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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-usb_host b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-uwb_rc-wusbhc index 46b66ad1f1b4..4e8106f7cfd9 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-usb_host +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-uwb_rc-wusbhc @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -What: /sys/class/usb_host/usb_hostN/wusb_chid +What: /sys/class/uwb_rc/uwbN/wusbhc/wusb_chid Date: July 2008 KernelVersion: 2.6.27 Contact: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Description: Set an all zero CHID to stop the host controller. -What: /sys/class/usb_host/usb_hostN/wusb_trust_timeout +What: /sys/class/uwb_rc/uwbN/wusbhc/wusb_trust_timeout Date: July 2008 KernelVersion: 2.6.27 Contact: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-cache_disable b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-cache_disable deleted file mode 100644 index 175bb4f70512..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-cache_disable +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index*/cache_disable_X -Date: August 2008 -KernelVersion: 2.6.27 -Contact: mark.langsdorf@amd.com -Description: These files exist in every cpu's cache index directories. - There are currently 2 cache_disable_# files in each - directory. Reading from these files on a supported - processor will return that cache disable index value - for that processor and node. Writing to one of these - files will cause the specificed cache index to be disabled. - - Currently, only AMD Family 10h Processors support cache index - disable, and only for their L3 caches. See the BIOS and - Kernel Developer's Guide at - http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/31116-Public-GH-BKDG_3.20_2-4-09.pdf - for formatting information and other details on the - cache index disable. -Users: joachim.deguara@amd.com diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a703b9e9aeb9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu @@ -0,0 +1,156 @@ +What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/ +Date: pre-git history +Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> +Description: + A collection of both global and individual CPU attributes + + Individual CPU attributes are contained in subdirectories + named by the kernel's logical CPU number, e.g.: + + /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/ + +What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings + /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_smt_power_savings +Date: June 2006 +Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> +Description: Discover and adjust the kernel's multi-core scheduler support. + + Possible values are: + + 0 - No power saving load balance (default value) + 1 - Fill one thread/core/package first for long running threads + 2 - Also bias task wakeups to semi-idle cpu package for power + savings + + sched_mc_power_savings is dependent upon SCHED_MC, which is + itself architecture dependent. + + sched_smt_power_savings is dependent upon SCHED_SMT, which + is itself architecture dependent. + + The two files are independent of each other. It is possible + that one file may be present without the other. + + Introduced by git commit 5c45bf27. + + +What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/kernel_max + /sys/devices/system/cpu/offline + /sys/devices/system/cpu/online + /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible + /sys/devices/system/cpu/present +Date: December 2008 +Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> +Description: CPU topology files that describe kernel limits related to + hotplug. Briefly: + + kernel_max: the maximum cpu index allowed by the kernel + configuration. + + offline: cpus that are not online because they have been + HOTPLUGGED off or exceed the limit of cpus allowed by the + kernel configuration (kernel_max above). + + online: cpus that are online and being scheduled. + + possible: cpus that have been allocated resources and can be + brought online if they are present. + + present: cpus that have been identified as being present in + the system. + + See Documentation/cputopology.txt for more information. + + + +What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/node +Date: October 2009 +Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org> +Description: Discover NUMA node a CPU belongs to + + When CONFIG_NUMA is enabled, a symbolic link that points + to the corresponding NUMA node directory. + + For example, the following symlink is created for cpu42 + in NUMA node 2: + + /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu42/node2 -> ../../node/node2 + + +What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/topology/core_id + /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/topology/core_siblings + /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/topology/core_siblings_list + /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/topology/physical_package_id + /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/topology/thread_siblings + /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/topology/thread_siblings_list +Date: December 2008 +Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> +Description: CPU topology files that describe a logical CPU's relationship + to other cores and threads in the same physical package. + + One cpu# directory is created per logical CPU in the system, + e.g. /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu42/. + + Briefly, the files above are: + + core_id: the CPU core ID of cpu#. Typically it is the + hardware platform's identifier (rather than the kernel's). + The actual value is architecture and platform dependent. + + core_siblings: internal kernel map of cpu#'s hardware threads + within the same physical_package_id. + + core_siblings_list: human-readable list of the logical CPU + numbers within the same physical_package_id as cpu#. + + physical_package_id: physical package id of cpu#. Typically + corresponds to a physical socket number, but the actual value + is architecture and platform dependent. + + thread_siblings: internel kernel map of cpu#'s hardware + threads within the same core as cpu# + + thread_siblings_list: human-readable list of cpu#'s hardware + threads within the same core as cpu# + + See Documentation/cputopology.txt for more information. + + +What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_driver + /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_governer_ro +Date: September 2007 +Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> +Description: Discover cpuidle policy and mechanism + + Various CPUs today support multiple idle levels that are + differentiated by varying exit latencies and power + consumption during idle. + + Idle policy (governor) is differentiated from idle mechanism + (driver) + + current_driver: displays current idle mechanism + + current_governor_ro: displays current idle policy + + See files in Documentation/cpuidle/ for more information. + + +What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index*/cache_disable_X +Date: August 2008 +KernelVersion: 2.6.27 +Contact: mark.langsdorf@amd.com +Description: These files exist in every cpu's cache index directories. + There are currently 2 cache_disable_# files in each + directory. Reading from these files on a supported + processor will return that cache disable index value + for that processor and node. Writing to one of these + files will cause the specificed cache index to be disabled. + + Currently, only AMD Family 10h Processors support cache index + disable, and only for their L3 caches. See the BIOS and + Kernel Developer's Guide at + http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/31116-Public-GH-BKDG_3.20_2-4-09.pdf + for formatting information and other details on the + cache index disable. +Users: joachim.deguara@amd.com diff --git a/Documentation/cputopology.txt b/Documentation/cputopology.txt index b41f3e58aefa..f1c5c4bccd3e 100644 --- a/Documentation/cputopology.txt +++ b/Documentation/cputopology.txt @@ -1,15 +1,28 @@ -Export cpu topology info via sysfs. Items (attributes) are similar +Export CPU topology info via sysfs. Items (attributes) are similar to /proc/cpuinfo. 1) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/physical_package_id: -represent the physical package id of cpu X; + + physical package id of cpuX. Typically corresponds to a physical + socket number, but the actual value is architecture and platform + dependent. + 2) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_id: -represent the cpu core id to cpu X; + + the CPU core ID of cpuX. Typically it is the hardware platform's + identifier (rather than the kernel's). The actual value is + architecture and platform dependent. + 3) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings: -represent the thread siblings to cpu X in the same core; + + internel kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads within the same + core as cpuX + 4) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings: -represent the thread siblings to cpu X in the same physical package; + + internal kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads within the same + physical_package_id. To implement it in an architecture-neutral way, a new source file, drivers/base/topology.c, is to export the 4 attributes. @@ -32,32 +45,32 @@ not defined by include/asm-XXX/topology.h: 3) thread_siblings: just the given CPU 4) core_siblings: just the given CPU -Additionally, cpu topology information is provided under +Additionally, CPU topology information is provided under /sys/devices/system/cpu and includes these files. The internal source for the output is in brackets ("[]"). - kernel_max: the maximum cpu index allowed by the kernel configuration. + kernel_max: the maximum CPU index allowed by the kernel configuration. [NR_CPUS-1] - offline: cpus that are not online because they have been + offline: CPUs that are not online because they have been HOTPLUGGED off (see cpu-hotplug.txt) or exceed the limit - of cpus allowed by the kernel configuration (kernel_max + of CPUs allowed by the kernel configuration (kernel_max above). [~cpu_online_mask + cpus >= NR_CPUS] - online: cpus that are online and being scheduled [cpu_online_mask] + online: CPUs that are online and being scheduled [cpu_online_mask] - possible: cpus that have been allocated resources and can be + possible: CPUs that have been allocated resources and can be brought online if they are present. [cpu_possible_mask] - present: cpus that have been identified as being present in the + present: CPUs that have been identified as being present in the system. [cpu_present_mask] The format for the above output is compatible with cpulist_parse() [see <linux/cpumask.h>]. Some examples follow. -In this example, there are 64 cpus in the system but cpus 32-63 exceed +In this example, there are 64 CPUs in the system but cpus 32-63 exceed the kernel max which is limited to 0..31 by the NR_CPUS config option -being 32. Note also that cpus 2 and 4-31 are not online but could be +being 32. Note also that CPUs 2 and 4-31 are not online but could be brought online as they are both present and possible. kernel_max: 31 @@ -67,8 +80,8 @@ brought online as they are both present and possible. present: 0-31 In this example, the NR_CPUS config option is 128, but the kernel was -started with possible_cpus=144. There are 4 cpus in the system and cpu2 -was manually taken offline (and is the only cpu that can be brought +started with possible_cpus=144. There are 4 CPUs in the system and cpu2 +was manually taken offline (and is the only CPU that can be brought online.) kernel_max: 127 @@ -78,4 +91,4 @@ online.) present: 0-3 See cpu-hotplug.txt for the possible_cpus=NUM kernel start parameter -as well as more information on the various cpumask's. +as well as more information on the various cpumasks. diff --git a/Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt b/Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt index 59a91e5c6909..611f5a5499b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt +++ b/Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt @@ -64,14 +64,14 @@ be used to view the printk buffer of a remote machine, even with live update. Bernhard Kaindl enhanced firescope to support accessing 64-bit machines from 32-bit firescope and vice versa: -- ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/tools/firescope-0.2.2.tar.bz2 +- http://halobates.de/firewire/firescope-0.2.2.tar.bz2 and he implemented fast system dump (alpha version - read README.txt): -- ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/tools/firedump-0.1.tar.bz2 +- http://halobates.de/firewire/firedump-0.1.tar.bz2 There is also a gdb proxy for firewire which allows to use gdb to access data which can be referenced from symbols found by gdb in vmlinux: -- ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/tools/fireproxy-0.33.tar.bz2 +- http://halobates.de/firewire/fireproxy-0.33.tar.bz2 The latest version of this gdb proxy (fireproxy-0.34) can communicate (not yet stable) with kgdb over an memory-based communication module (kgdbom). @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ Step-by-step instructions for using firescope with early OHCI initialization: Notes ----- -Documentation and specifications: ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/docs +Documentation and specifications: http://halobates.de/firewire/ FireWire is a trademark of Apple Inc. - for more information please refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireWire diff --git a/Documentation/dontdiff b/Documentation/dontdiff index e1efc400bed6..e151b2a36267 100644 --- a/Documentation/dontdiff +++ b/Documentation/dontdiff @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ aicdb.h* asm-offsets.h asm_offsets.h autoconf.h* +av_permissions.h bbootsect bin2c binkernel.spec @@ -95,12 +96,14 @@ docproc elf2ecoff elfconfig.h* fixdep +flask.h fore200e_mkfirm fore200e_pca_fw.c* gconf gen-devlist gen_crc32table gen_init_cpio +genheaders genksyms *_gray256.c ihex2fw diff --git a/Documentation/fb/framebuffer.txt b/Documentation/fb/framebuffer.txt index b3e3a0356839..fe79e3c8847d 100644 --- a/Documentation/fb/framebuffer.txt +++ b/Documentation/fb/framebuffer.txt @@ -312,10 +312,8 @@ and to the following documentation: 8. Mailing list --------------- -There are several frame buffer device related mailing lists at SourceForge: - - linux-fbdev-announce@lists.sourceforge.net, for announcements, - - linux-fbdev-user@lists.sourceforge.net, for generic user support, - - linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, for project developers. +There is a frame buffer device related mailing list at kernel.org: +linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org. Point your web browser to http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-fbdev/ for subscription information and archive browsing. diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 89a47b5aff07..bc693fffabe0 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -418,6 +418,14 @@ When: 2.6.33 Why: Should be implemented in userspace, policy daemon. Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> +--------------------------- + +What: CONFIG_INOTIFY +When: 2.6.33 +Why: last user (audit) will be converted to the newer more generic + and more easily maintained fsnotify subsystem +Who: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> + ---------------------------- What: lock_policy_rwsem_* and unlock_policy_rwsem_* will not be @@ -451,3 +459,33 @@ Why: OSS sound_core grabs all legacy minors (0-255) of SOUND_MAJOR will also allow making ALSA OSS emulation independent of sound_core. The dependency will be broken then too. Who: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> + +---------------------------- + +What: Support for VMware's guest paravirtuliazation technique [VMI] will be + dropped. +When: 2.6.37 or earlier. +Why: With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies + from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these + techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform. + These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the + performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware + expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of + years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this + feature from the hypervisor. We will be removing this feature from the + Kernel too. Right now we are targeting 2.6.37 but can retire earlier if + technical reasons (read opportunity to remove major chunk of pvops) + arise. + + Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels + still work fine on VMware's platform. + Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are, + Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence + releases for these products will continue supporting VMI. + + For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this, + http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html + +Who: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> + +---------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt index 9e94b9491d89..a91e2e2095b0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt @@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ proc files. neg=N Number of negative lookups made pos=N Number of positive lookups made crt=N Number of objects created by lookup + tmo=N Number of lookups timed out and requeued Updates n=N Number of update cookie requests seen nul=N Number of upd reqs given a NULL parent run=N Number of upd reqs granted CPU time @@ -250,8 +251,10 @@ proc files. ok=N Number of successful alloc reqs wt=N Number of alloc reqs that waited on lookup completion nbf=N Number of alloc reqs rejected -ENOBUFS + int=N Number of alloc reqs aborted -ERESTARTSYS ops=N Number of alloc reqs submitted owt=N Number of alloc reqs waited for CPU time + abt=N Number of alloc reqs aborted due to object death Retrvls n=N Number of retrieval (read) requests seen ok=N Number of successful retr reqs wt=N Number of retr reqs that waited on lookup completion @@ -261,6 +264,7 @@ proc files. oom=N Number of retr reqs failed -ENOMEM ops=N Number of retr reqs submitted owt=N Number of retr reqs waited for CPU time + abt=N Number of retr reqs aborted due to object death Stores n=N Number of storage (write) requests seen ok=N Number of successful store reqs agn=N Number of store reqs on a page already pending storage @@ -268,12 +272,37 @@ proc files. oom=N Number of store reqs failed -ENOMEM ops=N Number of store reqs submitted run=N Number of store reqs granted CPU time + pgs=N Number of pages given store req processing time + rxd=N Number of store reqs deleted from tracking tree + olm=N Number of store reqs over store limit + VmScan nos=N Number of release reqs against pages with no pending store + gon=N Number of release reqs against pages stored by time lock granted + bsy=N Number of release reqs ignored due to in-progress store + can=N Number of page stores cancelled due to release req Ops pend=N Number of times async ops added to pending queues run=N Number of times async ops given CPU time enq=N Number of times async ops queued for processing + can=N Number of async ops cancelled + rej=N Number of async ops rejected due to object lookup/create failure dfr=N Number of async ops queued for deferred release rel=N Number of async ops released gc=N Number of deferred-release async ops garbage collected + CacheOp alo=N Number of in-progress alloc_object() cache ops + luo=N Number of in-progress lookup_object() cache ops + luc=N Number of in-progress lookup_complete() cache ops + gro=N Number of in-progress grab_object() cache ops + upo=N Number of in-progress update_object() cache ops + dro=N Number of in-progress drop_object() cache ops + pto=N Number of in-progress put_object() cache ops + syn=N Number of in-progress sync_cache() cache ops + atc=N Number of in-progress attr_changed() cache ops + rap=N Number of in-progress read_or_alloc_page() cache ops + ras=N Number of in-progress read_or_alloc_pages() cache ops + alp=N Number of in-progress allocate_page() cache ops + als=N Number of in-progress allocate_pages() cache ops + wrp=N Number of in-progress write_page() cache ops + ucp=N Number of in-progress uncache_page() cache ops + dsp=N Number of in-progress dissociate_pages() cache ops (*) /proc/fs/fscache/histogram @@ -299,6 +328,87 @@ proc files. jiffy range covered, and the SECS field the equivalent number of seconds. +=========== +OBJECT LIST +=========== + +If CONFIG_FSCACHE_OBJECT_LIST is enabled, the FS-Cache facility will maintain a +list of all the objects currently allocated and allow them to be viewed +through: + + /proc/fs/fscache/objects + +This will look something like: + + [root@andromeda ~]# head /proc/fs/fscache/objects + OBJECT PARENT STAT CHLDN OPS OOP IPR EX READS EM EV F S | NETFS_COOKIE_DEF TY FL NETFS_DATA OBJECT_KEY, AUX_DATA + ======== ======== ==== ===== === === === == ===== == == = = | ================ == == ================ ================ + 17e4b 2 ACTV 0 0 0 0 0 0 7b 4 0 8 | NFS.fh DT 0 ffff88001dd82820 010006017edcf8bbc93b43298fdfbe71e50b57b13a172c0117f38472, e567634700000000000000000000000063f2404a000000000000000000000000c9030000000000000000000063f2404a + 1693a 2 ACTV 0 0 0 0 0 0 7b 4 0 8 | NFS.fh DT 0 ffff88002db23380 010006017edcf8bbc93b43298fdfbe71e50b57b1e0162c01a2df0ea6, 420ebc4a000000000000000000000000420ebc4a0000000000000000000000000e1801000000000000000000420ebc4a + +where the first set of columns before the '|' describe the object: + + COLUMN DESCRIPTION + ======= =============================================================== + OBJECT Object debugging ID (appears as OBJ%x in some debug messages) + PARENT Debugging ID of parent object + STAT Object state + CHLDN Number of child objects of this object + OPS Number of outstanding operations on this object + OOP Number of outstanding child object management operations + IPR + EX Number of outstanding exclusive operations + READS Number of outstanding read operations + EM Object's event mask + EV Events raised on this object + F Object flags + S Object slow-work work item flags + +and the second set of columns describe the object's cookie, if present: + + COLUMN DESCRIPTION + =============== ======================================================= + NETFS_COOKIE_DEF Name of netfs cookie definition + TY Cookie type (IX - index, DT - data, hex - special) + FL Cookie flags + NETFS_DATA Netfs private data stored in the cookie + OBJECT_KEY Object key } 1 column, with separating comma + AUX_DATA Object aux data } presence may be configured + +The data shown may be filtered by attaching the a key to an appropriate keyring +before viewing the file. Something like: + + keyctl add user fscache:objlist <restrictions> @s + +where <restrictions> are a selection of the following letters: + + K Show hexdump of object key (don't show if not given) + A Show hexdump of object aux data (don't show if not given) + +and the following paired letters: + + C Show objects that have a cookie + c Show objects that don't have a cookie + B Show objects that are busy + b Show objects that aren't busy + W Show objects that have pending writes + w Show objects that don't have pending writes + R Show objects that have outstanding reads + r Show objects that don't have outstanding reads + S Show objects that have slow work queued + s Show objects that don't have slow work queued + +If neither side of a letter pair is given, then both are implied. For example: + + keyctl add user fscache:objlist KB @s + +shows objects that are busy, and lists their object keys, but does not dump +their auxiliary data. It also implies "CcWwRrSs", but as 'B' is given, 'b' is +not implied. + +By default all objects and all fields will be shown. + + ========= DEBUGGING ========= diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt index 2666b1ed5e9e..1902c57b72ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt @@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ data file must be retired (see the relinquish cookie function below). Furthermore, note that this does not cancel the asynchronous read or write operation started by the read/alloc and write functions, so the page -invalidation and release functions must use: +invalidation functions must use: bool fscache_check_page_write(struct fscache_cookie *cookie, struct page *page); @@ -654,6 +654,25 @@ to see if a page is being written to the cache, and: to wait for it to finish if it is. +When releasepage() is being implemented, a special FS-Cache function exists to +manage the heuristics of coping with vmscan trying to eject pages, which may +conflict with the cache trying to write pages to the cache (which may itself +need to allocate memory): + + bool fscache_maybe_release_page(struct fscache_cookie *cookie, + struct page *page, + gfp_t gfp); + +This takes the netfs cookie, and the page and gfp arguments as supplied to +releasepage(). It will return false if the page cannot be released yet for +some reason and if it returns true, the page has been uncached and can now be +released. + +To make a page available for release, this function may wait for an outstanding +storage request to complete, or it may attempt to cancel the storage request - +in which case the page will not be stored in the cache this time. + + ========================== INDEX AND DATA FILE UPDATE ========================== diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt index 570f9bd9be2b..05d5cf1d743f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt @@ -123,10 +123,18 @@ resuid=n The user ID which may use the reserved blocks. sb=n Use alternate superblock at this location. -quota -noquota -grpquota -usrquota +quota These options are ignored by the filesystem. They +noquota are used only by quota tools to recognize volumes +grpquota where quota should be turned on. See documentation +usrquota in the quota-tools package for more details + (http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota). + +jqfmt=<quota type> These options tell filesystem details about quota +usrjquota=<file> so that quota information can be properly updated +grpjquota=<file> during journal replay. They replace the above + quota options. See documentation in the quota-tools + package for more details + (http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota). bh (*) ext3 associates buffer heads to data pages to nobh (a) cache disk block mapping information diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt index bf4f4b7e11b3..6d94e0696f8c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt @@ -134,9 +134,15 @@ ro Mount filesystem read only. Note that ext4 will mount options "ro,noload" can be used to prevent writes to the filesystem. +journal_checksum Enable checksumming of the journal transactions. + This will allow the recovery code in e2fsck and the + kernel to detect corruption in the kernel. It is a + compatible change and will be ignored by older kernels. + journal_async_commit Commit block can be written to disk without waiting for descriptor blocks. If enabled older kernels cannot - mount the device. + mount the device. This will enable 'journal_checksum' + internally. journal=update Update the ext4 file system's journal to the current format. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt index c2a0871280a0..c58b9f5ba002 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt @@ -20,15 +20,16 @@ Lots of code taken from ext3 and other projects. Authors in alphabetical order: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> -Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> +Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Kurt Hackel <kurt.hackel@oracle.com> +Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com> Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com> Manish Singh <manish.singh@oracle.com> +Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@oracle.com> Caveats ======= Features which OCFS2 does not support yet: - - quotas - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY) - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease) @@ -70,7 +71,6 @@ commit=nrsec (*) Ocfs2 can be told to sync all its data and metadata performance. localalloc=8(*) Allows custom localalloc size in MB. If the value is too large, the fs will silently revert it to the default. - Localalloc is not enabled for local mounts. localflocks This disables cluster aware flock. inode64 Indicates that Ocfs2 is allowed to create inodes at any location in the filesystem, including those which diff --git a/Documentation/flexible-arrays.txt b/Documentation/flexible-arrays.txt index 84eb26808dee..cb8a3a00cc92 100644 --- a/Documentation/flexible-arrays.txt +++ b/Documentation/flexible-arrays.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Using flexible arrays in the kernel -Last updated for 2.6.31 +Last updated for 2.6.32 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Large contiguous memory allocations can be unreliable in the Linux kernel. @@ -40,6 +40,13 @@ argument is passed directly to the internal memory allocation calls. With the current code, using flags to ask for high memory is likely to lead to notably unpleasant side effects. +It is also possible to define flexible arrays at compile time with: + + DEFINE_FLEX_ARRAY(name, element_size, total); + +This macro will result in a definition of an array with the given name; the +element size and total will be checked for validity at compile time. + Storing data into a flexible array is accomplished with a call to: int flex_array_put(struct flex_array *array, unsigned int element_nr, @@ -76,16 +83,30 @@ particular element has never been allocated. Note that it is possible to get back a valid pointer for an element which has never been stored in the array. Memory for array elements is allocated one page at a time; a single allocation could provide memory for several -adjacent elements. The flexible array code does not know if a specific -element has been written; it only knows if the associated memory is -present. So a flex_array_get() call on an element which was never stored -in the array has the potential to return a pointer to random data. If the -caller does not have a separate way to know which elements were actually -stored, it might be wise, at least, to add GFP_ZERO to the flags argument -to ensure that all elements are zeroed. - -There is no way to remove a single element from the array. It is possible, -though, to remove all elements with a call to: +adjacent elements. Flexible array elements are normally initialized to the +value FLEX_ARRAY_FREE (defined as 0x6c in <linux/poison.h>), so errors +involving that number probably result from use of unstored array entries. +Note that, if array elements are allocated with __GFP_ZERO, they will be +initialized to zero and this poisoning will not happen. + +Individual elements in the array can be cleared with: + + int flex_array_clear(struct flex_array *array, unsigned int element_nr); + +This function will set the given element to FLEX_ARRAY_FREE and return +zero. If storage for the indicated element is not allocated for the array, +flex_array_clear() will return -EINVAL instead. Note that clearing an +element does not release the storage associated with it; to reduce the +allocated size of an array, call: + + int flex_array_shrink(struct flex_array *array); + +The return value will be the number of pages of memory actually freed. +This function works by scanning the array for pages containing nothing but +FLEX_ARRAY_FREE bytes, so (1) it can be expensive, and (2) it will not work +if the array's pages are allocated with __GFP_ZERO. + +It is possible to remove all elements of an array with a call to: void flex_array_free_parts(struct flex_array *array); diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface index dcbd502c8792..82def883361b 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface @@ -353,10 +353,20 @@ power[1-*]_average Average power use Unit: microWatt RO -power[1-*]_average_interval Power use averaging interval +power[1-*]_average_interval Power use averaging interval. A poll + notification is sent to this file if the + hardware changes the averaging interval. Unit: milliseconds RW +power[1-*]_average_interval_max Maximum power use averaging interval + Unit: milliseconds + RO + +power[1-*]_average_interval_min Minimum power use averaging interval + Unit: milliseconds + RO + power[1-*]_average_highest Historical average maximum power use Unit: microWatt RO @@ -365,6 +375,18 @@ power[1-*]_average_lowest Historical average minimum power use Unit: microWatt RO +power[1-*]_average_max A poll notification is sent to + power[1-*]_average when power use + rises above this value. + Unit: microWatt + RW + +power[1-*]_average_min A poll notification is sent to + power[1-*]_average when power use + sinks below this value. + Unit: microWatt + RW + power[1-*]_input Instantaneous power use Unit: microWatt RO @@ -381,6 +403,39 @@ power[1-*]_reset_history Reset input_highest, input_lowest, average_highest and average_lowest. WO +power[1-*]_accuracy Accuracy of the power meter. + Unit: Percent + RO + +power[1-*]_alarm 1 if the system is drawing more power than the + cap allows; 0 otherwise. A poll notification is + sent to this file when the power use exceeds the + cap. This file only appears if the cap is known + to be enforced by hardware. + RO + +power[1-*]_cap If power use rises above this limit, the + system should take action to reduce power use. + A poll notification is sent to this file if the + cap is changed by the hardware. The *_cap + files only appear if the cap is known to be + enforced by hardware. + Unit: microWatt + RW + +power[1-*]_cap_hyst Margin of hysteresis built around capping and + notification. + Unit: microWatt + RW + +power[1-*]_cap_max Maximum cap that can be set. + Unit: microWatt + RO + +power[1-*]_cap_min Minimum cap that can be set. + Unit: microWatt + RO + ********** * Energy * ********** diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4 b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4 index c5b37c570554..ac540c71c7eb 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4 +++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Supported adapters: Datasheet: Only available via NDA from ServerWorks * ATI IXP200, IXP300, IXP400, SB600, SB700 and SB800 southbridges Datasheet: Not publicly available - * AMD SB900 + * AMD Hudson-2 Datasheet: Not publicly available * Standard Microsystems (SMSC) SLC90E66 (Victory66) southbridge Datasheet: Publicly available at the SMSC website http://www.smsc.com diff --git a/Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt b/Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt index 744687dd195b..8a366959f5cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt +++ b/Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt @@ -128,8 +128,8 @@ Setting IsSM Capability Bit To create the appropriate character device files automatically with udev, a rule like - KERNEL="umad*", NAME="infiniband/%k" - KERNEL="issm*", NAME="infiniband/%k" + KERNEL=="umad*", NAME="infiniband/%k" + KERNEL=="issm*", NAME="infiniband/%k" can be used. This will create device nodes named diff --git a/Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.txt b/Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.txt index f847501e50b5..afe3f8da9018 100644 --- a/Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.txt +++ b/Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.txt @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Memory pinning To create the appropriate character device files automatically with udev, a rule like - KERNEL="uverbs*", NAME="infiniband/%k" + KERNEL=="uverbs*", NAME="infiniband/%k" can be used. This will create device nodes named diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 9107b387e91f..332fe3b47e0c 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -85,7 +85,6 @@ parameter is applicable: PPT Parallel port support is enabled. PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled. RAM RAM disk support is enabled. - ROOTPLUG The example Root Plug LSM is enabled. S390 S390 architecture is enabled. SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled. A lot of drivers has their options described inside of @@ -2164,15 +2163,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously (e.g. USB and MMC devices). - root_plug.vendor_id= - [ROOTPLUG] Override the default vendor ID - - root_plug.product_id= - [ROOTPLUG] Override the default product ID - - root_plug.debug= - [ROOTPLUG] Enable debugging output - rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot S [KNL] Run init in single mode diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c index ba9373f82ab5..098de5bce00a 100644 --- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c +++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c @@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ #include <signal.h> #include "linux/lguest_launcher.h" #include "linux/virtio_config.h" -#include <linux/virtio_ids.h> #include "linux/virtio_net.h" #include "linux/virtio_blk.h" #include "linux/virtio_console.h" diff --git a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt index 059934363caf..446f43b309df 100644 --- a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt +++ b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt @@ -1,5 +1,17 @@ This file details changes in 2.6 which affect PCMCIA card driver authors: +* no cs_error / CS_CHECK / CONFIG_PCMCIA_DEBUG (as of 2.6.33) + Instead of the cs_error() callback or the CS_CHECK() macro, please use + Linux-style checking of return values, and -- if necessary -- debug + messages using "dev_dbg()" or "pr_debug()". + +* New CIS tuple access (as of 2.6.33) + Instead of pcmcia_get_{first,next}_tuple(), pcmcia_get_tuple_data() and + pcmcia_parse_tuple(), a driver shall use "pcmcia_get_tuple()" if it is + only interested in one (raw) tuple, or "pcmcia_loop_tuple()" if it is + interested in all tuples of one type. To decode the MAC from CISTPL_FUNCE, + a new helper "pcmcia_get_mac_from_cis()" was added. + * New configuration loop helper (as of 2.6.28) By calling pcmcia_loop_config(), a driver can iterate over all available configuration options. During a driver's probe() phase, one doesn't need diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/hptiop.txt b/Documentation/scsi/hptiop.txt index a6eb4add1be6..9605179711f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/hptiop.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/hptiop.txt @@ -3,6 +3,25 @@ HIGHPOINT ROCKETRAID 3xxx/4xxx ADAPTER DRIVER (hptiop) Controller Register Map ------------------------- +For RR44xx Intel IOP based adapters, the controller IOP is accessed via PCI BAR0 and BAR2: + + BAR0 offset Register + 0x11C5C Link Interface IRQ Set + 0x11C60 Link Interface IRQ Clear + + BAR2 offset Register + 0x10 Inbound Message Register 0 + 0x14 Inbound Message Register 1 + 0x18 Outbound Message Register 0 + 0x1C Outbound Message Register 1 + 0x20 Inbound Doorbell Register + 0x24 Inbound Interrupt Status Register + 0x28 Inbound Interrupt Mask Register + 0x30 Outbound Interrupt Status Register + 0x34 Outbound Interrupt Mask Register + 0x40 Inbound Queue Port + 0x44 Outbound Queue Port + For Intel IOP based adapters, the controller IOP is accessed via PCI BAR0: BAR0 offset Register @@ -93,7 +112,7 @@ The driver exposes following sysfs attributes: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Copyright (C) 2006-2007 HighPoint Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. +Copyright (C) 2006-2009 HighPoint Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of diff --git a/Documentation/slow-work.txt b/Documentation/slow-work.txt index ebc50f808ea4..9dbf4470c7e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/slow-work.txt +++ b/Documentation/slow-work.txt @@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ expand files, provided the time taken to do so isn't too long. Operations of both types may sleep during execution, thus tying up the thread loaned to it. +A further class of work item is available, based on the slow work item class: + + (*) Delayed slow work items. + +These are slow work items that have a timer to defer queueing of the item for +a while. + THREAD-TO-CLASS ALLOCATION -------------------------- @@ -64,9 +71,11 @@ USING SLOW WORK ITEMS Firstly, a module or subsystem wanting to make use of slow work items must register its interest: - int ret = slow_work_register_user(); + int ret = slow_work_register_user(struct module *module); -This will return 0 if successful, or a -ve error upon failure. +This will return 0 if successful, or a -ve error upon failure. The module +pointer should be the module interested in using this facility (almost +certainly THIS_MODULE). Slow work items may then be set up by: @@ -93,6 +102,10 @@ Slow work items may then be set up by: or: + delayed_slow_work_init(&myitem, &myitem_ops); + + or: + vslow_work_init(&myitem, &myitem_ops); depending on its class. @@ -102,15 +115,92 @@ A suitably set up work item can then be enqueued for processing: int ret = slow_work_enqueue(&myitem); This will return a -ve error if the thread pool is unable to gain a reference -on the item, 0 otherwise. +on the item, 0 otherwise, or (for delayed work): + + int ret = delayed_slow_work_enqueue(&myitem, my_jiffy_delay); The items are reference counted, so there ought to be no need for a flush -operation. When all a module's slow work items have been processed, and the +operation. But as the reference counting is optional, means to cancel +existing work items are also included: + + cancel_slow_work(&myitem); + cancel_delayed_slow_work(&myitem); + +can be used to cancel pending work. The above cancel function waits for +existing work to have been executed (or prevent execution of them, depending +on timing). + + +When all a module's slow work items have been processed, and the module has no further interest in the facility, it should unregister its interest: - slow_work_unregister_user(); + slow_work_unregister_user(struct module *module); + +The module pointer is used to wait for all outstanding work items for that +module before completing the unregistration. This prevents the put_ref() code +from being taken away before it completes. module should almost certainly be +THIS_MODULE. + + +================ +HELPER FUNCTIONS +================ + +The slow-work facility provides a function by which it can be determined +whether or not an item is queued for later execution: + + bool queued = slow_work_is_queued(struct slow_work *work); + +If it returns false, then the item is not on the queue (it may be executing +with a requeue pending). This can be used to work out whether an item on which +another depends is on the queue, thus allowing a dependent item to be queued +after it. + +If the above shows an item on which another depends not to be queued, then the +owner of the dependent item might need to wait. However, to avoid locking up +the threads unnecessarily be sleeping in them, it can make sense under some +circumstances to return the work item to the queue, thus deferring it until +some other items have had a chance to make use of the yielded thread. + +To yield a thread and defer an item, the work function should simply enqueue +the work item again and return. However, this doesn't work if there's nothing +actually on the queue, as the thread just vacated will jump straight back into +the item's work function, thus busy waiting on a CPU. + +Instead, the item should use the thread to wait for the dependency to go away, +but rather than using schedule() or schedule_timeout() to sleep, it should use +the following function: + + bool requeue = slow_work_sleep_till_thread_needed( + struct slow_work *work, + signed long *_timeout); + +This will add a second wait and then sleep, such that it will be woken up if +either something appears on the queue that could usefully make use of the +thread - and behind which this item can be queued, or if the event the caller +set up to wait for happens. True will be returned if something else appeared +on the queue and this work function should perhaps return, of false if +something else woke it up. The timeout is as for schedule_timeout(). + +For example: + + wq = bit_waitqueue(&my_flags, MY_BIT); + init_wait(&wait); + requeue = false; + do { + prepare_to_wait(wq, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); + if (!test_bit(MY_BIT, &my_flags)) + break; + requeue = slow_work_sleep_till_thread_needed(&my_work, + &timeout); + } while (timeout > 0 && !requeue); + finish_wait(wq, &wait); + if (!test_bit(MY_BIT, &my_flags) + goto do_my_thing; + if (requeue) + return; // to slow_work =============== @@ -118,7 +208,8 @@ ITEM OPERATIONS =============== Each work item requires a table of operations of type struct slow_work_ops. -All members are required: +Only ->execute() is required; the getting and putting of a reference and the +describing of an item are all optional. (*) Get a reference on an item: @@ -148,6 +239,16 @@ All members are required: This should perform the work required of the item. It may sleep, it may perform disk I/O and it may wait for locks. + (*) View an item through /proc: + + void (*desc)(struct slow_work *work, struct seq_file *m); + + If supplied, this should print to 'm' a small string describing the work + the item is to do. This should be no more than about 40 characters, and + shouldn't include a newline character. + + See the 'Viewing executing and queued items' section below. + ================== POOL CONFIGURATION @@ -172,3 +273,50 @@ The slow-work thread pool has a number of configurables: is bounded to between 1 and one fewer than the number of active threads. This ensures there is always at least one thread that can process very slow work items, and always at least one thread that won't. + + +================================== +VIEWING EXECUTING AND QUEUED ITEMS +================================== + +If CONFIG_SLOW_WORK_DEBUG is enabled, a debugfs file is made available: + + /sys/kernel/debug/slow_work/runqueue + +through which the list of work items being executed and the queues of items to +be executed may be viewed. The owner of a work item is given the chance to +add some