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-rw-r--r--Documentation/00-INDEX4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-efi-vars75
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/pstore35
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-dmi110
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-pstore7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-kim48
-rw-r--r--Documentation/CodingStyle5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt31
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/SH-Mobile/Makefile8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/SH-Mobile/vrl4.c169
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/SH-Mobile/zboot-rom-mmcif.txt29
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/ADC-LH7-Touchscreen61
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/CompactFlash32
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/IOBarrier45
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/KEV7A4008
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/LCDPanels59
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/LPD7A40015
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/LPD7A40X16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/SDRAM51
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/VectoredInterruptController80
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/00-INDEX10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/altera_jtaguart.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/altera_uart.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serio/altera_ps2.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt26
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/keys-request-key.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/keys.txt28
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kref.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/memory-barriers.txt58
-rw-r--r--Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt47
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/bonding.txt26
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/phonet.txt67
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/devices.txt94
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/states.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/serial/n_gsm.txt89
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt42
-rw-r--r--Documentation/zh_CN/SecurityBugs50
-rw-r--r--Documentation/zh_CN/SubmitChecklist109
-rw-r--r--Documentation/zh_CN/SubmittingPatches4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/zh_CN/magic-number.txt167
49 files changed, 1298 insertions, 566 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX
index 8dfc6708a257..f607367e642f 100644
--- a/Documentation/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX
@@ -328,8 +328,6 @@ sysrq.txt
- info on the magic SysRq key.
telephony/
- directory with info on telephony (e.g. voice over IP) support.
-time_interpolators.txt
- - info on time interpolators.
uml/
- directory with information about User Mode Linux.
unicode.txt
@@ -346,8 +344,6 @@ vm/
- directory with info on the Linux vm code.
volatile-considered-harmful.txt
- Why the "volatile" type class should not be used
-voyager.txt
- - guide to running Linux on the Voyager architecture.
w1/
- directory with documents regarding the 1-wire (w1) subsystem.
watchdog/
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-efi-vars b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-efi-vars
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5def20b9019e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-efi-vars
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+What: /sys/firmware/efi/vars
+Date: April 2004
+Contact: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
+Description:
+ This directory exposes interfaces for interactive with
+ EFI variables. For more information on EFI variables,
+ see 'Variable Services' in the UEFI specification
+ (section 7.2 in specification version 2.3 Errata D).
+
+ In summary, EFI variables are named, and are classified
+ into separate namespaces through the use of a vendor
+ GUID. They also have an arbitrary binary value
+ associated with them.
+
+ The efivars module enumerates these variables and
+ creates a separate directory for each one found. Each
+ directory has a name of the form "<key>-<vendor guid>"
+ and contains the following files:
+
+ attributes: A read-only text file enumerating the
+ EFI variable flags. Potential values
+ include:
+
+ EFI_VARIABLE_NON_VOLATILE
+ EFI_VARIABLE_BOOTSERVICE_ACCESS
+ EFI_VARIABLE_RUNTIME_ACCESS
+ EFI_VARIABLE_HARDWARE_ERROR_RECORD
+ EFI_VARIABLE_AUTHENTICATED_WRITE_ACCESS
+
+ See the EFI documentation for an
+ explanation of each of these variables.
+
+ data: A read-only binary file that can be read
+ to attain the value of the EFI variable
+
+ guid: The vendor GUID of the variable. This
+ should always match the GUID in the
+ variable's name.
+
+ raw_var: A binary file that can be read to obtain
+ a structure that contains everything
+ there is to know about the variable.
+ For structure definition see "struct
+ efi_variable" in the kernel sources.
+
+ This file can also be written to in
+ order to update the value of a variable.
+ For this to work however, all fields of
+ the "struct efi_variable" passed must
+ match byte for byte with the structure
+ read out of the file, save for the value
+ portion.
+
+ **Note** the efi_variable structure
+ read/written with this file contains a
+ 'long' type that may change widths
+ depending on your underlying
+ architecture.
+
+ size: As ASCII representation of the size of
+ the variable's value.
+
+
+ In addition, two other magic binary files are provided
+ in the top-level directory and are used for adding and
+ removing variables:
+
+ new_var: Takes a "struct efi_variable" and
+ instructs the EFI firmware to create a
+ new variable.
+
+ del_var: Takes a "struct efi_variable" and
+ instructs the EFI firmware to remove any
+ variable that has a matching vendor GUID
+ and variable key name.
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/pstore b/Documentation/ABI/testing/pstore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f1fb2a004264
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/pstore
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+Where: /dev/pstore/...
+Date: January 2011
+Kernel Version: 2.6.38
+Contact: tony.luck@intel.com
+Description: Generic interface to platform dependent persistent storage.
+
+ Platforms that provide a mechanism to preserve some data
+ across system reboots can register with this driver to
+ provide a generic interface to show records captured in
+ the dying moments. In the case of a panic the last part
+ of the console log is captured, but other interesting
+ data can also be saved.
+
+ # mount -t pstore - /dev/pstore
+
+ $ ls -l /dev/pstore
+ total 0
+ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 7896 Nov 30 15:38 dmesg-erst-1
+
+ Different users of this interface will result in different
+ filename prefixes. Currently two are defined:
+
+ "dmesg" - saved console log
+ "mce" - architecture dependent data from fatal h/w error
+
+ Once the information in a file has been read, removing
+ the file will signal to the underlying persistent storage
+ device that it can reclaim the space for later re-use.
+
+ $ rm /dev/pstore/dmesg-erst-1
+
+ The expectation is that all files in /dev/pstore
+ will be saved elsewhere and erased from persistent store
+ soon after boot to free up space ready for the next
+ catastrophe.
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power
index 7628cd1bc36a..8ffbc25376a0 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power
@@ -29,9 +29,8 @@ Description:
"disabled" to it.
For the devices that are not capable of generating system wakeup
- events this file contains "\n". In that cases the user space
- cannot modify the contents of this file and the device cannot be
- enabled to wake up the system.
+ events this file is not present. In that case the device cannot
+ be enabled to wake up the system from sleep states.
What: /sys/devices/.../power/control
Date: January 2009
@@ -85,7 +84,7 @@ Description:
The /sys/devices/.../wakeup_count attribute contains the number
of signaled wakeup events associated with the device. This
attribute is read-only. If the device is not enabled to wake up
- the system from sleep states, this attribute is empty.
+ the system from sleep states, this attribute is not present.
What: /sys/devices/.../power/wakeup_active_count
Date: September 2010
@@ -95,7 +94,7 @@ Description:
number of times the processing of wakeup events associated with
the device was completed (at the kernel level). This attribute
is read-only. If the device is not enabled to wake up the
- system from sleep states, this attribute is empty.
+ system from sleep states, this attribute is not present.
What: /sys/devices/.../power/wakeup_hit_count
Date: September 2010
@@ -105,7 +104,8 @@ Description:
number of times the processing of a wakeup event associated with
the device might prevent the system from entering a sleep state.
This attribute is read-only. If the device is not enabled to
- wake up the system from sleep states, this attribute is empty.
+ wake up the system from sleep states, this attribute is not
+ present.
What: /sys/devices/.../power/wakeup_active
Date: September 2010
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Description:
or 0, depending on whether or not a wakeup event associated with
the device is being processed (1). This attribute is read-only.
If the device is not enabled to wake up the system from sleep
- states, this attribute is empty.
+ states, this attribute is not present.
What: /sys/devices/.../power/wakeup_total_time_ms
Date: September 2010
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ Description:
the total time of processing wakeup events associated with the
device, in milliseconds. This attribute is read-only. If the
device is not enabled to wake up the system from sleep states,
- this attribute is empty.
+ this attribute is not present.
What: /sys/devices/.../power/wakeup_max_time_ms
Date: September 2010
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ Description:
the maximum time of processing a single wakeup event associated
with the device, in milliseconds. This attribute is read-only.
If the device is not enabled to wake up the system from sleep
- states, this attribute is empty.
+ states, this attribute is not present.
What: /sys/devices/.../power/wakeup_last_time_ms
Date: September 2010
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ Description:
signaling the last wakeup event associated with the device, in
milliseconds. This attribute is read-only. If the device is
not enabled to wake up the system from sleep states, this
- attribute is empty.
+ attribute is not present.
What: /sys/devices/.../power/autosuspend_delay_ms
Date: September 2010
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-dmi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-dmi
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ba9da9503c23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-dmi
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+What: /sys/firmware/dmi/
+Date: February 2011
+Contact: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
+Description:
+ Many machines' firmware (x86 and ia64) export DMI /
+ SMBIOS tables to the operating system. Getting at this
+ information is often valuable to userland, especially in
+ cases where there are OEM extensions used.
+
+ The kernel itself does not rely on the majority of the
+ information in these tables being correct. It equally
+ cannot ensure that the data as exported to userland is
+ without error either.
+
+ DMI is structured as a large table of entries, where
+ each entry has a common header indicating the type and
+ length of the entry, as well as 'handle' that is
+ supposed to be unique amongst all entries.
+
+ Some entries are required by the specification, but many
+ others are optional. In general though, users should
+ never expect to find a specific entry type on their
+ system unless they know for certain what their firmware
+ is doing. Machine to machine will vary.
+
+ Multiple entries of the same type are allowed. In order
+ to handle these duplicate entry types, each entry is
+ assigned by the operating system an 'instance', which is
+ derived from an entry type's ordinal position. That is
+ to say, if there are 'N' multiple entries with the same type
+ 'T' in the DMI tables (adjacent or spread apart, it
+ doesn't matter), they will be represented in sysfs as
+ entries "T-0" through "T-(N-1)":
+
+ Example entry directories:
+
+ /sys/firmware/dmi/entries/17-0
+ /sys/firmware/dmi/entries/17-1
+ /sys/firmware/dmi/entries/17-2
+ /sys/firmware/dmi/entries/17-3
+ ...
+
+ Instance numbers are used in lieu of the firmware
+ assigned entry handles as the kernel itself makes no
+ guarantees that handles as exported are unique, and
+ there are likely firmware images that get this wrong in
+ the wild.
+
+ Each DMI entry in sysfs has the common header values
+ exported as attributes:
+
+ handle : The 16bit 'handle' that is assigned to this
+ entry by the firmware. This handle may be
+ referred to by other entries.
+ length : The length of the entry, as presented in the
+ entry itself. Note that this is _not the
+ total count of bytes associated with the
+ entry_. This value represents the length of
+ the "formatted" portion of the entry. This
+ "formatted" region is sometimes followed by
+ the "unformatted" region composed of nul
+ terminated strings, with termination signalled
+ by a two nul characters in series.
+ raw : The raw bytes of the entry. This includes the
+ "formatted" portion of the entry, the
+ "unformatted" strings portion of the entry,
+ and the two terminating nul characters.
+ type : The type of the entry. This value is the same
+ as found in the directory name. It indicates
+ how the rest of the entry should be
+ interpreted.
+ instance: The instance ordinal of the entry for the
+ given type. This value is the same as found
+ in the parent directory name.
+ position: The position of the entry within the entirety
+ of the entirety.
+
+ === Entry Specialization ===
+
+ Some entry types may have other information available in
+ sysfs.
+
+ --- Type 15 - System Event Log ---
+
+ This entry allows the firmware to export a log of
+ events the system has taken. This information is
+ typically backed by nvram, but the implementation
+ details are abstracted by this table. This entries data
+ is exported in the directory:
+
+ /sys/firmware/dmi/entries/15-0/system_event_log
+
+ and has the following attributes (documented in the
+ SMBIOS / DMI specification under "System Event Log (Type 15)":
+
+ area_length
+ header_start_offset
+ data_start_offset
+ access_method
+ status
+ change_token
+ access_method_address
+ header_format
+ per_log_type_descriptor_length
+ type_descriptors_supported_count
+
+ As well, the kernel exports the binary attribute:
+
+ raw_event_log : The raw binary bits of the event log
+ as described by the DMI entry.
