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-rw-r--r--Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt27
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt18
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt30
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/v9fs.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt26
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas23
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.saa71344
-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt4
11 files changed, 149 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
index 08c5d04f308..57a09f99ecb 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
ia64/x86_64:
Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
+ s390:
+ Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Authors: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Lots of feedback: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com>,
@@ -44,9 +46,28 @@ maxcpus=n Restrict boot time cpus to n. Say if you have 4 cpus, using
maxcpus=2 will only boot 2. You can choose to bring the
other cpus later online, read FAQ's for more info.
-additional_cpus=n [x86_64 only] use this to limit hotpluggable cpus.
- This option sets
- cpu_possible_map = cpu_present_map + additional_cpus
+additional_cpus*=n Use this to limit hotpluggable cpus. This option sets
+ cpu_possible_map = cpu_present_map + additional_cpus
+
+(*) Option valid only for following architectures
+- x86_64, ia64, s390
+
+ia64 and x86_64 use the number of disabled local apics in ACPI tables MADT
+to determine the number of potentially hot-pluggable cpus. The implementation
+should only rely on this to count the #of cpus, but *MUST* not rely on the
+apicid values in those tables for disabled apics. In the event BIOS doesnt
+mark such hot-pluggable cpus as disabled entries, one could use this
+parameter "additional_cpus=x" to represent those cpus in the cpu_possible_map.
+
+s390 uses the number of cpus it detects at IPL time to also the number of bits
+in cpu_possible_map. If it is desired to add additional cpus at a later time
+the number should be specified using this option or the possible_cpus option.
+
+possible_cpus=n [s390 only] use this to set hotpluggable cpus.
+ This option sets possible_cpus bits in
+ cpu_possible_map. Thus keeping the numbers of bits set
+ constant even if the machine gets rebooted.
+ This option overrides additional_cpus.
CPU maps and such
-----------------
diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt
index df6c05453cb..52ed462061d 100644
--- a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt
+++ b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt
@@ -111,4 +111,8 @@ source: linux/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.bttv
If you have problems with this please do ask on the mailing list.
--
-Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham
+Authors: Richard Walker,
+ Jamie Honan,
+ Michael Hunold,
+ Manu Abraham,
+ Michael Krufky
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index b730d765b52..81bc51369f5 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -171,3 +171,21 @@ Why: The ISA interface is faster and should be always available. The I2C
probing is also known to cause trouble in at least one case (see
bug #5889.)
Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: mount/umount uevents
+When: February 2007
+Why: These events are not correct, and do not properly let userspace know
+ when a file system has been mounted or unmounted. Userspace should
+ poll the /proc/mounts file instead to detect this properly.
+Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: Support for NEC DDB5074 and DDB5476 evaluation boards.
+When: June 2006
+Why: Board specific code doesn't build anymore since ~2.6.0 and no
+ users have complained indicating there is no more need for these
+ boards. This should really be considered a last call.
+Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt
index 614de312490..25116858789 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt
@@ -457,6 +457,12 @@ ChangeLog
Note, a technical ChangeLog aimed at kernel hackers is in fs/ntfs/ChangeLog.
+2.1.26:
+ - Implement support for sector sizes above 512 bytes (up to the maximum
+ supported by NTFS which is 4096 bytes).
+ - Enhance support for NTFS volumes which were supported by Windows but
+ not by Linux due to invalid attribute list attribute flags.
+ - A few minor updates and bug fixes.
2.1.25:
- Write support is now extended with write(2) being able to both
overwrite existing file data and to extend files. Also, if a write
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
index dbe4d87d261..1773106976a 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
@@ -79,15 +79,27 @@ that instance in a system with many cpus making intensive use of it.
tmpfs has a mount option to set the NUMA memory allocation policy for
-all files in that instance:
-mpol=interleave prefers to allocate memory from each node in turn
-mpol=default prefers to allocate memory from the local node
-mpol=bind prefers to allocate from mpol_nodelist
-mpol=preferred prefers to allocate from first node in mpol_nodelist
+all files in that instance (if CONFIG_NUMA is enabled) - which can be
+adjusted on the fly via 'mount -o remount ...'
