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authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2009-12-06 17:00:33 +0000
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2009-12-06 17:00:33 +0000
commit3d14b5beba35250c548d3851a2b84fce742d8311 (patch)
tree065e3d93c3fcbc5ee4c44fa78662393cddbdf6de /Documentation
parent0719dc341389882cc834ed18fc9b7fc6006b2b85 (diff)
parent1bf8e6219552d5dd27012d567ec8c4bb9c2d86b4 (diff)
Merge branch 'sa1100' into devel
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/trace.txt254
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dontdiff3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt39
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/slow-work.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt149
11 files changed, 276 insertions, 223 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl
index b0756d0fd57..8bca1d5cec0 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl
@@ -86,4 +86,9 @@
!Iinclude/trace/events/irq.h
</chapter>
+ <chapter id="signal">
+ <title>SIGNAL</title>
+!Iinclude/trace/events/signal.h
+ </chapter>
+
</book>
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt b/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
index 187bbf10c92..8608fd85e92 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
@@ -1,185 +1,10 @@
CONFIG_RCU_TRACE debugfs Files and Formats
-The rcupreempt and rcutree implementations of RCU provide debugfs trace
-output that summarizes counters and state. This information is useful for
-debugging RCU itself, and can sometimes also help to debug abuses of RCU.
-Note that the rcuclassic implementation of RCU does not provide debugfs
-trace output.
-
-The following sections describe the debugfs files and formats for
-preemptable RCU (rcupreempt) and hierarchical RCU (rcutree).
-
-
-Preemptable RCU debugfs Files and Formats
-
-This implementation of RCU provides three debugfs files under the
-top-level directory RCU: rcu/rcuctrs (which displays the per-CPU
-counters used by preemptable RCU) rcu/rcugp (which displays grace-period
-counters), and rcu/rcustats (which internal counters for debugging RCU).
-
-The output of "cat rcu/rcuctrs" looks as follows:
-
-CPU last cur F M
- 0 5 -5 0 0
- 1 -1 0 0 0
- 2 0 1 0 0
- 3 0 1 0 0
- 4 0 1 0 0
- 5 0 1 0 0
- 6 0 2 0 0
- 7 0 -1 0 0
- 8 0 1 0 0
-ggp = 26226, state = waitzero
-
-The per-CPU fields are as follows:
-
-o "CPU" gives the CPU number. Offline CPUs are not displayed.
-
-o "last" gives the value of the counter that is being decremented
- for the current grace period phase. In the example above,
- the counters sum to 4, indicating that there are still four
- RCU read-side critical sections still running that started
- before the last counter flip.
-
-o "cur" gives the value of the counter that is currently being
- both incremented (by rcu_read_lock()) and decremented (by
- rcu_read_unlock()). In the example above, the counters sum to
- 1, indicating that there is only one RCU read-side critical section
- still running that started after the last counter flip.
-
-o "F" indicates whether RCU is waiting for this CPU to acknowledge
- a counter flip. In the above example, RCU is not waiting on any,
- which is consistent with the state being "waitzero" rather than
- "waitack".
-
-o "M" indicates whether RCU is waiting for this CPU to execute a
- memory barrier. In the above example, RCU is not waiting on any,
- which is consistent with the state being "waitzero" rather than
- "waitmb".
-
-o "ggp" is the global grace-period counter.
-
-o "state" is the RCU state, which can be one of the following:
-
- o "idle": there is no grace period in progress.
-
- o "waitack": RCU just incremented the global grace-period
- counter, which has the effect of reversing the roles of
- the "last" and "cur" counters above, and is waiting for
- all the CPUs to acknowledge the flip. Once the flip has
- been acknowledged, CPUs will no longer be incrementing
- what are now the "last" counters, so that their sum will
- decrease monotonically down to zero.
-
- o "waitzero": RCU is waiting for the sum of the "last" counters
- to decrease to zero.
-
- o "waitmb": RCU is waiting for each CPU to execute a memory
- barrier, which ensures that instructions from a given CPU's
- last RCU read-side critical section cannot be reordered
- with instructions following the memory-barrier instruction.
-
-The output of "cat rcu/rcugp" looks as follows:
-
-oldggp=48870 newggp=48873
-
-Note that reading from this file provokes a synchronize_rcu(). The
-"oldggp" value is that of "ggp" from rcu/rcuctrs above, taken before
-executing the synchronize_rcu(), and the "newggp" value is also the
-"ggp" value, but taken after the synchronize_rcu() command returns.
-
-
-The output of "cat rcu/rcugp" looks as follows:
-
-na=1337955 nl=40 wa=1337915 wl=44 da=1337871 dl=0 dr=1337871 di=1337871
-1=50989 e1=6138 i1=49722 ie1=82 g1=49640 a1=315203 ae1=265563 a2=49640
-z1=1401244 ze1=1351605 z2=49639 m1=5661253 me1=5611614 m2=49639
-
-These are counters tracking internal preemptable-RCU events, however,
-some of them may be useful for debugging algorithms using RCU. In
-particular, the "nl", "wl", and "dl" values track the number of RCU
-callbacks in various states. The fields are as follows:
-
-o "na" is the total number of RCU callbacks that have been enqueued
- since boot.
-
-o "nl" is the number of RCU callbacks waiting for the previous
- grace period to end so that they can start waiting on the next
- grace period.
-
-o "wa" is the total number of RCU callbacks that have started waiting
- for a grace period since boot. "na" should be roughly equal to
- "nl" plus "wa".
-
-o "wl" is the number of RCU callbacks currently waiting for their
- grace period to end.
-
-o "da" is the total number of RCU callbacks whose grace periods
- have completed since boot. "wa" should be roughly equal to
- "wl" plus "da".
-
-o "dr" is the total number of RCU callbacks that have been removed
- from the list of callbacks ready to invoke. "dr" should be roughly
- equal to "da".
-
-o "di" is the total number of RCU callbacks that have been invoked
- since boot. "di" should be roughly equal to "da", though some
- early versions of preemptable RCU had a bug so that only the
- last CPU's count of invocations was displayed, rather than the
- sum of all CPU's counts.
-
-o "1" is the number of calls to rcu_try_flip(). This should be
- roughly equal to the sum of "e1", "i1", "a1", "z1", and "m1"
- described below. In other words, the number of times that
- the state machine is visited should be equal to the sum of the
- number of times that each state is visited plus the number of
- times that the state-machine lock acquisition failed.
-
-o "e1" is the number of times that rcu_try_flip() was unable to
- acquire the fliplock.
-
-o "i1" is the number of calls to rcu_try_flip_idle().
-
-o "ie1" is the number of times rcu_try_flip_idle() exited early
- due to the calling CPU having no work for RCU.
-
-o "g1" is the number of times that rcu_try_flip_idle() decided
- to start a new grace period. "i1" should be roughly equal to
- "ie1" plus "g1".
-
-o "a1" is the number of calls to rcu_try_flip_waitack().
-
-o "ae1" is the number of times that rcu_try_flip_waitack() found
- that at least one CPU had not yet acknowledge the new grace period
- (AKA "counter flip").
-
-o "a2" is the number of time rcu_try_flip_waitack() found that
- all CPUs had acknowledged. "a1" should be roughly equal to
- "ae1" plus "a2". (This particular output was collected on
- a 128-CPU machine, hence the smaller-than-usual fraction of
- calls to rcu_try_flip_waitack() finding all CPUs having already
- acknowledged.)
-
-o "z1" is the number of calls to rcu_try_flip_waitzero().
-
-o "ze1" is the number of times that rcu_try_flip_waitzero() found
- that not all of the old RCU read-side critical sections had
- completed.
-
-o "z2" is the number of times that rcu_try_flip_waitzero() finds
- the sum of the counters equal to zero, in other words, that
- all of the old RCU read-side critical sections had completed.
- The value of "z1" should be roughly equal to "ze1" plus
- "z2".
-
-o "m1" is the number of calls to rcu_try_flip_waitmb().
-
-o "me1" is the number of times that rcu_try_flip_waitmb() finds
- that at least one CPU has not yet executed a memory barrier.
-
-o "m2" is the number of times that rcu_try_flip_waitmb() finds that
- all CPUs have executed a memory barrier.
+The rcutree implementation of RCU provides debugfs trace output that
+summarizes counters and state. This information is useful for debugging
+RCU itself, and can sometimes also help to debug abuses of RCU.
+The following sections describe the debugfs files and formats.
