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[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 6c697bdf08a09ce461e305a22362973036e95db3
+refs/heads/master: 348b346b238d9c0e5694c8d0b835a099cb383835

trunk/CREDITS

@@ -1253,6 +1253,10 @@ S: 8124 Constitution Apt. 7
 S: Sterling Heights, Michigan 48313
 S: USA
 
+N: Wolfgang Grandegger
+E: wg@grandegger.com
+D: Controller Area Network (device drivers)
+
 N: William Greathouse
 E: wgreathouse@smva.com
 E: wgreathouse@myfavoritei.com

trunk/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci

@@ -122,3 +122,10 @@ Description:
 		This symbolic link appears when a device is a Virtual Function.
 		The symbolic link points to the PCI device sysfs entry of the
 		Physical Function this device associates with.
+
+What:		/sys/bus/pci/slots/.../module
+Date:		June 2009
+Contact:	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
+Description:
+		This symbolic link points to the PCI hotplug controller driver
+		module that manages the hotplug slot.

trunk/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd

@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+What:		/sys/class/mtd/
+Date:		April 2009
+KernelVersion:	2.6.29
+Contact:	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+		The mtd/ class subdirectory belongs to the MTD subsystem
+		(MTD core).
+
+What:		/sys/class/mtd/mtdX/
+Date:		April 2009
+KernelVersion:	2.6.29
+Contact:	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+		The /sys/class/mtd/mtd{0,1,2,3,...} directories correspond
+		to each /dev/mtdX character device.  These may represent
+		physical/simulated flash devices, partitions on a flash
+		device, or concatenated flash devices.  They exist regardless
+		of whether CONFIG_MTD_CHAR is actually enabled.
+
+What:		/sys/class/mtd/mtdXro/
+Date:		April 2009
+KernelVersion:	2.6.29
+Contact:	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+		These directories provide the corresponding read-only device
+		nodes for /sys/class/mtd/mtdX/ .  They are only created
+		(for the benefit of udev) if CONFIG_MTD_CHAR is enabled.
+
+What:		/sys/class/mtd/mtdX/dev
+Date:		April 2009
+KernelVersion:	2.6.29
+Contact:	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+		Major and minor numbers of the character device corresponding
+		to this MTD device (in <major>:<minor> format).  This is the
+		read-write device so <minor> will be even.
+
+What:		/sys/class/mtd/mtdXro/dev
+Date:		April 2009
+KernelVersion:	2.6.29
+Contact:	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+		Major and minor numbers of the character device corresponding
+		to the read-only variant of thie MTD device (in
+		<major>:<minor> format).  In this case <minor> will be odd.
+
+What:		/sys/class/mtd/mtdX/erasesize
+Date:		April 2009
+KernelVersion:	2.6.29
+Contact:	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+		"Major" erase size for the device.  If numeraseregions is
+		zero, this is the eraseblock size for the entire device.
+		Otherwise, the MEMGETREGIONCOUNT/MEMGETREGIONINFO ioctls
+		can be used to determine the actual eraseblock layout.
+
+What:		/sys/class/mtd/mtdX/flags
+Date:		April 2009
+KernelVersion:	2.6.29
+Contact:	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+		A hexadecimal value representing the device flags, ORed
+		together:
+
+		0x0400: MTD_WRITEABLE - device is writable
+		0x0800: MTD_BIT_WRITEABLE - single bits can be flipped
+		0x1000: MTD_NO_ERASE - no erase necessary
+		0x2000: MTD_POWERUP_LOCK - always locked after reset
+
+What:		/sys/class/mtd/mtdX/name
+Date:		April 2009
+KernelVersion:	2.6.29
+Contact:	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+		A human-readable ASCII name for the device or partition.
+		This will match the name in /proc/mtd .
+
+What:		/sys/class/mtd/mtdX/numeraseregions
+Date:		April 2009
+KernelVersion:	2.6.29
+Contact:	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+		For devices that have variable eraseblock sizes, this
+		provides the total number of erase regions.  Otherwise,
+		it will read back as zero.
+
+What:		/sys/class/mtd/mtdX/oobsize
+Date:		April 2009
+KernelVersion:	2.6.29
+Contact:	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+		Number of OOB bytes per page.
+
+What:		/sys/class/mtd/mtdX/size
+Date:		April 2009
+KernelVersion:	2.6.29
+Contact:	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+		Total size of the device/partition, in bytes.
+
+What:		/sys/class/mtd/mtdX/type
+Date:		April 2009
+KernelVersion:	2.6.29
+Contact:	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+		One of the following ASCII strings, representing the device
+		type:
+
+		absent, ram, rom, nor, nand, dataflash, ubi, unknown
+
+What:		/sys/class/mtd/mtdX/writesize
+Date:		April 2009
+KernelVersion:	2.6.29
+Contact:	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+		Minimal writable flash unit size.  This will always be
+		a positive integer.
+
+		In the case of NOR flash it is 1 (even though individual
+		bits can be cleared).
+
+		In the case of NAND flash it is one NAND page (or a
+		half page, or a quarter page).
+
+		In the case of ECC NOR, it is the ECC block size.

