From a08f6e04d74478d91f34a0484e69e89870adb33d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Chiang Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:03:17 -0700 Subject: PCI: Documentation: fix minor PCIe HOWTO thinko Update doc to correctly refer to replacing the pci_register_driver API, and not the non-existent "pci_module_init" API. Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes --- Documentation/PCI/PCIEBUS-HOWTO.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/PCIEBUS-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/PCI/PCIEBUS-HOWTO.txt index 9a07e38631b..6bd5f372ade 100644 --- a/Documentation/PCI/PCIEBUS-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/PCI/PCIEBUS-HOWTO.txt @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ the PCI Express Port Bus driver from loading a service driver. int pcie_port_service_register(struct pcie_port_service_driver *new) -This API replaces the Linux Driver Model's pci_module_init API. A +This API replaces the Linux Driver Model's pci_register_driver API. A service driver should always calls pcie_port_service_register at module init. Note that after service driver being loaded, calls such as pci_enable_device(dev) and pci_set_master(dev) are no longer -- cgit v1.2.3 From f9aa28adfc6a4b01268ebb6d88566cca8627905f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pekka Paalanen Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 21:09:27 +0200 Subject: doc: mmiotrace.txt, buffer size control change Impact: prevents confusing the user when buffer size is inadequate The tracing framework offers a resizeable buffer, which mmiotrace uses to record events. If the buffer is full, the following events will be lost. Events should not be lost, so the documentation instructs the user to increase the buffer size. The buffer size is set via a debugfs file. Mmiotrace documentation was not updated the same time the debugfs file was changed. The old file was tracing/trace_entries and first contained the number of entries the buffer had space for, per cpu. Nowadays this file is replaced with the file tracing/buffer_size_kb, which tells the amount of memory reserved for the buffer, per cpu, in kilobytes. Previously, a flag had to be toggled via the debugfs file tracing/tracing_enabled when the buffer size was changed. This is no longer necessary. The mmiotrace documentation is updated to reflect the current state of the tracing framework. Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt b/Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt index cde23b4a12a..5731c67abc5 100644 --- a/Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt +++ b/Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt @@ -78,12 +78,10 @@ to view your kernel log and look for "mmiotrace has lost events" warning. If events were lost, the trace is incomplete. You should enlarge the buffers and try again. Buffers are enlarged by first seeing how large the current buffers are: -$ cat /debug/tracing/trace_entries +$ cat /debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb gives you a number. Approximately double this number and write it back, for instance: -$ echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled -$ echo 128000 > /debug/tracing/trace_entries -$ echo 1 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled +$ echo 128000 > /debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb Then start again from the top. If you are doing a trace for a driver project, e.g. Nouveau, you should also -- cgit v1.2.3 From b851ee7921fabdd7dfc96ffc4e9609f5062bd12b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Zefan Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:48:14 -0800 Subject: cgroups: update documentation about css_set hash table The css_set hash table was introduced in 2.6.26, so update the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: Paul Menage Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt index d9e5d6f41b9..93feb844448 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt @@ -252,10 +252,8 @@ cgroup file system directories. When a task is moved from one cgroup to another, it gets a new css_set pointer - if there's an already existing css_set with the desired collection of cgroups then that group is reused, else a new -css_set is allocated. Note that the current implementation uses a -linear search to locate an appropriate existing css_set, so isn't -very efficient. A future version will use a hash table for better -performance. +css_set is allocated. The appropriate existing css_set is located by +looking into a hash table. To allow access from a cgroup to the css_sets (and hence tasks) that comprise it, a set of cg_cgroup_link objects form a lattice; -- cgit v1.2.3 From ef2cfc790bf5f0ff189b01eabc0f4feb5e8524df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Machek Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:48:23 -0800 Subject: hp accelerometer: add freefall detection MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This adds freefall handling to hp_accel driver. According to HP, it should just work, without us having to set the chip up by hand. hpfall.c is example .c program that parks the disk when accelerometer detects free fall. It should work; for now, it uses fixed 20seconds protection period. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek Cc: Thomas Renninger Cc: Éric Piel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d | 8 ++++ 2 files changed, 109 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c b/Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..bbea1ccfd46 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +/* Disk protection for HP machines. + * + * Copyright 2008 Eric Piel + * Copyright 2009 Pavel Machek + * + * GPLv2. + */ + +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include + +void write_int(char *path, int i) +{ + char buf[1024]; + int fd = open(path, O_RDWR); + if (fd < 0) { + perror("open"); + exit(1); + } + sprintf(buf, "%d", i); + if (write(fd, buf, strlen(buf)) != strlen(buf)) { + perror("write"); + exit(1); + } + close(fd); +} + +void set_led(int on) +{ + write_int("/sys/class/leds/hp::hddprotect/brightness", on); +} + +void protect(int seconds) +{ + write_int("/sys/block/sda/device/unload_heads", seconds*1000); +} + +int on_ac(void) +{ +// /sys/class/power_supply/AC0/online +} + +int lid_open(void) +{ +// /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state +} + +void ignore_me(void) +{ + protect(0); + set_led(0); + +} + +int main(int argc, char* argv[]) +{ + int fd, ret; + + fd = open("/dev/freefall", O_RDONLY); + if (fd < 0) { + perror("open"); + return EXIT_FAILURE; + } + + signal(SIGALRM, ignore_me); + + for (;;) { + unsigned char count; + + ret = read(fd, &count, sizeof(count)); + alarm(0); + if ((ret == -1) && (errno == EINTR)) { + /* Alarm expired, time to unpark the heads */ + continue; + } + + if (ret != sizeof(count)) { + perror("read"); + break; + } + + protect(21); + set_led(1); + if (1 || on_ac() || lid_open()) { + alarm(2); + } else { + alarm(20); + } + } + + close(fd); + return EXIT_SUCCESS; +} diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d b/Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d index 0fcfc4a7ccd..287f8c90265 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d @@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ rate - reports the sampling rate of the accelerometer device in HZ This driver also provides an absolute input class device, allowing the laptop to act as a pinball machine-esque joystick. +Another feature of the driver is misc device called "freefall" that +acts similar to /dev/rtc and reacts on free-fall interrupts received +from the device. It supports blocking operations, poll/select and +fasync operation modes. You must read 1 bytes from the device. The +result is number of free-fall interrupts since the last successful +read (or 255 if number of interrupts would not fit). + + Axes orientation ---------------- -- cgit v1.2.3 From 97bef7dd05563807539122c488a5dd93ed327722 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernhard Walle Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:48:40 -0800 Subject: Bernhard has moved Since I don't work for SUSE any more and the bwalle@suse.de address is invalid, correct it in the copyright headers and documentation. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap index 0d99ee6ae02..eca0d65087d 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ What: /sys/firmware/memmap/ Date: June 2008 -Contact: Bernhard Walle +Contact: Bernhard Walle Description: On all platforms, the firmware provides a memory map which the kernel reads. The resources from that memory map are registered -- cgit v1.2.3 From 3fd076dd955a34c35dc456f4ef676e03cdced044 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Zefan Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:38:48 -0800 Subject: cpuset: various documentation fixes and updates I noticed the old commit 8f5aa26c75b7722e80c0c5c5bb833d41865d7019 ("cpusets: update_cpumask documentation fix") is not a complete fix, resulting in inconsistent paragraphs. This patch fixes it and does other fixes and updates: - s/migrate_all_tasks()/migrate_live_tasks()/ - describe more cpuset control files - s/cpumask_t/struct cpumask/ - document cpu hotplug and change of 'sched_relax_domain_level' may cause domain rebuild - document various ways to query and modify cpusets - the equivalent of "mount -t cpuset" is "mount -t cgroup -o cpuset,noprefix" Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Paul Menage Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt index 5c86c258c79..0611e9528c7 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ into the rest of the kernel, none in performance critical paths: - in fork and exit, to attach and detach a task from its cpuset. - in sched_setaffinity, to mask the requested CPUs by what's allowed in that tasks cpuset. - - in sched.c migrate_all_tasks(), to keep migrating tasks within + - in sched.c migrate_live_tasks(), to keep migrating tasks within the CPUs allowed by their cpuset, if possible. - in the mbind and set_mempolicy system calls, to mask the requested Memory Nodes by what's allowed in that tasks cpuset. @@ -175,6 +175,10 @@ files describing that cpuset: - mem_exclusive flag: is memory placement exclusive? - mem_hardwall flag: is memory allocation hardwalled - memory_pressure: measure of how much paging pressure in cpuset + - memory_spread_page flag: if set, spread page cache evenly on allowed nodes + - memory_spread_slab flag: if set, spread slab cache evenly on allowed nodes + - sched_load_balance flag: if set, load balance within CPUs on that cpuset + - sched_relax_domain_level: the searching range when migrating tasks In addition, the root cpuset only has the following file: - memory_pressure_enabled flag: compute memory_pressure? @@ -252,7 +256,7 @@ is causing. This is useful both on tightly managed systems running a wide mix of submitted jobs, which may choose to terminate or re-prioritize jobs that -are trying to use more memory than allowed on the nodes assigned them, +are trying to use more memory than allowed on the nodes assigned to them, and with tightly coupled, long running, massively parallel scientific computing jobs that will dramatically fail to meet required performance goals if they start to use more memory than allowed to them. @@ -378,7 +382,7 @@ as cpusets and sched_setaffinity. The algorithmic cost of load balancing and its impact on key shared kernel data structures such as the task list increases more than linearly with the number of CPUs being balanced. So the scheduler -has support to partition the systems CPUs into a number of sched +has support to partition the systems CPUs into a number of sched domains such that it only load balances within each sched domain. Each sched domain covers some subset of the CPUs in the system; no two sched domains overlap; some CPUs might not be in any sched @@ -485,17 +489,22 @@ of CPUs allowed to a cpuset having 'sched_load_balance' enabled. The internal kernel cpuset to scheduler interface passes from the cpuset code to the scheduler code a partition of the load balanced CPUs in the system. This partition is a set of subsets (represented -as an array of cpumask_t) of CPUs, pairwise disjoint, that cover all -the CPUs that must be load balanced. - -Whenever the 'sched_load_balance' flag changes, or CPUs come or go -from a cpuset with this flag enabled, or a cpuset with this flag -enabled is removed, the cpuset code builds a new such partition and -passes it to the scheduler sched domain setup code, to have the sched -domains rebuilt as necessary. +as an array of struct cpumask) of CPUs, pairwise disjoint, that cover +all the CPUs that must be load balanced. + +The cpuset code builds a new such partition and passes it to the +scheduler sched domain setup code, to have the sched domains rebuilt +as necessary, whenever: + - the 'sched_load_balance' flag of a cpuset with non-empty CPUs changes, + - or CPUs come or go from a cpuset with this flag enabled, + - or 'sched_relax_domain_level' value of a cpuset with non-empty CPUs + and with this flag enabled changes, + - or a cpuset with non-empty CPUs and with this flag enabled is removed, + - or a cpu is offlined/onlined. This partition exactly defines what sched domains the scheduler should -setup - one sched domain for each element (cpumask_t) in the partition. +setup - one sched domain for each element (struct cpumask) in the +partition. The scheduler remembers the currently active sched domain partitions. When the scheduler routine partition_sched_domains() is invoked from @@ -559,7 +568,7 @@ domain, the largest value among those is used. Be careful, if one requests 0 and others are -1 then 0 is used. Note that modifying this file will have both good and bad effects, -and whether it is acceptable or not will be depend on your situation. +and whether it is acceptable or not depends on your situation. Don't modify this file if you are not sure. If your situation is: @@ -600,19 +609,15 @@ to allocate a page of memory for that task. If a cpuset has its 'cpus' modified, then each task in that cpuset will have its allowed CPU placement changed immediately. Similarly, -if a tasks pid is written to a cpusets 'tasks' file, in either its -current cpuset or another cpuset, then its allowed CPU placement is -changed immediately. If such a task had been bound to some subset -of its cpuset using the sched_setaffinity() call, the task will be -allowed to run on any CPU allowed in its new cpuset, negating the -affect of the prior sched_setaffinity() call. +if a tasks pid is written to another cpusets 'tasks' file, then its +allowed CPU placement is changed immediately. If such a task had been +bound to some subset of its cpuset using the sched_setaffinity() call, +the task will be allowed to run on any CPU allowed in its new cpuset, +negating the effect of the prior sched_setaffinity() call. In summary, the memory placement of a task whose cpuset is changed is updated by the kernel, on the next allocation of a page for that task, -but the processor placement is not updated, until that tasks pid is -rewritten to the 'tasks' file of its cpuset. This is done to avoid -impacting the scheduler code in the kernel with a check for changes -in a tasks processor placement. +and the processor placement is updated immediately. Normally, once a page is allocated (given a physical page of main memory) then that page stays on whatever node it @@ -681,10 +686,14 @@ and then start a subshell 'sh' in that cpuset: # The next line should display '/Charlie' cat /proc/self/cpuset -In the future, a C library interface to cpusets will likely be -available. For now, the only way to query or modify cpusets is -via the cpuset file system, using the various cd, mkdir, echo, cat, -rmdir commands from the shell, or their equivalent from C. +There are ways to query or modify cpusets: + - via the cpuset file system directly, using the various cd, mkdir, echo, + cat, rmdir commands from the shell, or their equivalent from C. + - via the C library libcpuset. + - via the C library libcgroup. + (http://sourceforge.net/proects/libcg/) + - via the python application cset. + (http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Cpuset) The sched_setaffinity calls can also be done at the shell prompt using SGI's runon or Robert Love's taskset. The mbind and set_mempolicy @@ -756,7 +765,7 @@ mount -t cpuset X /dev/cpuset is equivalent to -mount -t cgroup -ocpuset X /dev/cpuset +mount -t cgroup -ocpuset,noprefix X /dev/cpuset echo "/sbin/cpuset_release_agent" > /dev/cpuset/release_agent 2.2 Adding/removing cpus -- cgit v1.2.3 From 802d52734adf0f288c49c05ed433872d7559c932 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karen Xie Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:39:04 -0800 Subject: [SCSI] cxgb3i: Fix spelling errors in documentation Signed-off-by: Karen Xie Signed-off-by: James Bottomley --- Documentation/scsi/cxgb3i.txt | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/cxgb3i.txt b/Documentation/scsi/cxgb3i.txt index 8141fa01978..7ac8032ee9b 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/cxgb3i.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/cxgb3i.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Introduction ============ The Chelsio T3 ASIC based Adapters (S310, S320, S302, S304, Mezz cards, etc. -series of products) supports iSCSI acceleration and iSCSI Direct Data Placement +series of products) support iSCSI acceleration and iSCSI Direct Data Placement (DDP) where the hardware handles the expensive byte touching operations, such as CRC computation and verification, and direct DMA to the final host memory destination: @@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ destination: the TCP segments onto the wire. It handles TCP retransmission if needed. - On receving, S3 h/w recovers the iSCSI PDU by reassembling TCP + On receiving, S3 h/w recovers the iSCSI PDU by reassembling TCP segments, separating the header and data, calculating and verifying - the digests, then forwards the header to the host. The payload data, + the digests, then forwarding the header to the host. The payload data, if possible, will be directly placed into the pre-posted host DDP buffer. Otherwise, the payload data will be sent to the host too. @@ -68,9 +68,8 @@ The following steps need to be taken to accelerates the open-iscsi initiator: sure the ip address is unique in the network. 3. edit /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf - The default setting for MaxRecvDataSegmentLength (131072) is too big, - replace "node.conn[0].iscsi.MaxRecvDataSegmentLength" to be a value no - bigger than 15360 (for example 8192): + The default setting for MaxRecvDataSegmentLength (131072) is too big; + replace with a value no bigger than 15360 (for example 8192): node.conn[0].iscsi.MaxRecvDataSegmentLength = 8192 -- cgit v1.2.3 From 245127dbe9ea1e5a93aae0d3ede09992f1e99f53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Murphy Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:17:14 -0500 Subject: PATCH [1/2] Documentation/driver-model/device.txt: fix struct device_attribute Fix the presented definition of struct device_attribute to match the actual definition in include/linux/device.h Signed-off-by: Mike Murphy Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/driver-model/device.txt | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt index a05ec50f800..a7cbfff40d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt @@ -127,9 +127,11 @@ void unlock_device(struct device * dev); Attributes ~~~~~~~~~~ struct device_attribute { - struct attribute attr; - ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, char * buf, size_t count, loff_t off); - ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, const char * buf, size_t count, loff_t off); + struct attribute attr; + ssize_t (*show)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, + char *buf); + ssize_t (*store)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, + const char *buf, size_t count); }; Attributes of devices can be exported via drivers using a simple -- cgit v1.2.3 From f8a1af6bbc63218cabce742a7a291ac7c08bbd00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Murphy Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:19:23 -0500 Subject: PATCH [2/2] Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt: fix descriptions of device attributes Fix descriptions of device attributes to be consistent with the actual implementations in include/linux/device.h Signed-off-by: Mike Murphy Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt index 9e9c348275a..7e81e37c0b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt @@ -2,8 +2,10 @@ sysfs - _The_ filesystem for exporting kernel objects. Patrick Mochel +Mike Murphy -10 January 2003 +Revised: 22 February 2009 +Original: 10 January 2003 What it is: @@ -64,12 +66,13 @@ An attribute definition is simply: struct attribute { char * name; + struct module *owner; mode_t mode; }; -int sysfs_create_file(struct kobject * kobj, struct attribute * attr); -void sysfs_remove_file(struct kobject * kobj, struct attribute * attr); +int sysfs_create_file(struct kobject * kobj, const struct attribute * attr); +void sysfs_remove_file(struct kobject * kobj, const struct attribute * attr); A bare attribute contains no means to read or write the value of the @@ -80,9 +83,11 @@ a specific object type. For example, the driver model defines struct device_attribute like: struct device_attribute { - struct attribute attr; - ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, char * buf); - ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, const char * buf); + struct attribute attr; + ssize_t (*show)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, + char *buf); + ssize_t (*store)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, + const char *buf, size_t count); }; int device_create_file(struct device *, struct device_attribute *); @@ -90,12 +95,8 @@ void device_remove_file(struct device *, struct device_attribute *); It also defines this helper for defining device attributes: -#define DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store) \ -struct device_attribute dev_attr_##_name = { \ - .attr = {.name = __stringify(_name) , .mode = _mode }, \ - .show = _show, \ - .store = _store, \ -}; +#define DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store) \ +struct device_attribute dev_attr_##_name = __ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store) For example, declaring @@ -107,9 +108,9 @@ static struct device_attribute dev_attr_foo = { .attr = { .name = "foo", .mode = S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO, + .show = show_foo, + .store = store_foo, }, - .show = show_foo, - .store = store_foo, }; @@ -161,10 +162,12 @@ To read or write attributes, show() or store() methods must be specified when declaring the attribute. The method types should be as simple as those defined for device attributes: - ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, char * buf); - ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, const char * buf); +ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute * attr, + char * buf); +ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute * attr, + const char * buf); -IOW, they should take only an object and a buffer as parameters. +IOW, they should take only an object, an attribute, and a buffer as parameters. sysfs allocates a buffer of size (PAGE_SIZE) and passes it to the @@ -299,14 +302,16 @@ The following interface layers currently exist in sysfs: Structure: struct device_attribute { - struct attribute attr; - ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, char * buf); - ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, const char * buf); + struct attribute attr; + ssize_t (*show)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, + char *buf); + ssize_t (*store)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, + const char *buf, size_t count); }; Declaring: -DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _str, _mode, _show, _store); +DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store); Creation/Removal: @@ -342,7 +347,8 @@ Structure: struct driver_attribute { struct attribute attr; ssize_t (*show)(struct device_driver *, char * buf); - ssize_t (*store)(struct device_driver *, const char * buf); + ssize_t (*store)(struct device_driver *, const char * buf, + size_t count); }; Declaring: -- cgit v1.2.3 From f7f84f38cd916552c175f1f3d09cb6e85c1b29fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:15:45 -0800 Subject: docbook: split kernel-api for device-drivers The kernel-api docbook was much larger than any of the others, so processing it took longer and needed some docbook extras in some cases, so split it into kernel-api (infrastructure etc.) and device drivers/device subsystems. This allows these docbooks to be generated in parallel. (This reduced the docbook processing time on my 4-proc system with make -j4 from about 5min:16sec to about 2min:01sec.) The chapters that were moved from kernel-api to device-drivers are: Driver Basics Device drivers infrastructure Parallel Port Devices Message-based devices Sound Devices 16x50 UART Driver Frame Buffer Library Input Subsystem Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) I2C and SMBus Subsystem Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/DocBook/Makefile | 2 +- Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl | 418 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl | 377 --------------------------- 3 files changed, 419 insertions(+), 378 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile index dc3154e4927..1462ed86d40 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # To add a new book the only step required is to add the book to the # list of DOCBOOKS. -DOCBOOKS := z8530book.xml mcabook.xml \ +DOCBOOKS := z8530book.xml mcabook.xml device-drivers.xml \ kernel-hacking.xml kernel-locking.xml deviceiobook.xml \ procfs-guide.xml writing_usb_driver.xml networking.xml \ kernel-api.xml filesystems.xml lsm.xml usb.xml kgdb.xml \ diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..94a20fe8fed --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl @@ -0,0 +1,418 @@ + + + + + + Linux Device Drivers + + + + 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. + + + + 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. + + + + 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 + + + + For more details see the file COPYING in the source + distribution of Linux. + + + + + + + + Driver Basics + Driver Entry and Exit points +!Iinclude/linux/init.h + + + Atomic and pointer manipulation +!Iarch/x86/include/asm/atomic_32.h +!Iarch/x86/include/asm/unaligned.h + + + Delaying, scheduling, and timer routines +!Iinclude/linux/sched.h +!Ekernel/sched.c +!Ekernel/timer.c + + High-resolution timers +!Iinclude/linux/ktime.h +!Iinclude/linux/hrtimer.h +!Ekernel/hrtimer.c + + Workqueues and Kevents +!Ekernel/workqueue.c + + Internal Functions +!Ikernel/exit.c +!Ikernel/signal.c +!Iinclude/linux/kthread.h +!Ekernel/kthread.c + + + Kernel objects manipulation + +!Elib/kobject.c + + + Kernel utility functions +!Iinclude/linux/kernel.h +!Ekernel/printk.c +!Ekernel/panic.c +!Ekernel/sys.c +!Ekernel/rcupdate.c + + + Device Resource Management +!Edrivers/base/devres.c + + + + + + Device drivers infrastructure + Device Drivers Base + +!Edrivers/base/driver.c +!Edrivers/base/core.c +!Edrivers/base/class.c +!Edrivers/base/firmware_class.c +!Edrivers/base/transport_class.c + +!Edrivers/base/sys.c + +!Edrivers/base/platform.c +!Edrivers/base/bus.c + + Device Drivers Power Management +!Edrivers/base/power/main.c + + Device Drivers ACPI Support + +!Edrivers/acpi/scan.c +!Idrivers/acpi/scan.c + + + Device drivers PnP support +!Idrivers/pnp/core.c + +!Edrivers/pnp/card.c +!Idrivers/pnp/driver.c +!Edrivers/pnp/manager.c +!Edrivers/pnp/support.c + + Userspace IO devices +!Edrivers/uio/uio.c +!Iinclude/linux/uio_driver.h + + + + + Parallel Port Devices +!Iinclude/linux/parport.h +!Edrivers/parport/ieee1284.c +!Edrivers/parport/share.c +!Idrivers/parport/daisy.c + + + + Message-based devices + Fusion message devices +!Edrivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c +!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c +!Edrivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c +!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c +!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c +!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c +!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptfc.c +!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c + + I2O message devices +!Iinclude/linux/i2o.h +!Idrivers/message/i2o/core.h +!Edrivers/message/i2o/iop.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/iop.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/config-osm.c +!Edrivers/message/i2o/exec-osm.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/exec-osm.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/bus-osm.c +!Edrivers/message/i2o/device.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/device.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/driver.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/pci.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_scsi.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_proc.c + + + + + Sound Devices +!Iinclude/sound/core.h +!Esound/sound_core.c +!Iinclude/sound/pcm.h +!Esound/core/pcm.c +!Esound/core/device.c +!Esound/core/info.c +!Esound/core/rawmidi.c +!Esound/core/sound.c +!Esound/core/memory.c +!Esound/core/pcm_memory.c +!Esound/core/init.c +!Esound/core/isadma.c +!Esound/core/control.c +!Esound/core/pcm_lib.c +!Esound/core/hwdep.c +!Esound/core/pcm_native.c +!Esound/core/memalloc.c + + + + + 16x50 UART Driver +!Iinclude/linux/serial_core.h +!Edrivers/serial/serial_core.c +!Edrivers/serial/8250.c + + + + Frame Buffer Library + + + The frame buffer drivers depend heavily on four data structures. + These structures are declared in include/linux/fb.h. They are + fb_info, fb_var_screeninfo, fb_fix_screeninfo and fb_monospecs. + The last three can be made available to and from userland. + + + + fb_info defines the current state of a particular video card. + Inside fb_info, there exists a fb_ops structure which is a + collection of needed functions to make fbdev and fbcon work. + fb_info is only visible to the kernel. + + + + fb_var_screeninfo is used to describe the features of a video card + that are user defined. With fb_var_screeninfo, things such as + depth and the resolution may be defined. + + + + The next structure is fb_fix_screeninfo. This defines the + properties of a card that are created when a mode is set and can't + be changed otherwise. A good example of this is the start of the + frame buffer memory. This "locks" the address of the frame buffer + memory, so that it cannot be changed or moved. + + + + The last structure is fb_monospecs. In the old API, there was + little importance for fb_monospecs. This allowed for forbidden things + such as setting a mode of 800x600 on a fix frequency monitor. With + the new API, fb_monospecs prevents such things, and if used + correctly, can prevent a monitor from being cooked. fb_monospecs + will not be useful until kernels 2.5.x. + + + Frame Buffer Memory +!Edrivers/video/fbmem.c + + + Frame Buffer Colormap +!Edrivers/video/fbcmap.c + + + Frame Buffer Video Mode Database +!Idrivers/video/modedb.c +!Edrivers/video/modedb.c + + Frame Buffer Macintosh Video Mode Database +!Edrivers/video/macmodes.c + + Frame Buffer Fonts + + Refer to the file drivers/video/console/fonts.c for more information. + + + + + + + Input Subsystem +!Iinclude/linux/input.h +!Edrivers/input/input.c +!Edrivers/input/ff-core.c +!Edrivers/input/ff-memless.c + + + + Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) + + SPI is the "Serial Peripheral Interface", widely used with + embedded systems because it is a simple and efficient + interface: basically a multiplexed shift register. + Its three signal wires hold a clock (SCK, often in the range + of 1-20 MHz), a "Master Out, Slave In" (MOSI) data line, and + a "Master In, Slave Out" (MISO) data line. + SPI is a full duplex protocol; for each bit shifted out the + MOSI line (one per clock) another is shifted in on the MISO line. + Those bits are assembled into words of various sizes on the + way to and from system memory. + An additional chipselect line is usually active-low (nCS); + four signals are normally used for each peripheral, plus + sometimes an interrupt. + + + The SPI bus facilities listed here provide a generalized + interface to declare SPI busses and devices, manage them + according to the standard Linux driver model, and perform + input/output operations. + At this time, only "master" side interfaces are supported, + where Linux talks to SPI peripherals and does not implement + such a peripheral itself. + (Interfaces to support implementing SPI slaves would + necessarily look different.) + + + The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver, + and two kinds of device. + A "Controller Driver" abstracts the controller hardware, which may + be as simple as a set of GPIO pins or as complex as a pair of FIFOs + connected to dual DMA engines on the other side of the SPI shift + register (maximizing throughput). Such drivers bridge between + whatever bus they sit on (often the platform bus) and SPI, and + expose the SPI side of their device as a + struct spi_master. + SPI devices are children of that master, represented as a + struct spi_device and manufactured from + struct spi_board_info descriptors which + are usually provided by board-specific initialization code. + A struct spi_driver is called a + "Protocol Driver", and is bound to a spi_device using normal + driver model calls. + + + The I/O model is a set of queued messages. Protocol drivers + submit one or more struct spi_message + objects, which are processed and completed asynchronously. + (There are synchronous wrappers, however.) Messages are + built from one or more struct spi_transfer + objects, each of which wraps a full duplex SPI transfer. + A variety of protocol tweaking options are needed, because + different chips adopt very different policies for how they + use the bits transferred with SPI. + +!Iinclude/linux/spi/spi.h +!Fdrivers/spi/spi.c spi_register_board_info +!Edrivers/spi/spi.c + + + + I<superscript>2</superscript>C and SMBus Subsystem + + + I2C (or without fancy typography, "I2C") + is an acronym for the "Inter-IC" bus, a simple bus protocol which is + widely used where low data rate communications suffice. + Since it's also a licensed trademark, some vendors use another + name (such as "Two-Wire Interface", TWI) for the same bus. + I2C only needs two signals (SCL for clock, SDA for data), conserving + board real estate and minimizing signal quality issues. + Most I2C devices use seven bit addresses, and bus speeds of up + to 400 kHz; there's a high speed extension (3.4 MHz) that's not yet + found wide use. + I2C is a multi-master bus; open drain signaling is used to + arbitrate between masters, as well as to handshake and to + synchronize clocks from slower clients. + + + + The Linux I2C programming interfaces support only the master + side of bus interactions, not the slave side. + The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver, + and two kinds of device. + An I2C "Adapter Driver" abstracts the controller hardware; it binds + to a physical device (perhaps a PCI device or platform_device) and + exposes a struct i2c_adapter representing + each I2C bus segment it manages. + On each I2C bus segment will be I2C devices represented by a + struct i2c_client. Those devices will + be bound to a struct i2c_driver, + which should follow the standard Linux driver model. + (At this writing, a legacy model is more widely used.) + There are functions to perform various I2C protocol operations; at + this writing all such functions are usable only from task context. + + + + The System Management Bus (SMBus) is a sibling protocol. Most SMBus + systems are also I2C conformant. The electrical constraints are + tighter for SMBus, and it standardizes particular protocol messages + and idioms. Controllers that support I2C can also support most + SMBus operations, but SMBus controllers don't support all the protocol + options that an I2C controller will. + There are functions to perform various SMBus protocol operations, + either using I2C primitives or by issuing SMBus commands to + i2c_adapter devices which don't support those I2C operations. + + +!Iinclude/linux/i2c.h +!Fdrivers/i2c/i2c-boardinfo.c i2c_register_board_info +!Edrivers/i2c/i2c-core.c + + + diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl index 5818ff75786..bc962cda650 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl @@ -38,58 +38,6 @@ - - Driver Basics - Driver Entry and Exit points -!Iinclude/linux/init.h - - - Atomic and pointer manipulation -!Iarch/x86/include/asm/atomic_32.h -!Iarch/x86/include/asm/unaligned.h - - - Delaying, scheduling, and timer routines -!Iinclude/linux/sched.h -!Ekernel/sched.c -!Ekernel/timer.c - - High-resolution timers -!Iinclude/linux/ktime.h -!Iinclude/linux/hrtimer.h -!Ekernel/hrtimer.c - - Workqueues and Kevents -!Ekernel/workqueue.c - - Internal Functions -!Ikernel/exit.c -!Ikernel/signal.c -!Iinclude/linux/kthread.h -!Ekernel/kthread.c - - - Kernel objects manipulation - -!Elib/kobject.c - - - Kernel utility functions -!Iinclude/linux/kernel.h -!Ekernel/printk.c -!Ekernel/panic.c -!Ekernel/sys.c -!Ekernel/rcupdate.c - - - Device Resource Management -!Edrivers/base/devres.c - - - - Data Types Doubly Linked Lists @@ -298,62 +246,6 @@ X!Earch/x86/kernel/mca_32.c !Ikernel/acct.c - - Device drivers infrastructure - Device Drivers Base - -!Edrivers/base/driver.c -!Edrivers/base/core.c -!Edrivers/base/class.c -!Edrivers/base/firmware_class.c -!Edrivers/base/transport_class.c - -!Edrivers/base/sys.c - -!Edrivers/base/platform.c -!Edrivers/base/bus.c - - Device Drivers Power Management -!Edrivers/base/power/main.c - - Device Drivers ACPI Support - -!Edrivers/acpi/scan.c -!Idrivers/acpi/scan.c - - - Device drivers PnP support -!Idrivers/pnp/core.c - -!Edrivers/pnp/card.c -!Idrivers/pnp/driver.c -!Edrivers/pnp/manager.c -!Edrivers/pnp/support.c - - Userspace IO devices -!Edrivers/uio/uio.c -!Iinclude/linux/uio_driver.h - - - Block Devices !Eblock/blk-core.c @@ -381,275 +273,6 @@ X!Edrivers/pnp/system.c !Edrivers/char/misc.c - - Parallel Port Devices -!Iinclude/linux/parport.h -!Edrivers/parport/ieee1284.c -!Edrivers/parport/share.c -!Idrivers/parport/daisy.c - - - - Message-based devices - Fusion message devices -!Edrivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c -!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c -!Edrivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c -!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c -!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c -!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c -!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptfc.c -!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c - - I2O message devices -!Iinclude/linux/i2o.h -!Idrivers/message/i2o/core.h -!Edrivers/message/i2o/iop.c -!Idrivers/message/i2o/iop.c -!Idrivers/message/i2o/config-osm.c -!Edrivers/message/i2o/exec-osm.c -!Idrivers/message/i2o/exec-osm.c -!Idrivers/message/i2o/bus-osm.c -!Edrivers/message/i2o/device.c -!Idrivers/message/i2o/device.c -!Idrivers/message/i2o/driver.c -!Idrivers/message/i2o/pci.c -!Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c -!Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_scsi.c -!Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_proc.c - - - - - Sound Devices -!Iinclude/sound/core.h -!Esound/sound_core.c -!Iinclude/sound/pcm.h -!Esound/core/pcm.c -!Esound/core/device.c -!Esound/core/info.c -!Esound/core/rawmidi.c -!Esound/core/sound.c -!Esound/core/memory.c -!Esound/core/pcm_memory.c -!Esound/core/init.c -!Esound/core/isadma.c -!Esound/core/control.c -!Esound/core/pcm_lib.c -!Esound/core/hwdep.c -!Esound/core/pcm_native.c -!Esound/core/memalloc.c - - - - - 16x50 UART Driver -!Iinclude/linux/serial_core.h -!Edrivers/serial/serial_core.c -!Edrivers/serial/8250.c - - - - Frame Buffer Library - - - The frame buffer drivers depend heavily on four data structures. - These structures are declared in include/linux/fb.h. They are - fb_info, fb_var_screeninfo, fb_fix_screeninfo and fb_monospecs. - The last three can be made available to and from userland. - - - - fb_info defines the current state of a particular video card. - Inside fb_info, there exists a fb_ops structure which is a - collection of needed functions to make fbdev and fbcon work. - fb_info is only visible to the kernel. - - - - fb_var_screeninfo is used to describe the features of a video card - that are user defined. With fb_var_screeninfo, things such as - depth and the resolution may be defined. - - - - The next structure is fb_fix_screeninfo. This defines the - properties of a card that are created when a mode is set and can't - be changed otherwise. A good example of this is the start of the - frame buffer memory. This "locks" the address of the frame buffer - memory, so that it cannot be changed or moved. - - - - The last structure is fb_monospecs. In the old API, there was - little importance for fb_monospecs. This allowed for forbidden things - such as setting a mode of 800x600 on a fix frequency monitor. With - the new API, fb_monospecs prevents such things, and if used - correctly, can prevent a monitor from being cooked. fb_monospecs - will not be useful until kernels 2.5.x. - - - Frame Buffer Memory -!Edrivers/video/fbmem.c - - - Frame Buffer Colormap -!Edrivers/video/fbcmap.c - - - Frame Buffer Video Mode Database -!Idrivers/video/modedb.c -!Edrivers/video/modedb.c - - Frame Buffer Macintosh Video Mode Database -!Edrivers/video/macmodes.c - - Frame Buffer Fonts - - Refer to the file drivers/video/console/fonts.c for more information. - - - - - - - Input Subsystem -!Iinclude/linux/input.h -!Edrivers/input/input.c -!Edrivers/input/ff-core.c -!Edrivers/input/ff-memless.c - - - - Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) - - SPI is the "Serial Peripheral Interface", widely used with - embedded systems because it is a simple and efficient - interface: basically a multiplexed shift register. - Its three signal wires hold a clock (SCK, often in the range - of 1-20 MHz), a "Master Out, Slave In" (MOSI) data line, and - a "Master In, Slave Out" (MISO) data line. - SPI is a full duplex protocol; for each bit shifted out the - MOSI line (one per clock) another is shifted in on the MISO line. - Those bits are assembled into words of various sizes on the - way to and from system memory. - An additional chipselect line is usually active-low (nCS); - four signals are normally used for each peripheral, plus - sometimes an interrupt. - - - The SPI bus facilities listed here provide a generalized - interface to declare SPI busses and devices, manage them - according to the standard Linux driver model, and perform - input/output operations. - At this time, only "master" side interfaces are supported, - where Linux talks to SPI peripherals and does not implement - such a peripheral itself. - (Interfaces to support implementing SPI slaves would - necessarily look different.) - - - The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver, - and two kinds of device. - A "Controller Driver" abstracts the controller hardware, which may - be as simple as a set of GPIO pins or as complex as a pair of FIFOs - connected to dual DMA engines on the other side of the SPI shift - register (maximizing throughput). Such drivers bridge between - whatever bus they sit on (often the platform bus) and SPI, and - expose the SPI side of their device as a - struct spi_master. - SPI devices are children of that master, represented as a - struct spi_device and manufactured from - struct spi_board_info descriptors which - are usually provided by board-specific initialization code. - A struct spi_driver is called a - "Protocol Driver", and is bound to a spi_device using normal - driver model calls. - - - The I/O model is a set of queued messages. Protocol drivers - submit one or more struct spi_message - objects, which are processed and completed asynchronously. - (There are synchronous wrappers, however.) Messages are - built from one or more struct spi_transfer - objects, each of which wraps a full duplex SPI transfer. - A variety of protocol tweaking options are needed, because - different chips adopt very different policies for how they - use the bits transferred with SPI. - -!Iinclude/linux/spi/spi.h -!Fdrivers/spi/spi.c spi_register_board_info -!Edrivers/spi/spi.c - - - - I<superscript>2</superscript>C and SMBus Subsystem - - - I2C (or without fancy typography, "I2C") - is an acronym for the "Inter-IC" bus, a simple bus protocol which is - widely used where low data rate communications suffice. - Since it's also a licensed trademark, some vendors use another - name (such as "Two-Wire Interface", TWI) for the same bus. - I2C only needs two signals (SCL for clock, SDA for data), conserving - board real estate and minimizing signal quality issues. - Most I2C devices use seven bit addresses, and bus speeds of up - to 400 kHz; there's a high speed extension (3.4 MHz) that's not yet - found wide use. - I2C is a multi-master bus; open drain signaling is used to - arbitrate between masters, as well as to handshake and to - synchronize clocks from slower clients. - - - - The Linux I2C programming interfaces support only the master - side of bus interactions, not the slave side. - The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver, - and two kinds of device. - An I2C "Adapter Driver" abstracts the controller hardware; it binds - to a physical device (perhaps a PCI device or platform_device) and - exposes a struct i2c_adapter representing - each I2C bus segment it manages. - On each I2C bus segment will be I2C devices represented by a - struct i2c_client. Those devices will - be bound to a struct i2c_driver, - which should follow the standard Linux driver model. - (At this writing, a legacy model is more widely used.) - There are functions to perform various I2C protocol operations; at - this writing all such functions are usable only from task context. - - - - The System Management Bus (SMBus) is a sibling protocol. Most SMBus - systems are also I2C conformant. The electrical constraints are - tighter for SMBus, and it standardizes particular protocol messages - and idioms. Controllers that support I2C can also support most - SMBus operations, but SMBus controllers don't support all the protocol - options that an I2C controller will. - There are functions to perform various SMBus protocol operations, - either using I2C primitives or by issuing SMBus commands to - i2c_adapter devices which don't support those I2C operations. - - -!Iinclude/linux/i2c.h -!Fdrivers/i2c/i2c-boardinfo.c i2c_register_board_info -!Edrivers/i2c/i2c-core.c - - Clock Framework -- cgit v1.2.3 From af23f573e817642479fdd05e2b5da5b268eacfaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:05:22 -0800 Subject: acpi/doc: add missing param value Add missing parameter value to list of available values for acpi=. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index b182626739e..319785b6dcb 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86-64,i386] Advanced Configuration and Power Interface - Format: { force | off | ht | strict | noirq } + Format: { force | off | ht | strict | noirq | rsdt } force -- enable ACPI if default was off off -- disable ACPI if default was on noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing -- cgit v1.2.3 From 954a8b8162ecab1d5ddf6c5b993b2d4da3fcaef7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kyle McMartin Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:48:14 -0500 Subject: x86, doc: fix references to Documentation/x86/i386/boot.txt Impact: Documentation fix The amazing dancing boot.txt file has jumped places again. It should never have been in Documentation/x86/i386, since it never was 32-bit-specific, but it unfortunately ended up there for a while. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 319785b6dcb..f6d5d5b9b2b 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ In addition, the following text indicates that the option: Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly. Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme -need or coordination with . +need or coordination with . There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here. See for example . @@ -2449,7 +2449,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt. vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode - See Documentation/x86/i386/boot.txt and + See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and Documentation/svga.txt. Use vga=ask for menu. This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is -- cgit v1.2.3 From d22157b3d7a24d953ef5cce4515436be65b2e121 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Wright Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:50:35 -0800 Subject: PCI: add some sysfs ABI docs Add sysfs ABI docs for driver entries bind, unbind and new_id. These entries are pretty old, from 2.6.0 onwards AFAIK, so this documents current behaviour. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci index ceddcff4082..e638e15a889 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci @@ -1,3 +1,46 @@ +What: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/.../bind +Date: December 2003 +Contact: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org +Description: + Writing a device location to this file will cause + the driver to attempt to bind to the device found at + this location. This is useful for overriding default + bindings. The format for the location is: DDDD:BB:DD.F. + That is Domain:Bus:Device.Function and is the same as + found in /sys/bus/pci/devices/. For example: + # echo 0000:00:19.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/foo/bind + (Note: kernels before 2.6.28 may require echo -n). + +What: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/.../unbind +Date: December 2003 +Contact: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org +Description: + Writing a device location to this file will cause the + driver to attempt to unbind from the device found at + this location. This may be useful when overriding default + bindings. The format for the location is: DDDD:BB:DD.F. + That is Domain:Bus:Device.Function and is the same as + found in /sys/bus/pci/devices/. For example: + # echo 0000:00:19.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/foo/unbind + (Note: kernels before 2.6.28 may require echo -n). + +What: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/.../new_id +Date: December 2003 +Contact: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org +Description: + Writing a device ID to this file will attempt to + dynamically add a new device ID to a PCI device driver. + This may allow the driver to support more hardware than + was included in the driver's static device ID support + table at compile time. The format for the device ID is: + VVVV DDDD SVVV SDDD CCCC MMMM PPPP. That is Vendor ID, + Device ID, Subsystem Vendor ID, Subsystem Device ID, + Class, Class Mask, and Private Driver Data. The Vendor ID + and Device ID fields are required, the rest are optional. + Upon successfully adding an ID, the driver will probe + for the device and attempt to bind to it. For example: + # echo "8086 10f5" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/foo/new_id + What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../vpd Date: February 2008 Contact: Ben Hutchings -- cgit v1.2.3 From 0af80c04e2f2e45ae09fceb17df8050f828a5c40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Fries Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:28:21 +0100 Subject: ide: ide.c 'clear' fix, update "ide=nodma" documentation Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt - ide=nodma is no longer valid. drivers/ide/Kconfig - The module is ide-core.ko not ide. drivers/ide/ide.c - It took me a while to figure out what the arguments %d.%d:%d to nodma module parameter ment, so I added a comment to each. - Added a comment to each of the sscanf lines. - There is a bug, if j is 0 it would previously clear all the other bits except the current device, changed in three different places. mask &= (1 << i) should be mask &= ~(1 << i). Signed-off-by: David Fries [bart: s/disk/device/ in ide.c, beautify patch description] Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 319785b6dcb..0ed3234125e 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -868,8 +868,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file icn= [HW,ISDN] Format: [,[,[,]]] - ide= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - Format: ide=nodma or ide=doubler + ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem + Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc + .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .noprobe .nowerr .cdrom + .chs .ignore_cable are additional options See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. idebus= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - VLB/PCI bus speed -- cgit v1.2.3 From f5a3258335eef2baf534243da00bcd0e760dd2b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Uwe Bugla Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:54:20 -0300 Subject: V4L/DVB (10695): Update Technisat card documentation Fixes for documentation of Technisat-based cards Signed-off-by: Uwe Bugla Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- Documentation/dvb/technisat.txt | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/technisat.txt b/Documentation/dvb/technisat.txt index cdf6ee4b2da..3f435ffb289 100644 --- a/Documentation/dvb/technisat.txt +++ b/Documentation/dvb/technisat.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -How to set up the Technisat devices -=================================== +How to set up the Technisat/B2C2 Flexcop devices +================================================ 1) Find out what device you have ================================ @@ -16,54 +16,60 @@ DVB: registering frontend 0 (Conexant CX24123/CX24109)... If the Technisat is the only TV device in your box get rid of unnecessary modules and check this one: "Multimedia devices" => "Customise analog and hybrid tuner modules to build" -In this directory uncheck every driver which is activated there. +In this directory uncheck every driver which is activated there (except "Simple tuner support" for case 9 only). Then please activate: 2a) Main module part: a.)"Multimedia devices" => "DVB/ATSC adapters" => "Technisat/B2C2 FlexcopII(b) and FlexCopIII adapters" -b.)"Multimedia devices" => "DVB/ATSC adapters" => "Technisat/B2C2 FlexcopII(b) and FlexCopIII adapters" => "Technisat/B2C2 Air/Sky/Cable2PC PCI" in case of a PCI card OR +b.)"Multimedia devices" => "DVB/ATSC adapters" => "Technisat/B2C2 FlexcopII(b) and FlexCopIII adapters" => "Technisat/B2C2 Air/Sky/Cable2PC PCI" in case of a PCI card +OR c.)"Multimedia devices" => "DVB/ATSC adapters" => "Technisat/B2C2 FlexcopII(b) and FlexCopIII adapters" => "Technisat/B2C2 Air/Sky/Cable2PC USB" in case of an USB 1.1 adapter d.)"Multimedia devices" => "DVB/ATSC adapters" => "Technisat/B2C2 FlexcopII(b) and FlexCopIII adapters" => "Enable debug for the B2C2 FlexCop drivers" Notice: d.) is helpful for troubleshooting 2b) Frontend module part: -1.) Revision 2.3: +1.) SkyStar DVB-S Revision 2.3: a.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "Customise the frontend modules to build" b.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "Zarlink VP310/MT312/ZL10313 based" -2.) Revision 2.6: +2.) SkyStar DVB-S Revision 2.6: a.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "Customise the frontend modules to build" b.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "ST STV0299 based" -3.) Revision 2.7: +3.) SkyStar DVB-S Revision 2.7: a.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "Customise the frontend modules to build" b.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "Samsung S5H1420 based" c.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "Integrant ITD1000 Zero IF tuner for DVB-S/DSS" d.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "ISL6421 SEC controller" -4.) Revision 2.8: +4.) SkyStar DVB-S Revision 2.8: a.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "Customise the frontend modules to build" b.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "Conexant CX24113/CX24128 tuner for DVB-S/DSS" c.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "Conexant CX24123 based" d.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "ISL6421 SEC controller" -5.) DVB-T card: +5.) AirStar DVB-T card: a.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "Customise the frontend modules to build" b.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "Zarlink MT352 based" -6.) DVB-C card: +6.) CableStar DVB-C card: a.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "Customise the frontend modules to build" b.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "ST STV0297 based" -7.) ATSC card 1st generation: +7.) AirStar ATSC card 1st generation: a.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "Customise the frontend modules to build" b.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "Broadcom BCM3510" -8.) ATSC card 2nd generation: +8.) AirStar ATSC card 2nd generation: a.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "Customise the frontend modules to build" b.