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@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 896d01796d33e50589c96bbef5f0017d3cfc4ee8
+refs/heads/master: fef6e26208879f76bada77c11c80d56ebacb32e4

trunk/Documentation/Changes

@@ -2,7 +2,13 @@ Intro
 =====
 
 This document is designed to provide a list of the minimum levels of
-software necessary to run the 3.0 kernels.
+software necessary to run the 2.6 kernels, as well as provide brief
+instructions regarding any other "Gotchas" users may encounter when
+trying life on the Bleeding Edge.  If upgrading from a pre-2.4.x
+kernel, please consult the Changes file included with 2.4.x kernels for
+additional information; most of that information will not be repeated
+here.  Basically, this document assumes that your system is already
+functional and running at least 2.4.x kernels.
 
 This document is originally based on my "Changes" file for 2.0.x kernels
 and therefore owes credit to the same people as that file (Jared Mauch,
@@ -16,10 +22,11 @@ Upgrade to at *least* these software revisions before thinking you've
 encountered a bug!  If you're unsure what version you're currently
 running, the suggested command should tell you.
 
-Again, keep in mind that this list assumes you are already functionally
-running a Linux kernel.  Also, not all tools are necessary on all
-systems; obviously, if you don't have any ISDN hardware, for example,
-you probably needn't concern yourself with isdn4k-utils.
+Again, keep in mind that this list assumes you are already
+functionally running a Linux 2.4 kernel.  Also, not all tools are
+necessary on all systems; obviously, if you don't have any ISDN
+hardware, for example, you probably needn't concern yourself with
+isdn4k-utils.
 
 o  Gnu C                  3.2                     # gcc --version
 o  Gnu make               3.80                    # make --version
@@ -107,12 +114,12 @@ Ksymoops
 
 If the unthinkable happens and your kernel oopses, you may need the
 ksymoops tool to decode it, but in most cases you don't.
-It is generally preferred to build the kernel with CONFIG_KALLSYMS so
-that it produces readable dumps that can be used as-is (this also
-produces better output than ksymoops).  If for some reason your kernel
-is not build with CONFIG_KALLSYMS and you have no way to rebuild and
-reproduce the Oops with that option, then you can still decode that Oops
-with ksymoops.
+In the 2.6 kernel it is generally preferred to build the kernel with
+CONFIG_KALLSYMS so that it produces readable dumps that can be used as-is
+(this also produces better output than ksymoops).
+If for some reason your kernel is not build with CONFIG_KALLSYMS and
+you have no way to rebuild and reproduce the Oops with that option, then
+you can still decode that Oops with ksymoops.
 
 Module-Init-Tools
 -----------------
@@ -254,8 +261,8 @@ needs to be recompiled or (preferably) upgraded.
 NFS-utils
 ---------
 
-In ancient (2.4 and earlier) kernels, the nfs server needed to know
-about any client that expected to be able to access files via NFS.  This
+In 2.4 and earlier kernels, the nfs server needed to know about any
+client that expected to be able to access files via NFS.  This
 information would be given to the kernel by "mountd" when the client
 mounted the filesystem, or by "exportfs" at system startup.  exportfs
 would take information about active clients from /var/lib/nfs/rmtab.
@@ -265,11 +272,11 @@ which is not always easy, particularly when trying to implement
 fail-over.  Even when the system is working well, rmtab suffers from
 getting lots of old entries that never get removed.
 
-With modern kernels we have the option of having the kernel tell mountd
-when it gets a request from an unknown host, and mountd can give
-appropriate export information to the kernel.  This removes the
-dependency on rmtab and means that the kernel only needs to know about
-currently active clients.
+With 2.6 we have the option of having the kernel tell mountd when it
+gets a request from an unknown host, and mountd can give appropriate
+export information to the kernel.  This removes the dependency on
+rmtab and means that the kernel only needs to know about currently
+active clients.
 
