19 files changed, 430 insertions, 63 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
index 52618ab069ad..52618ab069ad 100644
--- a/Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl
index 8bca1d5cec09..e8473eae2a20 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl
@@ -16,6 +16,15 @@
      </address>
     </affiliation>
    </author>
+   <author>
+    <firstname>William</firstname>
+    <surname>Cohen</surname>
+    <affiliation>
+     <address>
+      <email>wcohen@redhat.com</email>
+     </address>
+    </affiliation>
+   </author>
   </authorgroup>
 
   <legalnotice>
@@ -91,4 +100,8 @@
 !Iinclude/trace/events/signal.h
   </chapter>
 
+  <chapter id="block">
+   <title>Block IO</title>
+!Iinclude/trace/events/block.h
+  </chapter>
 </book>
diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
index 6fab97ea7e6b..508b5b2b0289 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
@@ -1162,8 +1162,8 @@ where a driver received a request ala this before:
 
 As mentioned, there is no virtual mapping of a bio. For DMA, this is
 not a problem as the driver probably never will need a virtual mapping.
-Instead it needs a bus mapping (pci_map_page for a single segment or
-use blk_rq_map_sg for scatter gather) to be able to ship it to the driver. For
+Instead it needs a bus mapping (dma_map_page for a single segment or
+use dma_map_sg for scatter gather) to be able to ship it to the driver. For
 PIO drivers (or drivers that need to revert to PIO transfer once in a
 while (IDE for example)), where the CPU is doing the actual data
 transfer a virtual mapping is needed. If the driver supports highmem I/O,
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
index f8bc802d70b9..3a6aecd078ba 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ Note:
 5.3 swappiness
   Similar to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but affecting a hierarchy of groups only.
 
