Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core

Semantic conflict: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c

Merge reason: pick up latest fixes, fix the conflict

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

9 files changed, 241 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c b/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c
index b07add3467f1..7764594778d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c
+++ b/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/moduleparam.h>
 #include <linux/skbuff.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/timer.h>
 
 #include <linux/connector.h>
diff --git a/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt b/Documentation/fb/efifb.txt
index 316ec9bb7deb..a59916c29b33 100644
--- a/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fb/efifb.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 
-What is imacfb?
+What is efifb?
 ===============
 
 This is a generic EFI platform driver for Intel based Apple computers.
-Imacfb is only for EFI booted Intel Macs.
+efifb is only for EFI booted Intel Macs.
 
 Supported Hardware
 ==================
@@ -16,16 +16,16 @@ MacMini
 How to use it?
 ==============
 
-Imacfb does not have any kind of autodetection of your machine.
+efifb does not have any kind of autodetection of your machine.
 You have to add the following kernel parameters in your elilo.conf:
 	Macbook :
-		video=imacfb:macbook
+		video=efifb:macbook
 	MacMini :
-		video=imacfb:mini
+		video=efifb:mini
 	Macbook Pro 15", iMac 17" :
-		video=imacfb:i17
+		video=efifb:i17
 	Macbook Pro 17", iMac 20" :
-		video=imacfb:i20
+		video=efifb:i20
 
 --
 Edgar Hucek <gimli@dark-green.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
index 57e0b80a5274..c0236e753bc8 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
@@ -37,6 +37,15 @@ For Plan 9 From User Space applications (http://swtch.com/plan9)
 
 	mount -t 9p `namespace`/acme /mnt/9 -o trans=unix,uname=$USER
 
+For server running on QEMU host with virtio transport:
+
+	mount -t 9p -o trans=virtio <mount_tag> /mnt/9
+
+where mount_tag is the tag associated by the server to each of the exported
+mount points. Each 9P export is seen by the client as a virtio device with an
+associated "mount_tag" property. Available mount tags can be
+seen by reading /sys/bus/virtio/drivers/9pnet_virtio/virtio<n>/mount_tag files.
+
 OPTIONS
 =======
 
@@ -47,7 +56,7 @@ OPTIONS
 			fd   	- used passed file descriptors for connection
                                 (see rfdno and wfdno)
 			virtio	- connect to the next virtio channel available
-				(from lguest or KVM with trans_virtio module)
+				(from QEMU with trans_virtio module)
 			rdma	- connect to a specified RDMA channel
 
   uname=name	user name to attempt mount as on the remote server.  The
@@ -85,7 +94,12 @@ OPTIONS
 
   port=n	port to connect to on the remote server
 
-  noextend	force legacy mode (no 9p2000.u semantics)
+  noextend	force legacy mode (no 9p2000.u or 9p2000.L semantics)
+
+  version=name	Select 9P protocol version. Valid options are:
+			9p2000          - Legacy mode (same as noextend)
+			9p2000.u        - Use 9P2000.u protocol
+			9p2000.L        - Use 9P2000.L protocol
 
