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Merge reason: Resolve the conflict, merge to upstream and merge in
              perf fixes so we can add a dependent patch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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What: /sys/class/usb_host/usb_hostN/wusb_chid
What: /sys/class/uwb_rc/uwbN/wusbhc/wusb_chid
Date: July 2008
KernelVersion: 2.6.27
Contact: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>
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Set an all zero CHID to stop the host controller.

What: /sys/class/usb_host/usb_hostN/wusb_trust_timeout
What: /sys/class/uwb_rc/uwbN/wusbhc/wusb_trust_timeout
Date: July 2008
KernelVersion: 2.6.27
Contact: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>
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156 changes: 156 additions & 0 deletions Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
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What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/
Date: pre-git history
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Description:
A collection of both global and individual CPU attributes

Individual CPU attributes are contained in subdirectories
named by the kernel's logical CPU number, e.g.:

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/

What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings
/sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_smt_power_savings
Date: June 2006
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Description: Discover and adjust the kernel's multi-core scheduler support.

Possible values are:

0 - No power saving load balance (default value)
1 - Fill one thread/core/package first for long running threads
2 - Also bias task wakeups to semi-idle cpu package for power
savings

sched_mc_power_savings is dependent upon SCHED_MC, which is
itself architecture dependent.

sched_smt_power_savings is dependent upon SCHED_SMT, which
is itself architecture dependent.

The two files are independent of each other. It is possible
that one file may be present without the other.

Introduced by git commit 5c45bf27.


What: /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
Date: December 2008
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Description: CPU topology files that describe kernel limits related to
hotplug. Briefly:

kernel_max: the maximum cpu index allowed by the kernel
configuration.

offline: cpus that are not online because they have been
HOTPLUGGED off or exceed the limit of cpus allowed by the
kernel configuration (kernel_max above).

online: cpus that are online and being scheduled.

possible: cpus that have been allocated resources and can be
brought online if they are present.

present: cpus that have been identified as being present in
the system.

See Documentation/cputopology.txt for more information.



What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/node
Date: October 2009
Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Description: Discover NUMA node a CPU belongs to

When CONFIG_NUMA is enabled, a symbolic link that points
to the corresponding NUMA node directory.

For example, the following symlink is created for cpu42
in NUMA node 2:

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu42/node2 -> ../../node/node2


What: /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
Date: December 2008
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Description: CPU topology files that describe a logical CPU's relationship
to other cores and threads in the same physical package.

One cpu# directory is created per logical CPU in the system,
e.g. /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu42/.

Briefly, the files above are:

core_id: the CPU core ID of cpu#. Typically it is the
hardware platform's identifier (rather than the kernel's).
The actual value is architecture and platform dependent.

core_siblings: internal kernel map of cpu#'s hardware threads
within the same physical_package_id.

core_siblings_list: human-readable list of the logical CPU
numbers within the same physical_package_id as cpu#.

physical_package_id: physical package id of cpu#. Typically
corresponds to a physical socket number, but the actual value
is architecture and platform dependent.

thread_siblings: internel kernel map of cpu#'s hardware
threads within the same core as cpu#

thread_siblings_list: human-readable list of cpu#'s hardware
threads within the same core as cpu#

See Documentation/cputopology.txt for more information.


What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_driver
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_governer_ro
Date: September 2007
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Description: Discover cpuidle policy and mechanism

Various CPUs today support multiple idle levels that are
differentiated by varying exit latencies and power
consumption during idle.

Idle policy (governor) is differentiated from idle mechanism
(driver)

current_driver: displays current idle mechanism

current_governor_ro: displays current idle policy

See files in Documentation/cpuidle/ for more information.


What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index*/cache_disable_X
Date: August 2008
KernelVersion: 2.6.27
Contact: mark.langsdorf@amd.com
Description: These files exist in every cpu's cache index directories.
There are currently 2 cache_disable_# files in each
directory. Reading from these files on a supported
processor will return that cache disable index value
for that processor and node. Writing to one of these
files will cause the specificed cache index to be disabled.

Currently, only AMD Family 10h Processors support cache index
disable, and only for their L3 caches. See the BIOS and
Kernel Developer's Guide at
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/31116-Public-GH-BKDG_3.20_2-4-09.pdf
for formatting information and other details on the
cache index disable.
Users: joachim.deguara@amd.com
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Export cpu topology info via sysfs. Items (attributes) are similar
Export CPU topology info via sysfs. Items (attributes) are similar
to /proc/cpuinfo.

1) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/physical_package_id:
represent the physical package id of cpu X;

physical package id of cpuX. Typically corresponds to a physical
socket number, but the actual value is architecture and platform
dependent.

2) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_id:
represent the cpu core id to cpu X;

the CPU core ID of cpuX. Typically it is the hardware platform's
identifier (rather than the kernel's). The actual value is
architecture and platform dependent.

3) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings:
represent the thread siblings to cpu X in the same core;

internel kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
core as cpuX

4) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings:
represent the thread siblings to cpu X in the same physical package;

internal kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
physical_package_id.

To implement it in an architecture-neutral way, a new source file,
drivers/base/topology.c, is to export the 4 attributes.
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3) thread_siblings: just the given CPU
4) core_siblings: just the given CPU

Additionally, cpu topology information is provided under
Additionally, CPU topology information is provided under
/sys/devices/system/cpu and includes these files. The internal
source for the output is in brackets ("[]").

kernel_max: the maximum cpu index allowed by the kernel configuration.
kernel_max: the maximum CPU index allowed by the kernel configuration.
[NR_CPUS-1]

offline: cpus that are not online because they have been
offline: CPUs that are not online because they have been
HOTPLUGGED off (see cpu-hotplug.txt) or exceed the limit
of cpus allowed by the kernel configuration (kernel_max
of CPUs allowed by the kernel configuration (kernel_max
above). [~cpu_online_mask + cpus >= NR_CPUS]

online: cpus that are online and being scheduled [cpu_online_mask]
online: CPUs that are online and being scheduled [cpu_online_mask]

possible: cpus that have been allocated resources and can be
possible: CPUs that have been allocated resources and can be
brought online if they are present. [cpu_possible_mask]

present: cpus that have been identified as being present in the
present: CPUs that have been identified as being present in the
system. [cpu_present_mask]

The format for the above output is compatible with cpulist_parse()
[see <linux/cpumask.h>]. Some examples follow.

In this example, there are 64 cpus in the system but cpus 32-63 exceed
In this example, there are 64 CPUs in the system but cpus 32-63 exceed
the kernel max which is limited to 0..31 by the NR_CPUS config option
being 32. Note also that cpus 2 and 4-31 are not online but could be
being 32. Note also that CPUs 2 and 4-31 are not online but could be
brought online as they are both present and possible.

kernel_max: 31
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present: 0-31

In this example, the NR_CPUS config option is 128, but the kernel was
started with possible_cpus=144. There are 4 cpus in the system and cpu2
was manually taken offline (and is the only cpu that can be brought
started with possible_cpus=144. There are 4 CPUs in the system and cpu2
was manually taken offline (and is the only CPU that can be brought
online.)

kernel_max: 127
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present: 0-3

See cpu-hotplug.txt for the possible_cpus=NUM kernel start parameter
as well as more information on the various cpumask's.
as well as more information on the various cpumasks.
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Why: Should be implemented in userspace, policy daemon.
Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

---------------------------

What: CONFIG_INOTIFY
When: 2.6.33
Why: last user (audit) will be converted to the newer more generic
and more easily maintained fsnotify subsystem
Who: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

----------------------------

What: lock_policy_rwsem_* and unlock_policy_rwsem_* will not be
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mount options "ro,noload" can be used to prevent
writes to the filesystem.

journal_checksum Enable checksumming of the journal transactions.
This will allow the recovery code in e2fsck and the
kernel to detect corruption in the kernel. It is a
compatible change and will be ignored by older kernels.

journal_async_commit Commit block can be written to disk without waiting
for descriptor blocks. If enabled older kernels cannot
mount the device.
mount the device. This will enable 'journal_checksum'
internally.

journal=update Update the ext4 file system's journal to the current
format.
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Using flexible arrays in the kernel
Last updated for 2.6.31
Last updated for 2.6.32
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Large contiguous memory allocations can be unreliable in the Linux kernel.
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the current code, using flags to ask for high memory is likely to lead to
notably unpleasant side effects.

It is also possible to define flexible arrays at compile time with:

DEFINE_FLEX_ARRAY(name, element_size, total);

This macro will result in a definition of an array with the given name; the
element size and total will be checked for validity at compile time.

Storing data into a flexible array is accomplished with a call to:

int flex_array_put(struct flex_array *array, unsigned int element_nr,
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Note that it is possible to get back a valid pointer for an element which
has never been stored in the array. Memory for array elements is allocated
one page at a time; a single allocation could provide memory for several
adjacent elements. The flexible array code does not know if a specific
element has been written; it only knows if the associated memory is
present. So a flex_array_get() call on an element which was never stored
in the array has the potential to return a pointer to random data. If the
caller does not have a separate way to know which elements were actually
stored, it might be wise, at least, to add GFP_ZERO to the flags argument
to ensure that all elements are zeroed.

There is no way to remove a single element from the array. It is possible,
though, to remove all elements with a call to:
adjacent elements. Flexible array elements are normally initialized to the
value FLEX_ARRAY_FREE (defined as 0x6c in <linux/poison.h>), so errors
involving that number probably result from use of unstored array entries.
Note that, if array elements are allocated with __GFP_ZERO, they will be
initialized to zero and this poisoning will not happen.

Individual elements in the array can be cleared with:

int flex_array_clear(struct flex_array *array, unsigned int element_nr);

This function will set the given element to FLEX_ARRAY_FREE and return
zero. If storage for the indicated element is not allocated for the array,
flex_array_clear() will return -EINVAL instead. Note that clearing an
element does not release the storage associated with it; to reduce the
allocated size of an array, call:

int flex_array_shrink(struct flex_array *array);

The return value will be the number of pages of memory actually freed.
This function works by scanning the array for pages containing nothing but
FLEX_ARRAY_FREE bytes, so (1) it can be expensive, and (2) it will not work
if the array's pages are allocated with __GFP_ZERO.

It is possible to remove all elements of an array with a call to:

void flex_array_free_parts(struct flex_array *array);

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