Merge branch 'master'

CREDITS

@@ -528,11 +528,11 @@ S: Oxford
 S: United Kingdom
 
 N: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
-E: lcapitulino@terra.com.br
-E: lcapitulino@prefeitura.sp.gov.br
-W: http://www.telecentros.sp.gov.br
-D: Little fixes and a lot of janitorial work
-S: E-GOV Telecentros SP
+E: lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br
+E: lcapitulino@gmail.com
+W: http://www.cpu.eti.br
+D: misc kernel hacking
+S: Mandriva
 S: Brazil
 
 N: Remy Card

Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt

@@ -698,12 +698,12 @@ these interfaces.  Remember that, as defined, consistent mappings are
 always going to be SAC addressable.
 
 The first thing your driver needs to do is query the PCI platform
-layer with your devices DAC addressing capabilities:
+layer if it is capable of handling your devices DAC addressing
+capabilities:
 
-	int pci_dac_set_dma_mask(struct pci_dev *pdev, u64 mask);
+	int pci_dac_dma_supported(struct pci_dev *hwdev, u64 mask);
 
-This routine behaves identically to pci_set_dma_mask.  You may not
-use the following interfaces if this routine fails.
+You may not use the following interfaces if this routine fails.
 
 Next, DMA addresses using this API are kept track of using the
 dma64_addr_t type.  It is guaranteed to be big enough to hold any

Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt

@@ -687,8 +687,9 @@ diff shows how closely related RCU and reader-writer locking can be.
 	+	spin_lock(&listmutex);
 		list_for_each_entry(p, head, lp) {
 			if (p->key == key) {
-				list_del(&p->list);
+	-			list_del(&p->list);
 	-			write_unlock(&listmutex);
+	+			list_del_rcu(&p->list);
 	+			spin_unlock(&listmutex);
 	+			synchronize_rcu();
 				kfree(p);
@@ -736,7 +737,7 @@ Or, for those who prefer a side-by-side listing:
  5   write_lock(&listmutex);            5   spin_lock(&listmutex);
  6   list_for_each_entry(p, head, lp) { 6   list_for_each_entry(p, head, lp) {
  7     if (p->key == key) {             7     if (p->key == key) {
- 8       list_del(&p->list);            8       list_del(&p->list);
+ 8       list_del(&p->list);            8       list_del_rcu(&p->list);
  9       write_unlock(&listmutex);      9       spin_unlock(&listmutex);
                                        10       synchronize_rcu();
 10       kfree(p);                     11       kfree(p);

Documentation/SubmitChecklist

@@ -1,57 +1,63 @@
 Linux Kernel patch sumbittal checklist
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-Here are some basic things that developers should do if they
-want to see their kernel patch submittals accepted quicker.
+Here are some basic things that developers should do if they want to see their
+kernel patch submissions accepted more quickly.
 
-These are all above and beyond the documentation that is provided
-in Documentation/SubmittingPatches and elsewhere about submitting
-Linux kernel patches.
+These are all above and beyond the documentation that is provided in
+Documentation/SubmittingPatches and elsewhere regarding submitting Linux
+kernel patches.
 
 
 
-- Builds cleanly with applicable or modified CONFIG options =y, =m, and =n.
-  No gcc warnings/errors, no linker warnings/errors.
+1: Builds cleanly with applicable or modified CONFIG options =y, =m, and
+   =n.  No gcc warnings/errors, no linker warnings/errors.
 
-- Passes allnoconfig, allmodconfig
+2: Passes allnoconfig, allmodconfig
 
-- Builds on multiple CPU arch-es by using local cross-compile tools
-  or something like PLM at OSDL.
+3: Builds on multiple CPU architectures by using local cross-compile tools
+   or something like PLM at OSDL.
 
-- ppc64 is a good architecture for cross-compilation checking because it
-  tends to use `unsigned long' for 64-bit quantities.
+4: ppc64 is a good architecture for cross-compilation checking because it
+   tends to use `unsigned long' for 64-bit quantities.
 
-- Matches kernel coding style(!)
+5: Matches kernel coding style(!)
 
-- Any new or modified CONFIG options don't muck up the config menu.
+6: Any new or modified CONFIG options don't muck up the config menu.
 
-- All new Kconfig options have help text.
+7: All new Kconfig options have help text.
 
-- Has been carefully reviewed with respect to relevant Kconfig
-  combinations.  This is very hard to get right with testing --
-  brainpower pays off here.
+8: Has been carefully reviewed with respect to relevant Kconfig
+   combinations.  This is very hard to get right with testing -- brainpower
+   pays off here.
 
-- Check cleanly with sparse.
+9: Check cleanly with sparse.
 
-- Use 'make checkstack' and 'make namespacecheck' and fix any
-  problems that they find.  Note:  checkstack does not point out
-  problems explicitly, but any one function that uses more than
-  512 bytes on the stack is a candidate for change.
+10: Use 'make checkstack' and 'make namespacecheck' and fix any problems
+    that they find.  Note: checkstack does not point out problems explicitly,
+    but any one function that uses more than 512 bytes on the stack is a
+    candidate for change.
 