 To enable this new functionality, you need to:
 

trunk/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

@@ -583,25 +583,3 @@ Why:	Superseded by the UVCIOC_CTRL_QUERY ioctl.
 Who:	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
 
 ----------------------------
-
-What:	For VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY the type field must match the device node's type.
-	If not, return -EINVAL.
-When:	3.2
-Why:	It makes no sense to switch the tuner to radio mode by calling
-	VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY on a video node, or to switch the tuner to tv mode by
-	calling VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY on a radio node. This is the first step of a
-	move to more consistent handling of tv and radio tuners.
-Who:	Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
-
-----------------------------
-
-What:	Opening a radio device node will no longer automatically switch the
-	tuner mode from tv to radio.
-When:	3.3
-Why:	Just opening a V4L device should not change the state of the hardware
-	like that. It's very unexpected and against the V4L spec. Instead, you
-	switch to radio mode by calling VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY. This is the second
-	and last step of the move to consistent handling of tv and radio tuners.
-Who:	Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
-
-----------------------------

trunk/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt

@@ -673,22 +673,6 @@ storage request to complete, or it may attempt to cancel the storage request -
 in which case the page will not be stored in the cache this time.
 
 
-BULK INODE PAGE UNCACHE
------------------------
-
-A convenience routine is provided to perform an uncache on all the pages
-attached to an inode.  This assumes that the pages on the inode correspond on a
-1:1 basis with the pages in the cache.
-
-	void fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
-					     struct inode *inode);
-
-This takes the netfs cookie that the pages were cached with and the inode that
-the pages are attached to.  This function will wait for pages to finish being
-written to the cache and for the cache to finish with the page generally.  No
-error is returned.
-
-
 ==========================
 INDEX AND DATA FILE UPDATE
 ==========================

trunk/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ Features which NILFS2 does not support yet:
 	- POSIX ACLs
 	- quotas
 	- fsck
+	- resize
 	- defragmentation
 
 Mount options

trunk/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt

@@ -111,6 +111,34 @@ The following is an example of the kernel boot arguments to attach mtd0
 to UBI and mount volume "rootfs":
 ubi.mtd=0 root=ubi0:rootfs rootfstype=ubifs
 
+
+Module Parameters for Debugging
+===============================
+
+When UBIFS has been compiled with debugging enabled, there are 2 module
+parameters that are available to control aspects of testing and debugging.
+
+debug_chks	Selects extra checks that UBIFS can do while running:
+
+		Check					Flag value
+
+		General checks				1
+		Check Tree Node Cache (TNC)		2
+		Check indexing tree size		4
+		Check orphan area			8
+		Check old indexing tree			16
+		Check LEB properties (lprops)		32
+		Check leaf nodes and inodes		64
+
+debug_tsts	Selects a mode of testing, as follows:
+
+		Test mode				Flag value
+
+		Failure mode for recovery testing	4
+
+For example, set debug_chks to 3 to enable general and TNC checks.
+
+
 References
 ==========
 

trunk/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -2015,8 +2015,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 				the default.
 				off: Turn ECRC off
 				on: Turn ECRC on.
-		realloc		reallocate PCI resources if allocations done by BIOS
-				are erroneous.
 
 	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
 			Management.

trunk/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt

@@ -534,8 +534,6 @@ Events that are never propagated by the driver:
 0x2404		System is waking up from hibernation to undock
 0x2405		System is waking up from hibernation to eject bay
 0x5010		Brightness level changed/control event
-0x6000		KEYBOARD: Numlock key pressed
-0x6005		KEYBOARD: Fn key pressed (TO BE VERIFIED)
 
 Events that are propagated by the driver to userspace:
 
@@ -547,16 +545,13 @@ Events that are propagated by the driver to userspace:
 0x3006		Bay hotplug request (hint to power up SATA link when
 		the optical drive tray is ejected)
 0x4003		Undocked (see 0x2x04), can sleep again
-0x4010		Docked into hotplug port replicator (non-ACPI dock)
-0x4011		Undocked from hotplug port replicator (non-ACPI dock)
 0x500B		Tablet pen inserted into its storage bay
 0x500C		Tablet pen removed from its storage bay
 0x6011		ALARM: battery is too hot
 0x6012		ALARM: battery is extremely hot
 0x6021		ALARM: a sensor is too hot
 0x6022		ALARM: a sensor is extremely hot
 0x6030		System thermal table changed
-0x6040		Nvidia Optimus/AC adapter related (TO BE VERIFIED)
 
