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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/videobook.tmpl | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingDrivers | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/barrier.txt | 271 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cachetlb.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 9 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt | 63 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt | 12 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hpet.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/input/ff.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 14 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/laptop-mode.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/aacraid.txt | 108 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/spi/butterfly | 57 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/spi/spi-summary | 457 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.tuner | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt | 2 |
20 files changed, 1002 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/videobook.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/videobook.tmpl index 3ec6c875588a..fdff984a5161 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/videobook.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/videobook.tmpl | |||
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ int __init myradio_init(struct video_init *v) | |||
229 | 229 | ||
230 | static int users = 0; | 230 | static int users = 0; |
231 | 231 | ||
232 | static int radio_open(stuct video_device *dev, int flags) | 232 | static int radio_open(struct video_device *dev, int flags) |
233 | { | 233 | { |
234 | if(users) | 234 | if(users) |
235 | return -EBUSY; | 235 | return -EBUSY; |
@@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ int __init mycamera_init(struct video_init *v) | |||
949 | 949 | ||
950 | static int users = 0; | 950 | static int users = 0; |
951 | 951 | ||
952 | static int camera_open(stuct video_device *dev, int flags) | 952 | static int camera_open(struct video_device *dev, int flags) |
953 | { | 953 | { |
954 | if(users) | 954 | if(users) |
955 | return -EBUSY; | 955 | return -EBUSY; |
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers b/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers index dd311cff1cc3..6bd30fdd0786 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers | |||
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ KernelNewbies: | |||
143 | http://kernelnewbies.org/ | 143 | http://kernelnewbies.org/ |
144 | 144 | ||
145 | Linux USB project: | 145 | Linux USB project: |
146 | http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/ | 146 | http://www.linux-usb.org/ |
147 | 147 | ||
148 | How to NOT write kernel driver by arjanv@redhat.com | 148 | How to NOT write kernel driver by arjanv@redhat.com |
149 | http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/olspaper.pdf | 149 | http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/olspaper.pdf |
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 6198e5ebcf65..c2c85bcb3d43 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches | |||
@@ -478,10 +478,11 @@ Andrew Morton, "The perfect patch" (tpp). | |||
478 | Jeff Garzik, "Linux kernel patch submission format." | 478 | Jeff Garzik, "Linux kernel patch submission format." |
479 | <http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html> | 479 | <http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html> |
480 | 480 | ||
481 | Greg Kroah, "How to piss off a kernel subsystem maintainer". | 481 | Greg Kroah-Hartman "How to piss off a kernel subsystem maintainer". |
482 | <http://www.kroah.com/log/2005/03/31/> | 482 | <http://www.kroah.com/log/2005/03/31/> |
483 | <http://www.kroah.com/log/2005/07/08/> | 483 | <http://www.kroah.com/log/2005/07/08/> |
484 | <http://www.kroah.com/log/2005/10/19/> | 484 | <http://www.kroah.com/log/2005/10/19/> |
485 | <http://www.kroah.com/log/2006/01/11/> | ||
485 | 486 | ||
486 | NO!!!! No more huge patch bombs to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org people!. | 487 | NO!!!! No more huge patch bombs to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org people!. |
487 | <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112112749912944&w=2> | 488 | <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112112749912944&w=2> |
diff --git a/Documentation/block/barrier.txt b/Documentation/block/barrier.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..03971518b222 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/block/barrier.txt | |||
@@ -0,0 +1,271 @@ | |||
1 | I/O Barriers | ||
2 | ============ | ||
3 | Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, July 22 2005 | ||
4 | |||
5 | I/O barrier requests are used to guarantee ordering around the barrier | ||
6 | requests. Unless you're crazy enough to use disk drives for | ||
7 | implementing synchronization constructs (wow, sounds interesting...), | ||
8 | the ordering is meaningful only for write requests for things like | ||
9 | journal checkpoints. All requests queued before a barrier request | ||
10 | must be finished (made it to the physical medium) before the barrier | ||
11 | request is started, and all requests queued after the barrier request | ||
12 | must be started only after the barrier request is finished (again, | ||
13 | made it to the physical medium). | ||
14 | |||
15 | In other words, I/O barrier requests have the following two properties. | ||
16 | |||
17 | 1. Request ordering | ||
18 | |||
19 | Requests cannot pass the barrier request. Preceding requests are | ||
20 | processed before the barrier and following requests after. | ||
21 | |||
22 | Depending on what features a drive supports, this can be done in one | ||
23 | of the following three ways. | ||
24 | |||
25 | i. For devices which have queue depth greater than 1 (TCQ devices) and | ||
26 | support ordered tags, block layer can just issue the barrier as an | ||
27 | ordered request and the lower level driver, controller and drive | ||
28 | itself are responsible for making sure that the ordering contraint is | ||
29 | met. Most modern SCSI controllers/drives should support this. | ||
30 | |||
31 | NOTE: SCSI ordered tag isn't currently used due to limitation in the | ||
32 | SCSI midlayer, see the following random notes section. | ||
33 | |||
34 | ii. For devices which have queue depth greater than 1 but don't | ||
35 | support ordered tags, block layer ensures that the requests preceding | ||
36 | a barrier request finishes before issuing the barrier request. Also, | ||
37 | it defers requests following the barrier until the barrier request is | ||
38 | finished. Older SCSI controllers/drives and SATA drives fall in this | ||
39 | category. | ||
40 | |||
41 | iii. Devices which have queue depth of 1. This is a degenerate case | ||
42 | of ii. Just keeping issue order suffices. Ancient SCSI | ||
43 | controllers/drives and IDE drives are in this category. | ||
44 | |||
45 | 2. Forced flushing to physcial medium | ||
46 | |||
47 | Again, if you're not gonna do synchronization with disk drives (dang, | ||
48 | it sounds even more appealing now!), the reason you use I/O barriers | ||
49 | is mainly to protect filesystem integrity when power failure or some | ||
50 | other events abruptly stop the drive from operating and possibly make | ||
51 | the drive lose data in its cache. So, I/O barriers need to guarantee | ||
52 | that requests actually get written to non-volatile medium in order. | ||
53 | |||
54 | There are four cases, | ||
55 | |||
56 | i. No write-back cache. Keeping requests ordered is enough. | ||
57 | |||
58 | ii. Write-back cache but no flush operation. There's no way to | ||
59 | gurantee physical-medium commit order. This kind of devices can't to | ||
60 | I/O barriers. | ||
61 | |||
62 | iii. Write-back cache and flush operation but no FUA (forced unit | ||
63 | access). We need two cache flushes - before and after the barrier | ||
64 | request. | ||
65 | |||
66 | iv. Write-back cache, flush operation and FUA. We still need one | ||
67 | flush to make sure requests preceding a barrier are written to medium, | ||
68 | but post-barrier flush can be avoided by using FUA write on the | ||
69 | barrier itself. | ||
70 | |||
71 | |||
72 | How to support barrier requests in drivers | ||
73 | ------------------------------------------ | ||
74 | |||
75 | All barrier handling is done inside block layer proper. All low level | ||
76 | drivers have to are implementing its prepare_flush_fn and using one | ||
77 | the following two functions to indicate what barrier type it supports | ||
78 | and how to prepare flush requests. Note that the term 'ordered' is | ||
79 | used to indicate the whole sequence of performing barrier requests | ||
80 | including draining and flushing. | ||
81 | |||
82 | typedef void (prepare_flush_fn)(request_queue_t *q, struct request *rq); | ||
83 | |||
84 | int blk_queue_ordered(request_queue_t *q, unsigned ordered, | ||
85 | prepare_flush_fn *prepare_flush_fn, | ||
86 | unsigned gfp_mask); | ||
87 | |||
88 | int blk_queue_ordered_locked(request_queue_t *q, unsigned ordered, | ||
89 | prepare_flush_fn *prepare_flush_fn, | ||
90 | unsigned gfp_mask); | ||
91 | |||
92 | The only difference between the two functions is whether or not the | ||
93 | caller is holding q->queue_lock on entry. The latter expects the | ||
94 | caller is holding the lock. | ||
95 | |||
96 | @q : the queue in question | ||
97 | @ordered : the ordered mode the driver/device supports | ||
98 | @prepare_flush_fn : this function should prepare @rq such that it | ||
99 | flushes cache to physical medium when executed | ||
100 | @gfp_mask : gfp_mask used when allocating data structures | ||
101 | for ordered processing | ||
102 | |||
103 | For example, SCSI disk driver's prepare_flush_fn looks like the | ||
104 | following. | ||
105 | |||
106 | static void sd_prepare_flush(request_queue_t *q, struct request *rq) | ||
107 | { | ||
108 | memset(rq->cmd, 0, sizeof(rq->cmd)); | ||
109 | rq->flags |= REQ_BLOCK_PC; | ||
110 | rq->timeout = SD_TIMEOUT; | ||
111 | rq->cmd[0] = SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE; | ||
112 | } | ||
113 | |||
114 | The following seven ordered modes are supported. The following table | ||
115 | shows which mode should be used depending on what features a | ||
116 | device/driver supports. In the leftmost column of table, | ||
117 | QUEUE_ORDERED_ prefix is omitted from the mode names to save space. | ||
118 | |||
119 | The table is followed by description of each mode. Note that in the | ||
120 | descriptions of QUEUE_ORDERED_DRAIN*, '=>' is used whereas '->' is | ||
121 | used for QUEUE_ORDERED_TAG* descriptions. '=>' indicates that the | ||
122 | preceding step must be complete before proceeding to the next step. | ||
123 | '->' indicates that the next step can start as soon as the previous | ||
124 | step is issued. | ||
125 | |||
126 | write-back cache ordered tag flush FUA | ||
127 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
128 | NONE yes/no N/A no N/A | ||
129 | DRAIN no no N/A N/A | ||
130 | DRAIN_FLUSH yes no yes no | ||
131 | DRAIN_FUA yes no yes yes | ||
132 | TAG no yes N/A N/A | ||
133 | TAG_FLUSH yes yes yes no | ||
134 | TAG_FUA yes yes yes yes | ||
135 | |||
136 | |||
137 | QUEUE_ORDERED_NONE | ||
138 | I/O barriers are not needed and/or supported. | ||
139 | |||
140 | Sequence: N/A | ||
141 | |||
142 | QUEUE_ORDERED_DRAIN | ||
143 | Requests are ordered by draining the request queue and cache | ||
144 | flushing isn't needed. | ||
145 | |||
146 | Sequence: drain => barrier | ||
147 | |||
148 | QUEUE_ORDERED_DRAIN_FLUSH | ||
149 | Requests are ordered by draining the request queue and both | ||
150 | pre-barrier and post-barrier cache flushings are needed. | ||
151 | |||
152 | Sequence: drain => preflush => barrier => postflush | ||
153 | |||
154 | QUEUE_ORDERED_DRAIN_FUA | ||
155 | Requests are ordered by draining the request queue and | ||
156 | pre-barrier cache flushing is needed. By using FUA on barrier | ||
157 | request, post-barrier flushing can be skipped. | ||
158 | |||
159 | Sequence: drain => preflush => barrier | ||
160 | |||
161 | QUEUE_ORDERED_TAG | ||
162 | Requests are ordered by ordered tag and cache flushing isn't | ||
163 | needed. | ||
164 | |||
165 | Sequence: barrier | ||
166 | |||
167 | QUEUE_ORDERED_TAG_FLUSH | ||
168 | Requests are ordered by ordered tag and both pre-barrier and | ||
169 | post-barrier cache flushings are needed. | ||
170 | |||
171 | Sequence: preflush -> barrier -> postflush | ||
172 | |||
173 | QUEUE_ORDERED_TAG_FUA | ||
174 | Requests are ordered by ordered tag and pre-barrier cache | ||
175 | flushing is needed. By using FUA on barrier request, | ||
176 | post-barrier flushing can be skipped. | ||
177 | |||
178 | Sequence: preflush -> barrier | ||
179 | |||
180 | |||
181 | Random notes/caveats | ||
182 | -------------------- | ||
183 | |||
184 | * SCSI layer currently can't use TAG ordering even if the drive, | ||
185 | controller and driver support it. The problem is that SCSI midlayer | ||
186 | request dispatch function is not atomic. It releases queue lock and | ||
187 | switch to SCSI host lock during issue and it's possible and likely to | ||
188 | happen in time that requests change their relative positions. Once | ||
189 | this problem is solved, TAG ordering can be enabled. | ||
190 | |||
191 | * Currently, no matter which ordered mode is used, there can be only | ||
192 | one barrier request in progress. All I/O barriers are held off by | ||
193 | block layer until the previous I/O barrier is complete. This doesn't | ||
194 | make any difference for DRAIN ordered devices, but, for TAG ordered | ||
195 | devices with very high command latency, passing multiple I/O barriers | ||
196 | to low level *might* be helpful if they are very frequent. Well, this | ||
197 | certainly is a non-issue. I'm writing this just to make clear that no | ||
198 | two I/O barrier is ever passed to low-level driver. | ||
199 | |||
200 | * Completion order. Requests in ordered sequence are issued in order | ||
201 | but not required to finish in order. Barrier implementation can | ||
202 | handle out-of-order completion of ordered sequence. IOW, the requests | ||
203 | MUST be processed in order but the hardware/software completion paths | ||
204 | are allowed to reorder completion notifications - eg. current SCSI | ||
205 | midlayer doesn't preserve completion order during error handling. | ||
206 | |||
207 | * Requeueing order. Low-level drivers are free to requeue any request | ||
208 | after they removed it from the request queue with | ||
209 | blkdev_dequeue_request(). As barrier sequence should be kept in order | ||
210 | when requeued, generic elevator code takes care of putting requests in | ||
211 | order around barrier. See blk_ordered_req_seq() and | ||
212 | ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE handling in __elv_add_request() for details. | ||
213 | |||
214 | Note that block drivers must not requeue preceding requests while | ||
215 | completing latter requests in an ordered sequence. Currently, no | ||
216 | error checking is done against this. | ||
217 | |||
218 | * Error handling. Currently, block layer will report error to upper | ||
219 | layer if any of requests in an ordered sequence fails. Unfortunately, | ||
220 | this doesn't seem to be enough. Look at the following request flow. | ||
221 | QUEUE_ORDERED_TAG_FLUSH is in use. | ||
222 | |||
223 | [0] [1] [2] [3] [pre] [barrier] [post] < [4] [5] [6] ... > | ||
224 | still in elevator | ||
225 | |||
226 | Let's say request [2], [3] are write requests to update file system | ||
227 | metadata (journal or whatever) and [barrier] is used to mark that | ||
228 | those updates are valid. Consider the following sequence. | ||
229 | |||
230 | i. Requests [0] ~ [post] leaves the request queue and enters | ||
231 | low-level driver. | ||
232 | ii. After a while, unfortunately, something goes wrong and the | ||
233 | drive fails [2]. Note that any of [0], [1] and [3] could have | ||
234 | completed by this time, but [pre] couldn't have been finished | ||
235 | as the drive must process it in order and it failed before | ||
236 | processing that command. | ||
237 | iii. Error handling kicks in and determines that the error is | ||
238 | unrecoverable and fails [2], and resumes operation. | ||
239 | iv. [pre] [barrier] [post] gets processed. | ||
240 | v. *BOOM* power fails | ||
241 | |||
242 | The problem here is that the barrier request is *supposed* to indicate | ||
243 | that filesystem update requests [2] and [3] made it safely to the | ||
244 | physical medium and, if the machine crashes after the barrier is | ||
245 | written, filesystem recovery code can depend on that. Sadly, that | ||
246 | isn't true in this case anymore. IOW, the success of a I/O barrier | ||
247 | should also be dependent on success of some of the preceding requests, | ||
248 | where only upper layer (filesystem) knows what 'some' is. | ||
249 | |||
250 | This can be solved by implementing a way to tell the block layer which | ||
251 | requests affect the success of the following barrier request and | ||
252 | making lower lever drivers to resume operation on error only after | ||
253 | block layer tells it to do so. | ||
254 | |||
255 | As the probability of this happening is very low and the drive should | ||
256 | be faulty, implementing the fix is probably an overkill. But, still, | ||
257 | it's there. | ||
258 | |||
259 | * In previous drafts of barrier implementation, there was fallback | ||
260 | mechanism such that, if FUA or ordered TAG fails, less fancy ordered | ||
261 | mode can be selected and the failed barrier request is retried | ||
262 | automatically. The rationale for this feature was that as FUA is | ||
263 | pretty new in ATA world and ordered tag was never used widely, there | ||
264 | could be devices which report to support those features but choke when | ||
265 | actually given such requests. | ||
266 | |||
267 | This was removed for two reasons 1. it's an overkill 2. it's | ||
268 | impossible to implement properly when TAG ordering is used as low | ||
269 | level drivers resume after an error automatically. If it's ever | ||
270 | needed adding it back and modifying low level drivers accordingly | ||
271 | shouldn't be difficult. | ||
diff --git a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt index 7eb715e07eda..4ae418889b88 100644 --- a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt +++ b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt | |||
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ changes occur: | |||
136 | 8) void lazy_mmu_prot_update(pte_t pte) | 136 | 8) void lazy_mmu_prot_update(pte_t pte) |
137 | This interface is called whenever the protection on | 137 | This interface is called whenever the protection on |
138 | any user PTEs change. This interface provides a notification | 138 | any user PTEs change. This interface provides a notification |
139 | to architecture specific code to take appropiate action. | 139 | to architecture specific code to take appropriate action. |
140 | 140 | ||
141 | 141 | ||
142 | Next, we have the cache flushing interfaces. In general, when Linux | 142 | Next, we have the cache flushing interfaces. In general, when Linux |
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 9474501dd6cc..b4a1ea762698 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | |||
@@ -123,6 +123,15 @@ Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | |||
123 | 123 | ||
124 | --------------------------- | 124 | --------------------------- |
125 | 125 | ||
126 | What: CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING | ||
127 | When: June 2006 | ||
128 | Why: Config option is there to see if gcc is good enough. (in january | ||
129 | 2006). If it is, the behavior should just be the default. If it's not, | ||
130 | the option should just go away entirely. | ||
131 | Who: Arjan van de Ven | ||
132 | |||
133 | --------------------------- | ||
134 | |||
126 | What: START_ARRAY ioctl for md | 135 | What: START_ARRAY ioctl for md |
127 | When: July 2006 | 136 | When: July 2006 |
128 | Files: drivers/md/md.c | 137 | Files: drivers/md/md.c |
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt index 6b5741e651a2..33f74310d161 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt | |||
@@ -86,6 +86,62 @@ Mount options | |||
86 | The default is infinite. Note that the size of read requests is | 86 | The default is infinite. Note that the size of read requests is |
87 | limited anyway to 32 pages (which is 128kbyte on i386). | 87 | limited anyway to 32 pages (which is 128kbyte on i386). |
88 | 88 | ||
89 | Sysfs | ||
90 | ~~~~~ | ||
91 | |||
92 | FUSE sets up the following hierarchy in sysfs: | ||
93 | |||
94 | /sys/fs/fuse/connections/N/ | ||
95 | |||
96 | where N is an increasing number allocated to each new connection. | ||
97 | |||
98 | For each connection the following attributes are defined: | ||
99 | |||
100 | 'waiting' | ||
101 | |||
102 | The number of requests which are waiting to be transfered to | ||
103 | userspace or being processed by the filesystem daemon. If there is | ||
104 | no filesystem activity and 'waiting' is non-zero, then the | ||
105 | filesystem is hung or deadlocked. | ||
106 | |||
107 | 'abort' | ||
108 | |||
109 | Writing anything into this file will abort the filesystem | ||
110 | connection. This means that all waiting requests will be aborted an | ||
111 | error returned for all aborted and new requests. | ||
112 | |||
113 | Only a privileged user may read or write these attributes. | ||
114 | |||
115 | Aborting a filesystem connection | ||
116 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ||
117 | |||
118 | It is possible to get into certain situations where the filesystem is | ||
119 | not responding. Reasons for this may be: | ||
120 | |||
121 | a) Broken userspace filesystem implementation | ||
122 | |||
123 | b) Network connection down | ||
124 | |||
125 | c) Accidental deadlock | ||
126 | |||
127 | d) Malicious deadlock | ||
128 | |||
129 | (For more on c) and d) see later sections) | ||
130 | |||
131 | In either of these cases it may be useful to abort the connection to | ||
132 | the filesystem. There are several ways to do this: | ||
133 | |||
134 | - Kill the filesystem daemon. Works in case of a) and b) | ||
135 | |||
136 | - Kill the filesystem daemon and all users of the filesystem. Works | ||
137 | in all cases except some malicious deadlocks | ||
138 | |||
139 | - Use forced umount (umount -f). Works in all cases but only if | ||
140 | filesystem is still attached (it hasn't been lazy unmounted) | ||
141 | |||
142 | - Abort filesystem through the sysfs interface. Most powerful | ||
143 | method, always works. | ||
144 | |||
89 | How do non-privileged mounts work? | 145 | How do non-privileged mounts work? |
90 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | 146 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
91 | 147 | ||
@@ -313,3 +369,10 @@ faulted with get_user_pages(). The 'req->locked' flag indicates | |||
313 | when the copy is taking place, and interruption is delayed until | 369 | when the copy is taking place, and interruption is delayed until |
314 | this flag is unset. | 370 | this flag is unset. |
315 | 371 | ||
372 | Scenario 3 - Tricky deadlock with asynchronous read | ||
373 | --------------------------------------------------- | ||
374 | |||
375 | The same situation as above, except thread-1 will wait on page lock | ||
376 | and hence it will be uninterruptible as well. The solution is to | ||
377 | abort the connection with forced umount (if mount is attached) or | ||
378 | through the abort attribute in sysfs. | ||
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt index 0d783c504ead..dbe4d87d2615 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt | |||
@@ -78,6 +78,18 @@ use up all the memory on the machine; but enhances the scalability of | |||
78 | that instance in a system with many cpus making intensive use of it. | 78 | that instance in a system with many cpus making intensive use of it. |
79 | 79 | ||
80 | 80 | ||
81 | tmpfs has a mount option to set the NUMA memory allocation policy for | ||
82 | all files in that instance: | ||
83 | mpol=interleave prefers to allocate memory from each node in turn | ||
84 | mpol=default prefers to allocate memory from the local node | ||
85 | mpol=bind prefers to allocate from mpol_nodelist | ||
86 | mpol=preferred prefers to allocate from first node in mpol_nodelist | ||
87 | |||
88 | The following mount option is used in conjunction with mpol=interleave, | ||
89 | mpol=bind or mpol=preferred: | ||
90 | mpol_nodelist: nodelist suitable for parsing with nodelist_parse. | ||
91 | |||
92 | |||
81 | To specify the initial root directory you can use the following mount | 93 | To specify the initial root directory you can use the following mount |
82 | options: | 94 | options: |
83 | 95 | ||
diff --git a/Documentation/hpet.txt b/Documentation/hpet.txt index e52457581f47..b7a3dc38dd52 100644 --- a/Documentation/hpet.txt +++ b/Documentation/hpet.txt | |||
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ | |||
2 | 2 | ||
3 | The High Precision Event Timer (HPET) hardware is the future replacement | 3 | The High Precision Event Timer (HPET) hardware is the future replacement |
4 | for the 8254 and Real Time Clock (RTC) periodic timer functionality. | 4 | for the 8254 and Real Time Clock (RTC) periodic timer functionality. |
5 | Each HPET can have up two 32 timers. It is possible to configure the | 5 | Each HPET can have up to 32 timers. It is possible to configure the |
6 | first two timers as legacy replacements for 8254 and RTC periodic timers. | 6 | first two timers as legacy replacements for 8254 and RTC periodic timers. |
7 | A specification done by Intel and Microsoft can be found at | 7 | A specification done by Intel and Microsoft can be found at |
8 | <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec.htm>. | 8 | <http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec.htm>. |
diff --git a/Documentation/input/ff.txt b/Documentation/input/ff.txt index efa7dd6751f3..c7e10eaff203 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/ff.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/ff.txt | |||
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ to the unique id assigned by the driver. This data is required for performing | |||
120 | some operations (removing an effect, controlling the playback). | 120 | some operations (removing an effect, controlling the playback). |
121 | This if field must be set to -1 by the user in order to tell the driver to | 121 | This if field must be set to -1 by the user in order to tell the driver to |
122 | allocate a new effect. | 122 | allocate a new effect. |
123 | See <linux/input.h> for a description of the ff_effect stuct. You should also | 123 | See <linux/input.h> for a description of the ff_effect struct. You should also |
124 | find help in a few sketches, contained in files shape.fig and interactive.fig. | 124 | find help in a few sketches, contained in files shape.fig and interactive.fig. |
125 | You need xfig to visualize these files. | 125 | You need xfig to visualize these files. |
126 | 126 | ||
diff --git a/Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt b/Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt index 9a7aea0636a5..11c9be49f37c 100644 --- a/Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt +++ b/Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt | |||
@@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ HDIO_SCAN_HWIF register and (re)scan interface | |||
946 | 946 | ||
947 | This ioctl initializes the addresses and irq for a disk | 947 | This ioctl initializes the addresses and irq for a disk |
948 | controller, probes for drives, and creates /proc/ide | 948 | controller, probes for drives, and creates /proc/ide |
949 | interfaces as appropiate. | 949 | interfaces as appropriate. |
950 | 950 | ||
951 | 951 | ||
952 | 952 | ||
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index fe11fccf7e41..1cbcf65b764b 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |||
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ running once the system is up. | |||
471 | arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. | 471 | arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. |
472 | 472 | ||
473 | elevator= [IOSCHED] | 473 | elevator= [IOSCHED] |
474 | Format: {"as" | "cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"} | 474 | Format: {"anticipatory" | "cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"} |
475 | See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and | 475 | See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and |
476 | Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details. | 476 | Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details. |
477 | 477 | ||
@@ -712,9 +712,17 @@ running once the system is up. | |||
712 | load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy | 712 | load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy |
713 | See Documentation/ramdisk.txt. | 713 | See Documentation/ramdisk.txt. |
714 | 714 | ||
715 | lockd.udpport= [NFS] | 715 | lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. |
716 | Format: <integer> | ||
717 | |||
718 | lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. | ||
719 | Format: <integer> | ||
716 | 720 | ||
717 | lockd.tcpport= [NFS] | 721 | lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. |
722 | Format: <integer> | ||
723 | |||
724 | lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. | ||
725 | Format: <integer> | ||
718 | 726 | ||
719 | logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver | 727 | logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver |
720 | Format: <irq> | 728 | Format: <irq> |
diff --git a/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt b/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt index f42e4c089356..b18e21675906 100644 --- a/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt +++ b/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt | |||
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ MAX_AGE=${MAX_AGE:-'600'} | |||
357 | # Read-ahead, in kilobytes | 357 | # Read-ahead, in kilobytes |
358 | READAHEAD=${READAHEAD:-'4096'} | 358 | READAHEAD=${READAHEAD:-'4096'} |
359 | 359 | ||
360 | # Shall we remount journaled fs. with appropiate commit interval? (1=yes) | 360 | # Shall we remount journaled fs. with appropriate commit interval? (1=yes) |
361 | DO_REMOUNTS=${DO_REMOUNTS:-'1'} | 361 | DO_REMOUNTS=${DO_REMOUNTS:-'1'} |
362 | 362 | ||
363 | # And shall we add the "noatime" option to that as well? (1=yes) | 363 | # And shall we add the "noatime" option to that as well? (1=yes) |
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt b/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt index f9d979ee9526..7837c53fd5fe 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt | |||
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ To use the driver as a module, proceed as follows: | |||
91 | with (M) | 91 | with (M) |
92 | 5. Execute the command "make modules". | 92 | 5. Execute the command "make modules". |
93 | 6. Execute the command "make modules_install". | 93 | 6. Execute the command "make modules_install". |
94 | The appropiate modules will be installed. | 94 | The appropriate modules will be installed. |
95 | 7. Reboot your system. | 95 | 7. Reboot your system. |
96 | 96 | ||
97 | 97 | ||
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/aacraid.txt b/Documentation/scsi/aacraid.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..820fd0793502 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/scsi/aacraid.txt | |||
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ | |||
1 | AACRAID Driver for Linux (take two) | ||
2 | |||
3 | Introduction | ||
4 | ------------------------- | ||
5 | The aacraid driver adds support for Adaptec (http://www.adaptec.com) | ||
6 | RAID controllers. This is a major rewrite from the original | ||
7 | Adaptec supplied driver. It has signficantly cleaned up both the code | ||
8 | and the running binary size (the module is less than half the size of | ||
9 | the original). | ||
10 | |||
11 | Supported Cards/Chipsets | ||
12 | ------------------------- | ||
13 | PCI ID (pci.ids) OEM Product | ||
14 | 9005:0285:9005:028a Adaptec 2020ZCR (Skyhawk) | ||
15 | 9005:0285:9005:028e Adaptec 2020SA (Skyhawk) | ||
16 | 9005:0285:9005:028b Adaptec 2025ZCR (Terminator) | ||
17 | 9005:0285:9005:028f Adaptec 2025SA (Terminator) | ||
18 | 9005:0285:9005:0286 Adaptec 2120S (Crusader) | ||
19 | 9005:0286:9005:028d Adaptec 2130S (Lancer) | ||
20 | 9005:0285:9005:0285 Adaptec 2200S (Vulcan) | ||
21 | 9005:0285:9005:0287 Adaptec 2200S (Vulcan-2m) | ||
22 | 9005:0286:9005:028c Adaptec 2230S (Lancer) | ||
23 | 9005:0286:9005:028c Adaptec 2230SLP (Lancer) | ||
24 | 9005:0285:9005:0296 Adaptec 2240S (SabreExpress) | ||
25 | 9005:0285:9005:0290 Adaptec 2410SA (Jaguar) | ||
26 | 9005:0285:9005:0293 Adaptec 21610SA (Corsair-16) | ||
27 | 9005:0285:103c:3227 Adaptec 2610SA (Bearcat) | ||
28 | 9005:0285:9005:0292 Adaptec 2810SA (Corsair-8) | ||
29 | 9005:0285:9005:0294 Adaptec Prowler | ||
30 | 9005:0286:9005:029d Adaptec 2420SA (Intruder) | ||
31 | 9005:0286:9005:029c Adaptec 2620SA (Intruder) | ||
32 | 9005:0286:9005:029b Adaptec 2820SA (Intruder) | ||
33 | 9005:0286:9005:02a7 Adaptec 2830SA (Skyray) | ||
34 | 9005:0286:9005:02a8 Adaptec 2430SA (Skyray) | ||
35 | 9005:0285:9005:0288 Adaptec 3230S (Harrier) | ||
36 | 9005:0285:9005:0289 Adaptec 3240S (Tornado) | ||
37 | 9005:0285:9005:0298 Adaptec 4000SAS (BlackBird) | ||
38 | 9005:0285:9005:0297 Adaptec 4005SAS (AvonPark) | ||
39 | 9005:0285:9005:0299 Adaptec 4800SAS (Marauder-X) | ||
40 | 9005:0285:9005:029a Adaptec 4805SAS (Marauder-E) | ||
41 | 9005:0286:9005:02a2 Adaptec 4810SAS (Hurricane) | ||
42 | 1011:0046:9005:0364 Adaptec 5400S (Mustang) | ||
43 | 1011:0046:9005:0365 Adaptec 5400S (Mustang) | ||
44 | 9005:0283:9005:0283 Adaptec Catapult (3210S with arc firmware) | ||
45 | 9005:0284:9005:0284 Adaptec Tomcat (3410S with arc firmware) | ||
46 | 9005:0287:9005:0800 Adaptec Themisto (Jupiter) | ||
47 | 9005:0200:9005:0200 Adaptec Themisto (Jupiter) | ||
48 | 9005:0286:9005:0800 Adaptec Callisto (Jupiter) | ||
49 | 1011:0046:9005:1364 Dell PERC 2/QC (Quad Channel, Mustang) | ||
50 | 1028:0001:1028:0001 Dell PERC 2/Si (Iguana) | ||
51 | 1028:0003:1028:0003 Dell PERC 3/Si (SlimFast) | ||
52 | 1028:0002:1028:0002 Dell PERC 3/Di (Opal) | ||
53 | 1028:0004:1028:0004 Dell PERC 3/DiF (Iguana) | ||
54 | 1028:0002:1028:00d1 Dell PERC 3/DiV (Viper) | ||
55 | 1028:0002:1028:00d9 Dell PERC 3/DiL (Lexus) | ||
56 | 1028:000a:1028:0106 Dell PERC 3/DiJ (Jaguar) | ||
57 | 1028:000a:1028:011b Dell PERC 3/DiD (Dagger) | ||
58 | 1028:000a:1028:0121 Dell PERC 3/DiB (Boxster) | ||
59 | 9005:0285:1028:0287 Dell PERC 320/DC (Vulcan) | ||
60 | 9005:0285:1028:0291 Dell CERC 2 (DellCorsair) | ||
61 | 1011:0046:103c:10c2 HP NetRAID-4M (Mustang) | ||
62 | 9005:0285:17aa:0286 Legend S220 (Crusader) | ||
63 | 9005:0285:17aa:0287 Legend S230 (Vulcan) | ||
64 | 9005:0285:9005:0290 IBM ServeRAID 7t (Jaguar) | ||
65 | 9005:0285:1014:02F2 IBM ServeRAID 8i (AvonPark) | ||
66 | 9005:0285:1014:0312 IBM ServeRAID 8i (AvonParkLite) | ||
67 | 9005:0286:1014:9580 IBM ServeRAID 8k/8k-l8 (Aurora) | ||
68 | 9005:0286:1014:9540 IBM ServeRAID 8k/8k-l4 (AuroraLite) | ||
69 | 9005:0286:9005:029f ICP ICP9014R0 (Lancer) | ||
70 | 9005:0286:9005:029e ICP ICP9024R0 (Lancer) | ||
71 | 9005:0286:9005:02a0 ICP ICP9047MA (Lancer) | ||
72 | 9005:0286:9005:02a1 ICP ICP9087MA (Lancer) | ||
73 | 9005:0286:9005:02a4 ICP ICP9085LI (Marauder-X) | ||
74 | 9005:0286:9005:02a5 ICP ICP5085BR (Marauder-E) | ||
75 | 9005:0286:9005:02a3 ICP ICP5085AU (Hurricane) | ||
76 | 9005:0286:9005:02a6 ICP ICP9067MA (Intruder-6) | ||
77 | 9005:0286:9005:02a9 ICP ICP5087AU (Skyray) | ||
78 | 9005:0286:9005:02aa ICP ICP5047AU (Skyray) | ||
79 | |||
80 | People | ||
81 | ------------------------- | ||
82 | Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> | ||
83 | Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> (updates for new-style PCI probing and SCSI host registration, | ||
84 | small cleanups/fixes) | ||
85 | Matt Domsch <matt_domsch@dell.com> (revision ioctl, adapter messages) | ||
86 | Deanna Bonds (non-DASD support, PAE fibs and 64 bit, added new adaptec controllers | ||
87 | added new ioctls, changed scsi interface to use new error handler, | ||
88 | increased the number of fibs and outstanding commands to a container) | ||
89 | |||
90 | (fixed 64bit and 64G memory model, changed confusing naming convention | ||
91 | where fibs that go to the hardware are consistently called hw_fibs and | ||
92 | not just fibs like the name of the driver tracking structure) | ||
93 | Mark Salyzyn <Mark_Salyzyn@adaptec.com> Fixed panic issues and added some new product ids for upcoming hbas. Performance tuning, card failover and bug mitigations. | ||
94 | |||
95 | Original Driver | ||
96 | ------------------------- | ||
97 | Adaptec Unix OEM Product Group | ||
98 | |||
99 | Mailing List | ||
100 | ------------------------- | ||
101 | linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org (Interested parties troll here) | ||
102 | Also note this is very different to Brian's original driver | ||
103 | so don't expect him to support it. | ||
104 | Adaptec does support this driver. Contact Adaptec tech support or | ||
105 | aacraid@adaptec.com | ||
106 | |||
107 | Original by Brian Boerner February 2001 | ||
108 | Rewritten by Alan Cox, November 2001 | ||
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl b/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl index 4963d83d1511..e651ed8d1e6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl | |||
@@ -5577,7 +5577,7 @@ struct _snd_pcm_runtime { | |||
5577 | <informalexample> | 5577 | <informalexample> |
5578 | <programlisting> | 5578 | <programlisting> |
5579 | <![CDATA[ | 5579 | <![CDATA[ |
5580 | static int mychip_suspend(strut pci_dev *pci, pm_message_t state) | 5580 | static int mychip_suspend(struct pci_dev *pci, pm_message_t state) |
5581 | { | 5581 | { |
5582 | /* (1) */ | 5582 | /* (1) */ |
5583 | struct snd_card *card = pci_get_drvdata(pci); | 5583 | struct snd_card *card = pci_get_drvdata(pci); |
diff --git a/Documentation/spi/butterfly b/Documentation/spi/butterfly new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a2e8c8d90e35 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/spi/butterfly | |||
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ | |||
1 | spi_butterfly - parport-to-butterfly adapter driver | ||
2 | =================================================== | ||
3 | |||
4 | This is a hardware and software project that includes building and using | ||
5 | a parallel port adapter cable, together with an "AVR Butterfly" to run | ||
6 | firmware for user interfacing and/or sensors. A Butterfly is a $US20 | ||
7 | battery powered card with an AVR microcontroller and lots of goodies: | ||
8 | sensors, LCD, flash, toggle stick, and more. You can use AVR-GCC to | ||
9 | develop firmware for this, and flash it using this adapter cable. | ||
10 | |||
11 | You can make this adapter from an old printer cable and solder things | ||
12 | directly to the Butterfly. Or (if you have the parts and skills) you | ||
13 | can come up with something fancier, providing ciruit protection to the | ||
14 | Butterfly and the printer port, or with a better power supply than two | ||
15 | signal pins from the printer port. | ||
16 | |||
17 | |||
18 | The first cable connections will hook Linux up to one SPI bus, with the | ||
19 | AVR and a DataFlash chip; and to the AVR reset line. This is all you | ||
20 | need to reflash the firmware, and the pins are the standard Atmel "ISP" | ||
21 | connector pins (used also on non-Butterfly AVR boards). | ||
22 | |||
23 | Signal Butterfly Parport (DB-25) | ||
24 | ------ --------- --------------- | ||
25 | SCK = J403.PB1/SCK = pin 2/D0 | ||
26 | RESET = J403.nRST = pin 3/D1 | ||
27 | VCC = J403.VCC_EXT = pin 8/D6 | ||
28 | MOSI = J403.PB2/MOSI = pin 9/D7 | ||
29 | MISO = J403.PB3/MISO = pin 11/S7,nBUSY | ||
30 | GND = J403.GND = pin 23/GND | ||
31 | |||
32 | Then to let Linux master that bus to talk to the DataFlash chip, you must | ||
33 | (a) flash new firmware that disables SPI (set PRR.2, and disable pullups | ||
34 | by clearing PORTB.[0-3]); (b) configure the mtd_dataflash driver; and | ||
35 | (c) cable in the chipselect. | ||
36 | |||
37 | Signal Butterfly Parport (DB-25) | ||
38 | ------ --------- --------------- | ||
39 | VCC = J400.VCC_EXT = pin 7/D5 | ||
40 | SELECT = J400.PB0/nSS = pin 17/C3,nSELECT | ||
41 | GND = J400.GND = pin 24/GND | ||
42 | |||
43 | The "USI" controller, using J405, can be used for a second SPI bus. That | ||
44 | would let you talk to the AVR over SPI, running firmware that makes it act | ||
45 | as an SPI slave, while letting either Linux or the AVR use the DataFlash. | ||
46 | There are plenty of spare parport pins to wire this one up, such as: | ||
47 | |||
48 | Signal Butterfly Parport (DB-25) | ||
49 | ------ --------- --------------- | ||
50 | SCK = J403.PE4/USCK = pin 5/D3 | ||
51 | MOSI = J403.PE5/DI = pin 6/D4 | ||
52 | MISO = J403.PE6/DO = pin 12/S5,nPAPEROUT | ||
53 | GND = J403.GND = pin 22/GND | ||
54 | |||
55 | IRQ = J402.PF4 = pin 10/S6,ACK | ||
56 | GND = J402.GND(P2) = pin 25/GND | ||
57 | |||
diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a5ffba33a351 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary | |||
@@ -0,0 +1,457 @@ | |||
1 | Overview of Linux kernel SPI support | ||
2 | ==================================== | ||
3 | |||
4 | 02-Dec-2005 | ||
5 | |||
6 | What is SPI? | ||
7 | ------------ | ||
8 | The "Serial Peripheral Interface" (SPI) is a synchronous four wire serial | ||
9 | link used to connect microcontrollers to sensors, memory, and peripherals. | ||
10 | |||
11 | The three signal wires hold a clock (SCLK, often on the order of 10 MHz), | ||
12 | and parallel data lines with "Master Out, Slave In" (MOSI) or "Master In, | ||
13 | Slave Out" (MISO) signals. (Other names are also used.) There are four | ||
14 | clocking modes through which data is exchanged; mode-0 and mode-3 are most | ||
15 | commonly used. Each clock cycle shifts data out and data in; the clock | ||
16 | doesn't cycle except when there is data to shift. | ||
17 | |||
18 | SPI masters may use a "chip select" line to activate a given SPI slave | ||
19 | device, so those three signal wires may be connected to several chips | ||
20 | in parallel. All SPI slaves support chipselects. Some devices have | ||
21 | other signals, often including an interrupt to the master. | ||
22 | |||
23 | Unlike serial busses like USB or SMBUS, even low level protocols for | ||
24 | SPI slave functions are usually not interoperable between vendors | ||
25 | (except for cases like SPI memory chips). | ||
26 | |||
27 | - SPI may be used for request/response style device protocols, as with | ||
28 | touchscreen sensors and memory chips. | ||
29 | |||
30 | - It may also be used to stream data in either direction (half duplex), | ||
31 | or both of them at the same time (full duplex). | ||
32 | |||
33 | - Some devices may use eight bit words. Others may different word | ||
34 | lengths, such as streams of 12-bit or 20-bit digital samples. | ||
35 | |||
36 | In the same way, SPI slaves will only rarely support any kind of automatic | ||
37 | discovery/enumeration protocol. The tree of slave devices accessible from | ||
38 | a given SPI master will normally be set up manually, with configuration | ||
39 | tables. | ||
40 | |||
41 | SPI is only one of the names used by such four-wire protocols, and | ||
42 | most controllers have no problem handling "MicroWire" (think of it as | ||
43 | half-duplex SPI, for request/response protocols), SSP ("Synchronous | ||
44 | Serial Protocol"), PSP ("Programmable Serial Protocol"), and other | ||
45 | related protocols. | ||
46 | |||
47 | Microcontrollers often support both master and slave sides of the SPI | ||
48 | protocol. This document (and Linux) currently only supports the master | ||
49 | side of SPI interactions. | ||
50 | |||
51 | |||
52 | Who uses it? On what kinds of systems? | ||
53 | --------------------------------------- | ||
54 | Linux developers using SPI are probably writing device drivers for embedded | ||
55 | systems boards. SPI is used to control external chips, and it is also a | ||
56 | protocol supported by every MMC or SD memory card. (The older "DataFlash" | ||
57 | cards, predating MMC cards but using the same connectors and card shape, | ||
58 | support only SPI.) Some PC hardware uses SPI flash for BIOS code. | ||
59 | |||
60 | SPI slave chips range from digital/analog converters used for analog | ||
61 | sensors and codecs, to memory, to peripherals like USB controllers | ||
62 | or Ethernet adapters; and more. | ||
63 | |||
64 | Most systems using SPI will integrate a few devices on a mainboard. | ||
65 | Some provide SPI links on expansion connectors; in cases where no | ||
66 | dedicated SPI controller exists, GPIO pins can be used to create a | ||
67 | low speed "bitbanging" adapter. Very few systems will "hotplug" an SPI | ||
68 | controller; the reasons to use SPI focus on low cost and simple operation, | ||
69 | and if dynamic reconfiguration is important, USB will often be a more | ||
70 | appropriate low-pincount peripheral bus. | ||
71 | |||
72 | Many microcontrollers that can run Linux integrate one or more I/O | ||
73 | interfaces with SPI modes. Given SPI support, they could use MMC or SD | ||
74 | cards without needing a special purpose MMC/SD/SDIO controller. | ||
75 | |||
76 | |||
77 | How do these driver programming interfaces work? | ||
78 | ------------------------------------------------ | ||
79 | The <linux/spi/spi.h> header file includes kerneldoc, as does the | ||
80 | main source code, and you should certainly read that. This is just | ||
81 | an overview, so you get the big picture before the details. | ||
82 | |||
83 | SPI requests always go into I/O queues. Requests for a given SPI device | ||
84 | are always executed in FIFO order, and complete asynchronously through | ||
85 | completion callbacks. There are also some simple synchronous wrappers | ||
86 | for those calls, including ones for common transaction types like writing | ||
87 | a command and then reading its response. | ||
88 | |||
89 | There are two types of SPI driver, here called: | ||
90 | |||
91 | Controller drivers ... these are often built in to System-On-Chip | ||
92 | processors, and often support both Master and Slave roles. | ||
93 | These drivers touch hardware registers and may use DMA. | ||
94 | Or they can be PIO bitbangers, needing just GPIO pins. | ||
95 | |||
96 | Protocol drivers ... these pass messages through the controller | ||
97 | driver to communicate with a Slave or Master device on the | ||
98 | other side of an SPI link. | ||
99 | |||
100 | So for example one protocol driver might talk to the MTD layer to export | ||
101 | data to filesystems stored on SPI flash like DataFlash; and others might | ||
102 | control audio interfaces, present touchscreen sensors as input interfaces, | ||
103 | or monitor temperature and voltage levels during industrial processing. | ||
104 | And those might all be sharing the same controller driver. | ||
105 | |||
106 | A "struct spi_device" encapsulates the master-side interface between | ||
107 | those two types of driver. At this writing, Linux has no slave side | ||
108 | programming interface. | ||
109 | |||
110 | There is a minimal core of SPI programming interfaces, focussing on | ||
111 | using driver model to connect controller and protocol drivers using | ||
112 | device tables provided by board specific initialization code. SPI | ||
113 | shows up in sysfs in several locations: | ||
114 | |||
115 | /sys/devices/.../CTLR/spiB.C ... spi_device for on bus "B", | ||
116 | chipselect C, accessed through CTLR. | ||
117 | |||
118 | /sys/devices/.../CTLR/spiB.C/modalias ... identifies the driver | ||
119 | that should be used with this device (for hotplug/coldplug) | ||
120 | |||
121 | /sys/bus/spi/devices/spiB.C ... symlink to the physical | ||
122 | spiB-C device | ||
123 | |||
124 | /sys/bus/spi/drivers/D ... driver for one or more spi*.* devices | ||
125 | |||
126 | /sys/class/spi_master/spiB ... class device for the controller | ||
127 | managing bus "B". All the spiB.* devices share the same | ||
128 | physical SPI bus segment, with SCLK, MOSI, and MISO. | ||
129 | |||
130 | |||
131 | How does board-specific init code declare SPI devices? | ||
132 | ------------------------------------------------------ | ||
133 | Linux needs several kinds of information to properly configure SPI devices. | ||
134 | That information is normally provided by board-specific code, even for | ||
135 | chips that do support some of automated discovery/enumeration. | ||
136 | |||
137 | DECLARE CONTROLLERS | ||
138 | |||
139 | The first kind of information is a list of what SPI controllers exist. | ||
140 | For System-on-Chip (SOC) based boards, these will usually be platform | ||
141 | devices, and the controller may need some platform_data in order to | ||
142 | operate properly. The "struct platform_device" will include resources | ||
143 | like the physical address of the controller's first register and its IRQ. | ||
144 | |||
145 | Platforms will often abstract the "register SPI controller" operation, | ||
146 | maybe coupling it with code to initialize pin configurations, so that | ||
147 | the arch/.../mach-*/board-*.c files for several boards can all share the | ||
148 | same basic controller setup code. This is because most SOCs have several | ||
149 | SPI-capable controllers, and only the ones actually usable on a given | ||
150 | board should normally be set up and registered. | ||
151 | |||
152 | So for example arch/.../mach-*/board-*.c files might have code like: | ||
153 | |||
154 | #include <asm/arch/spi.h> /* for mysoc_spi_data */ | ||
155 | |||
156 | /* if your mach-* infrastructure doesn't support kernels that can | ||
157 | * run on multiple boards, pdata wouldn't benefit from "__init". | ||
158 | */ | ||
159 | static struct mysoc_spi_data __init pdata = { ... }; | ||
160 | |||
161 | static __init board_init(void) | ||
162 | { | ||
163 | ... | ||
164 | /* this board only uses SPI controller #2 */ | ||
165 | mysoc_register_spi(2, &pdata); | ||
166 | ... | ||
167 | } | ||
168 | |||
169 | And SOC-specific utility code might look something like: | ||
170 | |||
171 | #include <asm/arch/spi.h> | ||
172 | |||
173 | static struct platform_device spi2 = { ... }; | ||
174 | |||
175 | void mysoc_register_spi(unsigned n, struct mysoc_spi_data *pdata) | ||
176 | { | ||
177 | struct mysoc_spi_data *pdata2; | ||
178 | |||
179 | pdata2 = kmalloc(sizeof *pdata2, GFP_KERNEL); | ||
180 | *pdata2 = pdata; | ||
181 | ... | ||
182 | if (n == 2) { | ||
183 | spi2->dev.platform_data = pdata2; | ||
184 | register_platform_device(&spi2); | ||
185 | |||
186 | /* also: set up pin modes so the spi2 signals are | ||
187 | * visible on the relevant pins ... bootloaders on | ||
188 | * production boards may already have done this, but | ||
189 | * developer boards will often need Linux to do it. | ||
190 | */ | ||
191 | } | ||
192 | ... | ||
193 | } | ||
194 | |||
195 | Notice how the platform_data for boards may be different, even if the | ||
196 | same SOC controller is used. For example, on one board SPI might use | ||
197 | an external clock, where another derives the SPI clock from current | ||
198 | settings of some master clock. | ||
199 | |||
200 | |||
201 | DECLARE SLAVE DEVICES | ||
202 | |||
203 | The second kind of information is a list of what SPI slave devices exist | ||
204 | on the target board, often with some board-specific data needed for the | ||
205 | driver to work correctly. | ||
206 | |||
207 | Normally your arch/.../mach-*/board-*.c files would provide a small table | ||
208 | listing the SPI devices on each board. (This would typically be only a | ||
209 | small handful.) That might look like: | ||
210 | |||
211 | static struct ads7846_platform_data ads_info = { | ||
212 | .vref_delay_usecs = 100, | ||
213 | .x_plate_ohms = 580, | ||
214 | .y_plate_ohms = 410, | ||
215 | }; | ||
216 | |||
217 | static struct spi_board_info spi_board_info[] __initdata = { | ||
218 | { | ||
219 | .modalias = "ads7846", | ||
220 | .platform_data = &ads_info, | ||
221 | .mode = SPI_MODE_0, | ||
222 | .irq = GPIO_IRQ(31), | ||
223 | .max_speed_hz = 120000 /* max sample rate at 3V */ * 16, | ||
224 | .bus_num = 1, | ||
225 | .chip_select = 0, | ||
226 | }, | ||
227 | }; | ||
228 | |||
229 | Again, notice how board-specific information is provided; each chip may need | ||
230 | several types. This example shows generic constraints like the fastest SPI | ||
231 | clock to allow (a function of board voltage in this case) or how an IRQ pin | ||
232 | is wired, plus chip-specific constraints like an important delay that's | ||
233 | changed by the capacitance at one pin. | ||
234 | |||
235 | (There's also "controller_data", information that may be useful to the | ||
236 | controller driver. An example would be peripheral-specific DMA tuning | ||
237 | data or chipselect callbacks. This is stored in spi_device later.) | ||
238 | |||
239 | The board_info should provide enough information to let the system work | ||
240 | without the chip's driver being loaded. The most troublesome aspect of | ||
241 | that is likely the SPI_CS_HIGH bit in the spi_device.mode field, since | ||
242 | sharing a bus with a device that interprets chipselect "backwards" is | ||
243 | not possible. | ||
244 | |||
245 | Then your board initialization code would register that table with the SPI | ||
246 | infrastructure, so that it's available later when the SPI master controller | ||
247 | driver is registered: | ||
248 | |||
249 | spi_register_board_info(spi_board_info, ARRAY_SIZE(spi_board_info)); | ||
250 | |||
251 | Like with other static board-specific setup, you won't unregister those. | ||
252 | |||
253 | The widely used "card" style computers bundle memory, cpu, and little else | ||
254 | onto a card that's maybe just thirty square centimeters. On such systems, | ||
255 | your arch/.../mach-.../board-*.c file would primarily provide information | ||
256 | about the devices on the mainboard into which such a card is plugged. That | ||
257 | certainly includes SPI devices hooked up through the card connectors! | ||
258 | |||
259 | |||
260 | NON-STATIC CONFIGURATIONS | ||
261 | |||
262 | Developer boards often play by different rules than product boards, and one | ||
263 | example is the potential need to hotplug SPI devices and/or controllers. | ||
264 | |||
265 | For those cases you might need to use use spi_busnum_to_master() to look | ||
266 | up the spi bus master, and will likely need spi_new_device() to provide the | ||
267 | board info based on the board that was hotplugged. Of course, you'd later | ||
268 | call at least spi_unregister_device() when that board is removed. | ||
269 | |||
270 | When Linux includes support for MMC/SD/SDIO/DataFlash cards through SPI, those | ||
271 | configurations will also be dynamic. Fortunately, those devices all support | ||
272 | basic device identification probes, so that support should hotplug normally. | ||
273 | |||
274 | |||
275 | How do I write an "SPI Protocol Driver"? | ||
276 | ---------------------------------------- | ||
277 | All SPI drivers are currently kernel drivers. A userspace driver API | ||
278 | would just be another kernel driver, probably offering some lowlevel | ||
279 | access through aio_read(), aio_write(), and ioctl() calls and using the | ||
280 | standard userspace sysfs mechanisms to bind to a given SPI device. | ||
281 | |||
282 | SPI protocol drivers somewhat resemble platform device drivers: | ||
283 | |||
284 | static struct spi_driver CHIP_driver = { | ||
285 | .driver = { | ||
286 | .name = "CHIP", | ||
287 | .bus = &spi_bus_type, | ||
288 | .owner = THIS_MODULE, | ||
289 | }, | ||
290 | |||
291 | .probe = CHIP_probe, | ||
292 | .remove = __devexit_p(CHIP_remove), | ||
293 | .suspend = CHIP_suspend, | ||
294 | .resume = CHIP_resume, | ||
295 | }; | ||
296 | |||
297 | The driver core will autmatically attempt to bind this driver to any SPI | ||
298 | device whose board_info gave a modalias of "CHIP". Your probe() code | ||
299 | might look like this unless you're creating a class_device: | ||
300 | |||
301 | static int __devinit CHIP_probe(struct spi_device *spi) | ||
302 | { | ||
303 | struct CHIP *chip; | ||
304 | struct CHIP_platform_data *pdata; | ||
305 | |||
306 | /* assuming the driver requires board-specific data: */ | ||
307 | pdata = &spi->dev.platform_data; | ||
308 | if (!pdata) | ||
309 | return -ENODEV; | ||
310 | |||
311 | /* get memory for driver's per-chip state */ | ||
312 | chip = kzalloc(sizeof *chip, GFP_KERNEL); | ||
313 | if (!chip) | ||
314 | return -ENOMEM; | ||
315 | dev_set_drvdata(&spi->dev, chip); | ||
316 | |||
317 | ... etc | ||
318 | return 0; | ||
319 | } | ||
320 | |||
321 | As soon as it enters probe(), the driver may issue I/O requests to | ||
322 | the SPI device using "struct spi_message". When remove() returns, | ||
323 | the driver guarantees that it won't submit any more such messages. | ||
324 | |||
325 | - An spi_message is a sequence of of protocol operations, executed | ||
326 | as one atomic sequence. SPI driver controls include: | ||
327 | |||
328 | + when bidirectional reads and writes start ... by how its | ||
329 | sequence of spi_transfer requests is arranged; | ||
330 | |||
331 | + optionally defining short delays after transfers ... using | ||
332 | the spi_transfer.delay_usecs setting; | ||
333 | |||
334 | + whether the chipselect becomes inactive after a transfer and | ||
335 | any delay ... by using the spi_transfer.cs_change flag; | ||
336 | |||
337 | + hinting whether the next message is likely to go to this same | ||
338 | device ... using the spi_transfer.cs_change flag on the last | ||
339 | transfer in that atomic group, and potentially saving costs | ||
340 | for chip deselect and select operations. | ||
341 | |||
342 | - Follow standard kernel rules, and provide DMA-safe buffers in | ||
343 | your messages. That way controller drivers using DMA aren't forced | ||
344 | to make extra copies unless the hardware requires it (e.g. working | ||
345 | around hardware errata that force the use of bounce buffering). | ||
346 | |||
347 | If standard dma_map_single() handling of these buffers is inappropriate, | ||
348 | you can use spi_message.is_dma_mapped to tell the controller driver | ||
349 | that you've already provided the relevant DMA addresses. | ||
350 | |||
351 | - The basic I/O primitive is spi_async(). Async requests may be | ||
352 | issued in any context (irq handler, task, etc) and completion | ||
353 | is reported using a callback provided with the message. | ||
354 | After any detected error, the chip is deselected and processing | ||
355 | of that spi_message is aborted. | ||
356 | |||
357 | - There are also synchronous wrappers like spi_sync(), and wrappers | ||
358 | like spi_read(), spi_write(), and spi_write_then_read(). These | ||
359 | may be issued only in contexts that may sleep, and they're all | ||
360 | clean (and small, and "optional") layers over spi_async(). | ||
361 | |||
362 | - The spi_write_then_read() call, and convenience wrappers around | ||
363 | it, should only be used with small amounts of data where the | ||
364 | cost of an extra copy may be ignored. It's designed to support | ||
365 | common RPC-style requests, such as writing an eight bit command | ||
366 | and reading a sixteen bit response -- spi_w8r16() being one its | ||
367 | wrappers, doing exactly that. | ||
368 | |||
369 | Some drivers may need to modify spi_device characteristics like the | ||
370 | transfer mode, wordsize, or clock rate. This is done with spi_setup(), | ||
371 | which would normally be called from probe() before the first I/O is | ||
372 | done to the device. | ||
373 | |||
374 | While "spi_device" would be the bottom boundary of the driver, the | ||
375 | upper boundaries might include sysfs (especially for sensor readings), | ||
376 | the input layer, ALSA, networking, MTD, the character device framework, | ||
377 | or other Linux subsystems. | ||
378 | |||
379 | Note that there are two types of memory your driver must manage as part | ||
380 | of interacting with SPI devices. | ||
381 | |||
382 | - I/O buffers use the usual Linux rules, and must be DMA-safe. | ||
383 | You'd normally allocate them from the heap or free page pool. | ||
384 | Don't use the stack, or anything that's declared "static". | ||
385 | |||
386 | - The spi_message and spi_transfer metadata used to glue those | ||
387 | I/O buffers into a group of protocol transactions. These can | ||
388 | be allocated anywhere it's convenient, including as part of | ||
389 | other allocate-once driver data structures. Zero-init these. | ||
390 | |||
391 | If you like, spi_message_alloc() and spi_message_free() convenience | ||
392 | routines are available to allocate and zero-initialize an spi_message | ||
393 | with several transfers. | ||
394 | |||
395 | |||
396 | How do I write an "SPI Master Controller Driver"? | ||
397 | ------------------------------------------------- | ||
398 | An SPI controller will probably be registered on the platform_bus; write | ||
399 | a driver to bind to the device, whichever bus is involved. | ||
400 | |||
401 | The main task of this type of driver is to provide an "spi_master". | ||
402 | Use spi_alloc_master() to allocate the master, and class_get_devdata() | ||
403 | to get the driver-private data allocated for that device. | ||
404 | |||
405 | struct spi_master *master; | ||
406 | struct CONTROLLER *c; | ||
407 | |||
408 | master = spi_alloc_master(dev, sizeof *c); | ||
409 | if (!master) | ||
410 | return -ENODEV; | ||
411 | |||
412 | c = class_get_devdata(&master->cdev); | ||
413 | |||
414 | The driver will initialize the fields of that spi_master, including the | ||
415 | bus number (maybe the same as the platform device ID) and three methods | ||
416 | used to interact with the SPI core and SPI protocol drivers. It will | ||
417 | also initialize its own internal state. | ||
418 | |||
419 | master->setup(struct spi_device *spi) | ||
420 | This sets up the device clock rate, SPI mode, and word sizes. | ||
421 | Drivers may change the defaults provided by board_info, and then | ||
422 | call spi_setup(spi) to invoke this routine. It may sleep. | ||
423 | |||
424 | master->transfer(struct spi_device *spi, struct spi_message *message) | ||
425 | This must not sleep. Its responsibility is arrange that the | ||
426 | transfer happens and its complete() callback is issued; the two | ||
427 | will normally happen later, after other transfers complete. | ||
428 | |||
429 | master->cleanup(struct spi_device *spi) | ||
430 | Your controller driver may use spi_device.controller_state to hold | ||
431 | state it dynamically associates with that device. If you do that, | ||
432 | be sure to provide the cleanup() method to free that state. | ||
433 | |||
434 | The bulk of the driver will be managing the I/O queue fed by transfer(). | ||
435 | |||
436 | That queue could be purely conceptual. For example, a driver used only | ||
437 | for low-frequency sensor acess might be fine using synchronous PIO. | ||
438 | |||
439 | But the queue will probably be very real, using message->queue, PIO, | ||
440 | often DMA (especially if the root filesystem is in SPI flash), and | ||
441 | execution contexts like IRQ handlers, tasklets, or workqueues (such | ||
442 | as keventd). Your driver can be as fancy, or as simple, as you need. | ||
443 | |||
444 | |||
445 | THANKS TO | ||
446 | --------- | ||
447 | Contributors to Linux-SPI discussions include (in alphabetical order, | ||
448 | by last name): | ||
449 | |||
450 | David Brownell | ||
451 | Russell King | ||
452 | Dmitry Pervushin | ||
453 | Stephen Street | ||
454 | Mark Underwood | ||
455 | Andrew Victor | ||
456 | Vitaly Wool | ||
457 | |||
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.tuner b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.tuner index 0bf3d5bf9ef8..f6d0cf7b7922 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.tuner +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.tuner | |||
@@ -68,3 +68,4 @@ tuner=66 - LG NTSC (TALN mini series) | |||
68 | tuner=67 - Philips TD1316 Hybrid Tuner | 68 | tuner=67 - Philips TD1316 Hybrid Tuner |
69 | tuner=68 - Philips TUV1236D ATSC/NTSC dual in | 69 | tuner=68 - Philips TUV1236D ATSC/NTSC dual in |
70 | tuner=69 - Tena TNF 5335 MF | 70 | tuner=69 - Tena TNF 5335 MF |
71 | tuner=70 - Samsung TCPN 2121P30A | ||
diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt index 72ab9b99b22c..9c5fc15d03d1 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt | |||
@@ -198,6 +198,6 @@ Debugging | |||
198 | 198 | ||
199 | Misc | 199 | Misc |
200 | 200 | ||
201 | noreplacement Don't replace instructions with more appropiate ones | 201 | noreplacement Don't replace instructions with more appropriate ones |
202 | for the CPU. This may be useful on asymmetric MP systems | 202 | for the CPU. This may be useful on asymmetric MP systems |
203 | where some CPU have less capabilities than the others. | 203 | where some CPU have less capabilities than the others. |