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diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/pci-error-recovery.rst b/Documentation/PCI/pci-error-recovery.rst index 83db42092935..e5d450df06b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/PCI/pci-error-recovery.rst +++ b/Documentation/PCI/pci-error-recovery.rst @@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ That is, the recovery API only requires that: .. note:: Implementation details for the powerpc platform are discussed in - the file Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt + the file Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.rst As of this writing, there is a growing list of device drivers with patches implementing error recovery. Not all of these patches are in @@ -422,3 +422,6 @@ That is, the recovery API only requires that: - drivers/net/cxgb3 - drivers/net/s2io.c - drivers/net/qlge + +The End +------- diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt b/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt index 8151f0195f76..23f115dc87cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Using hlist_nulls to protect read-mostly linked lists and objects using SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU allocations. -Please read the basics in Documentation/RCU/listRCU.txt +Please read the basics in Documentation/RCU/listRCU.rst Using special makers (called 'nulls') is a convenient way to solve following problem : diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/conf.py b/Documentation/admin-guide/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index 86f738953799..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -project = 'Linux Kernel User Documentation' - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'linux-user.tex', 'Linux Kernel User Documentation', - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst index 7ab93a8404b9..bd5714547cee 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ disabled, there is ``khugepaged`` daemon that scans memory and collapses sequences of basic pages into huge pages. The THP behaviour is controlled via :ref:`sysfs <thp_sysfs>` -interface and using madivse(2) and prctl(2) system calls. +interface and using madvise(2) and prctl(2) system calls. Transparent Hugepage Support maximizes the usefulness of free memory if compared to the reservation approach of hugetlbfs by allowing all diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py index 3b2397bcb565..a8fe845832bc 100644 --- a/Documentation/conf.py +++ b/Documentation/conf.py @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ import sys import os import sphinx +from subprocess import check_output + # Get Sphinx version major, minor, patch = sphinx.version_info[:3] @@ -276,10 +278,21 @@ latex_elements = { \\setsansfont{DejaVu Sans} \\setromanfont{DejaVu Serif} \\setmonofont{DejaVu Sans Mono} - ''' } +# At least one book (translations) may have Asian characters +# with are only displayed if xeCJK is used + +cjk_cmd = check_output(['fc-list', '--format="%{family[0]}\n"']).decode('utf-8', 'ignore') +if cjk_cmd.find("Noto Sans CJK SC") >= 0: + print ("enabling CJK for LaTeX builder") + latex_elements['preamble'] += ''' + % This is needed for translations + \\usepackage{xeCJK} + \\setCJKmainfont{Noto Sans CJK SC} + ''' + # Fix reference escape troubles with Sphinx 1.4.x if major == 1 and minor > 3: latex_elements['preamble'] += '\\renewcommand*{\\DUrole}[2]{ #2 }\n' @@ -410,6 +423,21 @@ latex_documents = [ 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), ] +# Add all other index files from Documentation/ subdirectories +for fn in os.listdir('.'): + doc = os.path.join(fn, "index") + if os.path.exists(doc + ".rst"): + has = False + for l in latex_documents: + if l[0] == doc: + has = True + break + if not has: + latex_documents.append((doc, fn + '.tex', + 'Linux %s Documentation' % fn.capitalize(), + 'The kernel development community', + 'manual')) + # The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of # the title page. #latex_logo = None diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/conf.py b/Documentation/core-api/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index db1f7659f3da..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/core-api/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -project = "Core-API Documentation" - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'core-api.tex', project, - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] diff --git a/Documentation/crypto/conf.py b/Documentation/crypto/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index 4335d251ddf3..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/crypto/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -project = 'Linux Kernel Crypto API' - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'crypto-api.tex', 'Linux Kernel Crypto API manual', - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/conf.py b/Documentation/dev-tools/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index 7faafa3f7888..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -project = "Development tools for the kernel" - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'dev-tools.tex', project, - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/idle-states.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/idle-states.txt index 326f29b270ad..2d325bed37e5 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/idle-states.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/idle-states.txt @@ -703,4 +703,4 @@ cpus { https://www.devicetree.org/specifications/ [6] ARM Linux Kernel documentation - Booting AArch64 Linux - Documentation/arm64/booting.txt + Documentation/arm64/booting.rst diff --git a/Documentation/doc-guide/conf.py b/Documentation/doc-guide/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index fd3731182d5a..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/doc-guide/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -project = 'Linux Kernel Documentation Guide' - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'kernel-doc-guide.tex', 'Linux Kernel Documentation Guide', - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/80211/conf.py b/Documentation/driver-api/80211/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index 4424b4b0b9c3..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/80211/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -project = "Linux 802.11 Driver Developer's Guide" - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', '80211.tex', project, - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/conf.py b/Documentation/driver-api/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index 202726d20088..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -project = "The Linux driver implementer's API guide" - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'driver-api.tex', project, - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst index 0c161b1a3be6..8382f01a53e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ Userspace Interface Several sysfs attributes are generated by the Generic Counter interface, and reside under the /sys/bus/counter/devices/counterX directory, where counterX refers to the respective counter device. Please see -Documentation/ABI/testing/sys-bus-counter-generic-sysfs for detailed +Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-counter for detailed information on each Generic Counter interface sysfs attribute. Through these sysfs attributes, programs and scripts may interact with @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ sysfs attributes, where Y is the unique ID of the respective Count: For a more detailed breakdown of the available Generic Counter interface sysfs attributes, please refer to the -Documentation/ABI/testing/sys-bus-counter file. +Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-counter file. The Signals and Counts associated with the Counter device are registered to the system as well by the counter_register function. The diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/phy/phy.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/phy/phy.rst index 457c3e0f86d6..8fc1ce0bb905 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/phy/phy.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/phy/phy.rst @@ -179,8 +179,8 @@ PHY Mappings In order to get reference to a PHY without help from DeviceTree, the framework offers lookups which can be compared to clkdev that allow clk structures to be -bound to devices. A lookup can be made be made during runtime when a handle to -the struct phy already exists. +bound to devices. A lookup can be made during runtime when a handle to the +struct phy already exists. The framework offers the following API for registering and unregistering the lookups:: diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/pm/conf.py b/Documentation/driver-api/pm/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index a89fac11272f..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/pm/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -project = "Device Power Management" - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'pm.tex', project, - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/conf.py b/Documentation/filesystems/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index ea44172af5c4..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -project = "Linux Filesystems API" - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'filesystems.tex', project, - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/conf.py b/Documentation/gpu/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index 1757b040fb32..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/gpu/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -project = "Linux GPU Driver Developer's Guide" - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'gpu.tex', project, - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] diff --git a/Documentation/index.rst b/Documentation/index.rst index 70ae148ec980..2df5a3da563c 100644 --- a/Documentation/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/index.rst @@ -111,9 +111,11 @@ needed). netlabel/index networking/index pcmcia/index + power/index target/index timers/index watchdog/index + virtual/index input/index hwmon/index gpu/index @@ -143,6 +145,7 @@ implementation. arm64/index ia64/index m68k/index + powerpc/index riscv/index s390/index sh/index diff --git a/Documentation/input/conf.py b/Documentation/input/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index d2352fdc92ed..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/input/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -project = "The Linux input driver subsystem" - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'linux-input.tex', project, - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/conf.py b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index 3d8acf0f33ad..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -project = "Kernel Hacking Guides" - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'kernel-hacking.tex', project, - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] diff --git a/Documentation/locking/spinlocks.rst b/Documentation/locking/spinlocks.rst index 098107fb7d86..e93ec6645238 100644 --- a/Documentation/locking/spinlocks.rst +++ b/Documentation/locking/spinlocks.rst @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ itself. The read lock allows many concurrent readers. Anything that **changes** the list will have to get the write lock. NOTE! RCU is better for list traversal, but requires careful - attention to design detail (see Documentation/RCU/listRCU.txt). + attention to design detail (see Documentation/RCU/listRCU.rst). Also, you cannot "upgrade" a read-lock to a write-lock, so if you at _any_ time need to do any changes (even if you don't do it every time), you have @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ to get the write-lock at the very beginning. NOTE! We are working hard to remove reader-writer spinlocks in most cases, so please don't add a new one without consensus. (Instead, see - Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt for complete information.) + Documentation/RCU/rcu.rst for complete information.) ---- diff --git a/Documentation/maintainer/conf.py b/Documentation/maintainer/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index 81e9eb7a7884..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/maintainer/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -project = 'Linux Kernel Development Documentation' - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'maintainer.tex', 'Linux Kernel Development Documentation', - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] diff --git a/Documentation/media/conf.py b/Documentation/media/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index 1f194fcd2cae..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/media/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 - -project = 'Linux Media Subsystem Documentation' - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'media.tex', 'Linux Media Subsystem Documentation', - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index 045bb8148fe9..1adbb8a371c7 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ There are certain things that the Linux kernel memory barriers do not guarantee: [*] For information on bus mastering DMA and coherency please read: - Documentation/PCI/pci.rst + Documentation/driver-api/pci/pci.rst Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt Documentation/DMA-API.txt diff --git a/Documentation/networking/conf.py b/Documentation/networking/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index 40f69e67a883..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/networking/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -project = "Linux Networking Documentation" - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'networking.tex', project, - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] diff --git a/Documentation/power/index.rst b/Documentation/power/index.rst index 20415f21e48a..002e42745263 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/power/index.rst @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -:orphan: +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 ================ Power Management diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/bootwrapper.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/bootwrapper.rst index d60fced5e1cc..a6292afba573 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/bootwrapper.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/bootwrapper.rst @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ +======================== The PowerPC boot wrapper ------------------------- +======================== + Copyright (C) Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. PowerPC image targets compresses and wraps the kernel image (vmlinux) with @@ -21,6 +23,7 @@ it uses the wrapper script (arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper) to generate target image. The details of the build system is discussed in the next section. Currently, the following image format targets exist: + ==================== ======================================================== cuImage.%: Backwards compatible uImage for older version of U-Boot (for versions that don't understand the device tree). This image embeds a device tree blob inside @@ -29,31 +32,36 @@ Currently, the following image format targets exist: with boot wrapper code that extracts data from the old bd_info structure and loads the data into the device tree before jumping into the kernel. - Because of the series of #ifdefs found in the + + Because of the series of #ifdefs found in the bd_info structure used in the old U-Boot interfaces, cuImages are platform specific. Each specific U-Boot platform has a different platform init file which populates the embedded device tree with data from the platform specific bd_info file. The platform specific cuImage platform init code can be found in - arch/powerpc/boot/cuboot.*.c. Selection of the correct + `arch/powerpc/boot/cuboot.*.c`. Selection of the correct cuImage init code for a specific board can be found in the wrapper structure. + dtbImage.%: Similar to zImage, except device tree blob is embedded inside the image instead of provided by firmware. The output image file can be either an elf file or a flat binary depending on the platform. - dtbImages are used on systems which do not have an + + dtbImages are used on systems which do not have an interface for passing a device tree directly. dtbImages are similar to simpleImages except that dtbImages have platform specific code for extracting data from the board firmware, but simpleImages do not talk to the firmware at all. - PlayStation 3 support uses dtbImage. So do Embedded + + PlayStation 3 support uses dtbImage. So do Embedded Planet boards using the PlanetCore firmware. Board specific initialization code is typically found in a file named arch/powerpc/boot/<platform>.c; but this can be overridden by the wrapper script. + simpleImage.%: Firmware independent compressed image that does not depend on any particular firmware interface and embeds a device tree blob. This image is a flat binary that @@ -61,14 +69,16 @@ Currently, the following image format targets exist: Firmware cannot pass any configuration data to the kernel with this image type and it depends entirely on the embedded device tree for all information. - The simpleImage is useful for booting systems with + + The simpleImage is useful for booting systems with an unknown firmware interface or for booting from a debugger when no firmware is present (such as on the Xilinx Virtex platform). The only assumption that simpleImage makes is that RAM is correctly initialized and that the MMU is either off or has RAM mapped to base address 0. - simpleImage also supports inserting special platform + + simpleImage also supports inserting special platform specific initialization code to the start of the bootup sequence. The virtex405 platform uses this feature to ensure that the cache is invalidated before caching @@ -81,9 +91,11 @@ Currently, the following image format targets exist: named (virtex405-<board>.dts). Search the wrapper script for 'virtex405' and see the file arch/powerpc/boot/virtex405-head.S for details. + treeImage.%; Image format for used with OpenBIOS firmware found on some ppc4xx hardware. This image embeds a device tree blob inside the image. + uImage: Native image format used by U-Boot. The uImage target does not add any boot code. It just wraps a compressed vmlinux in the uImage data structure. This image @@ -91,12 +103,14 @@ Currently, the following image format targets exist: a device tree to the kernel at boot. If using an older version of U-Boot, then you need to use a cuImage instead. + zImage.%: Image format which does not embed a device tree. Used by OpenFirmware and other firmware interfaces which are able to supply a device tree. This image expects firmware to provide the device tree at boot. Typically, if you have general purpose PowerPC hardware then you want this image format. + ==================== ======================================================== Image types which embed a device tree blob (simpleImage, dtbImage, treeImage, and cuImage) all generate the device tree blob from a file in the diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/cpu_families.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/cpu_families.rst index fc08e22feb1a..1e063c5440c3 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/cpu_families.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/cpu_families.rst @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +============ CPU Families ============ @@ -8,8 +9,8 @@ and are supported by arch/powerpc. Book3S (aka sPAPR) ------------------ - - Hash MMU - - Mix of 32 & 64 bit +- Hash MMU +- Mix of 32 & 64 bit:: +--------------+ +----------------+ | Old POWER | --------------> | RS64 (threads) | @@ -108,8 +109,8 @@ Book3S (aka sPAPR) IBM BookE --------- - - Software loaded TLB. - - All 32 bit +- Software loaded TLB. +- All 32 bit:: +--------------+ | 401 | @@ -155,8 +156,8 @@ IBM BookE Motorola/Freescale 8xx ---------------------- - - Software loaded with hardware assist. - - All 32 bit +- Software loaded with hardware assist. +- All 32 bit:: +-------------+ | MPC8xx Core | @@ -166,9 +167,9 @@ Motorola/Freescale 8xx Freescale BookE --------------- - - Software loaded TLB. - - e6500 adds HW loaded indirect TLB entries. - - Mix of 32 & 64 bit +- Software loaded TLB. +- e6500 adds HW loaded indirect TLB entries. +- Mix of 32 & 64 bit:: +--------------+ | e200 | @@ -207,8 +208,8 @@ Freescale BookE IBM A2 core ----------- - - Book3E, software loaded TLB + HW loaded indirect TLB entries. - - 64 bit +- Book3E, software loaded TLB + HW loaded indirect TLB entries. +- 64 bit:: +--------------+ +----------------+ | A2 core | --> | WSP | diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/cpu_features.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/cpu_features.rst index ae09df8722c8..b7bcdd2f41bb 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/cpu_features.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/cpu_features.rst @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +============ +CPU Features +============ + Hollis Blanchard <hollis@austin.ibm.com> 5 Jun 2002 @@ -32,7 +36,7 @@ anyways). After detecting the processor type, the kernel patches out sections of code that shouldn't be used by writing nop's over it. Using cpufeatures requires just 2 macros (found in arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h), as seen in head.S -transfer_to_handler: +transfer_to_handler:: #ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC BEGIN_FTR_SECTION diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/cxl.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/cxl.rst index c5e8d5098ed3..920546d81326 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/cxl.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/cxl.rst @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +==================================== Coherent Accelerator Interface (CXL) ==================================== @@ -21,6 +22,8 @@ Introduction Hardware overview ================= + :: + POWER8/9 FPGA +----------+ +---------+ | | | | @@ -59,14 +62,16 @@ Hardware overview the fault. The context to which this fault is serviced is based on who owns that acceleration function. - POWER8 <-----> PSL Version 8 is compliant to the CAIA Version 1.0. - POWER9 <-----> PSL Version 9 is compliant to the CAIA Version 2.0. + - POWER8 and PSL Version 8 are compliant to the CAIA Version 1.0. + - POWER9 and PSL Version 9 are compliant to the CAIA Version 2.0. + This PSL Version 9 provides new features such as: + * Interaction with the nest MMU on the P9 chip. * Native DMA support. * Supports sending ASB_Notify messages for host thread wakeup. * Supports Atomic operations. - * .... + * etc. Cards with a PSL9 won't work on a POWER8 system and cards with a PSL8 won't work on a POWER9 system. @@ -147,7 +152,9 @@ User API master devices. A userspace library libcxl is available here: + https://github.com/ibm-capi/libcxl + This provides a C interface to this kernel API. open @@ -165,7 +172,8 @@ open When all available contexts are allocated the open call will fail and return -ENOSPC. - Note: IRQs need to be allocated for each context, which may limit + Note: + IRQs need to be allocated for each context, which may limit the number of contexts that can be created, and therefore how many times the device can be opened. The POWER8 CAPP supports 2040 IRQs and 3 are used by the kernel, so 2037 are @@ -186,7 +194,9 @@ ioctl updated as userspace allocates and frees memory. This ioctl returns once the AFU context is started. - Takes a pointer to a struct cxl_ioctl_start_work: + Takes a pointer to a struct cxl_ioctl_start_work + + :: struct cxl_ioctl_start_work { __u64 flags; @@ -269,7 +279,7 @@ read The buffer passed to read() must be at least 4K bytes. The result of the read will be a buffer of one or more events, - each event is of type struct cxl_event, of varying size. + each event is of type struct cxl_event, of varying size:: struct cxl_event { struct cxl_event_header header; @@ -280,7 +290,9 @@ read }; }; - The struct cxl_event_header is defined as: + The struct cxl_event_header is defined as + + :: struct cxl_event_header { __u16 type; @@ -307,7 +319,9 @@ read For future extensions and padding. If the event type is CXL_EVENT_AFU_INTERRUPT then the event - structure is defined as: + structure is defined as + + :: struct cxl_event_afu_interrupt { __u16 flags; @@ -326,7 +340,9 @@ read For future extensions and padding. If the event type is CXL_EVENT_DATA_STORAGE then the event - structure is defined as: + structure is defined as + + :: struct cxl_event_data_storage { __u16 flags; @@ -356,7 +372,9 @@ read For future extensions If the event type is CXL_EVENT_AFU_ERROR then the event structure - is defined as: + is defined as + + :: struct cxl_event_afu_error { __u16 flags; @@ -393,15 +411,15 @@ open ioctl ----- -CXL_IOCTL_DOWNLOAD_IMAGE: -CXL_IOCTL_VALIDATE_IMAGE: +CXL_IOCTL_DOWNLOAD_IMAGE / CXL_IOCTL_VALIDATE_IMAGE: Starts and controls flashing a new FPGA image. Partial reconfiguration is not supported (yet), so the image must contain a copy of the PSL and AFU(s). Since an image can be quite large, the caller may have to iterate, splitting the image in smaller chunks. - Takes a pointer to a struct cxl_adapter_image: + Takes a pointer to a struct cxl_adapter_image:: + struct cxl_adapter_image { __u64 flags; __u64 data; @@ -442,7 +460,7 @@ Udev rules The following udev rules could be used to create a symlink to the most logical chardev to use in any programming mode (afuX.Yd for dedicated, afuX.Ys for afu directed), since the API is virtually - identical for each: + identical for each:: SUBSYSTEM=="cxl", ATTRS{mode}=="dedicated_process", SYMLINK="cxl/%b" SUBSYSTEM=="cxl", ATTRS{mode}=="afu_directed", \ diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/cxlflash.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/cxlflash.rst index a64bdaa0a1cf..cea67931b3b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/cxlflash.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/cxlflash.rst @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +================================ +Coherent Accelerator (CXL) Flash +================================ + Introduction ============ @@ -28,7 +32,7 @@ Introduction responsible for the initialization of the adapter, setting up the special path for user space access, and performing error recovery. It communicates directly the Flash Accelerator Functional Unit (AFU) - as described in Documentation/powerpc/cxl.txt. + as described in Documentation/powerpc/cxl.rst. The cxlflash driver supports two, mutually exclusive, modes of operation at the device (LUN) level: @@ -58,7 +62,7 @@ Overview The CXL Flash Adapter Driver establishes a master context with the AFU. It uses memory mapped I/O (MMIO) for this control and setup. The - Adapter Problem Space Memory Map looks like this: + Adapter Problem Space Memory Map looks like this:: +-------------------------------+ | 512 * 64 KB User MMIO | @@ -375,7 +379,7 @@ CXL Flash Driver Host IOCTLs Each host adapter instance that is supported by the cxlflash driver has a special character device associated with it to enable a set of host management function. These character devices are hosted in a - class dedicated for cxlflash and can be accessed via /dev/cxlflash/*. + class dedicated for cxlflash and can be accessed via `/dev/cxlflash/*`. Applications can be written to perform various functions using the host ioctl APIs below. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/DAWR-POWER9.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/dawr-power9.rst index ecdbb076438c..c96ab6befd9c 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/DAWR-POWER9.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/dawr-power9.rst @@ -1,10 +1,11 @@ +===================== DAWR issues on POWER9 -============================ +===================== On POWER9 the Data Address Watchpoint Register (DAWR) can cause a checkstop if it points to cache inhibited (CI) memory. Currently Linux has no way to disinguish CI memory when configuring the DAWR, so (for now) the DAWR is -disabled by this commit: +disabled by this commit:: commit 9654153158d3e0684a1bdb76dbababdb7111d5a0 Author: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> @@ -12,7 +13,7 @@ disabled by this commit: powerpc: Disable DAWR in the base POWER9 CPU features Technical Details: -============================ +================== DAWR has 6 different ways of being set. 1) ptrace @@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ DAWR on the migration. For xmon, the 'bd' command will return an error on P9. Consequences for users -============================ +====================== For GDB watchpoints (ie 'watch' command) on POWER9 bare metal , GDB will accept the command. Unfortunately since there is no hardware @@ -57,8 +58,8 @@ trapped in GDB. The watchpoint is remembered, so if the guest is migrated back to the POWER8 host, it will start working again. Force enabling the DAWR -============================= -Kernels (since ~v5.2) have an option to force enable the DAWR via: +======================= +Kernels (since ~v5.2) have an option to force enable the DAWR via:: echo Y > /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/dawr_enable_dangerous @@ -86,5 +87,7 @@ dawr_enable_dangerous file will fail if the hypervisor doesn't support writing the DAWR. To double check the DAWR is working, run this kernel selftest: + tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-hwbreak.c + Any errors/failures/skips mean something is wrong. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/dscr.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/dscr.rst index ece300c64f76..2ab99006014c 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/dscr.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/dscr.rst @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ - DSCR (Data Stream Control Register) - ================================================ +=================================== +DSCR (Data Stream Control Register) +=================================== DSCR register in powerpc allows user to have some control of prefetch of data stream in the processor. Please refer to the ISA documents or related manual @@ -10,14 +11,17 @@ user interface. (A) Data Structures: - (1) thread_struct: + (1) thread_struct:: + dscr /* Thread DSCR value */ dscr_inherit /* Thread has changed default DSCR */ - (2) PACA: + (2) PACA:: + dscr_default /* per-CPU DSCR default value */ - (3) sysfs.c: + (3) sysfs.c:: + dscr_default /* System DSCR default value */ (B) Scheduler Changes: @@ -35,8 +39,8 @@ user interface. (C) SYSFS Interface: - Global DSCR default: /sys/devices/system/cpu/dscr_default - CPU specific DSCR default: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/dscr + - Global DSCR default: /sys/devices/system/cpu/dscr_default + - CPU specific DSCR default: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/dscr Changing the global DSCR default in the sysfs will change all the CPU specific DSCR defaults immediately in their PACA structures. Again if diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.rst index 678189280bb4..438a87ebc095 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.rst @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ +========================== +PCI Bus EEH Error Recovery +========================== +Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com> - PCI Bus EEH Error Recovery - -------------------------- - Linas Vepstas - <linas@austin.ibm.com> - 12 January 2005 +12 January 2005 Overview: @@ -143,17 +143,17 @@ seen in /proc/ppc64/eeh (subject to change). Normally, almost all of these occur during boot, when the PCI bus is scanned, where a large number of 0xff reads are part of the bus scan procedure. -If a frozen slot is detected, code in -arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c will print a stack trace to -syslog (/var/log/messages). This stack trace has proven to be very -useful to device-driver authors for finding out at what point the EEH -error was detected, as the error itself usually occurs slightly +If a frozen slot is detected, code in +arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c will print a stack trace to +syslog (/var/log/messages). This stack trace has proven to be very +useful to device-driver authors for finding out at what point the EEH +error was detected, as the error itself usually occurs slightly beforehand. Next, it uses the Linux kernel notifier chain/work queue mechanism to allow any interested parties to find out about the failure. Device drivers, or other parts of the kernel, can use -eeh_register_notifier(struct notifier_block *) to find out about EEH +`eeh_register_notifier(struct notifier_block *)` to find out about EEH events. The event will include a pointer to the pci device, the device node and some state info. Receivers of the event can "do as they wish"; the default handler will be described further in this @@ -162,10 +162,13 @@ section. To assist in the recovery of the device, eeh.c exports the following functions: -rtas_set_slot_reset() -- assert the PCI #RST line for 1/8th of a second -rtas_configure_bridge() -- ask firmware to configure any PCI bridges +rtas_set_slot_reset() + assert the PCI #RST line for 1/8th of a second +rtas_configure_bridge() + ask firmware to configure any PCI bridges located topologically under the pci slot. -eeh_save_bars() and eeh_restore_bars(): save and restore the PCI +eeh_save_bars() and eeh_restore_bars(): + save and restore the PCI config-space info for a device and any devices under it. @@ -191,7 +194,7 @@ events get delivered to user-space scripts. Following is an example sequence of events that cause a device driver close function to be called during the first phase of an EEH reset. -The following sequence is an example of the pcnet32 device driver. +The following sequence is an example of the pcnet32 device driver:: rpa_php_unconfig_pci_adapter (struct slot *) // in rpaphp_pci.c { @@ -241,53 +244,54 @@ The following sequence is an example of the pcnet32 device driver. }}}}}} - in drivers/pci/pci_driver.c, - struct device_driver->remove() is just pci_device_remove() - which calls struct pci_driver->remove() which is pcnet32_remove_one() - which calls unregister_netdev() (in net/core/dev.c) - which calls dev_close() (in net/core/dev.c) - which calls dev->stop() which is pcnet32_close() - which then does the appropriate shutdown. +in drivers/pci/pci_driver.c, +struct device_driver->remove() is just pci_device_remove() +which calls struct pci_driver->remove() which is pcnet32_remove_one() +which calls unregister_netdev() (in net/core/dev.c) +which calls dev_close() (in net/core/dev.c) +which calls dev->stop() which is pcnet32_close() +which then does the appropriate shutdown. --- + Following is the analogous stack trace for events sent to user-space -when the pci device is unconfigured. +when the pci device is unconfigured:: -rpa_php_unconfig_pci_adapter() { // in rpaphp_pci.c - calls - pci_remove_bus_device (struct pci_dev *) { // in /drivers/pci/remove.c + rpa_php_unconfig_pci_adapter() { // in rpaphp_pci.c calls - pci_destroy_dev (struct pci_dev *) { + pci_remove_bus_device (struct pci_dev *) { // in /drivers/pci/remove.c calls - device_unregister (&dev->dev) { // in /drivers/base/core.c + pci_destroy_dev (struct pci_dev *) { calls - device_del(struct device * dev) { // in /drivers/base/core.c + device_unregister (&dev->dev) { // in /drivers/base/core.c calls - kobject_del() { //in /libs/kobject.c + device_del(struct device * dev) { // in /drivers/base/core.c calls - kobject_uevent() { // in /libs/kobject.c + kobject_del() { //in /libs/kobject.c calls - kset_uevent() { // in /lib/kobject.c + kobject_uevent() { // in /libs/kobject.c calls - kset->uevent_ops->uevent() // which is really just - a call to - dev_uevent() { // in /drivers/base/core.c + kset_uevent() { // in /lib/kobject.c calls - dev->bus->uevent() which is really just a call to - pci_uevent () { // in drivers/pci/hotplug.c - which prints device name, etc.... + kset->uevent_ops->uevent() // which is really just + a call to + dev_uevent() { // in /drivers/base/core.c + calls + dev->bus->uevent() which is really just a call to + pci_uevent () { // in drivers/pci/hotplug.c + which prints device name, etc.... + } } - } - then kobject_uevent() sends a netlink uevent to userspace - --> userspace uevent - (during early boot, nobody listens to netlink events and - kobject_uevent() executes uevent_helper[], which runs the - event process /sbin/hotplug) + then kobject_uevent() sends a netlink uevent to userspace + --> userspace uevent + (during early boot, nobody listens to netlink events and + kobject_uevent() executes uevent_helper[], which runs the + event process /sbin/hotplug) + } } - } - kobject_del() then calls sysfs_remove_dir(), which would - trigger any user-space daemon that was watching /sysfs, - and notice the delete event. + kobject_del() then calls sysfs_remove_dir(), which would + trigger any user-space daemon that was watching /sysfs, + and notice the delete event. Pro's and Con's of the Current Design @@ -299,12 +303,12 @@ individual device drivers, so that the current design throws a wide net. The biggest negative of the design is that it potentially disturbs network daemons and file systems that didn't need to be disturbed. --- A minor complaint is that resetting the network card causes +- A minor complaint is that resetting the network card causes user-space back-to-back ifdown/ifup burps that potentially disturb network daemons, that didn't need to even know that the pci card was being rebooted. --- A more serious concern is that the same reset, for SCSI devices, +- A more serious concern is that the same reset, for SCSI devices, causes havoc to mounted file systems. Scripts cannot post-facto unmount a file system without flushing pending buffers, but this is impossible, because I/O has already been stopped. Thus, @@ -322,7 +326,7 @@ network daemons and file systems that didn't need to be disturbed. from the block layer. It would be very natural to add an EEH reset into this chain of events. --- If a SCSI error occurs for the root device, all is lost unless +- If a SCSI error occurs for the root device, all is lost unless the sysadmin had the foresight to run /bin, /sbin, /etc, /var and so on, out of ramdisk/tmpfs. @@ -330,5 +334,3 @@ network daemons and file systems that didn't need to be disturbed. Conclusions ----------- There's forward progress ... - - diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst index 10e7f4d16c14..9ca12830a48e 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ +====================== +Firmware-Assisted Dump +====================== - Firmware-Assisted Dump - ------------------------ - July 2011 +July 2011 The goal of firmware-assisted dump is to enable the dump of a crashed system, and to do so from a fully-reset system, and @@ -27,11 +28,11 @@ in production use. Comparing with kdump or other strategies, firmware-assisted dump offers several strong, practical advantages: --- Unlike kdump, the system has been reset, and loaded +- Unlike kdump, the system has been reset, and loaded with a fresh copy of the kernel. In particular, PCI and I/O devices have been reinitialized and are in a clean, consistent state. --- Once the dump is copied out, the memory that held the dump +- Once the dump is copied out, the memory that held the dump is immediately available to the running kernel. And therefore, unlike kdump, fadump doesn't need a 2nd reboot to get back the system to the production configuration. @@ -40,17 +41,18 @@ The above can only be accomplished by coordination with, and assistance from the Power firmware. The procedure is as follows: --- The first kernel registers the sections of memory with the +- The first kernel registers the sections of memory with the Power firmware for dump preservation during OS initialization. These registered sections of memory are reserved by the first kernel during early boot. --- When a system crashes, the Power firmware will save +- When a system crashes, the Power firmware will save the low memory (boot memory of size larger of 5% of system RAM or 256MB) of RAM to the previous registered region. It will also save system registers, and hardware PTE's. - NOTE: The term 'boot memory' means size of the low memory chunk + NOTE: + The term 'boot memory' means size of the low memory chunk that is required for a kernel to boot successfully when booted with restricted memory. By default, the boot memory size will be the larger of 5% of system RAM or 256MB. @@ -64,12 +66,12 @@ as follows: as fadump uses a predefined offset to reserve memory for boot memory dump preservation in case of a crash. --- After the low memory (boot memory) area has been saved, the +- After the low memory (boot memory) area has been saved, the firmware will reset PCI and other hardware state. It will *not* clear the RAM. It will then launch the bootloader, as normal. --- The freshly booted kernel will notice that there is a new +- The freshly booted kernel will notice that there is a new node (ibm,dump-kernel) in the device tree, indicating that there is crash data available from a previous boot. During the early boot OS will reserve rest of the memory above @@ -77,17 +79,18 @@ as follows: size. This will make sure that the second kernel will not touch any of the dump memory area. --- User-space tools will read /proc/vmcore to obtain the contents +- User-space tools will read /proc/vmcore to obtain the contents of memory, which holds the previous crashed kernel dump in ELF format. The userspace tools may copy this info to disk, or network, nas, san, iscsi, etc. as desired. --- Once the userspace tool is done saving dump, it will echo +- Once the userspace tool is done saving dump, it will echo '1' to /sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem to release the reserved memory back to general use, except the memory required for next firmware-assisted dump registration. - e.g. + e.g.:: + # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem Please note that the firmware-assisted dump feature @@ -95,7 +98,7 @@ is only available on Power6 and above systems with recent firmware versions. Implementation details: ----------------------- +----------------------- During boot, a check is made to see if firmware supports this feature on that particular machine. If it does, then @@ -121,7 +124,7 @@ Allocator (CMA) for memory reservation if CMA is configured for kernel. With CMA reservation this memory will be available for applications to use it, while kernel is prevented from using it. With this fadump will still be able to capture all of the kernel memory and most of the user -space memory except the user pages that were present in CMA region. +space memory except the user pages that were present in CMA region:: o Memory Reservation during first kernel @@ -166,7 +169,7 @@ The tools to examine the dump will be same as the ones used for kdump. How to enable firmware-assisted dump (fadump): -------------------------------------- +---------------------------------------------- 1. Set config option CONFIG_FA_DUMP=y and build kernel. 2. Boot into linux kernel with 'fadump=on' kernel cmdline option. @@ -177,19 +180,20 @@ How to enable firmware-assisted dump (fadump): to specify size of the memory to reserve for boot memory dump preservation. -NOTE: 1. 'fadump_reserve_mem=' parameter has been deprecated. Instead - use 'crashkernel=' to specify size of the memory to reserve - for boot memory dump preservation. - 2. If firmware-assisted dump fails to reserve memory then it - will fallback to existing kdump mechanism if 'crashkernel=' - option is set at kernel cmdline. - 3. if user wants to capture all of user space memory and ok with - reserved memory not available to production system, then - 'fadump=nocma' kernel parameter can be used to fallback to - old behaviour. +NOTE: + 1. 'fadump_reserve_mem=' parameter has been deprecated. Instead + use 'crashkernel=' to specify size of the memory to reserve + for boot memory dump preservation. + 2. If firmware-assisted dump fails to reserve memory then it + will fallback to existing kdump mechanism if 'crashkernel=' + option is set at kernel cmdline. + 3. if user wants to capture all of user space memory and ok with + reserved memory not available to production system, then + 'fadump=nocma' kernel parameter can be used to fallback to + old behaviour. Sysfs/debugfs files: ------------- +-------------------- Firmware-assisted dump feature uses sysfs file system to hold the control files and debugfs file to display memory reserved region. @@ -197,20 +201,20 @@ the control files and debugfs file to display memory reserved region. Here is the list of files under kernel sysfs: /sys/kernel/fadump_enabled - This is used to display the fadump status. - 0 = fadump is disabled - 1 = fadump is enabled + + - 0 = fadump is disabled + - 1 = fadump is enabled This interface can be used by kdump init scripts to identify if fadump is enabled in the kernel and act accordingly. /sys/kernel/fadump_registered - This is used to display the fadump registration status as well as to control (start/stop) the fadump registration. - 0 = fadump is not registered. - 1 = fadump is registered and ready to handle system crash. + + - 0 = fadump is not registered. + - 1 = fadump is registered and ready to handle system crash. To register fadump echo 1 > /sys/kernel/fadump_registered and echo 0 > /sys/kernel/fadump_registered for un-register and stop the @@ -219,13 +223,12 @@ Here is the list of files under kernel sysfs: easily integrated with kdump service start/stop. /sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem - This file is available only when fadump is active during second kernel. This is used to release the reserved memory region that are held for saving crash dump. To release the - reserved memory echo 1 to it: + reserved memory echo 1 to it:: - echo 1 > /sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem + echo 1 > /sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem After echo 1, the content of the /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/fadump_region file will change to reflect the new memory reservations. @@ -238,38 +241,39 @@ Here is the list of files under powerpc debugfs: (Assuming debugfs is mounted on /sys/kernel/debug directory.) /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/fadump_region - This file shows the reserved memory regions if fadump is enabled otherwise this file is empty. The output format - is: - <region>: [<start>-<end>] <reserved-size> bytes, Dumped: <dump-size> + is:: + + <region>: [<start>-<end>] <reserved-size> bytes, Dumped: <dump-size> e.g. - Contents when fadump is registered during first kernel + Contents when fadump is registered during first kernel:: - # cat /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/fadump_region - CPU : [0x0000006ffb0000-0x0000006fff001f] 0x40020 bytes, Dumped: 0x0 - HPTE: [0x0000006fff0020-0x0000006fff101f] 0x1000 bytes, Dumped: 0x0 - DUMP: [0x0000006fff1020-0x0000007fff101f] 0x10000000 bytes, Dumped: 0x0 + # cat /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/fadump_region + CPU : [0x0000006ffb0000-0x0000006fff001f] 0x40020 bytes, Dumped: 0x0 + HPTE: [0x0000006fff0020-0x0000006fff101f] 0x1000 bytes, Dumped: 0x0 + DUMP: [0x0000006fff1020-0x0000007fff101f] 0x10000000 bytes, Dumped: 0x0 - Contents when fadump is active during second kernel + Contents when fadump is active during second kernel:: - # cat /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/fadump_region - CPU : [0x0000006ffb0000-0x0000006fff001f] 0x40020 bytes, Dumped: 0x40020 - HPTE: [0x0000006fff0020-0x0000006fff101f] 0x1000 bytes, Dumped: 0x1000 - DUMP: [0x0000006fff1020-0x0000007fff101f] 0x10000000 bytes, Dumped: 0x10000000 - : [0x00000010000000-0x0000006ffaffff] 0x5ffb0000 bytes, Dumped: 0x5ffb0000 + # cat /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/fadump_region + CPU : [0x0000006ffb0000-0x0000006fff001f] 0x40020 bytes, Dumped: 0x40020 + HPTE: [0x0000006fff0020-0x0000006fff101f] 0x1000 bytes, Dumped: 0x1000 + DUMP: [0x0000006fff1020-0x0000007fff101f] 0x10000000 bytes, Dumped: 0x10000000 + : [0x00000010000000-0x0000006ffaffff] 0x5ffb0000 bytes, Dumped: 0x5ffb0000 -NOTE: Please refer to Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt on +NOTE: + Please refer to Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt on how to mount the debugfs filesystem. TODO: ----- - o Need to come up with the better approach to find out more + - Need to come up with the better approach to find out more accurate boot memory size that is required for a kernel to boot successfully when booted with restricted memory. - o The fadump implementation introduces a fadump crash info structure + - The fadump implementation introduces a fadump crash info structure in the scratch area before the ELF core header. The idea of introducing this structure is to pass some important crash info data to the second kernel which will help second kernel to populate ELF core header with @@ -277,7 +281,9 @@ TODO: design implementation does not address a possibility of introducing additional fields (in future) to this structure without affecting compatibility. Need to come up with the better approach to address this. + The possible approaches are: + 1. Introduce version field for version tracking, bump up the version whenever a new field is added to the structure in future. The version field can be used to find out what fields are valid for the current @@ -285,8 +291,11 @@ TODO: 2. Reserve the area of predefined size (say PAGE_SIZE) for this structure and have unused area as reserved (initialized to zero) for future field additions. + The advantage of approach 1 over 2 is we don't need to reserve extra space. ---- + Author: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> + This document is based on the original documentation written for phyp + assisted dump by Linas Vepstas and Manish Ahuja. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/hvcs.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/hvcs.rst index a730ca5a07f8..6808acde672f 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/hvcs.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/hvcs.rst @@ -1,19 +1,22 @@ -=========================================================================== - HVCS - IBM "Hypervisor Virtual Console Server" Installation Guide - for Linux Kernel 2.6.4+ - Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Corporation +=============================================================== +HVCS IBM "Hypervisor Virtual Console Server" Installation Guide +=============================================================== -=========================================================================== -NOTE:Eight space tabs are the optimum editor setting for reading this file. -=========================================================================== +for Linux Kernel 2.6.4+ - Author(s) : Ryan S. Arnold <rsa@us.ibm.com> - Date Created: March, 02, 2004 - Last Changed: August, 24, 2004 +Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Corporation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Table of contents: +.. =========================================================================== +.. NOTE:Eight space tabs are the optimum editor setting for reading this file. +.. =========================================================================== + + +Author(s): Ryan S. Arnold <rsa@us.ibm.com> + +Date Created: March, 02, 2004 +Last Changed: August, 24, 2004 + +.. Table of contents: 1. Driver Introduction: 2. System Requirements @@ -27,8 +30,8 @@ Table of contents: 8. Questions & Answers: 9. Reporting Bugs: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Driver Introduction: +======================= This is the device driver for the IBM Hypervisor Virtual Console Server, "hvcs". The IBM hvcs provides a tty driver interface to allow Linux user @@ -38,8 +41,8 @@ ppc64 system. Physical hardware consoles per partition are not practical on this hardware so system consoles are accessed by this driver using firmware interfaces to virtual terminal devices. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. System Requirements: +======================= This device driver was written using 2.6.4 Linux kernel APIs and will only build and run on kernels of this version or later. @@ -52,8 +55,8 @@ Sysfs must be mounted on the system so that the user can determine which major and minor numbers are associated with each vty-server. Directions for sysfs mounting are outside the scope of this document. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Build Options: +================= The hvcs driver registers itself as a tty driver. The tty layer dynamically allocates a block of major and minor numbers in a quantity @@ -65,11 +68,11 @@ If the default number of device entries is adequate then this driver can be built into the kernel. If not, the default can be over-ridden by inserting the driver as a module with insmod parameters. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.1 Built-in: +------------- The following menuconfig example demonstrates selecting to build this -driver into the kernel. +driver into the kernel:: Device Drivers ---> Character devices ---> @@ -77,11 +80,11 @@ driver into the kernel. Begin the kernel make process. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2 Module: +----------- The following menuconfig example demonstrates selecting to build this -driver as a kernel module. +driver as a kernel module:: Device Drivers ---> Character devices ---> @@ -89,11 +92,11 @@ driver as a kernel module. The make process will build the following kernel modules: - hvcs.ko - hvcserver.ko + - hvcs.ko + - hvcserver.ko To insert the module with the default allocation execute the following -commands in the order they appear: +commands in the order they appear:: insmod hvcserver.ko insmod hvcs.ko @@ -103,7 +106,7 @@ be inserted first, otherwise the hvcs module will not find some of the symbols it expects. To override the default use an insmod parameter as follows (requesting 4 -tty devices as an example): +tty devices as an example):: insmod hvcs.ko hvcs_parm_num_devs=4 @@ -115,31 +118,31 @@ source file before building. NOTE: The length of time it takes to insmod the driver seems to be related to the number of tty interfaces the registering driver requests. -In order to remove the driver module execute the following command: +In order to remove the driver module execute the following command:: rmmod hvcs.ko The recommended method for installing hvcs as a module is to use depmod to build a current modules.dep file in /lib/modules/`uname -r` and then -execute: +execute:: -modprobe hvcs hvcs_parm_num_devs=4 + modprobe hvcs hvcs_parm_num_devs=4 The modules.dep file indicates that hvcserver.ko needs to be inserted before hvcs.ko and modprobe uses this file to smartly insert the modules in the proper order. The following modprobe command is used to remove hvcs and hvcserver in the -proper order: +proper order:: -modprobe -r hvcs + modprobe -r hvcs ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Installation: +================ The tty layer creates sysfs entries which contain the major and minor numbers allocated for the hvcs driver. The following snippet of "tree" -output of the sysfs directory shows where these numbers are presented: +output of the sysfs directory shows where these numbers are presented:: sys/ |-- *other sysfs base dirs* @@ -164,7 +167,7 @@ output of the sysfs directory shows where these numbers are presented: |-- *other sysfs base dirs* For the above examples the following output is a result of cat'ing the -"dev" entry in the hvcs directory: +"dev" entry in the hvcs directory:: Pow5:/sys/class/tty/hvcs0/ # cat dev 254:0 @@ -184,7 +187,7 @@ systems running hvcs will already have the device entries created or udev will do it automatically. Given the example output above, to manually create a /dev/hvcs* node entry -mknod can be used as follows: +mknod can be used as follows:: mknod /dev/hvcs0 c 254 0 mknod /dev/hvcs1 c 254 1 @@ -195,15 +198,15 @@ Using mknod to manually create the device entries makes these device nodes persistent. Once created they will exist prior to the driver insmod. Attempting to connect an application to /dev/hvcs* prior to insertion of -the hvcs module will result in an error message similar to the following: +the hvcs module will result in an error message similar to the following:: "/dev/hvcs*: No such device". NOTE: Just because there is a device node present doesn't mean that there is a vty-server device configured for that node. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Connection +============= Since this driver controls devices that provide a tty interface a user can interact with the device node entries using any standard tty-interactive @@ -249,7 +252,7 @@ vty-server adapter is associated with which /dev/hvcs* node a special sysfs attribute has been added to each vty-server sysfs entry. This entry is called "index" and showing it reveals an integer that refers to the /dev/hvcs* entry to use to connect to that device. For instance cating the -index attribute of vty-server adapter 30000004 shows the following. +index attribute of vty-server adapter 30000004 shows the following:: Pow5:/sys/bus/vio/drivers/hvcs/30000004 # cat index 2 @@ -262,8 +265,8 @@ system the /dev/hvcs* entry that interacts with a particular vty-server adapter is not guaranteed to remain the same across system reboots. Look in the Q & A section for more on this issue. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Disconnection +================ As a security feature to prevent the delivery of stale data to an unintended target the Power5 system firmware disables the fetching of data @@ -305,7 +308,7 @@ connection between the vty-server and target vty ONLY if the vterm_state previously read '1'. The write directive is ignored if the vterm_state read '0' or if any value other than '0' was written to the vterm_state attribute. The following example will show the method used for verifying -the vty-server connection status and disconnecting a vty-server connection. +the vty-server connection status and disconnecting a vty-server connection:: Pow5:/sys/bus/vio/drivers/hvcs/30000004 # cat vterm_state 1 @@ -318,12 +321,12 @@ the vty-server connection status and disconnecting a vty-server connection. All vty-server connections are automatically terminated when the device is hotplug removed and when the module is removed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Configuration +================ Each vty-server has a sysfs entry in the /sys/devices/vio directory, which is symlinked in several other sysfs tree directories, notably under the -hvcs driver entry, which looks like the following example: +hvcs driver entry, which looks like the following example:: Pow5:/sys/bus/vio/drivers/hvcs # ls . .. 30000003 30000004 rescan @@ -344,7 +347,7 @@ completed or was never executed. Vty-server entries in this directory are a 32 bit partition unique unit address that is created by firmware. An example vty-server sysfs entry -looks like the following: +looks like the following:: Pow5:/sys/bus/vio/drivers/hvcs/30000004 # ls . current_vty devspec name partner_vtys @@ -352,21 +355,21 @@ looks like the following: Each entry is provided, by default with a "name" attribute. Reading the "name" attribute will reveal the device type as shown in the following -example: +example:: Pow5:/sys/bus/vio/drivers/hvcs/30000003 # cat name vty-server Each entry is also provided, by default, with a "devspec" attribute which reveals the full device specification when read, as shown in the following -example: +example:: Pow5:/sys/bus/vio/drivers/hvcs/30000004 # cat devspec /vdevice/vty-server@30000004 Each vty-server sysfs dir is provided with two read-only attributes that provide lists of easily parsed partner vty data: "partner_vtys" and -"partner_clcs". +"partner_clcs":: Pow5:/sys/bus/vio/drivers/hvcs/30000004 # cat partner_vtys 30000000 @@ -396,7 +399,7 @@ A vty-server can only be connected to a single vty at a time. The entry, read. The current_vty can be changed by writing a valid partner clc to the entry -as in the following example: +as in the following example:: Pow5:/sys/bus/vio/drivers/hvcs/30000004 # echo U5112.428.10304 8A-V4-C0 > current_vty @@ -408,9 +411,9 @@ currently open connection is freed. Information on the "vterm_state" attribute was covered earlier on the chapter entitled "disconnection". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. Questions & Answers: -=========================================================================== +======================= + Q: What are the security concerns involving hvcs? A: There are three main security concerns: @@ -429,6 +432,7 @@ A: There are three main security concerns: partition) will experience the previously logged in session. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Q: How do I multiplex a console that I grab through hvcs so that other people can see it: @@ -440,6 +444,7 @@ term type "screen" to others. This means that curses based programs may not display properly in screen sessions. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Q: Why are the colors all messed up? Q: Why are the control characters acting strange or not working? Q: Why is the console output all strange and unintelligible? @@ -455,6 +460,7 @@ disconnect from the console. This will ensure that the next user gets their own TERM type set when they login. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Q: When I try to CONNECT kermit to an hvcs device I get: "Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/hvcs*"What is happening? @@ -490,6 +496,7 @@ A: There is not a corresponding vty-server device that maps to an existing /dev/hvcs* entry. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Q: When I try to CONNECT kermit to an hvcs device I get: "Sorry, write access to UUCP lockfile directory denied." @@ -497,6 +504,7 @@ A: The /dev/hvcs* entry you have specified doesn't exist where you said it does? Maybe you haven't inserted the module (on systems with udev). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Q: If I already have one Linux partition installed can I use hvcs on said partition to provide the console for the install of a second Linux partition? @@ -505,6 +513,7 @@ A: Yes granted that your are connected to the /dev/hvcs* device using kermit or cu or some other program that doesn't provide terminal emulation. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Q: Can I connect to more than one partition's console at a time using this driver? @@ -512,6 +521,7 @@ A: Yes. Of course this means that there must be more than one vty-server configured for this partition and each must point to a disconnected vty. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Q: Does the hvcs driver support dynamic (hotplug) addition of devices? A: Yes, if you have dlpar and hotplug enabled for your system and it has @@ -519,6 +529,7 @@ been built into the kernel the hvcs drivers is configured to dynamically handle additions of new devices and removals of unused devices. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Q: For some reason /dev/hvcs* doesn't map to the same vty-server adapter after a reboot. What happened? @@ -533,6 +544,7 @@ on how to determine which vty-server goes with which /dev/hvcs* node. Hint; look at the sysfs "index" attribute for the vty-server. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Q: Can I use /dev/hvcs* as a conduit to another partition and use a tty device on that partition as the other end of the pipe? @@ -554,7 +566,9 @@ read or write to /dev/hvcs*. Now you have a tty conduit between two partitions. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- + 9. Reporting Bugs: +================== The proper channel for reporting bugs is either through the Linux OS distribution company that provided your OS or by posting issues to the diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/index.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..549b1cdd77ae --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +======= +powerpc +======= + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + bootwrapper + cpu_families + cpu_features + cxl + cxlflash + dawr-power9 + dscr + eeh-pci-error-recovery + firmware-assisted-dump + hvcs + isa-versions + mpc52xx + pci_iov_resource_on_powernv + pmu-ebb + ptrace + qe_firmware + syscall64-abi + transactional_memory + +.. only:: subproject and html + + Indices + ======= + + * :ref:`genindex` diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/isa-versions.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/isa-versions.rst index 66c24140ebf1..a363d8c1603c 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/isa-versions.rst +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/isa-versions.rst @@ -1,13 +1,12 @@ -:orphan: - +========================== CPU to ISA Version Mapping ========================== Mapping of some CPU versions to relevant ISA versions. -========= ==================== +========= ==================================================================== CPU Architecture version -========= ==================== +========= ==================================================================== Power9 Power ISA v3.0B Power8 Power ISA v2.07 Power7 Power ISA v2.06 @@ -24,7 +23,7 @@ PPC970 - PowerPC User Instruction Set Architecture Book I v2.01 - PowerPC Virtual Environment Architecture Book II v2.01 - PowerPC Operating Environment Architecture Book III v2.01 - Plus Altivec/VMX ~= 2.03 -========= ==================== +========= ==================================================================== Key Features @@ -60,9 +59,9 @@ Power5 No PPC970 No ========== ==== -========== ==================== +========== ==================================== CPU Transactional Memory -========== ==================== +========== ==================================== Power9 Yes (* see transactional_memory.txt) Power8 Yes Power7 No @@ -73,4 +72,4 @@ Power5++ No Power5+ No Power5 No PPC970 No -========== ==================== +========== ==================================== diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.rst index 0d540a31ea1a..8676ac63e077 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.rst @@ -1,11 +1,13 @@ +============================= Linux 2.6.x on MPC52xx family ------------------------------ +============================= For the latest info, go to http://www.246tNt.com/mpc52xx/ To compile/use : - - U-Boot: + - U-Boot:: + # <edit Makefile to set ARCH=ppc & CROSS_COMPILE=... ( also EXTRAVERSION if you wish to ). # make lite5200_defconfig @@ -16,7 +18,8 @@ To compile/use : => tftpboot 400000 pRamdisk => bootm 200000 400000 - - DBug: + - DBug:: + # <edit Makefile to set ARCH=ppc & CROSS_COMPILE=... ( also EXTRAVERSION if you wish to ). # make lite5200_defconfig @@ -28,7 +31,8 @@ To compile/use : DBug> dn -i zImage.initrd.lite5200 -Some remarks : +Some remarks: + - The port is named mpc52xxx, and config options are PPC_MPC52xx. The MGT5100 is not supported, and I'm not sure anyone is interesting in working on it so. I didn't took 5xxx because there's apparently a lot of 5xxx that have diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/pci_iov_resource_on_powernv.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/pci_iov_resource_on_powernv.rst index b55c5cd83f8d..f5a5793e1613 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/pci_iov_resource_on_powernv.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/pci_iov_resource_on_powernv.rst @@ -1,6 +1,13 @@ +=================================================== +PCI Express I/O Virtualization Resource on Powerenv +=================================================== + Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com> + Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@au1.ibm.com> + Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> + 26 Aug 2014 This document describes the requirement from hardware for PCI MMIO resource @@ -10,6 +17,7 @@ Endpoints and the implementation on P8 (IODA2). The next two sections talks about considerations on enabling SRIOV on IODA2. 1. Introduction to Partitionable Endpoints +========================================== A Partitionable Endpoint (PE) is a way to group the various resources associated with a device or a set of devices to provide isolation between @@ -35,6 +43,7 @@ is a completely separate HW entity that replicates the entire logic, so has its own set of PEs, etc. 2. Implementation of Partitionable Endpoints on P8 (IODA2) +========================================================== P8 supports up to 256 Partitionable Endpoints per PHB. @@ -149,6 +158,7 @@ P8 supports up to 256 Partitionable Endpoints per PHB. sense, but we haven't done it yet. 3. Considerations for SR-IOV on PowerKVM +======================================== * SR-IOV Background @@ -224,7 +234,7 @@ P8 supports up to 256 Partitionable Endpoints per PHB. IODA supports 256 PEs, so segmented windows contain 256 segments, so if total_VFs is less than 256, we have the situation in Figure 1.0, where segments [total_VFs, 255] of the M64 window may map to some MMIO range on - other devices: + other devices:: 0 1 total_VFs - 1 +------+------+- -+------+------+ @@ -243,7 +253,7 @@ P8 supports up to 256 Partitionable Endpoints per PHB. Figure 1.0 Direct map VF(n) BAR space Our current solution is to allocate 256 segments even if the VF(n) BAR - space doesn't need that much, as shown in Figure 1.1: + space doesn't need that much, as shown in Figure 1.1:: 0 1 total_VFs - 1 255 +------+------+- -+------+------+- -+------+------+ @@ -269,6 +279,7 @@ P8 supports up to 256 Partitionable Endpoints per PHB. responds to segments [total_VFs, 255]. 4. Implications for the Generic PCI Code +======================================== The PCIe SR-IOV spec requires that the base of the VF(n) BAR space be aligned to the size of an individual VF BAR. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/pmu-ebb.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/pmu-ebb.rst index 73cd163dbfb8..4f474758eb55 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/pmu-ebb.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/pmu-ebb.rst @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +======================== PMU Event Based Branches ======================== diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/ptrace.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/ptrace.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..864d4b6dddd1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/ptrace.rst @@ -0,0 +1,156 @@ +====== +Ptrace +====== + +GDB intends to support the following hardware debug features of BookE +processors: + +4 hardware breakpoints (IAC) +2 hardware watchpoints (read, write and read-write) (DAC) +2 value conditions for the hardware watchpoints (DVC) + +For that, we need to extend ptrace so that GDB can query and set these +resources. Since we're extending, we're trying to create an interface +that's extendable and that covers both BookE and server processors, so +that GDB doesn't need to special-case each of them. We added the +following 3 new ptrace requests. + +1. PTRACE_PPC_GETHWDEBUGINFO +============================ + +Query for GDB to discover the hardware debug features. The main info to +be returned here is the minimum alignment for the hardware watchpoints. +BookE processors don't have restrictions here, but server processors have +an 8-byte alignment restriction for hardware watchpoints. We'd like to avoid +adding special cases to GDB based on what it sees in AUXV. + +Since we're at it, we added other useful info that the kernel can return to +GDB: this query will return the number of hardware breakpoints, hardware +watchpoints and whether it supports a range of addresses and a condition. +The query will fill the following structure provided by the requesting process:: + + struct ppc_debug_info { + unit32_t version; + unit32_t num_instruction_bps; + unit32_t num_data_bps; + unit32_t num_condition_regs; + unit32_t data_bp_alignment; + unit32_t sizeof_condition; /* size of the DVC register */ + uint64_t features; /* bitmask of the individual flags */ + }; + +features will have bits indicating whether there is support for:: + + #define PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_INSN_BP_RANGE 0x1 + #define PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_INSN_BP_MASK 0x2 + #define PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_DATA_BP_RANGE 0x4 + #define PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_DATA_BP_MASK 0x8 + #define PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_DATA_BP_DAWR 0x10 + +2. PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG + +Sets a hardware breakpoint or watchpoint, according to the provided structure:: + + struct ppc_hw_breakpoint { + uint32_t version; + #define PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_EXECUTE 0x1 + #define PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_READ 0x2 + #define PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_WRITE 0x4 + uint32_t trigger_type; /* only some combinations allowed */ + #define PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT 0x0 + #define PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_RANGE_INCLUSIVE 0x1 + #define PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_RANGE_EXCLUSIVE 0x2 + #define PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_MASK 0x3 + uint32_t addr_mode; /* address match mode */ + + #define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_MODE 0x3 + #define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_NONE 0x0 + #define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_AND 0x1 + #define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_EXACT 0x1 /* different name for the same thing as above */ + #define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_OR 0x2 + #define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_AND_OR 0x3 + #define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_BE_ALL 0x00ff0000 /* byte enable bits */ + #define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_BE(n) (1<<((n)+16)) + uint32_t condition_mode; /* break/watchpoint condition flags */ + + uint64_t addr; + uint64_t addr2; + uint64_t condition_value; + }; + +A request specifies one event, not necessarily just one register to be set. +For instance, if the request is for a watchpoint with a condition, both the +DAC and DVC registers will be set in the same request. + +With this GDB can ask for all kinds of hardware breakpoints and watchpoints +that the BookE supports. COMEFROM breakpoints available in server processors +are not contemplated, but that is out of the scope of this work. + +ptrace will return an integer (handle) uniquely identifying the breakpoint or +watchpoint just created. This integer will be used in the PTRACE_DELHWDEBUG +request to ask for its removal. Return -ENOSPC if the requested breakpoint +can't be allocated on the registers. + +Some examples of using the structure to: + +- set a breakpoint in the first breakpoint register:: + + p.version = PPC_DEBUG_CURRENT_VERSION; + p.trigger_type = PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_EXECUTE; + p.addr_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT; + p.condition_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_NONE; + p.addr = (uint64_t) address; + p.addr2 = 0; + p.condition_value = 0; + +- set a watchpoint which triggers on reads in the second watchpoint register:: + + p.version = PPC_DEBUG_CURRENT_VERSION; + p.trigger_type = PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_READ; + p.addr_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT; + p.condition_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_NONE; + p.addr = (uint64_t) address; + p.addr2 = 0; + p.condition_value = 0; + +- set a watchpoint which triggers only with a specific value:: + + p.version = PPC_DEBUG_CURRENT_VERSION; + p.trigger_type = PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_READ; + p.addr_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT; + p.condition_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_AND | PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_BE_ALL; + p.addr = (uint64_t) address; + p.addr2 = 0; + p.condition_value = (uint64_t) condition; + +- set a ranged hardware breakpoint:: + + p.version = PPC_DEBUG_CURRENT_VERSION; + p.trigger_type = PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_EXECUTE; + p.addr_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_RANGE_INCLUSIVE; + p.condition_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_NONE; + p.addr = (uint64_t) begin_range; + p.addr2 = (uint64_t) end_range; + p.condition_value = 0; + +- set a watchpoint in server processors (BookS):: + + p.version = 1; + p.trigger_type = PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_RW; + p.addr_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_RANGE_INCLUSIVE; + or + p.addr_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT; + + p.condition_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_NONE; + p.addr = (uint64_t) begin_range; + /* For PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_RANGE_INCLUSIVE addr2 needs to be specified, where + * addr2 - addr <= 8 Bytes. + */ + p.addr2 = (uint64_t) end_range; + p.condition_value = 0; + +3. PTRACE_DELHWDEBUG + +Takes an integer which identifies an existing breakpoint or watchpoint +(i.e., the value returned from PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG), and deletes the +corresponding breakpoint or watchpoint.. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/ptrace.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/ptrace.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 99c5ce88d0fe..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/ptrace.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,151 +0,0 @@ -GDB intends to support the following hardware debug features of BookE -processors: - -4 hardware breakpoints (IAC) -2 hardware watchpoints (read, write and read-write) (DAC) -2 value conditions for the hardware watchpoints (DVC) - -For that, we need to extend ptrace so that GDB can query and set these -resources. Since we're extending, we're trying to create an interface -that's extendable and that covers both BookE and server processors, so -that GDB doesn't need to special-case each of them. We added the -following 3 new ptrace requests. - -1. PTRACE_PPC_GETHWDEBUGINFO - -Query for GDB to discover the hardware debug features. The main info to -be returned here is the minimum alignment for the hardware watchpoints. -BookE processors don't have restrictions here, but server processors have -an 8-byte alignment restriction for hardware watchpoints. We'd like to avoid -adding special cases to GDB based on what it sees in AUXV. - -Since we're at it, we added other useful info that the kernel can return to -GDB: this query will return the number of hardware breakpoints, hardware -watchpoints and whether it supports a range of addresses and a condition. -The query will fill the following structure provided by the requesting process: - -struct ppc_debug_info { - unit32_t version; - unit32_t num_instruction_bps; - unit32_t num_data_bps; - unit32_t num_condition_regs; - unit32_t data_bp_alignment; - unit32_t sizeof_condition; /* size of the DVC register */ - uint64_t features; /* bitmask of the individual flags */ -}; - -features will have bits indicating whether there is support for: - -#define PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_INSN_BP_RANGE 0x1 -#define PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_INSN_BP_MASK 0x2 -#define PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_DATA_BP_RANGE 0x4 -#define PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_DATA_BP_MASK 0x8 -#define PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_DATA_BP_DAWR 0x10 - -2. PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG - -Sets a hardware breakpoint or watchpoint, according to the provided structure: - -struct ppc_hw_breakpoint { - uint32_t version; -#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_EXECUTE 0x1 -#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_READ 0x2 -#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_WRITE 0x4 - uint32_t trigger_type; /* only some combinations allowed */ -#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT 0x0 -#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_RANGE_INCLUSIVE 0x1 -#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_RANGE_EXCLUSIVE 0x2 -#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_MASK 0x3 - uint32_t addr_mode; /* address match mode */ - -#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_MODE 0x3 -#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_NONE 0x0 -#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_AND 0x1 -#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_EXACT 0x1 /* different name for the same thing as above */ -#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_OR 0x2 -#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_AND_OR 0x3 -#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_BE_ALL 0x00ff0000 /* byte enable bits */ -#define PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_BE(n) (1<<((n)+16)) - uint32_t condition_mode; /* break/watchpoint condition flags */ - - uint64_t addr; - uint64_t addr2; - uint64_t condition_value; -}; - -A request specifies one event, not necessarily just one register to be set. -For instance, if the request is for a watchpoint with a condition, both the -DAC and DVC registers will be set in the same request. - -With this GDB can ask for all kinds of hardware breakpoints and watchpoints -that the BookE supports. COMEFROM breakpoints available in server processors -are not contemplated, but that is out of the scope of this work. - -ptrace will return an integer (handle) uniquely identifying the breakpoint or -watchpoint just created. This integer will be used in the PTRACE_DELHWDEBUG -request to ask for its removal. Return -ENOSPC if the requested breakpoint -can't be allocated on the registers. - -Some examples of using the structure to: - -- set a breakpoint in the first breakpoint register - - p.version = PPC_DEBUG_CURRENT_VERSION; - p.trigger_type = PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_EXECUTE; - p.addr_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT; - p.condition_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_NONE; - p.addr = (uint64_t) address; - p.addr2 = 0; - p.condition_value = 0; - -- set a watchpoint which triggers on reads in the second watchpoint register - - p.version = PPC_DEBUG_CURRENT_VERSION; - p.trigger_type = PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_READ; - p.addr_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT; - p.condition_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_NONE; - p.addr = (uint64_t) address; - p.addr2 = 0; - p.condition_value = 0; - -- set a watchpoint which triggers only with a specific value - - p.version = PPC_DEBUG_CURRENT_VERSION; - p.trigger_type = PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_READ; - p.addr_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT; - p.condition_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_AND | PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_BE_ALL; - p.addr = (uint64_t) address; - p.addr2 = 0; - p.condition_value = (uint64_t) condition; - -- set a ranged hardware breakpoint - - p.version = PPC_DEBUG_CURRENT_VERSION; - p.trigger_type = PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_EXECUTE; - p.addr_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_RANGE_INCLUSIVE; - p.condition_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_NONE; - p.addr = (uint64_t) begin_range; - p.addr2 = (uint64_t) end_range; - p.condition_value = 0; - -- set a watchpoint in server processors (BookS) - - p.version = 1; - p.trigger_type = PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_RW; - p.addr_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_RANGE_INCLUSIVE; - or - p.addr_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT; - - p.condition_mode = PPC_BREAKPOINT_CONDITION_NONE; - p.addr = (uint64_t) begin_range; - /* For PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_RANGE_INCLUSIVE addr2 needs to be specified, where - * addr2 - addr <= 8 Bytes. - */ - p.addr2 = (uint64_t) end_range; - p.condition_value = 0; - -3. PTRACE_DELHWDEBUG - -Takes an integer which identifies an existing breakpoint or watchpoint -(i.e., the value returned from PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG), and deletes the -corresponding breakpoint or watchpoint.. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.rst index e7ac24aec4ff..42f5103140c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.rst @@ -1,23 +1,23 @@ - Freescale QUICC Engine Firmware Uploading - ----------------------------------------- +========================================= +Freescale QUICC Engine Firmware Uploading +========================================= (c) 2007 Timur Tabi <timur at freescale.com>, Freescale Semiconductor -Table of Contents -================= +.. Table of Contents - I - Software License for Firmware + I - Software License for Firmware - II - Microcode Availability + II - Microcode Availability - III - Description and Terminology + III - Description and Terminology - IV - Microcode Programming Details + IV - Microcode Programming Details - V - Firmware Structure Layout + V - Firmware Structure Layout - VI - Sample Code for Creating Firmware Files + VI - Sample Code for Creating Firmware Files Revision Information ==================== @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ http://opensource.freescale.com. For other firmware files, please contact your Freescale representative or your operating system vendor. III - Description and Terminology -================================ +================================= In this document, the term 'microcode' refers to the sequence of 32-bit integers that compose the actual QE microcode. @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ being fixed in the RAM package utilizing they should be activated. This data structure signals the microcode which of these virtual traps is active. This structure contains 6 words that the application should copy to some -specific been defined. This table describes the structure. +specific been defined. This table describes the structure:: --------------------------------------------------------------- | Offset in | | Destination Offset | Size of | @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Extended Modes This is a double word bit array (64 bits) that defines special functionality which has an impact on the software drivers. Each bit has its own impact and has special instructions for the s/w associated with it. This structure is -described in this table: +described in this table:: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Bit # | Name | Description | @@ -220,7 +220,8 @@ The 'model' field is a 16-bit number that matches the actual SOC. The 'major' and 'minor' fields are the major and minor revision numbers, respectively, of the SOC. -For example, to match the 8323, revision 1.0: +For example, to match the 8323, revision 1.0:: + soc.model = 8323 soc.major = 1 soc.minor = 0 @@ -273,10 +274,10 @@ library and available to any driver that calles qe_get_firmware_info(). 'reserved'. After the last microcode is a 32-bit CRC. It can be calculated using -this algorithm: +this algorithm:: -u32 crc32(const u8 *p, unsigned int len) -{ + u32 crc32(const u8 *p, unsigned int len) + { unsigned int i; u32 crc = 0; @@ -286,7 +287,7 @@ u32 crc32(const u8 *p, unsigned int len) crc = (crc >> 1) ^ ((crc & 1) ? 0xedb88320 : 0); } return crc; -} + } VI - Sample Code for Creating Firmware Files ============================================ diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst index fa716a0d88bd..e49f69f941b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst @@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ Power Architecture 64-bit Linux system call ABI syscall ======= -syscall calling sequence[*] matches the Power Architecture 64-bit ELF ABI +syscall calling sequence\ [1]_ matches the Power Architecture 64-bit ELF ABI specification C function calling sequence, including register preservation rules, with the following differences. -[*] Some syscalls (typically low-level management functions) may have - different calling sequences (e.g., rt_sigreturn). +.. [1] Some syscalls (typically low-level management functions) may have + different calling sequences (e.g., rt_sigreturn). Parameters and return value --------------------------- @@ -33,12 +33,14 @@ Register preservation rules Register preservation rules match the ELF ABI calling sequence with the following differences: -r0: Volatile. (System call number.) -r3: Volatile. (Parameter 1, and return value.) -r4-r8: Volatile. (Parameters 2-6.) -cr0: Volatile (cr0.SO is the return error condition) -cr1, cr5-7: Nonvolatile. -lr: Nonvolatile. +=========== ============= ======================================== +r0 Volatile (System call number.) +r3 Volatile (Parameter 1, and return value.) +r4-r8 Volatile (Parameters 2-6.) +cr0 Volatile (cr0.SO is the return error condition) +cr1, cr5-7 Nonvolatile +lr Nonvolatile +=========== ============= ======================================== All floating point and vector data registers as well as control and status registers are nonvolatile. @@ -90,9 +92,12 @@ The vsyscall may or may not use the caller's stack frame save areas. Register preservation rules --------------------------- -r0: Volatile. -cr1, cr5-7: Volatile. -lr: Volatile. + +=========== ======== +r0 Volatile +cr1, cr5-7 Volatile +lr Volatile +=========== ======== Invocation ---------- diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.rst index 52c023e14f26..09955103acb4 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.rst @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +============================ Transactional Memory support ============================ @@ -17,29 +18,29 @@ instructions are presented to delimit transactions; transactions are guaranteed to either complete atomically or roll back and undo any partial changes. -A simple transaction looks like this: +A simple transaction looks like this:: -begin_move_money: - tbegin - beq abort_handler + begin_move_money: + tbegin + beq abort_handler - ld r4, SAVINGS_ACCT(r3) - ld r5, CURRENT_ACCT(r3) - subi r5, r5, 1 - addi r4, r4, 1 - std r4, SAVINGS_ACCT(r3) - std r5, CURRENT_ACCT(r3) + ld r4, SAVINGS_ACCT(r3) + ld r5, CURRENT_ACCT(r3) + subi r5, r5, 1 + addi r4, r4, 1 + std r4, SAVINGS_ACCT(r3) + std r5, CURRENT_ACCT(r3) - tend + tend - b continue + b continue -abort_handler: - ... test for odd failures ... + abort_handler: + ... test for odd failures ... - /* Retry the transaction if it failed because it conflicted with - * someone else: */ - b begin_move_money + /* Retry the transaction if it failed because it conflicted with + * someone else: */ + b begin_move_money The 'tbegin' instruction denotes the start point, and 'tend' the end point. @@ -123,7 +124,7 @@ Transaction-aware signal handlers can read the transactional register state from the second ucontext. This will be necessary for crash handlers to determine, for example, the address of the instruction causing the SIGSEGV. -Example signal handler: +Example signal handler:: void crash_handler(int sig, siginfo_t *si, void *uc) { @@ -133,9 +134,9 @@ Example signal handler: if (ucp_link) { u64 msr = ucp->uc_mcontext.regs->msr; /* May have transactional ucontext! */ -#ifndef __powerpc64__ + #ifndef __powerpc64__ msr |= ((u64)transactional_ucp->uc_mcontext.regs->msr) << 32; -#endif + #endif if (MSR_TM_ACTIVE(msr)) { /* Yes, we crashed during a transaction. Oops. */ fprintf(stderr, "Transaction to be restarted at 0x%llx, but " @@ -176,6 +177,7 @@ Failure cause codes used by kernel These are defined in <asm/reg.h>, and distinguish different reasons why the kernel aborted a transaction: + ====================== ================================ TM_CAUSE_RESCHED Thread was rescheduled. TM_CAUSE_TLBI Software TLB invalid. TM_CAUSE_FAC_UNAV FP/VEC/VSX unavailable trap. @@ -184,6 +186,7 @@ kernel aborted a transaction: TM_CAUSE_MISC Currently unused. TM_CAUSE_ALIGNMENT Alignment fault. TM_CAUSE_EMULATE Emulation that touched memory. + ====================== ================================ These can be checked by the user program's abort handler as TEXASR[0:7]. If bit 7 is set, it indicates that the error is consider persistent. For example @@ -203,7 +206,7 @@ POWER9 ====== TM on POWER9 has issues with storing the complete register state. This -is described in this commit: +is described in this commit:: commit 4bb3c7a0208fc13ca70598efd109901a7cd45ae7 Author: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org> diff --git a/Documentation/process/conf.py b/Documentation/process/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index 1b01a80ad9ce..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/process/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -project = 'Linux Kernel Development Documentation' - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'process.tex', 'Linux Kernel Development Documentation', - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] diff --git a/Documentation/sh/conf.py b/Documentation/sh/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index 1eb684a13ac8..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/sh/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -project = "SuperH architecture implementation manual" - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'sh.tex', project, - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] diff --git a/Documentation/sound/conf.py b/Documentation/sound/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index 3f1fc5e74e7b..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/sound/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -project = "Linux Sound Subsystem Documentation" - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'sound.tex', project, - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/load_config.py b/Documentation/sphinx/load_config.py index 301a21aa4f63..eeb394b39e2c 100644 --- a/Documentation/sphinx/load_config.py +++ b/Documentation/sphinx/load_config.py @@ -21,6 +21,29 @@ def loadConfig(namespace): and os.path.normpath(namespace["__file__"]) != os.path.normpath(config_file) ): config_file = os.path.abspath(config_file) + # Let's avoid one conf.py file just due to latex_documents + start = config_file.find('Documentation/') + if start >= 0: + start = config_file.find('/', start + 1) + + end = config_file.rfind('/') + if start >= 0 and end > 0: + dir = config_file[start + 1:end] + + print("source directory: %s" % dir) + new_latex_docs = [] + latex_documents = namespace['latex_documents'] + + for l in latex_documents: + if l[0].find(dir + '/') == 0: + has = True + fn = l[0][len(dir) + 1:] + new_latex_docs.append((fn, l[1], l[2], l[3], l[4])) + break + + namespace['latex_documents'] = new_latex_docs + + # If there is an extra conf.py file, load it if os.path.isfile(config_file): sys.stdout.write("load additional sphinx-config: %s\n" % config_file) config = namespace.copy() @@ -29,4 +52,6 @@ def loadConfig(namespace): del config['__file__'] namespace.update(config) else: - sys.stderr.write("WARNING: additional sphinx-config not found: %s\n" % config_file) + config = namespace.copy() + config['tags'].add("subproject") + namespace.update(config) diff --git a/Documentation/translations/it_IT/doc-guide/sphinx.rst b/Documentation/translations/it_IT/doc-guide/sphinx.rst index 1739cba8863e..f1ad4504b734 100644 --- a/Documentation/translations/it_IT/doc-guide/sphinx.rst +++ b/Documentation/translations/it_IT/doc-guide/sphinx.rst @@ -242,8 +242,9 @@ del kernel: * Per inserire blocchi di testo con caratteri a dimensione fissa (codici di esempio, casi d'uso, eccetera): utilizzate ``::`` quando non è necessario evidenziare la sintassi, specialmente per piccoli frammenti; invece, - utilizzate ``.. code-block:: <language>`` per blocchi di più lunghi che - potranno beneficiare dell'avere la sintassi evidenziata. + utilizzate ``.. code-block:: <language>`` per blocchi più lunghi che + beneficeranno della sintassi evidenziata. Per un breve pezzo di codice da + inserire nel testo, usate \`\`. Il dominio C @@ -267,12 +268,14 @@ molto comune come ``open`` o ``ioctl``: Il nome della funzione (per esempio ioctl) rimane nel testo ma il nome del suo riferimento cambia da ``ioctl`` a ``VIDIOC_LOG_STATUS``. Anche la voce -nell'indice cambia in ``VIDIOC_LOG_STATUS`` e si potrà quindi fare riferimento -a questa funzione scrivendo: - -.. code-block:: rst - - :c:func:`VIDIOC_LOG_STATUS` +nell'indice cambia in ``VIDIOC_LOG_STATUS``. + +Notate che per una funzione non c'è bisogno di usare ``c:func:`` per generarne +i riferimenti nella documentazione. Grazie a qualche magica estensione a +Sphinx, il sistema di generazione della documentazione trasformerà +automaticamente un riferimento ad una ``funzione()`` in un riferimento +incrociato quando questa ha una voce nell'indice. Se trovate degli usi di +``c:func:`` nella documentazione del kernel, sentitevi liberi di rimuoverli. Tabelle a liste diff --git a/Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/index.rst b/Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/index.rst index 2eda85d5cd1e..012de0f3154a 100644 --- a/Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/index.rst @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Di seguito le guide che ogni sviluppatore dovrebbe leggere. code-of-conduct development-process submitting-patches + programming-language coding-style maintainer-pgp-guide email-clients diff --git a/Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/kernel-docs.rst b/Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/kernel-docs.rst index 7bd70d661737..38e0a955121a 100644 --- a/Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/kernel-docs.rst +++ b/Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/kernel-docs.rst @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ .. include:: ../disclaimer-ita.rst :Original: :ref:`Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst <kernel_docs>` +:Translator: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> .. _it_kernel_docs: @@ -8,6 +9,10 @@ Indice di documenti per le persone interessate a capire e/o scrivere per il kernel Linux ======================================================================================== -.. warning:: - - TODO ancora da tradurre +.. note:: + Questo documento contiene riferimenti a documenti in lingua inglese; inoltre + utilizza dai campi *ReStructuredText* di supporto alla ricerca e che per + questo motivo è meglio non tradurre al fine di garantirne un corretto + utilizzo. + Per questi motivi il documento non verrà tradotto. Per favore fate + riferimento al documento originale in lingua inglese. diff --git a/Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst b/Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst index 276db0e37f43..118fb4153e8f 100644 --- a/Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst +++ b/Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst @@ -248,7 +248,10 @@ possano ricevere la vostra nuova sottochiave:: kernel. Se per qualche ragione preferite rimanere con sottochiavi RSA, nel comando - precedente, sostituite "ed25519" con "rsa2048". + precedente, sostituite "ed25519" con "rsa2048". In aggiunta, se avete + intenzione di usare un dispositivo hardware che non supporta le chiavi + ED25519 ECC, come la Nitrokey Pro o la Yubikey, allora dovreste usare + "nistp256" al posto di "ed25519". Copia di riserva della chiave primaria per gestire il recupero da disastro -------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -449,23 +452,27 @@ implementi le funzionalità delle smartcard. Sul mercato ci sono diverse soluzioni disponibili: - `Nitrokey Start`_: è Open hardware e Free Software, è basata sul progetto - `GnuK`_ della FSIJ. Ha il supporto per chiavi ECC, ma meno funzionalità di - sicurezza (come la resistenza alla manomissione o alcuni attacchi ad un - canale laterale). + `GnuK`_ della FSIJ. Questo è uno dei pochi dispositivi a supportare le chiavi + ECC ED25519, ma offre meno funzionalità di sicurezza (come la resistenza + alla manomissione o alcuni attacchi ad un canale laterale). - `Nitrokey Pro`_: è simile alla Nitrokey Start, ma è più resistente alla - manomissione e offre più funzionalità di sicurezza, ma l'ECC. -- `Yubikey 4`_: l'hardware e il software sono proprietari, ma è più economica + manomissione e offre più funzionalità di sicurezza. La Pro 2 supporta la + crittografia ECC (NISTP). +- `Yubikey 5`_: l'hardware e il software sono proprietari, ma è più economica della Nitrokey Pro ed è venduta anche con porta USB-C il che è utile con i computer portatili più recenti. In aggiunta, offre altre funzionalità di - sicurezza come FIDO, U2F, ma non l'ECC + sicurezza come FIDO, U2F, e ora supporta anche le chiavi ECC (NISTP) `Su LWN c'è una buona recensione`_ dei modelli elencati qui sopra e altri. +La scelta dipenderà dal costo, dalla disponibilità nella vostra area +geografica e vostre considerazioni sull'hardware aperto/proprietario. + Se volete usare chiavi ECC, la vostra migliore scelta sul mercato è la Nitrokey Start. .. _`Nitrokey Start`: https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/product/nitrokey-start-6 -.. _`Nitrokey Pro`: https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/product/nitrokey-pro-3 -.. _`Yubikey 4`: https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-4-series/ +.. _`Nitrokey Pro 2`: https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/product/nitrokey-pro-2-3 +.. _`Yubikey 5`: https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-5-overview/ .. _Gnuk: http://www.fsij.org/doc-gnuk/ .. _`Su LWN c'è una buona recensione`: https://lwn.net/Articles/736231/ diff --git a/Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/programming-language.rst b/Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/programming-language.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f4b006395849 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/programming-language.rst @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +.. include:: ../disclaimer-ita.rst + +:Original: :ref:`Documentation/process/programming-language.rst <programming_language>` +:Translator: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> + +.. _it_programming_language: + +Linguaggio di programmazione +============================ + +Il kernel è scritto nel linguaggio di programmazione C [c-language]_. +Più precisamente, il kernel viene compilato con ``gcc`` [gcc]_ usando +l'opzione ``-std=gnu89`` [gcc-c-dialect-options]_: il dialetto GNU +dello standard ISO C90 (con l'aggiunta di alcune funzionalità da C99) + +Questo dialetto contiene diverse estensioni al linguaggio [gnu-extensions]_, +e molte di queste vengono usate sistematicamente dal kernel. + +Il kernel offre un certo livello di supporto per la compilazione con ``clang`` +[clang]_ e ``icc`` [icc]_ su diverse architetture, tuttavia in questo momento +il supporto non è completo e richiede delle patch aggiuntive. + +Attributi +--------- + +Una delle estensioni più comuni e usate nel kernel sono gli attributi +[gcc-attribute-syntax]_. Gli attributi permettono di aggiungere una semantica, +definita dell'implementazione, alle entità del linguaggio (come le variabili, +le funzioni o i tipi) senza dover fare importanti modifiche sintattiche al +linguaggio stesso (come l'aggiunta di nuove parole chiave) [n2049]_. + +In alcuni casi, gli attributi sono opzionali (ovvero un compilatore che non +dovesse supportarli dovrebbe produrre comunque codice corretto, anche se +più lento o che non esegue controlli aggiuntivi durante la compilazione). + +Il kernel definisce alcune pseudo parole chiave (per esempio ``__pure``) +in alternativa alla sintassi GNU per gli attributi (per esempio +``__attribute__((__pure__))``) allo scopo di mostrare quali funzionalità si +possono usare e/o per accorciare il codice. + +Per maggiori informazioni consultate il file d'intestazione +``include/linux/compiler_attributes.h``. + +.. [c-language] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/standards +.. [gcc] https://gcc.gnu.org +.. [clang] https://clang.llvm.org +.. [icc] https://software.intel.com/en-us/c-compilers +.. [gcc-c-dialect-options] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C-Dialect-Options.html +.. [gnu-extensions] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C-Extensions.html +.. [gcc-attribute-syntax] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Attribute-Syntax.html +.. [n2049] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2049.pdf diff --git a/Documentation/translations/ko_KR/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/translations/ko_KR/memory-barriers.txt index a33c2a536542..2774624ee843 100644 --- a/Documentation/translations/ko_KR/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/translations/ko_KR/memory-barriers.txt @@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ ACQUIRE 는 해당 오퍼레이션의 로드 부분에만 적용되고 RELEASE [*] 버스 마스터링 DMA 와 일관성에 대해서는 다음을 참고하시기 바랍니다: - Documentation/PCI/pci.rst + Documentation/driver-api/pci/pci.rst Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt Documentation/DMA-API.txt diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/conf.py b/Documentation/userspace-api/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index 2eaf59f844e5..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -project = "The Linux kernel user-space API guide" - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'userspace-api.tex', project, - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/index.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/index.rst index 0b206a06f5be..ada224a511fe 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/index.rst @@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ KVM amd-memory-encryption cpuid + vcpu-requests diff --git a/Documentation/vm/conf.py b/Documentation/vm/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index 3b0b601af558..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/vm/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -project = "Linux Memory Management Documentation" - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'memory-management.tex', project, - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/hpwdt.rst b/Documentation/watchdog/hpwdt.rst index c165d92cfd12..c824cd7f6e32 100644 --- a/Documentation/watchdog/hpwdt.rst +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/hpwdt.rst @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Last reviewed: 08/20/2018 and loop forever. This is generally not what a watchdog user wants. For those wishing to learn more please see: - Documentation/kdump/kdump.rst + Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt (panic=) Your Linux Distribution specific documentation. diff --git a/Documentation/x86/conf.py b/Documentation/x86/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index 33c5c3142e20..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/x86/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -project = "X86 architecture specific documentation" - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'x86.tex', project, - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] |