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2015-06-08Merge 4.1-rc7 into driver-core-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman1-1/+1
We want the fixes in this branch as well for testing and merge resolution. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-05-24drivers/base: cacheinfo: fix annoying typo when DT nodes are absentWill Deacon1-1/+1
s/hierarcy/hierarchy/ Maybe the typo will annoy people enough so that they add the missing nodes to their device-tree files, but I still think this is better off fixed. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-05-18x86/Documentation: Update the contact email for L3 cache index disable ↵Aravind Gopalakrishnan1-1/+1
functionality The mailing list discuss@x86-64.org is now defunct. Use the lkml in its place. Signed-off-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: sboyd@codeaurora.org Cc: sudeep.holla@arm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431125098-9470-1-git-send-email-Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431936437-25286-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de [ Changed the contact email to lkml. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-11-07drivers: base: support cpu cache information interface to userspace via sysfsSudeep Holla1-0/+47
This patch adds initial support for providing processor cache information to userspace through sysfs interface. This is based on already existing implementations(x86, ia64, s390 and powerpc) and hence the interface is intended to be fully compatible. The main purpose of this generic support is to avoid further code duplication to support new architectures and also to unify all the existing different implementations. This implementation maintains the hierarchy of cache objects which reflects the system's cache topology. Cache devices are instantiated as needed as CPUs come online. The cache information is replicated per-cpu even if they are shared. A per-cpu array of cache information maintained is used mainly for sysfs-related book keeping. It also implements the shared_cpu_map attribute, which is essential for enabling both kernel and user-space to discover the system's overall cache topology. This patch also add the missing ABI documentation for the cacheinfo sysfs interface already, which is well defined and widely used. Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: x86@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-05-01cpufreq: Make linux-pm@vger.kernel.org official mailing listViresh Kumar1-2/+2
There has been confusion all the time about which mailing list to follow for cpufreq activities, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org or cpufreq@vger.kernel.org. Since patches sent to cpufreq@vger.kernel.org don't go to Patchwork which is a maintenance workflow problem, make linux-pm@vger.kernel.org the official mailing list for cpufreq stuff and remove all references of cpufreq@vger.kernel.org from kernel source. Later, we can request that the list be dropped entirely. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> [rjw: Changelog] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2014-01-06Documentation: add ABI entry for intel_pstateRamkumar Ramachandra1-0/+24
Add a Documentation/ABI entry for /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/max_perf_pct, /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/min_perf_pct, and /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo. Cc: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-06-27acpi-cpufreq: Add new sysfs attribute freqdomain_cpusLan Tianyu1-0/+15
Commits fcf8058 (cpufreq: Simplify cpufreq_add_dev()) and aa77a52 (cpufreq: acpi-cpufreq: Don't set policy->related_cpus from .init()) changed the contents of the "related_cpus" sysfs attribute on systems where acpi-cpufreq is used and user space can't get the list of CPUs which are in the same hardware coordination CPU domain (provided by the ACPI AML method _PSD) via "related_cpus" any more. To make up for that loss add a new sysfs attribute "freqdomian_cpus" for the acpi-cpufreq driver which exposes the list of CPUs in the same domain regardless of whether it is coordinated by hardware or software. [rjw: Changelog, documentation] References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58761 Reported-by: Jean-Philippe Halimi <jean-philippe.halimi@exascale-computing.eu> Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-03-29Documentation: Add ABI entry for crash_notes and crash_notes_sizeZhang Yanfei1-0/+12
Add an Documentation/ABI entry for /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/crash_notes and /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/crash_notes_size. Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-03Revert "Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/node"Kusanagi Kouichi1-14/+0
This reverts commit cba5dd7fa535b7684cba68e17ac8be5b0083dc3d. Commit cba5dd7fa535b7684cba68e17ac8be5b0083dc3d duplicates /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/node entry. Commit 657348a056eea4a27be20cf8e22c98a252597447 has already added it. Signed-off-by: Kusanagi Kouichi <slash@ac.auone-net.jp> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-09-09acpi-cpufreq: Add support for disabling dynamic overclockingAndre Przywara1-0/+11
One feature present in powernow-k8 that isn't present in acpi-cpufreq is support for enabling or disabling AMD's core performance boost technology. This patch adds support to acpi-cpufreq, but also includes support for Intel's dynamic acceleration. The original boost disabling sysfs file was per CPU, but acted globally. Also the naming (cpb) was at least not intuitive. So lets introduce a single file simply called "boost", which sits once in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq. This should be the only way of using this feature, so add documentation about the rationale and the usage. A following patch will re-introduce the cpb knob for compatibility reasons on AMD CPUs. Per-CPU boost switching is possible, but not trivial and is thus postponed to a later patch series. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2012-05-17sched: Remove stale power aware scheduling remnants and dysfunctional knobsPeter Zijlstra1-25/+0
It's been broken forever (i.e. it's not scheduling in a power aware fashion), as reported by Suresh and others sending patches, and nobody cares enough to fix it properly ... so remove it to make space free for something better. There's various problems with the code as it stands today, first and foremost the user interface which is bound to topology levels and has multiple values per level. This results in a state explosion which the administrator or distro needs to master and almost nobody does. Furthermore large configuration state spaces aren't good, it means the thing doesn't just work right because it's either under so many impossibe to meet constraints, or even if there's an achievable state workloads have to be aware of it precisely and can never meet it for dynamic workloads. So pushing this kind of decision to user-space was a bad idea even with a single knob - it's exponentially worse with knobs on every node of the topology. There is a proposal to replace the user interface with a single 3 state knob: sched_balance_policy := { performance, power, auto } where 'auto' would be the preferred default which looks at things like Battery/AC mode and possible cpufreq state or whatever the hw exposes to show us power use expectations - but there's been no progress on it in the past many months. Aside from that, the actual implementation of the various knobs is known to be broken. There have been sporadic attempts at fixing things but these always stop short of reaching a mergable state. Therefore this wholesale removal with the hopes of spurring people who care to come forward once again and work on a coherent replacement. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1326104915.2442.53.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2011-05-16Documentation, ABI: Update L3 cache index disable textBorislav Petkov1-17/+17
Change contact person to AMD kernel mailing list, update text and external references, drop "Users:" tag. Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305553188-21061-4-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-08-04Documentation: update broken web addresses.Justin P. Mattock1-1/+1
Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/* Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult, the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated. Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users. Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-12-15Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/nodeAlex Chiang1-0/+14
Describe NUMA node symlink created for CPUs when CONFIG_NUMA is set. Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-12Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+15
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (151 commits) powerpc: Fix usage of 64-bit instruction in 32-bit altivec code MAINTAINERS: Add PowerPC patterns powerpc/pseries: Track previous CPPR values to correctly EOI interrupts powerpc/pseries: Correct pseries/dlpar.c build break without CONFIG_SMP powerpc: Make "intspec" pointers in irq_host->xlate() const powerpc/8xx: DTLB Miss cleanup powerpc/8xx: Remove DIRTY pte handling in DTLB Error. powerpc/8xx: Start using dcbX instructions in various copy routines powerpc/8xx: Restore _PAGE_WRITETHRU powerpc/8xx: Add missing Guarded setting in DTLB Error. powerpc/8xx: Fixup DAR from buggy dcbX instructions. powerpc/8xx: Tag DAR with 0x00f0 to catch buggy instructions. powerpc/8xx: Update TLB asm so it behaves as linux mm expects. powerpc/8xx: Invalidate non present TLBs powerpc/pseries: Serialize cpu hotplug operations during deactivate Vs deallocate pseries/pseries: Add code to online/offline CPUs of a DLPAR node powerpc: stop_this_cpu: remove the cpu from the online map. powerpc/pseries: Add kernel based CPU DLPAR handling sysfs/cpu: Add probe/release files powerpc/pseries: Kernel DLPAR Infrastructure ...
2009-12-09sysfs/cpu: Add probe/release filesNathan Fontenot1-0/+15
Version 3 of this patch is updated with documentation added to Documentation/ABI. There are no changes to any of the C code from v2 of the patch. In order to support kernel DLPAR of CPU resources we need to provide an interface to add (probe) and remove (release) the resource from the system. This patch Creates new generic probe and release sysfs files to facilitate cpu probe/release. The probe/release interface provides for allowing each arch to supply their own routines for implementing the backend of adding and removing cpus to/from the system. This also creates the powerpc specific stubs to handle the arch callouts from writes to the sysfs files. The creation and use of these files is regulated by the CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE option so that only architectures that need the capability will have the files created. Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-11-24[CPUFREQ] Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/cpufreq/Alex Chiang1-0/+18
This is a complex interface and is already described in Documentation/cpu-freq/, especially in the user-guide.txt file. No need to copy/paste all that information. Let's just alert the reader to the presence of the user-guide. Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-10-30Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/nodeAlex Chiang1-0/+15
Describe NUMA node symlink created for CPUs when CONFIG_NUMA is set. Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-10-30Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/Alex Chiang1-0/+20
Document cpuidle sysfs attributes by reading code, Documentation/cpuidle/, and git logs. Cc: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-10-30Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_[mc|smt]_power_savingsAlex Chiang1-0/+24
Document sched_[mc|smt]_power_savings by reading existing code and git logs. Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-10-30Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/ topology filesAlex Chiang1-0/+39
Add brief descriptions for the following sysfs files: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/topology/core_id /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/topology/core_siblings /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/topology/core_siblings_list /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/topology/physical_package_id /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/topology/thread_siblings /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/topology/thread_siblings_list The descriptions in Documentation/cputopology.txt weren't very informative, so I attempted a better description based on code reading and hopeful guessing. Updated Documentation/cputopology.txt with the better descriptions and fixed some style issues. Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-10-30Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/cpu/ topology filesAlex Chiang1-0/+28
Add brief descriptions for the following sysfs files: /sys/devices/system/cpu/kernel_max /sys/devices/system/cpu/offline /sys/devices/system/cpu/online /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible /sys/devices/system/cpu/present Excerpted the relevant information from Documentation/cputopology.txt and pointed back to cputopology.txt as the authoritative source of information. Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-10-30Documentation: ABI: document /sys/devices/system/cpu/Alex Chiang1-0/+12
This interface has been around for a long time, but hasn't been officially documented. Document the top level sysfs directory for CPU attributes. Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-10-30Documentation: ABI: rename sysfs-devices-cache_disable properlyAlex Chiang1-0/+18
Rename sysfs-devices-cache_disable to sysfs-devices-system-cpu, in order to keep a stricter correlation between a sysfs directory and its documentation. Reported-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>