diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 3f8fb686b59ce6d3c9439232d9ade24f108ea65d..27fd37621255799602d74e94d670ff7a1658d40a 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ # # Top-level generic files # +tags vmlinux* System.map Module.symvers @@ -30,3 +31,5 @@ include/linux/autoconf.h include/linux/compile.h include/linux/version.h +# stgit generated dirs +patches-* diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS index 1f171f1033bd27f46691610b44dd3671a9224c9a..0bf31eac6dc221add4980576b5e55f6fce384d70 100644 --- a/CREDITS +++ b/CREDITS @@ -1127,8 +1127,10 @@ S: Carnegie, Pennsylvania 15106-4304 S: USA N: Philip Gladstone -E: philip@raptor.com +E: philip@gladstonefamily.net D: Kernel / timekeeping stuff +S: Carlisle, MA 01741 +S: USA N: Jan-Benedict Glaw E: jbglaw@lug-owl.de @@ -2007,13 +2009,14 @@ S: University of Stuttgart, Germany and S: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris N: Jamie Lokier -E: jamie@imbolc.ucc.ie +E: jamie@shareable.org +W: http://www.shareable.org/ D: Reboot-through-BIOS for broken 486 motherboards -D: Some parport fixes -S: 11 Goodson Walk -S: Marston +D: Parport fixes, futex improvements +D: First instruction of x86 sysenter path :) +S: 51 Sunningwell Road S: Oxford -S: OX3 0HX +S: OX1 4SZ S: United Kingdom N: Mark Lord @@ -2813,6 +2816,8 @@ E: luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it P: 1024D/FCE635A4 88E8 F32F 7244 68BA 3958 5D40 99DA 5D2A FCE6 35A4 D: V4L driver for W996[87]CF JPEG USB Dual Mode Camera Chips D: V4L2 driver for SN9C10x PC Camera Controllers +D: V4L2 driver for ET61X151 and ET61X251 PC Camera Controllers +D: V4L2 driver for ZC0301 Image Processor and Control Chip S: Via Liberta' 41/A S: Osio Sotto, 24046, Bergamo S: Italy @@ -3738,10 +3743,11 @@ D: Mylex DAC960 PCI RAID driver D: Miscellaneous kernel fixes N: Alessandro Zummo -E: azummo@ita.flashnet.it -W: http://freepage.logicom.it/azummo/ +E: a.zummo@towertech.it D: CMI8330 support is sb_card.c D: ISAPnP fixes in sb_card.c +D: ZyXEL omni.net lcd plus driver +D: RTC subsystem S: Italy N: Marc Zyngier diff --git a/Documentation/BUG-HUNTING b/Documentation/BUG-HUNTING index ca29242dbc38d83328c2866d5413e719a3662997..65b97e1dbf70cabf7a92dee53831f191f16b4015 100644 --- a/Documentation/BUG-HUNTING +++ b/Documentation/BUG-HUNTING @@ -1,3 +1,56 @@ +Table of contents +================= + +Last updated: 20 December 2005 + +Contents +======== + +- Introduction +- Devices not appearing +- Finding patch that caused a bug +-- Finding using git-bisect +-- Finding it the old way +- Fixing the bug + +Introduction +============ + +Always try the latest kernel from kernel.org and build from source. If you are +not confident in doing that please report the bug to your distribution vendor +instead of to a kernel developer. + +Finding bugs is not always easy. Have a go though. If you can't find it don't +give up. Report as much as you have found to the relevant maintainer. See +MAINTAINERS for who that is for the subsystem you have worked on. + +Before you submit a bug report read REPORTING-BUGS. + +Devices not appearing +===================== + +Often this is caused by udev. Check that first before blaming it on the +kernel. + +Finding patch that caused a bug +=============================== + + + +Finding using git-bisect +------------------------ + +Using the provided tools with git makes finding bugs easy provided the bug is +reproducible. + +Steps to do it: +- start using git for the kernel source +- read the man page for git-bisect +- have fun + +Finding it the old way +---------------------- + [Sat Mar 2 10:32:33 PST 1996 KERNEL_BUG-HOWTO lm@sgi.com (Larry McVoy)] This is how to track down a bug if you know nothing about kernel hacking. @@ -90,3 +143,63 @@ it does work and it lets non-hackers help fix bugs. And it is cool because Linux snapshots will let you do this - something that you can't do with vendor supplied releases. +Fixing the bug +============== + +Nobody is going to tell you how to fix bugs. Seriously. You need to work it +out. But below are some hints on how to use the tools. + +To debug a kernel, use objdump and look for the hex offset from the crash +output to find the valid line of code/assembler. Without debug symbols, you +will see the assembler code for the routine shown, but if your kernel has +debug symbols the C code will also be available. (Debug symbols can be enabled +in the kernel hacking menu of the menu configuration.) For example: + + objdump -r -S -l --disassemble net/dccp/ipv4.o + +NB.: you need to be at the top level of the kernel tree for this to pick up +your C files. + +If you don't have access to the code you can also debug on some crash dumps +e.g. crash dump output as shown by Dave Miller. + +> EIP is at ip_queue_xmit+0x14/0x4c0 +> ... +> Code: 44 24 04 e8 6f 05 00 00 e9 e8 fe ff ff 8d 76 00 8d bc 27 00 00 +> 00 00 55 57 56 53 81 ec bc 00 00 00 8b ac 24 d0 00 00 00 8b 5d 08 +> <8b> 83 3c 01 00 00 89 44 24 14 8b 45 28 85 c0 89 44 24 18 0f 85 +> +> Put the bytes into a "foo.s" file like this: +> +> .text +> .globl foo +> foo: +> .byte .... /* bytes from Code: part of OOPS dump */ +> +> Compile it with "gcc -c -o foo.o foo.s" then look at the output of +> "objdump --disassemble foo.o". +> +> Output: +> +> ip_queue_xmit: +> push %ebp +> push %edi +> push %esi +> push %ebx +> sub $0xbc, %esp +> mov 0xd0(%esp), %ebp ! %ebp = arg0 (skb) +> mov 0x8(%ebp), %ebx ! %ebx = skb->sk +> mov 0x13c(%ebx), %eax ! %eax = inet_sk(sk)->opt + +Another very useful option of the Kernel Hacking section in menuconfig is +Debug memory allocations. This will help you see whether data has been +initialised and not set before use etc. To see the values that get assigned +with this look at mm/slab.c and search for POISON_INUSE. When using this an +Oops will often show the poisoned data instead of zero which is the default. + +Once you have worked out a fix please submit it upstream. After all open +source is about sharing what you do and don't you want to be recognised for +your genius? + +Please do read Documentation/SubmittingPatches though to help your code get +accepted. diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes index fe5ae0f550202f1692ab9dc1e45ba5735e867b1d..b02f476c297302bced86ee62fe89afe2066d3c70 100644 --- a/Documentation/Changes +++ b/Documentation/Changes @@ -15,24 +15,6 @@ and therefore owes credit to the same people as that file (Jared Mauch, Axel Boldt, Alessandro Sigala, and countless other users all over the 'net). -The latest revision of this document, in various formats, can always -be found at . - -Feel free to translate this document. If you do so, please send me a -URL to your translation for inclusion in future revisions of this -document. - -Smotrite file , yavlyaushisya -russkim perevodom dannogo documenta. - -Visite para obtener la traducción -al español de este documento en varios formatos. - -Eine deutsche Version dieser Datei finden Sie unter -. - -Chris Ricker (kaboom@gatech.edu or chris.ricker@genetics.utah.edu). - Current Minimal Requirements ============================ diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt b/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt index 684557474c156210114243f89b2f79667bdb179e..ee4bb73683cd40e3550484b2b2248ef75088910f 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt @@ -199,6 +199,8 @@ address during PCI bus mastering you might do something like: "mydev: 24-bit DMA addressing not available.\n"); goto ignore_this_device; } +[Better use DMA_24BIT_MASK instead of 0x00ffffff. +See linux/include/dma-mapping.h for reference.] When pci_set_dma_mask() is successful, and returns zero, the PCI layer saves away this mask you have provided. The PCI layer will use this diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile index 1c955883cf58864015c7dd93243e819dd0b18429..7d87dd73cbe40552d67450059c45934faff45529 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ DOCBOOKS := wanbook.xml z8530book.xml mcabook.xml videobook.xml \ kernel-hacking.xml kernel-locking.xml deviceiobook.xml \ procfs-guide.xml writing_usb_driver.xml \ - sis900.xml kernel-api.xml journal-api.xml lsm.xml usb.xml \ + kernel-api.xml journal-api.xml lsm.xml usb.xml \ gadget.xml libata.xml mtdnand.xml librs.xml rapidio.xml ### @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ PS_METHOD = $(prefer-db2x) ### # The targets that may be used. -.PHONY: xmldocs sgmldocs psdocs pdfdocs htmldocs mandocs installmandocs +PHONY += xmldocs sgmldocs psdocs pdfdocs htmldocs mandocs installmandocs BOOKS := $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(DOCBOOKS)) xmldocs: $(BOOKS) @@ -211,3 +211,9 @@ clean-dirs := $(patsubst %.xml,%,$(DOCBOOKS)) #man put files in man subdir - traverse down subdir- := man/ + + +# Declare the contents of the .PHONY variable as phony. We keep that +# information in a variable se we can use it in if_changed and friends. + +.PHONY: $(PHONY) diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl index 6f41f2f5c6f6bb656c4f91f6ffcf6a06dcde49b7..90ed23df1f68f6f14c0077d7a196c36c0db08c11 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl @@ -270,25 +270,6 @@ CPU B: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev_lock, flags) - - ISA legacy functions - - On older kernels (2.2 and earlier) the ISA bus could be read or - written with these functions and without ioremap being used. This is - no longer true in Linux 2.4. A set of equivalent functions exist for - easy legacy driver porting. The functions available are prefixed - with 'isa_' and are isa_readb, - isa_writeb, isa_readw, - isa_writew, isa_readl, - isa_writel, isa_memcpy_fromio - and isa_memcpy_toio - - - These functions should not be used in new drivers, and will - eventually be going away. - - - diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl index d260d92089ade348879bda74b2bf9ae48714d110..5bcbb6ee3bc03cf1632bd345a7b28bc2a610e033 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl @@ -120,14 +120,27 @@ void (*dev_config) (struct ata_port *, struct ata_device *); void (*set_piomode) (struct ata_port *, struct ata_device *); void (*set_dmamode) (struct ata_port *, struct ata_device *); -void (*post_set_mode) (struct ata_port *ap); +void (*post_set_mode) (struct ata_port *); +unsigned int (*mode_filter) (struct ata_port *, struct ata_device *, unsigned int); Hooks called prior to the issue of SET FEATURES - XFER MODE - command. dev->pio_mode is guaranteed to be valid when - ->set_piomode() is called, and dev->dma_mode is guaranteed to be - valid when ->set_dmamode() is called. ->post_set_mode() is + command. The optional ->mode_filter() hook is called when libata + has built a mask of the possible modes. This is passed to the + ->mode_filter() function which should return a mask of valid modes + after filtering those unsuitable due to hardware limits. It is not + valid to use this interface to add modes. + + + dev->pio_mode and dev->dma_mode are guaranteed to be valid when + ->set_piomode() and when ->set_dmamode() is called. The timings for + any other drive sharing the cable will also be valid at this point. + That is the library records the decisions for the modes of each + drive on a channel before it attempts to set any of them. + + + ->post_set_mode() is called unconditionally, after the SET FEATURES - XFER MODE command completes successfully. @@ -230,6 +243,32 @@ void (*dev_select)(struct ata_port *ap, unsigned int device); + Private tuning method + +void (*set_mode) (struct ata_port *ap); + + + + By default libata performs drive and controller tuning in + accordance with the ATA timing rules and also applies blacklists + and cable limits. Some controllers need special handling and have + custom tuning rules, typically raid controllers that use ATA + commands but do not actually do drive timing. + + + + + This hook should not be used to replace the standard controller + tuning logic when a controller has quirks. Replacing the default + tuning logic in that case would bypass handling for drive and + bridge quirks that may be important to data reliability. If a + controller needs to filter the mode selection it should use the + mode_filter hook instead. + + + + + Reset ATA bus void (*phy_reset) (struct ata_port *ap); diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/sis900.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/sis900.tmpl deleted file mode 100644 index 6c2cbac93c3f097e1e946d711939f74af75d540d..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/sis900.tmpl +++ /dev/null @@ -1,585 +0,0 @@ - - - - - - - -SiS 900/7016 Fast Ethernet Device Driver - - - -Ollie -Lho - - - -Lei Chun -Chang - - - -Document Revision: 0.3 for SiS900 driver v1.06 & v1.07 -November 16, 2000 - - - 1999 - Silicon Integrated System Corp. - - - - - 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 - - - - - -This document gives some information on installation and usage of SiS 900/7016 -device driver under Linux. - - - - - - - - - Introduction - - -This document describes the revision 1.06 and 1.07 of SiS 900/7016 Fast Ethernet -device driver under Linux. The driver is developed by Silicon Integrated -System Corp. and distributed freely under the GNU General Public License (GPL). -The driver can be compiled as a loadable module and used under Linux kernel -version 2.2.x. (rev. 1.06) -With minimal changes, the driver can also be used under 2.3.x and 2.4.x kernel -(rev. 1.07), please see -. If you are intended to -use the driver for earlier kernels, you are on your own. - - - -The driver is tested with usual TCP/IP applications including -FTP, Telnet, Netscape etc. and is used constantly by the developers. - - - -Please send all comments/fixes/questions to -Lei-Chun Chang. - - - - - Changes - - -Changes made in Revision 1.07 - - - - -Separation of sis900.c and sis900.h in order to move most -constant definition to sis900.h (many of those constants were -corrected) - - - - - -Clean up PCI detection, the pci-scan from Donald Becker were not used, -just simple pci_find_*. - - - - - -MII detection is modified to support multiple mii transceiver. - - - - - -Bugs in read_eeprom, mdio_* were removed. - - - - - -Lot of sis900 irrelevant comments were removed/changed and -more comments were added to reflect the real situation. - - - - - -Clean up of physical/virtual address space mess in buffer -descriptors. - - - - - -Better transmit/receive error handling. - - - - - -The driver now uses zero-copy single buffer management -scheme to improve performance. - - - - - -Names of variables were changed to be more consistent. - - - - - -Clean up of auo-negotiation and timer code. - - - - - -Automatic detection and change of PHY on the fly. - - - - - -Bug in mac probing fixed. - - - - - -Fix 630E equalier problem by modifying the equalizer workaround rule. - - - - - -Support for ICS1893 10/100 Interated PHYceiver. - - - - - -Support for media select by ifconfig. - - - - - -Added kernel-doc extratable documentation. - - - - - - - - - Tested Environment - - -This driver is developed on the following hardware - - - - - -Intel Celeron 500 with SiS 630 (rev 02) chipset - - - - - -SiS 900 (rev 01) and SiS 7016/7014 Fast Ethernet Card - - - - - -and tested with these software environments - - - - - -Red Hat Linux version 6.2 - - - - - -Linux kernel version 2.4.0 - - - - - -Netscape version 4.6 - - - - - -NcFTP 3.0.0 beta 18 - - - - - -Samba version 2.0.3 - - - - - - - - - - -Files in This Package - - -In the package you can find these files: - - - - - - -sis900.c - - -Driver source file in C - - - - - -sis900.h - - -Header file for sis900.c - - - - - -sis900.sgml - - -DocBook SGML source of the document - - - - - -sis900.txt - - -Driver document in plain text - - - - - - - - - - Installation - - -Silicon Integrated System Corp. is cooperating closely with core Linux Kernel -developers. The revisions of SiS 900 driver are distributed by the usuall channels -for kernel tar files and patches. Those kernel tar files for official kernel and -patches for kernel pre-release