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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion CREDITS
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Expand Up @@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ N: Zach Brown
E: zab@zabbo.net
D: maestro pci sound

M: David Brownell
N: David Brownell
D: Kernel engineer, mentor, and friend. Maintained USB EHCI and
D: gadget layers, SPI subsystem, GPIO subsystem, and more than a few
D: device drivers. His encouragement also helped many engineers get
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43 changes: 18 additions & 25 deletions Documentation/Changes
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=====

This document is designed to provide a list of the minimum levels of
software necessary to run the 2.6 kernels, as well as provide brief
instructions regarding any other "Gotchas" users may encounter when
trying life on the Bleeding Edge. If upgrading from a pre-2.4.x
kernel, please consult the Changes file included with 2.4.x kernels for
additional information; most of that information will not be repeated
here. Basically, this document assumes that your system is already
functional and running at least 2.4.x kernels.
software necessary to run the 3.0 kernels.

This document is originally based on my "Changes" file for 2.0.x kernels
and therefore owes credit to the same people as that file (Jared Mauch,
Expand All @@ -22,11 +16,10 @@ Upgrade to at *least* these software revisions before thinking you've
encountered a bug! If you're unsure what version you're currently
running, the suggested command should tell you.

Again, keep in mind that this list assumes you are already
functionally running a Linux 2.4 kernel. Also, not all tools are
necessary on all systems; obviously, if you don't have any ISDN
hardware, for example, you probably needn't concern yourself with
isdn4k-utils.
Again, keep in mind that this list assumes you are already functionally
running a Linux kernel. Also, not all tools are necessary on all
systems; obviously, if you don't have any ISDN hardware, for example,
you probably needn't concern yourself with isdn4k-utils.

o Gnu C 3.2 # gcc --version
o Gnu make 3.80 # make --version
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If the unthinkable happens and your kernel oopses, you may need the
ksymoops tool to decode it, but in most cases you don't.
In the 2.6 kernel it is generally preferred to build the kernel with
CONFIG_KALLSYMS so that it produces readable dumps that can be used as-is
(this also produces better output than ksymoops).
If for some reason your kernel is not build with CONFIG_KALLSYMS and
you have no way to rebuild and reproduce the Oops with that option, then
you can still decode that Oops with ksymoops.
It is generally preferred to build the kernel with CONFIG_KALLSYMS so
that it produces readable dumps that can be used as-is (this also
produces better output than ksymoops). If for some reason your kernel
is not build with CONFIG_KALLSYMS and you have no way to rebuild and
reproduce the Oops with that option, then you can still decode that Oops
with ksymoops.

Module-Init-Tools
-----------------
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NFS-utils
---------

In 2.4 and earlier kernels, the nfs server needed to know about any
client that expected to be able to access files via NFS. This
In ancient (2.4 and earlier) kernels, the nfs server needed to know
about any client that expected to be able to access files via NFS. This
information would be given to the kernel by "mountd" when the client
mounted the filesystem, or by "exportfs" at system startup. exportfs
would take information about active clients from /var/lib/nfs/rmtab.
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fail-over. Even when the system is working well, rmtab suffers from
getting lots of old entries that never get removed.

With 2.6 we have the option of having the kernel tell mountd when it
gets a request from an unknown host, and mountd can give appropriate
export information to the kernel. This removes the dependency on
rmtab and means that the kernel only needs to know about currently
active clients.
With modern kernels we have the option of having the kernel tell mountd
when it gets a request from an unknown host, and mountd can give
appropriate export information to the kernel. This removes the
dependency on rmtab and means that the kernel only needs to know about
currently active clients.

To enable this new functionality, you need to:

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Chapter 14: Allocating memory

The kernel provides the following general purpose memory allocators:
kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), and vmalloc(). Please refer to the API
documentation for further information about them.
kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), vmalloc(), and vzalloc(). Please refer to
the API documentation for further information about them.

The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:

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Expand Up @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Throttling/Upper Limit policy
- Specify a bandwidth rate on particular device for root group. The format
for policy is "<major>:<minor> <byes_per_second>".

echo "8:16 1048576" > /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/blkio.read_bps_device
echo "8:16 1048576" > /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/blkio.throttle.read_bps_device

Above will put a limit of 1MB/second on reads happening for root group
on device having major/minor number 8:16.
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1024+0 records out
4194304 bytes (4.2 MB) copied, 4.0001 s, 1.0 MB/s

Limits for writes can be put using blkio.write_bps_device file.
Limits for writes can be put using blkio.throttle.write_bps_device file.

Hierarchical Cgroups
====================
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specified in bytes per second. Rules are per deivce. Following is
the format.

echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_bytes_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.read_bps_device
echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_bytes_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.throttle.read_bps_device

- blkio.throttle.write_bps_device
- Specifies upper limit on WRITE rate to the device. IO rate is
specified in bytes per second. Rules are per deivce. Following is
the format.

echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_bytes_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.write_bps_device
echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_bytes_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.throttle.write_bps_device

- blkio.throttle.read_iops_device
- Specifies upper limit on READ rate from the device. IO rate is
specified in IO per second. Rules are per deivce. Following is
the format.

echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_io_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.read_iops_device
echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_io_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.throttle.read_iops_device

- blkio.throttle.write_iops_device
- Specifies upper limit on WRITE rate to the device. IO rate is
specified in io per second. Rules are per deivce. Following is
the format.

echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_io_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.write_iops_device
echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_io_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.throttle.write_iops_device

Note: If both BW and IOPS rules are specified for a device, then IO is
subjectd to both the constraints.
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Expand Up @@ -583,3 +583,25 @@ Why: Superseded by the UVCIOC_CTRL_QUERY ioctl.
Who: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>

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

What: For VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY the type field must match the device node's type.
If not, return -EINVAL.
When: 3.2
Why: It makes no sense to switch the tuner to radio mode by calling
VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY on a video node, or to switch the tuner to tv mode by
calling VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY on a radio node. This is the first step of a
move to more consistent handling of tv and radio tuners.
Who: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>

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

What: Opening a radio device node will no longer automatically switch the
tuner mode from tv to radio.
When: 3.3
Why: Just opening a V4L device should not change the state of the hardware
like that. It's very unexpected and against the V4L spec. Instead, you
switch to radio mode by calling VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY. This is the second
and last step of the move to consistent handling of tv and radio tuners.
Who: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>

----------------------------
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in which case the page will not be stored in the cache this time.


BULK INODE PAGE UNCACHE
-----------------------

A convenience routine is provided to perform an uncache on all the pages
attached to an inode. This assumes that the pages on the inode correspond on a
1:1 basis with the pages in the cache.

void fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
struct inode *inode);

This takes the netfs cookie that the pages were cached with and the inode that
the pages are attached to. This function will wait for pages to finish being
written to the cache and for the cache to finish with the page generally. No
error is returned.


==========================
INDEX AND DATA FILE UPDATE
==========================
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Prefix: 'f71869'
Addresses scanned: none, address read from Super I/O config space
Datasheet: Available from the Fintek website
* Fintek F71869A
Prefix: 'f71869a'
Addresses scanned: none, address read from Super I/O config space
Datasheet: Not public
* Fintek F71882FG and F71883FG
Prefix: 'f71882fg'
Addresses scanned: none, address read from Super I/O config space
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Socket S1G3: Athlon II, Sempron, Turion II
* AMD Family 11h processors:
Socket S1G2: Athlon (X2), Sempron (X2), Turion X2 (Ultra)
* AMD Family 12h processors: "Llano"
* AMD Family 14h processors: "Brazos" (C/E/G-Series)
* AMD Family 12h processors: "Llano" (E2/A4/A6/A8-Series)
* AMD Family 14h processors: "Brazos" (C/E/G/Z-Series)
* AMD Family 15h processors: "Bulldozer"

Prefix: 'k10temp'
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http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/31116.pdf
BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide (BKDG) for AMD Family 11h Processors:
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/41256.pdf
BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide (BKDG) for AMD Family 12h Processors:
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/41131.pdf
BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide (BKDG) for AMD Family 14h Models 00h-0Fh Processors:
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/43170.pdf
Revision Guide for AMD Family 10h Processors:
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/41322.pdf
Revision Guide for AMD Family 11h Processors:
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/41788.pdf
Revision Guide for AMD Family 12h Processors:
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/44739.pdf
Revision Guide for AMD Family 14h Models 00h-0Fh Processors:
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/47534.pdf
AMD Family 11h Processor Power and Thermal Data Sheet for Notebooks:
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the default.
off: Turn ECRC off
on: Turn ECRC on.
realloc reallocate PCI resources if allocations done by BIOS
are erroneous.

pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
Management.
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0x2404 System is waking up from hibernation to undock
0x2405 System is waking up from hibernation to eject bay
0x5010 Brightness level changed/control event
0x6000 KEYBOARD: Numlock key pressed
0x6005 KEYBOARD: Fn key pressed (TO BE VERIFIED)

Events that are propagated by the driver to userspace:

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0x3006 Bay hotplug request (hint to power up SATA link when
the optical drive tray is ejected)
0x4003 Undocked (see 0x2x04), can sleep again
0x4010 Docked into hotplug port replicator (non-ACPI dock)
0x4011 Undocked from hotplug port replicator (non-ACPI dock)
0x500B Tablet pen inserted into its storage bay
0x500C Tablet pen removed from its storage bay
0x6011 ALARM: battery is too hot
0x6012 ALARM: battery is extremely hot
0x6021 ALARM: a sensor is too hot
0x6022 ALARM: a sensor is extremely hot
0x6030 System thermal table changed
0x6040 Nvidia Optimus/AC adapter related (TO BE VERIFIED)

Battery nearly empty alarms are a last resort attempt to get the
operating system to hibernate or shutdown cleanly (0x2313), or shutdown
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should be used. Of course, for this purpose the device's run-time PM has to be
enabled earlier by calling pm_runtime_enable().

If the device bus type's or driver's ->probe() or ->remove() callback runs
If the device bus type's or driver's ->probe() callback runs
pm_runtime_suspend() or pm_runtime_idle() or their asynchronous counterparts,
they will fail returning -EAGAIN, because the device's usage counter is
incremented by the core before executing ->probe() and ->remove(). Still, it
may be desirable to suspend the device as soon as ->probe() or ->remove() has
finished, so the PM core uses pm_runtime_idle_sync() to invoke the
subsystem-level idle callback for the device at that time.
incremented by the driver core before executing ->probe(). Still, it may be
desirable to suspend the device as soon as ->probe() has finished, so the driver
core uses pm_runtime_put_sync() to invoke the subsystem-level idle callback for
the device at that time.

Moreover, the driver core prevents runtime PM callbacks from racing with the bus
notifier callback in __device_release_driver(), which is necessary, because the
notifier is used by some subsystems to carry out operations affecting the
runtime PM functionality. It does so by calling pm_runtime_get_sync() before
driver_sysfs_remove() and the BUS_NOTIFY_UNBIND_DRIVER notifications. This
resumes the device if it's in the suspended state and prevents it from
being suspended again while those routines are being executed.

To allow bus types and drivers to put devices into the suspended state by
calling pm_runtime_suspend() from their ->remove() routines, the driver core
executes pm_runtime_put_sync() after running the BUS_NOTIFY_UNBIND_DRIVER
notifications in __device_release_driver(). This requires bus types and
drivers to make their ->remove() callbacks avoid races with runtime PM directly,
but also it allows of more flexibility in the handling of devices during the
removal of their drivers.

The user space can effectively disallow the driver of the device to power manage
it at run time by changing the value of its /sys/devices/.../power/control
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The above is always safe. It will disable interrupts _locally_, but the
spinlock itself will guarantee the global lock, so it will guarantee that
there is only one thread-of-control within the region(s) protected by that
lock. This works well even under UP. The above sequence under UP
essentially is just the same as doing

unsigned long flags;

save_flags(flags); cli();
... critical section ...
restore_flags(flags);

so the code does _not_ need to worry about UP vs SMP issues: the spinlocks
work correctly under both (and spinlocks are actually more efficient on
architectures that allow doing the "save_flags + cli" in one operation).
lock. This works well even under UP also, so the code does _not_ need to
worry about UP vs SMP issues: the spinlocks work correctly under both.

NOTE! Implications of spin_locks for memory are further described in:

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spinlock for most things - using more than one spinlock can make things a
lot more complex and even slower and is usually worth it only for
sequences that you _know_ need to be split up: avoid it at all cost if you
aren't sure). HOWEVER, it _does_ mean that if you have some code that does

cli();
.. critical section ..
sti();

and another sequence that does

spin_lock_irqsave(flags);
.. critical section ..
spin_unlock_irqrestore(flags);

then they are NOT mutually exclusive, and the critical regions can happen
at the same time on two different CPU's. That's fine per se, but the
critical regions had better be critical for different things (ie they
can't stomp on each other).

The above is a problem mainly if you end up mixing code - for example the
routines in ll_rw_block() tend to use cli/sti to protect the atomicity of
their actions, and if a driver uses spinlocks instead then you should
think about issues like the above.
aren't sure).

This is really the only really hard part about spinlocks: once you start
using spinlocks they tend to expand to areas you might not have noticed
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The single spin-lock primitives above are by no means the only ones. They
are the most safe ones, and the ones that work under all circumstances,
but partly _because_ they are safe they are also fairly slow. They are
much faster than a generic global cli/sti pair, but slower than they'd
need to be, because they do have to disable interrupts (which is just a
single instruction on a x86, but it's an expensive one - and on other
architectures it can be worse).
but partly _because_ they are safe they are also fairly slow. They are slower
than they'd need to be, because they do have to disable interrupts
(which is just a single instruction on a x86, but it's an expensive one -
and on other architectures it can be worse).

If you have a case where you have to protect a data structure across
several CPU's and you want to use spinlocks you can potentially use
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reported. That's because transfers often involve several packets, so that
one or more packets could finish before an error stops further endpoint I/O.

For isochronous URBs, the urb status value is non-zero only if the URB is
unlinked, the device is removed, the host controller is disabled, or the total
transferred length is less than the requested length and the URB_SHORT_NOT_OK
flag is set. Completion handlers for isochronous URBs should only see
urb->status set to zero, -ENOENT, -ECONNRESET, -ESHUTDOWN, or -EREMOTEIO.
Individual frame descriptor status fields may report more status codes.


0 Transfer completed successfully

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device removal events immediately.

-EXDEV ISO transfer only partially completed
look at individual frame status for details
(only set in iso_frame_desc[n].status, not urb->status)

-EINVAL ISO madness, if this happens: Log off and go home

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