 Battery nearly empty alarms are a last resort attempt to get the
 operating system to hibernate or shutdown cleanly (0x2313), or shutdown

trunk/Documentation/mmc/00-INDEX

@@ -4,5 +4,3 @@ mmc-dev-attrs.txt
         - info on SD and MMC device attributes
 mmc-dev-parts.txt
         - info on SD and MMC device partitions
-mmc-async-req.txt
-        - info on mmc asynchronous requests

trunk/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt

@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
 	when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
 	See tcp_retries2 for more details.
 
-	The default value is 8.
+	The default value is 7.
 	If your machine is a loaded WEB server,
 	you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
 	may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.

trunk/Documentation/spinlocks.txt

@@ -13,8 +13,18 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(xxx_lock);
 The above is always safe. It will disable interrupts _locally_, but the
 spinlock itself will guarantee the global lock, so it will guarantee that
 there is only one thread-of-control within the region(s) protected by that
-lock. This works well even under UP also, so the code does _not_ need to
-worry about UP vs SMP issues: the spinlocks work correctly under both.
+lock. This works well even under UP. The above sequence under UP
+essentially is just the same as doing
+
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	save_flags(flags); cli();
+	 ... critical section ...
+	restore_flags(flags);
+
+so the code does _not_ need to worry about UP vs SMP issues: the spinlocks
+work correctly under both (and spinlocks are actually more efficient on
+architectures that allow doing the "save_flags + cli" in one operation).
 
    NOTE! Implications of spin_locks for memory are further described in:
 
@@ -26,7 +36,27 @@ The above is usually pretty simple (you usually need and want only one
 spinlock for most things - using more than one spinlock can make things a
 lot more complex and even slower and is usually worth it only for
 sequences that you _know_ need to be split up: avoid it at all cost if you
-aren't sure).
+aren't sure). HOWEVER, it _does_ mean that if you have some code that does
+
+	cli();
+	.. critical section ..
+	sti();
+
+and another sequence that does
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(flags);
+	.. critical section ..
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(flags);
+
+then they are NOT mutually exclusive, and the critical regions can happen
+at the same time on two different CPU's. That's fine per se, but the
+critical regions had better be critical for different things (ie they
+can't stomp on each other).
+
+The above is a problem mainly if you end up mixing code - for example the
+routines in ll_rw_block() tend to use cli/sti to protect the atomicity of
+their actions, and if a driver uses spinlocks instead then you should
+think about issues like the above.
 
 This is really the only really hard part about spinlocks: once you start
 using spinlocks they tend to expand to areas you might not have noticed
@@ -90,10 +120,11 @@ Lesson 3: spinlocks revisited.
 
 The single spin-lock primitives above are by no means the only ones. They
 are the most safe ones, and the ones that work under all circumstances,
-but partly _because_ they are safe they are also fairly slow. They are slower
-than they'd need to be, because they do have to disable interrupts
-(which is just a single instruction on a x86, but it's an expensive one -
-and on other architectures it can be worse).
+but partly _because_ they are safe they are also fairly slow. They are
+much faster than a generic global cli/sti pair, but slower than they'd
+need to be, because they do have to disable interrupts (which is just a
+single instruction on a x86, but it's an expensive one - and on other
+architectures it can be worse).
 
 If you have a case where you have to protect a data structure across
 several CPU's and you want to use spinlocks you can potentially use

trunk/Documentation/x86/boot.txt

@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ Protocol:	2.10+
 
 Field name:	init_size
 Type:		read
-Offset/size:	0x260/4
+Offset/size:	0x25c/4
 
   This field indicates the amount of linear contiguous memory starting
   at the kernel runtime start address that the kernel needs before it