can be download at -official kernel ftp site -and its mirrors. -The 1.06 revision can be found in kernel version later than 2.3.15 and pre-2.2.14, -and 1.07 revision can be found in kernel version 2.4.0. -If you have no prior experience in networking under Linux, please read -Ethernet HOWTO and -Networking HOWTO available from -Linux Documentation Project (LDP). - - - -The driver is bundled in release later than 2.2.11 and 2.3.15 so this -is the most easy case. -Be sure you have the appropriate packages for compiling kernel source. -Those packages are listed in Document/Changes in kernel source -distribution. If you have to install the driver other than those bundled -in kernel release, you should have your driver file -sis900.c and sis900.h -copied into /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/ first. -There are two alternative ways to install the driver - - - -Building the driver as loadable module - - -To build the driver as a loadable kernel module you have to reconfigure -the kernel to activate network support by - - - -make menuconfig - - - -Choose Loadable module support --->, -then select Enable loadable module support. - - - -Choose Network Device Support --->, select -Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit). -Then select EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers, -and choose SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support -to M. - - - -After reconfiguring the kernel, you can make the driver module by - - - -make modules - - - -The driver should be compiled with no errors. After compiling the driver, -the driver can be installed to proper place by - - - -make modules_install - - - -Load the driver into kernel by - - - -insmod sis900 - - - -When loading the driver into memory, some information message can be view by - - - - -dmesg - - -or - - -cat /var/log/message - - - - -If the driver is loaded properly you will have messages similar to this: - - - -sis900.c: v1.07.06 11/07/2000 -eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 10, 00:00:e8:83:7f:a4. -eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1. -eth0: Using SiS 900 Internal MII PHY as default - - - -showing the version of the driver and the results of probing routine. - - - -Once the driver is loaded, network can be brought up by - - - -/sbin/ifconfig eth0 IPADDR broadcast BROADCAST netmask NETMASK media TYPE - - - -where IPADDR, BROADCAST, NETMASK are your IP address, broadcast address and -netmask respectively. TYPE is used to set medium type used by the device. -Typical values are "10baseT"(twisted-pair 10Mbps Ethernet) or "100baseT" -(twisted-pair 100Mbps Ethernet). For more information on how to configure -network interface, please refer to -Networking HOWTO. - - - -The link status is also shown by kernel messages. For example, after the -network interface is activated, you may have the message: - - - -eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex - - - -If you try to unplug the twist pair (TP) cable you will get - - - -eth0: Media Link Off - - - -indicating that the link is failed. - - - - -Building the driver into kernel - - -If you want to make the driver into kernel, choose Y -rather than M on -SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support -when configuring the kernel. Build the kernel image in the usual way - - - -make clean - -make bzlilo - - - -Next time the system reboot, you have the driver in memory. - - - - - - - Known Problems and Bugs - - -There are some known problems and bugs. If you find any other bugs please -mail to lcchang@sis.com.tw - - - - - -AM79C901 HomePNA PHY is not thoroughly tested, there may be some -bugs in the on the fly change of transceiver. - - - - - -A bug is hidden somewhere in the receive buffer management code, -the bug causes NULL pointer reference in the kernel. This fault is -caught before bad things happen and reported with the message: - - -eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping - - -which can be viewed with dmesg or -cat /var/log/message. - - - - - -The media type change from 10Mbps to 100Mbps twisted-pair ethernet -by ifconfig causes the media link down. - - - - - - - - - Revision History - - - - - - -November 13, 2000, Revision 1.07, seventh release, 630E problem fixed -and further clean up. - - - - - -November 4, 1999, Revision 1.06, Second release, lots of clean up -and optimization. - - - - - -August 8, 1999, Revision 1.05, Initial Public Release - - - - - - - - - Acknowledgements - - -This driver was originally derived form -Donald Becker's -pci-skeleton and -rtl8139 drivers. Donald also provided various suggestion -regarded with improvements made in revision 1.06. - - - -The 1.05 revision was created by -Jim Huang, AMD 79c901 -support was added by Chin-Shan Li. - - - - -List of Functions -!Idrivers/net/sis900.c - - - diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt index 5ed85af88789afc46c0f1065ca701552d96cfebc..07cb93b82ba9e4e6539e1b0ecb43e4b8a0af416a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ uses of RCU may be found in listRCU.txt, arrayRCU.txt, and NMI-RCU.txt. struct foo *new_fp; struct foo *old_fp; - new_fp = kmalloc(sizeof(*fp), GFP_KERNEL); + new_fp = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_fp), GFP_KERNEL); spin_lock(&foo_mutex); old_fp = gbl_foo; *new_fp = *old_fp; @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ The foo_update_a() function might then be written as follows: struct foo *new_fp; struct foo *old_fp; - new_fp = kmalloc(sizeof(*fp), GFP_KERNEL); + new_fp = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_fp), GFP_KERNEL); spin_lock(&foo_mutex); old_fp = gbl_foo; *new_fp = *old_fp; @@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ are the same as those shown in the preceding section, so they are omitted. { int cpu; - for_each_cpu(cpu) + for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) run_on(cpu); } diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/mkdevs.sh b/Documentation/aoe/mkdevs.sh index ec5a6de1cd7b7af23dba7f12d1f3b8831a2631f5..97374aacacb29120b5dfc8f788e4a9516584c8ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/aoe/mkdevs.sh +++ b/Documentation/aoe/mkdevs.sh @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ rm -f $dir/discover mknod -m 0200 $dir/discover c $MAJOR 3 rm -f $dir/interfaces mknod -m 0200 $dir/interfaces c $MAJOR 4 +rm -f $dir/revalidate +mknod -m 0200 $dir/revalidate c $MAJOR 5 export n_partitions mkshelf=`echo $0 | sed 's!mkdevs!mkshelf!'` diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/udev.txt b/Documentation/aoe/udev.txt index ab39d8bb634cf07db348fc42f6e831064d35c42f..a7ed1dc4f331150e38793cd07439d80e7b1f643f 100644 --- a/Documentation/aoe/udev.txt +++ b/Documentation/aoe/udev.txt @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ SUBSYSTEM="aoe", KERNEL="discover", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0220" SUBSYSTEM="aoe", KERNEL="err", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0440" SUBSYSTEM="aoe", KERNEL="interfaces", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0220" +SUBSYSTEM="aoe", KERNEL="revalidate", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0220" # aoe block devices KERNEL="etherd*", NAME="%k", GROUP="disk" diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Booting b/Documentation/arm/Booting index fad566bb02fc8fdc509aa0b27c122fafe55d655e..76850295af8f93b0627f8a220f90ee8c6a677e92 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/Booting +++ b/Documentation/arm/Booting @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ to store page tables. The recommended placement is 32KiB into RAM. In either case, the following conditions must be met: -- Quiesce all DMA capable devicess so that memory does not get +- Quiesce all DMA capable devices so that memory does not get corrupted by bogus network packets or disk data. This will save you many hours of debug. diff --git a/Documentation/arm/README b/Documentation/arm/README index 5ed6f3530b869fea639028a576fb33d364873a66..9b9c8226fdc428665fb2e792ce142b77abf2d80d 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/README +++ b/Documentation/arm/README @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Modules Although modularisation is supported (and required for the FP emulator), each module on an ARM2/ARM250/ARM3 machine when is loaded will take memory up to the next 32k boundary due to the size of the pages. - Therefore, modularisation on these machines really worth it? + Therefore, is modularisation on these machines really worth it? However, ARM6 and up machines allow modules to take multiples of 4k, and as such Acorn RiscPCs and other architectures using these processors can diff --git a/Documentation/arm/SA1100/Assabet b/Documentation/arm/SA1100/Assabet index cbbe5587c78d974c28228874e620d1d5d70284af..78bc1c1b04e58596d118d0f601914ad0cba9a3ce 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/SA1100/Assabet +++ b/Documentation/arm/SA1100/Assabet @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Installing a bootloader A couple of bootloaders able to boot Linux on Assabet are available: -BLOB (http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/lartware/blob/) +BLOB (http://www.lartmaker.nl/lartware/blob/) BLOB is a bootloader used within the LART project. Some contributed patches were merged into BLOB to add support for Assabet. diff --git a/Documentation/arm/SA1100/LART b/Documentation/arm/SA1100/LART index 2f73f513e16acea4aa3af3d554171e34b1dcb7dc..6d412b68559899737c10a98a6b96df696b9e732c 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/SA1100/LART +++ b/Documentation/arm/SA1100/LART @@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ is under development, with plenty of others in different stages of planning. The hardware designs for this board have been released under an open license; -see the LART page at http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/ for more information. +see the LART page at http://www.lartmaker.nl/ for more information. diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt index 89aa89d526ac452c16dec148bd9675175f476f56..8c6ee684174c10d965205e986de08ab725219f1b 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ Introduction by the 's3c2410' architecture of ARM Linux. Currently the S3C2410 and the S3C2440 are supported CPUs. + Support for the S3C2400 series is in progress. + Configuration ------------- @@ -32,6 +34,11 @@ Machines A general purpose development board, see EB2410ITX.txt for further details + Simtec Electronics IM2440D20 (Osiris) + + CPU Module from Simtec Electronics, with a S3C2440A CPU, nand flash + and a PCMCIA controller. + Samsung SMDK2410 Samsung's own development board, geared for PDA work. @@ -85,6 +92,26 @@ Adding New Machines mailing list information. +I2C +--- + + The hardware I2C core in the CPU is supported in single master + mode, and can be configured via platform data. + + +RTC +--- + + Support for the onboard RTC unit, including alarm function. + + +Watchdog +-------- + + The onchip watchdog is available via the standard watchdog + interface. + + NAND ---- @@ -121,6 +148,15 @@ Clock Management various clock units +Suspend to RAM +-------------- + + For boards that provide support for suspend to RAM, the + system can be placed into low power suspend. + + See Suspend.txt for more information. + + Platform Data ------------- @@ -158,6 +194,7 @@ Platform Data exported outside arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/, or exported to modules via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and related functions. + Port Contributors ----------------- @@ -188,8 +225,11 @@ Document Changes 08 Mar 2005 - BJD - Added LCVR to list of people, updated introduction 08 Mar 2005 - BJD - Added section on adding machines 09 Sep 2005 - BJD - Added section on platform data + 11 Feb 2006 - BJD - Added I2C, RTC and Watchdog sections + 11 Feb 2006 - BJD - Added Osiris machine, and S3C2400 information + Document Author --------------- -Ben Dooks, (c) 2004-2005 Simtec Electronics +Ben Dooks, (c) 2004-2005,2006 Simtec Electronics diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Setup b/Documentation/arm/Setup index 0abd0720d7ed0d59d5b8b88b7589e2266646811d..0cb1e64bde80129a3d5e36935b082e516afc8a6c 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/Setup +++ b/Documentation/arm/Setup @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ below: video_y This describes the character position of cursor on VGA console, and - is otherwise unused. (should not used for other console types, and + is otherwise unused. (should not be used for other console types, and should not be used for other purposes). memc_control_reg diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt index 8e63831971d5e4dc1eaf8622e4b9828cd679e1d5..f989a9e839b49abde7b12bfea3926aca9b3635a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt @@ -132,8 +132,18 @@ Some new queue property settings: limit. No highmem default. blk_queue_max_sectors(q, max_sectors) - Maximum size request you can handle in units of 512 byte - sectors. 255 default. + Sets two variables that limit the size of the request. + + - The request queue's max_sectors, which is a soft size in + in units of 512 byte sectors, and could be dynamically varied + by the core kernel. + + - The request queue's max_hw_sectors, which is a hard limit + and reflects the maximum size request a driver can handle + in units of 512 byte sectors. + + The default for both max_sectors and max_hw_sectors is + 255. The upper limit of max_sectors is 1024. blk_queue_max_phys_segments(q, max_segments) Maximum physical segments you can handle in a request. 128 diff --git a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt index 4ae418889b881c857f4c3b77b8b554e405f705ae..53245c429f7d9f13999803ea4ced0813437fceb5 100644 --- a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt +++ b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt @@ -362,6 +362,27 @@ maps this page at its virtual address. likely that you will need to flush the instruction cache for copy_to_user_page(). + void flush_anon_page(struct page *page, unsigned long vmaddr) + When the kernel needs to access the contents of an anonymous + page, it calls this function (currently only + get_user_pages()). Note: flush_dcache_page() deliberately + doesn't work for an anonymous page. The default + implementation is a nop (and should remain so for all coherent + architectures). For incoherent architectures, it should flush + the cache of the page at vmaddr in the current user process. + + void flush_kernel_dcache_page(struct page *page) + When the kernel needs to modify a user page is has obtained + with kmap, it calls this function after all modifications are + complete (but before kunmapping it) to bring the underlying + page up to date. It is assumed here that the user has no + incoherent cached copies (i.e. the original page was obtained + from a mechanism like get_user_pages()). The default + implementation is a nop and should remain so on all coherent + architectures. On incoherent architectures, this should flush + the kernel cache for page (using page_address(page)). + + void flush_icache_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end) When the kernel stores into addresses that it will execute out of (eg when loading modules), this function is called. diff --git a/Documentation/connector/connector.txt b/Documentation/connector/connector.txt index 57a314b14cf8ef948f1529c96fbfd5d74223d137..ad6e0ba7b38c66ed1e33a00e1b8fca85d5ab59e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/connector/connector.txt +++ b/Documentation/connector/connector.txt @@ -69,10 +69,11 @@ Unregisters new callback with connector core. struct cb_id *id - unique connector's user identifier. -void cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask); +int cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask); Sends message to the specified groups. It can be safely called from -any context, but may silently fail under strong memory pressure. +softirq context, but may silently fail under strong memory pressure. +If there are no listeners for given group -ESRCH can be returned. struct cn_msg * - message header(with attached data). u32 __group - destination group. diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt index 57a09f99ecb08977d51d883ee5d6caecbc0967ba..1bcf69996c9df74fba87c25949c05285ff604d3b 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt @@ -97,13 +97,13 @@ at which time hotplug is disabled. You really dont need to manipulate any of the system cpu maps. They should be read-only for most use. When setting up per-cpu resources almost always use -cpu_possible_map/for_each_cpu() to iterate. +cpu_possible_map/for_each_possible_cpu() to iterate. Never use anything other than cpumask_t to represent bitmap of CPUs. #include -for_each_cpu - Iterate over cpu_possible_map +for_each_possible_cpu - Iterate over cpu_possible_map for_each_online_cpu - Iterate over cpu_online_map for_each_present_cpu - Iterate over cpu_present_map for_each_cpu_mask(x,mask) - Iterate over some random collection of cpu mask. diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt index 30c41459953c3ca04e6dd93ddf8702ced7cb89c4..159e2a0c3e80fa229fd2ff95f0e2015caf017ab7 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpusets.txt @@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ CONTENTS: 1.4 What are exclusive cpusets ? 