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Merge tag 'pinctrl-v7.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrlgrafted
Pull pin control updates from Linus Walleij: "Core changes: - Use the non-blocking mux_state_try_select() in the generic MUX pin control back-end - Free pin maps on pinctrl_generic_to_map() failure in the core helpers New hardware pin control: - Qualcomm Maili TLMM SoC, PMG1110 PMIC, and Eliza LPASS LPI TLMM SoC (this is for the low power audio, LPASS = Low Power Audio SubSystem portions) - Upboard support on top of the Intel pin controller - Apple T6030 and T6031 support (just compatible strings) - Samsung Exynos 8855 SoC - Mediatek MT6858 SoC - Rockchip RK3308B and RV1106 SoCs - Airoha EN7523 and AN7563 SoCs Improvements: - Qualcomm TLMM GPIOs are unconditionally marked as wakeup capable - Qualcomm improvements on top of the Qualcomm PDC (power domain controller) irqchip improvements from tglx:s tree - Qualcomm IPQ806x and IPQ9650 non-urgent pin grop fixups - The NPCM8xx driver has been put into shape fixing many pin and group definitions - Some non-urgent Tegra 264 pin assignments are fixed up - Some non-urgent fixups to Airoha AN7581 and AN7583 registers and pin assignments, missing features etc" * tag 'pinctrl-v7.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl: (130 commits) dt-bindings: pinctrl: Convert TI DA850 pupd to DT schema pinctrl: meson: sync some modify from A4 pinctrl: meson: a4: Add input enable pin configuration pinctrl: realtek: rtd1625: remove unused group name spdif_sel pinctrl: realtek: rtd1625: fix base_bit for VE4 GPIO 13 dt-bindings: pinctrl: microchip,pic32mzda-pinctrl: Convert to DT schema Revert "Merge branch 'ib-rsk7204' into devel" pinctrl: rockchip: Add RV1106 pinctrl support dt-bindings: pinctrl: rockchip: Add RV1106 compatible pinctrl: rockchip: Decode drive strength in the get function pinctrl: fix PINCTRL_GENERIC_MUX not always being selectable pinctrl: airoha: add support of an7563 SoC dt-bindings: pinctrl: airoha: add support of an7563 pin controller pinctrl: airoha: try to find chip scu node by phandle first pinctrl: airoha: add support of en7523 SoC dt-bindings: pinctrl: airoha: add support of en7523 pin controller pinctrl: airoha: an7583: add support for olt pinmux pinctrl: airoha: an7583: add support for pon_alt pinmux pinctrl: airoha: an7583: add support for npu_uart pinmux dt-bindings: pinctrl: airoha: an7583: add missed features ...
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+===============================================
+Block layer statistics in /sys/block/<dev>/stat
+===============================================
+
+This file documents the contents of the /sys/block/<dev>/stat file.
+
+The stat file provides several statistics about the state of block
+device <dev>.
+
+Q.
+ Why are there multiple statistics in a single file? Doesn't sysfs
+ normally contain a single value per file?
+
+A.
+ By having a single file, the kernel can guarantee that the statistics
+ represent a consistent snapshot of the state of the device. If the
+ statistics were exported as multiple files containing one statistic
+ each, it would be impossible to guarantee that a set of readings
+ represent a single point in time.
+
+The stat file consists of a single line of text containing 17 decimal
+values separated by whitespace. The fields are summarized in the
+following table, and described in more detail below.
+
+
+=============== ============= =================================================
+Name units description
+=============== ============= =================================================
+read I/Os requests number of read I/Os processed
+read merges requests number of read I/Os merged with in-queue I/O
+read sectors sectors number of sectors read
+read ticks milliseconds total wait time for read requests
+write I/Os requests number of write I/Os processed
+write merges requests number of write I/Os merged with in-queue I/O
+write sectors sectors number of sectors written
+write ticks milliseconds total wait time for write requests
+in_flight requests number of I/Os currently in flight
+io_ticks milliseconds total time this block device has been active
+time_in_queue milliseconds total wait time for all requests
+discard I/Os requests number of discard I/Os processed
+discard merges requests number of discard I/Os merged with in-queue I/O
+discard sectors sectors number of sectors discarded
+discard ticks milliseconds total wait time for discard requests
+flush I/Os requests number of flush I/Os processed
+flush ticks milliseconds total wait time for flush requests
+=============== ============= =================================================
+
+read I/Os, write I/Os, discard I/0s
+===================================
+
+These values increment when an I/O request completes.
+
+flush I/Os
+==========
+
+These values increment when an flush I/O request completes.
+
+Block layer combines flush requests and executes at most one at a time.
+This counts flush requests executed by disk. Not tracked for partitions.
+
+read merges, write merges, discard merges
+=========================================
+
+These values increment when an I/O request is merged with an
+already-queued I/O request.
+
+read sectors, write sectors, discard_sectors
+============================================
+
+These values count the number of sectors read from, written to, or
+discarded from this block device. The "sectors" in question are the
+standard UNIX 512-byte sectors, not any device- or filesystem-specific
+block size. The counters are incremented when the I/O completes.
+
+read ticks, write ticks, discard ticks, flush ticks
+===================================================
+
+These values count the number of milliseconds that I/O requests have
+waited on this block device. If there are multiple I/O requests waiting,
+these values will increase at a rate greater than 1000/second; for
+example, if 60 read requests wait for an average of 30 ms, the read_ticks
+field will increase by 60*30 = 1800.
+
+in_flight
+=========
+
+This value counts the number of I/O requests that have been issued to
+the device driver but have not yet completed. It does not include I/O
+requests that are in the queue but not yet issued to the device driver.
+
+io_ticks
+========
+
+This value counts the number of milliseconds during which the device has
+had I/O requests queued.
+
+time_in_queue
+=============
+
+This value counts the number of milliseconds that I/O requests have waited
+on this block device. If there are multiple I/O requests waiting, this
+value will increase as the product of the number of milliseconds times the
+number of requests waiting (see "read ticks" above for an example).