Merge branch 'master' into for-next

Fast-forwarded to current state of Linus' tree as there are patches to be
applied for files that didn't exist on the old branch.

.mailmap

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Andreas Herrmann <[email protected]>
 Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
 Andrew Vasquez <[email protected]>
 Andy Adamson <[email protected]>
+Archit Taneja <[email protected]>
 Arnaud Patard <[email protected]>
 Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
 Axel Dyks <[email protected]>
@@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ Leonid I Ananiev <[email protected]>
 Linas Vepstas <[email protected]>
 Mark Brown <[email protected]>
 Matthieu CASTET <[email protected]>
+Mayuresh Janorkar <[email protected]>
 Michael Buesch <[email protected]>
 Michael Buesch <[email protected]>
 Michel Dänzer <[email protected]>
@@ -78,6 +80,7 @@ Morten Welinder <[email protected]>
 Morten Welinder <[email protected]>
 Morten Welinder <[email protected]>
 Morten Welinder <[email protected]>
+Mythri P K <[email protected]>
 Nguyen Anh Quynh <[email protected]>
 Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[email protected]>
 Patrick Mochel <[email protected]>
@@ -98,6 +101,7 @@ S.Çağlar Onur <[email protected]>
 Simon Kelley <[email protected]>
 Stéphane Witzmann <[email protected]>
 Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
+Sumit Semwal <[email protected]>
 Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
 Thomas Graf <[email protected]>
 Tony Luck <[email protected]>

CREDITS

@@ -1677,7 +1677,7 @@ W: http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
 D: Assorted VIA x86 support.
 D: 2.5 AGPGART overhaul.
 D: CPUFREQ maintenance.
-D: Fedora kernel maintainence.
+D: Fedora kernel maintenance.
 D: Misc/Other.
 S: 314 Littleton Rd, Westford, MA 01886, USA
 
@@ -3211,7 +3211,7 @@ N: James Simmons
 E: [email protected]
 E: [email protected] 
 D: Frame buffer device maintainer
-D: input layer developement 
+D: input layer development
 D: tty/console layer
 D: various mipsel devices 
 S: 115 Carmel Avenue 
@@ -3290,7 +3290,7 @@ S: USA
 N: Manfred Spraul
 E: [email protected]
 W: http://www.colorfullife.com/~manfred
-D: Lots of tiny hacks. Larger improvments to SysV IPC msg,
+D: Lots of tiny hacks. Larger improvements to SysV IPC msg,
 D: slab, pipe, select.
 S: 71701 Schwieberdingen
 S: Germany

Documentation/00-INDEX

@@ -206,8 +206,8 @@ laptops/
 	- directory with laptop related info and laptop driver documentation.
 ldm.txt
 	- a brief description of LDM (Windows Dynamic Disks).
-leds-class.txt
-	- documents LED handling under Linux.
+leds/
+	- directory with info about LED handling under Linux.
 local_ops.txt
 	- semantics and behavior of local atomic operations.
 lockdep-design.txt

Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-backlight

@@ -34,3 +34,23 @@ Contact:	Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
 Description:
 		Maximum brightness for <backlight>.
 Users:		HAL
+
+What:		/sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/type
+Date:		September 2010
+KernelVersion:	2.6.37
+Contact:	Matthew Garrett <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		The type of interface controlled by <backlight>.
+		"firmware": The driver uses a standard firmware interface
+		"platform": The driver uses a platform-specific interface
+		"raw": The driver controls hardware registers directly
+
+		In the general case, when multiple backlight
+		interfaces are available for a single device, firmware
+		control should be preferred to platform control should
+		be preferred to raw control. Using a firmware
+		interface reduces the probability of confusion with
+		the hardware and the OS independently updating the
+		backlight state. Platform interfaces are mostly a
+		holdover from pre-standardisation of firmware
+		interfaces.

Documentation/ABI/testing/configfs-spear-pcie-gadget

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+What:		/config/pcie-gadget
+Date:		Feb 2011
+KernelVersion:	2.6.37
+Contact:	Pratyush Anand <[email protected]>
+Description:
+
+	Interface is used to configure selected dual mode PCIe controller
+	as device and then program its various registers to configure it
+	as a particular device type.
+	This interfaces can be used to show spear's PCIe device capability.
+
+	Nodes are only visible when configfs is mounted. To mount configfs
+	in /config directory use:
+	# mount -t configfs none /config/
+
+	For nth PCIe Device Controller
+	/config/pcie-gadget.n/
+		link ... used to enable ltssm and read its status.
+		int_type ...used to configure and read type of supported
+			interrupt
+		no_of_msi ... used to configure number of MSI vector needed and
+			to read no of MSI granted.
+		inta ... write 1 to assert INTA and 0 to de-assert.
+		send_msi ... write MSI vector to be sent.
+		vendor_id ... used to write and read vendor id (hex)
+		device_id ... used to write and read device id (hex)
+		bar0_size ... used to write and read bar0_size
+		bar0_address ... used to write and read bar0 mapped area in hex.
+		bar0_rw_offset ... used to write and read offset of bar0 where
+			bar0_data will be written or read.
+		bar0_data ... used to write and read data at bar0_rw_offset.