Hierarchical RCU debugfs Files and Formats
@@ -210,9 +35,10 @@ rcu_bh:
6 c=-275 g=-275 pq=1 pqc=-275 qp=0 dt=859/1 dn=0 df=15 of=0 ri=0 ql=0 b=10
7 c=-275 g=-275 pq=1 pqc=-275 qp=0 dt=3761/1 dn=0 df=15 of=0 ri=0 ql=0 b=10
-The first section lists the rcu_data structures for rcu, the second for
-rcu_bh. Each section has one line per CPU, or eight for this 8-CPU system.
-The fields are as follows:
+The first section lists the rcu_data structures for rcu_sched, the second
+for rcu_bh. Note that CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU kernels will have an
+additional section for rcu_preempt. Each section has one line per CPU,
+or eight for this 8-CPU system. The fields are as follows:
o The number at the beginning of each line is the CPU number.
CPUs numbers followed by an exclamation mark are offline,
@@ -223,9 +49,9 @@ o The number at the beginning of each line is the CPU number.
o "c" is the count of grace periods that this CPU believes have
completed. CPUs in dynticks idle mode may lag quite a ways
- behind, for example, CPU 4 under "rcu" above, which has slept
- through the past 25 RCU grace periods. It is not unusual to
- see CPUs lagging by thousands of grace periods.
+ behind, for example, CPU 4 under "rcu_sched" above, which has
+ slept through the past 25 RCU grace periods. It is not unusual
+ to see CPUs lagging by thousands of grace periods.
o "g" is the count of grace periods that this CPU believes have
started. Again, CPUs in dynticks idle mode may lag behind.
@@ -308,8 +134,10 @@ The output of "cat rcu/rcugp" looks as follows:
rcu_sched: completed=33062 gpnum=33063
rcu_bh: completed=464 gpnum=464
-Again, this output is for both "rcu" and "rcu_bh". The fields are
-taken from the rcu_state structure, and are as follows:
+Again, this output is for both "rcu_sched" and "rcu_bh". Note that
+kernels built with CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU will have an additional
+"rcu_preempt" line. The fields are taken from the rcu_state structure,
+and are as follows:
o "completed" is the number of grace periods that have completed.
It is comparable to the "c" field from rcu/rcudata in that a
@@ -324,23 +152,24 @@ o "gpnum" is the number of grace periods that have started. It is
If these two fields are equal (as they are for "rcu_bh" above),
then there is no grace period in progress, in other words, RCU
is idle. On the other hand, if the two fields differ (as they
- do for "rcu" above), then an RCU grace period is in progress.
+ do for "rcu_sched" above), then an RCU grace period is in progress.
The output of "cat rcu/rcuhier" looks as follows, with very long lines:
-c=6902 g=6903 s=2 jfq=3 j=72c7 nfqs=13142/nfqsng=0(13142) fqlh=6
-1/1 0:127 ^0
-3/3 0:35 ^0 0/0 36:71 ^1 0/0 72:107 ^2 0/0 108:127 ^3
-3/3f 0:5 ^0 2/3 6:11 ^1 0/0 12:17 ^2 0/0 18:23 ^3 0/0 24:29 ^4 0/0 30:35 ^5 0/0 36:41 ^0 0/0 42:47 ^1 0/0 48:53 ^2 0/0 54:59 ^3 0/0 60:65 ^4 0/0 66:71 ^5 0/0 72:77 ^0 0/0 78:83 ^1 0/0 84:89 ^2 0/0 90:95 ^3 0/0 96:101 ^4 0/0 102:107 ^5 0/0 108:113 ^0 0/0 114:119 ^1 0/0 120:125 ^2 0/0 126:127 ^3
+c=6902 g=6903 s=2 jfq=3 j=72c7 nfqs=13142/nfqsng=0(13142) fqlh=6 oqlen=0
+1/1 .>. 0:127 ^0
+3/3 .>. 0:35 ^0 0/0 .>. 36:71 ^1 0/0 .>. 72:107 ^2 0/0 .>. 108:127 ^3
+3/3f .>. 0:5 ^0 2/3 .>. 6:11 ^1 0/0 .>. 12:17 ^2 0/0 .>. 18:23 ^3 0/0 .>. 24:29 ^4 0/0 .>. 30:35 ^5 0/0 .>. 36:41 ^0 0/0 .>. 42:47 ^1 0/0 .>. 48:53 ^2 0/0 .>. 54:59 ^3 0/0 .>. 60:65 ^4 0/0 .>. 66:71 ^5 0/0 .>. 72:77 ^0 0/0 .>. 78:83 ^1 0/0 .>. 84:89 ^2 0/0 .>. 90:95 ^3 0/0 .>. 96:101 ^4 0/0 .>. 102:107 ^5 0/0 .>. 108:113 ^0 0/0 .>. 114:119 ^1 0/0 .>. 120:125 ^2 0/0 .>. 126:127 ^3
rcu_bh:
-c=-226 g=-226 s=1 jfq=-5701 j=72c7 nfqs=88/nfqsng=0(88) fqlh=0
-0/1 0:127 ^0
-0/3 0:35 ^0 0/0 36:71 ^1 0/0 72:107 ^2 0/0 108:127 ^3
-0/3f 0:5 ^0 0/3 6:11 ^1 0/0 12:17 ^2 0/0 18:23 ^3 0/0 24:29 ^4 0/0 30:35 ^5 0/0 36:41 ^0 0/0 42:47 ^1 0/0 48:53 ^2 0/0 54:59 ^3 0/0 60:65 ^4 0/0 66:71 ^5 0/0 72:77 ^0 0/0 78:83 ^1 0/0 84:89 ^2 0/0 90:95 ^3 0/0 96:101 ^4 0/0 102:107 ^5 0/0 108:113 ^0 0/0 114:119 ^1 0/0 120:125 ^2 0/0 126:127 ^3
+c=-226 g=-226 s=1 jfq=-5701 j=72c7 nfqs=88/nfqsng=0(88) fqlh=0 oqlen=0
+0/1 .>. 0:127 ^0
+0/3 .>. 0:35 ^0 0/0 .>. 36:71 ^1 0/0 .>. 72:107 ^2 0/0 .>. 108:127 ^3
+0/3f .>. 0:5 ^0 0/3 .>. 6:11 ^1 0/0 .>. 12:17 ^2 0/0 .>. 18:23 ^3 0/0 .>. 24:29 ^4 0/0 .>. 30:35 ^5 0/0 .>. 36:41 ^0 0/0 .>. 42:47 ^1 0/0 .>. 48:53 ^2 0/0 .>. 54:59 ^3 0/0 .>. 60:65 ^4 0/0 .>. 66:71 ^5 0/0 .>. 72:77 ^0 0/0 .>. 78:83 ^1 0/0 .>. 84:89 ^2 0/0 .>. 90:95 ^3 0/0 .>. 96:101 ^4 0/0 .>. 102:107 ^5 0/0 .>. 108:113 ^0 0/0 .>. 114:119 ^1 0/0 .>. 120:125 ^2 0/0 .>. 126:127 ^3
-This is once again split into "rcu" and "rcu_bh" portions. The fields are
-as follows:
+This is once again split into "rcu_sched" and "rcu_bh" portions,
+and CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU kernels will again have an additional
+"rcu_preempt" section. The fields are as follows:
o "c" is exactly the same as "completed" under rcu/rcugp.
@@ -372,6 +201,11 @@ o "fqlh" is the number of calls to force_quiescent_state() that
exited immediately (without even being counted in nfqs above)
due to contention on ->fqslock.
+o "oqlen" is the number of callbacks on the "orphan" callback
+ list. RCU callbacks are placed on this list by CPUs going
+ offline, and are "adopted" either by the CPU helping the outgoing
+ CPU or by the next rcu_barrier*() call, whichever comes first.
+
o Each element of the form "1/1 0:127 ^0" represents one struct
rcu_node. Each line represents one level of the hierarchy, from
root to leaves. It is best to think of the rcu_data structures
@@ -379,7 +213,7 @@ o Each element of the form "1/1 0:127 ^0" represents one struct
might be either one, two, or three levels of rcu_node structures,
depending on the relationship between CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT and
CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
-
+
o The numbers separated by the "/" are the qsmask followed
by the qsmaskinit. The qsmask will have one bit
set for each entity in the next lower level that
@@ -389,10 +223,19 @@ o Each element of the form "1/1 0:127 ^0" represents one struct
The value of qsmaskinit is assigned to that of qsmask
at the beginning of each grace period.
- For example, for "rcu", the qsmask of the first entry
- of the lowest level is 0x14, meaning that we are still
- waiting for CPUs 2 and 4 to check in for the current
- grace period.
+ For example, for "rcu_sched", the qsmask of the first
+ entry of the lowest level is 0x14, meaning that we
+ are still waiting for CPUs 2 and 4 to check in for the
+ current grace period.
