Merge branch 'linus' into irq/core

Reason: Get the upstream IRQF_DISABLED related changes.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

19 files changed, 527 insertions, 33 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
index 52618ab..52618ab 100644
--- a/Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl
index 8bca1d5..e8473ea 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl
@@ -16,6 +16,15 @@
      </address>
     </affiliation>
    </author>
+   <author>
+    <firstname>William</firstname>
+    <surname>Cohen</surname>
+    <affiliation>
+     <address>
+      <email>wcohen@redhat.com</email>
+     </address>
+    </affiliation>
+   </author>
   </authorgroup>
 
   <legalnotice>
@@ -91,4 +100,8 @@
 !Iinclude/trace/events/signal.h
   </chapter>
 
+  <chapter id="block">
+   <title>Block IO</title>
+!Iinclude/trace/events/block.h
+  </chapter>
 </book>
diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
index 6fab97e..508b5b2 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
@@ -1162,8 +1162,8 @@ where a driver received a request ala this before:
 
 As mentioned, there is no virtual mapping of a bio. For DMA, this is
 not a problem as the driver probably never will need a virtual mapping.
-Instead it needs a bus mapping (pci_map_page for a single segment or
-use blk_rq_map_sg for scatter gather) to be able to ship it to the driver. For
+Instead it needs a bus mapping (dma_map_page for a single segment or
+use dma_map_sg for scatter gather) to be able to ship it to the driver. For
 PIO drivers (or drivers that need to revert to PIO transfer once in a
 while (IDE for example)), where the CPU is doing the actual data
 transfer a virtual mapping is needed. If the driver supports highmem I/O,
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
index f8bc802..3a6aecd 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ Note:
 5.3 swappiness
   Similar to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but affecting a hierarchy of groups only.
 
-  Following cgroups' swapiness can't be changed.
+  Following cgroups' swappiness can't be changed.
   - root cgroup (uses /proc/sys/vm/swappiness).
   - a cgroup which uses hierarchy and it has child cgroup.
   - a cgroup which uses hierarchy and not the root of hierarchy.
diff --git a/Documentation/circular-buffers.txt b/Documentation/circular-buffers.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8117e5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/circular-buffers.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,234 @@
+			       ================
+			       CIRCULAR BUFFERS
+			       ================
+
+By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
+    Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+
+
+Linux provides a number of features that can be used to implement circular
+buffering.  There are two sets of such features:
+
+ (1) Convenience functions for determining information about power-of-2 sized
+     buffers.
+
+ (2) Memory barriers for when the producer and the consumer of objects in the
+     buffer don't want to share a lock.
+
+To use these facilities, as discussed below, there needs to be just one
+producer and just one consumer.  It is possible to handle multiple producers by
+serialising them, and to handle multiple consumers by serialising them.
+
+
+Contents:
+
+ (*) What is a circular buffer?
+
+ (*) Measuring power-of-2 buffers.
+
+ (*) Using memory barriers with circular buffers.
+     - The producer.
+     - The consumer.
+
+
+==========================
+WHAT IS A CIRCULAR BUFFER?
+==========================
+
+First of all, what is a circular buffer?  A circular buffer is a buffer of
+fixed, finite size into which there are two indices:
+
+ (1) A 'head' index - the point at which the producer inserts items into the
+     buffer.
+
+ (2) A 'tail' index - the point at which the consumer finds the next item in
+     the buffer.
+
+Typically when the tail pointer is equal to the head pointer, the buffer is
+empty; and the buffer is full when the head pointer is one less than the tail
+pointer.
+
+The head index is incremented when items are added, and the tail index when
+items are removed.  The tail index should never jump the head index, and both
+indices should be wrapped to 0 when they reach the end of the buffer, thus
+allowing an infinite amount of data to flow through the buffer.
+
+Typically, items will all be of the same unit size, but this isn't strictly
+required to use the techniques below.  The indices can be increased by more
+than 1 if multiple items or variable-sized items are to be included in the
+buffer, provided that neither index overtakes the other.  The implementer must
+be careful, however, as a region more than one unit in size may wrap the end of
+the buffer and be broken into two segments.
+
+
+============================
+MEASURING POWER-OF-2 BUFFERS
+============================
+
+Calculation of the occupancy or the remaining capacity of an arbitrarily sized
+circular buffer would normally be a slow operation, requiring the use of a
+modulus (divide) instruction.  However, if the buffer is of a power-of-2 size,
+then a much quicker bitwise-AND instruction can be used instead.
+
+Linux provides a set of macros for handling power-of-2 circular buffers.  These
+can be made use of by:
+
+	#include <linux/circ_buf.h>
+
+The macros are:
+
+ (*) Measure the remaining capacity of a buffer:
+
+	CIRC_SPACE(head_index, tail_index, buffer_size);
+
+     This returns the amount of space left in the buffer[1] into which items
+     can be inserted.
+
+
+ (*) Measure the maximum consecutive immediate space in a buffer:
+
+	CIRC_SPACE_TO_END(head_index, tail_index, buffer_size);
+
+     This returns the amount of consecutive space left in the buffer[1] into
+     which items can be immediately inserted without having to wrap back to the
+     beginning of the buffer.
+
+
+ (*) Measure the occupancy of a buffer:
+
+	CIRC_CNT(head_index, tail_index, buffer_size);
+
+     This returns the number of items currently occupying a buffer[2].
+
+
+ (*) Measure the non-wrapping occupancy of a buffer:
+
+	CIRC_CNT_TO_END(head_index, tail_index, buffer_size);
+
+     This returns the number of consecutive items[2] that can be extracted from
+     the buffer without having to wrap back to the beginning of the buffer.
+
+
+Each of these macros will nominally return a value between 0 and buffer_size-1,
+however:
+
+ [1] CIRC_SPACE*() are intended to be used in the producer.  To the producer
+     they will return a lower bound as the producer controls the head index,
+     but the consumer may still be depleting the buffer on another CPU and
+     moving the tail index.
+
+     To the consumer it will show an upper bound as the producer may be busy
+     depleting the space.
+
+ [2] CIRC_CNT*() are intended to be used in the consumer.  To the consumer they
+     will return a lower bound as the consumer controls the tail index, but the
+     producer may still be filling the buffer on another CPU and moving the
+     head index.
+
+     To the producer it will show an upper bound as the consumer may be busy
+     emptying the buffer.
+
+ [3] To a third party, the order in which the writes to the indices by the
+     producer and consumer become visible cannot be guaranteed as they are
+     independent and may be made on different CPUs - so the result in such a
+     situation will merely be a guess, and may even be negative.
+
+
+===========================================
+USING MEMORY BARRIERS WITH CIRCULAR BUFFERS
+===========================================
+
+By using memory barriers in conjunction with circular buffers, you can avoid
+the need to:
+
+ (1) use a single lock to govern access to both ends of the buffer, thus
+     allowing the buffer to be filled and emptied at the same time; and
+
+ (2) use atomic counter operations.
+
+There are two sides to this: the producer that fills the buffer, and the
+consumer that empties it.  Only one thing should be filling a buffer at any one
+time, and only one thing should be emptying a buffer at any one time, but the
+two sides can operate simultaneously.
+
+
+THE PRODUCER
+------------
+
+The producer will look something like this:
+
+	spin_lock(&producer_lock);
+
+	unsigned long head = buffer->head;
+	unsigned long tail = ACCESS_ONCE(buffer->tail);
+
+	if (CIRC_SPACE(head, tail, buffer->size) >= 1) {
+		/* insert one item into the buffer */
+		struct item *item = buffer[head];
+
+		produce_item(item);
+
+		smp_wmb(); /* commit the item before incrementing the head */
+
+		buffer->head = (head + 1) & (buffer->size - 1);
+
+		/* wake_up() will make sure that the head is committed before
+		 * waking anyone up */
+		wake_up(consumer);
+	}
+
+	spin_unlock(&producer_lock);
+
+This will instruct the CPU that the contents of the new item must be written
+before the head index makes it available to the consumer and then instructs the
+CPU that the revised head index must be written before the consumer is woken.
+
+Note that wake_up() doesn't have to be the exact mechanism used, but whatever
+is used must guarantee a (write) memory barrier between the update of the head
+index and the change of state of the consumer, if a change of state occurs.
+
+
+THE CONSUMER
+------------
+
+The consumer will look something like this:
+
+	spin_lock(&consumer_lock);
+
+	unsigned long head = ACCESS_ONCE(buffer->head);
+	unsigned long tail = buffer->tail;
+
+	if (CIRC_CNT(head, tail, buffer->size) >= 1) {
+		/* read index before reading contents at that index */
+		smp_read_barrier_depends();
+
+		/* extract one item from the buffer */
+		struct item *item = buffer[tail];
+
+		consume_item(item);
+
+		smp_mb(); /* finish reading descriptor before incrementing tail */
+
+		buffer->tail = (tail + 1) & (buffer->size - 1);
+	}
+
+	spin_unlock(&consumer_lock);
+
+This will instruct the CPU to make sure the index is up to date before reading
+the new item, and then it shall make sure the CPU has finished reading the item
+before it writes the new tail pointer, which will erase the item.
+
+
+Note the use of ACCESS_ONCE() in both algorithms to read the opposition index.
+This prevents the compiler from discarding and reloading its cached value -
+which some compilers will do across smp_read_barrier_depends().  This isn't
+strictly needed if you can be sure that the opposition index will _only_ be
+used the once.
+
+
+===============
+FURTHER READING
+===============
+
+See also Documentation/memory-barriers.txt for a description of Linux's memory
+barrier facilities.
diff --git a/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c b/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c
index b07add3..7764594 100644
--- a/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c
+++ b/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/moduleparam.h>
 #include <linux/skbuff.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/timer.h>
 
