Merge commit 'v2.6.26' into bkl-removal

.gitignore

@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 # subdirectories here. Add them in the ".gitignore" file
 # in that subdirectory instead.
 #
+# NOTE! Please use 'git-ls-files -i --exclude-standard'
+# command after changing this file, to see if there are
+# any tracked files which get ignored after the change.
+#
 # Normal rules
 #
 .*
@@ -18,18 +22,21 @@
 *.lst
 *.symtypes
 *.order
+*.elf
+*.bin
+*.gz
 
 #
 # Top-level generic files
 #
 tags
 TAGS
-vmlinux*
-!vmlinux.lds.S
+vmlinux
 System.map
 Module.markers
 Module.symvers
 !.gitignore
+!.mailmap
 
 #
 # Generated include files
@@ -52,8 +59,8 @@ series
 
 # cscope files
 cscope.*
+ncscope.*
 
 *.orig
-*.rej
 *~
 \#*#

CREDITS

@@ -2611,8 +2611,9 @@ S: Perth, Western Australia
 S: Australia
 
 N: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis
-E: maxextreme@gmail.com
-W: http://maxextreme.googlepages.com/
+E: miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com
+W: http://miguelojeda.es
+W: http://jair.lab.fi.uva.es/~migojed/
 D: Author of the ks0108, cfag12864b and cfag12864bfb auxiliary display drivers.
 D: Maintainer of the auxiliary display drivers tree (drivers/auxdisplay/*)
 S: C/ Mieses 20, 9-B

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi

@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ MAJOR:MINOR
 	non-block filesystems which provide their own BDI, such as NFS
 	and FUSE.
 
+MAJOR:MINOR-fuseblk
+
+	Value of st_dev on fuseblk filesystems.
+
 default
 
 	The default backing dev, used for non-block device backed

Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl

@@ -703,6 +703,31 @@
 </sect1>
 </chapter>
 
+<chapter id="trylock-functions">
+ <title>The trylock Functions</title>
+  <para>
+   There are functions that try to acquire a lock only once and immediately
+   return a value telling about success or failure to acquire the lock.
+   They can be used if you need no access to the data protected with the lock
+   when some other thread is holding the lock. You should acquire the lock
+   later if you then need access to the data protected with the lock.
+  </para>
+
+  <para>
+    <function>spin_trylock()</function> does not spin but returns non-zero if
+    it acquires the spinlock on the first try or 0 if not. This function can
+    be used in all contexts like <function>spin_lock</function>: you must have
+    disabled the contexts that might interrupt you and acquire the spin lock.
+  </para>
+
+  <para>
+    <function>mutex_trylock()</function> does not suspend your task
+    but returns non-zero if it could lock the mutex on the first try
+    or 0 if not. This function cannot be safely used in hardware or software
+    interrupt contexts despite not sleeping.
+  </para>
+</chapter>
+
   <chapter id="Examples">
    <title>Common Examples</title>
     <para>

Documentation/DocBook/kgdb.tmpl

@@ -84,10 +84,9 @@
     runs an instance of gdb against the vmlinux file which contains
     the symbols (not boot image such as bzImage, zImage, uImage...).
     In gdb the developer specifies the connection parameters and
-    connects to kgdb.  Depending on which kgdb I/O modules exist in
-    the kernel for a given architecture, it may be possible to debug
-    the test machine's kernel with the development machine using a
-    rs232 or ethernet connection.
+    connects to kgdb.  The type of connection a developer makes with
+    gdb depends on the availability of kgdb I/O modules compiled as
+    builtin's or kernel modules in the test machine's kernel.
     </para>
   </chapter>
   <chapter id="CompilingAKernel">
@@ -223,7 +222,7 @@
   </para>
   <para>
   IMPORTANT NOTE: Using this option with kgdb over the console
-  (kgdboc) or kgdb over ethernet (kgdboe) is not supported.
+  (kgdboc) is not supported.
   </para>
   </sect1>
   </chapter>
@@ -249,18 +248,11 @@
     (gdb) target remote /dev/ttyS0
     </programlisting>
     <para>
-    Example (kgdb to a terminal server):
+    Example (kgdb to a terminal server on tcp port 2012):
     </para>
     <programlisting>
     % gdb ./vmlinux
-    (gdb) target remote udp:192.168.2.2:6443
-    </programlisting>
-    <para>
-    Example (kgdb over ethernet):
-    </para>
-    <programlisting>
-    % gdb ./vmlinux
-    (gdb) target remote udp:192.168.2.2:6443
+    (gdb) target remote 192.168.2.2:2012
     </programlisting>
     <para>
     Once connected, you can debug a kernel the way you would debug an