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-pstore b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-pstore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8e659d854805
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-pstore
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+What: /sys/fs/pstore/kmsg_bytes
+Date: January 2011
+Kernel Version: 2.6.38
+Contact: "Tony Luck" <tony.luck@intel.com>
+Description:
+ Controls amount of console log that will be saved
+ to persistent store on oops/panic.
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-kim b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-kim
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c1653271872a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-kim
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+What: /sys/devices/platform/kim/dev_name
+Date: January 2010
+KernelVersion: 2.6.38
+Contact: "Pavan Savoy" <pavan_savoy@ti.com>
+Description:
+ Name of the UART device at which the WL128x chip
+ is connected. example: "/dev/ttyS0".
+ The device name flows down to architecture specific board
+ initialization file from the SFI/ATAGS bootloader
+ firmware. The name exposed is read from the user-space
+ dameon and opens the device when install is requested.
+
+What: /sys/devices/platform/kim/baud_rate
+Date: January 2010
+KernelVersion: 2.6.38
+Contact: "Pavan Savoy" <pavan_savoy@ti.com>
+Description:
+ The maximum reliable baud-rate the host can support.
+ Different platforms tend to have different high-speed
+ UART configurations, so the baud-rate needs to be set
+ locally and also sent across to the WL128x via a HCI-VS
+ command. The entry is read and made use by the user-space
+ daemon when the ldisc install is requested.
+
+What: /sys/devices/platform/kim/flow_cntrl
+Date: January 2010
+KernelVersion: 2.6.38
+Contact: "Pavan Savoy" <pavan_savoy@ti.com>
+Description:
+ The WL128x makes use of flow control mechanism, and this
+ entry most often should be 1, the host's UART is required
+ to have the capability of flow-control, or else this
+ entry can be made use of for exceptions.
+
+What: /sys/devices/platform/kim/install
+Date: January 2010
+KernelVersion: 2.6.38
+Contact: "Pavan Savoy" <pavan_savoy@ti.com>
+Description:
+ When one of the protocols Bluetooth, FM or GPS wants to make
+ use of the shared UART transport, it registers to the shared
+ transport driver, which will signal the user-space for opening,
+ configuring baud and install line discipline via this sysfs
+ entry. This entry would be polled upon by the user-space
+ daemon managing the UART, and is notified about the change
+ by the sysfs_notify. The value would be '1' when UART needs
+ to be opened/ldisc installed, and would be '0' when UART
+ is no more required and needs to be closed.
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle
index 8bb37237ebd2..1cd3478e5834 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingStyle
+++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ There are a number of driver model diagnostic macros in <linux/device.h>
which you should use to make sure messages are matched to the right device
and driver, and are tagged with the right level: dev_err(), dev_warn(),
dev_info(), and so forth. For messages that aren't associated with a
-particular device, <linux/kernel.h> defines pr_debug() and pr_info().
+particular device, <linux/printk.h> defines pr_debug() and pr_info().
Coming up with good debugging messages can be quite a challenge; and once
you have them, they can be a huge help for remote troubleshooting. Such
@@ -819,6 +819,3 @@ language C, URL: http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/
Kernel CodingStyle, by greg@kroah.com at OLS 2002:
http://www.kroah.com/linux/talks/ols_2002_kernel_codingstyle_talk/html/
---
-Last updated on 2007-July-13.
-
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
index cfaac34c4557..6ef692667e2f 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
@@ -849,6 +849,37 @@ All: lockdep-checked RCU-protected pointer access
See the comment headers in the source code (or the docbook generated
from them) for more information.
+However, given that there are no fewer than four families of RCU APIs
+in the Linux kernel, how do you choose which one to use? The following
+list can be helpful:
+
+a. Will readers need to block? If so, you need SRCU.
+
+b. What about the -rt patchset? If readers would need to block
+ in an non-rt kernel, you need SRCU. If readers would block
+ in a -rt kernel, but not in a non-rt kernel, SRCU is not
+ necessary.
+
+c. Do you need to treat NMI handlers, hardirq handlers,
+ and code segments with preemption disabled (whether
+ via preempt_disable(), local_irq_save(), local_bh_disable(),
+ or some other mechanism) as if they were explicit RCU readers?
+ If so, you need RCU-sched.
+
+d. Do you need RCU grace periods to complete even in the face
+ of softirq monopolization of one or more of the CPUs? For
+ example, is your code subject to network-based denial-of-service
+ attacks? If so, you need RCU-bh.
+
+e. Is your workload too update-intensive for normal use of
+ RCU, but inappropriate for other synchronization mechanisms?
+ If so, consider SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU. But please be careful!
+
+f. Otherwise, use RCU.
+
+Of course, this all assumes that you have determined that RCU is in fact
+the right tool for your job.
+
8. ANSWERS TO QUICK QUIZZES
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/SH-Mobile/Makefile b/Documentation/arm/SH-Mobile/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8771d832cf8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/arm/SH-Mobile/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+BIN := vrl4
+
+.PHONY: all
+all: $(BIN)
+
+.PHONY: clean
+clean:
+ rm -f *.o $(BIN)
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/SH-Mobile/vrl4.c b/Documentation/arm/SH-Mobile/vrl4.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e8a191358ad2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/arm/SH-Mobile/vrl4.c
@@ -0,0 +1,169 @@
+/*
+ * vrl4 format generator
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2010 Simon Horman
+ *
+ * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public
+ * License. See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive
+ * for more details.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * usage: vrl4 < zImage > out
+ * dd if=out of=/dev/sdx bs=512 seek=1 # Write the image to sector 1
+ *
+ * Reads a zImage from stdin and writes a vrl4 image to stdout.
+ * In practice this means writing a padded vrl4 header to stdout followed
+ * by the zImage.
+ *
+ * The padding places the zImage at ALIGN bytes into the output.
+ * The vrl4 uses ALIGN + START_BASE as the start_address.
+ * This is where the mask ROM will jump to after verifying the header.
+ *
+ * The header sets copy_size to min(sizeof(zImage), MAX_BOOT_PROG_LEN) + ALIGN.
+ * That is, the mask ROM will load the padded header (ALIGN bytes)
+ * And then MAX_BOOT_PROG_LEN bytes of the image, or the entire image,
+ * whichever is smaller.
+ *
+ * The zImage is not modified in any way.
+ */
+
+#define _BSD_SOURCE
+#include <endian.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+
+struct hdr {
+ uint32_t magic1;
+ uint32_t reserved1;
+ uint32_t magic2;
+ uint32_t reserved2;
+ uint16_t copy_size;
+ uint16_t boot_options;
+ uint32_t reserved3;
+ uint32_t start_address;
+ uint32_t reserved4;
+ uint32_t reserved5;
+ char reserved6[308];
+};
+
+#define DECLARE_HDR(h) \
+ struct hdr (h) = { \
+ .magic1 = htole32(0xea000000), \
+ .reserved1 = htole32(0x56), \
+ .magic2 = htole32(0xe59ff008), \
+ .reserved3 = htole16(0x1) }
+
+/* Align to 512 bytes, the MMCIF sector size */
+#define ALIGN_BITS 9
+#define ALIGN (1 << ALIGN_BITS)
+
+#define START_BASE 0xe55b0000
+
+/*
+ * With an alignment of 512 the header uses the first sector.
+ * There is a 128 sector (64kbyte) limit on the data loaded by the mask ROM.
+ * So there are 127 sectors left for the boot programme. But in practice
+ * Only a small portion of a zImage is needed, 16 sectors should be more
+ * than enough.
+ *
+ * Note that this sets how much of the zImage is copied by the mask ROM.
+ * The entire zImage is present after the header and is loaded
+ * by the code in the boot program (which is the first portion of the zImage).
+ */
+#define MAX_BOOT_PROG_LEN (16 * 512)
+
+#define ROUND_UP(x) ((x + ALIGN - 1) & ~(ALIGN - 1))
+
+ssize_t do_read(int fd, void *buf, size_t count)
+{
+ size_t offset = 0;
+ ssize_t l;
+
+ while (offset < count) {
+ l = read(fd, buf + offset, count - offset);
+ if (!l)
+ break;
+ if (l < 0) {
+ if (errno == EAGAIN || errno == EWOULDBLOCK)
+ continue;
+ perror("read");
+ return -1;
+ }
+ offset += l;
+ }
+
+ return offset;
+}
+
+ssize_t do_write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count)
+{
+ size_t offset = 0;
+ ssize_t l;
+
+ while (offset < count) {
+ l = write(fd, buf + offset, count - offset);
+ if (l < 0) {
+ if (errno == EAGAIN || errno == EWOULDBLOCK)
+ continue;
+ perror("write");
+ return -1;
+ }
+ offset += l;
+ }
+
+ return offset;
+}
+
+ssize_t write_zero(int fd, size_t len)
+{
+ size_t i = len;
+
+ while (i--) {
+ const char x = 0;
+ if (do_write(fd, &x, 1) < 0)
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ return len;
+}
+
+int main(void)
+{
+ DECLARE_HDR(hdr);
+ char boot_program[MAX_BOOT_PROG_LEN];
+ size_t aligned_hdr_len, alligned_prog_len;
+ ssize_t prog_len;
+
+ prog_len = do_read(0, boot_program, sizeof(boot_program));
+ if (prog_len <= 0)
+ return -1;
+
+ aligned_hdr_len = ROUND_UP(sizeof(hdr));
+ hdr.start_address = htole32(START_BASE + aligned_hdr_len);
+ alligned_prog_len = ROUND_UP(prog_len);
+ hdr.copy_size = htole16(aligned_hdr_len + alligned_prog_len);
+
+ if (do_write(1, &hdr, sizeof(hdr)) < 0)
+ return -1;
+ if (write_zero(1, aligned_hdr_len - sizeof(hdr)) < 0)
+ return -1;
+
+ if (do_write(1, boot_program, prog_len) < 0)
+ return 1;
+
+ /* Write out the rest of the kernel */
+ while (1) {
+ prog_len = do_read(0, boot_program, sizeof(boot_program));
+ if (prog_len < 0)
+ return 1;
+ if (prog_len == 0)
+ break;
+ if (do_write(1, boot_program, prog_len) < 0)
+ return 1;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/SH-Mobile/zboot-rom-mmcif.txt b/Documentation/arm/SH-Mobile/zboot-rom-mmcif.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..efff8ae2713d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/arm/SH-Mobile/zboot-rom-mmcif.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+ROM-able zImage boot from MMC
+-----------------------------
+
+An ROM-able zImage compiled with ZBOOT_ROM_MMCIF may be written to MMC and
+SuperH Mobile ARM will to boot directly from the MMCIF hardware block.
+
+This is achieved by the mask ROM loading the first portion of the image into
+MERAM and then jumping to it. This portion contains loader code which
+copies the entire image to SDRAM and jumps to it. From there the zImage
+boot code proceeds as normal, uncompressing the image into its final
+location and then jumping to it.
+
+This code has been tested on an AP4EB board using the developer 1A eMMC
+boot mode which is configured using the following jumper settings.
+The board used for testing required a patched mask ROM in order for
+this mode to function.
+
+ 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
+ x|x|x|x|x| |x|
+S4 -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
+ | | | | |x| |x on
+
+The zImage must be written to the MMC card at sector 1 (512 bytes) in
+vrl4 format. A utility vrl4 is supplied to accomplish this.
+
+e.g.
+ vrl4 < zImage | dd of=/dev/sdX bs=512 seek=1
+
+A dual-voltage MMC 4.0 card was used for testing.
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/ADC-LH7-Touchscreen b/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/ADC-LH7-Touchscreen
deleted file mode 100644
index dc460f055647..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/ADC-LH7-Touchscreen
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-README on the ADC/Touchscreen Controller
-========================================
-
-The LH79524 and LH7A404 include a built-in Analog to Digital
-controller (ADC) that is used to process input from a touchscreen.
-The driver only implements a four-wire touch panel protocol.
-
-The touchscreen driver is maintenance free except for the pen-down or
-touch threshold. Some resistive displays and board combinations may
-require tuning of this threshold. The driver exposes some of its
-internal state in the sys filesystem. If the kernel is configured
-with it, CONFIG_SYSFS, and sysfs is mounted at /sys, there will be a
-directory
-
- /sys/devices/platform/adc-lh7.0
-
-containing these files.