Documentation/ABI/testing/pstore

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Where:		/dev/pstore/...
-Date:		January 2011
-Kernel Version: 2.6.38
+Date:		March 2011
+Kernel Version: 2.6.39
 Contact:	[email protected]
 Description:	Generic interface to platform dependent persistent storage.
 
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Description:	Generic interface to platform dependent persistent storage.
 		of the console log is captured, but other interesting
 		data can also be saved.
 
-		# mount -t pstore - /dev/pstore
+		# mount -t pstore -o kmsg_bytes=8000 - /dev/pstore
 
 		$ ls -l /dev/pstore
 		total 0
@@ -33,3 +33,9 @@ Description:	Generic interface to platform dependent persistent storage.
 		will be saved elsewhere and erased from persistent store
 		soon after boot to free up space ready for the next
 		catastrophe.
+
+		The 'kmsg_bytes' mount option changes the target amount of
+		data saved on each oops/panic. Pstore saves (possibly
+		multiple) files based on the record size of the underlying
+		persistent storage until at least this amount is reached.
+		Default is 10 Kbytes.

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-css

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Contact:	Cornelia Huck <[email protected]>
 		[email protected]
 Description:	Contains the PIM/PAM/POM values, as reported by the
 		channel subsystem when last queried by the common I/O
-		layer (this implies that this attribute is not neccessarily
+		layer (this implies that this attribute is not necessarily
 		in sync with the values current in the channel subsystem).
 		Note: This is an I/O-subchannel specific attribute.
 Users:		s390-tools, HAL

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-media

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+What:		/sys/bus/media/devices/.../model
+Date:		January 2011
+Contact:	Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]>
+		[email protected]
+Description:	Contains the device model name in UTF-8. The device version is
+		is not be appended to the model name.

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-devices-cciss

@@ -59,3 +59,15 @@ Kernel Version: 2.6.31
 Contact:	[email protected]
 Description:	Displays the usage count (number of opens) of logical drive Y
 		of controller X.
+
+Where:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/resettable
+Date:		February 2011
+Kernel Version:	2.6.38
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:	Value of 1 indicates the controller can honor the reset_devices
+		kernel parameter.  Value of 0 indicates reset_devices cannot be
+		honored.  This is to allow, for example, kexec tools to be able
+		to warn the user if they designate an unresettable device as
+		a dump device, as kdump requires resetting the device in order
+		to work reliably.
+

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-rbd

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 What:		/sys/bus/rbd/
 Date:		November 2010
-Contact:	Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net>,
+Contact:	Yehuda Sadeh <[email protected]>,
 		Sage Weil <[email protected]>
 Description:
 

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led

@@ -33,5 +33,5 @@ Contact:	Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
 Description:
 		Invert the LED on/off state. This parameter is specific to
 		gpio and backlight triggers. In case of the backlight trigger,
-		it is usefull when driving a LED which is intended to indicate
+		it is useful when driving a LED which is intended to indicate
 		a device in a standby like state.

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-mmc

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+What:		/sys/devices/.../mmc_host/mmcX/mmcX:XXXX/enhanced_area_offset
+Date:		January 2011
+Contact:	Chuanxiao Dong <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Enhanced area is a new feature defined in eMMC4.4 standard.
+		eMMC4.4 or later card can support such feature. This kind of
+		area can help to improve the card performance. If the feature
+		is enabled, this attribute will indicate the start address of
+		enhanced data area. If not, this attribute will be -EINVAL.
+		Unit Byte. Format decimal.
+
+What:		/sys/devices/.../mmc_host/mmcX/mmcX:XXXX/enhanced_area_size
+Date:		January 2011
+Contact:	Chuanxiao Dong <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Enhanced area is a new feature defined in eMMC4.4 standard.
+		eMMC4.4 or later card can support such feature. This kind of
+		area can help to improve the card performance. If the feature
+		is enabled, this attribute will indicate the size of enhanced
+		data area. If not, this attribute will be -EINVAL.
+		Unit KByte. Format decimal.

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-kone

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ What:		/sys/bus/usb/devices/<busnum>-<devnum>:<config num>.<interface num>/<hid-
 Date:		March 2010
 Contact:	Stefan Achatz <[email protected]>
 Description:	The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the
-                press of a button. A profile holds informations like button
+                press of a button. A profile holds information like button
                 mappings, sensitivity, the colors of the 5 leds and light
                 effects.
                 When read, these files return the respective profile. The

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-koneplus

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Date:		August 2010
 Contact:	Stefan Achatz <[email protected]>
 Description:	The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the
 		press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons.
-		profile_buttons holds informations about button layout.
+		profile_buttons holds information about button layout.
 		When written, this file lets one write the respective profile
 		buttons back to the mouse. The data has to be 77 bytes long.
 		The mouse will reject invalid data.
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Date:		August 2010
 Contact:	Stefan Achatz <[email protected]>
 Description:	The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the
 		press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons.
-		profile_buttons holds informations about button layout.
+		profile_buttons holds information about button layout.
 		When read, these files return the respective profile buttons.
 		The returned data is 77 bytes in size.
 		This file is readonly.
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Date:		October 2010
 Contact:	Stefan Achatz <[email protected]>
 Description:	The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the
 		press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons.
-		profile_settings holds informations like resolution, sensitivity
+		profile_settings holds information like resolution, sensitivity
 		and light effects.
 		When written, this file lets one write the respective profile
 		settings back to the mouse. The data has to be 43 bytes long.
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Date:		August 2010
 Contact:	Stefan Achatz <[email protected]>
 Description:	The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the
 		press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons.
-		profile_settings holds informations like resolution, sensitivity
+		profile_settings holds information like resolution, sensitivity
 		and light effects.
 		When read, these files return the respective profile settings.
 		The returned data is 43 bytes in size.