1.5 What does notify_on_release do ? 1.6 What is memory_pressure ? - 1.7 How do I use cpusets ? + 1.7 What is memory spread ? + 1.8 How do I use cpusets ? 2. Usage Examples and Syntax 2.1 Basic Usage 2.2 Adding/removing cpus @@ -317,7 +318,78 @@ the tasks in the cpuset, in units of reclaims attempted per second, times 1000. -1.7 How do I use cpusets ? +1.7 What is memory spread ? +--------------------------- +There are two boolean flag files per cpuset that control where the +kernel allocates pages for the file system buffers and related in +kernel data structures. They are called 'memory_spread_page' and +'memory_spread_slab'. + +If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'memory_spread_page' is set, then +the kernel will spread the file system buffers (page cache) evenly +over all the nodes that the faulting task is allowed to use, instead +of preferring to put those pages on the node where the task is running. + +If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'memory_spread_slab' is set, +then the kernel will spread some file system related slab caches, +such as for inodes and dentries evenly over all the nodes that the +faulting task is allowed to use, instead of preferring to put those +pages on the node where the task is running. + +The setting of these flags does not affect anonymous data segment or +stack segment pages of a task. + +By default, both kinds of memory spreading are off, and memory +pages are allocated on the node local to where the task is running, +except perhaps as modified by the tasks NUMA mempolicy or cpuset +configuration, so long as sufficient free memory pages are available. + +When new cpusets are created, they inherit the memory spread settings +of their parent. + +Setting memory spreading causes allocations for the affected page +or slab caches to ignore the tasks NUMA mempolicy and be spread +instead. Tasks using mbind() or set_mempolicy() calls to set NUMA +mempolicies will not notice any change in these calls as a result of +their containing tasks memory spread settings. If memory spreading +is turned off, then the currently specified NUMA mempolicy once again +applies to memory page allocations. + +Both 'memory_spread_page' and 'memory_spread_slab' are boolean flag +files. By default they contain "0", meaning that the feature is off +for that cpuset. If a "1" is written to that file, then that turns +the named feature on. + +The implementation is simple. + +Setting the flag 'memory_spread_page' turns on a per-process flag +PF_SPREAD_PAGE for each task that is in that cpuset or subsequently +joins that cpuset. The page allocation calls for the page cache +is modified to perform an inline check for this PF_SPREAD_PAGE task +flag, and if set, a call to a new routine cpuset_mem_spread_node() +returns the node to prefer for the allocation. + +Similarly, setting 'memory_spread_cache' turns on the flag +PF_SPREAD_SLAB, and appropriately marked slab caches will allocate +pages from the node returned by cpuset_mem_spread_node(). + +The cpuset_mem_spread_node() routine is also simple. It uses the +value of a per-task rotor cpuset_mem_spread_rotor to select the next +node in the current tasks mems_allowed to prefer for the allocation. + +This memory placement policy is also known (in other contexts) as +round-robin or interleave. + +This policy can provide substantial improvements for jobs that need +to place thread local data on the corresponding node, but that need +to access large file system data sets that need to be spread across +the several nodes in the jobs cpuset in order to fit. Without this +policy, especially for jobs that might have one thread reading in the +data set, the memory allocation across the nodes in the jobs cpuset +can become very uneven. + + +1.8 How do I use cpusets ? -------------------------- In order to minimize the impact of cpusets on critical kernel diff --git a/Documentation/cputopology.txt b/Documentation/cputopology.txt index ff280e2e1613e808e4d7844376134dfa2bb1fc21..2b28e9ec4e3a2437d8108dc5aee3976a281b9903 100644 --- a/Documentation/cputopology.txt +++ b/Documentation/cputopology.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -Export cpu topology info by sysfs. Items (attributes) are similar +Export cpu topology info via sysfs. Items (attributes) are similar to /proc/cpuinfo. 1) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/physical_package_id: @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ represent the thread siblings to cpu X in the same core; represent the thread siblings to cpu X in the same physical package; To implement it in an architecture-neutral way, a new source file, -driver/base/topology.c, is to export the 5 attributes. +drivers/base/topology.c, is to export the 4 attributes. If one architecture wants to support this feature, it just needs to implement 4 defines, typically in file include/asm-XXX/topology.h. diff --git a/Documentation/drivers/edac/edac.txt b/Documentation/drivers/edac/edac.txt index d37191fe5681fcd48683bc5ba1e3703585ac21b7..70d96a62e5e12e2dcdcd58a64e623e0f7678c106 100644 --- a/Documentation/drivers/edac/edac.txt +++ b/Documentation/drivers/edac/edac.txt @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ within the computer system. In the initial release, memory Correctable Errors Detecting CE events, then harvesting those events and reporting them, CAN be a predictor of future UE events. With CE events, the system can -continue to operate, but with less safety. Preventive maintainence and +continue to operate, but with less safety. Preventive maintenance and proactive part replacement of memory DIMMs exhibiting CEs can reduce the likelihood of the dreaded UE events and system 'panics'. @@ -29,13 +29,13 @@ the likelihood of the dreaded UE events and system 'panics'. In addition, PCI Bus Parity and SERR Errors are scanned for on PCI devices in order to determine if errors are occurring on data transfers. The presence of PCI Parity errors must be examined with a grain of salt. -There are several addin adapters that do NOT follow the PCI specification +There are several add-in adapters that do NOT follow the PCI specification with regards to Parity generation and reporting. The specification says the vendor should tie the parity status bits to 0 if they do not intend to generate parity. Some vendors do not do this, and thus the parity bit can "float" giving false positives. -The PCI Parity EDAC device has the ability to "skip" known flakey +The PCI Parity EDAC device has the ability to "skip" known flaky cards during the parity scan. These are set by the parity "blacklist" interface in the sysfs for PCI Parity. (See the PCI section in the sysfs section below.) There is also a parity "whitelist" which is used as @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ Memory Controller (mc) Model First a background on the memory controller's model abstracted in EDAC. Each mc device controls a set of DIMM memory modules. These modules are -layed out in a Chip-Select Row (csrowX) and Channel table (chX). There can +laid out in a Chip-Select Row (csrowX) and Channel table (chX). There can be multiple csrows and two channels. Memory controllers allow for several csrows, with 8 csrows being a typical value. @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ for memory DIMMs: DIMM_B1 Labels for these slots are usually silk screened on the motherboard. Slots -labeled 'A' are channel 0 in this example. Slots labled 'B' +labeled 'A' are channel 0 in this example. Slots labeled 'B' are channel 1. Notice that there are two csrows possible on a physical DIMM. These csrows are allocated their csrow assignment based on the slot into which the memory DIMM is placed. Thus, when 1 DIMM @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ is placed in each Channel, the csrows cross both DIMMs. Memory DIMMs come single or dual "ranked". A rank is a populated csrow. Thus, 2 single ranked DIMMs, placed in slots DIMM_A0 and DIMM_B0 above will have 1 csrow, csrow0. csrow1 will be empty. On the other hand, -when 2 dual ranked DIMMs are similiaryly placed, then both csrow0 and +when 2 dual ranked DIMMs are similarly placed, then both csrow0 and csrow1 will be populated. The pattern repeats itself for csrow2 and csrow3. @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ Module Version read-only attribute file: 'mc_version' - The EDAC CORE modules's version and compile date are shown here to + The EDAC CORE module's version and compile date are shown here to indicate what EDAC is running. @@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ Total memory managed by this csrow attribute file: 'size_mb' This attribute file displays, in count of megabytes, of memory - that this csrow contatins. + that this csrow contains. Memory Type attribute file: @@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ On Header Type 00 devices the primary status is looked at for any parity error regardless of whether Parity is enabled on the device. (The spec indicates parity is generated in some cases). On Header Type 01 bridges, the secondary status register is also -looked at to see if parity ocurred on the bus on the other side of +looked at to see if parity occurred on the bus on the other side of the bridge. @@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ Panic on PCI PARITY Error: 'panic_on_pci_parity' - This control files enables or disables panic'ing when a parity + This control files enables or disables panicking when a parity error has been detected. @@ -616,12 +616,12 @@ PCI Device Whitelist: This control file allows for an explicit list of PCI devices to be scanned for parity errors. Only devices found on this list will - be examined. The list is a line of hexadecimel VENDOR and DEVICE + be examined. The list is a line of hexadecimal VENDOR and DEVICE ID tuples: 1022:7450,1434:16a6 - One or more can be inserted, seperated by a comma. + One or more can be inserted, separated by a comma. To write the above list doing the following as one command line: @@ -639,11 +639,11 @@ PCI Device Blacklist: This control file allows for a list of PCI devices to be skipped for scanning. - The list is a line of hexadecimel VENDOR and DEVICE ID tuples: + The list is a line of hexadecimal VENDOR and DEVICE ID tuples: 1022:7450,1434:16a6 - One or more can be inserted, seperated by a comma. + One or more can be inserted, separated by a comma. To write the above list doing the following as one command line: @@ -651,14 +651,14 @@ PCI Device Blacklist: > /sys/devices/system/edac/pci/pci_parity_blacklist - To display what the whitelist current contatins, + To display what the whitelist currently contains, simply 'cat' the same file. ======================================================================= PCI Vendor and Devices IDs can be obtained with the lspci command. Using the -n option lspci will display the vendor and device IDs. The system -adminstrator will have to determine which devices should be scanned or +administrator will have to determine which devices should be scanned or skipped. @@ -669,5 +669,5 @@ Turn OFF a whitelist by an empty echo command: echo > /sys/devices/system/edac/pci/pci_parity_whitelist -and any previous blacklist will be utililzed. +and any previous blacklist will be utilized. diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/avermedia.txt b/Documentation/dvb/avermedia.txt index 068070ff13cd0a4673d9333341b39ea5b77daf41..8bab8461a4af177d6548858f87f3b79aa8807267 100644 --- a/Documentation/dvb/avermedia.txt +++ b/Documentation/dvb/avermedia.txt @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ - HOWTO: Get An Avermedia DVB-T working under Linux ______________________________________________ @@ -137,11 +136,8 @@ Getting the card going To power up the card, load the following modules in the following order: - * insmod dvb-core.o - * modprobe bttv.o - * insmod bt878.o - * insmod dvb-bt8xx.o - * insmod sp887x.o + * modprobe bttv (normally loaded automatically) + * modprobe dvb-bt8xx (or place dvb-bt8xx in /etc/modules) Insertion of these modules into the running kernel will activate the appropriate DVB device nodes. It is then possible @@ -302,4 +298,4 @@ Further Update Many thanks to Nigel Pearson for the updates to this document since the recent revision of the driver. - January 29th 2004 + February 14th 2006 diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt index 52ed462061dfdfc1ada13c2708f718755b07aeef..4e7614e606c5675e241bae76e9523534072ae133 100644 --- a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt +++ b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt @@ -1,118 +1,78 @@ -How to get the Nebula, PCTV, FusionHDTV Lite and Twinhan DST cards working -========================================================================== +How to get the bt8xx cards working +================================== -This class of cards has a bt878a as the PCI interface, and -require the bttv driver. +1) General information +====================== -Please pay close attention to the warning about the bttv module -options below for the DST card. +This class of cards has a bt878a as the PCI interface, and require the bttv driver +for accessing the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset. +Please see Documentation/dvb/cards.txt => o Cards based on the Conexant Bt8xx PCI bridge: -1) General informations -======================= - -These drivers require the bttv driver to provide the means to access -the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset. - -Because of this, you need to enable -"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" - => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux" - -Furthermore you need to enable -"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" - => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "BT8xx based PCI cards" +Compiling kernel please enable: +a.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux" +b.