 #include <linux/connector.h>
diff --git a/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt b/Documentation/fb/efifb.txt
index 316ec9b..a59916c 100644
--- a/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fb/efifb.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 
-What is imacfb?
+What is efifb?
 ===============
 
 This is a generic EFI platform driver for Intel based Apple computers.
-Imacfb is only for EFI booted Intel Macs.
+efifb is only for EFI booted Intel Macs.
 
 Supported Hardware
 ==================
@@ -16,16 +16,16 @@ MacMini
 How to use it?
 ==============
 
-Imacfb does not have any kind of autodetection of your machine.
+efifb does not have any kind of autodetection of your machine.
 You have to add the following kernel parameters in your elilo.conf:
 	Macbook :
-		video=imacfb:macbook
+		video=efifb:macbook
 	MacMini :
-		video=imacfb:mini
+		video=efifb:mini
 	Macbook Pro 15", iMac 17" :
-		video=imacfb:i17
+		video=efifb:i17
 	Macbook Pro 17", iMac 20" :
-		video=imacfb:i20
+		video=efifb:i20
 
 --
 Edgar Hucek <gimli@dark-green.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX
index 3bae418..4303614 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ befs.txt
 	- information about the BeOS filesystem for Linux.
 bfs.txt
 	- info for the SCO UnixWare Boot Filesystem (BFS).
+ceph.txt
+	- info for the Ceph Distributed File System
 cifs.txt
 	- description of the CIFS filesystem.
 coda.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
index 57e0b80..c0236e7 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
@@ -37,6 +37,15 @@ For Plan 9 From User Space applications (http://swtch.com/plan9)
 
 	mount -t 9p `namespace`/acme /mnt/9 -o trans=unix,uname=$USER
 
+For server running on QEMU host with virtio transport:
+
+	mount -t 9p -o trans=virtio <mount_tag> /mnt/9
+
+where mount_tag is the tag associated by the server to each of the exported
+mount points. Each 9P export is seen by the client as a virtio device with an
+associated "mount_tag" property. Available mount tags can be
+seen by reading /sys/bus/virtio/drivers/9pnet_virtio/virtio<n>/mount_tag files.
+
 OPTIONS
 =======
 
@@ -47,7 +56,7 @@ OPTIONS
 			fd   	- used passed file descriptors for connection
                                 (see rfdno and wfdno)
 			virtio	- connect to the next virtio channel available
-				(from lguest or KVM with trans_virtio module)
+				(from QEMU with trans_virtio module)
 			rdma	- connect to a specified RDMA channel
 
   uname=name	user name to attempt mount as on the remote server.  The
@@ -85,7 +94,12 @@ OPTIONS
 
   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 or 9p2000.L semantics)
+
+  version=name	Select 9P protocol version. Valid options are:
+			9p2000          - Legacy mode (same as noextend)
+			9p2000.u        - Use 9P2000.u protocol
+			9p2000.L        - Use 9P2000.L protocol
 
   dfltuid	attempt to mount as a particular uid
 
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt
index 6e03917..0660c9f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Basic features include:
 
  * POSIX semantics
  * Seamless scaling from 1 to many thousands of nodes
- * High availability and reliability.  No single points of failure.
+ * High availability and reliability.  No single point of failure.
  * N-way replication of data across storage nodes
  * Fast recovery from node failures
  * Automatic rebalancing of data on node addition/removal
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Mount Options
 
   wsize=X
 	Specify the maximum write size in bytes.  By default there is no
-	maximu.  Ceph will normally size writes based on the file stripe
+	maximum.  Ceph will normally size writes based on the file stripe
 	size.
 
   rsize=X
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Mount Options
 	number of entries in that directory.
 
   nocrc
-	Disable CRC32C calculation for data writes.  If set, the OSD
+	Disable CRC32C calculation for data writes.  If set, the storage node
 	must rely on TCP's error correction to detect data corruption
 	in the data payload.
 
@@ -133,7 +133,8 @@ For more information on Ceph, see the home page at
 	http://ceph.newdream.net/
 
 The Linux kernel client source tree is available at
-	git://ceph.newdream.net/linux-ceph-client.git
+	git://ceph.newdream.net/git/ceph-client.git
+	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client.git
 
 and the source for the full system is at
-	git://ceph.newdream.net/ceph.git
+	git://ceph.newdream.net/git/ceph.git
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
index 3015da0..fe09a2c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
@@ -82,11 +82,13 @@ tmpfs has a mount option to set the NUMA memory allocation policy for
 all files in that instance (if CONFIG_NUMA is enabled) - which can be
 adjusted on the fly via 'mount -o remount ...'
 
-mpol=default             prefers to allocate memory from the local node
+mpol=default             use the process allocation policy
+                         (see set_mempolicy(2))
 mpol=prefer:Node         prefers to allocate memory from the given Node
 mpol=bind:NodeList       allocates memory only from nodes in NodeList
 mpol=interleave          prefers to allocate from each node in turn
 mpol=interleave:NodeList allocates from each node of NodeList in turn
+mpol=local		 prefers to allocate memory from the local node
 
 NodeList format is a comma-separated list of decimal numbers and ranges,
 a range being two hyphen-separated decimal numbers, the smallest and
@@ -134,3 +136,5 @@ Author:
    Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>, 1.12.01
 Updated:
    Hugh Dickins, 4 June 2007
+Updated:
+   KOSAKI Motohiro, 16 Mar 2010
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index 7f5809e..631ad2f 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 			 ============================
 
 By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
+    Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
 
 Contents:
 
@@ -60,6 +61,10 @@ Contents:
 
      - And then there's the Alpha.
 
+ (*) Example uses.
+
+     - Circular buffers.
+
  (*) References.
 
 
@@ -2226,6 +2231,21 @@ The Alpha defines the Linux kernel's memory barrier model.
 See the subsection on "Cache Coherency" above.
 
