Merge branch 'master'

CREDITS

@@ -3382,7 +3382,7 @@ S: Germany
 
 N: Geert Uytterhoeven
 E: geert@linux-m68k.org
-W: http://home.tvd.be/cr26864/
+W: http://users.telenet.be/geertu/
 P: 1024/862678A6 C51D 361C 0BD1 4C90 B275  C553 6EEA 11BA 8626 78A6
 D: m68k/Amiga and PPC/CHRP Longtrail coordinator
 D: Frame buffer device and XF68_FBDev maintainer
@@ -3392,8 +3392,8 @@ D: Amiga Buddha and Catweasel chipset IDE
 D: Atari Falcon chipset IDE
 D: Amiga Gayle chipset IDE
 D: mipsel NEC DDB Vrc-5074
-S: Emiel Vlieberghlaan 2A/21
-S: B-3010 Kessel-Lo
+S: Haterbeekstraat 55B
+S: B-3200 Aarschot
 S: Belgium
 
 N: Chris Vance

Documentation/DMA-API.txt

@@ -33,7 +33,9 @@ pci_alloc_consistent(struct pci_dev *dev, size_t size,
 
 Consistent memory is memory for which a write by either the device or
 the processor can immediately be read by the processor or device
-without having to worry about caching effects.
+without having to worry about caching effects.  (You may however need
+to make sure to flush the processor's write buffers before telling
+devices to read that memory.)
 
 This routine allocates a region of <size> bytes of consistent memory.
 it also returns a <dma_handle> which may be cast to an unsigned
@@ -304,12 +306,12 @@ dma address with dma_mapping_error(). A non zero return value means the mapping
 could not be created and the driver should take appropriate action (eg
 reduce current DMA mapping usage or delay and try again later).
 
-int
-dma_map_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg, int nents,
-	   enum dma_data_direction direction)
-int
-pci_map_sg(struct pci_dev *hwdev, struct scatterlist *sg,
-	   int nents, int direction)
+	int
+	dma_map_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
+		int nents, enum dma_data_direction direction)
+	int
+	pci_map_sg(struct pci_dev *hwdev, struct scatterlist *sg,
+		int nents, int direction)
 
 Maps a scatter gather list from the block layer.
 
@@ -327,12 +329,33 @@ critical that the driver do something, in the case of a block driver
 aborting the request or even oopsing is better than doing nothing and
 corrupting the filesystem.
 
-void
-dma_unmap_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg, int nhwentries,
-	     enum dma_data_direction direction)
-void
-pci_unmap_sg(struct pci_dev *hwdev, struct scatterlist *sg,
-	     int nents, int direction)
+With scatterlists, you use the resulting mapping like this:
+
+	int i, count = dma_map_sg(dev, sglist, nents, direction);
+	struct scatterlist *sg;
+
+	for (i = 0, sg = sglist; i < count; i++, sg++) {
+		hw_address[i] = sg_dma_address(sg);
+		hw_len[i] = sg_dma_len(sg);
+	}
+
+where nents is the number of entries in the sglist.
+
+The implementation is free to merge several consecutive sglist entries
+into one (e.g. with an IOMMU, or if several pages just happen to be
+physically contiguous) and returns the actual number of sg entries it
+mapped them to. On failure 0, is returned.
+
+Then you should loop count times (note: this can be less than nents times)
+and use sg_dma_address() and sg_dma_len() macros where you previously
+accessed sg->address and sg->length as shown above.
+
+	void
+	dma_unmap_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
+		int nhwentries, enum dma_data_direction direction)
+	void
+	pci_unmap_sg(struct pci_dev *hwdev, struct scatterlist *sg,
+		int nents, int direction)
 
 unmap the previously mapped scatter/gather list.  All the parameters
 must be the same as those and passed in to the scatter/gather mapping

Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt

@@ -58,11 +58,15 @@ translating each of those pages back to a kernel address using
 something like __va().  [ EDIT: Update this when we integrate
 Gerd Knorr's generic code which does this. ]
 
-This rule also means that you may not use kernel image addresses
-(ie. items in the kernel's data/text/bss segment, or your driver's)
-nor may you use kernel stack addresses for DMA.  Both of these items
-might be mapped somewhere entirely different than the rest of physical
-memory.
+This rule also means that you may use neither kernel image addresses
+(items in data/text/bss segments), nor module image addresses, nor
+stack addresses for DMA.  These could all be mapped somewhere entirely
+different than the rest of physical memory.  Even if those classes of
+memory could physically work with DMA, you'd need to ensure the I/O
+buffers were cacheline-aligned.  Without that, you'd see cacheline
+sharing problems (data corruption) on CPUs with DMA-incoherent caches.
+(The CPU could write to one word, DMA would write to a different one
+in the same cache line, and one of them could be overwritten.)
 
 Also, this means that you cannot take the return of a kmap()
 call and DMA to/from that.  This is similar to vmalloc().
@@ -194,7 +198,7 @@ document for how to handle this case.
 Finally, if your device can only drive the low 24-bits of
 address during PCI bus mastering you might do something like:
 
-	if (pci_set_dma_mask(pdev, 0x00ffffff)) {
+	if (pci_set_dma_mask(pdev, DMA_24BIT_MASK)) {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING
 		       "mydev: 24-bit DMA addressing not available.\n");
 		goto ignore_this_device;
@@ -212,7 +216,7 @@ functions (for example a sound card provides playback and record
 functions) and the various different functions have _different_
 DMA addressing limitations, you may wish to probe each mask and
 only provide the functionality which the machine can handle.  It
-is important that the last call to pci_set_dma_mask() be for the 
+is important that the last call to pci_set_dma_mask() be for the
 most specific mask.
 