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" + => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Bt8xx based PCI Cards" 2) Loading Modules ================== -In general you need to load the bttv driver, which will handle the gpio and -i2c communication for us, plus the common dvb-bt8xx device driver. -The frontends for Nebula (nxt6000), Pinnacle PCTV (cx24110), TwinHan (dst), -FusionHDTV DVB-T Lite (mt352) and FusionHDTV5 Lite (lgdt330x) are loaded -automatically by the dvb-bt8xx device driver. - -3a) Nebula / Pinnacle PCTV / FusionHDTV Lite ---------------------------------------------- - - $ modprobe bttv (normally bttv is being loaded automatically by kmod) - $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx - -(or just place dvb-bt8xx in /etc/modules for automatic loading) - - -3b) TwinHan and Clones --------------------------- +In default cases bttv is loaded automatically. +To load the backend either place dvb-bt8xx in etc/modules, or apply manually: - $ modprobe bttv card=0x71 - $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx - $ modprobe dst + $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx -The value 0x71 will override the PCI type detection for dvb-bt8xx, -which is necessary for TwinHan cards. Omission of this parameter might result -in a system lockup. +All frontends will be loaded automatically. +People running udev please see Documentation/dvb/udev.txt. -If you're having an older card (blue color PCB) and card=0x71 locks up -your machine, try using 0x68, too. If that does not work, ask on the -mailing list. +In the following cases overriding the PCI type detection for dvb-bt8xx might be necessary: -The DST module takes a couple of useful parameters. +2a) Running TwinHan and Clones +------------------------------ -verbose takes values 0 to 4. These values control the verbosity level, -and can be used to debug also. + $ modprobe bttv card=113 + $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx + $ modprobe dst -verbose=0 means complete disabling of messages - 1 only error messages are displayed - 2 notifications are also displayed - 3 informational messages are also displayed - 4 debug setting +Useful parameters for verbosity level and debugging the dst module: -dst_addons takes values 0 and 0x20. A value of 0 means it is a FTA card. -0x20 means it has a Conditional Access slot. +verbose=0: messages are disabled + 1: only error messages are displayed + 2: notifications are displayed + 3: other useful messages are displayed + 4: debug setting +dst_addons=0: card is a free to air (FTA) card only + 0x20: card has a conditional access slot for scrambled channels -The autodetected values are determined by the cards 'response string' -which you can see in your logs e.g. +The autodetected values are determined by the cards' "response string". +In your logs see f. ex.: dst_get_device_id: Recognize [DSTMCI]. +For bug reports please send in a complete log with verbose=4 activated. +Please also see Documentation/dvb/ci.txt. -dst_get_device_id: Recognise [DSTMCI] - -If you need to sent in bug reports on the dst, please do send in a complete -log with the verbose=4 module parameter. For general usage, the default setting -of verbose=1 is ideal. - - -4) Multiple cards +2b) Running multiple cards -------------------------- -If you happen to be running multiple cards, it would be advisable to load -the bttv module with the card id. This would help to solve any module loading -problems that you might face. - -For example, if you have a Twinhan and Clones card along with a FusionHDTV5 Lite +Examples of card ID's: - $ modprobe bttv card=0x71 card=0x87 - -Here the order of the card id is important and should be the same as that of the -physical order of the cards. Here card=0x71 represents the Twinhan and clones -and card=0x87 represents Fusion HDTV5 Lite. These arguments can also be -specified in decimal, rather than hex: +Pinnacle PCTV Sat: 94 +Nebula Electronics Digi TV: 104 +pcHDTV HD-2000 TV: 112 +Twinhan DST and clones: 113 +Avermedia AverTV DVB-T 771: 123 +Avermedia AverTV DVB-T 761: 124 +DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Lite: 128 +DViCO FusionHDTV 5 Lite: 135 +Notice: The order of the card ID should be uprising: +Example: $ modprobe bttv card=113 card=135 + $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx -Some examples of card-id's - -Pinnacle Sat 0x5e (94) -Nebula Digi TV 0x68 (104) -PC HDTV 0x70 (112) -Twinhan 0x71 (113) -FusionHDTV DVB-T Lite 0x80 (128) -FusionHDTV5 Lite 0x87 (135) - -For a full list of card-id's, see the V4L Documentation within the kernel -source: linux/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.bttv - -If you have problems with this please do ask on the mailing list. +For a full list of card ID's please see Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.bttv. +In case of further problems send questions to the mailing list: www.linuxdvb.org. --- Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham, + Uwe Bugla, Michael Krufky diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware b/Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware index 75c28a174092f5236e9dddc98444fff4b84e9183..15fc8fbef67e3fa48a8d68365b1852103e501115 100644 --- a/Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware +++ b/Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware @@ -21,8 +21,9 @@ use File::Temp qw/ tempdir /; use IO::Handle; -@components = ( "sp8870", "sp887x", "tda10045", "tda10046", "av7110", "dec2000t", - "dec2540t", "dec3000s", "vp7041", "dibusb", "nxt2002", "nxt2004", +@components = ( "sp8870", "sp887x", "tda10045", "tda10046", + "tda10046lifeview", "av7110", "dec2000t", "dec2540t", + "dec3000s", "vp7041", "dibusb", "nxt2002", "nxt2004", "or51211", "or51132_qam", "or51132_vsb", "bluebird"); # Check args @@ -126,6 +127,24 @@ sub tda10046 { $outfile; } +sub tda10046lifeview { + my $sourcefile = "Drv_2.11.02.zip"; + my $url = "http://www.lifeview.com.tw/drivers/pci_card/FlyDVB-T/$sourcefile"; + my $hash = "1ea24dee4eea8fe971686981f34fd2e0"; + my $outfile = "dvb-fe-tda10046.fw"; + my $tmpdir = tempdir(DIR => "/tmp", CLEANUP => 1); + + checkstandard(); + + wgetfile($sourcefile, $url); + unzip($sourcefile, $tmpdir); + extract("$tmpdir/LVHybrid.sys", 0x8b088, 24602, "$tmpdir/fwtmp"); + verify("$tmpdir/fwtmp", $hash); + copy("$tmpdir/fwtmp", $outfile); + + $outfile; +} + sub av7110 { my $sourcefile = "dvb-ttpci-01.fw-261d"; my $url = "http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/$sourcefile"; @@ -227,7 +246,7 @@ sub vp7041 { } sub dibusb { - my $url = "http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/dvb-dibusb-5.0.0.11.fw"; + my $url = "http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/dvb-usb-dibusb-5.0.0.11.fw"; my $outfile = "dvb-dibusb-5.0.0.11.fw"; my $hash = "fa490295a527360ca16dcdf3224ca243"; diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/readme.txt b/Documentation/dvb/readme.txt index f5c50b22de3b89e09bb8553854cc8452d76bc110..0b0380c919902c012d1450f7202280fb8a5aefd6 100644 --- a/Documentation/dvb/readme.txt +++ b/Documentation/dvb/readme.txt @@ -20,11 +20,23 @@ http://linuxtv.org/downloads/ What's inside this directory: +"avermedia.txt" +contains detailed information about the +Avermedia DVB-T cards. See also "bt8xx.txt". + +"bt8xx.txt" +contains detailed information about the +various bt8xx based "budget" DVB cards. + "cards.txt" contains a list of supported hardware. +"ci.txt" +contains detailed information about the +CI module as part from TwinHan cards and Clones. + "contributors.txt" -is the who-is-who of DVB development +is the who-is-who of DVB development. "faq.txt" contains frequently asked questions and their answers. @@ -34,19 +46,17 @@ script to download and extract firmware for those devices that require it. "ttusb-dec.txt" -contains detailed informations about the +contains detailed information about the TT DEC2000/DEC3000 USB DVB hardware. -"bt8xx.txt" -contains detailed installation instructions for the -various bt8xx based "budget" DVB cards -(Nebula, Pinnacle PCTV, Twinhan DST) - -"README.dibusb" -contains detailed information about adapters -based on DiBcom reference design. - "udev.txt" how to get DVB and udev up and running. +"README.dvb-usb" +contains detailed information about the DVB USB cards. + +"README.flexcop" +contains detailed information about the +Technisat- and Flexcop B2C2 drivers. + Good luck and have fun! diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 81bc51369f59a413108fd8b150c3090541ba49f8..495858b236b615a08a2824922c546fc1e2b13c9b 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -116,6 +116,17 @@ Who: Harald Welte --------------------------- +What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread) +When: August 2006 +Files: arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c +Why: kernel_thread is a low-level implementation detail. Drivers should + use the API instead which shields them from + implementation details and provides a higherlevel interface that + prevents bugs and code duplication +Who: Christoph Hellwig + +--------------------------- + What: EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_hash) When: January 2006 Why: Too low-level interface. Use lookup_one_len or lookup_create instead. @@ -151,10 +162,10 @@ Who: Ralf Baechle --------------------------- -What: Legacy /proc/pci interface (PCI_LEGACY_PROC) -When: March 2006 -Why: deprecated since 2.5.53 in favor of lspci(8) -Who: Adrian Bunk +What: eepro100 network driver +When: January 2007 +Why: replaced by the e100 driver +Who: Adrian Bunk --------------------------- @@ -165,6 +176,18 @@ Who: Richard Knutsson and Greg Kroah-Hartman + +--------------------------- + What: I2C interface of the it87 driver When: January 2007 Why: The ISA interface is faster and should be always available. The I2C @@ -174,6 +197,17 @@ Who: Jean Delvare --------------------------- +What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(tasklist_lock) +When: August 2006 +Files: kernel/fork.c +Why: tasklist_lock protects the kernel internal task list. Modules have + no business looking at it, and all instances in drivers have been due + to use of too-lowlevel APIs. Having this symbol exported prevents + moving to more scalable locking schemes for the task list. +Who: Christoph Hellwig + +--------------------------- + What: mount/umount uevents When: February 2007 Why: These events are not correct, and do not properly let userspace know @@ -189,3 +223,21 @@ Why: Board specific code doesn't build anymore since ~2.6.0 and no users have complained indicating there is no more need for these boards. This should really be considered a last call. Who: Ralf Baechle + +--------------------------- + +What: USB driver API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL +When: Febuary 2008 +Files: include/linux/usb.h, drivers/usb/core/driver.c +Why: The USB subsystem has changed a lot over time, and it has been + possible to create userspace USB drivers using usbfs/libusb/gadgetfs + that operate as fast as the USB bus allows. Because of this, the USB + subsystem will not be allowing closed source kernel drivers to + register with it, after this grace period is over. If anyone needs + any help in converting their closed source drivers over to use the + userspace filesystems, please contact the + linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list, and the developers + there will be glad to help you out. +Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman + +--------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX index 74052d22d868f5461966291473f91e8ecdcd1d40..66fdc0744fe0f370bb8115c2bdb5071da0a404d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX @@ -1,27 +1,47 @@ 00-INDEX - this file (info on some of the filesystems supported by linux). +Exporting + - explanation of how to make filesystems exportable. Locking - info on locking rules as they pertain to Linux VFS. adfs.txt - info and mount options for the Acorn Advanced Disc Filing System. +afs.txt + - info and examples for the distributed AFS (Andrew File System) fs. affs.txt - info and mount options for the Amiga Fast File System. +automount-support.txt + - information about filesystem automount support. +befs.txt + - information about the BeOS filesystem for Linux. bfs.txt - info for the SCO UnixWare Boot Filesystem (BFS). cifs.txt - - description of the CIFS filesystem + - description of the CIFS filesystem. coda.txt - description of the CODA filesystem. configfs/ - directory containing configfs documentation and example code. cramfs.txt - - info on the cram filesystem for small storage (ROMs etc) + - info on the cram filesystem for small storage (ROMs etc). +dentry-locking.txt + - info on the RCU-based dcache locking model. devfs/ - directory containing devfs documentation. +directory-locking + - info about the locking scheme used for directory operations. dlmfs.txt - info on the userspace interface to the OCFS2 DLM. ext2.txt - info, mount options and specifications for the Ext2 filesystem. +ext3.txt + - info, mount options and specifications for the Ext3 filesystem. +files.txt + - info on file management in the Linux kernel. +fuse.txt + - info on the Filesystem in User SpacE including mount options. +hfs.txt + - info on the Macintosh HFS Filesystem for Linux. hpfs.txt - info and mount options for the OS/2 HPFS. isofs.txt @@ -32,23 +52,43 @@ ncpfs.txt - info on Novell Netware(tm) filesystem using NCP protocol. ntfs.txt - info and mount options for the NTFS filesystem (Windows NT). -proc.txt - - info on Linux's /proc filesystem. ocfs2.txt - info and mount options for the OCFS2 clustered filesystem. +porting + - various information on filesystem porting. +proc.txt + - info on Linux's /proc filesystem. +ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt + - info on the 'in memory' filesystems ramfs, rootfs and initramfs. +reiser4.txt + - info on the Reiser4 filesystem based on dancing tree algorithms. +relayfs.txt + - info on relayfs, for efficient streaming from kernel to user space. romfs.txt - - Description of the ROMFS filesystem. + - description of the ROMFS filesystem. smbfs.txt - - info on using filesystems with the SMB protocol (Windows 3.11 and NT) + - info on using filesystems with the SMB protocol (Win 3.11 and NT). +spufs.txt + - info and mount options for the SPU filesystem used on Cell. +sysfs-pci.txt + - info on accessing PCI device resources through sysfs. +sysfs.txt + - info on sysfs, a ram-based filesystem for exporting kernel objects. sysv-fs.txt - info on the SystemV/V7/Xenix/Coherent filesystem. +tmpfs.txt + - info on tmpfs, a filesystem that holds all files in virtual memory. udf.txt - info and mount options for the UDF filesystem. ufs.txt - info on the ufs filesystem. +v9fs.txt + - v9fs is a Unix implementation of the Plan 9 9p remote fs protocol. vfat.txt - info on using the VFAT filesystem used in Windows NT and Windows 95 vfs.txt - - Overview of the Virtual File System + - overview of the Virtual File System xfs.txt - info and mount options for the XFS filesystem. +xip.txt + - info on execute-in-place for file mappings. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/v9fs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt similarity index 82% rename from Documentation/filesystems/v9fs.txt rename to Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt index 24c7a9c41f0d0c820216722dfbba5eceb6fd96b4..43b89c214d2015a1026ceae21b266c3dbd82a58b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/v9fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - V9FS: 9P2000 for Linux - ====================== + v9fs: Plan 9 Resource Sharing for Linux + ======================================= ABOUT ===== @@ -9,18 +9,19 @@ v9fs is a Unix implementation of the Plan 9 9p remote filesystem protocol. This software was originally developed by Ron Minnich and Maya Gokhale . Additional development by Greg Watson and most recently Eric Van Hensbergen - and Latchesar Ionkov . +, Latchesar Ionkov and Russ Cox +. USAGE ===== For remote file server: - mount -t 9P 10.10.1.2 /mnt/9 + mount -t 9p 10.10.1.2 /mnt/9 For Plan 9 From User Space applications (http://swtch.com/plan9) - mount -t 9P `namespace`/acme /mnt/9 -o proto=unix,name=$USER + mount -t 9p `namespace`/acme /mnt/9 -o proto=unix,uname=$USER OPTIONS ======= @@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ OPTIONS fd - used passed file descriptors for connection (see rfdno and wfdno) - name=name user name to attempt mount as on the remote server. The + uname=name user name to attempt mount as on the remote server. The server may override or ignore this value. Certain user names may require authentication. @@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ OPTIONS debug=n specifies debug level. The debug level is a bitmask. 0x01 = display verbose error messages 0x02 = developer debug (DEBUG_CURRENT) - 0x04 = display 9P trace + 0x04 = display 9p trace 0x08 = display VFS trace 0x10 = display Marshalling debug 0x20 = display RPC debug @@ -53,11 +54,11 @@ OPTIONS wfdno=n the file descriptor for writing with proto=fd - maxdata=n the number of bytes to use for 9P packet payload (msize) + maxdata=n the number of bytes to use for 9p packet payload (msize) port=n port to connect to on the remote server - noextend force legacy mode (no 9P2000.u semantics) + noextend force legacy mode (no 9p2000.u semantics) uid attempt to mount as a particular uid @@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ OPTIONS RESOURCES ========= -The Linux version of the 9P server is now maintained under the npfs project +The Linux version of the 9p server is now maintained under the npfs project on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs). There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt index 424585ff6ea1c18daf7b9f47da97edd72b72dba1..758e50401c1635654fa073d9f9bcc8931ad8b9af 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt @@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ when using discs encoded using Microsoft's Joliet extensions. iocharset=name Character set to use for converting from Unicode to ASCII. Joliet filenames are stored in Unicode format, but Unix for the most part doesn't know how to deal with Unicode. - There is also an option of doing UTF8 translations with the + There is also an option of doing UTF-8 translations with the utf8 option. - utf8 Encode Unicode names in UTF8 format. Default is no. + utf8 Encode Unicode names in UTF-8 format. Default is no. Mount options unique to the isofs filesystem. block=512 Set the block size for the disk to 512 bytes diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt index 3e992daf99adb22e318ce3bcc63e931e14e8b68e..bae128663748ebcac0df61ab910827bfaf932f96 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ The following mount options are supported: iocharset=name Character set to use for converting from Unicode to ASCII. The default is to do no conversion. Use - iocharset=utf8 for UTF8 translations. This requires + iocharset=utf8 for UTF-8 translations. This requires CONFIG_NLS_UTF8 to be set in the kernel .config file. iocharset=none specifies the default behavior explicitly. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt index 2511685878994247d73779f0c81f210c4252d313..638cbd3d2b00054e31ece5a580366a071827a25c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt @@ -457,6 +457,11 @@ ChangeLog Note, a technical ChangeLog aimed at kernel hackers is in fs/ntfs/ChangeLog. +2.1.27: + - Implement page migration support so the kernel can move memory used + by NTFS files and directories around for management purposes. + - Add support for writing to sparse files created with Windows XP SP2. + - Many minor improvements and bug fixes. 2.1.26: - Implement support for sector sizes above 512 bytes (up to the maximum supported by NTFS which is 4096 bytes). diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 944cf109a6f5a36ad51cf6d8fd47819ab220986e..99902ae6804e6edb0550fac53ce34b9070842895 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ Table 1-1: Process specific entries in /proc .............................................................................. File Content cmdline Command line arguments - cpu Current and last cpu in wich it was executed (2.4)(smp) + cpu Current and last cpu in which it was executed (2.4)(smp) cwd Link to the current working directory environ Values of environment variables exe Link to the executable of this process @@ -309,13 +309,13 @@ is the same by default: > cat /proc/irq/0/smp_affinity ffffffff -It's a bitmask, in wich you can specify wich CPUs can handle the IRQ, you can +It's a bitmask, in which you can specify which CPUs can handle the IRQ, you can set it by doing: > echo 1 > /proc/irq/prof_cpu_mask This means that only the first CPU will handle the IRQ, but you can also echo 5 -wich means that only the first and fourth CPU can handle the IRQ. +which means that only the first and fourth CPU can handle the IRQ. The way IRQs are routed is handled by the IO-APIC, and it's Round Robin between all the CPUs which are allowed to handle it. As usual the kernel has diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt index e5213bc301f721a1c3236a4469194982c9653865..511b4230c0536add9d0650cbc1f702becc2e54e2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt @@ -26,6 +26,20 @@ The following mount options are supported: nostrict Unset strict conformance iocharset= Set the NLS character set +The uid= and gid= options need a bit more explaining. They will accept a +decimal numeric value which will be used as the default ID for that mount. +They will also accept the string "ignore" and "forget". For files on the disk +that are owned by nobody ( -1 ), they will instead look as if they are owned +by the default ID. The ignore option causes the default ID to override all +IDs on the disk, not just -1. The forget option causes all IDs to be written +to disk as -1, so when the media is later remounted, they will appear to be +owned by whatever default ID it is mounted with at that time. + +For typical desktop use of removable media, you should set the ID to that +of the interactively logged on user, and also specify both the forget and +ignore options. This way the interactive user will always see the files +on the disk as belonging to him. + The remaining are for debugging and disaster recovery: novrs Skip volume sequence recognition diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt index 5ead20c6c7443f4b2667f3c90ba29e45f45a63c9..2001abbc60e6f599fc53abc3b746ce2effc75187 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt @@ -28,16 +28,16 @@ iocharset=name -- Character set to use for converting between the know how to deal with Unicode. By default, FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET setting is used. - There is also an option of doing UTF8 translations + There is also an option of doing UTF-8 translations with the utf8 option. NOTE: "iocharset=utf8" is not recommended. If unsure, you should consider the following option instead. -utf8= -- UTF8 is the filesystem safe version of Unicode that +utf8= -- UTF-8 is the filesystem safe version of Unicode that is used by the console. It can be be enabled for the filesystem with this option. If 'uni_xlate' gets set, - UTF8 gets disabled. + UTF-8 gets disabled. uni_xlate= -- Translate unhandled Unicode characters to special escaped sequences. This would let you backup and diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index e56e842847d3ee3e48c79b4099bc0d6040d730a1..adaa899e5c903763a4f0938efedd1bd3bbdce4a0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -230,10 +230,15 @@ only called from a process context (i.e. not from an interrupt handler or bottom half). alloc_inode: this method is called by inode_alloc() to allocate memory - for struct inode and initialize it. + for struct inode and initialize it. If this function is not + defined, a simple 'struct inode' is allocated. Normally + alloc_inode will be used to allocate a larger structure which + contains a 'struct inode' embedded within it. destroy_inode: this method is called by destroy_inode() to release - resources allocated for struct inode. + resources allocated for struct inode. It is only required if + ->alloc_inode was defined and simply undoes anything done by + ->alloc_inode. read_inode: this method is called to read a specific inode from the mounted filesystem. The i_ino member in the struct inode is @@ -443,14 +448,81 @@ otherwise noted. The Address Space Object ======================== -The address space object is used to identify pages in the page cache. - +The address space object is used to group and manage pages in the page +cache. It can be used to keep track of the pages in a file (or +anything else) and also track the mapping of sections of the file into +process address spaces. + +There are a number of distinct yet related services that an +address-space can provide. These include communicating memory +pressure, page lookup by address, and keeping track of pages tagged as +Dirty or Writeback. + +The first can be used independently to the others. The VM can try to +either write dirty pages in order to clean them, or release clean +pages in order to reuse them. To do this it can call the ->writepage +method on dirty pages, and ->releasepage on clean pages with +PagePrivate set. Clean pages without PagePrivate and with no external +references will be released without notice being given to the +address_space. + +To achieve this functionality, pages need to be placed on an LRU with +lru_cache_add and mark_page_active needs to be called whenever the +page is used. + +Pages are normally kept in a radix tree index by ->index. This tree +maintains information about the PG_Dirty and PG_Writeback status of +each page, so that pages with either of these flags can be found +quickly. + +The Dirty tag is primarily used by mpage_writepages - the default +->writepages method. It uses the tag to find dirty pages to call +->writepage on. If mpage_writepages is not used (i.e. the address +provides its own ->writepages) , the PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY tag is +almost unused. write_inode_now and sync_inode do use it (through +__sync_single_inode) to check if ->writepages has been successful in +writing out the whole address_space. + +The Writeback tag is used by filemap*wait* and sync_page* functions, +via wait_on_page_writeback_range, to wait for all writeback to +complete. While waiting ->sync_page (if defined) will be called on +each page that is found to require writeback. + +An address_space handler may attach extra information to a page, +typically using the 'private' field in the 'struct page'. If such +information is attached, the PG_Private flag should be set. This will +cause various VM routines to make extra calls into the address_space +handler to deal with that data. + +An address space acts as an intermediate between storage and +application. Data is read into the address space a whole page at a +time, and provided to the application either by copying of the page, +or by memory-mapping the page. +Data is written into the address space by the application, and then +written-back to storage typically in whole pages, however the +address_space has finer control of write sizes. + +The read process essentially only requires 'readpage'. The write +process is more complicated and uses prepare_write/commit_write or +set_page_dirty to write data into the address_space, and writepage, +sync_page, and writepages to writeback data to storage. + +Adding and removing pages to/from an address_space is protected by the +inode's i_mutex. + +When data is written to a page, the PG_Dirty flag should be set. It +typically remains set until writepage asks for it to be written. This +should clear PG_Dirty and set PG_Writeback. It can be actually +written at any point after PG_Dirty is clear. Once it is known to be +safe, PG_Writeback is cleared. + +Writeback makes use of a writeback_control structure... struct address_space_operations ------------------------------- This describes how the VFS can manipulate mapping of a file to page cache in -your filesystem. As of kernel 2.6.13, the following members are defined: +your filesystem. As of kernel 2.6.16, the following members are defined: struct address_space_operations { int (*writepage)(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc); @@ -469,47 +541,148 @@ struct address_space_operations { loff_t offset, unsigned long nr_segs); struct page* (*get_xip_page)(struct address_space *, sector_t, int); + /* migrate the contents of a page to the specified target */ + int (*migratepage) (struct page *, struct page *); }; - writepage: called by the VM write a dirty page to backing store. + writepage: called by the VM to write a dirty page to backing store. + This may happen for data integrity reasons (i.e. 'sync'), or + to free up memory (flush). The difference can be seen in + wbc->sync_mode. + The PG_Dirty flag has been cleared and PageLocked is true. + writepage should start writeout, should set PG_Writeback, + and should make sure the page is unlocked, either synchronously + or asynchronously when the write operation completes. + + If wbc->sync_mode is WB_SYNC_NONE, ->writepage doesn't have to + try too hard if there are problems, and may choose to write out + other pages from the mapping if that is easier (e.g. due to + internal dependencies). If it chooses not to start writeout, it + should return AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE so that the VM will not keep + calling ->writepage on that page. + + See the file "Locking" for more details. readpage: called by the VM to read a page from backing store. + The page will be Locked when readpage is called, and should be + unlocked and marked uptodate once the read completes. + If ->readpage discovers that it needs to unlock the page for + some reason, it can do so, and then return AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE. + In this case, the page will be relocated, relocked and if + that all succeeds, ->readpage will be called again. sync_page: called by the VM to notify the backing store to perform all queued I/O operations for a page. I/O operations for other pages associated with this address_space object may also be performed. + This function is optional and is called only for pages with + PG_Writeback set while waiting for the writeback to complete. + writepages: called by the VM to write out pages associated with the - address_space object. + address_space object. If wbc->sync_mode is WBC_SYNC_ALL, then + the writeback_control will specify a range of pages that must be + written out. If it is WBC_SYNC_NONE, then a nr_to_write is given + and that many pages should be written if possible. + If no ->writepages is given, then mpage_writepages is used + instead. This will choose pages from the address space that are + tagged as DIRTY and will pass them to ->writepage. set_page_dirty: called by the VM to set a page dirty. + This is particularly needed if an address space attaches + private data to a page, and that data needs to be updated when + a page is dirtied. This is called, for example, when a memory + mapped page gets modified. + If defined, it should set the PageDirty flag, and the + PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY tag in the radix tree. readpages: called by the VM to read pages associated with the address_space - object. + object. This is essentially just a vector version of + readpage. Instead of just one page, several pages are + requested. + readpages is only used for read-ahead, so read errors are + ignored. If anything goes wrong, feel free to give up. prepare_write: called by the generic write path in VM to set up a write - request for a page. - - commit_write: called by the generic write path in VM to write page to - its backing store. + request for a page. This indicates to the address space that + the given range of bytes is about to be written. The + address_space should check that the write will be able to + complete, by allocating space if necessary and doing any other + internal housekeeping. If the write will update parts of + any basic-blocks on storage, then those blocks should be + pre-read (if they haven't been read already) so that the + updated blocks can be written out properly. + The page will be locked. If prepare_write wants to unlock the + page it, like readpage, may do so and return + AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE. + In this case the prepare_write will be retried one the lock is + regained. + + commit_write: If prepare_write succeeds, new data will be copied + into the page and then commit_write will be called. It will + typically update the size of the file (if appropriate) and + mark the inode as dirty, and do any other related housekeeping + operations. It should avoid returning an error if possible - + errors should have been handled by prepare_write. bmap: called by the VFS to map a logical block offset within object to - physical block number. This method is use by for the legacy FIBMAP - ioctl. Other uses are discouraged. - - invalidatepage: called by the VM on truncate to disassociate a page from its - address_space mapping. - - releasepage: called by the VFS to release filesystem specific metadata from - a page. - - direct_IO: called by the VM for direct I/O writes and reads. + physical block number. This method is used by the FIBMAP + ioctl and for working with swap-files. To be able to swap to + a file, the file must have a stable mapping to a block + device. The swap system does not go through the filesystem + but instead uses bmap to find out where the blocks in the file + are and uses those addresses directly. + + + invalidatepage: If a page has PagePrivate set, then invalidatepage + will be called when part or all of the page is to be removed + from the address space. This generally corresponds to either a + truncation or a complete invalidation of the address space + (in the latter case 'offset' will always be 0). + Any private data associated with the page should be updated + to reflect this truncation. If offset is 0, then + the private data should be released, because the page + must be able to be completely discarded. This may be done by + calling the ->releasepage function, but in this case the + release MUST succeed. + + releasepage: releasepage is called on PagePrivate pages to indicate + that the page should be freed if possible. ->releasepage + should remove any private data from the page and clear the + PagePrivate flag. It may also remove the page from the + address_space. If this fails for some reason, it may indicate + failure with a 0 return value. + This is used in two distinct though related cases. The first + is when the VM finds a clean page with no active users and + wants to make it a free page. If ->releasepage succeeds, the + page will be removed from the address_space and become free. + + The second case if when a request has been made to invalidate + some or all pages in an address_space. This can happen + through the fadvice(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) system call or by the + filesystem explicitly requesting it as nfs and 9fs do (when + they believe the cache may be out of date with storage) by + calling invalidate_inode_pages2(). + If the filesystem makes such a call, and needs to be certain + that all pages are invalidated, then its releasepage will + need to ensure this. Possibly it can clear the PageUptodate + bit if it cannot free private data yet. + + direct_IO: called by the generic read/write routines to perform + direct_IO - that is IO requests which bypass the page cache + and transfer data directly between the storage and the + application's address space. get_xip_page: called by the VM to translate a block number to a page. The page is valid until the corresponding filesystem is unmounted. Filesystems that want to use execute-in-place (XIP) need to implement it. An example implementation can be found in fs/ext2/xip.c. + migrate_page: This is used to compact the physical memory usage. + If the VM wants to relocate a page (maybe off a memory card + that is signalling imminent failure) it will pass a new page + and an old page to this function. migrate_page should + transfer any private data across and update any references + that it has to the page. The File Object =============== diff --git a/Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_driver.c b/Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_driver.c index d3ad2c24490aa4361ad83d841aca57607f83e5db..ad3edaba4533cf33d5452e5b4bb877455000c05b 100644 --- a/Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_driver.c +++ b/Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_driver.c @@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ char __init inkernel_firmware[] = "let's say that this is firmware\n"; #endif static struct device ghost_device = { - .name = "Ghost Device", .bus_id = "ghost0", }; @@ -92,7 +91,7 @@ static void sample_probe_async(void) { /* Let's say that I can't sleep */ int error; - error = request_firmware_nowait (THIS_MODULE, + error = request_firmware_nowait (THIS_MODULE, FW_ACTION_NOHOTPLUG, "sample_driver_fw", &ghost_device, "my device pointer", sample_probe_async_cont); diff --git a/Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_firmware_class.c b/Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_firmware_class.c index 57b956aecbc52c0d4c7402611edc83304870dad0..9e1b0e4051cd0546985b9985fd308d301d537c41 100644 --- a/Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_firmware_class.c +++ b/Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_firmware_class.c @@ -172,7 +172,6 @@ static void fw_remove_class_device(struct class_device *class_dev) static struct class_device *class_dev; static struct device my_device = { - .name = "Sample Device", .bus_id = "my_dev0", }; diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/w83627hf b/Documentation/hwmon/w83627hf index bbeaba68044352e3442bb31721156a1c9c5e105e..7922319212413c5e3a32be74495b18f339fc1e25 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/w83627hf +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/w83627hf @@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ Supported chips: Prefix: 'w83637hf' Addresses scanned: ISA address retrieved from Super I/O registers Datasheet: http://www.winbond.com/PDF/sheet/w83637hf.pdf + * Winbond W83687THF + Prefix: 'w83687thf' + Addresses scanned: ISA address retrieved from Super I/O registers + Datasheet: Provided by Winbond on request Authors: Frodo Looijaard , diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/w83781d b/Documentation/hwmon/w83781d index e5459333ba681041e7693ac21917c5f0350b15d3..b1e9f80098ee55af95aab64d26564f7fdfefa7f0 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/w83781d +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/w83781d @@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ Module parameters Use 'init=0' to bypass initializing the chip. Try this if your computer crashes when you load the module. +* reset int + (default 0) + The driver used to reset the chip on load, but does no more. Use + 'reset=1' to restore the old behavior. Report if you need to do this. + force_subclients=bus,caddr,saddr,saddr This is used to force the i2c addresses for subclients of a certain chip. Typical usage is `force_subclients=0,0x2d,0x4a,0x4b' @@ -123,6 +128,25 @@ When an alarm goes off, you can be warned by a beeping signal through your computer speaker. It is possible to enable all beeping globally, or only the beeping for some alarms. +Individual alarm and beep bits: + +0x000001: in0 +0x000002: in1 +0x000004: in2 +0x000008: in3 +0x000010: temp1 +0x000020: temp2 (+temp3 on W83781D) +0x000040: fan1 +0x000080: fan2 +0x000100: in4 +0x000200: in5 +0x000400: in6 +0x000800: fan3 +0x001000: chassis +0x002000: temp3 (W83782D and W83627HF only) +0x010000: in7 (W83782D and W83627HF only) +0x020000: in8 (W83782D and W83627HF only) + If an alarm triggers, it will remain triggered until the hardware register is read at least once. This means that the cause for the alarm may already have disappeared! Note that in the current implementation, all diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4 b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4 index 856b4b8b962cccd08dbdf5c10a6a45aed2b63e5a..a1c8f581afeda64a9265f66da067efc35446d2b2 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4 +++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Supported adapters: * Intel 82371AB PIIX4 and PIIX4E * Intel 82443MX (440MX) Datasheet: Publicly available at the Intel website - * ServerWorks OSB4, CSB5 and CSB6 southbridges + * ServerWorks OSB4, CSB5, CSB6 and HT-1000 southbridges Datasheet: Only available via NDA from ServerWorks * Standard Microsystems (SMSC) SLC90E66 (Victory66) southbridge Datasheet: Publicly available at the SMSC website http://www.smsc.com diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/scx200_acb b/Documentation/i2c/busses/scx200_acb index 08c8cd1df60c505eb5328c2028a38e73ef45a5fe..f50e69981ec6570357acdfd6a6a825609f9fe6c7 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/scx200_acb +++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/scx200_acb @@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ Module Parameters ----------------- * base: int - Base addresses for the ACCESS.bus controllers + Base addresses for the ACCESS.bus controllers on SCx200 and SC1100 devices Description ----------- -Enable the use of the ACCESS.bus controllers of a SCx200 processor. +Enable the use of the ACCESS.bus controller on the Geode SCx200 and +SC1100 processors and the CS5535 and CS5536 Geode companion devices. diff --git a/Documentation/ioctl-number.txt b/Documentation/ioctl-number.txt index aa7ba00ec082adb2818b18bfd0026374d7412df3..171a44ebd939175e4bf1f8ff0821773babd0eb9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/ioctl-number.txt +++ b/Documentation/ioctl-number.txt @@ -78,8 +78,6 @@ Code Seq# Include File Comments '#' 00-3F IEEE 1394 Subsystem Block for the entire subsystem '1' 00-1F PPS kit from Ulrich Windl -'6' 00-10 Intel IA32 microcode update driver - '8' all SNP8023 advanced NIC card 'A' 00-1F linux/apm_bios.h diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt index 443230b43e092804b7573a16619e4b668803d864..a9c00facdf401103a2ef7cb1301694c34a49432d 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ This document describes the Linux kernel Makefiles. --- 3.8 Command line dependency --- 3.9 Dependency tracking --- 3.10 Special Rules + --- 3.11 $(CC) support functions === 4 Host Program support --- 4.1 Simple Host Program @@ -38,7 +39,6 @@ This document describes the Linux kernel Makefiles. --- 6.6 Commands useful for building a boot image --- 6.7 Custom kbuild commands --- 6.8 Preprocessing linker scripts - --- 6.9 $(CC) support functions === 7 Kbuild Variables === 8 Makefile language @@ -106,9 +106,9 @@ This document is aimed towards normal developers and arch developers. Most Makefiles within the kernel are kbuild Makefiles that use the kbuild infrastructure. This chapter introduce the syntax used in the kbuild makefiles. -The preferred name for the kbuild files is 'Kbuild' but 'Makefile' will -continue to be supported. All new developmen is expected to use the -Kbuild filename. +The preferred name for the kbuild files are 'Makefile' but 'Kbuild' can +be used and if both a 'Makefile' and a 'Kbuild' file exists then the 'Kbuild' +file will be used. Section 3.1 "Goal definitions" is a quick intro, further chapters provide more details, with real examples. @@ -385,6 +385,102 @@ more details, with real examples. to prerequisites are referenced with $(src) (because they are not generated files). +--- 3.11 $(CC) support functions + + The kernel may be build with several different versions of + $(CC), each supporting a unique set of features and options. + kbuild provide basic support to check for valid options for $(CC). + $(CC) is useally the gcc compiler, but other alternatives are + available. + + as-option + as-option is used to check if $(CC) when used to compile + assembler (*.S) files supports the given option. An optional + second option may be specified if first option are not supported. + + Example: + #arch/sh/Makefile + cflags-y += $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-isa=$(isa-y),) + + In the above example cflags-y will be assinged the the option + -Wa$(comma)-isa=$(isa-y) if it is supported by $(CC). + The second argument is optional, and if supplied will be used + if first argument is not supported. + + cc-option + cc-option is used to check if $(CC) support a given option, and not + supported to use an optional second option. + + Example: + #arch/i386/Makefile + cflags-y += $(call cc-option,-march=pentium-mmx,-march=i586) + + In the above example cflags-y will be assigned the option + -march=pentium-mmx if supported by $(CC), otherwise -march-i586. + The second argument to cc-option is optional, and if omitted + cflags-y will be assigned no value if first option is not supported. + + cc-option-yn + cc-option-yn is used to check if gcc supports a given option + and return 'y' if supported, otherwise 'n'. + + Example: + #arch/ppc/Makefile + biarch := $(call cc-option-yn, -m32) + aflags-$(biarch) += -a32 + cflags-$(biarch) += -m32 + + In the above example $(biarch) is set to y if $(CC) supports the -m32 + option. When $(biarch) equals to y the expanded variables $(aflags-y) + and $(cflags-y) will be assigned the values -a32 and -m32. + + cc-option-align + gcc version >= 3.0 shifted type of options used to speify + alignment of functions, loops etc. $(cc-option-align) whrn used + as prefix to the align options will select the right prefix: + gcc < 3.00 + cc-option-align = -malign + gcc >= 3.00 + cc-option-align = -falign + + Example: + CFLAGS += $(cc-option-align)-functions=4 + + In the above example the option -falign-functions=4 is used for + gcc >= 3.00. For gcc < 3.00 -malign-functions=4 is used. + + cc-version + cc-version return a numerical version of the $(CC) compiler version. + The format is where both are two digits. So for example + gcc 3.41 would return 0341. + cc-version is useful when a specific $(CC) version is faulty in one + area, for example the -mregparm=3 were broken in some gcc version + even though the option was accepted by gcc. + + Example: + #arch/i386/Makefile + cflags-y += $(shell \ + if [ $(call cc-version) -ge 0300 ] ; then \ + echo "-mregparm=3"; fi ;) + + In the above example -mregparm=3 is only used for gcc version greater + than or equal to gcc 3.0. + + cc-ifversion + cc-ifversion test the version of $(CC) and equals last argument if + version expression is true. + + Example: + #fs/reiserfs/Makefile + EXTRA_CFLAGS := $(call cc-ifversion, -lt, 0402, -O1) + + In this example EXTRA_CFLAGS will be assigned the value -O1 if the + $(CC) version is less than 4.2. + cc-ifversion takes all the shell operators: + -eq, -ne, -lt, -le, -gt, and -ge + The third parameter may be a text as in this example, but it may also + be an expanded variable or a macro. + === 4 Host Program support @@ -973,74 +1069,6 @@ When kbuild executes the following steps are followed (roughly): architecture specific files. ---- 6.9 $(CC) support functions - - The kernel may be build with several different versions of - $(CC), each supporting a unique set of features and options. - kbuild provide basic support to check for valid options for $(CC). - $(CC) is useally the gcc compiler, but other alternatives are - available. - - cc-option - cc-option is used to check if $(CC) support a given option, and not - supported to use an optional second option. - - Example: - #arch/i386/Makefile - cflags-y += $(call cc-option,-march=pentium-mmx,-march=i586) - - In the above example cflags-y will be assigned the option - -march=pentium-mmx if supported by $(CC), otherwise -march-i586. - The second argument to cc-option is optional, and if omitted - cflags-y will be assigned no value if first option is not supported. - - cc-option-yn - cc-option-yn is used to check if gcc supports a given option - and return 'y' if supported, otherwise 'n'. - - Example: - #arch/ppc/Makefile - biarch := $(call cc-option-yn, -m32) - aflags-$(biarch) += -a32 - cflags-$(biarch) += -m32 - - In the above example $(biarch) is set to y if $(CC) supports the -m32 - option. When $(biarch) equals to y the expanded variables $(aflags-y) - and $(cflags-y) will be assigned the values -a32 and -m32. - - cc-option-align - gcc version >= 3.0 shifted