-- Include kernel-doc to document global kernel APIs.  (Not required
-  for static functions, but OK there also.)  Use 'make htmldocs'
-  or 'make mandocs' to check the kernel-doc and fix any issues.
+11: Include kernel-doc to document global kernel APIs.  (Not required for
+    static functions, but OK there also.) Use 'make htmldocs' or 'make
+    mandocs' to check the kernel-doc and fix any issues.
 
-- Has been tested with CONFIG_PREEMPT, CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT,
-  CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB, CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES,
-  CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK, CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP all simultaneously
-  enabled.
+12: Has been tested with CONFIG_PREEMPT, CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT,
+    CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB, CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES,
+    CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK, CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP all simultaneously
+    enabled.
 
-- Has been build- and runtime tested with and without CONFIG_SMP and
-  CONFIG_PREEMPT.
+13: Has been build- and runtime tested with and without CONFIG_SMP and
+    CONFIG_PREEMPT.
 
-- If the patch affects IO/Disk, etc: has been tested with and without
-  CONFIG_LBD.
+14: If the patch affects IO/Disk, etc: has been tested with and without
+    CONFIG_LBD.
 
+15: All codepaths have been exercised with all lockdep features enabled.
 
-2006-APR-27
+16: All new /proc entries are documented under Documentation/
+
+17: All new kernel boot parameters are documented in
+    Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
+
+18: All new module parameters are documented with MODULE_PARM_DESC()

Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+Delay accounting
+----------------
+
+Tasks encounter delays in execution when they wait
+for some kernel resource to become available e.g. a
+runnable task may wait for a free CPU to run on.
+
+The per-task delay accounting functionality measures
+the delays experienced by a task while
+
+a) waiting for a CPU (while being runnable)
+b) completion of synchronous block I/O initiated by the task
+c) swapping in pages
+
+and makes these statistics available to userspace through
+the taskstats interface.
+
+Such delays provide feedback for setting a task's cpu priority,
+io priority and rss limit values appropriately. Long delays for
+important tasks could be a trigger for raising its corresponding priority.
+
+The functionality, through its use of the taskstats interface, also provides
+delay statistics aggregated for all tasks (or threads) belonging to a
+thread group (corresponding to a traditional Unix process). This is a commonly
+needed aggregation that is more efficiently done by the kernel.
+
+Userspace utilities, particularly resource management applications, can also
+aggregate delay statistics into arbitrary groups. To enable this, delay
+statistics of a task are available both during its lifetime as well as on its
+exit, ensuring continuous and complete monitoring can be done.
+
+
+Interface
+---------
+
+Delay accounting uses the taskstats interface which is described
+in detail in a separate document in this directory. Taskstats returns a
+generic data structure to userspace corresponding to per-pid and per-tgid
+statistics. The delay accounting functionality populates specific fields of
+this structure. See
+     include/linux/taskstats.h
+for a description of the fields pertaining to delay accounting.
+It will generally be in the form of counters returning the cumulative
+delay seen for cpu, sync block I/O, swapin etc.
+
+Taking the difference of two successive readings of a given
+counter (say cpu_delay_total) for a task will give the delay
+experienced by the task waiting for the corresponding resource
+in that interval.
+
+When a task exits, records containing the per-task statistics
+are sent to userspace without requiring a command. If it is the last exiting
+task of a thread group, the per-tgid statistics are also sent. More details
+are given in the taskstats interface description.
+
+The getdelays.c userspace utility in this directory allows simple commands to
+be run and the corresponding delay statistics to be displayed. It also serves
+as an example of using the taskstats interface.
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+Compile the kernel with
+	CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT=y
+	CONFIG_TASKSTATS=y
+
+Enable the accounting at boot time by adding
+the following to the kernel boot options
+	delayacct
+
+and after the system has booted up, use a utility
+similar to  getdelays.c to access the delays
+seen by a given task or a task group (tgid).
+The utility also allows a given command to be
+executed and the corresponding delays to be
+seen.
+
+General format of the getdelays command
+
+getdelays [-t tgid] [-p pid] [-c cmd...]
+
+
+Get delays, since system boot, for pid 10
+# ./getdelays -p 10
+(output similar to next case)
+
+Get sum of delays, since system boot, for all pids with tgid 5
+# ./getdelays -t 5
+
+
+CPU	count	real total	virtual total	delay total
+	7876	92005750	100000000	24001500
+IO	count	delay total
+	0	0
+MEM	count	delay total
+	0	0
+
+Get delays seen in executing a given simple command
+# ./getdelays -c ls /
+
+bin   data1  data3  data5  dev  home  media  opt   root  srv        sys  usr
+boot  data2  data4  data6  etc  lib   mnt    proc  sbin  subdomain  tmp  var
+
+
+CPU	count	real total	virtual total	delay total
+	6	4000250		4000000		0
+IO	count	delay total
+	0	0
+MEM	count	delay total
+	0	0