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-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/kgdb.tmpl20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b-example.c2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/auxdisplay/ks01084
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/controllers/devices.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cpusets.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/i2c/writing-clients18
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/s2io.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.au08282
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/slub.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt5
17 files changed, 76 insertions, 47 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kgdb.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kgdb.tmpl
index 028a844..e8acd1f 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/kgdb.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kgdb.tmpl
@@ -84,10 +84,9 @@
runs an instance of gdb against the vmlinux file which contains
the symbols (not boot image such as bzImage, zImage, uImage...).
In gdb the developer specifies the connection parameters and
- connects to kgdb. Depending on which kgdb I/O modules exist in
- the kernel for a given architecture, it may be possible to debug
- the test machine's kernel with the development machine using a
- rs232 or ethernet connection.
+ connects to kgdb. The type of connection a developer makes with
+ gdb depends on the availability of kgdb I/O modules compiled as
+ builtin's or kernel modules in the test machine's kernel.
</para>
</chapter>
<chapter id="CompilingAKernel">
@@ -223,7 +222,7 @@
</para>
<para>
IMPORTANT NOTE: Using this option with kgdb over the console
- (kgdboc) or kgdb over ethernet (kgdboe) is not supported.
+ (kgdboc) is not supported.
</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>
@@ -249,18 +248,11 @@
(gdb) target remote /dev/ttyS0
</programlisting>
<para>
- Example (kgdb to a terminal server):
+ Example (kgdb to a terminal server on tcp port 2012):
</para>
<programlisting>
% gdb ./vmlinux
- (gdb) target remote udp:192.168.2.2:6443
- </programlisting>
- <para>
- Example (kgdb over ethernet):
- </para>
- <programlisting>
- % gdb ./vmlinux
- (gdb) target remote udp:192.168.2.2:6443
+ (gdb) target remote 192.168.2.2:2012
</programlisting>
<para>
Once connected, you can debug a kernel the way you would debug an
diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt
index 8aa7529..cd784f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt
+++ b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ There are three different groups of fields in the struct taskstats:
4) Per-task and per-thread context switch count statistics
+5) Time accounting for SMT machines
+
Future extension should add fields to the end of the taskstats struct, and
should not change the relative position of each field within the struct.
@@ -164,4 +166,8 @@ struct taskstats {
__u64 nvcsw; /* Context voluntary switch counter */
__u64 nivcsw; /* Context involuntary switch counter */
+5) Time accounting for SMT machines
+ __u64 ac_utimescaled; /* utime scaled on frequency etc */
+ __u64 ac_stimescaled; /* stime scaled on frequency etc */
+ __u64 cpu_scaled_run_real_total; /* scaled cpu_run_real_total */
}
diff --git a/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b b/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b
index b714183..eb7be39 100644
--- a/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b
+++ b/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
===================================
License: GPLv2
-Author & Maintainer: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <maxextreme@gmail.com>
+Author & Maintainer: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis
Date: 2006-10-27
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Date: 2006-10-27
1. DRIVER INFORMATION
---------------------
-This driver support one cfag12864b display at time.
+This driver supports a cfag12864b LCD.
---------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b-example.c b/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b-example.c
index 7bfac35..2caeea5 100644
--- a/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b-example.c
+++ b/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b-example.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
* Description: cfag12864b LCD userspace example program
* License: GPLv2
*
- * Author: Copyright (C) Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <maxextreme@gmail.com>
+ * Author: Copyright (C) Miguel Ojeda Sandonis
* Date: 2006-10-31
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
diff --git a/Documentation/auxdisplay/ks0108 b/Documentation/auxdisplay/ks0108
index 92b03b6..8ddda0c 100644
--- a/Documentation/auxdisplay/ks0108
+++ b/Documentation/auxdisplay/ks0108
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
==========================================
License: GPLv2
-Author & Maintainer: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <maxextreme@gmail.com>
+Author & Maintainer: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis
Date: 2006-10-27
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Date: 2006-10-27
1. DRIVER INFORMATION
---------------------
-This driver support the ks0108 LCD controller.
+This driver supports the ks0108 LCD controller.
---------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups.txt
index 824fc02..d9014aa 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups.txt
@@ -390,6 +390,10 @@ If you have several tasks to attach, you have to do it one after another:
...
