From a08f6e04d74478d91f34a0484e69e89870adb33d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Chiang Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:03:17 -0700 Subject: PCI: Documentation: fix minor PCIe HOWTO thinko Update doc to correctly refer to replacing the pci_register_driver API, and not the non-existent "pci_module_init" API. Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes --- Documentation/PCI/PCIEBUS-HOWTO.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/PCIEBUS-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/PCI/PCIEBUS-HOWTO.txt index 9a07e38631b0..6bd5f372adec 100644 --- a/Documentation/PCI/PCIEBUS-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/PCI/PCIEBUS-HOWTO.txt @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ the PCI Express Port Bus driver from loading a service driver. int pcie_port_service_register(struct pcie_port_service_driver *new) -This API replaces the Linux Driver Model's pci_module_init API. A +This API replaces the Linux Driver Model's pci_register_driver API. A service driver should always calls pcie_port_service_register at module init. Note that after service driver being loaded, calls such as pci_enable_device(dev) and pci_set_master(dev) are no longer -- cgit v1.2.1 From f9aa28adfc6a4b01268ebb6d88566cca8627905f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pekka Paalanen Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 21:09:27 +0200 Subject: doc: mmiotrace.txt, buffer size control change Impact: prevents confusing the user when buffer size is inadequate The tracing framework offers a resizeable buffer, which mmiotrace uses to record events. If the buffer is full, the following events will be lost. Events should not be lost, so the documentation instructs the user to increase the buffer size. The buffer size is set via a debugfs file. Mmiotrace documentation was not updated the same time the debugfs file was changed. The old file was tracing/trace_entries and first contained the number of entries the buffer had space for, per cpu. Nowadays this file is replaced with the file tracing/buffer_size_kb, which tells the amount of memory reserved for the buffer, per cpu, in kilobytes. Previously, a flag had to be toggled via the debugfs file tracing/tracing_enabled when the buffer size was changed. This is no longer necessary. The mmiotrace documentation is updated to reflect the current state of the tracing framework. Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt b/Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt index cde23b4a12a1..5731c67abc55 100644 --- a/Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt +++ b/Documentation/tracers/mmiotrace.txt @@ -78,12 +78,10 @@ to view your kernel log and look for "mmiotrace has lost events" warning. If events were lost, the trace is incomplete. You should enlarge the buffers and try again. Buffers are enlarged by first seeing how large the current buffers are: -$ cat /debug/tracing/trace_entries +$ cat /debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb gives you a number. Approximately double this number and write it back, for instance: -$ echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled -$ echo 128000 > /debug/tracing/trace_entries -$ echo 1 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled +$ echo 128000 > /debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb Then start again from the top. If you are doing a trace for a driver project, e.g. Nouveau, you should also -- cgit v1.2.1 From b851ee7921fabdd7dfc96ffc4e9609f5062bd12b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Zefan Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:48:14 -0800 Subject: cgroups: update documentation about css_set hash table The css_set hash table was introduced in 2.6.26, so update the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: Paul Menage Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt index d9e5d6f41b92..93feb8444489 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt @@ -252,10 +252,8 @@ cgroup file system directories. When a task is moved from one cgroup to another, it gets a new css_set pointer - if there's an already existing css_set with the desired collection of cgroups then that group is reused, else a new -css_set is allocated. Note that the current implementation uses a -linear search to locate an appropriate existing css_set, so isn't -very efficient. A future version will use a hash table for better -performance. +css_set is allocated. The appropriate existing css_set is located by +looking into a hash table. To allow access from a cgroup to the css_sets (and hence tasks) that comprise it, a set of cg_cgroup_link objects form a lattice; -- cgit v1.2.1 From ef2cfc790bf5f0ff189b01eabc0f4feb5e8524df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Machek Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:48:23 -0800 Subject: hp accelerometer: add freefall detection MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This adds freefall handling to hp_accel driver. According to HP, it should just work, without us having to set the chip up by hand. hpfall.c is example .c program that parks the disk when accelerometer detects free fall. It should work; for now, it uses fixed 20seconds protection period. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek Cc: Thomas Renninger Cc: Éric Piel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d | 8 ++++ 2 files changed, 109 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c b/Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..bbea1ccfd46a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +/* Disk protection for HP machines. + * + * Copyright 2008 Eric Piel + * Copyright 2009 Pavel Machek + * + * GPLv2. + */ + +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include + +void write_int(char *path, int i) +{ + char buf[1024]; + int fd = open(path, O_RDWR); + if (fd < 0) { + perror("open"); + exit(1); + } + sprintf(buf, "%d", i); + if (write(fd, buf, strlen(buf)) != strlen(buf)) { + perror("write"); + exit(1); + } + close(fd); +} + +void set_led(int on) +{ + write_int("/sys/class/leds/hp::hddprotect/brightness", on); +} + +void protect(int seconds) +{ + write_int("/sys/block/sda/device/unload_heads", seconds*1000); +} + +int on_ac(void) +{ +// /sys/class/power_supply/AC0/online +} + +int lid_open(void) +{ +// /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state +} + +void ignore_me(void) +{ + protect(0); + set_led(0); + +} + +int main(int argc, char* argv[]) +{ + int fd, ret; + + fd = open("/dev/freefall", O_RDONLY); + if (fd < 0) { + perror("open"); + return EXIT_FAILURE; + } + + signal(SIGALRM, ignore_me); + + for (;;) { + unsigned char count; + + ret = read(fd, &count, sizeof(count)); + alarm(0); + if ((ret == -1) && (errno == EINTR)) { + /* Alarm expired, time to unpark the heads */ + continue; + } + + if (ret != sizeof(count)) { + perror("read"); + break; + } + + protect(21); + set_led(1); + if (1 || on_ac() || lid_open()) { + alarm(2); + } else { + alarm(20); + } + } + + close(fd); + return EXIT_SUCCESS; +} diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d b/Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d index 0fcfc4a7ccdc..287f8c902656 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d @@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ rate - reports the sampling rate of the accelerometer device in HZ This driver also provides an absolute input class device, allowing the laptop to act as a pinball machine-esque joystick. +Another feature of the driver is misc device called "freefall" that +acts similar to /dev/rtc and reacts on free-fall interrupts received +from the device. It supports blocking operations, poll/select and +fasync operation modes. You must read 1 bytes from the device. The +result is number of free-fall interrupts since the last successful +read (or 255 if number of interrupts would not fit). + + Axes orientation ---------------- -- cgit v1.2.1 From 97bef7dd05563807539122c488a5dd93ed327722 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernhard Walle Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:48:40 -0800 Subject: Bernhard has moved Since I don't work for SUSE any more and the bwalle@suse.de address is invalid, correct it in the copyright headers and documentation. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap index 0d99ee6ae02e..eca0d65087dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ What: /sys/firmware/memmap/ Date: June 2008 -Contact: Bernhard Walle +Contact: Bernhard Walle Description: On all platforms, the firmware provides a memory map which the kernel reads. The resources from that memory map are registered -- cgit v1.2.1 From 3fd076dd955a34c35dc456f4ef676e03cdced044 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Zefan Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:38:48 -0800 Subject: cpuset: various documentation fixes and updates I noticed the old commit 8f5aa26c75b7722e80c0c5c5bb833d41865d7019 ("cpusets: update_cpumask documentation fix") is not a complete fix, resulting in inconsistent paragraphs. This patch fixes it and does other fixes and updates: - s/migrate_all_tasks()/migrate_live_tasks()/ - describe more cpuset control files - s/cpumask_t/struct cpumask/ - document cpu hotplug and change of 'sched_relax_domain_level' may cause domain rebuild - document various ways to query and modify cpusets - the equivalent of "mount -t cpuset" is "mount -t cgroup -o cpuset,noprefix" Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Paul Menage Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt index 5c86c258c791..0611e9528c7c 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ into the rest of the kernel, none in performance critical paths: - in fork and exit, to attach and detach a task from its cpuset. - in sched_setaffinity, to mask the requested CPUs by what's allowed in that tasks cpuset. - - in sched.c migrate_all_tasks(), to keep migrating tasks within + - in sched.c migrate_live_tasks(), to keep migrating tasks within the CPUs allowed by their cpuset, if possible. - in the mbind and set_mempolicy system calls, to mask the requested Memory Nodes by what's allowed in that tasks cpuset. @@ -175,6 +175,10 @@ files describing that cpuset: - mem_exclusive flag: is memory placement exclusive? - mem_hardwall flag: is memory allocation hardwalled - memory_pressure: measure of how much paging pressure in cpuset + - memory_spread_page flag: if set, spread page cache evenly on allowed nodes + - memory_spread_slab flag: if set, spread slab cache evenly on allowed nodes + - sched_load_balance flag: if set, load balance within CPUs on that cpuset + - sched_relax_domain_level: the searching range when migrating tasks In addition, the root cpuset only has the following file: - memory_pressure_enabled flag: compute memory_pressure? @@ -252,7 +256,7 @@ is causing. This is useful both on tightly managed systems running a wide mix of submitted jobs, which may choose to terminate or re-prioritize jobs that -are trying to use more memory than allowed on the nodes assigned them, +are trying to use more memory than allowed on the nodes assigned to them, and with tightly coupled, long running, massively parallel scientific computing jobs that will dramatically fail to meet required performance goals if they start to use more memory than allowed to them. @@ -378,7 +382,7 @@ as cpusets and sched_setaffinity. The algorithmic cost of load balancing and its impact on key shared kernel data structures such as the task list increases more than linearly with the number of CPUs being balanced. So the scheduler -has support to partition the systems CPUs into a number of sched +has support to partition the systems CPUs into a number of sched domains such that it only load balances within each sched domain. Each sched domain covers some subset of the CPUs in the system; no two sched domains overlap; some CPUs might not be in any sched @@ -485,17 +489,22 @@ of CPUs allowed to a cpuset having 'sched_load_balance' enabled. The internal kernel cpuset to scheduler interface passes from the cpuset code to the scheduler code a partition of the load balanced CPUs in the system. This partition is a set of subsets (represented -as an array of cpumask_t) of CPUs, pairwise disjoint, that cover all -the CPUs that must be load balanced. - -Whenever the 'sched_load_balance' flag changes, or CPUs come or go -from a cpuset with this flag enabled, or a cpuset with this flag -enabled is removed, the cpuset code builds a new such partition and -passes it to the scheduler sched domain setup code, to have the sched -domains rebuilt as necessary. +as an array of struct cpumask) of CPUs, pairwise disjoint, that cover +all the CPUs that must be load balanced. + +The cpuset code builds a new such partition and passes it to the +scheduler sched domain setup code, to have the sched domains rebuilt +as necessary, whenever: + - the 'sched_load_balance' flag of a cpuset with non-empty CPUs changes, + - or CPUs come or go from a cpuset with this flag enabled, + - or 'sched_relax_domain_level' value of a cpuset with non-empty CPUs + and with this flag enabled changes, + - or a cpuset with non-empty CPUs and with this flag enabled is removed, + - or a cpu is offlined/onlined. This partition exactly defines what sched domains the scheduler should -setup - one sched domain for each element (cpumask_t) in the partition. +setup - one sched domain for each element (struct cpumask) in the +partition. The scheduler remembers the currently active sched domain partitions. When the scheduler routine partition_sched_domains() is invoked from @@ -559,7 +568,7 @@ domain, the largest value among those is used. Be careful, if one requests 0 and others are -1 then 0 is used. Note that modifying this file will have both good and bad effects, -and whether it is acceptable or not will be depend on your situation. +and whether it is acceptable or not depends on your situation. Don't modify this file if you are not sure. If your situation is: @@ -600,19 +609,15 @@ to allocate a page of memory for that task. If a cpuset has its 'cpus' modified, then each task in that cpuset will have its allowed CPU placement changed immediately. Similarly, -if a tasks pid is written to a cpusets 'tasks' file, in either its -current cpuset or another cpuset, then its allowed CPU placement is -changed immediately. If such a task had been bound to some subset -of its cpuset using the sched_setaffinity() call, the task will be -allowed to run on any CPU allowed in its new cpuset, negating the -affect of the prior sched_setaffinity() call. +if a tasks pid is written to another cpusets 'tasks' file, then its +allowed CPU placement is changed immediately. If such a task had been +bound to some subset of its cpuset using the sched_setaffinity() call, +the task will be allowed to run on any CPU allowed in its new cpuset, +negating the effect of the prior sched_setaffinity() call. In summary, the memory placement of a task whose cpuset is changed is updated by the kernel, on the next allocation of a page for that task, -but the processor placement is not updated, until that tasks pid is -rewritten to the 'tasks' file of its cpuset. This is done to avoid -impacting the scheduler code in the kernel with a check for changes -in a tasks processor placement. +and the processor placement is updated immediately. Normally, once a page is allocated (given a physical page of main memory) then that page stays on whatever node it @@ -681,10 +686,14 @@ and then start a subshell 'sh' in that cpuset: # The next line should display '/Charlie' cat /proc/self/cpuset -In the future, a C library interface to cpusets will likely be -available. For now, the only way to query or modify cpusets is -via the cpuset file system, using the various cd, mkdir, echo, cat, -rmdir commands from the shell, or their equivalent from C. +There are ways to query or modify cpusets: + - via the cpuset file system directly, using the various cd, mkdir, echo, + cat, rmdir commands from the shell, or their equivalent from C. + - via the C library libcpuset. + - via the C library libcgroup. + (http://sourceforge.net/proects/libcg/) + - via the python application cset. + (http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Cpuset) The sched_setaffinity calls can also be done at the shell prompt using SGI's runon or Robert Love's taskset. The mbind and set_mempolicy @@ -756,7 +765,7 @@ mount -t cpuset X /dev/cpuset is equivalent to -mount -t cgroup -ocpuset X /dev/cpuset +mount -t cgroup -ocpuset,noprefix X /dev/cpuset echo "/sbin/cpuset_release_agent" > /dev/cpuset/release_agent 2.2 Adding/removing cpus -- cgit v1.2.1 From 245127dbe9ea1e5a93aae0d3ede09992f1e99f53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Murphy Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:17:14 -0500 Subject: PATCH [1/2] Documentation/driver-model/device.txt: fix struct device_attribute Fix the presented definition of struct device_attribute to match the actual definition in include/linux/device.h Signed-off-by: Mike Murphy Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/driver-model/device.txt | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt index a05ec50f8004..a7cbfff40d07 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt @@ -127,9 +127,11 @@ void unlock_device(struct device * dev); Attributes ~~~~~~~~~~ struct device_attribute { - struct attribute attr; - ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, char * buf, size_t count, loff_t off); - ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, const char * buf, size_t count, loff_t off); + struct attribute attr; + ssize_t (*show)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, + char *buf); + ssize_t (*store)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, + const char *buf, size_t count); }; Attributes of devices can be exported via drivers using a simple -- cgit v1.2.1 From f8a1af6bbc63218cabce742a7a291ac7c08bbd00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Murphy Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:19:23 -0500 Subject: PATCH [2/2] Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt: fix descriptions of device attributes Fix descriptions of device attributes to be consistent with the actual implementations in include/linux/device.h Signed-off-by: Mike Murphy Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt index 9e9c348275a9..7e81e37c0b1e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt @@ -2,8 +2,10 @@ sysfs - _The_ filesystem for exporting kernel objects. Patrick Mochel +Mike Murphy -10 January 2003 +Revised: 22 February 2009 +Original: 10 January 2003 What it is: @@ -64,12 +66,13 @@ An attribute definition is simply: struct attribute { char * name; + struct module *owner; mode_t mode; }; -int sysfs_create_file(struct kobject * kobj, struct attribute * attr); -void sysfs_remove_file(struct kobject * kobj, struct attribute * attr); +int sysfs_create_file(struct kobject * kobj, const struct attribute * attr); +void sysfs_remove_file(struct kobject * kobj, const struct attribute * attr); A bare attribute contains no means to read or write the value of the @@ -80,9 +83,11 @@ a specific object type. For example, the driver model defines struct device_attribute like: struct device_attribute { - struct attribute attr; - ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, char * buf); - ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, const char * buf); + struct attribute attr; + ssize_t (*show)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, + char *buf); + ssize_t (*store)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, + const char *buf, size_t count); }; int device_create_file(struct device *, struct device_attribute *); @@ -90,12 +95,8 @@ void device_remove_file(struct device *, struct device_attribute *); It also defines this helper for defining device attributes: -#define DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store) \ -struct device_attribute dev_attr_##_name = { \ - .attr = {.name = __stringify(_name) , .mode = _mode }, \ - .show = _show, \ - .store = _store, \ -}; +#define DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store) \ +struct device_attribute dev_attr_##_name = __ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store) For example, declaring @@ -107,9 +108,9 @@ static struct device_attribute dev_attr_foo = { .attr = { .name = "foo", .mode = S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO, + .show = show_foo, + .store = store_foo, }, - .show = show_foo, - .store = store_foo, }; @@ -161,10 +162,12 @@ To read or write attributes, show() or store() methods must be specified when declaring the attribute. The method types should be as simple as those defined for device attributes: - ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, char * buf); - ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, const char * buf); +ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute * attr, + char * buf); +ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute * attr, + const char * buf); -IOW, they should take only an object and a buffer as parameters. +IOW, they should take only an object, an attribute, and a buffer as parameters. sysfs allocates a buffer of size (PAGE_SIZE) and passes it to the @@ -299,14 +302,16 @@ The following interface layers currently exist in sysfs: Structure: struct device_attribute { - struct attribute attr; - ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, char * buf); - ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, const char * buf); + struct attribute attr; + ssize_t (*show)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, + char *buf); + ssize_t (*store)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, + const char *buf, size_t count); }; Declaring: -DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _str, _mode, _show, _store); +DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store); Creation/Removal: @@ -342,7 +347,8 @@ Structure: struct driver_attribute { struct attribute attr; ssize_t (*show)(struct device_driver *, char * buf); - ssize_t (*store)(struct device_driver *, const char * buf); + ssize_t (*store)(struct device_driver *, const char * buf, + size_t count); }; Declaring: -- cgit v1.2.1 From f7f84f38cd916552c175f1f3d09cb6e85c1b29fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:15:45 -0800 Subject: docbook: split kernel-api for device-drivers The kernel-api docbook was much larger than any of the others, so processing it took longer and needed some docbook extras in some cases, so split it into kernel-api (infrastructure etc.) and device drivers/device subsystems. This allows these docbooks to be generated in parallel. (This reduced the docbook processing time on my 4-proc system with make -j4 from about 5min:16sec to about 2min:01sec.) The chapters that were moved from kernel-api to device-drivers are: Driver Basics Device drivers infrastructure Parallel Port Devices Message-based devices Sound Devices 16x50 UART Driver Frame Buffer Library Input Subsystem Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) I2C and SMBus Subsystem Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/DocBook/Makefile | 2 +- Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl | 418 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl | 377 --------------------------- 3 files changed, 419 insertions(+), 378 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile index dc3154e49279..1462ed86d40a 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # To add a new book the only step required is to add the book to the # list of DOCBOOKS. -DOCBOOKS := z8530book.xml mcabook.xml \ +DOCBOOKS := z8530book.xml mcabook.xml device-drivers.xml \ kernel-hacking.xml kernel-locking.xml deviceiobook.xml \ procfs-guide.xml writing_usb_driver.xml networking.xml \ kernel-api.xml filesystems.xml lsm.xml usb.xml kgdb.xml \ diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..94a20fe8fedf --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl @@ -0,0 +1,418 @@ + + + + + + Linux Device Drivers + + + + This documentation is free software; you can redistribute + it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public + License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either + version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later + version. + + + + This program is distributed in the hope that it will be + useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied + warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. + See the GNU General Public License for more details. + + + + You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public + License along with this program; if not, write to the Free + Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, + MA 02111-1307 USA + + + + For more details see the file COPYING in the source + distribution of Linux. + + + + + + + + Driver Basics + Driver Entry and Exit points +!Iinclude/linux/init.h + + + Atomic and pointer manipulation +!Iarch/x86/include/asm/atomic_32.h +!Iarch/x86/include/asm/unaligned.h + + + Delaying, scheduling, and timer routines +!Iinclude/linux/sched.h +!Ekernel/sched.c +!Ekernel/timer.c + + High-resolution timers +!Iinclude/linux/ktime.h +!Iinclude/linux/hrtimer.h +!Ekernel/hrtimer.c + + Workqueues and Kevents +!Ekernel/workqueue.c + + Internal Functions +!Ikernel/exit.c +!Ikernel/signal.c +!Iinclude/linux/kthread.h +!Ekernel/kthread.c + + + Kernel objects manipulation + +!Elib/kobject.c + + + Kernel utility functions +!Iinclude/linux/kernel.h +!Ekernel/printk.c +!Ekernel/panic.c +!Ekernel/sys.c +!Ekernel/rcupdate.c + + + Device Resource Management +!Edrivers/base/devres.c + + + + + + Device drivers infrastructure + Device Drivers Base + +!Edrivers/base/driver.c +!Edrivers/base/core.c +!Edrivers/base/class.c +!Edrivers/base/firmware_class.c +!Edrivers/base/transport_class.c + +!Edrivers/base/sys.c + +!Edrivers/base/platform.c +!Edrivers/base/bus.c + + Device Drivers Power Management +!Edrivers/base/power/main.c + + Device Drivers ACPI Support + +!Edrivers/acpi/scan.c +!Idrivers/acpi/scan.c + + + Device drivers PnP support +!Idrivers/pnp/core.c + +!Edrivers/pnp/card.c +!Idrivers/pnp/driver.c +!Edrivers/pnp/manager.c +!Edrivers/pnp/support.c + + Userspace IO devices +!Edrivers/uio/uio.c +!Iinclude/linux/uio_driver.h + + + + + Parallel Port Devices +!Iinclude/linux/parport.h +!Edrivers/parport/ieee1284.c +!Edrivers/parport/share.c +!Idrivers/parport/daisy.c + + + + Message-based devices + Fusion message devices +!Edrivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c +!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c +!Edrivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c +!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c +!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c +!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c +!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptfc.c +!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c + + I2O message devices +!Iinclude/linux/i2o.h +!Idrivers/message/i2o/core.h +!Edrivers/message/i2o/iop.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/iop.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/config-osm.c +!Edrivers/message/i2o/exec-osm.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/exec-osm.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/bus-osm.c +!Edrivers/message/i2o/device.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/device.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/driver.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/pci.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_scsi.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_proc.c + + + + + Sound Devices +!Iinclude/sound/core.h +!Esound/sound_core.c +!Iinclude/sound/pcm.h +!Esound/core/pcm.c +!Esound/core/device.c +!Esound/core/info.c +!Esound/core/rawmidi.c +!Esound/core/sound.c +!Esound/core/memory.c +!Esound/core/pcm_memory.c +!Esound/core/init.c +!Esound/core/isadma.c +!Esound/core/control.c +!Esound/core/pcm_lib.c +!Esound/core/hwdep.c +!Esound/core/pcm_native.c +!Esound/core/memalloc.c + + + + + 16x50 UART Driver +!Iinclude/linux/serial_core.h +!Edrivers/serial/serial_core.c +!Edrivers/serial/8250.c + + + + Frame Buffer Library + + + The frame buffer drivers depend heavily on four data structures. + These structures are declared in include/linux/fb.h. They are + fb_info, fb_var_screeninfo, fb_fix_screeninfo and fb_monospecs. + The last three can be made available to and from userland. + + + + fb_info defines the current state of a particular video card. + Inside fb_info, there exists a fb_ops structure which is a + collection of needed functions to make fbdev and fbcon work. + fb_info is only visible to the kernel. + + + + fb_var_screeninfo is used to describe the features of a video card + that are user defined. With fb_var_screeninfo, things such as + depth and the resolution may be defined. + + + + The next structure is fb_fix_screeninfo. This defines the + properties of a card that are created when a mode is set and can't + be changed otherwise. A good example of this is the start of the + frame buffer memory. This "locks" the address of the frame buffer + memory, so that it cannot be changed or moved. + + + + The last structure is fb_monospecs. In the old API, there was + little importance for fb_monospecs. This allowed for forbidden things + such as setting a mode of 800x600 on a fix frequency monitor. With + the new API, fb_monospecs prevents such things, and if used + correctly, can prevent a monitor from being cooked. fb_monospecs + will not be useful until kernels 2.5.x. + + + Frame Buffer Memory +!Edrivers/video/fbmem.c + + + Frame Buffer Colormap +!Edrivers/video/fbcmap.c + + + Frame Buffer Video Mode Database +!Idrivers/video/modedb.c +!Edrivers/video/modedb.c + + Frame Buffer Macintosh Video Mode Database +!Edrivers/video/macmodes.c + + Frame Buffer Fonts + + Refer to the file drivers/video/console/fonts.c for more information. + + + + + + + Input Subsystem +!Iinclude/linux/input.h +!Edrivers/input/input.c +!Edrivers/input/ff-core.c +!Edrivers/input/ff-memless.c + + + + Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) + + SPI is the "Serial Peripheral Interface", widely used with + embedded systems because it is a simple and efficient + interface: basically a multiplexed shift register. + Its three signal wires hold a clock (SCK, often in the range + of 1-20 MHz), a "Master Out, Slave In" (MOSI) data line, and + a "Master In, Slave Out" (MISO) data line. + SPI is a full duplex protocol; for each bit shifted out the + MOSI line (one per clock) another is shifted in on the MISO line. + Those bits are assembled into words of various sizes on the + way to and from system memory. + An additional chipselect line is usually active-low (nCS); + four signals are normally used for each peripheral, plus + sometimes an interrupt. + + + The SPI bus facilities listed here provide a generalized + interface to declare SPI busses and devices, manage them + according to the standard Linux driver model, and perform + input/output operations. + At this time, only "master" side interfaces are supported, + where Linux talks to SPI peripherals and does not implement + such a peripheral itself. + (Interfaces to support implementing SPI slaves would + necessarily look different.) + + + The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver, + and two kinds of device. + A "Controller Driver" abstracts the controller hardware, which may + be as simple as a set of GPIO pins or as complex as a pair of FIFOs + connected to dual DMA engines on the other side of the SPI shift + register (maximizing throughput). Such drivers bridge between + whatever bus they sit on (often the platform bus) and SPI, and + expose the SPI side of their device as a + struct spi_master. + SPI devices are children of that master, represented as a + struct spi_device and manufactured from + struct spi_board_info descriptors which + are usually provided by board-specific initialization code. + A struct spi_driver is called a + "Protocol Driver", and is bound to a spi_device using normal + driver model calls. + + + The I/O model is a set of queued messages. Protocol drivers + submit one or more struct spi_message + objects, which are processed and completed asynchronously. + (There are synchronous wrappers, however.) Messages are + built from one or more struct spi_transfer + objects, each of which wraps a full duplex SPI transfer. + A variety of protocol tweaking options are needed, because + different chips adopt very different policies for how they + use the bits transferred with SPI. + +!Iinclude/linux/spi/spi.h +!Fdrivers/spi/spi.c spi_register_board_info +!Edrivers/spi/spi.c + + + + I<superscript>2</superscript>C and SMBus Subsystem + + + I2C (or without fancy typography, "I2C") + is an acronym for the "Inter-IC" bus, a simple bus protocol which is + widely used where low data rate communications suffice. + Since it's also a licensed trademark, some vendors use another + name (such as "Two-Wire Interface", TWI) for the same bus. + I2C only needs two signals (SCL for clock, SDA for data), conserving + board real estate and minimizing signal quality issues. + Most I2C devices use seven bit addresses, and bus speeds of up + to 400 kHz; there's a high speed extension (3.4 MHz) that's not yet + found wide use. + I2C is a multi-master bus; open drain signaling is used to + arbitrate between masters, as well as to handshake and to + synchronize clocks from slower clients. + + + + The Linux I2C programming interfaces support only the master + side of bus interactions, not the slave side. + The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver, + and two kinds of device. + An I2C "Adapter Driver" abstracts the controller hardware; it binds + to a physical device (perhaps a PCI device or platform_device) and + exposes a struct i2c_adapter representing + each I2C bus segment it manages. + On each I2C bus segment will be I2C devices represented by a + struct i2c_client. Those devices will + be bound to a struct i2c_driver, + which should follow the standard Linux driver model. + (At this writing, a legacy model is more widely used.) + There are functions to perform various I2C protocol operations; at + this writing all such functions are usable only from task context. + + + + The System Management Bus (SMBus) is a sibling protocol. Most SMBus + systems are also I2C conformant. The electrical constraints are + tighter for SMBus, and it standardizes particular protocol messages + and idioms. Controllers that support I2C can also support most + SMBus operations, but SMBus controllers don't support all the protocol + options that an I2C controller will. + There are functions to perform various SMBus protocol operations, + either using I2C primitives or by issuing SMBus commands to + i2c_adapter devices which don't support those I2C operations. + + +!Iinclude/linux/i2c.h +!Fdrivers/i2c/i2c-boardinfo.c i2c_register_board_info +!Edrivers/i2c/i2c-core.c + + + diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl index 5818ff75786a..bc962cda6504 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl @@ -38,58 +38,6 @@ - - Driver Basics - Driver Entry and Exit points -!Iinclude/linux/init.h - - - Atomic and pointer manipulation -!Iarch/x86/include/asm/atomic_32.h -!Iarch/x86/include/asm/unaligned.h - - - Delaying, scheduling, and timer routines -!Iinclude/linux/sched.h -!Ekernel/sched.c -!Ekernel/timer.c - - High-resolution timers -!Iinclude/linux/ktime.h -!Iinclude/linux/hrtimer.h -!Ekernel/hrtimer.c - - Workqueues and Kevents -!Ekernel/workqueue.c - - Internal Functions -!Ikernel/exit.c -!Ikernel/signal.c -!Iinclude/linux/kthread.h -!Ekernel/kthread.c - - - Kernel objects manipulation - -!Elib/kobject.c - - - Kernel utility functions -!Iinclude/linux/kernel.h -!Ekernel/printk.c -!Ekernel/panic.c -!Ekernel/sys.c -!Ekernel/rcupdate.c - - - Device Resource Management -!Edrivers/base/devres.c - - - - Data Types Doubly Linked Lists @@ -298,62 +246,6 @@ X!Earch/x86/kernel/mca_32.c !Ikernel/acct.c - - Device drivers infrastructure - Device Drivers Base - -!Edrivers/base/driver.c -!Edrivers/base/core.c -!Edrivers/base/class.c -!Edrivers/base/firmware_class.c -!Edrivers/base/transport_class.c - -!Edrivers/base/sys.c - -!Edrivers/base/platform.c -!Edrivers/base/bus.c - - Device Drivers Power Management -!Edrivers/base/power/main.c - - Device Drivers ACPI Support - -!Edrivers/acpi/scan.c -!Idrivers/acpi/scan.c - - - Device drivers PnP support -!Idrivers/pnp/core.c - -!Edrivers/pnp/card.c -!Idrivers/pnp/driver.c -!Edrivers/pnp/manager.c -!Edrivers/pnp/support.c - - Userspace IO devices -!Edrivers/uio/uio.c -!Iinclude/linux/uio_driver.h - - - Block Devices !Eblock/blk-core.c @@ -381,275 +273,6 @@ X!Edrivers/pnp/system.c !Edrivers/char/misc.c - - Parallel Port Devices -!Iinclude/linux/parport.h -!Edrivers/parport/ieee1284.c -!Edrivers/parport/share.c -!Idrivers/parport/daisy.c - - - - Message-based devices - Fusion message devices -!Edrivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c -!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c -!Edrivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c -!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c -!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c -!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c -!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptfc.c -!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c - - I2O message devices -!Iinclude/linux/i2o.h -!Idrivers/message/i2o/core.h -!Edrivers/message/i2o/iop.c -!Idrivers/message/i2o/iop.c -!Idrivers/message/i2o/config-osm.c -!Edrivers/message/i2o/exec-osm.c -!Idrivers/message/i2o/exec-osm.c -!Idrivers/message/i2o/bus-osm.c -!Edrivers/message/i2o/device.c -!Idrivers/message/i2o/device.c -!Idrivers/message/i2o/driver.c -!Idrivers/message/i2o/pci.c -!Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c -!Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_scsi.c -!Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_proc.c - - - - - Sound Devices -!Iinclude/sound/core.h -!Esound/sound_core.c -!Iinclude/sound/pcm.h -!Esound/core/pcm.c -!Esound/core/device.c -!Esound/core/info.c -!Esound/core/rawmidi.c -!Esound/core/sound.c -!Esound/core/memory.c -!Esound/core/pcm_memory.c -!Esound/core/init.c -!Esound/core/isadma.c -!Esound/core/control.c -!Esound/core/pcm_lib.c -!Esound/core/hwdep.c -!Esound/core/pcm_native.c -!Esound/core/memalloc.c - - - - - 16x50 UART Driver -!Iinclude/linux/serial_core.h -!Edrivers/serial/serial_core.c -!Edrivers/serial/8250.c - - - - Frame Buffer Library - - - The frame buffer drivers depend heavily on four data structures. - These structures are declared in include/linux/fb.h. They are - fb_info, fb_var_screeninfo, fb_fix_screeninfo and fb_monospecs. - The last three can be made available to and from userland. - - - - fb_info defines the current state of a particular video card. - Inside fb_info, there exists a fb_ops structure which is a - collection of needed functions to make fbdev and fbcon work. - fb_info is only visible to the kernel. - - - - fb_var_screeninfo is used to describe the features of a video card - that are user defined. With fb_var_screeninfo, things such as - depth and the resolution may be defined. - - - - The next structure is fb_fix_screeninfo. This defines the - properties of a card that are created when a mode is set and can't - be changed otherwise. A good example of this is the start of the - frame buffer memory. This "locks" the address of the frame buffer - memory, so that it cannot be changed or moved. - - - - The last structure is fb_monospecs. In the old API, there was - little importance for fb_monospecs. This allowed for forbidden things - such as setting a mode of 800x600 on a fix frequency monitor. With - the new API, fb_monospecs prevents such things, and if used - correctly, can prevent a monitor from being cooked. fb_monospecs - will not be useful until kernels 2.5.x. - - - Frame Buffer Memory -!Edrivers/video/fbmem.c - - - Frame Buffer Colormap -!Edrivers/video/fbcmap.c - - - Frame Buffer Video Mode Database -!Idrivers/video/modedb.c -!Edrivers/video/modedb.c - - Frame Buffer Macintosh Video Mode Database -!Edrivers/video/macmodes.c - - Frame Buffer Fonts - - Refer to the file drivers/video/console/fonts.c for more information. - - - - - - - Input Subsystem -!Iinclude/linux/input.h -!Edrivers/input/input.c -!Edrivers/input/ff-core.c -!Edrivers/input/ff-memless.c - - - - Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) - - SPI is the "Serial Peripheral Interface", widely used with - embedded systems because it is a simple and efficient - interface: basically a multiplexed shift register. - Its three signal wires hold a clock (SCK, often in the range - of 1-20 MHz), a "Master Out, Slave In" (MOSI) data line, and - a "Master In, Slave Out" (MISO) data line. - SPI is a full duplex protocol; for each bit shifted out the - MOSI line (one per clock) another is shifted in on the MISO line. - Those bits are assembled into words of various sizes on the - way to and from system memory. - An additional chipselect line is usually active-low (nCS); - four signals are normally used for each peripheral, plus - sometimes an interrupt. - - - The SPI bus facilities listed here provide a generalized - interface to declare SPI busses and devices, manage them - according to the standard Linux driver model, and perform - input/output operations. - At this time, only "master" side interfaces are supported, - where Linux talks to SPI peripherals and does not implement - such a peripheral itself. - (Interfaces to support implementing SPI slaves would - necessarily look different.) - - - The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver, - and two kinds of device. - A "Controller Driver" abstracts the controller hardware, which may - be as simple as a set of GPIO pins or as complex as a pair of FIFOs - connected to dual DMA engines on the other side of the SPI shift - register (maximizing throughput). Such drivers bridge between - whatever bus they sit on (often the platform bus) and SPI, and - expose the SPI side of their device as a - struct spi_master. - SPI devices are children of that master, represented as a - struct spi_device and manufactured from - struct spi_board_info descriptors which - are usually provided by board-specific initialization code. - A struct spi_driver is called a - "Protocol Driver", and is bound to a spi_device using normal - driver model calls. - - - The I/O model is a set of queued messages. Protocol drivers - submit one or more struct spi_message - objects, which are processed and completed asynchronously. - (There are synchronous wrappers, however.) Messages are - built from one or more struct spi_transfer - objects, each of which wraps a full duplex SPI transfer. - A variety of protocol tweaking options are needed, because - different chips adopt very different policies for how they - use the bits transferred with SPI. - -!Iinclude/linux/spi/spi.h -!Fdrivers/spi/spi.c spi_register_board_info -!Edrivers/spi/spi.c - - - - I<superscript>2</superscript>C and SMBus Subsystem - - - I2C (or without fancy typography, "I2C") - is an acronym for the "Inter-IC" bus, a simple bus protocol which is - widely used where low data rate communications suffice. - Since it's also a licensed trademark, some vendors use another - name (such as "Two-Wire Interface", TWI) for the same bus. - I2C only needs two signals (SCL for clock, SDA for data), conserving - board real estate and minimizing signal quality issues. - Most I2C devices use seven bit addresses, and bus speeds of up - to 400 kHz; there's a high speed extension (3.4 MHz) that's not yet - found wide use. - I2C is a multi-master bus; open drain signaling is used to - arbitrate between masters, as well as to handshake and to - synchronize clocks from slower clients. - - - - The Linux I2C programming interfaces support only the master - side of bus interactions, not the slave side. - The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver, - and two kinds of device. - An I2C "Adapter Driver" abstracts the controller hardware; it binds - to a physical device (perhaps a PCI device or platform_device) and - exposes a struct i2c_adapter representing - each I2C bus segment it manages. - On each I2C bus segment will be I2C devices represented by a - struct i2c_client. Those devices will - be bound to a struct i2c_driver, - which should follow the standard Linux driver model. - (At this writing, a legacy model is more widely used.) - There are functions to perform various I2C protocol operations; at - this writing all such functions are usable only from task context. - - - - The System Management Bus (SMBus) is a sibling protocol. Most SMBus - systems are also I2C conformant. The electrical constraints are - tighter for SMBus, and it standardizes particular protocol messages - and idioms. Controllers that support I2C can also support most - SMBus operations, but SMBus controllers don't support all the protocol - options that an I2C controller will. - There are functions to perform various SMBus protocol operations, - either using I2C primitives or by issuing SMBus commands to - i2c_adapter devices which don't support those I2C operations. - - -!Iinclude/linux/i2c.h -!Fdrivers/i2c/i2c-boardinfo.c i2c_register_board_info -!Edrivers/i2c/i2c-core.c - - Clock Framework -- cgit v1.2.1 From af23f573e817642479fdd05e2b5da5b268eacfaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:05:22 -0800 Subject: acpi/doc: add missing param value Add missing parameter value to list of available values for acpi=. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index b182626739ea..319785b6dcb1 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86-64,i386] Advanced Configuration and Power Interface - Format: { force | off | ht | strict | noirq } + Format: { force | off | ht | strict | noirq | rsdt } force -- enable ACPI if default was off off -- disable ACPI if default was on noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing -- cgit v1.2.1 From 954a8b8162ecab1d5ddf6c5b993b2d4da3fcaef7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kyle McMartin Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:48:14 -0500 Subject: x86, doc: fix references to Documentation/x86/i386/boot.txt Impact: Documentation fix The amazing dancing boot.txt file has jumped places again. It should never have been in Documentation/x86/i386, since it never was 32-bit-specific, but it unfortunately ended up there for a while. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 319785b6dcb1..f6d5d5b9b2b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ In addition, the following text indicates that the option: Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly. Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme -need or coordination with . +need or coordination with . There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here. See for example . @@ -2449,7 +2449,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt. vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode - See Documentation/x86/i386/boot.txt and + See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and Documentation/svga.txt. Use vga=ask for menu. This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is -- cgit v1.2.1 From 9e5f6cf5f755ca5c52071c317421fae19966a658 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Herrmann Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:30:45 +0100 Subject: x86: update description for memtest boot parameter Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index f6d5d5b9b2b1..10c4b8b75c96 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1308,8 +1308,13 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file memtest= [KNL,X86] Enable memtest Format: - range: 0,4 : pattern number default : 0 + Specifies the number of memtest passes to be + performed. Each pass selects another test + pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest + fills the memory with this pattern, validates + memory contents and reserves bad memory + regions that are detected. meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt. -- cgit v1.2.1