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Message-Id: <1432645896-12588-3-git-send-email-bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 May 2015 15:11:29 +0200
From:	Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Benoit Cousson <bcousson@...libre.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Subject: [RESEND][PATCH v2 2/9] Documentation: update cputopology.txt

The documentation on cpu topology seems to be a bit out-of-date. It
doesn't mention the **_siblings_list attributes and uses old names
for topology_**_cpumask() macros.

Add information on missing attributes plus some additional
clarifications.

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 Documentation/cputopology.txt | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/cputopology.txt b/Documentation/cputopology.txt
index 428a961..12b1b25 100644
--- a/Documentation/cputopology.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cputopology.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 
 Export CPU topology info via sysfs. Items (attributes) are similar
-to /proc/cpuinfo.
+to /proc/cpuinfo output of some architectures:
 
 1) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/physical_package_id:
 
@@ -23,20 +23,35 @@ to /proc/cpuinfo.
 4) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings:
 
 	internal kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
-	core as cpuX
+	core as cpuX.
 
-5) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings:
+5) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings_list:
+
+	human-readable list of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
+	core as cpuX.
+
+6) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings:
 
 	internal kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
 	physical_package_id.
 
-6) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/book_siblings:
+7) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings_list:
+
+	human-readable list of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
+	physical_package_id.
+
+8) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/book_siblings:
 
 	internal kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
 	book_id.
 
+9) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/book_siblings_list:
+
+	human-readable list of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
+	book_id.
+
 To implement it in an architecture-neutral way, a new source file,
-drivers/base/topology.c, is to export the 4 or 6 attributes. The two book
+drivers/base/topology.c, is to export the 6 or 9 attributes. The three book
 related sysfs files will only be created if CONFIG_SCHED_BOOK is selected.
 
 For an architecture to support this feature, it must define some of
@@ -48,16 +63,18 @@ these macros in include/asm-XXX/topology.h:
 #define topology_core_cpumask(cpu)
 #define topology_book_cpumask(cpu)
 
-The type of **_id is int.
-The type of siblings is (const) struct cpumask *.
+The type of **_id macros is int.
+The type of **_cpumask macros is (const) struct cpumask *. The latter
+correspond with appropriate **_siblings sysfs attributes (except for
+topology_sibling_cpumask() which corresponds with thread_siblings).
 
 To be consistent on all architectures, include/linux/topology.h
 provides default definitions for any of the above macros that are
 not defined by include/asm-XXX/topology.h:
 1) physical_package_id: -1
 2) core_id: 0
-3) thread_siblings: just the given CPU
-4) core_siblings: just the given CPU
+3) sibling_cpumask: just the given CPU
+4) core_cpumask: just the given CPU
 
 For architectures that don't support books (CONFIG_SCHED_BOOK) there are no
 default definitions for topology_book_id() and topology_book_cpumask().
-- 
2.1.4

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