-
- -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 1 00:00 samples
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 1 00:00 threshold
- -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 1 00:00 threshold_range
-
-The threshold is the current touch threshold. It defaults to 750 on
-most targets.
-
- # cat threshold
- 750
-
-The threshold_range contains the range of valid values for the
-threshold. Values outside of this range will be silently ignored.
-
- # cat threshold_range
- 0 1023
-
-To change the threshold, write a value to the threshold file.
-
- # echo 500 > threshold
- # cat threshold
- 500
-
-The samples file contains the most recently sampled values from the
-ADC. There are 12. Below are typical of the last sampled values when
-the pen has been released. The first two and last two samples are for
-detecting whether or not the pen is down. The third through sixth are
-X coordinate samples. The seventh through tenth are Y coordinate
-samples.
-
- # cat samples
- 1023 1023 0 0 0 0 530 529 530 529 1023 1023
-
-To determine a reasonable threshold, press on the touch panel with an
-appropriate stylus and read the values from samples.
-
- # cat samples
- 1023 676 92 103 101 102 855 919 922 922 1023 679
-
-The first and eleventh samples are discarded. Thus, the important
-values are the second and twelfth which are used to determine if the
-pen is down. When both are below the threshold, the driver registers
-that the pen is down. When either is above the threshold, it
-registers then pen is up.
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/CompactFlash b/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/CompactFlash
deleted file mode 100644
index 8616d877df9e..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/CompactFlash
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-README on the Compact Flash for Card Engines
-============================================
-
-There are three challenges in supporting the CF interface of the Card
-Engines. First, every IO operation must be followed with IO to
-another memory region. Second, the slot is wired for one-to-one
-address mapping *and* it is wired for 16 bit access only. Second, the
-interrupt request line from the CF device isn't wired.
-
-The IOBARRIER issue is covered in README.IOBARRIER. This isn't an
-onerous problem. Enough said here.
-
-The addressing issue is solved in the
-arch/arm/mach-lh7a40x/ide-lpd7a40x.c file with some awkward
-work-arounds. We implement a special SELECT_DRIVE routine that is
-called before the IDE driver performs its own SELECT_DRIVE. Our code
-recognizes that the SELECT register cannot be modified without also
-writing a command. It send an IDLE_IMMEDIATE command on selecting a
-drive. The function also prevents drive select to the slave drive
-since there can be only one. The awkward part is that the IDE driver,
-even though we have a select procedure, also attempts to change the
-drive by writing directly the SELECT register. This attempt is
-explicitly blocked by the OUTB function--not pretty, but effective.
-
-The lack of interrupts is a more serious problem. Even though the CF
-card is fast when compared to a normal IDE device, we don't know that
-the CF is really flash. A user could use one of the very small hard
-drives being shipped with a CF interface. The IDE code includes a
-check for interfaces that lack an IRQ. In these cases, submitting a
-command to the IDE controller is followed by a call to poll for
-completion. If the device isn't immediately ready, it schedules a
-timer to poll again later.
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/IOBarrier b/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/IOBarrier
deleted file mode 100644
index 2e953e228f4d..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/IOBarrier
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-README on the IOBARRIER for CardEngine IO
-=========================================
-
-Due to an unfortunate oversight when the Card Engines were designed,
-the signals that control access to some peripherals, most notably the
-SMC91C9111 ethernet controller, are not properly handled.
-
-The symptom is that some back to back IO with the peripheral returns
-unreliable data. With the SMC chip, you'll see errors about the bank
-register being 'screwed'.
-
-The cause is that the AEN signal to the SMC chip does not transition
-for every memory access. It is driven through the CPLD from the CS7
-line of the CPU's static memory controller which is optimized to
-eliminate unnecessary transitions. Yet, the SMC requires a transition
-for every write access. The Sharp website has more information about
-the effect this power-conserving feature has on peripheral
-interfacing.
-
-The solution is to follow every write access to the SMC chip with an
-access to another memory region that will force the CPU to release the
-chip select line. It is important to guarantee that this access
-forces the CPU off-chip. We map a page of SDRAM as if it were an
-uncacheable IO device and read from it after every SMC IO write
-operation.
-
- SMC IO
- BARRIER IO
-
-Only this sequence is important. It does not matter that there is no
-BARRIER IO before the access to the SMC chip because the AEN latch
-only needs occurs after the SMC IO write cycle. The routines that
-implement this work-around make an additional concession which is to
-disable interrupts during the IO sequence. Other hardware devices
-(the LogicPD CPLD) have registers in the same physical memory
-region as the SMC chip. An interrupt might allow an access to one of
-those registers while SMC IO is being performed.
-
-You might be tempted to think that we have to access another device
-attached to the static memory controller, but the empirical evidence
-indicates that this is not so. Mapping 0x00000000 (flash) and
-0xc0000000 (SDRAM) appear to have the same effect. Using SDRAM seems
-to be faster. Choosing to access an undecoded memory region is not
-desirable as there is no way to know how that chip select will be used
-in the future.
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/KEV7A400 b/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/KEV7A400
deleted file mode 100644
index be32b14cd535..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/KEV7A400
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-README on Implementing Linux for Sharp's KEV7a400
-=================================================
-
-This product has been discontinued by Sharp. For the time being, the
-partially implemented code remains in the kernel. At some point in
-the future, either the code will be finished or it will be removed
-completely. This depends primarily on how many of the development
-boards are in the field.
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/LCDPanels b/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/LCDPanels
deleted file mode 100644
index fb1b21c2f2f4..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/LCDPanels
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-README on the LCD Panels
-========================
-
-Configuration options for several LCD panels, available from Logic PD,
-are included in the kernel source. This README will help you
-understand the configuration data and give you some guidance for
-adding support for other panels if you wish.
-
-
-lcd-panels.h
-------------
-
-There is no way, at present, to detect which panel is attached to the
-system at runtime. Thus the kernel configuration is static. The file
-arch/arm/mach-ld7a40x/lcd-panels.h (or similar) defines all of the
-panel specific parameters.
-
-It should be possible for this data to be shared among several device
-families. The current layout may be insufficiently general, but it is
-amenable to improvement.
-
-
-PIXEL_CLOCK
------------
-
-The panel data sheets will give a range of acceptable pixel clocks.
-The fundamental LCDCLK input frequency is divided down by a PCD
-constant in field '.tim2'. It may happen that it is impossible to set
-the pixel clock within this range. A clock which is too slow will
-tend to flicker. For the highest quality image, set the clock as high
-as possible.
-
-
-MARGINS
--------
-
-These values may be difficult to glean from the panel data sheet. In
-the case of the Sharp panels, the upper margin is explicitly called
-out as a specific number of lines from the top of the frame. The
-other values may not matter as much as the panels tend to
-automatically center the image.
-
-
-Sync Sense
-----------
-
-The sense of the hsync and vsync pulses may be called out in the data
-sheet. On one panel, the sense of these pulses determine the height
-of the visible region on the panel. Most of the Sharp panels use
-negative sense sync pulses set by the TIM2_IHS and TIM2_IVS bits in
-'.tim2'.
-
-
-Pel Layout
-----------
-
-The Sharp color TFT panels are all configured for 16 bit direct color
-modes. The amba-lcd driver sets the pel mode to 565 for 5 bits of
-each red and blue and 6 bits of green.
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/LPD7A400 b/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/LPD7A400
deleted file mode 100644
index 3275b453bfdf..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/LPD7A400
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-README on Implementing Linux for the Logic PD LPD7A400-10
-=========================================================
-
-- CPLD memory mapping
-
- The board designers chose to use high address lines for controlling
- access to the CPLD registers. It turns out to be a big waste
- because we're using an MMU and must map IO space into virtual
- memory. The result is that we have to make a mapping for every
- register.
-
-- Serial Console
-
- It may be OK not to use the serial console option if the user passes
- the console device name to the kernel. This deserves some exploration.
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/LPD7A40X b/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/LPD7A40X
deleted file mode 100644
index 8c29a27e208f..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/LPD7A40X
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-README on Implementing Linux for the Logic PD LPD7A40X-10
-=========================================================
-
-- CPLD memory mapping
-
- The board designers chose to use high address lines for controlling
- access to the CPLD registers. It turns out to be a big waste
- because we're using an MMU and must map IO space into virtual
- memory. The result is that we have to make a mapping for every
- register.
-
-- Serial Console
-
- It may be OK not to use the serial console option if the user passes
- the console device name to the kernel. This deserves some exploration.
-
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/SDRAM b/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/SDRAM
deleted file mode 100644
index 93ddc23c2faa..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/SDRAM
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-README on the SDRAM Controller for the LH7a40X
-==============================================
-
-The standard configuration for the SDRAM controller generates a sparse
-memory array. The precise layout is determined by the SDRAM chips. A
-default kernel configuration assembles the discontiguous memory
-regions into separate memory nodes via the NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory
-Architecture) facilities. In this default configuration, the kernel
-is forgiving about the precise layout. As long as it is given an
-accurate picture of available memory by the bootloader the kernel will
-execute correctly.
-
-The SDRC supports a mode where some of the chip select lines are
-swapped in order to make SDRAM look like a synchronous ROM. Setting
-this bit means that the RAM will present as a contiguous array. Some
-programmers prefer this to the discontiguous layout. Be aware that
-may be a penalty for this feature where some some configurations of
-memory are significantly reduced; i.e. 64MiB of RAM appears as only 32
-MiB.
-
-There are a couple of configuration options to override the default
-behavior. When the SROMLL bit is set and memory appears as a
-contiguous array, there is no reason to support NUMA.
-CONFIG_LH7A40X_CONTIGMEM disables NUMA support. When physical memory
-is discontiguous, the memory tables are organized such that there are
-two banks per nodes with a small gap between them. This layout wastes
-some kernel memory for page tables representing non-existent memory.
-CONFIG_LH7A40X_ONE_BANK_PER_NODE optimizes the node tables such that
-there are no gaps. These options control the low level organization
-of the memory management tables in ways that may prevent the kernel
-from booting or may cause the kernel to allocated excessively large
-page tables. Be warned. Only change these options if you know what
-you are doing. The default behavior is a reasonable compromise that
-will suit all users.
-
---
-
-A typical 32MiB system with the default configuration options will
-find physical memory managed as follows.
-
- node 0: 0xc0000000 4MiB
- 0xc1000000 4MiB
- node 1: 0xc4000000 4MiB
- 0xc5000000 4MiB
- node 2: 0xc8000000 4MiB
- 0xc9000000 4MiB
- node 3: 0xcc000000 4MiB
- 0xcd000000 4MiB
-
-Setting CONFIG_LH7A40X_ONE_BANK_PER_NODE will put each bank into a
-separate node.
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/VectoredInterruptController b/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/VectoredInterruptController
deleted file mode 100644
index 23047e9861ee..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/VectoredInterruptController
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-README on the Vectored Interrupt Controller of the LH7A404
-==========================================================
-
-The 404 revision of the LH7A40X series comes with two vectored
-interrupts controllers. While the kernel does use some of the
-features of these devices, it is far from the purpose for which they
-were designed.
-
-When this README was written, the implementation of the VICs was in
-flux. It is possible that some details, especially with priorities,
-will change.
-
-The VIC support code is inspired by routines written by Sharp.
-
-
-Priority Control
-----------------
-
-The significant reason for using the VIC's vectoring is to control
-interrupt priorities. There are two tables in
-arch/arm/mach-lh7a40x/irq-lh7a404.c that look something like this.
-
- static unsigned char irq_pri_vic1[] = { IRQ_GPIO3INTR, };
- static unsigned char irq_pri_vic2[] = {
- IRQ_T3UI, IRQ_GPIO7INTR,
- IRQ_UART1INTR, IRQ_UART2INTR, IRQ_UART3INTR, };
-
-The initialization code reads these tables and inserts a vector
-address and enable for each indicated IRQ. Vectored interrupts have
-higher priority than non-vectored interrupts. So, on VIC1,
-IRQ_GPIO3INTR will be served before any other non-FIQ interrupt. Due
-to the way that the vectoring works, IRQ_T3UI is the next highest
-priority followed by the other vectored interrupts on VIC2. After
-that, the non-vectored interrupts are scanned in VIC1 then in VIC2.
