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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-ideapad-laptop | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-tuner.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/00-INDEX | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt | 77 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt | 64 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/fsl-imx-esdhc.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/tps6586x.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801 | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pinctrl.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c | 2 |
16 files changed, 227 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci index 34f51100f029..dff1f48d252d 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci @@ -210,3 +210,15 @@ Users: firmware assigned instance number of the PCI device that can help in understanding the firmware intended order of the PCI device. + +What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../d3cold_allowed +Date: July 2012 +Contact: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> +Description: + d3cold_allowed is bit to control whether the corresponding PCI + device can be put into D3Cold state. If it is cleared, the + device will never be put into D3Cold state. If it is set, the + device may be put into D3Cold state if other requirements are + satisfied too. Reading this attribute will show the current + value of d3cold_allowed bit. Writing this attribute will set + the value of d3cold_allowed bit. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-ideapad-laptop b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-ideapad-laptop index 814b01354c41..b31e782bd985 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-ideapad-laptop +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-ideapad-laptop @@ -5,4 +5,15 @@ Contact: "Ike Panhc <ike.pan@canonical.com>" Description: Control the power of camera module. 1 means on, 0 means off. +What: /sys/devices/platform/ideapad/fan_mode +Date: June 2012 +KernelVersion: 3.6 +Contact: "Maxim Mikityanskiy <maxtram95@gmail.com>" +Description: + Change fan mode + There are four available modes: + * 0 -> Super Silent Mode + * 1 -> Standard Mode + * 2 -> Dust Cleaning + * 4 -> Efficient Thermal Dissipation Mode diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-tuner.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-tuner.xml index 720395127904..701138f1209d 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-tuner.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-tuner.xml @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ the structure refers to a radio tuner the <constant>V4L2_TUNER_CAP_NORM</constant> flags can't be used.</para> <para>If multiple frequency bands are supported, then <structfield>capability</structfield> is the union of all -<structfield>capability></structfield> fields of each &v4l2-frequency-band;. +<structfield>capability</structfield> fields of each &v4l2-frequency-band;. </para></entry> </row> <row> diff --git a/Documentation/block/00-INDEX b/Documentation/block/00-INDEX index d111e3b23db0..d18ecd827c40 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/block/00-INDEX @@ -3,15 +3,21 @@ biodoc.txt - Notes on the Generic Block Layer Rewrite in Linux 2.5 capability.txt - - Generic Block Device Capability (/sys/block/<disk>/capability) + - Generic Block Device Capability (/sys/block/<device>/capability) +cfq-iosched.txt + - CFQ IO scheduler tunables +data-integrity.txt + - Block data integrity deadline-iosched.txt - Deadline IO scheduler tunables ioprio.txt - Block io priorities (in CFQ scheduler) +queue-sysfs.txt + - Queue's sysfs entries request.txt - The members of struct request (in include/linux/blkdev.h) stat.txt - - Block layer statistics in /sys/block/<dev>/stat + - Block layer statistics in /sys/block/<device>/stat switching-sched.txt - Switching I/O schedulers at runtime writeback_cache_control.txt diff --git a/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt b/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt index 6d670f570451..d89b4fe724d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt @@ -1,3 +1,14 @@ +CFQ (Complete Fairness Queueing) +=============================== + +The main aim of CFQ scheduler is to provide a fair allocation of the disk +I/O bandwidth for all the processes which requests an I/O operation. + +CFQ maintains the per process queue for the processes which request I/O +operation(syncronous requests). In case of asynchronous requests, all the +requests from all the processes are batched together according to their +process's I/O priority. + CFQ ioscheduler tunables ======================== @@ -25,6 +36,72 @@ there are multiple spindles behind single LUN (Host based hardware RAID controller or for storage arrays), setting slice_idle=0 might end up in better throughput and acceptable latencies. +back_seek_max +------------- +This specifies, given in Kbytes, the maximum "distance" for backward seeking. +The distance is the amount of space from the current head location to the +sectors that are backward in terms of distance. + +This parameter allows the scheduler to anticipate requests in the "backward" +direction and consider them as being the "next" if they are within this +distance from the current head location. + +back_seek_penalty +----------------- +This parameter is used to compute the cost of backward seeking. If the +backward distance of request is just 1/back_seek_penalty from a "front" +request, then the seeking cost of two requests is considered equivalent. + +So scheduler will not bias toward one or the other request (otherwise scheduler +will bias toward front request). Default value of back_seek_penalty is 2. + +fifo_expire_async +----------------- +This parameter is used to set the timeout of asynchronous requests. Default +value of this is 248ms. + +fifo_expire_sync +---------------- +This parameter is used to set the timeout of synchronous requests. Default +value of this is 124ms. In case to favor synchronous requests over asynchronous +one, this value should be decreased relative to fifo_expire_async. + +slice_async +----------- +This parameter is same as of slice_sync but for asynchronous queue. The +default value is 40ms. + +slice_async_rq +-------------- +This parameter is used to limit the dispatching of asynchronous request to +device request queue in queue's slice time. The maximum number of request that +are allowed to be dispatched also depends upon the io priority. Default value +for this is 2. + +slice_sync +---------- +When a queue is selected for execution, the queues IO requests are only +executed for a certain amount of time(time_slice) before switching to another +queue. This parameter is used to calculate the time slice of synchronous +queue. + +time_slice is computed using the below equation:- +time_slice = slice_sync + (slice_sync/5 * (4 - prio)). To increase the +time_slice of synchronous queue, increase the value of slice_sync. Default +value is 100ms. + +quantum +------- +This specifies the number of request dispatched to the device queue. In a +queue's time slice, a request will not be dispatched if the number of request +in the device exceeds this parameter. This parameter is used for synchronous +request. + +In case of storage with several disk, this setting can limit the parallel +processing of request. Therefore, increasing the value can imporve the +performace although this can cause the latency of some I/O to increase due +to more number of requests. + CFQ IOPS Mode for group scheduling =================================== Basic CFQ design is to provide priority based time slices. Higher priority diff --git a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt index 6518a55273e7..e54ac1d53403 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt @@ -9,20 +9,71 @@ These files are the ones found in the /sys/block/xxx/queue/ directory. Files denoted with a RO postfix are readonly and the RW postfix means read-write. +add_random (RW) +---------------- +This file allows to trun off the disk entropy contribution. Default +value of this file is '1'(on). + +discard_granularity (RO) +----------------------- +This shows the size of internal allocation of the device in bytes, if +reported by the device. A value of '0' means device does not support +the discard functionality. + +discard_max_bytes (RO) +---------------------- +Devices that support discard functionality may have internal limits on +the number of bytes that can be trimmed or unmapped in a single operation. +The discard_max_bytes parameter is set by the device driver to the maximum +number of bytes that can be discarded in a single operation. Discard +requests issued to the device must not exceed this limit. A discard_max_bytes +value of 0 means that the device does not support discard functionality. + +discard_zeroes_data (RO) +------------------------ +When read, this file will show if the discarded block are zeroed by the +device or not. If its value is '1' the blocks are zeroed otherwise not. + hw_sector_size (RO) ------------------- This is the hardware sector size of the device, in bytes. +iostats (RW) +------------- +This file is used to control (on/off) the iostats accounting of the +disk. + +logical_block_size (RO) +----------------------- +This is the logcal block size of the device, in bytes. + max_hw_sectors_kb (RO) ---------------------- This is the maximum number of kilobytes supported in a single data transfer. +max_integrity_segments (RO) +--------------------------- +When read, this file shows the max limit of integrity segments as +set by block layer which a hardware controller can handle. + max_sectors_kb (RW) ------------------- This is the maximum number of kilobytes that the block layer will allow for a filesystem request. Must be smaller than or equal to the maximum size allowed by the hardware. +max_segments (RO) +----------------- +Maximum number of segments of the device. + +max_segment_size (RO) +--------------------- +Maximum segment size of the device. + +minimum_io_size (RO) +-------------------- +This is the smallest preferred io size reported by the device. + nomerges (RW) ------------- This enables the user to disable the lookup logic involved with IO @@ -45,11 +96,24 @@ per-block-cgroup request pool. IOW, if there are N block cgroups, each request queue may have upto N request pools, each independently regulated by nr_requests. +optimal_io_size (RO) +-------------------- +This is the optimal io size reported by the device. + +physical_block_size (RO) +------------------------ +This is the physical block size of device, in bytes. + read_ahead_kb (RW) ------------------ Maximum number of kilobytes to read-ahead for filesystems on this block device. +rotational (RW) +--------------- +This file is used to stat if the device is of rotational type or +non-rotational type. + rq_affinity (RW) ---------------- If this option is '1', the block layer will migrate request completions to the diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/fsl-imx-esdhc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/fsl-imx-esdhc.txt index 70cd49b1caa8..1dd622546d06 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/fsl-imx-esdhc.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/fsl-imx-esdhc.txt @@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ Required properties: - compatible : Should be "fsl,<chip>-esdhc" Optional properties: -- fsl,cd-internal : Indicate to use controller internal card detection -- fsl,wp-internal : Indicate to use controller internal write protection +- fsl,cd-controller : Indicate to use controller internal card detection +- fsl,wp-controller : Indicate to use controller internal write protection Examples: @@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ esdhc@70004000 { compatible = "fsl,imx51-esdhc"; reg = <0x70004000 0x4000>; interrupts = <1>; - fsl,cd-internal; - fsl,wp-internal; + fsl,cd-controller; + fsl,wp-controller; }; esdhc@70008000 { diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/tps6586x.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/tps6586x.txt index d156e1b5db12..da80c2ae0915 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/tps6586x.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/tps6586x.txt @@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ Required properties: - regulators: list of regulators provided by this controller, must have property "regulator-compatible" to match their hardware counterparts: sm[0-2], ldo[0-9] and ldo_rtc -- sm0-supply: The input supply for the SM0. -- sm1-supply: The input supply for the SM1. -- sm2-supply: The input supply for the SM2. +- vin-sm0-supply: The input supply for the SM0. +- vin-sm1-supply: The input supply for the SM1. +- vin-sm2-supply: The input supply for the SM2. - vinldo01-supply: The input supply for the LDO1 and LDO2 - vinldo23-supply: The input supply for the LDO2 and LDO3 - vinldo4-supply: The input supply for the LDO4 @@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ Example: #gpio-cells = <2>; gpio-controller; - sm0-supply = <&some_reg>; - sm1-supply = <&some_reg>; - sm2-supply = <&some_reg>; + vin-sm0-supply = <&some_reg>; + vin-sm1-supply = <&some_reg>; + vin-sm2-supply = <&some_reg>; vinldo01-supply = <...>; vinldo23-supply = <...>; vinldo4-supply = <...>; diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index afaff312bf41..f4d8c7105fcd 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ Why: KVM tracepoints provide mostly equivalent information in a much more ---------------------------- What: at91-mci driver ("CONFIG_MMC_AT91") -When: 3.7 +When: 3.8 Why: There are two mci drivers: at91-mci and atmel-mci. The PDC support was added to atmel-mci as a first step to support more chips. Then at91-mci was kept only for old IP versions (on at91rm9200 and diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt index ead764b2728f..de1e6c4dccff 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt @@ -137,6 +137,17 @@ errors=panic|continue|remount-ro without doing anything or remount the partition in read-only mode (default behavior). +discard -- If set, issues discard/TRIM commands to the block + device when blocks are freed. This is useful for SSD devices + and sparse/thinly-provisoned LUNs. + +nfs -- This option maintains an index (cache) of directory + inodes by i_logstart which is used by the nfs-related code to + improve look-ups. + + Enable this only if you want to export the FAT filesystem + over NFS + <bool>: 0,1,yes,no,true,false TODO diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801 b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801 index 615142da4ef6..157416e78cc4 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801 +++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801 @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Supported adapters: * Intel DH89xxCC (PCH) * Intel Panther Point (PCH) * Intel Lynx Point (PCH) + * Intel Lynx Point-LP (PCH) Datasheets: Publicly available at the Intel website On Intel Patsburg and later chipsets, both the normal host SMBus controller diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt index 8d022073e3ef..2e9e0ae2cd45 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt @@ -51,8 +51,23 @@ Built-in netconsole starts immediately after the TCP stack is initialized and attempts to bring up the supplied dev at the supplied address. -The remote host can run either 'netcat -u -l -p <port>', -'nc -l -u <port>' or syslogd. +The remote host has several options to receive the kernel messages, +for example: + +1) syslogd + +2) netcat + + On distributions using a BSD-based netcat version (e.g. Fedora, + openSUSE and Ubuntu) the listening port must be specified without + the -p switch: + + 'nc -u -l -p <port>' / 'nc -u -l <port>' or + 'netcat -u -l -p <port>' / 'netcat -u -l <port>' + +3) socat + + 'socat udp-recv:<port> -' Dynamic reconfiguration: ======================== diff --git a/Documentation/pinctrl.txt b/Documentation/pinctrl.txt index e40f4b4e1977..1479aca23744 100644 --- a/Documentation/pinctrl.txt +++ b/Documentation/pinctrl.txt @@ -840,9 +840,9 @@ static unsigned long i2c_pin_configs[] = { static struct pinctrl_map __initdata mapping[] = { PIN_MAP_MUX_GROUP("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0", "i2c0"), - PIN_MAP_MUX_CONFIGS_GROUP("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0", i2c_grp_configs), - PIN_MAP_MUX_CONFIGS_PIN("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0scl", i2c_pin_configs), - PIN_MAP_MUX_CONFIGS_PIN("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0sda", i2c_pin_configs), + PIN_MAP_CONFIGS_GROUP("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0", i2c_grp_configs), + PIN_MAP_CONFIGS_PIN("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0scl", i2c_pin_configs), + PIN_MAP_CONFIGS_PIN("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0sda", i2c_pin_configs), }; Finally, some devices expect the mapping table to contain certain specific diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt index f8551b3879f8..4ac359b7aa17 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt @@ -299,11 +299,17 @@ map_hugetlb.c. ******************************************************************* /* - * hugepage-shm: see Documentation/vm/hugepage-shm.c + * map_hugetlb: see tools/testing/selftests/vm/map_hugetlb.c */ ******************************************************************* /* - * hugepage-mmap: see Documentation/vm/hugepage-mmap.c + * hugepage-shm: see tools/testing/selftests/vm/hugepage-shm.c + */ + +******************************************************************* + +/* + * hugepage-mmap: see tools/testing/selftests/vm/hugepage-mmap.c */ diff --git a/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm b/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm index 0403aaaba878..874a8ca93feb 100644 --- a/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm +++ b/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Kernel driver w1_therm Supported chips: * Maxim ds18*20 based temperature sensors. + * Maxim ds1825 based temperature sensors. Author: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> @@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ supported family codes: W1_THERM_DS18S20 0x10 W1_THERM_DS1822 0x22 W1_THERM_DS18B20 0x28 +W1_THERM_DS1825 0x3B Support is provided through the sysfs w1_slave file. Each open and read sequence will initiate a temperature conversion then provide two diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c index 73ff5cc93e05..3da822967ee0 100644 --- a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ static void keep_alive(void) * or "-e" to enable the card. */ -void term(int sig) +static void term(int sig) { close(fd); fprintf(stderr, "Stopping watchdog ticks...\n"); |