* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/juhl/trivial: (24 commits)
DOC: A couple corrections and clarifications in USB doc.
Generate a slightly more informative error msg for bad HZ
fix typo "is" -> "if" in Makefile
ext*: spelling fix prefered -> preferred
DOCUMENTATION: Use newer DEFINE_SPINLOCK macro in docs.
KEYS: Fix the comment to match the file name in rxrpc-type.h.
RAID: remove trailing space from printk line
DMA engine: typo fixes
Remove unused MAX_NODES_SHIFT
MAINTAINERS: Clarify access to OCFS2 development mailing list.
V4L: Storage class should be before const qualifier (sn9c102)
V4L: Storage class should be before const qualifier
sonypi: Storage class should be before const qualifier
intel_menlow: Storage class should be before const qualifier
DVB: Storage class should be before const qualifier
arm: Storage class should be before const qualifier
ALSA: Storage class should be before const qualifier
acpi: Storage class should be before const qualifier
firmware_sample_driver.c: fix coding style
MAINTAINERS: Add ati_remote2 driver
...
Fixed up trivial conflicts in firmware_sample_driver.c
- DMA API, pci_ API & extensions for non-consistent memory machines.
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
- How to do DMA with ISA (and LPC) devices.
-DMA-mapping.txt
- - info for PCI drivers using DMA portably across all platforms.
DocBook/
- directory with DocBook templates etc. for kernel documentation.
HOWTO
- how to (attempt to) manage kernel hackers.
MSI-HOWTO.txt
- the Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) Driver Guide HOWTO and FAQ.
-PCIEBUS-HOWTO.txt
- - a guide describing the PCI Express Port Bus driver.
RCU/
- directory with info on RCU (read-copy update).
README.DAC960
- how to use the parallel-port driver.
parport-lowlevel.txt
- description and usage of the low level parallel port functions.
-pci-error-recovery.txt
- - info on PCI error recovery.
-pci.txt
- - info on the PCI subsystem for device driver authors.
-pcieaer-howto.txt
- - the PCI Express Advanced Error Reporting Driver Guide HOWTO.
pcmcia/
- info on the Linux PCMCIA driver.
pi-futex.txt
--- /dev/null
+What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../vpd
+Date: February 2008
+Contact: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
+Description:
+ A file named vpd in a device directory will be a
+ binary file containing the Vital Product Data for the
+ device. It should follow the VPD format defined in
+ PCI Specification 2.1 or 2.2, but users should consider
+ that some devices may have malformatted data. If the
+ underlying VPD has a writable section then the
+ corresponding section of this file will be writable.
--- /dev/null
+What: /sys/firmware/ibft/initiator
+Date: November 2007
+Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek <ketuzsezr@darnok.org>
+Description: The /sys/firmware/ibft/initiator directory will contain
+ files that expose the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table initiator data.
+ Usually this contains the Initiator name.
+
+What: /sys/firmware/ibft/targetX
+Date: November 2007
+Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek <ketuzsezr@darnok.org>
+Description: The /sys/firmware/ibft/targetX directory will contain
+ files that expose the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table target data.
+ Usually this contains the target's IP address, boot LUN,
+ target name, and what NIC it is associated with. It can also
+ contain the CHAP name (and password), the reverse CHAP
+ name (and password)
+
+What: /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernetX
+Date: November 2007
+Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek <ketuzsezr@darnok.org>
+Description: The /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernetX directory will contain
+ files that expose the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table NIC data.
+ This can this can the IP address, MAC, and gateway of the NIC.
!Ikernel/acct.c
</chapter>
- <chapter id="pmfuncs">
- <title>Power Management</title>
-!Ekernel/power/pm.c
- </chapter>
-
<chapter id="devdrivers">
<title>Device drivers infrastructure</title>
<sect1><title>Device Drivers Base</title>
</para>
<para>
The third type is a semaphore
- (<filename class="headerfile">include/asm/semaphore.h</filename>): it
+ (<filename class="headerfile">include/linux/semaphore.h</filename>): it
can have more than one holder at any time (the number decided at
initialization time), although it is most commonly used as a
single-holder lock (a mutex). If you can't get a semaphore, your
<para>
If you have a data structure which is only ever accessed from
user context, then you can use a simple semaphore
- (<filename>linux/asm/semaphore.h</filename>) to protect it. This
+ (<filename>linux/linux/semaphore.h</filename>) to protect it. This
is the most trivial case: you initialize the semaphore to the number
of resources available (usually 1), and call
<function>down_interruptible()</function> to grab the semaphore, and
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
- #include <asm/semaphore.h>
+ #include <linux/semaphore.h>
#include <asm/errno.h>
struct object
--- /dev/null
+00-INDEX
+ - this file
+PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
+ - info for PCI drivers using DMA portably across all platforms
+PCIEBUS-HOWTO.txt
+ - a guide describing the PCI Express Port Bus driver
+pci-error-recovery.txt
+ - info on PCI error recovery
+pci.txt
+ - info on the PCI subsystem for device driver authors
+pcieaer-howto.txt
+ - the PCI Express Advanced Error Reporting Driver Guide HOWTO
- Allow service drivers implemented in an independent
staged approach.