type of options used to speify - alignment of functions, loops etc. $(cc-option-align) whrn used - as prefix to the align options will select the right prefix: - gcc < 3.00 - cc-option-align = -malign - gcc >= 3.00 - cc-option-align = -falign - - Example: - CFLAGS += $(cc-option-align)-functions=4 - - In the above example the option -falign-functions=4 is used for - gcc >= 3.00. For gcc < 3.00 -malign-functions=4 is used. - - cc-version - cc-version return a numerical version of the $(CC) compiler version. - The format is where both are two digits. So for example - gcc 3.41 would return 0341. - cc-version is useful when a specific $(CC) version is faulty in one - area, for example the -mregparm=3 were broken in some gcc version - even though the option was accepted by gcc. - - Example: - #arch/i386/Makefile - cflags-y += $(shell \ - if [ $(call cc-version) -ge 0300 ] ; then \ - echo "-mregparm=3"; fi ;) - - In the above example -mregparm=3 is only used for gcc version greater - than or equal to gcc 3.0. - - === 7 Kbuild Variables The top Makefile exports the following variables: diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt index 7e77f93634ea507569e3554434fe7978767d7fba..fcccf2432f98ff48d8d87b040c92e9ab5a8ef01a 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ In this document you will find information about: --- 2.2 Available targets --- 2.3 Available options --- 2.4 Preparing the kernel tree for module build + --- 2.5 Building separate files for a module === 3. Example commands === 4. Creating a kbuild file for an external module === 5. Include files @@ -22,7 +23,10 @@ In this document you will find information about: === 6. Module installation --- 6.1 INSTALL_MOD_PATH --- 6.2 INSTALL_MOD_DIR - === 7. Module versioning + === 7. Module versioning & Module.symvers + --- 7.1 Symbols fron the kernel (vmlinux + modules) + --- 7.2 Symbols and external modules + --- 7.3 Symbols from another external module === 8. Tips & Tricks --- 8.1 Testing for CONFIG_FOO_BAR @@ -88,7 +92,8 @@ when building an external module. make -C $KDIR M=$PWD modules_install Install the external module(s). Installation default is in /lib/modules//extra, - but may be prefixed with INSTALL_MOD_PATH - see separate chapter. + but may be prefixed with INSTALL_MOD_PATH - see separate + chapter. make -C $KDIR M=$PWD clean Remove all generated files for the module - the kernel @@ -131,6 +136,16 @@ when building an external module. Therefore a full kernel build needs to be executed to make module versioning work. +--- 2.5 Building separate files for a module + It is possible to build single files which is part of a module. + This works equal for the kernel, a module and even for external + modules. + Examples (module foo.ko, consist of bar.o, baz.o): + make -C $KDIR M=`pwd` bar.lst + make -C $KDIR M=`pwd` bar.o + make -C $KDIR M=`pwd` foo.ko + make -C $KDIR M=`pwd` / + === 3. Example commands @@ -422,7 +437,7 @@ External modules are installed in the directory: => Install dir: /lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/gandalf -=== 7. Module versioning +=== 7. Module versioning & Module.symvers Module versioning is enabled by the CONFIG_MODVERSIONS tag. @@ -432,11 +447,80 @@ when a module is loaded/used then the CRC values contained in the kernel are compared with similar values in the module. If they are not equal then the kernel refuses to load the module. -During a kernel build a file named Module.symvers will be generated. This -file includes the symbol version of all symbols within the kernel. If the -Module.symvers file is saved from the last full kernel compile one does not -have to do a full kernel compile to build a module version's compatible module. +Module.symvers contains a list of all exported symbols from a kernel build. + +--- 7.1 Symbols fron the kernel (vmlinux + modules) + + During a kernel build a file named Module.symvers will be generated. + Module.symvers contains all exported symbols from the kernel and + compiled modules. For each symbols the corresponding CRC value + is stored too. + + The syntax of the Module.symvers file is: + + Sample: + 0x2d036834 scsi_remove_host drivers/scsi/scsi_mod + For a kernel build without CONFIG_MODVERSIONING enabled the crc + would read: 0x00000000 + + Module.symvers serve two purposes. + 1) It list all exported symbols both from vmlinux and all modules + 2) It list CRC if CONFIG_MODVERSION is enabled + +--- 7.2 Symbols and external modules + + When building an external module the build system needs access to + the symbols from the kernel to check if all external symbols are + defined. This is done in the MODPOST step and to obtain all + symbols modpost reads Module.symvers from the kernel. + If a Module.symvers file is present in the directory where + the external module is being build this file will be read too. + During the MODPOST step a new Module.symvers file will be written + containing all exported symbols that was not defined in the kernel. + +--- 7.3 Symbols from another external module + + Sometimes one external module uses exported symbols from another + external module. Kbuild needs to have full knowledge on all symbols + to avoid spitting out warnings about undefined symbols. + Two solutions exist to let kbuild know all symbols of more than + one external module. + The method with a top-level kbuild file is recommended but may be + impractical in certain situations. + + Use a top-level Kbuild file + If you have two modules: 'foo', 'bar' and 'foo' needs symbols + from 'bar' then one can use a common top-level kbuild file so + both modules are compiled in same build. + + Consider following directory layout: + ./foo/ <= contains the foo module + ./bar/ <= contains the bar module + The top-level Kbuild file would then look like: + + #./Kbuild: (this file may also be named Makefile) + obj-y := foo/ bar/ + + Executing: + make -C $KDIR M=`pwd` + + will then do the expected and compile both modules with full + knowledge on symbols from both modules. + + Use an extra Module.symvers file + When an external module is build a Module.symvers file is + generated containing all exported symbols which are not + defined in the kernel. + To get access to symbols from module 'bar' one can copy the + Module.symvers file from the compilation of the 'bar' module + to the directory where the 'foo' module is build. + During the module build kbuild will read the Module.symvers + file in the directory of the external module and when the + build is finished a new Module.symvers file is created + containing the sum of all symbols defined and not part of the + kernel. + === 8. Tips & Tricks --- 8.1 Testing for CONFIG_FOO_BAR diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index fc99075e0af47f0b73a2ae2dfb7d19920c604dea..f8cb55c30b0fb4d3c8a9931d15c0eedb13684b46 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ restrictions referred to are that the relevant option is valid if: MCA MCA bus support is enabled. MDA MDA console support is enabled. MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled. + MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI). MTD MTD support is enabled. NET Appropriate network support is enabled. NUMA NUMA support is enabled. @@ -366,12 +367,17 @@ running once the system is up. tty Use the virtual console device . ttyS[,options] + ttyUSB0[,options] Use the specified serial port. The options are of - the form "bbbbpn", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, - "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), and "n" is bits. - Default is "9600n8". + the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, + "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of + bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or + omit it). Default is "9600n8". - See also Documentation/serial-console.txt. + See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more + information. See + Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an + alternative. uart,io,[,options] uart,mmio,[,options] @@ -1008,7 +1014,9 @@ running once the system is up. noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) noexec=off: disable nn-executable mappings - nofxsr [BUGS=IA-32] + nofxsr [BUGS=IA-32] Disables x86 floating point extended + register save and restore. The kernel will only save + legacy floating-point registers on task switch. nohlt [BUGS=ARM] @@ -1053,6 +1061,8 @@ running once the system is up. nosbagart [IA-64] + nosep [BUGS=IA-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. + nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel. nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. @@ -1122,6 +1132,11 @@ running once the system is up. pas16= [HW,SCSI] See header of drivers/scsi/pas16.c. + pause_on_oops= + Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for + the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if + your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. + pcbit= [HW,ISDN] pcd. [PARIDE] @@ -1143,6 +1158,9 @@ running once the system is up. Mechanism 2. nommconf [IA-32,X86_64] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI Configuration + nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is + enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to + disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. nosort [IA-32] Don't sort PCI devices according to order given by the PCI BIOS. This sorting is done to get a device order compatible with diff --git a/Documentation/m68k/README.buddha b/Documentation/m68k/README.buddha index bf802ffc98ad1c134ea32a69a01fcb48259554aa..ef484a719bb9d528cdce84cbecbfbb06f3c6bf69 100644 --- a/Documentation/m68k/README.buddha +++ b/Documentation/m68k/README.buddha @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ address is written to $4a, then the whole Byte is written to $48, while it doesn't matter how often you're writing to $4a as long as $48 is not touched. After $48 has been written, the whole card disappears from $e8 and is mapped to the new -address just written. Make shure $4a is written before $48, +address just written. Make sure $4a is written before $48, otherwise your chance is only 1:16 to find the board :-). The local memory-map is even active when mapped to $e8: diff --git a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX index 5b01d5cc4e95b8d2087d3dc1039094bfab34f56f..b1181ce232d987453f13917904a3f1ba180125f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX @@ -92,8 +92,6 @@ routing.txt - the new routing mechanism shaper.txt - info on the module that can shape/limit transmitted traffic. -sis900.txt - - SiS 900/7016 Fast Ethernet device driver info. sk98lin.txt - Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx compliant Gigabit Ethernet Adapter family driver info diff --git a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100 b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100 index 3ab40379d1cf53f7e0b593efc5597f16ab6386bf..f3fcaa41f7744c52f3edc7f3bc72f1f4e54d0df7 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100 +++ b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100 @@ -3,18 +3,18 @@ Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Driver for Linux in support of: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection -Copyright (C) 2003-2005, Intel Corporation +Copyright (C) 2003-2006, Intel Corporation README.ipw2100 -Version: 1.1.3 -Date : October 17, 2005 +Version: git-1.1.5 +Date : January 25, 2006 Index ----------------------------------------------- 0. IMPORTANT INFORMATION BEFORE USING THIS DRIVER 1. Introduction -2. Release 1.1.3 Current Features +2. Release git-1.1.5 Current Features 3. Command Line Parameters 4. Sysfs Helper Files 5. Radio Kill Switch @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ potential fixes and patches, as well as links to the development mailing list for the driver project. -2. Release 1.1.3 Current Supported Features +2. Release git-1.1.5 Current Supported Features ----------------------------------------------- - Managed (BSS) and Ad-Hoc (IBSS) - WEP (shared key and open) @@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ For installation support on the ipw2100 1.1.0 driver on Linux kernels 9. License ----------------------------------------------- - Copyright(c) 2003 - 2005 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. + Copyright(c) 2003 - 2006 Intel Corporation. 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 (version 2) as diff --git a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 index c6492d3839fabaf4b73a6670ca1cb1aae2d6769d..acb30c5dcff333e11f9f9fd72957b71b3a9af02c 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 +++ b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ both hardware adapters listed above. In this document the Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Driver for Linux will be used to reference the unified driver. -Copyright (C) 2004-2005, Intel Corporation +Copyright (C) 2004-2006, Intel Corporation README.ipw2200 @@ -26,9 +26,11 @@ Index 1.2. Module parameters 1.3. Wireless Extension Private Methods 1.4. Sysfs Helper Files +1.5. Supported channels 2. Ad-Hoc Networking 3. Interacting with Wireless Tools 3.1. iwconfig mode +3.2. iwconfig sens 4. About the Version Numbers 5. Firmware installation 6. Support @@ -314,6 +316,35 @@ For the device level files, see /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200: running ifconfig and is therefore disabled by default. +1.5. Supported channels +----------------------------------------------- + +Upon loading the Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Driver for Linux, a +message stating the detected geography code and the number of 802.11 +channels supported by the card will be displayed in the log. + +The geography code corresponds to a regulatory domain as shown in the +table below. + + Supported channels +Code Geography 802.11bg 802.11a + +--- Restricted 11 0 +ZZF Custom US/Canada 11 8 +ZZD Rest of World 13 0 +ZZA Custom USA & Europe & High 11 13 +ZZB Custom NA & Europe 11 13 +ZZC Custom Japan 11 4 +ZZM Custom 11 0 +ZZE Europe 13 19 +ZZJ Custom Japan 14 4 +ZZR Rest of World 14 0 +ZZH High Band 13 4 +ZZG Custom Europe 13 4 +ZZK Europe 13 24 +ZZL Europe 11 13 + + 2. Ad-Hoc Networking ----------------------------------------------- @@ -353,6 +384,15 @@ When configuring the mode of the adapter, all run-time configured parameters are reset to the value used when the module was loaded. This includes channels, rates, ESSID, etc. +3.2 iwconfig sens +----------------------------------------------- + +The 'iwconfig ethX sens XX' command will not set the signal sensitivity +threshold, as described in iwconfig documentation, but rather the number +of consecutive missed beacons that will trigger handover, i.e. roaming +to another access point. At the same time, it will set the disassociation +threshold to 3 times the given value. + 4. About the Version Numbers ----------------------------------------------- @@ -408,7 +448,7 @@ For general information and support, go to: 7. License ----------------------------------------------- - Copyright(c) 2003 - 2005 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. + Copyright(c) 2003 - 2006 Intel Corporation. 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 version 2 as diff --git a/Documentation/networking/TODO b/Documentation/networking/TODO deleted file mode 100644 index 66d36ff14bae8ca20db6dac128ab1cc65554ca8a..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 --- a/Documentation/networking/TODO +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -To-do items for network drivers -------------------------------- - -* Move ethernet crc routine to generic code - -* (for 2.5) Integrate Jamal Hadi Salim's netdev Rx polling API change - -* Audit all net drivers to make sure magic packet / wake-on-lan / - similar features are disabled in the driver by default. - -* Audit all net drivers to make sure the module always prints out a - version string when loaded as a module, but only prints a version - string when built into the kernel if a device is detected. - -* Add ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO ioctl support to all ethernet drivers. - -* dmfe PCI DMA is totally wrong and only works on x86 - diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bcm43xx.txt b/Documentation/networking/bcm43xx.