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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2010-08-04 15:14:38 +0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2010-08-04 15:14:38 +0200
commitd790d4d583aeaed9fc6f8a9f4d9f8ce6b1c15c7f (patch)
tree854ab394486288d40fa8179cbfaf66e8bdc44b0f /Documentation
parent73b2c7165b76b20eb1290e7efebc33cfd21db1ca (diff)
parent3a09b1be53d23df780a0cd0e4087a05e2ca4a00c (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/00-INDEX6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/memory.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/tcm.txt30
-rw-r--r--Documentation/bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt (renamed from Documentation/IO-mapping.txt)0
-rw-r--r--Documentation/credentials.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.tuner1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt5
10 files changed, 52 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX
index dd10b51b4e6..5405f7aecef 100644
--- a/Documentation/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ DocBook/
- directory with DocBook templates etc. for kernel documentation.
HOWTO
- the process and procedures of how to do Linux kernel development.
-IO-mapping.txt
- - how to access I/O mapped memory from within device drivers.
IPMI.txt
- info on Linux Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) Driver.
IRQ-affinity.txt
@@ -84,6 +82,8 @@ blockdev/
- info on block devices & drivers
btmrvl.txt
- info on Marvell Bluetooth driver usage.
+bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
+ - how to access I/O mapped memory from within device drivers.
cachetlb.txt
- describes the cache/TLB flushing interfaces Linux uses.
cdrom/
@@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ initrd.txt
- how to use the RAM disk as an initial/temporary root filesystem.
input/
- info on Linux input device support.
+io-mapping.txt
+ - description of io_mapping functions in linux/io-mapping.h
io_ordering.txt
- info on ordering I/O writes to memory-mapped addresses.
ioctl/
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/memory.txt b/Documentation/arm/memory.txt
index eb0fae18ffb..771d48d3b33 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm/memory.txt
@@ -33,7 +33,13 @@ ffff0000 ffff0fff CPU vector page.
fffe0000 fffeffff XScale cache flush area. This is used
in proc-xscale.S to flush the whole data
- cache. Free for other usage on non-XScale.
+ cache. (XScale does not have TCM.)
+
+fffe8000 fffeffff DTCM mapping area for platforms with
+ DTCM mounted inside the CPU.
+
+fffe0000 fffe7fff ITCM mapping area for platforms with
+ ITCM mounted inside the CPU.
fff00000 fffdffff Fixmap mapping region. Addresses provided
by fix_to_virt() will be located here.
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/tcm.txt b/Documentation/arm/tcm.txt
index 77fd9376e6d..7c15871c188 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm/tcm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm/tcm.txt
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ defines a CPUID_TCM register that you can read out from the
system control coprocessor. Documentation from ARM can be found
at http://infocenter.arm.com, search for "TCM Status Register"
to see documents for all CPUs. Reading this register you can
-determine if ITCM (bit 0) and/or DTCM (bit 16) is present in the
-machine.
+determine if ITCM (bits 1-0) and/or DTCM (bit 17-16) is present
+in the machine.
There is further a TCM region register (search for "TCM Region
Registers" at the ARM site) that can report and modify the location
@@ -35,7 +35,15 @@ The TCM memory can then be remapped to another address again using
the MMU, but notice that the TCM if often used in situations where
the MMU is turned off. To avoid confusion the current Linux
implementation will map the TCM 1 to 1 from physical to virtual
-memory in the location specified by the machine.
+memory in the location specified by the kernel. Currently Linux
+will map ITCM to 0xfffe0000 and on, and DTCM to 0xfffe8000 and
+on, supporting a maximum of 32KiB of ITCM and 32KiB of DTCM.
+
+Newer versions of the region registers also support dividing these
+TCMs in two separate banks, so for example an 8KiB ITCM is divided
+into two 4KiB banks with its own control registers. The idea is to
+be able to lock and hide one of the banks for use by the secure
+world (TrustZone).
TCM is used for a few things:
@@ -65,18 +73,18 @@ in <asm/tcm.h>. Using this interface it is possible to:
memory. Such a heap is great for things like saving
device state when shutting off device power domains.
-A machine that has TCM memory shall select HAVE_TCM in
-arch/arm/Kconfig for itself, and then the
-rest of the functionality will depend on the physical
-location and size of ITCM and DTCM to be defined in
-mach/memory.h for the machine. Code that needs to use
-TCM shall #include <asm/tcm.h> If the TCM is not located
-at the place given in memory.h it will be moved using
-the TCM Region registers.
+A machine that has TCM memory shall select HAVE_TCM from
+arch/arm/Kconfig for itself. Code that needs to use TCM shall
+#include <asm/tcm.h>
Functions to go into itcm can be tagged like this:
int __tcmfunc foo(int bar);
+Since these are marked to become long_calls and you may want
+to have functions called locally inside the TCM without
+wasting space, there is also the __tcmlocalfunc prefix that
+will make the call relative.
+
Variables to go into dtcm can be tagged like this:
int __tcmdata foo;
diff --git a/Documentation/IO-mapping.txt b/Documentation/bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
index 1b5aa10df84..1b5aa10df84 100644
--- a/Documentation/IO-mapping.txt
+++ b/Documentation/bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/credentials.txt b/Documentation/credentials.txt
index a2db3528700..995baf379c0 100644
--- a/Documentation/credentials.txt
+++ b/Documentation/credentials.txt
@@ -417,6 +417,9 @@ reference on them using:
This does all the RCU magic inside of it. The caller must call put_cred() on
the credentials so obtained when they're finished with.
+ [*] Note: The result of __task_cred() should not be passed directly to
+ get_cred() as this may race with commit_cred().
+
There are a couple of convenience functions to access bits of another task's
credentials, hiding the RCU magic from the caller:
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 1a0fc32bc20..40a9c323931 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -647,3 +647,10 @@ Who: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
----------------------------
+What: The acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs command line option
+When: 2.6.37
+Files: arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c
+Why: superseded by acpi_sleep=nonvs
+Who: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
+
+----------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
index 9878f50d6ed..7bff3e4f35d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
@@ -131,17 +131,6 @@ When mounting an XFS filesystem, the following options are accepted.
Don't check for double mounted file systems using the file system uuid.
This is useful to mount LVM snapshot volumes.
- osyncisosync
- Make O_SYNC writes implement true O_SYNC. WITHOUT this option,
- Linux XFS behaves as if an "osyncisdsync" option is used,
- which will make writes to files opened with the O_SYNC flag set
- behave as if the O_DSYNC flag had been used instead.
- This can result in better performance without compromising
- data safety.
- However if this option is not in effect, timestamp updates from
- O_SYNC writes can be lost if the system crashes.
- If timestamp updates are critical, use the osyncisosync option.
-
uquota/usrquota/uqnoenforce/quota
User disk quota accounting enabled, and limits (optionally)
enforced. Refer to xfs_quota(8) for further details.
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 1808f1157f3..2b2407d9a6d 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -254,8 +254,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
control method, with respect to putting devices into
low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
of _PTS is used by default).
- s4_nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
- ACPI NVS memory during hibernation.
+ nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
+ ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
but some broken systems don't work without it).
@@ -1265,7 +1265,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
If there are multiple matching configurations changing
the same attribute, the last one is used.
- lmb=debug [KNL] Enable lmb debug messages.
+ memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
@@ -2048,7 +2048,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
- off Do not use native PCIe PME signaling.
+ Format: {auto|force}[,nomsi]
+ auto Use native PCIe PME signaling if the BIOS allows the
+ kernel to control PCIe config registers of root ports.
force Use native PCIe PME signaling even if the BIOS refuses
to allow the kernel to control the relevant PCIe config
registers.
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.tuner b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.tuner
index 9b2e0dd6017..e67c1db9685 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.tuner
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.tuner
@@ -82,3 +82,4 @@ tuner=81 - Partsnic (Daewoo) PTI-5NF05
tuner=82 - Philips CU1216L
tuner=83 - NXP TDA18271
tuner=84 - Sony BTF-Pxn01Z
+tuner=85 - Philips FQ1236 MK5
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
index 41c95cc1dc1..17ddd822b45 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
@@ -125,6 +125,11 @@ ibmasr:
nowayout: Watchdog cannot be stopped once started
(default=kernel config parameter)
-------------------------------------------------
+imx2_wdt:
+timeout: Watchdog timeout in seconds (default 60 s)
+nowayout: Watchdog cannot be stopped once started
+ (default=kernel config parameter)
+-------------------------------------------------
indydog:
nowayout: Watchdog cannot be stopped once started
(default=kernel config parameter)