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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-usb-usbtmc14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-rssd18
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-cfq-target-latency8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/usb/URB.txt22
-rw-r--r--Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt6
9 files changed, 72 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-usb-usbtmc b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-usb-usbtmc
index 2a7f9a00cb0a..e960cd027e1e 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-usb-usbtmc
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-usb-usbtmc
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/devices/*/interface_capabilities
-What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/devices/*/device_capabilities
+What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/interface_capabilities
+What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/device_capabilities
Date: August 2008
Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Description:
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ Description:
The files are read only.
-What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/devices/*/usb488_interface_capabilities
-What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/devices/*/usb488_device_capabilities
+What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/usb488_interface_capabilities
+What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/usb488_device_capabilities
Date: August 2008
Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Description:
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Description:
The files are read only.
-What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/devices/*/TermChar
+What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/TermChar
Date: August 2008
Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Description:
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Description:
sent to the device or not.
-What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/devices/*/TermCharEnabled
+What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/TermCharEnabled
Date: August 2008
Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Description:
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Description:
published by the USB-IF.
-What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/devices/*/auto_abort
+What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/auto_abort
Date: August 2008
Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Description:
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-rssd b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-rssd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d535757799fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-rssd
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+What: /sys/block/rssd*/registers
+Date: March 2012
+KernelVersion: 3.3
+Contact: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
+Description: This is a read-only file. Dumps below driver information and
+ hardware registers.
+ - S ACTive
+ - Command Issue
+ - Allocated
+ - Completed
+ - PORT IRQ STAT
+ - HOST IRQ STAT
+
+What: /sys/block/rssd*/status
+Date: April 2012
+KernelVersion: 3.4
+Contact: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
+Description: This is a read-only file. Indicates the status of the device.
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-cfq-target-latency b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-cfq-target-latency
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..df0f7828c5e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-cfq-target-latency
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+What: /sys/block/<device>/iosched/target_latency
+Date: March 2012
+contact: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
+Description:
+ The /sys/block/<device>/iosched/target_latency only exists
+ when the user sets cfq to /sys/block/<device>/scheduler.
+ It contains an estimated latency time for the cfq. cfq will
+ use it to calculate the time slice used for every task.
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
index 4c95c0034a4b..9b1067afb224 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -34,8 +34,7 @@ Current Status: linux-2.6.34-mmotm(development version of 2010/April)
Features:
- accounting anonymous pages, file caches, swap caches usage and limiting them.
- - private LRU and reclaim routine. (system's global LRU and private LRU
- work independently from each other)
+ - pages are linked to per-memcg LRU exclusively, and there is no global LRU.
- optionally, memory+swap usage can be accounted and limited.
- hierarchical accounting
- soft limit
@@ -154,7 +153,7 @@ updated. page_cgroup has its own LRU on cgroup.
2.2.1 Accounting details
All mapped anon pages (RSS) and cache pages (Page Cache) are accounted.
-Some pages which are never reclaimable and will not be on the global LRU
+Some pages which are never reclaimable and will not be on the LRU
are not accounted. We just account pages under usual VM management.
RSS pages are accounted at page_fault unless they've already been accounted
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 709e08e9a222..03ca210406ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -531,3 +531,11 @@ Why: There appear to be no production users of the get_robust_list syscall,
of ASLR. It was only ever intended for debugging, so it should be
removed.
Who: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: setitimer accepts user NULL pointer (value)
+When: 3.6
+Why: setitimer is not returning -EFAULT if user pointer is NULL. This
+ violates the spec.
+Who: Sasikantha Babu <sasikanth.v19@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index e916e3d36488..0d0492028082 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ members are defined:
struct file_system_type {
const char *name;
int fs_flags;
- struct dentry (*mount) (struct file_system_type *, int,
+ struct dentry *(*mount) (struct file_system_type *, int,
const char *, void *);
void (*kill_sb) (struct super_block *);
struct module *owner;
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt
index d97d992ced14..03f7897c6414 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,9 @@ ALC680
ALC882/883/885/888/889
======================
- N/A
+ acer-aspire-4930g Acer Aspire 4930G/5930G/6530G/6930G/7730G
+ acer-aspire-8930g Acer Aspire 8330G/6935G
+ acer-aspire Acer Aspire others
ALC861/660
==========
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/URB.txt b/Documentation/usb/URB.txt
index 8ffce746d496..00d2c644068e 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/URB.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/URB.txt
@@ -168,6 +168,28 @@ that if the completion handler or anyone else tries to resubmit it
they will get a -EPERM error. Thus you can be sure that when
usb_kill_urb() returns, the URB is totally idle.
+There is a lifetime issue to consider. An URB may complete at any
+time, and the completion handler may free the URB. If this happens
+while usb_unlink_urb or usb_kill_urb is running, it will cause a
+memory-access violation. The driver is responsible for avoiding this,
+which often means some sort of lock will be needed to prevent the URB
+from being deallocated while it is still in use.
+
+On the other hand, since usb_unlink_urb may end up calling the
+completion handler, the handler must not take any lock that is held
+when usb_unlink_urb is invoked. The general solution to this problem
+is to increment the URB's reference count while holding the lock, then
+drop the lock and call usb_unlink_urb or usb_kill_urb, and then
+decrement the URB's reference count. You increment the reference
+count by calling
+
+ struct urb *usb_get_urb(struct urb *urb)
+
+(ignore the return value; it is the same as the argument) and
+decrement the reference count by calling usb_free_urb. Of course,
+none of this is necessary if there's no danger of the URB being freed
+by the completion handler.
+
1.7. What about the completion handler?
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt b/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt
index 5335fa8b06eb..c42bb9cd3b43 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt
@@ -183,10 +183,10 @@ An input control transfer to get a port status.
d5ea89a0 3575914555 S Ci:1:001:0 s a3 00 0000 0003 0004 4 <
d5ea89a0 3575914560 C Ci:1:001:0 0 4 = 01050000
-An output bulk transfer to send a SCSI command 0x5E in a 31-byte Bulk wrapper
-to a storage device at address 5:
+An output bulk transfer to send a SCSI command 0x28 (READ_10) in a 31-byte
+Bulk wrapper to a storage device at address 5:
-dd65f0e8 4128379752 S Bo:1:005:2 -115 31 = 55534243 5e000000 00000000 00000600 00000000 00000000 00000000 000000
+dd65f0e8 4128379752 S Bo:1:005:2 -115 31 = 55534243 ad000000 00800000 80010a28 20000000 20000040 00000000 000000
dd65f0e8 4128379808 C Bo:1:005:2 0 31 >
* Raw binary format and API