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[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 43c9c59185eec7caaff6e9dd8d4c93a4d9836a86
+refs/heads/master: aa36c7bf987dfa5597c0f7c46f8fca46b2dd33d2

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

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+What:		/sys/firmware/sfi/tables/
+Date:		May 2010
+Contact:	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
+Description:
+		SFI defines a number of small static memory tables
+		so the kernel can get platform information from firmware.
+
+		The tables are defined in the latest SFI specification:
+		http://simplefirmware.org/documentation
+
+		While the tables are used by the kernel, user-space
+		can observe them this way:
+
+		# cd /sys/firmware/sfi/tables
+		# cat $TABLENAME > $TABLENAME.bin

trunk/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt

@@ -639,6 +639,36 @@ is planned to completely remove virt_to_bus() and bus_to_virt() as
 they are entirely deprecated.  Some ports already do not provide these
 as it is impossible to correctly support them.
 
+			Handling Errors
+
+DMA address space is limited on some architectures and an allocation
+failure can be determined by:
+
+- checking if dma_alloc_coherent returns NULL or dma_map_sg returns 0
+
+- checking the returned dma_addr_t of dma_map_single and dma_map_page
+  by using dma_mapping_error():
+
+	dma_addr_t dma_handle;
+
+	dma_handle = dma_map_single(dev, addr, size, direction);
+	if (dma_mapping_error(dev, dma_handle)) {
+		/*
+		 * reduce current DMA mapping usage,
+		 * delay and try again later or
+		 * reset driver.
+		 */
+	}
+
+Networking drivers must call dev_kfree_skb to free the socket buffer
+and return NETDEV_TX_OK if the DMA mapping fails on the transmit hook
+(ndo_start_xmit). This means that the socket buffer is just dropped in
+the failure case.
+
+SCSI drivers must return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY if the DMA mapping
+fails in the queuecommand hook. This means that the SCSI subsystem
+passes the command to the driver again later.
+
 		Optimizing Unmap State Space Consumption
 
 On many platforms, dma_unmap_{single,page}() is simply a nop.
@@ -703,42 +733,25 @@ to "Closing".
 
 1) Struct scatterlist requirements.
 
-   Struct scatterlist must contain, at a minimum, the following
-   members:
-
-	struct page *page;
-	unsigned int offset;
-	unsigned int length;
-
-   The base address is specified by a "page+offset" pair.
-
-   Previous versions of struct scatterlist contained a "void *address"
-   field that was sometimes used instead of page+offset.  As of Linux
-   2.5., page+offset is always used, and the "address" field has been
-   deleted.
-
-2) More to come...
-
-			Handling Errors
-
-DMA address space is limited on some architectures and an allocation
-failure can be determined by:
-
-- checking if dma_alloc_coherent returns NULL or dma_map_sg returns 0
-
-- checking the returned dma_addr_t of dma_map_single and dma_map_page
-  by using dma_mapping_error():
-
-	dma_addr_t dma_handle;
-
-	dma_handle = dma_map_single(dev, addr, size, direction);
-	if (dma_mapping_error(dev, dma_handle)) {
-		/*
-		 * reduce current DMA mapping usage,
-		 * delay and try again later or
-		 * reset driver.
-		 */
-	}
+   Don't invent the architecture specific struct scatterlist; just use
+   <asm-generic/scatterlist.h>. You need to enable
+   CONFIG_NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH if the architecture supports IOMMUs
+   (including software IOMMU).
+
+2) ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
+
+   Architectures must ensure that kmalloc'ed buffer is
+   DMA-safe. Drivers and subsystems depend on it. If an architecture
+   isn't fully DMA-coherent (i.e. hardware doesn't ensure that data in
+   the CPU cache is identical to data in main memory),
+   ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN must be set so that the memory allocator
+   makes sure that kmalloc'ed buffer doesn't share a cache line with
+   the others. See arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h as an example.
+
+   Note that ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is about DMA memory alignment
+   constraints. You don't need to worry about the architecture data
+   alignment constraints (e.g. the alignment constraints about 64-bit
+   objects).
 
 			   Closing
 

trunk/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers

@@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ Linux kernel master tree:
 	ftp.??.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/...
 	?? == your country code, such as "us", "uk", "fr", etc.
 
+	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
+
 Linux kernel mailing list:
 	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 	[mail majordomo@vger.kernel.org to subscribe]
@@ -160,3 +162,6 @@ How to NOT write kernel driver by Arjan van de Ven:
 
 Kernel Janitor:
 	http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/
+
+GIT, Fast Version Control System:
+	http://git-scm.com/

trunk/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt

@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ To mount a cgroup hierarchy with all available subsystems, type:
 The "xxx" is not interpreted by the cgroup code, but will appear in
 /proc/mounts so may be any useful identifying string that you like.
 
-To mount a cgroup hierarchy with just the cpuset and numtasks
+To mount a cgroup hierarchy with just the cpuset and memory
 subsystems, type:
 # mount -t cgroup -o cpuset,memory hier1 /dev/cgroup