 
+============
+EXAMPLE USES
+============
+
+CIRCULAR BUFFERS
+----------------
+
+Memory barriers can be used to implement circular buffering without the need
+of a lock to serialise the producer with the consumer.  See:
+
+	Documentation/circular-buffers.txt
+
+for details.
+
+
 ==========
 REFERENCES
 ==========
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7ee770b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+       STMicroelectronics 10/100/1000 Synopsys Ethernet driver
+
+Copyright (C) 2007-2010  STMicroelectronics Ltd
+Author: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
+
+This is the driver for the MAC 10/100/1000 on-chip Ethernet controllers
+(Synopsys IP blocks); it has been fully tested on STLinux platforms.
+
+Currently this network device driver is for all STM embedded MAC/GMAC
+(7xxx SoCs).
+
+DWC Ether MAC 10/100/1000 Universal version 3.41a and DWC Ether MAC 10/100
+Universal version 4.0 have been used for developing the first code
+implementation.
+
+Please, for more information also visit: www.stlinux.com
+
+1) Kernel Configuration
+The kernel configuration option is STMMAC_ETH:
+ Device Drivers ---> Network device support ---> Ethernet (1000 Mbit) --->
+ STMicroelectronics 10/100/1000 Ethernet driver (STMMAC_ETH)
+
+2) Driver parameters list:
+	debug: message level (0: no output, 16: all);
+	phyaddr: to manually provide the physical address to the PHY device;
+	dma_rxsize: DMA rx ring size;
+	dma_txsize: DMA tx ring size;
+	buf_sz: DMA buffer size;
+	tc: control the HW FIFO threshold;
+	tx_coe: Enable/Disable Tx Checksum Offload engine;
+	watchdog: transmit timeout (in milliseconds);
+	flow_ctrl: Flow control ability [on/off];
+	pause: Flow Control Pause Time;
+	tmrate: timer period (only if timer optimisation is configured).
+
+3) Command line options
+Driver parameters can be also passed in command line by using:
+	stmmaceth=dma_rxsize:128,dma_txsize:512
+
+4) Driver information and notes
+
+4.1) Transmit process
+The xmit method is invoked when the kernel needs to transmit a packet; it sets
+the descriptors in the ring and informs the DMA engine that there is a packet
+ready to be transmitted.
+Once the controller has finished transmitting the packet, an interrupt is
+triggered; So the driver will be able to release the socket buffers.
+By default, the driver sets the NETIF_F_SG bit in the features field of the
+net_device structure enabling the scatter/gather feature.
+
+4.2) Receive process
+When one or more packets are received, an interrupt happens. The interrupts
+are not queued so the driver has to scan all the descriptors in the ring during
+the receive process.
+This is based on NAPI so the interrupt handler signals only if there is work to be
+done, and it exits.
+Then the poll method will be scheduled at some future point.
+The incoming packets are stored, by the DMA, in a list of pre-allocated socket
+buffers in order to avoid the memcpy (Zero-copy).
+
+4.3) Timer-Driver Interrupt
+Instead of having the device that asynchronously notifies the frame receptions, the
+driver configures a timer to generate an interrupt at regular intervals.
+Based on the granularity of the timer, the frames that are received by the device
+will experience different levels of latency. Some NICs have dedicated timer
+device to perform this task. STMMAC can use either the RTC device or the TMU
+channel 2  on STLinux platforms.
+The timers frequency can be passed to the driver as parameter; when change it,
+take care of both hardware capability and network stability/performance impact.
+Several performance tests on STM platforms showed this optimisation allows to spare
+the CPU while having the maximum throughput.
+
+4.4) WOL
+Wake up on Lan feature through Magic Frame is only supported for the GMAC
+core.
+
+4.5) DMA descriptors
+Driver handles both normal and enhanced descriptors. The latter has been only
+tested on DWC Ether MAC 10/100/1000 Universal version 3.41a.
+
+4.6) Ethtool support
+Ethtool is supported. Driver statistics and internal errors can be taken using:
+ethtool -S ethX command. It is possible to dump registers etc.
+
+4.7) Jumbo and Segmentation Offloading
+Jumbo frames are supported and tested for the GMAC.
+The GSO has been also added but it's performed in software.
+LRO is not supported.
+
+4.8) Physical
+The driver is compatible with PAL to work with PHY and GPHY devices.
+
+4.9) Platform information
+Several information came from the platform; please refer to the
+driver's Header file in include/linux directory.
+
+struct plat_stmmacenet_data {
+        int bus_id;
+        int pbl;
+        int has_gmac;
+        void (*fix_mac_speed)(void *priv, unsigned int speed);
+        void (*bus_setup)(unsigned long ioaddr);
+#ifdef CONFIG_STM_DRIVERS
+        struct stm_pad_config *pad_config;
+#endif
+        void *bsp_priv;
+};
+
+Where:
+- pbl (Programmable Burst Length) is maximum number of
+  beats to be transferred in one DMA transaction.
+  GMAC also enables the 4xPBL by default.
+- fix_mac_speed and bus_setup are used to configure internal target
+  registers (on STM platforms);
+- has_gmac: GMAC core is on board (get it at run-time in the next step);
+- bus_id: bus identifier.
+
+struct plat_stmmacphy_data {
+        int bus_id;
+        int phy_addr;
+        unsigned int phy_mask;
+        int interface;
+        int (*phy_reset)(void *priv);
+        void *priv;
+};
+
+Where:
+- bus_id: bus identifier;
+- phy_addr: physical address used for the attached phy device;
+            set it to -1 to get it at run-time;
+- interface: physical MII interface mode;
+- phy_reset: hook to reset HW function.
+
+TODO:
+- Continue to make the driver more generic and suitable for other Synopsys
+  Ethernet controllers used on other architectures (i.e. ARM).
+- 10G controllers are not supported.
+- MAC uses Normal descriptors and GMAC uses enhanced ones.
+  This is a limit that should be reviewed. MAC could want to
+  use the enhanced structure.
+- Checksumming: Rx/Tx csum is done in HW in case of GMAC only.
+- Review the timer optimisation code to use an embedded device that seems to be
+  available in new chip generations.
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/cpm_qe/qe.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/cpm_qe/qe.txt
index 6e37be1..4f89302 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/cpm_qe/qe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/cpm_qe/qe.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,15 @@ Required properties:
 - fsl,qe-num-snums: define how many serial number(SNUM) the QE can use for the
   threads.
 
+Optional properties:
+- fsl,firmware-phandle:
+    Usage: required only if there is no fsl,qe-firmware child node
+    Value type: <phandle>
+    Definition: Points to a firmware node (see "QE Firmware Node" below)
+        that contains the firmware that should be uploaded for this QE.
+        The compatible property for the firmware node should say,
+        "fsl,qe-firmware".
+
 Recommended properties
 - brg-frequency : the internal clock source frequency for baud-rate
   generators in Hz.
@@ -59,3 +68,48 @@ Example:
 		reg = <0 c000>;
 	};
      };
+
+* QE Firmware Node
+
+This node defines a firmware binary that is embedded in the device tree, for
+the purpose of passing the firmware from bootloader to the kernel, or from
+the hypervisor to the guest.
+
+The firmware node itself contains the firmware binary contents, a compatible
+property, and any firmware-specific properties.  The node should be placed
+inside a QE node that needs it.  Doing so eliminates the need for a
+fsl,firmware-phandle property.  Other QE nodes that need the same firmware
+should define an fsl,firmware-phandle property that points to the firmware node
+in the first QE node.
+
+The fsl,firmware property can be specified in the DTS (possibly using incbin)
+or can be inserted by the boot loader at boot time.
+
+Required properties:
+  - compatible
+      Usage: required
+      Value type: <string>
+      Definition: A standard property.  Specify a string that indicates what
+          kind of firmware it is.  For QE, this should be "fsl,qe-firmware".
+
+   - fsl,firmware
+      Usage: required
+      Value type: <prop-encoded-array>, encoded as an array of bytes
+      Definition: A standard property.  This property contains the firmware
+          binary "blob".
+
+Example:
+	qe1@e0080000 {
+		compatible = "fsl,qe";
+		qe_firmware:qe-firmware {
+			compatible = "fsl,qe-firmware";
+			fsl,firmware = [0x70 0xcd 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x46 0x45 ...];
+		};
+		...
+	};
+
+	qe2@e0090000 {
+		compatible = "fsl,qe";
+		fsl,firmware-phandle = <&qe_firmware>;
+		...
+	};
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt
index f4dd3bf..98d14cb 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt
@@ -119,10 +119,18 @@ the codec slots 0 and 1 no matter what the hardware reports.
 
