Merge from Linus' tree.

Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl

@@ -1105,7 +1105,7 @@ static struct block_device_operations opt_fops = {
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      Function names as strings (__func__).
+      Function names as strings (__FUNCTION__).
      </para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>

Documentation/device-mapper/snapshot.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+Device-mapper snapshot support
+==============================
+
+Device-mapper allows you, without massive data copying:
+
+*) To create snapshots of any block device i.e. mountable, saved states of
+the block device which are also writable without interfering with the
+original content;
+*) To create device "forks", i.e. multiple different versions of the
+same data stream.
+
+
+In both cases, dm copies only the chunks of data that get changed and
+uses a separate copy-on-write (COW) block device for storage.
+
+
+There are two dm targets available: snapshot and snapshot-origin.
+
+*) snapshot-origin <origin>
+
+which will normally have one or more snapshots based on it.
+You must create the snapshot-origin device before you can create snapshots.
+Reads will be mapped directly to the backing device. For each write, the
+original data will be saved in the <COW device> of each snapshot to keep
+its visible content unchanged, at least until the <COW device> fills up.
+
+
+*) snapshot <origin> <COW device> <persistent?> <chunksize>
+
+A snapshot is created of the <origin> block device. Changed chunks of
+<chunksize> sectors will be stored on the <COW device>.  Writes will
+only go to the <COW device>.  Reads will come from the <COW device> or
+from <origin> for unchanged data.  <COW device> will often be
+smaller than the origin and if it fills up the snapshot will become
+useless and be disabled, returning errors.  So it is important to monitor
+the amount of free space and expand the <COW device> before it fills up.
+
+<persistent?> is P (Persistent) or N (Not persistent - will not survive
+after reboot).
+
+
+How this is used by LVM2
+========================
+When you create the first LVM2 snapshot of a volume, four dm devices are used:
+
+1) a device containing the original mapping table of the source volume;
+2) a device used as the <COW device>;
+3) a "snapshot" device, combining #1 and #2, which is the visible snapshot
+   volume;
+4) the "original" volume (which uses the device number used by the original
+   source volume), whose table is replaced by a "snapshot-origin" mapping
+   from device #1.
+
+A fixed naming scheme is used, so with the following commands:
+
+lvcreate -L 1G -n base volumeGroup
+lvcreate -L 100M --snapshot -n snap volumeGroup/base
+
+we'll have this situation (with volumes in above order):
+
+# dmsetup table|grep volumeGroup
+
+volumeGroup-base-real: 0 2097152 linear 8:19 384
+volumeGroup-snap-cow: 0 204800 linear 8:19 2097536
+volumeGroup-snap: 0 2097152 snapshot 254:11 254:12 P 16
+volumeGroup-base: 0 2097152 snapshot-origin 254:11
+
+# ls -lL /dev/mapper/volumeGroup-*
+brw-------  1 root root 254, 11 29 ago 18:15 /dev/mapper/volumeGroup-base-real
+brw-------  1 root root 254, 12 29 ago 18:15 /dev/mapper/volumeGroup-snap-cow
+brw-------  1 root root 254, 13 29 ago 18:15 /dev/mapper/volumeGroup-snap
+brw-------  1 root root 254, 10 29 ago 18:14 /dev/mapper/volumeGroup-base
+

Documentation/sparse.txt

@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ or you don't get any checking at all.
 Where to get sparse
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-With BK, you can just get it from
+With git, you can just get it from
 
-        bk://sparse.bkbits.net/sparse
+        rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/sparse/sparse.git
 
 and DaveJ has tar-balls at
 

Documentation/usb/URB.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Revised: 2000-Dec-05.
 Again:   2002-Jul-06
+Again:   2005-Sep-19
 
     NOTE:
 
@@ -18,8 +19,8 @@ called USB Request Block, or URB for short.
   and deliver the data and status back. 
 
 - Execution of an URB is inherently an asynchronous operation, i.e. the 
-  usb_submit_urb(urb) call returns immediately after it has successfully queued 
-  the requested action. 
+  usb_submit_urb(urb) call returns immediately after it has successfully
+  queued the requested action.
 
 - Transfers for one URB can be canceled with usb_unlink_urb(urb) at any time. 
 