-  Following cgroups' swapiness can't be changed.
+  Following cgroups' swappiness can't be changed.
   - root cgroup (uses /proc/sys/vm/swappiness).
   - a cgroup which uses hierarchy and it has child cgroup.
   - a cgroup which uses hierarchy and not the root of hierarchy.
diff --git a/Documentation/circular-buffers.txt b/Documentation/circular-buffers.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8117e5bf6065
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/circular-buffers.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,234 @@
+                               ================
+                               CIRCULAR BUFFERS
+                               ================
+
+By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
+    Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+
+
+Linux provides a number of features that can be used to implement circular
+buffering.  There are two sets of such features:
+
+ (1) Convenience functions for determining information about power-of-2 sized
+     buffers.
+
+ (2) Memory barriers for when the producer and the consumer of objects in the
+     buffer don't want to share a lock.
+
+To use these facilities, as discussed below, there needs to be just one
+producer and just one consumer.  It is possible to handle multiple producers by
+serialising them, and to handle multiple consumers by serialising them.
+
+
+Contents:
+
+ (*) What is a circular buffer?
+
+ (*) Measuring power-of-2 buffers.
+
+ (*) Using memory barriers with circular buffers.
+     - The producer.
+     - The consumer.
+
+
+==========================
+WHAT IS A CIRCULAR BUFFER?
+==========================
+
+First of all, what is a circular buffer?  A circular buffer is a buffer of
+fixed, finite size into which there are two indices:
+
+ (1) A 'head' index - the point at which the producer inserts items into the
+     buffer.
+
+ (2) A 'tail' index - the point at which the consumer finds the next item in
+     the buffer.
+
+Typically when the tail pointer is equal to the head pointer, the buffer is
+empty; and the buffer is full when the head pointer is one less than the tail
+pointer.
+
+The head index is incremented when items are added, and the tail index when
+items are removed.  The tail index should never jump the head index, and both
+indices should be wrapped to 0 when they reach the end of the buffer, thus
+allowing an infinite amount of data to flow through the buffer.
+
+Typically, items will all be of the same unit size, but this isn't strictly
+required to use the techniques below.  The indices can be increased by more
+than 1 if multiple items or variable-sized items are to be included in the
+buffer, provided that neither index overtakes the other.  The implementer must
+be careful, however, as a region more than one unit in size may wrap the end of
+the buffer and be broken into two segments.
+
+
+============================
+MEASURING POWER-OF-2 BUFFERS
+============================
+
+Calculation of the occupancy or the remaining capacity of an arbitrarily sized
+circular buffer would normally be a slow operation, requiring the use of a
+modulus (divide) instruction.  However, if the buffer is of a power-of-2 size,
+then a much quicker bitwise-AND instruction can be used instead.
+
+Linux provides a set of macros for handling power-of-2 circular buffers.  These
+can be made use of by:
+
+        #include <linux/circ_buf.h>
+
+The macros are:
+
+ (*) Measure the remaining capacity of a buffer:
+
+        CIRC_SPACE(head_index, tail_index, buffer_size);
+
+     This returns the amount of space left in the buffer[1] into which items
+     can be inserted.
+
+
+ (*) Measure the maximum consecutive immediate space in a buffer:
+
+        CIRC_SPACE_TO_END(head_index, tail_index, buffer_size);
+
+     This returns the amount of consecutive space left in the buffer[1] into
+     which items can be immediately inserted without having to wrap back to the
+     beginning of the buffer.
+
+
+ (*) Measure the occupancy of a buffer:
+
+        CIRC_CNT(head_index, tail_index, buffer_size);
+
+     This returns the number of items currently occupying a buffer[2].
+
+
+ (*) Measure the non-wrapping occupancy of a buffer:
+
+        CIRC_CNT_TO_END(head_index, tail_index, buffer_size);
+
+     This returns the number of consecutive items[2] that can be extracted from
+     the buffer without having to wrap back to the beginning of the buffer.
+
+
+Each of these macros will nominally return a value between 0 and buffer_size-1,
+however:
+
+ [1] CIRC_SPACE*() are intended to be used in the producer.  To the producer
+     they will return a lower bound as the producer controls the head index,
+     but the consumer may still be depleting the buffer on another CPU and
+     moving the tail index.
+
+     To the consumer it will show an upper bound as the producer may be busy
+     depleting the space.
+
+ [2] CIRC_CNT*() are intended to be used in the consumer.  To the consumer they
+     will return a lower bound as the consumer controls the tail index, but the
+     producer may still be filling the buffer on another CPU and moving the
+     head index.
+
+     To the producer it will show an upper bound as the consumer may be busy
+     emptying the buffer.
+
+ [3] To a third party, the order in which the writes to the indices by the
+     producer and consumer become visible cannot be guaranteed as they are
+     independent and may be made on different CPUs - so the result in such a
+     situation will merely be a guess, and may even be negative.
+
+
+===========================================
+USING MEMORY BARRIERS WITH CIRCULAR BUFFERS
+===========================================
+
+By using memory barriers in conjunction with circular buffers, you can avoid
+the need to:
+
+ (1) use a single lock to govern access to both ends of the buffer, thus
+     allowing the buffer to be filled and emptied at the same time; and
+
+ (2) use atomic counter operations.
+
+There are two sides to this: the producer that fills the buffer, and the
+consumer that empties it.  Only one thing should be filling a buffer at any one
+time, and only one thing should be emptying a buffer at any one time, but the
+two sides can operate simultaneously.
+
+
+THE PRODUCER
+------------
+
+The producer will look something like this:
+
+        spin_lock(&producer_lock);
+
+        unsigned long head = buffer->head;
+        unsigned long tail = ACCESS_ONCE(buffer->tail);
+
+        if (CIRC_SPACE(head, tail, buffer->size) >= 1) {
+                /* insert one item into the buffer */
+                struct item *item = buffer[head];
+
+                produce_item(item);
+
+                smp_wmb(); /* commit the item before incrementing the head */
+
+                buffer->head = (head + 1) & (buffer->size - 1);
+
+                /* wake_up() will make sure that the head is committed before
+                 * waking anyone up */
+                wake_up(consumer);
+        }
+
+        spin_unlock(&producer_lock);
+
+This will instruct the CPU that the contents of the new item must be written
+before the head index makes it available to the consumer and then instructs the
+CPU that the revised head index must be written before the consumer is woken.
+
+Note that wake_up() doesn't have to be the exact mechanism used, but whatever
+is used must guarantee a (write) memory barrier between the update of the head
+index and the change of state of the consumer, if a change of state occurs.
+
+
+THE CONSUMER
+------------
+
+The consumer will look something like this:
+
+        spin_lock(&consumer_lock);
+
+        unsigned long head = ACCESS_ONCE(buffer->head);
+        unsigned long tail = buffer->tail;
+
+        if (CIRC_CNT(head, tail, buffer->size) >= 1) {
+                /* read index before reading contents at that index */
+                smp_read_barrier_depends();
+
+                /* extract one item from the buffer */
+                struct item *item = buffer[tail];
+
+                consume_item(item);
+
+                smp_mb(); /* finish reading descriptor before incrementing tail */
+
+                buffer->tail = (tail + 1) & (buffer->size - 1);
+        }
+
+        spin_unlock(&consumer_lock);
+
+This will instruct the CPU to make sure the index is up to date before reading
+the new item, and then it shall make sure the CPU has finished reading the item
+before it writes the new tail pointer, which will erase the item.
+
+
+Note the use of ACCESS_ONCE() in both algorithms to read the opposition index.
+This prevents the compiler from discarding and reloading its cached value -
+which some compilers will do across smp_read_barrier_depends().  This isn't
+strictly needed if you can be sure that the opposition index will _only_ be
+used the once.
+
+
+===============
+FURTHER READING
+===============
+
+See also Documentation/memory-barriers.txt for a description of Linux's memory
+barrier facilities.
diff --git a/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c b/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c
index b07add3467f1..7764594778d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c
+++ b/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/moduleparam.h>
 #include <linux/skbuff.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/timer.h>
 
