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authorNathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>2009-11-25 12:23:25 -0500
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-12-09 01:09:33 -0500
commit12633e803a2a556f6469e0933d08233d0844a2d9 (patch)
treed32e3e32c163a57c9681009f5ea965088d9e4579 /Documentation
parentab519a011caa5ec47d992cb8a4fc8e7af9b9e3f8 (diff)
sysfs/cpu: Add probe/release files
Version 3 of this patch is updated with documentation added to Documentation/ABI. There are no changes to any of the C code from v2 of the patch. In order to support kernel DLPAR of CPU resources we need to provide an interface to add (probe) and remove (release) the resource from the system. This patch Creates new generic probe and release sysfs files to facilitate cpu probe/release. The probe/release interface provides for allowing each arch to supply their own routines for implementing the backend of adding and removing cpus to/from the system. This also creates the powerpc specific stubs to handle the arch callouts from writes to the sysfs files. The creation and use of these files is regulated by the CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE option so that only architectures that need the capability will have the files created. Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
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@@ -62,6 +62,21 @@ Description: CPU topology files that describe kernel limits related to
62 See Documentation/cputopology.txt for more information. 62 See Documentation/cputopology.txt for more information.
63 63
64 64
65What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/probe
66 /sys/devices/system/cpu/release
67Date: November 2009
68Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
69Description: Dynamic addition and removal of CPU's. This is not hotplug
70 removal, this is meant complete removal/addition of the CPU
71 from the system.
72
73 probe: writes to this file will dynamically add a CPU to the
74 system. Information written to the file to add CPU's is
75 architecture specific.
76
77 release: writes to this file dynamically remove a CPU from
78 the system. Information writtento the file to remove CPU's
79 is architecture specific.
65 80
66What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/node 81What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/node
67Date: October 2009 82Date: October 2009