---

yaml
---
r: 375275
b: refs/heads/master
c: c67723e
h: refs/heads/master
i:
  375273: 057f89b
  375271: bdf4731
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 326f578f7e1443bac2333712dd130a261ec15288
+refs/heads/master: c67723ebbb2d6f672a0e9e5b1a8d1a2442942557

trunk/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-bcache

@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/bcache/unregister
+Date:		November 2010
+Contact:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
+Description:
+		A write to this file causes the backing device or cache to be
+		unregistered. If a backing device had dirty data in the cache,
+		writeback mode is automatically disabled and all dirty data is
+		flushed before the device is unregistered. Caches unregister
+		all associated backing devices before unregistering themselves.
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/bcache/clear_stats
+Date:		November 2010
+Contact:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
+Description:
+		Writing to this file resets all the statistics for the device.
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/bcache/cache
+Date:		November 2010
+Contact:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
+Description:
+		For a backing device that has cache, a symlink to
+		the bcache/ dir of that cache.
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/bcache/cache_hits
+Date:		November 2010
+Contact:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
+Description:
+		For backing devices: integer number of full cache hits,
+		counted per bio. A partial cache hit counts as a miss.
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/bcache/cache_misses
+Date:		November 2010
+Contact:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
+Description:
+		For backing devices: integer number of cache misses.
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/bcache/cache_hit_ratio
+Date:		November 2010
+Contact:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
+Description:
+		For backing devices: cache hits as a percentage.
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/bcache/sequential_cutoff
+Date:		November 2010
+Contact:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
+Description:
+		For backing devices: Threshold past which sequential IO will
+		skip the cache. Read and written as bytes in human readable
+		units (i.e. echo 10M > sequntial_cutoff).
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/bcache/bypassed
+Date:		November 2010
+Contact:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
+Description:
+		Sum of all reads and writes that have bypassed the cache (due
+		to the sequential cutoff).  Expressed as bytes in human
+		readable units.
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/bcache/writeback
+Date:		November 2010
+Contact:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
+Description:
+		For backing devices: When on, writeback caching is enabled and
+		writes will be buffered in the cache. When off, caching is in
+		writethrough mode; reads and writes will be added to the
+		cache but no write buffering will take place.
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/bcache/writeback_running
+Date:		November 2010
+Contact:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
+Description:
+		For backing devices: when off, dirty data will not be written
+		from the cache to the backing device. The cache will still be
+		used to buffer writes until it is mostly full, at which point
+		writes transparently revert to writethrough mode. Intended only
+		for benchmarking/testing.
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/bcache/writeback_delay
+Date:		November 2010
+Contact:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
+Description:
+		For backing devices: In writeback mode, when dirty data is
+		written to the cache and the cache held no dirty data for that
+		backing device, writeback from cache to backing device starts
+		after this delay, expressed as an integer number of seconds.
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/bcache/writeback_percent
+Date:		November 2010
+Contact:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
+Description:
+		For backing devices: If nonzero, writeback from cache to
+		backing device only takes place when more than this percentage
+		of the cache is used, allowing more write coalescing to take
+		place and reducing total number of writes sent to the backing
+		device. Integer between 0 and 40.
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/bcache/synchronous
+Date:		November 2010
+Contact:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
+Description:
+		For a cache, a boolean that allows synchronous mode to be
+		switched on and off. In synchronous mode all writes are ordered
+		such that the cache can reliably recover from unclean shutdown;
+		if disabled bcache will not generally wait for writes to
+		complete but if the cache is not shut down cleanly all data
+		will be discarded from the cache. Should not be turned off with
+		writeback caching enabled.
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/bcache/discard
+Date:		November 2010
+Contact:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
+Description:
+		For a cache, a boolean allowing discard/TRIM to be turned off
+		or back on if the device supports it.
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/bcache/bucket_size
+Date:		November 2010
+Contact:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
+Description:
+		For a cache, bucket size in human readable units, as set at
+		cache creation time; should match the erase block size of the
+		SSD for optimal performance.
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/bcache/nbuckets
+Date:		November 2010
+Contact:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
+Description:
+		For a cache, the number of usable buckets.
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/bcache/tree_depth
+Date:		November 2010
+Contact:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
+Description:
+		For a cache, height of the btree excluding leaf nodes (i.e. a
+		one node tree will have a depth of 0).
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/bcache/btree_cache_size
+Date:		November 2010
+Contact:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
+Description:
+		Number of btree buckets/nodes that are currently cached in
+		memory; cache dynamically grows and shrinks in response to
+		memory pressure from the rest of the system.
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/bcache/written
+Date:		November 2010
+Contact:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
+Description:
+		For a cache, total amount of data in human readable units
+		written to the cache, excluding all metadata.
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/bcache/btree_written
+Date:		November 2010
+Contact:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
+Description:
+		For a cache, sum of all btree writes in human readable units.

