Useful add-ons: Recommended kernel 2.6.16 add-ons

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For use with "October 2005 stream" superseded by recommended feature patch 19.

linux-2.6.16-s390-etr-v1-october2005.tar.gz MD5 recommended (2007-02-28) ) superseded

Summary:

kernel (new function): Support for clock synchronization to an external time reference (ETR).

Description:

This patch adds support for clock synchronization to an external time reference (ETR). The external time reference sends an oscillator signal and a synchronization signal every 2**20 (2 to the power of 20) microseconds to keep TOD clocks of all connected servers in sync.

For availability two ETR units can be connected to a machine. If the clock deviates for more than the sync-check tolerance all CPUs get a machine check that indicates that the clock is out of sync. If this happens all DASD I/O to XRC enabled devices is stopped until the clock is synchronized again.

The ETR support is activated via two sysfs attributes:

echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/etr/etr0/online
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/etr/etr1/online

This patch needs an upstream sysfs patch as prerequisite. The upstream patch with git ID 670dd90d81f60ef429cbba54ad235e9207f4d444 needs to be applied before this add-on patch:
www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain; h=670dd90d81f60ef429cbba54ad235e9207f4d444;
hp=1740757e8f94c6899705eb6f5434de9404992778

Note that this patch provides a recommended (optional) add-on to the "October 2005 stream", to be applied as last patch on top of patch 13 (or later) and on top of the upstream sysfs patch.

linux-2.6.16.tar.gz (from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6)
+ linux-2.6.16-s390-base-october2005.diff (IBM)
+ linux-2.6.16-s390-01-october2005.diff (IBM)
+ linux-2.6.16-s390-02-october2005.diff (IBM)
+ linux-2.6.16-s390-03-october2005.diff (IBM)
+ linux-2.6.16-s390-04-october2005.diff (IBM)
+ linux-2.6.16-s390-05-october2005.diff (IBM)
+ linux-2.6.16-s390-06-october2005.diff (IBM)
+ linux-2.6.16-s390-07-october2005.diff (IBM)
+ linux-2.6.16-s390-08-october2005.diff (IBM)
+ linux-2.6.16-s390-09-october2005.diff (IBM)
+ linux-2.6.16-s390-10-october2005.diff (IBM)
+ linux-2.6.16-s390-11-october2005.diff (IBM)
+ linux-2.6.16-s390-12-october2005.diff (IBM)
+ linux-2.6.16-s390-13-october2005.diff (IBM)
...
+ sysfs patch (see www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain; h=670dd90d81f60ef429cbba54ad235e9207f4d444;
hp=1740757e8f94c6899705eb6f5434de9404992778) + linux-2.6.16-s390-etr-v1-s390-october2005.diff (IBM)

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