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@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 7b8ddb06e54ad98edeb7951f317aee4d1feda9d6
+refs/heads/master: e38c1e54ce51059a1aa8744c895762906cf43b32

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

@@ -133,6 +133,46 @@ Description:
 		The symbolic link points to the PCI device sysfs entry of the
 		Physical Function this device associates with.
 
+
+What:		/sys/bus/pci/slots/...
+Date:		April 2005 (possibly older)
+KernelVersion:	2.6.12 (possibly older)
+Contact:	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
+Description:
+		When the appropriate driver is loaded, it will create a
+		directory per claimed physical PCI slot in
+		/sys/bus/pci/slots/.  The names of these directories are
+		specific to the driver, which in turn, are specific to the
+		platform, but in general, should match the label on the
+		machine's physical chassis.
+
+		The drivers that can create slot directories include the
+		PCI hotplug drivers, and as of 2.6.27, the pci_slot driver.
+
+		The slot directories contain, at a minimum, a file named
+		'address' which contains the PCI bus:device:function tuple.
+		Other files may appear as well, but are specific to the
+		driver.
+
+What:		/sys/bus/pci/slots/.../function[0-7]
+Date:		March 2010
+KernelVersion:	2.6.35
+Contact:	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
+Description:
+		If PCI slot directories (as described above) are created,
+		and the physical slot is actually populated with a device,
+		symbolic links in the slot directory pointing to the
+		device's PCI functions are created as well.
+
+What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../slot
+Date:		March 2010
+KernelVersion:	2.6.35
+Contact:	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
+Description:
+		If PCI slot directories (as described above) are created,
+		a symbolic link pointing to the slot directory will be
+		created as well.
+
 What:		/sys/bus/pci/slots/.../module
 Date:		June 2009
 Contact:	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org

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

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+What:		/sys/class/power/ds2760-battery.*/charge_now
+Date:		May 2010
+KernelVersion:	2.6.35
+Contact:	Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
+Description:
+		This file is writeable and can be used to set the current
+		coloumb counter value inside the battery monitor chip. This
+		is needed for unavoidable corrections of aging batteries.
+		A userspace daemon can monitor the battery charging logic
+		and once the counter drops out of considerable bounds, take
+		appropriate action.
+
+What:		/sys/class/power/ds2760-battery.*/charge_full
+Date:		May 2010
+KernelVersion:	2.6.35
+Contact:	Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
+Description:
+		This file is writeable and can be used to set the assumed
+		battery 'full level'. As batteries age, this value has to be
+		amended over time.

trunk/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-node

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+What:		/sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/compact
+Date:		February 2010
+Contact:	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
+Description:
+		When this file is written to, all memory within that node
+		will be compacted. When it completes, memory will be freed
+		into blocks which have as many contiguous pages as possible

trunk/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-sfi

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+What:		/sys/firmware/sfi/tables/
+Date:		May 2010
+Contact:	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
+Description:
+		SFI defines a number of small static memory tables
+		so the kernel can get platform information from firmware.
+
+		The tables are defined in the latest SFI specification:
+		http://simplefirmware.org/documentation
+
+		While the tables are used by the kernel, user-space
+		can observe them this way:
+
+		# cd /sys/firmware/sfi/tables
+		# cat $TABLENAME > $TABLENAME.bin

trunk/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt

@@ -639,6 +639,36 @@ is planned to completely remove virt_to_bus() and bus_to_virt() as
 they are entirely deprecated.  Some ports already do not provide these
 as it is impossible to correctly support them.
 
+			Handling Errors
+
+DMA address space is limited on some architectures and an allocation
+failure can be determined by:
+
+- checking if dma_alloc_coherent returns NULL or dma_map_sg returns 0
+
+- checking the returned dma_addr_t of dma_map_single and dma_map_page
+  by using dma_mapping_error():
+
+	dma_addr_t dma_handle;
+
+	dma_handle = dma_map_single(dev, addr, size, direction);
+	if (dma_mapping_error(dev, dma_handle)) {
+		/*
+		 * reduce current DMA mapping usage,
+		 * delay and try again later or
+		 * reset driver.
+		 */
+	}
+
+Networking drivers must call dev_kfree_skb to free the socket buffer
+and return NETDEV_TX_OK if the DMA mapping fails on the transmit hook
+(ndo_start_xmit). This means that the socket buffer is just dropped in
+the failure case.
+
+SCSI drivers must return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY if the DMA mapping
+fails in the queuecommand hook. This means that the SCSI subsystem
+passes the command to the driver again later.
+
 		Optimizing Unmap State Space Consumption
 
 On many platforms, dma_unmap_{single,page}() is simply a nop.
@@ -703,42 +733,25 @@ to "Closing".
 
