Merge branches 'release', 'acpi_pm_device_sleep_state' and 'battery' into release

[linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git] / Documentation / s390 / CommonIO

diff --git a/Documentation/s390/CommonIO b/Documentation/s390/CommonIO
index d684a6ac69a8ec2b8e06016f31e23bef2faf5130..8fbc0a852870f2a972b4d17adae71ba866bc5975 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/s390/CommonIO
+++ b/Documentation/s390/CommonIO
@@ -1,15 +1,20 @@
-S/390 common I/O-Layer - command line parameters and /proc entries
-==================================================================
+S/390 common I/O-Layer - command line parameters, procfs and debugfs entries
+============================================================================
 
 Command line parameters
 -----------------------
 
+* ccw_timeout_log
+
+  Enable logging of debug information in case of ccw device timeouts.
+
+
 * cio_msg = yes | no
   
   Determines whether information on found devices and sensed device 
-  characteristics should be shown during startup, i. e. messages of the types 
-  "Detected device 0.0.4711 on subchannel 0.0.0042" and "SenseID: Device
-  0.0.4711 reports: ...".
+  characteristics should be shown during startup or when new devices are
+  found, i. e. messages of the types "Detected device 0.0.4711 on subchannel
+  0.0.0042" and "SenseID: Device 0.0.4711 reports: ...".
 
   Default is off.
 
@@ -26,8 +31,10 @@ Command line parameters
   An ignored device can be un-ignored later; see the "/proc entries"-section for
   details.
 
-  The devices must be given either as bus ids (0.0.abcd) or as hexadecimal
-  device numbers (0xabcd or abcd, for 2.4 backward compatibility).
+  The devices must be given either as bus ids (0.x.abcd) or as hexadecimal
+  device numbers (0xabcd or abcd, for 2.4 backward compatibility). If you
+  give a device number 0xabcd, it will be interpreted as 0.0.abcd.
+
   You can use the 'all' keyword to ignore all devices.
   The '!' operator will cause the I/O-layer to _not_ ignore a device.
   The command line is parsed from left to right.
@@ -74,38 +81,43 @@ Command line parameters
 
   Note: While already known devices can be added to the list of devices to be
         ignored, there will be no effect on then. However, if such a device
-        disappears and then reappeares, it will then be ignored.
+       disappears and then reappears, it will then be ignored.
 
   For example,
        "echo add 0.0.a000-0.0.accc, 0.0.af00-0.0.afff > /proc/cio_ignore"
   will add 0.0.a000-0.0.accc and 0.0.af00-0.0.afff to the list of ignored
   devices.
 
-  The devices can be specified either by bus id (0.0.abcd) or, for 2.4 backward
-  compatibilty, by the device number in hexadecimal (0xabcd or abcd).
+  The devices can be specified either by bus id (0.x.abcd) or, for 2.4 backward
+  compatibility, by the device number in hexadecimal (0xabcd or abcd). Device
+  numbers given as 0xabcd will be interpreted as 0.0.abcd.
 
+* For some of the information present in the /proc filesystem in 2.4 (namely,
+  /proc/subchannels and /proc/chpids), see driver-model.txt.
+  Information formerly in /proc/irq_count is now in /proc/interrupts.
 
-* /proc/s390dbf/cio_*/ (S/390 debug feature)
+
+debugfs entries
+---------------
+
+* /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/cio_*/ (S/390 debug feature)
 
   Some views generated by the debug feature to hold various debug outputs.
 
-  - /proc/s390dbf/cio_crw/sprintf
+  - /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/cio_crw/sprintf
     Messages from the processing of pending channel report words (machine check
-    handling), which will also show when CONFIG_DEBUG_CRW is defined.
+    handling).
 
-  - /proc/s390dbf/cio_msg/sprintf
-    Various debug messages from the common I/O-layer; generally, messages which 
-    will also show when CONFIG_DEBUG_IO is defined.
+  - /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/cio_msg/sprintf
+    Various debug messages from the common I/O-layer, including messages
+    printed when cio_msg=yes.
 
-  - /proc/s390dbf/cio_trace/hex_ascii
+  - /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/cio_trace/hex_ascii
     Logs the calling of functions in the common I/O-layer and, if applicable, 
     which subchannel they were called for, as well as dumps of some data
     structures (like irb in an error case).
 
   The level of logging can be changed to be more or less verbose by piping to 
-  /proc/s390dbf/cio_*/level a number between 0 and 6; see the documentation on
-  the S/390 debug feature (Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt) for details.
-
-* For some of the information present in the /proc filesystem in 2.4 (namely,
-  /proc/subchannels and /proc/chpids), see driver-model.txt.
-  Information formerly in /proc/irq_count is now in /proc/interrupts.
+  /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/cio_*/level a number between 0 and 6; see the
+  documentation on the S/390 debug feature (Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt)
+  for details.