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "NxtWave Communications NXT2002/NXT2004 based" -c.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "LG Electronics LGDT3302/LGDT3303 based" +c.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "Generic I2C PLL based tuners" -Author: Uwe Bugla December 2008 +9.) AirStar ATSC card 3rd generation: +a.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "Customise the frontend modules to build" +b.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise DVB frontends" => "LG Electronics LGDT3302/LGDT3303 based" +c.)"Multimedia devices" => "Customise analog and hybrid tuner modules to build" => "Simple tuner support" + +Author: Uwe Bugla February 2009 -- cgit v1.2.3 From b391d0f08fb0858f7d2cc034ddcca6cd0545bd7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Uwe Bugla Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:56:11 -0300 Subject: V4L/DVB (10696): Remove outdated README for the flexcop-driver This patch removes an outdated README for the flexcop-driver. Signed-off-by: Uwe Bugla Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- Documentation/dvb/README.flexcop | 205 --------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 205 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 Documentation/dvb/README.flexcop (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/README.flexcop b/Documentation/dvb/README.flexcop deleted file mode 100644 index 5515469de7c..00000000000 --- a/Documentation/dvb/README.flexcop +++ /dev/null @@ -1,205 +0,0 @@ -This README escorted the skystar2-driver rewriting procedure. It describes the -state of the new flexcop-driver set and some internals are written down here -too. - -This document hopefully describes things about the flexcop and its -device-offsprings. Goal was to write an easy-to-write and easy-to-read set of -drivers based on the skystar2.c and other information. - -Remark: flexcop-pci.c was a copy of skystar2.c, but every line has been -touched and rewritten. - -History & News -============== - 2005-04-01 - correct USB ISOC transfers (thanks to Vadim Catana) - - - - -General coding processing -========================= - -We should proceed as follows (as long as no one complains): - -0) Think before start writing code! - -1) rewriting the skystar2.c with the help of the flexcop register descriptions -and splitting up the files to a pci-bus-part and a flexcop-part. -The new driver will be called b2c2-flexcop-pci.ko/b2c2-flexcop-usb.ko for the -device-specific part and b2c2-flexcop.ko for the common flexcop-functions. - -2) Search for errors in the leftover of flexcop-pci.c (compare with pluto2.c -and other pci drivers) - -3) make some beautification (see 'Improvements when rewriting (refactoring) is -done') - -4) Testing the new driver and maybe substitute the skystar2.c with it, to reach -a wider tester audience. - -5) creating an usb-bus-part using the already written flexcop code for the pci -card. - -Idea: create a kernel-object for the flexcop and export all important -functions. This option saves kernel-memory, but maybe a lot of functions have -to be exported to kernel namespace. - - -Current situation -================= - -0) Done :) -1) Done (some minor issues left) -2) Done -3) Not ready yet, more information is necessary -4) next to be done (see the table below) -5) USB driver is working (yes, there are some minor issues) - -What seems to be ready? ------------------------ - -1) Rewriting -1a) i2c is cut off from the flexcop-pci.c and seems to work -1b) moved tuner and demod stuff from flexcop-pci.c to flexcop-tuner-fe.c -1c) moved lnb and diseqc stuff from flexcop-pci.c to flexcop-tuner-fe.c -1e) eeprom (reading MAC address) -1d) sram (no dynamic sll size detection (commented out) (using default as JJ told me)) -1f) misc. register accesses for reading parameters (e.g. resetting, revision) -1g) pid/mac filter (flexcop-hw-filter.c) -1i) dvb-stuff initialization in flexcop.c (done) -1h) dma stuff (now just using the size-irq, instead of all-together, to be done) -1j) remove flexcop initialization from flexcop-pci.c completely (done) -1l) use a well working dma IRQ method (done, see 'Known bugs and problems and TODO') -1k) cleanup flexcop-files (remove unused EXPORT_SYMBOLs, make static from -non-static where possible, moved code to proper places) - -2) Search for errors in the leftover of flexcop-pci.c (partially done) -5a) add MAC address reading -5c) feeding of ISOC data to the software demux (format of the isochronous data -and speed optimization, no real error) (thanks to Vadim Catana) - -What to do in the near future? --------------------------------------- -(no special order here) - -5) USB driver -5b) optimize isoc-transfer (submitting/killing isoc URBs when transfer is starting) - -Testing changes ---------------- - -O = item is working -P = item is partially working -X = item is not working -N = item does not apply here - = item need to be examined - - | PCI | USB -item | mt352 | nxt2002 | stv0299 | mt312 | mt352 | nxt2002 | stv0299 | mt312 --------+-------+---------+---------+-------+-------+---------+---------+------- -1a) | O | | | | N | N | N | N -1b) | O | | | | | | O | -1c) | N | N | | | N | N | O | -1d) | O | O -1e) | O | O -1f) | P -1g) | O -1h) | P | -1i) | O | N -1j) | O | N -1l) | O | N -2) | O | N -5a) | N | O -5b)* | N | -5c) | N | O - -* - not done yet - -Known bugs and problems and TODO --------------------------------- - -1g/h/l) when pid filtering is enabled on the pci card - -DMA usage currently: - The DMA is splitted in 2 equal-sized subbuffers. The Flexcop writes to first - address and triggers an IRQ when it's full and starts writing to the second - address. When the second address is full, the IRQ is triggered again, and - the flexcop writes to first address again, and so on. - The buffersize of each address is currently 640*188 bytes. - - Problem is, when using hw-pid-filtering and doing some low-bandwidth - operation (like scanning) the buffers won't be filled enough to trigger - the IRQ. That's why: - - When PID filtering is activated, the timer IRQ is used. Every 1.97 ms the IRQ - is triggered. Is the current write address of DMA1 different to the one - during the last IRQ, then the data is passed to the demuxer. - - There is an additional DMA-IRQ-method: packet count IRQ. This isn't - implemented correctly yet. - - The solution is to disable HW PID filtering, but I don't know how the DVB - API software demux behaves on slow systems with 45MBit/s TS. - -Solved bugs :) --------------- -1g) pid-filtering (somehow pid index 4 and 5 (EMM_PID and ECM_PID) aren't -working) -SOLUTION: also index 0 was affected, because net_translation is done for -these indexes by default - -5b) isochronous transfer does only work in the first attempt (for the Sky2PC -USB, Air2PC is working) SOLUTION: the flexcop was going asleep and never really -woke up again (don't know if this need fixes, see -flexcop-fe-tuner.c:flexcop_sleep) - -NEWS: when the driver is loaded and unloaded and loaded again (w/o doing -anything in the while the driver is loaded the first time), no transfers take -place anymore. - -Improvements when rewriting (refactoring) is done -================================================= - -- split sleeping of the flexcop (misc_204.ACPI3_sig = 1;) from lnb_control - (enable sleeping for other demods than dvb-s) -- add support for CableStar (stv0297 Microtune 203x/ALPS) (almost done, incompatibilities with the Nexus-CA) - -Debugging ---------- -- add verbose debugging to skystar2.c (dump the reg_dw_data) and compare it - with this flexcop, this is important, because i2c is now using the - flexcop_ibi_value union from flexcop-reg.h (do you have a better idea for - that, please tell us so). - -Everything which is identical in the following table, can be put into a common -flexcop-module. - - PCI USB -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Different: -Register access: accessing IO memory USB control message -I2C bus: I2C bus of the FC USB control message -Data transfer: DMA isochronous transfer -EEPROM transfer: through i2c bus not clear yet - -Identical: -Streaming: accessing registers -PID Filtering: accessing registers -Sram destinations: accessing registers -Tuner/Demod: I2C bus -DVB-stuff: can be written for common use - -Acknowledgements (just for the rewriting part) -================ - -Bjarne Steinsbo thought a lot in the first place of the pci part for this code -sharing idea. - -Andreas Oberritter for providing a recent PCI initialization template -(pluto2.c). - -Boleslaw Ciesielski for pointing out a problem with firmware loader. - -Vadim Catana for correcting the USB transfer. - -comments, critics and ideas to linux-dvb@linuxtv.org. -- cgit v1.2.3 From fe7ca2e1e847b65c12d245cbf402af89da96888a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Haley Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 03:18:11 -0800 Subject: IPv6: add "disable" module parameter support to ipv6.ko Add "disable" module parameter support to ipv6.ko by specifying "disable=1" on module load. We just do the minimum of initializing inetsw6[] so calls from other modules to inet6_register_protosw() won't OOPs, then bail out. No IPv6 addresses or sockets can be created as a result, and a reboot is required to enable IPv6. Signed-off-by: Brian Haley Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt b/Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..268e5c103dd --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ + +Options for the ipv6 module are supplied as parameters at load time. + +Module options may be given as command line arguments