 #include <linux/connector.h>
diff --git a/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt b/Documentation/fb/efifb.txt
index 316ec9bb7deb..a59916c29b33 100644
--- a/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fb/efifb.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 
-What is imacfb?
+What is efifb?
 ===============
 
 This is a generic EFI platform driver for Intel based Apple computers.
-Imacfb is only for EFI booted Intel Macs.
+efifb is only for EFI booted Intel Macs.
 
 Supported Hardware
 ==================
@@ -16,16 +16,16 @@ MacMini
 How to use it?
 ==============
 
-Imacfb does not have any kind of autodetection of your machine.
+efifb does not have any kind of autodetection of your machine.
 You have to add the following kernel parameters in your elilo.conf:
         Macbook :
-                video=imacfb:macbook
+                video=efifb:macbook
         MacMini :
-                video=imacfb:mini
+                video=efifb:mini
         Macbook Pro 15", iMac 17" :
-                video=imacfb:i17
+                video=efifb:i17
         Macbook Pro 17", iMac 20" :
-                video=imacfb:i20
+                video=efifb:i20
 
 --
 Edgar Hucek <gimli@dark-green.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX
index 3bae418c6ad3..4303614b5add 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ befs.txt
         - information about the BeOS filesystem for Linux.
 bfs.txt
         - info for the SCO UnixWare Boot Filesystem (BFS).
+ceph.txt
+        - info for the Ceph Distributed File System
 cifs.txt
         - description of the CIFS filesystem.
 coda.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
index 57e0b80a5274..c0236e753bc8 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
@@ -37,6 +37,15 @@ For Plan 9 From User Space applications (http://swtch.com/plan9)
 
         mount -t 9p `namespace`/acme /mnt/9 -o trans=unix,uname=$USER
 
+For server running on QEMU host with virtio transport:
+
+        mount -t 9p -o trans=virtio <mount_tag> /mnt/9
+
+where mount_tag is the tag associated by the server to each of the exported
+mount points. Each 9P export is seen by the client as a virtio device with an
+associated "mount_tag" property. Available mount tags can be
+seen by reading /sys/bus/virtio/drivers/9pnet_virtio/virtio<n>/mount_tag files.
+
 OPTIONS
 =======
 
