[PULL] Documentation for 4.2

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Wed Jun 24 2015 - 20:38:02 EST


The following changes since commit
d4a4f75cd8f29cd9464a5a32e9224a91571d6649:

Linux 4.1-rc7 (2015-06-07 20:23:50 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6.git tags/docs-for-linus

for you to fetch changes up to 36f95a0b34cb980dcfff9c1082ca5d8f0dc5e78b:

doc:md: fix typo in md.txt. (2015-06-23 06:49:44 -0600)

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Documentation updates for 4.2

The main thing here is Ingo's big subdirectory documenting feature support
for each architecture. Beyond that, it's the usual pile of fixes, tweaks,
and small additions.

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Alexander Kuleshov (1):
Documentation/kernel-parameters: add missing pciserial to the earlyprintk

Andreas Gruenbacher (1):
vfs: Minor documentation fix

Anish Bhatt (1):
kbuild : Fix documentation of INSTALL_HDR_PATH

Baruch Siach (1):
Documentation/CodingStyle: fix example macro parenthesis imbalance

Ben Hutchings (1):
firmware: Update information in linux.git about adding firmware

Chen Gang (1):
Docs: blackfin: Use new switch macro SAMPLE_IRQ_TIMER instead of IRQ_TIMER5

Chen Hanxiao (2):
Docs: proc: fix kernel version
docs: add VmPMD description in proc

Christoffer Dall (1):
stable: Update documentation to clarify preferred procedure

Frans Klaver (1):
Doc: networking: txtimestamp: fix printf format warning

Geert Uytterhoeven (4):
Documentation/magic-number: Remove SCI_MAGIC
Documentation/magic-number: Remove SCC_MAGIC
DMA-API: Spelling s/This/Think/
gpiolib: Grammar s/an negative/a negative/

H. Nikolaus Schaller (1):
Documentation usb serial: fixed how to provide vendor and product id

Ingo Molnar (44):
Documentation/features/vm: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'numa-memblock'
Documentation/features/vm: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'PG_uncached'
Documentation/features/lib: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'strncasecmp'
Documentation/features/io: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'sg-chain'
Documentation/features/vm: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'huge-vmap'
Documentation/features/vm: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'pte_special'
Documentation/features/vm: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'pmdp_splitting_flush'
Documentation/features/debug: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'KASAN'
Documentation/features/time: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'modern-timekeeping'
Documentation/features/time: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'virt-cpuacct'
Documentation/features/time: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'irq-time-acct'
Documentation/features/vm: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'THP'
Documentation/features/locking: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'rwsem-optimized'
Documentation/features/sched: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'numa-balancing'
Documentation/features/io: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'dma-contiguous'
Documentation/features/io: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'dma_map_attrs'
Documentation/features/core: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'tracehook'
Documentation/features/vm: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'ioremap_prot'
Documentation/features/locking: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'lockdep'
Documentation/features/debug: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'stackprotector'
Documentation/features/core: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'jump-labels'
Documentation/features/seccomp: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'seccomp-filter'
Documentation/features/time: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'context-tracking'
Documentation/features/debug: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'kgdb'
Documentation/features/time: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'clockevents'
Documentation/features/vm: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'ELF-ASLR'
Documentation/features/time: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'arch-tick-broadcast'
Documentation/features/debug: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'kprobes'
Documentation/features/debug: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'optprobes'
Documentation/features/debug: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'kprobes-on-ftrace'
Documentation/features/debug: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'uprobes'
Documentation/features/debug: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'kretprobes'
Documentation/features/debug: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'user-ret-profiler'
Documentation/features/core: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'generic-idle-thread'
Documentation/features/perf: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'kprobes-event'
Documentation/features/io: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'dma-api-debug'
Documentation/features/perf: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'perf-regs'
Documentation/features/perf: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'perf-stackdump'
Documentation/features/locking: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'cmpxchg-local'
Documentation/features/debug: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'gcov-profile-all'
Documentation/features/locking: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'queued-spinlocks'
Documentation/features/locking: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'queued-rwlocks'
Documentation/features/core: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'BPF-JIT'
Documentation/features: Explain kernel feature descriptions and add visualization script

Jeffrey Rogers (1):
kbuild: edit explanation of clean-files variable

Jonathan Corbet (2):
Merge branch 'core/documentation' of git://git.kernel.org/.../tip/tip into docs-next
Merge branch 'doc/4.2' into docs-next

Krzysztof Kozlowski (1):
Documentation: ARM: EXYNOS: Describe boot loaders interface

Luis R. Rodriguez (1):
Documentation: extend use case for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()

Luke Dashjr (1):
SubmittingPatches: Clarify requirements for patches directed toward stable

Masanari Iida (7):
Doc: Fix description of nomce in kernel-parameters.txt
Doc:nfc: Fix typo in nfc-hci.txt
Doc: ja_JP: Fix typo in HOWTO
Doc:pps: Fix typo in pps.txt
Doc: Change wikipedia's URL from http to https
Doc: Docbook: Change wikipedia's URL from http to https in scsi.tmpl
Doc:ABI/testing: Fix typo in sysfs-bus-fcoe

Pali RohÃr (1):
Move freefall program from Documentation/ to tools/

Paul Gortmaker (3):
Documentation/vDSO: don't build tests when cross compiling
Documentation/prctl: don't build tsc tests when cross compiling
Documentation/mic/mpssd: don't build x86 userspace when cross compiling

Prarit Bhargava (1):
Documentation, intel_pstate: Improve legacy mode internal governors description

Rabin Vincent (1):
Documentation: tracing: fix grammar

Thomas de Beauchene (1):
Documentation: filesystems: updated struct file_operations documentation in vfs.txt

Wang Long (1):
Documentation: kasan: fix a typo

Wei Fang (1):
doc:md: fix typo in md.txt.

