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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-18 10:14:56 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-18 10:14:56 +0200 |
commit | 48ae74443403ab25876959e84785f61bf421ccef (patch) | |
tree | dd6d8277f2f0e691edf49a38ff9a804f9a1532d0 /Documentation | |
parent | 1b82c9666a6f637ccb3a86d0fbe23d0427076815 (diff) | |
parent | 5b664cb235e97afbf34db9c4d77f08ebd725335e (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'linus' into x86/step
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi | 127 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt | 10 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example.c | 14 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt | 164 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 14 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/laptops/acer-wmi.txt | 2 |
7 files changed, 281 insertions, 57 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi index 9470ed9afcc0..f27be7d1a49f 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi @@ -29,46 +29,46 @@ Description: $ cd /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts $ grep . * - error:0 - ff_gbl_lock:0 - ff_pmtimer:0 - ff_pwr_btn:0 - ff_rt_clk:0 - ff_slp_btn:0 - gpe00:0 - gpe01:0 - gpe02:0 - gpe03:0 - gpe04:0 - gpe05:0 - gpe06:0 - gpe07:0 - gpe08:0 - gpe09:174 - gpe0A:0 - gpe0B:0 - gpe0C:0 - gpe0D:0 - gpe0E:0 - gpe0F:0 - gpe10:0 - gpe11:60 - gpe12:0 - gpe13:0 - gpe14:0 - gpe15:0 - gpe16:0 - gpe17:0 - gpe18:0 - gpe19:7 - gpe1A:0 - gpe1B:0 - gpe1C:0 - gpe1D:0 - gpe1E:0 - gpe1F:0 - gpe_all:241 - sci:241 + error: 0 + ff_gbl_lock: 0 enable + ff_pmtimer: 0 invalid + ff_pwr_btn: 0 enable + ff_rt_clk: 2 disable + ff_slp_btn: 0 invalid + gpe00: 0 invalid + gpe01: 0 enable + gpe02: 108 enable + gpe03: 0 invalid + gpe04: 0 invalid + gpe05: 0 invalid + gpe06: 0 enable + gpe07: 0 enable + gpe08: 0 invalid + gpe09: 0 invalid + gpe0A: 0 invalid + gpe0B: 0 invalid + gpe0C: 0 invalid + gpe0D: 0 invalid + gpe0E: 0 invalid + gpe0F: 0 invalid + gpe10: 0 invalid + gpe11: 0 invalid + gpe12: 0 invalid + gpe13: 0 invalid + gpe14: 0 invalid + gpe15: 0 invalid + gpe16: 0 invalid + gpe17: 1084 enable + gpe18: 0 enable + gpe19: 0 invalid + gpe1A: 0 invalid + gpe1B: 0 invalid + gpe1C: 0 invalid + gpe1D: 0 invalid + gpe1E: 0 invalid + gpe1F: 0 invalid + gpe_all: 1192 + sci: 1194 sci - The total number of times the ACPI SCI has claimed an interrupt. @@ -89,6 +89,13 @@ Description: error - an interrupt that can't be accounted for above. + invalid: it's either a wakeup GPE or a GPE/Fixed Event that + doesn't have an event handler. + + disable: the GPE/Fixed Event is valid but disabled. + + enable: the GPE/Fixed Event is valid and enabled. + Root has permission to clear any of these counters. Eg. # echo 0 > gpe11 @@ -97,3 +104,43 @@ Description: None of these counters has an effect on the function of the system, they are simply statistics. + + Besides this, user can also write specific strings to these files + to enable/disable/clear ACPI interrupts in user space, which can be + used to debug some ACPI interrupt storm issues. + + Note that only writting to VALID GPE/Fixed Event is allowed, + i.e. user can only change the status of runtime GPE and + Fixed Event with event handler installed. + + Let's take power button fixed event for example, please kill acpid + and other user space applications so that the machine won't shutdown + when pressing the power button. + # cat ff_pwr_btn + 0 + # press the power button for 3 times; + # cat ff_pwr_btn + 3 + # echo disable > ff_pwr_btn + # cat ff_pwr_btn + disable + # press the power button for 3 times; + # cat ff_pwr_btn + disable + # echo enable > ff_pwr_btn + # cat ff_pwr_btn + 4 + /* + * this is because the status bit is set even if the enable bit is cleared, + * and it triggers an ACPI fixed event when the enable bit is set again + */ + # press the power button for 3 times; + # cat ff_pwr_btn + 7 + # echo disable > ff_pwr_btn + # press the power button for 3 times; + # echo clear > ff_pwr_btn /* clear the status bit */ + # echo disable > ff_pwr_btn + # cat ff_pwr_btn + 7 + diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt index 44c97e6accb2..15838d706ea2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt @@ -233,10 +233,12 @@ accomplished via the group operations specified on the group's config_item_type. struct configfs_group_operations { - struct config_item *(*make_item)(struct config_group *group, - const char *name); - struct config_group *(*make_group)(struct config_group *group, - const char *name); + int (*make_item)(struct config_group *group, + const char *name, + struct config_item **new_item); + int (*make_group)(struct config_group *group, + const char *name, + struct config_group **new_group); int (*commit_item)(struct config_item *item); void (*disconnect_notify)(struct config_group *group, struct config_item *item); diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example.c b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example.c index 25151fd5c2c6..0b422acd470c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example.c +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example.c @@ -273,13 +273,13 @@ static inline struct simple_children *to_simple_children(struct config_item *ite return item ? container_of(to_config_group(item), struct simple_children, group) : NULL; } -static struct config_item *simple_children_make_item(struct config_group *group, const char *name) +static int