Recent tools do not want to use /proc to retrieve module information. A few
values are currently missing from sysfs to replace the information available
in /proc/modules.
This adds /sys/module/*/{coresize,initsize,taint} attributes.
TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE (P) and TAINT_OOT_MODULE (O) flags are both always
shown now, and do no longer exclude each other, also in /proc/modules.
Replace the open-coded sysfs attribute initializers with the __ATTR() macro.
Add the new attributes to Documentation/ABI.
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
The rtc_calibration attribute allows user-space to get and set the
AB8500's RtcCalibration register. The AB8500 will then use the value in
this register to compensate for RTC drift every 60 seconds.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mark Godfrey <mark.godfrey@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add documentation for MSystems disk-on-chip docg3 chips
sysfs entries, which enable and disable protection areas,
giving or disabling access to the chip's memory.
Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
This patch adds a per-pci-device subdirectory in sysfs called:
/sys/bus/pci/devices/<device>/msi_irqs
This sub-directory exports the set of msi vectors allocated by a given
pci device, by creating a numbered sub-directory for each vector beneath
msi_irqs. For each vector various attributes can be exported.
Currently the only attribute is called mode, which tracks the
operational mode of that vector (msi vs. msix)
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
The Cintiq 24HD has three LEDs on the left side of the tablet and
three LEDs on the right side of the tablet. Switching to LED 0,
1, or 2 will enable the top, middle, or bottom LED for the respective
side. Switching to LED 3 turns off the LEDs on the respective side.
Signed-off-by: Jason Gerecke <killertofu@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ping Cheng <pingc@wacom.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
This doesn't interact with resizing well, since it doesn't set the
size of the device to the size at the snapshot. It's also an expensive
operation to be synchronous. Rollback can still be done with the
userspace rbd tool.
Signed-off-by: Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@dreamhost.com>
This patch adds support for Roccat Isku keyboard.
Userland tools can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/roccat
Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
This patch adds a per-pci-device subdirectory in sysfs called:
/sys/bus/pci/devices/<device>/msi_irqs
This sub-directory exports the set of msi vectors allocated by a given
pci device, by creating a numbered sub-directory for each vector beneath
msi_irqs. For each vector various attributes can be exported.
Currently the only attribute is called mode, which tracks the
operational mode of that vector (msi vs. msix)
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Add new sysfs attribute "extension" which returns the currently connected and
initialized extensions.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
When adding the ID of a composite device dynamically to a driver, all
hitherto unbound interfaces are bound to this driver regardless of their
class, which may not be intended.
The patch adds the option to tell the targeted interface class to a driver
via the "new_id" attribute, in addition to the device ID.
Also, it appends the ABI documentation accordingly.
Example:
$ echo "1234 2a2a ff" >/sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/option1/new_id
will bind only vendor-specific interfaces to the 3G driver.
Signed-off-by: Josua Dietze <digidietze@draisberghof.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add ABI documentation for the /sys/bus/xen-backend sysfs files,
including those specific to blkback devices.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
This reverts commit a72c5e5eb7.
The commit introduced alias for block devices which is intended to be
used during logging although actual usage hasn't been committed yet.
This approach adds very limited benefit (raw log might be easier to
follow) which can be trivially implemented in userland but has a lot
of problems.
It is much worse than netif renames because it doesn't rename the
actual device but just adds conveninence name which isn't used
universally or enforced. Everything internal including device lookup
and sysfs still uses the internal name and nothing prevents two
devices from using conflicting alias - ie. sda can have sdb as its
alias.
This has been nacked by people working on device driver core, block
layer and kernel-userland interface and shouldn't have been
upstreamed. Revert it.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1155104http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/68632http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/69776
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Nao Nishijima <nao.nishijima.xt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Add ABI documentation for the balloon driver's sysfs files.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl>
[v2: Added comments from Daniel]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
There are a lot userspace approaches to detect the usage of the
platform (laptop, workstation, server, ...) and adjust kernel tunables
accordingly (io/process scheduler, power management, ...).
These approaches need constant maintaining and are ugly to implement
(detect PCMCIA controller -> laptop,
does not work on recent systems anymore, ...)
On ACPI systems there is an easy and reliable way (if implemented
in BIOS and most recent platforms have this value set).
-> export it to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Add two nodes in debugfs which shows cfg value and its meaning,
and status info read from VPC2004.
Signed-off-by: Ike Panhc <ike.pan@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cintiq 21ux2 has two sets of four LEDs on right and left side of
the tablet, respectively.