 Interrupt Handling
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-In rare but some cases, the interrupt isn't properly handled as
-default.  You would notice this by the DMA transfer error reported by
-ALSA PCM core, for example.  Using MSI might help in such a case.
-Pass `enable_msi=1` option for enabling MSI.
+HD-audio driver uses MSI as default (if available) since 2.6.33
+kernel as MSI works better on some machines, and in general, it's
+better for performance.  However, Nvidia controllers showed bad
+regressions with MSI (especially in a combination with AMD chipset),
+thus we disabled MSI for them.
+
+There seem also still other devices that don't work with MSI.  If you
+see a regression wrt the sound quality (stuttering, etc) or a lock-up
+in the recent kernel, try to pass `enable_msi=0` option to disable
+MSI.  If it works, you can add the known bad device to the blacklist
+defined in hda_intel.c.  In such a case, please report and give the
+patch back to the upstream developer. 
 
 
 HD-AUDIO CODEC
diff --git a/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt b/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt
index 991c26a..db0cb22 100644
--- a/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt
+++ b/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt
@@ -63,9 +63,9 @@ way to perform a busy wait is:
         cpu_relax();
 
 The cpu_relax() call can lower CPU power consumption or yield to a
-hyperthreaded twin processor; it also happens to serve as a memory barrier,
-so, once again, volatile is unnecessary.  Of course, busy-waiting is
-generally an anti-social act to begin with.
+hyperthreaded twin processor; it also happens to serve as a compiler
+barrier, so, once again, volatile is unnecessary.  Of course, busy-
+waiting is generally an anti-social act to begin with.
 
 There are still a few rare situations where volatile makes sense in the
 kernel:
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c
index 4cf72f3..ba45803 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c
@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@ int main(void)
 			ret = -1;
 			break;
 		}
-		ret = fsync(fd);
-		if (ret)
-			break;
 		sleep(10);
 	}
 	close(fd);
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c
index a750532..63fdc34 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ static void keep_alive(void)
  */
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
+    int flags;
+
     fd = open("/dev/watchdog", O_WRONLY);
 
     if (fd == -1) {
@@ -41,12 +43,14 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
     if (argc > 1) {
 	if (!strncasecmp(argv[1], "-d", 2)) {
-	    ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, WDIOS_DISABLECARD);
+	    flags = WDIOS_DISABLECARD;
+	    ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, &flags);
 	    fprintf(stderr, "Watchdog card disabled.\n");
 	    fflush(stderr);
 	    exit(0);
 	} else if (!strncasecmp(argv[1], "-e", 2)) {
-	    ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, WDIOS_ENABLECARD);
+	    flags = WDIOS_ENABLECARD;
+	    ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, &flags);
 	    fprintf(stderr, "Watchdog card enabled.\n");
 	    fflush(stderr);
 	    exit(0);
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
index 4cc4ba9..eb7132e 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
@@ -222,11 +222,10 @@ returned value is the temperature in degrees fahrenheit.
     ioctl(fd, WDIOC_GETTEMP, &temperature);
 
 Finally the SETOPTIONS ioctl can be used to control some aspects of
-the cards operation; right now the pcwd driver is the only one
-supporting this ioctl.
+the cards operation.
 
     int options = 0;
-    ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, options);
+    ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, &options);
 
 The following options are available: