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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/o2cb b/Documentation/ABI/removed/o2cb index 7f5daa4..20c91ad 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/removed/o2cb +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/o2cb @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ What: /sys/o2cb symlink Date: May 2011 -KernelVersion: 2.6.40 +KernelVersion: 3.0 Contact: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com Description: This is a symlink: /sys/o2cb to /sys/fs/o2cb. The symlink is removed when new versions of ocfs2-tools which know to look diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394 b/Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394 index 490aa1e..ec333e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394 +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Description: /dev/raw1394 was a character device file that allowed low-level access to FireWire buses. Its major drawbacks were its inability to implement sensible device security policies, and its low level - of abstraction that required userspace clients do duplicate much + of abstraction that required userspace clients to duplicate much of the kernel's ieee1394 core functionality. Replaced by /dev/fw*, i.e. the <linux/firewire-cdev.h> ABI of firewire-core. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/evm b/Documentation/ABI/testing/evm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8374d45 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/evm @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +What: security/evm +Date: March 2011 +Contact: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> +Description: + EVM protects a file's security extended attributes(xattrs) + against integrity attacks. The initial method maintains an + HMAC-sha1 value across the extended attributes, storing the + value as the extended attribute 'security.evm'. + + EVM depends on the Kernel Key Retention System to provide it + with a trusted/encrypted key for the HMAC-sha1 operation. + The key is loaded onto the root's keyring using keyctl. Until + EVM receives notification that the key has been successfully + loaded onto the keyring (echo 1 > <securityfs>/evm), EVM + can not create or validate the 'security.evm' xattr, but + returns INTEGRITY_UNKNOWN. Loading the key and signaling EVM + should be done as early as possible. Normally this is done + in the initramfs, which has already been measured as part + of the trusted boot. For more information on creating and + loading existing trusted/encrypted keys, refer to: + Documentation/keys-trusted-encrypted.txt. (A sample dracut + patch, which loads the trusted/encrypted key and enables + EVM, is available from http://linux-ima.sourceforge.net/#EVM.) diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-bcma b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-bcma index 06b62ba..721b4ae 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-bcma +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-bcma @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ What: /sys/bus/bcma/devices/.../manuf Date: May 2011 -KernelVersion: 2.6.40 +KernelVersion: 3.0 Contact: RafaÅ‚ MiÅ‚ecki <zajec5@gmail.com> Description: Each BCMA core has it's manufacturer id. See @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Description: What: /sys/bus/bcma/devices/.../id Date: May 2011 -KernelVersion: 2.6.40 +KernelVersion: 3.0 Contact: RafaÅ‚ MiÅ‚ecki <zajec5@gmail.com> Description: There are a few types of BCMA cores, they can be identified by @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Description: What: /sys/bus/bcma/devices/.../rev Date: May 2011 -KernelVersion: 2.6.40 +KernelVersion: 3.0 Contact: RafaÅ‚ MiÅ‚ecki <zajec5@gmail.com> Description: BCMA cores of the same type can still slightly differ depending @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Description: What: /sys/bus/bcma/devices/.../class Date: May 2011 -KernelVersion: 2.6.40 +KernelVersion: 3.0 Contact: RafaÅ‚ MiÅ‚ecki <zajec5@gmail.com> Description: Each BCMA core is identified by few fields, including class it diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-drivers-ehci_hcd b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-drivers-ehci_hcd new file mode 100644 index 0000000..60c60fa --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-drivers-ehci_hcd @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +What: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci_hcd/.../companion + /sys/bus/usb/devices/usbN/../companion +Date: January 2007 +KernelVersion: 2.6.21 +Contact: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> +Description: + PCI-based EHCI USB controllers (i.e., high-speed USB-2.0 + controllers) are often implemented along with a set of + "companion" full/low-speed USB-1.1 controllers. When a + high-speed device is plugged in, the connection is routed + to the EHCI controller; when a full- or low-speed device + is plugged in, the connection is routed to the companion + controller. + + Sometimes you want to force a high-speed device to connect + at full speed, which can be accomplished by forcing the + connection to be routed to the companion controller. + That's what this file does. Writing a port number to the + file causes connections on that port to be routed to the + companion controller, and writing the negative of a port + number returns the port to normal operation. + + For example: To force the high-speed device attached to + port 4 on bus 2 to run at full speed: + + echo 4 >/sys/bus/usb/devices/usb2/../companion + + To return the port to high-speed operation: + + echo -4 >/sys/bus/usb/devices/usb2/../companion + + Reading the file gives the list of ports currently forced + to the companion controller. + + Note: Some EHCI controllers do not have companions; they + may contain an internal "transaction translator" or they + may be attached directly to a "rate-matching hub". This + mechanism will not work with such controllers. Also, it + cannot be used to force a port on a high-speed hub to + connect at full speed. + + Note: When this file was first added, it appeared in a + different sysfs directory. The location given above is + correct for 2.6.35 (and probably several earlier kernel + versions as well). + diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb index 294aa86..e647378 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb @@ -142,3 +142,18 @@ Description: such devices. Users: usb_modeswitch + +What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/usb2_hardware_lpm +Date: September 2011 +Contact: Andiry Xu <andiry.xu@amd.com> +Description: + If CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND is set and a USB 2.0 lpm-capable device + is plugged in to a xHCI host which support link PM, it will + perform a LPM test; if the test is passed and host supports + USB2 hardware LPM (xHCI 1.0 feature), USB2 hardware LPM will + be enabled for the device and the USB device directory will + contain a file named power/usb2_hardware_lpm. The file holds + a string value (enable or disable) indicating whether or not + USB2 hardware LPM is enabled for the device. Developer can + write y/Y/1 or n/N/0 to the file to enable/disable the + feature. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-backlight-driver-adp8870 b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-backlight-driver-adp8870 index aa11dbd..4a9c545 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-backlight-driver-adp8870 +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-backlight-driver-adp8870 @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ What: /sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/l2_bright_max What: /sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/l3_office_max What: /sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/l4_indoor_max What: /sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/l5_dark_max -Date: Mai 2011 -KernelVersion: 2.6.40 +Date: May 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.0 Contact: device-drivers-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org Description: Control the maximum brightness for <ambient light zone> @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ What: /sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/l2_bright_dim What: /sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/l3_office_dim What: /sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/l4_indoor_dim What: /sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/l5_dark_dim -Date: Mai 2011 -KernelVersion: 2.6.40 +Date: May 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.0 Contact: device-drivers-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org Description: Control the dim brightness for <ambient light zone> @@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ Description: this <ambient light zone>. What: /sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/ambient_light_level -Date: Mai 2011 -KernelVersion: 2.6.40 +Date: May 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.0 Contact: device-drivers-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org Description: Get conversion value of the light sensor. @@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ Description: 8000 (max ambient brightness) What: /sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/ambient_light_zone -Date: Mai 2011 -KernelVersion: 2.6.40 +Date: May 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.0 Contact: device-drivers-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org Description: Get/Set current ambient light zone. Reading returns diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-logitech-lg4ff b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-logitech-lg4ff new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9aec8ef --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-logitech-lg4ff @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +What: /sys/module/hid_logitech/drivers/hid:logitech/<dev>/range. +Date: July 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.2 +Contact: Michal Malý <madcatxster@gmail.com> +Description: Display minimum, maximum and current range of the steering + wheel. Writing a value within min and max boundaries sets the + range of the wheel. diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl index 7c4b514d..54883de 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl @@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ memory (e.g. allocated with <function>kmalloc()</function>). There's also </para></listitem> <listitem><para> -<varname>unsigned long addr</varname>: Required if the mapping is used. +<varname>phys_addr_t addr</varname>: Required if the mapping is used. Fill in the address of your memory block. This address is the one that appears in sysfs. </para></listitem> diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/pci.txt b/Documentation/PCI/pci.txt index 6148d40..aa09e54 100644 --- a/Documentation/PCI/pci.txt +++ b/Documentation/PCI/pci.txt @@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ from the PCI device config space. Use the values in the pci_dev structure as the PCI "bus address" might have been remapped to a "host physical" address by the arch/chip-set specific kernel support. -See Documentation/IO-mapping.txt for how to access device registers +See Documentation/io-mapping.txt for how to access device registers or device memory. The device driver needs to call pci_request_region() to verify diff --git a/Documentation/blackfin/bfin-gpio-notes.txt b/Documentation/blackfin/bfin-gpio-notes.txt index f731c1e..d36b01f 100644 --- a/Documentation/blackfin/bfin-gpio-notes.txt +++ b/Documentation/blackfin/bfin-gpio-notes.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* - * File: Documentation/blackfin/bfin-gpio-note.txt + * File: Documentation/blackfin/bfin-gpio-notes.txt * Based on: * Author: * diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt index c6d84cf..e418dc0 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ a virtual address mapping (unlike the earlier scheme of virtual address do not have a corresponding kernel virtual address space mapping) and low-memory pages. -Note: Please refer to Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt for a discussion +Note: Please refer to Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt for a discussion on PCI high mem DMA aspects and mapping of scatter gather lists, and support for 64 bit PCI. diff --git a/Documentation/bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt b/Documentation/bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt index 1b5aa10..2bc55ff 100644 --- a/Documentation/bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt +++ b/Documentation/bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ [ NOTE: The virt_to_bus() and bus_to_virt() functions have been superseded by the functionality provided by the PCI DMA interface - (see Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt). They