Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcu

Conflicts: include/linux/rculist.h kernel/rcupreempt.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
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+# command after changing this file, to see if there are
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@@ -18,19 +22,21 @@
 *.lst
 *.symtypes
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+*.elf
+*.bin
+*.gz
 
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+vmlinux
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diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
@@ -2611,8 +2611,9 @@ S: Perth, Western Australia
 S: Australia
 
 N: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis
-E: [email protected]
-W: http://maxextreme.googlepages.com/
+E: [email protected]
+W: http://miguelojeda.es
+W: http://jair.lab.fi.uva.es/~migojed/
 D: Author of the ks0108, cfag12864b and cfag12864bfb auxiliary display drivers.
 D: Maintainer of the auxiliary display drivers tree (drivers/auxdisplay/*)
 S: C/ Mieses 20, 9-B

diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ There are three different groups of fields in the struct taskstats:
 
 4) Per-task and per-thread context switch count statistics
 
+5) Time accounting for SMT machines
+
 Future extension should add fields to the end of the taskstats struct, and
 should not change the relative position of each field within the struct.
 
@@ -164,4 +166,8 @@ struct taskstats {
 	__u64	nvcsw;			/* Context voluntary switch counter */
 	__u64	nivcsw;			/* Context involuntary switch counter */
 
+5) Time accounting for SMT machines
+	__u64	ac_utimescaled;		/* utime scaled on frequency etc */
+	__u64	ac_stimescaled;		/* stime scaled on frequency etc */
+	__u64	cpu_scaled_run_real_total; /* scaled cpu_run_real_total */
 }
diff --git a/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b b/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 	===================================
 
 License:		GPLv2
-Author & Maintainer:	Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <[email protected]>
+Author & Maintainer:	Miguel Ojeda Sandonis
 Date:			2006-10-27
 
 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Date:			2006-10-27
 1. DRIVER INFORMATION
 ---------------------
 
-This driver support one cfag12864b display at time.
+This driver supports a cfag12864b LCD.
 
 
 ---------------------

diff --git a/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b-example.c b/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b-example.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * Description: cfag12864b LCD userspace example program
  *     License: GPLv2
  *
- *      Author: Copyright (C) Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <[email protected]>
+ *      Author: Copyright (C) Miguel Ojeda Sandonis
  *        Date: 2006-10-31
  *
  *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

diff --git a/Documentation/auxdisplay/ks0108 b/Documentation/auxdisplay/ks0108
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 	==========================================
 
 License:		GPLv2
-Author & Maintainer:	Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <[email protected]>
+Author & Maintainer:	Miguel Ojeda Sandonis
 Date:			2006-10-27
 
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Date:			2006-10-27
 1. DRIVER INFORMATION
 ---------------------
 
-This driver support the ks0108 LCD controller.
+This driver supports the ks0108 LCD controller.
 
 
 ---------------------

diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups.txt
@@ -390,6 +390,10 @@ If you have several tasks to attach, you have to do it one after another:
 	...
 # /bin/echo PIDn > tasks
 
+You can attach the current shell task by echoing 0:
+
+# echo 0 > tasks
+
 3. Kernel API
 =============
 

diff --git a/Documentation/controllers/devices.txt b/Documentation/controllers/devices.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ either an integer or * for all.  Access is a composition of r
 The root device cgroup starts with rwm to 'all'.  A child device
 cgroup gets a copy of the parent.  Administrators can then remove
 devices from the whitelist or add new entries.  A child cgroup can
-never receive a device access which is denied its parent.  However
+never receive a device access which is denied by its parent.  However
 when a device access is removed from a parent it will not also be
 removed from the child(ren).
 
@@ -29,7 +29,11 @@ allows cgroup 1 to read and mknod the device usually known as
 
 	echo a > /cgroups/1/devices.deny
 
-will remove the default 'a *:* mrw' entry.
+will remove the default 'a *:* rwm' entry. Doing
+
+	echo a > /cgroups/1/devices.allow
+
+will add the 'a *:* rwm' entry to the whitelist.
 
 3. Security
 

diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt
@@ -154,13 +154,15 @@ browsing and modifying the cpusets presently known to the kernel.  No
 new system calls are added for cpusets - all support for querying and
 modifying cpusets is via this cpuset file system.
 
-The /proc/<pid>/status file for each task has two added lines,
+The /proc/<pid>/status file for each task has four added lines,
 displaying the tasks cpus_allowed (on which CPUs it may be scheduled)
 and mems_allowed (on which Memory Nodes it may obtain memory),
-in the format seen in the following example:
+in the two formats seen in the following example:
 
   Cpus_allowed:   ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff
+  Cpus_allowed_list:      0-127
   Mems_allowed:   ffffffff,ffffffff
+  Mems_allowed_list:      0-63
 
 Each cpuset is represented by a directory in the cgroup file system
 containing (on top of the standard cgroup files) the following
@@ -544,6 +546,9 @@ otherwise initial value -1 that indicates the cpuset has no request.
  ( 4  : search nodes in a chunk of node [on NUMA system] )
  ( 5  : search system wide [on NUMA system] )
 
+The system default is architecture dependent.  The system default
+can be changed using the relax_domain_level= boot parameter.
+
 This file is per-cpuset and affect the sched domain where the cpuset
 belongs to.  Therefore if the flag 'sched_load_balance' of a cpuset
 is disabled, then 'sched_relax_domain_level' have no effect since

diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -312,3 +312,12 @@ When:	2.6.26
 Why:	Implementation became generic; users should now include
 	linux/semaphore.h instead.
 Who:	Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What:	CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON
+When:	January 2009
+Why:	This option was introduced just to allow older lm-sensors userspace
+	to keep working over the upgrade to 2.6.26. At the scheduled time of
+	removal fixed lm-sensors (2.x or 3.x) should be readily available.
+Who:	Rene Herman <[email protected]>