# /bin/echo PIDn > tasks
+You can attach the current shell task by echoing 0:
+
+# echo 0 > tasks
+
3. Kernel API
=============
diff --git a/Documentation/controllers/devices.txt b/Documentation/controllers/devices.txt
index 4dcea42..7cc6e6a 100644
--- a/Documentation/controllers/devices.txt
+++ b/Documentation/controllers/devices.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ either an integer or * for all. Access is a composition of r
The root device cgroup starts with rwm to 'all'. A child device
cgroup gets a copy of the parent. Administrators can then remove
devices from the whitelist or add new entries. A child cgroup can
-never receive a device access which is denied its parent. However
+never receive a device access which is denied by its parent. However
when a device access is removed from a parent it will not also be
removed from the child(ren).
@@ -29,7 +29,11 @@ allows cgroup 1 to read and mknod the device usually known as
echo a > /cgroups/1/devices.deny
-will remove the default 'a *:* mrw' entry.
+will remove the default 'a *:* rwm' entry. Doing
+
+ echo a > /cgroups/1/devices.allow
+
+will add the 'a *:* rwm' entry to the whitelist.
3. Security
diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt
index 353504d..1f5a924 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpusets.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpusets.txt
@@ -154,13 +154,15 @@ browsing and modifying the cpusets presently known to the kernel. No
new system calls are added for cpusets - all support for querying and
modifying cpusets is via this cpuset file system.
-The /proc/<pid>/status file for each task has two added lines,
+The /proc/<pid>/status file for each task has four added lines,
displaying the tasks cpus_allowed (on which CPUs it may be scheduled)
and mems_allowed (on which Memory Nodes it may obtain memory),
-in the format seen in the following example:
+in the two formats seen in the following example:
Cpus_allowed: ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff
+ Cpus_allowed_list: 0-127
Mems_allowed: ffffffff,ffffffff
+ Mems_allowed_list: 0-63
Each cpuset is represented by a directory in the cgroup file system
containing (on top of the standard cgroup files) the following
@@ -544,6 +546,9 @@ otherwise initial value -1 that indicates the cpuset has no request.
( 4 : search nodes in a chunk of node [on NUMA system] )
( 5 : search system wide [on NUMA system] )
+The system default is architecture dependent. The system default
+can be changed using the relax_domain_level= boot parameter.
+
This file is per-cpuset and affect the sched domain where the cpuset
belongs to. Therefore if the flag 'sched_load_balance' of a cpuset
is disabled, then 'sched_relax_domain_level' have no effect since
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 5b3f31f..46ece3f 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -312,3 +312,12 @@ When: 2.6.26
Why: Implementation became generic; users should now include
linux/semaphore.h instead.
Who: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON
+When: January 2009
+Why: This option was introduced just to allow older lm-sensors userspace
+ to keep working over the upgrade to 2.6.26. At the scheduled time of
+ removal fixed lm-sensors (2.x or 3.x) should be readily available.
+Who: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
index ee75cba..d4cd412 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
@@ -25,12 +25,23 @@ routines, and should be zero-initialized except for fields with data you
provide. A client structure holds device-specific information like the
driver model device node, and its I2C address.
+/* iff driver uses driver model ("new style") binding model: */
+
+static struct i2c_device_id foo_idtable[] = {
+ { "foo", my_id_for_foo },
+ { "bar", my_id_for_bar },
+ { }
+};
+
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(i2c, foo_idtable);
+
static struct i2c_driver foo_driver = {
.driver = {
.name = "foo",
},
/* iff driver uses driver model ("new style") binding model: */
+ .id_table = foo_ids,
.probe = foo_probe,
.remove = foo_remove,
@@ -173,10 +184,9 @@ handle may be used during foo_probe(). If foo_probe() reports success
(zero not a negative status code) it may save the handle and use it until
foo_remove() returns. That binding model is used by most Linux drivers.
-Drivers match devices when i2c_client.driver_name and the driver name are
-the same; this approach is used in several other busses that don't have
-device typing support in the hardware. The driver and module name should
-match, so hotplug/coldplug mechanisms will modprobe the driver.
+The probe function is called when an entry in the id_table name field
+matches the device's name. It is passed the entry that was matched so
+the driver knows which one in the table matched.
Device Creation (Standard driver model)
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index e07c432..b52f47d 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
- See header of arch/i386/kernel/apm.c.
+ See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
elanfreq= [X86-32]
See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
- arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
+ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
elevator= [IOSCHED]
Format: {"anticipatory" | "cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
@@ -1679,6 +1679,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
Format: <reboot_mode>[,<reboot_mode2>[,...]]
See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c
+ relax_domain_level=
+ [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
+ See Documentation/cpusets.txt.
+
reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
reservetop= [X86-32]
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 17a6e46..17f1f91 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -81,23 +81,23 @@ inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER
Minimum time-to-live of entries. Should be enough to cover fragment
time-to-live on the reassembling side. This minimum time-to-live is
guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold.
- Measured in jiffies(1).
+ Measured in seconds.
inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER
Maximum time-to-live of entries. Unused entries will expire after
this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e.
when the number of entries in the pool is very small).
- Measured in jiffies(1).
+ Measured in seconds.
inet_peer_gc_mintime - INTEGER
Minimum interval between garbage collection passes. This interval is
in effect under high memory pressure on the pool.
- Measured in jiffies(1).
+ Measured in seconds.
inet_peer_gc_maxtime - INTEGER
Minimum interval between garbage collection passes. This interval is
in effect under low (or absent) memory pressure on the pool.
- Measured in jiffies(1).
+ Measured in seconds.
TCP variables:
@@ -794,10 +794,6 @@ tag - INTEGER
Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
Default value is 0.
-(1) Jiffie: internal timeunit for the kernel. On the i386 1/100s, on the
-Alpha 1/1024s. See the HZ define in /usr/include/asm/param.h for the exact
-value on your system.
-
Alexey Kuznetsov.
kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt b/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt
index 4bde53e..1e28e2d 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt
@@ -83,9 +83,9 @@ Valid range: Limited by memory on system
Default: 30
e. intr_type
-Specifies interrupt type. Possible values 1(INTA), 2(MSI), 3(MSI-X)
-Valid range: 1-3
-Default: 1
+Specifies interrupt type. Possible values 0(INTA), 2(MSI-X)
+Valid values: 0, 2
+Default: 2
5. Performance suggestions
General:
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.au0828 b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.au0828
index aaae360..86d1c8e 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.au0828
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.au0828
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
0 -> Unknown board (au0828)
- 1 -> Hauppauge HVR950Q (au0828) [2040:7200]
+ 1 -> Hauppauge HVR950Q (au0828) [2040:7200,2040:7210,2040:7217,2040:721b,2040:721f,2040:7280,0fd9:0008]
2 -> Hauppauge HVR850 (au0828) [2040:7240]
3 -> DViCO FusionHDTV USB (au0828) [0fe9:d620]
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c b/Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c
index e4230ed..df32276 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c
+++ b/Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
/*
* Slabinfo: Tool to get reports about slabs
*
- * (C) 2007 sgi, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
+ * (C) 2007 sgi, Christoph Lameter
*
* Compile by:
*
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ void fatal(const char *x, ...)
void usage(void)
{
- printf("slabinfo 5/7/2007. (c) 2007 sgi. clameter@sgi.com\n\n"
+ printf("slabinfo 5/7/2007. (c) 2007 sgi.\n\n"
"slabinfo [-ahnpvtsz] [-d debugopts] [slab-regexp]\n"
"-a|--aliases Show aliases\n"
"-A|--activity Most active slabs first\n"
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/slub.txt b/Documentation/vm/slub.txt
index 7c13f22..bb1f5c6 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/slub.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/slub.txt
@@ -266,4 +266,4 @@ of other objects.
slub_debug=FZ,dentry
-Christoph Lameter, <clameter@sgi.com>, May 30, 2007
+Christoph Lameter, May 30, 2007
diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt
index b89b6d2..efce750 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt
@@ -11,9 +11,8 @@ ffffc10000000000 - ffffc1ffffffffff (=40 bits) hole
ffffc20000000000 - ffffe1ffffffffff (=45 bits) vmalloc/ioremap space
ffffe20000000000 - ffffe2ffffffffff (=40 bits) virtual memory map (1TB)
... unused hole ...
-ffffffff80000000 - ffffffff82800000 (=40 MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0
-... unused hole ...
-ffffffff88000000 - fffffffffff00000 (=1919 MB) module mapping space
+ffffffff80000000 - ffffffffa0000000 (=512 MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0
+ffffffffa0000000 - fffffffffff00000 (=1536 MB) module mapping space
The direct mapping covers all memory in the system up to the highest
memory address (this means in some cases it can also include PCI memory