Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Highlights this time around include:

   - A thrashing of SubmittingPatches to bring it out of the "send
     everything to Linus" era of kernel development.

   - A new document on completions from Nicholas McGuire

   - Lots of typo fixes, formatting improvements, corrections, build
     fixes, and more"

* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: (35 commits)
  Documentation: Fix the wrong command `echo -1 > set_ftrace_pid` for cleaning the filter.
  can-doc: Fixed a wrong filepath in can.txt
  Documentation: Fix trivial typo in comment.
  kgdb,docs: Fix typo and minor style issues
  Documentation: add description for FTRACE probe status
  doc: brief user documentation for completion
  Documentation/misc-devices/mei: Fix indentation of embedded code.
  Documentation/misc-devices/mei: Fix indentation of enumeration.
  Documentation/misc-devices/mei: Fix spacing around parentheses.
  Documentation/misc-devices/mei: Fix formatting of headings.
  Documentation: devicetree: Fix double words in Doumentation/devicetree
  Documentation: mm: Fix typo in vm.txt
  lockstat: Add documentation on contention and contenting points
  Documentation: fix blackfin gptimers-example build errors
  Fixes column alignment in table of contents entry 1.9 in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
  CodingStyle: enable emacs display of trailing whitespace
  DocBook: Do not exceed argument list limit
  gpio: board.txt: Fix the gpio name example
  Documentation/SubmittingPatches: unify whitespace/tabs for the DCO
  MAINTAINERS: Add the docs-next git tree to the maintainer entry
  ...

Documentation/00-INDEX

@@ -29,8 +29,6 @@ DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
 	- How to do DMA with ISA (and LPC) devices.
 DMA-attributes.txt
 	- listing of the various possible attributes a DMA region can have
-dmatest.txt
-	- how to compile, configure and use the dmatest system.
 DocBook/
 	- directory with DocBook templates etc. for kernel documentation.
 EDID/
@@ -163,8 +161,6 @@ digsig.txt
 	-info on the Digital Signature Verification API
 dma-buf-sharing.txt
 	- the DMA Buffer Sharing API Guide
-dmaengine.txt
-	-the DMA Engine API Guide
 dontdiff
 	- file containing a list of files that should never be diff'ed.
 driver-model/
@@ -209,6 +205,8 @@ hid/
 	- directory with information on human interface devices
 highuid.txt
 	- notes on the change from 16 bit to 32 bit user/group IDs.
+hsi.txt
+	- HSI subsystem overview.
 hwspinlock.txt
 	- hardware spinlock provides hardware assistance for synchronization
 timers/
@@ -277,6 +275,8 @@ kprobes.txt
 	- documents the kernel probes debugging feature.
 kref.txt
 	- docs on adding reference counters (krefs) to kernel objects.
+kselftest.txt
+	- small unittests for (some) individual codepaths in the kernel.
 laptops/
 	- directory with laptop related info and laptop driver documentation.
 ldm.txt
@@ -285,22 +285,22 @@ leds/
 	- directory with info about LED handling under Linux.
 local_ops.txt
 	- semantics and behavior of local atomic operations.
-lockdep-design.txt
-	- documentation on the runtime locking correctness validator.
 locking/
 	- directory with info about kernel locking primitives
-lockstat.txt
-	- info on collecting statistics on locks (and contention).
 lockup-watchdogs.txt
 	- info on soft and hard lockup detectors (aka nmi_watchdog).
 logo.gif
 	- full colour GIF image of Linux logo (penguin - Tux).
 logo.txt
 	- info on creator of above logo & site to get additional images from.
+lzo.txt
+	- kernel LZO decompressor input formats
 m68k/
 	- directory with info about Linux on Motorola 68k architecture.
 magic-number.txt
 	- list of magic numbers used to mark/protect kernel data structures.
+mailbox.txt
+	- How to write drivers for the common mailbox framework (IPC).
 md.txt
 	- info on boot arguments for the multiple devices driver.
 media-framework.txt
@@ -327,8 +327,6 @@ mtd/
 	- directory with info about memory technology devices (flash)
 mono.txt
 	- how to execute Mono-based .NET binaries with the help of BINFMT_MISC.
-mutex-design.txt
-	- info on the generic mutex subsystem.
 namespaces/
 	- directory with various information about namespaces
 netlabel/
@@ -395,10 +393,6 @@ robust-futexes.txt
 	- a description of what robust futexes are.
 rpmsg.txt
 	- info on the Remote Processor Messaging (rpmsg) Framework
-rt-mutex-design.txt
-	- description of the RealTime mutex implementation design.
-rt-mutex.txt
-	- desc. of RT-mutex subsystem with PI (Priority Inheritance) support.
 rtc.txt
 	- notes on how to use the Real Time Clock (aka CMOS clock) driver.
 s390/
@@ -425,8 +419,6 @@ sparse.txt
 	- info on how to obtain and use the sparse tool for typechecking.
 spi/
 	- overview of Linux kernel Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) support.
-spinlocks.txt
-	- info on using spinlocks to provide exclusive access in kernel.
 stable_api_nonsense.txt
 	- info on why the kernel does not have a stable in-kernel api or abi.
 stable_kernel_rules.txt
@@ -483,10 +475,10 @@ wimax/
 	- directory with info about Intel Wireless Wimax Connections
 workqueue.txt
 	- information on the Concurrency Managed Workqueue implementation
-ww-mutex-design.txt
-	- Intro to Mutex wait/would deadlock handling.s
 x86/x86_64/
 	- directory with info on Linux support for AMD x86-64 (Hammer) machines.
+xillybus.txt
+	- Overview and basic ui of xillybus driver
 xtensa/
 	- directory with documents relating to arch/xtensa port/implementation
 xz.txt

Documentation/Changes

@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ running a Linux kernel.  Also, not all tools are necessary on all
 systems; obviously, if you don't have any ISDN hardware, for example,
 you probably needn't concern yourself with isdn4k-utils.
 
-o  Gnu C                  3.2                     # gcc --version
-o  Gnu make               3.80                    # make --version
+o  GNU C                  3.2                     # gcc --version
+o  GNU make               3.80                    # make --version
 o  binutils               2.12                    # ld -v
 o  util-linux             2.10o                   # fdformat --version
 o  module-init-tools      0.9.10                  # depmod -V
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ computer.
 Make
 ----
 
-You will need Gnu make 3.80 or later to build the kernel.
+You will need GNU make 3.80 or later to build the kernel.
 
 Binutils
 --------

Documentation/CodingStyle

@@ -527,6 +527,7 @@ values.  To do the latter, you can stick the following in your .emacs file:
                          (string-match (expand-file-name "~/src/linux-trees")
                                        filename))
                 (setq indent-tabs-mode t)
+                (setq show-trailing-whitespace t)
                 (c-set-style "linux-tabs-only")))))
 
 This will make emacs go better with the kernel coding style for C

Documentation/DocBook/Makefile

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ htmldocs: $(HTML)
 
 MAN := $(patsubst %.xml, %.9, $(BOOKS))
 mandocs: $(MAN)
-	$(if $(wildcard $(obj)/man/*.9),gzip -f $(obj)/man/*.9)
+	find $(obj)/man -name '*.9' | xargs gzip -f
 
 installmandocs: mandocs
 	mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man9/

Documentation/DocBook/crypto-API.tmpl

@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
     <para>
      This specification is intended for consumers of the kernel crypto
      API as well as for developers implementing ciphers. This API
-     specification, however, does not discusses all API calls available
+     specification, however, does not discuss all API calls available
      to data transformation implementations (i.e. implementations of
      ciphers and other transformations (such as CRC or even compression
      algorithms) that can register with the kernel crypto API).

Documentation/DocBook/kgdb.tmpl

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
     a development machine and the other is the target machine.  The
     kernel to be debugged runs on the target machine. The development
     machine runs an instance of gdb against the vmlinux file which
-    contains the symbols (not boot image such as bzImage, zImage,
+    contains the symbols (not a boot image such as bzImage, zImage,
     uImage...).  In gdb the developer specifies the connection
     parameters and connects to kgdb.  The type of connection a
     developer makes with gdb depends on the availability of kgdb I/O
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
     <title>Kernel config options for kgdb</title>
     <para>
     To enable <symbol>CONFIG_KGDB</symbol> you should look under
-    "Kernel debugging" and select "KGDB: kernel debugger".
+    "Kernel hacking" / "Kernel debugging" and select "KGDB: kernel debugger".
     </para>
     <para>
     While it is not a hard requirement that you have symbols in your
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
     kernel with debug info" in the config menu.
     </para>
     <para>
-    It is advised, but not required that you turn on the
+    It is advised, but not required, that you turn on the
     <symbol>CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER</symbol> kernel option which is called "Compile the
     kernel with frame pointers" in the config menu.  This option
     inserts code to into the compiled executable which saves the frame
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
   <para>This section describes the various runtime kernel
   parameters that affect the configuration of the kernel debugger.
   The following chapter covers using kdb and kgdb as well as
-  provides some examples of the configuration parameters.</para>
+  providing some examples of the configuration parameters.</para>
    <sect1 id="kgdboc">
    <title>Kernel parameter: kgdboc</title>
    <para>The kgdboc driver was originally an abbreviation meant to
@@ -219,8 +219,8 @@
    <listitem><para>kbd = Keyboard</para></listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
    </para>
-   <para>You can configure kgdboc to use the keyboard, and or a serial
-   device depending on if you are using kdb and or kgdb, in one of the
+   <para>You can configure kgdboc to use the keyboard, and/or a serial
+   device depending on if you are using kdb and/or kgdb, in one of the
    following scenarios.  The order listed above must be observed if
    you use any of the optional configurations together.  Using kms +
    only gdb is generally not a useful combination.</para>
@@ -261,11 +261,8 @@
    </sect3>
    <sect3 id="kgdbocArgs3">
    <title>More examples</title>
-   <para>You can configure kgdboc to use the keyboard, and or a serial
-   device depending on if you are using kdb and or kgdb, in one of the
-   following scenarios.</para>
-   <para>You can configure kgdboc to use the keyboard, and or a serial device
-   depending on if you are using kdb and or kgdb, in one of the
+   <para>You can configure kgdboc to use the keyboard, and/or a serial device
+   depending on if you are using kdb and/or kgdb, in one of the
    following scenarios.
    <orderedlist>
    <listitem><para>kdb and kgdb over only a serial port</para>
@@ -315,7 +312,7 @@
    <para>
    The Kernel command line option <constant>kgdbwait</constant> makes
    kgdb wait for a debugger connection during booting of a kernel.  You
-   can only use this option you compiled a kgdb I/O driver into the
+   can only use this option if you compiled a kgdb I/O driver into the
    kernel and you specified the I/O driver configuration as a kernel
    command line option.  The kgdbwait parameter should always follow the
    configuration parameter for the kgdb I/O driver in the kernel
@@ -354,7 +351,7 @@
    </listitem>
    </orderedlist>
    <para>IMPORTANT NOTE: You cannot use kgdboc + kgdbcon on a tty that is an
-   active system console.  An example incorrect usage is <constant>console=ttyS0,115200 kgdboc=ttyS0 kgdbcon</constant>
+   active system console.  An example of incorrect usage is <constant>console=ttyS0,115200 kgdboc=ttyS0 kgdbcon</constant>
    </para>
    <para>It is possible to use this option with kgdboc on a tty that is not a system console.
    </para>
@@ -386,12 +383,12 @@
   <title>Quick start for kdb on a serial port</title>
   <para>This is a quick example of how to use kdb.</para>
   <para><orderedlist>
-  <listitem><para>Boot kernel with arguments:
+  <listitem><para>Configure kgdboc at boot using kernel parameters:
   <itemizedlist>
   <listitem><para><constant>console=ttyS0,115200 kgdboc=ttyS0,115200</constant></para></listitem>
   </itemizedlist></para>
   <para>OR</para>
-  <para>Configure kgdboc after the kernel booted; assuming you are using a serial port console:
+  <para>Configure kgdboc after the kernel has booted; assuming you are using a serial port console:
   <itemizedlist>
   <listitem><para><constant>echo ttyS0 &gt; /sys/module/kgdboc/parameters/kgdboc</constant></para></listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
@@ -442,12 +439,12 @@
   <title>Quick start for kdb using a keyboard connected console</title>
   <para>This is a quick example of how to use kdb with a keyboard.</para>
   <para><orderedlist>
-  <listitem><para>Boot kernel with arguments:
+  <listitem><para>Configure kgdboc at boot using kernel parameters:
   <itemizedlist>
   <listitem><para><constant>kgdboc=kbd</constant></para></listitem>
   </itemizedlist></para>
   <para>OR</para>
-  <para>Configure kgdboc after the kernel booted:
+  <para>Configure kgdboc after the kernel has booted:
   <itemizedlist>
   <listitem><para><constant>echo kbd &gt; /sys/module/kgdboc/parameters/kgdboc</constant></para></listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
@@ -501,12 +498,12 @@
   <title>Connecting with gdb to a serial port</title>
   <orderedlist>
   <listitem><para>Configure kgdboc</para>
-   <para>Boot kernel with arguments:
+   <para>Configure kgdboc at boot using kernel parameters:
    <itemizedlist>
     <listitem><para><constant>kgdboc=ttyS0,115200</constant></para></listitem>
    </itemizedlist></para>
    <para>OR</para>
-   <para>Configure kgdboc after the kernel booted:
+   <para>Configure kgdboc after the kernel has booted:
    <itemizedlist>
     <listitem><para><constant>echo ttyS0 &gt; /sys/module/kgdboc/parameters/kgdboc</constant></para></listitem>
    </itemizedlist></para>
@@ -536,7 +533,7 @@
   </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
-    <para>Connect from from gdb</para>
+    <para>Connect from gdb</para>
     <para>
     Example (using a directly connected port):
     </para>
@@ -584,7 +581,7 @@
   <para>
   There are two ways to switch from kgdb to kdb: you can use gdb to
   issue a maintenance packet, or you can blindly type the command $3#33.
-  Whenever kernel debugger stops in kgdb mode it will print the
+  Whenever the kernel debugger stops in kgdb mode it will print the
   message <constant>KGDB or $3#33 for KDB</constant>.  It is important
   to note that you have to type the sequence correctly in one pass.
   You cannot type a backspace or delete because kgdb will interpret
@@ -704,7 +701,7 @@ Task Addr       Pid   Parent [*] cpu State Thread     Command
       <listitem><para>Registration and unregistration of architecture specific trap hooks</para></listitem>
       <listitem><para>Any special exception handling and cleanup</para></listitem>
       <listitem><para>NMI exception handling and cleanup</para></listitem>
-      <listitem><para>(optional)HW breakpoints</para></listitem>
+      <listitem><para>(optional) HW breakpoints</para></listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
       </para>
       </listitem>
@@ -760,7 +757,7 @@ Task Addr       Pid   Parent [*] cpu State Thread     Command
       a kgdb I/O driver for characters when it needs input.  The I/O
       driver is expected to return immediately if there is no data
       available.  Doing so allows for the future possibility to touch
-      watch dog hardware in such a way as to have a target system not
+      watchdog hardware in such a way as to have a target system not
       reset when these are enabled.
       </para>
       </listitem>
@@ -783,10 +780,14 @@ Task Addr       Pid   Parent [*] cpu State Thread     Command
           NUMREGBYTES: The size in bytes of all of the registers, so
           that we can ensure they will all fit into a packet.
           </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
           <para>
           BUFMAX: The size in bytes of the buffer GDB will read into.
           This must be larger than NUMREGBYTES.
           </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
           <para>
           CACHE_FLUSH_IS_SAFE: Set to 1 if it is always safe to call
           flush_cache_range or flush_icache_range.  On some architectures,
@@ -812,8 +813,8 @@ Task Addr       Pid   Parent [*] cpu State Thread     Command
   <para>
   The kgdboc driver is actually a very thin driver that relies on the
   underlying low level to the hardware driver having "polling hooks"
-  which the to which the tty driver is attached.  In the initial
-  implementation of kgdboc it the serial_core was changed to expose a
+  to which the tty driver is attached.  In the initial
+  implementation of kgdboc the serial_core was changed to expose a
   low level UART hook for doing polled mode reading and writing of a
   single character while in an atomic context.  When kgdb makes an I/O
   request to the debugger, kgdboc invokes a callback in the serial