Reviewed-by: Eduard Hasenleithner <eduard@hasenleithner.at>
Tested-by: Eduard Hasenleithner <eduard@hasenleithner.at>
Signed-off-by: Ping Cheng <pingc@wacom.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
The LED also indicates the status of the tablet. Don't turn it off.
Reviewed-by: Eduard Hasenleithner <eduard@hasenleithner.at>
Tested-by: Eduard Hasenleithner <eduard@hasenleithner.at>
Signed-off-by: Ping Cheng <pingc@wacom.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
The LED luminance level is normally lower when no button is pressed.
Reviewed-by: Eduard Hasenleithner <eduard@hasenleithner.at>
Tested-by: Eduard Hasenleithner <eduard@hasenleithner.at>
Signed-off-by: Ping Cheng <pingc@wacom.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Four cpufreq-like governors are provided as examples.
powersave: use the lowest frequency possible. The user (device) should
set the polling_ms as 0 because polling is useless for this governor.
performance: use the highest freqeuncy possible. The user (device)
should set the polling_ms as 0 because polling is useless for this
governor.
userspace: use the user specified frequency stored at
devfreq.user_set_freq. With sysfs support in the following patch, a user
may set the value with the sysfs interface.
simple_ondemand: simplified version of cpufreq's ondemand governor.
When a user updates OPP entries (enable/disable/add), OPP framework
automatically notifies devfreq to update operating frequency
accordingly. Thus, devfreq users (device drivers) do not need to update
devfreq manually with OPP entry updates or set polling_ms for powersave
, performance, userspace, or any other "static" governors.
Note that these are given only as basic examples for governors and any
devices with devfreq may implement their own governors with the drivers
and use them.
Signed-off-by: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Turquette <mturquette@ti.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Device specific sysfs interface /sys/devices/.../power/devfreq_*
- governor R: name of governor
- cur_freq R: current frequency
- polling_interval R: polling interval in ms given with devfreq profile
W: update polling interval.
- central_polling R: 1 if polling is managed by devfreq framework
Signed-off-by: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Turquette <mturquette@ti.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
--
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-devfreq | 44 ++++++++++++++++
drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 113 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-devfreq
This patch adds sysfs support to xHCI usb2 hardware LPM, so developer can
enable and disable usb2 hardware LPM manually for test purpose.
Signed-off-by: Andiry Xu <andiry.xu@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1484) adds documentation for ehci-hcd's "companion"
sysfs attribute, which was added to the kernel over four years ago but
never documented.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This commit enables control of the LEDs and OLED displays found on the
Wacom Intuos4 M, L, and XL. For this purpose, a new "wacom_led" attribute
group is added to the sysfs entry of the USB device.
This "wacom_led" group only shows up when the correct device (M, L, or XL)
is detected. The attributes are described in
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-wacom
Signed-off-by: Eduard Hasenleithner <eduard@hasenleithner.at>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
This patch allows the user to set an "alias" of the disk via sysfs interface.
This patch only adds a new attribute "alias" in gendisk structure.
To show the alias instead of the device name in kernel messages,
we need to revise printk messages and use alias_name() in them.
Example:
(current) printk("disk name is %s\n", disk->disk_name);
(new) printk("disk name is %s\n", alias_name(disk));
Users can use alphabets, numbers, '-' and '_' in "alias" attribute. A disk can
have an "alias" which length is up to 255 bytes. This attribute is write-once.
Suggested-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Suggested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nao Nishijima <nao.nishijima.xt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Adding API update for adding isci_id entry scsi_host sysfs entry.
Also fixing up the sysfs registration to the scsi_host template
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
When a node receives a unicast packet it checks if the source and the
destination client can communicate or not due to the AP isolation
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Joseph Handzik <joseph.t.handzik@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Acked-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Create /sys/devices/platform/ideapad/cfg for showing cfg value.
Signed-off-by: Ike Panhc <ike.pan@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Update the version number references from 2.6.x to 3.x
Also correct spelling of "May" (was spelled "Mai").
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Adds documentation of the sysfs interface used to set the wheel range.
Signed-off-by: Michal Malý <madcatxster@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wood <simon@mungewell.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
The FSA9480 is a USB port accessory detector and switch. This patch adds
support the FSA9480 USB Switch.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make a couple of things static]
Signed-off-by: Donggeun Kim <dg77.kim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Minkyu Kang <mk7.kang@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The badness() function in the oom killer was renamed to oom_badness() in
a63d83f427 ("oom: badness heuristic rewrite") since it is a globally
exported function for clarity.
