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@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
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-refs/heads/master: ddd559b13f6d2fe3ad68c4b3f5235fd3c2eae4e3
+refs/heads/master: 13f96d8f4c5a3f6a6b5e578d08869d79d690e0b2

trunk/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block

@@ -94,28 +94,37 @@ What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/physical_block_size
 Date:		May 2009
 Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
 Description:
-		This is the smallest unit the storage device can write
-		without resorting to read-modify-write operation.  It is
-		usually the same as the logical block size but may be
-		bigger.  One example is SATA drives with 4KB sectors
-		that expose a 512-byte logical block size to the
-		operating system.
+		This is the smallest unit a physical storage device can
+		write atomically.  It is usually the same as the logical
+		block size but may be bigger.  One example is SATA
+		drives with 4KB sectors that expose a 512-byte logical
+		block size to the operating system.  For stacked block
+		devices the physical_block_size variable contains the
+		maximum physical_block_size of the component devices.
 
 What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/minimum_io_size
 Date:		April 2009
 Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
 Description:
-		Storage devices may report a preferred minimum I/O size,
-		which is the smallest request the device can perform
-		without incurring a read-modify-write penalty.  For disk
-		drives this is often the physical block size.  For RAID
-		arrays it is often the stripe chunk size.
+		Storage devices may report a granularity or preferred
+		minimum I/O size which is the smallest request the
+		device can perform without incurring a performance
+		penalty.  For disk drives this is often the physical
+		block size.  For RAID arrays it is often the stripe
+		chunk size.  A properly aligned multiple of
+		minimum_io_size is the preferred request size for
+		workloads where a high number of I/O operations is
+		desired.
 
 What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/optimal_io_size
 Date:		April 2009
 Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
 Description:
 		Storage devices may report an optimal I/O size, which is
-		the device's preferred unit of receiving I/O.  This is
-		rarely reported for disk drives.  For RAID devices it is
-		usually the stripe width or the internal block size.
+		the device's preferred unit for sustained I/O.  This is
+		rarely reported for disk drives.  For RAID arrays it is
+		usually the stripe width or the internal track size.  A
+		properly aligned multiple of optimal_io_size is the
+		preferred request size for workloads where sustained
+		throughput is desired.  If no optimal I/O size is
+		reported this file contains 0.

trunk/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl

@@ -449,8 +449,8 @@ printk(KERN_INFO "i = %u\n", i);
    </para>
 
    <programlisting>
-__u32 ipaddress;
-printk(KERN_INFO "my ip: %d.%d.%d.%d\n", NIPQUAD(ipaddress));
+__be32 ipaddress;
+printk(KERN_INFO "my ip: %pI4\n", &amp;ipaddress);
    </programlisting>
 
    <para>

trunk/Documentation/arm/memory.txt

@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ ffff8000	ffffffff	copy_user_page / clear_user_page use.
 				For SA11xx and Xscale, this is used to
 				setup a minicache mapping.
 
+ffff4000	ffffffff	cache aliasing on ARMv6 and later CPUs.
+
 ffff1000	ffff7fff	Reserved.
 				Platforms must not use this address range.
 

trunk/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt

@@ -123,6 +123,9 @@ available from the same CVS repository.
 There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project
 on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs).
 
+A stand-alone version of the module (which should build for any 2.6 kernel)
+is available via (http://github.com/ericvh/9p-sac/tree/master)
+
 News and other information is maintained on SWiK (http://swik.net/v9fs).
 
 Bug reports may be issued through the kernel.org bugzilla 

trunk/Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt

@@ -23,15 +23,13 @@ it does support include:
 
  (*) Security (currently only AFS kaserver and KerberosIV tickets).
 
- (*) File reading.
+ (*) File reading and writing.
 
  (*) Automounting.
 
-It does not yet support the following AFS features:
-
- (*) Write support.
+ (*) Local caching (via fscache).
 
- (*) Local caching.
+It does not yet support the following AFS features:
 
  (*) pioctl() system call.
 
@@ -56,7 +54,7 @@ They permit the debugging messages to be turned on dynamically by manipulating
 the masks in the following files:
 
 	/sys/module/af_rxrpc/parameters/debug
-	/sys/module/afs/parameters/debug
+	/sys/module/kafs/parameters/debug
 
 
 =====
@@ -66,9 +64,9 @@ USAGE
 When inserting the driver modules the root cell must be specified along with a
 list of volume location server IP addresses:
 
-	insmod af_rxrpc.o
-	insmod rxkad.o
-	insmod kafs.o rootcell=cambridge.redhat.com:172.16.18.73:172.16.18.91
+	modprobe af_rxrpc
+	modprobe rxkad
+	modprobe kafs rootcell=cambridge.redhat.com:172.16.18.73:172.16.18.91
 
