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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-10-12 15:05:39 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-10-12 15:05:39 +0200
commita9b9e81c915e4a57ac3b21d1a7fa7ff184639780 (patch)
tree98304395fbb5b9c74fca35b196cd414c1949f280 /Documentation/s390/CommonIO
parenta8b71a2810386a5ac8f43d2095fe3355f0d8db37 (diff)
parentfd048088306656824958e7783ffcee27e241b361 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/memory-corruption-check
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+++ b/Documentation/s390/CommonIO
@@ -70,13 +70,19 @@ Command line parameters
Note: While already known devices can be added to the list of devices to be
ignored, there will be no effect on then. However, if such a device
- disappears and then reappears, it will then be ignored.
+ disappears and then reappears, it will then be ignored. To make
+ known devices go away, you need the "purge" command (see below).
For example,
"echo add 0.0.a000-0.0.accc, 0.0.af00-0.0.afff > /proc/cio_ignore"
will add 0.0.a000-0.0.accc and 0.0.af00-0.0.afff to the list of ignored
devices.
+ You can remove already known but now ignored devices via
+ "echo purge > /proc/cio_ignore"
+ All devices ignored but still registered and not online (= not in use)
+ will be deregistered and thus removed from the system.
+
The devices can be specified either by bus id (0.x.abcd) or, for 2.4 backward
compatibility, by the device number in hexadecimal (0xabcd or abcd). Device
numbers given as 0xabcd will be interpreted as 0.0.abcd.
@@ -98,8 +104,7 @@ debugfs entries
handling).
- /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/cio_msg/sprintf
- Various debug messages from the common I/O-layer, including messages
- printed when cio_msg=yes.
+ Various debug messages from the common I/O-layer.
- /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/cio_trace/hex_ascii
Logs the calling of functions in the common I/O-layer and, if applicable,