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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-11-02 16:07:27 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-11-02 16:07:27 -0700
commit092f4c56c1927e4b61a41ee8055005f1cb437009 (patch)
tree616ceb54b7671ccc13922ae9e002b8b972f6e09e /Documentation
parent80c2861672bbf000f6af838656959ee937e4ee4d (diff)
parentc1e2ee2dc436574880758b3836fc96935b774c32 (diff)
downloadlinux-092f4c56c1927e4b61a41ee8055005f1cb437009.tar.gz
Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's incoming - part two)
Says Andrew:

 "60 patches.  That's good enough for -rc1 I guess.  I have quite a lot
  of detritus to be rechecked, work through maintainers, etc.

 - most of the remains of MM
 - rtc
 - various misc
 - cgroups
 - memcg
 - cpusets
 - procfs
 - ipc
 - rapidio
 - sysctl
 - pps
 - w1
 - drivers/misc
 - aio"

* akpm: (60 commits)
  memcg: replace ss->id_lock with a rwlock
  aio: allocate kiocbs in batches
  drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c: fix typo in code comment
  drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c: determine page allocation flag can_sleep outside loop
  w1: disable irqs in critical section
  drivers/w1/w1_int.c: multiple masters used same init_name
  drivers/power/ds2780_battery.c: fix deadlock upon insertion and removal
  drivers/power/ds2780_battery.c: add a nolock function to w1 interface
  drivers/power/ds2780_battery.c: create central point for calling w1 interface
  w1: ds2760 and ds2780, use ida for id and ida_simple_get() to get it
  pps gpio client: add missing dependency
  pps: new client driver using GPIO
  pps: default echo function
  include/linux/dma-mapping.h: add dma_zalloc_coherent()
  sysctl: make CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL default to n
  sysctl: add support for poll()
  RapidIO: documentation update
  drivers/net/rionet.c: fix ethernet address macros for LE platforms
  RapidIO: fix potential null deref in rio_setup_device()
  RapidIO: add mport driver for Tsi721 bridge
  ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DMA-API.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt35
-rw-r--r--Documentation/rapidio/rapidio.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/rapidio/tsi721.txt49
5 files changed, 57 insertions, 37 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
index fe2326906610..66bd97a95f10 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
@@ -50,6 +50,13 @@ specify the GFP_ flags (see kmalloc) for the allocation (the
 implementation may choose to ignore flags that affect the location of
 the returned memory, like GFP_DMA).
 
+void *
+dma_zalloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
+			     dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t flag)
+
+Wraps dma_alloc_coherent() and also zeroes the returned memory if the
+allocation attempt succeeded.
+
 void
 dma_free_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *cpu_addr,
 			   dma_addr_t dma_handle)
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
index 06eb6d957c83..cc0ebc5241b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -418,7 +418,6 @@ total_unevictable	- sum of all children's "unevictable"
 
 # The following additional stats are dependent on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.
 
-inactive_ratio		- VM internal parameter. (see mm/page_alloc.c)
 recent_rotated_anon	- VM internal parameter. (see mm/vmscan.c)
 recent_rotated_file	- VM internal parameter. (see mm/vmscan.c)
 recent_scanned_anon	- VM internal parameter. (see mm/vmscan.c)
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 7c799fc5b88e..3d849122b5b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -133,41 +133,6 @@ Who:	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
 
 ---------------------------
 
-What:	sys_sysctl
-When:	September 2010
-Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL
-Why:	The same information is available in a more convenient from
-	/proc/sys, and none of the sysctl variables appear to be
-	important performance wise.
-
-	Binary sysctls are a long standing source of subtle kernel
-	bugs and security issues.
-
-	When I looked several months ago all I could find after
-	searching several distributions were 5 user space programs and
-	glibc (which falls back to /proc/sys) using this syscall.
-
-	The man page for sysctl(2) documents it as unusable for user
-	space programs.
-
-	sysctl(2) is not generally ABI compatible to a 32bit user
-	space application on a 64bit and a 32bit kernel.
-
-	For the last several months the policy has been no new binary
-	sysctls and no one has put forward an argument to use them.
-
-	Binary sysctls issues seem to keep happening appearing so
-	properly deprecating them (with a warning to user space) and a
-	2 year grace warning period will mean eventually we can kill
-	them and end the pain.
-
-	In the mean time individual binary sysctls can be dealt with
-	in a piecewise fashion.
-
-Who:	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
-
----------------------------
-
 What:	/proc/<pid>/oom_adj
 When:	August 2012
 Why:	/proc/<pid>/oom_adj allows userspace to influence the oom killer's
diff --git a/Documentation/rapidio/rapidio.txt b/Documentation/rapidio/rapidio.txt
index be70ee15f8ca..c75694b35d08 100644
--- a/Documentation/rapidio/rapidio.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rapidio/rapidio.txt
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ and the default device ID in order to access the device on the active port.
 
 After the host has completed enumeration of the entire network it releases
 devices by clearing device ID locks (calls rio_clear_locks()). For each endpoint
-in the system, it sets the Master Enable bit in the Port General Control CSR
+in the system, it sets the Discovered bit in the Port General Control CSR
 to indicate that enumeration is completed and agents are allowed to execute
 passive discovery of the network.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/rapidio/tsi721.txt b/Documentation/rapidio/tsi721.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..335f3c6087dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/rapidio/tsi721.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+RapidIO subsystem mport driver for IDT Tsi721 PCI Express-to-SRIO bridge.
+=========================================================================
+
+I. Overview
+
+This driver implements all currently defined RapidIO mport callback functions.
+It supports maintenance read and write operations, inbound and outbound RapidIO
+doorbells, inbound maintenance port-writes and RapidIO messaging.
+
+To generate SRIO maintenance transactions this driver uses one of Tsi721 DMA
+channels. This mechanism provides access to larger range of hop counts and
+destination IDs without need for changes in outbound window translation.
+
+RapidIO messaging support uses dedicated messaging channels for each mailbox.
+For inbound messages this driver uses destination ID matching to forward messages
+into the corresponding message queue. Messaging callbacks are implemented to be
+fully compatible with RIONET driver (Ethernet over RapidIO messaging services).
+
+II. Known problems
+
+  None.
+
+III. To do
+
+ Add DMA data transfers (non-messaging).
+ Add inbound region (SRIO-to-PCIe) mapping.
+
+IV. Version History
+
+  1.0.0 - Initial driver release.
+
+V.  License
+-----------------------------------------------
+
+  Copyright(c) 2011 Integrated Device Technology, Inc. All rights reserved.
+
+  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+  under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
+  Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
+  any later version.
+
+  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+  ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for
+  more details.
+
+  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
+  this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+  59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.