@@ -47,7 +56,7 @@ OPTIONS
                         fd      - used passed file descriptors for connection
                                 (see rfdno and wfdno)
                         virtio  - connect to the next virtio channel available
-                                (from lguest or KVM with trans_virtio module)
+                                (from QEMU with trans_virtio module)
                         rdma    - connect to a specified RDMA channel
 
   uname=name    user name to attempt mount as on the remote server.  The
@@ -85,7 +94,12 @@ OPTIONS
 
   port=n        port to connect to on the remote server
 
-  noextend      force legacy mode (no 9p2000.u semantics)
+  noextend      force legacy mode (no 9p2000.u or 9p2000.L semantics)
+
+  version=name  Select 9P protocol version. Valid options are:
+                        9p2000          - Legacy mode (same as noextend)
+                        9p2000.u        - Use 9P2000.u protocol
+                        9p2000.L        - Use 9P2000.L protocol
 
   dfltuid       attempt to mount as a particular uid
 
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt
index 6e03917316bd..0660c9f5deef 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Basic features include:
 
  * POSIX semantics
  * Seamless scaling from 1 to many thousands of nodes
- * High availability and reliability.  No single points of failure.
+ * High availability and reliability.  No single point of failure.
  * N-way replication of data across storage nodes
  * Fast recovery from node failures
  * Automatic rebalancing of data on node addition/removal
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Mount Options
 
   wsize=X
         Specify the maximum write size in bytes.  By default there is no
-        maximu.  Ceph will normally size writes based on the file stripe
+        maximum.  Ceph will normally size writes based on the file stripe
         size.
 
   rsize=X
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Mount Options
         number of entries in that directory.
 
   nocrc
-        Disable CRC32C calculation for data writes.  If set, the OSD
+        Disable CRC32C calculation for data writes.  If set, the storage node
         must rely on TCP's error correction to detect data corruption
         in the data payload.
 
@@ -133,7 +133,8 @@ For more information on Ceph, see the home page at
         http://ceph.newdream.net/
 
 The Linux kernel client source tree is available at
-        git://ceph.newdream.net/linux-ceph-client.git
+        git://ceph.newdream.net/git/ceph-client.git
+        git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client.git
 
 and the source for the full system is at
-        git://ceph.newdream.net/ceph.git
+        git://ceph.newdream.net/git/ceph.git
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
index 3015da0c6b2a..fe09a2cb1858 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
@@ -82,11 +82,13 @@ tmpfs has a mount option to set the NUMA memory allocation policy for
 all files in that instance (if CONFIG_NUMA is enabled) - which can be
 adjusted on the fly via 'mount -o remount ...'
 
-mpol=default             prefers to allocate memory from the local node
+mpol=default             use the process allocation policy
+                         (see set_mempolicy(2))
 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
+mpol=local               prefers to allocate memory from the local node
 
 NodeList format is a comma-separated list of decimal numbers and ranges,
 a range being two hyphen-separated decimal numbers, the smallest and
@@ -134,3 +136,5 @@ Author:
    Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>, 1.12.01
 Updated:
    Hugh Dickins, 4 June 2007
+Updated:
+   KOSAKI Motohiro, 16 Mar 2010
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index 7f5809eddee6..631ad2f1b229 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
                          ============================
 
 By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
+    Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
 
 Contents:
 
@@ -60,6 +61,10 @@ Contents:
 
      - And then there's the Alpha.
 
+ (*) Example uses.
+
+     - Circular buffers.
+
  (*) References.
 
