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* fuse: fix bdi naming conflictMiklos Szeredi2008-05-241-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fuse allocates a separate bdi for each filesystem, and registers them in sysfs with "MAJOR:MINOR" of sb->s_dev (st_dev). This works fine for anon devices normally used by fuse, but can conflict with an already registered BDI for "fuseblk" filesystems, where sb->s_dev represents a real block device. In particularl this happens if a non-partitioned device is being mounted. Fix by registering with a different name for "fuseblk" filesystems. Thanks to Ioan Ionita for the bug report. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Reported-by: Ioan Ionita <opslynx@gmail.com> Tested-by: Ioan Ionita <opslynx@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: bdi: move statistics to debugfsMiklos Szeredi2008-04-301-28/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move BDI statistics to debugfs: /sys/kernel/debug/bdi/<bdi>/stats Use postcore_initcall() to initialize the sysfs class and debugfs, because debugfs is initialized in core_initcall(). Update descriptions in ABI documentation. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: bdi: allow setting a maximum for the bdi dirty limitPeter Zijlstra2008-04-301-1/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add "max_ratio" to /sys/class/bdi. This indicates the maximum percentage of the global dirty threshold allocated to this bdi. [mszeredi@suse.cz] - fix parsing in max_ratio_store(). - export bdi_set_max_ratio() to modules - limit bdi_dirty with bdi->max_ratio - document new sysfs attribute Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: bdi: allow setting a minimum for the bdi dirty limitPeter Zijlstra2008-04-301-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Under normal circumstances each device is given a part of the total write-back cache that relates to its current avg writeout speed in relation to the other devices. min_ratio - allows one to assign a minimum portion of the write-back cache to a particular device. This is useful in situations where you might want to provide a minimum QoS. (One request for this feature came from flash based storage people who wanted to avoid writing out at all costs - they of course needed some pdflush hacks as well) max_ratio - allows one to assign a maximum portion of the dirty limit to a particular device. This is useful in situations where you want to avoid one device taking all or most of the write-back cache. Eg. an NFS mount that is prone to get stuck, or a FUSE mount which you don't trust to play fair. Add "min_ratio" to /sys/class/bdi. This indicates the minimum percentage of the global dirty threshold allocated to this bdi. [mszeredi@suse.cz] - fix parsing in min_ratio_store() - document new sysfs attribute Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: bdi: export BDI attributes in sysfsPeter Zijlstra2008-04-301-0/+46
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide a place in sysfs (/sys/class/bdi) for the backing_dev_info object. This allows us to see and set the various BDI specific variables. In particular this properly exposes the read-ahead window for all relevant users and /sys/block/<block>/queue/read_ahead_kb should be deprecated. With patient help from Kay Sievers and Greg KH [mszeredi@suse.cz] - split off NFS and FUSE changes into separate patches - document new sysfs attributes under Documentation/ABI - do bdi_class_init as a core_initcall, otherwise the "default" BDI won't be initialized - remove bdi_init_fmt macro, it's not used very much [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 warning] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6David Woodhouse2008-04-231-0/+212
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| * Documentation: add UBI sysfs ABI docsArtem Bityutskiy2008-04-171-0/+212
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds2008-04-221-0/+11
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (42 commits) PCI: Change PCI subsystem MAINTAINER PCI: pci-iommu-iotlb-flushing-speedup PCI: pci_setup_bridge() mustn't be __devinit PCI: pci_bus_size_cardbus() mustn't be __devinit PCI: pci_scan_device() mustn't be __devinit PCI: pci_alloc_child_bus() mustn't be __devinit PCI: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences PCI: Hotplug: fakephp: Return success, not ENODEV, when bus rescan is triggered PCI: Hotplug: Fix leaks in IBM Hot Plug Controller Driver - ibmphp_init_devno() PCI: clean up resource alignment management PCI: aerdrv_acpi.c: remove unneeded NULL check PCI: Update VIA CX700 quirk PCI: Expose PCI VPD through sysfs PCI: iommu: iotlb flushing PCI: simplify quirk debug output PCI: iova RB tree setup tweak PCI: parisc: use generic pci_enable_resources() PCI: ppc: use generic pci_enable_resources() PCI: powerpc: use generic pci_enable_resources() PCI: ia64: use generic pci_enable_resources() ...
| * | PCI: Expose PCI VPD through sysfsBen Hutchings2008-04-211-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Vital Product Data (VPD) may be exposed by PCI devices in several ways. It is generally unsafe to read this information through the existing interfaces to user-land because of stateful interfaces. This adds: - abstract operations for VPD access (struct pci_vpd_ops) - VPD state information in struct pci_dev (struct pci_vpd) - an implementation of the VPD access method specified in PCI 2.2 (in access.c) - a 'vpd' binary file in sysfs directories for PCI devices with VPD operations defined It adds a probe for PCI 2.2 VPD in pci_scan_device() and release of VPD state in pci_release_dev(). Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | Firmware: add iSCSI iBFT SupportKonrad Rzeszutek2008-04-201-0/+23
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add /sysfs/firmware/ibft/[initiator|targetX|ethernetX] directories along with text properties which export the the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) structure. What is iSCSI Boot Firmware Table? It is a mechanism for the iSCSI tools to extract from the machine NICs the iSCSI connection information so that they can automagically mount the iSCSI share/target. Currently the iSCSI information is hard-coded in the initrd. The /sysfs entries are read-only one-name-and-value fields. The usual set of data exposed is: # for a in `find /sys/firmware/ibft/ -type f -print`; do echo -n "$a: "; cat $a; done /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/target-name: iqn.2007.com.intel-sbx44:storage-10gb /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/nic-assoc: 0 /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/chap-type: 0 /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/lun: 00000000 /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/port: 3260 /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/ip-addr: 192.168.79.116 /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/flags: 3 /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/index: 0 /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/mac: 00:11:25:9d:8b:01 /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/vlan: 0 /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/gateway: 192.168.79.254 /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/origin: 0 /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/subnet-mask: 255.255.252.0 /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/ip-addr: 192.168.77.41 /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/flags: 7 /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/index: 0 /sys/firmware/ibft/initiator/initiator-name: iqn.2007-07.com:konrad.initiator /sys/firmware/ibft/initiator/flags: 3 /sys/firmware/ibft/initiator/index: 0 For full details of the IBFT structure please take a look at: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/systems/support/system_x_pdf/ibm_iscsi_boot_firmware_table_v1.02.pdf [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek <konradr@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | ocfs2: Move /sys/o2cb to /sys/fs/o2cbMark Fasheh2008-04-182-0/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | /sys/fs is where we really want file system specific sysfs objects. Ocfs2-tools has been updated to look in /sys/fs/o2cb. We can maintain backwards compatibility with old ocfs2-tools by using a sysfs symlink. After some time (2 years), the symlink can be safely removed. This patch also adds documentation to make it easier for people to figure out what /sys/fs/o2cb is used for. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
* | ocfs2: Document /sys/fs/ocfs2Joel Becker2008-04-181-0/+89
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | Add ABI documentation for these files: /sys/fs/ocfs2/max_locking_protocol /sys/fs/ocfs2/loaded_cluster_plugins /sys/fs/ocfs2/active_cluster_plugin /sys/fs/ocfs2/cluster_stack Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
* Enhanced partition statistics: documentation updateJerome Marchand2008-02-082-0/+50
| | | | | | | Update the documentation to reflect the change in userspace interface. Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-02-071-0/+99
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (112 commits) ACPI: fix build warning Revert "cpuidle: build fix for non-x86" ACPI: update intrd DSDT override console messages ACPI: update DSDT override documentation ACPI: Add "acpi_no_initrd_override" kernel parameter ACPI: its a directory not a folder.... ACPI: misc cleanups ACPI: add missing prink prefix strings ACPI: cleanup acpi.h ACPICA: fix CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG_FUNC_TRACE build ACPI: video: Ignore ACPI video devices that aren't present in hardware ACPI: video: reset brightness on resume ACPI: video: call ACPI notifier chain for ACPI video notifications ACPI: create notifier chain to get hotkey events to graphics driver ACPI: video: delete unused display switch on hotkey event code ACPI: video: create "brightness_switch_enabled" modparam cpuidle: Add a poll_idle method ACPI: cpuidle: Support C1 idle time accounting ACPI: enable MWAIT for C1 idle ACPI: idle: Fix acpi_safe_halt usages and interrupt enabling/disabling ...
| * ACPI: create /sys/firmware/acpi/interruptsLen Brown2008-02-071-0/+99
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | See Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi Based-on-original-patch-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* | Documentation: create new scheduler/ subdirectoryJ. Bruce Fields2008-02-071-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | The top-level Documentation/ directory is unmanageably large, so we should take any obvious opportunities to move stuff into subdirectories. These sched-*.txt files seem an obvious easy case. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* USB: Add documentation for USB suspend statistics.Sarah Sharp2008-02-011-0/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This documents two newly created files: /sys/bus/usb/device/.../power/connected_duration /sys/bus/usb/device/.../power/active_duration Documentation was placed in Documentation/ABI/testing, since that's where the documentation is for the other USB sysfs power files. Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Add Documentation for FAIR_USER_SCHED sysfs filesDhaval Giani2007-12-171-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | This patch adds documentation about /sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/cpu_share to Documentation/ABI. Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* USB: add power/persist device attributeAlan Stern2007-07-131-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch (as920) adds an extra level of protection to the USB-Persist facility. Now it will apply by default only to hubs; for all other devices the user must enable it explicitly by setting the power/persist device attribute. The disconnect_all_children() routine in hub.c has been removed and its code placed inline. This is the way it was originally as part of hub_pre_reset(); the revised usage in hub_reset_resume() is sufficiently different that the code can no longer be shared. Likewise, mark_children_for_reset() is now inline as part of hub_reset_resume(). The end result looks much cleaner than before. The sysfs interface is updated to add the new attribute file, and there are corresponding documentation updates. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* ieee1394: remove old isochronous ABIStefan Richter2007-07-101-0/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Based on patch "the scheduled removal of RAW1394_REQ_ISO_{SEND,LISTEN}" from Adrian Bunk, November 20 2006. This patch also removes the underlying facilities in ohci1394 and disables them in pcilynx. That is, hpsb_host_driver.devctl() and hpsb_host_driver.transmit_packet() are no longer used for iso reception and transmission. Since video1394 and dv1394 only work with ohci1394 and raw1394's rawiso interface has never been implemented in pcilynx, pcilynx is now no longer useful for isochronous applications. raw1394 will still handle the request types but will complete the requests with errors that indicate API version conflicts. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
* Fix occurrences of "the the "Michael Opdenacker2007-05-091-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* USB: add power/level sysfs attributeAlan Stern2007-04-271-0/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch (as874) adds another piece to the user-visible part of the USB autosuspend interface. The new power/level sysfs attribute allows users to force the device on (with autosuspend off), force the device to sleep (with autoresume off), or return to normal automatic operation. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* USB: Allow autosuspend delay to equal 0Alan Stern2007-04-271-0/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch (as867) adds an entry for the new power/autosuspend attribute in Documentation/ABI/testing, and it changes the behavior of the delay value. Now a delay of 0 means to autosuspend as soon as possible, and negative values will prevent autosuspend. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* ieee1394: change deprecation status of dv1394Stefan Richter2007-04-091-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | Nobody ported ffmpeg from dv1394 to rawiso yet, and there is no justification to remove dv1394 right now. Nevertheless, a strong deprecation of this ABI makes a lot of sense, especially as Kristian H's drivers shape up to be an attractive alternative to the existing ones. But we don't have a schedule at the moment. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
* [PATCH] pktcdvd: cleanupThomas Maier2007-02-112-4/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | - update documentation - use clear_bdi_congested/set_bdi_congested functions directly instead of old wrappers - removed DECLARE_BUF_AS_STRING macro Signed-off-by: Thomas Maier <balagi@justmail.de> Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] pktcdvd: add sysfs and debugfs interfaceThomas Maier2006-12-082-0/+92
| | | | | | | | | | | Add a sysfs and debugfs interface to the pktcdvd driver. Look into the Documentation/ABI/testing/* files in the patch for more info. Signed-off-by: Thomas Maier <balagi@justmail.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] swsusp: debuggingRafael J. Wysocki2006-11-031-1/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a swsusp debugging mode. This does everything that's needed for a suspend except for actually suspending. So we can look in the log messages and work out a) what code is being slow and b) which drivers are misbehaving. (1) # echo testproc > /sys/power/disk # echo disk > /sys/power/state This should turn off the non-boot CPU, freeze all processes, wait for 5 seconds and then thaw the processes and the CPU. (2) # echo test > /sys/power/disk # echo disk > /sys/power/state This should turn off the non-boot CPU, freeze all processes, shrink memory, suspend all devices, wait for 5 seconds, resume the devices etc. Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* PM: add /sys/power documentation to Documentation/ABIRafael J. Wysocki2006-09-261-0/+88
| | | | | | | | | | | The file sysfs-power that documents the interface in the /sys/power/ directory is added to Documentation/ABI/testing. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Documentation/ABI: devfs is not obsolete, but removed!jens m. noedler2006-09-261-3/+2
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jens M. Noedler <noedler@web.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentationGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-06-216-0/+171
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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