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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt89
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/mtd-physmap.txt80
6 files changed, 106 insertions, 85 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi
index e8ffc70ffe1..4f9ba3c2fca 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi
@@ -69,9 +69,13 @@ Description:
gpe1F: 0 invalid
gpe_all: 1192
sci: 1194
+ sci_not: 0
- sci - The total number of times the ACPI SCI
- has claimed an interrupt.
+ sci - The number of times the ACPI SCI
+ has been called and claimed an interrupt.
+
+ sci_not - The number of times the ACPI SCI
+ has been called and NOT claimed an interrupt.
gpe_all - count of SCI caused by GPEs.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt
index c78a49b7bba..748a1ae49e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ A NOTE ON SECURITY
==================
CacheFiles makes use of the split security in the task_struct. It allocates
-its own task_security structure, and redirects current->act_as to point to it
+its own task_security structure, and redirects current->cred to point to it
when it acts on behalf of another process, in that process's context.
The reason it does this is that it calls vfs_mkdir() and suchlike rather than
@@ -429,9 +429,9 @@ This means it may lose signals or ptrace events for example, and affects what
the process looks like in /proc.
So CacheFiles makes use of a logical split in the security between the
-objective security (task->sec) and the subjective security (task->act_as). The
-objective security holds the intrinsic security properties of a process and is
-never overridden. This is what appears in /proc, and is what is used when a
+objective security (task->real_cred) and the subjective security (task->cred).
+The objective security holds the intrinsic security properties of a process and
+is never overridden. This is what appears in /proc, and is what is used when a
process is the target of an operation by some other process (SIGKILL for
example).
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 600cdd72900..90b3924071b 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1620,6 +1620,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
nowb [ARM]
+ nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
+
nptcg= [IA64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
SAL PALO.
diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
index 3d7650768bb..e7e9a69069e 100644
--- a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
ThinkPad ACPI Extras Driver
- Version 0.22
- November 23rd, 2008
+ Version 0.23
+ April 10th, 2009
Borislav Deianov <borislav@users.sf.net>
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
index 0ab0230cbcb..d16b7a1c379 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
@@ -43,12 +43,11 @@ Table of Contents
2) Representing devices without a current OF specification
a) PHY nodes
b) Interrupt controllers
- c) CFI or JEDEC memory-mapped NOR flash
- d) 4xx/Axon EMAC ethernet nodes
- e) Xilinx IP cores
- f) USB EHCI controllers
- g) MDIO on GPIOs
- h) SPI busses
+ c) 4xx/Axon EMAC ethernet nodes
+ d) Xilinx IP cores
+ e) USB EHCI controllers
+ f) MDIO on GPIOs
+ g) SPI busses
VII - Marvell Discovery mv64[345]6x System Controller chips
1) The /system-controller node
@@ -999,7 +998,7 @@ compatibility.
translation of SOC addresses for memory mapped SOC registers.
- bus-frequency: Contains the bus frequency for the SOC node.
Typically, the value of this field is filled in by the boot
- loader.
+ loader.
Recommended properties:
@@ -1287,71 +1286,7 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model.
device_type = "open-pic";
};
- c) CFI or JEDEC memory-mapped NOR flash
-
- Flash chips (Memory Technology Devices) are often used for solid state
- file systems on embedded devices.
-
- - compatible : should contain the specific model of flash chip(s)
- used, if known, followed by either "cfi-flash" or "jedec-flash"
- - reg : Address range of the flash chip
- - bank-width : Width (in bytes) of the flash bank. Equal to the
- device width times the number of interleaved chips.
- - device-width : (optional) Width of a single flash chip. If
- omitted, assumed to be equal to 'bank-width'.
- - #address-cells, #size-cells : Must be present if the flash has
- sub-nodes representing partitions (see below). In this case
- both #address-cells and #size-cells must be equal to 1.
-
- For JEDEC compatible devices, the following additional properties
- are defined:
-
- - vendor-id : Contains the flash chip's vendor id (1 byte).
- - device-id : Contains the flash chip's device id (1 byte).
-
- In addition to the information on the flash bank itself, the
- device tree may optionally contain additional information
- describing partitions of the flash address space. This can be
- used on platforms which have strong conventions about which
- portions of the flash are used for what purposes, but which don't
- use an on-flash partition table such as RedBoot.
-
- Each partition is represented as a sub-node of the flash device.
- Each node's name represents the name of the corresponding
- partition of the flash device.
-
- Flash partitions
- - reg : The partition's offset and size within the flash bank.
- - label : (optional) The label / name for this flash partition.
- If omitted, the label is taken from the node name (excluding
- the unit address).
- - read-only : (optional) This parameter, if present, is a hint to
- Linux that this flash partition should only be mounted
- read-only. This is usually used for flash partitions
- containing early-boot firmware images or data which should not
- be clobbered.
-
- Example:
-
- flash@ff000000 {
- compatible = "amd,am29lv128ml", "cfi-flash";
- reg = <ff000000 01000000>;
- bank-width = <4>;
- device-width = <1>;
- #address-cells = <1>;
- #size-cells = <1>;
- fs@0 {
- label = "fs";
- reg = <0 f80000>;
- };
- firmware@f80000 {
- label ="firmware";
- reg = <f80000 80000>;
- read-only;
- };
- };
-
- d) 4xx/Axon EMAC ethernet nodes
+ c) 4xx/Axon EMAC ethernet nodes
The EMAC ethernet controller in IBM and AMCC 4xx chips, and also
the Axon bridge. To operate this needs to interact with a ths
@@ -1499,7 +1434,7 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model.
available.
For Axon: 0x0000012a
- e) Xilinx IP cores
+ d) Xilinx IP cores
The Xilinx EDK toolchain ships with a set of IP cores (devices) for use
in Xilinx Spartan and Virtex FPGAs. The devices cover the whole range
@@ -1761,7 +1696,7 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model.
listed above, nodes for these devices should include a phy-handle
property, and may include other common network device properties
like local-mac-address.
-
+
iv) Xilinx Uartlite
Xilinx uartlite devices are simple fixed speed serial ports.
@@ -1793,7 +1728,7 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model.
- reg-offset : A value of 3 is required
- reg-shift : A value of 2 is required
- f) USB EHCI controllers
+ e) USB EHCI controllers
Required properties:
- compatible : should be "usb-ehci".
@@ -1819,7 +1754,7 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model.
big-endian;
};
- g) MDIO on GPIOs
+ f) MDIO on GPIOs
Currently defined compatibles:
- virtual,gpio-mdio
@@ -1839,7 +1774,7 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model.
&qe_pio_c 6>;
};
- h) SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) busses
+ g) SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) busses
SPI busses can be described with a node for the SPI master device
and a set of child nodes for each SPI slave on the bus. For this
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/mtd-physmap.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/mtd-physmap.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..667c9bde869
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/mtd-physmap.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+CFI or JEDEC memory-mapped NOR flash
+
+Flash chips (Memory Technology Devices) are often used for solid state
+file systems on embedded devices.
+
+ - compatible : should contain the specific model of flash chip(s)
+ used, if known, followed by either "cfi-flash" or "jedec-flash"
+ - reg : Address range(s) of the flash chip(s)
+ It's possible to (optionally) define multiple "reg" tuples so that
+ non-identical NOR chips can be described in one flash node.
+ - bank-width : Width (in bytes) of the flash bank. Equal to the
+ device width times the number of interleaved chips.
+ - device-width : (optional) Width of a single flash chip. If
+ omitted, assumed to be equal to 'bank-width'.
+ - #address-cells, #size-cells : Must be present if the flash has
+ sub-nodes representing partitions (see below). In this case
+ both #address-cells and #size-cells must be equal to 1.
+
+For JEDEC compatible devices, the following additional properties
+are defined:
+
+ - vendor-id : Contains the flash chip's vendor id (1 byte).
+ - device-id : Contains the flash chip's device id (1 byte).
+
+In addition to the information on the flash bank itself, the
+device tree may optionally contain additional information
+describing partitions of the flash address space. This can be
+used on platforms which have strong conventions about which
+portions of the flash are used for what purposes, but which don't
+use an on-flash partition table such as RedBoot.
+
+Each partition is represented as a sub-node of the flash device.
+Each node's name represents the name of the corresponding
+partition of the flash device.
+
+Flash partitions
+ - reg : The partition's offset and size within the flash bank.
+ - label : (optional) The label / name for this flash partition.
+ If omitted, the label is taken from the node name (excluding
+ the unit address).
+ - read-only : (optional) This parameter, if present, is a hint to
+ Linux that this flash partition should only be mounted
+ read-only. This is usually used for flash partitions
+ containing early-boot firmware images or data which should not
+ be clobbered.
+
+Example:
+
+ flash@ff000000 {
+ compatible = "amd,am29lv128ml", "cfi-flash";
+ reg = <ff000000 01000000>;
+ bank-width = <4>;
+ device-width = <1>;
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <1>;
+ fs@0 {
+ label = "fs";
+ reg = <0 f80000>;
+ };
+ firmware@f80000 {
+ label ="firmware";
+ reg = <f80000 80000>;
+ read-only;
+ };
+ };
+
+Here an example with multiple "reg" tuples:
+
+ flash@f0000000,0 {
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <1>;
+ compatible = "intel,PC48F4400P0VB", "cfi-flash";
+ reg = <0 0x00000000 0x02000000
+ 0 0x02000000 0x02000000>;
+ bank-width = <2>;
+ partition@0 {
+ label = "test-part1";
+ reg = <0 0x04000000>;
+ };
+ };