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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/s390-drivers.tmpl | 149 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/s390/00-INDEX | 26 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/s390/CommonIO | 51 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/s390/cds.txt | 8 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile index 08687e45e19..1a7f53068ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ DOCBOOKS := wanbook.xml z8530book.xml mcabook.xml videobook.xml \ procfs-guide.xml writing_usb_driver.xml \ kernel-api.xml filesystems.xml lsm.xml usb.xml \ gadget.xml libata.xml mtdnand.xml librs.xml rapidio.xml \ - genericirq.xml + genericirq.xml s390-drivers.xml ### # The build process is as follows (targets): diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/s390-drivers.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/s390-drivers.tmpl new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..254e769282a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/s390-drivers.tmpl @@ -0,0 +1,149 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" + "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []> + +<book id="s390drivers"> + <bookinfo> + <title>Writing s390 channel device drivers</title> + + <authorgroup> + <author> + <firstname>Cornelia</firstname> + <surname>Huck</surname> + <affiliation> + <address> + <email>cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com</email> + </address> + </affiliation> + </author> + </authorgroup> + + <copyright> + <year>2007</year> + <holder>IBM Corp.</holder> + </copyright> + + <legalnotice> + <para> + This documentation is free software; you can redistribute + it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public + License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either + version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later + version. + </para> + + <para> + This program is distributed in the hope that it will be + useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied + warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. + See the GNU General Public License for more details. + </para> + + <para> + You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public + License along with this program; if not, write to the Free + Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, + MA 02111-1307 USA + </para> + + <para> + For more details see the file COPYING in the source + distribution of Linux. + </para> + </legalnotice> + </bookinfo> + +<toc></toc> + + <chapter id="intro"> + <title>Introduction</title> + <para> + This document describes the interfaces available for device drivers that + drive s390 based channel attached devices. This includes interfaces for + interaction with the hardware and interfaces for interacting with the + common driver core. Those interfaces are provided by the s390 common I/O + layer. + </para> + <para> + The document assumes a familarity with the technical terms associated + with the s390 channel I/O architecture. For a description of this + architecture, please refer to the "z/Architecture: Principles of + Operation", IBM publication no. SA22-7832. + </para> + <para> + While most I/O devices on a s390 system are typically driven through the + channel I/O mechanism described here, there are various other methods + (like the diag interface). These are out of the scope of this document. + </para> + <para> + Some additional information can also be found in the kernel source + under Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt. + </para> + </chapter> + <chapter id="ccw"> + <title>The ccw bus</title> + <para> + The ccw bus typically contains the majority of devices available to + a s390 system. Named after the channel command word (ccw), the basic + command structure used to address its devices, the ccw bus contains + so-called channel attached devices. They are addressed via subchannels, + visible on the css bus. A device driver, however, will never interact + with the subchannel directly, but only via the device on the ccw bus, + the ccw device. + </para> + <sect1 id="channelIO"> + <title>I/O functions for channel-attached devices</title> + <para> + Some hardware structures have been translated into C structures for use + by the common I/O layer and device drivers. For more information on + the hardware structures represented here, please consult the Principles + of Operation. + </para> +!Iinclude/asm-s390/cio.h + </sect1> + <sect1 id="ccwdev"> + <title>ccw devices</title> + <para> + Devices that want to initiate channel I/O need to attach to the ccw bus. + Interaction with the driver core is done via the common I/O layer, which + provides the abstractions of ccw devices and ccw device drivers. + </para> + <para> + The functions that initiate or terminate channel I/O all act upon a + ccw device structure. Device drivers must not bypass those functions + or strange side effects may happen. + </para> +!Iinclude/asm-s390/ccwdev.h +!Edrivers/s390/cio/device.c +!Edrivers/s390/cio/device_ops.c + </sect1> + <sect1 id="cmf"> + <title>The channel-measurement facility</title> + <para> + The channel-measurement facility provides a means to collect + measurement data which is made available by the channel subsystem + for each channel attached device. + </para> +!Iinclude/asm-s390/cmb.h +!Edrivers/s390/cio/cmf.c + </sect1> + </chapter> + + <chapter id="ccwgroup"> + <title>The ccwgroup bus</title> + <para> + The ccwgroup bus only contains artificial devices, created by the user. + Many networking devices (e.g. qeth) are in fact composed of several + ccw devices (like read, write and data channel for qeth). The + ccwgroup bus provides a mechanism to create a meta-device which + contains those ccw devices as slave devices and can be associated + with the netdevice. + </para> + <sect1 id="ccwgroupdevices"> + <title>ccw group devices</title> +!Iinclude/asm-s390/ccwgroup.h +!Edrivers/s390/cio/ccwgroup.c + </sect1> + </chapter> + +</book> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt index 8ee10ec8829..e79ee2db183 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ raiddev /dev/md0 device /dev/hda5 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdb1 - raid-disl 1 + raid-disk 1 For linear raid, just change the raid-level above to "raid-level linear", for mirrors, change it to "raid-level 1", and for stripe sets with parity, change @@ -457,6 +457,8 @@ ChangeLog Note, a technical ChangeLog aimed at kernel hackers is in fs/ntfs/ChangeLog. +2.1.29: + - Fix a deadlock when mounting read-write. 2.1.28: - Fix a deadlock. 2.1.27: diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index a57c1f216b2..f27cdd7125f 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1009,6 +1009,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt. + mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the + Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode + platforms. + mga= [HW,DRM] mousedev.tap_time= @@ -1160,6 +1164,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file nomce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception + nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose + Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). + noreplace-paravirt [X86-32,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions diff --git a/Documentation/s390/00-INDEX b/Documentation/s390/00-INDEX new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..3a2b96302ec --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/s390/00-INDEX @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +00-INDEX + - this file. +3270.ChangeLog + - ChangeLog for the UTS Global 3270-support patch (outdated). +3270.txt + - how to use the IBM 3270 display system support. +cds.txt + - s390 common device support (common I/O layer). +CommonIO + - common I/O layer command line parameters, procfs and debugfs entries +config3270.sh + - example configuration for 3270 devices. +DASD + - information on the DASD disk device driver. +Debugging390.txt + - hints for debugging on s390 systems. +driver-model.txt + - information on s390 devices and the driver model. +monreader.txt + - information on accessing the z/VM monitor stream from Linux. +s390dbf.txt + - information on using the s390 debug feature. +TAPE + - information on the driver for channel-attached tapes. +zfcpdump + - information on the s390 SCSI dump tool. diff --git a/Documentation/s390/CommonIO b/Documentation/s390/CommonIO index 22f82f21bc6..86320aa3fb0 100644 --- a/Documentation/s390/CommonIO +++ b/Documentation/s390/CommonIO @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -S/390 common I/O-Layer - command line parameters and /proc entries -================================================================== +S/390 common I/O-Layer - command line parameters, procfs and debugfs entries +============================================================================ Command line parameters ----------------------- @@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ Command line parameters * cio_msg = yes | no Determines whether information on found devices and sensed device - characteristics should be shown during startup, i. e. messages of the types - "Detected device 0.0.4711 on subchannel 0.0.0042" and "SenseID: Device - 0.0.4711 reports: ...". + characteristics should be shown during startup or when new devices are + found, i. e. messages of the types "Detected device 0.0.4711 on subchannel + 0.0.0042" and "SenseID: Device 0.0.4711 reports: ...". Default is off. @@ -26,8 +26,10 @@ Command line parameters An ignored device can be un-ignored later; see the "/proc entries"-section for details. - The devices must be given either as bus ids (0.0.abcd) or as hexadecimal - device numbers (0xabcd or abcd, for 2.4 backward compatibility). + The devices must be given either as bus ids (0.x.abcd) or as hexadecimal + device numbers (0xabcd or abcd, for 2.4 backward compatibility). If you + give a device number 0xabcd, it will be interpreted as 0.0.abcd. + You can use the 'all' keyword to ignore all devices. The '!' operator will cause the I/O-layer to _not_ ignore a device. The command line is parsed from left to right. @@ -81,31 +83,36 @@ Command line parameters will add 0.0.a000-0.0.accc and 0.0.af00-0.0.afff to the list of ignored devices. - The devices can be specified either by bus id (0.0.abcd) or, for 2.4 backward - compatibility, by the device number in hexadecimal (0xabcd or abcd). + The devices can be specified either by bus id (0.x.abcd) or, for 2.4 backward + compatibility, by the device number in hexadecimal (0xabcd or abcd). Device + numbers given as 0xabcd will be interpreted as 0.0.abcd. + +* For some of the information present in the /proc filesystem in 2.4 (namely, + /proc/subchannels and /proc/chpids), see driver-model.txt. + Information formerly in /proc/irq_count is now in /proc/interrupts. + +debugfs entries +--------------- -* /proc/s390dbf/cio_*/ (S/390 debug feature) +* /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/cio_*/ (S/390 debug feature) Some views generated by the debug feature to hold various debug outputs. - - /proc/s390dbf/cio_crw/sprintf + - /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/cio_crw/sprintf Messages from the processing of pending channel report words (machine check - handling), which will also show when CONFIG_DEBUG_CRW is defined. + handling). - - /proc/s390dbf/cio_msg/sprintf - Various debug messages from the common I/O-layer; generally, messages which - will also show when CONFIG_DEBUG_IO is defined. + - /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/cio_msg/sprintf + Various debug messages from the common I/O-layer, including messages + printed when cio_msg=yes. - - /proc/s390dbf/cio_trace/hex_ascii + - /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/cio_trace/hex_ascii Logs the calling of functions in the common I/O-layer and, if applicable, which subchannel they were called for, as well as dumps of some data structures (like irb in an error case). The level of logging can be changed to be more or less verbose by piping to - /proc/s390dbf/cio_*/level a number between 0 and 6; see the documentation on - the S/390 debug feature (Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt) for details. - -* For some of the information present in the /proc filesystem in 2.4 (namely, - /proc/subchannels and /proc/chpids), see driver-model.txt. - Information formerly in /proc/irq_count is now in /proc/interrupts. + /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/cio_*/level a number between 0 and 6; see the + documentation on the S/390 debug feature (Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt) + for details. diff --git a/Documentation/s390/cds.txt b/Documentation/s390/cds.txt index 58919d6a593..3081927cc2d 100644 --- a/Documentation/s390/cds.txt +++ b/Documentation/s390/cds.txt @@ -286,10 +286,10 @@ first: timeout value -EIO: the common I/O layer terminated the request due to an error state -If the concurrent sense flag in the extended status word in the irb is set, the -field irb->scsw.count describes the number of device specific sense bytes -available in the extended control word irb->scsw.ecw[0]. No device sensing by -the device driver itself is required. +If the concurrent sense flag in the extended status word (esw) in the irb is +set, the field erw.scnt in the esw describes the number of device specific +sense bytes available in the extended control word irb->scsw.ecw[]. No device +sensing by the device driver itself is required. The device interrupt handler can use the following definitions to investigate the primary unit check source coded in sense byte 0 : |