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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-17 13:13:16 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-17 13:13:16 -0700 |
commit | d20ead9e86881bc7ae84e385f47b5196b7d93aac (patch) | |
tree | ed27dd5db5f8447e4b3f541f0ec38219085d2f32 /Documentation/filesystems | |
parent | c56ec7639288f3e5d6371b0c48d37da93642fc93 (diff) | |
parent | 88e4d250234fc9e64d6ce51df95efdcf8334fd95 (diff) |
Merge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-x86
* ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-x86: (114 commits)
x86: delete vsyscall files during make clean
kbuild: fix typo SRCARCH in find_sources
x86: fix kernel rebuild due to vsyscall fallout
.gitignore update for x86 arch
x86: unify include/asm/debugreg_32/64.h
x86: unify include/asm/unwind_32/64.h
x86: unify include/asm/types_32/64.h
x86: unify include/asm/tlb_32/64.h
x86: unify include/asm/siginfo_32/64.h
x86: unify include/asm/bug_32/64.h
x86: unify include/asm/mman_32/64.h
x86: unify include/asm/agp_32/64.h
x86: unify include/asm/kdebug_32/64.h
x86: unify include/asm/ioctls_32/64.h
x86: unify include/asm/floppy_32/64.h
x86: apply missing DMA/OOM prevention to floppy_32.h
x86: unify include/asm/cache_32/64.h
x86: unify include/asm/cache_32/64.h
x86: unify include/asm/dmi_32/64.h
x86: unify include/asm/delay_32/64.h
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 30 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 4a37e25e694c..e5c1df52a876 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -347,7 +347,35 @@ connects the CPUs in a SMP system. This means that an error has been detected, the IO-APIC automatically retry the transmission, so it should not be a big problem, but you should read the SMP-FAQ. -In this context it could be interesting to note the new irq directory in 2.4. +In 2.6.2* /proc/interrupts was expanded again. This time the goal was for +/proc/interrupts to display every IRQ vector in use by the system, not +just those considered 'most important'. The new vectors are: + + THR -- interrupt raised when a machine check threshold counter + (typically counting ECC corrected errors of memory or cache) exceeds + a configurable threshold. Only available on some systems. + + TRM -- a thermal event interrupt occurs when a temperature threshold + has been exceeded for the CPU. This interrupt may also be generated + when the temperature drops back to normal. + + SPU -- a spurious interrupt is some interrupt that was raised then lowered + by some IO device before it could be fully processed by the APIC. Hence + the APIC sees the interrupt but does not know what device it came from. + For this case the APIC will generate the interrupt with a IRQ vector + of 0xff. This might also be generated by chipset bugs. + + RES, CAL, TLB -- rescheduling, call and TLB flush interrupts are + sent from one CPU to another per the needs of the OS. Typically, + their statistics are used by kernel developers and interested users to + determine the occurance of interrupt of the given type. + +The above IRQ vectors are displayed only when relevent. For example, +the threshold vector does not exist on x86_64 platforms. Others are +suppressed when the system is a uniprocessor. As of this writing, only +i386 and x86_64 platforms support the new IRQ vector displays. + +Of some interest is the introduction of the /proc/irq directory to 2.4. It could be used to set IRQ to CPU affinity, this means that you can "hook" an IRQ to only one CPU, or to exclude a CPU of handling IRQs. The contents of the irq subdir is one subdir for each IRQ, and one file; prof_cpu_mask |