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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-proximity-as3935 | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-remoteproc | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-swap | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/proximity/as3935.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/arm,gic-v3.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 31 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/index.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst | 157 |
13 files changed, 202 insertions, 45 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-proximity-as3935 b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-proximity-as3935 index 33e96f740639..147d4e8a1403 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-proximity-as3935 +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-proximity-as3935 @@ -14,3 +14,11 @@ Description: Show or set the gain boost of the amp, from 0-31 range. 18 = indoors (default) 14 = outdoors + +What /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/noise_level_tripped +Date: May 2017 +KernelVersion: 4.13 +Contact: Matt Ranostay <matt.ranostay@konsulko.com> +Description: + When 1 the noise level is over the trip level and not reporting + valid data diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-remoteproc b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-remoteproc index d188afebc8ba..c3afe9fab646 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-remoteproc +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-remoteproc @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ What: /sys/class/remoteproc/.../firmware Date: October 2016 -Contact: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com> +Contact: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com> Description: Remote processor firmware Reports the name of the firmware currently loaded to the @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Description: Remote processor firmware What: /sys/class/remoteproc/.../state Date: October 2016 -Contact: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com> +Contact: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com> Description: Remote processor state Reports the state of the remote processor, which will be one of: diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power index f4b24c327665..80a00f7b6667 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power @@ -211,7 +211,9 @@ Description: device, after it has been suspended at run time, from a resume request to the moment the device will be ready to process I/O, in microseconds. If it is equal to 0, however, this means that - the PM QoS resume latency may be arbitrary. + the PM QoS resume latency may be arbitrary and the special value + "n/a" means that user space cannot accept any resume latency at + all for the given device. Not all drivers support this attribute. If it isn't supported, it is not present. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-swap b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-swap index 587db52084c7..94672016c268 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-swap +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-swap @@ -14,13 +14,3 @@ Description: Enable/disable VMA based swap readahead. still used for tmpfs etc. other users. If set to false, the global swap readahead algorithm will be used for all swappable pages. - -What: /sys/kernel/mm/swap/vma_ra_max_order -Date: August 2017 -Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org> -Description: The max readahead size in order for VMA based swap readahead - - VMA based swap readahead algorithm will readahead at - most 1 << max_order pages for each readahead. The - real readahead size for each readahead will be scaled - according to the estimation algorithm. diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst b/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst index 8282099e0cbf..5da10184d908 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst @@ -352,44 +352,30 @@ Read-Copy Update (RCU) ---------------------- .. kernel-doc:: include/linux/rcupdate.h - :external: .. kernel-doc:: include/linux/rcupdate_wait.h - :external: .. kernel-doc:: include/linux/rcutree.h - :external: .. kernel-doc:: kernel/rcu/tree.c - :external: .. kernel-doc:: kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h - :external: .. kernel-doc:: kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h - :external: .. kernel-doc:: kernel/rcu/update.c - :external: .. kernel-doc:: include/linux/srcu.h - :external: .. kernel-doc:: kernel/rcu/srcutree.c - :external: .. kernel-doc:: include/linux/rculist_bl.h - :external: .. kernel-doc:: include/linux/rculist.h - :external: .. kernel-doc:: include/linux/rculist_nulls.h - :external: .. kernel-doc:: include/linux/rcu_sync.h - :external: .. kernel-doc:: kernel/rcu/sync.c - :external: diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt index 2bbe207354ed..a873855c811d 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt @@ -90,6 +90,9 @@ Freq_i to Freq_j. Freq_i is in descending order with increasing rows and Freq_j is in descending order with increasing columns. The output here also contains the actual freq values for each row and column for better readability. +If the transition table is bigger than PAGE_SIZE, reading this will +return an -EFBIG error. + -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <mysystem>:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats # cat trans_table From : To diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/proximity/as3935.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/proximity/as3935.txt index 38d74314b7ab..b6c1afa6f02d 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/proximity/as3935.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/proximity/as3935.txt @@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ Optional properties: - ams,tuning-capacitor-pf: Calibration tuning capacitor stepping value 0 - 120pF. This will require using the calibration data from the manufacturer. + - ams,nflwdth: Set the noise and watchdog threshold register on + startup. This will need to set according to the noise from the + MCU board, and possibly the local environment. Refer to the + datasheet for the threshold settings. Example: @@ -27,4 +31,5 @@ as3935@0 { interrupt-parent = <&gpio1>; interrupts = <16 1>; ams,tuning-capacitor-pf = <80>; + ams,nflwdth = <0x44>; }; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/arm,gic-v3.