 1) Struct scatterlist requirements.
 
-   Struct scatterlist must contain, at a minimum, the following
-   members:
-
-	struct page *page;
-	unsigned int offset;
-	unsigned int length;
-
-   The base address is specified by a "page+offset" pair.
-
-   Previous versions of struct scatterlist contained a "void *address"
-   field that was sometimes used instead of page+offset.  As of Linux
-   2.5., page+offset is always used, and the "address" field has been
-   deleted.
-
-2) More to come...
-
-			Handling Errors
-
-DMA address space is limited on some architectures and an allocation
-failure can be determined by:
-
-- checking if dma_alloc_coherent returns NULL or dma_map_sg returns 0
-
-- checking the returned dma_addr_t of dma_map_single and dma_map_page
-  by using dma_mapping_error():
-
-	dma_addr_t dma_handle;
-
-	dma_handle = dma_map_single(dev, addr, size, direction);
-	if (dma_mapping_error(dev, dma_handle)) {
-		/*
-		 * reduce current DMA mapping usage,
-		 * delay and try again later or
-		 * reset driver.
-		 */
-	}
+   Don't invent the architecture specific struct scatterlist; just use
+   <asm-generic/scatterlist.h>. You need to enable
+   CONFIG_NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH if the architecture supports IOMMUs
+   (including software IOMMU).
+
+2) ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
+
+   Architectures must ensure that kmalloc'ed buffer is
+   DMA-safe. Drivers and subsystems depend on it. If an architecture
+   isn't fully DMA-coherent (i.e. hardware doesn't ensure that data in
+   the CPU cache is identical to data in main memory),
+   ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN must be set so that the memory allocator
+   makes sure that kmalloc'ed buffer doesn't share a cache line with
+   the others. See arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h as an example.
+
+   Note that ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is about DMA memory alignment
+   constraints. You don't need to worry about the architecture data
+   alignment constraints (e.g. the alignment constraints about 64-bit
+   objects).
 
 			   Closing
 

trunk/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl

@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ static void board_hwcontrol(struct mtd_info *mtd, int cmd)
 			information about the device.
 		</para>
 		<programlisting>
-int __init board_init (void)
+static int __init board_init (void)
 {
 	struct nand_chip *this;
 	int err = 0;

trunk/Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.txt

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Reporting (AER) driver and provides information on how to use it, as
 well as how to enable the drivers of endpoint devices to conform with
 PCI Express AER driver.
 
-1.2 Copyright © Intel Corporation 2006.
+1.2 Copyright (C) Intel Corporation 2006.
 
 1.3 What is the PCI Express AER Driver?
 
@@ -71,15 +71,11 @@ console. If it's a correctable error, it is outputed as a warning.
 Otherwise, it is printed as an error. So users could choose different
 log level to filter out correctable error messages.
 
-Below shows an example.
-+------ PCI-Express Device Error -----+
-Error Severity          : Uncorrected (Fatal)
-PCIE Bus Error type     : Transaction Layer
-Unsupported Request     : First
-Requester ID            : 0500
-VendorID=8086h, DeviceID=0329h, Bus=05h, Device=00h, Function=00h
-TLB Header:
-04000001 00200a03 05010000 00050100
+Below shows an example:
+0000:50:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Uncorrected (Fatal), type=Transaction Layer, id=0500(Requester ID)
+0000:50:00.0:   device [8086:0329] error status/mask=00100000/00000000
+0000:50:00.0:    [20] Unsupported Request    (First)
+0000:50:00.0:   TLP Header: 04000001 00200a03 05010000 00050100
 
 In the example, 'Requester ID' means the ID of the device who sends
 the error message to root port. Pls. refer to pci express specs for
@@ -112,7 +108,7 @@ but the PCI Express link itself is fully functional. Fatal errors, on
 the other hand, cause the link to be unreliable.
 
 When AER is enabled, a PCI Express device will automatically send an
-error message to the PCIE root port above it when the device captures
+error message to the PCIe root port above it when the device captures
 an error. The Root Port, upon receiving an error reporting message,
 internally processes and logs the error message in its PCI Express
 capability structure. Error information being logged includes storing
@@ -198,8 +194,9 @@ to reset link, AER port service driver is required to provide the
 function to reset link. Firstly, kernel looks for if the upstream
 component has an aer driver. If it has, kernel uses the reset_link
 callback of the aer driver. If the upstream component has no aer driver
-and the port is downstream port, we will use the aer driver of the
-root port who reports the AER error. As for upstream ports,
+and the port is downstream port, we will perform a hot reset as the
+default by setting the Secondary Bus Reset bit of the Bridge Control
+register associated with the downstream port. As for upstream ports,
 they should provide their own aer service drivers with reset_link
 function. If error_detected returns PCI_ERS_RESULT_CAN_RECOVER and
 reset_link returns PCI_ERS_RESULT_RECOVERED, the error handling goes
@@ -253,11 +250,11 @@ 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
+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.
+injection can be used to fake various kinds of PCIe errors.
 
-First you should enable PCIE AER software error injection in kernel
+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

trunk/Documentation/SubmitChecklist

@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ kernel patches.
 
 2b: Passes allnoconfig, allmodconfig
 
+2c: Builds successfully when using O=builddir
+
 3: Builds on multiple CPU architectures by using local cross-compile tools
    or some other build farm.
 
@@ -95,3 +97,13 @@ kernel patches.
 
 25: If any ioctl's are added by the patch, then also update
     Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt.
+
+26: If your modified source code depends on or uses any of the kernel
+    APIs or features that are related to the following kconfig symbols,
+    then test multiple builds with the related kconfig symbols disabled
+    and/or =m (if that option is available) [not all of these at the
+    same time, just various/random combinations of them]:
+
+    CONFIG_SMP, CONFIG_SYSFS, CONFIG_PROC_FS, CONFIG_INPUT, CONFIG_PCI,
+    CONFIG_BLOCK, CONFIG_PM, CONFIG_HOTPLUG, CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ,
+    CONFIG_NET, CONFIG_INET=n (but latter with CONFIG_NET=y)

trunk/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers

@@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ Linux kernel master tree:
 	ftp.??.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/...
 	?? == your country code, such as "us", "uk", "fr", etc.
 
+	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
+
 Linux kernel mailing list:
 	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 	[mail majordomo@vger.kernel.org to subscribe]
@@ -160,3 +162,6 @@ How to NOT write kernel driver by Arjan van de Ven:
 
 Kernel Janitor:
 	http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/
+
+GIT, Fast Version Control System:
+	http://git-scm.com/

trunk/Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+			APEI Error INJection
+			~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+EINJ provides a hardware error injection mechanism
+It is very useful for debugging and testing of other APEI and RAS features.
+
+To use EINJ, make sure the following are enabled in your kernel
+configuration:
+
+CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
+CONFIG_ACPI_APEI
+CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_EINJ
+
+The user interface of EINJ is debug file system, under the
+directory apei/einj. The following files are provided.
+
+- available_error_type
+  Reading this file returns the error injection capability of the
+  platform, that is, which error types are supported. The error type
+  definition is as follow, the left field is the error type value, the
+  right field is error description.
+
+    0x00000001	Processor Correctable
+    0x00000002	Processor Uncorrectable non-fatal
+    0x00000004	Processor Uncorrectable fatal
+    0x00000008  Memory Correctable
+    0x00000010  Memory Uncorrectable non-fatal
+    0x00000020  Memory Uncorrectable fatal
+    0x00000040	PCI Express Correctable
+    0x00000080	PCI Express Uncorrectable fatal
+    0x00000100	PCI Express Uncorrectable non-fatal
+    0x00000200	Platform Correctable
+    0x00000400	Platform Uncorrectable non-fatal
+    0x00000800	Platform Uncorrectable fatal
+
+  The format of file contents are as above, except there are only the
+  available error type lines.
+
+- error_type
+  This file is used to set the error type value. The error type value
+  is defined in "available_error_type" description.
+
+- error_inject
+  Write any integer to this file to trigger the error
+  injection. Before this, please specify all necessary error
+  parameters.
+
+- param1
+  This file is used to set the first error parameter value. Effect of
+  parameter depends on error_type specified. For memory error, this is
+  physical memory address.
+
+- param2
+  This file is used to set the second error parameter value. Effect of
+  parameter depends on error_type specified. For memory error, this is
+  physical memory address mask.
+
+For more information about EINJ, please refer to ACPI specification
+version 4.0, section 17.5.