 The first module is the AF_RXRPC network protocol driver.  This provides the
 RxRPC remote operation protocol and may also be accessed from userspace.  See:
@@ -81,7 +79,7 @@ is the actual filesystem driver for the AFS filesystem.
 Once the module has been loaded, more modules can be added by the following
 procedure:
 
-	echo add grand.central.org 18.7.14.88:128.2.191.224 >/proc/fs/afs/cells
+	echo add grand.central.org 18.9.48.14:128.2.203.61:130.237.48.87 >/proc/fs/afs/cells
 
 Where the parameters to the "add" command are the name of a cell and a list of
 volume location servers within that cell, with the latter separated by colons.
@@ -101,7 +99,7 @@ The name of the volume can be suffixes with ".backup" or ".readonly" to
 specify connection to only volumes of those types.
 
 The name of the cell is optional, and if not given during a mount, then the
-named volume will be looked up in the cell specified during insmod.
+named volume will be looked up in the cell specified during modprobe.
 
 Additional cells can be added through /proc (see later section).
 
@@ -163,14 +161,14 @@ THE CELL DATABASE
 
 The filesystem maintains an internal database of all the cells it knows and the
 IP addresses of the volume location servers for those cells.  The cell to which
-the system belongs is added to the database when insmod is performed by the
+the system belongs is added to the database when modprobe is performed by the
 "rootcell=" argument or, if compiled in, using a "kafs.rootcell=" argument on
 the kernel command line.
 
 Further cells can be added by commands similar to the following:
 
 	echo add CELLNAME VLADDR[:VLADDR][:VLADDR]... >/proc/fs/afs/cells
-	echo add grand.central.org 18.7.14.88:128.2.191.224 >/proc/fs/afs/cells
+	echo add grand.central.org 18.9.48.14:128.2.203.61:130.237.48.87 >/proc/fs/afs/cells
 
 No other cell database operations are available at this time.
 
@@ -233,7 +231,7 @@ insmod /tmp/kafs.o rootcell=cambridge.redhat.com:172.16.18.91
 mount -t afs \%root.afs. /afs
 mount -t afs \%cambridge.redhat.com:root.cell. /afs/cambridge.redhat.com/
 
-echo add grand.central.org 18.7.14.88:128.2.191.224 > /proc/fs/afs/cells
+echo add grand.central.org 18.9.48.14:128.2.203.61:130.237.48.87 > /proc/fs/afs/cells
 mount -t afs "#grand.central.org:root.cell." /afs/grand.central.org/
 mount -t afs "#grand.central.org:root.archive." /afs/grand.central.org/archive
 mount -t afs "#grand.central.org:root.contrib." /afs/grand.central.org/contrib

trunk/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

@@ -1167,13 +1167,11 @@ CHAPTER 3: PER-PROCESS PARAMETERS
 3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score
 ------------------------------------------------------
 
-This file can be used to adjust the score used to select which processes should
-be killed in an out-of-memory situation.  The oom_adj value is a characteristic
-of the task's mm, so all threads that share an mm with pid will have the same
-oom_adj value.  A high value will increase the likelihood of this process being
-killed by the oom-killer.  Valid values are in the range -16 to +15 as
-explained below and a special value of -17, which disables oom-killing
-altogether for threads sharing pid's mm.
+This file can be used to adjust the score used to select which processes
+should be killed in an  out-of-memory  situation.  Giving it a high score will
+increase the likelihood of this process being killed by the oom-killer.  Valid
+values are in the range -16 to +15, plus the special value -17, which disables
+oom-killing altogether for this process.
 
 The process to be killed in an out-of-memory situation is selected among all others
 based on its badness score. This value equals the original memory size of the process
@@ -1187,9 +1185,6 @@ the parent's score if they do not share the same memory. Thus forking servers
 are the prime candidates to be killed. Having only one 'hungry' child will make
 parent less preferable than the child.
 
-/proc/<pid>/oom_adj cannot be changed for kthreads since they are immune from
-oom-killing already.
-
 /proc/<pid>/oom_score shows process' current badness score.
 
 The following heuristics are then applied:

trunk/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt

@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ Code	Seq#	Include File		Comments
 'm'	all	linux/synclink.h	conflict!
 'm'	00-1F	net/irda/irmod.h	conflict!
 'n'	00-7F	linux/ncp_fs.h
+'n'	80-8F	linux/nilfs2_fs.h	NILFS2
 'n'	E0-FF	video/matrox.h          matroxfb
 'o'	00-1F	fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_fs.h	OCFS2
 'o'     00-03   include/mtd/ubi-user.h  conflict! (OCFS2 and UBI overlaps)

trunk/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -1115,6 +1115,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only 
 			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
 			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
+
+	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
+			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
+			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
 
 	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
 			when set.