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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-07-03 10:26:50 +0900
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-07-03 10:29:26 +0900
commit5cd3da4ba2397ef07226ca2aa5094ed21ff8198f (patch)
treecaa3c5968df02c296e9644a98c00e759d011b44c /Documentation
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parentd0fbad0aec1df29717fab736eb24c8a49cf2c70b (diff)
downloadlinux-5cd3da4ba2397ef07226ca2aa5094ed21ff8198f.tar.bz2
Merge ra.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Simple overlapping changes in stmmac driver. Adjust skb_gro_flush_final_remcsum function signature to make GRO list changes in net-next, as per Stephen Rothwell's example merge resolution. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/sprd,sc27xx-vibra.txt23
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.txt2
6 files changed, 43 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst
index 8b9164990956..8f1d3de449b5 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst
@@ -324,8 +324,7 @@ Global Attributes
``intel_pstate`` exposes several global attributes (files) in ``sysfs`` to
control its functionality at the system level. They are located in the
-``/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/intel_pstate/`` directory and affect all
-CPUs.
+``/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/`` directory and affect all CPUs.
Some of them are not present if the ``intel_pstate=per_cpu_perf_limits``
argument is passed to the kernel in the command line.
@@ -379,6 +378,17 @@ argument is passed to the kernel in the command line.
but it affects the maximum possible value of per-policy P-state limits
(see `Interpretation of Policy Attributes`_ below for details).
+``hwp_dynamic_boost``
+ This attribute is only present if ``intel_pstate`` works in the
+ `active mode with the HWP feature enabled <Active Mode With HWP_>`_ in
+ the processor. If set (equal to 1), it causes the minimum P-state limit
+ to be increased dynamically for a short time whenever a task previously
+ waiting on I/O is selected to run on a given logical CPU (the purpose
+ of this mechanism is to improve performance).
+
+ This setting has no effect on logical CPUs whose minimum P-state limit
+ is directly set to the highest non-turbo P-state or above it.
+
.. _status_attr:
``status``
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/sprd,sc27xx-vibra.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/sprd,sc27xx-vibra.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f2ec0d4f2dff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/sprd,sc27xx-vibra.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Spreadtrum SC27xx PMIC Vibrator
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible: should be "sprd,sc2731-vibrator".
+- reg: address of vibrator control register.
+
+Example :
+
+ sc2731_pmic: pmic@0 {
+ compatible = "sprd,sc2731";
+ reg = <0>;
+ spi-max-frequency = <26000000>;
+ interrupts = <GIC_SPI 31 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+ interrupt-controller;
+ #interrupt-cells = <2>;
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <0>;
+
+ vibrator@eb4 {
+ compatible = "sprd,sc2731-vibrator";
+ reg = <0xeb4>;
+ };
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 2c391338c675..37bf0a9de75c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -441,8 +441,6 @@ prototypes:
int (*iterate) (struct file *, struct dir_context *);
int (*iterate_shared) (struct file *, struct dir_context *);
__poll_t (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *);
- struct wait_queue_head * (*get_poll_head)(struct file *, __poll_t);
- __poll_t (*poll_mask) (struct file *, __poll_t);
long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
int (*mmap) (struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *);
@@ -473,7 +471,7 @@ prototypes:
};
locking rules:
- All except for ->poll_mask may block.
+ All may block.
->llseek() locking has moved from llseek to the individual llseek
implementations. If your fs is not using generic_file_llseek, you
@@ -505,9 +503,6 @@ in sys_read() and friends.
the lease within the individual filesystem to record the result of the
operation
-->poll_mask can be called with or without the waitqueue lock for the waitqueue
-returned from ->get_poll_head.
-
--------------------------- dquot_operations -------------------------------
prototypes:
int (*write_dquot) (struct dquot *);
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 829a7b7857a4..f608180ad59d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -857,8 +857,6 @@ struct file_operations {
ssize_t (*write_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *);
int (*iterate) (struct file *, struct dir_context *);
__poll_t (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *);
- struct wait_queue_head * (*get_poll_head)(struct file *, __poll_t);
- __poll_t (*poll_mask) (struct file *, __poll_t);
long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
int (*mmap) (struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *);
@@ -903,17 +901,6 @@ otherwise noted.
activity on this file and (optionally) go to sleep until there
is activity. Called by the select(2) and poll(2) system calls
- get_poll_head: Returns the struct wait_queue_head that callers can
- wait on. Callers need to check the returned events using ->poll_mask
- once woken. Can return NULL to indicate polling is not supported,
- or any error code using the ERR_PTR convention to indicate that a
- grave error occured and ->poll_mask shall not be called.
-
- poll_mask: return the mask of EPOLL* values describing the file descriptor
- state. Called either before going to sleep on the waitqueue returned by
- get_poll_head, or after it has been woken. If ->get_poll_head and
- ->poll_mask are implemented ->poll does not need to be implement.
-
unlocked_ioctl: called by the ioctl(2) system call.
compat_ioctl: called by the ioctl(2) system call when 32 bit system calls
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
index 3534a84d206c..64e0775a62d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
@@ -430,6 +430,12 @@ This sets the config program's title bar if the config program chooses
to use it. It should be placed at the top of the configuration, before any
other statement.
+'#' Kconfig source file comment:
+
+An unquoted '#' character anywhere in a source file line indicates
+the beginning of a source file comment. The remainder of that line
+is a comment.
+
Kconfig hints
-------------
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.txt b/Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.txt
index 635e57493709..b8cb38a98c19 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.txt
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ $ rm configs/<config name>.<number>/<function>
where <config name>.<number> specify the configuration and <function> is
a symlink to a function being removed from the configuration, e.g.:
-$ rm configfs/c.1/ncm.usb0
+$ rm configs/c.1/ncm.usb0
...
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