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-fcoe | 12 ++---
Documentation/CodingStyle | 2 +-
Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt | 4 +-
Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl | 2 +
Documentation/DocBook/scsi.tmpl | 2 +-
Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 4 +-
Documentation/arm/Samsung/Bootloader-interface.txt | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++
Documentation/arm/vlocks.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/blackfin/gptimers-example.c | 14 ++++--
Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt | 21 +++++----
Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/features/arch-support.txt | 11 +++++
.../features/core/BPF-JIT/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../core/generic-idle-thread/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/core/jump-labels/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/core/tracehook/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/debug/KASAN/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../debug/gcov-profile-all/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
Documentation/features/debug/kgdb/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../debug/kprobes-on-ftrace/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/debug/kprobes/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/debug/kretprobes/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/debug/optprobes/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/debug/stackprotector/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/debug/uprobes/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../debug/user-ret-profiler/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/io/dma-api-debug/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/io/dma-contiguous/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/io/dma_map_attrs/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/io/sg-chain/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/lib/strncasecmp/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
Documentation/features/list-arch.sh | 24 ++++++++++
.../locking/cmpxchg-local/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/locking/lockdep/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../locking/queued-rwlocks/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../locking/queued-spinlocks/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../locking/rwsem-optimized/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/perf/kprobes-event/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/perf/perf-regs/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/perf/perf-stackdump/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/sched/numa-balancing/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../seccomp/seccomp-filter/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../time/arch-tick-broadcast/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/time/clockevents/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../time/context-tracking/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/time/irq-time-acct/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../time/modern-timekeeping/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/time/virt-cpuacct/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/vm/ELF-ASLR/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/vm/PG_uncached/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
Documentation/features/vm/THP/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/vm/huge-vmap/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/vm/ioremap_prot/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/vm/numa-memblock/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../vm/pmdp_splitting_flush/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
.../features/vm/pte_special/arch-support.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++
Documentation/filesystems/porting | 8 ++--
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 3 +-
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 17 ++++---
Documentation/gpio/consumer.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/input/rotary-encoder.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/ja_JP/HOWTO | 2 +-
Documentation/kasan.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt | 9 ++--
Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 4 +-
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +-
Documentation/kmemleak.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/laptops/.gitignore | 1 -
Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX | 2 -
Documentation/laptops/Makefile | 2 +-
Documentation/magic-number.txt | 2 -
Documentation/md.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/mic/mpssd/Makefile | 2 +
Documentation/networking/fore200e.txt | 2 +-
.../networking/timestamping/txtimestamp.c | 4 +-
Documentation/nfc/nfc-hci.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/pps/pps.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/prctl/Makefile | 2 +
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt | 19 ++++++--
Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt | 4 +-
Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt | 12 +++--
Documentation/vDSO/Makefile | 2 +
Documentation/zh_CN/magic-number.txt | 2 -
firmware/README.AddingFirmware | 14 +++++-
tools/Makefile | 14 +++++-
tools/laptop/freefall/Makefile | 17 +++++++
.../laptops => tools/laptop/freefall}/freefall.c | 0
89 files changed, 1958 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/arm/Samsung/Bootloader-interface.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/core/BPF-JIT/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/core/generic-idle-thread/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/core/jump-labels/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/core/tracehook/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/debug/KASAN/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/debug/gcov-profile-all/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/debug/kgdb/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/debug/kprobes-on-ftrace/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/debug/kprobes/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/debug/kretprobes/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/debug/optprobes/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/debug/stackprotector/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/debug/uprobes/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/debug/user-ret-profiler/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/io/dma-api-debug/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/io/dma-contiguous/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/io/dma_map_attrs/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/io/sg-chain/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/lib/strncasecmp/arch-support.txt
create mode 100755 Documentation/features/list-arch.sh
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/locking/cmpxchg-local/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/locking/lockdep/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/locking/queued-rwlocks/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/locking/queued-spinlocks/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/locking/rwsem-optimized/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/perf/kprobes-event/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/perf/perf-regs/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/perf/perf-stackdump/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/sched/numa-balancing/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/seccomp/seccomp-filter/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/time/arch-tick-broadcast/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/time/clockevents/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/time/context-tracking/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/time/irq-time-acct/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/time/modern-timekeeping/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/time/virt-cpuacct/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/vm/ELF-ASLR/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/vm/PG_uncached/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/vm/THP/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/vm/huge-vmap/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/vm/ioremap_prot/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/vm/numa-memblock/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/vm/pmdp_splitting_flush/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/features/vm/pte_special/arch-support.txt
create mode 100644 tools/laptop/freefall/Makefile
rename {Documentation/laptops => tools/laptop/freefall}/freefall.c (100%)
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