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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-raid.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/perf/imx-ddr.rst | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/perf/thunderx2-pmu.rst | 20 |
5 files changed, 39 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst index a30aa91b5fbe..594095b54b29 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst @@ -177,6 +177,11 @@ bitmap_flush_interval:number The bitmap flush interval in milliseconds. The metadata buffers are synchronized when this interval expires. +fix_padding + Use a smaller padding of the tag area that is more + space-efficient. If this option is not present, large padding is + used - that is for compatibility with older kernels. + The journal mode (D/J), buffer_sectors, journal_watermark, commit_time can be changed when reloading the target (load an inactive table and swap the diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-raid.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-raid.rst index 2fe255b130fb..f6344675e395 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-raid.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-raid.rst @@ -417,3 +417,5 @@ Version History deadlock/potential data corruption. Update superblock when specific devices are requested via rebuild. Fix RAID leg rebuild errors. + 1.15.0 Fix size extensions not being synchronized in case of new MD bitmap + pages allocated; also fix those not occuring after previous reductions diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst index 5d63b18bd6d1..4f0462af3ca7 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst @@ -121,6 +121,15 @@ Field 15 -- # of milliseconds spent discarding This is the total number of milliseconds spent by all discards (as measured from __make_request() to end_that_request_last()). +Field 16 -- # of flush requests completed + This is the total number of flush requests completed successfully. + + Block layer combines flush requests and executes at most one at a time. + This counts flush requests executed by disk. Not tracked for partitions. + +Field 17 -- # of milliseconds spent flushing + This is the total number of milliseconds spent by all flush requests. + To avoid introducing performance bottlenecks, no locks are held while modifying these counters. This implies that minor inaccuracies may be introduced when changes collide, so (for instance) adding up all the diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/imx-ddr.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/imx-ddr.rst index 517a205abad6..90056e4e8859 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/imx-ddr.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/imx-ddr.rst @@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ The "format" directory describes format of the config (event ID) and config1 (AXI filtering) fields of the perf_event_attr structure, see /sys/bus/event_source/ devices/imx8_ddr0/format/. The "events" directory describes the events types hardware supported that can be used with perf tool, see /sys/bus/event_source/ -devices/imx8_ddr0/events/. +devices/imx8_ddr0/events/. The "caps" directory describes filter features implemented +in DDR PMU, see /sys/bus/events_source/devices/imx8_ddr0/caps/. e.g.:: perf stat -a -e imx8_ddr0/cycles/ cmd perf stat -a -e imx8_ddr0/read/,imx8_ddr0/write/ cmd @@ -25,9 +26,12 @@ devices/imx8_ddr0/events/. AXI filtering is only used by CSV modes 0x41 (axid-read) and 0x42 (axid-write) to count reading or writing matches filter setting. Filter setting is various from different DRAM controller implementations, which is distinguished by quirks -in the driver. +in the driver. You also can dump info from userspace, filter in "caps" directory +indicates whether PMU supports AXI ID filter or not; enhanced_filter indicates +whether PMU supports enhanced AXI ID filter or not. Value 0 for un-supported, and +value 1 for supported. -* With DDR_CAP_AXI_ID_FILTER quirk. +* With DDR_CAP_AXI_ID_FILTER quirk(filter: 1, enhanced_filter: 0). Filter is defined with two configuration parts: --AXI_ID defines AxID matching value. --AXI_MASKING defines which bits of AxID are meaningful for the matching. @@ -50,3 +54,8 @@ in the driver. axi_id to monitor a specific id, rather than having to specify axi_mask. e.g.:: perf stat -a -e imx8_ddr0/axid-read,axi_id=0x12/ cmd, which will monitor ARID=0x12 + +* With DDR_CAP_AXI_ID_FILTER_ENHANCED quirk(filter: 1, enhanced_filter: 1). + This is an extension to the DDR_CAP_AXI_ID_FILTER quirk which permits + counting the number of bytes (as opposed to the number of bursts) from DDR + read and write transactions concurrently with another set of data counters. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/thunderx2-pmu.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/thunderx2-pmu.rst index 08e33675853a..01f158238ae1 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/thunderx2-pmu.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/thunderx2-pmu.rst @@ -3,24 +3,26 @@ Cavium ThunderX2 SoC Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU UNCORE) ============================================================= The ThunderX2 SoC PMU consists of independent, system-wide, per-socket -PMUs such as the Level 3 Cache (L3C) and DDR4 Memory Controller (DMC). +PMUs such as the Level 3 Cache (L3C), DDR4 Memory Controller (DMC) and +Cavium Coherent Processor Interconnect (CCPI2). The DMC has 8 interleaved channels and the L3C has 16 interleaved tiles. Events are counted for the default channel (i.e. channel 0) and prorated to the total number of channels/tiles. -The DMC and L3C support up to 4 counters. Counters are independently -programmable and can be started and stopped individually. Each counter -can be set to a different event. Counters are 32-bit and do not support -an overflow interrupt; they are read every 2 seconds. +The DMC and L3C support up to 4 counters, while the CCPI2 supports up to 8 +counters. Counters are independently programmable to different events and +can be started and stopped individually. None of the counters support an +overflow interrupt. DMC and L3C counters are 32-bit and read every 2 seconds. +The CCPI2 counters are 64-bit and assumed not to overflow in normal operation. PMU UNCORE (perf) driver: The thunderx2_pmu driver registers per-socket perf PMUs for the DMC and -L3C devices. Each PMU can be used to count up to 4 events -simultaneously. The PMUs provide a description of their available events -and configuration options under sysfs, see -/sys/devices/uncore_<l3c_S/dmc_S/>; S is the socket id. +L3C devices. Each PMU can be used to count up to 4 (DMC/L3C) or up to 8 +(CCPI2) events simultaneously. The PMUs provide a description of their +available events and configuration options under sysfs, see +/sys/devices/uncore_<l3c_S/dmc_S/ccpi2_S/>; S is the socket id. The driver does not support sampling, therefore "perf record" will not work. Per-task perf sessions are also not supported. |