Documentation/arm/00-INDEX

@@ -2,11 +2,15 @@
 	- this file
 Booting
 	- requirements for booting
+CCN.txt
+	- Cache Coherent Network ring-bus and perf PMU driver.
 Interrupts
 	- ARM Interrupt subsystem documentation
 IXP4xx
 	- Intel IXP4xx Network processor.
-msm
+Makefile
+	- Build sourcefiles as part of the Documentation-build for arm
+msm/
 	- MSM specific documentation
 Netwinder
 	- Netwinder specific documentation
@@ -18,11 +22,9 @@ README
 	- General ARM documentation
 SA1100/
 	- SA1100 documentation
-Samsung-S3C24XX
+Samsung-S3C24XX/
 	- S3C24XX ARM Linux Overview
-Sharp-LH
-	- Linux on Sharp LH79524 and LH7A40X System On a Chip (SOC)
-SPEAr
+SPEAr/
 	- ST SPEAr platform Linux Overview
 VFP/
 	- Release notes for Linux Kernel Vector Floating Point support code

Documentation/blackfin/Makefile

 ifneq ($(CONFIG_BLACKFIN),)
+ifneq ($(CONFIG_BFIN_GPTIMERS,)
 obj-m := gptimers-example.o
 endif
+endif

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/msm/timer.txt

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Properties:
                "qcom,kpss-timer" - krait subsystem
                "qcom,scss-timer" - scorpion subsystem
 
-- interrupts : Interrupts for the the debug timer, the first general purpose
+- interrupts : Interrupts for the debug timer, the first general purpose
                timer, and optionally a second general purpose timer in that
                order.
 

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/cavium-compact-flash.txt

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Properties:
 
   Compatibility with many Cavium evaluation boards.
 
-- reg: The base address of the the CF chip select banks.  Depending on
+- reg: The base address of the CF chip select banks.  Depending on
   the device configuration, there may be one or two banks.
 
 - cavium,bus-width: The width of the connection to the CF devices.  Valid

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/c6x/dscr.txt

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ configuration register for writes. These configuration register may be used to
 enable (and disable in some cases) SoC pin drivers, select peripheral clock
 sources (internal or pin), etc. In some cases, a configuration register is
 write once or the individual bits are write once. In addition to device config,
-the DSCR block may provide registers which which are used to reset peripherals,
+the DSCR block may provide registers which are used to reset peripherals,
 provide device ID information, provide ethernet MAC addresses, as well as other
 miscellaneous functions.
 

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/renesas,rcar-dmac.txt

 * Renesas R-Car DMA Controller Device Tree bindings
 
-Renesas R-Car Generation 2 SoCs have have multiple multi-channel DMA
+Renesas R-Car Generation 2 SoCs have multiple multi-channel DMA
 controller instances named DMAC capable of serving multiple clients. Channels
 can be dedicated to specific clients or shared between a large number of
 clients.

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-pcf857x.txt

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Optional Properties:
   - lines-initial-states: Bitmask that specifies the initial state of each
   line. When a bit is set to zero, the corresponding line will be initialized to
   the input (pulled-up) state. When the  bit is set to one, the line will be
-  initialized the the low-level output state. If the property is not specified
+  initialized the low-level output state. If the property is not specified
   all lines will be initialized to the input state.
 
   The I/O expander can detect input state changes, and thus optionally act as

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/xilinx-xadc.txt

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Optional properties:
 	  Each child node represents one channel and has the following
 	  properties:
 		Required properties:
-			* reg: Pair of pins the the channel is connected to.
+			* reg: Pair of pins the channel is connected to.
 				0: VP/VN
 				1: VAUXP[0]/VAUXN[0]
 				2: VAUXP[1]/VAUXN[1]

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/fsmc-nand.txt

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Required properties:
 Optional properties:
 - bank-width : Width (in bytes) of the device.  If not present, the width
   defaults to 1 byte
-- nand-skip-bbtscan: Indicates the the BBT scanning should be skipped
+- nand-skip-bbtscan: Indicates the BBT scanning should be skipped
 - timings: array of 6 bytes for NAND timings. The meanings of these bytes
   are:
   byte 0 TCLR  : CLE to RE delay in number of AHB clock cycles, only 4 bits

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/broadcom-systemport.txt

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Required properties:
 - compatible: should be one of "brcm,systemport-v1.00" or "brcm,systemport"
 - reg: address and length of the register set for the device.
-- interrupts: interrupts for the device, first cell must be for the the rx
+- interrupts: interrupts for the device, first cell must be for the rx
   interrupts, and the second cell should be for the transmit queues. An
   optional third interrupt cell for Wake-on-LAN can be specified
 - local-mac-address: Ethernet MAC address (48 bits) of this adapter

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/rockchip-io-domain.txt

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Required properties:
 
 
 You specify supplies using the standard regulator bindings by including
-a phandle the the relevant regulator.  All specified supplies must be able
+a phandle the relevant regulator.  All specified supplies must be able
 to report their voltage.  The IO Voltage Domain for any non-specified
 supplies will be not be touched.
 

