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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-07-26 12:22:51 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-07-26 12:22:51 -0700
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky: "There are a couple of new things for s390 with this merge request: - a new scheduling domain "drawer" is added to reflect the unusual topology found on z13 machines. Performance tests showed up to 8 percent gain with the additional domain. - the new crc-32 checksum crypto module uses the vector-galois-field multiply and sum SIMD instruction to speed up crc-32 and crc-32c. - proper __ro_after_init support, this requires RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA in the generic vmlinux.lds linker script definitions. - kcov instrumentation support. A prerequisite for that is the inline assembly basic block cleanup, which is the reason for the net/iucv/iucv.c change. - support for 2GB pages is added to the hugetlbfs backend. Then there are two removals: - the oprofile hardware sampling support is dead code and is removed. The oprofile user space uses the perf interface nowadays. - the ETR clock synchronization is removed, this has been superseeded be the STP clock synchronization. And it always has been "interesting" code.. And the usual bug fixes and cleanups" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (82 commits) s390/pci: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "pci_dev_put" s390/smp: clean up a condition s390/cio/chp : Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue s390/chsc: improve channel path descriptor determination s390/chsc: sanitize fmt check for chp_desc determination s390/cio: make fmt1 channel path descriptor optional s390/chsc: fix ioctl CHSC_INFO_CU command s390/cio/device_ops: fix kernel doc s390/cio: allow to reset channel measurement block s390/console: Make preferred console handling more consistent s390/mm: fix gmap tlb flush issues s390/mm: add support for 2GB hugepages s390: have unique symbol for __switch_to address s390/cpuinfo: show maximum thread id s390/ptrace: clarify bits in the per_struct s390: stack address vs thread_info s390: remove pointless load within __switch_to s390: enable kcov support s390/cpumf: use basic block for ecctr inline assembly s390/hypfs: use basic block for diag inline assembly ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cputopology.txt40
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt2
3 files changed, 33 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cputopology.txt b/Documentation/cputopology.txt
index 12b1b25b4da9..f722f227a73b 100644
--- a/Documentation/cputopology.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cputopology.txt
@@ -20,48 +20,70 @@ to /proc/cpuinfo output of some architectures:
identifier (rather than the kernel's). The actual value is
architecture and platform dependent.
-4) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings:
+4) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/drawer_id:
+
+ the drawer ID of cpuX. Typically it is the hardware platform's
+ identifier (rather than the kernel's). The actual value is
+ architecture and platform dependent.
+
+5) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings:
internal kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
core as cpuX.
-5) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings_list:
+6) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings_list:
human-readable list of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
core as cpuX.
-6) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings:
+7) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings:
internal kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
physical_package_id.
-7) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings_list:
+8) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings_list:
human-readable list of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
physical_package_id.
-8) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/book_siblings:
+9) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/book_siblings:
internal kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
book_id.
-9) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/book_siblings_list:
+10) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/book_siblings_list:
human-readable list of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
book_id.
+11) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/drawer_siblings:
+
+ internal kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
+ drawer_id.
+
+12) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/drawer_siblings_list:
+
+ human-readable list of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
+ drawer_id.
+
To implement it in an architecture-neutral way, a new source file,
-drivers/base/topology.c, is to export the 6 or 9 attributes. The three book
-related sysfs files will only be created if CONFIG_SCHED_BOOK is selected.
+drivers/base/topology.c, is to export the 6 to 12 attributes. The book
+and drawer related sysfs files will only be created if CONFIG_SCHED_BOOK
+and CONFIG_SCHED_DRAWER are selected.
+
+CONFIG_SCHED_BOOK and CONFIG_DRAWER are currently only used on s390, where
+they reflect the cpu and cache hierarchy.
For an architecture to support this feature, it must define some of
these macros in include/asm-XXX/topology.h:
#define topology_physical_package_id(cpu)
#define topology_core_id(cpu)
#define topology_book_id(cpu)
+#define topology_drawer_id(cpu)
#define topology_sibling_cpumask(cpu)
#define topology_core_cpumask(cpu)
#define topology_book_cpumask(cpu)
+#define topology_drawer_cpumask(cpu)
The type of **_id macros is int.
The type of **_cpumask macros is (const) struct cpumask *. The latter
@@ -78,6 +100,8 @@ not defined by include/asm-XXX/topology.h:
For architectures that don't support books (CONFIG_SCHED_BOOK) there are no
default definitions for topology_book_id() and topology_book_cpumask().
+For architectures that don't support drawes (CONFIG_SCHED_DRAWER) there are
+no default definitions for topology_drawer_id() and topology_drawer_cpumask().
Additionally, CPU topology information is provided under
/sys/devices/system/cpu and includes these files. The internal
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 17e33dbbf226..f1fac4d3dc51 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2794,8 +2794,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
for generic hr timer mode)
- [s390] Force legacy basic mode sampling
- (report cpu_type "timer")
oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
process, but there is a small probability of
diff --git a/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt b/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt
index 3da163383c93..61329fd62e89 100644
--- a/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ Example:
> ls /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/dasd
flush hex_ascii level pages raw
-> cat /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/dasd/hex_ascii | sort +1
+> cat /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/dasd/hex_ascii | sort -k2,2 -s
00 00974733272:680099 2 - 02 0006ad7e 07 ea 4a 90 | ....
00 00974733272:682210 2 - 02 0006ade6 46 52 45 45 | FREE
00 00974733272:682213 2 - 02 0006adf6 07 ea 4a 90 | ....