The prototype for the old function still existed in linux/oom.h, so remove
it. There are no existing users.
Also fixes documentation and comment references to badness() and adjusts
them accordingly.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
pstore only allows one backend to be registered at present, but the
system may provide several. Add a parameter to allow the user to choose
which backend will be used rather than just relying on load order.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
EVM protects a file's security extended attributes(xattrs) against integrity
attacks. This patchset provides the framework and an initial method. The
initial method maintains an HMAC-sha1 value across the security extended
attributes, storing the HMAC value as the extended attribute 'security.evm'.
Other methods of validating the integrity of a file's metadata will be posted
separately (eg. EVM-digital-signatures).
While this patchset does authenticate the security xattrs, and
cryptographically binds them to the inode, coming extensions will bind other
directory and inode metadata for more complete protection. To help simplify
the review and upstreaming process, each extension will be posted separately
(eg. IMA-appraisal, IMA-appraisal-directory). For a general overview of the
proposed Linux integrity subsystem, refer to Dave Safford's whitepaper:
http://downloads.sf.net/project/linux-ima/linux-ima/Integrity_overview.pdf.
EVM depends on the Kernel Key Retention System to provide it with a
trusted/encrypted key for the HMAC-sha1 operation. The key is loaded onto the
root's keyring using keyctl. Until EVM receives notification that the key has
been successfully loaded onto the keyring (echo 1 > <securityfs>/evm), EVM can
not create or validate the 'security.evm' xattr, but returns INTEGRITY_UNKNOWN.
Loading the key and signaling EVM should be done as early as possible. Normally
this is done in the initramfs, which has already been measured as part of the
trusted boot. For more information on creating and loading existing
trusted/encrypted keys, refer to Documentation/keys-trusted-encrypted.txt. A
sample dracut patch, which loads the trusted/encrypted key and enables EVM, is
available from http://linux-ima.sourceforge.net/#EVM.
Based on the LSMs enabled, the set of EVM protected security xattrs is defined
at compile. EVM adds the following three calls to the existing security hooks:
evm_inode_setxattr(), evm_inode_post_setxattr(), and evm_inode_removexattr. To
initialize and update the 'security.evm' extended attribute, EVM defines three
calls: evm_inode_post_init(), evm_inode_post_setattr() and
evm_inode_post_removexattr() hooks. To verify the integrity of a security
xattr, EVM exports evm_verifyxattr().
Changelog v7:
- Fixed URL in EVM ABI documentation
Changelog v6: (based on Serge Hallyn's review)
- fix URL in patch description
- remove evm_hmac_size definition
- use SHA1_DIGEST_SIZE (removed both MAX_DIGEST_SIZE and evm_hmac_size)
- moved linux include before other includes
- test for crypto_hash_setkey failure
- fail earlier for invalid key
- clear entire encrypted key, even on failure
- check xattr name length before comparing xattr names
Changelog:
- locking based on i_mutex, remove evm_mutex
- using trusted/encrypted keys for storing the EVM key used in the HMAC-sha1
operation.
- replaced crypto hash with shash (Dmitry Kasatkin)
- support for additional methods of verifying the security xattrs
(Dmitry Kasatkin)
- iint not allocated for all regular files, but only for those appraised
- Use cap_sys_admin in lieu of cap_mac_admin
- Use __vfs_setxattr_noperm(), without permission checks, from EVM
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Add overview documentation in Documentation/ABI/stable/firewire-cdev.
Improve the inline reference documentation in firewire-cdev.h:
- Add /* available since kernel... */ comments to event numbers
consistent with the comments on ioctl numbers.
- Shorten some documentation on an event and an ioctl that are
less interesting to current programming because there are newer
preferable variants.
- Spell Configuration ROM (name of an IEEE 1212 register) in
upper case.
- Move the dummy FW_CDEV_VERSION out of the reader's field of
vision. We should remove it from the header next year or so.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Add sysfs files for each led of the wiimote. Writing 1 to the file
enables the led and 0 disables the led.
We do not need memory barriers when checking wdata->ready since we use
a spinlock directly after it.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
There are cases, when 80% max isochronous bandwidth is too limiting.
For example I have two USB video capture cards which stream uncompressed
video, and to stream full NTSC + PAL videos we'd need
NTSC 640x480 YUV422 @30fps ~17.6 MB/s
PAL 720x576 YUV422 @25fps ~19.7 MB/s
isoc bandwidth.
Now, due to limited alt settings in capture devices NTSC one ends up
streaming with max_pkt_size=2688 and PAL with max_pkt_size=2892, both
with interval=1. In terms of microframe time allocation this gives
NTSC ~53us
PAL ~57us
and together
~110us > 100us == 80% of 125us uframe time.
So those two devices can't work together simultaneously because the'd
over allocate isochronous bandwidth.
80% seemed a bit arbitrary to me, and I've tried to raise it to 90% and
both devices started to work together, so I though sometimes it would be
a good idea for users to override hardcoded default of max 80% isoc
bandwidth.
After all, isn't it a user who should decide how to load the bus? If I
can live with 10% or even 5% bulk bandwidth that should be ok. I'm a USB
newcomer, but that 80% set in stone by USB 2.0 specification seems to be
chosen pretty arbitrary to me, just to serve as a reasonable default.
NOTE 1
~~~~~~
for two streams with max_pkt_size=3072 (worst case) both time
allocation would be 60us+60us=120us which is 96% periodic bandwidth
leaving 4% for bulk and control. Alan Stern suggested that bulk then
would be problematic (less than 300*8 bittimes left per microframe), but
I think that is still enough for control traffic.
NOTE 2
~~~~~~
Sarah Sharp expressed concern that maxing out periodic bandwidth
could lead to vendor-specific hardware bugs on host controllers, because
> It's entirely possible that you'll run into
> vendor-specific bugs if you try to pack the schedule with isochronous
> transfers. I don't think any hardware designer would seriously test or
> validate their hardware with a schedule that is basically a violation of
> the USB bus spec (more than 80% for periodic transfers).
So far I've only tested this patch on my HP Mini 5103 with N10 chipset
kirr@mini:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8059 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 11)
and the system works stable with 110us/uframe (~88%) isoc bandwith allocated for
above-mentioned isochronous transfers.
NOTE 3
~~~~~~
This feature is off by default. I mean max periodic bandwidth is set to
100us/uframe by default exactly as it was before the patch. So only those of us
who need the extreme settings are taking the risk - normal users who do not
alter uframe_periodic_max sysfs attribute should not see any change at all.
NOTE 4
~~~~~~
I've tried to update documentation in Documentation/ABI/ thoroughly, but
only "TBD" was put into Documentation/usb/ehci.txt -- the text there seems
to be outdated and much needing refreshing, before it could be amended.
Cc: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Added binary sysfs attribute to support new functionality the manufacturer
added to koneplus.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
This patchset introduces cleancache, an optional new feature exposed
by the VFS layer that potentially dramatically increases page cache
effectiveness for many workloads in many environments at a negligible
cost. It does this by providing an interface to transcendent memory,
which is memory/storage that is not otherwise visible to and/or directly
addressable by the kernel.
Instead of being discarded, hooks in the reclaim code "put" clean
pages to cleancache. Filesystems that "opt-in" may "get" pages
from cleancache that were previously put, but pages in cleancache are
"ephemeral", meaning they may disappear at any time. And the size
of cleancache is entirely dynamic and unknowable to the kernel.
Filesystems currently supported by this patchset include ext3, ext4,
btrfs, and ocfs2. Other filesystems (especially those built entirely
on VFS) should be easy to add, but should first be thoroughly tested to
ensure coherency.
Details and a FAQ are provided in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt
This first patch of eight in this cleancache series only adds two
new documentation files.
[v8: minor documentation changes by author]
[v3: akpm@linux-foundation.org: document sysfs API]
[v3: hch@infradead.org: move detailed description to Documentation/vm]
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik Van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
This patch adds an infrastructure for hardware clocks that implement
IEEE 1588, the Precision Time Protocol (PTP). A class driver offers a
registration method to particular hardware clock drivers. Each clock is
presented as a standard POSIX clock.
The ancillary clock features are exposed in two different ways, via
the sysfs and by a character device.
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
After remove the device from /sys, we have to rescan all or
find out the bridge and access /sys../device/rescan there.
this patch add /sys/.../pci_bus/.../rescan. So user can rescan more easy.
that is more clean and easy to understand.
like after remove 0000:c4:00.0, you can rescan 0000:c4 directly.
-v2: According to Jesse, use function instead of exposing attr, so could hide
#ifdef in header file.
also add code to remove rescan file in remove path.
-v3: GregKH pointed out that we should use dev_attrs to avoid racing.
So add pcibus_attrs and make it to be member of pcibus_attrs.
-v4: Change name to pcibus_dev_attrs according to GregKH
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Stanislaw Gruszka