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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-01-10 21:43:52 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-01-10 21:43:52 -0500
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Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc1' into tracing/urgent
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-regulator136
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory51
2 files changed, 110 insertions, 77 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-regulator b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-regulator
index 3731f6f29bc..873ef1fc156 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-regulator
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-regulator
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ Date: April 2008
3KernelVersion: 2.6.26 3KernelVersion: 2.6.26
4Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> 4Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
5Description: 5Description:
6 Each regulator directory will contain a field called 6 Some regulator directories will contain a field called
7 state. This holds the regulator output state. 7 state. This reports the regulator enable status, for
8 regulators which can report that value.
8 9
9 This will be one of the following strings: 10 This will be one of the following strings:
10 11
@@ -18,7 +19,8 @@ Description:
18 'disabled' means the regulator output is OFF and is not 19 'disabled' means the regulator output is OFF and is not
19 supplying power to the system.. 20 supplying power to the system..
20 21
21 'unknown' means software cannot determine the state. 22 'unknown' means software cannot determine the state, or
23 the reported state is invalid.
22 24
23 NOTE: this field can be used in conjunction with microvolts 25 NOTE: this field can be used in conjunction with microvolts
24 and microamps to determine regulator output levels. 26 and microamps to determine regulator output levels.
@@ -53,9 +55,10 @@ Date: April 2008
53KernelVersion: 2.6.26 55KernelVersion: 2.6.26
54Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> 56Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
55Description: 57Description:
56 Each regulator directory will contain a field called 58 Some regulator directories will contain a field called
57 microvolts. This holds the regulator output voltage setting 59 microvolts. This holds the regulator output voltage setting
58 measured in microvolts (i.e. E-6 Volts). 60 measured in microvolts (i.e. E-6 Volts), for regulators
61 which can report that voltage.
59 62
60 NOTE: This value should not be used to determine the regulator 63 NOTE: This value should not be used to determine the regulator
61 output voltage level as this value is the same regardless of 64 output voltage level as this value is the same regardless of
@@ -67,9 +70,10 @@ Date: April 2008
67KernelVersion: 2.6.26 70KernelVersion: 2.6.26
68Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> 71Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
69Description: 72Description:
70 Each regulator directory will contain a field called 73 Some regulator directories will contain a field called
71 microamps. This holds the regulator output current limit 74 microamps. This holds the regulator output current limit
72 setting measured in microamps (i.e. E-6 Amps). 75 setting measured in microamps (i.e. E-6 Amps), for regulators
76 which can report that current.
73 77
74 NOTE: This value should not be used to determine the regulator 78 NOTE: This value should not be used to determine the regulator
75 output current level as this value is the same regardless of 79 output current level as this value is the same regardless of
@@ -81,8 +85,9 @@ Date: April 2008
81KernelVersion: 2.6.26 85KernelVersion: 2.6.26
82Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> 86Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
83Description: 87Description:
84 Each regulator directory will contain a field called 88 Some regulator directories will contain a field called
85 opmode. This holds the regulator operating mode setting. 89 opmode. This holds the current regulator operating mode,
90 for regulators which can report it.
86 91
87 The opmode value can be one of the following strings: 92 The opmode value can be one of the following strings:
88 93
@@ -92,7 +97,7 @@ Description:
92 'standby' 97 'standby'
93 'unknown' 98 'unknown'
94 99
95 The modes are described in include/linux/regulator/regulator.h 100 The modes are described in include/linux/regulator/consumer.h
96 101
97 NOTE: This value should not be used to determine the regulator 102 NOTE: This value should not be used to determine the regulator
98 output operating mode as this value is the same regardless of 103 output operating mode as this value is the same regardless of
@@ -104,9 +109,10 @@ Date: April 2008
104KernelVersion: 2.6.26 109KernelVersion: 2.6.26
105Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> 110Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
106Description: 111Description:
107 Each regulator directory will contain a field called 112 Some regulator directories will contain a field called
108 min_microvolts. This holds the minimum safe working regulator 113 min_microvolts. This holds the minimum safe working regulator
109 output voltage setting for this domain measured in microvolts. 114 output voltage setting for this domain measured in microvolts,
115 for regulators which support voltage constraints.
110 116
111 NOTE: this will return the string 'constraint not defined' if 117 NOTE: this will return the string 'constraint not defined' if
112 the power domain has no min microvolts constraint defined by 118 the power domain has no min microvolts constraint defined by
@@ -118,9 +124,10 @@ Date: April 2008
118KernelVersion: 2.6.26 124KernelVersion: 2.6.26
119Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> 125Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
120Description: 126Description:
121 Each regulator directory will contain a field called 127 Some regulator directories will contain a field called
122 max_microvolts. This holds the maximum safe working regulator 128 max_microvolts. This holds the maximum safe working regulator
123 output voltage setting for this domain measured in microvolts. 129 output voltage setting for this domain measured in microvolts,
130 for regulators which support voltage constraints.
124 131
125 NOTE: this will return the string 'constraint not defined' if 132 NOTE: this will return the string 'constraint not defined' if
126 the power domain has no max microvolts constraint defined by 133 the power domain has no max microvolts constraint defined by
@@ -132,10 +139,10 @@ Date: April 2008
132KernelVersion: 2.6.26 139KernelVersion: 2.6.26
133Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> 140Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
134Description: 141Description:
135 Each regulator directory will contain a field called 142 Some regulator directories will contain a field called
136 min_microamps. This holds the minimum safe working regulator 143 min_microamps. This holds the minimum safe working regulator
137 output current limit setting for this domain measured in 144 output current limit setting for this domain measured in
138 microamps. 145 microamps, for regulators which support current constraints.
139 146
140 NOTE: this will return the string 'constraint not defined' if 147 NOTE: this will return the string 'constraint not defined' if
141 the power domain has no min microamps constraint defined by 148 the power domain has no min microamps constraint defined by
@@ -147,10 +154,10 @@ Date: April 2008
147KernelVersion: 2.6.26 154KernelVersion: 2.6.26
148Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> 155Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
149Description: 156Description:
150 Each regulator directory will contain a field called 157 Some regulator directories will contain a field called
151 max_microamps. This holds the maximum safe working regulator 158 max_microamps. This holds the maximum safe working regulator
152 output current limit setting for this domain measured in 159 output current limit setting for this domain measured in
153 microamps. 160 microamps, for regulators which support current constraints.
154 161
155 NOTE: this will return the string 'constraint not defined' if 162 NOTE: this will return the string 'constraint not defined' if
156 the power domain has no max microamps constraint defined by 163 the power domain has no max microamps constraint defined by
@@ -185,7 +192,7 @@ Date: April 2008
185KernelVersion: 2.6.26 192KernelVersion: 2.6.26
186Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> 193Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
187Description: 194Description:
188 Each regulator directory will contain a field called 195 Some regulator directories will contain a field called
189 requested_microamps. This holds the total requested load 196 requested_microamps. This holds the total requested load
190 current in microamps for this regulator from all its consumer 197 current in microamps for this regulator from all its consumer
191 devices. 198 devices.
@@ -204,125 +211,102 @@ Date: May 2008
204KernelVersion: 2.6.26 211KernelVersion: 2.6.26
205Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> 212Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
206Description: 213Description:
207 Each regulator directory will contain a field called 214 Some regulator directories will contain a field called
208 suspend_mem_microvolts. This holds the regulator output 215 suspend_mem_microvolts. This holds the regulator output
209 voltage setting for this domain measured in microvolts when 216 voltage setting for this domain measured in microvolts when
210 the system is suspended to memory. 217 the system is suspended to memory, for voltage regulators
211 218 implementing suspend voltage configuration constraints.
212 NOTE: this will return the string 'not defined' if
213 the power domain has no suspend to memory voltage defined by
214 platform code.