continue + (see Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt). They continue to be documented below for historical purposes, but new code must not use them. --davidm 00/12/12 ] diff --git a/Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt b/Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt index 13c251d..2834170 100644 --- a/Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt +++ b/Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ this interface. (see http://tom.ist-im-web.de/download/pktcdvd ) For a description of the sysfs interface look into the file: - Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-pktcdvd + Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-pktcdvd Using the pktcdvd debugfs interface diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt index e74d0a2..d221781 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ The sampling rate is limited by the HW transition latency: transition_latency * 100 Or by kernel restrictions: If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, the limit is 10ms fixed. -If CONFIG_NO_HZ is not set or no_hz=off boot parameter is used, the +If CONFIG_NO_HZ is not set or nohz=off boot parameter is used, the limits depend on the CONFIG_HZ option: HZ=1000: min=20000us (20ms) HZ=250: min=80000us (80ms) diff --git a/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding b/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding index 83f5f5b..e3cb6a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding +++ b/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ enabled, a configurable percentage of memory allocations will be made to fail; these failures can be restricted to a specific range of code. Running with fault injection enabled allows the programmer to see how the code responds when things go badly. See -Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.text for more information on +Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt for more information on how to use this facility. Other kinds of errors can be found with the "sparse" static analysis tool. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2cc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2cc.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7ca5216 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2cc.txt @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +* ARM L2 Cache Controller + +ARM cores often have a separate level 2 cache controller. There are various +implementations of the L2 cache controller with compatible programming models. +The ARM L2 cache representation in the device tree should be done as follows: + +Required properties: + +- compatible : should be one of: + "arm,pl310-cache" + "arm,l220-cache" + "arm,l210-cache" +- cache-unified : Specifies the cache is a unified cache. +- cache-level : Should be set to 2 for a level 2 cache. +- reg : Physical base address and size of cache controller's memory mapped + registers. + +Optional properties: + +- arm,data-latency : Cycles of latency for Data RAM accesses. Specifies 3 cells of + read, write and setup latencies. Minimum valid values are 1. Controllers + without setup latency control should use a value of 0. +- arm,tag-latency : Cycles of latency for Tag RAM accesses. Specifies 3 cells of + read, write and setup latencies. Controllers without setup latency control + should use 0. Controllers without separate read and write Tag RAM latency + values should only use the first cell. +- arm,dirty-latency : Cycles of latency for Dirty RAMs. This is a single cell. +- arm,filter-ranges : <start length> Starting address and length of window to + filter. Addresses in the filter window are directed to the M1 port. Other + addresses will go to the M0 port. +- interrupts : 1 combined interrupt. + +Example: + +L2: cache-controller { + compatible = "arm,pl310-cache"; + reg = <0xfff12000 0x1000>; + arm,data-latency = <1 1 1>; + arm,tag-latency = <2 2 2>; + arm,filter-latency = <0x80000000 0x8000000>; + cache-unified; + cache-level = <2>; + interrupts = <45>; +}; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/led.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/led.txt index 064db92..141087c 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/led.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/led.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ node's name represents the name of the corresponding LED. LED sub-node properties: - gpios : Should specify the LED's GPIO, see "Specifying GPIO information - for devices" in Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt. Active + for devices" in Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt. Active low LEDs should be indicated using flags in the GPIO specifier. - label : (optional) The label for this LED. If omitted, the label is taken from the node name (excluding the unit address). diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/binding.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/binding.txt index f7ec9d6..abfc8e2 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-model/binding.txt +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/binding.txt @@ -48,10 +48,6 @@ devclass_add_device is called to enumerate the device within the class and actually register it with the class, which happens with the class's register_dev callback. -NOTE: The device class structures and core routines to manipulate them -are not in the mainline kernel, so the discussion is still a bit -speculative. - Driver ~~~~~~ diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt index bdefe72..1e70220 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt @@ -45,33 +45,52 @@ struct device_attribute { const char *buf, size_t count); }; -Attributes of devices can be exported via drivers using a simple -procfs-like interface. +Attributes of devices can be exported by a device driver through sysfs. Please see Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt for more information on how sysfs works. +As explained in Documentation/kobject.txt, device attributes must be be +created before the KOBJ_ADD uevent is generated. The only way to realize +that is by defining an attribute group. + Attributes are declared using a macro called DEVICE_ATTR: #define DEVICE_ATTR(name,mode,show,store) Example: -DEVICE_ATTR(power,0644,show_power,store_power); +static DEVICE_ATTR(type, 0444, show_type, NULL); +static DEVICE_ATTR(power, 0644, show_power, store_power); -This declares a structure of type struct device_attribute named -'dev_attr_power'. This can then be added and removed to the device's -directory using: +This declares two structures of type struct device_attribute with respective +names 'dev_attr_type' and 'dev_attr_power'. These two attributes can be +organized as follows into a group: -int device_create_file(struct device *device, struct device_attribute * entry); -void device_remove_file(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute * attr); +static struct attribute *dev_attrs[] = { + &dev_attr_type.attr, + &dev_attr_power.attr, + NULL, +}; -Example: +static struct attribute_group dev_attr_group = { + .attrs = dev_attrs, +}; + +static const struct attribute_group *dev_attr_groups[] = { + &dev_attr_group, + NULL, +}; + +This array of groups can then be associated with a device by setting the +group pointer in struct device before device_register() is invoked: -device_create_file(dev,&dev_attr_power); -device_remove_file(dev,&dev_attr_power); + dev->groups = dev_attr_groups; + device_register(dev); -The file name will be 'power' with a mode of 0644 (-rw-r--r--). +The device_register() function will use the 'groups' pointer to create the +device attributes and the device_unregister() function will use this pointer +to remove the device attributes. Word of warning: While the kernel allows device_create_file() and device_remove_file() to be called on a device at any time, userspace has @@ -84,24 +103,4 @@ not know about the new attributes. This is important for device driver that need to publish additional attributes for a device at driver probe time. If the device driver simply calls device_create_file() on the device structure passed to it, then -userspace will never be notified of the new attributes. Instead, it should -probably use class_create() and class->dev_attrs to set up a list of -desired attributes in the modules_init function, and then in the .probe() -hook, and then use device_create() to create a new device as a child -of the probed device. The new device will generate a new uevent and -properly advertise the new attributes to userspace. - -For example, if a driver wanted to add the following attributes: -struct device_attribute mydriver_attribs[] = { - __ATTR(port_count, 0444, port_count_show), - __ATTR(serial_number, 0444, serial_number_show), - NULL -}; - -Then in the module init function is would do: - mydriver_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "my_attrs"); - mydriver_class.dev_attr = mydriver_attribs; - -And assuming 'dev' is the struct device passed into the probe hook, the driver -probe function would do something like: - device_create(&mydriver_class, dev, chrdev, &private_data, "my_name"); +userspace will never be notified of the new attributes. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/object.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/object.txt index e8b0a35..5831334 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/object.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/object.txt @@ -127,9 +127,9 @@ fscache_enqueue_object()). PROVISION OF CPU TIME --------------------- -The work to be done by the various states is given CPU time by the threads of -the slow work facility (see Documentation/slow-work.txt). This is used in -preference to the workqueue facility because: +The work to be done by the various states was given CPU time by the threads of +the slow work facility. This was used in preference to the workqueue facility +because: (1) Threads may be completely occupied for very long periods of time by a particular work item. These state actions may be doing sequences of diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locks.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/locks.txt index fab857a..2cf8108 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/locks.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locks.txt @@ -53,11 +53,12 @@ fcntl(), with all the problems that implies. 1.3 Mandatory Locking As A Mount Option --------------------------------------- -Mandatory locking, as described in 'Documentation/filesystems/mandatory.txt' -was prior to this release a general configuration option that was valid for -all mounted filesystems. This had a number of inherent dangers, not the -least of which was the ability to freeze an NFS server by asking it to read -a file for which a mandatory lock existed. +Mandatory locking, as described in +'Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.txt' was prior to this release a +general configuration option that was valid for all mounted filesystems. This +had a number of inherent dangers, not the least of which was the ability to +freeze an NFS server by asking it to read a file for which a mandatory lock +existed. From this release of the kernel, mandatory locking can be turned on and off on a per-filesystem basis, using the mount options 'mand' and 'nomand'. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt index 9c8fd61..120fd3c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ request-key will find the first matching line and corresponding program. In this case, /some/other/program will handle all uid lookups and /usr/sbin/nfs.idmap will handle gid, user, and group lookups. -See <file:Documentation/security/keys-request-keys.txt> for more information +See <file:Documentation/security/keys-request-key.txt> for more information about the request-key function. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/design_notes.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/design_notes.txt index dcf8335..8aef9133 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/design_notes.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/design_notes.txt @@ -58,8 +58,9 @@ data transfers. POHMELFS clients operate with a working set of servers and are capable of balancing read-only operations (like lookups or directory listings) between them according to IO priorities. Administrators can add or remove servers from the set at run-time via special commands (described -in Documentation/pohmelfs/info.txt file). Writes are replicated to all servers, which are connected -with write permission turned on. IO priority and permissions can be changed in run-time. +in Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/info.txt file). Writes are replicated to all servers, which +are connected with write permission turned on. IO priority and permissions can be changed in +run-time. POHMELFS is capable of full data channel encryption and/or strong crypto hashing. One can select any kernel supported cipher, encryption mode, hash type and operation mode diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index db3b1ab..0ec91f0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1263,7 +1263,7 @@ review the kernel documentation in the directory /usr/src/linux/Documentation. This chapter is heavily based on the documentation included in the pre 2.2 kernels, and became part of it in version 2.2.1 of the Linux kernel. -Please see: Documentation/sysctls/ directory for descriptions of these +Please see: Documentation/sysctl/ directory for descriptions of these entries. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt index 597f728..07235ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ sysfs - _The_ filesystem for exporting kernel objects. Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org> Mike Murphy <mamurph@cs.clemson.edu> -Revised: 15 July 2010 +Revised: 16 August 2011 Original: 10 January 2003 @@ -370,3 +370,11 @@ int driver_create_file(struct device_driver *, const struct driver_attribute *); void driver_remove_file(struct device_driver *, const struct driver_attribute *); +Documentation +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The sysfs directory structure and the attributes in each directory define an +ABI between the kernel and user space. As for any ABI, it is important that +this ABI is stable and properly documented. All new sysfs attributes must be +documented in Documentation/ABI. See also Documentation/ABI/README for more +information. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 52d8fb8..43cbd08 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -1053,9 +1053,6 @@ manipulate dentries: and the dentry is returned. The caller must use dput() to free the dentry when it finishes using it. -For further information on dentry locking, please refer to the document -Documentation/filesystems/dentry-locking.txt. - Mount Options ============= diff --git a/Documentation/frv/booting.txt b/Documentation/frv/booting.txt index 37c4d84..9bdf4b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/frv/booting.txt +++ b/Documentation/frv/booting.txt @@ -180,9 +180,3 @@ separated by spaces: This tells the kernel what program to run initially. By default this is /sbin/init, but /sbin/sash or /bin/sh are common alternatives. - - (*) vdc=... - - This option configures the MB93493 companion chip visual display - driver. Please see Documentation/frv/mb93493/vdc.txt for more - information. diff --git a/Documentation/input/input.txt b/Documentation/input/input.txt index b93c084..b3d6787 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/input.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/input.txt @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ LCDs and many other purposes. The monitor and speaker controls should be easy to add to the hid/input interface, but for the UPSs and LCDs it doesn't make much sense. For this, -the hiddev interface was designed. See Documentation/usb/hiddev.txt +the hiddev interface was designed. See Documentation/hid/hiddev.txt for more information about it. The usage of the usbhid module is very simple, it takes no parameters, diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt index 0e0734b..eda1eb1 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt @@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ * Title: "The Kernel Hacking HOWTO" Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty. - Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking/ + Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs}) Keywords: HOWTO, kernel contexts, deadlock, locking, modules, symbols, return conventions. @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ * Title: "Linux Kernel Locking HOWTO" Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty. - Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking/ + Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs}) Keywords: locks, locking, spinlock, semaphore, atomic, race condition, bottom halves, tasklets, softirqs. diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index d6e6724..0e6a129 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ parameter is applicable: EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled. + EVM Extended Verification Module FB The frame buffer device is enabled. FTRACE Function tracing enabled. GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled. @@ -163,7 +164,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory - See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi + See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used @@ -319,7 +320,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT Format: <a>,<b> - See also Documentation/kernel/input/joystick.txt + See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick @@ -408,7 +409,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as kernel args too. bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options - bttv.tuner= and Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST + bttv.tuner= bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries @@ -724,7 +725,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. elevator= [IOSCHED] Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"} - See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and + See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details. elfcorehdr= [IA-64,PPC,SH,X86] @@ -760,12 +761,17 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. + evm= [EVM] + Format: { "fix" } + Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of + current integrity status. + failslab= fail_page_alloc= fail_make_request=[KNL] General fault injection mechanism. Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> - See also /Documentation/fault-injection/. + See also Documentation/fault-injection/. floppy= [HW] See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt. @@ -2375,7 +2381,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. Format: <integer> sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver - See Documentation/sonypi.txt + See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt specialix= [HW,SERIAL] Specialix multi-serial port adapter See Documentation/serial/specialix.txt. diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt index 6181548..3ff0dad 100644 --- a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt +++ b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt @@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ status as "unknown". The available commands are: sysfs notes: The ThinkLight sysfs interface is documented by the LED class -documentation, in Documentation/leds-class.txt. The ThinkLight LED name +documentation, in Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt. The ThinkLight LED name is "tpacpi::thinklight". Due to limitations in the sysfs LED class, if the status of the ThinkLight @@ -833,7 +833,7 @@ All of the above can be turned on and off and can be made to blink. sysfs notes: The ThinkPad LED sysfs interface is described in detail by the LED class -documentation, in Documentation/leds-class.txt. +documentation, in Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt. The LEDs are named (in LED ID order, from 0 to 12): "tpacpi::power", "tpacpi:orange:batt", "tpacpi:green:batt", diff --git a/Documentation/media-framework.txt b/Documentation/media-framework.txt index 669b5fb..3a0f879 100644 --- a/Documentation/media-framework.txt +++ b/Documentation/media-framework.txt @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ Introduction ------------ The media controller API is documented in DocBook format in -Documentation/DocBook/v4l/media-controller.xml. This document will focus on -the kernel-side implementation of the media framework. +Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-controller.xml. This document will focus +on the kernel-side implementation of the media framework. Abstract media device model diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index f0d3a80..2759f7c 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ There are certain things that the Linux kernel memory barriers do not guarantee: [*] For information on bus mastering DMA and coherency please read: Documentation/PCI/pci.txt - Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt + Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt Documentation/DMA-API.txt diff --git a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt index fe67b5c..a177de2 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ of queues to IRQs can be determined from /proc/interrupts. By default, an IRQ may be handled on any CPU. Because a non-negligible part of packet processing takes place in receive interrupt handling, it is advantageous to spread receive interrupts between CPUs. To manually adjust the IRQ -affinity of each interrupt see Documentation/IRQ-affinity. Some systems +affinity of each interrupt see Documentation/IRQ-affinity.txt. Some systems will be running irqbalance, a daemon that dynamically optimizes IRQ assignments and as a result may override any manual settings. diff --git a/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt b/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt index ddd7817..05a7fe7 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ kernel messages using the serial console. This may provide you with some information about the reasons of the suspend (resume) failure. Alternatively, it may be possible to use a FireWire port for debugging with firescope (ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/firescope/). On x86 it is also possible to -use the PM_TRACE mechanism documented in Documentation/s2ram.txt . +use the PM_TRACE mechanism documented in Documentation/power/s2ram.txt . 2. Testing suspend to RAM (STR) diff --git a/Documentation/power/userland-swsusp.txt b/Documentation/power/userland-swsusp.txt index 1101bee..0e87082 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/userland-swsusp.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/userland-swsusp.txt @@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA - set the resume partition and the offset (in <PAGE_SIZE> resume_swap_area, as defined in kernel/power/suspend_ioctls.h, containing the resume device specification and the offset); for swap partitions the offset is always 0, but it is different from zero for - swap files (see Documentation/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt for details). + swap files (see Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt for + details). SNAPSHOT_PLATFORM_SUPPORT - enable/disable the hibernation platform support, depending on the argument value (enable, if the argument is nonzero) diff --git a/Documentation/rfkill.txt b/Documentation/rfkill.txt index 83668e5..03c9d92 100644 --- a/Documentation/rfkill.txt +++ b/Documentation/rfkill.txt @@ -117,5 +117,4 @@ The contents of these variables corresponds to the "name", "state" and "type" sysfs files explained above. -For further details consult Documentation/ABI/stable/dev-rfkill and -Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill. +For further details consult Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill. diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt b/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt index 7bd210a..ecfc474 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt @@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ linux-1.1.x and fairly stable since linux-1.2.x, and are also in FreeBSD Kernel Compile options ------------------------------ The various kernel compile time options for this driver are now fairly - well documented in the file Documentation/Configure.help. In order to + well documented in the file drivers/scsi/Kconfig. In order to see this documentation, you need to use one of the advanced configuration programs (menuconfig and xconfig). If you are using the "make menuconfig" method of configuring your kernel, then you would simply highlight the diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt index 5f17d29..a340b18 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt @@ -55,11 +55,6 @@ or in the same directory as the C source code. For example to find a url about the USB mass storage driver see the /usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/storage directory. -The Linux kernel source Documentation/DocBook/scsidrivers.tmpl file -refers to this file. With the appropriate DocBook tool-set, this permits -users to generate html, ps and pdf renderings of information within this -file (e.g. the interface functions). - Driver structure ================ Traditionally an LLD for the SCSI subsystem has been at least two files in diff --git a/Documentation/security/keys-trusted-encrypted.txt b/Documentation/security/keys-trusted-encrypted.txt index 5f50cca..c9e4855 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/keys-trusted-encrypted.txt +++ b/Documentation/security/keys-trusted-encrypted.txt @@ -156,4 +156,5 @@ Load an encrypted key "evm" from saved blob: Other uses for trusted and encrypted keys, such as for disk and file encryption are