linux-toradex.git/Documentation, branch v3.2-rc2-rt4

ping-sysrq.patch

2012-04-13T16:01:51+00:00

There are (probably rare) situations when a system crashed and the system
console becomes unresponsive but the network icmp layer still is alive.
Wouldn't it be wonderful, if we then could submit a sysreq command via ping?

This patch provides this facility. Please consult the updated documentation
Documentation/sysrq.txt for details.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde

hwlatdetect.patch

2012-04-13T16:01:23+00:00

Jon Masters developed this wonderful SMI detector. For details please
consult Documentation/hwlat_detector.txt. It could be ported to Linux
3.0 RT without any major change.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde

latency-hist.patch

2012-04-13T16:01:23+00:00

This patch provides a recording mechanism to store data of potential
sources of system latencies. The recordings separately determine the
latency caused by a delayed timer expiration, by a delayed wakeup of the
related user space program and by the sum of both. The histograms can be
enabled and reset individually. The data are accessible via the debug
filesystem. For details please consult Documentation/trace/histograms.txt.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2012-04-06T17:37:38+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Fix inaccuracies in network driver interface documentation, from Ben
    Hutchings.

 2) Fix handling of negative offsets in BPF JITs, from Jan Seiffert.

 3) Compile warning, locking, and refcounting fixes in netfilter's
    xt_CT, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

 4) phonet sendmsg needs to validate user length just like any other
    datagram protocol, fix from Sasha Levin.

 5) Ipv6 multicast code uses wrong loop index, from RongQing Li.

 6) Link handling and firmware fixes in bnx2x driver from Yaniv Rosner
    and Yuval Mintz.

 7) mlx4 erroneously allocates 4 pages at a time, regardless of page
    size, fix from Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo.

 8) SCTP socket option wasn't extended in a backwards compatible way,
    fix from Thomas Graf.

 9) Add missing address change event emissions to bonding, from Shlomo
    Pongratz.

10) /proc/net/dev regressed because it uses a private offset to track
    where we are in the hash table, but this doesn't track the offset
    pullback that the seq_file code does resulting in some entries being
    missed in large dumps.

    Fix from Eric Dumazet.

11) do_tcp_sendpage() unloads the send queue way too fast, because it
    invokes tcp_push() when it shouldn't.  Let the natural sequence
    generated by the splice paths, and the assosciated MSG_MORE
    settings, guide the tcp_push() calls.

    Otherwise what goes out of TCP is spaghetti and doesn't batch
    effectively into GSO/TSO clusters.

    From Eric Dumazet.

12) Once we put a SKB into either the netlink receiver's queue or a
    socket error queue, it can be consumed and freed up, therefore we
    cannot touch it after queueing it like that.

    Fixes from Eric Dumazet.

13) PPP has this annoying behavior in that for every transmit call it
    immediately stops the TX queue, then calls down into the next layer
    to transmit the PPP frame.

    But if that next layer can take it immediately, it just un-stops the
    TX queue right before returning from the transmit method.

    Besides being useless work, it makes several facilities unusable, in
    particular things like the equalizers.  Well behaved devices should
    only stop the TX queue when they really are full, and in PPP's case
    when it gets backlogged to the downstream device.

    David Woodhouse therefore fixed PPP to not stop the TX queue until
    it's downstream can't take data any more.

14) IFF_UNICAST_FLT got accidently lost in some recent stmmac driver
    changes, re-add.  From Marc Kleine-Budde.

15) Fix link flaps in ixgbe, from Eric W. Multanen.

16) Descriptor writeback fixes in e1000e from Matthew Vick.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (47 commits)
  net: fix a race in sock_queue_err_skb()
  netlink: fix races after skb queueing
  doc, net: Update ndo_start_xmit return type and values
  doc, net: Remove instruction to set net_device::trans_start
  doc, net: Update netdev operation names
  doc, net: Update documentation of synchronisation for TX multiqueue
  doc, net: Remove obsolete reference to dev->poll
  ethtool: Remove exception to the requirement of holding RTNL lock
  MAINTAINERS: update for Marvell Ethernet drivers
  bonding: properly unset current_arp_slave on slave link up
  phonet: Check input from user before allocating
  tcp: tcp_sendpages() should call tcp_push() once
  ipv6: fix array index in ip6_mc_add_src()
  mlx4: allocate just enough pages instead of always 4 pages
  stmmac: re-add IFF_UNICAST_FLT for dwmac1000
  bnx2x: Clear MDC/MDIO warning message
  bnx2x: Fix BCM57711+BCM84823 link issue
  bnx2x: Clear BCM84833 LED after fan failure
  bnx2x: Fix BCM84833 PHY FW version presentation
  bnx2x: Fix link issue for BCM8727 boards.
  ...

doc, net: Update ndo_start_xmit return type and values

2012-04-06T06:43:13+00:00

Commit dc1f8bf68b311b1537cb65893430b6796118498a ('netdev: change
transmit to limited range type') changed the required return type and
9a1654ba0b50402a6bd03c7b0fe9b0200a5ea7b1 ('net: Optimize
hard_start_xmit() return checking') changed the valid numerical
return values.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

doc, net: Remove instruction to set net_device::trans_start

2012-04-06T06:43:13+00:00

Commit 08baf561083bc27a953aa087dd8a664bb2b88e8e ('net:
txq_trans_update() helper') made it unnecessary for most drivers to
set net_device::trans_start (or netdev_queue::trans_start).

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

doc, net: Update netdev operation names

2012-04-06T06:43:12+00:00

Commits d314774cf2cd5dfeb39a00d37deee65d4c627927 ('netdev: network
device operations infrastructure') and
008298231abbeb91bc7be9e8b078607b816d1a4a ('netdev: add more functions
to netdevice ops') moved and renamed net device operation pointers.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

doc, net: Update documentation of synchronisation for TX multiqueue

2012-04-06T06:43:12+00:00

Commits e308a5d806c852f56590ffdd3834d0df0cbed8d7 ('netdev: Add
netdev->addr_list_lock protection.') and
e8a0464cc950972824e2e128028ae3db666ec1ed ('netdev: Allocate multiple
queues for TX.') introduced more fine-grained locks.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

doc, net: Remove obsolete reference to dev->poll

2012-04-06T06:43:12+00:00

Commit bea3348eef27e6044b6161fd04c3152215f96411 ('[NET]: Make NAPI
polling independent of struct net_device objects.') removed the
automatic disabling of NAPI polling by dev_close(), and drivers
must now do this themselves.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

2012-04-06T05:13:39+00:00

Pull "ARM: SoC fixes: from Olof Johansson:
 "A bunch of fixes for regressions (and a few other problems) in
  3.4-rc1:

 - Fix for regression of mach/io.h cleanup on platforms with PCI or
   PCMCIA (adding back the include file on those for now)
 - AT91 fixes for usb and spi
 - smsc911x ethernet fixes for i.MX
 - smsc911x fixes for OMAP
 - gpio fixes for Tegra
 - A handful of build error and warning fixes for various platforms
 - cpufreq kconfig dependencies, build and lowlevel debug fixes for
   Samsung platforms

  In other words, more or less the regular collection of -rc1/2 type
  material.  A few of them, in particular the smsc911x for OMAP series,
  aren't technically regressions for 3.4, but they're valid fixes and
  we're still relatively early in the rc cycle so it seems appropriate
  to include them."

* tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (60 commits)
  ARM: fix __io macro for PCMCIA
  ARM: EXYNOS: Fix compiler warning in dma.c file
  ARM: EXYNOS: fix ISO C90 warning
  ARM: OMAP2+: hwmod: Fix wrong SYSC_TYPE1_XXX_MASK bit definitions
  ARM: OMAP2+: hwmod: Make omap_hwmod_softreset wait for reset status
  ARM: OMAP2+: hwmod: Restore sysc after a reset
  ARM: OMAP2+: omap_hwmod: Allow io_ring wakeup configuration for all modules
  ARM: OMAP3: clock data: fill in some missing clockdomains
  ARM: OMAP4: clock data: Force a DPLL clkdm/pwrdm ON before a relock
  ARM: OMAP4: clock data: fix mult and div mask for USB_DPLL
  ARM: OMAP2+: powerdomain: Wait for powerdomain transition in pwrdm_state_switch()
  gpio: tegra: Iterate over the correct number of banks
  gpio: tegra: fix register address calculations for Tegra30
  EXYNOS: fix dependency for EXYNOS_CPUFREQ
  ARM: at91: dt: remove unit-address part for memory nodes
  ARM: at91: fix check of valid GPIO for SPI and USB
  USB: ehci-atmel: add needed of.h header file
  ARM: at91/NAND DT bindings: add comments
  ARM: at91/at91sam9x5.dtsi: fix NAND ale/cle in DT file
  USB: ohci-at91: trivial return code name change
  ...