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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt26
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index b0b814d75ca..f4817802406 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -574,6 +574,12 @@ The contents of each smp_affinity file is the same by default:
> cat /proc/irq/0/smp_affinity
ffffffff
+There is an alternate interface, smp_affinity_list which allows specifying
+a cpu range instead of a bitmask:
+
+ > cat /proc/irq/0/smp_affinity_list
+ 1024-1031
+
The default_smp_affinity mask applies to all non-active IRQs, which are the
IRQs which have not yet been allocated/activated, and hence which lack a
/proc/irq/[0-9]* directory.
@@ -583,12 +589,13 @@ reports itself as being attached. This hardware locality information does not
include information about any possible driver locality preference.
prof_cpu_mask specifies which CPUs are to be profiled by the system wide
-profiler. Default value is ffffffff (all cpus).
+profiler. Default value is ffffffff (all cpus if there are only 32 of them).
The way IRQs are routed is handled by the IO-APIC, and it's Round Robin
between all the CPUs which are allowed to handle it. As usual the kernel has
more info than you and does a better job than you, so the defaults are the
-best choice for almost everyone.
+best choice for almost everyone. [Note this applies only to those IO-APIC's
+that support "Round Robin" interrupt distribution.]
There are three more important subdirectories in /proc: net, scsi, and sys.
The general rule is that the contents, or even the existence of these
@@ -836,7 +843,6 @@ Provides counts of softirq handlers serviced since boot time, for each cpu.
TASKLET: 0 0 0 290
SCHED: 27035 26983 26971 26746
HRTIMER: 0 0 0 0
- RCU: 1678 1769 2178 2250
1.3 IDE devices in /proc/ide
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt
index d7b13b01e98..8e4fab639d9 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt
@@ -115,28 +115,8 @@ ubi.mtd=0 root=ubi0:rootfs rootfstype=ubifs
Module Parameters for Debugging
===============================
-When UBIFS has been compiled with debugging enabled, there are 3 module
+When UBIFS has been compiled with debugging enabled, there are 2 module
parameters that are available to control aspects of testing and debugging.
-The parameters are unsigned integers where each bit controls an option.
-The parameters are:
-
-debug_msgs Selects which debug messages to display, as follows:
-
- Message Type Flag value
-
- General messages 1
- Journal messages 2
- Mount messages 4
- Commit messages 8
- LEB search messages 16
- Budgeting messages 32
- Garbage collection messages 64
- Tree Node Cache (TNC) messages 128
- LEB properties (lprops) messages 256
- Input/output messages 512
- Log messages 1024
- Scan messages 2048
- Recovery messages 4096
debug_chks Selects extra checks that UBIFS can do while running:
@@ -154,11 +134,9 @@ debug_tsts Selects a mode of testing, as follows:
Test mode Flag value
- Force in-the-gaps method 2
Failure mode for recovery testing 4
-For example, set debug_msgs to 5 to display General messages and Mount
-messages.
+For example, set debug_chks to 3 to enable general and TNC checks.
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