-The following mount option is used in conjunction with mpol=interleave,
-mpol=bind or mpol=preferred:
-mpol_nodelist: nodelist suitable for parsing with nodelist_parse.
+mpol=default prefers to allocate memory from the local node
+mpol=prefer:Node prefers to allocate memory from the given Node
+mpol=bind:NodeList allocates memory only from nodes in NodeList
+mpol=interleave prefers to allocate from each node in turn
+mpol=interleave:NodeList allocates from each node of NodeList in turn
+
+NodeList format is a comma-separated list of decimal numbers and ranges,
+a range being two hyphen-separated decimal numbers, the smallest and
+largest node numbers in the range. For example, mpol=bind:0-3,5,7,9-15
+
+Note that trying to mount a tmpfs with an mpol option will fail if the
+running kernel does not support NUMA; and will fail if its nodelist
+specifies a node >= MAX_NUMNODES. If your system relies on that tmpfs
+being mounted, but from time to time runs a kernel built without NUMA
+capability (perhaps a safe recovery kernel), or configured to support
+fewer nodes, then it is advisable to omit the mpol option from automatic
+mount options. It can be added later, when the tmpfs is already mounted
+on MountPoint, by 'mount -o remount,mpol=Policy:NodeList MountPoint'.
To specify the initial root directory you can use the following mount
@@ -109,4 +121,4 @@ RAM/SWAP in 10240 inodes and it is only accessible by root.
Author:
Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>, 1.12.01
Updated:
- Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, 13 March 2005
+ Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, 19 February 2006
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/v9fs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/v9fs.txt
index 4e92feb6b50..24c7a9c41f0 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/v9fs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/v9fs.txt
@@ -57,8 +57,6 @@ OPTIONS
port=n port to connect to on the remote server
- timeout=n request timeouts (in ms) (default 60000ms)
-
noextend force legacy mode (no 9P2000.u semantics)
uid attempt to mount as a particular uid
@@ -74,10 +72,16 @@ OPTIONS
RESOURCES
=========
-The Linux version of the 9P server, along with some client-side utilities
-can be found at http://v9fs.sf.net (along with a CVS repository of the
-development branch of this module). There are user and developer mailing
-lists here, as well as a bug-tracker.
+The Linux version of the 9P server is now maintained under the npfs project
+on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs).
+
+There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project
+on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs).
+
+News and other information is maintained on SWiK (http://swik.net/v9fs).
+
+Bug reports may be issued through the kernel.org bugzilla
+(http://bugzilla.kernel.org)
For more information on the Plan 9 Operating System check out
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 84370363da8..fc99075e0af 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -335,6 +335,12 @@ running once the system is up.
timesource is not avalible, it defaults to PIT.
Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
+ disable_8254_timer
+ enable_8254_timer
+ [IA32/X86_64] Disable/Enable interrupt 0 timer routing
+ over the 8254 in addition to over the IO-APIC. The
+ kernel tries to set a sensible default.
+
hpet= [IA-32,HPET] option to disable HPET and use PIT.
Format: disable
@@ -1034,6 +1040,8 @@ running once the system is up.
nomce [IA-32] Machine Check Exception
+ nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
+
noresidual [PPC] Don't use residual data on PReP machines.
noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
@@ -1133,6 +1141,8 @@ running once the system is up.
Mechanism 1.
conf2 [IA-32] Force use of PCI Configuration
Mechanism 2.
+ nommconf [IA-32,X86_64] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
+ Configuration
nosort [IA-32] Don't sort PCI devices according to
order given by the PCI BIOS. This sorting is
done to get a device order compatible with
@@ -1280,6 +1290,19 @@ running once the system is up.
New name for the ramdisk parameter.
See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
+ rcu.blimit= [KNL,BOOT] Set maximum number of finished
+ RCU callbacks to process in one batch.
