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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
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match the driver to the device. For example:
# echo "046d c315" > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/foo/remove_id

What: /sys/bus/usb/device/.../avoid_reset
What: /sys/bus/usb/device/.../avoid_reset_quirk
Date: December 2009
Contact: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
Description:
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Ceph Distributed File System
============================

Ceph is a distributed network file system designed to provide good
performance, reliability, and scalability.

Basic features include:

* POSIX semantics
* Seamless scaling from 1 to many thousands of nodes
* High availability and reliability. No single points of failure.
* N-way replication of data across storage nodes
* Fast recovery from node failures
* Automatic rebalancing of data on node addition/removal
* Easy deployment: most FS components are userspace daemons

Also,
* Flexible snapshots (on any directory)
* Recursive accounting (nested files, directories, bytes)

In contrast to cluster filesystems like GFS, OCFS2, and GPFS that rely
on symmetric access by all clients to shared block devices, Ceph
separates data and metadata management into independent server
clusters, similar to Lustre. Unlike Lustre, however, metadata and
storage nodes run entirely as user space daemons. Storage nodes
utilize btrfs to store data objects, leveraging its advanced features
(checksumming, metadata replication, etc.). File data is striped
across storage nodes in large chunks to distribute workload and
facilitate high throughputs. When storage nodes fail, data is
re-replicated in a distributed fashion by the storage nodes themselves
(with some minimal coordination from a cluster monitor), making the
system extremely efficient and scalable.

Metadata servers effectively form a large, consistent, distributed
in-memory cache above the file namespace that is extremely scalable,
dynamically redistributes metadata in response to workload changes,
and can tolerate arbitrary (well, non-Byzantine) node failures. The
metadata server takes a somewhat unconventional approach to metadata
storage to significantly improve performance for common workloads. In
particular, inodes with only a single link are embedded in
directories, allowing entire directories of dentries and inodes to be
loaded into its cache with a single I/O operation. The contents of
extremely large directories can be fragmented and managed by
independent metadata servers, allowing scalable concurrent access.

The system offers automatic data rebalancing/migration when scaling
from a small cluster of just a few nodes to many hundreds, without
requiring an administrator carve the data set into static volumes or
go through the tedious process of migrating data between servers.
When the file system approaches full, new nodes can be easily added
and things will "just work."

Ceph includes flexible snapshot mechanism that allows a user to create
a snapshot on any subdirectory (and its nested contents) in the
system. Snapshot creation and deletion are as simple as 'mkdir
.snap/foo' and 'rmdir .snap/foo'.

Ceph also provides some recursive accounting on directories for nested
files and bytes. That is, a 'getfattr -d foo' on any directory in the
system will reveal the total number of nested regular files and
subdirectories, and a summation of all nested file sizes. This makes
the identification of large disk space consumers relatively quick, as
no 'du' or similar recursive scan of the file system is required.


Mount Syntax
============

The basic mount syntax is:

# mount -t ceph monip[:port][,monip2[:port]...]:/[subdir] mnt

You only need to specify a single monitor, as the client will get the
full list when it connects. (However, if the monitor you specify
happens to be down, the mount won't succeed.) The port can be left
off if the monitor is using the default. So if the monitor is at
1.2.3.4,

# mount -t ceph 1.2.3.4:/ /mnt/ceph

is sufficient. If /sbin/mount.ceph is installed, a hostname can be
used instead of an IP address.



Mount Options
=============

ip=A.B.C.D[:N]
Specify the IP and/or port the client should bind to locally.
There is normally not much reason to do this. If the IP is not
specified, the client's IP address is determined by looking at the
address it's connection to the monitor originates from.

wsize=X
Specify the maximum write size in bytes. By default there is no
maximu. Ceph will normally size writes based on the file stripe
size.

rsize=X
Specify the maximum readahead.

mount_timeout=X
Specify the timeout value for mount (in seconds), in the case
of a non-responsive Ceph file system. The default is 30
seconds.

rbytes
When stat() is called on a directory, set st_size to 'rbytes',
the summation of file sizes over all files nested beneath that
directory. This is the default.

norbytes
When stat() is called on a directory, set st_size to the
number of entries in that directory.

nocrc
Disable CRC32C calculation for data writes. If set, the OSD
must rely on TCP's error correction to detect data corruption
in the data payload.

noasyncreaddir
Disable client's use its local cache to satisfy readdir
requests. (This does not change correctness; the client uses
cached metadata only when a lease or capability ensures it is
valid.)


More Information
================

For more information on Ceph, see the home page at
http://ceph.newdream.net/

The Linux kernel client source tree is available at
git://ceph.newdream.net/linux-ceph-client.git

and the source for the full system is at
git://ceph.newdream.net/ceph.git
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0x94 all fs/btrfs/ioctl.h
0x97 00-7F fs/ceph/ioctl.h Ceph file system
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direct expression of inheritance, so other techniques - such as structure
embedding - must be used.

So, for example, the UIO code has a structure that defines the memory
region associated with a uio device:
(As an aside, for those familiar with the kernel linked list implementation,
this is analogous as to how "list_head" structs are rarely useful on
their own, but are invariably found embedded in the larger objects of
interest.)

struct uio_mem {
So, for example, the UIO code in drivers/uio/uio.c has a structure that
defines the memory region associated with a uio device:

struct uio_map {
struct kobject kobj;
unsigned long addr;
unsigned long size;
int memtype;
void __iomem *internal_addr;
};
struct uio_mem *mem;
};

If you have a struct uio_mem structure, finding its embedded kobject is
If you have a struct uio_map structure, finding its embedded kobject is
just a matter of using the kobj member. Code that works with kobjects will
often have the opposite problem, however: given a struct kobject pointer,
what is the pointer to the containing structure? You must avoid tricks
(such as assuming that the kobject is at the beginning of the structure)
and, instead, use the container_of() macro, found in <linux/kernel.h>:

container_of(pointer, type, member)
container_of(pointer, type, member)

where:

* "pointer" is the pointer to the embedded kobject,
* "type" is the type of the containing structure, and
* "member" is the name of the structure field to which "pointer" points.

The return value from container_of() is a pointer to the corresponding
container type. So, for example, a pointer "kp" to a struct kobject
embedded *within* a struct uio_map could be converted to a pointer to the
*containing* uio_map structure with:

struct uio_map *u_map = container_of(kp, struct uio_map, kobj);

For convenience, programmers often define a simple macro for "back-casting"
kobject pointers to the containing type. Exactly this happens in the
earlier drivers/uio/uio.c, as you can see here:

struct uio_map {
struct kobject kobj;
struct uio_mem *mem;
};

where pointer is the pointer to the embedded kobject, type is the type of
the containing structure, and member is the name of the structure field to
which pointer points. The return value from container_of() is a pointer to
the given type. So, for example, a pointer "kp" to a struct kobject
embedded within a struct uio_mem could be converted to a pointer to the
containing uio_mem structure with:
#define to_map(map) container_of(map, struct uio_map, kobj)

struct uio_mem *u_mem = container_of(kp, struct uio_mem, kobj);
where the macro argument "map" is a pointer to the struct kobject in
question. That macro is subsequently invoked with:

Programmers often define a simple macro for "back-casting" kobject pointers
to the containing type.
struct uio_map *map = to_map(kobj);


Initialization of kobjects
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Example code to copy from

For a more complete example of using ksets and kobjects properly, see the
sample/kobject/kset-example.c code.
example programs samples/kobject/{kobject-example.c,kset-example.c},
which will be built as loadable modules if you select CONFIG_SAMPLE_KOBJECT.
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STMicroelectronics 10/100/1000 Synopsys Ethernet driver

Copyright (C) 2007-2010 STMicroelectronics Ltd
Author: Giuseppe Cavallaro <[email protected]>

This is the driver for the MAC 10/100/1000 on-chip Ethernet controllers
(Synopsys IP blocks); it has been fully tested on STLinux platforms.

Currently this network device driver is for all STM embedded MAC/GMAC
(7xxx SoCs).

DWC Ether MAC 10/100/1000 Universal version 3.41a and DWC Ether MAC 10/100
Universal version 4.0 have been used for developing the first code
implementation.