-
+
- Allow one service driver to run on multiple PCI-PCI Bridge
- Port devices.
+ Port devices.
- Manage and distribute resources of a PCI-PCI Bridge Port
device to requested service drivers.
imposes no impact on the functionality of existing service drivers.
A service driver is required to use the two APIs shown below to
-register its service with the PCI Express Port Bus driver (see
+register its service with the PCI Express Port Bus driver (see
section 5.2.1 & 5.2.2). It is important that a service driver
initializes the pcie_port_service_driver data structure, included in
header file /include/linux/pcieport_if.h, before calling these APIs.
static int __init aerdrv_service_init(void)
{
int retval = 0;
-
+
retval = pcie_port_service_register(&root_aerdrv);
if (!retval) {
/*
return retval;
}
-static void __exit aerdrv_service_exit(void)
+static void __exit aerdrv_service_exit(void)
{
pcie_port_service_unregister(&root_aerdrv);
}
request MSI based interrupts. A service driver may not know whether
any other service drivers have run on this Root Port. If either one
of them calls pci_disable_msi, it puts the other service driver
-in a wrong interrupt mode.
+in a wrong interrupt mode.
To avoid this situation all service drivers are not permitted to
switch interrupt mode on its device. The PCI Express Port Bus driver
the power state of a device before reboot.
e.g. drivers/net/e100.c.
- err_handler See Documentation/pci-error-recovery.txt
+ err_handler See Documentation/PCI/pci-error-recovery.txt
The ID table is an array of struct pci_device_id entries ending with an
well as how to enable the drivers of endpoint devices to conform with
PCI Express AER driver.
-1.2 Copyright © Intel Corporation 2006.
+1.2 Copyright © Intel Corporation 2006.
1.3 What is the PCI Express AER Driver?
it may have as many structures $<device>_info$ as there are minor devices
active. $Register_cdrom()$ builds a linked list from these.
-\subsection{$Int\ unregister_cdrom(struct\ cdrom_device_info * cdi)$}
+\subsection{$Void\ unregister_cdrom(struct\ cdrom_device_info * cdi)$}
Unregistering device $cdi$ with minor number $MINOR(cdi\to dev)$ removes
the minor device from the list. If it was the last registered minor for
Modified by Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Modified by Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Modified by Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
+Modified by Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
CONTENTS:
=========
1.5 What is memory_pressure ?
1.6 What is memory spread ?
1.7 What is sched_load_balance ?
- 1.8 How do I use cpusets ?
+ 1.8 What is sched_relax_domain_level ?
+ 1.9 How do I use cpusets ?
2. Usage Examples and Syntax
2.1 Basic Usage
2.2 Adding/removing cpus
partition requested with the current, and updates its sched domains,
removing the old and adding the new, for each change.
-1.8 How do I use cpusets ?
+
+1.8 What is sched_relax_domain_level ?
+--------------------------------------
+
+In sched domain, the scheduler migrates tasks in 2 ways; periodic load
+balance on tick, and at time of some schedule events.
+
+When a task is woken up, scheduler try to move the task on idle CPU.
+For example, if a task A running on CPU X activates another task B
+on the same CPU X, and if CPU Y is X's sibling and performing idle,
+then scheduler migrate task B to CPU Y so that task B can start on
+CPU Y without waiting task A on CPU X.
+
+And if a CPU run out of tasks in its runqueue, the CPU try to pull
+extra tasks from other busy CPUs to help them before it is going to
+be idle.
