Re: [PATCH v10 5/5] Documentation: document the preferred tag checking mode feature
From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-07-14 11:52:03
On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 04:48:01PM -0700, Peter Collingbourne wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Document the functionality added in the previous patches. Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I48217cc3e8b8da33abc08cbaddc11cf4360a1b86 Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <redacted> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> --- v10: - document that setting the sysfs node may not take effect immediately - unabbreviate month name v9: - add documentation for sysfs node under Documentation/ABI .../ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 18 +++++++ .../arm64/memory-tagging-extension.rst | 48 ++++++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu index fe13baa53c59..6e667338df9f 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu@@ -640,3 +640,21 @@ Description: SPURR ticks for cpuX when it was idle. This sysfs interface exposes the number of SPURR ticks for cpuX when it was idle. + +What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/mte_tcf_preferred +Date: July 2021 +Contact: Linux ARM Kernel Mailing list <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org> +Description: Preferred MTE tag checking mode + + When a user program specifies more than one MTE tag checking + mode, this sysfs node is used to specify which mode should + be preferred when running on that CPU. Possible values:
So I suppose we could replace "running" with "scheduling a task" and then remove:
+ Changes to this sysfs node may not take effect immediately.
altogether, as it makes it sounds as though the change might just be ignored. But I don't want to bikeshed this, so: Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Will _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel