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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/Changes | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/ioprio.txt | 176 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cciss.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pcmcia/devicetable.txt | 64 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt | 51 |
6 files changed, 311 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes index b37600754762..afebdbcd553a 100644 --- a/Documentation/Changes +++ b/Documentation/Changes @@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ running, the suggested command should tell you. Again, keep in mind that this list assumes you are already functionally running a Linux 2.4 kernel. Also, not all tools are -necessary on all systems; obviously, if you don't have any PCMCIA (PC -Card) hardware, for example, you probably needn't concern yourself -with pcmcia-cs. +necessary on all systems; obviously, if you don't have any ISDN +hardware, for example, you probably needn't concern yourself with +isdn4k-utils. o Gnu C 2.95.3 # gcc --version o Gnu make 3.79.1 # make --version @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ o e2fsprogs 1.29 # tune2fs o jfsutils 1.1.3 # fsck.jfs -V o reiserfsprogs 3.6.3 # reiserfsck -V 2>&1|grep reiserfsprogs o xfsprogs 2.6.0 # xfs_db -V +o pcmciautils 001 o pcmcia-cs 3.1.21 # cardmgr -V o quota-tools 3.09 # quota -V o PPP 2.4.0 # pppd --version @@ -186,13 +187,20 @@ architecture independent and any version from 2.0.0 onward should work correctly with this version of the XFS kernel code (2.6.0 or later is recommended, due to some significant improvements). +PCMCIAutils +----------- + +PCMCIAutils replaces pcmcia-cs (see below). It properly sets up +PCMCIA sockets at system startup and loads the appropriate modules +for 16-bit PCMCIA devices if the kernel is modularized and the hotplug +subsystem is used. Pcmcia-cs --------- PCMCIA (PC Card) support is now partially implemented in the main -kernel source. Pay attention when you recompile your kernel ;-). -Also, be sure to upgrade to the latest pcmcia-cs release. +kernel source. The "pcmciautils" package (see above) replaces pcmcia-cs +for newest kernels. Quota-tools ----------- @@ -349,9 +357,13 @@ Xfsprogs -------- o <ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/> +Pcmciautils +----------- +o <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/> + Pcmcia-cs --------- -o <ftp://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/pub/pcmcia-cs/pcmcia-cs-3.1.21.tar.gz> +o <http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/> Quota-tools ---------- diff --git a/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt b/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..96ccf681075e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt @@ -0,0 +1,176 @@ +Block io priorities +=================== + + +Intro +----- + +With the introduction of cfq v3 (aka cfq-ts or time sliced cfq), basic io +priorities is supported for reads on files. This enables users to io nice +processes or process groups, similar to what has been possible to cpu +scheduling for ages. This document mainly details the current possibilites +with cfq, other io schedulers do not support io priorities so far. + +Scheduling classes +------------------ + +CFQ implements three generic scheduling classes that determine how io is +served for a process. + +IOPRIO_CLASS_RT: This is the realtime io class. This scheduling class is given +higher priority than any other in the system, processes from this class are +given first access to the disk every time. Thus it needs to be used with some +care, one io RT process can starve the entire system. Within the RT class, +there are 8 levels of class data that determine exactly how much time this +process needs the disk for on each service. In the future this might change +to be more directly mappable to performance, by passing in a wanted data +rate instead. + +IOPRIO_CLASS_BE: This is the best-effort scheduling class, which is the default +for any process that hasn't set a specific io priority. The class data +determines how much io bandwidth the process will get, it's directly mappable +to the cpu nice levels just more coarsely implemented. 0 is the highest +BE prio level, 7 is the lowest. The mapping between cpu nice level and io +nice level is determined as: io_nice = (cpu_nice + 20) / 5. + +IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE: This is the idle scheduling class, processes running at this +level only get io time when no one else needs the disk. The idle class has no +class data, since it doesn't really apply here. + +Tools +----- + +See below for a sample ionice tool. Usage: + +# ionice -c<class> -n<level> -p<pid> + +If pid isn't given, the current process is assumed. IO priority settings +are inherited on fork, so you can use ionice to start the process at a given +level: + +# ionice -c2 -n0 /bin/ls + +will run ls at the best-effort scheduling class at the highest priority. +For a running process, you can give the pid instead: + +# ionice -c1 -n2 -p100 + +will change pid 100 to run at the realtime scheduling class, at priority 2. + +---> snip ionice.c tool <--- + +#include <stdio.h> +#include <stdlib.h> +#include <errno.h> +#include <getopt.h> +#include <unistd.h> +#include <sys/ptrace.h> +#include <asm/unistd.h> + +extern int sys_ioprio_set(int, int, int); +extern int sys_ioprio_get(int, int); + +#if defined(__i386__) +#define __NR_ioprio_set 289 +#define __NR_ioprio_get 290 +#elif defined(__ppc__) +#define __NR_ioprio_set 273 +#define __NR_ioprio_get 274 +#elif defined(__x86_64__) +#define __NR_ioprio_set 251 +#define __NR_ioprio_get 252 +#elif defined(__ia64__) +#define __NR_ioprio_set 1274 +#define __NR_ioprio_get 1275 +#else +#error "Unsupported arch" +#endif + +_syscall3(int, ioprio_set, int, which, int, who, int, ioprio); +_syscall2(int, ioprio_get, int, which, int, who); + +enum { + IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE, + IOPRIO_CLASS_RT, + IOPRIO_CLASS_BE, + IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE, +}; + +enum { + IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS = 1, + IOPRIO_WHO_PGRP, + IOPRIO_WHO_USER, +}; + +#define IOPRIO_CLASS_SHIFT 13 + +const char *to_prio[] = { "none", "realtime", "best-effort", "idle", }; + +int main(int argc, char *argv[]) +{ + int ioprio = 4, set = 0, ioprio_class = IOPRIO_CLASS_BE; + int c, pid = 0; + + while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "+n:c:p:")) != EOF) { + switch (c) { + case 'n': + ioprio = strtol(optarg, NULL, 10); + set = 1; + break; + case 'c': + ioprio_class = strtol(optarg, NULL, 10); + set = 1; + break; + case 'p': + pid = strtol(optarg, NULL, 10); + break; + } + } + + switch (ioprio_class) { + case IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE: + ioprio_class = IOPRIO_CLASS_BE; + break; + case IOPRIO_CLASS_RT: + case IOPRIO_CLASS_BE: + break; + case IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE: + ioprio = 7; + break; + default: + printf("bad prio class %d\n", ioprio_class); + return 1; + } + + if (!set) { + if (!pid && argv[optind]) + pid = strtol(argv[optind], NULL, 10); + + ioprio = ioprio_get(IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS, pid); + + printf("pid=%d, %d\n", pid, ioprio); + + if (ioprio == -1) + perror("ioprio_get"); + else { + ioprio_class = ioprio >> IOPRIO_CLASS_SHIFT; + ioprio = ioprio & 0xff; + printf("%s: prio %d\n", to_prio[ioprio_class], ioprio); + } + } else { + if (ioprio_set(IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS, pid, ioprio | ioprio_class << IOPRIO_CLASS_SHIFT) == -1) { + perror("ioprio_set"); + return 1; + } + + if (argv[optind]) + execvp(argv[optind], &argv[optind]); + } + + return 0; +} + +---> snip ionice.c tool <--- + + +March 11 2005, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> diff --git a/Documentation/cciss.txt b/Documentation/cciss.txt index d599beb9df8a..c8f9a73111da 100644 --- a/Documentation/cciss.txt +++ b/Documentation/cciss.txt @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ This driver is known to work with the following cards: * SA P600 * SA P800 * SA E400 + * SA E300 If nodes are not already created in the /dev/cciss directory, run as root: diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 96d924eb7b64..0f71251f12b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1119,7 +1119,7 @@ running once the system is up. See Documentation/ramdisk.txt. psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to - probe for (bare|imps|exps). + probe for (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports per second. psmouse.resetafter= diff --git a/Documentation/pcmcia/devicetable.txt b/Documentation/pcmcia/devicetable.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..045511acafc9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/pcmcia/devicetable.txt @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +Matching of PCMCIA devices to drivers is done using one or more of the +following criteria: + +- manufactor ID +- card ID +- product ID strings _and_ hashes of these strings +- function ID +- device function (actual and pseudo) + +You should use the helpers in include/pcmcia/device_id.h for generating the +struct pcmcia_device_id[] entries which match devices to drivers. + +If you want to match product ID strings, you also need to pass the crc32 +hashes of the string to the macro, e.g. if you want to match the product ID +string 1, you need to use + +PCMCIA_DEVICE_PROD_ID1("some_string", 0x(hash_of_some_string)), + +If the hash is incorrect, the kernel will inform you about this in "dmesg" +upon module initialization, and tell you of the correct hash. + +You can determine the hash of the product ID strings by running +"pcmcia-modalias %n.%m" [%n being replaced with the socket number and %m being +replaced with the device function] from pcmciautils. It generates a string +in the following form: +pcmcia:m0149cC1ABf06pfn00fn00pa725B842DpbF1EFEE84pc0877B627pd00000000 + +The hex value after "pa" is the hash of product ID string 1, after "pb" for +string 2 and so on. + +Alternatively, you can use this small tool to determine the crc32 hash. +simply pass the string you want to evaluate as argument to this program, +e.g. +$ ./crc32hash "Dual Speed" + +------------------------------------------------------------------------- +/* crc32hash.c - derived from linux/lib/crc32.c, GNU GPL v2 */ +#include <string.h> +#include <stdio.h> +#include <ctype.h> +#include <stdlib.h> + +unsigned int crc32(unsigned char const *p, unsigned int len) +{ + int i; + unsigned int crc = 0; + while (len--) { + crc ^= *p++; + for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) + crc = (crc >> 1) ^ ((crc & 1) ? 0xedb88320 : 0); + } + return crc; +} + +int main(int argc, char **argv) { + unsigned int result; + if (argc != 2) { + printf("no string passed as argument\n"); + return -1; + } + result = crc32(argv[1], strlen(argv[1])); + printf("0x%x\n", result); + return 0; +} diff --git a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..9c315ab48a02 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +This file details changes in 2.6 which affect PCMCIA card driver authors: + +* in-kernel device<->driver matching + PCMCIA devices and their correct drivers can now be matched in + kernelspace. See 'devicetable.txt' for details. + +* Device model integration (as of 2.6.11) + A struct pcmcia_device is registered with the device model core, + and can be used (e.g. for SET_NETDEV_DEV) by using + handle_to_dev(client_handle_t * handle). + +* Convert internal I/O port addresses to unsigned long (as of 2.6.11) + ioaddr_t should be replaced by kio_addr_t in PCMCIA card drivers. + +* irq_mask and irq_list parameters (as of 2.6.11) + The irq_mask and irq_list parameters should no longer be used in + PCMCIA card drivers. Instead, it is the job of the PCMCIA core to + determine which IRQ should be used. Therefore, link->irq.IRQInfo2 + is ignored. + +* client->PendingEvents is gone (as of 2.6.11) + client->PendingEvents is no longer available. + +* client->Attributes are gone (as of 2.6.11) + client->Attributes is unused, therefore it is removed from all + PCMCIA card drivers + +* core functions no longer available (as of 2.6.11) + The following functions have been removed from the kernel source + because they are unused by all in-kernel drivers, and no external + driver was reported to rely on them: + pcmcia_get_first_region() + pcmcia_get_next_region() + pcmcia_modify_window() + pcmcia_set_event_mask() + pcmcia_get_first_window() + pcmcia_get_next_window() + +* device list iteration upon module removal (as of 2.6.10) + It is no longer necessary to iterate on the driver's internal + client list and call the ->detach() function upon module removal. + +* Resource management. (as of 2.6.8) + Although the PCMCIA subsystem will allocate resources for cards, + it no longer marks these resources busy. This means that driver + authors are now responsible for claiming your resources as per + other drivers in Linux. You should use request_region() to mark + your IO regions in-use, and request_mem_region() to mark your + memory regions in-use. The name argument should be a pointer to + your driver name. Eg, for pcnet_cs, name should point to the + string "pcnet_cs". |