information of its own. + +The contents look something like the following: + + THR PID ITEM ADDR FL MARK DESC + === ===== ================ == ===== ========== + 0 3005 ffff880023f52348 a 952ms FSC: OBJ17d3: LOOK + 1 3006 ffff880024e33668 2 160ms FSC: OBJ17e5 OP60d3b: Write1/Store fl=2 + 2 3165 ffff8800296dd180 a 424ms FSC: OBJ17e4: LOOK + 3 4089 ffff8800262c8d78 a 212ms FSC: OBJ17ea: CRTN + 4 4090 ffff88002792bed8 2 388ms FSC: OBJ17e8 OP60d36: Write1/Store fl=2 + 5 4092 ffff88002a0ef308 2 388ms FSC: OBJ17e7 OP60d2e: Write1/Store fl=2 + 6 4094 ffff88002abaf4b8 2 132ms FSC: OBJ17e2 OP60d4e: Write1/Store fl=2 + 7 4095 ffff88002bb188e0 a 388ms FSC: OBJ17e9: CRTN + vsq - ffff880023d99668 1 308ms FSC: OBJ17e0 OP60f91: Write1/EnQ fl=2 + vsq - ffff8800295d1740 1 212ms FSC: OBJ16be OP4d4b6: Write1/EnQ fl=2 + vsq - ffff880025ba3308 1 160ms FSC: OBJ179a OP58dec: Write1/EnQ fl=2 + vsq - ffff880024ec83e0 1 160ms FSC: OBJ17ae OP599f2: Write1/EnQ fl=2 + vsq - ffff880026618e00 1 160ms FSC: OBJ17e6 OP60d33: Write1/EnQ fl=2 + vsq - ffff880025a2a4b8 1 132ms FSC: OBJ16a2 OP4d583: Write1/EnQ fl=2 + vsq - ffff880023cbe6d8 9 212ms FSC: OBJ17eb: LOOK + vsq - ffff880024d37590 9 212ms FSC: OBJ17ec: LOOK + vsq - ffff880027746cb0 9 212ms FSC: OBJ17ed: LOOK + vsq - ffff880024d37ae8 9 212ms FSC: OBJ17ee: LOOK + vsq - ffff880024d37cb0 9 212ms FSC: OBJ17ef: LOOK + vsq - ffff880025036550 9 212ms FSC: OBJ17f0: LOOK + vsq - ffff8800250368e0 9 212ms FSC: OBJ17f1: LOOK + vsq - ffff880025036aa8 9 212ms FSC: OBJ17f2: LOOK + +In the 'THR' column, executing items show the thread they're occupying and +queued threads indicate which queue they're on. 'PID' shows the process ID of +a slow-work thread that's executing something. 'FL' shows the work item flags. +'MARK' indicates how long since an item was queued or began executing. Lastly, +the 'DESC' column permits the owner of an item to give some information. + diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt index 1c8eb4518ce0..fd9a2f67edf2 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt @@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ Prior to version 0.9.0rc4 options had a 'snd_' prefix. This was removed. pcm_devs - Number of PCM devices assigned to each card (default = 1, up to 4) pcm_substreams - Number of PCM substreams assigned to each PCM - (default = 8, up to 16) + (default = 8, up to 128) hrtimer - Use hrtimer (=1, default) or system timer (=0) fake_buffer - Fake buffer allocations (default = 1) diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt index 75fddb40f416..4c7f9aee5c4e 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt @@ -359,6 +359,7 @@ STAC9227/9228/9229/927x 5stack-no-fp D965 5stack without front panel dell-3stack Dell Dimension E520 dell-bios Fixes with Dell BIOS setup + volknob Fixes with volume-knob widget 0x24 auto BIOS setup (default) STAC92HD71B* diff --git a/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt b/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt index 70d68ce8640a..a87dc277a5ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Generic Thermal Sysfs driver How To -========================= +=================================== Written by Sujith Thomas <sujith.thomas@intel.com>, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> @@ -10,20 +10,20 @@ Copyright (c) 2008 Intel Corporation 0. Introduction -The generic thermal sysfs provides a set of interfaces for thermal zone devices (sensors) -and thermal cooling devices (fan, processor...) to register with the thermal management -solution and to be a part of it. +The generic thermal sysfs provides a set of interfaces for thermal zone +devices (sensors) and thermal cooling devices (fan, processor...) to register +with the thermal management solution and to be a part of it. -This how-to focuses on enabling new thermal zone and cooling devices to participate -in thermal management. -This solution is platform independent and any type of thermal zone devices and -cooling devices should be able to make use of the infrastructure. +This how-to focuses on enabling new thermal zone and cooling devices to +participate in thermal management. +This solution is platform independent and any type of thermal zone devices +and cooling devices should be able to make use of the infrastructure. -The main task of the thermal sysfs driver is to expose thermal zone attributes as well -as cooling device attributes to the user space. -An intelligent thermal management application can make decisions based on inputs -from thermal zone attributes (the current temperature and trip point temperature) -and throttle appropriate devices. +The main task of the thermal sysfs driver is to expose thermal zone attributes +as well as cooling device attributes to the user space. +An intelligent thermal management application can make decisions based on +inputs from thermal zone attributes (the current temperature and trip point +temperature) and throttle appropriate devices. [0-*] denotes any positive number starting from 0 [1-*] denotes any positive number starting from 1 @@ -31,77 +31,77 @@ and throttle appropriate devices. 1. thermal sysfs driver interface functions 1.1 thermal zone device interface -1.1.1 struct thermal_zone_device *thermal_zone_device_register(char *name, int trips, - void *devdata, struct thermal_zone_device_ops *ops) - - This interface function adds a new thermal zone device (sensor) to - /sys/class/thermal folder as thermal_zone[0-*]. - It tries to bind all the thermal cooling devices registered at the same time. - - name: the thermal zone name. - trips: the total number of trip points this thermal zone supports. - devdata: device private data - ops: thermal zone device call-backs. - .bind: bind the thermal zone device with a thermal cooling device. - .unbind: unbind the thermal zone device with a thermal cooling device. - .get_temp: get the current temperature of the thermal zone. - .get_mode: get the current mode (user/kernel) of the thermal zone. - "kernel" means thermal management is done in kernel. - "user" will prevent kernel thermal driver actions upon trip points - so that user applications can take charge of thermal management. - .set_mode: set the mode (user/kernel) of the thermal zone. - .get_trip_type: get the type of certain trip point. - .get_trip_temp: get the temperature above which the certain trip point - will be fired. +1.1.1 struct thermal_zone_device *thermal_zone_device_register(char *name, + int trips, void *devdata, struct thermal_zone_device_ops *ops) + + This interface function adds a new thermal zone device (sensor) to + /sys/class/thermal folder as thermal_zone[0-*]. It tries to bind all the + thermal cooling devices registered at the same time. + + name: the thermal zone name. + trips: the total number of trip points this thermal zone supports. + devdata: device private data + ops: thermal zone device call-backs. + .bind: bind the thermal zone device with a thermal cooling device. + .unbind: unbind the thermal zone device with a thermal cooling device. + .get_temp: get the current temperature of the thermal zone. + .get_mode: get the current mode (user/kernel) of the thermal zone. + - "kernel" means thermal management is done in kernel. + - "user" will prevent kernel thermal driver actions upon trip points + so that user applications can take charge of thermal management. + .set_mode: set the mode (user/kernel) of the thermal zone. + .get_trip_type: get the type of certain trip point. + .get_trip_temp: get the temperature above which the certain trip point + will be fired. 1.1.2 void thermal_zone_device_unregister(struct thermal_zone_device *tz) - This interface function removes the thermal zone device. - It deletes the corresponding entry form /sys/class/thermal folder and unbind all - the thermal cooling devices it uses. + This interface function removes the thermal zone device. + It deletes the corresponding entry form /sys/class/thermal folder and + unbind all the thermal cooling devices it uses. 1.2 thermal cooling device interface 1.2.1 struct thermal_cooling_device *thermal_cooling_device_register(char *name, - void *devdata, struct thermal_cooling_device_ops *) - - This interface function adds a new thermal cooling device (fan/processor/...) to - /sys/class/thermal/ folder as cooling_device[0-*]. - It tries to bind itself to all the thermal zone devices register at the same time. - name: the cooling device name. - devdata: device private data. - ops: thermal cooling devices call-backs. - .get_max_state: get the Maximum throttle state of the cooling device. - .get_cur_state: get the Current throttle state of the cooling device. - .set_cur_state: set the Current throttle state of the cooling device. + void *devdata, struct thermal_cooling_device_ops *) + + This interface function adds a new thermal cooling device (fan/processor/...) + to /sys/class/thermal/ folder as cooling_device[0-*]. It tries to bind itself + to all the thermal zone devices register at the same time. + name: the cooling device name. + devdata: device private data. + ops: thermal cooling devices call-backs. + .get_max_state: get the Maximum throttle state of the cooling device. + .get_cur_state: get the Current throttle state of the cooling device. + .set_cur_state: set the Current throttle state of the cooling device. 1.2.2 void thermal_cooling_device_unregister(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev) - This interface function remove the thermal cooling device. - It deletes the corresponding entry form /sys/class/thermal folder and unbind - itself from all the thermal zone devices using it. + This interface function remove the thermal cooling device. + It deletes the corresponding entry form /sys/class/thermal folder and + unbind itself from all the thermal zone devices using it. 1.3 interface for binding a thermal zone device with a thermal cooling device 1.3.1 int thermal_zone_bind_cooling_device(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, - int trip, struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev); + int trip, struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev); - This interface function bind a thermal cooling device to the certain trip point - of a thermal zone device. - This function is usually called in the thermal zone device .bind callback. - tz: the thermal zone device - cdev: thermal cooling device - trip: indicates which trip point the cooling devices is associated with - in this thermal zone. + This interface function bind a thermal cooling device to the certain trip + point of a thermal zone device. + This function is usually called in the thermal zone device .bind callback. + tz: the thermal zone device + cdev: thermal cooling device + trip: indicates which trip point the cooling devices is associated with + in this thermal zone. 1.3.2 int thermal_zone_unbind_cooling_device(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, - int trip, struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev); + int trip, struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev); - This interface function unbind a thermal cooling device from the certain trip point - of a thermal zone device. - This function is usually called in the thermal zone device .unbind callback. - tz: the thermal zone device - cdev: thermal cooling device - trip: indicates which trip point the cooling devices is associated with - in this thermal zone. + This interface function unbind a thermal cooling device from the certain + trip point of a thermal zone device. This function is usually called in + the thermal zone device .unbind callback. + tz: the thermal zone device + cdev: thermal cooling device + trip: indicates which trip point the cooling devices is associated with + in this thermal zone. 2. sysfs attributes structure @@ -114,153 +114,166 @@ if hwmon is compiled in or built as a module. Thermal zone device sys I/F, created once it's registered: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone[0-*]: - |-----type: Type of the thermal zone - |-----temp: Current temperature - |-----mode: Working mode of the thermal zone - |-----trip_point_[0-*]_temp: Trip point temperature - |-----trip_point_[0-*]_type: Trip point type + |---type: Type of the thermal zone + |---temp: Current temperature + |---mode: Working mode of the thermal zone + |---trip_point_[0-*]_temp: Trip point temperature + |---trip_point_[0-*]_type: Trip point type Thermal cooling device sys I/F, created once it's registered: /sys/class/thermal/cooling_device[0-*]: - |-----type : Type of the cooling device(processor/fan/...) - |-----max_state: Maximum cooling state of the cooling device - |-----cur_state: Current cooling state of the cooling device + |---type: Type of the cooling device(processor/fan/...) + |---max_state: Maximum cooling state of the cooling device + |---cur_state: Current cooling state of the cooling device -These two dynamic attributes are created/removed in pairs. -They represent the relationship between a thermal zone and its associated cooling device. -They are created/removed for each -thermal_zone_bind_cooling_device/thermal_zone_unbind_cooling_device successful execution. +Then next two dynamic attributes are created/removed in pairs. They represent +the relationship between a thermal zone and its associated cooling device. +They are created/removed for each successful execution of +thermal_zone_bind_cooling_device/thermal_zone_unbind_cooling_device. -/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone[0-*] - |-----cdev[0-*]: The [0-*]th cooling device in the current thermal zone - |-----cdev[0-*]_trip_point: Trip point that cdev[0-*] is associated with +/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone[0-*]: + |---cdev[0-*]: [0-*]th cooling device in current thermal zone + |---cdev[0-*]_trip_point: Trip point that cdev[0-*] is associated with Besides the thermal zone device sysfs I/F and cooling device sysfs I/F, -the generic thermal driver also creates a hwmon sysfs I/F for each _type_ of -thermal zone device. E.g. the generic thermal driver registers one hwmon class device -and build the associated hwmon sysfs I/F for all the registered ACPI thermal zones. +the generic thermal driver also creates a hwmon sysfs I/F for each _type_ +of thermal zone device. E.g. the generic thermal driver registers one hwmon +class device and build the associated hwmon sysfs I/F for all the registered +ACPI thermal zones. + /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon[0-*]: - |-----name: The type of the thermal zone devices. - |-----temp[1-*]_input: The current temperature of thermal zone [1-*]. - |-----temp[1-*]_critical: The critical trip point of thermal zone [1-*]. + |---name: The type of the thermal zone devices + |---temp[1-*]_input: The current temperature of thermal zone [1-*] + |---temp[1-*]_critical: The critical trip point of thermal zone [1-*] + Please read Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface for additional information. *************************** * Thermal zone attributes * *************************** -type Strings which represent the thermal zone type. - This is given by thermal zone driver as part of registration. - Eg: "acpitz" indicates it's an ACPI thermal device. - In order to keep it consistent with hwmon sys attribute, - this should be a short, lowercase string, - not containing spaces nor dashes. - RO - Required - -temp Current temperature as reported by thermal zone (sensor) - Unit: millidegree Celsius - RO - Required - -mode One of the predefined values in [kernel, user] - This file gives information about the algorithm - that is currently managing the thermal zone. - It can be either default kernel based algorithm - or user space application. - RW - Optional - kernel = Thermal management in kernel thermal zone driver. - user = Preventing kernel thermal zone driver actions upon - trip points so that user application can take full - charge of the thermal management. - -trip_point_[0-*]_temp The temperature above which trip point will be fired - Unit: millidegree Celsius - RO - Optional - -trip_point_[0-*]_type Strings which indicate the type of the trip point - E.g. it can be one of critical, hot, passive, - active[0-*] for ACPI thermal zone. - RO - Optional - -cdev[0-*] Sysfs link to the thermal cooling device node where the sys I/F - for cooling device throttling control represents. - RO - Optional - -cdev[0-*]_trip_point The trip point with which cdev[0-*] is associated in this thermal zone - -1 means the cooling device is not associated with any trip point. - RO - Optional - -****************************** -* Cooling device attributes * -****************************** - -type String which represents the type of device - eg: For generic ACPI: this should be "Fan", - "Processor" or "LCD" - eg. For memory controller device on intel_menlow platform: - this should be "Memory controller" - RO - Required - -max_state The maximum permissible cooling state of this cooling device. - RO - Required - -cur_state The current cooling state of this cooling device. - the value can any integer numbers between 0 and max_state, - cur_state == 0 means no cooling - cur_state == max_state means the maximum cooling. - RW - Required +type + Strings which represent the thermal zone type. + This is given by thermal zone driver as part of registration. + E.g: "acpitz" indicates it's an ACPI thermal device. + In order to keep it consistent with hwmon sys attribute; this should + be a short, lowercase string, not containing spaces nor dashes. + RO, Required + +temp + Current temperature as reported by thermal zone (sensor). + Unit: millidegree Celsius + RO, Required + +mode + One of the predefined values in [kernel, user]. + This file gives information about the algorithm that is currently + managing the thermal zone. It can be either default kernel based + algorithm or user space application. + kernel = Thermal management in kernel thermal zone driver. + user = Preventing kernel thermal zone driver actions upon + trip points so that user application can take full + charge of the thermal management. + RW, Optional + +trip_point_[0-*]_temp + The temperature above which trip point will be fired. + Unit: millidegree Celsius + RO, Optional + +trip_point_[0-*]_type + Strings which indicate the type of the trip point. + E.g. it can be one of critical, hot, passive, active[0-*] for ACPI + thermal zone. + RO, Optional + +cdev[0-*] + Sysfs link to the thermal cooling device node where the sys I/F + for cooling device throttling control represents. + RO, Optional + +cdev[0-*]_trip_point + The trip point with which cdev[0-*] is associated in this thermal + zone; -1 means the cooling device is not associated with any trip + point. + RO, Optional + +passive + Attribute is only present for zones in which the passive cooling + policy is not supported by native thermal driver. Default is zero + and can be set to a temperature (in millidegrees) to enable a + passive trip point for the zone. Activation is done by polling with + an interval of 1 second. + Unit: millidegrees Celsius + RW, Optional + +***************************** +* Cooling device attributes * +***************************** + +type + String which represents the type of device, e.g: + - for generic ACPI: should be "Fan", "Processor" or "LCD" + - for memory controller device on intel_menlow platform: + should be "Memory controller". + RO, Required + +max_state + The maximum permissible cooling state of this cooling device. + RO, Required + +cur_state + The current cooling state of this cooling device. + The value can any integer numbers between 0 and max_state: + - cur_state == 0 means no cooling + - cur_state == max_state means the maximum cooling. + RW, Required 3. A simple implementation -ACPI thermal zone may support multiple trip points like critical/hot/passive/active. -If an ACPI thermal zone supports critical, passive, active[0] and active[1] at the same time, -it may register itself as a thermal_zone_device (thermal_zone1) with 4 trip points in all. -It has one processor and one fan, which are both registered as thermal_cooling_device. -If the processor is listed in _PSL method, and the fan is listed in _AL0 method, -the sys I/F structure will be built like this: +ACPI thermal zone may support multiple trip points like critical, hot, +passive, active. If an ACPI thermal zone supports critical, passive, +active[0] and active[1] at the same time, it may register itself as a +thermal_zone_device (thermal_zone1) with 4 trip points in all. +It has one processor and one fan, which are both registered as +thermal_cooling_device. + +If the processor is listed in _PSL method, and the fan is listed in _AL0 +method, the sys I/F structure will be built like this: /sys/class/thermal: |thermal_zone1: - |-----type: acpitz - |-----temp: 37000 - |-----mode: kernel - |-----trip_point_0_temp: 100000 - |-----trip_point_0_type: critical - |-----trip_point_1_temp: 80000 - |-----trip_point_1_type: passive - |-----trip_point_2_temp: 70000 - |-----trip_point_2_type: active0 - |-----trip_point_3_temp: 60000 - |-----trip_point_3_type: active1 - |-----cdev0: --->/sys/class/thermal/cooling_device0 - |-----cdev0_trip_point: 1 /* cdev0 can be used for passive */ - |-----cdev1: --->/sys/class/thermal/cooling_device3 - |-----cdev1_trip_point: 2 /* cdev1 can be used for active[0]*/ + |---type: acpitz + |---temp: 37000 + |---mode: kernel + |---trip_point_0_temp: 100000 + |---trip_point_0_type: critical + |---trip_point_1_temp: 80000 + |---trip_point_1_type: passive + |---trip_point_2_temp: 70000 + |---trip_point_2_type: active0 + |---trip_point_3_temp: 60000 + |---trip_point_3_type: active1 + |---cdev0: --->/sys/class/thermal/cooling_device0 + |---cdev0_trip_point: 1 /* cdev0 can be used for passive */ + |---cdev1: --->/sys/class/thermal/cooling_device3 + |---cdev1_trip_point: 2 /* cdev1 can be used for active[0]*/ |cooling_device0: - |-----type: Processor - |-----max_state: 8 - |-----cur_state: 0 + |---type: Processor + |---max_state: 8 + |---cur_state: 0 |cooling_device3: - |-----type: Fan - |-----max_state: 2 - |-----cur_state: 0 + |---type: Fan + |---max_state: 2 + |---cur_state: 0 /sys/class/hwmon: |hwmon0: - |-----name: acpitz - |-----temp1_input: 37000 - |-----temp1_crit: 100000 + |---name: acpitz + |---temp1_input: 37000 + |---temp1_crit: 100000 diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt index 957b22fde2df..8179692fbb90 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt @@ -1231,6 +1231,7 @@ something like this simple program: #include <sys/stat.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <unistd.h> +#include <string.h> #define _STR(x) #x #define STR(x) _STR(x) @@ -1265,6 +1266,7 @@ const char *find_debugfs(void) return NULL; } + strcat(debugfs, "/tracing/"); debugfs_found = 1; return debugfs; diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..3ffadf8da61f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@ +What is hwpoison? + +Upcoming Intel CPUs have support for recovering from some memory errors +(``MCA recovery''). This requires the OS to declare a page "poisoned", +kill the processes associated with it and avoid using it in the future. + +This patchkit implements the necessary infrastructure in the VM. + +To quote the overview comment: + + * High level machine check handler. Handles pages reported by the + * hardware as being corrupted usually due to a 2bit ECC memory or cache + * failure. + * + * This focusses on pages detected as corrupted in the background. + * When the current CPU tries to consume corruption the currently + * running process can just be killed directly instead. This implies + * that if the error cannot be handled for some reason it's safe to + * just ignore it because no corruption has been consumed yet. Instead + * when that happens another machine check will happen. + * + * Handles page cache pages in various states. The tricky part + * here is that we can access any page asynchronous to other VM + * users, because memory failures could happen anytime and anywhere, + * possibly violating some of their assumptions. This is why this code + * has to be extremely careful. Generally it tries to use normal locking + * rules, as in get the standard locks, even if that means the + * error handling takes potentially a long time. + * + * Some of the operations here are somewhat inefficient and have non + * linear algorithmic complexity, because the data structures have not + * been optimized for this case. This is in particular the case + * for the mapping from a vma to a process. Since this case is expected + * to be rare we hope we can get away with this. + +The code consists of a the high level handler in mm/memory-failure.c, +a new page poison bit and various checks in the VM to handle poisoned +pages. + +The main target right now is KVM guests, but it works for all kinds +of applications. KVM support requires a recent qemu-kvm release. + +For the KVM use there was need for a new signal type so that +KVM can inject the machine check into the guest with the proper +address. This in theory allows other applications to handle +memory failures too. The expection is that near all applications +won't do that, but some very specialized ones might. + +--- + +There are two (actually three) modi memory failure recovery can be in: + +vm.memory_failure_recovery sysctl set to zero: + All memory failures cause a panic. Do not attempt recovery. + (on x86 this can be also affected by the tolerant level of the + MCE subsystem) + +early kill + (can be controlled globally and per process) + Send SIGBUS to the application as soon as the error is detected + This allows applications who can process memory errors in a gentle + way (e.g. drop affected object) + This is the mode used by KVM qemu. + +late kill + Send SIGBUS when the application runs into the corrupted page. + This is best for memory error unaware applications and default + Note some pages are always handled as late kill. + +--- + +User control: + +vm.memory_failure_recovery + See sysctl.txt + +vm.memory_failure_early_kill + Enable early kill mode globally + +PR_MCE_KILL + Set early/late kill mode/revert to system default + arg1: PR_MCE_KILL_CLEAR: Revert to system default + arg1: PR_MCE_KILL_SET: arg2 defines thread specific mode + PR_MCE_KILL_EARLY: Early kill + PR_MCE_KILL_LATE: Late kill + PR_MCE_KILL_DEFAULT: Use system global default +PR_MCE_KILL_GET + return current mode + + +--- + +Testing: + +madvise(MADV_POISON, ....) + (as root) + Poison a page in the process for testing + + +hwpoison-inject module through debugfs + /sys/debug/hwpoison/corrupt-pfn + +Inject hwpoison fault at PFN echoed into this file + + +Architecture specific MCE injector + +x86 has mce-inject, mce-test + +Some portable hwpoison test programs in mce-test, see blow. + +--- + +References: + +http://halobates.de/mce-lc09-2.pdf + Overview presentation from LinuxCon 09 + +git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/cpu/mce/mce-test.git + Test suite (hwpoison specific portable tests in tsrc) + +git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/cpu/mce/mce-inject.git + x86 specific injector + + +--- + +Limitations: + +- Not all page types are supported and never will. Most kernel internal +objects cannot be recovered, only LRU pages for now. +- Right now hugepage support is missing. + +--- +Andi Kleen, Oct 2009 + diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page-types.c b/Documentation/vm/page-types.c index 3ec4f2a22585..4793c6aac733 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/page-types.c +++ b/Documentation/vm/page-types.c @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ static void fatal(const char *x, ...) exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } -int checked_open(const char *pathname, int flags) +static int checked_open(const char *pathname, int flags) { int fd = open(pathname, flags); |