@@ -94,8 +95,9 @@ To free an URB, use
 
 	void usb_free_urb(struct urb *urb)
 
-You may not free an urb that you've submitted, but which hasn't yet been
-returned to you in a completion callback.
+You may free an urb that you've submitted, but which hasn't yet been
+returned to you in a completion callback.  It will automatically be
+deallocated when it is no longer in use.
 
 
 1.4. What has to be filled in?
@@ -145,48 +147,48 @@ to get seamless ISO streaming.
 
 1.6. How to cancel an already running URB?
 
-For an URB which you've submitted, but which hasn't been returned to
-your driver by the host controller, call
+There are two ways to cancel an URB you've submitted but which hasn't
+been returned to your driver yet.  For an asynchronous cancel, call
 
 	int usb_unlink_urb(struct urb *urb)
 
 It removes the urb from the internal list and frees all allocated
-HW descriptors. The status is changed to reflect unlinking. After 
-usb_unlink_urb() returns with that status code, you can free the URB
-with usb_free_urb().
+HW descriptors. The status is changed to reflect unlinking.  Note
+that the URB will not normally have finished when usb_unlink_urb()
+returns; you must still wait for the completion handler to be called.
 
-There is also an asynchronous unlink mode.  To use this, set the
-the URB_ASYNC_UNLINK flag in urb->transfer flags before calling
-usb_unlink_urb().  When using async unlinking, the URB will not
-normally be unlinked when usb_unlink_urb() returns.  Instead, wait
-for the completion handler to be called.
+To cancel an URB synchronously, call
+
+	void usb_kill_urb(struct urb *urb)
+
+It does everything usb_unlink_urb does, and in addition it waits
+until after the URB has been returned and the completion handler
+has finished.  It also marks the URB as temporarily unusable, so
+that if the completion handler or anyone else tries to resubmit it
+they will get a -EPERM error.  Thus you can be sure that when
+usb_kill_urb() returns, the URB is totally idle.
 
 
 1.7. What about the completion handler?
 
 The handler is of the following type:
 
-	typedef void (*usb_complete_t)(struct urb *);
+	typedef void (*usb_complete_t)(struct urb *, struct pt_regs *)
 
-i.e. it gets just the URB that caused the completion call.
+I.e., it gets the URB that caused the completion call, plus the
+register values at the time of the corresponding interrupt (if any).
 In the completion handler, you should have a look at urb->status to
 detect any USB errors. Since the context parameter is included in the URB,
 you can pass information to the completion handler. 
 
 Note that even when an error (or unlink) is reported, data may have been
 transferred.  That's because USB transfers are packetized; it might take
 sixteen packets to transfer your 1KByte buffer, and ten of them might
-have transferred succesfully before the completion is called.
+have transferred succesfully before the completion was called.
 
 
 NOTE:  ***** WARNING *****
-Don't use urb->dev field in your completion handler; it's cleared
-as part of giving urbs back to drivers.  (Addressing an issue with
-ownership of periodic URBs, which was otherwise ambiguous.) Instead,
-use urb->context to hold all the data your driver needs.
-
-NOTE:  ***** WARNING *****
-Also, NEVER SLEEP IN A COMPLETION HANDLER.  These are normally called
+NEVER SLEEP IN A COMPLETION HANDLER.  These are normally called
 during hardware interrupt processing.  If you can, defer substantial
 work to a tasklet (bottom half) to keep system latencies low.  You'll
 probably need to use spinlocks to protect data structures you manipulate
@@ -229,24 +231,10 @@ ISO data with some other event stream.
 Interrupt transfers, like isochronous transfers, are periodic, and happen
 in intervals that are powers of two (1, 2, 4 etc) units.  Units are frames
 for full and low speed devices, and microframes for high speed ones.
-
-Currently, after you submit one interrupt URB, that urb is owned by the
-host controller driver until you cancel it with usb_unlink_urb().  You
-may unlink interrupt urbs in their completion handlers, if you need to.
-
-After a transfer completion is called, the URB is automagically resubmitted.
-THIS BEHAVIOR IS EXPECTED TO BE REMOVED!!
-
-Interrupt transfers may only send (or receive) the "maxpacket" value for
-the given interrupt endpoint; if you need more data, you will need to
-copy that data out of (or into) another buffer.  Similarly, you can't
-queue interrupt transfers.
-THESE RESTRICTIONS ARE EXPECTED TO BE REMOVED!!
-
-Note that this automagic resubmission model does make it awkward to use
-interrupt OUT transfers.  The portable solution involves unlinking those
-OUT urbs after the data is transferred, and perhaps submitting a final
-URB for a short packet.
-
 The usb_submit_urb() call modifies urb->interval to the implemented interval
 value that is less than or equal to the requested interval value.
+
+In Linux 2.6, unlike earlier versions, interrupt URBs are not automagically
+restarted when they complete.  They end when the completion handler is
+called, just like other URBs.  If you want an interrupt URB to be restarted,
+your completion handler must resubmit it.

