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| author | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2015-08-05 17:04:01 -0300 |
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| committer | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2015-08-05 17:04:01 -0300 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/firewire-cdev b/Documentation/ABI/stable/firewire-cdev new file mode 100644 index 000000000..16d030827 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/firewire-cdev @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +What: /dev/fw[0-9]+ +Date: May 2007 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net +Description: + The character device files /dev/fw* are the interface between + firewire-core and IEEE 1394 device drivers implemented in + userspace. The ioctl(2)- and read(2)-based ABI is defined and + documented in <linux/firewire-cdev.h>. + + This ABI offers most of the features which firewire-core also + exposes to kernelspace IEEE 1394 drivers. + + Each /dev/fw* is associated with one IEEE 1394 node, which can + be remote or local nodes. Operations on a /dev/fw* file have + different scope: + - The 1394 node which is associated with the file: + - Asynchronous request transmission + - Get the Configuration ROM + - Query node ID + - Query maximum speed of the path between this node + and local node + - The 1394 bus (i.e. "card") to which the node is attached to: + - Isochronous stream transmission and reception + - Asynchronous stream transmission and reception + - Asynchronous broadcast request transmission + - PHY packet transmission and reception + - Allocate, reallocate, deallocate isochronous + resources (channels, bandwidth) at the bus's IRM + - Query node IDs of local node, root node, IRM, bus + manager + - Query cycle time + - Bus reset initiation, bus reset event reception + - All 1394 buses: + - Allocation of IEEE 1212 address ranges on the local + link layers, reception of inbound requests to such + an address range, asynchronous response transmission + to inbound requests + - Addition of descriptors or directories to the local + nodes' Configuration ROM + + Due to the different scope of operations and in order to let + userland implement different access permission models, some + operations are restricted to /dev/fw* files that are associated + with a local node: + - Addition of descriptors or directories to the local + nodes' Configuration ROM + - PHY packet transmission and reception + + A /dev/fw* file remains associated with one particular node + during its entire life time. Bus topology changes, and hence + node ID changes, are tracked by firewire-core. ABI users do not + need to be aware of topology. + + The following file operations are supported: + + open(2) + Currently the only useful flags are O_RDWR. + + ioctl(2) + Initiate various actions. Some take immediate effect, others + are performed asynchronously while or after the ioctl returns. + See the inline documentation in <linux/firewire-cdev.h> for + descriptions of all ioctls. + + poll(2), select(2), epoll_wait(2) etc. + Watch for events to become available to be read. + + read(2) + Receive various events. There are solicited events like + outbound asynchronous transaction completion or isochronous + buffer completion, and unsolicited events such as bus resets, + request reception, or PHY packet reception. Always use a read + buffer which is large enough to receive the largest event that + could ever arrive. See <linux/firewire-cdev.h> for descriptions + of all event types and for which ioctls affect reception of + events. + + mmap(2) + Allocate a DMA buffer for isochronous reception or transmission + and map it into the process address space. The arguments should + be used as follows: addr = NULL, length = the desired buffer + size, i.e. number of packets times size of largest packet, + prot = at least PROT_READ for reception and at least PROT_WRITE + for transmission, flags = MAP_SHARED, fd = the handle to the + /dev/fw*, offset = 0. + + Isochronous reception works in packet-per-buffer fashion except + for multichannel reception which works in buffer-fill mode. + + munmap(2) + Unmap the isochronous I/O buffer from the process address space. + + close(2) + Besides stopping and freeing I/O contexts that were associated + with the file descriptor, back out any changes to the local + nodes' Configuration ROM. Deallocate isochronous channels and + bandwidth at the IRM that were marked for kernel-assisted + re- and deallocation. + +Users: libraw1394 + libdc1394 + tools like jujuutils, fwhack, ... diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/o2cb b/Documentation/ABI/stable/o2cb new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5eb1545e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/o2cb @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +What: /sys/fs/o2cb/ (was /sys/o2cb) +Date: Dec 2005 +KernelVersion: 2.6.16 +Contact: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com +Description: Ocfs2-tools looks at 'interface-revision' for versioning + information. Each logmask/ file controls a set of debug prints + and can be written into with the strings "allow", "deny", or + "off". Reading the file returns the current state. +Users: ocfs2-tools. It's sufficient to mail proposed changes to + ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/syscalls b/Documentation/ABI/stable/syscalls new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c3ae3e7d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/syscalls @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +What: The kernel syscall interface +Description: + This interface matches much of the POSIX interface and is based + on it and other Unix based interfaces. It will only be added to + over time, and not have things removed from it. + + Note that this interface is different for every architecture + that Linux supports. Please see the architecture-specific + documentation for details on the syscall numbers that are to be + mapped to each syscall. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-acpi-pmprofile b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-acpi-pmprofile new file mode 100644 index 000000000..964c7a8af --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-acpi-pmprofile @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +What: /sys/firmware/acpi/pm_profile +Date: 03-Nov-2011 +KernelVersion: v3.2 +Contact: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org +Description: The ACPI pm_profile sysfs interface exports the platform + power management (and performance) requirement expectations + as provided by BIOS. The integer value is directly passed as + retrieved from the FADT ACPI table. +Values: For possible values see ACPI specification: + 5.2.9 Fixed ACPI Description Table (FADT) + Field: Preferred_PM_Profile + + Currently these values are defined by spec: + 0 Unspecified + 1 Desktop + 2 Mobile + 3 Workstation + 4 Enterprise Server + 5 SOHO Server + 6 Appliance PC + 7 Performance Server + >7 Reserved diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-firewire b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-firewire new file mode 100644 index 000000000..41e5a0cd1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-firewire @@ -0,0 +1,133 @@ +What: /sys/bus/firewire/devices/fw[0-9]+/ +Date: May 2007 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net +Description: + IEEE 1394 node device attributes. + Read-only. Mutable during the node device's lifetime. + See IEEE 1212 for semantic definitions. + + config_rom + Contents of the Configuration ROM register. + Binary attribute; an array of host-endian u32. + + guid + The node's EUI-64 in the bus information block of + Configuration ROM. + Hexadecimal string representation of an u64. + + +What: /sys/bus/firewire/devices/fw[0-9]+/units +Date: June 2009 +KernelVersion: 2.6.31 +Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net +Description: + IEEE 1394 node device attribute. + Read-only. Mutable during the node device's lifetime. + See IEEE 1212 for semantic definitions. + + units + Summary of all units present in an IEEE 1394 node. + Contains space-separated tuples of specifier_id and + version of each unit present in the node. Specifier_id + and version are hexadecimal string representations of + u24 of the respective unit directory entries. + Specifier_id and version within each tuple are separated + by a colon. + +Users: udev rules to set ownership and access permissions or ACLs of + /dev/fw[0-9]+ character device files + + +What: /sys/bus/firewire/devices/fw[0-9]+/is_local +Date: July 2012 +KernelVersion: 3.6 +Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net +Description: + IEEE 1394 node device attribute. + Read-only and immutable. +Values: 1: The sysfs entry represents a local node (a controller card). + 0: The sysfs entry represents a remote node. + + +What: /sys/bus/firewire/devices/fw[0-9]+[.][0-9]+/ +Date: May 2007 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net +Description: + IEEE 1394 unit device attributes. + Read-only. Immutable during the unit device's lifetime. + See IEEE 1212 for semantic definitions. + + modalias + Same as MODALIAS in the uevent at device creation. + + rom_index + Offset of the unit directory within the parent device's + (node device's) Configuration ROM, in quadlets. + Decimal string representation. + + +What: /sys/bus/firewire/devices/*/ +Date: May 2007 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net +Description: + Attributes common to IEEE 1394 node devices and unit devices. + Read-only. Mutable during the node device's lifetime. + Immutable during the unit device's lifetime. + See IEEE 1212 for semantic definitions. + + These attributes are only created if the root directory of an + IEEE 1394 node or the unit directory of an IEEE 1394 unit + actually contains according entries. + + hardware_version + Hexadecimal string representation of an u24. + + hardware_version_name + Contents of a respective textual descriptor leaf. + + model + Hexadecimal string representation of an u24. + + model_name + Contents of a respective textual descriptor leaf. + + specifier_id + Hexadecimal string representation of an u24. + Mandatory in unit directories according to IEEE 1212. + + vendor + Hexadecimal string representation of an u24. + Mandatory in the root directory according to IEEE 1212. + + vendor_name + Contents of a respective textual descriptor leaf. + + version + Hexadecimal string representation of an u24. + Mandatory in unit directories according to IEEE 1212. + + +What: /sys/bus/firewire/drivers/sbp2/fw*/host*/target*/*:*:*:*/ieee1394_id + formerly + /sys/bus/ieee1394/drivers/sbp2/fw*/host*/target*/*:*:*:*/ieee1394_id +Date: Feb 2004 +KernelVersion: 2.6.4 +Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net +Description: + SCSI target port identifier and logical unit identifier of a + logical unit of an SBP-2 target. The identifiers are specified + in SAM-2...SAM-4 annex A. They are persistent and world-wide + unique properties the SBP-2 attached target. + + Read-only attribute, immutable during the target's lifetime. + Format, as exposed by firewire-sbp2 since 2.6.22, May 2007: + Colon-separated hexadecimal string representations of + u64 EUI-64 : u24 directory_ID : u16 LUN + without 0x prefixes, without whitespace. The former sbp2 driver + (removed in 2.6.37 after being superseded by firewire-sbp2) used + a somewhat shorter format which was not as close to SAM. + +Users: udev rules to create /dev/disk/by-id/ symlinks diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-usb b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-usb new file mode 100644 index 000000000..831f15d96 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-usb @@ -0,0 +1,140 @@ +What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/persist +Date: May 2007 +KernelVersion: 2.6.23 +Contact: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> +Description: + USB device directories can contain a file named power/persist. + The file holds a boolean value (0 or 1) indicating whether or + not the "USB-Persist" facility is enabled for the device. For + hubs this facility is always enabled and their device + directories will not contain this file. + + For more information, see Documentation/usb/persist.txt. + +What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/autosuspend +Date: March 2007 +KernelVersion: 2.6.21 +Contact: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> +Description: + Each USB device directory will contain a file named + power/autosuspend. This file holds the time (in seconds) + the device must be idle before it will be autosuspended. + 0 means the device will be autosuspended as soon as + possible. Negative values will prevent the device from + being autosuspended at all, and writing a negative value + will resume the device if it is already suspended. + + The autosuspend delay for newly-created devices is set to + the value of the usbcore.autosuspend module parameter. + +What: /sys/bus/usb/device/.../power/connected_duration +Date: January 2008 +KernelVersion: 2.6.25 +Contact: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com> +Description: + If CONFIG_PM is enabled, then this file is present. When read, + it returns the total time (in msec) that the USB device has been + connected to the machine. This file is read-only. +Users: + PowerTOP <powertop@lists.01.org> + https://01.org/powertop/ + +What: /sys/bus/usb/device/.../power/active_duration +Date: January 2008 +KernelVersion: 2.6.25 +Contact: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com> +Description: + If CONFIG_PM is enabled, then this file is present. When read, + it returns the total time (in msec) that the USB device has been + active, i.e. not in a suspended state. This file is read-only. + + Tools can use this file and the connected_duration file to + compute the percentage of time that a device has been active. + For example, + echo $((100 * `cat active_duration` / `cat connected_duration`)) + will give an integer percentage. Note that this does not + account for counter wrap. +Users: + PowerTOP <powertop@lists.01.org> + https://01.org/powertop/ + +What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/<busnum>-<port[.port]>...:<config num>-<interface num>/supports_autosuspend +Date: January 2008 +KernelVersion: 2.6.27 +Contact: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com> +Description: + When read, this file returns 1 if the interface driver + for this interface supports autosuspend. It also + returns 1 if no driver has claimed this interface, as an + unclaimed interface will not stop the device from being + autosuspended if all other interface drivers are idle. + The file returns 0 if autosuspend support has not been + added to the driver. +Users: + USB PM tool + git://git.moblin.org/users/sarah/usb-pm-tool/ + +What: /sys/bus/usb/device/.../avoid_reset_quirk +Date: December 2009 +Contact: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> +Description: + Writing 1 to this file tells the kernel that this + device will morph into another mode when it is reset. + Drivers will not use reset for error handling for + such devices. +Users: + usb_modeswitch + +What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../devnum +KernelVersion: since at least 2.6.18 +Description: + Device address on the USB bus. +Users: + libusb + +What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../bConfigurationValue +KernelVersion: since at least 2.6.18 +Description: + bConfigurationValue of the *active* configuration for the + device. Writing 0 or -1 to bConfigurationValue will reset the + active configuration (unconfigure the device). Writing + another value will change the active configuration. + + Note that some devices, in violation of the USB spec, have a + configuration with a value equal to 0. Writing 0 to + bConfigurationValue for these devices will install that + configuration, rather then unconfigure the device. + + Writing -1 will always unconfigure the device. +Users: + libusb + +What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../busnum +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Description: + Bus-number of the USB-bus the device is connected to. +Users: + libusb + +What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../descriptors +KernelVersion: 2.6.26 +Description: + Binary file containing cached descriptors of the device. The + binary data consists of the device descriptor followed by the + descriptors for each configuration of the device. + Note that the wTotalLength of the config descriptors can not + be trusted, as the device may have a smaller config descriptor + than it advertises. The bLength field of each (sub) descriptor + can be trusted, and can be used to seek forward one (sub) + descriptor at a time until the next config descriptor is found. + All descriptors read from this file are in bus-endian format +Users: + libusb + +What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../speed +KernelVersion: since at least 2.6.18 +Description: + Speed the device is connected with to the usb-host in + Mbit / second. IE one of 1.5 / 12 / 480 / 5000. +Users: + libusb diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-xen-backend b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-xen-backend new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3d5951c8b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-xen-backend @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +What: /sys/bus/xen-backend/devices/*/devtype +Date: Feb 2009 +KernelVersion: 2.6.38 +Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> +Description: + The type of the device. e.g., one of: 'vbd' (block), + 'vif' (network), or 'vfb' (framebuffer). + +What: /sys/bus/xen-backend/devices/*/nodename +Date: Feb 2009 +KernelVersion: 2.6.38 +Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> +Description: + XenStore node (under /local/domain/NNN/) for this + backend device. + +What: /sys/bus/xen-backend/devices/vbd-*/physical_device +Date: April 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.0 +Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> +Description: + The major:minor number (in hexidecimal) of the + physical device providing the storage for this backend + block device. + +What: /sys/bus/xen-backend/devices/vbd-*/mode +Date: April 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.0 +Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> +Description: + Whether the block device is read-only ('r') or + read-write ('w'). + +What: /sys/bus/xen-backend/devices/vbd-*/statistics/f_req +Date: April 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.0 +Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> +Description: + Number of flush requests from the frontend. + +What: /sys/bus/xen-backend/devices/vbd-*/statistics/oo_req +Date: April 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.0 +Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> +Description: + Number of requests delayed because the backend was too + busy processing previous requests. + +What: /sys/bus/xen-backend/devices/vbd-*/statistics/rd_req +Date: April 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.0 +Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> +Description: + Number of read requests from the frontend. + +What: /sys/bus/xen-backend/devices/vbd-*/statistics/rd_sect +Date: April 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.0 +Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> +Description: + Number of sectors read by the frontend. + +What: /sys/bus/xen-backend/devices/vbd-*/statistics/wr_req +Date: April 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.0 +Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> +Description: + Number of write requests from the frontend. + +What: /sys/bus/xen-backend/devices/vbd-*/statistics/wr_sect +Date: April 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.0 +Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> +Description: + Number of sectors written by the frontend. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-backlight b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-backlight new file mode 100644 index 000000000..70302f370 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-backlight @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +What: /sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/bl_power +Date: April 2005 +KernelVersion: 2.6.12 +Contact: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> +Description: + Control BACKLIGHT power, values are FB_BLANK_* from fb.h + - FB_BLANK_UNBLANK (0) : power on. + - FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN (4) : power off +Users: HAL + +What: /sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/brightness +Date: April 2005 +KernelVersion: 2.6.12 +Contact: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> +Description: + Control the brightness for this <backlight>. Values + are between 0 and max_brightness. This file will also + show the brightness level stored in the driver, which + may not be the actual brightness (see actual_brightness). +Users: HAL + +What: /sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/actual_brightness +Date: March 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.17 +Contact: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> +Description: + Show the actual brightness by querying the hardware. +Users: HAL + +What: /sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/max_brightness +Date: April 2005 +KernelVersion: 2.6.12 +Contact: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> +Description: + Maximum brightness for <backlight>. +Users: HAL + +What: /sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/type +Date: September 2010 +KernelVersion: 2.6.37 +Contact: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> +Description: + The type of interface controlled by <backlight>. + "firmware": The driver uses a standard firmware interface + "platform": The driver uses a platform-specific interface + "raw": The driver controls hardware registers directly + + In the general case, when multiple backlight + interfaces are available for a single device, firmware + control should be preferred to platform control should + be preferred to raw control. Using a firmware + interface reduces the probability of confusion with + the hardware and the OS independently updating the + backlight state. Platform interfaces are mostly a + holdover from pre-standardisation of firmware + interfaces. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill new file mode 100644 index 000000000..097f522c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +rfkill - radio frequency (RF) connector kill switch support + +For details to this subsystem look at Documentation/rfkill.txt. + +For the deprecated /sys/class/rfkill/*/state and +/sys/class/rfkill/*/claim knobs of this interface look in +Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-rfkill. + +What: /sys/class/rfkill +Date: 09-Jul-2007 +KernelVersion: v2.6.22 +Contact: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, +Description: The rfkill class subsystem folder. + Each registered rfkill driver is represented by an rfkillX + subfolder (X being an integer > 0). + + +What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/name +Date: 09-Jul-2007 +KernelVersion v2.6.22 +Contact: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org +Description: Name assigned by driver to this key (interface or driver name). +Values: arbitrary string. + + +What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/type +Date: 09-Jul-2007 +KernelVersion v2.6.22 +Contact: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org +Description: Driver type string ("wlan", "bluetooth", etc). +Values: See include/linux/rfkill.h. + + +What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/persistent +Date: 09-Jul-2007 +KernelVersion v2.6.22 +Contact: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org +Description: Whether the soft blocked state is initialised from non-volatile + storage at startup. +Values: A numeric value. + 0: false + 1: true + + +What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/hard +Date: 12-March-2010 +KernelVersion v2.6.34 +Contact: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org +Description: Current hardblock state. This file is read only. +Values: A numeric value. + 0: inactive + The transmitter is (potentially) active. + 1: active + The transmitter is forced off by something outside of + the driver's control. + + +What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/soft +Date: 12-March-2010 +KernelVersion v2.6.34 +Contact: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org +Description: Current softblock state. This file is read and write. +Values: A numeric value. + 0: inactive + The transmitter is (potentially) active. + 1: active + The transmitter is turned off by software. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-tpm b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-tpm new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9f790eebb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-tpm @@ -0,0 +1,185 @@ +What: /sys/class/tpm/tpmX/device/ +Date: April 2005 +KernelVersion: 2.6.12 +Contact: tpmdd-devel@lists.sf.net +Description: The device/ directory under a specific TPM instance exposes + the properties of that TPM chip + + +What: /sys/class/tpm/tpmX/device/active +Date: April 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.17 +Contact: tpmdd-devel@lists.sf.net +Description: The "active" property prints a '1' if the TPM chip is accepting + commands. An inactive TPM chip still contains all the state of + an active chip (Storage Root Key, NVRAM, etc), and can be + visible to the OS, but will only accept a restricted set of + commands. See the TPM Main Specification part 2, Structures, + section 17 for more information on which commands are + available. + +What: /sys/class/tpm/tpmX/device/cancel +Date: June 2005 +KernelVersion: 2.6.13 +Contact: tpmdd-devel@lists.sf.net +Description: The "cancel" property allows you to cancel the currently + pending TPM command. Writing any value to cancel will call the + TPM vendor specific cancel operation. + +What: /sys/class/tpm/tpmX/device/caps +Date: April 2005 +KernelVersion: 2.6.12 +Contact: tpmdd-devel@lists.sf.net +Description: The "caps" property contains TPM manufacturer and version info. + + Example output: + + Manufacturer: 0x53544d20 + TCG version: 1.2 + Firmware version: 8.16 + + Manufacturer is a hex dump of the 4 byte manufacturer info + space in a TPM. TCG version shows the TCG TPM spec level that + the chip supports. Firmware version is that of the chip and + is manufacturer specific. + +What: /sys/class/tpm/tpmX/device/durations +Date: March 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.1 +Contact: tpmdd-devel@lists.sf.net +Description: The "durations" property shows the 3 vendor-specific values + used to wait for a short, medium and long TPM command. All + TPM commands are categorized as short, medium or long in + execution time, so that the driver doesn't have to wait + any longer than necessary before starting to poll for a + result. + + Example output: + + 3015000 4508000 180995000 [original] + + Here the short, medium and long durations are displayed in + usecs. "[original]" indicates that the values are displayed + unmodified from when they were queried from the chip. + Durations can be modified in the case where a buggy chip + reports them in msec instead of usec and they need to be + scaled to be displayed in usecs. In this case "[adjusted]" + will be displayed in place of "[original]". + +What: /sys/class/tpm/tpmX/device/enabled +Date: April 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.17 +Contact: tpmdd-devel@lists.sf.net +Description: The "enabled" property prints a '1' if the TPM chip is enabled, + meaning that it should be visible to the OS. This property + may be visible but produce a '0' after some operation that + disables the TPM. + +What: /sys/class/tpm/tpmX/device/owned +Date: April 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.17 +Contact: tpmdd-devel@lists.sf.net +Description: The "owned" property produces a '1' if the TPM_TakeOwnership + ordinal has been executed successfully in the chip. A '0' + indicates that ownership hasn't been taken. + +What: /sys/class/tpm/tpmX/device/pcrs +Date: April 2005 +KernelVersion: 2.6.12 +Contact: tpmdd-devel@lists.sf.net +Description: The "pcrs" property will dump the current value of all Platform + Configuration Registers in the TPM. Note that since these + values may be constantly changing, the output is only valid + for a snapshot in time. + + Example output: + + PCR-00: 3A 3F 78 0F 11 A4 B4 99 69 FC AA 80 CD 6E 39 57 C3 3B 22 75 + PCR-01: 3A 3F 78 0F 11 A4 B4 99 69 FC AA 80 CD 6E 39 57 C3 3B 22 75 + PCR-02: 3A 3F 78 0F 11 A4 B4 99 69 FC AA 80 CD 6E 39 57 C3 3B 22 75 + PCR-03: 3A 3F 78 0F 11 A4 B4 99 69 FC AA 80 CD 6E 39 57 C3 3B 22 75 + PCR-04: 3A 3F 78 0F 11 A4 B4 99 69 FC AA 80 CD 6E 39 57 C3 3B 22 75 + ... + + The number of PCRs and hex bytes needed to represent a PCR + value will vary depending on TPM chip version. For TPM 1.1 and + 1.2 chips, PCRs represent SHA-1 hashes, which are 20 bytes + long. Use the "caps" property to determine TPM version. + +What: /sys/class/tpm/tpmX/device/pubek +Date: April 2005 +KernelVersion: 2.6.12 +Contact: tpmdd-devel@lists.sf.net +Description: The "pubek" property will return the TPM's public endorsement + key if possible. If the TPM has had ownership established and + is version 1.2, the pubek will not be available without the + owner's authorization. Since the TPM driver doesn't store any + secrets, it can't authorize its own request for the pubek, + making it unaccessible. The public endorsement key is gener- + ated at TPM menufacture time and exists for the life of the + chip. + + Example output: + + Algorithm: 00 00 00 01 + Encscheme: 00 03 + Sigscheme: 00 01 + Parameters: 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 + Modulus length: 256 + Modulus: + B4 76 41 82 C9 20 2C 10 18 40 BC 8B E5 44 4C 6C + 3A B2 92 0C A4 9B 2A 83 EB 5C 12 85 04 48 A0 B6 + 1E E4 81 84 CE B2 F2 45 1C F0 85 99 61 02 4D EB + 86 C4 F7 F3 29 60 52 93 6B B2 E5 AB 8B A9 09 E3 + D7 0E 7D CA 41 BF 43 07 65 86 3C 8C 13 7A D0 8B + 82 5E 96 0B F8 1F 5F 34 06 DA A2 52 C1 A9 D5 26 + 0F F4 04 4B D9 3F 2D F2 AC 2F 74 64 1F 8B CD 3E + 1E 30 38 6C 70 63 69 AB E2 50 DF 49 05 2E E1 8D + 6F 78 44 DA 57 43 69 EE 76 6C 38 8A E9 8E A3 F0 + A7 1F 3C A8 D0 12 15 3E CA 0E BD FA 24 CD 33 C6 + 47 AE A4 18 83 8E 22 39 75 93 86 E6 FD 66 48 B6 + 10 AD 94 14 65 F9 6A 17 78 BD 16 53 84 30 BF 70 + E0 DC 65 FD 3C C6 B0 1E BF B9 C1 B5 6C EF B1 3A + F8 28 05 83 62 26 11 DC B4 6B 5A 97 FF 32 26 B6 + F7 02 71 CF 15 AE 16 DD D1 C1 8E A8 CF 9B 50 7B + C3 91 FF 44 1E CF 7C 39 FE 17 77 21 20 BD CE 9B + + Possible values: + + Algorithm: TPM_ALG_RSA (1) + Encscheme: TPM_ES_RSAESPKCSv15 (2) + TPM_ES_RSAESOAEP_SHA1_MGF1 (3) + Sigscheme: TPM_SS_NONE (1) + Parameters, a byte string of 3 u32 values: + Key Length (bits): 00 00 08 00 (2048) + Num primes: 00 00 00 02 (2) + Exponent Size: 00 00 00 00 (0 means the + default exp) + Modulus Length: 256 (bytes) + Modulus: The 256 byte Endorsement Key modulus + +What: /sys/class/tpm/tpmX/device/temp_deactivated +Date: April 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.17 +Contact: tpmdd-devel@lists.sf.net +Description: The "temp_deactivated" property returns a '1' if the chip has + been temporarily dectivated, usually until the next power + cycle. Whether a warm boot (reboot) will clear a TPM chip + from a temp_deactivated state is platform specific. + +What: /sys/class/tpm/tpmX/device/timeouts +Date: March 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.1 +Contact: tpmdd-devel@lists.sf.net +Description: The "timeouts" property shows the 4 vendor-specific values + for the TPM's interface spec timeouts. The use of these + timeouts is defined by the TPM interface spec that the chip + conforms to. + + Example output: + + 750000 750000 750000 750000 [original] + + The four timeout values are shown in usecs, with a trailing + "[original]" or "[adjusted]" depending on whether the values + were scaled by the driver to be reported in usec from msecs. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-ubi b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-ubi new file mode 100644 index 000000000..18d471d9f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-ubi @@ -0,0 +1,212 @@ +What: /sys/class/ubi/ +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + The ubi/ class sub-directory belongs to the UBI subsystem and + provides general UBI information, per-UBI device information + and per-UBI volume information. + +What: /sys/class/ubi/version +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + This file contains version of the latest supported UBI on-media + format. Currently it is 1, and there is no plan to change this. + However, if in the future UBI needs on-flash format changes + which cannot be done in a compatible manner, a new format + version will be added. So this is a mechanism for possible + future backward-compatible (but forward-incompatible) + improvements. + +What: /sys/class/ubiX/ +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + The /sys/class/ubi0, /sys/class/ubi1, etc directories describe + UBI devices (UBI device 0, 1, etc). They contain general UBI + device information and per UBI volume information (each UBI + device may have many UBI volumes) + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/avail_eraseblocks +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + Amount of available logical eraseblock. For example, one may + create a new UBI volume which has this amount of logical + eraseblocks. + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/bad_peb_count +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + Count of bad physical eraseblocks on the underlying MTD device. + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/bgt_enabled +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + Contains ASCII "0\n" if the UBI background thread is disabled, + and ASCII "1\n" if it is enabled. + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/dev +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + Major and minor numbers of the character device corresponding + to this UBI device (in <major>:<minor> format). + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/eraseblock_size +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + Maximum logical eraseblock size this UBI device may provide. UBI + volumes may have smaller logical eraseblock size because of their + alignment. + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/max_ec +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + Maximum physical eraseblock erase counter value. + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/max_vol_count +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + Maximum number of volumes which this UBI device may have. + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/min_io_size +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + Minimum input/output unit size. All the I/O may only be done + in fractions of the contained number. + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/mtd_num +Date: January 2008 +KernelVersion: 2.6.25 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + Number of the underlying MTD device. + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/reserved_for_bad +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + Number of physical eraseblocks reserved for bad block handling. + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/total_eraseblocks +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + Total number of good (not marked as bad) physical eraseblocks on + the underlying MTD device. + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/volumes_count +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + Count of volumes on this UBI device. + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_Y/ +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + The /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_0/, /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_1/, + etc directories describe UBI volumes on UBI device X (volumes + 0, 1, etc). + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_Y/alignment +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + Volume alignment - the value the logical eraseblock size of + this volume has to be aligned on. For example, 2048 means that + logical eraseblock size is multiple of 2048. In other words, + volume logical eraseblock size is UBI device logical eraseblock + size aligned to the alignment value. + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_Y/corrupted +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + Contains ASCII "0\n" if the UBI volume is OK, and ASCII "1\n" + if it is corrupted (e.g., due to an interrupted volume update). + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_Y/data_bytes +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + The amount of data this volume contains. This value makes sense + only for static volumes, and for dynamic volume it equivalent + to the total volume size in bytes. + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_Y/dev +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + Major and minor numbers of the character device corresponding + to this UBI volume (in <major>:<minor> format). + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_Y/name +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + Volume name. + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_Y/reserved_ebs +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + Count of physical eraseblock reserved for this volume. + Equivalent to the volume size in logical eraseblocks. + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_Y/type +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + Volume type. Contains ASCII "dynamic\n" for dynamic volumes and + "static\n" for static volumes. + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_Y/upd_marker +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + Contains ASCII "0\n" if the update marker is not set for this + volume, and "1\n" if it is set. The update marker is set when + volume update starts, and cleaned when it ends. So the presence + of the update marker indicates that the volume is being updated + at the moment of the update was interrupted. The later may be + checked using the "corrupted" sysfs file. + +What: /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_Y/usable_eb_size +Date: July 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.22 +Contact: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> +Description: + Logical eraseblock size of this volume. Equivalent to logical + eraseblock size of the device aligned on the volume alignment + value. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-udc b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-udc new file mode 100644 index 000000000..85d3dac2e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-udc @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ +What: /sys/class/udc/<udc>/a_alt_hnp_support +Date: June 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.1 +Contact: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> +Description: + Indicates if an OTG A-Host supports HNP at an alternate port. +Users: + +What: /sys/class/udc/<udc>/a_hnp_support +Date: June 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.1 +Contact: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> +Description: + Indicates if an OTG A-Host supports HNP at this port. +Users: + +What: /sys/class/udc/<udc>/b_hnp_enable +Date: June 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.1 +Contact: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> +Description: + Indicates if an OTG A-Host enabled HNP support. +Users: + +What: /sys/class/udc/<udc>/current_speed +Date: June 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.1 +Contact: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> +Description: + Indicates the current negotiated speed at this port. +Users: + +What: /sys/class/udc/<udc>/is_a_peripheral +Date: June 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.1 +Contact: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> +Description: + Indicates that this port is the default Host on an OTG session + but HNP was used to switch roles. +Users: + +What: /sys/class/udc/<udc>/is_otg +Date: June 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.1 +Contact: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> +Description: + Indicates that this port support OTG. +Users: + +What: /sys/class/udc/<udc>/maximum_speed +Date: June 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.1 +Contact: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> +Description: + Indicates the maximum USB speed supported by this port. +Users: + +What: /sys/class/udc/<udc>/maximum_speed +Date: June 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.1 +Contact: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> +Description: + Indicates the maximum USB speed supported by this port. +Users: + +What: /sys/class/udc/<udc>/soft_connect +Date: June 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.1 +Contact: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> +Description: + Allows users to disconnect data pullup resistors thus causing a + logical disconnection from the USB Host. +Users: + +What: /sys/class/udc/<udc>/srp +Date: June 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.1 +Contact: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> +Description: + Allows users to manually start Session Request Protocol. +Users: + +What: /sys/class/udc/<udc>/state +Date: June 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.1 +Contact: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> +Description: + Indicates current state of the USB Device Controller. Valid + states are: 'not-attached', 'attached', 'powered', + 'reconnecting', 'unauthenticated', 'default', 'addressed', + 'configured', and 'suspended'; however not all USB Device + Controllers support reporting all states. +Users: diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices new file mode 100644 index 000000000..43f78b88d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +# Note: This documents additional properties of any device beyond what +# is documented in Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt + +What: /sys/devices/*/of_path +Date: February 2015 +Contact: Device Tree mailing list <devicetree@vger.kernel.org> +Description: + Any device associated with a device-tree node will have + an of_path symlink pointing to the corresponding device + node in /sys/firmware/devicetree/ diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5b2d0f088 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ +What: /sys/devices/system/node/possible +Date: October 2002 +Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> +Description: + Nodes that could be possibly become online at some point. + +What: /sys/devices/system/node/online +Date: October 2002 +Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> +Description: + Nodes that are online. + +What: /sys/devices/system/node/has_normal_memory +Date: October 2002 +Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> +Description: + Nodes that have regular memory. + +What: /sys/devices/system/node/has_cpu +Date: October 2002 +Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> +Description: + Nodes that have one or more CPUs. + +What: /sys/devices/system/node/has_high_memory +Date: October 2002 +Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> +Description: + Nodes that have regular or high memory. + Depends on CONFIG_HIGHMEM. + +What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX +Date: October 2002 +Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> +Description: + When CONFIG_NUMA is enabled, this is a directory containing + information on node X such as what CPUs are local to the + node. Each file is detailed next. + +What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/cpumap +Date: October 2002 +Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> +Description: + The node's cpumap. + +What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/cpulist +Date: October 2002 +Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> +Description: + The CPUs associated to the node. + +What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/meminfo +Date: October 2002 +Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> +Description: + Provides information about the node's distribution and memory + utilization. Similar to /proc/meminfo, see Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt + +What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/numastat +Date: October 2002 +Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> +Description: + The node's hit/miss statistics, in units of pages. + See Documentation/numastat.txt + +What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/distance +Date: October 2002 +Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> +Description: + Distance between the node and all the other nodes + in the system. + +What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/vmstat +Date: October 2002 +Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org> +Description: + The node's zoned virtual memory statistics. + This is a superset of numastat. + +What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/compact +Date: February 2010 +Contact: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> +Description: + When this file is written to, all memory within that node + will be compacted. When it completes, memory will be freed + into blocks which have as many contiguous pages as possible + +What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/hugepages/hugepages-<size>/ +Date: December 2009 +Contact: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> +Description: + The node's huge page size control/query attributes. + See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-system-cpu new file mode 100644 index 000000000..33c133e2a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-system-cpu @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/dscr_default +Date: 13-May-2014 +KernelVersion: v3.15.0 +Contact: +Description: Writes are equivalent to writing to + /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/dscr on all CPUs. + Reads return the last written value or 0. + This value is not a global default: it is a way to set + all per-CPU defaults at the same time. +Values: 64 bit unsigned integer (bit field) + +What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[0-9]+/dscr +Date: 13-May-2014 +KernelVersion: v3.15.0 +Contact: +Description: Default value for the Data Stream Control Register (DSCR) on + a CPU. + This default value is used when the kernel is executing and + for any process that has not set the DSCR itself. + If a process ever sets the DSCR (via direct access to the + SPR) that value will be persisted for that process and used + on any CPU where it executes (overriding the value described + here). + If set by a process it will be inherited by child processes. +Values: 64 bit unsigned integer (bit field) diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-system-xen_memory b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-system-xen_memory new file mode 100644 index 000000000..caa311d59 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-system-xen_memory @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +What: /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/max_retry_count +Date: May 2011 +KernelVersion: 2.6.39 +Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> +Description: + The maximum number of times the balloon driver will + attempt to increase the balloon before giving up. See + also 'retry_count' below. + A value of zero means retry forever and is the default one. + +What: /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/max_schedule_delay +Date: May 2011 +KernelVersion: 2.6.39 +Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> +Description: + The limit that 'schedule_delay' (see below) will be + increased to. The default value is 32 seconds. + +What: /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/retry_count +Date: May 2011 +KernelVersion: 2.6.39 +Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> +Description: + The current number of times that the balloon driver + has attempted to increase the size of the balloon. + The default value is one. With max_retry_count being + zero (unlimited), this means that the driver will attempt + to retry with a 'schedule_delay' delay. + +What: /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/schedule_delay +Date: May 2011 +KernelVersion: 2.6.39 +Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> +Description: + The time (in seconds) to wait between attempts to + increase the balloon. Each time the balloon cannot be + increased, 'schedule_delay' is increased (until + 'max_schedule_delay' is reached at which point it + will use the max value). + +What: /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target +Date: April 2008 +KernelVersion: 2.6.26 +Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> +Description: + The target number of pages to adjust this domain's + memory reservation to. + +What: /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target_kb +Date: April 2008 +KernelVersion: 2.6.26 +Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> +Description: + As target above, except the value is in KiB. + +What: /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/info/current_kb +Date: April 2008 +KernelVersion: 2.6.26 +Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> +Description: + Current size (in KiB) of this domain's memory + reservation. + +What: /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/info/high_kb +Date: April 2008 +KernelVersion: 2.6.26 +Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> +Description: + Amount (in KiB) of high memory in the balloon. + +What: /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/info/low_kb +Date: April 2008 +KernelVersion: 2.6.26 +Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> +Description: + Amount (in KiB) of low (or normal) memory in the + balloon. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-ib_srp b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-ib_srp new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7049a2b50 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-ib_srp @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +What: /sys/class/infiniband_srp/srp-<hca>-<port_number>/add_target +Date: January 2, 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.15 +Contact: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: Interface for making ib_srp connect to a new target. + One can request ib_srp to connect to a new target by writing + a comma-separated list of login parameters to this sysfs + attribute. The supported parameters are: + * id_ext, a 16-digit hexadecimal number specifying the eight + byte identifier extension in the 16-byte SRP target port + identifier. The target port identifier is sent by ib_srp + to the target in the SRP_LOGIN_REQ request. + * ioc_guid, a 16-digit hexadecimal number specifying the eight + byte I/O controller GUID portion of the 16-byte target port + identifier. + * dgid, a 32-digit hexadecimal number specifying the + destination GID. + * pkey, a four-digit hexadecimal number specifying the + InfiniBand partition key. + * service_id, a 16-digit hexadecimal number specifying the + InfiniBand service ID used to establish communication with + the SRP target. How to find out the value of the service ID + is specified in the documentation of the SRP target. + * max_sect, a decimal number specifying the maximum number of + 512-byte sectors to be transferred via a single SCSI command. + * max_cmd_per_lun, a decimal number specifying the maximum + number of outstanding commands for a single LUN. + * io_class, a hexadecimal number specifying the SRP I/O class. + Must be either 0xff00 (rev 10) or 0x0100 (rev 16a). The I/O + class defines the format of the SRP initiator and target + port identifiers. + * initiator_ext, a 16-digit hexadecimal number specifying the + identifier extension portion of the SRP initiator port + identifier. This data is sent by the initiator to the target + in the SRP_LOGIN_REQ request. + * cmd_sg_entries, a number in the range 1..255 that specifies + the maximum number of data buffer descriptors stored in the + SRP_CMD information unit itself. With allow_ext_sg=0 the + parameter cmd_sg_entries defines the maximum S/G list length + for a single SRP_CMD, and commands whose S/G list length + exceeds this limit after S/G list collapsing will fail. + * allow_ext_sg, whether ib_srp is allowed to include a partial + memory descriptor list in an SRP_CMD instead of the entire + list. If a partial memory descriptor list has been included + in an SRP_CMD the remaining memory descriptors are + communicated from initiator to target via an additional RDMA + transfer. Setting allow_ext_sg to 1 increases the maximum + amount of data that can be transferred between initiator and + target via a single SCSI command. Since not all SRP target + implementations support partial memory descriptor lists the + default value for this option is 0. + * sg_tablesize, a number in the range 1..2048 specifying the + maximum S/G list length the SCSI layer is allowed to pass to + ib_srp. Specifying a value that exceeds cmd_sg_entries is + only safe with partial memory descriptor list support enabled + (allow_ext_sg=1). + * comp_vector, a number in the range 0..n-1 specifying the + MSI-X completion vector of the first RDMA channel. Some + HCA's allocate multiple (n) MSI-X vectors per HCA port. If + the IRQ affinity masks of these interrupts have been + configured such that each MSI-X interrupt is handled by a + different CPU then the comp_vector parameter can be used to + spread the SRP completion workload over multiple CPU's. + * tl_retry_count, a number in the range 2..7 specifying the + IB RC retry count. + * queue_size, the maximum number of commands that the + initiator is allowed to queue per SCSI host. The default + value for this parameter is 62. The lowest supported value + is 2. + +What: /sys/class/infiniband_srp/srp-<hca>-<port_number>/ibdev +Date: January 2, 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.15 +Contact: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: HCA name (<hca>). + +What: /sys/class/infiniband_srp/srp-<hca>-<port_number>/port +Date: January 2, 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.15 +Contact: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: HCA port number (<port_number>). + +What: /sys/class/scsi_host/host<n>/allow_ext_sg +Date: May 19, 2011 +KernelVersion: 2.6.39 +Contact: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: Whether ib_srp is allowed to include a partial memory + descriptor list in an SRP_CMD when communicating with an SRP + target. + +What: /sys/class/scsi_host/host<n>/ch_count +Date: April 1, 2015 +KernelVersion: 3.19 +Contact: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: Number of RDMA channels used for communication with the SRP + target. + +What: /sys/class/scsi_host/host<n>/cmd_sg_entries +Date: May 19, 2011 +KernelVersion: 2.6.39 +Contact: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: Maximum number of data buffer descriptors that may be sent to + the target in a single SRP_CMD request. + +What: /sys/class/scsi_host/host<n>/comp_vector +Date: September 2, 2013 +KernelVersion: 3.11 +Contact: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: Completion vector used for the first RDMA channel. + +What: /sys/class/scsi_host/host<n>/dgid +Date: June 17, 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.17 +Contact: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: InfiniBand destination GID used for communication with the SRP + target. Differs from orig_dgid if port redirection has happened. + +What: /sys/class/scsi_host/host<n>/id_ext +Date: June 17, 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.17 +Contact: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: Eight-byte identifier extension portion of the 16-byte target + port identifier. + +What: /sys/class/scsi_host/host<n>/ioc_guid +Date: June 17, 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.17 +Contact: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: Eight-byte I/O controller GUID portion of the 16-byte target + port identifier. + +What: /sys/class/scsi_host/host<n>/local_ib_device +Date: November 29, 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.19 +Contact: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: Name of the InfiniBand HCA used for communicating with the + SRP target. + +What: /sys/class/scsi_host/host<n>/local_ib_port +Date: November 29, 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.19 +Contact: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: Number of the HCA port used for communicating with the + SRP target. + +What: /sys/class/scsi_host/host<n>/orig_dgid +Date: June 17, 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.17 +Contact: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: InfiniBand destination GID specified in the parameters + written to the add_target sysfs attribute. + +What: /sys/class/scsi_host/host<n>/pkey +Date: June 17, 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.17 +Contact: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: A 16-bit number representing the InfiniBand partition key used + for communication with the SRP target. + +What: /sys/class/scsi_host/host<n>/req_lim +Date: October 20, 2010 +KernelVersion: 2.6.36 +Contact: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: Number of requests ib_srp can send to the target before it has + to wait for more credits. For more information see also the + SRP credit algorithm in the SRP specification. + +What: /sys/class/scsi_host/host<n>/service_id +Date: June 17, 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.17 +Contact: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: InfiniBand service ID used for establishing communication with + the SRP target. + +What: /sys/class/scsi_host/host<n>/sgid +Date: February 1, 2014 +KernelVersion: 3.13 +Contact: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: InfiniBand GID of the source port used for communication with + the SRP target. + +What: /sys/class/scsi_host/host<n>/zero_req_lim +Date: September 20, 2006 +KernelVersion: 2.6.18 +Contact: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: Number of times the initiator had to wait before sending a + request to the target because it ran out of credits. For more + information see also the SRP credit algorithm in the SRP + specification. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-qla2xxx b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-qla2xxx new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9a59d8449 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-qla2xxx @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +What: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/qla2xxx/.../devices/* +Date: September 2009 +Contact: QLogic Linux Driver <linux-driver@qlogic.com> +Description: qla2xxx-udev.sh currently looks for uevent CHANGE events to + signal a firmware-dump has been generated by the driver and is + ready for retrieval. +Users: qla2xxx-udev.sh. Proposed changes should be mailed to + linux-driver@qlogic.com diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-usb-usbtmc b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-usb-usbtmc new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e960cd027 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-usb-usbtmc @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/interface_capabilities +What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/device_capabilities +Date: August 2008 +Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> +Description: + These files show the various USB TMC capabilities as described + by the device itself. The full description of the bitfields + can be found in the USB TMC documents from the USB-IF entitled + "Universal Serial Bus Test and Measurement Class Specification + (USBTMC) Revision 1.0" section 4.2.1.8. + + The files are read only. + + +What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/usb488_interface_capabilities +What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/usb488_device_capabilities +Date: August 2008 +Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> +Description: + These files show the various USB TMC capabilities as described + by the device itself. The full description of the bitfields + can be found in the USB TMC documents from the USB-IF entitled + "Universal Serial Bus Test and Measurement Class, Subclass + USB488 Specification (USBTMC-USB488) Revision 1.0" section + 4.2.2. + + The files are read only. + + +What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/TermChar +Date: August 2008 +Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> +Description: + This file is the TermChar value to be sent to the USB TMC + device as described by the document, "Universal Serial Bus Test + and Measurement Class Specification + (USBTMC) Revision 1.0" as published by the USB-IF. + + Note that the TermCharEnabled file determines if this value is + sent to the device or not. + + +What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/TermCharEnabled +Date: August 2008 +Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> +Description: + This file determines if the TermChar is to be sent to the + device on every transaction or not. For more details about + this, please see the document, "Universal Serial Bus Test and + Measurement Class Specification (USBTMC) Revision 1.0" as + published by the USB-IF. + + +What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/auto_abort +Date: August 2008 +Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> +Description: + This file determines if the transaction of the USB TMC + device is to be automatically aborted if there is any error. + For more details about this, please see the document, + "Universal Serial Bus Test and Measurement Class Specification + (USBTMC) Revision 1.0" as published by the USB-IF. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-w1_ds28e04 b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-w1_ds28e04 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..26579ee86 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-w1_ds28e04 @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +What: /sys/bus/w1/devices/.../pio +Date: May 2012 +Contact: Markus Franke <franm@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> +Description: read/write the contents of the two PIO's of the DS28E04-100 + see Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_ds28e04 for detailed information +Users: any user space application which wants to communicate with DS28E04-100 + + + +What: /sys/bus/w1/devices/.../eeprom +Date: May 2012 +Contact: Markus Franke <franm@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> +Description: read/write the contents of the EEPROM memory of the DS28E04-100 + see Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_ds28e04 for detailed information +Users: any user space application which wants to communicate with DS28E04-100 diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-efi-vars b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-efi-vars new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5def20b90 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-efi-vars @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +What: /sys/firmware/efi/vars +Date: April 2004 +Contact: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> +Description: + This directory exposes interfaces for interactive with + EFI variables. For more information on EFI variables, + see 'Variable Services' in the UEFI specification + (section 7.2 in specification version 2.3 Errata D). + + In summary, EFI variables are named, and are classified + into separate namespaces through the use of a vendor + GUID. They also have an arbitrary binary value + associated with them. + + The efivars module enumerates these variables and + creates a separate directory for each one found. Each + directory has a name of the form "<key>-<vendor guid>" + and contains the following files: + + attributes: A read-only text file enumerating the + EFI variable flags. Potential values + include: + + EFI_VARIABLE_NON_VOLATILE + EFI_VARIABLE_BOOTSERVICE_ACCESS + EFI_VARIABLE_RUNTIME_ACCESS + EFI_VARIABLE_HARDWARE_ERROR_RECORD + EFI_VARIABLE_AUTHENTICATED_WRITE_ACCESS + + See the EFI documentation for an + explanation of each of these variables. + + data: A read-only binary file that can be read + to attain the value of the EFI variable + + guid: The vendor GUID of the variable. This + should always match the GUID in the + variable's name. + + raw_var: A binary file that can be read to obtain + a structure that contains everything + there is to know about the variable. + For structure definition see "struct + efi_variable" in the kernel sources. + + This file can also be written to in + order to update the value of a variable. + For this to work however, all fields of + the "struct efi_variable" passed must + match byte for byte with the structure + read out of the file, save for the value + portion. + + **Note** the efi_variable structure + read/written with this file contains a + 'long' type that may change widths + depending on your underlying + architecture. + + size: As ASCII representation of the size of + the variable's value. + + + In addition, two other magic binary files are provided + in the top-level directory and are used for adding and + removing variables: + + new_var: Takes a "struct efi_variable" and + instructs the EFI firmware to create a + new variable. + + del_var: Takes a "struct efi_variable" and + instructs the EFI firmware to remove any + variable that has a matching vendor GUID + and variable key name. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-opal-dump b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-opal-dump new file mode 100644 index 000000000..32fe7f5c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-opal-dump @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +What: /sys/firmware/opal/dump +Date: Feb 2014 +Contact: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com> +Description: + This directory exposes interfaces for interacting with + the FSP and platform dumps through OPAL firmware interface. + + This is only for the powerpc/powernv platform. + + initiate_dump: When '1' is written to it, + we will initiate a dump. + Read this file for supported commands. + + 0xXX-0xYYYY: A directory for dump of type 0xXX and + id 0xYYYY (in hex). The name of this + directory should not be relied upon to + be in this format, only that it's unique + among all dumps. For determining the type + and ID of the dump, use the id and type files. + Do not rely on any particular size of dump + type or dump id. + + Each dump has the following files: + id: An ASCII representation of the dump ID + in hex (e.g. '0x01') + type: An ASCII representation of the type of + dump in the format "0x%x %s" with the ID + in hex and a description of the dump type + (or 'unknown'). + Type '0xffffffff unknown' is used when + we could not get the type from firmware. + e.g. '0x02 System/Platform Dump' + dump: A binary file containing the dump. + The size of the dump is the size of this file. + acknowledge: When 'ack' is written to this, we will + acknowledge that we've retrieved the + dump to the service processor. It will + then remove it, making the dump + inaccessible. + Reading this file will get a list of + supported actions. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-opal-elog b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-opal-elog new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e1f3058f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-opal-elog @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +What: /sys/firmware/opal/elog +Date: Feb 2014 +Contact: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com> +Description: + This directory exposes error log entries retrieved + through the OPAL firmware interface. + + Each error log is identified by a unique ID and will + exist until explicitly acknowledged to firmware. + + Each log entry has a directory in /sys/firmware/opal/elog. + + Log entries may be purged by the service processor + before retrieved by firmware or retrieved/acknowledged by + Linux if there is no room for more log entries. + + In the event that Linux has retrieved the log entries + but not explicitly acknowledged them to firmware and + the service processor needs more room for log entries, + the only remaining copy of a log message may be in + Linux. + + Typically, a user space daemon will monitor for new + entries, read them out and acknowledge them. + + The service processor may be able to store more log + entries than firmware can, so after you acknowledge + an event from Linux you may instantly get another one + from the queue that was generated some time in the past. + + The raw log format is a binary format. We currently + do not parse this at all in kernel, leaving it up to + user space to solve the problem. In future, we may + do more parsing in kernel and add more files to make + it easier for simple user space processes to extract + more information. + + For each log entry (directory), there are the following + files: + + id: An ASCII representation of the ID of the + error log, in hex - e.g. "0x01". + + type: An ASCII representation of the type id and + description of the type of error log. + Currently just "0x00 PEL" - platform error log. + In the future there may be additional types. + + raw: A read-only binary file that can be read + to get the raw log entry. These are + <16kb, often just hundreds of bytes and + "average" 2kb. + + acknowledge: Writing 'ack' to this file will acknowledge + the error log to firmware (and in turn + the service processor, if applicable). + Shortly after acknowledging it, the log + entry will be removed from sysfs. + Reading this file will list the supported + operations (curently just acknowledge).
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-module b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-module new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6272ae5fb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-module @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +What: /sys/module +Description: + The /sys/module tree consists of the following structure: + + /sys/module/MODULENAME + The name of the module that is in the kernel. This + module name will always show up if the module is loaded as a + dynamic module. If it is built directly into the kernel, it + will only show up if it has a version or at least one + parameter. + + Note: The conditions of creation in the built-in case are not + by design and may be removed in the future. + + /sys/module/MODULENAME/parameters + This directory contains individual files that are each + individual parameters of the module that are able to be + changed at runtime. See the individual module + documentation as to the contents of these parameters and + what they accomplish. + + Note: The individual parameter names and values are not + considered stable, only the fact that they will be + placed in this location within sysfs. See the + individual driver documentation for details as to the + stability of the different parameters. + + /sys/module/MODULENAME/refcnt + If the module is able to be unloaded from the kernel, this file + will contain the current reference count of the module. + + Note: If the module is built into the kernel, or if the + CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD kernel configuration value is not enabled, + this file will not be present. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-transport-srp b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-transport-srp new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ec7af69fe --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-transport-srp @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +What: /sys/class/srp_remote_ports/port-<h>:<n>/delete +Date: June 1, 2012 +KernelVersion: 3.7 +Contact: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: Instructs an SRP initiator to disconnect from a target and to + remove all LUNs imported from that target. + +What: /sys/class/srp_remote_ports/port-<h>:<n>/dev_loss_tmo +Date: February 1, 2014 +KernelVersion: 3.13 +Contact: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: Number of seconds the SCSI layer will wait after a transport + layer error has been observed before removing a target port. + Zero means immediate removal. Setting this attribute to "off" + will disable the dev_loss timer. + +What: /sys/class/srp_remote_ports/port-<h>:<n>/fast_io_fail_tmo +Date: February 1, 2014 +KernelVersion: 3.13 +Contact: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: Number of seconds the SCSI layer will wait after a transport + layer error has been observed before failing I/O. Zero means + failing I/O immediately. Setting this attribute to "off" will + disable the fast_io_fail timer. + +What: /sys/class/srp_remote_ports/port-<h>:<n>/port_id +Date: June 27, 2007 +KernelVersion: 2.6.24 +Contact: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org +Description: 16-byte local SRP port identifier in hexadecimal format. An + example: 4c:49:4e:55:58:20:56:49:4f:00:00:00:00:00:00:00. + +What: /sys/class/srp_remote_ports/port-<h>:<n>/reconnect_delay +Date: February 1, 2014 +KernelVersion: 3.13 +Contact: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: Number of seconds the SCSI layer will wait after a reconnect + attempt failed before retrying. Setting this attribute to + "off" will disable time-based reconnecting. + +What: /sys/class/srp_remote_ports/port-<h>:<n>/roles +Date: June 27, 2007 +KernelVersion: 2.6.24 +Contact: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org +Description: Role of the remote port. Either "SRP Initiator" or "SRP Target". + +What: /sys/class/srp_remote_ports/port-<h>:<n>/state +Date: February 1, 2014 +KernelVersion: 3.13 +Contact: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Description: State of the transport layer used for communication with the + remote port. "running" if the transport layer is operational; + "blocked" if a transport layer error has been encountered but + the fast_io_fail_tmo timer has not yet fired; "fail-fast" + after the fast_io_fail_tmo timer has fired and before the + "dev_loss_tmo" timer has fired; "lost" after the + "dev_loss_tmo" timer has fired and before the port is finally + removed. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/thermal-notification b/Documentation/ABI/stable/thermal-notification new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9723e8b7a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/thermal-notification @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +What: A notification mechanism for thermal related events +Description: + This interface enables notification for thermal related events. + The notification is in the form of a netlink event. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso b/Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7cdfc28cc --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +On some architectures, when the kernel loads any userspace program it +maps an ELF DSO into that program's address space. This DSO is called +the vDSO and it often contains useful and highly-optimized alternatives +to real syscalls. + +These functions are called just like ordinary C function according to +your platform's ABI. Call them from a sensible context. (For example, +if you set CS on x86 to something strange, the vDSO functions are +within their rights to crash.) In addition, if you pass a bad +pointer to a vDSO function, you might get SIGSEGV instead of -EFAULT. + +To find the DSO, parse the auxiliary vector passed to the program's +entry point. The AT_SYSINFO_EHDR entry will point to the vDSO. + +The vDSO uses symbol versioning; whenever you request a symbol from the +vDSO, specify the version you are expecting. + +Programs that dynamically link to glibc will use the vDSO automatically. +Otherwise, you can use the reference parser in Documentation/vDSO/parse_vdso.c. + +Unless otherwise noted, the set of symbols with any given version and the +ABI of those symbols is considered stable. It may vary across architectures, +though. + +(As of this writing, this ABI documentation as been confirmed for x86_64. + The maintainers of the other vDSO-using architectures should confirm + that it is correct for their architecture.) |