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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/README | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/backlight/lp855x-driver.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/backlight/lp855x.txt | 29 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gcov.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/zswap.txt | 8 |
13 files changed, 101 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/README b/Documentation/ABI/README index 10069828568b..1fafc4b0753b 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/README +++ b/Documentation/ABI/README @@ -72,3 +72,16 @@ kernel tree without going through the obsolete state first. It's up to the developer to place their interfaces in the category they wish for it to start out in. + + +Notable bits of non-ABI, which should not under any circumstances be considered +stable: + +- Kconfig. Userspace should not rely on the presence or absence of any + particular Kconfig symbol, in /proc/config.gz, in the copy of .config + commonly installed to /boot, or in any invocation of the kernel build + process. + +- Kernel-internal symbols. Do not rely on the presence, absence, location, or + type of any kernel symbol, either in System.map files or the kernel binary + itself. See Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt. diff --git a/Documentation/backlight/lp855x-driver.txt b/Documentation/backlight/lp855x-driver.txt index 1c732f0c6758..01bce243d3d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/backlight/lp855x-driver.txt +++ b/Documentation/backlight/lp855x-driver.txt @@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ Kernel driver lp855x Backlight driver for LP855x ICs Supported chips: - Texas Instruments LP8550, LP8551, LP8552, LP8553, LP8556 and LP8557 + Texas Instruments LP8550, LP8551, LP8552, LP8553, LP8555, LP8556 and + LP8557 Author: Milo(Woogyom) Kim <milo.kim@ti.com> @@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ Value : pwm based or register based 2) chip_id The lp855x chip id. -Value : lp8550/lp8551/lp8552/lp8553/lp8556/lp8557 +Value : lp8550/lp8551/lp8552/lp8553/lp8555/lp8556/lp8557 Platform data for lp855x ------------------------ diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index 8af4ad121828..e2bc132608fd 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -573,15 +573,19 @@ an memcg since the pages are allowed to be allocated from any physical node. One of the use cases is evaluating application performance by combining this information with the application's CPU allocation. -We export "total", "file", "anon" and "unevictable" pages per-node for -each memcg. The ouput format of memory.numa_stat is: +Each memcg's numa_stat file includes "total", "file", "anon" and "unevictable" +per-node page counts including "hierarchical_<counter>" which sums up all +hierarchical children's values in addition to the memcg's own value. + +The ouput format of memory.numa_stat is: total=<total pages> N0=<node 0 pages> N1=<node 1 pages> ... file=<total file pages> N0=<node 0 pages> N1=<node 1 pages> ... anon=<total anon pages> N0=<node 0 pages> N1=<node 1 pages> ... unevictable=<total anon pages> N0=<node 0 pages> N1=<node 1 pages> ... +hierarchical_<counter>=<counter pages> N0=<node 0 pages> N1=<node 1 pages> ... -And we have total = file + anon + unevictable. +The "total" count is sum of file + anon + unevictable. 6. Hierarchy support diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt index 786dc82f98ce..8cb9938cc47e 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> i386: - Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> + Zwane Mwaikambo <zwanem@gmail.com> ppc64: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com> Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/backlight/lp855x.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/backlight/lp855x.txt index 1482103d288f..96e83a56048e 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/backlight/lp855x.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/backlight/lp855x.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ lp855x bindings Required properties: - compatible: "ti,lp8550", "ti,lp8551", "ti,lp8552", "ti,lp8553", - "ti,lp8556", "ti,lp8557" + "ti,lp8555", "ti,lp8556", "ti,lp8557" - reg: I2C slave address (u8) - dev-ctrl: Value of DEVICE CONTROL register (u8). It depends on the device. @@ -15,6 +15,33 @@ Optional properties: Example: + /* LP8555 */ + backlight@2c { + compatible = "ti,lp8555"; + reg = <0x2c>; + + dev-ctrl = /bits/ 8 <0x00>; + pwm-period = <10000>; + + /* 4V OV, 4 output LED0 string enabled */ + rom_14h { + rom-addr = /bits/ 8 <0x14>; + rom-val = /bits/ 8 <0xcf>; + }; + + /* Heavy smoothing, 24ms ramp time step */ + rom_15h { + rom-addr = /bits/ 8 <0x15>; + rom-val = /bits/ 8 <0xc7>; + }; + + /* 4 output LED1 string enabled */ + rom_19h { + rom-addr = /bits/ 8 <0x19>; + rom-val = /bits/ 8 <0x0f>; + }; + }; + /* LP8556 */ backlight@2c { compatible = "ti,lp8556"; diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 823c95faebd2..22d89aa37218 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -460,6 +460,7 @@ manner. The codes are the following: nl - non-linear mapping ar - architecture specific flag dd - do not include area into core dump + sd - soft-dirty flag mm - mixed map area hg - huge page advise flag nh - no-huge page advise flag diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt index aa1f459fa6cf..4a93e98b290a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ the following: <proceeding files...> <slot #3, id = 0x43, characters = "h is long"> - <slot #2, id = 0x02, characters = "xtension which"> + <slot #2, id = 0x02, characters = "xtension whic"> <slot #1, id = 0x01, characters = "My Big File.E"> <directory entry, name = "MYBIGFIL.EXT"> diff --git a/Documentation/gcov.txt b/Documentation/gcov.txt index e7ca6478cd93..7b727783db7e 100644 --- a/Documentation/gcov.txt +++ b/Documentation/gcov.txt @@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ Configure the kernel with: CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL=y +select the gcc's gcov format, default is autodetect based on gcc version: + + CONFIG_GCOV_FORMAT_AUTODETECT=y + and to get coverage data for the entire kernel: CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL=y diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index fd3ecedc084d..9ca3e74a10e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1070,6 +1070,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. VIA, nVidia) verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup + hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET + registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. + hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified @@ -1775,6 +1778,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. that the amount of memory usable for all allocations is not too small. + movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects + of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details. + MTD_Partition= [MTD] Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 4273b2d71a27..26b7ee491df8 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -290,13 +290,24 @@ Default value is "/sbin/hotplug". kptr_restrict: This toggle indicates whether restrictions are placed on -exposing kernel addresses via /proc and other interfaces. When -kptr_restrict is set to (0), there are no restrictions. When -kptr_restrict is set to (1), the default, kernel pointers -printed using the %pK format specifier will be replaced with 0's -unless the user has CAP_SYSLOG. When kptr_restrict is set to -(2), kernel pointers printed using %pK will be replaced with 0's -regardless of privileges. +exposing kernel addresses via /proc and other interfaces. + +When kptr_restrict is set to (0), the default, there are no restrictions. + +When kptr_restrict is set to (1), kernel pointers printed using the %pK +format specifier will be replaced with 0's unless the user has CAP_SYSLOG +and effective user and group ids are equal to the real ids. This is +because %pK checks are done at read() time rather than open() time, so +if permissions are elevated between the open() and the read() (e.g via +a setuid binary) then %pK will not leak kernel pointers to unprivileged +users. Note, this is a temporary solution only. The correct long-term +solution is to do the permission checks at open() time. Consider removing +world read permissions from files that use %pK, and using dmesg_restrict +to protect against uses of %pK in dmesg(8) if leaking kernel pointer +values to unprivileged users is a concern. + +When kptr_restrict is set to (2), kernel pointers printed using +%pK will be replaced with 0's regardless of privileges. ============================================================== diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 79a797eb3e87..1fbd4eb7b64a 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -119,8 +119,11 @@ other appears as 0 when read. dirty_background_ratio -Contains, as a percentage of total system memory, the number of pages at which -the background kernel flusher threads will start writing out dirty data. +Contains, as a percentage of total available memory that contains free pages +and reclaimable pages, the number of pages at which the background kernel +flusher threads will start writing out dirty data. + +The total avaiable memory is not equal to total system memory. ============================================================== @@ -151,9 +154,11 @@ interval will be written out next time a flusher thread wakes up. dirty_ratio -Contains, as a percentage of total system memory, the number of pages at which -a process which is generating disk writes will itself start writing out dirty -data. +Contains, as a percentage of total available memory that contains free pages +and reclaimable pages, the number of pages at which a process which is +generating disk writes will itself start writing out dirty data. + +The total avaiable memory is not equal to total system memory. ============================================================== diff --git a/Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt b/Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt index ac4170dd0f24..6b018b53177a 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt @@ -114,3 +114,8 @@ core kernel image or in modules. If the tracepoint has to be used in kernel modules, an EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL_GPL() or EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL() can be used to export the defined tracepoints. + +Note: The convenience macro TRACE_EVENT provides an alternative way to + define tracepoints. Check http://lwn.net/Articles/379903, + http://lwn.net/Articles/381064 and http://lwn.net/Articles/383362 + for a series of articles with more details. diff --git a/Documentation/vm/zswap.txt b/Documentation/vm/zswap.txt index 7e492d8aaeaf..00c3d31e7971 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/zswap.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/zswap.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ significant performance improvement if reads from the compressed cache are faster than reads from a swap device. NOTE: Zswap is a new feature as of v3.11 and interacts heavily with memory -reclaim. This interaction has not be fully explored on the large set of +reclaim. This interaction has not been fully explored on the large set of potential configurations and workloads that exist. For this reason, zswap is a work in progress and should be considered experimental. @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Some potential benefits: drastically reducing life-shortening writes. Zswap evicts pages from compressed cache on an LRU basis to the backing swap -device when the compressed pool reaches it size limit. This requirement had +device when the compressed pool reaches its size limit. This requirement had been identified in prior community discussions. To enabled zswap, the "enabled" attribute must be set to 1 at boot time. e.g. @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ the backing swap device in the case that the compressed pool is full. Zswap makes use of zbud for the managing the compressed memory pool. Each allocation in zbud is not directly accessible by address. Rather, a handle is -return by the allocation routine and that handle must be mapped before being +returned by the allocation routine and that handle must be mapped before being accessed. The compressed memory pool grows on demand and shrinks as compressed pages are freed. The pool is not preallocated. @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ in the swap_map goes to 0) the swap code calls the zswap invalidate function, via frontswap, to free the compressed entry. Zswap seeks to be simple in its policies. Sysfs attributes allow for one user -controlled policies: +controlled policy: * max_pool_percent - The maximum percentage of memory that the compressed pool can occupy. |