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..28541d2bee1ef3e16c42027c481bcc6d7f4cd0f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/bcm43xx.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ + + BCM43xx Linux Driver Project + ============================ + +About this software +------------------- + +The goal of this project is to develop a linux driver for Broadcom +BCM43xx chips, based on the specification at +http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net/ + +The project page is http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ + + +Requirements +------------ + +1) Linux Kernel 2.6.16 or later + http://www.kernel.org/ + + You may want to configure your kernel with: + + CONFIG_DEBUG_FS (optional): + -> Kernel hacking + -> Debug Filesystem + +2) SoftMAC IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack extension and patched ieee80211 + modules: + http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/ + +3) Firmware Files + + Please try fwcutter. Fwcutter can extract the firmware from various + binary driver files. It supports driver files from Windows, MacOS and + Linux. You can get fwcutter from http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/. + Also, fwcutter comes with a README file for further instructions. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/e100.txt b/Documentation/networking/e100.txt index 4ef9f7cd5dc33ac4de83bb49fe952a90cb190dc8..944aa55e79f83386ce8c92599d8c9c989f5f6065 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/e100.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/e100.txt @@ -1,16 +1,17 @@ Linux* Base Driver for the Intel(R) PRO/100 Family of Adapters ============================================================== -November 17, 2004 - +November 15, 2005 Contents ======== - In This Release - Identifying Your Adapter +- Building and Installation - Driver Configuration Parameters - Additional Configurations +- Known Issues - Support @@ -18,18 +19,30 @@ In This Release =============== This file describes the Linux* Base Driver for the Intel(R) PRO/100 Family of -Adapters, version 3.3.x. This driver supports 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels. +Adapters. This driver includes support for Itanium(R)2-based systems. + +For questions related to hardware requirements, refer to the documentation +supplied with your Intel PRO/100 adapter. + +The following features are now available in supported kernels: + - Native VLANs + - Channel Bonding (teaming) + - SNMP + +Channel Bonding documentation can be found in the Linux kernel source: +/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt + Identifying Your Adapter ======================== -For more information on how to identify your adapter, go to the Adapter & +For more information on how to identify your adapter, go to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm -For the latest Intel network drivers for Linux, refer to the following -website. In the search field, enter your adapter name or type, or use the +For the latest Intel network drivers for Linux, refer to the following +website. In the search field, enter your adapter name or type, or use the networking link on the left to search for your adapter: http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/support_intel.asp @@ -40,73 +53,75 @@ Driver Configuration Parameters The default value for each parameter is generally the recommended setting, unless otherwise noted. -Rx Descriptors: Number of receive descriptors. A receive descriptor is a data - structure that describes a receive buffer and its attributes to the network - controller. The data in the descriptor is used by the controller to write - data from the controller to host memory. In the 3.0.x driver the valid - range for this parameter is 64-256. The default value is 64. This parameter - can be changed using the command - +Rx Descriptors: Number of receive descriptors. A receive descriptor is a data + structure that describes a receive buffer and its attributes to the network + controller. The data in the descriptor is used by the controller to write + data from the controller to host memory. In the 3.x.x driver the valid range + for this parameter is 64-256. The default value is 64. This parameter can be + changed using the command: + ethtool -G eth? rx n, where n is the number of desired rx descriptors. -Tx Descriptors: Number of transmit descriptors. A transmit descriptor is a - data structure that describes a transmit buffer and its attributes to the - network controller. The data in the descriptor is used by the controller to - read data from the host memory to the controller. In the 3.0.x driver the - valid range for this parameter is 64-256. The default value is 64. This - parameter can be changed using the command +Tx Descriptors: Number of transmit descriptors. A transmit descriptor is a data + structure that describes a transmit buffer and its attributes to the network + controller. The data in the descriptor is used by the controller to read + data from the host memory to the controller. In the 3.x.x driver the valid + range for this parameter is 64-256. The default value is 64. This parameter + can be changed using the command: ethtool -G eth? tx n, where n is the number of desired tx descriptors. -Speed/Duplex: The driver auto-negotiates the link speed and duplex settings by - default. Ethtool can be used as follows to force speed/duplex. +Speed/Duplex: The driver auto-negotiates the link speed and duplex settings by + default. Ethtool can be used as follows to force speed/duplex. ethtool -s eth? autoneg off speed {10|100} duplex {full|half} NOTE: setting the speed/duplex to incorrect values will cause the link to fail. -Event Log Message Level: The driver uses the message level flag to log events - to syslog. The message level can be set at driver load time. It can also be - set using the command +Event Log Message Level: The driver uses the message level flag to log events + to syslog. The message level can be set at driver load time. It can also be + set using the command: ethtool -s eth? msglvl n + Additional Configurations ========================= Configuring the Driver on Different Distributions ------------------------------------------------- - Configuring a network driver to load properly when the system is started is - distribution dependent. Typically, the configuration process involves adding - an alias line to /etc/modules.conf as well as editing other system startup - scripts and/or configuration files. Many popular Linux distributions ship - with tools to make these changes for you. To learn the proper way to - configure a network device for your system, refer to your distribution - documentation. If during this process you are asked for the driver or module - name, the name for the Linux Base Driver for the Intel PRO/100 Family of - Adapters is e100. + Configuring a network driver to load properly when the system is started is + distribution dependent. Typically, the configuration process involves adding + an alias line to /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe.conf as well as editing + other system startup scripts and/or configuration files. Many popular Linux + distributions ship with tools to make these changes for you. To learn the + proper way to configure a network device for your system, refer to your + distribution documentation. If during this process you are asked for the + driver or module name, the name for the Linux Base Driver for the Intel + PRO/100 Family of Adapters is e100. - As an example, if you install the e100 driver for two PRO/100 adapters - (eth0 and eth1), add the following to modules.conf: + As an example, if you install the e100 driver for two PRO/100 adapters + (eth0 and eth1), add the following to modules.conf or modprobe.conf: alias eth0 e100 alias eth1 e100 Viewing Link Messages --------------------- - In order to see link messages and other Intel driver information on your - console, you must set the dmesg level up to six. This can be done by - entering the following on the command line before loading the e100 driver: + In order to see link messages and other Intel driver information on your + console, you must set the dmesg level up to six. This can be done by + entering the following on the command line before loading the e100 driver: dmesg -n 8 - If you wish to see all messages issued by the driver, including debug + If you wish to see all messages issued by the driver, including debug messages, set the dmesg level to eight. NOTE: This setting is not saved across reboots. + Ethtool ------- @@ -114,29 +129,27 @@ Additional Configurations diagnostics, as well as displaying statistical information. Ethtool version 1.6 or later is required for this functionality. - The latest release of ethtool can be found at: - http://sf.net/projects/gkernel. + The latest release of ethtool can be found from + http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel. - NOTE: This driver uses mii support from the kernel. As a result, when - there is no link, ethtool will report speed/duplex to be 10/half. + NOTE: Ethtool 1.6 only supports a limited set of ethtool options. Support + for a more complete ethtool feature set can be enabled by upgrading + ethtool to ethtool-1.8.1. - NOTE: Ethtool 1.6 only supports a limited set of ethtool options. Support - for a more complete ethtool feature set can be enabled by upgrading - ethtool to ethtool-1.8.1. Enabling Wake on LAN* (WoL) --------------------------- - WoL is provided through the Ethtool* utility. Ethtool is included with Red - Hat* 8.0. For other Linux distributions, download and install Ethtool from - the following website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel. + WoL is provided through the Ethtool* utility. Ethtool is included with Red + Hat* 8.0. For other Linux distributions, download and install Ethtool from + the following website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel. - For instructions on enabling WoL with Ethtool, refer to the Ethtool man - page. + For instructions on enabling WoL with Ethtool, refer to the Ethtool man page. WoL will be enabled on the system during the next shut down or reboot. For - this driver version, in order to enable WoL, the e100 driver must be + this driver version, in order to enable WoL, the e100 driver must be loaded when shutting down or rebooting the system. + NAPI ---- @@ -144,6 +157,25 @@ Additional Configurations See www.cyberus.ca/~hadi/usenix-paper.tgz for more information on NAPI. + Multiple Interfaces on Same Ethernet Broadcast Network + ------------------------------------------------------ + + Due to the default ARP behavior on Linux, it is not possible to have + one system on two IP networks in the same Ethernet broadcast domain + (non-partitioned switch) behave as expected. All Ethernet interfaces + will respond to IP traffic for any IP address assigned to the system. + This results in unbalanced receive traffic. + + If you have multiple interfaces in a server, either turn on ARP + filtering by + + (1) entering: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/arp_filter + (this only works if your kernel's version is higher than 2.4.5), or + + (2) installing the interfaces in separate broadcast domains (either + in different switches or in a switch partitioned to VLANs). + + Support ======= @@ -151,20 +183,24 @@ For general information, go to the Intel support website at: http://support.intel.com + or the Intel Wired Networking project hosted by Sourceforge at: + + http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000 + If an issue is identified with the released source code on the supported -kernel with a supported adapter, email the specific information related to -the issue to linux.nics@intel.com. +kernel with a supported adapter, email the specific information related to the +issue to e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. License ======= -This software program is released under the terms of a license agreement -between you ('Licensee') and Intel. Do not use or load this software or any -associated materials (collectively, the 'Software') until you have carefully -read the full terms and conditions of the LICENSE located in this software -package. By loading or using the Software, you agree to the terms of this -Agreement. If you do not agree with the terms of this Agreement, do not -install or use the Software. +This software program is released under the terms of a license agreement +between you ('Licensee') and Intel. Do not use or load this software or any +associated materials (collectively, the 'Software') until you have carefully +read the full terms and conditions of the file COPYING located in this software +package. By loading or using the Software, you agree to the terms of this +Agreement. If you do not agree with the terms of this Agreement, do not install +or use the Software. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt b/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt index 2ebd4058d46d4b3b17df8d2b04310a47ffd1baf4..71fe15af356cda609a2a0abae7b11bff1be1df0a 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Linux* Base Driver for the Intel(R) PRO/1000 Family of Adapters =============================================================== -November 17, 2004 +November 15, 2005 Contents @@ -20,254 +20,316 @@ In This Release =============== This file describes the Linux* Base Driver for the Intel(R) PRO/1000 Family -of Adapters, version 5.x.x. +of Adapters. This driver includes support for Itanium(R)2-based systems. -For questions related to hardware requirements, refer to the documentation -supplied with your Intel PRO/1000 adapter. All hardware requirements listed +For questions related to hardware requirements, refer to the documentation +supplied with your Intel PRO/1000 adapter. All hardware requirements listed apply to use with Linux. -Native VLANs are now available with supported kernels. +The following features are now available in supported kernels: + - Native VLANs + - Channel Bonding (teaming) + - SNMP + +Channel Bonding documentation can be found in the Linux kernel source: +/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt + +The driver information previously displayed in the /proc filesystem is not +supported in this release. Alternatively, you can use ethtool (version 1.6 +or later), lspci, and ifconfig to obtain the same information. + +Instructions on updating ethtool can be found in the section "Additional +Configurations" later in this document. + Identifying Your Adapter ======================== -For more information on how to identify your adapter, go to the Adapter & +For more information on how to identify your adapter, go to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm -For the latest Intel network drivers for Linux, refer to the following -website. In the search field, enter your adapter name or type, or use the +For the latest Intel network drivers for Linux, refer to the following +website. In the search field, enter your adapter name or type, or use the networking link on the left to search for your adapter: http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/support_intel.asp -Command Line Parameters -======================= -If the driver is built as a module, the following optional parameters are -used by entering them on the command line with the modprobe or insmod command -using this syntax: +Command Line Parameters ======================= + +If the driver is built as a module, the following optional parameters +are used by entering them on the command line with the modprobe or insmod +command using this syntax: modprobe e1000 [