Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core

Merge reason: pick up the latest scheduler fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This commit is contained in:
Ingo Molnar
2011-07-21 17:59:54 +02:00
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@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ N: Zach Brown
E: zab@zabbo.net
D: maestro pci sound
M: David Brownell
N: David Brownell
D: Kernel engineer, mentor, and friend. Maintained USB EHCI and
D: gadget layers, SPI subsystem, GPIO subsystem, and more than a few
D: device drivers. His encouragement also helped many engineers get
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@@ -2,13 +2,7 @@ Intro
=====
This document is designed to provide a list of the minimum levels of
software necessary to run the 2.6 kernels, as well as provide brief
instructions regarding any other "Gotchas" users may encounter when
trying life on the Bleeding Edge. If upgrading from a pre-2.4.x
kernel, please consult the Changes file included with 2.4.x kernels for
additional information; most of that information will not be repeated
here. Basically, this document assumes that your system is already
functional and running at least 2.4.x kernels.
software necessary to run the 3.0 kernels.
This document is originally based on my "Changes" file for 2.0.x kernels
and therefore owes credit to the same people as that file (Jared Mauch,
@@ -22,11 +16,10 @@ Upgrade to at *least* these software revisions before thinking you've
encountered a bug! If you're unsure what version you're currently
running, the suggested command should tell you.
Again, keep in mind that this list assumes you are already
functionally running a Linux 2.4 kernel. Also, not all tools are
necessary on all systems; obviously, if you don't have any ISDN
hardware, for example, you probably needn't concern yourself with
isdn4k-utils.
Again, keep in mind that this list assumes you are already functionally
running a Linux kernel. Also, not all tools are necessary on all
systems; obviously, if you don't have any ISDN hardware, for example,
you probably needn't concern yourself with isdn4k-utils.
o Gnu C 3.2 # gcc --version
o Gnu make 3.80 # make --version
@@ -114,12 +107,12 @@ Ksymoops
If the unthinkable happens and your kernel oopses, you may need the
ksymoops tool to decode it, but in most cases you don't.
In the 2.6 kernel it is generally preferred to build the kernel with
CONFIG_KALLSYMS so that it produces readable dumps that can be used as-is
(this also produces better output than ksymoops).
If for some reason your kernel is not build with CONFIG_KALLSYMS and
you have no way to rebuild and reproduce the Oops with that option, then
you can still decode that Oops with ksymoops.
It is generally preferred to build the kernel with CONFIG_KALLSYMS so
that it produces readable dumps that can be used as-is (this also
produces better output than ksymoops). If for some reason your kernel
is not build with CONFIG_KALLSYMS and you have no way to rebuild and
reproduce the Oops with that option, then you can still decode that Oops
with ksymoops.
Module-Init-Tools
-----------------
@@ -261,8 +254,8 @@ needs to be recompiled or (preferably) upgraded.
NFS-utils
---------
In 2.4 and earlier kernels, the nfs server needed to know about any
client that expected to be able to access files via NFS. This
In ancient (2.4 and earlier) kernels, the nfs server needed to know
about any client that expected to be able to access files via NFS. This
information would be given to the kernel by "mountd" when the client
mounted the filesystem, or by "exportfs" at system startup. exportfs
would take information about active clients from /var/lib/nfs/rmtab.
@@ -272,11 +265,11 @@ which is not always easy, particularly when trying to implement
fail-over. Even when the system is working well, rmtab suffers from
getting lots of old entries that never get removed.
With 2.6 we have the option of having the kernel tell mountd when it
gets a request from an unknown host, and mountd can give appropriate
export information to the kernel. This removes the dependency on
rmtab and means that the kernel only needs to know about currently
active clients.
With modern kernels we have the option of having the kernel tell mountd
when it gets a request from an unknown host, and mountd can give
appropriate export information to the kernel. This removes the
dependency on rmtab and means that the kernel only needs to know about
currently active clients.
To enable this new functionality, you need to:
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@@ -680,8 +680,8 @@ ones already enabled by DEBUG.
Chapter 14: Allocating memory
The kernel provides the following general purpose memory allocators:
kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), and vmalloc(). Please refer to the API
documentation for further information about them.
kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), vmalloc(), and vzalloc(). Please refer to
the API documentation for further information about them.