215 219
216What: /sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_disk_microvolts 220What: /sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_disk_microvolts
217Date: May 2008 221Date: May 2008
218KernelVersion: 2.6.26 222KernelVersion: 2.6.26
219Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> 223Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
220Description: 224Description:
221 Each regulator directory will contain a field called 225 Some regulator directories will contain a field called
222 suspend_disk_microvolts. This holds the regulator output 226 suspend_disk_microvolts. This holds the regulator output
223 voltage setting for this domain measured in microvolts when 227 voltage setting for this domain measured in microvolts when
224 the system is suspended to disk. 228 the system is suspended to disk, for voltage regulators
225 229 implementing suspend voltage configuration constraints.
226 NOTE: this will return the string 'not defined' if
227 the power domain has no suspend to disk voltage defined by
228 platform code.
229 230
230What: /sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_standby_microvolts 231What: /sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_standby_microvolts
231Date: May 2008 232Date: May 2008
232KernelVersion: 2.6.26 233KernelVersion: 2.6.26
233Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> 234Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
234Description: 235Description:
235 Each regulator directory will contain a field called 236 Some regulator directories will contain a field called
236 suspend_standby_microvolts. This holds the regulator output 237 suspend_standby_microvolts. This holds the regulator output
237 voltage setting for this domain measured in microvolts when 238 voltage setting for this domain measured in microvolts when
238 the system is suspended to standby. 239 the system is suspended to standby, for voltage regulators
239 240 implementing suspend voltage configuration constraints.
240 NOTE: this will return the string 'not defined' if
241 the power domain has no suspend to standby voltage defined by
242 platform code.
243 241
244What: /sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_mem_mode 242What: /sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_mem_mode
245Date: May 2008 243Date: May 2008
246KernelVersion: 2.6.26 244KernelVersion: 2.6.26
247Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> 245Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
248Description: 246Description:
249 Each regulator directory will contain a field called 247 Some regulator directories will contain a field called
250 suspend_mem_mode. This holds the regulator operating mode 248 suspend_mem_mode. This holds the regulator operating mode
251 setting for this domain when the system is suspended to 249 setting for this domain when the system is suspended to
252 memory. 250 memory, for regulators implementing suspend mode
253 251 configuration constraints.
254 NOTE: this will return the string 'not defined' if
255 the power domain has no suspend to memory mode defined by
256 platform code.
257 252
258What: /sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_disk_mode 253What: /sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_disk_mode
259Date: May 2008 254Date: May 2008
260KernelVersion: 2.6.26 255KernelVersion: 2.6.26
261Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> 256Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
262Description: 257Description:
263 Each regulator directory will contain a field called 258 Some regulator directories will contain a field called
264 suspend_disk_mode. This holds the regulator operating mode 259 suspend_disk_mode. This holds the regulator operating mode
265 setting for this domain when the system is suspended to disk. 260 setting for this domain when the system is suspended to disk,
266 261 for regulators implementing suspend mode configuration
267 NOTE: this will return the string 'not defined' if 262 constraints.
268 the power domain has no suspend to disk mode defined by
269 platform code.
270 263
271What: /sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_standby_mode 264What: /sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_standby_mode
272Date: May 2008 265Date: May 2008
273KernelVersion: 2.6.26 266KernelVersion: 2.6.26
274Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> 267Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
275Description: 268Description:
276 Each regulator directory will contain a field called 269 Some regulator directories will contain a field called
277 suspend_standby_mode. This holds the regulator operating mode 270 suspend_standby_mode. This holds the regulator operating mode
278 setting for this domain when the system is suspended to 271 setting for this domain when the system is suspended to
279 standby. 272 standby, for regulators implementing suspend mode
280 273 configuration constraints.
281 NOTE: this will return the string 'not defined' if
282 the power domain has no suspend to standby mode defined by
283 platform code.
284 274
285What: /sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_mem_state 275What: /sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_mem_state
286Date: May 2008 276Date: May 2008
287KernelVersion: 2.6.26 277KernelVersion: 2.6.26
288Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> 278Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
289Description: 279Description:
290 Each regulator directory will contain a field called 280 Some regulator directories will contain a field called
291 suspend_mem_state. This holds the regulator operating state 281 suspend_mem_state. This holds the regulator operating state
292 when suspended to memory. 282 when suspended to memory, for regulators implementing suspend
293 283 configuration constraints.