trunk/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4

@@ -79,3 +79,13 @@ Description:
 		This file is read-only and shows the number of
 		kilobytes of data that have been written to this
 		filesystem since it was mounted.
+
+What:		/sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/inode_goal
+Date:		June 2008
+Contact:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
+Description:
+		Tuning parameter which (if non-zero) controls the goal
+		inode used by the inode allocator in p0reference to
+		all other allocation hueristics.  This is intended for
+		debugging use only, and should be 0 on production
+		systems.

trunk/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-pps

@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+What:		/sys/class/pps/
+Date:		February 2008
+Contact:	Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
+Description:
+		The /sys/class/pps/ directory will contain files and
+		directories that will provide a unified interface to
+		the PPS sources.
+
+What:		/sys/class/pps/ppsX/
+Date:		February 2008
+Contact:	Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
+Description:
+		The /sys/class/pps/ppsX/ directory is related to X-th
+		PPS source into the system. Each directory will
+		contain files to manage and control its PPS source.
+
+What:		/sys/class/pps/ppsX/assert
+Date:		February 2008
+Contact:	Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
+Description:
+		The /sys/class/pps/ppsX/assert file reports the assert events
+		and the assert sequence number of the X-th source in the form:
+
+			<secs>.<nsec>#<sequence>
+
+		If the source has no assert events the content of this file
+		is empty.
+
+What:		/sys/class/pps/ppsX/clear
+Date:		February 2008
+Contact:	Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
+Description:
+		The /sys/class/pps/ppsX/clear file reports the clear events
+		and the clear sequence number of the X-th source in the form:
+
+			<secs>.<nsec>#<sequence>
+
+		If the source has no clear events the content of this file
+		is empty.
+
+What:		/sys/class/pps/ppsX/mode
+Date:		February 2008
+Contact:	Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
+Description:
+		The /sys/class/pps/ppsX/mode file reports the functioning
+		mode of the X-th source in hexadecimal encoding.
+
+		Please, refer to linux/include/linux/pps.h for further
+		info.
+
+What:		/sys/class/pps/ppsX/echo
+Date:		February 2008
+Contact:	Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
+Description:
+		The /sys/class/pps/ppsX/echo file reports if the X-th does
+		or does not support an "echo" function.
+
+What:		/sys/class/pps/ppsX/name
+Date:		February 2008
+Contact:	Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
+Description:
+		The /sys/class/pps/ppsX/name file reports the name of the
+		X-th source.
+
+What:		/sys/class/pps/ppsX/path
+Date:		February 2008
+Contact:	Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
+Description:
+		The /sys/class/pps/ppsX/path file reports the path name of
+		the device connected with the X-th source.
+
+		If the source is not connected with any device the content
+		of this file is empty.

trunk/Documentation/Changes

@@ -72,6 +72,13 @@ assembling the 16-bit boot code, removing the need for as86 to compile
 your kernel.  This change does, however, mean that you need a recent
 release of binutils.
 
+Perl
+----
+
+You will need perl 5 and the following modules: Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std,
+File::Basename, and File::Find to build the kernel.
+
+
 System utilities
 ================
 

trunk/Documentation/DocBook/debugobjects.tmpl

@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
       number of errors are printk'ed including a full stack trace.
     </para>
     <para>
-      The statistics are available via debugfs/debug_objects/stats.
+      The statistics are available via /sys/kernel/debug/debug_objects/stats.
       They provide information about the number of warnings and the
       number of successful fixups along with information about the
       usage of the internal tracking objects and the state of the

trunk/Documentation/DocBook/mac80211.tmpl

@@ -145,7 +145,6 @@ usage should require reading the full document.
         interface in STA mode at first!
       </para>
 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_if_init_conf
-!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_if_conf
     </chapter>
 
     <chapter id="rx-tx">

trunk/Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.txt

@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ be initiated although firmwares have no _OSC support. To enable the
 walkaround, pls. add aerdriver.forceload=y to kernel boot parameter line
 when booting kernel. Note that forceload=n by default.
 
