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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-04-17 15:04:38 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-04-17 15:04:38 +0200 |
commit | 54e514b91b95d6441c12a7955addfb9f9d2afc65 (patch) | |
tree | 8b73d901bd2a6ec5a31f34a8954e5ea92216dd6c /Documentation | |
parent | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vir... (diff) | |
parent | proc: show locks in /proc/pid/fdinfo/X (diff) | |
download | linux-54e514b91b95d6441c12a7955addfb9f9d2afc65.tar.xz linux-54e514b91b95d6441c12a7955addfb9f9d2afc65.zip |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge third patchbomb from Andrew Morton:
- various misc things
- a couple of lib/ optimisations
- provide DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST_ULL()
- checkpatch updates
- rtc tree
- befs, nilfs2, hfs, hfsplus, fatfs, adfs, affs, bfs
- ptrace fixes
- fork() fixes
- seccomp cleanups
- more mmap_sem hold time reductions from Davidlohr
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (138 commits)
proc: show locks in /proc/pid/fdinfo/X
docs: add missing and new /proc/PID/status file entries, fix typos
drivers/rtc/rtc-at91rm9200.c: make IO endian agnostic
Documentation/spi/spidev_test.c: fix warning
drivers/rtc/rtc-s5m.c: allow usage on device type different than main MFD type
.gitignore: ignore *.tar
MAINTAINERS: add Mediatek SoC mailing list
tomoyo: reduce mmap_sem hold for mm->exe_file
powerpc/oprofile: reduce mmap_sem hold for exe_file
oprofile: reduce mmap_sem hold for mm->exe_file
mips: ip32: add platform data hooks to use DS1685 driver
lib/Kconfig: fix up HAVE_ARCH_BITREVERSE help text
x86: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h
sparc: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h
powerpc: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h
parisc: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h
mips: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h
microblaze: use asm-generic for seccomp.h
arm: use asm-generic for seccomp.h
seccomp: allow COMPAT sigreturn overrides
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/CodingStyle | 13 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/digicolor-rtc.txt | 17 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/stmp3xxx-rtc.txt | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 15 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/spi/spidev_test.c | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 21 |
7 files changed, 72 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle index 449a8a19fc21..4d4f06d47e06 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingStyle +++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle @@ -659,6 +659,19 @@ macros using parameters. #define CONSTANT 0x4000 #define CONSTEXP (CONSTANT | 3) +5) namespace collisions when defining local variables in macros resembling +functions: + +#define FOO(x) \ +({ \ + typeof(x) ret; \ + ret = calc_ret(x); \ + (ret); \ +)} + +ret is a common name for a local variable - __foo_ret is less likely +to collide with an existing variable. + The cpp manual deals with macros exhaustively. The gcc internals manual also covers RTL which is used frequently with assembly language in the kernel. diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 447671bd2927..b03a832a08e2 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -614,8 +614,8 @@ The canonical patch message body contains the following: - An empty line. - - The body of the explanation, which will be copied to the - permanent changelog to describe this patch. + - The body of the explanation, line wrapped at 75 columns, which will + be copied to the permanent changelog to describe this patch. - The "Signed-off-by:" lines, described above, which will also go in the changelog. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/digicolor-rtc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/digicolor-rtc.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..d464986012cd --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/digicolor-rtc.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Conexant Digicolor Real Time Clock controller + +This binding currently supports the CX92755 SoC. + +Required properties: +- compatible: should be "cnxt,cx92755-rtc" +- reg: physical base address of the controller and length of memory mapped + region. +- interrupts: rtc alarm interrupt + +Example: + + rtc@f0000c30 { + compatible = "cnxt,cx92755-rtc"; + reg = <0xf0000c30 0x18>; + interrupts = <25>; + }; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/stmp3xxx-rtc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/stmp3xxx-rtc.txt index b800070fe6e9..fa6a94226669 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/stmp3xxx-rtc.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/stmp3xxx-rtc.txt @@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ Required properties: region. - interrupts: rtc alarm interrupt +Optional properties: +- stmp,crystal-freq: override crystal frequency as determined from fuse bits. + Only <32000> and <32768> are possible for the hardware. Use <0> for + "no crystal". + Example: rtc@80056000 { diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index a07ba61662ed..8e36c7e3c345 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -200,12 +200,12 @@ contains details information about the process itself. Its fields are explained in Table 1-4. (for SMP CONFIG users) -For making accounting scalable, RSS related information are handled in -asynchronous manner and the vaule may not be very precise. To see a precise +For making accounting scalable, RSS related information are handled in an +asynchronous manner and the value may not be very precise. To see a precise snapshot of a moment, you can see /proc/<pid>/smaps file and scan page table. It's slow but very precise. -Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 2.6.30-rc7) +Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 3.20.0) .............................................................................. Field Content Name filename of the executable @@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 2.6.30-rc7) in an uninterruptible wait, Z is zombie, T is traced or stopped) Tgid thread group ID + Ngid NUMA group ID (0 if none) Pid process id PPid process id of the parent process TracerPid PID of process tracing this process (0 if not) @@ -220,6 +221,10 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 2.6.30-rc7) Gid Real, effective, saved set, and file system GIDs FDSize number of file descriptor slots currently allocated Groups supplementary group list + NStgid descendant namespace thread group ID hierarchy + NSpid descendant namespace process ID hierarchy + NSpgid descendant namespace process group ID hierarchy + NSsid descendant namespace session ID hierarchy VmPeak peak virtual memory size VmSize total program size VmLck locked memory size @@ -1704,6 +1709,10 @@ A typical output is flags: 0100002 mnt_id: 19 +All locks associated with a file descriptor are shown in its fdinfo too. + +lock: 1: FLOCK ADVISORY WRITE 359 00:13:11691 0 EOF + The files such as eventfd, fsnotify, signalfd, epoll among the regular pos/flags pair provide additional information particular to the objects they represent. diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spidev_test.c b/Documentation/spi/spidev_test.c index 94f574b0fdb2..135b3f592b83 100644 --- a/Documentation/spi/spidev_test.c +++ b/Documentation/spi/spidev_test.c @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static void hex_dump(const void *src, size_t length, size_t line_size, char *pre * Unescape - process hexadecimal escape character * converts shell input "\x23" -> 0x23 */ -int unespcape(char *_dst, char *_src, size_t len) +static int unescape(char *_dst, char *_src, size_t len) { int ret = 0; char *src = _src; @@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) size = strlen(input_tx+1); tx = malloc(size); rx = malloc(size); - size = unespcape((char *)tx, input_tx, size); + size = unescape((char *)tx, input_tx, size); transfer(fd, tx, rx, size); free(rx); free(tx); diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 99d7eb3a1416..c831001c45f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -872,6 +872,27 @@ can be ORed together: ============================================================== +threads-max + +This value controls the maximum number of threads that can be created +using fork(). + +During initialization the kernel sets this value such that even if the +maximum number of threads is created, the thread structures occupy only +a part (1/8th) of the available RAM pages. + +The minimum value that can be written to threads-max is 20. +The maximum value that can be written to threads-max is given by the +constant FUTEX_TID_MASK (0x3fffffff). +If a value outside of this range is written to threads-max an error +EINVAL occurs. + +The value written is checked against the available RAM pages. If the +thread structures would occupy too much (more than 1/8th) of the +available RAM pages threads-max is reduced accordingly. + +============================================================== + unknown_nmi_panic: The value in this file affects behavior of handling NMI. When the |