to the insmod +or modprobe command, but are usually specified in either the +/etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe.conf configuration file, or in a +distro-specific configuration file. + +The available ipv6 module parameters are listed below. If a parameter +is not specified the default value is used. + +The parameters are as follows: + +disable + + Specifies whether to load the IPv6 module, but disable all + its functionality. This might be used when another module + has a dependency on the IPv6 module being loaded, but no + IPv6 addresses or operations are desired. + + The possible values and their effects are: + + 0 + IPv6 is enabled. + + This is the default value. + + 1 + IPv6 is disabled. + + No IPv6 addresses will be added to interfaces, and + it will not be possible to open an IPv6 socket. + + A reboot is required to enable IPv6. + -- cgit v1.2.3 From edf2e2811efa9304ebe14f778d33b764cfd58b7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Phillip Lougher Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 00:40:13 +0000 Subject: Squashfs: fix documentation typo, Cramfs filesystem limit is 256 MiB Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher --- Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt index 3e79e4a7a39..b324c033035 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Squashfs filesystem features versus Cramfs: Squashfs Cramfs -Max filesystem size: 2^64 16 MiB +Max filesystem size: 2^64 256 MiB Max file size: ~ 2 TiB 16 MiB Max files: unlimited unlimited Max directories: unlimited unlimited -- cgit v1.2.3 From 753b7aea8e4611433c13ac157f944d8b4bf42482 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Jones Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:14:37 -0400 Subject: [CPUFREQ] Add p4-clockmod sysfs-ui removal to feature-removal schedule. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett Signed-off-by: Dave Jones --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 5ddbe350487..20d3b94703a 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -335,3 +335,12 @@ Why: In 2.6.18 the Secmark concept was introduced to replace the "compat_net" Secmark, it is time to deprecate the older mechanism and start the process of removing the old code. Who: Paul Moore +--------------------------- + +What: sysfs ui for changing p4-clockmod parameters +When: September 2009 +Why: See commits 129f8ae9b1b5be94517da76009ea956e89104ce8 and + e088e4c9cdb618675874becb91b2fd581ee707e6. + Removal is subject to fixing any remaining bugs in ACPI which may + cause the thermal throttling not to happen at the right time. +Who: Dave Jones , Matthew Garrett -- cgit v1.2.3 From 0612ea00a010e36fde61e7b7649a1105b0ef1080 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:55:57 -0700 Subject: rcu: documentation 1Q09 update Update the RCU documentation to call out the need for callers of primitives like call_rcu() and synchronize_rcu() to prevent subsequent RCU readers from hazard. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt index 6e253407b3d..accfe2f5247 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt @@ -298,3 +298,15 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome! Note that, rcu_assign_pointer() and rcu_dereference() relate to SRCU just as they do to other forms of RCU. + +15. The whole point of call_rcu(), synchronize_rcu(), and friends + is to wait until all pre-existing readers have finished before + carrying out some otherwise-destructive operation. It is + therefore critically important to -first- remove any path + that readers can follow that could be affected by the + destructive operation, and -only- -then- invoke call_rcu(), + synchronize_rcu(), or friends. + + Because these primitives only wait for pre-existing readers, + it is the caller's responsibility to guarantee safety to + any subsequent readers. -- cgit v1.2.3 From 1a51e068c900eb6ea23ce597361ebf3b19a57b23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Darrick J. Wong" Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:36:38 +0100 Subject: hwmon: (lm90) Document support for the MAX6648/6692 chips Update documentation to prevent further confusion/duplication. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare --- Documentation/hwmon/lm90 | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/lm90 b/Documentation/hwmon/lm90 index 0e841171023..93d8e3d5515 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/lm90 +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/lm90 @@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ Supported chips: Addresses scanned: I2C 0x4e Datasheet: Publicly available at the Maxim website http://www.maxim-ic.com/quick_view2.cfm/qv_pk/3497 + * Maxim MAX6648 + Prefix: 'max6646' + Addresses scanned: I2C 0x4c + Datasheet: Publicly available at the Maxim website + http://www.maxim-ic.com/quick_view2.cfm/qv_pk/3500 * Maxim MAX6649 Prefix: 'max6646' Addresses scanned: I2C 0x4c @@ -74,6 +79,11 @@ Supported chips: 0x4c, 0x4d and 0x4e Datasheet: Publicly available at the Maxim website http://www.maxim-ic.com/quick_view2.cfm/qv_pk/3370 + * Maxim MAX6692 + Prefix: 'max6646' + Addresses scanned: I2C 0x4c + Datasheet: Publicly available at the Maxim website + http://www.maxim-ic.com/quick_view2.cfm/qv_pk/3500 Author: Jean Delvare -- cgit v1.2.3 From ab03eca8d4754ef2ba9821d581975b10b8f317e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jody McIntyre Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:39:23 -0400 Subject: trivial: fix bad links in the ext2 and ext3 documentation Trivial patch to fix bad links in the ext2 and ext3 documentation. Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt | 10 +++++----- Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt index 4333e836c49..23448551cab 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt @@ -373,10 +373,10 @@ Filesystem Resizing http://ext2resize.sourceforge.net/ Compression (*) http://e2compr.sourceforge.net/ Implementations for: -Windows 95/98/NT/2000 http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/Explore2fs.htm -Windows 95 (*) http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/content.html#FSDEXT2 +Windows 95/98/NT/2000 http://www.chrysocome.net/explore2fs +Windows 95 (*) http://www.yipton.net/content.html#FSDEXT2 DOS client (*) ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/ext2/ -OS/2 http://perso.wanadoo.fr/matthieu.willm/ext2-os2/ -RISC OS client ftp://ftp.barnet.ac.uk/pub/acorn/armlinux/iscafs/ +OS/2 (*) ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/ext2/ +RISC OS client http://www.esw-heim.tu-clausthal.de/~marco/smorbrod/IscaFS/ -(*) no longer actively developed/supported (as of Apr 2001) +(*) no longer actively developed/supported (as of Mar 2009) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt index 9dd2a3bb2ac..e5f3833a6ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt @@ -198,5 +198,5 @@ kernel source: programs: http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ http://ext2resize.sourceforge.net -useful links: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs7/ - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs8/ +useful links: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs7.html + http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs8.html -- cgit v1.2.3 From a9d0a1a38352c4fb8946e73b3e42ba4ada29e733 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 16:58:16 +0100 Subject: genirq: add doc to struct irqaction Impact: documentation struct irqaction is not documented. Add kernel doc comments and add interrupt.h to the genirq docbook. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl index 3a882d9a90a..c671a016809 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl @@ -440,6 +440,7 @@ desc->chip->end(); used in the generic IRQ layer. !Iinclude/linux/irq.h +!Iinclude/linux/interrupt.h -- cgit v1.2.3 From 0e57aa11abb15b70db53d1f95ae70b3c980ac885 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:34:05 +0100 Subject: genirq: deprecate __do_IRQ Two years migration time is enough. Remove the compability cruft. Add the deprecated warning in kernel/irq/handle.c because marking __do_IRQ itself is way too noisy. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 20d3b94703a..63b4550411b 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -344,3 +344,11 @@ Why: See commits 129f8ae9b1b5be94517da76009ea956e89104ce8 and Removal is subject to fixing any remaining bugs in ACPI which may cause the thermal throttling not to happen at the right time. Who: Dave Jones , Matthew Garrett + +----------------------------- + +What: __do_IRQ all in one fits nothing interrupt handler +When: 2.6.32 +Why: __do_IRQ was kept for easy migration to the type flow handlers. + More than two years of migration time is enough. +Who: Thomas Gleixner -- cgit v1.2.3 From cb065c06b6cc615a58860d619d7fa7952cd6a18b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:40:27 +0100 Subject: genirq: deprecate obsolete typedefs and defines More than two years is enough migration time. Remove the compability cruft. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 63b4550411b..9aa1dda5d38 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -352,3 +352,12 @@ When: 2.6.32 Why: __do_IRQ was kept for easy migration to the type flow handlers. More than two years of migration time is enough. Who: Thomas Gleixner + +----------------------------- + +What: obsolete generic irq defines and typedefs +When: 2.6.30 +Why: The defines and typedefs (hw_interrupt_type, no_irq_type, irq_desc_t) + have been kept around for migration reasons. After more than two years + it's time to remove them finally +Who: Thomas Gleixner -- cgit v1.2.3