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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power | 27 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt | 34 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/renesas,cpg-mstp-clocks.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/fsl-imx-sdma.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/opencores-ethoc.txt | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/brcm,bcm11351-pinctrl.txt (renamed from Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/brcm,capri-pinctrl.txt) | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/can.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt | 52 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt | 82 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/events-power.txt | 2 |
13 files changed, 202 insertions, 72 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power index efe449bdf811..7dbf96b724ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ Description: Not all drivers support this attribute. If it isn't supported, attempts to read or write it will yield I/O errors. -What: /sys/devices/.../power/pm_qos_latency_us +What: /sys/devices/.../power/pm_qos_resume_latency_us Date: March 2012 Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Description: @@ -205,6 +205,31 @@ Description: This attribute has no effect on system-wide suspend/resume and hibernation. +What: /sys/devices/.../power/pm_qos_latency_tolerance_us +Date: January 2014 +Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> +Description: + The /sys/devices/.../power/pm_qos_latency_tolerance_us attribute + contains the PM QoS active state latency tolerance limit for the + given device in microseconds. That is the maximum memory access + latency the device can suffer without any visible adverse + effects on user space functionality. If that value is the + string "any", the latency does not matter to user space at all, + but hardware should not be allowed to set the latency tolerance + for the device automatically. + + Reading "auto" from this file means that the maximum memory + access latency for the device may be determined automatically + by the hardware as needed. Writing "auto" to it allows the + hardware to be switched to this mode if there are no other + latency tolerance requirements from the kernel side. + + This attribute is only present if the feature controlled by it + is supported by the hardware. + + This attribute has no effect on runtime suspend and resume of + devices and on system-wide suspend/resume and hibernation. + What: /sys/devices/.../power/pm_qos_no_power_off Date: September 2012 Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt index e6b72d355151..68c0f517c60e 100644 --- a/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt +++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt @@ -124,12 +124,11 @@ the default being 204800 sectors (or 100MB). Updating on-disk metadata ------------------------- -On-disk metadata is committed every time a REQ_SYNC or REQ_FUA bio is -written. If no such requests are made then commits will occur every -second. This means the cache behaves like a physical disk that has a -write cache (the same is true of the thin-provisioning target). If -power is lost you may lose some recent writes. The metadata should -always be consistent in spite of any crash. +On-disk metadata is committed every time a FLUSH or FUA bio is written. +If no such requests are made then commits will occur every second. This +means the cache behaves like a physical disk that has a volatile write +cache. If power is lost you may lose some recent writes. The metadata +should always be consistent in spite of any crash. The 'dirty' state for a cache block changes far too frequently for us to keep updating it on the fly. So we treat it as a hint. In normal diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt index 8a7a3d46e0da..05a27e9442bd 100644 --- a/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt +++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt @@ -116,6 +116,35 @@ Resuming a device with a new table itself triggers an event so the userspace daemon can use this to detect a situation where a new table already exceeds the threshold. +A low water mark for the metadata device is maintained in the kernel and +will trigger a dm event if free space on the metadata device drops below +it. + +Updating on-disk metadata +------------------------- + +On-disk metadata is committed every time a FLUSH or FUA bio is written. +If no such requests are made then commits will occur every second. This +means the thin-provisioning target behaves like a physical disk that has +a volatile write cache. If power is lost you may lose some recent +writes. The metadata should always be consistent in spite of any crash. + +If data space is exhausted the pool will either error or queue IO +according to the configuration (see: error_if_no_space). If metadata +space is exhausted or a metadata operation fails: the pool will error IO +until the pool is taken offline and repair is performed to 1) fix any +potential inconsistencies and 2) clear the flag that imposes repair. +Once the pool's metadata device is repaired it may be resized, which +will allow the pool to return to normal operation. Note that if a pool +is flagged as needing repair, the pool's data and metadata devices +cannot be resized until repair is performed. It should also be noted +that when the pool's metadata space is exhausted the current metadata +transaction is aborted. Given that the pool will cache IO whose +completion may have already been acknowledged to upper IO layers +(e.g. filesystem) it is strongly suggested that consistency checks +(e.g. fsck) be performed on those layers when repair of the pool is +required. + Thin provisioning ----------------- @@ -258,10 +287,9 @@ ii) Status should register for the event and then check the target's status. held metadata root: - The location, in sectors, of the metadata root that has been + The location, in blocks, of the metadata root that has been 'held' for userspace read access. '-' indicates there is no - held root. This feature is not yet implemented so '-' is - always returned. + held root. discard_passdown|no_discard_passdown Whether or not discards are actually being passed down to the diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/renesas,cpg-mstp-clocks.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/renesas,cpg-mstp-clocks.txt index a6a352c2771e..5992dceec7af 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/renesas,cpg-mstp-clocks.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/renesas,cpg-mstp-clocks.txt @@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ Required Properties: must appear in the same order as the output clocks. - #clock-cells: Must be 1 - clock-output-names: The name of the clocks as free-form strings - - renesas,indices: Indices of the gate clocks into the group (0 to 31) + - renesas,clock-indices: Indices of the gate clocks into the group (0 to 31) -The clocks, clock-output-names and renesas,indices properties contain one +The clocks, clock-output-names and renesas,clock-indices properties contain one entry per gate clock. The MSTP groups are sparsely populated. Unimplemented gate clocks must not be declared. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/fsl-imx-sdma.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/fsl-imx-sdma.txt index 68b83ecc3850..ee9be9961524 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/fsl-imx-sdma.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/fsl-imx-sdma.txt @@ -1,12 +1,16 @@ * Freescale Smart Direct Memory Access (SDMA) Controller for i.MX Required properties: -- compatible : Should be "fsl,imx31-sdma", "fsl,imx31-to1-sdma", - "fsl,imx31-to2-sdma", "fsl,imx35-sdma", "fsl,imx35-to1-sdma", - "fsl,imx35-to2-sdma", "fsl,imx51-sdma", "fsl,imx53-sdma" or - "fsl,imx6q-sdma". The -to variants should be preferred since they - allow to determnine the correct ROM script addresses needed for - the driver to work without additional firmware. +- compatible : Should be one of + "fsl,imx25-sdma" + "fsl,imx31-sdma", "fsl,imx31-to1-sdma", "fsl,imx31-to2-sdma" + "fsl,imx35-sdma", "fsl,imx35-to1-sdma", "fsl,imx35-to2-sdma" + "fsl,imx51-sdma" + "fsl,imx53-sdma" + "fsl,imx6q-sdma" + The -to variants should be preferred since they allow to determnine the + correct ROM script addresses needed for the driver to work without additional + firmware. - reg : Should contain SDMA registers location and length - interrupts : Should contain SDMA interrupt - #dma-cells : Must be <3>. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/opencores-ethoc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/opencores-ethoc.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..2dc127c30d9b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/opencores-ethoc.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +* OpenCores MAC 10/100 Mbps + +Required properties: +- compatible: Should be "opencores,ethoc". +- reg: two memory regions (address and length), + first region is for the device registers and descriptor rings, + second is for the device packet memory. +- interrupts: interrupt for the device. + +Optional properties: +- clocks: phandle to refer to the clk used as per + Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-bindings.txt + +Examples: + + enet0: ethoc@fd030000 { + compatible = "opencores,ethoc"; + reg = <0xfd030000 0x4000 0xfd800000 0x4000>; + interrupts = <1>; + local-mac-address = [00 50 c2 13 6f 00]; + clocks = <&osc>; + }; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/brcm,capri-pinctrl.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/brcm,bcm11351-pinctrl.txt index 9e9e9ef9f852..c119debe6bab 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/brcm,capri-pinctrl.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/brcm,bcm11351-pinctrl.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Broadcom Capri Pin Controller +Broadcom BCM281xx Pin Controller This is a pin controller for the Broadcom BCM281xx SoC family, which includes BCM11130, BCM11140, BCM11351, BCM28145, and BCM28155 SoCs. @@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ BCM11130, BCM11140, BCM11351, BCM28145, and BCM28155 SoCs. Required Properties: -- compatible: Must be "brcm,capri-pinctrl". +- compatible: Must be "brcm,bcm11351-pinctrl" - reg: Base address of the PAD Controller register block and the size of the block. For example, the following is the bare minimum node: pinctrl@35004800 { - compatible = "brcm,capri-pinctrl"; + compatible = "brcm,bcm11351-pinctrl"; reg = <0x35004800 0x430>; }; @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Optional Properties (for HDMI pins): Example: // pin controller node pinctrl@35004800 { - compatible = "brcm,capri-pinctrl"; + compatible = "brcmbcm11351-pinctrl"; reg = <0x35004800 0x430>; // pin configuration node diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 7116fda7077f..bf0fda0125f0 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -231,6 +231,14 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. acpi_no_auto_ssdt [HW,ACPI] Disable automatic loading of SSDT + acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] + Disable AML predefined validation mechanism + This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make + the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. + This option is useful for developers to identify the + root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue + has something to do with the repair mechanism. + acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" diff --git a/Documentation/networking/can.txt b/Documentation/networking/can.txt index f3089d423515..0cbe6ec22d6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/can.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/can.txt @@ -554,12 +554,6 @@ solution for a couple of reasons: not specified in the struct can_frame and therefore it is only valid in CANFD_MTU sized CAN FD frames. - As long as the payload length is <=8 the received CAN frames from CAN FD - capable CAN devices can be received and read by legacy sockets too. When - user-generated CAN FD frames have a payload length <=8 these can be send - by legacy CAN network interfaces too. Sending CAN FD frames with payload - length > 8 to a legacy CAN network interface returns an -EMSGSIZE error. - Implementation hint for new CAN applications: To build a CAN FD aware application use struct canfd_frame as basic CAN diff --git a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt index 1404674c0a02..6fea79efb4cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt @@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ TP_STATUS_COPY : This flag indicates that the frame (and associated enabled previously with setsockopt() and the PACKET_COPY_THRESH option. - The number of frames than can be buffered to + The number of frames that can be buffered to be read with recvfrom is limited like a normal socket. See the SO_RCVBUF option in the socket (7) man page. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt index 661d3c316a17..048c92b487f6 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt @@ -21,26 +21,38 @@ has such a feature). SO_TIMESTAMPING: -Instructs the socket layer which kind of information is wanted. The -parameter is an integer with some of the following bits set. Setting -other bits is an error and doesn't change the current state. - -SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_HARDWARE: try to obtain send time stamp in hardware -SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SOFTWARE: if SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_HARDWARE is off or - fails, then do it in software -SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RX_HARDWARE: return the original, unmodified time stamp - as generated by the hardware -SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RX_SOFTWARE: if SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RX_HARDWARE is off or - fails, then do it in software -SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE: return original raw hardware time stamp -SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE: return hardware time stamp transformed to - the system time base -SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE: return system time stamp generated in - software - -SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX/RX determine how time stamps are generated. -SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW/SYS determine how they are reported in the -following control message: +Instructs the socket layer which kind of information should be collected +and/or reported. The parameter is an integer with some of the following +bits set. Setting other bits is an error and doesn't change the current +state. + +Four of the bits are requests to the stack to try to generate +timestamps. Any combination of them is valid. + +SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_HARDWARE: try to obtain send time stamps in hardware +SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SOFTWARE: try to obtain send time stamps in software +SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RX_HARDWARE: try to obtain receive time stamps in hardware +SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RX_SOFTWARE: try to obtain receive time stamps in software + +The other three bits control which timestamps will be reported in a +generated control message. If none of these bits are set or if none of +the set bits correspond to data that is available, then the control +message will not be generated: + +SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE: report systime if available +SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE: report hwtimetrans if available +SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE: report hwtimeraw if available + +It is worth noting that timestamps may be collected for reasons other +than being requested by a particular socket with +SOF_TIMESTAMPING_[TR]X_(HARD|SOFT)WARE. For example, most drivers that +can generate hardware receive timestamps ignore +SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RX_HARDWARE. It is still a good idea to set that flag +in case future drivers pay attention. + +If timestamps are reported, they will appear in a control message with +cmsg_level==SOL_SOCKET, cmsg_type==SO_TIMESTAMPING, and a payload like +this: struct scm_timestamping { struct timespec systime; diff --git a/Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt b/Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt index 483632087788..a5da5c7e7128 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt @@ -88,17 +88,19 @@ node. 2. PM QoS per-device latency and flags framework -For each device, there are two lists of PM QoS requests. One is maintained -along with the aggregated target of latency value and the other is for PM QoS -flags. Values are updated in response to changes of the request list. +For each device, there are three lists of PM QoS requests. Two of them are +maintained along with the aggregated targets of resume latency and active +state latency tolerance (in microseconds) and the third one is for PM QoS flags. +Values are updated in response to changes of the request list. -Target latency value is simply the minimum of the request values held in the -parameter list elements. The PM QoS flags aggregate value is a gather (bitwise -OR) of all list elements' values. Two device PM QoS flags are defined currently: -PM_QOS_FLAG_NO_POWER_OFF and PM_QOS_FLAG_REMOTE_WAKEUP. +The target values of resume latency and active state latency tolerance are +simply the minimum of the request values held in the parameter list elements. +The PM QoS flags aggregate value is a gather (bitwise OR) of all list elements' +values. Two device PM QoS flags are defined currently: PM_QOS_FLAG_NO_POWER_OFF +and