- Numerous minor fixes, cleanups etc. - More EEH work from Gavin to remove its dependency on device_nodes. - Memory hotplug implemented entirely in the kernel from Nathan Fontenot. - Removal of redundant CONFIG_PPC_OF by Kevin Hao. - Rewrite of VPHN parsing logic & tests from Greg Kurz. - A fix from Nish Aravamudan to reduce memory usage by clamping nodes_possible_map. - Support for pstore on powernv from Hari Bathini. - Removal of old powerpc specific byte swap routines by David Gibson. - Fix from Vasant Hegde to prevent the flash driver telling you it was flashing your firmware when it wasn't. - Patch from Ben Herrenschmidt to add an OPAL heartbeat driver. - Fix for an oops causing get/put_cpu_var() imbalance in perf by Jan Stancek. - Some fixes for migration from Tyrel Datwyler. - A new syscall to switch the cpu endian by Michael Ellerman. - Large series from Wei Yang to implement SRIOV, reviewed and acked by Bjorn. - A fix for the OPAL sensor driver from Cédric Le Goater. - Fixes to get STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS building again by Michael Ellerman. - Large series from Daniel Axtens to make our PCI hooks per PHB rather than per machine. - Small patch from Sam Bobroff to explicitly abort non-suspended transactions on syscalls, plus a test to exercise it. - Numerous reworks and fixes for the 24x7 PMU from Sukadev Bhattiprolu. - Small patch to enable the hard lockup detector from Anton Blanchard. - Fix from Dave Olson for missing L2 cache information on some CPUs. - Some fixes from Michael Ellerman to get Cell machines booting again. - Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include BMan device tree nodes, an MSI erratum workaround, a couple minor performance improvements, config updates, and misc fixes/cleanup. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJVL2cxAAoJEFHr6jzI4aWAR8cP/19VTo/CzCE4ffPSx7qR464n F+WFZcbNjIMXu6+B0YLuJZEsuWtKKrCit/MCg3+mSgE4iqvxmtI+HDD0445Buszj UD4E4HMdPrXQ+KUSUDORvRjv/FFUXIa94LSv/0g2UeMsPz/HeZlhMxEu7AkXw9Nf rTxsmRTsOWME85Y/c9ss7XHuWKXT3DJV7fOoK9roSaN3dJAuWTtG3WaKS0nUu0ok 0M81D6ZczoD6ybwh2DUMPD9K6SGxLdQ4OzQwtW6vWzcQIBDfy5Pdeo0iAFhGPvXf T4LLPkv4cF4AwHsAC4rKDPHQNa+oZBoLlScrHClaebAlDiv+XYKNdMogawUObvSh h7avKmQr0Ygp1OvvZAaXLhuDJI9FJJ8lf6AOIeULgHsDR9SyKMjZWxRzPe11uarO Fyi0qj3oJaQu6LjazZraApu8mo+JBtQuD3z3o5GhLxeFtBBF60JXj6zAXJikufnl kk1/BUF10nKUhtKcDX767AMUCtMH3fp5hx8K/z9T5v+pobJB26Wup1bbdT68pNBT NjdKUppV6QTjZvCsA6U2/ECu6E9KeIaFtFSL2IRRoiI0dWBN5/5eYn3RGkO2ZFoL 1NdwKA2XJcchwTPkpSRrUG70sYH0uM2AldNYyaLfjzrQqza7Y6lF699ilxWmCN/H OplzJAE5cQ8Am078veTW =03Yh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Merge tag 'powerpc-4.1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: - Numerous minor fixes, cleanups etc. - More EEH work from Gavin to remove its dependency on device_nodes. - Memory hotplug implemented entirely in the kernel from Nathan Fontenot. - Removal of redundant CONFIG_PPC_OF by Kevin Hao. - Rewrite of VPHN parsing logic & tests from Greg Kurz. - A fix from Nish Aravamudan to reduce memory usage by clamping nodes_possible_map. - Support for pstore on powernv from Hari Bathini. - Removal of old powerpc specific byte swap routines by David Gibson. - Fix from Vasant Hegde to prevent the flash driver telling you it was flashing your firmware when it wasn't. - Patch from Ben Herrenschmidt to add an OPAL heartbeat driver. - Fix for an oops causing get/put_cpu_var() imbalance in perf by Jan Stancek. - Some fixes for migration from Tyrel Datwyler. - A new syscall to switch the cpu endian by Michael Ellerman. - Large series from Wei Yang to implement SRIOV, reviewed and acked by Bjorn. - A fix for the OPAL sensor driver from Cédric Le Goater. - Fixes to get STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS building again by Michael Ellerman. - Large series from Daniel Axtens to make our PCI hooks per PHB rather than per machine. - Small patch from Sam Bobroff to explicitly abort non-suspended transactions on syscalls, plus a test to exercise it. - Numerous reworks and fixes for the 24x7 PMU from Sukadev Bhattiprolu. - Small patch to enable the hard lockup detector from Anton Blanchard. - Fix from Dave Olson for missing L2 cache information on some CPUs. - Some fixes from Michael Ellerman to get Cell machines booting again. - Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include BMan device tree nodes, an MSI erratum workaround, a couple minor performance improvements, config updates, and misc fixes/cleanup. * tag 'powerpc-4.1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux: (196 commits) powerpc/powermac: Fix build error seen with powermac smp builds powerpc/pseries: Fix compile of memory hotplug without CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE powerpc: Remove PPC32 code from pseries specific find_and_init_phbs() powerpc/cell: Fix iommu breakage caused by controller_ops change powerpc/eeh: Fix crash in eeh_add_device_early() on