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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-deferred_probe | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/page_frags | 42 |
3 files changed, 50 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-deferred_probe b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-deferred_probe deleted file mode 100644 index 58553d7a321f..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-deferred_probe +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ -What: /sys/devices/.../deferred_probe -Date: August 2016 -Contact: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk> -Description: - The /sys/devices/.../deferred_probe attribute is - present for all devices. If a driver detects during - probing a device that a related device is not yet - ready, it may defer probing of the first device. The - kernel will retry probing the first device after any - other device is successfully probed. This attribute - reads as 1 if probing of this device is currently - deferred, or 0 otherwise. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt index 5fa691e6f638..cee9d5055fa2 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt @@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ wants to support one of the below features, it should adapt the bindings below. "irq" and "wakeup" names are recognized by I2C core, other names are left to individual drivers. +- host-notify + device uses SMBus host notify protocol instead of interrupt line. + - multi-master states that there is another master active on this bus. The OS can use this information to adapt power management to keep the arbitration awake @@ -81,6 +84,11 @@ Binding may contain optional "interrupts" property, describing interrupts used by the device. I2C core will assign "irq" interrupt (or the very first interrupt if not using interrupt names) as primary interrupt for the slave. +Alternatively, devices supporting SMbus Host Notify, and connected to +adapters that support this feature, may use "host-notify" property. I2C +core will create a virtual interrupt for Host Notify and assign it as +primary interrupt for the slave. + Also, if device is marked as a wakeup source, I2C core will set up "wakeup" interrupt for the device. If "wakeup" interrupt name is not present in the binding, then primary interrupt will be used as wakeup interrupt. diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_frags b/Documentation/vm/page_frags new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a6714565dbf9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/vm/page_frags @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +Page fragments +-------------- + +A page fragment is an arbitrary-length arbitrary-offset area of memory +which resides within a 0 or higher order compound page. Multiple +fragments within that page are individually refcounted, in the page's +reference counter. + +The page_frag functions, page_frag_alloc and page_frag_free, provide a +simple allocation framework for page fragments. This is used by the +network stack and network device drivers to provide a backing region of +memory for use as either an sk_buff->head, or to be used in the "frags" +portion of skb_shared_info. + +In order to make use of the page fragment APIs a backing page fragment +cache is needed. This provides a central point for the fragment allocation +and tracks allows multiple calls to make use of a cached page. The +advantage to doing this is that multiple calls to get_page can be avoided +which can be expensive at allocation time. However due to the nature of +this caching it is required that any calls to the cache be protected by +either a per-cpu limitation, or a per-cpu limitation and forcing interrupts +to be disabled when executing the fragment allocation. + +The network stack uses two separate caches per CPU to handle fragment +allocation. The netdev_alloc_cache is used by callers making use of the +__netdev_alloc_frag and __netdev_alloc_skb calls. The napi_alloc_cache is +used by callers of the __napi_alloc_frag and __napi_alloc_skb calls. The +main difference between these two calls is the context in which they may be +called. The "netdev" prefixed functions are usable in any context as these +functions will disable interrupts, while the "napi" prefixed functions are +only usable within the softirq context. + +Many network device drivers use a similar methodology for allocating page +fragments, but the page fragments are cached at the ring or descriptor +level. In order to enable these cases it is necessary to provide a generic +way of tearing down a page cache. For this reason __page_frag_cache_drain +was implemented. It allows for freeing multiple references from a single +page via a single call. The advantage to doing this is that it allows for +cleaning up the multiple references that were added to a page in order to +avoid calling get_page per allocation. + +Alexander Duyck, Nov 29, 2016. |