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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_epb.rst | 41 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/pm/working-state.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/davinci_emac.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/macb.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/media/uapi/rc/rc-tables.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/decnet.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 16 |
11 files changed, 88 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu index 9605dbd4b5b5..7f4af7da3fbc 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu @@ -518,3 +518,21 @@ Description: Control Symetric Multi Threading (SMT) If control status is "forceoff" or "notsupported" writes are rejected. + +What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/power/energy_perf_bias +Date: March 2019 +Contact: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org +Description: Intel Energy and Performance Bias Hint (EPB) + + EPB for the given CPU in a sliding scale 0 - 15, where a value + of 0 corresponds to a hint preference for highest performance + and a value of 15 corresponds to the maximum energy savings. + + In order to change the EPB value for the CPU, write either + a number in the 0 - 15 sliding scale above, or one of the + strings: "performance", "balance-performance", "normal", + "balance-power", "power" (that represent values reflected by + their meaning), to this attribute. + + This attribute is present for all online CPUs supporting the + Intel EPB feature. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_epb.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_epb.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..005121167af7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_epb.rst @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +.. include:: <isonum.txt> + +====================================== +Intel Performance and Energy Bias Hint +====================================== + +:Copyright: |copy| 2019 Intel Corporation + +:Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> + + +.. kernel-doc:: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_epb.c + :doc: overview + +Intel Performance and Energy Bias Attribute in ``sysfs`` +======================================================== + +The Intel Performance and Energy Bias Hint (EPB) value for a given (logical) CPU +can be checked or updated through a ``sysfs`` attribute (file) under +:file:`/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu<N>/power/`, where the CPU number ``<N>`` +is allocated at the system initialization time: + +``energy_perf_bias`` + Shows the current EPB value for the CPU in a sliding scale 0 - 15, where + a value of 0 corresponds to a hint preference for highest performance + and a value of 15 corresponds to the maximum energy savings. + + In order to update the EPB value for the CPU, this attribute can be + written to, either with a number in the 0 - 15 sliding scale above, or + with one of the strings: "performance", "balance-performance", "normal", + "balance-power", "power" that represent values reflected by their + meaning. + + This attribute is present for all online CPUs supporting the EPB + feature. + +Note that while the EPB interface to the processor is defined at the logical CPU +level, the physical register backing it may be shared by multiple CPUs (for +example, SMT siblings or cores in one package). For this reason, updating the +EPB value for one CPU may cause the EPB values for other CPUs to change. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/working-state.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/working-state.rst index e5fbf322f256..fc298eb1234b 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/working-state.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/working-state.rst @@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ Working-State Power Management cpuidle cpufreq intel_pstate + intel_epb diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/davinci_emac.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/davinci_emac.txt index 24c5cdaba8d2..ca83dcc84fb8 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/davinci_emac.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/davinci_emac.txt @@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ Required properties: Optional properties: - phy-handle: See ethernet.txt file in the same directory. If absent, davinci_emac driver defaults to 100/FULL. +- nvmem-cells: phandle, reference to an nvmem node for the MAC address +- nvmem-cell-names: string, should be "mac-address" if nvmem is to be used - ti,davinci-rmii-en: 1 byte, 1 means use RMII - ti,davinci-no-bd-ram: boolean, does EMAC have BD RAM? diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt index cfc376bc977a..a68621580584 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt @@ -10,15 +10,14 @@ Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/phy-bindings.txt. the boot program; should be used in cases where the MAC address assigned to the device by the boot program is different from the "local-mac-address" property; -- nvmem-cells: phandle, reference to an nvmem node for the MAC address; -- nvmem-cell-names: string, should be "mac-address" if nvmem is to be used; - max-speed: number, specifies maximum speed in Mbit/s supported by the device; - max-frame-size: number, maximum transfer unit (IEEE defined MTU), rather than the maximum frame size (there's contradiction in the Devicetree Specification). - phy-mode: string, operation mode of the PHY interface. This is now a de-facto standard property; supported values are: - * "internal" + * "internal" (Internal means there is not a standard bus between the MAC and + the PHY, something proprietary is being used to embed the PHY in the MAC.) * "mii" * "gmii" * "sgmii" diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/macb.