+
+Of course it takes some searching cost to find movable tasks and/or
+idle CPUs, the scheduler might not search all CPUs in the domain
+everytime. In fact, in some architectures, the searching ranges on
+events are limited in the same socket or node where the CPU locates,
+while the load balance on tick searchs all.
+
+For example, assume CPU Z is relatively far from CPU X. Even if CPU Z
+is idle while CPU X and the siblings are busy, scheduler can't migrate
+woken task B from X to Z since it is out of its searching range.
+As the result, task B on CPU X need to wait task A or wait load balance
+on the next tick. For some applications in special situation, waiting
+1 tick may be too long.
+
+The 'sched_relax_domain_level' file allows you to request changing
+this searching range as you like. This file takes int value which
+indicates size of searching range in levels ideally as follows,
+otherwise initial value -1 that indicates the cpuset has no request.
+
+ -1 : no request. use system default or follow request of others.
+ 0 : no search.
+ 1 : search siblings (hyperthreads in a core).
+ 2 : search cores in a package.
+ 3 : search cpus in a node [= system wide on non-NUMA system]
+ ( 4 : search nodes in a chunk of node [on NUMA system] )
+ ( 5~ : search system wide [on NUMA system])
+
+This file is per-cpuset and affect the sched domain where the cpuset
+belongs to. Therefore if the flag 'sched_load_balance' of a cpuset
+is disabled, then 'sched_relax_domain_level' have no effect since
+there is no sched domain belonging the cpuset.
+
+If multiple cpusets are overlapping and hence they form a single sched
+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.
+Don't modify this file if you are not sure.
+
+If your situation is:
+ - The migration costs between each cpu can be assumed considerably
+ small(for you) due to your special application's behavior or
+ special hardware support for CPU cache etc.
+ - The searching cost doesn't have impact(for you) or you can make
+ the searching cost enough small by managing cpuset to compact etc.
+ - The latency is required even it sacrifices cache hit rate etc.
+then increasing 'sched_relax_domain_level' would benefit you.
+
+
+1.9 How do I use cpusets ?
--------------------------
In order to minimize the impact of cpusets on critical kernel
out-of-tree driver.
Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
+----------------------------
+
+What: usedac i386 kernel parameter
+When: 2.6.27
+Why: replaced by allowdac and no dac combination
+Who: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
+
---------------------------
What: /sys/o2cb symlink
ocfs2-tools. 2 years should be sufficient time to phase in new versions
which know to look in /sys/fs/o2cb.
Who: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: asm/semaphore.h
+When: 2.6.26
+Why: Implementation became generic; users should now include
+ linux/semaphore.h instead.
+Who: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Recall that an attribute should only be exporting one value, or an
array of similar values, so this shouldn't be that expensive.
- This allows userspace to do partial reads and seeks arbitrarily over
- the entire file at will.
+ This allows userspace to do partial reads and forward seeks
+ arbitrarily over the entire file at will. If userspace seeks back to
+ zero or does a pread(2) with an offset of '0' the show() method will
+ be called again, rearmed, to fill the buffer.
- On write(2), sysfs expects the entire buffer to be passed during the
first write. Sysfs then passes the entire buffer to the store()
Other notes:
+- Writing causes the show() method to be rearmed regardless of current
+ file position.
+
- The buffer will always be PAGE_SIZE bytes in length. On i386, this
is 4096.
than 32 bit addressing. The default is to look
for translation below 32 bit and if not available
then look in the higher range.
+ strict [Default Off]
+ With this option on every unmap_single operation will
+ result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
+ to batching them for performance.
io_delay= [X86-32,X86-64] I/O delay method
0x80
l2cr= [PPC]
+ l3cr= [PPC]
+
lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
disabled it.
noexec [IA-64]
noexec [X86-32,X86-64]
+ On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
- noexec=off: disable nn-executable mappings
+ noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
+
+ noexec32 [X86-64]
+ This affects only 32-bit executables.
+ noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
+ read doesn't imply executable mappings
+ noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
+ read implies executable mappings
nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
register save and restore. The kernel will only save
nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
- nosort [X86-32] Don't sort PCI devices according to
- order given by the PCI BIOS. This sorting is
- done to get a device order compatible with
- older kernels.
biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
on several machines and they hang the machine
[*] For information on bus mastering DMA and coherency please read:
- Documentation/pci.txt
- Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt
+ Documentation/PCI/pci.txt
+ Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
Documentation/DMA-API.txt
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