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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj22
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-rbd18
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-firmware_node17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext413
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).