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/macb.txt index 174f292d8a3e..8b80515729d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/macb.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/macb.txt @@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ Required properties: Optional elements: 'tsu_clk' - clocks: Phandles to input clocks. +Optional properties: +- nvmem-cells: phandle, reference to an nvmem node for the MAC address +- nvmem-cell-names: string, should be "mac-address" if nvmem is to be used + Optional properties for PHY child node: - reset-gpios : Should specify the gpio for phy reset - magic-packet : If present, indicates that the hardware supports waking diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/rc/rc-tables.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/rc/rc-tables.rst index f460031d8531..177ac44fa0fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/media/uapi/rc/rc-tables.rst +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/rc/rc-tables.rst @@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ the remote via /dev/input/event devices. - .. row 78 - - ``KEY_SCREEN`` + - ``KEY_ASPECT_RATIO`` - Select screen aspect ratio @@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ the remote via /dev/input/event devices. - .. row 79 - - ``KEY_ZOOM`` + - ``KEY_FULL_SCREEN`` - Put device into zoom/full screen mode diff --git a/Documentation/networking/decnet.txt b/Documentation/networking/decnet.txt index e12a4900cf72..d192f8b9948b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/decnet.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/decnet.txt @@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ you'll need the following options as well... CONFIG_DECNET_ROUTER (to be able to add/delete routes) CONFIG_NETFILTER (will be required for the DECnet routing daemon) - CONFIG_DECNET_ROUTE_FWMARK is optional - Don't turn on SIOCGIFCONF support for DECnet unless you are really sure that you need it, in general you won't and it can cause ifconfig to malfunction. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index acdfb5d2bcaa..e2142fe40cda 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -422,6 +422,7 @@ tcp_min_rtt_wlen - INTEGER minimum RTT when it is moved to a longer path (e.g., due to traffic engineering). A longer window makes the filter more resistant to RTT inflations such as transient congestion. The unit is seconds. + Possible values: 0 - 86400 (1 day) Default: 300 tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN diff --git a/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt b/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt index 2df5894353d6..cd7303d7fa25 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt @@ -1009,16 +1009,18 @@ The kernel interface functions are as follows: (*) Check call still alive. - u32 rxrpc_kernel_check_life(struct socket *sock, - struct rxrpc_call *call); + bool rxrpc_kernel_check_life(struct socket *sock, + struct rxrpc_call *call, + u32 *_life); void rxrpc_kernel_probe_life(struct socket *sock, struct rxrpc_call *call); - The first function returns a number that is updated when ACKs are received - from the peer (notably including PING RESPONSE ACKs which we can elicit by - sending PING ACKs to see if the call still exists on the server). The - caller should compare the numbers of two calls to see if the call is still - alive after waiting for a suitable interval. + The first function passes back in *_life a number that is updated when + ACKs are received from the peer (notably including PING RESPONSE ACKs + which we can elicit by sending PING ACKs to see if the call still exists + on the server). The caller should compare the numbers of two calls to see + if the call is still alive after waiting for a suitable interval. It also + returns true as long as the call hasn't yet reached the completed state. This allows the caller to work out if the server is still contactable and if the call is still alive on the server while waiting for the server to diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 6af24cdb25cc..3f13d8599337 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -866,14 +866,14 @@ The intent is that compaction has less work to do in the future and to increase the success rate of future high-order allocations such as SLUB allocations, THP and hugetlbfs pages. -To make it sensible with respect to the watermark_scale_factor parameter, -the unit is in fractions of 10,000. The default value of 15,000 means -that up to 150% of the high watermark will be reclaimed in the event of -a pageblock being mixed due to fragmentation. The level of reclaim is -determined by the number of fragmentation events that occurred in the -recent past. If this value is smaller than a pageblock then a pageblocks -worth of pages will be reclaimed (e.g. 2MB on 64-bit x86). A boost factor -of 0 will disable the feature. +To make it sensible with respect to the watermark_scale_factor +parameter, the unit is in fractions of 10,000. The default value of +15,000 on !DISCONTIGMEM configurations means that up to 150% of the high +watermark will be reclaimed in the event of a pageblock being mixed due +to fragmentation. The level of reclaim is determined by the number of +fragmentation events that occurred in the recent past. If this value is +smaller than a pageblock then a pageblocks worth of pages will be reclaimed +(e.g. 2MB on 64-bit x86). A boost factor of 0 will disable the feature. ============================================================= |