Merge branch 'master' into for-next

15 files changed, 68 insertions, 30 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt
index 8aa7529f8258..cd784f46bf8a 100644
--- a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt
+++ b/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 */
 }
diff --git a/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b b/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b
index b714183d4125..eb7be393a510 100644
--- a/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b
+++ b/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.
 
 
 ---------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b-example.c b/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b-example.c
index 7bfac354d4c9..2caeea5e4993 100644
--- a/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b-example.c
+++ b/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
diff --git a/Documentation/auxdisplay/ks0108 b/Documentation/auxdisplay/ks0108
index 92b03b60c613..8ddda0c8ceef 100644
--- a/Documentation/auxdisplay/ks0108
+++ b/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.
 
 
 ---------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups.txt
index 824fc0274471..d9014aa0eb68 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups.txt
+++ b/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
 =============
 
diff --git a/Documentation/controllers/devices.txt b/Documentation/controllers/devices.txt
index 4dcea42432c2..7cc6e6a60672 100644
--- a/Documentation/controllers/devices.txt
+++ b/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
 
diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt
index 353504de3084..1f5a924d1e56 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpusets.txt
+++ b/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
@@ -544,6 +546,9 @@ otherwise initial value -1 that indicates the cpuset has no request.
  ( 4  : search nodes in a chunk of node [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
 is disabled, then 'sched_relax_domain_level' have no effect since
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 5b3f31faed56..46ece3fba6f9 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/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>
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
index ee75cbace28d..d4cd4126d1ad 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
@@ -25,12 +25,23 @@ routines, and should be zero-initialized except for fields with data you
 provide.  A client structure holds device-specific information like the
 driver model device node, and its I2C address.
 
+/* iff driver uses driver model ("new style") binding model: */
+
+static struct i2c_device_id foo_idtable[] = {
+        { "foo", my_id_for_foo },
+        { "bar", my_id_for_bar },
+        { }
+};
+
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(i2c, foo_idtable);
+
 static struct i2c_driver foo_driver = {
         .driver = {
                 .name   = "foo",
         },
 
         /* iff driver uses driver model ("new style") binding model: */
+        .id_table       = foo_ids,
         .probe          = foo_probe,
         .remove         = foo_remove,
 
@@ -173,10 +184,9 @@ handle may be used during foo_probe().  If foo_probe() reports success
 (zero not a negative status code) it may save the handle and use it until
 foo_remove() returns.  That binding model is used by most Linux drivers.
 
-Drivers match devices when i2c_client.driver_name and the driver name are
-the same; this approach is used in several other busses that don't have
-device typing support in the hardware.  The driver and module name should
-match, so hotplug/coldplug mechanisms will modprobe the driver.
+The probe function is called when an entry in the id_table name field
+matches the device's name. It is passed the entry that was matched so
+the driver knows which one in the table matched.
 
 
 Device Creation (Standard driver model)
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index e07c432c731f..b52f47d588b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                         when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
 
         apm=            [APM] Advanced Power Management
-                        See header of arch/i386/kernel/apm.c.
+                        See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
 
         arcrimi=        [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
                         Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
         elanfreq=       [X86-32]
                         See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
-                        arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
+                        arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
 
         elevator=       [IOSCHED]
                         Format: {"anticipatory" | "cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
@@ -1679,6 +1679,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                         Format: <reboot_mode>[,<reboot_mode2>[,...]]
                         See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c                   
 
+        relax_domain_level=
+                        [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
+                        See Documentation/cpusets.txt.
+
         reserve=        [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
 
         reservetop=     [X86-32]
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 17a6e46fbd43..17f1f91af35c 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -81,23 +81,23 @@ inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER
         Minimum time-to-live of entries.  Should be enough to cover fragment
         time-to-live on the reassembling side.  This minimum time-to-live  is
         guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold.
-        Measured in jiffies(1).
+        Measured in seconds.
 
 inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER
         Maximum time-to-live of entries.  Unused entries will expire after
         this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e.
         when the number of entries in the pool is very small).
-        Measured in jiffies(1).
+        Measured in seconds.
 
 inet_peer_gc_mintime - INTEGER
         Minimum interval between garbage collection passes.  This interval is
         in effect under high memory pressure on the pool.
-        Measured in jiffies(1).
+        Measured in seconds.
 
 inet_peer_gc_maxtime - INTEGER
         Minimum interval between garbage collection passes.  This interval is
         in effect under low (or absent) memory pressure on the pool.
-        Measured in jiffies(1).
+        Measured in seconds.
 
 TCP variables: 
 
@@ -794,10 +794,6 @@ tag - INTEGER
         Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
         Default value is 0.
 
-(1) Jiffie: internal timeunit for the kernel. On the i386 1/100s, on the
-Alpha 1/1024s. See the HZ define in /usr/include/asm/param.h for the exact
-value on your system. 
-
 Alexey Kuznetsov.
 kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
 
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt b/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt
index 4bde53e85f3f..1e28e2ddb90a 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt
@@ -83,9 +83,9 @@ Valid range: Limited by memory on system
 Default: 30 
 
 e. intr_type
-Specifies interrupt type. Possible values 1(INTA), 2(MSI), 3(MSI-X)
-Valid range: 1-3
-Default: 1 
+Specifies interrupt type. Possible values 0(INTA), 2(MSI-X)
+Valid values: 0, 2
+Default: 2
 
 5.  Performance suggestions
 General:
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.au0828 b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.au0828
index aaae360312e4..86d1c8e7b18f 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.au0828
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.au0828
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
   0 -> Unknown board                            (au0828)
-  1 -> Hauppauge HVR950Q                        (au0828)        [2040:7200]
+  1 -> Hauppauge HVR950Q                        (au0828)        [2040:7200,2040:7210,2040:7217,2040:721b,2040:721f,2040:7280,0fd9:0008]
   2 -> Hauppauge HVR850                         (au0828)        [2040:7240]
   3 -> DViCO FusionHDTV USB                     (au0828)        [0fe9:d620]
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c b/Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c
index e4230ed16ee7..df3227605d59 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c
+++ b/Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * Slabinfo: Tool to get reports about slabs
  *
- * (C) 2007 sgi, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
+ * (C) 2007 sgi, Christoph Lameter
  *
  * Compile by:
  *
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ void fatal(const char *x, ...)
 
 void usage(void)
 {
-        printf("slabinfo 5/7/2007. (c) 2007 sgi. clameter@sgi.com\n\n"
+        printf("slabinfo 5/7/2007. (c) 2007 sgi.\n\n"
                 "slabinfo [-ahnpvtsz] [-d debugopts] [slab-regexp]\n"
                 "-a|--aliases           Show aliases\n"
                 "-A|--activity          Most active slabs first\n"
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/slub.txt b/Documentation/vm/slub.txt
index 7c13f22a0c9e..bb1f5c6e28b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/slub.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/slub.txt
@@ -266,4 +266,4 @@ of other objects.
 
         slub_debug=FZ,dentry
 
-Christoph Lameter, <clameter@sgi.com>, May 30, 2007
+Christoph Lameter, May 30, 2007