linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/7] Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/cpu/ topology files

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0910281414170.27638@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:15:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>
cc:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Travis <travis@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/cpu/ topology
 files

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Alex Chiang wrote:

> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
> index 86126b1..871acdb 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
> @@ -10,6 +10,34 @@ Description:
>  		/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/
>  
>  
> +What:		/sys/devices/system/cpu/kernel_max
> +		/sys/devices/system/cpu/offline
> +		/sys/devices/system/cpu/online
> +		/sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
> +		/sys/devices/system/cpu/present
> +Date:		December 2008
> +Contact:	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
> +Description:	CPU topology files that describe kernel limits related to
> +		hotplug. Briefly:
> +
> +		kernel_max: the maximum cpu index allowed by the kernel
> +		configuration.
> +
> +		offline: cpus that are not online because they have been
> +		HOTPLUGGED off or exceed the limit of cpus allowed by the
> +		kernel configuration (kernel_max above).
> +
> +		online: cpus that are online and being scheduled.
> +
> +		possible: cpus that have been allocated resources and can be
> +		brought online if they are present.
> +
> +		present: cpus that have been identified as being present in
> +		the system.
> +
> +		See Documentation/cputopology.txt for more information.
> +
> +
>  What:      /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index*/cache_disable_X
>  Date:      August 2008
>  KernelVersion:	2.6.27

I noticed that this and patches 4-6 were added to gregkh-2.6.  Alex, did 
you want to seperate these large multi-file sections into individual file 
sections so that it is consistent with the remainder of Documentation/ABI?
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