-
-
-ISR
----
-
-The interrupt service routine macro get_irqnr() in
-arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S scans the VICs for the next active
-interrupt. The vectoring makes this code somewhat larger than it was
-before using vectoring (refer to the LH7A400 implementation). In the
-case where an interrupt is vectored, the implementation will tend to
-be faster than the non-vectored version. However, the worst-case path
-is longer.
-
-It is worth noting that at present, there is no need to read
-VIC2_VECTADDR because the register appears to be shared between the
-controllers. The code is written such that if this changes, it ought
-to still work properly.
-
-
-Vector Addresses
-----------------
-
-The proper use of the vectoring hardware would jump to the ISR
-specified by the vectoring address. Linux isn't structured to take
-advantage of this feature, though it might be possible to change
-things to support it.
-
-In this implementation, the vectoring address is used to speed the
-search for the active IRQ. The address is coded such that the lowest
-6 bits store the IRQ number for vectored interrupts. These numbers
-correspond to the bits in the interrupt status registers. IRQ zero is
-the lowest interrupt bit in VIC1. IRQ 32 is the lowest interrupt bit
-in VIC2. Because zero is a valid IRQ number and because we cannot
-detect whether or not there is a valid vectoring address if that
-address is zero, the eigth bit (0x100) is set for vectored interrupts.
-The address for IRQ 0x18 (VIC2) is 0x118. Only the ninth bit is set
-for the default handler on VIC1 and only the tenth bit is set for the
-default handler on VIC2.
-
-In other words.
-
- 0x000 - no active interrupt
- 0x1ii - vectored interrupt 0xii
- 0x2xx - unvectored interrupt on VIC1 (xx is don't care)
- 0x4xx - unvectored interrupt on VIC2 (xx is don't care)
-
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
index 44b8b7af8019..cbdfb7d9455b 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
@@ -349,6 +349,10 @@ To mount a cgroup hierarchy with all available subsystems, type:
The "xxx" is not interpreted by the cgroup code, but will appear in
/proc/mounts so may be any useful identifying string that you like.
+Note: Some subsystems do not work without some user input first. For instance,
+if cpusets are enabled the user will have to populate the cpus and mems files
+for each new cgroup created before that group can be used.
+
To mount a cgroup hierarchy with just the cpuset and memory
subsystems, type:
# mount -t cgroup -o cpuset,memory hier1 /dev/cgroup
@@ -426,6 +430,14 @@ You can attach the current shell task by echoing 0:
# echo 0 > tasks
+Note: Since every task is always a member of exactly one cgroup in each
+mounted hierarchy, to remove a task from its current cgroup you must
+move it into a new cgroup (possibly the root cgroup) by writing to the
+new cgroup's tasks file.
+
+Note: If the ns cgroup is active, moving a process to another cgroup can
+fail.
+
2.3 Mounting hierarchies by name
--------------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/00-INDEX b/Documentation/devicetree/00-INDEX
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b78f691fd847
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/00-INDEX
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+Documentation for device trees, a data structure by which bootloaders pass
+hardware layout to Linux in a device-independent manner, simplifying hardware
+probing. This subsystem is maintained by Grant Likely
+<grant.likely@secretlab.ca> and has a mailing list at
+https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
+
+00-INDEX
+ - this file
+booting-without-of.txt
+ - Booting Linux without Open Firmware, describes history and format of device trees.
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/altera_jtaguart.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/altera_jtaguart.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c152f65f9a28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/altera_jtaguart.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Altera JTAG UART
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible : should be "ALTR,juart-1.0"
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/altera_uart.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/altera_uart.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..71cae3f70100
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/altera_uart.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Altera UART
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible : should be "ALTR,uart-1.0"
+
+Optional properties:
+- clock-frequency : frequency of the clock input to the UART
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serio/altera_ps2.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serio/altera_ps2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4d9eecc2ef7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serio/altera_ps2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Altera UP PS/2 controller
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible : should be "ALTR,ps2-1.0".
diff --git a/Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt b/Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt
index 58ea64a96165..e6c4b757025b 100644
--- a/Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt
+++ b/Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt
@@ -205,12 +205,20 @@ of the characters:
The flags are:
+f
+ Include the function name in the printed message
+l
+ Include line number in the printed message
+m
+ Include module name in the printed message
p
Causes a printk() message to be emitted to dmesg
+t
+ Include thread ID in messages not generated from interrupt context
-Note the regexp ^[-+=][scp]+$ matches a flags specification.
+Note the regexp ^[-+=][flmpt]+$ matches a flags specification.
Note also that there is no convenient syntax to remove all
-the flags at once, you need to use "-psc".
+the flags at once, you need to use "-flmpt".
Debug messages during boot process
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index b3f35e5f9c95..f487c6918d78 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -35,6 +35,17 @@ Who: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
---------------------------
+What: AR9170USB
+When: 2.6.40
+
+Why: This driver is deprecated and the firmware is no longer
+ maintained. The replacement driver "carl9170" has been
+ around for a while, so the devices are still supported.
+
+Who: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
Check: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
When: July 2009
@@ -604,6 +615,13 @@ Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
----------------------------
+What: xt_connlimit rev 0
+When: 2012
+Who: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
+Files: net/netfilter/xt_connlimit.c
+
+----------------------------
+
What: noswapaccount kernel command line parameter
When: 2.6.40
Why: The original implementation of memsw feature enabled by
@@ -619,3 +637,11 @@ Why: The original implementation of memsw feature enabled by
Who: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
----------------------------
+
+What: ipt_addrtype match include file
+When: 2012
+Why: superseded by xt_addrtype
+Who: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
+Files: include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_addrtype.h
+
+----------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
index 5d1335faec2d..f806e50aaa63 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
@@ -39,10 +39,12 @@ userspace. Top-level directories in sysfs represent the common
ancestors of object hierarchies; i.e. the subsystems the objects
belong to.
-Sysfs internally stores the kobject that owns the directory in the
-->d_fsdata pointer of the directory's dentry. This allows sysfs to do
-reference counting directly on the kobject when the file is opened and
-closed.
+Sysfs internally stores a pointer to the kobject that implements a
+directory in the sysfs_dirent object associated with the directory. In
+the past this kobject pointer has been used by sysfs to do reference
+counting directly on the kobject whenever the file is opened or closed.
+With the current sysfs implementation the kobject reference count is
+only modified directly by the function sysfs_schedule_callback().
Attributes
@@ -208,9 +210,9 @@ Other notes:
is 4096.
- show() methods should return the number of bytes printed into the
- buffer. This is the return value of snprintf().
+ buffer. This is the return value of scnprintf().
-- show() should always use snprintf().
+- show() should always use scnprintf().
- store() should return the number of bytes used from the buffer. If the
entire buffer has been used, just return the count argument.
@@ -229,7 +231,7 @@ A very simple (and naive) implementation of a device attribute is:
static ssize_t show_name(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
char *buf)
{
- return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", dev->name);
+ return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", dev->name);
}
static ssize_t store_name(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
diff --git a/Documentation/keys-request-key.txt b/Documentation/keys-request-key.txt
index 09b55e461740..69686ad12c66 100644
--- a/Documentation/keys-request-key.txt
+++ b/Documentation/keys-request-key.txt
@@ -127,14 +127,15 @@ This is because process A's keyrings can't simply be attached to
of them, and (b) it requires the same UID/GID/Groups all the way through.
-======================
-NEGATIVE INSTANTIATION
-======================
+====================================
+NEGATIVE INSTANTIATION AND REJECTION
+====================================
Rather than instantiating a key, it is possible for the possessor of an
authorisation key to negatively instantiate a key that's under construction.
This is a short duration placeholder that causes any attempt at re-requesting
-the key whilst it exists to fail with error ENOKEY.
+the key whilst it exists to fail with error ENOKEY if negated or the specified
+error if rejected.
This is provided to prevent excessive repeated spawning of /sbin/request-key
processes for a key that will never be obtainable.
diff --git a/Documentation/keys.txt b/Documentation/keys.txt
index e4dbbdb1bd96..6523a9e6f293 100644
--- a/Documentation/keys.txt
+++ b/Documentation/keys.txt
@@ -637,6 +637,9 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are:
long keyctl(KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE, key_serial_t key,
const void *payload, size_t plen,
key_serial_t keyring);
+ long keyctl(KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE_IOV, key_serial_t key,
+ const struct iovec *payload_iov, unsigned ioc,
+ key_serial_t keyring);
If the kernel calls back to userspace to complete the instantiation of a
key, userspace should use this call to supply data for the key before the
@@ -652,11 +655,16 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are:
The payload and plen arguments describe the payload data as for add_key().
+ The payload_iov and ioc arguments describe the payload data in an iovec
+ array instead of a single buffer.
+
(*) Negatively instantiate a partially constructed key.
long keyctl(KEYCTL_NEGATE, key_serial_t key,
unsigned timeout, key_serial_t keyring);
+ long keyctl(KEYCTL_REJECT, key_serial_t key,
+ unsigned timeout, unsigned error, key_serial_t keyring);
If the kernel calls back to userspace to complete the instantiation of a
key, userspace should use this call mark the key as negative before the
@@ -669,6 +677,10 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are:
that keyring, however all the constraints applying in KEYCTL_LINK apply in
this case too.
+ If the key is rejected, future searches for it will return the specified
+ error code until the rejected key expires. Negating the key is the same
+ as rejecting the key with ENOKEY as the error code.
+
(*) Set the default request-key destination keyring.
@@ -1062,6 +1074,13 @@ The structure has a number of fields, some of which are mandatory:
viable.
+ (*) int (*vet_description)(const char *description);
+
+ This optional method is called to vet a key description. If the key type
+ doesn't approve of the key description, it may return an error, otherwise
+ it should return 0.
+
+
(*) int (*instantiate)(struct key *key, const void *data, size_t datalen);
This method is called to attach a payload to a key during construction.
@@ -1231,10 +1250,11 @@ hand the request off to (perhaps a path held in placed in another key by, for
example, the KDE desktop manager).
The program (or whatever it calls) should finish construction of the key by
-calling KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE, which also permits it to cache the key in one of
-the keyrings (probably the session ring) before returning. Alternatively, the
-key can be marked as negative with KEYCTL_NEGATE; this also permits the key to
-be cached in one of the keyrings.
+calling KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE or KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE_IOV, which also permits it to
+cache the key in one of the keyrings (probably the session ring) before
+returning. Alternatively, the key can be marked as negative with KEYCTL_NEGATE
+or KEYCTL_REJECT; this also permits the key to be cached in one of the
+keyrings.
If it returns with the key remaining in the unconstructed state, the key will
be marked as being negative, it will be added to the session keyring, and an
diff --git a/Documentation/kref.txt b/Documentation/kref.txt
index ae203f91ee9b..48ba715d5a63 100644
--- a/Documentation/kref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kref.txt
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ static struct my_data *get_entry()
struct my_data *entry = NULL;
mutex_lock(&mutex);
if (!list_empty(&q)) {
- entry = container_of(q.next, struct my_q_entry, link);
+ entry = container_of(q.next, struct my_data, link);
kref_get(&entry->refcount);
}
mutex_unlock(&mutex);
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index 631ad2f1b229..f0d3a8026a56 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Contents:
- SMP barrier pairing.
- Examples of memory barrier sequences.
- Read memory barriers vs load speculation.
+ - Transitivity
(*) Explicit kernel barriers.
@@ -959,6 +960,63 @@ the speculation will be cancelled and the value reloaded:
retrieved : : +-------+
+TRANSITIVITY
+------------
+
+Transitivity is a deeply intuitive notion about ordering that is not
+always provided by real computer systems. The following example
+demonstrates transitivity (also called "cumulativity"):
+
+ CPU 1 CPU 2 CPU 3
+ ======================= ======================= =======================
+ { X = 0, Y = 0 }
+ STORE X=1 LOAD X STORE Y=1
+ <general barrier> <general barrier>
+ LOAD Y LOAD X
+
+Suppose that CPU 2's load from X returns 1 and its load from Y returns 0.
+This indicates that CPU 2's load from X in some sense follows CPU 1's
+store to X and that CPU 2's load from Y in some sense preceded CPU 3's
+store to Y. The question is then "Can CPU 3's load from X return 0?"
+
+Because CPU 2's load from X in some sense came after CPU 1's store, it
+is natural to expect that CPU 3's load from X must therefore return 1.
+This expectation is an example of transitivity: if a load executing on
+CPU A follows a load from the same variable executing on CPU B, then
+CPU A's load must either return the same value that CPU B's load did,
+or must return some later value.
+
+In the Linux kernel, use of general memory barriers guarantees
+transitivity. Therefore, in the above example, if CPU 2's load from X
+returns 1 and its load from Y returns 0, then CPU 3's load from X must
+also return 1.
+
+However, transitivity is -not- guaranteed for read or write barriers.
+For example, suppose that CPU 2's general barrier in the above example
+is changed to a read barrier as shown below:
+
+ CPU 1 CPU 2 CPU 3
+ ======================= ======================= =======================
+ { X = 0, Y = 0 }
+ STORE X=1 LOAD X STORE Y=1
+ <read barrier> <general barrier>
+ LOAD Y LOAD X
+
+This substitution destroys transitivity: in this example, it is perfectly
+legal for CPU 2's load from X to return 1, its load from Y to return 0,
+and CPU 3's load from X to return 0.
+
+The key point is that although CPU 2's read barrier orders its pair
+of loads, it does not guarantee to order CPU 1's store. Therefore, if
+this example runs on a system where CPUs 1 and 2 share a store buffer
+or a level of cache, CPU 2 might have early access to CPU 1's writes.
+General barriers are therefore required to ensure that all CPUs agree
+on the combined order of CPU 1's and CPU 2's accesses.
+
+To reiterate, if your code requires transitivity, use general barriers
+throughout.
+
+
========================
EXPLICIT KERNEL BARRIERS
========================
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
index 57e7e9cc1870..8f485d72cf25 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
@@ -126,36 +126,51 @@ config options.
--------------------------------
4 sysfs files for memory hotplug
--------------------------------
-All sections have their device information under /sys/devices/system/memory as
+All sections have their device information in sysfs. Each section is part of
+a memory block under /sys/devices/system/memory as
/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX
-(XXX is section id.)
+(XXX is the section id.)
-Now, XXX is defined as start_address_of_section / section_size.
+Now, XXX is defined as (start_address_of_section / section_size) of the first
+section contained in the memory block. The files 'phys_index' and
+'end_phys_index' under each directory report the beginning and end section id's
+for the memory block covered by the sysfs directory. It is expected that all
+memory sections in this range are present and no memory holes exist in the
+range. Currently there is no way to determine if there is a memory hole, but
+the existence of one should not affect the hotplug capabilities of the memory
+block.
For example, assume 1GiB section size. A device for a memory starting at
0x100000000 is /sys/device/system/memory/memory4
(0x100000000 / 1Gib = 4)
This device covers address range [0x100000000 ... 0x140000000)
-Under each section, you can see 4 files.
+Under each section, you can see 4 or 5 files, the end_phys_index file being
+a recent addition and not present on older kernels.
-/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/phys_index
+/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/start_phys_index
+/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/end_phys_index
/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/phys_device
/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/removable
-'phys_index' : read-only and contains section id, same as XXX.
-'state' : read-write
- at read: contains online/offline state of memory.
- at write: user can specify "online", "offline" command
-'phys_device': read-only: designed to show the name of physical memory device.
- This is not well implemented now.
-'removable' : read-only: contains an integer value indicating
- whether the memory section is removable or not
- removable. A value of 1 indicates that the memory
- section is removable and a value of 0 indicates that
- it is not removable.
+'phys_index' : read-only and contains section id of the first section
+ in the memory block, same as XXX.
+'end_phys_index' : read-only and contains section id of the last section
+ in the memory block.
+'state' : read-write
+ at read: contains online/offline state of memory.
+ at write: user can specify "online", "offline" command
+ which will be performed on al sections in the block.
+'phys_device' : read-only: designed to show the name of physical memory
+ device. This is not well implemented now.
+'removable' : read-only: contains an integer value indicating
+ whether the memory block is removable or not
+ removable. A value of 1 indicates that the memory
+ block is removable and a value of 0 indicates that
+ it is not removable. A memory block is removable only if
+ every section in the block is removable.
NOTE:
These directories/files appear after physical memory hotplug phase.
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt b/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt
index 77f0cdd5b0dd..18afcd8afd51 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[state: 21-11-2010]
+[state: 27-01-2011]
BATMAN-ADV
----------
@@ -67,15 +67,16 @@ All mesh wide settings can be found in batman's own interface
folder:
# ls /sys/class/net/bat0/mesh/
-# aggregated_ogms bonding fragmentation orig_interval
-# vis_mode
+# aggregated_ogms gw_bandwidth hop_penalty
+# bonding gw_mode orig_interval
+# fragmentation gw_sel_class vis_mode
There is a special folder for debugging informations:
# ls /sys/kernel/debug/batman_adv/bat0/
-# originators socket transtable_global transtable_local
-# vis_data
+# gateways socket transtable_global vis_data
+# originators softif_neigh transtable_local
Some of the files contain all sort of status information regard-
@@ -230,9 +231,8 @@ CONTACT
Please send us comments, experiences, questions, anything :)
IRC: #batman on irc.freenode.org
-Mailing-list: b.a.t.m.a.n@b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
- (optional subscription at
- https://lists.open-mesh.org/mm/listinfo/b.a.t.m.a.n)
+Mailing-list: b.a.t.m.a.n@open-mesh.org (optional subscription
+ at https://lists.open-mesh.org/mm/listinfo/b.a.t.m.a.n)
You can also contact the Authors:
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
index 25d2f4141d27..b36e741e94db 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
@@ -2558,18 +2558,15 @@ enslaved.
16. Resources and Links
=======================
-The latest version of the bonding driver can be found in the latest
+ The latest version of the bonding driver can be found in the latest
version of the linux kernel, found on http://kernel.org
-The latest version of this document can be found in either the latest
-kernel source (named Documentation/networking/bonding.txt), or on the
-bonding sourceforge site:
+ The latest version of this document can be found in the latest kernel
+source (named Documentation/networking/bonding.txt).
-http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/bonding
-
-Discussions regarding the bonding driver take place primarily on the
-bonding-devel mailing list, hosted at sourceforge.net. If you have
-questions or problems, post them to the list. The list address is:
+ Discussions regarding the usage of the bonding driver take place on the
+bonding-devel mailing list, hosted at sourceforge.net. If you have questions or
+problems, post them to the list. The list address is:
bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
@@ -2578,6 +2575,17 @@ be found at:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bonding-devel
+ Discussions regarding the developpement of the bonding driver take place
+on the main Linux network mailing list, hosted at vger.kernel.org. The list
+address is:
+
+netdev@vger.kernel.org
+
+ The administrative interface (to subscribe or unsubscribe) can
+be found at:
+
+http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#netdev
+
Donald Becker's Ethernet Drivers and diag programs may be found at :
- http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.scyld.com/network/
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index ac3b4a726a1a..d3d653a5f9b9 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -280,6 +280,17 @@ tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER
more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats
up to ~64K of unswappable memory.
+tcp_max_ssthresh - INTEGER
+ Limited Slow-Start for TCP with large congestion windows (cwnd) defined in
+ RFC3742. Limited slow-start is a mechanism to limit growth of the cwnd
+ on the region where cwnd is larger than tcp_max_ssthresh. TCP increases cwnd
+ by at most tcp_max_ssthresh segments, and by at least tcp_max_ssthresh/2
+ segments per RTT when the cwnd is above tcp_max_ssthresh.
+ If TCP connection increased cwnd to thousands (or tens of thousands) segments,
+ and thousands of packets were being dropped during slow-start, you can set
+ tcp_max_ssthresh to improve performance for new TCP connection.
+ Default: 0 (off)
+
tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which are
still did not receive an acknowledgment from connecting client.
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/phonet.txt b/Documentation/networking/phonet.txt
index 24ad2adba6e5..81003581f47a 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/phonet.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/phonet.txt
@@ -154,9 +154,28 @@ connections, one per accept()'d socket.
write(cfd, msg, msglen);
}
-Connections are established between two endpoints by a "third party"
-application. This means that both endpoints are passive; so connect()
-is not possible.
+Connections are traditionally established between two endpoints by a
+"third party" application. This means that both endpoints are passive.
+
+
+As of Linux kernel version 2.6.39, it is also possible to connect
+two endpoints directly, using connect() on the active side. This is
+intended to support the newer Nokia Wireless Modem API, as found in
+e.g. the Nokia Slim Modem in the ST-Ericsson U8500 platform:
+
+ struct sockaddr_spn spn;
+ int fd;
+
+ fd = socket(PF_PHONET, SOCK_SEQPACKET, PN_PROTO_PIPE);
+ memset(&spn, 0, sizeof(spn));
+ spn.spn_family = AF_PHONET;
+ spn.spn_obj = ...;
+ spn.spn_dev = ...;
+ spn.spn_resource = 0xD9;
+ connect(fd, (struct sockaddr *)&spn, sizeof(spn));
+ /* normal I/O here ... */
+ close(fd);
+
WARNING:
When polling a connected pipe socket for writability, there is an
@@ -181,45 +200,9 @@ The pipe protocol provides two socket options at the SOL_PNPIPE level:
interface index of the network interface created by PNPIPE_ENCAP,
or zero if encapsulation is off.
-
-Phonet Pipe-controller Implementation
--------------------------------------
-
-Phonet Pipe-controller is enabled by selecting the CONFIG_PHONET_PIPECTRLR Kconfig
-option. It is useful when communicating with those Nokia Modems which do not
-implement Pipe controller in them e.g. Nokia Slim Modem used in ST-Ericsson
-U8500 platform.
-
-The implementation is based on the Data Connection Establishment Sequence
-depicted in 'Nokia Wireless Modem API - Wireless_modem_user_guide.pdf'
-document.
-
-It allows a phonet sequenced socket (host-pep) to initiate a Pipe connection
-between itself and a remote pipe-end point (e.g. modem).
-
-The implementation adds socket options at SOL_PNPIPE level:
-
- PNPIPE_PIPE_HANDLE
- It accepts an integer argument for setting value of pipe handle.
-
- PNPIPE_ENABLE accepts one integer value (int). If set to zero, the pipe
- is disabled. If the value is non-zero, the pipe is enabled. If the pipe
- is not (yet) connected, ENOTCONN is error is returned.
-
-The implementation also adds socket 'connect'. On calling the 'connect', pipe
-will be created between the source socket and the destination, and the pipe
-state will be set to PIPE_DISABLED.
-
-After a pipe has been created and enabled successfully, the Pipe data can be
-exchanged between the host-pep and remote-pep (modem).
-
-User-space would typically follow below sequence with Pipe controller:-
--socket
--bind
--setsockopt for PNPIPE_PIPE_HANDLE
--connect
--setsockopt for PNPIPE_ENCAP_IP
--setsockopt for PNPIPE_ENABLE
+ PNPIPE_HANDLE is a read-only integer value. It contains the underlying
+ identifier ("pipe handle") of the pipe. This is only defined for
+ socket descriptors that are already connected or being connected.
Authors
diff --git a/Documentation/power/devices.txt b/Documentation/power/devices.txt
index 57080cd74575..f023ba6bba62 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/devices.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/devices.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
Device Power Management
-Copyright (c) 2010 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>, Novell Inc.
+Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>, Novell Inc.
Copyright (c) 2010 Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
@@ -159,18 +159,18 @@ matter, and the kernel is responsible for keeping track of it. By contrast,
whether or not a wakeup-capable device should issue wakeup events is a policy
decision, and it is managed by user space through a sysfs attribute: the
power/wakeup file. User space can write the strings "enabled" or "disabled" to
-set or clear the should_wakeup flag, respectively. Reads from the file will
-return the corresponding string if can_wakeup is true, but if can_wakeup is
-false then reads will return an empty string, to indicate that the device
-doesn't support wakeup events. (But even though the file appears empty, writes
-will still affect the should_wakeup flag.)
+set or clear the "should_wakeup" flag, respectively. This file is only present
+for wakeup-capable devices (i.e. devices whose "can_wakeup" flags are set)
+and is created (or removed) by device_set_wakeup_capable(). Reads from the
+file will return the corresponding string.
The device_may_wakeup() routine returns true only if both flags are set.
-Drivers should check this routine when putting devices in a low-power state
-during a system sleep transition, to see whether or not to enable the devices'
-wakeup mechanisms. However for runtime power management, wakeup events should
-be enabled whenever the device and driver both support them, regardless of the
-should_wakeup flag.
+This information is used by subsystems, like the PCI bus type code, to see
+whether or not to enable the devices' wakeup mechanisms. If device wakeup
+mechanisms are enabled or disabled directly by drivers, they also should use
+device_may_wakeup() to decide what to do during a system sleep transition.
+However for runtime power management, wakeup events should be enabled whenever
+the device and driver both support them, regardless of the should_wakeup flag.
/sys/devices/.../power/control files
@@ -249,23 +249,18 @@ various phases always run after tasks have been frozen and before they are
unfrozen. Furthermore, the *_noirq phases run at a time when IRQ handlers have
been disabled (except for those marked with the IRQ_WAKEUP flag).
-Most phases use bus, type, and class callbacks (that is, methods defined in
-dev->bus->pm, dev->type->pm, and dev->class->pm). The prepare and complete
-phases are exceptions; they use only bus callbacks. When multiple callbacks
-are used in a phase, they are invoked in the order: <class, type, bus> during
-power-down transitions and in the opposite order during power-up transitions.
-For example, during the suspend phase the PM core invokes
-
- dev->class->pm.suspend(dev);
- dev->type->pm.suspend(dev);
- dev->bus->pm.suspend(dev);
-
-before moving on to the next device, whereas during the resume phase the core
-invokes
-
- dev->bus->pm.resume(dev);
- dev->type->pm.resume(dev);
- dev->class->pm.resume(dev);
+All phases use bus, type, or class callbacks (that is, methods defined in
+dev->bus->pm, dev->type->pm, or dev->class->pm). These callbacks are mutually
+exclusive, so if the device type provides a struct dev_pm_ops object pointed to
+by its pm field (i.e. both dev->type and dev->type->pm are defined), the
+callbacks included in that object (i.e. dev->type->pm) will be used. Otherwise,
+if the class provides a struct dev_pm_ops object pointed to by its pm field
+(i.e. both dev->class and dev->class->pm are defined), the PM core will use the
+callbacks from that object (i.e. dev->class->pm). Finally, if the pm fields of
+both the device type and class objects are NULL (or those objects do not exist),
+the callbacks provided by the bus (that is, the callbacks from dev->bus->pm)
+will be used (this allows device types to override callbacks provided by bus
+types or classes if necessary).
These callbacks may in turn invoke device- or driver-specific methods stored in
dev->driver->pm, but they don't have to.
@@ -507,6 +502,49 @@ routines. Nevertheless, different callback pointers are used in case there is a
situation where it actually matters.
+Device Power Domains
+--------------------
+Sometimes devices share reference clocks or other power resources. In those
+cases it generally is not possible to put devices into low-power states
+individually. Instead, a set of devices sharing a power resource can be put
+into a low-power state together at the same time by turning off the shared
+power resource. Of course, they also need to be put into the full-power state
+together, by turning the shared power resource on. A set of devices with this
+property is often referred to as a power domain.
+
+Support for power domains is provided through the pwr_domain field of struct
+device. This field is a pointer to an object of type struct dev_power_domain,
+defined in include/linux/pm.h, providing a set of power management callbacks
+analogous to the subsystem-level and device driver callbacks that are executed
+for the given device during all power transitions, in addition to the respective
+subsystem-level callbacks. Specifically, the power domain "suspend" callbacks
+(i.e. ->runtime_suspend(), ->suspend(), ->freeze(), ->poweroff(), etc.) are
+executed after the analogous subsystem-level callbacks, while the power domain
+"resume" callbacks (i.e. ->runtime_resume(), ->resume(), ->thaw(), ->restore,
+etc.) are executed before the analogous subsystem-level callbacks. Error codes
+returned by the "suspend" and "resume" power domain callbacks are ignored.
+
+Power domain ->runtime_idle() callback is executed before the subsystem-level
+->runtime_idle() callback and the result returned by it is not ignored. Namely,
+if it returns error code, the subsystem-level ->runtime_idle() callback will not
+be called and the helper function rpm_idle() executing it will return error
+code. This mechanism is intended to help platforms where saving device state
+is a time consuming operation and should only be carried out if all devices
+in the power domain are idle, before turning off the shared power resource(s).
+Namely, the power domain ->runtime_idle() callback may return error code until
+the pm_runtime_idle() helper (or its asychronous version) has been called for
+all devices in the power domain (it is recommended that the returned error code
+be -EBUSY in those cases), preventing the subsystem-level ->runtime_idle()
+callback from being run prematurely.
+
+The support for device power domains is only relevant to platforms needing to
+use the same subsystem-level (e.g. platform bus type) and device driver power
+management callbacks in many different power domain configurations and wanting
+to avoid incorporating the support for power domains into the subsystem-level
+callbacks. The other platforms need not implement it or take it into account
+in any way.
+
+
System Devices
--------------
System devices (sysdevs) follow a slightly different API, which can be found in
diff --git a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
index ffe55ffa540a..654097b130b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
Run-time Power Management Framework for I/O Devices
-(C) 2009 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>, Novell Inc.
+(C) 2009-2011 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>, Novell Inc.
(C) 2010 Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
1. Introduction
@@ -44,11 +44,12 @@ struct dev_pm_ops {
};
The ->runtime_suspend(), ->runtime_resume() and ->runtime_idle() callbacks are
-executed by the PM core for either the bus type, or device type (if the bus
-type's callback is not defined), or device class (if the bus type's and device
-type's callbacks are not defined) of given device. The bus type, device type
-and device class callbacks are referred to as subsystem-level callbacks in what
-follows.
+executed by the PM core for either the device type, or the class (if the device
+type's struct dev_pm_ops object does not exist), or the bus type (if the
+device type's and class' struct dev_pm_ops objects do not exist) of the given
+device (this allows device types to override callbacks provided by bus types or
+classes if necessary). The bus type, device type and class callbacks are
+referred to as subsystem-level callbacks in what follows.
By default, the callbacks are always invoked in process context with interrupts
enabled. However, subsystems can use the pm_runtime_irq_safe() helper function
diff --git a/Documentation/power/states.txt b/Documentation/power/states.txt
index 34800cc521bf..4416b28630df 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/states.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/states.txt
@@ -62,12 +62,12 @@ setup via another operating system for it to use. Despite the
inconvenience, this method requires minimal work by the kernel, since
the firmware will also handle restoring memory contents on resume.
-For suspend-to-disk, a mechanism called swsusp called 'swsusp' (Swap
-Suspend) is used to write memory contents to free swap space.
-swsusp has some restrictive requirements, but should work in most
-cases. Some, albeit outdated, documentation can be found in
-Documentation/power/swsusp.txt. Alternatively, userspace can do most
-of the actual suspend to disk work, see userland-swsusp.txt.
+For suspend-to-disk, a mechanism called 'swsusp' (Swap Suspend) is used
+to write memory contents to free swap space. swsusp has some restrictive
+requirements, but should work in most cases. Some, albeit outdated,
+documentation can be found in Documentation/power/swsusp.txt.
+Alternatively, userspace can do most of the actual suspend to disk work,
+see userland-swsusp.txt.
Once memory state is written to disk, the system may either enter a
low-power state (like ACPI S4), or it may simply power down. Powering
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX b/Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX
index e3960b8c8689..5620fb5ac425 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ please mail me.
00-INDEX
- this file
-booting-without-of.txt
- - Booting the Linux/ppc kernel without Open Firmware
cpu_features.txt
- info on how we support a variety of CPUs with minimal compile-time
options.
@@ -16,8 +14,6 @@ hvcs.txt
- IBM "Hypervisor Virtual Console Server" Installation Guide
mpc52xx.txt
- Linux 2.6.x on MPC52xx family
-mpc52xx-device-tree-bindings.txt
- - MPC5200 Device Tree Bindings
sound.txt
- info on sound support under Linux/PPC
zImage_layout.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/serial/n_gsm.txt b/Documentation/serial/n_gsm.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..397f41a1f153
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/serial/n_gsm.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+n_gsm.c GSM 0710 tty multiplexor HOWTO
+===================================================
+
+This line discipline implements the GSM 07.10 multiplexing protocol
+detailed in the following 3GPP document :
+http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/archive/07_series/07.10/0710-720.zip
+
+This document give some hints on how to use this driver with GPRS and 3G
+modems connected to a physical serial port.
+
+How to use it
+-------------
+1- initialize the modem in 0710 mux mode (usually AT+CMUX= command) through
+its serial port. Depending on the modem used, you can pass more or less
+parameters to this command,
+2- switch the serial line to using the n_gsm line discipline by using
+TIOCSETD ioctl,
+3- configure the mux using GSMIOC_GETCONF / GSMIOC_SETCONF ioctl,
+
+Major parts of the initialization program :
+(a good starting point is util-linux-ng/sys-utils/ldattach.c)
+#include <linux/gsmmux.h>
+#define N_GSM0710 21 /* GSM 0710 Mux */
+#define DEFAULT_SPEED B115200
+#define SERIAL_PORT /dev/ttyS0
+
+ int ldisc = N_GSM0710;
+ struct gsm_config c;
+ struct termios configuration;
+
+ /* open the serial port connected to the modem */
+ fd = open(SERIAL_PORT, O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY | O_NDELAY);
+
+ /* configure the serial port : speed, flow control ... */
+
+ /* send the AT commands to switch the modem to CMUX mode
+ and check that it's succesful (should return OK) */
+ write(fd, "AT+CMUX=0\r", 10);
+
+ /* experience showed that some modems need some time before
+ being able to answer to the first MUX packet so a delay
+ may be needed here in some case */
+ sleep(3);
+
+ /* use n_gsm line discipline */
+ ioctl(fd, TIOCSETD, &ldisc);
+
+ /* get n_gsm configuration */
+ ioctl(fd, GSMIOC_GETCONF, &c);
+ /* we are initiator and need encoding 0 (basic) */
+ c.initiator = 1;
+ c.encapsulation = 0;
+ /* our modem defaults to a maximum size of 127 bytes */
+ c.mru = 127;
+ c.mtu = 127;
+ /* set the new configuration */
+ ioctl(fd, GSMIOC_SETCONF, &c);
+
+ /* and wait for ever to keep the line discipline enabled */
+ daemon(0,0);
+ pause();
+
+4- create the devices corresponding to the "virtual" serial ports (take care,
+each modem has its configuration and some DLC have dedicated functions,
+for example GPS), starting with minor 1 (DLC0 is reserved for the management
+of the mux)
+
+MAJOR=`cat /proc/devices |grep gsmtty | awk '{print $1}`
+for i in `seq 1 4`; do
+ mknod /dev/ttygsm$i c $MAJOR $i
+done
+
+5- use these devices as plain serial ports.
+for example, it's possible :
+- and to use gnokii to send / receive SMS on ttygsm1
+- to use ppp to establish a datalink on ttygsm2
+
+6- first close all virtual ports before closing the physical port.