 
@@ -2226,6 +2231,21 @@ The Alpha defines the Linux kernel's memory barrier model.
 See the subsection on "Cache Coherency" above.
 
 
+============
+EXAMPLE USES
+============
+
+CIRCULAR BUFFERS
+----------------
+
+Memory barriers can be used to implement circular buffering without the need
+of a lock to serialise the producer with the consumer.  See:
+
+        Documentation/circular-buffers.txt
+
+for details.
+
+
 ==========
 REFERENCES
 ==========
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt
index 0e58b4539176..e8c8f4f06c67 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt
@@ -41,11 +41,12 @@ SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE:     return system time stamp generated in
 SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX/RX determine how time stamps are generated.
 SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW/SYS determine how they are reported in the
 following control message:
-    struct scm_timestamping {
-           struct timespec systime;
-           struct timespec hwtimetrans;
-           struct timespec hwtimeraw;
-    };
+
+struct scm_timestamping {
+        struct timespec systime;
+        struct timespec hwtimetrans;
+        struct timespec hwtimeraw;
+};
 
 recvmsg() can be used to get this control message for regular incoming
 packets. For send time stamps the outgoing packet is looped back to
@@ -87,12 +88,13 @@ by the network device and will be empty without that support.
 SIOCSHWTSTAMP:
 
 Hardware time stamping must also be initialized for each device driver
-that is expected to do hardware time stamping. The parameter is:
+that is expected to do hardware time stamping. The parameter is defined in
+/include/linux/net_tstamp.h as:
 
 struct hwtstamp_config {
-    int flags;           /* no flags defined right now, must be zero */
-    int tx_type;         /* HWTSTAMP_TX_* */
-    int rx_filter;       /* HWTSTAMP_FILTER_* */
+        int flags;      /* no flags defined right now, must be zero */
+        int tx_type;    /* HWTSTAMP_TX_* */
+        int rx_filter;  /* HWTSTAMP_FILTER_* */
 };
 
 Desired behavior is passed into the kernel and to a specific device by
@@ -139,42 +141,56 @@ enum {
         /* time stamp any incoming packet */
         HWTSTAMP_FILTER_ALL,
 
-        /* return value: time stamp all packets requested plus some others */
-        HWTSTAMP_FILTER_SOME,
+        /* return value: time stamp all packets requested plus some others */
+        HWTSTAMP_FILTER_SOME,
 
         /* PTP v1, UDP, any kind of event packet */
         HWTSTAMP_FILTER_PTP_V1_L4_EVENT,
 
-        ...
+        /* for the complete list of values, please check
+         * the include file /include/linux/net_tstamp.h
+         */
 };
 
 
 DEVICE IMPLEMENTATION
 
 A driver which supports hardware time stamping must support the
-SIOCSHWTSTAMP ioctl. Time stamps for received packets must be stored
-in the skb with skb_hwtstamp_set().
+SIOCSHWTSTAMP ioctl and update the supplied struct hwtstamp_config with
+the actual values as described in the section on SIOCSHWTSTAMP.
+
+Time stamps for received packets must be stored in the skb. To get a pointer
+to the shared time stamp structure of the skb call skb_hwtstamps(). Then
+set the time stamps in the structure:
+
+struct skb_shared_hwtstamps {
+        /* hardware time stamp transformed into duration
+         * since arbitrary point in time
+         */
+        ktime_t hwtstamp;
+        ktime_t syststamp; /* hwtstamp transformed to system time base */
+};
 
 Time stamps for outgoing packets are to be generated as follows:
-- In hard_start_xmit(), check if skb_hwtstamp_check_tx_hardware()
-  returns non-zero. If yes, then the driver is expected
-  to do hardware time stamping.
+- In hard_start_xmit(), check if skb_tx(skb)->hardware is set no-zero.
+  If yes, then the driver is expected to do hardware time stamping.
 - If this is possible for the skb and requested, then declare
-  that the driver is doing the time stamping by calling
-  skb_hwtstamp_tx_in_progress(). A driver not supporting
-  hardware time stamping doesn't do that. A driver must never
-  touch sk_buff::tstamp! It is used to store how time stamping
-  for an outgoing packets is to be done.
+  that the driver is doing the time stamping by setting the field
+  skb_tx(skb)->in_progress non-zero. You might want to keep a pointer
+  to the associated skb for the next step and not free the skb. A driver
+  not supporting hardware time stamping doesn't do that. A driver must
+  never touch sk_buff::tstamp! It is used to store software generated
+  time stamps by the network subsystem.
 - As soon as the driver has sent the packet and/or obtained a
   hardware time stamp for it, it passes the time stamp back by
   calling skb_hwtstamp_tx() with the original skb, the raw
-  hardware time stamp and a handle to the device (necessary
-  to convert the hardware time stamp to system time). If obtaining
-  the hardware time stamp somehow fails, then the driver should
-  not fall back to software time stamping. The rationale is that
-  this would occur at a later time in the processing pipeline
-  than other software time stamping and therefore could lead
-  to unexpected deltas between time stamps.
-- If the driver did not call skb_hwtstamp_tx_in_progress(), then
+  hardware time stamp. skb_hwtstamp_tx() clones the original skb and
+  adds the timestamps, therefore the original skb has to be freed now.
+  If obtaining the hardware time stamp somehow fails, then the driver
+  should not fall back to software time stamping. The rationale is that
+  this would occur at a later time in the processing pipeline than other
+  software time stamping and therefore could lead to unexpected deltas
+  between time stamps.
+- If the driver did not call set skb_tx(skb)->in_progress, then
   dev_hard_start_xmit() checks whether software time stamping
   is wanted as fallback and potentially generates the time stamp.
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/cpm_qe/qe.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/cpm_qe/qe.txt
index 6e37be1eeb2d..4f8930263dd9 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/cpm_qe/qe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/cpm_qe/qe.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,15 @@ Required properties:
 - fsl,qe-num-snums: define how many serial number(SNUM) the QE can use for the
   threads.
 
+Optional properties:
+- fsl,firmware-phandle:
+    Usage: required only if there is no fsl,qe-firmware child node
+    Value type: <phandle>
+    Definition: Points to a firmware node (see "QE Firmware Node" below)
+        that contains the firmware that should be uploaded for this QE.
+        The compatible property for the firmware node should say,
+        "fsl,qe-firmware".
+
 Recommended properties
 - brg-frequency : the internal clock source frequency for baud-rate
   generators in Hz.
@@ -59,3 +68,48 @@ Example:
                 reg = <0 c000>;
         };
      };
+
+* QE Firmware Node
+
+This node defines a firmware binary that is embedded in the device tree, for
+the purpose of passing the firmware from bootloader to the kernel, or from
+the hypervisor to the guest.
+
+The firmware node itself contains the firmware binary contents, a compatible
+property, and any firmware-specific properties.  The node should be placed
+inside a QE node that needs it.  Doing so eliminates the need for a
+fsl,firmware-phandle property.  Other QE nodes that need the same firmware
+should define an fsl,firmware-phandle property that points to the firmware node
+in the first QE node.
+
+The fsl,firmware property can be specified in the DTS (possibly using incbin)
+or can be inserted by the boot loader at boot time.
+
+Required properties:
+  - compatible
+      Usage: required
+      Value type: <string>
+      Definition: A standard property.  Specify a string that indicates what
+          kind of firmware it is.  For QE, this should be "fsl,qe-firmware".
+
+   - fsl,firmware
+      Usage: required
+      Value type: <prop-encoded-array>, encoded as an array of bytes
+      Definition: A standard property.  This property contains the firmware
+          binary "blob".
+
+Example:
+        qe1@e0080000 {
+                compatible = "fsl,qe";
+                qe_firmware:qe-firmware {
+                        compatible = "fsl,qe-firmware";
+                        fsl,firmware = [0x70 0xcd 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x46 0x45 ...];
+                };
+                ...
+        };
+
+        qe2@e0090000 {
+                compatible = "fsl,qe";
+                fsl,firmware-phandle = <&qe_firmware>;
+                ...
+        };
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt
index f4dd3bf99d12..98d14cb8a85d 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt
@@ -119,10 +119,18 @@ the codec slots 0 and 1 no matter what the hardware reports.
 