anticipated. In particular the new format 'ecryptfs' has been defined in in order to use encrypted keys to mount an eCryptfs filesystem. More details -about the usage can be found in the file 'Documentation/keys-ecryptfs.txt'. +about the usage can be found in the file +'Documentation/security/keys-ecryptfs.txt'. diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/PAS16 b/Documentation/sound/oss/PAS16 index 951b3dc..3dca4b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/oss/PAS16 +++ b/Documentation/sound/oss/PAS16 @@ -60,8 +60,7 @@ With PAS16 you can use two audio device files at the same time. /dev/dsp (and The new stuff for 2.3.99 and later ============================================================================ -The following configuration options from Documentation/Configure.help -are relevant to configuring the PAS16: +The following configuration options are relevant to configuring the PAS16: Sound card support CONFIG_SOUND diff --git a/Documentation/spi/pxa2xx b/Documentation/spi/pxa2xx index 00511e0..3352f97 100644 --- a/Documentation/spi/pxa2xx +++ b/Documentation/spi/pxa2xx @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ PXA2xx SPI on SSP driver HOWTO =================================================== This a mini howto on the pxa2xx_spi driver. The driver turns a PXA2xx synchronous serial port into a SPI master controller -(see Documentation/spi/spi_summary). The driver has the following features +(see Documentation/spi/spi-summary). The driver has the following features - Support for any PXA2xx SSP - SSP PIO and SSP DMA data transfers. @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Declaring Slave Devices ----------------------- Typically each SPI slave (chip) is defined in the arch/.../mach-*/board-*.c using the "spi_board_info" structure found in "linux/spi/spi.h". See -"Documentation/spi/spi_summary" for additional information. +"Documentation/spi/spi-summary" for additional information. Each slave device attached to the PXA must provide slave specific configuration information via the structure "pxa2xx_spi_chip" found in diff --git a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt index e213f45..21fd05c 100644 --- a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt +++ b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt @@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and which ones are not, into the Procedure for submitting patches to the -stable tree: - Send the patch, after verifying that it follows the above rules, to - stable@kernel.org. You must note the upstream commit ID in the changelog - of your submission. + stable@vger.kernel.org. You must note the upstream commit ID in the + changelog of your submission. - To have the patch automatically included in the stable tree, add the tag - Cc: stable@kernel.org + Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org in the sign-off area. Once the patch is merged it will be applied to the stable tree without anything else needing to be done by the author or subsystem maintainer. @@ -35,10 +35,10 @@ Procedure for submitting patches to the -stable tree: cherry-picked than this can be specified in the following format in the sign-off area: - Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .32.x: a1f84a3: sched: Check for idle - Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .32.x: 1b9508f: sched: Rate-limit newidle - Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .32.x: fd21073: sched: Fix affinity logic - Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .32.x + Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # .32.x: a1f84a3: sched: Check for idle + Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # .32.x: 1b9508f: sched: Rate-limit newidle + Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # .32.x: fd21073: sched: Fix affinity logic + Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # .32.x Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> The tag sequence has the meaning of: diff --git a/Documentation/timers/highres.txt b/Documentation/timers/highres.txt index 2133223..e878997 100644 --- a/Documentation/timers/highres.txt +++ b/Documentation/timers/highres.txt @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ hrtimer base infrastructure --------------------------- The hrtimer base infrastructure was merged into the 2.6.16 kernel. Details of -the base implementation are covered in Documentation/hrtimers/hrtimer.txt. See +the base implementation are covered in Documentation/timers/hrtimers.txt. See also figure #2 (OLS slides p. 15) The main differences to the timer wheel, which holds the armed timer_list type diff --git a/Documentation/usb/dma.txt b/Documentation/usb/dma.txt index 84ef865..444651e 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/dma.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/dma.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ API OVERVIEW The big picture is that USB drivers can continue to ignore most DMA issues, though they still must provide DMA-ready buffers (see -Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt). That's how they've worked through +Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt). That's how they've worked through the 2.4 (and earlier) kernels. OR: they can now be DMA-aware. @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ and effects like cache-trashing can impose subtle penalties. force a consistent memory access ordering by using memory barriers. It's not using a streaming DMA mapping, so it's good for small transfers on systems where the I/O would otherwise thrash an IOMMU mapping. (See - Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt for definitions of "coherent" and + Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt for definitions of "coherent" and "streaming" DMA mappings.) Asking for 1/Nth of a page (as well as asking for N pages) is reasonably @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ WORKING WITH EXISTING BUFFERS Existing buffers aren't usable for DMA without first being mapped into the DMA address space of the device. However, most buffers passed to your driver can safely be used with such DMA mapping. (See the first section -of Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt, titled "What memory is DMA-able?") +of Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt, titled "What memory is DMA-able?") - When you're using scatterlists, you can map everything at once. On some systems, this kicks in an IOMMU and turns the scatterlists into single diff --git a/Documentation/usb/dwc3.txt b/Documentation/usb/dwc3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7b590ed --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/usb/dwc3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ + + TODO +~~~~~~ +Please pick something while reading :) + +- Convert interrupt handler to per-ep-thread-irq + + As it turns out some DWC3-commands ~1ms to complete. Currently we spin + until the command completes which is bad. + + Implementation idea: + - dwc core implements a demultiplexing irq chip for interrupts per + endpoint. The interrupt numbers are allocated during probe and belong + to the device. If MSI provides per-endpoint interrupt this dummy + interrupt chip can be replaced with "real" interrupts. + - interrupts are requested / allocated on usb_ep_enable() and removed on + usb_ep_disable(). Worst case are 32 interrupts, the lower limit is two + for ep0/1. + - dwc3_send_gadget_ep_cmd() will sleep in wait_for_completion_timeout() + until the command completes. + - the interrupt handler is split into the following pieces: + - primary handler of the device + goes through every event and calls generic_handle_irq() for event + it. On return from generic_handle_irq() in acknowledges the event + counter so interrupt goes away (eventually). + + - threaded handler of the device + none + + - primary handler of the EP-interrupt + reads the event and tries to process it. Everything that requries + sleeping is handed over to the Thread. The event is saved in an + per-endpoint data-structure. + We probably have to pay attention not to process events once we + handed something to thread so we don't process event X prio Y + where X > Y. + + - threaded handler of the EP-interrupt + handles the remaining EP work which might sleep such as waiting + for command completion. + + Latency: + There should be no increase in latency since the interrupt-thread has a + high priority and will be run before an average task in user land + (except the user changed priorities). diff --git a/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt b/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt index c9ffa9c..9d85d96 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt @@ -487,3 +487,29 @@ succeed, it may still remain active and thus cause the system to resume as soon as the system suspend is complete. Or the remote wakeup may fail and get lost. Which outcome occurs depends on timing and on the hardware and firmware design. + + + xHCI hardware link PM + --------------------- + +xHCI host controller provides hardware link power management to usb2.0 +(xHCI 1.0 feature) and usb3.0 devices which support link PM. By +enabling hardware LPM, the host can automatically put the device into +lower power state(L1 for usb2.0 devices, or U1/U2 for usb3.0 devices), +which state device can enter and resume very quickly. + +The user interface for controlling USB2 hardware LPM is located in the +power/ subdirectory of each USB device's sysfs directory, that is, in +/sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/ where "..." is the device's ID. The +relevant attribute files is usb2_hardware_lpm. + + power/usb2_hardware_lpm + + When a USB2 device which support LPM is plugged to a + xHCI host root hub which support software LPM, the + host will run a software LPM test for it; if the device + enters L1 state and resume successfully and the host + supports USB2 hardware LPM, this file will show up and + driver will enable hardware LPM for the device. You + can write y/Y/1 or n/N/0 to the file to enable/disable + USB2 hardware LPM manually. This is for test purpose mainly. diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/lguest/lguest.c b/Documentation/virtual/lguest/lguest.c index d928c13..c095d79 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/lguest/lguest.c +++ b/Documentation/virtual/lguest/lguest.c @@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ static unsigned long load_bzimage(int fd) /* * Go back to the start of the file and read the header. It should be - * a Linux boot header (see Documentation/x86/i386/boot.txt) + * a Linux boot header (see Documentation/x86/boot.txt) */ lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET); read(fd, &boot, sizeof(boot)); diff --git a/Documentation/vm/numa b/Documentation/vm/numa index a200a38..ade0127 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/numa +++ b/Documentation/vm/numa @@ -109,11 +109,11 @@ to improve NUMA locality using various CPU affinity command line interfaces, such as taskset(1) and numactl(1), and program interfaces such as sched_setaffinity(2). Further, one can modify the kernel's default local allocation behavior using Linux NUMA memory policy. -[see Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.] +[see Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt.] System administrators can restrict the CPUs and nodes' memories that a non- privileged user can specify in the scheduling or NUMA commands and functions -using control groups and CPUsets. [see Documentation/cgroups/CPUsets.txt] +using control groups and CPUsets. [see Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt] On architectures that do not hide memoryless nodes, Linux will include only zones [nodes] with memory in the zonelists. This means that for a memoryless diff --git a/Documentation/vm/slub.txt b/Documentation/vm/slub.txt index 07375e7..f464f47 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/slub.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/slub.txt @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ data and perform operation on the slabs. By default slabinfo only lists slabs that have data in them. See "slabinfo -h" for more options when running the command. slabinfo can be compiled with -gcc -o slabinfo Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c +gcc -o slabinfo tools/slub/slabinfo.c Some of the modes of operation of slabinfo require that slub debugging be enabled on the command line. F.e. no tracking information will be diff --git a/Documentation/zh_CN/SubmitChecklist b/Documentation/zh_CN/SubmitChecklist deleted file mode 100644 index 4c741d6..0000000 --- a/Documentation/zh_CN/SubmitChecklist +++ /dev/null @@ -1,109 +0,0 @@ -Chinese translated version of Documentation/SubmitChecklist - -If you have any comment or update to the content, please contact the -original document maintainer directly. However, if you have a problem -communicating in English you can also ask the Chinese maintainer for -help. 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