+
+Additional Documentation
+------------------------
+More practical details on the protocol and how it's supported by industrial
+modems can be found in the following documents :
+http://www.telit.com/module/infopool/download.php?id=616
+http://www.u-blox.com/images/downloads/Product_Docs/LEON-G100-G200-MuxImplementation_ApplicationNote_%28GSM%20G1-CS-10002%29.pdf
+http://www.sierrawireless.com/Support/Downloads/AirPrime/WMP_Series/~/media/Support_Downloads/AirPrime/Application_notes/CMUX_Feature_Application_Note-Rev004.ashx
+http://wm.sim.com/sim/News/photo/2010721161442.pdf
+
+11-03-08 - Eric Bénard - <eric@eukrea.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
index 62682500878a..4af0614147ef 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
@@ -88,20 +88,19 @@ you might want to raise the limit.
file-max & file-nr:
-The kernel allocates file handles dynamically, but as yet it
-doesn't free them again.
-
The value in file-max denotes the maximum number of file-
handles that the Linux kernel will allocate. When you get lots
of error messages about running out of file handles, you might
want to increase this limit.
-Historically, the three values in file-nr denoted the number of
-allocated file handles, the number of allocated but unused file
-handles, and the maximum number of file handles. Linux 2.6 always
-reports 0 as the number of free file handles -- this is not an
-error, it just means that the number of allocated file handles
-exactly matches the number of used file handles.
+Historically,the kernel was able to allocate file handles
+dynamically, but not to free them again. The three values in
+file-nr denote the number of allocated file handles, the number
+of allocated but unused file handles, and the maximum number of
+file handles. Linux 2.6 always reports 0 as the number of free
+file handles -- this is not an error, it just means that the
+number of allocated file handles exactly matches the number of
+used file handles.
Attempts to allocate more file descriptors than file-max are
reported with printk, look for "VFS: file-max limit <number>
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt b/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt
index 66f92d1194c1..a4efa0462f05 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ Controller Drivers (HCD). So, if HCD is buggy, the traces reported by
usbmon may not correspond to bus transactions precisely. This is the same
situation as with tcpdump.
+Two APIs are currently implemented: "text" and "binary". The binary API
+is available through a character device in /dev namespace and is an ABI.
+The text API is deprecated since 2.6.35, but available for convenience.
+
* How to use usbmon to collect raw text traces
Unlike the packet socket, usbmon has an interface which provides traces
@@ -162,39 +166,11 @@ Here is the list of words, from left to right:
not machine words, but really just a byte stream split into words to make
it easier to read. Thus, the last word may contain from one to four bytes.
The length of collected data is limited and can be less than the data length
- report in Data Length word.
-
-Here is an example of code to read the data stream in a well known programming
-language:
-
-class ParsedLine {
- int data_len; /* Available length of data */
- byte data[];
-
- void parseData(StringTokenizer st) {
- int availwords = st.countTokens();
- data = new byte[availwords * 4];
- data_len = 0;
- while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
- String data_str = st.nextToken();
- int len = data_str.length() / 2;
- int i;
- int b; // byte is signed, apparently?! XXX
- for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
- // data[data_len] = Byte.parseByte(
- // data_str.substring(i*2, i*2 + 2),
- // 16);
- b = Integer.parseInt(
- data_str.substring(i*2, i*2 + 2),
- 16);
- if (b >= 128)
- b *= -1;
- data[data_len] = (byte) b;
- data_len++;
- }
- }
- }
-}
+ reported in the Data Length word. In the case of an Isochronous input (Zi)
+ completion where the received data is sparse in the buffer, the length of
+ the collected data can be greater than the Data Length value (because Data
+ Length counts only the bytes that were received whereas the Data words
+ contain the entire transfer buffer).
Examples:
diff --git a/Documentation/zh_CN/SecurityBugs b/Documentation/zh_CN/SecurityBugs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d21eb07fe943
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/zh_CN/SecurityBugs
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+Chinese translated version of Documentation/SecurityBugs
+
+If you have any comment or update to the content, please contact the
+original document maintainer directly. However, if you have a problem
+communicating in English you can also ask the Chinese maintainer for
+help. Contact the Chinese maintainer if this translation is outdated
+or if there is a problem with the translation.
+
+Chinese maintainer: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+Documentation/SecurityBugs 的中文翻译
+
+如果想评论或更新本文的内容,请直接联系原文档的维护者。如果你使用英文
+交流有困难的话,也可以向中文版维护者求助。如果本翻译更新不及时或者翻
+译存在问题,请联系中文版维护者。
+
+中文版维护者: 贾威威 Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
+中文版翻译者: 贾威威 Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
+中文版校译者: 贾威威 Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
+
+
+以下为正文
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+Linux内核开发者认为安全非常重要。因此,我们想要知道当一个有关于
+安全的漏洞被发现的时候,并且它可能会被尽快的修复或者公开。请把这个安全
+漏洞报告给Linux内核安全团队。
+
+1) 联系
+
+linux内核安全团队可以通过email<security@kernel.org>来联系。这是
+一组独立的安全工作人员,可以帮助改善漏洞报告并且公布和取消一个修复。安
+全团队有可能会从部分的维护者那里引进额外的帮助来了解并且修复安全漏洞。
+当遇到任何漏洞,所能提供的信息越多就越能诊断和修复。如果你不清楚什么
+是有帮助的信息,那就请重温一下REPORTING-BUGS文件中的概述过程。任
+何攻击性的代码都是非常有用的,未经报告者的同意不会被取消,除非它已经
+被公布于众。
+
+2) 公开
+
+Linux内核安全团队的宗旨就是和漏洞提交者一起处理漏洞的解决方案直
+到公开。我们喜欢尽快地完全公开漏洞。当一个漏洞或者修复还没有被完全地理
+解,解决方案没有通过测试或者供应商协调,可以合理地延迟公开。然而,我们
+期望这些延迟尽可能的短些,是可数的几天,而不是几个星期或者几个月。公开
+日期是通过安全团队和漏洞提供者以及供应商洽谈后的结果。公开时间表是从很
+短(特殊的,它已经被公众所知道)到几个星期。作为一个基本的默认政策,我
+们所期望通知公众的日期是7天的安排。
+
+3) 保密协议
+
+Linux内核安全团队不是一个正式的团体,因此不能加入任何的保密协议。
diff --git a/Documentation/zh_CN/SubmitChecklist b/Documentation/zh_CN/SubmitChecklist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..951415bbab0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/zh_CN/SubmitChecklist
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+Chinese translated version of Documentation/SubmitChecklist
+
+If you have any comment or update to the content, please contact the
+original document maintainer directly. However, if you have a problem
+communicating in English you can also ask the Chinese maintainer for
+help. Contact the Chinese maintainer if this translation is outdated
+or if there is a problem with the translation.
+
+Chinese maintainer: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+Documentation/SubmitChecklist ķ
+
+ۻ±ĵݣֱϵԭĵάߡʹӢ
+ѵĻҲİά²ʱ߷
+⣬ϵİάߡ
+
+İάߣ Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
+İ淭ߣ Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
+İУߣ Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
+
+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+Linuxںύ嵥
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
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+ܵĸ졣
+
+ЩdzDocumentation/SubmittingPatchesĵṩԼ
+ύLinuxں˲˵
+
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+ Ҫ붨/Ǹܵͷļ
+
+2û߸CONFIGѡ =y=m=n
+ Ҫб뾯/ ҪӾ/
+
+2bͨ allnoconfig, allmodconfig
+
+2cʹ 0=builddir ɹع
+
+3ͨʹñؽ빤߻һЩڶCPUϹ
+
+4ppc64 һܺõļ齻ĿܣΪѡunsigned long
+ 64λֵʹá
+
+5Documentation/CodingStyleļϸ㲹
+ ʹòΥ(scripts/checkpatch.pl)Աύ
+ Ӧõ㲹еΥ档
+
+6κθ»߸ĶCONFIGѡܴò˵
+
+7еKconfigѡ¶Ҫ˵֡
+
+8ѾܽصKconfigϡǺͨõ--½
+
+9мԡ
+
+10ʹ'make checkstack''make namespacecheck'飬Ȼ޸ҵ⡣
+ ע⣺ջ鲻ȷس⣬κεһڶջʹö512ֽ
+ Ҫ׼޸ġ
+
+11kernel-docȫںAPIsļҪ̬ĺǰҲν
+ ʹ'make htmldocs''make mandocs'kernel-docȻ޸κ
+ ֵ⡣
+
+12ѾͨCONFIG_PREEMPT, CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT,
+ CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB, CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES,
+ CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK, CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEPԣͬʱ
+ ʹܡ
+
+13Ѿʹû߲ʹ CONFIG_SMP CONFIG_PREEMPTִʱ䡣
+
+14ӰIO/DiskȵȣѾͨʹû߲ʹ CONFIG_LBDAF ԡ
+
+15еcodepathsѾʹlockdepùܡ
+
+16е/proc¼¶ҪļDocumentation/Ŀ¼¡
+
+17еں¶¼Documentation/kernel-parameters.txtļС
+
+18еģ¶MODULE_PARM_DESC()¼
+
+19еûռӿڸ¶¼Documentation/ABI/鿴Documentation/ABI/README
+ ԻøϢıûռӿڵIJӦñʼ͸linux-api@vger.kernel.org
+
+20DzǶͨ`make headers_check'
+
+21Ѿͨslabpage-allocationʧܼ顣鿴Documentation/fault-injection/
+
+22¼ԴѾͨ`gcc -W'ʹ"make EXTRA_CFLAGS=-W"롣ܶෳգ
+ ǶѰ©洦:"warning: comparison between signed and unsigned"
+
+23ϲ-mmٲԣȷǷ񻹺ͲеһԼVMVFS
+ ϵͳи仯
+
+24еڴ{e.g., barrier(), rmb(), wmb()}ҪԴеһעǶǸʲô
+ Լԭ
+
+25κƵIJӣҲҪDocumentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt
+
+26ĸĴʹκεںAPIskconfigйϵĹܣҪ
+ ʹصkconfigŹرգ and/or =mѡṩ[ͬһʱ䲻õĶã
+ ]
+
+ CONFIG_SMP, CONFIG_SYSFS, CONFIG_PROC_FS, CONFIG_INPUT, CONFIG_PCI,
+ CONFIG_BLOCK, CONFIG_PM, CONFIG_HOTPLUG, CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ,
+ CONFIG_NET, CONFIG_INET=n (һʹ CONFIG_NET=y)
diff --git a/Documentation/zh_CN/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/zh_CN/SubmittingPatches
index 9a1a6e1ed09e..0f4385a62a49 100644
--- a/Documentation/zh_CN/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/zh_CN/SubmittingPatches
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/patch-scripts.tar.gz
将改动拆分,逻辑类似的放到同一个补丁文件里。
-例如,如果你的改动里同时有bug修正和性能优化,那么把这些改动才分到两个或
+例如,如果你的改动里同时有bug修正和性能优化,那么把这些改动拆分到两个或
者更多的补丁文件中。如果你的改动包含对API的修改,并且修改了驱动程序来适
应这些新的API,那么把这些修改分成两个补丁。
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ pref("mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support", true);
些原因,修正错误,重新提交更新后的改动,是你自己的工作。
Linus不给出任何评论就“丢弃”你的补丁是常见的事情。在系统中这样的事情很
-平常。如果他没有接受你的补丁,也许是由于以下原本:
+平常。如果他没有接受你的补丁,也许是由于以下原因:
* 你的补丁不能在最新版本的内核上干净的打上。
* 你的补丁在 linux-kernel 邮件列表中没有得到充分的讨论。
* 风格问题(参照第2小节)
diff --git a/Documentation/zh_CN/magic-number.txt b/Documentation/zh_CN/magic-number.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4c4ce853577b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/zh_CN/magic-number.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
+Chinese translated version of Documentation/magic-number.txt
+
+If you have any comment or update to the content, please post to LKML directly.
+However, if you have problem communicating in English you can also ask the
+Chinese maintainer for help. Contact the Chinese maintainer, if this
+translation is outdated or there is problem with translation.