Documentation/devicetree/overlay-notes.txt

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ How overlays work
 -----------------
 
 A Device Tree's overlay purpose is to modify the kernel's live tree, and
-have the modification affecting the state of the the kernel in a way that
+have the modification affecting the state of the kernel in a way that
 is reflecting the changes.
 Since the kernel mainly deals with devices, any new device node that result
 in an active device should have it created while if the device node is either
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ result in foo+bar.dts
 	};
 ---- foo+bar.dts -------------------------------------------------------------
 
-As a result of the the overlay, a new device node (bar) has been created
+As a result of the overlay, a new device node (bar) has been created
 so a bar platform device will be registered and if a matching device driver
 is loaded the device will be created as expected.
 

Documentation/dmaengine/00-INDEX

+00-INDEX
+	- this file.
+client.txt
+	-the DMA Engine API Guide.
+dmatest.txt
+	- how to compile, configure and use the dmatest system.
+provider.txt
+	- the DMA controller API.
\ No newline at end of file

Documentation/driver-model/bus.txt

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ them are inherently bus-specific. Drivers typically declare an array
 of device IDs of devices they support that reside in a bus-specific
 driver structure. 
 
-The purpose of the match callback is provide the bus an opportunity to
+The purpose of the match callback is to give the bus an opportunity to
 determine if a particular driver supports a particular device by
 comparing the device IDs the driver supports with the device ID of a
 particular device, without sacrificing bus-specific functionality or

Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt

@@ -194,16 +194,16 @@ which is in the string esc will be represented in octal form in the output.
 
 There are also a pair of functions for printing filenames:
 
-	int seq_path(struct seq_file *m, struct path *path, char *esc);
-	int seq_path_root(struct seq_file *m, struct path *path,
-			  struct path *root, char *esc)
+	int seq_path(struct seq_file *m, const struct path *path,
+		     const char *esc);
+	int seq_path_root(struct seq_file *m, const struct path *path,
+			  const struct path *root, const char *esc)
 
 Here, path indicates the file of interest, and esc is a set of characters
 which should be escaped in the output.  A call to seq_path() will output
 the path relative to the current process's filesystem root.  If a different
-root is desired, it can be used with seq_path_root().  Note that, if it
-turns out that path cannot be reached from root, the value of root will be
-changed in seq_file_root() to a root which *does* work.
+root is desired, it can be used with seq_path_root().  If it turns out that
+path cannot be reached from root, seq_path_root() returns SEQ_SKIP.
 
 A function producing complicated output may want to check
 	bool seq_has_overflowed(struct seq_file *m);

Documentation/gpio/board.txt

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ through gpiod_get(). For example:
 			    <&gpio 16 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>, /* green */
 			    <&gpio 17 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; /* blue */
 
-		power-gpio = <&gpio 1 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
+		power-gpios = <&gpio 1 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
 	};
 
 This property will make GPIOs 15, 16 and 17 available to the driver under the

Documentation/kprobes.txt

@@ -702,7 +702,8 @@ a virtual address that is no longer valid (module init sections, module
 virtual addresses that correspond to modules that've been unloaded),
 such probes are marked with [GONE]. If the probe is temporarily disabled,
 such probes are marked with [DISABLED]. If the probe is optimized, it is
-marked with [OPTIMIZED].
+marked with [OPTIMIZED]. If the probe is ftrace-based, it is marked with
+[FTRACE].
 
 /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/enabled: Turn kprobes ON/OFF forcibly.
 

Documentation/locking/00-INDEX

+00-INDEX
+	- this file.
+lockdep-design.txt
+	- documentation on the runtime locking correctness validator.
+lockstat.txt
+	- info on collecting statistics on locks (and contention).
+mutex-design.txt
+	- info on the generic mutex subsystem.
+rt-mutex-design.txt
+	- description of the RealTime mutex implementation design.
+rt-mutex.txt
+	- desc. of RT-mutex subsystem with PI (Priority Inheritance) support.
+spinlocks.txt
+	- info on using spinlocks to provide exclusive access in kernel.
+ww-mutex-design.txt
+	- Intro to Mutex wait/would deadlock handling.s

Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt

@@ -121,6 +121,11 @@ show the header with column descriptions. Lines 05-18 and 20-31 show the actual
 statistics. These statistics come in two parts; the actual stats separated by a
 short separator (line 08, 13) from the contention points.
 
+Lines 09-12 show the first 4 recorded contention points (the code
+which tries to get the lock) and lines 14-17 show the first 4 recorded
+contended points (the lock holder). It is possible that the max
+con-bounces point is missing in the statistics.
+
 The first lock (05-18) is a read/write lock, and shows two lines above the
 short separator. The contention points don't match the column descriptors,
 they have two: contentions and [<IP>] symbol. The second set of contention

Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-client-bus.txt

 Intel(R) Management Engine (ME) Client bus API
-===============================================
+==============================================
 
 
 Rationale
 =========
+
 MEI misc character device is useful for dedicated applications to send and receive
 data to the many FW appliance found in Intel's ME from the user space.
 However for some of the ME functionalities it make sense to leverage existing software
@@ -17,7 +18,8 @@ the existing code.
 