PM_QOS_FLAG_REMOTE_WAKEUP. -Note: the aggregated target value is implemented as an atomic variable so that -reading the aggregated value does not require any locking mechanism. +Note: The aggregated target values are implemented in such a way that reading +the aggregated value does not require any locking mechanism. From kernel mode the use of this interface is the following: @@ -132,19 +134,21 @@ The meaning of the return values is as follows: PM_QOS_FLAGS_UNDEFINED: The device's PM QoS structure has not been initialized or the list of requests is empty. -int dev_pm_qos_add_ancestor_request(dev, handle, value) +int dev_pm_qos_add_ancestor_request(dev, handle, type, value) Add a PM QoS request for the first direct ancestor of the given device whose -power.ignore_children flag is unset. +power.ignore_children flag is unset (for DEV_PM_QOS_RESUME_LATENCY requests) +or whose power.set_latency_tolerance callback pointer is not NULL (for +DEV_PM_QOS_LATENCY_TOLERANCE requests). int dev_pm_qos_expose_latency_limit(device, value) -Add a request to the device's PM QoS list of latency constraints and create -a sysfs attribute pm_qos_resume_latency_us under the device's power directory -allowing user space to manipulate that request. +Add a request to the device's PM QoS list of resume latency constraints and +create a sysfs attribute pm_qos_resume_latency_us under the device's power +directory allowing user space to manipulate that request. void dev_pm_qos_hide_latency_limit(device) Drop the request added by dev_pm_qos_expose_latency_limit() from the device's -PM QoS list of latency constraints and remove sysfs attribute pm_qos_resume_latency_us -from the device's power directory. +PM QoS list of resume latency constraints and remove sysfs attribute +pm_qos_resume_latency_us from the device's power directory. int dev_pm_qos_expose_flags(device, value) Add a request to the device's PM QoS list of flags and create sysfs attributes @@ -163,7 +167,7 @@ a per-device notification tree and a global notification tree. int dev_pm_qos_add_notifier(device, notifier): Adds a notification callback function for the device. The callback is called when the aggregated value of the device constraints list -is changed. +is changed (for resume latency device PM QoS only). int dev_pm_qos_remove_notifier(device, notifier): Removes the notification callback function for the device. @@ -171,14 +175,48 @@ Removes the notification callback function for the device. int dev_pm_qos_add_global_notifier(notifier): Adds a notification callback function in the global notification tree of the framework. -The callback is called when the aggregated value for any device is changed. +The callback is called when the aggregated value for any device is changed +(for resume latency device PM QoS only). int dev_pm_qos_remove_global_notifier(notifier): Removes the notification callback function from the global notification tree of the framework. -From user mode: -No API for user space access to the per-device latency constraints is provided -yet - still under discussion. - +Active state latency tolerance + +This device PM QoS type is used to support systems in which hardware may switch +to energy-saving operation modes on the fly. In those systems, if the operation +mode chosen by the hardware attempts to save energy in an overly aggressive way, +it may cause excess latencies to be visible to software, causing it to miss +certain protocol requirements or target frame or sample rates etc. + +If there is a latency tolerance control mechanism for a given device available +to software, the .set_latency_tolerance callback in that device's dev_pm_info +structure should be populated. The routine pointed to by it is should implement +whatever is necessary to transfer the effective requirement value to the +hardware. + +Whenever the effective latency tolerance changes for the device, its +.set_latency_tolerance() callback will be executed and the effective value will +be passed to it. If that value is negative, which means that the list of +latency tolerance requirements for the device is empty, the callback is expected +to switch the underlying hardware latency tolerance control mechanism to an +autonomous mode if available. If that value is PM_QOS_LATENCY_ANY, in turn, and +the hardware supports a special "no requirement" setting, the callback is +expected to use it. That allows software to prevent the hardware from +automatically updating the device's latency tolerance in response to its power +state changes (e.g. during transitions from D3cold to D0), which generally may +be done in the autonomous latency tolerance control mode. + +If .set_latency_tolerance() is present for the device, sysfs attribute +pm_qos_latency_tolerance_us will be present in the devivce's power directory. +Then, user space can use that attribute to specify its latency tolerance +requirement for the device, if any. Writing "any" to it means "no requirement, +but do not let the hardware control latency tolerance" and writing "auto" to it +allows the hardware to be switched to the autonomous mode if there are no other +requirements from the kernel side in the device's list. + +Kernel code can use the functions described above along with the +DEV_PM_QOS_LATENCY_TOLERANCE device PM QoS type to add, remove and update +latency tolerance requirements for devices. diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events-power.txt b/Documentation/trace/events-power.txt index 3bd33b8dc7c4..21d514ced212 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/events-power.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/events-power.txt @@ -92,5 +92,5 @@ dev_pm_qos_remove_request "device=%s type=%s new_value=%d" The first parameter gives the device name which tries to add/update/remove QoS requests. -The second parameter gives the request type (e.g. "DEV_PM_QOS_LATENCY"). +The second parameter gives the request type (e.g. "DEV_PM_QOS_RESUME_LATENCY"). The third parameter is value to be added/updated/removed. |