MAINTAINERS

@@ -1063,8 +1063,6 @@ M:	wli@holomorphy.com
 S:	Maintained
 
 I2C SUBSYSTEM
-P:	Greg Kroah-Hartman
-M:	greg@kroah.com
 P:	Jean Delvare
 M:	khali@linux-fr.org
 L:	lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
@@ -1404,6 +1402,18 @@ L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 L:	fastboot@osdl.org
 S:	Maintained
 
+KPROBES
+P:	Prasanna S Panchamukhi
+M:	prasanna@in.ibm.com
+P:	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
+M:	ananth@in.ibm.com
+P:	Anil S Keshavamurthy
+M:	anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com
+P:	David S. Miller
+M:	davem@davemloft.net
+L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
+S:	Maintained
+
 LANMEDIA WAN CARD DRIVER
 P:	Andrew Stanley-Jones
 M:	asj@lanmedia.com
@@ -2266,6 +2276,12 @@ M:	kristen.c.accardi@intel.com
 L:	pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
 S:	Maintained
 
+SKGE, SKY2 10/100/1000 GIGABIT ETHERNET DRIVERS
+P:	Stephen Hemminger
+M:	shemminger@osdl.org
+L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
+S:	Maintained
+
 SPARC (sparc32):
 P:	William L. Irwin
 M:	wli@holomorphy.com

Makefile

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 VERSION = 2
 PATCHLEVEL = 6
 SUBLEVEL = 14
-EXTRAVERSION =-rc1
+EXTRAVERSION =-rc2
 NAME=Affluent Albatross
 
 # *DOCUMENTATION*

README

@@ -149,6 +149,9 @@ CONFIGURING the kernel:
 	"make gconfig"     X windows (Gtk) based configuration tool.
 	"make oldconfig"   Default all questions based on the contents of
 			   your existing ./.config file.
+	"make silentoldconfig"
+			   Like above, but avoids cluttering the screen
+			   with questions already answered.
 
 	NOTES on "make config":
 	- having unnecessary drivers will make the kernel bigger, and can
@@ -169,9 +172,6 @@ CONFIGURING the kernel:
 	  should probably answer 'n' to the questions for
           "development", "experimental", or "debugging" features.
 
- - Check the top Makefile for further site-dependent configuration
-   (default SVGA mode etc). 
-
 COMPILING the kernel:
 
  - Make sure you have gcc 2.95.3 available.
@@ -199,6 +199,9 @@ COMPILING the kernel:
    are installing a new kernel with the same version number as your
    working kernel, make a backup of your modules directory before you
    do a "make modules_install".
+   Alternatively, before compiling, use the kernel config option
+   "LOCALVERSION" to append a unique suffix to the regular kernel version.
+   LOCALVERSION can be set in the "General Setup" menu.
 
  - In order to boot your new kernel, you'll need to copy the kernel
    image (e.g. .../linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage after compilation)

arch/alpha/kernel/process.c

@@ -127,6 +127,10 @@ common_shutdown_1(void *generic_ptr)
 	/* If booted from SRM, reset some of the original environment. */
 	if (alpha_using_srm) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE
+		/* If we've gotten here after SysRq-b, leave interrupt
+		   context before taking over the console. */
+		if (in_interrupt())
+			irq_exit();
 		/* This has the effect of resetting the VGA video origin.  */
 		take_over_console(&dummy_con, 0, MAX_NR_CONSOLES-1, 1);
 #endif