 
 MEI CL bus API
-===========
+==============
+
 A driver implementation for an MEI Client is very similar to existing bus
 based device drivers. The driver registers itself as an MEI CL bus driver through
 the mei_cl_driver structure:
@@ -55,6 +57,7 @@ received buffers.
 
 Example
 =======
+
 As a theoretical example let's pretend the ME comes with a "contact" NFC IP.
 The driver init and exit routines for this device would look like:
 
@@ -109,7 +112,7 @@ int contact_probe(struct mei_cl_device *dev, struct mei_cl_device_id *id)
 	mei_cl_register_event_cb(dev, contact_event_cb, contact);
 
 	return 0;
- }
+}
 
 In the probe routine the driver first enable the MEI device and then registers
 an ME bus event handler which is as close as it can get to registering a

Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei.txt

 Intel(R) Management Engine Interface (Intel(R) MEI)
-=======================
+===================================================
 
 Introduction
-=======================
+============
 
 The Intel Management Engine (Intel ME) is an isolated and protected computing
 resource (Co-processor) residing inside certain Intel chipsets. The Intel ME
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ each client has its own protocol. The protocol is message-based with a
 header and payload up to 512 bytes.
 
 Prominent usage of the Intel ME Interface is to communicate with Intel(R)
-Active Management Technology (Intel AMT)implemented in firmware running on
+Active Management Technology (Intel AMT) implemented in firmware running on
 the Intel ME.
 
 Intel AMT provides the ability to manage a host remotely out-of-band (OOB)
@@ -44,8 +44,9 @@ HTTP/S that are received from a remote management console application.
 For more information about Intel AMT:
 http://software.intel.com/sites/manageability/AMT_Implementation_and_Reference_Guide
 
+
 Intel MEI Driver
-=======================
+================
 
 The driver exposes a misc device called /dev/mei.
 
@@ -91,8 +92,10 @@ A code snippet for an application communicating with Intel AMTHI client:
 	[...]
 	close(fd);
 
-IOCTL:
-======
+
+IOCTL
+=====
+
 The Intel MEI Driver supports the following IOCTL command:
 	IOCTL_MEI_CONNECT_CLIENT	Connect to firmware Feature (client).
 
@@ -122,10 +125,11 @@ The Intel MEI Driver supports the following IOCTL command:
         data that can be sent or received. (e.g. if MTU=2K, can send
         requests up to bytes 2k and received responses up to 2k bytes).
 
-Intel ME Applications:
-==============
 
-1) Intel Local Management Service (Intel LMS)
+Intel ME Applications
+=====================
+
+	1) Intel Local Management Service (Intel LMS)
 
 	   Applications running locally on the platform communicate with Intel AMT Release
 	   2.0 and later releases in the same way that network applications do via SOAP
@@ -146,17 +150,18 @@ Intel ME Applications:
 
 	   The Intel LMS opens a connection using the Intel MEI driver to the Intel LMS
 	   firmware feature using a defined UUID and then communicates with the feature
-	using a protocol called Intel AMT Port Forwarding Protocol(Intel APF protocol).
+	   using a protocol called Intel AMT Port Forwarding Protocol (Intel APF protocol).
 	   The protocol is used to maintain multiple sessions with Intel AMT from a
 	   single application.
 
-	See the protocol specification in the Intel AMT Software Development Kit(SDK)
+	   See the protocol specification in the Intel AMT Software Development Kit (SDK)
 	   http://software.intel.com/sites/manageability/AMT_Implementation_and_Reference_Guide
-	Under "SDK Resources" => "Intel(R) vPro(TM) Gateway(MPS)"
+	   Under "SDK Resources" => "Intel(R) vPro(TM) Gateway (MPS)"
 	   => "Information for Intel(R) vPro(TM) Gateway Developers"
-	=> "Description of the Intel AMT Port Forwarding (APF)Protocol"
+	   => "Description of the Intel AMT Port Forwarding (APF) Protocol"
 
 	2) Intel AMT Remote configuration using a Local Agent
+
 	   A Local Agent enables IT personnel to configure Intel AMT out-of-the-box
 	   without requiring installing additional data to enable setup. The remote
 	   configuration process may involve an ISV-developed remote configuration
@@ -172,8 +177,9 @@ Intel ME Applications:
 	   http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/download-the-latest-intel-amt-open-source-drivers/
 
 
-Intel AMT OS Health Watchdog:
-=============================
+Intel AMT OS Health Watchdog
+============================
+
 The Intel AMT Watchdog is an OS Health (Hang/Crash) watchdog.
 Whenever the OS hangs or crashes, Intel AMT will send an event
 to any subscriber to this event. This mechanism means that
@@ -192,8 +198,10 @@ watchdog is 120 seconds.
 If the Intel AMT Watchdog feature does not exist (i.e. the connection failed),
 the Intel MEI driver will disable the sending of heartbeats.
 