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

@@ -14,17 +14,15 @@ 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.
+		device, or concatenated flash devices.
 
 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.
+		nodes for /sys/class/mtd/mtdX/ .
 
 What:		/sys/class/mtd/mtdX/dev
 Date:		April 2009

trunk/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt

@@ -66,6 +66,83 @@ the ACPI device explicitly to acpi_platform_device_ids list defined in
 drivers/acpi/acpi_platform.c. This limitation is only for the platform
 devices, SPI and I2C devices are created automatically as described below.
 
+DMA support
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+DMA controllers enumerated via ACPI should be registered in the system to
+provide generic access to their resources. For example, a driver that would
+like to be accessible to slave devices via generic API call
+dma_request_slave_channel() must register itself at the end of the probe
+function like this:
+
+	err = devm_acpi_dma_controller_register(dev, xlate_func, dw);
+	/* Handle the error if it's not a case of !CONFIG_ACPI */
+
+and implement custom xlate function if needed (usually acpi_dma_simple_xlate()
+is enough) which converts the FixedDMA resource provided by struct
+acpi_dma_spec into the corresponding DMA channel. A piece of code for that case
+could look like:
+
+	#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
+	struct filter_args {
+		/* Provide necessary information for the filter_func */
+		...
+	};
+
+	static bool filter_func(struct dma_chan *chan, void *param)
+	{
+		/* Choose the proper channel */
+		...
+	}
+
+	static struct dma_chan *xlate_func(struct acpi_dma_spec *dma_spec,
+			struct acpi_dma *adma)
+	{
+		dma_cap_mask_t cap;
+		struct filter_args args;
+
+		/* Prepare arguments for filter_func */
+		...
+		return dma_request_channel(cap, filter_func, &args);
+	}
+	#else
+	static struct dma_chan *xlate_func(struct acpi_dma_spec *dma_spec,
+			struct acpi_dma *adma)
+	{
+		return NULL;
+	}
+	#endif
+
+dma_request_slave_channel() will call xlate_func() for each registered DMA
+controller. In the xlate function the proper channel must be chosen based on
+information in struct acpi_dma_spec and the properties of the controller
+provided by struct acpi_dma.
+
+Clients must call dma_request_slave_channel() with the string parameter that
+corresponds to a specific FixedDMA resource. By default "tx" means the first
+entry of the FixedDMA resource array, "rx" means the second entry. The table
+below shows a layout:
+
+	Device (I2C0)
+	{
+		...
+		Method (_CRS, 0, NotSerialized)
+		{
+			Name (DBUF, ResourceTemplate ()
+			{
+				FixedDMA (0x0018, 0x0004, Width32bit, _Y48)
+				FixedDMA (0x0019, 0x0005, Width32bit, )
+			})
+		...
+		}
+	}
+
+So, the FixedDMA with request line 0x0018 is "tx" and next one is "rx" in
+this example.
+
+In robust cases the client unfortunately needs to call
+acpi_dma_request_slave_chan_by_index() directly and therefore choose the
+specific FixedDMA resource by its index.
+
 SPI serial bus support
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Slave devices behind SPI bus have SpiSerialBus resource attached to them.