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author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-09-25 15:59:04 (GMT) |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-09-25 15:59:04 (GMT) |
commit | e2aad1d5716c5f7fa5deb4a96e6b6a4e9f24e78b (patch) | |
tree | 389fbdf161a3c28c9b2f98fdc1ccd89d474ef884 /Documentation | |
parent | 3ffdea3feca9e2c95c2e93e217d77c9c368f747a (diff) | |
parent | 4a10c2ac2f368583138b774ca41fac4207911983 (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-e2aad1d5716c5f7fa5deb4a96e6b6a4e9f24e78b.tar.xz |
Merge 3.12-rc2 into staging-next.
This resolves the merge problem with two iio drivers that Stephen
Rothwell pointed out.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt | 14 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 14 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt | 4 |
4 files changed, 21 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt index 264e984..d9995f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt @@ -18,17 +18,17 @@ this byte for application use, with the following caveats: parameters containing user virtual addresses *must* have their top byte cleared before trapping to the kernel. - (2) Tags are not guaranteed to be preserved when delivering - signals. This means that signal handlers in applications - making use of tags cannot rely on the tag information for - user virtual addresses being maintained for fields inside - siginfo_t. One exception to this rule is for signals raised - in response to debug exceptions, where the tag information + (2) Non-zero tags are not preserved when delivering signals. + This means that signal handlers in applications making use + of tags cannot rely on the tag information for user virtual + addresses being maintained for fields inside siginfo_t. + One exception to this rule is for signals raised in response + to watchpoint debug exceptions, where the tag information will be preserved. (3) Special care should be taken when using tagged pointers, since it is likely that C compilers will not hazard two - addresses differing only in the upper bits. + virtual addresses differing only in the upper byte. The architecture prevents the use of a tagged PC, so the upper byte will be set to a sign-extension of bit 55 on exception return. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index f93a882..deb48b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -359,11 +359,9 @@ struct inode_operations { ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t); int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *); void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int); - int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *, + int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct file *, + unsigned open_flag, umode_t create_mode, int *opened); int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t); -} ____cacheline_aligned; - struct file *, unsigned open_flag, - umode_t create_mode, int *opened); }; Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless @@ -470,9 +468,11 @@ otherwise noted. method the filesystem can look up, possibly create and open the file in one atomic operation. If it cannot perform this (e.g. the file type turned out to be wrong) it may signal this by returning 1 instead of - usual 0 or -ve . This method is only called if the last - component is negative or needs lookup. Cached positive dentries are - still handled by f_op->open(). + usual 0 or -ve . This method is only called if the last component is + negative or needs lookup. Cached positive dentries are still handled by + f_op->open(). If the file was created, the FILE_CREATED flag should be + set in "opened". In case of O_EXCL the method must only succeed if the + file didn't exist and hence FILE_CREATED shall always be set on success. tmpfile: called in the end of O_TMPFILE open(). Optional, equivalent to atomically creating, opening and unlinking a file in given directory. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index 87bbcfe..9b28e71 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -1362,6 +1362,12 @@ To add ARP targets: To remove an ARP target: # echo -192.168.0.100 > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/arp_ip_target +To configure the interval between learning packet transmits: +# echo 12 > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/lp_interval + NOTE: the lp_inteval is the number of seconds between instances where +the bonding driver sends learning packets to each slaves peer switch. The +default interval is 1 second. + Example Configuration --------------------- We begin with the same example that is shown in section 3.3, diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt index d529e02d..f14f493 100644 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt @@ -66,9 +66,7 @@ rq->cfs.load value, which is the sum of the weights of the tasks queued on the runqueue. CFS maintains a time-ordered rbtree, where all runnable tasks are sorted by the -p->se.vruntime key (there is a subtraction using rq->cfs.min_vruntime to -account for possible wraparounds). CFS picks the "leftmost" task from this -tree and sticks to it. +p->se.vruntime key. CFS picks the "leftmost" task from this tree and sticks to it. As the system progresses forwards, the executed tasks are put into the tree more and more to the right --- slowly but surely giving a chance for every task to become the "leftmost task" and thus get on the CPU within a deterministic |