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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/ima_policy | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-fcoe | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-rbd | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-firmware_node | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ppi | 70 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ptp | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-tty | 9 |
12 files changed, 185 insertions, 39 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj deleted file mode 100644 index 9a3cb88ade47..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -What: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj -When: August 2012 -Why: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj allows userspace to influence the oom killer's - badness heuristic used to determine which task to kill when the kernel - is out of memory. - - The badness heuristic has since been rewritten since the introduction of - this tunable such that its meaning is deprecated. The value was - implemented as a bitshift on a score generated by the badness() - function that did not have any precise units of measure. With the - rewrite, the score is given as a proportion of available memory to the - task allocating pages, so using a bitshift which grows the score - exponentially is, thus, impossible to tune with fine granularity. - - A much more powerful interface, /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj, was - introduced with the oom killer rewrite that allows users to increase or - decrease the badness score linearly. This interface will replace - /proc/<pid>/oom_adj. - - A warning will be emitted to the kernel log if an application uses this - deprecated interface. After it is printed once, future warnings will be - suppressed until the kernel is rebooted. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/ima_policy b/Documentation/ABI/testing/ima_policy index 6cd6daefaaed..986946613542 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/ima_policy +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/ima_policy @@ -12,11 +12,14 @@ Description: then closing the file. The new policy takes effect after the file ima/policy is closed. + IMA appraisal, if configured, uses these file measurements + for local measurement appraisal. + rule format: action [condition ...] - action: measure | dont_measure + action: measure | dont_measure | appraise | dont_appraise | audit condition:= base | lsm - base: [[func=] [mask=] [fsmagic=] [uid=]] + base: [[func=] [mask=] [fsmagic=] [uid=] [fowner]] lsm: [[subj_user=] [subj_role=] [subj_type=] [obj_user=] [obj_role=] [obj_type=]] @@ -24,36 +27,50 @@ Description: mask:= [MAY_READ] [MAY_WRITE] [MAY_APPEND] [MAY_EXEC] fsmagic:= hex value uid:= decimal value + fowner:=decimal value lsm: are LSM specific default policy: # PROC_SUPER_MAGIC dont_measure fsmagic=0x9fa0 + dont_appraise fsmagic=0x9fa0 # SYSFS_MAGIC dont_measure fsmagic=0x62656572 + dont_appraise fsmagic=0x62656572 # DEBUGFS_MAGIC dont_measure fsmagic=0x64626720 + dont_appraise fsmagic=0x64626720 # TMPFS_MAGIC dont_measure fsmagic=0x01021994 + dont_appraise fsmagic=0x01021994 + # RAMFS_MAGIC + dont_measure fsmagic=0x858458f6 + dont_appraise fsmagic=0x858458f6 # SECURITYFS_MAGIC dont_measure fsmagic=0x73636673 + dont_appraise fsmagic=0x73636673 measure func=BPRM_CHECK measure func=FILE_MMAP mask=MAY_EXEC measure func=FILE_CHECK mask=MAY_READ uid=0 + appraise fowner=0 The default policy measures all executables in bprm_check, all files mmapped executable in file_mmap, and all files - open for read by root in do_filp_open. + open for read by root in do_filp_open. The default appraisal + policy appraises all files owned by root. Examples of LSM specific definitions: SELinux: # SELINUX_MAGIC - dont_measure fsmagic=0xF97CFF8C + dont_measure fsmagic=0xf97cff8c + dont_appraise fsmagic=0xf97cff8c dont_measure obj_type=var_log_t + dont_appraise obj_type=var_log_t dont_measure obj_type=auditd_log_t + dont_appraise obj_type=auditd_log_t measure subj_user=system_u func=FILE_CHECK mask=MAY_READ measure subj_role=system_r func=FILE_CHECK mask=MAY_READ diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block index c1eb41cb9876..279da08f7541 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block @@ -206,3 +206,17 @@ Description: when a discarded area is read the discard_zeroes_data parameter will be set to one. Otherwise it will be 0 and the result of reading a discarded area is undefined. + +What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/write_same_max_bytes +Date: January 2012 +Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> +Description: + Some devices support a write same operation in which a + single data block can be written to a range of several + contiguous blocks on storage. This can be used to wipe + areas on disk or to initialize drives in a RAID + configuration. write_same_max_bytes indicates how many + bytes can be written in a single write same command. If + write_same_max_bytes is 0, write same is not supported + by the device. + diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-fcoe b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-fcoe index 469d09c02f6b..50e2a80ea28f 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-fcoe +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-fcoe @@ -9,19 +9,19 @@ Attributes: this value will change the dev_loss_tmo for all FCFs discovered by this controller. - lesb_link_fail: Link Error Status Block (LESB) link failure count. + lesb/link_fail: Link Error Status Block (LESB) link failure count. - lesb_vlink_fail: Link Error Status Block (LESB) virtual link + lesb/vlink_fail: Link Error Status Block (LESB) virtual link failure count. - lesb_miss_fka: Link Error Status Block (LESB) missed FCoE + lesb/miss_fka: Link Error Status Block (LESB) missed FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) Keep-Alives (FKA). - lesb_symb_err: Link Error Status Block (LESB) symbolic error count. + lesb/symb_err: Link Error Status Block (LESB) symbolic error count. - lesb_err_block: Link Error Status Block (LESB) block error count. + lesb/err_block: Link Error Status Block (LESB) block error count. - lesb_fcs_error: Link Error Status Block (LESB) Fibre Channel + lesb/fcs_error: Link Error Status Block (LESB) Fibre Channel Serivces error count. Notes: ctlr_X (global increment starting at 0) diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-rbd b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-rbd index 3c17b62899f6..1cf2adf46b11 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-rbd +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-rbd @@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ client_id The ceph unique client id that was assigned for this specific session. +features + + A hexadecimal encoding of the feature bits for this image. + major The block device major number. @@ -33,6 +37,11 @@ name The name of the rbd image. +image_id + + The unique id for the rbd image. (For rbd image format 1 + this is empty.) + pool The name of the storage pool where this rbd image resides. @@ -57,12 +66,6 @@ current_snap The current snapshot for which the device is mapped. -create_snap - - Create a snapshot: - - $ echo <snap-name> > /sys/bus/rbd/devices/<dev-id>/snap_create - snap_* A directory per each snapshot @@ -79,4 +82,7 @@ snap_size The size of the image when this snapshot was taken. +snap_features + + A hexadecimal encoding of the feature bits for this snapshot. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb index 5f75f8f7df34..b6fbe514a869 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb @@ -220,3 +220,10 @@ Description: If the device doesn't support LTM, the file will read "no". The file will be present for all speeds of USB devices, and will always read "no" for USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 devices. + +What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../(hub interface)/portX +Date: August 2012 +Contact: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com> +Description: + The /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../(hub interface)/portX + is usb port device's sysfs directory. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-firmware_node b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-firmware_node new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..46badc9ea284 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-firmware_node @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +What: /sys/devices/.../firmware_node/ +Date: September 2012 +Contact: <> +Description: + The /sys/devices/.../firmware_node directory contains attributes + allowing the user space to check and modify some firmware + related properties of given device. + +What: /sys/devices/.../firmware_node/description +Date: September 2012 +Contact: Lance Ortiz <lance.ortiz@hp.com> +Description: + The /sys/devices/.../firmware/description attribute contains a string + that describes the device as provided by the _STR method in the ACPI + namespace. This attribute is read-only. If the device does not have + an _STR method associated with it in the ACPI namespace, this + attribute is not present. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu index 5dab36448b44..6943133afcb8 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu @@ -176,3 +176,14 @@ Description: Disable L3 cache indices All AMD processors with L3 caches provide this functionality. For details, see BKDGs at http://developer.amd.com/documentation/guides/Pages/default.aspx + + +What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost +Date: August 2012 +Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> +Description: Processor frequency boosting control + + This switch controls the boost setting for the whole system. + Boosting allows the CPU and the firmware to run at a frequency + beyound it's nominal limit. + More details can be found in Documentation/cpu-freq/boost.txt diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ppi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ppi new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..97a003ee058b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ppi @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +What: /sys/devices/pnp0/<bus-num>/ppi/ +Date: August 2012 +Kernel Version: 3.6 +Contact: xiaoyan.zhang@intel.com +Description: + This folder includes the attributes related with PPI (Physical + Presence Interface). Only if TPM is supported by BIOS, this + folder makes sence. The folder path can be got by command + 'find /sys/ -name 'pcrs''. For the detail information of PPI, + please refer to the PPI specification from + http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/ + +What: /sys/devices/pnp0/<bus-num>/ppi/version +Date: August 2012 +Contact: xiaoyan.zhang@intel.com +Description: + This attribute shows the version of the PPI supported by the + platform. + This file is readonly. + +What: /sys/devices/pnp0/<bus-num>/ppi/request +Date: August 2012 +Contact: xiaoyan.zhang@intel.com +Description: + This attribute shows the request for an operation to be + executed in the pre-OS environment. It is the only input from + the OS to the pre-OS environment. The request should be an + integer value range from 1 to 160, and 0 means no request. + This file can be read and written. + +What: /sys/devices/pnp0/00:<bus-num>/ppi/response +Date: August 2012 +Contact: xiaoyan.zhang@intel.com +Description: + This attribute shows the response to the most recent operation + request it acted upon. The format is "<request> <response num> + : <response description>". + This file is readonly. + +What: /sys/devices/pnp0/<bus-num>/ppi/transition_action +Date: August 2012 +Contact: xiaoyan.zhang@intel.com +Description: + This attribute shows the platform-specific action that should + take place in order to transition to the BIOS for execution of + a requested operation. The format is "<action num>: <action + description>". + This file is readonly. + +What: /sys/devices/pnp0/<bus-num>/ppi/tcg_operations +Date: August 2012 +Contact: xiaoyan.zhang@intel.com +Description: + This attribute shows whether it is allowed to request an + operation to be executed in the pre-OS environment by the BIOS + for the requests defined by TCG, i.e. requests from 1 to 22. + The format is "<request> <status num>: <status description>". + This attribute is only supported by PPI version 1.2+. + This file is readonly. + +What: /sys/devices/pnp0/<bus-num>/ppi/vs_operations +Date: August 2012 +Contact: xiaoyan.zhang@intel.com +Description: + This attribute shows whether it is allowed to request an + operation to be executed in the pre-OS environment by the BIOS + for the verdor specific requests, i.e. requests from 128 to + 255. The format is same with tcg_operations. This attribute + is also only supported by PPI version 1.2+. + This file is readonly. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 index f22ac0872ae8..c631253cf85c 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 @@ -96,3 +96,16 @@ Contact: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Description: The maximum number of megabytes the writeback code will try to write out before move on to another inode. + +What: /sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/extent_max_zeroout_kb +Date: August 2012 +Contact: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> +Description: + The maximum number of kilobytes which will be zeroed + out in preference to creating a new uninitialized + extent when manipulating an inode's extent tree. Note + that using a larger value will increase the + variability of time necessary to complete a random + write operation (since a 4k random write might turn + into a much larger write due to the zeroout + operation). diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ptp b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ptp index d40d2b550502..05aeedf17794 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ptp +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ptp @@ -19,7 +19,11 @@ Date: September 2010 Contact: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Description: This file contains the name of the PTP hardware clock - as a human readable string. + as a human readable string. The purpose of this + attribute is to provide the user with a "friendly + name" and to help distinguish PHY based devices from + MAC based ones. The string does not necessarily have + to be any kind of unique id. What: /sys/class/ptp/ptpN/max_adjustment Date: September 2010 diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-tty b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-tty index b138b663bf54..0c430150d929 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-tty +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-tty @@ -17,3 +17,12 @@ Description: device, like 'tty1'. The file supports poll() to detect virtual console switches. + +What: /sys/class/tty/ttyS0/uartclk +Date: Sep 2012 +Contact: Tomas Hlavacek <tmshlvck@gmail.com> +Description: + Shows the current uartclk value associated with the + UART port in serial_core, that is bound to TTY like ttyS0. + uartclk = 16 * baud_base + |