Documentation/HOWTO

@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ Bug Reporting
 bugzilla.kernel.org is where the Linux kernel developers track kernel
 bugs.  Users are encouraged to report all bugs that they find in this
 tool.  For details on how to use the kernel bugzilla, please see:
-	http://test.kernel.org/bugzilla/faq.html
+	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/page.cgi?id=faq.html
 
 The file REPORTING-BUGS in the main kernel source directory has a good
 template for how to report a possible kernel bug, and details what kind

Documentation/SubmittingPatches

@@ -327,6 +327,52 @@ Some people also put extra tags at the end.  They'll just be ignored for
 now, but you can do this to mark internal company procedures or just
 point out some special detail about the sign-off. 
 
+If you are a subsystem or branch maintainer, sometimes you need to slightly
+modify patches you receive in order to merge them, because the code is not
+exactly the same in your tree and the submitters'. If you stick strictly to
+rule (c), you should ask the submitter to rediff, but this is a totally
+counter-productive waste of time and energy. Rule (b) allows you to adjust
+the code, but then it is very impolite to change one submitter's code and
+make him endorse your bugs. To solve this problem, it is recommended that
+you add a line between the last Signed-off-by header and yours, indicating
+the nature of your changes. While there is nothing mandatory about this, it
+seems like prepending the description with your mail and/or name, all
+enclosed in square brackets, is noticeable enough to make it obvious that
+you are responsible for last-minute changes. Example :
+
+	Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org>
+	[lucky@maintainer.example.org: struct foo moved from foo.c to foo.h]
+	Signed-off-by: Lucky K Maintainer <lucky@maintainer.example.org>
+
+This practise is particularly helpful if you maintain a stable branch and
+want at the same time to credit the author, track changes, merge the fix,
+and protect the submitter from complaints. Note that under no circumstances
+can you change the author's identity (the From header), as it is the one
+which appears in the changelog.
+
+Special note to back-porters: It seems to be a common and useful practise
+to insert an indication of the origin of a patch at the top of the commit
+message (just after the subject line) to facilitate tracking. For instance,
+here's what we see in 2.6-stable :
+
+    Date:   Tue May 13 19:10:30 2008 +0000
+
+        SCSI: libiscsi regression in 2.6.25: fix nop timer handling
+
+        commit 4cf1043593db6a337f10e006c23c69e5fc93e722 upstream
+
+And here's what appears in 2.4 :
+
+    Date:   Tue May 13 22:12:27 2008 +0200
+
+        wireless, airo: waitbusy() won't delay
+
+        [backport of 2.6 commit b7acbdfbd1f277c1eb23f344f899cfa4cd0bf36a]
+
+Whatever the format, this information provides a valuable help to people
+tracking your trees, and to people trying to trouble-shoot bugs in your
+tree.
+
 
 13) When to use Acked-by: and Cc:
 

Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt

@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ There are three different groups of fields in the struct taskstats:
 
 4) Per-task and per-thread context switch count statistics
 
+5) Time accounting for SMT machines
+
 Future extension should add fields to the end of the taskstats struct, and
 should not change the relative position of each field within the struct.
 
@@ -164,4 +166,8 @@ struct taskstats {
 	__u64	nvcsw;			/* Context voluntary switch counter */
 	__u64	nivcsw;			/* Context involuntary switch counter */
 
+5) Time accounting for SMT machines
+	__u64	ac_utimescaled;		/* utime scaled on frequency etc */
+	__u64	ac_stimescaled;		/* stime scaled on frequency etc */
+	__u64	cpu_scaled_run_real_total; /* scaled cpu_run_real_total */
 }

Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 	===================================
 
 License:		GPLv2
-Author & Maintainer:	Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <maxextreme@gmail.com>
+Author & Maintainer:	Miguel Ojeda Sandonis
 Date:			2006-10-27
 
 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Date:			2006-10-27
 1. DRIVER INFORMATION
 ---------------------
 
-This driver support one cfag12864b display at time.
+This driver supports a cfag12864b LCD.
 
 
 ---------------------

Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b-example.c

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * Description: cfag12864b LCD userspace example program
  *     License: GPLv2
  *
- *      Author: Copyright (C) Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <maxextreme@gmail.com>
+ *      Author: Copyright (C) Miguel Ojeda Sandonis
  *        Date: 2006-10-31
  *
  *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

Documentation/auxdisplay/ks0108

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 	==========================================
 
 License:		GPLv2
-Author & Maintainer:	Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <maxextreme@gmail.com>
+Author & Maintainer:	Miguel Ojeda Sandonis
 Date:			2006-10-27
 
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Date:			2006-10-27
 1. DRIVER INFORMATION
 ---------------------
 
-This driver support the ks0108 LCD controller.
+This driver supports the ks0108 LCD controller.
 
 
 ---------------------

Documentation/cciss.txt

@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ This driver is known to work with the following cards:
 	* SA E200
 	* SA E200i
 	* SA E500
+	* SA P212
+	* SA P410
+	* SA P410i
+	* SA P411
+	* SA P812
 
 Detecting drive failures:
 -------------------------

Documentation/cgroups.txt

@@ -390,6 +390,10 @@ If you have several tasks to attach, you have to do it one after another:
 	...
 # /bin/echo PIDn > tasks
 
+You can attach the current shell task by echoing 0:
+
+# echo 0 > tasks
+
 3. Kernel API
 =============
 

Documentation/controllers/devices.txt

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ either an integer or * for all.  Access is a composition of r
 The root device cgroup starts with rwm to 'all'.  A child device
 cgroup gets a copy of the parent.  Administrators can then remove
 devices from the whitelist or add new entries.  A child cgroup can
-never receive a device access which is denied its parent.  However
+never receive a device access which is denied by its parent.  However
 when a device access is removed from a parent it will not also be
 removed from the child(ren).
 
@@ -29,7 +29,11 @@ allows cgroup 1 to read and mknod the device usually known as
 
 	echo a > /cgroups/1/devices.deny
 
-will remove the default 'a *:* mrw' entry.
+will remove the default 'a *:* rwm' entry. Doing
+
+	echo a > /cgroups/1/devices.allow
+
+will add the 'a *:* rwm' entry to the whitelist.
 
 3. Security
 

Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt

@@ -129,14 +129,6 @@ to its default value of '80' it means that between the checking
 intervals the CPU needs to be on average more than 80% in use to then
 decide that the CPU frequency needs to be increased.  
 
-sampling_down_factor: this parameter controls the rate that the CPU
-makes a decision on when to decrease the frequency.  When set to its
-default value of '5' it means that at 1/5 the sampling_rate the kernel
-makes a decision to lower the frequency.  Five "lower rate" decisions
-have to be made in a row before the CPU frequency is actually lower.
-If set to '1' then the frequency decreases as quickly as it increases,
-if set to '2' it decreases at half the rate of the increase.
-
 ignore_nice_load: this parameter takes a value of '0' or '1'. When
 set to '0' (its default), all processes are counted towards the
 'cpu utilisation' value.  When set to '1', the processes that are

Documentation/cpusets.txt

@@ -154,13 +154,15 @@ browsing and modifying the cpusets presently known to the kernel.  No
 new system calls are added for cpusets - all support for querying and
 modifying cpusets is via this cpuset file system.
 
-The /proc/<pid>/status file for each task has two added lines,
+The /proc/<pid>/status file for each task has four added lines,
 displaying the tasks cpus_allowed (on which CPUs it may be scheduled)
 and mems_allowed (on which Memory Nodes it may obtain memory),
-in the format seen in the following example:
+in the two formats seen in the following example:
 
   Cpus_allowed:   ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff
+  Cpus_allowed_list:      0-127
   Mems_allowed:   ffffffff,ffffffff
+  Mems_allowed_list:      0-63
 
 Each cpuset is represented by a directory in the cgroup file system
 containing (on top of the standard cgroup files) the following
@@ -199,7 +201,7 @@ using the sched_setaffinity, mbind and set_mempolicy system calls.
 The following rules apply to each cpuset:
 
  - Its CPUs and Memory Nodes must be a subset of its parents.
- - It can only be marked exclusive if its parent is.
+ - It can't be marked exclusive unless its parent is.
  - If its cpu or memory is exclusive, they may not overlap any sibling.
 
 These rules, and the natural hierarchy of cpusets, enable efficient
@@ -345,7 +347,7 @@ is modified to perform an inline check for this PF_SPREAD_PAGE task
 flag, and if set, a call to a new routine cpuset_mem_spread_node()
 returns the node to prefer for the allocation.
 
-Similarly, setting 'memory_spread_cache' turns on the flag
+Similarly, setting 'memory_spread_slab' turns on the flag
 PF_SPREAD_SLAB, and appropriately marked slab caches will allocate
 pages from the node returned by cpuset_mem_spread_node().
 
@@ -542,7 +544,10 @@ otherwise initial value -1 that indicates the cpuset has no request.
    2  : search cores in a package.
    3  : search cpus in a node [= system wide on non-NUMA system]
  ( 4  : search nodes in a chunk of node [on NUMA system] )
- ( 5~ : search system wide [on NUMA system])
+ ( 5  : search system wide [on NUMA system] )
+
+The system default is architecture dependent.  The system default
+can be changed using the relax_domain_level= boot parameter.
 
 This file is per-cpuset and affect the sched domain where the cpuset
 belongs to.  Therefore if the flag 'sched_load_balance' of a cpuset
@@ -709,7 +714,10 @@ Now you want to do something with this cpuset.
 
 In this directory you can find several files:
 # ls
-cpus  cpu_exclusive  mems  mem_exclusive mem_hardwall  tasks
+cpu_exclusive  memory_migrate      mems                      tasks
+cpus           memory_pressure     notify_on_release
+mem_exclusive  memory_spread_page  sched_load_balance
+mem_hardwall   memory_spread_slab  sched_relax_domain_level
 
 Reading them will give you information about the state of this cpuset:
 the CPUs and Memory Nodes it can use, the processes that are using

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

@@ -312,3 +312,12 @@ When:	2.6.26
 Why:	Implementation became generic; users should now include
 	linux/semaphore.h instead.
 Who:	Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What:	CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON
+When:	January 2009
+Why:	This option was introduced just to allow older lm-sensors userspace
+	to keep working over the upgrade to 2.6.26. At the scheduled time of
+	removal fixed lm-sensors (2.x or 3.x) should be readily available.
+Who:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>

Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt

@@ -139,8 +139,16 @@ commit=nrsec	(*)	Ext4 can be told to sync all its data and metadata
 			Setting it to very large values will improve
 			performance.
 
-barrier=1		This enables/disables barriers.  barrier=0 disables
-			it, barrier=1 enables it.
+barrier=<0|1(*)>	This enables/disables the use of write barriers in
+			the jbd code.  barrier=0 disables, barrier=1 enables.
+			This also requires an IO stack which can support
+			barriers, and if jbd gets an error on a barrier
+			write, it will disable again with a warning.
+			Write barriers enforce proper on-disk ordering
+			of journal commits, making volatile disk write caches
+			safe to use, at some performance penalty.  If
+			your disks are battery-backed in one way or another,
+			disabling barriers may safely improve performance.
 
 orlov		(*)	This enables the new Orlov block allocator. It is
 			enabled by default.

Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ files, each with their own function.
        local_cpus	   nearby CPU mask (cpumask, ro)
        resource		   PCI resource host addresses (ascii, ro)
        resource0..N	   PCI resource N, if present (binary, mmap)
+       resource0_wc..N_wc  PCI WC map resource N, if prefetchable (binary, mmap)
        rom		   PCI ROM resource, if present (binary, ro)
        subsystem_device	   PCI subsystem device (ascii, ro)
        subsystem_vendor	   PCI subsystem vendor (ascii, ro)