simple_children_make_item(struct config_group *group, const char *name, struct config_item **new_item) { struct simple_child *simple_child; simple_child = kzalloc(sizeof(struct simple_child), GFP_KERNEL); if (!simple_child) - return NULL; + return -ENOMEM; config_item_init_type_name(&simple_child->item, name, @@ -287,7 +287,8 @@ static struct config_item *simple_children_make_item(struct config_group *group, simple_child->storeme = 0; - return &simple_child->item; + *new_item = &simple_child->item; + return 0; } static struct configfs_attribute simple_children_attr_description = { @@ -359,20 +360,21 @@ static struct configfs_subsystem simple_children_subsys = { * children of its own. */ -static struct config_group *group_children_make_group(struct config_group *group, const char *name) +static int group_children_make_group(struct config_group *group, const char *name, struct config_group **new_group) { struct simple_children *simple_children; simple_children = kzalloc(sizeof(struct simple_children), GFP_KERNEL); if (!simple_children) - return NULL; + return -ENOMEM; config_group_init_type_name(&simple_children->group, name, &simple_children_type); - return &simple_children->group; + *new_group = &simple_children->group; + return 0; } static struct configfs_attribute group_children_attr_description = { diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..540e9e7f59c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt @@ -0,0 +1,164 @@ +Introduction +============= + +UBIFS file-system stands for UBI File System. UBI stands for "Unsorted +Block Images". UBIFS is a flash file system, which means it is designed +to work with flash devices. It is important to understand, that UBIFS +is completely different to any traditional file-system in Linux, like +Ext2, XFS, JFS, etc. UBIFS represents a separate class of file-systems +which work with MTD devices, not block devices. The other Linux +file-system of this class is JFFS2. + +To make it more clear, here is a small comparison of MTD devices and +block devices. + +1 MTD devices represent flash devices and they consist of eraseblocks of + rather large size, typically about 128KiB. Block devices consist of + small blocks, typically 512 bytes. +2 MTD devices support 3 main operations - read from some offset within an + eraseblock, write to some offset within an eraseblock, and erase a whole + eraseblock. Block devices support 2 main operations - read a whole + block and write a whole block. +3 The whole eraseblock has to be erased before it becomes possible to + re-write its contents. Blocks may be just re-written. +4 Eraseblocks become worn out after some number of erase cycles - + typically 100K-1G for SLC NAND and NOR flashes, and 1K-10K for MLC + NAND flashes. Blocks do not have the wear-out property. +5 Eraseblocks may become bad (only on NAND flashes) and software should + deal with this. Blocks on hard drives typically do not become bad, + because hardware has mechanisms to substitute bad blocks, at least in + modern LBA disks. + +It should be quite obvious why UBIFS is very different to traditional +file-systems. + +UBIFS works on top of UBI. UBI is a separate software layer which may be +found in drivers/mtd/ubi. UBI is basically a volume management and +wear-leveling layer. It provides so called UBI volumes which is a higher +level abstraction than a MTD device. The programming model of UBI devices +is very similar to MTD devices - they still consist of large eraseblocks, +they have read/write/erase operations, but UBI devices are devoid of +limitations like wear and bad blocks (items 4 and 5 in the above list). + +In a sense, UBIFS is a next generation of JFFS2 file-system, but it is +very different and incompatible to JFFS2. The following are the main +differences. + +* JFFS2 works on top of MTD devices, UBIFS depends on UBI and works on + top of UBI volumes. +* JFFS2 does not have on-media index and has to build it while mounting, + which requires full media scan. UBIFS maintains the FS indexing + information on the flash media and does not require full media scan, + so it mounts many times faster than JFFS2. +* JFFS2 is a write-through file-system, while UBIFS supports write-back, + which makes UBIFS much faster on writes. + +Similarly to JFFS2, UBIFS supports on-the-flight compression which makes +it possible to fit quite a lot of data to the flash. + +Similarly to JFFS2, UBIFS is tolerant of unclean reboots and power-cuts. +It does not need stuff like ckfs.ext2. UBIFS automatically replays its +journal and recovers from crashes, ensuring that the on-flash data +structures are consistent. + +UBIFS scales logarithmically (most of the data structures it uses are +trees), so the mount time and memory consumption do not linearly depend +on the flash size, like in case of JFFS2. This is because UBIFS +maintains the FS index on the flash media. However, UBIFS depends on +UBI, which scales linearly. So overall UBI/UBIFS stack scales linearly. +Nevertheless, UBI/UBIFS scales considerably better than JFFS2. + +The authors of UBIFS believe, that it is possible to develop UBI2 which +would scale logarithmically as well. UBI2 would support the same API as UBI, +but it would be binary incompatible to UBI. So UBIFS would not need to be +changed to use UBI2 + + +Mount options +============= + +(*) == default. + +norm_unmount (*) commit on unmount; the journal is committed + when the file-system is unmounted so that the + next mount does not have to replay the journal + and it becomes very fast; +fast_unmount do not commit on unmount; this option makes + unmount faster, but the next mount slower + because of the need to replay the journal. + + +Quick usage instructions +======================== + +The UBI volume to mount is specified using "ubiX_Y" or "ubiX:NAME" syntax, +where "X" is UBI device number, "Y" is UBI volume number, and "NAME" is +UBI volume name. + +Mount volume 0 on UBI device 0 to /mnt/ubifs: +$ mount -t ubifs ubi0_0 /mnt/ubifs + +Mount "rootfs" volume of UBI device 0 to /mnt/ubifs ("rootfs" is volume +name): +$ mount -t ubifs ubi0:rootfs /mnt/ubifs + +The following is an example of the kernel boot arguments to attach mtd0 +to UBI and mount volume "rootfs": +ubi.mtd=0 root=ubi0:rootfs rootfstype=ubifs + + +Module Parameters for Debugging +=============================== + +When UBIFS has been compiled with debugging enabled, there are 3 module +parameters that are available to control aspects of testing and debugging. +The parameters are unsigned integers where each bit controls an option. +The parameters are: + +debug_msgs Selects which debug messages to display, as follows: + + Message Type Flag value + + General messages 1 + Journal messages 2 + Mount messages 4 + Commit messages 8 + LEB search messages 16 + Budgeting messages 32 + Garbage collection messages 64 + Tree Node Cache (TNC) messages 128 + LEB properties (lprops) messages 256 + Input/output messages 512 + Log messages 1024 + Scan messages 2048 + Recovery messages 4096 + +debug_chks Selects extra checks that UBIFS can do while running: + + Check Flag value + + General checks 1 + Check Tree Node Cache (TNC) 2 + Check indexing tree size 4 + Check orphan area 8 + Check old indexing tree 16 + Check LEB properties (lprops) 32 + Check leaf nodes and inodes 64 + +debug_tsts Selects a mode of testing, as follows: + + Test mode Flag value + + Force in-the-gaps method 2 + Failure mode for recovery testing 4 + +For example, set debug_msgs to 5 to display General messages and Mount +messages. + + +References +========== + +UBIFS documentation and FAQ/HOWTO at the MTD web site: +http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubifs.html +http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubifs.html diff --git a/Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt b/Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt index c19efdeace2c..91a6ecbae0bb 100644 --- a/Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt +++ b/Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt @@ -508,12 +508,13 @@ HDIO_DRIVE_RESET execute a device reset error returns: EACCES Access denied: requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN + ENXIO No such device: phy dead or ctl_addr == 0 + EIO I/O error: reset timed out or hardware error notes: - Abort any current command, prevent anything else from being - queued, execute a reset on the device, and issue BLKRRPART - ioctl on the block device. + Execute a reset on the device as soon as the current IO + operation has completed. Executes an ATAPI soft reset if applicable, otherwise executes an ATA soft reset on the controller. diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 312fe77764a4..09ad7450647b 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -147,10 +147,14 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file default: 0 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options - Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep } + Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, old_ordering } See Documentation/power/video.txt for s3_bios and s3_mode. s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. + old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS + control method, wrt putting devices into low power + states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering of _PTS is + used by default). acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode Format: { level | edge | high | low } @@ -818,7 +822,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. idle= [X86] - Format: idle=poll or idle=mwait + Format: idle=poll or idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly improves the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. Not recommended. @@ -826,6 +830,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file to not use it because it doesn't save as much power as a normal idle loop use the MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be the same as idle=poll. + idle=halt. Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. + In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. + idle=nomwait. Disable mwait for CPU C-states ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. @@ -1534,6 +1541,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Use with caution as certain devices share address decoders between ROMs and other resources. + norom [X86-32,X86_64] Do not assign address space to + expansion ROMs that do not already have + BIOS assigned address ranges. irqmask=0xMMMM [X86-32] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/acer-wmi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/acer-wmi.txt index 79b7dbd22141..69b5dd4e5a59 100644 --- a/Documentation/laptops/acer-wmi.txt +++ b/Documentation/laptops/acer-wmi.txt @@ -174,8 +174,6 @@ The LED is exposed through the LED subsystem, and can be found in: The mail LED is autodetected, so if you don't have one, the LED device won't be registered. -If you have a mail LED that is not green, please report this to me. - Backlight ********* |