+
+Chinese maintainer: Jia Wei Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+Documentation/magic-number.txt的中文翻译
+
+如果想评论或更新本文的内容,请直接发信到LKML。如果你使用英文交流有困难的话,也可
+以向中文版维护者求助。如果本翻译更新不及时或者翻译存在问题,请联系中文版维护者。
+
+中文版维护者: 贾威威 Jia Wei Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
+中文版翻译者: 贾威威 Jia Wei Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
+中文版校译者: 贾威威 Jia Wei Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
+
+以下为正文
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+这个文件是有关当前使用的魔术值注册表。当你给一个结构添加了一个魔术值,你也应该把这个魔术值添加到这个文件,因为我们最好把用于各种结构的魔术值统一起来。
+
+使用魔术值来保护内核数据结构是一个非常好的主意。这就允许你在运行期检查(a)一个结构是否已经被攻击,或者(b)你已经给一个例行程序通过了一个错误的结构。后一种情况特别地有用---特别是当你通过一个空指针指向结构体的时候。tty源码,例如,经常通过特定驱动使用这种方法并且反复地排列特定方面的结构。
+
+使用魔术值的方法是在结构的开始处声明的,如下:
+
+struct tty_ldisc {
+ int magic;
+ ...
+};
+
+当你以后给内核添加增强功能的时候,请遵守这条规则!这样就会节省数不清的调试时间,特别是一些古怪的情况,例如,数组超出范围并且重新写了超出部分。遵守这个规则,‪这些情况可以被快速地,安全地避免。
+
+ Theodore Ts'o
+ 31 Mar 94
+
+给当前的Linux 2.1.55添加魔术表。
+
+ Michael Chastain
+ <mailto:mec@shout.net>
+ 22 Sep 1997
+
+现在应该最新的Linux 2.1.112.因为在特性冻结期间,不能在2.2.x前改变任何东西。这些条目被数域所排序。
+
+ Krzysztof G.Baranowski
+ <mailto: kgb@knm.org.pl>
+ 29 Jul 1998
+
+更新魔术表到Linux 2.5.45。刚好越过特性冻结,但是有可能还会有一些新的魔术值在2.6.x之前融入到内核中。
+
+ Petr Baudis
+ <pasky@ucw.cz>
+ 03 Nov 2002
+
+更新魔术表到Linux 2.5.74。
+
+ Fabian Frederick
+ <ffrederick@users.sourceforge.net>
+ 09 Jul 2003
+
+魔术名 地址 结构 所在文件
+===========================================================================
+PG_MAGIC 'P' pg_{read,write}_hdr include/linux/pg.h
+CMAGIC 0x0111 user include/linux/a.out.h
+MKISS_DRIVER_MAGIC 0x04bf mkiss_channel drivers/net/mkiss.h
+RISCOM8_MAGIC 0x0907 riscom_port drivers/char/riscom8.h
+SPECIALIX_MAGIC 0x0907 specialix_port drivers/char/specialix_io8.h
+HDLC_MAGIC 0x239e n_hdlc drivers/char/n_hdlc.c
+APM_BIOS_MAGIC 0x4101 apm_user arch/i386/kernel/apm.c
+CYCLADES_MAGIC 0x4359 cyclades_port include/linux/cyclades.h
+DB_MAGIC 0x4442 fc_info drivers/net/iph5526_novram.c
+DL_MAGIC 0x444d fc_info drivers/net/iph5526_novram.c
+FASYNC_MAGIC 0x4601 fasync_struct include/linux/fs.h
+FF_MAGIC 0x4646 fc_info drivers/net/iph5526_novram.c
+ISICOM_MAGIC 0x4d54 isi_port include/linux/isicom.h
+PTY_MAGIC 0x5001 drivers/char/pty.c
+PPP_MAGIC 0x5002 ppp include/linux/if_pppvar.h
+SERIAL_MAGIC 0x5301 async_struct include/linux/serial.h
+SSTATE_MAGIC 0x5302 serial_state include/linux/serial.h
+SLIP_MAGIC 0x5302 slip drivers/net/slip.h
+STRIP_MAGIC 0x5303 strip drivers/net/strip.c
+X25_ASY_MAGIC 0x5303 x25_asy drivers/net/x25_asy.h
+SIXPACK_MAGIC 0x5304 sixpack drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.h
+AX25_MAGIC 0x5316 ax_disp drivers/net/mkiss.h
+ESP_MAGIC 0x53ee esp_struct drivers/char/esp.h
+TTY_MAGIC 0x5401 tty_struct include/linux/tty.h
+MGSL_MAGIC 0x5401 mgsl_info drivers/char/synclink.c
+TTY_DRIVER_MAGIC 0x5402 tty_driver include/linux/tty_driver.h
+MGSLPC_MAGIC 0x5402 mgslpc_info drivers/char/pcmcia/synclink_cs.c
+TTY_LDISC_MAGIC 0x5403 tty_ldisc include/linux/tty_ldisc.h
+USB_SERIAL_MAGIC 0x6702 usb_serial drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.h
+FULL_DUPLEX_MAGIC 0x6969 drivers/net/tulip/de2104x.c
+USB_BLUETOOTH_MAGIC 0x6d02 usb_bluetooth drivers/usb/class/bluetty.c
+RFCOMM_TTY_MAGIC 0x6d02 net/bluetooth/rfcomm/tty.c
+USB_SERIAL_PORT_MAGIC 0x7301 usb_serial_port drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.h
+CG_MAGIC 0x00090255 ufs_cylinder_group include/linux/ufs_fs.h
+A2232_MAGIC 0x000a2232 gs_port drivers/char/ser_a2232.h
+RPORT_MAGIC 0x00525001 r_port drivers/char/rocket_int.h
+LSEMAGIC 0x05091998 lse drivers/fc4/fc.c
+GDTIOCTL_MAGIC 0x06030f07 gdth_iowr_str drivers/scsi/gdth_ioctl.h
+RIEBL_MAGIC 0x09051990 drivers/net/atarilance.c
+RIO_MAGIC 0x12345678 gs_port drivers/char/rio/rio_linux.c
+SX_MAGIC 0x12345678 gs_port drivers/char/sx.h
+NBD_REQUEST_MAGIC 0x12560953 nbd_request include/linux/nbd.h
+RED_MAGIC2 0x170fc2a5 (any) mm/slab.c
+BAYCOM_MAGIC 0x19730510 baycom_state drivers/net/baycom_epp.c
+ISDN_X25IFACE_MAGIC 0x1e75a2b9 isdn_x25iface_proto_data
+ drivers/isdn/isdn_x25iface.h
+ECP_MAGIC 0x21504345 cdkecpsig include/linux/cdk.h
+LSOMAGIC 0x27091997 lso drivers/fc4/fc.c
+LSMAGIC 0x2a3b4d2a ls drivers/fc4/fc.c
+WANPIPE_MAGIC 0x414C4453 sdla_{dump,exec} include/linux/wanpipe.h
+CS_CARD_MAGIC 0x43525553 cs_card sound/oss/cs46xx.c
+LABELCL_MAGIC 0x4857434c labelcl_info_s include/asm/ia64/sn/labelcl.h
+ISDN_ASYNC_MAGIC 0x49344C01 modem_info include/linux/isdn.h
+CTC_ASYNC_MAGIC 0x49344C01 ctc_tty_info drivers/s390/net/ctctty.c
+ISDN_NET_MAGIC 0x49344C02 isdn_net_local_s drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_net_lib.h
+SAVEKMSG_MAGIC2 0x4B4D5347 savekmsg arch/*/amiga/config.c
+STLI_BOARDMAGIC 0x4bc6c825 stlibrd include/linux/istallion.h
+CS_STATE_MAGIC 0x4c4f4749 cs_state sound/oss/cs46xx.c
+SLAB_C_MAGIC 0x4f17a36d kmem_cache mm/slab.c
+COW_MAGIC 0x4f4f4f4d cow_header_v1 arch/um/drivers/ubd_user.c
+I810_CARD_MAGIC 0x5072696E i810_card sound/oss/i810_audio.c
+TRIDENT_CARD_MAGIC 0x5072696E trident_card sound/oss/trident.c
+ROUTER_MAGIC 0x524d4157 wan_device include/linux/wanrouter.h
+SCC_MAGIC 0x52696368 gs_port drivers/char/scc.h
+SAVEKMSG_MAGIC1 0x53415645 savekmsg arch/*/amiga/config.c
+GDA_MAGIC 0x58464552 gda arch/mips/include/asm/sn/gda.h
+RED_MAGIC1 0x5a2cf071 (any) mm/slab.c
+STL_PORTMAGIC 0x5a7182c9 stlport include/linux/stallion.h
+EEPROM_MAGIC_VALUE 0x5ab478d2 lanai_dev drivers/atm/lanai.c
+HDLCDRV_MAGIC 0x5ac6e778 hdlcdrv_state include/linux/hdlcdrv.h
+EPCA_MAGIC 0x5c6df104 channel include/linux/epca.h
+PCXX_MAGIC 0x5c6df104 channel drivers/char/pcxx.h
+KV_MAGIC 0x5f4b565f kernel_vars_s arch/mips/include/asm/sn/klkernvars.h
+I810_STATE_MAGIC 0x63657373 i810_state sound/oss/i810_audio.c
+TRIDENT_STATE_MAGIC 0x63657373 trient_state sound/oss/trident.c
+M3_CARD_MAGIC 0x646e6f50 m3_card sound/oss/maestro3.c
+FW_HEADER_MAGIC 0x65726F66 fw_header drivers/atm/fore200e.h
+SLOT_MAGIC 0x67267321 slot drivers/hotplug/cpqphp.h
+SLOT_MAGIC 0x67267322 slot drivers/hotplug/acpiphp.h
+LO_MAGIC 0x68797548 nbd_device include/linux/nbd.h
+OPROFILE_MAGIC 0x6f70726f super_block drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.h
+M3_STATE_MAGIC 0x734d724d m3_state sound/oss/maestro3.c
+STL_PANELMAGIC 0x7ef621a1 stlpanel include/linux/stallion.h
+VMALLOC_MAGIC 0x87654320 snd_alloc_track sound/core/memory.c
+KMALLOC_MAGIC 0x87654321 snd_alloc_track sound/core/memory.c
+PWC_MAGIC 0x89DC10AB pwc_device drivers/usb/media/pwc.h
+NBD_REPLY_MAGIC 0x96744668 nbd_reply include/linux/nbd.h
+STL_BOARDMAGIC 0xa2267f52 stlbrd include/linux/stallion.h
+ENI155_MAGIC 0xa54b872d midway_eprom drivers/atm/eni.h
+SCI_MAGIC 0xbabeface gs_port drivers/char/sh-sci.h
+CODA_MAGIC 0xC0DAC0DA coda_file_info include/linux/coda_fs_i.h
+DPMEM_MAGIC 0xc0ffee11 gdt_pci_sram drivers/scsi/gdth.h
+STLI_PORTMAGIC 0xe671c7a1 stliport include/linux/istallion.h
+YAM_MAGIC 0xF10A7654 yam_port drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
+CCB_MAGIC 0xf2691ad2 ccb drivers/scsi/ncr53c8xx.c
+QUEUE_MAGIC_FREE 0xf7e1c9a3 queue_entry drivers/scsi/arm/queue.c
+QUEUE_MAGIC_USED 0xf7e1cc33 queue_entry drivers/scsi/arm/queue.c
+HTB_CMAGIC 0xFEFAFEF1 htb_class net/sched/sch_htb.c
+NMI_MAGIC 0x48414d4d455201 nmi_s arch/mips/include/asm/sn/nmi.h
+
+请注意,在声音记忆管理中仍然有每一些被定义的驱动魔术值。查看include/sound/sndmagic.h来获取他们完整的列表信息。很多OSS声音驱动拥有自己从声卡PCI ID构建的魔术值-他们也没有被列在这里。
+
+IrDA子系统也使用了大量的自己的魔术值,查看include/net/irda/irda.h来获取他们完整的信息。
+
+HFS是另外一个比较大的使用魔术值的文件系统-你可以在fs/hfs/hfs.h中找到他们。