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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cputopology.txt | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 |
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cputopology.txt b/Documentation/cputopology.txt index f1c5c4bccd3e..902d3151f527 100644 --- a/Documentation/cputopology.txt +++ b/Documentation/cputopology.txt @@ -14,25 +14,39 @@ to /proc/cpuinfo. identifier (rather than the kernel's). The actual value is architecture and platform dependent. -3) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings: +3) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/book_id: + + the book ID of cpuX. Typically it is the hardware platform's + identifier (rather than the kernel's). The actual value is + architecture and platform dependent. + +4) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings: internel kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads within the same core as cpuX -4) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings: +5) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings: internal kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads within the same physical_package_id. +6) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/book_siblings: + + internal kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads within the same + book_id. + To implement it in an architecture-neutral way, a new source file, -drivers/base/topology.c, is to export the 4 attributes. +drivers/base/topology.c, is to export the 4 or 6 attributes. The two book +related sysfs files will only be created if CONFIG_SCHED_BOOK is selected. For an architecture to support this feature, it must define some of these macros in include/asm-XXX/topology.h: #define topology_physical_package_id(cpu) #define topology_core_id(cpu) +#define topology_book_id(cpu) #define topology_thread_cpumask(cpu) #define topology_core_cpumask(cpu) +#define topology_book_cpumask(cpu) The type of **_id is int. The type of siblings is (const) struct cpumask *. @@ -45,6 +59,9 @@ not defined by include/asm-XXX/topology.h: 3) thread_siblings: just the given CPU 4) core_siblings: just the given CPU +For architectures that don't support books (CONFIG_SCHED_BOOK) there are no +default definitions for topology_book_id() and topology_book_cpumask(). + Additionally, CPU topology information is provided under /sys/devices/system/cpu and includes these files. The internal source for the output is in brackets ("[]"). diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 8dd7248508a9..ed05a4a0d242 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2435,6 +2435,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file disables clocksource verification at runtime. Used to enable high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in virtualized environment. + [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. + Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any + platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting + can add overhead. turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] TurboGraFX parallel port interface |