diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/backlight/lp855x-driver.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/00-INDEX | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/backlight/lp855x.txt | 29 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gcov.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 21 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/zswap.txt | 8 |
11 files changed, 81 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt index e59480db9ee0..cc2450d80310 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ all pending DMA writes to complete, and thus provides a mechanism to strictly order DMA from a device across all intervening busses and bridges. This barrier is not specific to a particular type of interconnect, it applies to the system as a whole, and so its -implementation must account for the idiosyncracies of the system all +implementation must account for the idiosyncrasies of the system all the way from the DMA device to memory. As an example of a situation where DMA_ATTR_WRITE_BARRIER would be @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ such mapping is non-trivial task and consumes very limited resources Buffers allocated with this attribute can be only passed to user space by calling dma_mmap_attrs(). By using this API, you are guaranteeing that you won't dereference the pointer returned by dma_alloc_attr(). You -can threat it as a cookie that must be passed to dma_mmap_attrs() and +can treat it as a cookie that must be passed to dma_mmap_attrs() and dma_free_attrs(). Make sure that both of these also get this attribute set on each call. @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ to 'device' domain, what synchronizes CPU caches for the given region (usually it means that the cache has been flushed or invalidated depending on the dma direction). However, next calls to dma_map_{single,page,sg}() for other devices will perform exactly the -same sychronization operation on the CPU cache. CPU cache sychronization +same synchronization operation on the CPU cache. CPU cache synchronization might be a time consuming operation, especially if the buffers are large, so it is highly recommended to avoid it if possible. DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC allows platform code to skip synchronization of 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/block/00-INDEX b/Documentation/block/00-INDEX index d18ecd827c40..929d9904f74b 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/block/00-INDEX @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ capability.txt - Generic Block Device Capability (/sys/block/<device>/capability) cfq-iosched.txt - CFQ IO scheduler tunables +cmdline-partition.txt + - how to specify block device partitions on kernel command line data-integrity.txt - Block data integrity deadline-iosched.txt diff --git a/Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt b/Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt index 2bbf4cc40c3f..525b9f6d7fb4 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ -Embedded device command line partition +Embedded device command line partition parsing ===================================================================== -Read block device partition table from command line. -The partition used for fixed block device (eMMC) embedded device. -It is no MBR, save storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed +Support for reading the block device partition table from the command line. +It is typically used for fixed block (eMMC) embedded devices. +It has no MBR, so saves storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed by absolute address of data on the block device. Users can easily change the partition. 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/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/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 539a23631990..a87e17e37b56 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -480,6 +480,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. + blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for + embedded devices based on command line input. + See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt + boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to no delay (0). @@ -1357,7 +1361,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will take priority and other nodes will have a larger number - of kernelcore pages. The Movable zone is used for the + of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration subsystem. This means that HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone. @@ -1769,6 +1773,21 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. that the amount of memory usable for all allocations is not too small. + movablenode [KNL,X86] This parameter enables/disables the + kernel to arrange hotpluggable memory ranges recorded + in ACPI SRAT(System Resource Affinity Table) as + ZONE_MOVABLE. And these memory can be hot-removed when + the system is up. + By specifying this option, all the hotpluggable memory + will be in ZONE_MOVABLE, which the kernel cannot use. + This will cause NUMA performance down. For users who + care about NUMA performance, just don't use it. + If all the memory ranges in the system are hotpluggable, + then the ones used by the kernel at early time, such as + kernel code and data segments, initrd file and so on, + won't be set as ZONE_MOVABLE, and won't be hotpluggable. + Otherwise the kernel won't have enough memory to boot. + MTD_Partition= [MTD] Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 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. |