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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/CodingStyle | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/f71882fg | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/k10temp | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt | 26 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt | 9 |
7 files changed, 63 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle index 58b0bf9..fa6e25b 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingStyle +++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle @@ -680,8 +680,8 @@ ones already enabled by DEBUG. Chapter 14: Allocating memory The kernel provides the following general purpose memory allocators: -kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), and vmalloc(). Please refer to the API -documentation for further information about them. +kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), vmalloc(), and vzalloc(). Please refer to +the API documentation for further information about them. The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following: diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt index cd45c8e..84f0a15 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Throttling/Upper Limit policy - Specify a bandwidth rate on particular device for root group. The format for policy is "<major>:<minor> <byes_per_second>". - echo "8:16 1048576" > /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/blkio.read_bps_device + echo "8:16 1048576" > /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/blkio.throttle.read_bps_device Above will put a limit of 1MB/second on reads happening for root group on device having major/minor number 8:16. @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Throttling/Upper Limit policy 1024+0 records out 4194304 bytes (4.2 MB) copied, 4.0001 s, 1.0 MB/s - Limits for writes can be put using blkio.write_bps_device file. + Limits for writes can be put using blkio.throttle.write_bps_device file. Hierarchical Cgroups ==================== @@ -286,28 +286,28 @@ Throttling/Upper limit policy files specified in bytes per second. Rules are per deivce. Following is the format. - echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_bytes_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.read_bps_device + echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_bytes_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.throttle.read_bps_device - blkio.throttle.write_bps_device - Specifies upper limit on WRITE rate to the device. IO rate is specified in bytes per second. Rules are per deivce. Following is the format. - echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_bytes_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.write_bps_device + echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_bytes_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.throttle.write_bps_device - blkio.throttle.read_iops_device - Specifies upper limit on READ rate from the device. IO rate is specified in IO per second. Rules are per deivce. Following is the format. - echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_io_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.read_iops_device + echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_io_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.throttle.read_iops_device - blkio.throttle.write_iops_device - Specifies upper limit on WRITE rate to the device. IO rate is specified in io per second. Rules are per deivce. Following is the format. - echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_io_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.write_iops_device + echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_io_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.throttle.write_iops_device Note: If both BW and IOPS rules are specified for a device, then IO is subjectd to both the constraints. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt index a167ab8..7cc6bf2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt @@ -673,6 +673,22 @@ storage request to complete, or it may attempt to cancel the storage request - in which case the page will not be stored in the cache this time. +BULK INODE PAGE UNCACHE +----------------------- + +A convenience routine is provided to perform an uncache on all the pages +attached to an inode. This assumes that the pages on the inode correspond on a +1:1 basis with the pages in the cache. + + void fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages(struct fscache_cookie *cookie, + struct inode *inode); + +This takes the netfs cookie that the pages were cached with and the inode that +the pages are attached to. This function will wait for pages to finish being +written to the cache and for the cache to finish with the page generally. No +error is returned. + + ========================== INDEX AND DATA FILE UPDATE ========================== diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/f71882fg b/Documentation/hwmon/f71882fg index 84d2623..de91c0d 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/f71882fg +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/f71882fg @@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ Supported chips: Prefix: 'f71869' Addresses scanned: none, address read from Super I/O config space Datasheet: Available from the Fintek website + * Fintek F71869A + Prefix: 'f71869a' + Addresses scanned: none, address read from Super I/O config space + Datasheet: Not public * Fintek F71882FG and F71883FG Prefix: 'f71882fg' Addresses scanned: none, address read from Super I/O config space diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/k10temp b/Documentation/hwmon/k10temp index 0393c89..a10f736 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/k10temp +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/k10temp @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ Supported chips: Socket S1G3: Athlon II, Sempron, Turion II * AMD Family 11h processors: Socket S1G2: Athlon (X2), Sempron (X2), Turion X2 (Ultra) -* AMD Family 12h processors: "Llano" -* AMD Family 14h processors: "Brazos" (C/E/G-Series) +* AMD Family 12h processors: "Llano" (E2/A4/A6/A8-Series) +* AMD Family 14h processors: "Brazos" (C/E/G/Z-Series) * AMD Family 15h processors: "Bulldozer" Prefix: 'k10temp' @@ -20,12 +20,16 @@ Supported chips: http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/31116.pdf BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide (BKDG) for AMD Family 11h Processors: http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/41256.pdf + BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide (BKDG) for AMD Family 12h Processors: + http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/41131.pdf BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide (BKDG) for AMD Family 14h Models 00h-0Fh Processors: http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/43170.pdf Revision Guide for AMD Family 10h Processors: http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/41322.pdf Revision Guide for AMD Family 11h Processors: http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/41788.pdf + Revision Guide for AMD Family 12h Processors: + http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/44739.pdf Revision Guide for AMD Family 14h Models 00h-0Fh Processors: http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/47534.pdf AMD Family 11h Processor Power and Thermal Data Sheet for Notebooks: diff --git a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt index 22accb3..b24875b 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt @@ -501,13 +501,29 @@ helper functions described in Section 4. In that case, pm_runtime_resume() should be used. Of course, for this purpose the device's run-time PM has to be enabled earlier by calling pm_runtime_enable(). -If the device bus type's or driver's ->probe() or ->remove() callback runs +If the device bus type's or driver's ->probe() callback runs pm_runtime_suspend() or pm_runtime_idle() or their asynchronous counterparts, they will fail returning -EAGAIN, because the device's usage counter is -incremented by the core before executing ->probe() and ->remove(). Still, it -may be desirable to suspend the device as soon as ->probe() or ->remove() has -finished, so the PM core uses pm_runtime_idle_sync() to invoke the -subsystem-level idle callback for the device at that time. +incremented by the driver core before executing ->probe(). Still, it may be +desirable to suspend the device as soon as ->probe() has finished, so the driver +core uses pm_runtime_put_sync() to invoke the subsystem-level idle callback for +the device at that time. + +Moreover, the driver core prevents runtime PM callbacks from racing with the bus +notifier callback in __device_release_driver(), which is necessary, because the +notifier is used by some subsystems to carry out operations affecting the +runtime PM functionality. It does so by calling pm_runtime_get_sync() before +driver_sysfs_remove() and the BUS_NOTIFY_UNBIND_DRIVER notifications. This +resumes the device if it's in the suspended state and prevents it from +being suspended again while those routines are being executed. + +To allow bus types and drivers to put devices into the suspended state by +calling pm_runtime_suspend() from their ->remove() routines, the driver core +executes pm_runtime_put_sync() after running the BUS_NOTIFY_UNBIND_DRIVER +notifications in __device_release_driver(). This requires bus types and +drivers to make their ->remove() callbacks avoid races with runtime PM directly, +but also it allows of more flexibility in the handling of devices during the +removal of their drivers. The user space can effectively disallow the driver of the device to power manage it at run time by changing the value of its /sys/devices/.../power/control diff --git a/Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt b/Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt index d83703e..b3f606b 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt @@ -76,6 +76,13 @@ A transfer's actual_length may be positive even when an error has been reported. That's because transfers often involve several packets, so that one or more packets could finish before an error stops further endpoint I/O. +For isochronous URBs, the urb status value is non-zero only if the URB is +unlinked, the device is removed, the host controller is disabled, or the total +transferred length is less than the requested length and the URB_SHORT_NOT_OK +flag is set. Completion handlers for isochronous URBs should only see +urb->status set to zero, -ENOENT, -ECONNRESET, -ESHUTDOWN, or -EREMOTEIO. +Individual frame descriptor status fields may report more status codes. + 0 Transfer completed successfully @@ -132,7 +139,7 @@ one or more packets could finish before an error stops further endpoint I/O. device removal events immediately. -EXDEV ISO transfer only partially completed - look at individual frame status for details + (only set in iso_frame_desc[n].status, not urb->status) -EINVAL ISO madness, if this happens: Log off and go home |