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-kovaplus

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Date:		January 2011
 Contact:	Stefan Achatz <[email protected]>
 Description:	The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the
 		press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons.
-		profile_buttons holds informations about button layout.
+		profile_buttons holds information about button layout.
 		When written, this file lets one write the respective profile
 		buttons back to the mouse. The data has to be 23 bytes long.
 		The mouse will reject invalid data.
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Date:		January 2011
 Contact:	Stefan Achatz <[email protected]>
 Description:	The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the
 		press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons.
-		profile_buttons holds informations about button layout.
+		profile_buttons holds information about button layout.
 		When read, these files return the respective profile buttons.
 		The returned data is 23 bytes in size.
 		This file is readonly.
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Date:		January 2011
 Contact:	Stefan Achatz <[email protected]>
 Description:	The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the
 		press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons.
-		profile_settings holds informations like resolution, sensitivity
+		profile_settings holds information like resolution, sensitivity
 		and light effects.
 		When written, this file lets one write the respective profile
 		settings back to the mouse. The data has to be 16 bytes long.
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ Date:		January 2011
 Contact:	Stefan Achatz <[email protected]>
 Description:	The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the
 		press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons.
-		profile_settings holds informations like resolution, sensitivity
+		profile_settings holds information like resolution, sensitivity
 		and light effects.
 		When read, these files return the respective profile settings.
 		The returned data is 16 bytes in size.

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-pyra

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Date:		August 2010
 Contact:	Stefan Achatz <[email protected]>
 Description:	The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the
 		press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons.
-		profile_settings holds informations like resolution, sensitivity
+		profile_settings holds information like resolution, sensitivity
 		and light effects.
 		When written, this file lets one write the respective profile
 		settings back to the mouse. The data has to be 13 bytes long.
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Date:		August 2010
 Contact:	Stefan Achatz <[email protected]>
 Description:	The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the
 		press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons.
-		profile_settings holds informations like resolution, sensitivity
+		profile_settings holds information like resolution, sensitivity
 		and light effects.
 		When read, these files return the respective profile settings.
 		The returned data is 13 bytes in size.
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Date:		August 2010
 Contact:	Stefan Achatz <[email protected]>
 Description:	The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the
 		press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons.
-		profile_buttons holds informations about button layout.
+		profile_buttons holds information about button layout.
 		When written, this file lets one write the respective profile
 		buttons back to the mouse. The data has to be 19 bytes long.
 		The mouse will reject invalid data.
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Date:		August 2010
 Contact:	Stefan Achatz <[email protected]>
 Description:	The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the
 		press of a button. A profile is split in settings and buttons.
-		profile_buttons holds informations about button layout.
+		profile_buttons holds information about button layout.
 		When read, these files return the respective profile buttons.
 		The returned data is 19 bytes in size.
 		This file is readonly.

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-samsung-laptop

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+What:		/sys/devices/platform/samsung/performance_level
+Date:		January 1, 2010
+KernelVersion:	2.6.33
+Contact:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
+Description:	Some Samsung laptops have different "performance levels"
+		that are can be modified by a function key, and by this
+		sysfs file.  These values don't always make a whole lot
+		of sense, but some users like to modify them to keep
+		their fans quiet at all costs.  Reading from this file
+		will show the current performance level.  Writing to the
+		file can change this value.
+			Valid options:
+				"silent"
+				"normal"
+				"overclock"
+		Note that not all laptops support all of these options.
+		Specifically, not all support the "overclock" option,
+		and it's still unknown if this value even changes
+		anything, other than making the user feel a bit better.

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Description:
 		 will have its blocks allocated out of its own unique
 		 preallocation pool.
 
-What:		/sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/inode_readahead
+What:		/sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/inode_readahead_blks
 Date:		March 2008
 Contact:	"Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
 Description:
@@ -85,7 +85,14 @@ Date:		June 2008
 Contact:	"Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
 Description:
 		Tuning parameter which (if non-zero) controls the goal
-		inode used by the inode allocator in p0reference to
-		all other allocation hueristics.  This is intended for
+		inode used by the inode allocator in preference to
+		all other allocation heuristics.  This is intended for
 		debugging use only, and should be 0 on production
 		systems.
+
+What:		/sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/max_writeback_mb_bump
+Date:		September 2009
+Contact:	"Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		The maximum number of megabytes the writeback code will
+		try to write out before move on to another inode.