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authorDonggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>2026-09-02 00:21:26 +0900
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iio: proximity: vl53l0x-i2c: claim direct mode for raw readsgrafted
vl53l0x_read_raw() starts a single-shot ranging measurement and reads back the result. Once the triggered buffer is enabled the sensor runs in continuous mode and its data-ready interrupt is routed to the trigger, so a concurrent in_distance_raw read disturbs the streaming setup and never gets its completion, returning -ETIMEDOUT. The original submission claimed direct mode here, but it was dropped during review because the driver had no buffer support at the time [1]. Continuous (buffered) mode was later added without restoring the claim [2], reintroducing the conflict. Reject direct reads while buffered capture is active by claiming direct mode around the measurement, as the vl53l1x sibling already does. Fixes: 762186c6e7b1 ("iio: proximity: vl53l0x-i2c: Added continuous mode support") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iio/20180911160300.GA9212@himanshu-Vostro-3559/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iio/20240909101508.263085-3-abhashkumarjha123@gmail.com/ [2] Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@oss.qualcomm.com>
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+===============================
+Numa policy hit/miss statistics
+===============================
+
+/sys/devices/system/node/node*/numastat
+
+All units are pages. Hugepages have separate counters.
+
+The numa_hit, numa_miss and numa_foreign counters reflect how well processes
+are able to allocate memory from nodes they prefer. If they succeed, numa_hit
+is incremented on the preferred node, otherwise numa_foreign is incremented on
+the preferred node and numa_miss on the node where allocation succeeded.
+
+Usually preferred node is the one local to the CPU where the process executes,
+but restrictions such as mempolicies can change that, so there are also two
+counters based on CPU local node. local_node is similar to numa_hit and is
+incremented on allocation from a node by CPU on the same node. other_node is
+similar to numa_miss and is incremented on the node where allocation succeeds
+from a CPU from a different node. Note there is no counter analogical to
+numa_foreign.
+
+In more detail:
+
+=============== ============================================================
+numa_hit A process wanted to allocate memory from this node,
+ and succeeded.
+
+numa_miss A process wanted to allocate memory from another node,
+ but ended up with memory from this node.
+
+numa_foreign A process wanted to allocate on this node,
+ but ended up with memory from another node.
+
+local_node A process ran on this node's CPU,
+ and got memory from this node.
+
+other_node A process ran on a different node's CPU
+ and got memory from this node.
+
+interleave_hit Interleaving wanted to allocate from this node
+ and succeeded.
+=============== ============================================================
+
+For easier reading you can use the numastat utility from the numactl package
+(http://oss.sgi.com/projects/libnuma/). Note that it only works
+well right now on machines with a small number of CPUs.
+
+Note that on systems with memoryless nodes (where a node has CPUs but no
+memory) the numa_hit, numa_miss and numa_foreign statistics can be skewed
+heavily. In the current kernel implementation, if a process prefers a
+memoryless node (i.e. because it is running on one of its local CPU), the
+implementation actually treats one of the nearest nodes with memory as the
+preferred node. As a result, such allocation will not increase the numa_foreign
+counter on the memoryless node, and will skew the numa_hit, numa_miss and
+numa_foreign statistics of the nearest node.