294 This will be one of the following strings:
295 284
296 'enabled' 285 This will be one of the same strings reported by
297 'disabled' 286 the "state" attribute.
298 'not defined'
299 287
300What: /sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_disk_state 288What: /sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_disk_state
301Date: May 2008 289Date: May 2008
302KernelVersion: 2.6.26 290KernelVersion: 2.6.26
303Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> 291Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
304Description: 292Description:
305 Each regulator directory will contain a field called 293 Some regulator directories will contain a field called
306 suspend_disk_state. This holds the regulator operating state 294 suspend_disk_state. This holds the regulator operating state
307 when suspended to disk. 295 when suspended to disk, for regulators implementing
308 296 suspend configuration constraints.
309 This will be one of the following strings:
310 297
311 'enabled' 298 This will be one of the same strings reported by
312 'disabled' 299 the "state" attribute.
313 'not defined'
314 300
315What: /sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_standby_state 301What: /sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_standby_state
316Date: May 2008 302Date: May 2008
317KernelVersion: 2.6.26 303KernelVersion: 2.6.26
318Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> 304Contact: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
319Description: 305Description:
320 Each regulator directory will contain a field called 306 Some regulator directories will contain a field called
321 suspend_standby_state. This holds the regulator operating 307 suspend_standby_state. This holds the regulator operating
322 state when suspended to standby. 308 state when suspended to standby, for regulators implementing
323 309 suspend configuration constraints.
324 This will be one of the following strings:
325 310
326 'enabled' 311 This will be one of the same strings reported by
327 'disabled' 312 the "state" attribute.
328 'not defined'
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory
index 7a16fe1e227..9fe91c02ee4 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ Description:
6 internal state of the kernel memory blocks. Files could be 6 internal state of the kernel memory blocks. Files could be
7 added or removed dynamically to represent hot-add/remove 7 added or removed dynamically to represent hot-add/remove
8 operations. 8 operations.
9
10Users: hotplug memory add/remove tools 9Users: hotplug memory add/remove tools
11 https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/powerpc-utils/ 10 https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/powerpc-utils/
12 11
@@ -19,6 +18,56 @@ Description:
19 This is useful for a user-level agent to determine 18 This is useful for a user-level agent to determine
20 identify removable sections of the memory before attempting 19 identify removable sections of the memory before attempting
21 potentially expensive hot-remove memory operation 20 potentially expensive hot-remove memory operation
21Users: hotplug memory remove tools
22 https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/powerpc-utils/
23
24What: /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/phys_device
25Date: September 2008
26Contact: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
27Description:
28 The file /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/phys_device
29 is read-only and is designed to show the name of physical
30 memory device. Implementation is currently incomplete.
22 31
32What: /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/phys_index
33Date: September 2008
34Contact: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
35Description:
36 The file /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/phys_index
37 is read-only and contains the section ID in hexadecimal
38 which is equivalent to decimal X contained in the
39 memory section directory name.
40
41What: /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state
42Date: September 2008
43Contact: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
44Description:
45 The file /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state
46 is read-write. When read, it's contents show the
47 online/offline state of the memory section. When written,
48 root can toggle the the online/offline state of a removable
49 memory section (see removable file description above)
50 using the following commands.
51 # echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state
52 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state
53
54 For example, if /sys/devices/system/memory/memory22/removable
55 contains a value of 1 and
56 /sys/devices/system/memory/memory22/state contains the
57 string "online" the following command can be executed by
58 by root to offline that section.
59 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory22/state
23Users: hotplug memory remove tools 60Users: hotplug memory remove tools
24 https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/powerpc-utils/ 61 https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/powerpc-utils/
62
63What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memoryY
64Date: September 2008
65Contact: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
66Description:
67 When CONFIG_NUMA is enabled
68 /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memoryY is a symbolic link that
69 points to the corresponding /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryY
70 memory section directory. For example, the following symbolic
71 link is created for memory section 9 on node0.
72 /sys/devices/system/node/node0/memory9 -> ../../memory/memory9
73