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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/tty/serial/msm_serial.txt | 27 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/scaling.txt | 10 |
3 files changed, 36 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/tty/serial/msm_serial.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/tty/serial/msm_serial.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aef383e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/tty/serial/msm_serial.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +* Qualcomm MSM UART + +Required properties: +- compatible : + - "qcom,msm-uart", and one of "qcom,msm-hsuart" or + "qcom,msm-lsuart". +- reg : offset and length of the register set for the device + for the hsuart operating in compatible mode, there should be a + second pair describing the gsbi registers. +- interrupts : should contain the uart interrupt. + +There are two different UART blocks used in MSM devices, +"qcom,msm-hsuart" and "qcom,msm-lsuart". The msm-serial driver is +able to handle both of these, and matches against the "qcom,msm-uart" +as the compatibility. + +The registers for the "qcom,msm-hsuart" device need to specify both +register blocks, even for the common driver. + +Example: + + uart@19c400000 { + compatible = "qcom,msm-hsuart", "qcom,msm-uart"; + reg = <0x19c40000 0x1000>, + <0x19c00000 0x1000>; + interrupts = <195>; + }; diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 854ed5ca..d6e6724 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2706,10 +2706,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice targets for exploits that can control RIP. - emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are - emulated reasonably safely. + emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated + reasonably safely. - native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions. + native [default] Vsyscalls are native syscall + instructions. This is a little bit faster than trapping and makes a few dynamic recompilers work better than they would in emulation mode. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt index 8ce7c30..fe67b5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ applying a filter to each packet that assigns it to one of a small number of logical flows. Packets for each flow are steered to a separate receive queue, which in turn can be processed by separate CPUs. This mechanism is generally known as “Receive-side Scaling” (RSS). The goal of RSS and -the other scaling techniques to increase performance uniformly. +the other scaling techniques is to increase performance uniformly. Multi-queue distribution can also be used for traffic prioritization, but that is not the focus of these techniques. @@ -186,10 +186,10 @@ are steered using plain RPS. Multiple table entries may point to the same CPU. Indeed, with many flows and few CPUs, it is very likely that a single application thread handles flows with many different flow hashes. -rps_sock_table is a global flow table that contains the *desired* CPU for -flows: the CPU that is currently processing the flow in userspace. Each -table value is a CPU index that is updated during calls to recvmsg and -sendmsg (specifically, inet_recvmsg(), inet_sendmsg(), inet_sendpage() +rps_sock_flow_table is a global flow table that contains the *desired* CPU +for flows: the CPU that is currently processing the flow in userspace. +Each table value is a CPU index that is updated during calls to recvmsg +and sendmsg (specifically, inet_recvmsg(), inet_sendmsg(), inet_sendpage() and tcp_splice_read()). When the scheduler moves a thread to a new CPU while it has outstanding |