The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:
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@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Throttling/Upper Limit policy
- Specify a bandwidth rate on particular device for root group. The format
for policy is "<major>:<minor> <byes_per_second>".
echo "8:16 1048576" > /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/blkio.read_bps_device
echo "8:16 1048576" > /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/blkio.throttle.read_bps_device
Above will put a limit of 1MB/second on reads happening for root group
on device having major/minor number 8:16.
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Throttling/Upper Limit policy
1024+0 records out
4194304 bytes (4.2 MB) copied, 4.0001 s, 1.0 MB/s
Limits for writes can be put using blkio.write_bps_device file.
Limits for writes can be put using blkio.throttle.write_bps_device file.
Hierarchical Cgroups
====================
@@ -286,28 +286,28 @@ Throttling/Upper limit policy files
specified in bytes per second. Rules are per deivce. Following is
the format.
echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_bytes_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.read_bps_device
echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_bytes_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.throttle.read_bps_device
- blkio.throttle.write_bps_device
- Specifies upper limit on WRITE rate to the device. IO rate is
specified in bytes per second. Rules are per deivce. Following is
the format.
echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_bytes_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.write_bps_device
echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_bytes_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.throttle.write_bps_device
- blkio.throttle.read_iops_device
- Specifies upper limit on READ rate from the device. IO rate is
specified in IO per second. Rules are per deivce. Following is
the format.
echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_io_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.read_iops_device
echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_io_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.throttle.read_iops_device
- blkio.throttle.write_iops_device
- Specifies upper limit on WRITE rate to the device. IO rate is
specified in io per second. Rules are per deivce. Following is
the format.
echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_io_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.write_iops_device
echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_io_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.throttle.write_iops_device
Note: If both BW and IOPS rules are specified for a device, then IO is
subjectd to both the constraints.
@@ -583,3 +583,25 @@ Why: Superseded by the UVCIOC_CTRL_QUERY ioctl.
Who: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
----------------------------
What: For VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY the type field must match the device node's type.
If not, return -EINVAL.
When: 3.2
Why: It makes no sense to switch the tuner to radio mode by calling
VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY on a video node, or to switch the tuner to tv mode by
calling VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY on a radio node. This is the first step of a
move to more consistent handling of tv and radio tuners.
Who: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
----------------------------
What: Opening a radio device node will no longer automatically switch the
tuner mode from tv to radio.
When: 3.3
Why: Just opening a V4L device should not change the state of the hardware
like that. It's very unexpected and against the V4L spec. Instead, you
switch to radio mode by calling VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY. This is the second
and last step of the move to consistent handling of tv and radio tuners.
Who: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
----------------------------
@@ -673,6 +673,22 @@ storage request to complete, or it may attempt to cancel the storage request -
in which case the page will not be stored in the cache this time.
BULK INODE PAGE UNCACHE
-----------------------
A convenience routine is provided to perform an uncache on all the pages
attached to an inode. This assumes that the pages on the inode correspond on a
1:1 basis with the pages in the cache.
void fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
struct inode *inode);
This takes the netfs cookie that the pages were cached with and the inode that
the pages are attached to. This function will wait for pages to finish being
written to the cache and for the cache to finish with the page generally. No
error is returned.
==========================
INDEX AND DATA FILE UPDATE
==========================
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@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ Features which NILFS2 does not support yet:
- POSIX ACLs
- quotas
- fsck
- resize
- defragmentation
Mount options
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@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ Supported chips:
Prefix: 'f71869'
Addresses scanned: none, address read from Super I/O config space
Datasheet: Available from the Fintek website
* Fintek F71869A
Prefix: 'f71869a'
Addresses scanned: none, address read from Super I/O config space
Datasheet: Not public
* Fintek F71882FG and F71883FG
Prefix: 'f71882fg'
Addresses scanned: none, address read from Super I/O config space
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@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ Supported chips:
Socket S1G3: Athlon II, Sempron, Turion II
* AMD Family 11h processors:
Socket S1G2: Athlon (X2), Sempron (X2), Turion X2 (Ultra)
* AMD Family 12h processors: "Llano"
* AMD Family 14h processors: "Brazos" (C/E/G-Series)
* AMD Family 12h processors: "Llano" (E2/A4/A6/A8-Series)
* AMD Family 14h processors: "Brazos" (C/E/G/Z-Series)
* AMD Family 15h processors: "Bulldozer"
Prefix: 'k10temp'
@@ -20,12 +20,16 @@ Supported chips:
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/31116.pdf
BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide (BKDG) for AMD Family 11h Processors:
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/41256.pdf
BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide (BKDG) for AMD Family 12h Processors:
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/41131.pdf
BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide (BKDG) for AMD Family 14h Models 00h-0Fh Processors:
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/43170.pdf
Revision Guide for AMD Family 10h Processors:
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/41322.pdf
Revision Guide for AMD Family 11h Processors:
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/41788.pdf
Revision Guide for AMD Family 12h Processors:
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/44739.pdf
Revision Guide for AMD Family 14h Models 00h-0Fh Processors:
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/47534.pdf
AMD Family 11h Processor Power and Thermal Data Sheet for Notebooks:
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@@ -2015,6 +2015,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
the default.
off: Turn ECRC off
on: Turn ECRC on.
realloc reallocate PCI resources if allocations done by BIOS
are erroneous.
pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
Management.
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@@ -534,6 +534,8 @@ Events that are never propagated by the driver:
0x2404 System is waking up from hibernation to undock
0x2405 System is waking up from hibernation to eject bay
0x5010 Brightness level changed/control event
0x6000 KEYBOARD: Numlock key pressed
0x6005 KEYBOARD: Fn key pressed (TO BE VERIFIED)
Events that are propagated by the driver to userspace:
@@ -545,6 +547,8 @@ Events that are propagated by the driver to userspace:
0x3006 Bay hotplug request (hint to power up SATA link when
the optical drive tray is ejected)
0x4003 Undocked (see 0x2x04), can sleep again
0x4010 Docked into hotplug port replicator (non-ACPI dock)
0x4011 Undocked from hotplug port replicator (non-ACPI dock)
0x500B Tablet pen inserted into its storage bay
0x500C Tablet pen removed from its storage bay
0x6011 ALARM: battery is too hot
@@ -552,6 +556,7 @@ Events that are propagated by the driver to userspace:
0x6021 ALARM: a sensor is too hot
0x6022 ALARM: a sensor is extremely hot
0x6030 System thermal table changed
0x6040 Nvidia Optimus/AC adapter related (TO BE VERIFIED)
Battery nearly empty alarms are a last resort attempt to get the
operating system to hibernate or shutdown cleanly (0x2313), or shutdown
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@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
See tcp_retries2 for more details.
The default value is 7.
The default value is 8.
If your machine is a loaded WEB server,
you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
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@@ -501,13 +501,29 @@ helper functions described in Section 4. In that case, pm_runtime_resume()
should be used. Of course, for this purpose the device's run-time PM has to be
enabled earlier by calling pm_runtime_enable().
If the device bus type's or driver's ->probe() or ->remove() callback runs
If the device bus type's or driver's ->probe() callback runs
pm_runtime_suspend() or pm_runtime_idle() or their asynchronous counterparts,
they will fail returning -EAGAIN, because the device's usage counter is
incremented by the core before executing ->probe() and ->remove(). Still, it
may be desirable to suspend the device as soon as ->probe() or ->remove() has
finished, so the PM core uses pm_runtime_idle_sync() to invoke the
subsystem-level idle callback for the device at that time.
incremented by the driver core before executing ->probe(). Still, it may be
desirable to suspend the device as soon as ->probe() has finished, so the driver
core uses pm_runtime_put_sync() to invoke the subsystem-level idle callback for
the device at that time.
Moreover, the driver core prevents runtime PM callbacks from racing with the bus
notifier callback in __device_release_driver(), which is necessary, because the
notifier is used by some subsystems to carry out operations affecting the
runtime PM functionality. It does so by calling pm_runtime_get_sync() before
driver_sysfs_remove() and the BUS_NOTIFY_UNBIND_DRIVER notifications. This
resumes the device if it's in the suspended state and prevents it from
being suspended again while those routines are being executed.
To allow bus types and drivers to put devices into the suspended state by
calling pm_runtime_suspend() from their ->remove() routines, the driver core
executes pm_runtime_put_sync() after running the BUS_NOTIFY_UNBIND_DRIVER
notifications in __device_release_driver(). This requires bus types and
drivers to make their ->remove() callbacks avoid races with runtime PM directly,
but also it allows of more flexibility in the handling of devices during the
removal of their drivers.