Cell powerpc/perf: Cap 64bit userspace backtraces to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Fail 24x7 initcall if create_events_from_catalog() fails powerpc/pseries: Correct memory hotplug locking powerpc: Fix missing L2 cache size in /sys/devices/system/cpu powerpc: Add ppc64 hard lockup detector support oprofile: Disable oprofile NMI timer on ppc64 powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Add missing put_cpu_var() powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Break up single_24x7_request powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Define update_event_count() powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Whitespace cleanup powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Define add_event_to_24x7_request() powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Rename hv_24x7_event_update powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Move debug prints to separate function powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Drop event_24x7_request() powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Use pr_devel() to log message ... 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This directory attempts to document the ABI between the Linux kernel and userspace, and the relative stability of these interfaces. Due to the everchanging nature of Linux, and the differing maturity levels, these interfaces should be used by userspace programs in different ways. We have four different levels of ABI stability, as shown by the four different subdirectories in this location. Interfaces may change levels of stability according to the rules described below. The different levels of stability are: stable/ This directory documents the interfaces that the developer has defined to be stable. Userspace programs are free to use these interfaces with no restrictions, and backward compatibility for them will be guaranteed for at least 2 years. Most interfaces (like syscalls) are expected to never change and always be available. testing/ This directory documents interfaces that are felt to be stable, as the main development of this interface has been completed. The interface can be changed to add new features, but the current interface will not break by doing this, unless grave errors or security problems are found in them. Userspace programs can start to rely on these interfaces, but they must be aware of changes that can occur before these interfaces move to be marked stable. Programs that use these interfaces are strongly encouraged to add their name to the description of these interfaces, so that the kernel developers can easily notify them if any changes occur (see the description of the layout of the files below for details on how to do this.) obsolete/ This directory documents interfaces that are still remaining in the kernel, but are marked to be removed at some later point in time. The description of the interface will document the reason why it is obsolete and when it can be expected to be removed. removed/ This directory contains a list of the old interfaces that have been removed from the kernel. Every file in these directories will contain the following information: What: Short description of the interface Date: Date created KernelVersion: Kernel version this feature first showed up in. Contact: Primary contact for this interface (may be a mailing list) Description: Long description of the interface and how to use it. Users: All users of this interface who wish to be notified when it changes. This is very important for interfaces in the "testing" stage, so that kernel developers can work with userspace developers to ensure that things do not break in ways that are unacceptable. It is also important to get feedback for these interfaces to make sure they are working in a proper way and do not need to be changed further. How things move between levels: Interfaces in stable may move to obsolete, as long as the proper notification is given. Interfaces may be removed from obsolete and the kernel as long as the documented amount of time has gone by. Interfaces in the testing state can move to the stable state when the developers feel they are finished. They cannot be removed from the kernel tree without going through the obsolete state first. It's up to the developer to place their interfaces in the category they wish for it to start out in. Notable bits of non-ABI, which should not under any circumstances be considered stable: - Kconfig. Userspace should not rely on the presence or absence of any particular Kconfig symbol, in /proc/config.gz, in the copy of .config commonly installed to /boot, or in any invocation of the kernel build process. - Kernel-internal symbols. Do not rely on the presence, absence, location, or type of any kernel symbol, either in System.map files or the kernel binary itself. See Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt.