linux/Documentation
Linus Torvalds 33caf82acf Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "All kinds of stuff.  That probably should've been 5 or 6 separate
  branches, but by the time I'd realized how large and mixed that bag
  had become it had been too close to -final to play with rebasing.

  Some fs/namei.c cleanups there, memdup_user_nul() introduction and
  switching open-coded instances, burying long-dead code, whack-a-mole
  of various kinds, several new helpers for ->llseek(), assorted
  cleanups and fixes from various people, etc.

  One piece probably deserves special mention - Neil's
  lookup_one_len_unlocked().  Similar to lookup_one_len(), but gets
  called without ->i_mutex and tries to avoid ever taking it.  That, of
  course, means that it's not useful for any directory modifications,
  but things like getting inode attributes in nfds readdirplus are fine
  with that.  I really should've asked for moratorium on lookup-related
  changes this cycle, but since I hadn't done that early enough...  I
  *am* asking for that for the coming cycle, though - I'm going to try
  and get conversion of i_mutex to rwsem with ->lookup() done under lock
  taken shared.

  There will be a patch closer to the end of the window, along the lines
  of the one Linus had posted last May - mechanical conversion of
  ->i_mutex accesses to inode_lock()/inode_unlock()/inode_trylock()/
  inode_is_locked()/inode_lock_nested().  To quote Linus back then:

    -----
    |    This is an automated patch using
    |
    |        sed 's/mutex_lock(&\(.*\)->i_mutex)/inode_lock(\1)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_unlock(&\(.*\)->i_mutex)/inode_unlock(\1)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_lock_nested(&\(.*\)->i_mutex,[     ]*I_MUTEX_\([A-Z0-9_]*\))/inode_lock_nested(\1, I_MUTEX_\2)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_is_locked(&\(.*\)->i_mutex)/inode_is_locked(\1)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_trylock(&\(.*\)->i_mutex)/inode_trylock(\1)/'
    |
    |    with a very few manual fixups
    -----

  I'm going to send that once the ->i_mutex-affecting stuff in -next
  gets mostly merged (or when Linus says he's about to stop taking
  merges)"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  nfsd: don't hold i_mutex over userspace upcalls
  fs:affs:Replace time_t with time64_t
  fs/9p: use fscache mutex rather than spinlock
  proc: add a reschedule point in proc_readfd_common()
  logfs: constify logfs_block_ops structures
  fcntl: allow to set O_DIRECT flag on pipe
  fs: __generic_file_splice_read retry lookup on AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE
  fs: xattr: Use kvfree()
  [s390] page_to_phys() always returns a multiple of PAGE_SIZE
  nbd: use ->compat_ioctl()
  fs: use block_device name vsprintf helper
  lib/vsprintf: add %*pg format specifier
  fs: use gendisk->disk_name where possible
  poll: plug an unused argument to do_poll
  amdkfd: don't open-code memdup_user()
  cdrom: don't open-code memdup_user()
  rsxx: don't open-code memdup_user()
  mtip32xx: don't open-code memdup_user()
  [um] mconsole: don't open-code memdup_user_nul()
  [um] hostaudio: don't open-code memdup_user()
  ...
2016-01-12 17:11:47 -08:00
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ABI SCSI misc on 20151113 2015-11-13 20:35:54 -08:00
accounting
acpi mfd: core: redo ACPI matching of the children devices 2015-10-26 15:25:53 +01:00
aoe
arm ARM: dts: keystone: k2l: fix kernel crash when clk_ignore_unused is not in bootargs 2015-11-23 10:36:27 -08:00
arm64 arm64: Documentation: add list of software workarounds for errata 2015-12-11 17:33:21 +00:00
auxdisplay
backlight
blackfin
block null_blk: register as a LightNVM device 2015-11-16 15:22:28 -07:00
blockdev zram: update documentation 2015-09-24 15:39:42 -06:00
bus-devices
cdrom
cgroups There is a nice new document from Neil on how pathname lookups work and 2015-11-05 15:59:24 -08:00
cma
connector
console
cpu-freq
cpuidle
cris
crypto KEYS: Merge the type-specific data with the payload data 2015-10-21 15:18:36 +01:00
development-process
device-mapper dm verity: add ignore_zero_blocks feature 2015-12-10 10:39:03 -05:00
devicetree Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm 2016-01-12 12:39:07 -08:00
dmaengine
DocBook [media] DocBook media: update VIDIOC_CREATE_BUFS documentation 2015-12-18 13:49:27 -02:00
driver-model driver-core: platform: Provide helpers for multi-driver modules 2015-10-05 05:02:40 +01:00
dvb [media] use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:38:59 -02:00
early-userspace
EDID
extcon
fault-injection
fb
features Merge branch 'for-linus-4.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2016-01-12 13:27:18 -08:00
filesystems switch ->get_link() to delayed_call, kill ->put_link() 2015-12-30 13:01:03 -05:00
firmware_class
fmc
fpga usage documentation for FPGA manager core 2015-10-07 18:07:20 +01:00
frv
gpio There is a nice new document from Neil on how pathname lookups work and 2015-11-05 15:59:24 -08:00
hid
hwmon hwmon: (pmbus) Add client driver for LTC3815 2015-12-18 08:20:59 -08:00
i2c i2c: i801: add Intel Lewisburg device IDs 2015-11-20 16:22:21 +01:00
ia64
ide
infiniband
input Input: add userio module 2015-10-27 18:55:31 -07:00
ioctl char/misc drivers for 4.4-rc1 2015-11-04 22:15:15 -08:00
isdn
ja_JP
kbuild kbuild: document recursive dependency limitation / resolution 2015-10-08 15:36:16 +02:00
kdump
ko_KR
laptops
leds Documentation: leds: Add description of brightness setting API 2016-01-04 09:57:31 +01:00
locking Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-11-03 16:10:43 -08:00
m68k
memory-devices
metag
mic misc: mic: Update MIC host daemon with COSM changes 2015-10-04 12:54:54 +01:00
mips
misc-devices Doc:misc-devices: Fix typo in Documentation/misc-devices 2015-09-18 10:04:24 -06:00
mmc mmc: core: Remove MMC_CLKGATE 2015-10-26 16:00:09 +01:00
mn10300
mtd
namespaces
netlabel
networking e100.txt: Cleanup license info in kernel doc 2015-12-03 12:58:10 -08:00
nfc
nios2
nvdimm libnvdimm: documentation clarifications 2015-11-12 09:55:23 -08:00
nvmem
parisc
PCI
pcmcia
phy
platform
power PCI / PM: Update runtime PM documentation for PCI devices 2015-09-25 02:48:44 +02:00
powerpc
pps
prctl
pti
ptp testptp: Silence compiler warnings on ppc64 2015-09-29 21:16:56 -07:00
rapidio
RCU documentation: Update RCU requirements based on expedited changes 2015-12-05 12:34:32 -08:00
s390
scheduler
scsi st: allow debug output to be enabled or disabled via sysfs 2015-11-09 17:17:27 -08:00
security KEYS: Merge the type-specific data with the payload data 2015-10-21 15:18:36 +01:00
serial Documentation: improve line discipline method descriptions 2015-10-05 04:53:26 +01:00
sh
sound ALSA: hda - Remove obsoleted documentation 2015-10-17 18:34:24 +02:00
spi ARM: pxa: Remove unused clock_enable field from struct pxa2xx_spi_master 2015-09-20 19:37:20 +02:00
sysctl Documentation: Document kernel.panic_on_io_nmi sysctl 2015-12-19 11:07:01 +01:00
target target: use per-attribute show and store methods 2015-10-13 22:17:49 -07:00
thermal thermal: power_allocator: relax the requirement of two passive trip points 2015-09-14 07:41:45 -07:00
timers
tpm
trace x86, tracing, perf: Add trace point for MSR accesses 2015-12-06 12:56:10 +01:00
usb usb: interface authorization: Documentation part 2015-09-22 12:08:40 -07:00
vDSO
video4linux [media] vb2: drop v4l2_format argument from queue_setup 2015-12-18 13:48:19 -02:00
virtual KVM: s390: fix mismatch between user and in-kernel guest limit 2015-12-15 17:08:21 +01:00
vm mm: make compound_head() robust 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
w1 w1: masters: omap_hdq: add support for 1-wire mode 2015-10-05 04:47:09 +01:00
watchdog Documentation/watchdog: add timeout and ping rate control to watchdog-test.c 2015-09-09 21:33:36 +02:00
wimax
x86
xtensa
zh_CN sysfs.txt: fix pre-kernfs sysfs_dirent reference 2015-09-13 14:38:50 -06:00
00-INDEX
adding-syscalls.txt
applying-patches.txt
assoc_array.txt
atomic_ops.txt locking/atomics, cmpxchg: Privatize the inclusion of asm/cmpxchg.h 2015-09-13 10:35:46 +02:00
bad_memory.txt
basic_profiling.txt
bcache.txt
binfmt_misc.txt
braille-console.txt
bt8xxgpio.txt
btmrvl.txt
BUG-HUNTING
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
cachetlb.txt
Changes There is a nice new document from Neil on how pathname lookups work and 2015-11-05 15:59:24 -08:00
circular-buffers.txt
clk.txt
coccinelle.txt
CodeOfConflict
CodingStyle
cpu-hotplug.txt
cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt
crc32.txt
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
dell_rbu.txt
devices.txt
digsig.txt
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt Documentation: DMA API: Be more explicit that nents is always the same 2015-09-24 15:50:06 -06:00
DMA-API.txt dma: remove external references to dma_supported 2015-11-09 15:11:24 -08:00
DMA-attributes.txt
dma-buf-sharing.txt
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
dontdiff Documentation: dontdiff: remove media from dontdiff 2015-11-11 10:08:07 -07:00
dynamic-debug-howto.txt
edac.txt EDAC: Remove references to bluesmoke.sourceforge.net 2015-11-26 14:46:06 +01:00
efi-stub.txt
eisa.txt
email-clients.txt A few more documentation patches that wandered in and have no reason to 2015-11-13 09:19:05 -08:00
flexible-arrays.txt
futex-requeue-pi.txt
gcov.txt
gdb-kernel-debugging.txt
highuid.txt
HOWTO
hsi.txt
hw_random.txt hwrng: doc - Fix device node name reference /dev/hw_random => /dev/hwrng 2015-09-21 22:00:41 +08:00
hwspinlock.txt
init.txt
initrd.txt
intel_txt.txt
Intel-IOMMU.txt
io_ordering.txt
io-mapping.txt
iostats.txt
IPMI.txt ipmi watchdog : add panic_wdt_timeout parameter 2015-11-16 06:28:43 -06:00
IRQ-affinity.txt
IRQ-domain.txt irqdomain: Documentation updates 2015-10-13 19:01:25 +02:00
IRQ.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt
isapnp.txt
java.txt
kasan.txt mm, slub, kasan: enable user tracking by default with KASAN=y 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
kernel-docs.txt kernel-docs.txt: update kernelnewbies reference 2015-10-11 15:36:43 -06:00
kernel-parameters.txt Merge branch 'for-4.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2016-01-11 18:53:13 -08:00
kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
kmemcheck.txt
kmemleak.txt
kobject.txt
kprobes.txt
kref.txt
kselftest.txt Documentation: Update kselftest.txt 2015-09-24 15:51:53 -06:00
ldm.txt
local_ops.txt
lockup-watchdogs.txt kernel/watchdog.c: add sysctl knob hardlockup_panic 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
logo.gif
logo.txt
lzo.txt
magic-number.txt
mailbox.txt
Makefile
ManagementStyle
md-cluster.txt
md.txt
media-framework.txt
memory-barriers.txt Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-01-11 14:18:38 -08:00
memory-hotplug.txt
men-chameleon-bus.txt
module-signing.txt
mono.txt
nommu-mmap.txt
ntb.txt
numastat.txt
oops-tracing.txt
padata.txt
parport-lowlevel.txt
parport.txt
percpu-rw-semaphore.txt
phy.txt
pi-futex.txt
pinctrl.txt
pnp.txt
preempt-locking.txt
printk-formats.txt lib/vsprintf: add %*pg format specifier 2016-01-06 12:55:29 -05:00
pwm.txt
ramoops.txt
rbtree.txt documentation: fix small typo in rbtree.txt 2015-09-13 14:38:50 -06:00
remoteproc.txt
rfkill.txt
robust-futex-ABI.txt
robust-futexes.txt
rpmsg.txt
rtc.txt
SAK.txt
SecurityBugs
serial-console.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
SM501.txt
smsc_ece1099.txt
sparse.txt
stable_api_nonsense.txt
stable_kernel_rules.txt
static-keys.txt locking/static_keys: Fix up the static keys documentation 2015-09-15 07:12:06 +02:00
SubmitChecklist
SubmittingDrivers
SubmittingPatches A few more documentation patches that wandered in and have no reason to 2015-11-13 09:19:05 -08:00
svga.txt
sysfs-rules.txt
sysrq.txt mm, oom: do not panic for oom kills triggered from sysrq 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
this_cpu_ops.txt
unaligned-memory-access.txt
unicode.txt
unshare.txt
vfio.txt
VGA-softcursor.txt
vgaarbiter.txt
video-output.txt
vme_api.txt
volatile-considered-harmful.txt
workqueue.txt
xillybus.txt
xz.txt
zorro.txt