[PATCH v4 20/31] fs/stlmfs: Document ARM SCMI Telemetry filesystem

[Randy Dunlap]

On 6/12/26 3:37 PM, Cristian Marussi wrote:

> +Design
> +======
> +
> +STLMFS is a pseudo filesystem used to expose ARM SCMI Telemetry data
> +discovered dynamically at run-time via SCMI.
> +
> +Inodes are all dynamically created at mount-time from a dedicated
> +kmem_cache based on the gathered available SCMI Telemetry information.
> +
> +Since inodes represent the discovered Telemetry entities, which in turn are
> +statically defined at the platform level and immutable throughout the same
> +session (boot), allocated inodes are freed only at unmount-time and the
> +user is not allowed to delete or create any kind of file within the STLMFS
> +filesystem after mount has completed.
> +
> +A single instance of STLMFS is created at the filesystem level, using
> +get_tree_single(), given that the same SCMI backend entities will be
> +involved no matter how many times you mount it.
> +
> +STLMFS configurations gets appplied by issuing the related SCMI commands to

                         get applied
or better:
                         are applied

> +the backend SCMI platform server: for such reason any configuration applied
> +by this FS interface will survive the unmount or the unload of the module, but
> +not a reboot.

-- 
~Randy