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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sound/alsa/ControlNames.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt | 149 |
9 files changed, 194 insertions, 28 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/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 72ae06f73ac..a004b04ffd3 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 d8ce217d1f7..495a39a7734 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -344,6 +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. @@ -2186,6 +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/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt index fd9a2f67edf..8923597bd2b 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt @@ -798,6 +798,9 @@ Prior to version 0.9.0rc4 options had a 'snd_' prefix. This was removed. setup before initializing the codecs. This option is available only when CONFIG_SND_HDA_PATCH_LOADER=y is set. See HD-Audio.txt for details. + beep_mode - Selects the beep registration mode (0=off, 1=on, 2= + dynamic registration via mute switch on/off); the default + value is set via CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP_MODE kconfig. [Single (global) options] single_cmd - Use single immediate commands to communicate with @@ -1454,6 +1457,7 @@ Prior to version 0.9.0rc4 options had a 'snd_' prefix. This was removed. Module for internal PC-Speaker. + nopcm - Disable PC-Speaker PCM sound. Only beeps remain. nforce_wa - enable NForce chipset workaround. Expect bad sound. This module supports system beeps, some kind of PCM playback and @@ -1631,7 +1635,7 @@ Prior to version 0.9.0rc4 options had a 'snd_' prefix. This was removed. Module snd-sscape ----------------- - Module for ENSONIQ SoundScape PnP cards. + Module for ENSONIQ SoundScape cards. port - Port # (PnP setup) wss_port - WSS Port # (PnP setup) @@ -1639,10 +1643,11 @@ Prior to version 0.9.0rc4 options had a 'snd_' prefix. This was removed. mpu_irq - MPU-401 IRQ # (PnP setup) dma - DMA # (PnP setup) dma2 - 2nd DMA # (PnP setup, -1 to disable) + joystick - Enable gameport - 0 = disable (default), 1 = enable + + This module supports multiple cards. - This module supports multiple cards. ISA PnP must be enabled. - You need sscape_ctl tool in alsa-tools package for loading - the microcode. + The driver requires the firmware loader support on kernel. Module snd-sun-amd7930 (on sparc only) -------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/ControlNames.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ControlNames.txt index 5b18298e949..fea65bb6269 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/ControlNames.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ControlNames.txt @@ -18,8 +18,9 @@ SOURCE: Master Master Mono Hardware Master + Speaker (internal speaker) Headphone - PC Speaker + Beep (beep generator) Phone Phone Input Phone Output diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt index 4c7f9aee5c4..9000cd84d07 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt @@ -391,6 +391,7 @@ STAC92HD83* ref Reference board mic-ref Reference board with power management for ports dell-s14 Dell laptop + hp HP laptops with (inverted) mute-LED auto BIOS setup (default) STAC9872 diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 23003a8ea3e..00000000000 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ - -Except for a few extremely rare exceptions user space applications do not use -the binary sysctl interface. Instead everyone uses /proc/sys/... with -readable ascii names. - -Recently the kernel has started supporting setting the binary sysctl value to -CTL_UNNUMBERED so we no longer need to assign a binary sysctl path to allow -sysctls to show up in /proc/sys. - -Assigning binary sysctl numbers is an endless source of conflicts in sysctl.h, -breaking of the user space ABI (because of those conflicts), and maintenance -problems. A complete pass through all of the sysctl users revealed multiple -instances where the sysctl binary interface was broken and had gone undetected -for years. - -So please do not add new binary sysctl numbers. They are unneeded and -problematic. - -If you really need a new binary sysctl number please first merge your sysctl -into the kernel and then as a separate patch allocate a binary sysctl number. - -(ebiederm@xmission.com, June 2007) 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). + + |