The user space can effectively disallow the driver of the device to power manage
it at run time by changing the value of its /sys/devices/.../power/control
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@@ -13,18 +13,8 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(xxx_lock);
The above is always safe. It will disable interrupts _locally_, but the
spinlock itself will guarantee the global lock, so it will guarantee that
there is only one thread-of-control within the region(s) protected by that
lock. This works well even under UP. The above sequence under UP
essentially is just the same as doing
unsigned long flags;
save_flags(flags); cli();
... critical section ...
restore_flags(flags);
so the code does _not_ need to worry about UP vs SMP issues: the spinlocks
work correctly under both (and spinlocks are actually more efficient on
architectures that allow doing the "save_flags + cli" in one operation).
lock. This works well even under UP also, so the code does _not_ need to
worry about UP vs SMP issues: the spinlocks work correctly under both.
NOTE! Implications of spin_locks for memory are further described in:
@@ -36,27 +26,7 @@ The above is usually pretty simple (you usually need and want only one
spinlock for most things - using more than one spinlock can make things a
lot more complex and even slower and is usually worth it only for
sequences that you _know_ need to be split up: avoid it at all cost if you
aren't sure). HOWEVER, it _does_ mean that if you have some code that does
cli();
.. critical section ..
sti();
and another sequence that does
spin_lock_irqsave(flags);
.. critical section ..
spin_unlock_irqrestore(flags);
then they are NOT mutually exclusive, and the critical regions can happen
at the same time on two different CPU's. That's fine per se, but the
critical regions had better be critical for different things (ie they
can't stomp on each other).
The above is a problem mainly if you end up mixing code - for example the
routines in ll_rw_block() tend to use cli/sti to protect the atomicity of
their actions, and if a driver uses spinlocks instead then you should
think about issues like the above.
aren't sure).
This is really the only really hard part about spinlocks: once you start
using spinlocks they tend to expand to areas you might not have noticed
@@ -120,11 +90,10 @@ Lesson 3: spinlocks revisited.
The single spin-lock primitives above are by no means the only ones. They
are the most safe ones, and the ones that work under all circumstances,
but partly _because_ they are safe they are also fairly slow. They are
much faster than a generic global cli/sti pair, but slower than they'd
need to be, because they do have to disable interrupts (which is just a
single instruction on a x86, but it's an expensive one - and on other
architectures it can be worse).
but partly _because_ they are safe they are also fairly slow. They are slower
than they'd need to be, because they do have to disable interrupts
(which is just a single instruction on a x86, but it's an expensive one -
and on other architectures it can be worse).
If you have a case where you have to protect a data structure across
several CPU's and you want to use spinlocks you can potentially use
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@@ -76,6 +76,13 @@ A transfer's actual_length may be positive even when an error has been
reported. That's because transfers often involve several packets, so that
one or more packets could finish before an error stops further endpoint I/O.
For isochronous URBs, the urb status value is non-zero only if the URB is
unlinked, the device is removed, the host controller is disabled, or the total
transferred length is less than the requested length and the URB_SHORT_NOT_OK
flag is set. Completion handlers for isochronous URBs should only see
urb->status set to zero, -ENOENT, -ECONNRESET, -ESHUTDOWN, or -EREMOTEIO.
Individual frame descriptor status fields may report more status codes.
0 Transfer completed successfully
@@ -132,7 +139,7 @@ one or more packets could finish before an error stops further endpoint I/O.
device removal events immediately.