+nosourceid, another parameter of type bool, can be used when broken
+hardware (mostly chipsets) has root ports that cannot obtain the reporting
+source ID. nosourceid=n by default.
+
 2.3 AER error output
 When a PCI-E AER error is captured, an error message will be outputed to
 console. If it's a correctable error, it is outputed as a warning.
@@ -246,3 +250,24 @@ with the PCI Express AER Root driver?
 A: It could call the helper functions to enable AER in devices and
 cleanup uncorrectable status register. Pls. refer to section 3.3.
 
+
+4. Software error injection
+
+Debugging PCIE AER error recovery code is quite difficult because it
+is hard to trigger real hardware errors. Software based error
+injection can be used to fake various kinds of PCIE errors.
+
+First you should enable PCIE AER software error injection in kernel
+configuration, that is, following item should be in your .config.
+
+CONFIG_PCIEAER_INJECT=y or CONFIG_PCIEAER_INJECT=m
+
+After reboot with new kernel or insert the module, a device file named
+/dev/aer_inject should be created.
+
+Then, you need a user space tool named aer-inject, which can be gotten
+from:
+    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/pci/aer-inject/
+
+More information about aer-inject can be found in the document comes
+with its source code.

trunk/Documentation/SubmitChecklist

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ kernel patches.
     CONFIG_PREEMPT.
 
 14: If the patch affects IO/Disk, etc: has been tested with and without
-    CONFIG_LBD.
+    CONFIG_LBDAF.
 
 15: All codepaths have been exercised with all lockdep features enabled.
 

trunk/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c

@@ -246,7 +246,8 @@ void print_ioacct(struct taskstats *t)
 
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
-	int c, rc, rep_len, aggr_len, len2, cmd_type;
+	int c, rc, rep_len, aggr_len, len2;
+	int cmd_type = TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_UNSPEC;
 	__u16 id;
 	__u32 mypid;
 

trunk/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt

@@ -229,10 +229,10 @@ kernel.  It is the use of atomic counters to implement reference
 counting, and it works such that once the counter falls to zero it can
 be guaranteed that no other entity can be accessing the object:
 
-static void obj_list_add(struct obj *obj)
+static void obj_list_add(struct obj *obj, struct list_head *head)
 {
 	obj->active = 1;
-	list_add(&obj->list);
+	list_add(&obj->list, head);
 }
 
 static void obj_list_del(struct obj *obj)

trunk/Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt

@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ Using the pktcdvd debugfs interface
 
 To read pktcdvd device infos in human readable form, do:
 
-	# cat /debug/pktcdvd/pktcdvd[0-7]/info
+	# cat /sys/kernel/debug/pktcdvd/pktcdvd[0-7]/info
 
 For a description of the debugfs interface look into the file:
 

trunk/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt

@@ -152,14 +152,19 @@ When swap is accounted, following files are added.
 
 usage of mem+swap is limited by memsw.limit_in_bytes.
 
-Note: why 'mem+swap' rather than swap.
+* why 'mem+swap' rather than swap.
 The global LRU(kswapd) can swap out arbitrary pages. Swap-out means
 to move account from memory to swap...there is no change in usage of
-mem+swap.
+mem+swap. In other words, when we want to limit the usage of swap without
+affecting global LRU, mem+swap limit is better than just limiting swap from
+OS point of view.
 
-In other words, when we want to limit the usage of swap without affecting
-global LRU, mem+swap limit is better than just limiting swap from OS point
-of view.
+* What happens when a cgroup hits memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes
+When a cgroup his memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes, it's useless to do swap-out
+in this cgroup. Then, swap-out will not be done by cgroup routine and file
+caches are dropped. But as mentioned above, global LRU can do swapout memory
+from it for sanity of the system's memory management state. You can't forbid
+it by cgroup.
 
 2.5 Reclaim
 
@@ -204,6 +209,7 @@ We can alter the memory limit:
 
 NOTE: We can use a suffix (k, K, m, M, g or G) to indicate values in kilo,
 mega or gigabytes.
+NOTE: We can write "-1" to reset the *.limit_in_bytes(unlimited).
 
 # cat /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes
 4194304