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-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mrvl/intc.txt20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/marvell.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/mrvl-gpio.txt23
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/marvel.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt14
10 files changed, 90 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl
index 3fca32c..25b58ef 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl
@@ -224,8 +224,8 @@ all your transactions.
</para>
<para>
-Then at umount time , in your put_super() (2.4) or write_super() (2.5)
-you can then call journal_destroy() to clean up your in-core journal object.
+Then at umount time , in your put_super() you can then call journal_destroy()
+to clean up your in-core journal object.
</para>
<para>
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mrvl/intc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mrvl/intc.txt
index 80b9a94..8b53273 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mrvl/intc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mrvl/intc.txt
@@ -38,3 +38,23 @@ Example:
reg-names = "mux status", "mux mask";
mrvl,intc-nr-irqs = <2>;
};
+
+* Marvell Orion Interrupt controller
+
+Required properties
+- compatible : Should be "marvell,orion-intc".
+- #interrupt-cells: Specifies the number of cells needed to encode an
+ interrupt source. Supported value is <1>.
+- interrupt-controller : Declare this node to be an interrupt controller.
+- reg : Interrupt mask address. A list of 4 byte ranges, one per controller.
+ One entry in the list represents 32 interrupts.
+
+Example:
+
+ intc: interrupt-controller {
+ compatible = "marvell,orion-intc", "marvell,intc";
+ interrupt-controller;
+ #interrupt-cells = <1>;
+ reg = <0xfed20204 0x04>,
+ <0xfed20214 0x04>;
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/marvell.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/marvell.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b5cdd20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/marvell.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+* Marvell Orion SATA
+
+Required Properties:
+- compatibility : "marvell,orion-sata"
+- reg : Address range of controller
+- interrupts : Interrupt controller is using
+- nr-ports : Number of SATA ports in use.
+
+Example:
+
+ sata@80000 {
+ compatible = "marvell,orion-sata";
+ reg = <0x80000 0x5000>;
+ interrupts = <21>;
+ nr-ports = <2>;
+ }
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/mrvl-gpio.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/mrvl-gpio.txt
index 05428f3..e137874 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/mrvl-gpio.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/mrvl-gpio.txt
@@ -27,3 +27,26 @@ Example:
interrupt-controller;
#interrupt-cells = <1>;
};
+
+* Marvell Orion GPIO Controller
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible : Should be "marvell,orion-gpio"
+- reg : Address and length of the register set for controller.
+- gpio-controller : So we know this is a gpio controller.
+- ngpio : How many gpios this controller has.
+- interrupts : Up to 4 Interrupts for the controller.
+
+Optional properties:
+- mask-offset : For SMP Orions, offset for Nth CPU
+
+Example:
+
+ gpio0: gpio@10100 {
+ compatible = "marvell,orion-gpio";
+ #gpio-cells = <2>;
+ gpio-controller;
+ reg = <0x10100 0x40>;
+ ngpio = <32>;
+ interrupts = <35>, <36>, <37>, <38>;
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/marvel.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/marvel.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0b2503a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/marvel.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+* Marvell Orion Watchdog Time
+
+Required Properties:
+
+- Compatibility : "marvell,orion-wdt"
+- reg : Address of the timer registers
+
+Example:
+
+ wdt@20300 {
+ compatible = "marvell,orion-wdt";
+ reg = <0x20300 0x28>;
+ status = "okay";
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 0f103e3..e540a24 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ prototypes:
int (*drop_inode) (struct inode *);
void (*evict_inode) (struct inode *);
void (*put_super) (struct super_block *);
- void (*write_super) (struct super_block *);
int (*sync_fs)(struct super_block *sb, int wait);
int (*freeze_fs) (struct super_block *);
int (*unfreeze_fs) (struct super_block *);
@@ -136,7 +135,6 @@ write_inode:
drop_inode: !!!inode->i_lock!!!
evict_inode:
put_super: write
-write_super: read
sync_fs: read
freeze_fs: write
unfreeze_fs: write
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 2bef2b3..0742fee 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -94,9 +94,8 @@ protected.
---
[mandatory]
-BKL is also moved from around sb operations. ->write_super() Is now called
-without BKL held. BKL should have been shifted into individual fs sb_op
-functions. If you don't need it, remove it.
+BKL is also moved from around sb operations. BKL should have been shifted into
+individual fs sb_op functions. If you don't need it, remove it.
---
[informational]
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 065aa2d..2ee133e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -216,7 +216,6 @@ struct super_operations {
void (*drop_inode) (struct inode *);
void (*delete_inode) (struct inode *);
void (*put_super) (struct super_block *);
- void (*write_super) (struct super_block *);
int (*sync_fs)(struct super_block *sb, int wait);
int (*freeze_fs) (struct super_block *);
int (*unfreeze_fs) (struct super_block *);
@@ -273,9 +272,6 @@ or bottom half).
put_super: called when the VFS wishes to free the superblock
(i.e. unmount). This is called with the superblock lock held
- write_super: called when the VFS superblock needs to be written to
- disc. This method is optional
-
sync_fs: called when VFS is writing out all dirty data associated with
a superblock. The second parameter indicates whether the method
should wait until the write out has been completed. Optional.
diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt b/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt
index 0bf25ee..4ebbfc3 100644
--- a/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt
+++ b/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt
@@ -262,9 +262,9 @@ MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES=10
#
# Allowed dirty background ratio, in percent. Once DIRTY_RATIO has been
-# exceeded, the kernel will wake pdflush which will then reduce the amount
-# of dirty memory to dirty_background_ratio. Set this nice and low, so once
-# some writeout has commenced, we do a lot of it.
+# exceeded, the kernel will wake flusher threads which will then reduce the
+# amount of dirty memory to dirty_background_ratio. Set this nice and low,
+# so once some writeout has commenced, we do a lot of it.
#
#DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=5
@@ -384,9 +384,9 @@ CPU_MAXFREQ=${CPU_MAXFREQ:-'slowest'}
#
# Allowed dirty background ratio, in percent. Once DIRTY_RATIO has been
-# exceeded, the kernel will wake pdflush which will then reduce the amount
-# of dirty memory to dirty_background_ratio. Set this nice and low, so once
-# some writeout has commenced, we do a lot of it.
+# exceeded, the kernel will wake flusher threads which will then reduce the
+# amount of dirty memory to dirty_background_ratio. Set this nice and low,
+# so once some writeout has commenced, we do a lot of it.
#
DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=${DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO:-'5'}
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index dcc2a94..078701f 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ huge pages although processes will also directly compact memory as required.
dirty_background_bytes
-Contains the amount of dirty memory at which the pdflush background writeback
-daemon will start writeback.
+Contains the amount of dirty memory at which the background kernel
+flusher threads will start writeback.
Note: dirty_background_bytes is the counterpart of dirty_background_ratio. Only
one of them may be specified at a time. When one sysctl is written it is
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ other appears as 0 when read.
dirty_background_ratio
Contains, as a percentage of total system memory, the number of pages at which
-the pdflush background writeback daemon will start writing out dirty data.
+the background kernel flusher threads will start writing out dirty data.
==============================================================
@@ -112,9 +112,9 @@ retained.
dirty_expire_centisecs
This tunable is used to define when dirty data is old enough to be eligible
-for writeout by the pdflush daemons. It is expressed in 100'ths of a second.
-Data which has been dirty in-memory for longer than this interval will be
-written out next time a pdflush daemon wakes up.
+for writeout by the kernel flusher threads. It is expressed in 100'ths
+of a second. Data which has been dirty in-memory for longer than this
+interval will be written out next time a flusher thread wakes up.
==============================================================
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ data.
dirty_writeback_centisecs
-The pdflush writeback daemons will periodically wake up and write `old' data
+The kernel flusher threads will periodically wake up and write `old' data
out to disk. This tunable expresses the interval between those wakeups, in
100'ths of a second.
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