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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arc/archs-pct.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arc/pct.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/ahci-platform.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-rk3x.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cpsw.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regmap/regmap.txt | 59 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/checksum-offloads.txt | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/vrf.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/xfrm_sync.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 19 |
14 files changed, 61 insertions, 77 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arc/archs-pct.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arc/archs-pct.txt index 1ae98b87c640..e4b9dcee6d41 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arc/archs-pct.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arc/archs-pct.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ The ARC HS can be configured with a pipeline performance monitor for counting CPU and cache events like cache misses and hits. Like conventional PCT there -are 100+ hardware conditions dynamically mapped to upto 32 counters. +are 100+ hardware conditions dynamically mapped to up to 32 counters. It also supports overflow interrupts. Required properties: diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arc/pct.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arc/pct.txt index 7b9588444f20..4e874d9a38a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arc/pct.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arc/pct.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ The ARC700 can be configured with a pipeline performance monitor for counting CPU and cache events like cache misses and hits. Like conventional PCT there -are 100+ hardware conditions dynamically mapped to upto 32 counters +are 100+ hardware conditions dynamically mapped to up to 32 counters Note that: * The ARC 700 PCT does not support interrupts; although HW events may be diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/ahci-platform.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/ahci-platform.txt index 30df832a6f2f..87adfb227ca9 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/ahci-platform.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/ahci-platform.txt @@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ Optional properties: - target-supply : regulator for SATA target power - phys : reference to the SATA PHY node - phy-names : must be "sata-phy" +- ports-implemented : Mask that indicates which ports that the HBA supports + are available for software to use. Useful if PORTS_IMPL + is not programmed by the BIOS, which is true with + some embedded SOC's. Required properties when using sub-nodes: - #address-cells : number of cells to encode an address diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-rk3x.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-rk3x.txt index f0d71bc52e64..0b4a85fe2d86 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-rk3x.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-rk3x.txt @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ RK3xxx SoCs. Required properties : - reg : Offset and length of the register set for the device - - compatible : should be "rockchip,rk3066-i2c", "rockchip,rk3188-i2c" or - "rockchip,rk3288-i2c". + - compatible : should be "rockchip,rk3066-i2c", "rockchip,rk3188-i2c", + "rockchip,rk3228-i2c" or "rockchip,rk3288-i2c". - interrupts : interrupt number - clocks : parent clock diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cpsw.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cpsw.txt index 28a4781ab6d7..0ae06491b430 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cpsw.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cpsw.txt @@ -45,13 +45,13 @@ Required properties: Optional properties: - dual_emac_res_vlan : Specifies VID to be used to segregate the ports - mac-address : See ethernet.txt file in the same directory -- phy_id : Specifies slave phy id +- phy_id : Specifies slave phy id (deprecated, use phy-handle) - phy-handle : See ethernet.txt file in the same directory Slave sub-nodes: - fixed-link : See fixed-link.txt file in the same directory - Either the property phy_id, or the sub-node - fixed-link can be specified + +Note: Exactly one of phy_id, phy-handle, or fixed-link must be specified. Note: "ti,hwmods" field is used to fetch the base address and irq resources from TI, omap hwmod data base during device registration. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regmap/regmap.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regmap/regmap.txt index e98a9652ccc8..0127be360fe8 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regmap/regmap.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regmap/regmap.txt @@ -1,50 +1,29 @@ -Device-Tree binding for regmap - -The endianness mode of CPU & Device scenarios: -Index Device Endianness properties ---------------------------------------------------- -1 BE 'big-endian' -2 LE 'little-endian' -3 Native 'native-endian' - -For one device driver, which will run in different scenarios above -on different SoCs using the devicetree, we need one way to simplify -this. +Devicetree binding for regmap Optional properties: -- {big,little,native}-endian: these are boolean properties, if absent - then the implementation will choose a default based on the device - being controlled. These properties are for register values and all - the buffers only. Native endian means that the CPU and device have - the same endianness. -Examples: -Scenario 1 : CPU in LE mode & device in LE mode. -dev: dev@40031000 { - compatible = "name"; - reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>; - ... -}; + little-endian, + big-endian, + native-endian: See common-properties.txt for a definition -Scenario 2 : CPU in LE mode & device in BE mode. -dev: dev@40031000 { - compatible = "name"; - reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>; - ... - big-endian; -}; +Note: +Regmap defaults to little-endian register access on MMIO based +devices, this is by far the most common setting. On CPU +architectures that typically run big-endian operating systems +(e.g. PowerPC), registers can be defined as big-endian and must +be marked that way in the devicetree. -Scenario 3 : CPU in BE mode & device in BE mode. -dev: dev@40031000 { - compatible = "name"; - reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>; - ... -}; +On SoCs that can be operated in both big-endian and little-endian +modes, with a single hardware switch controlling both the endianess +of the CPU and a byteswap for MMIO registers (e.g. many Broadcom MIPS +chips), "native-endian" is used to allow using the same device tree +blob in both cases. -Scenario 4 : CPU in BE mode & device in LE mode. +Examples: +Scenario 1 : a register set in big-endian mode. dev: dev@40031000 { - compatible = "name"; + compatible = "syscon"; reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>; + big-endian; ... - little-endian; }; diff --git a/Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt b/Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt index 3f24df8c6e65..50b8589d12fd 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This is the driver for the Altera Triple-Speed Ethernet (TSE) controllers using the SGDMA and MSGDMA soft DMA IP components. The driver uses the platform bus to obtain component resources. The designs used to test this driver were built for a Cyclone(R) V SOC FPGA board, a Cyclone(R) V FPGA board, -and tested with ARM and NIOS processor hosts seperately. The anticipated use +and tested with ARM and NIOS processor hosts separately. The anticipated use cases are simple communications between an embedded system and an external peer for status and simple configuration of the embedded system. @@ -65,14 +65,14 @@ Driver parameters can be also passed in command line by using: 4.1) Transmit process When the driver's transmit routine is called by the kernel, it sets up a transmit descriptor by calling the underlying DMA transmit routine (SGDMA or -MSGDMA), and initites a transmit operation. Once the transmit is complete, an +MSGDMA), and initiates a transmit operation. Once the transmit is complete, an interrupt is driven by the transmit DMA logic. The driver handles the transmit completion in the context of the interrupt handling chain by recycling resource required to send and track the requested transmit operation. 4.2) Receive process The driver will post receive buffers to the receive DMA logic during driver -intialization. Receive buffers may or may not be queued depending upon the +initialization. Receive buffers may or may not be queued depending upon the underlying DMA logic (MSGDMA is able queue receive buffers, SGDMA is not able to queue receive buffers to the SGDMA receive logic). When a packet is received, the DMA logic generates an interrupt. The driver handles a receive diff --git a/Documentation/networking/checksum-offloads.txt b/Documentation/networking/checksum-offloads.txt index de2a327766a7..56e36861245f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/checksum-offloads.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/checksum-offloads.txt @@ -69,18 +69,18 @@ LCO: Local Checksum Offload LCO is a technique for efficiently computing the outer checksum of an encapsulated datagram when the inner checksum is due to be offloaded. The ones-complement sum of a correctly checksummed TCP or UDP packet is - equal to the sum of the pseudo header, because everything else gets - 'cancelled out' by the checksum field. This is because the sum was + equal to the complement of the sum of the pseudo header, because everything + else gets 'cancelled out' by the checksum field. This is because the sum was complemented before being written to the checksum field. More generally, this holds in any case where the 'IP-style' ones complement checksum is used, and thus any checksum that TX Checksum Offload supports. That is, if we have set up TX Checksum Offload with a start/offset pair, we - know that _after the device has filled in that checksum_, the ones + know that after the device has filled in that checksum, the ones complement sum from csum_start to the end of the packet will be equal to - _whatever value we put in the checksum field beforehand_. This allows us - to compute the outer checksum without looking at the payload: we simply - stop summing when we get to csum_start, then add the 16-bit word at - (csum_start + csum_offset). + the complement of whatever value we put in the checksum field beforehand. + This allows us to compute the outer checksum without looking at the payload: + we simply stop summing when we get to csum_start, then add the complement of + the 16-bit word at (csum_start + csum_offset). Then, when the true inner checksum is filled in (either by hardware or by skb_checksum_help()), the outer checksum will become correct by virtue of the arithmetic. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt b/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt index cf996394e466..14422f8fcdc4 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Initial Release: This is conceptually very similar to the macvlan driver with one major exception of using L3 for mux-ing /demux-ing among slaves. This property makes the master device share the L2 with it's slave devices. I have developed this -driver in conjuntion with network namespaces and not sure if there is use case +driver in conjunction with network namespaces and not sure if there is use case outside of it. @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ out. In this mode the slaves will RX/TX multicast and broadcast (if applicable) as well. 4.2 L3 mode: - In this mode TX processing upto L3 happens on the stack instance attached + In this mode TX processing up to L3 happens on the stack instance attached to the slave device and packets are switched to the stack instance of the master device for the L2 processing and routing from that instance will be used before packets are queued on the outbound device. In this mode the slaves @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ situations defines your use case then you can choose to use ipvlan - (a) The Linux host that is connected to the external switch / router has policy configured that allows only one mac per port. (b) No of virtual devices created on a master exceed the mac capacity and -puts the NIC in promiscous mode and degraded performance is a concern. +puts the NIC in promiscuous mode and degraded performance is a concern. (c) If the slave device is to be put into the hostile / untrusted network namespace where L2 on the slave could be changed / misused. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt index f4be85e96005..2c4e3354e128 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt @@ -67,12 +67,12 @@ The two basic thread commands are: * add_device DEVICE@NAME -- adds a single device * rem_device_all -- remove all associated devices -When adding a device to a thread, a corrosponding procfile is created +When adding a device to a thread, a corresponding procfile is created which is used for configuring this device. Thus, device names need to be unique. To support adding the same device to multiple threads, which is useful -with multi queue NICs, a the device naming scheme is extended with "@": +with multi queue NICs, the device naming scheme is extended with "@": device@something The part after "@" can be anything, but it is custom to use the thread @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ Sample scripts A collection of tutorial scripts and helpers for pktgen is in the samples/pktgen directory. The helper parameters.sh file support easy -and consistant parameter parsing across the sample scripts. +and consistent parameter parsing across the sample scripts. Usage example and help: ./pktgen_sample01_simple.sh -i eth4 -m 00:1B:21:3C:9D:F8 -d 192.168.8.2 diff --git a/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt b/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt index d52aa10cfe91..5da679c573d2 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ using an rx_handler which gives the impression that packets flow through the VRF device. Similarly on egress routing rules are used to send packets to the VRF device driver before getting sent out the actual interface. This allows tcpdump on a VRF device to capture all packets into and out of the -VRF as a whole.[1] Similiarly, netfilter [2] and tc rules can be applied +VRF as a whole.[1] Similarly, netfilter [2] and tc rules can be applied using the VRF device to specify rules that apply to the VRF domain as a whole. [1] Packets in the forwarded state do not flow through the device, so those diff --git a/Documentation/networking/xfrm_sync.txt b/Documentation/networking/xfrm_sync.txt index d7aac9dedeb4..8d88e0f2ec49 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/xfrm_sync.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/xfrm_sync.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Krisztian <hidden@balabit.hu> and others and additional patches from Jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>. The end goal for syncing is to be able to insert attributes + generate -events so that the an SA can be safely moved from one machine to another +events so that the SA can be safely moved from one machine to another for HA purposes. The idea is to synchronize the SA so that the takeover machine can do the processing of the SA as accurate as possible if it has access to it. @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ We already have the ability to generate SA add/del/upd events. These patches add ability to sync and have accurate lifetime byte (to ensure proper decay of SAs) and replay counters to avoid replay attacks with as minimal loss at failover time. -This way a backup stays as closely uptodate as an active member. +This way a backup stays as closely up-to-date as an active member. Because the above items change for every packet the SA receives, it is possible for a lot of the events to be generated. @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ If you have an SA that is getting hit by traffic in bursts such that there is a period where the timer threshold expires with no packets seen, then an odd behavior is seen as follows: The first packet arrival after a timer expiry will trigger a timeout -aevent; i.e we dont wait for a timeout period or a packet threshold +event; i.e we don't wait for a timeout period or a packet threshold to be reached. This is done for simplicity and efficiency reasons. -JHS diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 57653a44b128..fcddfd5ded99 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ allowed to execute. perf_event_paranoid: Controls use of the performance events system by unprivileged -users (without CAP_SYS_ADMIN). The default value is 1. +users (without CAP_SYS_ADMIN). The default value is 2. -1: Allow use of (almost) all events by all users >=0: Disallow raw tracepoint access by users without CAP_IOC_LOCK diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index cb0368459da3..34a5fece3121 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -581,15 +581,16 @@ Specify "[Nn]ode" for node order "Zone Order" orders the zonelists by zone type, then by node within each zone. Specify "[Zz]one" for zone order. -Specify "[Dd]efault" to request automatic configuration. Autoconfiguration -will select "node" order in following case. -(1) if the DMA zone does not exist or -(2) if the DMA zone comprises greater than 50% of the available memory or -(3) if any node's DMA zone comprises greater than 70% of its local memory and - the amount of local memory is big enough. - -Otherwise, "zone" order will be selected. Default order is recommended unless -this is causing problems for your system/application. +Specify "[Dd]efault" to request automatic configuration. + +On 32-bit, the Normal zone needs to be preserved for allocations accessible +by the kernel, so "zone" order will be selected. + +On 64-bit, devices that require DMA32/DMA are relatively rare, so "node" +order will be selected. + +Default order is recommended unless this is causing problems for your +system/application. ============================================================== |