   dfltuid	attempt to mount as a particular uid
 
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7ee770b5ef5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+       STMicroelectronics 10/100/1000 Synopsys Ethernet driver
+
+Copyright (C) 2007-2010  STMicroelectronics Ltd
+Author: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
+
+This is the driver for the MAC 10/100/1000 on-chip Ethernet controllers
+(Synopsys IP blocks); it has been fully tested on STLinux platforms.
+
+Currently this network device driver is for all STM embedded MAC/GMAC
+(7xxx SoCs).
+
+DWC Ether MAC 10/100/1000 Universal version 3.41a and DWC Ether MAC 10/100
+Universal version 4.0 have been used for developing the first code
+implementation.
+
+Please, for more information also visit: www.stlinux.com
+
+1) Kernel Configuration
+The kernel configuration option is STMMAC_ETH:
+ Device Drivers ---> Network device support ---> Ethernet (1000 Mbit) --->
+ STMicroelectronics 10/100/1000 Ethernet driver (STMMAC_ETH)
+
+2) Driver parameters list:
+	debug: message level (0: no output, 16: all);
+	phyaddr: to manually provide the physical address to the PHY device;
+	dma_rxsize: DMA rx ring size;
+	dma_txsize: DMA tx ring size;
+	buf_sz: DMA buffer size;
+	tc: control the HW FIFO threshold;
+	tx_coe: Enable/Disable Tx Checksum Offload engine;
+	watchdog: transmit timeout (in milliseconds);
+	flow_ctrl: Flow control ability [on/off];
+	pause: Flow Control Pause Time;
+	tmrate: timer period (only if timer optimisation is configured).
+
+3) Command line options
+Driver parameters can be also passed in command line by using:
+	stmmaceth=dma_rxsize:128,dma_txsize:512
+
+4) Driver information and notes
+
+4.1) Transmit process
+The xmit method is invoked when the kernel needs to transmit a packet; it sets
+the descriptors in the ring and informs the DMA engine that there is a packet
+ready to be transmitted.
+Once the controller has finished transmitting the packet, an interrupt is
+triggered; So the driver will be able to release the socket buffers.
+By default, the driver sets the NETIF_F_SG bit in the features field of the
+net_device structure enabling the scatter/gather feature.
+
+4.2) Receive process
+When one or more packets are received, an interrupt happens. The interrupts
+are not queued so the driver has to scan all the descriptors in the ring during
+the receive process.
+This is based on NAPI so the interrupt handler signals only if there is work to be
+done, and it exits.
+Then the poll method will be scheduled at some future point.
+The incoming packets are stored, by the DMA, in a list of pre-allocated socket
+buffers in order to avoid the memcpy (Zero-copy).
+
+4.3) Timer-Driver Interrupt
+Instead of having the device that asynchronously notifies the frame receptions, the
+driver configures a timer to generate an interrupt at regular intervals.
+Based on the granularity of the timer, the frames that are received by the device
+will experience different levels of latency. Some NICs have dedicated timer
+device to perform this task. STMMAC can use either the RTC device or the TMU
+channel 2  on STLinux platforms.
+The timers frequency can be passed to the driver as parameter; when change it,
+take care of both hardware capability and network stability/performance impact.
+Several performance tests on STM platforms showed this optimisation allows to spare
+the CPU while having the maximum throughput.
+
+4.4) WOL
+Wake up on Lan feature through Magic Frame is only supported for the GMAC
+core.
+
+4.5) DMA descriptors
+Driver handles both normal and enhanced descriptors. The latter has been only
+tested on DWC Ether MAC 10/100/1000 Universal version 3.41a.
+
+4.6) Ethtool support
+Ethtool is supported. Driver statistics and internal errors can be taken using:
+ethtool -S ethX command. It is possible to dump registers etc.
+
+4.7) Jumbo and Segmentation Offloading
+Jumbo frames are supported and tested for the GMAC.
+The GSO has been also added but it's performed in software.
+LRO is not supported.
+
+4.8) Physical
+The driver is compatible with PAL to work with PHY and GPHY devices.
+
+4.9) Platform information
+Several information came from the platform; please refer to the
+driver's Header file in include/linux directory.
+
+struct plat_stmmacenet_data {
+        int bus_id;
+        int pbl;
+        int has_gmac;
+        void (*fix_mac_speed)(void *priv, unsigned int speed);
+        void (*bus_setup)(unsigned long ioaddr);
+#ifdef CONFIG_STM_DRIVERS
+        struct stm_pad_config *pad_config;
+#endif
+        void *bsp_priv;
+};
+
+Where:
+- pbl (Programmable Burst Length) is maximum number of
+  beats to be transferred in one DMA transaction.
+  GMAC also enables the 4xPBL by default.
+- fix_mac_speed and bus_setup are used to configure internal target
+  registers (on STM platforms);
+- has_gmac: GMAC core is on board (get it at run-time in the next step);
+- bus_id: bus identifier.
+
+struct plat_stmmacphy_data {
+        int bus_id;
+        int phy_addr;
+        unsigned int phy_mask;
+        int interface;
+        int (*phy_reset)(void *priv);
+        void *priv;
+};
+
+Where:
+- bus_id: bus identifier;
+- phy_addr: physical address used for the attached phy device;
+            set it to -1 to get it at run-time;
+- interface: physical MII interface mode;
+- phy_reset: hook to reset HW function.
+
+TODO:
+- Continue to make the driver more generic and suitable for other Synopsys
+  Ethernet controllers used on other architectures (i.e. ARM).
+- 10G controllers are not supported.
+- MAC uses Normal descriptors and GMAC uses enhanced ones.
+  This is a limit that should be reviewed. MAC could want to
+  use the enhanced structure.
+- Checksumming: Rx/Tx csum is done in HW in case of GMAC only.
+- Review the timer optimisation code to use an embedded device that seems to be
+  available in new chip generations.
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/cpm_qe/qe.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/cpm_qe/qe.txt
index 6e37be1eeb2d..4f8930263dd9 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/cpm_qe/qe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/cpm_qe/qe.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,15 @@ Required properties:
 - fsl,qe-num-snums: define how many serial number(SNUM) the QE can use for the
   threads.
 
+Optional properties:
+- fsl,firmware-phandle:
+    Usage: required only if there is no fsl,qe-firmware child node
+    Value type: <phandle>
+    Definition: Points to a firmware node (see "QE Firmware Node" below)
+        that contains the firmware that should be uploaded for this QE.
+        The compatible property for the firmware node should say,
+        "fsl,qe-firmware".
+
 Recommended properties
 - brg-frequency : the internal clock source frequency for baud-rate
   generators in Hz.
@@ -59,3 +68,48 @@ Example:
 		reg = <0 c000>;
 	};
      };
+
+* QE Firmware Node
+
+This node defines a firmware binary that is embedded in the device tree, for
+the purpose of passing the firmware from bootloader to the kernel, or from
+the hypervisor to the guest.
+
+The firmware node itself contains the firmware binary contents, a compatible
+property, and any firmware-specific properties.  The node should be placed
+inside a QE node that needs it.  Doing so eliminates the need for a
+fsl,firmware-phandle property.  Other QE nodes that need the same firmware
+should define an fsl,firmware-phandle property that points to the firmware node
+in the first QE node.
+
+The fsl,firmware property can be specified in the DTS (possibly using incbin)
+or can be inserted by the boot loader at boot time.
+
+Required properties:
+  - compatible
+      Usage: required
+      Value type: <string>
+      Definition: A standard property.  Specify a string that indicates what
+          kind of firmware it is.  For QE, this should be "fsl,qe-firmware".
+
+   - fsl,firmware
+      Usage: required
+      Value type: <prop-encoded-array>, encoded as an array of bytes
+      Definition: A standard property.  This property contains the firmware
+          binary "blob".
+
+Example:
+	qe1@e0080000 {
+		compatible = "fsl,qe";
+		qe_firmware:qe-firmware {
+			compatible = "fsl,qe-firmware";
+			fsl,firmware = [0x70 0xcd 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x46 0x45 ...];
+		};
+		...
+	};
+
+	qe2@e0090000 {
+		compatible = "fsl,qe";
+		fsl,firmware-phandle = <&qe_firmware>;
+		...
+	};
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt
index f4dd3bf99d12..98d14cb8a85d 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt
@@ -119,10 +119,18 @@ the codec slots 0 and 1 no matter what the hardware reports.
 
 Interrupt Handling
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-In rare but some cases, the interrupt isn't properly handled as
-default.  You would notice this by the DMA transfer error reported by
-ALSA PCM core, for example.  Using MSI might help in such a case.
-Pass `enable_msi=1` option for enabling MSI.
+HD-audio driver uses MSI as default (if available) since 2.6.33
+kernel as MSI works better on some machines, and in general, it's
+better for performance.  However, Nvidia controllers showed bad
+regressions with MSI (especially in a combination with AMD chipset),
+thus we disabled MSI for them.
+
+There seem also still other devices that don't work with MSI.  If you
+see a regression wrt the sound quality (stuttering, etc) or a lock-up
+in the recent kernel, try to pass `enable_msi=0` option to disable
+MSI.  If it works, you can add the known bad device to the blacklist
+defined in hda_intel.c.  In such a case, please report and give the
+patch back to the upstream developer. 
 
 
 HD-AUDIO CODEC
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c
index 4cf72f3fa8e9..ba45803a2216 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c
@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@ int main(void)
 			ret = -1;
 			break;
 		}
-		ret = fsync(fd);
-		if (ret)
-			break;
 		sleep(10);
 	}
 	close(fd);
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c
index a750532ffcf8..63fdc34ceb98 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ static void keep_alive(void)
  */
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
+    int flags;
+
     fd = open("/dev/watchdog", O_WRONLY);
 
     if (fd == -1) {
@@ -41,12 +43,14 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
     if (argc > 1) {
 	if (!strncasecmp(argv[1], "-d", 2)) {
-	    ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, WDIOS_DISABLECARD);
+	    flags = WDIOS_DISABLECARD;
+	    ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, &flags);
 	    fprintf(stderr, "Watchdog card disabled.\n");
 	    fflush(stderr);
 	    exit(0);
 	} else if (!strncasecmp(argv[1], "-e", 2)) {
-	    ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, WDIOS_ENABLECARD);
+	    flags = WDIOS_ENABLECARD;
+	    ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, &flags);
 	    fprintf(stderr, "Watchdog card enabled.\n");
 	    fflush(stderr);
 	    exit(0);
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
index 4cc4ba9d7150..eb7132ed8bbc 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
@@ -222,11 +222,10 @@ returned value is the temperature in degrees fahrenheit.
     ioctl(fd, WDIOC_GETTEMP, &temperature);
 
 Finally the SETOPTIONS ioctl can be used to control some aspects of
-the cards operation; right now the pcwd driver is the only one
-supporting this ioctl.
+the cards operation.
 
     int options = 0;
-    ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, options);
+    ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, &options);
 
 The following options are available: