From 2c3c1048746a4622d8c89a29670120dc8fab93c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 20:49:45 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 6.1.76. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs | 13 ++++++++ Documentation/ABI/removed/dv1394 | 14 ++++++++ Documentation/ABI/removed/ip_queue | 9 ++++++ Documentation/ABI/removed/net_dma | 8 +++++ Documentation/ABI/removed/o2cb | 10 ++++++ Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394 | 16 ++++++++++ Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-bus-nfit | 17 ++++++++++ Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-class-rfkill | 13 ++++++++ .../removed/sysfs-kernel-fadump_release_opalcore | 9 ++++++ Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-kernel-uids | 14 ++++++++ Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-mce | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/ABI/removed/video1394 | 17 ++++++++++ 12 files changed, 177 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/removed/dv1394 create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/removed/ip_queue create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/removed/net_dma create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/removed/o2cb create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394 create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-bus-nfit create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-class-rfkill create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-kernel-fadump_release_opalcore create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-kernel-uids create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-mce create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/removed/video1394 (limited to 'Documentation/ABI/removed') diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs b/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs new file mode 100644 index 000000000..24fb35adf --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +What: devfs +Date: July 2005 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.18 +Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman +Description: + devfs has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable + races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is + against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev. + + The files fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h were removed, + along with the assorted devfs function calls throughout the + kernel tree. + +Users: diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/dv1394 b/Documentation/ABI/removed/dv1394 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c2310b667 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/dv1394 @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +What: dv1394 (a.k.a. "OHCI-DV I/O support" for FireWire) +Date: May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37 +Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net +Description: + /dev/dv1394/* were character device files, one for each FireWire + controller and for NTSC and PAL respectively, from which DV data + could be received by read() or transmitted by write(). A few + ioctl()s allowed limited control. + This special-purpose interface has been superseded by libraw1394 + + libiec61883 which are functionally equivalent, support HDV, and + transparently work on top of the newer firewire kernel drivers. + +Users: + ffmpeg/libavformat (if configured for DV1394) diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/ip_queue b/Documentation/ABI/removed/ip_queue new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3243613bc --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/ip_queue @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +What: ip_queue +Date: finally removed in kernel v3.5.0 +Contact: Pablo Neira Ayuso +Description: + ip_queue has been replaced by nfnetlink_queue which provides + more advanced queueing mechanism to user-space. The ip_queue + module was already announced to become obsolete years ago. + +Users: diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/net_dma b/Documentation/ABI/removed/net_dma new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a173aecc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/net_dma @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +What: tcp_dma_copybreak sysctl +Date: Removed in kernel v3.13 +Contact: Dan Williams +Description: + Formerly the lower limit, in bytes, of the size of socket reads + that will be offloaded to a DMA copy engine. Removed due to + coherency issues of the cpu potentially touching the buffers + while dma is in flight. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/o2cb b/Documentation/ABI/removed/o2cb new file mode 100644 index 000000000..20c91adca --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/o2cb @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +What: /sys/o2cb symlink +Date: May 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.0 +Contact: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com +Description: This is a symlink: /sys/o2cb to /sys/fs/o2cb. The symlink is + removed when new versions of ocfs2-tools which know to look + in /sys/fs/o2cb are sufficiently prevalent. Don't code new + software to look here, it should try /sys/fs/o2cb instead. +Users: ocfs2-tools. It's sufficient to mail proposed changes to + ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394 b/Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9ec7ec493 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394 @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +What: raw1394 (a.k.a. "Raw IEEE1394 I/O support" for FireWire) +Date: May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37 +Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net +Description: + /dev/raw1394 was a character device file that allowed low-level + access to FireWire buses. Its major drawbacks were its inability + to implement sensible device security policies, and its low level + of abstraction that required userspace clients to duplicate much + of the kernel's ieee1394 core functionality. + + Replaced by /dev/fw*, i.e. the ABI of + firewire-core. + +Users: + libraw1394 (works with firewire-cdev too, transparent to library ABI + users) diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-bus-nfit b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-bus-nfit new file mode 100644 index 000000000..277437005 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-bus-nfit @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/regionX/nfit/ecc_unit_size +Date: Aug, 2017 +KernelVersion: v4.14 (Removed v4.18) +Contact: nvdimm@lists.linux.dev +Description: + (RO) Size of a write request to a DIMM that will not incur a + read-modify-write cycle at the memory controller. + + When the nfit driver initializes it runs an ARS (Address Range + Scrub) operation across every pmem range. Part of that process + involves determining the ARS capabilities of a given address + range. One of the capabilities that is reported is the 'Clear + Uncorrectable Error Range Length Unit Size' (see: ACPI 6.2 + section 9.20.7.4 Function Index 1 - Query ARS Capabilities). + This property indicates the boundary at which the NVDIMM may + need to perform read-modify-write cycles to maintain ECC (Error + Correcting Code) blocks. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-class-rfkill b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-class-rfkill new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f25174eaf --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-class-rfkill @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +rfkill - radio frequency (RF) connector kill switch support + +For details to this subsystem look at Documentation/driver-api/rfkill.rst. + +What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/claim +Date: 09-Jul-2007 +KernelVersion v2.6.22 +Contact: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org +Description: This file was deprecated because there no longer was a way to + claim just control over a single rfkill instance. + This file was scheduled to be removed in 2012, and was removed + in 2016. +Values: 0: Kernel handles events diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-kernel-fadump_release_opalcore b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-kernel-fadump_release_opalcore new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a8d46cd0f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-kernel-fadump_release_opalcore @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +This ABI is moved to /sys/firmware/opal/mpipl/release_core. + +What: /sys/kernel/fadump_release_opalcore +Date: Sep 2019 +Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org +Description: write only + The sysfs file is available when the system is booted to + collect the dump on OPAL based machine. It used to release + the memory used to collect the opalcore. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-kernel-uids b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-kernel-uids new file mode 100644 index 000000000..85a90b86c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-kernel-uids @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +What: /sys/kernel/uids//cpu_shares +Date: December 2007, finally removed in kernel v2.6.34-rc1 +Contact: Dhaval Giani + Srivatsa Vaddagiri +Description: + The /sys/kernel/uids//cpu_shares tunable is used + to set the cpu bandwidth a user is allowed. This is a + proportional value. What that means is that if there + are two users logged in, each with an equal number of + shares, then they will get equal CPU bandwidth. Another + example would be, if User A has shares = 1024 and user + B has shares = 2048, User B will get twice the CPU + bandwidth user A will. For more details refer + Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-mce b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-mce new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ef5dd2a80 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-mce @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/tolerant +Contact: Borislav Petkov +Date: Dec, 2021 +Description: + Unused and obsolete after the advent of recoverable machine + checks (see last sentence below) and those are present since + 2010 (Nehalem). + + Original description: + + The entries appear for each CPU, but they are truly shared + between all CPUs. + + Tolerance level. When a machine check exception occurs for a + non corrected machine check the kernel can take different + actions. + + Since machine check exceptions can happen any time it is + sometimes risky for the kernel to kill a process because it + defies normal kernel locking rules. The tolerance level + configures how hard the kernel tries to recover even at some + risk of deadlock. Higher tolerant values trade potentially + better uptime with the risk of a crash or even corruption + (for tolerant >= 3). + + == =========================================================== + 0 always panic on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors + 1 panic or SIGBUS on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors + 2 SIGBUS or log uncorrected errors, log corrected errors + 3 never panic or SIGBUS, log all errors (for testing only) + == =========================================================== + + Default: 1 + + Note this only makes a difference if the CPU allows recovery + from a machine check exception. Current x86 CPUs generally + do not. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/video1394 b/Documentation/ABI/removed/video1394 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1905d35a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/video1394 @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +What: video1394 (a.k.a. "OHCI-1394 Video support" for FireWire) +Date: May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37 +Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net +Description: + /dev/video1394/* were character device files, one for each FireWire + controller, which were used for isochronous I/O. It was added as an + alternative to raw1394's isochronous I/O functionality which had + performance issues in its first generation. Any video1394 user had + to use raw1394 + libraw1394 too because video1394 did not provide + asynchronous I/O for device discovery and configuration. + + Replaced by /dev/fw*, i.e. the ABI of + firewire-core. + +Users: + libdc1394 (works with firewire-cdev too, transparent to library ABI + users) -- cgit v1.2.3