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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix42
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/board.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt389
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/page-types.c2
7 files changed, 231 insertions, 193 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
index a703b9e9aeb..d868a11c94a 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
@@ -62,6 +62,21 @@ Description: CPU topology files that describe kernel limits related to
See Documentation/cputopology.txt for more information.
+What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/probe
+ /sys/devices/system/cpu/release
+Date: November 2009
+Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
+Description: Dynamic addition and removal of CPU's. This is not hotplug
+ removal, this is meant complete removal/addition of the CPU
+ from the system.
+
+ probe: writes to this file will dynamically add a CPU to the
+ system. Information written to the file to add CPU's is
+ architecture specific.
+
+ release: writes to this file dynamically remove a CPU from
+ the system. Information writtento the file to remove CPU's
+ is architecture specific.
What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/node
Date: October 2009
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
index 9d620c153b0..4d4a644b505 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
@@ -49,6 +49,12 @@ maxcpus=n Restrict boot time cpus to n. Say if you have 4 cpus, using
additional_cpus=n (*) Use this to limit hotpluggable cpus. This option sets
cpu_possible_map = cpu_present_map + additional_cpus
+cede_offline={"off","on"} Use this option to disable/enable putting offlined
+ processors to an extended H_CEDE state on
+ supported pseries platforms.
+ If nothing is specified,
+ cede_offline is set to "on".
+
(*) Option valid only for following architectures
- ia64
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt
index c2a0871280a..c58b9f5ba00 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt
@@ -20,15 +20,16 @@ Lots of code taken from ext3 and other projects.
Authors in alphabetical order:
Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
-Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
+Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Kurt Hackel <kurt.hackel@oracle.com>
+Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>
Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Manish Singh <manish.singh@oracle.com>
+Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@oracle.com>
Caveats
=======
Features which OCFS2 does not support yet:
- - quotas
- Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY)
- Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease)
@@ -70,7 +71,6 @@ commit=nrsec (*) Ocfs2 can be told to sync all its data and metadata
performance.
localalloc=8(*) Allows custom localalloc size in MB. If the value is too
large, the fs will silently revert it to the default.
- Localalloc is not enabled for local mounts.
localflocks This disables cluster aware flock.
inode64 Indicates that Ocfs2 is allowed to create inodes at
any location in the filesystem, including those which
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4 b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4
index c5b37c57055..ac540c71c7e 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Supported adapters:
Datasheet: Only available via NDA from ServerWorks
* ATI IXP200, IXP300, IXP400, SB600, SB700 and SB800 southbridges
Datasheet: Not publicly available
- * AMD SB900
+ * AMD Hudson-2
Datasheet: Not publicly available
* Standard Microsystems (SMSC) SLC90E66 (Victory66) southbridge
Datasheet: Publicly available at the SMSC website http://www.smsc.com
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/board.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/board.txt
index e8b5bc24d0a..39e941515a3 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/board.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/board.txt
@@ -20,12 +20,16 @@ Required properities:
- compatible : should be "fsl,fpga-pixis".
- reg : should contain the address and the length of the FPPGA register
set.
+- interrupt-parent: should specify phandle for the interrupt controller.
+- interrupts : should specify event (wakeup) IRQ.
Example (MPC8610HPCD):
board-control@e8000000 {
compatible = "fsl,fpga-pixis";
reg = <0xe8000000 32>;
+ interrupt-parent = <&mpic>;
+ interrupts = <8 8>;
};
* Freescale BCSR GPIO banks
diff --git a/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt b/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
index 70d68ce8640..a87dc277a5c 100644
--- a/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
Generic Thermal Sysfs driver How To
-=========================
+===================================
Written by Sujith Thomas <sujith.thomas@intel.com>, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
@@ -10,20 +10,20 @@ Copyright (c) 2008 Intel Corporation
0. Introduction
-The generic thermal sysfs provides a set of interfaces for thermal zone devices (sensors)
-and thermal cooling devices (fan, processor...) to register with the thermal management
-solution and to be a part of it.
+The generic thermal sysfs provides a set of interfaces for thermal zone
+devices (sensors) and thermal cooling devices (fan, processor...) to register
+with the thermal management solution and to be a part of it.
-This how-to focuses on enabling new thermal zone and cooling devices to participate
-in thermal management.
-This solution is platform independent and any type of thermal zone devices and
-cooling devices should be able to make use of the infrastructure.
+This how-to focuses on enabling new thermal zone and cooling devices to
+participate in thermal management.
+This solution is platform independent and any type of thermal zone devices
+and cooling devices should be able to make use of the infrastructure.
-The main task of the thermal sysfs driver is to expose thermal zone attributes as well
-as cooling device attributes to the user space.
-An intelligent thermal management application can make decisions based on inputs
-from thermal zone attributes (the current temperature and trip point temperature)
-and throttle appropriate devices.
+The main task of the thermal sysfs driver is to expose thermal zone attributes
+as well as cooling device attributes to the user space.
+An intelligent thermal management application can make decisions based on
+inputs from thermal zone attributes (the current temperature and trip point
+temperature) and throttle appropriate devices.
[0-*] denotes any positive number starting from 0
[1-*] denotes any positive number starting from 1
@@ -31,77 +31,77 @@ and throttle appropriate devices.
1. thermal sysfs driver interface functions
1.1 thermal zone device interface
-1.1.1 struct thermal_zone_device *thermal_zone_device_register(char *name, int trips,
- void *devdata, struct thermal_zone_device_ops *ops)
-
- This interface function adds a new thermal zone device (sensor) to
- /sys/class/thermal folder as thermal_zone[0-*].
- It tries to bind all the thermal cooling devices registered at the same time.
-
- name: the thermal zone name.
- trips: the total number of trip points this thermal zone supports.
- devdata: device private data
- ops: thermal zone device call-backs.
- .bind: bind the thermal zone device with a thermal cooling device.
- .unbind: unbind the thermal zone device with a thermal cooling device.
- .get_temp: get the current temperature of the thermal zone.
- .get_mode: get the current mode (user/kernel) of the thermal zone.
- "kernel" means thermal management is done in kernel.
- "user" will prevent kernel thermal driver actions upon trip points
- so that user applications can take charge of thermal management.
- .set_mode: set the mode (user/kernel) of the thermal zone.
- .get_trip_type: get the type of certain trip point.
- .get_trip_temp: get the temperature above which the certain trip point
- will be fired.
+1.1.1 struct thermal_zone_device *thermal_zone_device_register(char *name,
+ int trips, void *devdata, struct thermal_zone_device_ops *ops)
+
+ This interface function adds a new thermal zone device (sensor) to
+ /sys/class/thermal folder as thermal_zone[0-*]. It tries to bind all the
+ thermal cooling devices registered at the same time.
+
+ name: the thermal zone name.
+ trips: the total number of trip points this thermal zone supports.
+ devdata: device private data
+ ops: thermal zone device call-backs.
+ .bind: bind the thermal zone device with a thermal cooling device.
+ .unbind: unbind the thermal zone device with a thermal cooling device.
+ .get_temp: get the current temperature of the thermal zone.
+ .get_mode: get the current mode (user/kernel) of the thermal zone.
+ - "kernel" means thermal management is done in kernel.
+ - "user" will prevent kernel thermal driver actions upon trip points
+ so that user applications can take charge of thermal management.
+ .set_mode: set the mode (user/kernel) of the thermal zone.
+ .get_trip_type: get the type of certain trip point.
+ .get_trip_temp: get the temperature above which the certain trip point
+ will be fired.
1.1.2 void thermal_zone_device_unregister(struct thermal_zone_device *tz)
- This interface function removes the thermal zone device.
- It deletes the corresponding entry form /sys/class/thermal folder and unbind all
- the thermal cooling devices it uses.
+ This interface function removes the thermal zone device.
+ It deletes the corresponding entry form /sys/class/thermal folder and
+ unbind all the thermal cooling devices it uses.
1.2 thermal cooling device interface
1.2.1 struct thermal_cooling_device *thermal_cooling_device_register(char *name,
- void *devdata, struct thermal_cooling_device_ops *)
-
- This interface function adds a new thermal cooling device (fan/processor/...) to
- /sys/class/thermal/ folder as cooling_device[0-*].
- It tries to bind itself to all the thermal zone devices register at the same time.
- name: the cooling device name.
- devdata: device private data.
- ops: thermal cooling devices call-backs.
- .get_max_state: get the Maximum throttle state of the cooling device.
- .get_cur_state: get the Current throttle state of the cooling device.
- .set_cur_state: set the Current throttle state of the cooling device.
+ void *devdata, struct thermal_cooling_device_ops *)
+
+ This interface function adds a new thermal cooling device (fan/processor/...)
+ to /sys/class/thermal/ folder as cooling_device[0-*]. It tries to bind itself
+ to all the thermal zone devices register at the same time.
+ name: the cooling device name.
+ devdata: device private data.
+ ops: thermal cooling devices call-backs.
+ .get_max_state: get the Maximum throttle state of the cooling device.
+ .get_cur_state: get the Current throttle state of the cooling device.
+ .set_cur_state: set the Current throttle state of the cooling device.
1.2.2 void thermal_cooling_device_unregister(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev)
- This interface function remove the thermal cooling device.
- It deletes the corresponding entry form /sys/class/thermal folder and unbind
- itself from all the thermal zone devices using it.
+ This interface function remove the thermal cooling device.
+ It deletes the corresponding entry form /sys/class/thermal folder and
+ unbind itself from all the thermal zone devices using it.
1.3 interface for binding a thermal zone device with a thermal cooling device
1.3.1 int thermal_zone_bind_cooling_device(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
- int trip, struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev);
+ int trip, struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev);
- This interface function bind a thermal cooling device to the certain trip point
- of a thermal zone device.
- This function is usually called in the thermal zone device .bind callback.
- tz: the thermal zone device
- cdev: thermal cooling device
- trip: indicates which trip point the cooling devices is associated with
- in this thermal zone.
+ This interface function bind a thermal cooling device to the certain trip
+ point of a thermal zone device.
+ This function is usually called in the thermal zone device .bind callback.
+ tz: the thermal zone device
+ cdev: thermal cooling device
+ trip: indicates which trip point the cooling devices is associated with
+ in this thermal zone.
1.3.2 int thermal_zone_unbind_cooling_device(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
- int trip, struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev);
+ int trip, struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev);
- This interface function unbind a thermal cooling device from the certain trip point
- of a thermal zone device.
- This function is usually called in the thermal zone device .unbind callback.
- tz: the thermal zone device
- cdev: thermal cooling device
- trip: indicates which trip point the cooling devices is associated with
- in this thermal zone.
+ This interface function unbind a thermal cooling device from the certain
+ trip point of a thermal zone device. This function is usually called in
+ the thermal zone device .unbind callback.
+ tz: the thermal zone device
+ cdev: thermal cooling device
+ trip: indicates which trip point the cooling devices is associated with
+ in this thermal zone.
2. sysfs attributes structure
@@ -114,153 +114,166 @@ if hwmon is compiled in or built as a module.
Thermal zone device sys I/F, created once it's registered:
/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone[0-*]:
- |-----type: Type of the thermal zone
- |-----temp: Current temperature
- |-----mode: Working mode of the thermal zone
- |-----trip_point_[0-*]_temp: Trip point temperature
- |-----trip_point_[0-*]_type: Trip point type
+ |---type: Type of the thermal zone
+ |---temp: Current temperature
+ |---mode: Working mode of the thermal zone
+ |---trip_point_[0-*]_temp: Trip point temperature
+ |---trip_point_[0-*]_type: Trip point type
Thermal cooling device sys I/F, created once it's registered:
/sys/class/thermal/cooling_device[0-*]:
- |-----type : Type of the cooling device(processor/fan/...)
- |-----max_state: Maximum cooling state of the cooling device
- |-----cur_state: Current cooling state of the cooling device
+ |---type: Type of the cooling device(processor/fan/...)
+ |---max_state: Maximum cooling state of the cooling device
+ |---cur_state: Current cooling state of the cooling device
-These two dynamic attributes are created/removed in pairs.
-They represent the relationship between a thermal zone and its associated cooling device.
-They are created/removed for each
-thermal_zone_bind_cooling_device/thermal_zone_unbind_cooling_device successful execution.
+Then next two dynamic attributes are created/removed in pairs. They represent
+the relationship between a thermal zone and its associated cooling device.
+They are created/removed for each successful execution of
+thermal_zone_bind_cooling_device/thermal_zone_unbind_cooling_device.
-/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone[0-*]
- |-----cdev[0-*]: The [0-*]th cooling device in the current thermal zone
- |-----cdev[0-*]_trip_point: Trip point that cdev[0-*] is associated with
+/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone[0-*]:
+ |---cdev[0-*]: [0-*]th cooling device in current thermal zone
+ |---cdev[0-*]_trip_point: Trip point that cdev[0-*] is associated with
Besides the thermal zone device sysfs I/F and cooling device sysfs I/F,
-the generic thermal driver also creates a hwmon sysfs I/F for each _type_ of
-thermal zone device. E.g. the generic thermal driver registers one hwmon class device
-and build the associated hwmon sysfs I/F for all the registered ACPI thermal zones.
+the generic thermal driver also creates a hwmon sysfs I/F for each _type_
+of thermal zone device. E.g. the generic thermal driver registers one hwmon
+class device and build the associated hwmon sysfs I/F for all the registered
+ACPI thermal zones.
+
/sys/class/hwmon/hwmon[0-*]:
- |-----name: The type of the thermal zone devices.
- |-----temp[1-*]_input: The current temperature of thermal zone [1-*].
- |-----temp[1-*]_critical: The critical trip point of thermal zone [1-*].
+ |---name: The type of the thermal zone devices
+ |---temp[1-*]_input: The current temperature of thermal zone [1-*]
+ |---temp[1-*]_critical: The critical trip point of thermal zone [1-*]
+
Please read Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface for additional information.
***************************
* Thermal zone attributes *
***************************
-type Strings which represent the thermal zone type.
- This is given by thermal zone driver as part of registration.
- Eg: "acpitz" indicates it's an ACPI thermal device.
- In order to keep it consistent with hwmon sys attribute,
- this should be a short, lowercase string,
- not containing spaces nor dashes.
- RO
- Required
-
-temp Current temperature as reported by thermal zone (sensor)
- Unit: millidegree Celsius
- RO
- Required
-
-mode One of the predefined values in [kernel, user]
- This file gives information about the algorithm
- that is currently managing the thermal zone.
- It can be either default kernel based algorithm
- or user space application.
- RW
- Optional
- kernel = Thermal management in kernel thermal zone driver.
- user = Preventing kernel thermal zone driver actions upon
- trip points so that user application can take full
- charge of the thermal management.
-
-trip_point_[0-*]_temp The temperature above which trip point will be fired
- Unit: millidegree Celsius
- RO
- Optional
-
-trip_point_[0-*]_type Strings which indicate the type of the trip point
- E.g. it can be one of critical, hot, passive,
- active[0-*] for ACPI thermal zone.
- RO
- Optional
-
-cdev[0-*] Sysfs link to the thermal cooling device node where the sys I/F
- for cooling device throttling control represents.
- RO
- Optional
-
-cdev[0-*]_trip_point The trip point with which cdev[0-*] is associated in this thermal zone
- -1 means the cooling device is not associated with any trip point.
- RO
- Optional
-
-******************************
-* Cooling device attributes *
-******************************
-
-type String which represents the type of device
- eg: For generic ACPI: this should be "Fan",
- "Processor" or "LCD"
- eg. For memory controller device on intel_menlow platform:
- this should be "Memory controller"
- RO
- Required
-
-max_state The maximum permissible cooling state of this cooling device.
- RO
- Required
-
-cur_state The current cooling state of this cooling device.
- the value can any integer numbers between 0 and max_state,
- cur_state == 0 means no cooling
- cur_state == max_state means the maximum cooling.
- RW
- Required
+type
+ Strings which represent the thermal zone type.
+ This is given by thermal zone driver as part of registration.
+ E.g: "acpitz" indicates it's an ACPI thermal device.
+ In order to keep it consistent with hwmon sys attribute; this should
+ be a short, lowercase string, not containing spaces nor dashes.
+ RO, Required
+
+temp
+ Current temperature as reported by thermal zone (sensor).
+ Unit: millidegree Celsius
+ RO, Required
+
+mode
+ One of the predefined values in [kernel, user].
+ This file gives information about the algorithm that is currently
+ managing the thermal zone. It can be either default kernel based
+ algorithm or user space application.
+ kernel = Thermal management in kernel thermal zone driver.
+ user = Preventing kernel thermal zone driver actions upon
+ trip points so that user application can take full
+ charge of the thermal management.
+ RW, Optional
+
+trip_point_[0-*]_temp
+ The temperature above which trip point will be fired.
+ Unit: millidegree Celsius
+ RO, Optional
+
+trip_point_[0-*]_type
+ Strings which indicate the type of the trip point.
+ E.g. it can be one of critical, hot, passive, active[0-*] for ACPI
+ thermal zone.
+ RO, Optional
+
+cdev[0-*]
+ Sysfs link to the thermal cooling device node where the sys I/F
+ for cooling device throttling control represents.
+ RO, Optional
+
+cdev[0-*]_trip_point
+ The trip point with which cdev[0-*] is associated in this thermal
+ zone; -1 means the cooling device is not associated with any trip
+ point.
+ RO, Optional
+
+passive
+ Attribute is only present for zones in which the passive cooling
+ policy is not supported by native thermal driver. Default is zero
+ and can be set to a temperature (in millidegrees) to enable a
+ passive trip point for the zone. Activation is done by polling with
+ an interval of 1 second.
+ Unit: millidegrees Celsius
+ RW, Optional
+
+*****************************
+* Cooling device attributes *
+*****************************
+
+type
+ String which represents the type of device, e.g:
+ - for generic ACPI: should be "Fan", "Processor" or "LCD"
+ - for memory controller device on intel_menlow platform:
+ should be "Memory controller".
+ RO, Required
+
+max_state
+ The maximum permissible cooling state of this cooling device.
+ RO, Required
+
+cur_state
+ The current cooling state of this cooling device.
+ The value can any integer numbers between 0 and max_state:
+ - cur_state == 0 means no cooling
+ - cur_state == max_state means the maximum cooling.
+ RW, Required
3. A simple implementation
-ACPI thermal zone may support multiple trip points like critical/hot/passive/active.
-If an ACPI thermal zone supports critical, passive, active[0] and active[1] at the same time,
-it may register itself as a thermal_zone_device (thermal_zone1) with 4 trip points in all.
-It has one processor and one fan, which are both registered as thermal_cooling_device.
-If the processor is listed in _PSL method, and the fan is listed in _AL0 method,
-the sys I/F structure will be built like this:
+ACPI thermal zone may support multiple trip points like critical, hot,
+passive, active. If an ACPI thermal zone supports critical, passive,
+active[0] and active[1] at the same time, it may register itself as a
+thermal_zone_device (thermal_zone1) with 4 trip points in all.
+It has one processor and one fan, which are both registered as
+thermal_cooling_device.
+
+If the processor is listed in _PSL method, and the fan is listed in _AL0
+method, the sys I/F structure will be built like this:
/sys/class/thermal:
|thermal_zone1:
- |-----type: acpitz
- |-----temp: 37000
- |-----mode: kernel
- |-----trip_point_0_temp: 100000
- |-----trip_point_0_type: critical
- |-----trip_point_1_temp: 80000
- |-----trip_point_1_type: passive
- |-----trip_point_2_temp: 70000
- |-----trip_point_2_type: active0
- |-----trip_point_3_temp: 60000
- |-----trip_point_3_type: active1
- |-----cdev0: --->/sys/class/thermal/cooling_device0
- |-----cdev0_trip_point: 1 /* cdev0 can be used for passive */
- |-----cdev1: --->/sys/class/thermal/cooling_device3
- |-----cdev1_trip_point: 2 /* cdev1 can be used for active[0]*/
+ |---type: acpitz
+ |---temp: 37000
+ |---mode: kernel
+ |---trip_point_0_temp: 100000
+ |---trip_point_0_type: critical
+ |---trip_point_1_temp: 80000
+ |---trip_point_1_type: passive
+ |---trip_point_2_temp: 70000
+ |---trip_point_2_type: active0
+ |---trip_point_3_temp: 60000
+ |---trip_point_3_type: active1
+ |---cdev0: --->/sys/class/thermal/cooling_device0
+ |---cdev0_trip_point: 1 /* cdev0 can be used for passive */
+ |---cdev1: --->/sys/class/thermal/cooling_device3
+ |---cdev1_trip_point: 2 /* cdev1 can be used for active[0]*/
|cooling_device0:
- |-----type: Processor
- |-----max_state: 8
- |-----cur_state: 0
+ |---type: Processor
+ |---max_state: 8
+ |---cur_state: 0
|cooling_device3:
- |-----type: Fan
- |-----max_state: 2
- |-----cur_state: 0
+ |---type: Fan
+ |---max_state: 2
+ |---cur_state: 0
/sys/class/hwmon:
|hwmon0:
- |-----name: acpitz
- |-----temp1_input: 37000
- |-----temp1_crit: 100000
+ |---name: acpitz
+ |---temp1_input: 37000
+ |---temp1_crit: 100000
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page-types.c b/Documentation/vm/page-types.c
index 3ec4f2a2258..4793c6aac73 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/page-types.c
+++ b/Documentation/vm/page-types.c
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ static void fatal(const char *x, ...)
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
-int checked_open(const char *pathname, int flags)
+static int checked_open(const char *pathname, int flags)
{
int fd = open(pathname, flags);
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