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/arm,gic-v3.txt index 4c29cdab0ea5..5eb108e180fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/arm,gic-v3.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/arm,gic-v3.txt @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ Examples: compatible = "arm,gic-v3-its"; msi-controller; #msi-cells = <1>; - reg = <0x0 0x2c200000 0 0x200000>; + reg = <0x0 0x2c200000 0 0x20000>; }; }; @@ -124,14 +124,14 @@ Examples: compatible = "arm,gic-v3-its"; msi-controller; #msi-cells = <1>; - reg = <0x0 0x2c200000 0 0x200000>; + reg = <0x0 0x2c200000 0 0x20000>; }; gic-its@2c400000 { compatible = "arm,gic-v3-its"; msi-controller; #msi-cells = <1>; - reg = <0x0 0x2c400000 0 0x200000>; + reg = <0x0 0x2c400000 0 0x20000>; }; ppi-partitions { diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst index 574dadd06dec..53c1b0b06da5 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ sleep states and the hibernation state ("suspend-to-disk"). Each phase involves executing callbacks for every device before the next phase begins. Not all buses or classes support all these callbacks and not all drivers use all the callbacks. The various phases always run after tasks have been frozen and -before they are unfrozen. Furthermore, the ``*_noirq phases`` run at a time +before they are unfrozen. Furthermore, the ``*_noirq`` phases run at a time when IRQ handlers have been disabled (except for those marked with the IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag). diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt index 329e740adea7..f6f80380dff2 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt @@ -1108,14 +1108,6 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): ld Link target. Often, LDFLAGS_$@ is used to set specific options to ld. - objcopy - Copy binary. Uses OBJCOPYFLAGS usually specified in - arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile. - OBJCOPYFLAGS_$@ may be used to set additional options. - - gzip - Compress target. Use maximum compression to compress target. - Example: #arch/x86/boot/Makefile LDFLAGS_bootsect := -Ttext 0x0 -s --oformat binary @@ -1139,6 +1131,19 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): resulting in the target file being recompiled for no obvious reason. + objcopy + Copy binary. Uses OBJCOPYFLAGS usually specified in + arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile. + OBJCOPYFLAGS_$@ may be used to set additional options. + + gzip + Compress target. Use maximum compression to compress target. + + Example: + #arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile + $(obj)/vmlinux.bin.gz: $(vmlinux.bin.all-y) FORCE + $(call if_changed,gzip) + dtc Create flattened device tree blob object suitable for linking into vmlinux. Device tree blobs linked into vmlinux are placed @@ -1219,7 +1224,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): that may be shared between individual architectures. The recommended approach how to use a generic header file is to list the file in the Kbuild file. - See "7.3 generic-y" for further info on syntax etc. + See "7.2 generic-y" for further info on syntax etc. --- 6.11 Post-link pass @@ -1254,13 +1259,13 @@ A Kbuild file may be defined under arch/<arch>/include/uapi/asm/ and arch/<arch>/include/asm/ to list asm files coming from asm-generic. See subsequent chapter for the syntax of the Kbuild file. - --- 7.1 no-export-headers +--- 7.1 no-export-headers no-export-headers is essentially used by include/uapi/linux/Kbuild to avoid exporting specific headers (e.g. kvm.h) on architectures that do not support it. It should be avoided as much as possible. - --- 7.2 generic-y +--- 7.2 generic-y If an architecture uses a verbatim copy of a header from include/asm-generic then this is listed in the file @@ -1287,7 +1292,7 @@ See subsequent chapter for the syntax of the Kbuild file. Example: termios.h #include <asm-generic/termios.h> - --- 7.3 generated-y +--- 7.3 generated-y If an architecture generates other header files alongside generic-y wrappers, generated-y specifies them. @@ -1299,7 +1304,7 @@ See subsequent chapter for the syntax of the Kbuild file. #arch/x86/include/asm/Kbuild generated-y += syscalls_32.h - --- 7.5 mandatory-y +--- 7.4 mandatory-y mandatory-y is essentially used by include/uapi/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm to define the minimum set of headers that must be exported in diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index 57f52cdce32e..9ba04c0bab8d 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -2387,7 +2387,7 @@ broadcast: Like active-backup, there is not much advantage to this and packet type ID), so in a "gatewayed" configuration, all outgoing traffic will generally use the same device. Incoming traffic may also end up on a single device, but that is - dependent upon the balancing policy of the peer's 8023.ad + dependent upon the balancing policy of the peer's 802.3ad implementation. In a "local" configuration, traffic will be distributed across the devices in the bond. diff --git a/Documentation/process/index.rst b/Documentation/process/index.rst index 82fc399fcd33..61e43cc3ed17 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/index.rst @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Below are the essential guides that every developer should read. submitting-patches coding-style email-clients + kernel-enforcement-statement Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are: diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..b3170671a1df --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst @@ -0,0 +1,157 @@ +Linux Kernel Enforcement Statement +---------------------------------- + +As developers of the Linux kernel, we have a keen interest in how our software +is used and how the license for our software is enforced. Compliance with the +reciprocal sharing obligations of GPL-2.0 is critical to the long-term +sustainability of our software and community. + +Although there is a right to enforce the separate copyright interests in the +contributions made to our community, we share an interest in ensuring that +individual enforcement actions are conducted in a manner that benefits our +community and do not have an unintended negative impact on the health and +growth of our software ecosystem. 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