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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/board.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/mpc5200.txt | 17 |
4 files changed, 41 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu index 974e29f5da8..2aae06fcbed 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu @@ -62,6 +62,21 @@ Description: CPU topology files that describe kernel limits related to See Documentation/cputopology.txt for more information. +What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/probe + /sys/devices/system/cpu/release +Date: November 2009 +Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> +Description: Dynamic addition and removal of CPU's. This is not hotplug + removal, this is meant complete removal/addition of the CPU + from the system. + + probe: writes to this file will dynamically add a CPU to the + system. Information written to the file to add CPU's is + architecture specific. + + release: writes to this file dynamically remove a CPU from + the system. Information writtento the file to remove CPU's + is architecture specific. What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/node Date: October 2009 diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt index 9d620c153b0..4d4a644b505 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt @@ -49,6 +49,12 @@ maxcpus=n Restrict boot time cpus to n. Say if you have 4 cpus, using additional_cpus=n (*) Use this to limit hotpluggable cpus. This option sets cpu_possible_map = cpu_present_map + additional_cpus +cede_offline={"off","on"} Use this option to disable/enable putting offlined + processors to an extended H_CEDE state on + supported pseries platforms. + If nothing is specified, + cede_offline is set to "on". + (*) Option valid only for following architectures - ia64 diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/board.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/board.txt index e8b5bc24d0a..39e941515a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/board.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/board.txt @@ -20,12 +20,16 @@ Required properities: - compatible : should be "fsl,fpga-pixis". - reg : should contain the address and the length of the FPPGA register set. +- interrupt-parent: should specify phandle for the interrupt controller. +- interrupts : should specify event (wakeup) IRQ. Example (MPC8610HPCD): board-control@e8000000 { compatible = "fsl,fpga-pixis"; reg = <0xe8000000 32>; + interrupt-parent = <&mpic>; + interrupts = <8 8>; }; * Freescale BCSR GPIO banks diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/mpc5200.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/mpc5200.txt index cabc780f725..5c6602dbfdc 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/mpc5200.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/mpc5200.txt @@ -103,7 +103,22 @@ fsl,mpc5200-gpt nodes --------------------- On the mpc5200 and 5200b, GPT0 has a watchdog timer function. If the board design supports the internal wdt, then the device node for GPT0 should -include the empty property 'fsl,has-wdt'. +include the empty property 'fsl,has-wdt'. Note that this does not activate +the watchdog. The timer will function as a GPT if the timer api is used, and +it will function as watchdog if the watchdog device is used. The watchdog +mode has priority over the gpt mode, i.e. if the watchdog is activated, any +gpt api call to this timer will fail with -EBUSY. + +If you add the property + fsl,wdt-on-boot = <n>; +GPT0 will be marked as in-use watchdog, i.e. blocking every gpt access to it. +If n>0, the watchdog is started with a timeout of n seconds. If n=0, the +configuration of the watchdog is not touched. This is useful in two cases: +- just mark GPT0 as watchdog, blocking gpt accesses, and configure it later; +- do not touch a configuration assigned by the boot loader which supervises + the boot process itself. + +The watchdog will respect the CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT option. An mpc5200-gpt can be used as a single line GPIO controller. To do so, add the following properties to the gpt node: |