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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-06-17 16:57:20 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-06-17 16:57:20 -0700
commitbb07b00be77fb33274cb44a03bdbf2471e556189 (patch)
tree620390077de843dd7626998f0d8441d14a6c66d9 /Documentation
parentb7165ebbf0898bad9aaeddfa22b918e94ed90e07 (diff)
parent7d132055814ef17a6c7b69f342244c410a5e000f (diff)
Merge 3.10-rc6 into driver-core-next
We want these fixes here too. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/bcache.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devices.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/atmel,at91rm9200-rtc.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dmatest.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt27
8 files changed, 43 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/bcache.txt b/Documentation/bcache.txt
index 77db8809bd96..b3a7e7d384f6 100644
--- a/Documentation/bcache.txt
+++ b/Documentation/bcache.txt
@@ -319,7 +319,10 @@ cache<0..n>
Symlink to each of the cache devices comprising this cache set.
cache_available_percent
- Percentage of cache device free.
+ Percentage of cache device which doesn't contain dirty data, and could
+ potentially be used for writeback. This doesn't mean this space isn't used
+ for clean cached data; the unused statistic (in priority_stats) is typically
+ much lower.
clear_stats
Clears the statistics associated with this cache
@@ -423,8 +426,11 @@ nbuckets
Total buckets in this cache
priority_stats
- Statistics about how recently data in the cache has been accessed. This can
- reveal your working set size.
+ Statistics about how recently data in the cache has been accessed.
+ This can reveal your working set size. Unused is the percentage of
+ the cache that doesn't contain any data. Metadata is bcache's
+ metadata overhead. Average is the average priority of cache buckets.
+ Next is a list of quantiles with the priority threshold of each.
written
Sum of all data that has been written to the cache; comparison with
diff --git a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt
index 08f01e79c41a..b9015912bca6 100644
--- a/Documentation/devices.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devices.txt
@@ -498,12 +498,8 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated.
Each device type has 5 bits (32 minors).
- 13 block 8-bit MFM/RLL/IDE controller
- 0 = /dev/xda First XT disk whole disk
- 64 = /dev/xdb Second XT disk whole disk
-
- Partitions are handled in the same way as IDE disks
- (see major number 3).
+ 13 block Previously used for the XT disk (/dev/xdN)
+ Deleted in kernel v3.9.
14 char Open Sound System (OSS)
0 = /dev/mixer Mixer control
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/atmel,at91rm9200-rtc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/atmel,at91rm9200-rtc.txt
index 2a3feabd3b22..34c1505774bf 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/atmel,at91rm9200-rtc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/atmel,at91rm9200-rtc.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Atmel AT91RM9200 Real Time Clock
Required properties:
-- compatible: should be: "atmel,at91rm9200-rtc"
+- compatible: should be: "atmel,at91rm9200-rtc" or "atmel,at91sam9x5-rtc"
- reg: physical base address of the controller and length of memory mapped
region.
- interrupts: rtc alarm/event interrupt
diff --git a/Documentation/dmatest.txt b/Documentation/dmatest.txt
index 279ac0a8c5b1..132a094c7bc3 100644
--- a/Documentation/dmatest.txt
+++ b/Documentation/dmatest.txt
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ command:
After a while you will start to get messages about current status or error like
in the original code.
-Note that running a new test will stop any in progress test.
+Note that running a new test will not stop any in progress test.
The following command should return actual state of the test.
% cat /sys/kernel/debug/dmatest/run
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ To wait for test done the user may perform a busy loop that checks the state.
The module parameters that is supplied to the kernel command line will be used
for the first performed test. After user gets a control, the test could be
-interrupted or re-run with same or different parameters. For the details see
-the above section "Part 2 - When dmatest is built as a module..."
+re-run with the same or different parameters. For the details see the above
+section "Part 2 - When dmatest is built as a module..."
In both cases the module parameters are used as initial values for the test case.
You always could check them at run-time by running
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
index 3e4b3dd1e046..83577f0232a0 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ When mounting an XFS filesystem, the following options are accepted.
removing extended attributes) the on-disk superblock feature
bit field will be updated to reflect this format being in use.
+ CRC enabled filesystems always use the attr2 format, and so
+ will reject the noattr2 mount option if it is set.
+
barrier
Enables the use of block layer write barriers for writes into
the journal and unwritten extent conversion. This allows for
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 6e3b18a8afc6..2fe6e767b3d6 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3351,9 +3351,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
x86_mrst_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
- xd= [HW,XT] Original XT pre-IDE (RLL encoded) disks.
- xd_geo= See header of drivers/block/xd.c.
-
xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
Unplug Xen emulated devices
Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
diff --git a/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt b/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt
index 97d45f276fe6..eaf32a1fd0b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt
@@ -80,8 +80,6 @@ Valid names are:
/dev/sdd: -> 0x0830 (forth SCSI disk)
/dev/sde: -> 0x0840 (fifth SCSI disk)
/dev/fd : -> 0x0200 (floppy disk)
- /dev/xda: -> 0x0c00 (first XT disk, unused in Linux/m68k)
- /dev/xdb: -> 0x0c40 (second XT disk, unused in Linux/m68k)
The name must be followed by a decimal number, that stands for the
partition number. Internally, the value of the number is just
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt
index c907be41d60f..dc23e58ae264 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt
@@ -147,6 +147,25 @@ Example signal handler:
fix_the_problem(ucp->dar);
}
+When in an active transaction that takes a signal, we need to be careful with
+the stack. It's possible that the stack has moved back up after the tbegin.
+The obvious case here is when the tbegin is called inside a function that
+returns before a tend. In this case, the stack is part of the checkpointed
+transactional memory state. If we write over this non transactionally or in
+suspend, we are in trouble because if we get a tm abort, the program counter and
+stack pointer will be back at the tbegin but our in memory stack won't be valid
+anymore.
+
+To avoid this, when taking a signal in an active transaction, we need to use
+the stack pointer from the checkpointed state, rather than the speculated
+state. This ensures that the signal context (written tm suspended) will be
+written below the stack required for the rollback. The transaction is aborted
+becuase of the treclaim, so any memory written between the tbegin and the
+signal will be rolled back anyway.
+
+For signals taken in non-TM or suspended mode, we use the
+normal/non-checkpointed stack pointer.
+
Failure cause codes used by kernel
==================================
@@ -155,14 +174,18 @@ These are defined in <asm/reg.h>, and distinguish different reasons why the
kernel aborted a transaction:
TM_CAUSE_RESCHED Thread was rescheduled.
+ TM_CAUSE_TLBI Software TLB invalide.
TM_CAUSE_FAC_UNAV FP/VEC/VSX unavailable trap.
TM_CAUSE_SYSCALL Currently unused; future syscalls that must abort
transactions for consistency will use this.
TM_CAUSE_SIGNAL Signal delivered.
TM_CAUSE_MISC Currently unused.
+ TM_CAUSE_ALIGNMENT Alignment fault.
+ TM_CAUSE_EMULATE Emulation that touched memory.
-These can be checked by the user program's abort handler as TEXASR[0:7].
-
+These can be checked by the user program's abort handler as TEXASR[0:7]. If
+bit 7 is set, it indicates that the error is consider persistent. For example
+a TM_CAUSE_ALIGNMENT will be persistent while a TM_CAUSE_RESCHED will not.q
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