 Here is pseudo-code showing how this might be done:
@@ -284,6 +288,11 @@ There are two types of DMA mappings:
 
              in order to get correct behavior on all platforms.
 
+	     Also, on some platforms your driver may need to flush CPU write
+	     buffers in much the same way as it needs to flush write buffers
+	     found in PCI bridges (such as by reading a register's value
+	     after writing it).
+
 - Streaming DMA mappings which are usually mapped for one DMA transfer,
   unmapped right after it (unless you use pci_dma_sync_* below) and for which
   hardware can optimize for sequential accesses.
@@ -303,6 +312,9 @@ There are two types of DMA mappings:
 
 Neither type of DMA mapping has alignment restrictions that come
 from PCI, although some devices may have such restrictions.
+Also, systems with caches that aren't DMA-coherent will work better
+when the underlying buffers don't share cache lines with other data.
+
 
 		 Using Consistent DMA mappings.
 

Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl

@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ and other resources, etc.
 
 	<sect1><title>ata_scsi_error()</title>
 	<para>
-	ata_scsi_error() is the current hostt->eh_strategy_handler()
+	ata_scsi_error() is the current transportt->eh_strategy_handler()
 	for libata.  As discussed above, this will be entered in two
 	cases - timeout and ATAPI error completion.  This function
 	calls low level libata driver's eng_timeout() callback, the

Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+As of the Linux 2.6.10 kernel, it is now possible to change the
+IO scheduler for a given block device on the fly (thus making it possible,
+for instance, to set the CFQ scheduler for the system default, but
+set a specific device to use the anticipatory or noop schedulers - which
+can improve that device's throughput).
+
+To set a specific scheduler, simply do this:
+
+echo SCHEDNAME > /sys/block/DEV/queue/scheduler
+
+where SCHEDNAME is the name of a defined IO scheduler, and DEV is the
+device name (hda, hdb, sga, or whatever you happen to have).
+
+The list of defined schedulers can be found by simply doing
+a "cat /sys/block/DEV/queue/scheduler" - the list of valid names
+will be displayed, with the currently selected scheduler in brackets:
+
+# cat /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler
+noop anticipatory deadline [cfq]
+# echo anticipatory > /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler
+# cat /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler
+noop [anticipatory] deadline cfq

Documentation/cpu-freq/index.txt

@@ -53,4 +53,4 @@ the CPUFreq Mailing list:
 * http://lists.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cpufreq
 
 Clock and voltage scaling for the SA-1100:
-* http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/projects/scaling
+* http://www.lartmaker.nl/projects/scaling

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

@@ -25,8 +25,9 @@ Who:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
 
 ---------------------------
 
-What:	drivers depending on OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER
-When:	January 2006
+What:	drivers that were depending on OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER
+        (config options already removed)
+When:	before 2.6.19
 Why:	OSS drivers with ALSA replacements
 Who:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
 
@@ -71,14 +72,6 @@ Who:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
 
 ---------------------------
 
-What:	remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_timeout)
-When:	April 2006
-Files:	kernel/panic.c
-Why:	No modular usage in the kernel.
-Who:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-
----------------------------
-
 What:	remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(insert_resource)
 When:	April 2006
 Files:	kernel/resource.c

Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt

@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ struct file_operations
 ----------------------
 
 This describes how the VFS can manipulate an open file. As of kernel
-2.6.13, the following members are defined:
+2.6.17, the following members are defined:
 
 struct file_operations {
 	loff_t (*llseek) (struct file *, loff_t, int);
@@ -723,6 +723,10 @@ struct file_operations {
 	int (*check_flags)(int);
 	int (*dir_notify)(struct file *filp, unsigned long arg);
 	int (*flock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *);
+	ssize_t (*splice_write)(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct file *, size_t, unsigned 
+int);
+	ssize_t (*splice_read)(struct file *, struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned  
+int);
 };
 
 Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless
@@ -790,6 +794,12 @@ otherwise noted.
 
   flock: called by the flock(2) system call
 
+  splice_write: called by the VFS to splice data from a pipe to a file. This
+		method is used by the splice(2) system call
+
+  splice_read: called by the VFS to splice data from file to a pipe. This
+	       method is used by the splice(2) system call
+
 Note that the file operations are implemented by the specific
 filesystem in which the inode resides. When opening a device node
 (character or block special) most filesystems will call special

Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-parport

@@ -12,18 +12,22 @@ meant as a replacement for the older, individual drivers:
                       teletext adapters)
 
 It currently supports the following devices:
- * Philips adapter
- * home brew teletext adapter
- * Velleman K8000 adapter
- * ELV adapter
- * Analog Devices evaluation boards (ADM1025, ADM1030, ADM1031, ADM1032)
- * Barco LPT->DVI (K5800236) adapter
+ * (type=0) Philips adapter
+ * (type=1) home brew teletext adapter
+ * (type=2) Velleman K8000 adapter
+ * (type=3) ELV adapter
+ * (type=4) Analog Devices ADM1032 evaluation board
+ * (type=5) Analog Devices evaluation boards: ADM1025, ADM1030, ADM1031
+ * (type=6) Barco LPT->DVI (K5800236) adapter
 
 These devices use different pinout configurations, so you have to tell
 the driver what you have, using the type module parameter. There is no
 way to autodetect the devices. Support for different pinout configurations
 can be easily added when needed.
 
+Earlier kernels defaulted to type=0 (Philips).  But now, if the type
+parameter is missing, the driver will simply fail to initialize.
+
 
 Building your own adapter
 -------------------------