
+				Unit: microWatt
+				RO
+
+power[1-*]_cap_min		Minimum cap that can be set.
+				Unit: microWatt
+				RO
+
 **********
 * Energy *
 **********

trunk/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c

@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@
 #include <signal.h>
 #include "linux/lguest_launcher.h"
 #include "linux/virtio_config.h"
-#include <linux/virtio_ids.h>
 #include "linux/virtio_net.h"
 #include "linux/virtio_blk.h"
 #include "linux/virtio_console.h"

trunk/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+What is hwpoison?
+
+Upcoming Intel CPUs have support for recovering from some memory errors
+(``MCA recovery''). This requires the OS to declare a page "poisoned",
+kill the processes associated with it and avoid using it in the future.
+
+This patchkit implements the necessary infrastructure in the VM.
+
+To quote the overview comment:
+
+ * High level machine check handler. Handles pages reported by the
+ * hardware as being corrupted usually due to a 2bit ECC memory or cache
+ * failure.
+ *
+ * This focusses on pages detected as corrupted in the background.
+ * When the current CPU tries to consume corruption the currently
+ * running process can just be killed directly instead. This implies
+ * that if the error cannot be handled for some reason it's safe to
+ * just ignore it because no corruption has been consumed yet. Instead
+ * when that happens another machine check will happen.
+ *
+ * Handles page cache pages in various states. The tricky part
+ * here is that we can access any page asynchronous to other VM
+ * users, because memory failures could happen anytime and anywhere,
+ * possibly violating some of their assumptions. This is why this code
+ * has to be extremely careful. Generally it tries to use normal locking
+ * rules, as in get the standard locks, even if that means the
+ * error handling takes potentially a long time.
+ *
+ * Some of the operations here are somewhat inefficient and have non
+ * linear algorithmic complexity, because the data structures have not
+ * been optimized for this case. This is in particular the case
+ * for the mapping from a vma to a process. Since this case is expected
+ * to be rare we hope we can get away with this.
+
+The code consists of a the high level handler in mm/memory-failure.c,
+a new page poison bit and various checks in the VM to handle poisoned
+pages.
+
+The main target right now is KVM guests, but it works for all kinds
+of applications. KVM support requires a recent qemu-kvm release.
+
+For the KVM use there was need for a new signal type so that
+KVM can inject the machine check into the guest with the proper
+address. This in theory allows other applications to handle
+memory failures too. The expection is that near all applications
+won't do that, but some very specialized ones might.
+
+---
+
+There are two (actually three) modi memory failure recovery can be in:
+
+vm.memory_failure_recovery sysctl set to zero:
+	All memory failures cause a panic. Do not attempt recovery.
+	(on x86 this can be also affected by the tolerant level of the
+	MCE subsystem)
+
+early kill
+	(can be controlled globally and per process)
+	Send SIGBUS to the application as soon as the error is detected
+	This allows applications who can process memory errors in a gentle
+	way (e.g. drop affected object)
+	This is the mode used by KVM qemu.
+
+late kill
+	Send SIGBUS when the application runs into the corrupted page.
+	This is best for memory error unaware applications and default
+	Note some pages are always handled as late kill.
+
+---
+
+User control:
+
+vm.memory_failure_recovery
+	See sysctl.txt
+
+vm.memory_failure_early_kill
+	Enable early kill mode globally
+
+PR_MCE_KILL
+	Set early/late kill mode/revert to system default
+	arg1: PR_MCE_KILL_CLEAR: Revert to system default
+	arg1: PR_MCE_KILL_SET: arg2 defines thread specific mode
+		PR_MCE_KILL_EARLY: Early kill
+		PR_MCE_KILL_LATE:  Late kill
+		PR_MCE_KILL_DEFAULT: Use system global default
+PR_MCE_KILL_GET
+	return current mode
+
+
+---
+
+Testing:
+
+madvise(MADV_POISON, ....)
+	(as root)
+	Poison a page in the process for testing
+
+
+hwpoison-inject module through debugfs
+	/sys/debug/hwpoison/corrupt-pfn
+
+Inject hwpoison fault at PFN echoed into this file
+
+
+Architecture specific MCE injector
+
+x86 has mce-inject, mce-test
+
+Some portable hwpoison test programs in mce-test, see blow.
+
+---
+
+References:
+
+http://halobates.de/mce-lc09-2.pdf
+	Overview presentation from LinuxCon 09
+
+git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/cpu/mce/mce-test.git
+	Test suite (hwpoison specific portable tests in tsrc)
+
+git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/cpu/mce/mce-inject.git
+	x86 specific injector
+
+
+---
+
+Limitations:
+
+- Not all page types are supported and never will. Most kernel internal
+objects cannot be recovered, only LRU pages for now.
+- Right now hugepage support is missing.
+
+---
+Andi Kleen, Oct 2009
+