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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | 50 |
6 files changed, 55 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt index 4333e836c49..e055acb6b2d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt @@ -373,10 +373,11 @@ 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: <file:fs/ext3/> 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 diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index a87be42f821..830bad7cce0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1478,6 +1478,13 @@ of problems on the network like duplicate address or bad checksums. Normally, this should be enabled, but if the problem persists the messages can be disabled. +netdev_budget +------------- + +Maximum number of packets taken from all interfaces in one polling cycle (NAPI +poll). In one polling cycle interfaces which are registered to polling are +probed in a round-robin manner. The limit of packets in one such probe can be +set per-device via sysfs class/net/<device>/weight . netdev_max_backlog ------------------ 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 diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt index 68ef48839c0..9f8740ca3f3 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ that support it. For example, a given bus might look like this: | |-- class | |-- config | |-- device + | |-- enable | |-- irq | |-- local_cpus | |-- resource @@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ files, each with their own function. class PCI class (ascii, ro) config PCI config space (binary, rw) device PCI device (ascii, ro) + enable Whether the device is enabled (ascii, rw) irq IRQ number (ascii, ro) local_cpus nearby CPU mask (cpumask, ro) resource PCI resource host addresses (ascii, ro) @@ -57,10 +59,19 @@ used to do actual device programming from userspace. Note that some platforms don't support mmapping of certain resources, so be sure to check the return value from any attempted mmap. +The 'enable' file provides a counter that indicates how many times the device +has been enabled. If the 'enable' file currently returns '4', and a '1' is +echoed into it, it will then return '5'. Echoing a '0' into it will decrease +the count. Even when it returns to 0, though, some of the initialisation +may not be reversed. + The 'rom' file is special in that it provides read-only access to the device's ROM file, if available. It's disabled by default, however, so applications should write the string "1" to the file to enable it before attempting a read -call, and disable it following the access by writing "0" to the file. +call, and disable it following the access by writing "0" to the file. Note +that the device must be enabled for a rom read to return data succesfully. +In the event a driver is not bound to the device, it can be enabled using the +'enable' file, documented above. Accessing legacy resources through sysfs ---------------------------------------- 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 <mochel@osdl.org> +Mike Murphy <mamurph@cs.clemson.edu> -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: |