Re: [PATCH v11 5/5] Documentation: document the preferred tag checking mode feature
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2021-07-28 06:13:02
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 01:52:59PM -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 160b10c029c0..5f87b146deb9 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: + + ================ ============================================== + "sync" Prefer synchronous mode + "async" Prefer asynchronous mode + ================ ============================================== + + Changes to this sysfs node may not take effect immediately.
Ok, so when do they take effect? A hint would be nice :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel