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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sysfs cpu probe/release files
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:01:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091125130131.GA18248@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B0CD8D5.8050803@austin.ibm.com>

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:12:21AM -0600, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> In order to support kernel DLPAR of CPU resources we need to provide an
> interface to add (probe) and remove (release) the resource from the system.
> This patch Creates new generic probe and release sysfs files to facilitate
> cpu probe/release.  The probe/release interface provides for allowing each
> arch to supply their own routines for implementing the backend of adding
> and removing cpus to/from the system.
>
> This also creates the powerpc specific stubs to handle the arch callouts 
> from writes to the sysfs files.

Can you document these new sysfs files with some information in the
Documentation/ABI/ directory please?

thanks,

greg k-h

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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Ben Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sysfs cpu probe/release files
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:01:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091125130131.GA18248@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B0CD8D5.8050803@austin.ibm.com>

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:12:21AM -0600, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> In order to support kernel DLPAR of CPU resources we need to provide an
> interface to add (probe) and remove (release) the resource from the system.
> This patch Creates new generic probe and release sysfs files to facilitate
> cpu probe/release.  The probe/release interface provides for allowing each
> arch to supply their own routines for implementing the backend of adding
> and removing cpus to/from the system.
>
> This also creates the powerpc specific stubs to handle the arch callouts 
> from writes to the sysfs files.

Can you document these new sysfs files with some information in the
Documentation/ABI/ directory please?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-25 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-25  7:04 [PATCH v2 0/3] Kernel handling of Dynamic Logical Partitioning Nathan Fontenot
2009-11-25  7:04 ` Nathan Fontenot
2009-11-25  7:10 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] Kernel DLPAR Infrastructure Nathan Fontenot
2009-11-25  7:10   ` Nathan Fontenot
2009-11-26  2:59   ` Paul Mackerras
2009-11-26  2:59     ` Paul Mackerras
2009-11-25  7:12 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] sysfs cpu probe/release files Nathan Fontenot
2009-11-25  7:12   ` Nathan Fontenot
2009-11-25 13:01   ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-11-25 13:01     ` Greg KH
2009-11-26  2:59   ` Paul Mackerras
2009-11-26  2:59     ` Paul Mackerras
2009-11-26  3:23   ` [PATCH v3 " Nathan Fontenot
2009-11-25  7:13 ` [PATCH v2 3/3]CPU DLPAR handling Nathan Fontenot
2009-11-25  7:13   ` Nathan Fontenot
2009-11-26  2:59   ` Paul Mackerras
2009-11-26  2:59     ` Paul Mackerras
2009-11-27 22:41 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Kernel handling of Dynamic Logical Partitioning Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-27 22:41   ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-30 20:48   ` Nathan Fontenot
2009-11-30 20:48     ` Nathan Fontenot

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