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authorCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>2007-10-12 10:11:25 -0400
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2007-10-12 10:13:02 -0400
commit3952c8d43aa23862181ad23ecdf72895b4be3143 (patch)
tree1e5d08877dd22b9d4bc2f466c247817b02aa8bac /Documentation/s390/CommonIO
parent6920c12a407e073168d6cae164fa820d666af5c6 (diff)
[S390] cio: Documentation update.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
1S/390 common I/O-Layer - command line parameters and /proc entries 1S/390 common I/O-Layer - command line parameters, procfs and debugfs entries
2================================================================== 2============================================================================
3 3
4Command line parameters 4Command line parameters
5----------------------- 5-----------------------
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ Command line parameters
7* cio_msg = yes | no 7* cio_msg = yes | no
8 8
9 Determines whether information on found devices and sensed device 9 Determines whether information on found devices and sensed device
10 characteristics should be shown during startup, i. e. messages of the types 10 characteristics should be shown during startup or when new devices are
11 "Detected device 0.0.4711 on subchannel 0.0.0042" and "SenseID: Device 11 found, i. e. messages of the types "Detected device 0.0.4711 on subchannel
12 0.0.4711 reports: ...". 12 0.0.0042" and "SenseID: Device 0.0.4711 reports: ...".
13 13
14 Default is off. 14 Default is off.
15 15
@@ -26,8 +26,10 @@ Command line parameters
26 An ignored device can be un-ignored later; see the "/proc entries"-section for 26 An ignored device can be un-ignored later; see the "/proc entries"-section for
27 details. 27 details.
28 28
29 The devices must be given either as bus ids (0.0.abcd) or as hexadecimal 29 The devices must be given either as bus ids (0.x.abcd) or as hexadecimal
30 device numbers (0xabcd or abcd, for 2.4 backward compatibility). 30 device numbers (0xabcd or abcd, for 2.4 backward compatibility). If you
31 give a device number 0xabcd, it will be interpreted as 0.0.abcd.
32
31 You can use the 'all' keyword to ignore all devices. 33 You can use the 'all' keyword to ignore all devices.
32 The '!' operator will cause the I/O-layer to _not_ ignore a device. 34 The '!' operator will cause the I/O-layer to _not_ ignore a device.
33 The command line is parsed from left to right. 35 The command line is parsed from left to right.
@@ -81,31 +83,36 @@ Command line parameters
81 will add 0.0.a000-0.0.accc and 0.0.af00-0.0.afff to the list of ignored 83 will add 0.0.a000-0.0.accc and 0.0.af00-0.0.afff to the list of ignored
82 devices. 84 devices.
83 85
84 The devices can be specified either by bus id (0.0.abcd) or, for 2.4 backward 86 The devices can be specified either by bus id (0.x.abcd) or, for 2.4 backward
85 compatibility, by the device number in hexadecimal (0xabcd or abcd). 87 compatibility, by the device number in hexadecimal (0xabcd or abcd). Device
88 numbers given as 0xabcd will be interpreted as 0.0.abcd.
89
90* For some of the information present in the /proc filesystem in 2.4 (namely,
91 /proc/subchannels and /proc/chpids), see driver-model.txt.
92 Information formerly in /proc/irq_count is now in /proc/interrupts.
93
86 94
95debugfs entries
96---------------
87 97
88* /proc/s390dbf/cio_*/ (S/390 debug feature) 98* /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/cio_*/ (S/390 debug feature)
89 99
90 Some views generated by the debug feature to hold various debug outputs. 100 Some views generated by the debug feature to hold various debug outputs.
91 101
92 - /proc/s390dbf/cio_crw/sprintf 102 - /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/cio_crw/sprintf
93 Messages from the processing of pending channel report words (machine check 103 Messages from the processing of pending channel report words (machine check
94 handling), which will also show when CONFIG_DEBUG_CRW is defined. 104 handling).
95 105
96 - /proc/s390dbf/cio_msg/sprintf 106 - /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/cio_msg/sprintf
97 Various debug messages from the common I/O-layer; generally, messages which 107 Various debug messages from the common I/O-layer, including messages
98 will also show when CONFIG_DEBUG_IO is defined. 108 printed when cio_msg=yes.
99 109
100 - /proc/s390dbf/cio_trace/hex_ascii 110 - /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/cio_trace/hex_ascii
101 Logs the calling of functions in the common I/O-layer and, if applicable, 111 Logs the calling of functions in the common I/O-layer and, if applicable,
102 which subchannel they were called for, as well as dumps of some data 112 which subchannel they were called for, as well as dumps of some data
103 structures (like irb in an error case). 113 structures (like irb in an error case).
104 114
105 The level of logging can be changed to be more or less verbose by piping to 115 The level of logging can be changed to be more or less verbose by piping to
106 /proc/s390dbf/cio_*/level a number between 0 and 6; see the documentation on 116 /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/cio_*/level a number between 0 and 6; see the
107 the S/390 debug feature (Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt) for details. 117 documentation on the S/390 debug feature (Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt)
108 118 for details.
109* For some of the information present in the /proc filesystem in 2.4 (namely,
110 /proc/subchannels and /proc/chpids), see driver-model.txt.
111 Information formerly in /proc/irq_count is now in /proc/interrupts.