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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-rbd | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-firmware_node | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 | 13 |
5 files changed, 56 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj deleted file mode 100644 index 9a3cb88ade47..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -What: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj -When: August 2012 -Why: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj allows userspace to influence the oom killer's - badness heuristic used to determine which task to kill when the kernel - is out of memory. - - The badness heuristic has since been rewritten since the introduction of - this tunable such that its meaning is deprecated. The value was - implemented as a bitshift on a score generated by the badness() - function that did not have any precise units of measure. With the - rewrite, the score is given as a proportion of available memory to the - task allocating pages, so using a bitshift which grows the score - exponentially is, thus, impossible to tune with fine granularity. - - A much more powerful interface, /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj, was - introduced with the oom killer rewrite that allows users to increase or - decrease the badness score linearly. This interface will replace - /proc/<pid>/oom_adj. - - A warning will be emitted to the kernel log if an application uses this - deprecated interface. After it is printed once, future warnings will be - suppressed until the kernel is rebooted. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block index c1eb41cb9876..279da08f7541 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block @@ -206,3 +206,17 @@ Description: when a discarded area is read the discard_zeroes_data parameter will be set to one. Otherwise it will be 0 and the result of reading a discarded area is undefined. + +What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/write_same_max_bytes +Date: January 2012 +Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> +Description: + Some devices support a write same operation in which a + single data block can be written to a range of several + contiguous blocks on storage. This can be used to wipe + areas on disk or to initialize drives in a RAID + configuration. write_same_max_bytes indicates how many + bytes can be written in a single write same command. If + write_same_max_bytes is 0, write same is not supported + by the device. + diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-rbd b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-rbd index 3c17b62899f6..1cf2adf46b11 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-rbd +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-rbd @@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ client_id The ceph unique client id that was assigned for this specific session. +features + + A hexadecimal encoding of the feature bits for this image. + major The block device major number. @@ -33,6 +37,11 @@ name The name of the rbd image. +image_id + + The unique id for the rbd image. (For rbd image format 1 + this is empty.) + pool The name of the storage pool where this rbd image resides. @@ -57,12 +66,6 @@ current_snap The current snapshot for which the device is mapped. -create_snap - - Create a snapshot: - - $ echo <snap-name> > /sys/bus/rbd/devices/<dev-id>/snap_create - snap_* A directory per each snapshot @@ -79,4 +82,7 @@ snap_size The size of the image when this snapshot was taken. +snap_features + + A hexadecimal encoding of the feature bits for this snapshot. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-firmware_node b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-firmware_node new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..46badc9ea284 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-firmware_node @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +What: /sys/devices/.../firmware_node/ +Date: September 2012 +Contact: <> +Description: + The /sys/devices/.../firmware_node directory contains attributes + allowing the user space to check and modify some firmware + related properties of given device. + +What: /sys/devices/.../firmware_node/description +Date: September 2012 +Contact: Lance Ortiz <lance.ortiz@hp.com> +Description: + The /sys/devices/.../firmware/description attribute contains a string + that describes the device as provided by the _STR method in the ACPI + namespace. This attribute is read-only. If the device does not have + an _STR method associated with it in the ACPI namespace, this + attribute is not present. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 index f22ac0872ae8..c631253cf85c 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 @@ -96,3 +96,16 @@ Contact: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Description: The maximum number of megabytes the writeback code will try to write out before move on to another inode. + +What: /sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/extent_max_zeroout_kb +Date: August 2012 +Contact: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> +Description: + The maximum number of kilobytes which will be zeroed + out in preference to creating a new uninitialized + extent when manipulating an inode's extent tree. Note + that using a larger value will increase the + variability of time necessary to complete a random + write operation (since a 4k random write might turn + into a much larger write due to the zeroout + operation). |