-Supported Chipsets:
+
+Supported Chipsets
 ==================
+
 7 Series Chipset Family
 6 Series Chipset Family
 5 Series Chipset Family

Documentation/networking/00-INDEX

 00-INDEX
 	- this file
-3c505.txt
-	- information on the 3Com EtherLink Plus (3c505) driver.
 3c509.txt
 	- information on the 3Com Etherlink III Series Ethernet cards.
 6pack.txt
@@ -24,6 +22,8 @@ README.sb1000
 	- info on General Instrument/NextLevel SURFboard1000 cable modem.
 alias.txt
 	- info on using alias network devices.
+altera_tse.txt
+	- Altera Triple-Speed Ethernet controller.
 arcnet-hardware.txt
 	- tons of info on ARCnet, hubs, jumper settings for ARCnet cards, etc.
 arcnet.txt
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ bridge.txt
 	- where to get user space programs for ethernet bridging with Linux.
 can.txt
 	- documentation on CAN protocol family.
+cdc_mbim.txt
+	- 3G/LTE USB modem (Mobile Broadband Interface Model)
 cops.txt
 	- info on the COPS LocalTalk Linux driver
 cs89x0.txt
@@ -54,6 +56,8 @@ cxgb.txt
 	- Release Notes for the Chelsio N210 Linux device driver.
 dccp.txt
 	- the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) (RFC 4340..42).
+dctcp.txt
+	- DataCenter TCP congestion control
 de4x5.txt
 	- the Digital EtherWORKS DE4?? and DE5?? PCI Ethernet driver
 decnet.txt

Documentation/networking/can.txt

@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ solution for a couple of reasons:
   mechanisms. Inside this filter definition the (interested) type of
   errors may be selected. The reception of error messages is disabled
   by default. The format of the CAN error message frame is briefly
-  described in the Linux header file "include/linux/can/error.h".
+  described in the Linux header file "include/uapi/linux/can/error.h".
 
 4. How to use SocketCAN
 ------------------------

Documentation/scheduler/completion.txt

+completions - wait for completion handling
+==========================================
+
+This document was originally written based on 3.18.0 (linux-next)
+
+Introduction:
+-------------
+
+If you have one or more threads of execution that must wait for some process
+to have reached a point or a specific state, completions can provide a race
+free solution to this problem. Semantically they are somewhat like a
+pthread_barriers and have similar use-cases.
+
+Completions are a code synchronization mechanism that is preferable to any
+misuse of locks. Any time you think of using yield() or some quirky
+msleep(1); loop to allow something else to proceed, you probably want to
+look into using one of the wait_for_completion*() calls instead. The
+advantage of using completions is clear intent of the code but also more
+efficient code as both threads can continue until the result is actually
+needed.
+
+Completions are built on top of the generic event infrastructure in Linux,
+with the event reduced to a simple flag appropriately called "done" in
+struct completion, that tells the waiting threads of execution if they
+can continue safely.
+
+As completions are scheduling related the code is found in
+kernel/sched/completion.c - for details on completion design and
+implementation see completions-design.txt
+
+
+Usage:
+------
+
+There are three parts to the using completions, the initialization of the
+struct completion, the waiting part through a call to one of the variants of
+wait_for_completion() and the signaling side through a call to complete(),
+or complete_all(). Further there are some helper functions for checking the
+state of completions.
+
+To use completions one needs to include <linux/completion.h> and
+create a variable of type struct completion. The structure used for
+handling of completions is:
+
+	struct completion {
+		unsigned int done;
+		wait_queue_head_t wait;
+	};
+
+providing the wait queue to place tasks on for waiting and the flag for
+indicating the state of affairs.
+
+Completions should be named to convey the intent of the waiter.  A good
+example is:
+
+	wait_for_completion(&early_console_added);
+
+	complete(&early_console_added);
+
+Good naming (as always) helps code readability.
+
+
+Initializing completions:
+-------------------------
+
+Initialization of dynamically allocated completions, often embedded in
+other structures, is done with:
+
+	void init_completion(&done);
+
+Initialization is accomplished by initializing the wait queue and setting
+the default state to "not available", that is, "done" is set to 0.
+
+The re-initialization function, reinit_completion(), simply resets the
+done element to "not available", thus again to 0, without touching the
+wait queue. Calling init_completion() on the same completions object is
+most likely a bug as it re-initializes the queue to an empty queue and
+enqueued tasks could get "lost" - use reinit_completion() in that case.
+
+For static declaration and initialization, macros are available. These are:
+
+	static DECLARE_COMPLETION(setup_done)
+
+used for static declarations in file scope. Within functions the static
+initialization should always use:
+
+	DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(setup_done)
+
+suitable for automatic/local variables on the stack and will make lockdep
+happy. Note also that one needs to making *sure* the completion passt to
+work threads remains in-scope, and no references remain to on-stack data
+when the initiating function returns.
+
+
+Waiting for completions:
+------------------------
+
+For a thread of execution to wait for some concurrent work to finish, it
+calls wait_for_completion() on the initialized completion structure.
+A typical usage scenario is:
+
+	structure completion setup_done;
+	init_completion(&setup_done);
+	initialze_work(...,&setup_done,...)
+
+	/* run non-dependent code */              /* do setup */
+
+	wait_for_completion(&seupt_done);         complete(setup_done)
+
+This is not implying any temporal order of wait_for_completion() and the
+call to complete() - if the call to complete() happened before the call
+to wait_for_completion() then the waiting side simply will continue
+immediately as all dependencies are satisfied.
+
+Note that wait_for_completion() is calling spin_lock_irq/spin_unlock_irq
+so it can only be called safely when you know that interrupts are enabled.
+Calling it from hard-irq context will result in hard to detect spurious
+enabling of interrupts.
+
+wait_for_completion():
+
+	void wait_for_completion(struct completion *done):
+
+The default behavior is to wait without a timeout and mark the task as
+uninterruptible. wait_for_completion() and its variants are only safe
+in soft-interrupt or process context but not in hard-irq context.
+As all variants of wait_for_completion() can (obviously) block for a long
+time, you probably don't want to call this with held locks - see also
+try_wait_for_completion() below.
+
+
+Variants available:
+-------------------
+
+The below variants all return status and this status should be checked in
+most(/all) cases - in cases where the status is deliberately not checked you
+probably want to make a note explaining this (e.g. see
+arch/arm/kernel/smp.c:__cpu_up()).
+
+A common problem that occurs is to have unclean assignment of return types,
+so care should be taken with assigning return-values to variables of proper
+type. Checking for the specific meaning of return values also has been found
+to be quite inaccurate e.g. constructs like
+if(!wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(...)) would execute the same
+code path for successful completion and for the interrupted case - which is
+probably not what you want.
+
+	int wait_for_completion_interruptible(struct completion *done)
+
+marking the task TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE. If a signal was received while waiting.
+It will return -ERESTARTSYS and 0 otherwise.
+
+	unsigned long wait_for_completion_timeout(struct completion *done,
+		unsigned long timeout)
+
+The task is marked as TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE and will wait at most timeout
+(in jiffies). If timeout occurs it return 0 else the remaining time in
+jiffies (but at least 1). Timeouts are preferably passed by msecs_to_jiffies()
+or usecs_to_jiffies(). If the returned timeout value is deliberately ignored
+a comment should probably explain why (e.g. see drivers/mfd/wm8350-core.c
+wm8350_read_auxadc())
+
+	long wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(
+		struct completion *done, unsigned long timeout)
+
+passing a timeout in jiffies and marking the task as TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE. If a
+signal was received it will return -ERESTARTSYS, 0 if completion timed-out and
+the remaining time in jiffies if completion occurred.
+
+Further variants include _killable which passes TASK_KILLABLE as the
+designated tasks state and will return a -ERESTARTSYS if interrupted or
+else 0 if completions was achieved as well as a _timeout variant.
+
+	long wait_for_completion_killable(struct completion *done)
+	long wait_for_completion_killable_timeout(struct completion *done,
+		unsigned long timeout)
+
+The _io variants wait_for_completion_io behave the same as the non-_io
+variants, except for accounting waiting time as waiting on IO, which has
+an impact on how scheduling is calculated.
+
+	void wait_for_completion_io(struct completion *done)
+	unsigned long wait_for_completion_io_timeout(struct completion *done
+		unsigned long timeout)
+
+
+Signaling completions:
+----------------------
+
+A thread of execution that wants to signal that the conditions for
+continuation have been achieved calls complete() to signal exactly one
+of the waiters that it can continue.
+
+	void complete(struct completion *done)
+
+or calls complete_all to signal all current and future waiters.
+
+	void complete_all(struct completion *done)
+
+The signaling will work as expected even if completions are signaled before
+a thread starts waiting. This is achieved by the waiter "consuming"
+(decrementing) the done element of struct completion. Waiting threads
+wakeup order is the same in which they were enqueued (FIFO order).
+
+If complete() is called multiple times then this will allow for that number
+of waiters to continue - each call to complete() will simply increment the
+done element. Calling complete_all() multiple times is a bug though. Both
+complete() and complete_all() can be called in hard-irq context safely.
+
+There only can be one thread calling complete() or complete_all() on a
+particular struct completions at any time - serialized through the wait
+queue spinlock. Any such concurrent calls to complete() or complete_all()
+probably are a design bug.
+
+Signaling completion from hard-irq context is fine as it will appropriately
+lock with spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_irqrestore.
+
+
+try_wait_for_completion()/completion_done():
+--------------------------------------------
+
+The try_wait_for_completion will not put the thread on the wait queue but
+rather returns false if it would need to enqueue (block) the thread, else it
+consumes any posted completions and returns true.
+
+     bool try_wait_for_completion(struct completion *done)
+
+Finally to check state of a completions without changing it in any way is
+provided by completion_done() returning false if there are any posted
+completion that was not yet consumed by waiters implying that there are
+waiters and true otherwise;
+
+     bool completion_done(struct completion *done)
+
+Both try_wait_for_completion() and completion_done() are safe to be called in
+hard-irq context.

Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt

@@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ The default value is 60.
 
 - user_reserve_kbytes
 
-When overcommit_memory is set to 2, "never overommit" mode, reserve
+When overcommit_memory is set to 2, "never overcommit" mode, reserve
 min(3% of current process size, user_reserve_kbytes) of free memory.
 This is intended to prevent a user from starting a single memory hogging
 process, such that they cannot recover (kill the hog).

Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt

@@ -1740,7 +1740,7 @@ no pid
      yum-updatesd-3111  [003]  1637.254683: lock_hrtimer_base <-hrtimer_try_to_cancel
      yum-updatesd-3111  [003]  1637.254685: fget_light <-do_sys_poll
      yum-updatesd-3111  [003]  1637.254686: pipe_poll <-do_sys_poll
-# echo -1 > set_ftrace_pid
+# echo > set_ftrace_pid
 # cat trace |head
  # tracer: function
  #

MAINTAINERS

@@ -3226,6 +3226,7 @@ F:	Documentation/
 X:	Documentation/ABI/
 X:	Documentation/devicetree/
 X:	Documentation/[a-z][a-z]_[A-Z][A-Z]/
+T:	git git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6.git docs-next
 
 DOUBLETALK DRIVER
 M:	"James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>