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@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
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-refs/heads/master: 5229e87d59cef33539322948bd8e3b5a537f7c97
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diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/00-INDEX b/trunk/Documentation/00-INDEX
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Following translations are available on the WWW:
 	- this file.
 ABI/
 	- info on kernel <-> userspace ABI and relative interface stability.
+
 BUG-HUNTING
 	- brute force method of doing binary search of patches to find bug.
 Changes
@@ -66,6 +67,8 @@ VGA-softcursor.txt
 	- how to change your VGA cursor from a blinking underscore.
 accounting/
 	- documentation on accounting and taskstats.
+acpi/
+	- info on ACPI-specific hooks in the kernel.
 aoe/
 	- description of AoE (ATA over Ethernet) along with config examples.
 applying-patches.txt

diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/BUG-HUNTING b/trunk/Documentation/BUG-HUNTING
@@ -214,6 +214,23 @@ And recompile the kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO enabled:
   gdb vmlinux
   (gdb) p vt_ioctl
   (gdb) l *(0x<address of vt_ioctl> + 0xda8)
+or, as one command
+  (gdb) l *(vt_ioctl + 0xda8)
+
+If you have a call trace, such as :-
+>Call Trace:
+> [<ffffffff8802c8e9>] :jbd:log_wait_commit+0xa3/0xf5
+> [<ffffffff810482d9>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
+> [<ffffffff8802770b>] :jbd:journal_stop+0x1be/0x1ee
+> ...
+this shows the problem in the :jbd: module. You can load that module in gdb
+and list the relevant code.
+  gdb fs/jbd/jbd.ko
+  (gdb) p log_wait_commit
+  (gdb) l *(0x<address> + 0xa3)
+or
+  (gdb) l *(log_wait_commit + 0xa3)
+
 
 Another very useful option of the Kernel Hacking section in menuconfig is
 Debug memory allocations. This will help you see whether data has been

diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl b/trunk/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ X!Ilib/string.c
 !Emm/vmalloc.c
 !Imm/page_alloc.c
 !Emm/mempool.c
+!Emm/dmapool.c
 !Emm/page-writeback.c
 !Emm/truncate.c
      </sect1>
@@ -371,7 +372,6 @@ X!Iinclude/linux/device.h
 !Edrivers/base/class.c
 !Edrivers/base/firmware_class.c
 !Edrivers/base/transport_class.c
-!Edrivers/base/dmapool.c
 <!-- Cannot be included, because
      attribute_container_add_class_device_adapter
  and attribute_container_classdev_to_container

diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl b/trunk/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
@@ -717,15 +717,15 @@ used, and when it gets full, throws out the least used one.
     <para>
 For our first example, we assume that all operations are in user
 context (ie. from system calls), so we can sleep.  This means we can
-use a semaphore to protect the cache and all the objects within
+use a mutex to protect the cache and all the objects within
 it.  Here's the code:
     </para>
 
     <programlisting>
 #include &lt;linux/list.h&gt;
 #include &lt;linux/slab.h&gt;
 #include &lt;linux/string.h&gt;
-#include &lt;asm/semaphore.h&gt;
+#include &lt;linux/mutex.h&gt;
 #include &lt;asm/errno.h&gt;
 
 struct object
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ struct object
 };
 
 /* Protects the cache, cache_num, and the objects within it */
-static DECLARE_MUTEX(cache_lock);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(cache_lock);
 static LIST_HEAD(cache);
 static unsigned int cache_num = 0;
 #define MAX_CACHE_SIZE 10
@@ -789,31 +789,31 @@ int cache_add(int id, const char *name)
         obj-&gt;id = id;
         obj-&gt;popularity = 0;
 
-        down(&amp;cache_lock);
+        mutex_lock(&amp;cache_lock);
         __cache_add(obj);
-        up(&amp;cache_lock);
+        mutex_unlock(&amp;cache_lock);
         return 0;
 }
 
 void cache_delete(int id)
 {
-        down(&amp;cache_lock);
+        mutex_lock(&amp;cache_lock);
         __cache_delete(__cache_find(id));
-        up(&amp;cache_lock);
+        mutex_unlock(&amp;cache_lock);
 }
 
 int cache_find(int id, char *name)
 {
         struct object *obj;
         int ret = -ENOENT;
 
-        down(&amp;cache_lock);
+        mutex_lock(&amp;cache_lock);
         obj = __cache_find(id);
         if (obj) {
                 ret = 0;
                 strcpy(name, obj-&gt;name);
         }
-        up(&amp;cache_lock);
+        mutex_unlock(&amp;cache_lock);
         return ret;
 }
 </programlisting>
@@ -853,7 +853,7 @@ The change is shown below, in standard patch format: the
          int popularity;
  };
 
--static DECLARE_MUTEX(cache_lock);
+-static DEFINE_MUTEX(cache_lock);
 +static spinlock_t cache_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
  static LIST_HEAD(cache);
  static unsigned int cache_num = 0;
@@ -870,22 +870,22 @@ The change is shown below, in standard patch format: the
          obj-&gt;id = id;
          obj-&gt;popularity = 0;
 
--        down(&amp;cache_lock);
+-        mutex_lock(&amp;cache_lock);
 +        spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;cache_lock, flags);
          __cache_add(obj);
--        up(&amp;cache_lock);
+-        mutex_unlock(&amp;cache_lock);
 +        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&amp;cache_lock, flags);
          return 0;
  }
 
  void cache_delete(int id)
  {
--        down(&amp;cache_lock);
+-        mutex_lock(&amp;cache_lock);
 +        unsigned long flags;
 +
 +        spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;cache_lock, flags);
          __cache_delete(__cache_find(id));
--        up(&amp;cache_lock);
+-        mutex_unlock(&amp;cache_lock);
 +        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&amp;cache_lock, flags);
  }
 
@@ -895,14 +895,14 @@ The change is shown below, in standard patch format: the
          int ret = -ENOENT;
 +        unsigned long flags;
 
--        down(&amp;cache_lock);
+-        mutex_lock(&amp;cache_lock);
 +        spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;cache_lock, flags);
          obj = __cache_find(id);
          if (obj) {
                  ret = 0;
                  strcpy(name, obj-&gt;name);
          }
--        up(&amp;cache_lock);
+-        mutex_unlock(&amp;cache_lock);
 +        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&amp;cache_lock, flags);
          return ret;
  }

diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/acpi/method-tracing.txt b/trunk/Documentation/acpi/method-tracing.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+/sys/module/acpi/parameters/:
+
+trace_method_name
+	The AML method name that the user wants to trace
+
+trace_debug_layer
+	The temporary debug_layer used when tracing the method.
+	Using 0xffffffff by default if it is 0.
+
+trace_debug_level
+	The temporary debug_level used when tracing the method.
+	Using 0x00ffffff by default if it is 0.
+
+trace_state
+	The status of the tracing feature.
+
+	"enabled" means this feature is enabled
+	and the AML method is traced every time it's executed.
+
+	"1" means this feature is enabled and the AML method
+	will only be traced during the next execution.
+
+	"disabled" means this feature is disabled.
+	Users can enable/disable this debug tracing feature by
+	"echo string > /sys/module/acpi/parameters/trace_state".
+	"string" should be one of "enable", "disable" and "1".
diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/fb/deferred_io.txt b/trunk/Documentation/fb/deferred_io.txt
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ IO. The following example may be a useful explanation of how one such setup
 works:
 
 - userspace app like Xfbdev mmaps framebuffer
-- deferred IO and driver sets up nopage and page_mkwrite handlers
+- deferred IO and driver sets up fault and page_mkwrite handlers
 - userspace app tries to write to mmaped vaddress
-- we get pagefault and reach nopage handler
-- nopage handler finds and returns physical page
+- we get pagefault and reach fault handler
+- fault handler finds and returns physical page
 - we get page_mkwrite where we add this page to a list
 - schedule a workqueue task to be run after a delay
 - app continues writing to that page with no additional cost. this is

diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/trunk/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -208,13 +208,6 @@ Who:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
 
 ---------------------------
 
-What:  drivers depending on OSS_OBSOLETE
-When:  options in 2.6.23, code in 2.6.25
-Why:   obsolete OSS drivers
-Who:   Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-
----------------------------
-
 What: libata spindown skipping and warning
 When: Dec 2008
 Why:  Some halt(8) implementations synchronize caches for and spin

diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/trunk/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -1029,6 +1029,14 @@ nr_inodes
 Denotes the  number  of  inodes the system has allocated. This number will
 grow and shrink dynamically.
 
+nr_open
+-------
+
+Denotes the maximum number of file-handles a process can
+allocate. Default value is 1024*1024 (1048576) which should be
+enough for most machines. Actual limit depends on RLIMIT_NOFILE
+resource limit.
+
 nr_free_inodes
 --------------
 

diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/trunk/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -147,8 +147,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			default: 0
 
 	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
-			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode }
-			See Documentation/power/video.txt
+			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep }
+			See Documentation/power/video.txt for s3_bios and s3_mode.
+			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
+			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
 
 	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
 			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
@@ -780,6 +782,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			loop use the MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be the same
 			as idle=poll.
 
+	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
+			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
+
 	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
 			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
 			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.