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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devices.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/infiniband/ipoib.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/initrd.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/usb/proc_usb_info.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/usb/usb-help.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt | 7 |
14 files changed, 76 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl index 1ae4dc0..f8fe882 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl @@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ !Iinclude/linux/hrtimer.h !Ekernel/hrtimer.c </sect1> + <sect1><title>Workqueues and Kevents</title> +!Ekernel/workqueue.c + </sect1> <sect1><title>Internal Functions</title> !Ikernel/exit.c !Ikernel/signal.c @@ -300,7 +303,7 @@ X!Ekernel/module.c </sect1> <sect1><title>Resources Management</title> -!Ekernel/resource.c +!Ikernel/resource.c </sect1> <sect1><title>MTRR Handling</title> @@ -312,9 +315,7 @@ X!Ekernel/module.c !Edrivers/pci/pci-driver.c !Edrivers/pci/remove.c !Edrivers/pci/pci-acpi.c -<!-- kerneldoc does not understand __devinit -X!Edrivers/pci/search.c - --> +!Edrivers/pci/search.c !Edrivers/pci/msi.c !Edrivers/pci/bus.c <!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index c2c85bc..2cd7f02 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ kernel, the process can sometimes be daunting if you're not familiar with "the system." This text is a collection of suggestions which can greatly increase the chances of your change being accepted. -If you are submitting a driver, also read Documentation/SubmittingDrivers. +Read Documentation/SubmitChecklist for a list of items to check +before submitting code. If you are submitting a driver, also read +Documentation/SubmittingDrivers. @@ -74,9 +76,6 @@ There are a number of scripts which can aid in this: Quilt: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt -Randy Dunlap's patch scripts: -http://www.xenotime.net/linux/scripts/patching-scripts-002.tar.gz - Andrew Morton's patch scripts: http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/ Instead of these scripts, quilt is the recommended patch management @@ -484,7 +483,7 @@ Greg Kroah-Hartman "How to piss off a kernel subsystem maintainer". <http://www.kroah.com/log/2005/10/19/> <http://www.kroah.com/log/2006/01/11/> -NO!!!! No more huge patch bombs to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org people!. +NO!!!! No more huge patch bombs to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org people! <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112112749912944&w=2> Kernel Documentation/CodingStyle @@ -493,4 +492,3 @@ Kernel Documentation/CodingStyle Linus Torvald's mail on the canonical patch format: <http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/7/183> -- -Last updated on 17 Nov 2005. diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt b/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt index be215e5..1443cd7 100644 --- a/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt +++ b/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt @@ -64,11 +64,13 @@ Compile the kernel with CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT=y CONFIG_TASKSTATS=y -Enable the accounting at boot time by adding -the following to the kernel boot options - delayacct +Delay accounting is enabled by default at boot up. +To disable, add + nodelayacct +to the kernel boot options. The rest of the instructions +below assume this has not been done. -and after the system has booted up, use a utility +After the system has booted up, use a utility similar to getdelays.c to access the delays seen by a given task or a task group (tgid). The utility also allows a given command to be diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt index 7fedc00..555c8cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt @@ -153,10 +153,13 @@ scaling_governor, and by "echoing" the name of another that some governors won't load - they only work on some specific architectures or processors. -scaling_min_freq and +scaling_min_freq and scaling_max_freq show the current "policy limits" (in kHz). By echoing new values into these files, you can change these limits. + NOTE: when setting a policy you need to + first set scaling_max_freq, then + scaling_min_freq. If you have selected the "userspace" governor which allows you to diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt index 1bcf699..bc107cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt @@ -251,16 +251,24 @@ A: This is what you would need in your kernel code to receive notifications. return NOTIFY_OK; } - static struct notifier_block foobar_cpu_notifer = + static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata foobar_cpu_notifer = { .notifier_call = foobar_cpu_callback, }; +You need to call register_cpu_notifier() from your init function. +Init functions could be of two types: +1. early init (init function called when only the boot processor is online). +2. late init (init function called _after_ all the CPUs are online). -In your init function, +For the first case, you should add the following to your init function register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier); +For the second case, you should add the following to your init function + + register_hotcpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier); + You can fail PREPARE notifiers if something doesn't work to prepare resources. This will stop the activity and send a following CANCELED event back. diff --git a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt index 4aaf68f..66c725f 100644 --- a/Documentation/devices.txt +++ b/Documentation/devices.txt @@ -2565,10 +2565,10 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated. 243 = /dev/usb/dabusb3 Fourth dabusb device 180 block USB block devices - 0 = /dev/uba First USB block device - 8 = /dev/ubb Second USB block device - 16 = /dev/ubc Thrid USB block device - ... + 0 = /dev/uba First USB block device + 8 = /dev/ubb Second USB block device + 16 = /dev/ubc Third USB block device + ... 181 char Conrad Electronic parallel port radio clocks 0 = /dev/pcfclock0 First Conrad radio clock diff --git a/Documentation/infiniband/ipoib.txt b/Documentation/infiniband/ipoib.txt index 1870355..864ff32 100644 --- a/Documentation/infiniband/ipoib.txt +++ b/Documentation/infiniband/ipoib.txt @@ -51,8 +51,6 @@ Debugging Information References - IETF IP over InfiniBand (ipoib) Working Group - http://ietf.org/html.charters/ipoib-charter.html Transmission of IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB) (RFC 4391) http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc4391.txt IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB) Architecture (RFC 4392) diff --git a/Documentation/initrd.txt b/Documentation/initrd.txt index b1b6440..15f1b35 100644 --- a/Documentation/initrd.txt +++ b/Documentation/initrd.txt @@ -72,6 +72,22 @@ initrd adds the following new options: initrd is mounted as root, and the normal boot procedure is followed, with the RAM disk still mounted as root. +Compressed cpio images +---------------------- + +Recent kernels have support for populating a ramdisk from a compressed cpio +archive, on such systems, the creation of a ramdisk image doesn't need to +involve special block devices or loopbacks, you merely create a directory on +disk with the desired initrd content, cd to that directory, and run (as an +example): + +find . | cpio --quiet -c -o | gzip -9 -n > /boot/imagefile.img + +Examining the contents of an existing image file is just as simple: + +mkdir /tmp/imagefile +cd /tmp/imagefile +gzip -cd /boot/imagefile.img | cpio -imd --quiet Installation ------------ diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt index 14ef3868..0706699 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt @@ -407,6 +407,20 @@ more details, with real examples. The second argument is optional, and if supplied will be used if first argument is not supported. + ld-option + ld-option is used to check if $(CC) when used to link object files + supports the given option. An optional second option may be + specified if first option are not supported. + + Example: + #arch/i386/kernel/Makefile + vsyscall-flags += $(call ld-option, -Wl$(comma)--hash-style=sysv) + + In the above example vsyscall-flags will be assigned the option + -Wl$(comma)--hash-style=sysv 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. diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index e11f772..b50595a 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -448,8 +448,6 @@ running once the system is up. Format: <area>[,<node>] See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. - delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting - dhash_entries= [KNL] Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. @@ -1031,6 +1029,8 @@ running once the system is up. nocache [ARM] + nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting + nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects. noexec [IA-64] diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index b0c7ab9..7345c33 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -211,9 +211,8 @@ Controls the kernel's behaviour when an oops or BUG is encountered. 0: try to continue operation -1: delay a few seconds (to give klogd time to record the oops output) and - then panic. If the `panic' sysctl is also non-zero then the machine will - be rebooted. +1: panic immediatly. If the `panic' sysctl is also non-zero then the + machine will be rebooted. ============================================================== diff --git a/Documentation/usb/proc_usb_info.txt b/Documentation/usb/proc_usb_info.txt index f86550f..22c5331 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/proc_usb_info.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/proc_usb_info.txt @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ bind to an interface (or perhaps several) using an ioctl call. You would issue more ioctls to the device to communicate to it using control, bulk, or other kinds of USB transfers. The IOCTLs are listed in the <linux/usbdevice_fs.h> file, and at this writing the -source code (linux/drivers/usb/devio.c) is the primary reference +source code (linux/drivers/usb/core/devio.c) is the primary reference for how to access devices through those files. Note that since by default these BBB/DDD files are writable only by diff --git a/Documentation/usb/usb-help.txt b/Documentation/usb/usb-help.txt index b7c3249..a740859 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/usb-help.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/usb-help.txt @@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ For USB help other than the readme files that are located in Documentation/usb/*, see the following: Linux-USB project: http://www.linux-usb.org - mirrors at http://www.suse.cz/development/linux-usb/ - and http://usb.in.tum.de/linux-usb/ + mirrors at http://usb.in.tum.de/linux-usb/ and http://it.linux-usb.org Linux USB Guide: http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net Linux-USB device overview (working devices and drivers): diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt index 6887d44..6da24e7 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt @@ -238,6 +238,13 @@ Debugging pagefaulttrace Dump all page faults. Only useful for extreme debugging and will create a lot of output. + call_trace=[old|both|newfallback|new] + old: use old inexact backtracer + new: use new exact dwarf2 unwinder + both: print entries from both + newfallback: use new unwinder but fall back to old if it gets + stuck (default) + Misc noreplacement Don't replace instructions with more appropriate ones |
