android_kernel_google_msm/Documentation/sysctl
Rick Adams e8605d39a3 msm: 8x55: put reason for boot in procfs from SMEM
During board initialization read the shared memory item
SMEM_POWER_ON_STATUS_INFO and place it in the procfs at
/proc/sys/kernel/boot_reason

The data item is an integer with a bit being set to identify the reason
the device was powered on. The values of this data item is defined in
the document Document/arm/msm/boot.txt, the following is the data in the
documentation file.

power_on_status values set by the PMIC for power on event:
----------------------------------------------------------
0x01 -- keyboard power on
0x02 -- RTC alarm
0x04 -- cable power on
0x08 -- SMPL
0x10 -- Watch Dog timeout
0x20 -- USB charger
0x40 -- Wall charger
0xFF -- error reading power_on_status value

This is change is a response to a customer request described in
JIRA KERNEL-518

Change-Id: I59e665f92e6e29f7dfef4380314f676a2d92c94b
Signed-off-by: Rick Adams <rgadams@codeaurora.org>
(cherry picked from commit 9512d7e26abc9d23a1771533c5300605d70dfaa7)

Conflicts:

	arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h
	arch/arm/mach-msm/board-msm7x30.c
	kernel/sysctl.c
2013-02-08 15:14:28 -08:00
..
00-INDEX sysctl: remove obsolete comments 2011-01-13 08:03:18 -08:00
abi.txt
fs.txt Documentation: update epoll sysctl text 2011-05-23 15:14:11 -07:00
kernel.txt msm: 8x55: put reason for boot in procfs from SMEM 2013-02-08 15:14:28 -08:00
net.txt net: filter: Just In Time compiler for x86-64 2011-04-27 23:05:08 -07:00
README
sunrpc.txt
vm.txt doc: fix 3 typos in sysctl/vm.txt 2011-04-06 07:09:35 -07:00

Documentation for /proc/sys/		kernel version 2.2.10
	(c) 1998, 1999,  Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>

'Why', I hear you ask, 'would anyone even _want_ documentation
for them sysctl files? If anybody really needs it, it's all in
the source...'

Well, this documentation is written because some people either
don't know they need to tweak something, or because they don't
have the time or knowledge to read the source code.

Furthermore, the programmers who built sysctl have built it to
be actually used, not just for the fun of programming it :-)

==============================================================

Legal blurb:

As usual, there are two main things to consider:
1. you get what you pay for
2. it's free

The consequences are that I won't guarantee the correctness of
this document, and if you come to me complaining about how you
screwed up your system because of wrong documentation, I won't
feel sorry for you. I might even laugh at you...

But of course, if you _do_ manage to screw up your system using
only the sysctl options used in this file, I'd like to hear of
it. Not only to have a great laugh, but also to make sure that
you're the last RTFMing person to screw up.

In short, e-mail your suggestions, corrections and / or horror
stories to: <riel@nl.linux.org>

Rik van Riel.

==============================================================

Introduction:

Sysctl is a means of configuring certain aspects of the kernel
at run-time, and the /proc/sys/ directory is there so that you
don't even need special tools to do it!
In fact, there are only four things needed to use these config
facilities:
- a running Linux system
- root access
- common sense (this is especially hard to come by these days)
- knowledge of what all those values mean

As a quick 'ls /proc/sys' will show, the directory consists of
several (arch-dependent?) subdirs. Each subdir is mainly about
one part of the kernel, so you can do configuration on a piece
by piece basis, or just some 'thematic frobbing'.

The subdirs are about:
abi/		execution domains & personalities
debug/		<empty>
dev/		device specific information (eg dev/cdrom/info)
fs/		specific filesystems
		filehandle, inode, dentry and quota tuning
		binfmt_misc <Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt>
kernel/		global kernel info / tuning
		miscellaneous stuff
net/		networking stuff, for documentation look in:
		<Documentation/networking/>
proc/		<empty>
sunrpc/		SUN Remote Procedure Call (NFS)
vm/		memory management tuning
		buffer and cache management

These are the subdirs I have on my system. There might be more
or other subdirs in another setup. If you see another dir, I'd
really like to hear about it :-)