-EXDEV ISO transfer only partially completed
look at individual frame status for details
(only set in iso_frame_desc[n].status, not urb->status)
-EINVAL ISO madness, if this happens: Log off and go home
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@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ Protocol: 2.10+
Field name: init_size
Type: read
Offset/size: 0x25c/4
Offset/size: 0x260/4
This field indicates the amount of linear contiguous memory starting
at the kernel runtime start address that the kernel needs before it
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@@ -594,6 +594,16 @@ S: Maintained
F: arch/arm/lib/floppydma.S
F: arch/arm/include/asm/floppy.h
ARM PMU PROFILING AND DEBUGGING
M: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
S: Maintained
F: arch/arm/kernel/perf_event*
F: arch/arm/oprofile/common.c
F: arch/arm/kernel/pmu.c
F: arch/arm/include/asm/pmu.h
F: arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
F: arch/arm/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
ARM PORT
M: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
L: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
@@ -1345,16 +1355,18 @@ F: drivers/auxdisplay/
F: include/linux/cfag12864b.h
AVR32 ARCHITECTURE
M: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
M: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
M: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
W: http://www.atmel.com/products/AVR32/
W: http://avr32linux.org/
W: http://avrfreaks.net/
S: Supported
S: Maintained
F: arch/avr32/
AVR32/AT32AP MACHINE SUPPORT
M: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
S: Supported
M: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
M: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
S: Maintained
F: arch/avr32/mach-at32ap/
AX.25 NETWORK LAYER
@@ -1390,7 +1402,6 @@ F: include/linux/backlight.h
BATMAN ADVANCED
M: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
M: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
M: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
L: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
W: http://www.open-mesh.org/
S: Maintained
@@ -1423,7 +1434,6 @@ S: Supported
F: arch/blackfin/
BLACKFIN EMAC DRIVER
M: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
L: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org
W: http://blackfin.uclinux.org
S: Supported
@@ -1639,7 +1649,7 @@ CAN NETWORK LAYER
M: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
M: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver.hartkopp@volkswagen.de>
M: Urs Thuermann <urs.thuermann@volkswagen.de>
L: socketcan-core@lists.berlios.de
L: socketcan-core@lists.berlios.de (subscribers-only)
L: netdev@vger.kernel.org
W: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/socketcan/
S: Maintained
@@ -1651,7 +1661,7 @@ F: include/linux/can/raw.h
CAN NETWORK DRIVERS
M: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
L: socketcan-core@lists.berlios.de
L: socketcan-core@lists.berlios.de (subscribers-only)
L: netdev@vger.kernel.org
W: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/socketcan/
S: Maintained
@@ -2197,7 +2207,7 @@ F: drivers/acpi/dock.c
DOCUMENTATION
M: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
L: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
T: quilt oss.oracle.com/~rdunlap/kernel-doc-patches/current/
T: quilt http://userweb.kernel.org/~rdunlap/kernel-doc-patches/current/
S: Maintained
F: Documentation/
@@ -4982,7 +4992,7 @@ F: drivers/power/power_supply*
PNP SUPPORT
M: Adam Belay <abelay@mit.edu>
M: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
M: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
S: Maintained
F: drivers/pnp/
@@ -5181,6 +5191,7 @@ S: Supported
F: drivers/net/qlcnic/
QLOGIC QLGE 10Gb ETHERNET DRIVER
M: Jitendra Kalsaria <jitendra.kalsaria@qlogic.com>
M: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
M: linux-driver@qlogic.com
L: netdev@vger.kernel.org
@@ -6434,8 +6445,9 @@ S: Maintained
F: drivers/usb/misc/rio500*
USB EHCI DRIVER
M: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
L: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
S: Orphan
S: Maintained
F: Documentation/usb/ehci.txt
F: drivers/usb/host/ehci*
@@ -6465,6 +6477,12 @@ S: Maintained
F: Documentation/hid/hiddev.txt
F: drivers/hid/usbhid/
USB/IP DRIVERS
M: Matt Mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
L: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
S: Maintained
F: drivers/staging/usbip/
USB ISP116X DRIVER
M: Olav Kongas <ok@artecdesign.ee>
L: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
@@ -6494,8 +6512,9 @@ S: Maintained
F: sound/usb/midi.*
USB OHCI DRIVER
M: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
L: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
S: Orphan
S: Maintained
F: Documentation/usb/ohci.txt
F: drivers/usb/host/ohci*
@@ -6724,6 +6743,7 @@ F: fs/fat/
VIDEOBUF2 FRAMEWORK
M: Pawel Osciak <pawel@osciak.com>
M: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
M: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
L: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
S: Maintained
F: drivers/media/video/videobuf2-*
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
VERSION = 3
PATCHLEVEL = 0
SUBLEVEL = 0
EXTRAVERSION = -rc5
EXTRAVERSION = -rc7
NAME = Sneaky Weasel
# *DOCUMENTATION*
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
Linux kernel release 2.6.xx <http://kernel.org/>
Linux kernel release 3.x <http://kernel.org/>
These are the release notes for Linux version 2.6. Read them carefully,
These are the release notes for Linux version 3. Read them carefully,
as they tell you what this is all about, explain how to install the
kernel, and what to do if something goes wrong.