+
+ rcu.qhimark= [KNL,BOOT] Set threshold of queued
+ RCU callbacks over which batch limiting is disabled.
+
+ rcu.qlowmark= [KNL,BOOT] Set threshold of queued
+ RCU callbacks below which batch limiting is re-enabled.
+
+ rcu.rsinterval= [KNL,BOOT,SMP] Set the number of additional
+ RCU callbacks to queued before forcing reschedule
+ on all cpus.
+
rdinit= [KNL]
Format: <full_path>
Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
@@ -1636,6 +1659,9 @@ running once the system is up.
Format:
<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
+ norandmaps Don't use address space randomization
+ Equivalent to echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
+
______________________________________________________________________
Changelog:
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas
index f8c16cbf56b..2dafa63bd37 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas
@@ -1,3 +1,26 @@
+1 Release Date : Wed Feb 03 14:31:44 PST 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
+2 Current Version : 00.00.02.04
+3 Older Version : 00.00.02.04
+
+i. Support for 1078 type (ppc IOP) controller, device id : 0x60 added.
+ During initialization, depending on the device id, the template members
+ are initialized with function pointers specific to the ppc or
+ xscale controllers.
+
+ -Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
+
+1 Release Date : Fri Feb 03 14:16:25 PST 2006 - Sumant Patro
+ <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
+2 Current Version : 00.00.02.04
+3 Older Version : 00.00.02.02
+i. Register 16 byte CDB capability with scsi midlayer
+
+ "Ths patch properly registers the 16 byte command length capability of the
+ megaraid_sas controlled hardware with the scsi midlayer. All megaraid_sas
+ hardware supports 16 byte CDB's."
+
+ -Joshua Giles <joshua_giles@dell.com>
+
1 Release Date : Mon Jan 23 14:09:01 PST 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
2 Current Version : 00.00.02.02
3 Older Version : 00.00.02.01
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 9f11d36a8c1..b0c7ab93dcb 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ before actually making adjustments.
Currently, these files might (depending on your configuration)
show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
+- acpi_video_flags
- acct
- core_pattern
- core_uses_pid
@@ -57,6 +58,15 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
==============================================================
+acpi_video_flags:
+
+flags
+
+See Doc*/kernel/power/video.txt, it allows mode of video boot to be
+set during run time.
+
+==============================================================
+
acct:
highwater lowwater frequency
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.saa7134 b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.saa7134
index 8a352597830..da4fb890165 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.saa7134
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.saa7134
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
12 -> Medion 7134 [16be:0003]
13 -> Typhoon TV+Radio 90031
14 -> ELSA EX-VISION 300TV [1048:226b]
- 15 -> ELSA EX-VISION 500TV [1048:226b]
+ 15 -> ELSA EX-VISION 500TV [1048:226a]
16 -> ASUS TV-FM 7134 [1043:4842,1043:4830,1043:4840]
17 -> AOPEN VA1000 POWER [1131:7133]
18 -> BMK MPEX No Tuner
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
74 -> LifeView FlyTV Platinum Mini2 [14c0:1212]
75 -> AVerMedia AVerTVHD MCE A180 [1461:1044]
76 -> SKNet MonsterTV Mobile [1131:4ee9]
- 77 -> Pinnacle PCTV 110i (saa7133) [11bd:002e]
+ 77 -> Pinnacle PCTV 40i/50i/110i (saa7133) [11bd:002e]
78 -> ASUSTeK P7131 Dual [1043:4862]
79 -> Sedna/MuchTV PC TV Cardbus TV/Radio (ITO25 Rev:2B)
80 -> ASUS Digimatrix TV [1043:0210]
diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
index 153740f460a..1921353259a 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ APICs
apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally
broken.
+ disable_8254_timer / enable_8254_timer
+ Enable interrupt 0 timer routing over the 8254 in addition to over
+ the IO-APIC. The kernel tries to set a sensible default.
+
Early Console
syntax: earlyprintk=vga
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