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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2012-05-14 21:35:09 +0200
committerArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2012-05-14 21:35:09 +0200
commit86e43a7aff23ce828273cbef6b0d2b0abe095ac8 (patch)
treee49b55bd229fe8d77831ef11e218ed7dda3e991b /Documentation
parent6ec4ed82e9cf2ee5c83fd529af69b2c63b004809 (diff)
parentace1297f7222ec5d6a33f41e792a21e999551924 (diff)
Merge branch 'dt' of git://github.com/hzhuang1/linux into next/dt
* 'dt' of git://github.com/hzhuang1/linux: Documentation: update docs for mmp dt ARM: dts: refresh dts file for arch mmp ARM: mmp: support pxa910 with device tree ARM: mmp: support mmp2 with device tree gpio: pxa: parse gpio from DTS file ARM: mmp: support DT in timer ARM: mmp: support DT in irq ARM: mmp: append CONFIG_MACH_MMP2_DT ARM: mmp: fix build issue on mmp with device tree Includes an update to v3-4-rc5 Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-hsi19
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mrvl/intc.txt40
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mrvl/mrvl.txt (renamed from Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mrvl.txt)8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mrvl/timer.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/mrvl-gpio.txt18
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/mrvl-i2c.txt15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt37
-rw-r--r--Documentation/security/keys.txt14
8 files changed, 130 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-hsi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-hsi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1b1b282a99e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-hsi
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+What: /sys/bus/hsi
+Date: April 2012
+KernelVersion: 3.4
+Contact: Carlos Chinea <carlos.chinea@nokia.com>
+Description:
+ High Speed Synchronous Serial Interface (HSI) is a
+ serial interface mainly used for connecting application
+ engines (APE) with cellular modem engines (CMT) in cellular
+ handsets.
+ The bus will be populated with devices (hsi_clients) representing
+ the protocols available in the system. Bus drivers implement
+ those protocols.
+
+What: /sys/bus/hsi/devices/.../modalias
+Date: April 2012
+KernelVersion: 3.4
+Contact: Carlos Chinea <carlos.chinea@nokia.com>
+Description: Stores the same MODALIAS value emitted by uevent
+ Format: hsi:<hsi_client device name>
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mrvl/intc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mrvl/intc.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..80b9a94d9a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mrvl/intc.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+* Marvell MMP Interrupt controller
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible : Should be "mrvl,mmp-intc", "mrvl,mmp2-intc" or
+ "mrvl,mmp2-mux-intc"
+- reg : Address and length of the register set of the interrupt controller.
+ If the interrupt controller is intc, address and length means the range
+ of the whold interrupt controller. If the interrupt controller is mux-intc,
+ address and length means one register. Since address of mux-intc is in the
+ range of intc. mux-intc is secondary interrupt controller.
+- reg-names : Name of the register set of the interrupt controller. It's
+ only required in mux-intc interrupt controller.
+- interrupts : Should be the port interrupt shared by mux interrupts. It's
+ only required in mux-intc interrupt controller.
+- interrupt-controller : Identifies the node as an interrupt controller.
+- #interrupt-cells : Specifies the number of cells needed to encode an
+ interrupt source.
+- mrvl,intc-nr-irqs : Specifies the number of interrupts in the interrupt
+ controller.
+- mrvl,clr-mfp-irq : Specifies the interrupt that needs to clear MFP edge
+ detection first.
+
+Example:
+ intc: interrupt-controller@d4282000 {
+ compatible = "mrvl,mmp2-intc";
+ interrupt-controller;
+ #interrupt-cells = <1>;
+ reg = <0xd4282000 0x1000>;
+ mrvl,intc-nr-irqs = <64>;
+ };
+
+ intcmux4@d4282150 {
+ compatible = "mrvl,mmp2-mux-intc";
+ interrupts = <4>;
+ interrupt-controller;
+ #interrupt-cells = <1>;
+ reg = <0x150 0x4>, <0x168 0x4>;
+ reg-names = "mux status", "mux mask";
+ mrvl,intc-nr-irqs = <2>;
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mrvl.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mrvl/mrvl.txt
index d8de933e9d8..117d741a2e4 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mrvl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mrvl/mrvl.txt
@@ -4,3 +4,11 @@ Marvell Platforms Device Tree Bindings
PXA168 Aspenite Board
Required root node properties:
- compatible = "mrvl,pxa168-aspenite", "mrvl,pxa168";
+
+PXA910 DKB Board
+Required root node properties:
+ - compatible = "mrvl,pxa910-dkb";
+
+MMP2 Brownstone Board
+Required root node properties:
+ - compatible = "mrvl,mmp2-brownstone";
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mrvl/timer.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mrvl/timer.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9a6e251462e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/mrvl/timer.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+* Marvell MMP Timer controller
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible : Should be "mrvl,mmp-timer".
+- reg : Address and length of the register set of timer controller.
+- interrupts : Should be the interrupt number.
+
+Example:
+ timer0: timer@d4014000 {
+ compatible = "mrvl,mmp-timer";
+ reg = <0xd4014000 0x100>;
+ interrupts = <13>;
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/mrvl-gpio.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/mrvl-gpio.txt
index 1e34cfe5ebe..05428f39d9a 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/mrvl-gpio.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/mrvl-gpio.txt
@@ -3,19 +3,25 @@
Required properties:
- compatible : Should be "mrvl,pxa-gpio" or "mrvl,mmp-gpio"
- reg : Address and length of the register set for the device
-- interrupts : Should be the port interrupt shared by all gpio pins, if
-- interrupt-name : Should be the name of irq resource.
- one number.
+- interrupts : Should be the port interrupt shared by all gpio pins.
+ There're three gpio interrupts in arch-pxa, and they're gpio0,
+ gpio1 and gpio_mux. There're only one gpio interrupt in arch-mmp,
+ gpio_mux.
+- interrupt-name : Should be the name of irq resource. Each interrupt
+ binds its interrupt-name.
+- interrupt-controller : Identifies the node as an interrupt controller.
+- #interrupt-cells: Specifies the number of cells needed to encode an
+ interrupt source.
- gpio-controller : Marks the device node as a gpio controller.
- #gpio-cells : Should be one. It is the pin number.
Example:
gpio: gpio@d4019000 {
- compatible = "mrvl,mmp-gpio", "mrvl,pxa-gpio";
+ compatible = "mrvl,mmp-gpio";
reg = <0xd4019000 0x1000>;
- interrupts = <49>, <17>, <18>;
- interrupt-name = "gpio_mux", "gpio0", "gpio1";
+ interrupts = <49>;
+ interrupt-name = "gpio_mux";
gpio-controller;
#gpio-cells = <1>;
interrupt-controller;
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/mrvl-i2c.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/mrvl-i2c.txt
index 071eb3caae9..b891ee21835 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/mrvl-i2c.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/mrvl-i2c.txt
@@ -3,34 +3,31 @@
Required properties :
- reg : Offset and length of the register set for the device
- - compatible : should be "mrvl,mmp-twsi" where CHIP is the name of a
+ - compatible : should be "mrvl,mmp-twsi" where mmp is the name of a
compatible processor, e.g. pxa168, pxa910, mmp2, mmp3.
For the pxa2xx/pxa3xx, an additional node "mrvl,pxa-i2c" is required
as shown in the example below.
Recommended properties :
- - interrupts : <a b> where a is the interrupt number and b is a
- field that represents an encoding of the sense and level
- information for the interrupt. This should be encoded based on
- the information in section 2) depending on the type of interrupt
- controller you have.
+ - interrupts : the interrupt number
- interrupt-parent : the phandle for the interrupt controller that
- services interrupts for this device.
+ services interrupts for this device. If the parent is the default
+ interrupt controller in device tree, it could be ignored.
- mrvl,i2c-polling : Disable interrupt of i2c controller. Polling
status register of i2c controller instead.
- mrvl,i2c-fast-mode : Enable fast mode of i2c controller.
Examples:
twsi1: i2c@d4011000 {
- compatible = "mrvl,mmp-twsi", "mrvl,pxa-i2c";
+ compatible = "mrvl,mmp-twsi";
reg = <0xd4011000 0x1000>;
interrupts = <7>;
mrvl,i2c-fast-mode;
};
twsi2: i2c@d4025000 {
- compatible = "mrvl,mmp-twsi", "mrvl,pxa-i2c";
+ compatible = "mrvl,mmp-twsi";
reg = <0xd4025000 0x1000>;
interrupts = <58>;
};
diff --git a/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt b/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt
index ec715cd78fb..6ec291ea1c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ architectures).
II. How does it work?
-There are four per-task flags used for that, PF_NOFREEZE, PF_FROZEN, TIF_FREEZE
+There are three per-task flags used for that, PF_NOFREEZE, PF_FROZEN
and PF_FREEZER_SKIP (the last one is auxiliary). The tasks that have
PF_NOFREEZE unset (all user space processes and some kernel threads) are
regarded as 'freezable' and treated in a special way before the system enters a
@@ -17,30 +17,31 @@ suspend state as well as before a hibernation image is created (in what follows
we only consider hibernation, but the description also applies to suspend).
Namely, as the first step of the hibernation procedure the function
-freeze_processes() (defined in kernel/power/process.c) is called. It executes
-try_to_freeze_tasks() that sets TIF_FREEZE for all of the freezable tasks and
-either wakes them up, if they are kernel threads, or sends fake signals to them,
-if they are user space processes. A task that has TIF_FREEZE set, should react
-to it by calling the function called __refrigerator() (defined in
-kernel/freezer.c), which sets the task's PF_FROZEN flag, changes its state
-to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE and makes it loop until PF_FROZEN is cleared for it.
-Then, we say that the task is 'frozen' and therefore the set of functions
-handling this mechanism is referred to as 'the freezer' (these functions are
-defined in kernel/power/process.c, kernel/freezer.c & include/linux/freezer.h).
-User space processes are generally frozen before kernel threads.
+freeze_processes() (defined in kernel/power/process.c) is called. A system-wide
+variable system_freezing_cnt (as opposed to a per-task flag) is used to indicate
+whether the system is to undergo a freezing operation. And freeze_processes()
+sets this variable. After this, it executes try_to_freeze_tasks() that sends a
+fake signal to all user space processes, and wakes up all the kernel threads.
+All freezable tasks must react to that by calling try_to_freeze(), which
+results in a call to __refrigerator() (defined in kernel/freezer.c), which sets
+the task's PF_FROZEN flag, changes its state to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE and makes
+it loop until PF_FROZEN is cleared for it. Then, we say that the task is
+'frozen' and therefore the set of functions handling this mechanism is referred
+to as 'the freezer' (these functions are defined in kernel/power/process.c,
+kernel/freezer.c & include/linux/freezer.h). User space processes are generally
+frozen before kernel threads.
__refrigerator() must not be called directly. Instead, use the
try_to_freeze() function (defined in include/linux/freezer.h), that checks
-the task's TIF_FREEZE flag and makes the task enter __refrigerator() if the
-flag is set.
+if the task is to be frozen and makes the task enter __refrigerator().
For user space processes try_to_freeze() is called automatically from the
signal-handling code, but the freezable kernel threads need to call it
explicitly in suitable places or use the wait_event_freezable() or
wait_event_freezable_timeout() macros (defined in include/linux/freezer.h)
-that combine interruptible sleep with checking if TIF_FREEZE is set and calling
-try_to_freeze(). The main loop of a freezable kernel thread may look like the
-following one:
+that combine interruptible sleep with checking if the task is to be frozen and
+calling try_to_freeze(). The main loop of a freezable kernel thread may look
+like the following one:
set_freezable();
do {
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ following one:
(from drivers/usb/core/hub.c::hub_thread()).
If a freezable kernel thread fails to call try_to_freeze() after the freezer has
-set TIF_FREEZE for it, the freezing of tasks will fail and the entire
+initiated a freezing operation, the freezing of tasks will fail and the entire
hibernation operation will be cancelled. For this reason, freezable kernel
threads must call try_to_freeze() somewhere or use one of the
wait_event_freezable() and wait_event_freezable_timeout() macros.
diff --git a/Documentation/security/keys.txt b/Documentation/security/keys.txt
index 78771709142..d389acd31e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/keys.txt
+++ b/Documentation/security/keys.txt
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ KEY SERVICE OVERVIEW
The key service provides a number of features besides keys:
- (*) The key service defines two special key types:
+ (*) The key service defines three special key types:
(+) "keyring"
@@ -137,6 +137,18 @@ The key service provides a number of features besides keys:
blobs of data. These can be created, updated and read by userspace,
and aren't intended for use by kernel services.
+ (+) "logon"
+
+ Like a "user" key, a "logon" key has a payload that is an arbitrary
+ blob of data. It is intended as a place to store secrets which are
+ accessible to the kernel but not to userspace programs.
+
+ The description can be arbitrary, but must be prefixed with a non-zero
+ length string that describes the key "subclass". The subclass is
+ separated from the rest of the description by a ':'. "logon" keys can
+ be created and updated from userspace, but the payload is only
+ readable from kernel space.
+
(*) Each process subscribes to three keyrings: a thread-specific keyring, a
process-specific keyring, and a session-specific keyring.