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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/s390/CommonIO')
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/s390/CommonIO b/Documentation/s390/CommonIO index 339207d11d9..6e0f63f343b 100644 --- a/Documentation/s390/CommonIO +++ b/Documentation/s390/CommonIO @@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ Command line parameters Enable logging of debug information in case of ccw device timeouts. -* cio_ignore = {all} | - {<device> | <range of devices>} | - {!<device> | !<range of devices>} +* cio_ignore = device[,device[,..]] + + device := {all | [!]ipldev | [!]condev | [!]<devno> | [!]<devno>-<devno>} The given devices will be ignored by the common I/O-layer; no detection and device sensing will be done on any of those devices. The subchannel to @@ -24,8 +24,10 @@ Command line parameters device numbers (0xabcd or abcd, for 2.4 backward compatibility). If you give a device number 0xabcd, it will be interpreted as 0.0.abcd. - You can use the 'all' keyword to ignore all devices. - The '!' operator will cause the I/O-layer to _not_ ignore a device. + You can use the 'all' keyword to ignore all devices. The 'ipldev' and 'condev' + keywords can be used to refer to the CCW based boot device and CCW console + device respectively (these are probably useful only when combined with the '!' + operator). The '!' operator will cause the I/O-layer to _not_ ignore a device. The command line is parsed from left to right. For example, @@ -87,6 +89,12 @@ Command line parameters compatibility, by the device number in hexadecimal (0xabcd or abcd). Device numbers given as 0xabcd will be interpreted as 0.0.abcd. +* /proc/cio_settle + + A write request to this file is blocked until all queued cio actions are + handled. This will allow userspace to wait for pending work affecting + device availability after changing cio_ignore or the hardware configuration. + * For some of the information present in the /proc filesystem in 2.4 (namely, /proc/subchannels and /proc/chpids), see driver-model.txt. Information formerly in /proc/irq_count is now in /proc/interrupts. |