+
+ o The characters separated by the ">" indicate the state
+ of the blocked-tasks lists. A "T" preceding the ">"
+ indicates that at least one task blocked in an RCU
+ read-side critical section blocks the current grace
+ period, while a "." preceding the ">" indicates otherwise.
+ The character following the ">" indicates similarly for
+ the next grace period. A "T" should appear in this
+ field only for rcu-preempt.
o The numbers separated by the ":" are the range of CPUs
served by this struct rcu_node. This can be helpful
@@ -431,8 +274,9 @@ rcu_bh:
6 np=120834 qsp=9902 cbr=0 cng=0 gpc=6 gps=3 nf=2 nn=110921
7 np=144888 qsp=26336 cbr=0 cng=0 gpc=8 gps=2 nf=0 nn=118542
-As always, this is once again split into "rcu" and "rcu_bh" portions.
-The fields are as follows:
+As always, this is once again split into "rcu_sched" and "rcu_bh"
+portions, with CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU kernels having an additional
+"rcu_preempt" section. The fields are as follows:
o "np" is the number of times that __rcu_pending() has been invoked
for the corresponding flavor of RCU.
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
index e41a7fecf0d..d542ca243b8 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
@@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ sched: Critical sections Grace period Barrier
SRCU: Critical sections Grace period Barrier
srcu_read_lock synchronize_srcu N/A
- srcu_read_unlock
+ srcu_read_unlock synchronize_srcu_expedited
SRCU: Initialization/cleanup
init_srcu_struct
diff --git a/Documentation/dontdiff b/Documentation/dontdiff
index e1efc400bed..e151b2a3626 100644
--- a/Documentation/dontdiff
+++ b/Documentation/dontdiff
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ aicdb.h*
asm-offsets.h
asm_offsets.h
autoconf.h*
+av_permissions.h
bbootsect
bin2c
binkernel.spec
@@ -95,12 +96,14 @@ docproc
elf2ecoff
elfconfig.h*
fixdep
+flask.h
fore200e_mkfirm
fore200e_pca_fw.c*
gconf
gen-devlist
gen_crc32table
gen_init_cpio
+genheaders
genksyms
*_gray256.c
ihex2fw
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index bc693fffabe..f613df8ec7b 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,21 @@ be removed from this file.
---------------------------
+What: USER_SCHED
+When: 2.6.34
+
+Why: USER_SCHED was implemented as a proof of concept for group scheduling.
+ The effect of USER_SCHED can already be achieved from userspace with
+ the help of libcgroup. The removal of USER_SCHED will also simplify
+ the scheduler code with the removal of one major ifdef. There are also
+ issues USER_SCHED has with USER_NS. A decision was taken not to fix
+ those and instead remove USER_SCHED. Also new group scheduling
+ features will not be implemented for USER_SCHED.
+
+Who: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: PRISM54
When: 2.6.34
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 2c48f945546..4af0018533f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -1072,7 +1072,8 @@ second). The meanings of the columns are as follows, from left to right:
- irq: servicing interrupts
- softirq: servicing softirqs
- steal: involuntary wait
-- guest: running a guest
+- guest: running a normal guest
+- guest_nice: running a niced guest
The "intr" line gives counts of interrupts serviced since boot time, for each
of the possible system interrupts. The first column is the total of all
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 9107b387e91..fce5b5e516c 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -85,7 +85,6 @@ parameter is applicable:
PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
- ROOTPLUG The example Root Plug LSM is enabled.
S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
A lot of drivers has their options described inside of
@@ -345,6 +344,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
Change the amount of debugging information output
when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
+ show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
+ Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
+ number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
+ to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
+ Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
+ The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
+ apic=verbose is specified.
+ Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
+
apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
@@ -779,6 +787,13 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
tracing directory.
+ ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
+ [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
+ by the function graph tracer at boot up.
+ function-list is a comma separated list of functions
+ that can be changed at run time by the
+ set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
+
gamecon.map[2|3]=
[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
@@ -2032,8 +2047,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
print-fatal-signals=
[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
- print-fatal-signals=1: print segfault info to
- the kernel console.
+
+ If enabled, warn about various signal handling
+ related application anomalies: too many signals,
+ too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
+ coredump - etc.
+
+ If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
+ you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
+
default: off.
printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
@@ -2164,15 +2186,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
- root_plug.vendor_id=
- [ROOTPLUG] Override the default vendor ID
-
- root_plug.product_id=
- [ROOTPLUG] Override the default product ID
-
- root_plug.debug=
- [ROOTPLUG] Enable debugging output
-
rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
S [KNL] Run init in single mode
@@ -2182,6 +2195,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
+ sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
+
sc1200wdt= [HW,WDT] SC1200 WDT (watchdog) driver
Format: <io>[,<timeout>[,<isapnp>]]
diff --git a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt
index 059934363ca..446f43b309d 100644
--- a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@
This file details changes in 2.6 which affect PCMCIA card driver authors:
+* no cs_error / CS_CHECK / CONFIG_PCMCIA_DEBUG (as of 2.6.33)
+ Instead of the cs_error() callback or the CS_CHECK() macro, please use
+ Linux-style checking of return values, and -- if necessary -- debug
+ messages using "dev_dbg()" or "pr_debug()".
+
+* New CIS tuple access (as of 2.6.33)
+ Instead of pcmcia_get_{first,next}_tuple(), pcmcia_get_tuple_data() and
+ pcmcia_parse_tuple(), a driver shall use "pcmcia_get_tuple()" if it is
+ only interested in one (raw) tuple, or "pcmcia_loop_tuple()" if it is
+ interested in all tuples of one type. To decode the MAC from CISTPL_FUNCE,
+ a new helper "pcmcia_get_mac_from_cis()" was added.
+
* New configuration loop helper (as of 2.6.28)
By calling pcmcia_loop_config(), a driver can iterate over all available
configuration options. During a driver's probe() phase, one doesn't need
diff --git a/Documentation/slow-work.txt b/Documentation/slow-work.txt
index 52bc3143372..9dbf4470c7e 100644
--- a/Documentation/slow-work.txt
+++ b/Documentation/slow-work.txt
@@ -279,9 +279,9 @@ The slow-work thread pool has a number of configurables:
VIEWING EXECUTING AND QUEUED ITEMS
==================================
-If CONFIG_SLOW_WORK_PROC is enabled, a proc file is made available:
+If CONFIG_SLOW_WORK_DEBUG is enabled, a debugfs file is made available:
- /proc/slow_work_rq
+ /sys/kernel/debug/slow_work/runqueue
through which the list of work items being executed and the queues of items to
be executed may be viewed. The owner of a work item is given the chance to
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
index 7003e10f10f..641a1ef2a7f 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
@@ -213,10 +213,19 @@ If you can't trace NMI functions, then skip this option.
<details to be filled>
-HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS
+HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
---------------------
-<details to be filled>
+You need very few things to get the syscalls tracing in an arch.
+
+- Have a NR_syscalls variable in <asm/unistd.h> that provides the number
+ of syscalls supported by the arch.
+- Implement arch_syscall_addr() that resolves a syscall address from a
+ syscall number.
+- Support the TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT thread flags
+- Put the trace_sys_enter() and trace_sys_exit() tracepoints calls from ptrace
+ in the ptrace syscalls tracing path.
+- Tag this arch as HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS.
HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..47aabeebbdf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+ Kprobe-based Event Tracing
+ ==========================
+
+ Documentation is written by Masami Hiramatsu
+
+
+Overview
+--------
+These events are similar to tracepoint based events. Instead of Tracepoint,
+this is based on kprobes (kprobe and kretprobe). So it can probe wherever
+kprobes can probe (this means, all functions body except for __kprobes
+functions). Unlike the Tracepoint based event, this can be added and removed
+dynamically, on the fly.
+
+To enable this feature, build your kernel with CONFIG_KPROBE_TRACING=y.
+
+Similar to the events tracer, this doesn't need to be activated via
+current_tracer. Instead of that, add probe points via
+/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events, and enable it via
+/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/<EVENT>/enabled.
+
+
+Synopsis of kprobe_events
+-------------------------
+ p[:[GRP/]EVENT] SYMBOL[+offs]|MEMADDR [FETCHARGS] : Set a probe
+ r[:[GRP/]EVENT] SYMBOL[+0] [FETCHARGS] : Set a return probe
+
+ GRP : Group name. If omitted, use "kprobes" for it.
+ EVENT : Event name. If omitted, the event name is generated
+ based on SYMBOL+offs or MEMADDR.
+ SYMBOL[+offs] : Symbol+offset where the probe is inserted.
+ MEMADDR : Address where the probe is inserted.
+
+ FETCHARGS : Arguments. Each probe can have up to 128 args.
+ %REG : Fetch register REG
+ @ADDR : Fetch memory at ADDR (ADDR should be in kernel)
+ @SYM[+|-offs] : Fetch memory at SYM +|- offs (SYM should be a data symbol)
+ $stackN : Fetch Nth entry of stack (N >= 0)
+ $stack : Fetch stack address.
+ $argN : Fetch function argument. (N >= 0)(*)
+ $retval : Fetch return value.(**)
+ +|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.(***)
+ NAME=FETCHARG: Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG.
+
+ (*) aN may not correct on asmlinkaged functions and at the middle of
+ function body.
+ (**) only for return probe.
+ (***) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures.
+
+
+Per-Probe Event Filtering
+-------------------------
+ Per-probe event filtering feature allows you to set different filter on each
+probe and gives you what arguments will be shown in trace buffer. If an event
+name is specified right after 'p:' or 'r:' in kprobe_events, it adds an event
+under tracing/events/kprobes/<EVENT>, at the directory you can see 'id',
+'enabled', 'format' and 'filter'.
+
+enabled:
+ You can enable/disable the probe by writing 1 or 0 on it.
+
+format:
+ This shows the format of this probe event.
+
+filter:
+ You can write filtering rules of this event.
+
+id:
+ This shows the id of this probe event.
+
+
+Event Profiling
+---------------
+ You can check the total number of probe hits and probe miss-hits via
+/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_profile.
+ The first column is event name, the second is the number of probe hits,
+the third is the number of probe miss-hits.
+
+
+Usage examples
+--------------
+To add a probe as a new event, write a new definition to kprobe_events
+as below.
+
+ echo p:myprobe do_sys_open dfd=$arg0 filename=$arg1 flags=$arg2 mode=$arg3 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
+
+ This sets a kprobe on the top of do_sys_open() function with recording
+1st to 4th arguments as "myprobe" event. As this example shows, users can
+choose more familiar names for each arguments.
+
+ echo r:myretprobe do_sys_open $retval >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
+
+ This sets a kretprobe on the return point of do_sys_open() function with
+recording return value as "myretprobe" event.
+ You can see the format of these events via
+/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/<EVENT>/format.
+
+ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/myprobe/format
+name: myprobe
+ID: 75
+format:
+ field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2;
+ field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1;
+ field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1;
+ field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4;
+ field:int common_tgid; offset:8; size:4;
+
+ field: unsigned long ip; offset:16;tsize:8;
+ field: int nargs; offset:24;tsize:4;
+ field: unsigned long dfd; offset:32;tsize:8;
+ field: unsigned long filename; offset:40;tsize:8;
+ field: unsigned long flags; offset:48;tsize:8;
+ field: unsigned long mode; offset:56;tsize:8;
+
+print fmt: "(%lx) dfd=%lx filename=%lx flags=%lx mode=%lx", REC->ip, REC->dfd, REC->filename, REC->flags, REC->mode
+
+
+ You can see that the event has 4 arguments as in the expressions you specified.
+
+ echo > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
+
+ This clears all probe points.
+
+ Right after definition, each event is disabled by default. For tracing these
+events, you need to enable it.
+
+ echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/myprobe/enable
+ echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/myretprobe/enable
+
+ And you can see the traced information via /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace.
+
+ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
+# tracer: nop
+#
+# TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
+# | | | | |
+ <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286875: myprobe: (do_sys_open+0x0/0xd6) dfd=3 filename=7fffd1ec4440 flags=8000 mode=0
+ <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286878: myretprobe: (sys_openat+0xc/0xe <- do_sys_open) $retval=fffffffffffffffe
+ <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286885: myprobe: (do_sys_open+0x0/0xd6) dfd=ffffff9c filename=40413c flags=8000 mode=1b6
+ <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286915: myretprobe: (sys_open+0x1b/0x1d <- do_sys_open) $retval=3
+ <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286969: myprobe: (do_sys_open+0x0/0xd6) dfd=ffffff9c filename=4041c6 flags=98800 mode=10
+ <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286976: myretprobe: (sys_open+0x1b/0x1d <- do_sys_open) $retval=3
+
+
+ Each line shows when the kernel hits an event, and <- SYMBOL means kernel
+returns from SYMBOL(e.g. "sys_open+0x1b/0x1d <- do_sys_open" means kernel
+returns from do_sys_open to sys_open+0x1b).
+
+