Please, for more information also visit: www.stlinux.com

1) Kernel Configuration
The kernel configuration option is STMMAC_ETH:
Device Drivers ---> Network device support ---> Ethernet (1000 Mbit) --->
STMicroelectronics 10/100/1000 Ethernet driver (STMMAC_ETH)

2) Driver parameters list:
debug: message level (0: no output, 16: all);
phyaddr: to manually provide the physical address to the PHY device;
dma_rxsize: DMA rx ring size;
dma_txsize: DMA tx ring size;
buf_sz: DMA buffer size;
tc: control the HW FIFO threshold;
tx_coe: Enable/Disable Tx Checksum Offload engine;
watchdog: transmit timeout (in milliseconds);
flow_ctrl: Flow control ability [on/off];
pause: Flow Control Pause Time;
tmrate: timer period (only if timer optimisation is configured).

3) Command line options
Driver parameters can be also passed in command line by using:
stmmaceth=dma_rxsize:128,dma_txsize:512

4) Driver information and notes

4.1) Transmit process
The xmit method is invoked when the kernel needs to transmit a packet; it sets
the descriptors in the ring and informs the DMA engine that there is a packet
ready to be transmitted.
Once the controller has finished transmitting the packet, an interrupt is
triggered; So the driver will be able to release the socket buffers.
By default, the driver sets the NETIF_F_SG bit in the features field of the
net_device structure enabling the scatter/gather feature.

4.2) Receive process
When one or more packets are received, an interrupt happens. The interrupts
are not queued so the driver has to scan all the descriptors in the ring during
the receive process.
This is based on NAPI so the interrupt handler signals only if there is work to be
done, and it exits.
Then the poll method will be scheduled at some future point.
The incoming packets are stored, by the DMA, in a list of pre-allocated socket
buffers in order to avoid the memcpy (Zero-copy).

4.3) Timer-Driver Interrupt
Instead of having the device that asynchronously notifies the frame receptions, the
driver configures a timer to generate an interrupt at regular intervals.
Based on the granularity of the timer, the frames that are received by the device
will experience different levels of latency. Some NICs have dedicated timer
device to perform this task. STMMAC can use either the RTC device or the TMU
channel 2 on STLinux platforms.
The timers frequency can be passed to the driver as parameter; when change it,
take care of both hardware capability and network stability/performance impact.
Several performance tests on STM platforms showed this optimisation allows to spare
the CPU while having the maximum throughput.

4.4) WOL
Wake up on Lan feature through Magic Frame is only supported for the GMAC
core.

4.5) DMA descriptors
Driver handles both normal and enhanced descriptors. The latter has been only
tested on DWC Ether MAC 10/100/1000 Universal version 3.41a.

4.6) Ethtool support
Ethtool is supported. Driver statistics and internal errors can be taken using:
ethtool -S ethX command. It is possible to dump registers etc.

4.7) Jumbo and Segmentation Offloading
Jumbo frames are supported and tested for the GMAC.
The GSO has been also added but it's performed in software.
LRO is not supported.

4.8) Physical
The driver is compatible with PAL to work with PHY and GPHY devices.

4.9) Platform information
Several information came from the platform; please refer to the
driver's Header file in include/linux directory.

struct plat_stmmacenet_data {
int bus_id;
int pbl;
int has_gmac;
void (*fix_mac_speed)(void *priv, unsigned int speed);
void (*bus_setup)(unsigned long ioaddr);
#ifdef CONFIG_STM_DRIVERS
struct stm_pad_config *pad_config;
#endif
void *bsp_priv;
};

Where:
- pbl (Programmable Burst Length) is maximum number of
beats to be transferred in one DMA transaction.
GMAC also enables the 4xPBL by default.
- fix_mac_speed and bus_setup are used to configure internal target
registers (on STM platforms);
- has_gmac: GMAC core is on board (get it at run-time in the next step);
- bus_id: bus identifier.

struct plat_stmmacphy_data {
int bus_id;
int phy_addr;
unsigned int phy_mask;
int interface;
int (*phy_reset)(void *priv);
void *priv;
};

Where:
- bus_id: bus identifier;
- phy_addr: physical address used for the attached phy device;
set it to -1 to get it at run-time;
- interface: physical MII interface mode;
- phy_reset: hook to reset HW function.

TODO:
- Continue to make the driver more generic and suitable for other Synopsys
Ethernet controllers used on other architectures (i.e. ARM).
- 10G controllers are not supported.
- MAC uses Normal descriptors and GMAC uses enhanced ones.
This is a limit that should be reviewed. MAC could want to
use the enhanced structure.
- Checksumming: Rx/Tx csum is done in HW in case of GMAC only.
- Review the timer optimisation code to use an embedded device that seems to be
available in new chip generations.
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