@@ -62,10 +62,10 @@ INSTALLING the kernel source:
directory where you have permissions (eg. your home directory) and
unpack it:
gzip -cd linux-2.6.XX.tar.gz | tar xvf -
gzip -cd linux-3.X.tar.gz | tar xvf -
or
bzip2 -dc linux-2.6.XX.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
bzip2 -dc linux-3.X.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
Replace "XX" with the version number of the latest kernel.
@@ -75,15 +75,15 @@ INSTALLING the kernel source:
files. They should match the library, and not get messed up by
whatever the kernel-du-jour happens to be.
- You can also upgrade between 2.6.xx releases by patching. Patches are
- You can also upgrade between 3.x releases by patching. Patches are
distributed in the traditional gzip and the newer bzip2 format. To
install by patching, get all the newer patch files, enter the
top level directory of the kernel source (linux-2.6.xx) and execute:
top level directory of the kernel source (linux-3.x) and execute:
gzip -cd ../patch-2.6.xx.gz | patch -p1
gzip -cd ../patch-3.x.gz | patch -p1
or
bzip2 -dc ../patch-2.6.xx.bz2 | patch -p1
bzip2 -dc ../patch-3.x.bz2 | patch -p1
(repeat xx for all versions bigger than the version of your current
source tree, _in_order_) and you should be ok. You may want to remove
@@ -91,9 +91,9 @@ INSTALLING the kernel source:
failed patches (xxx# or xxx.rej). If there are, either you or me has
made a mistake.
Unlike patches for the 2.6.x kernels, patches for the 2.6.x.y kernels
Unlike patches for the 3.x kernels, patches for the 3.x.y kernels
(also known as the -stable kernels) are not incremental but instead apply
directly to the base 2.6.x kernel. Please read
directly to the base 3.x kernel. Please read
Documentation/applying-patches.txt for more information.
Alternatively, the script patch-kernel can be used to automate this
@@ -107,14 +107,14 @@ INSTALLING the kernel source:
an alternative directory can be specified as the second argument.
- If you are upgrading between releases using the stable series patches
(for example, patch-2.6.xx.y), note that these "dot-releases" are
not incremental and must be applied to the 2.6.xx base tree. For
example, if your base kernel is 2.6.12 and you want to apply the
2.6.12.3 patch, you do not and indeed must not first apply the
2.6.12.1 and 2.6.12.2 patches. Similarly, if you are running kernel
version 2.6.12.2 and want to jump to 2.6.12.3, you must first
reverse the 2.6.12.2 patch (that is, patch -R) _before_ applying
the 2.6.12.3 patch.
(for example, patch-3.x.y), note that these "dot-releases" are
not incremental and must be applied to the 3.x base tree. For
example, if your base kernel is 3.0 and you want to apply the
3.0.3 patch, you do not and indeed must not first apply the
3.0.1 and 3.0.2 patches. Similarly, if you are running kernel
version 3.0.2 and want to jump to 3.0.3, you must first
reverse the 3.0.2 patch (that is, patch -R) _before_ applying
the 3.0.3 patch.
You can read more on this in Documentation/applying-patches.txt
- Make sure you have no stale .o files and dependencies lying around:
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ INSTALLING the kernel source:
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
Compiling and running the 2.6.xx kernels requires up-to-date
Compiling and running the 3.x kernels requires up-to-date
versions of various software packages. Consult
Documentation/Changes for the minimum version numbers required
and how to get updates for these packages. Beware that using
@@ -142,11 +142,11 @@ BUILD directory for the kernel:
Using the option "make O=output/dir" allow you to specify an alternate
place for the output files (including .config).
Example:
kernel source code: /usr/src/linux-2.6.N
kernel source code: /usr/src/linux-3.N
build directory: /home/name/build/kernel
To configure and build the kernel use:
cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.N
cd /usr/src/linux-3.N
make O=/home/name/build/kernel menuconfig
make O=/home/name/build/kernel
sudo make O=/home/name/build/kernel modules_install install
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@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ static inline dma_addr_t map_single(struct device *dev, void *ptr, size_t size,
if (buf == 0) {
dev_err(dev, "%s: unable to map unsafe buffer %p!\n",
__func__, ptr);
return 0;
return ~0;
}
dev_dbg(dev,

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