 Interrupt Handling
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-In rare but some cases, the interrupt isn't properly handled as
-default.  You would notice this by the DMA transfer error reported by
-ALSA PCM core, for example.  Using MSI might help in such a case.
-Pass `enable_msi=1` option for enabling MSI.
+HD-audio driver uses MSI as default (if available) since 2.6.33
+kernel as MSI works better on some machines, and in general, it's
+better for performance.  However, Nvidia controllers showed bad
+regressions with MSI (especially in a combination with AMD chipset),
+thus we disabled MSI for them.
+
+There seem also still other devices that don't work with MSI.  If you
+see a regression wrt the sound quality (stuttering, etc) or a lock-up
+in the recent kernel, try to pass `enable_msi=0` option to disable
+MSI.  If it works, you can add the known bad device to the blacklist
+defined in hda_intel.c.  In such a case, please report and give the
+patch back to the upstream developer. 
 
 
 HD-AUDIO CODEC
diff --git a/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt b/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt
index 991c26a6ef64..db0cb228d64a 100644
--- a/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt
+++ b/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt
@@ -63,9 +63,9 @@ way to perform a busy wait is:
         cpu_relax();
 
 The cpu_relax() call can lower CPU power consumption or yield to a
-hyperthreaded twin processor; it also happens to serve as a memory barrier,
-so, once again, volatile is unnecessary.  Of course, busy-waiting is
-generally an anti-social act to begin with.
+hyperthreaded twin processor; it also happens to serve as a compiler
+barrier, so, once again, volatile is unnecessary.  Of course, busy-
+waiting is generally an anti-social act to begin with.
 
 There are still a few rare situations where volatile makes sense in the
 kernel:
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c
index 4cf72f3fa8e9..ba45803a2216 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c
@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@ int main(void)
                         ret = -1;
                         break;
                 }
-                ret = fsync(fd);
-                if (ret)
-                        break;
                 sleep(10);
         }
         close(fd);
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c
index a750532ffcf8..63fdc34ceb98 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ static void keep_alive(void)
  */
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
+    int flags;
+
     fd = open("/dev/watchdog", O_WRONLY);
 
     if (fd == -1) {
@@ -41,12 +43,14 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
     if (argc > 1) {
         if (!strncasecmp(argv[1], "-d", 2)) {
-            ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, WDIOS_DISABLECARD);
+            flags = WDIOS_DISABLECARD;
+            ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, &flags);
             fprintf(stderr, "Watchdog card disabled.\n");
             fflush(stderr);
             exit(0);
         } else if (!strncasecmp(argv[1], "-e", 2)) {
-            ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, WDIOS_ENABLECARD);
+            flags = WDIOS_ENABLECARD;
+            ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, &flags);
             fprintf(stderr, "Watchdog card enabled.\n");
             fflush(stderr);
             exit(0);
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
index 4cc4ba9d7150..eb7132ed8bbc 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
@@ -222,11 +222,10 @@ returned value is the temperature in degrees fahrenheit.
     ioctl(fd, WDIOC_GETTEMP, &temperature);
 
 Finally the SETOPTIONS ioctl can be used to control some aspects of
-the cards operation; right now the pcwd driver is the only one
-supporting this ioctl.
+the cards operation.
 
     int options = 0;
-    ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, options);
+    ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, &options);
 
 The following options are available: