Add a bit more information how to use poll(2) on GPIO value files
correctly. For me it was not clear that I need to poll(2) for
POLLPRI|POLLERR or select(2) for exceptfds.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <walle@corscience.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If "p" is NULL then it will cause an oops when we pass it to
simple_strtoul(). In this case "p" can not be NULL so I removed the
check. I also changed the check a little to make it more explicit that
we are testing whether p points to the NUL char.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is a simple update of the file Documentation/fb/00-INDEX based on
the directory content.
Signed-off-by: Vicente Jimenez Aguilar <googuy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
* 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
PM / PM QoS: Fix reversed min and max
PM / OPP: Hide OPP configuration when SoCs do not provide an implementation
PM: Allow devices to be removed during late suspend and early resume
It's about time to make it clear that i2c_adapter.id is deprecated.
Hopefully this will remind the last user to move over to a different
strategy.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
* 'fbdev-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/fbdev-2.6:
fsl-diu-fb: drop dead ioctl define
MAINTAINERS: Add an fbdev git tree entry.
OMAP: DSS: Fix documentation regarding 'vram' kernel parameter
OMAP: VRAM: Fix boot-time memory allocation
OMAP: VRAM: improve VRAM error prints
sisfb: limit POST memory test according to PCI resource length
fbdev: sh_mobile_lcdc: use correct number of modes, when using the default
fbdev: sh_mobile_lcdc: use the standard CEA-861 720p timing
fbdev: sh_mobile_hdmi: properly clean up modedb on monitor unplug
With the refactoring of the SH7722 clock framework some time ago this
abstraction has become unecessary. Kill it off before anyone else gets
the bright idea to start using it.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (66 commits)
can-bcm: fix minor heap overflow
gianfar: Do not call device_set_wakeup_enable() under a spinlock
ipv6: Warn users if maximum number of routes is reached.
docs: Add neigh/gc_thresh3 and route/max_size documentation.
axnet_cs: fix resume problem for some Ax88790 chip
ipv6: addrconf: don't remove address state on ifdown if the address is being kept
tcp: Don't change unlocked socket state in tcp_v4_err().
x25: Prevent crashing when parsing bad X.25 facilities
cxgb4vf: add call to Firmware to reset VF State.
cxgb4vf: Fail open if link_start() fails.
cxgb4vf: flesh out PCI Device ID Table ...
cxgb4vf: fix some errors in Gather List to skb conversion
cxgb4vf: fix bug in Generic Receive Offload
cxgb4vf: don't implement trivial (and incorrect) ndo_select_queue()
ixgbe: Look inside vlan when determining offload protocol.
bnx2x: Look inside vlan when determining checksum proto.
vlan: Add function to retrieve EtherType from vlan packets.
virtio-net: init link state correctly
ucc_geth: Fix deadlock
ucc_geth: Do not bring the whole IF down when TX failure.
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (27 commits)
block: remove unused copy_io_context()
Documentation: remove anticipatory scheduler info
block: remove REQ_HARDBARRIER
ioprio: rcu_read_lock/unlock protect find_task_by_vpid call (V2)
ioprio: fix RCU locking around task dereference
block: ioctl: fix information leak to userland
block: read i_size with i_size_read()
cciss: fix proc warning on attempt to remove non-existant directory
bio: take care not overflow page count when mapping/copying user data
block: limit vec count in bio_kmalloc() and bio_alloc_map_data()
block: take care not to overflow when calculating total iov length
block: check for proper length of iov entries in blk_rq_map_user_iov()
cciss: remove controllers supported by hpsa
cciss: use usleep_range not msleep for small sleeps
cciss: limit commands allocated on reset_devices
cciss: Use kernel provided PCI state save and restore functions
cciss: fix board status waiting code
drbd: Removed checks for REQ_HARDBARRIER on incomming BIOs
drbd: REQ_HARDBARRIER -> REQ_FUA transition for meta data accesses
drbd: Removed the BIO_RW_BARRIER support form the receiver/epoch code
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* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
xfs: remove incorrect assert in xfs_vm_writepage
xfs: use hlist_add_fake
xfs: fix a few compiler warnings with CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=n
xfs: tell lockdep about parent iolock usage in filestreams
xfs: move delayed write buffer trace
xfs: fix per-ag reference counting in inode reclaim tree walking
xfs: xfs_ioctl: fix information leak to userland
xfs: remove experimental tag from the delaylog option
Create sub directory Documentation/leds and add short documentation for
LP5521 and LP5523 drivers.
Signed-off-by: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, blinking LEDs can be awkward because it is not guaranteed that
all LEDs implement blinking. The trigger that wants it to blink then
needs to implement its own timer solution.
Rather than require that, add led_blink_set() API that triggers can use.
This function will attempt to use hw blinking, but if that fails
implements a timer for it. To stop blinking again, brightness_set() also
needs to be wrapped into API that will stop the software blink.
As a result of this, the timer trigger becomes a very trivial one, and
hopefully we can finally see triggers using blinking as well because it's
always easy to use.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The kernel syslog contains debugging information that is often useful
during exploitation of other vulnerabilities, such as kernel heap
addresses. Rather than futilely attempt to sanitize hundreds (or
thousands) of printk statements and simultaneously cripple useful
debugging functionality, it is far simpler to create an option that
prevents unprivileged users from reading the syslog.
This patch, loosely based on grsecurity's GRKERNSEC_DMESG, creates the
dmesg_restrict sysctl. When set to "0", the default, no restrictions are
enforced. When set to "1", only users with CAP_SYS_ADMIN can read the
kernel syslog via dmesg(8) or other mechanisms.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: explain the config option in kernel.txt]
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/proc/pid/oom_adj was deprecated in August 2010 with the introduction of
the new oom killer heuristic.
This patch copies the Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt entry for
this tunable to the Documentation/ABI/obsolete directory so nobody misses
it.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove anticipatory block I/O scheduler info from Documentation/
since the code has been deleted.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Reported-by: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
drivers/base/intf.c was removed before the beginning of (git) time but
its Documentation stuck around. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Since the OPP API is only useful with an appropraite SoC-specific
implementation there is no point in offering the ability to enable
the API on general systems. Provide an ARCH_HAS OPP Kconfig symbol
which masks out the option unless selected by an implementation.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Acked-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
We promised to do this for 2.6.37, and the code looks stable enough to
keep that promise.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The DSS documentation didn't mention the option to give the VRAM start
address.
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging:
i2c-i801: Add PCI idents for Patsburg 'IDF' SMBus controllers
i2c-i801: Handle multiple instances instead of keeping global state
i2c-i801: Add Intel Patsburg device ID
i2c: Drop unused I2C_CLASS_TV flags
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (70 commits)
[SCSI] pmcraid: add support for set timestamp command and other fixes
[SCSI] pmcraid: remove duplicate struct member
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix cmd check in qla4xxx_cmd_wait
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: Version and documentation update
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: Add three times Online controller reset
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: Add input parameter for max_sectors
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: support devices update flag
[SCSI] libosd: write/read_sg_kern API
[SCSI] libosd: Support for scatter gather write/read commands
[SCSI] libosd: Free resources in reverse order of allocation
[SCSI] libosd: Fix bug in attr_page handling
[SCSI] lpfc 8.3.18: Update lpfc driver version to 8.3.18
[SCSI] lpfc 8.3.18: Add new WQE support
[SCSI] lpfc 8.3.18: Fix critical errors
[SCSI] lpfc 8.3.18: Adapter Shutdown and Unregistration cleanup
[SCSI] lpfc 8.3.18: Add logic to detect last devloss timeout
[SCSI] lpfc 8.3.18: Add support of received ELS commands
[SCSI] lpfc 8.3.18: FC/FCoE Discovery fixes
[SCSI] ipr: add definitions for a new adapter
[SCSI] bfa: fix comments for c files
...
These are the extra 'Integrated Device Function' SMBus controllers found
on the Patsburg chipset. Mention the absence of slave mode support.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Add support for the Intel Patsburg PCH SMBus Controller.
Signed-off-by: Seth Heasley <seth.heasley@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
This one was only used for a nasty hack in nfsd, which has recently
been removed.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: (39 commits)
Revert "namespace: add source file location exceptions"
Coccinelle: Add contextual message
Coccinelle: Fix documentation
Coccinelle: Find doubled arguments to boolean or bit operators.
Coccinelle: Find nested lock+irqsave functions that use the same flags variables.
namespace: add source file location exceptions
scripts/extract-ikconfig: add support for bzip2, lzma and lzo
kbuild: check return value of asprintf()
scripts/namespace.pl: improve to get more correct results
scripts/namespace.pl: some bug fixes
scripts/namespace.pl: update file exclusion list
scripts/namespace.pl: fix wrong source path
Coccinelle: Use the -no_show_diff option for org and report mode
Coccinelle: Add a new mode named 'chain'
Coccinelle: Use new comment format to explain kfree.cocci
Coccinelle: Improve user information with a new kind of comment
Coccinelle: Update documentation
MAINTAINERS: Coccinelle: Update email address
Documentation/kbuild: modules.txt cleanup
Documentation/kbuild: major edit of modules.txt sections 5-8
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* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: (38 commits)
kbuild: convert `arch/tile' to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade
README: cite nconfig
Revert "kconfig: Temporarily disable dependency warnings"
kconfig: Use PATH_MAX instead of 128 for path buffer sizes.
kconfig: Fix realloc usage()
kconfig: Propagate const
kconfig: Don't go out from read config loop when you read new symbol
kconfig: fix menuconfig on debian lenny
kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade
kconfig: expand file names
kconfig: use the file's name of sourced file
kconfig: constify file name
kconfig: don't emit warning upon rootmenu's prompt redefinition
kconfig: replace KERNELVERSION usage by the mainmenu's prompt
kconfig: delay gconf window initialization
kconfig: expand by default the rootmenu's prompt
kconfig: add a symbol string expansion helper
kconfig: regen parser
kconfig: implement the `mainmenu' directive
kconfig: allow PACKAGE to be defined on the compiler's command-line
...
Fix up trivial conflict in arch/mn10300/Kconfig
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
initramfs: Fix build break on symbol-prefixed archs
initramfs: fix initramfs size calculation
initramfs: generalize initramfs_data.xxx.S variants
scripts/kallsyms: Enable error messages while hush up unnecessary warnings
scripts/setlocalversion: update comment
kbuild: Use a single clean rule for kernel and external modules
kbuild: Do not run make clean in $(srctree)
scripts/mod/modpost.c: fix commentary accordingly to last changes
kbuild: Really don't clean bounds.h and asm-offsets.h
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging: (68 commits)
hwmon: (it87) Add support for the IT8721F/IT8758E
hwmon: (it87) Move conversion functions
hwmon: Remove many EXPERIMENTAL flags
hwmon: (lm85) Add support for ADT7468 high-frequency PWM mode
hwmon: (lm85) Document the ADT7468 as supported
hwmon: (lm85) Fix ADT7468 frequency table
hwmon: I2C addresses are constant
Move ams driver to macintosh
hwmon: (pcf8591) Don't attempt to detect devices
hwmon: (pcf8591) Register as a hwmon device
hwmon: (w83795) Use standard attributes for chassis intrusion
hwmon: (w83795) Exclude fan control feature by default
hwmon: (w83795) Add myself as co-author and maintainer
hwmon: (w83795) More style cleanups
hwmon: (w83795) Fix LSB reading of voltage limits
hwmon: (w83795) Use dev_get_drvdata() where possible
hwmon: (w83795) Delay reading pwm config registers
hwmon: (w83795) Delay reading limit registers
hwmon: (w83795) Move register reads to dedicated functions
hwmon: (w83795) Pack similar register reads
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* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (27 commits)
x86: allocate space within a region top-down
x86: update iomem_resource end based on CPU physical address capabilities
x86/PCI: allocate space from the end of a region, not the beginning
PCI: allocate bus resources from the top down
resources: support allocating space within a region from the top down
resources: handle overflow when aligning start of available area
resources: ensure callback doesn't allocate outside available space
resources: factor out resource_clip() to simplify find_resource()
resources: add a default alignf to simplify find_resource()
x86/PCI: MMCONFIG: fix region end calculation
PCI: Add support for polling PME state on suspended legacy PCI devices
PCI: Export some PCI PM functionality
PCI: fix message typo
PCI: log vendor/device ID always
PCI: update Intel chipset names and defines
PCI: use new ccflags variable in Makefile
PCI: add PCI_MSIX_TABLE/PBA defines
PCI: add PCI vendor id for STmicroelectronics
x86/PCI: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Patsburg DeviceIDs
PCI: OLPC: Only enable PCI configuration type override on XO-1
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Add support for the IT8721F/IT8758E. These new chips differ from the
older IT87xxF chips in the following ways:
* ADC LSB is 12 mV instead of 16 mV.
* PWM values are 8-bit instead of 7-bit.
There are other minor changes we don't have to care about in the
driver.
Another change is that we will handle internal voltage scaling in the
driver instead of delegating the work to user-space.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
The ADT7468 supports a high-frequency PWM output mode where all PWM
outputs are driven by a 22.5 kHz clock. Add support for this mode, and
document it, as it may surprise the user that setting one PWM output
frequency also affects the other PWM outputs.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
The PCF8591 can't be detected, don't even try. There are plenty of
other means to instantiate i2c devices these days.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Cc: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
I was wondering if that chip ever existed publicly... Apparently yes,
so add support for it.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Tested-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
This merges the staging-next tree to Linus's tree and resolves
some conflicts that were present due to changes in other trees that were
affected by files here.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6: (505 commits)
[media] af9015: Fix max I2C message size when used with tda18271
[media] IR: initialize ir_raw_event in few more drivers
[media] Guard a divide in v4l1 compat layer
[media] imon: fix nomouse modprobe option
[media] imon: remove redundant change_protocol call
[media] imon: fix my egregious brown paper bag w/rdev/idev split
[media] cafe_ccic: Configure ov7670 correctly
[media] ov7670: allow configuration of image size, clock speed, and I/O method
[media] af9015: support for DigitalNow TinyTwin v3 [1f4d:9016]
[media] af9015: map DigitalNow TinyTwin v2 remote
[media] DigitalNow TinyTwin remote controller
[media] af9015: RC fixes and improvements
videodev2.h.xml: Update to reflect the latest changes at videodev2.h
[media] v4l: document new Bayer and monochrome pixel formats
[media] DocBook/v4l: Add missing formats used on gspca cpia1 and sn9c2028
[media] firedtv: add parameter to fake ca_system_ids in CA_INFO
[media] tm6000: fix a macro coding style issue
tm6000: Remove some ugly debug code
[media] Nova-S-Plus audio line input
[media] [RFC,1/1] V4L2: Use new CAP bits in existing RDS capable drivers
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc: (66 commits)
mmc: add new sdhci-pxa driver for Marvell SoCs
mmc: make number of mmcblk minors configurable
mmc_spi: Recover from CRC errors for r/w operation over SPI.
mmc: sdhci-pltfm: add -pltfm driver for imx35/51
mmc: sdhci-of-esdhc: factor out common stuff
mmc: sdhci_pltfm: pass more data on custom init call
mmc: sdhci: introduce get_ro private write-protect hook
mmc: sdhci-pltfm: move .h file into appropriate subdir
mmc: sdhci-pltfm: Add structure for host-specific data
mmc: fix cb710 kconfig dependency warning
mmc: cb710: remove debugging printk (info duplicated from mmc-core)
mmc: cb710: clear irq handler on init() error path
mmc: cb710: remove unnecessary msleep()
mmc: cb710: implement get_cd() callback
mmc: cb710: partially demystify clock selection
mmc: add a file to debugfs for changing host clock at runtime
mmc: sdhci: allow for eMMC 74 clock generation by controller
mmc: sdhci: highspeed: check for mmc as well as sd cards
mmc: sdhci: Add Moorestown device support
mmc: sdhci: Intel Medfield support
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* 'viafb-next' of git://github.com/schandinat/linux-2.6: (29 commits)
viafb: add initial VX900 support
viafb: fix hardware acceleration for suspend & resume
viafb: make suspend and resume work (on all machines?)
viafb: restore display on resume
Minimal support for viafb suspend/resume
viafb: use proper register for colour when doing fill ops
viafb: add documentation for proc interface
viafb: rename output devices
viafb: add a mapping of supported output devices
viafb: set sync polarity for all output devices
viafb: add function to change sync polarity per device
viafb: reduce I2C timeout and delay
viafb: enable I2C for CRT
viafb: fix i2c_transfer error handling
viafb: vt1636 cleanup
viafb: introduce per output device power management
viafb: limit LCD code impact
viafb: add interface for output device configuration
viafb: merge the remaining output path with enable functions
viafb: use new device routing
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* akpm-incoming-2: (139 commits)
epoll: make epoll_wait() use the hrtimer range feature
select: rename estimate_accuracy() to select_estimate_accuracy()
Remove duplicate includes from many files
ramoops: use the platform data structure instead of module params
kernel/resource.c: handle reinsertion of an already-inserted resource
kfifo: fix kfifo_alloc() to return a signed int value
w1: don't allow arbitrary users to remove w1 devices
alpha: remove dma64_addr_t usage
mips: remove dma64_addr_t usage
sparc: remove dma64_addr_t usage
fuse: use release_pages()
taskstats: use real microsecond granularity for CPU times
taskstats: split fill_pid function
taskstats: separate taskstats commands
delayacct: align to 8 byte boundary on 64-bit systems
delay-accounting: reimplement -c for getdelays.c to report information on a target command
namespaces Kconfig: move namespace menu location after the cgroup
namespaces Kconfig: remove the cgroup device whitelist experimental tag
namespaces Kconfig: remove pointless cgroup dependency
namespaces Kconfig: make namespace a submenu
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When the lazy_itable_init extended option is passed to mke2fs, it
considerably speeds up filesystem creation because inode tables are
not zeroed out. The fact that parts of the inode table are
uninitialized is not a problem so long as the block group descriptors,
which contain information regarding how much of the inode table has
been initialized, has not been corrupted However, if the block group
checksums are not valid, e2fsck must scan the entire inode table, and
the the old, uninitialized data could potentially cause e2fsck to
report false problems.
Hence, it is important for the inode tables to be initialized as soon
as possble. This commit adds this feature so that mke2fs can safely
use the lazy inode table initialization feature to speed up formatting
file systems.
This is done via a new new kernel thread called ext4lazyinit, which is
created on demand and destroyed, when it is no longer needed. There
is only one thread for all ext4 filesystems in the system. When the
first filesystem with inititable mount option is mounted, ext4lazyinit
thread is created, then the filesystem can register its request in the
request list.
This thread then walks through the list of requests picking up
scheduled requests and invoking ext4_init_inode_table(). Next schedule
time for the request is computed by multiplying the time it took to
zero out last inode table with wait multiplier, which can be set with
the (init_itable=n) mount option (default is 10). We are doing
this so we do not take the whole I/O bandwidth. When the thread is no
longer necessary (request list is empty) it frees the appropriate
structures and exits (and can be created later later by another
filesystem).
We do not disturb regular inode allocations in any way, it just do not
care whether the inode table is, or is not zeroed. But when zeroing, we
have to skip used inodes, obviously. Also we should prevent new inode
allocations from the group, while zeroing is on the way. For that we
take write alloc_sem lock in ext4_init_inode_table() and read alloc_sem
in the ext4_claim_inode, so when we are unlucky and allocator hits the
group which is currently being zeroed, it just has to wait.
This can be suppresed using the mount option no_init_itable.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Task delay-accounting was identified as one means of determining how long
a process spends in congestion_wait() without adding new statistics. For
example, if the workload should not be doing IO, delay-accounting could
reveal how long it was spending in unexpected IO or delays.
Unfortunately, on closer examination it was clear that getdelays does not
act as documented.
Commit a3baf649 ("per-task-delay-accounting: documentation") added
Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c with a -c switch that was documented
to fork/exec a child and report statistics on it but for reasons that are
unclear to me, commit 9e06d3f9 deleted support for this switch but did not
update the documentation. It might be an oversight or it might be because
the control flow of the program meant that accounting information would be
printed once early in the lifetime of the program making it of limited
use.
This patch reimplements -c for getdelays.c to act as documented. Unlike
the original version, it waits until the command completes before printing
any information on it. An example of it being used looks like
$ ./getdelays -d -c find /home/mel -name mel
print delayacct stats ON
/home/mel
/home/mel/.notes-wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/mel
/home/mel/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/mel
/home/mel/git-configs/dot.kde/share/apps/konqueror/home/mel
PID 5923
CPU count real total virtual total delay total
42779 5051232096 5164722692 564207988
IO count delay total
41727 97804147758
SWAP count delay total
0 0
RECLAIM count delay total
0 0
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Export the number of anonymous pages in a mapping via smaps.
Even the private pages in a mapping backed by a file, would be marked as
anonymous, when they are modified. Export this information to user-space via
smaps.
Exporting this count will help gdb to make a better decision on which
areas need to be dumped in its coredump; and should be useful to others
studying the memory usage of a process.
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The ns_cgroup will be removed very soon. Let's warn, for this version,
ns_cgroup is deprecated.
Make ns_cgroup and clone_children exclusive. If the clone_children is set
and the ns_cgroup is mounted, let's fail with EINVAL when the ns_cgroup
subsys is created (a printk will help the user to understand why the
creation fails).
Update the feature remove schedule file with the deprecated ns_cgroup.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The ns_cgroup is a control group interacting with the namespaces. When a
new namespace is created, a corresponding cgroup is automatically created
too. The cgroup name is the pid of the process who did 'unshare' or the
child of 'clone'.
This cgroup is tied with the namespace because it prevents a process to
escape the control group and use the post_clone callback, so the child
cgroup inherits the values of the parent cgroup.
Unfortunately, the more we use this cgroup and the more we are facing
problems with it:
(1) when a process unshares, the cgroup name may conflict with a
previous cgroup with the same pid, so unshare or clone return -EEXIST
(2) the cgroup creation is out of control because there may have an
application creating several namespaces where the system will
automatically create several cgroups in his back and let them on the
cgroupfs (eg. a vrf based on the network namespace).
(3) the mix of (1) and (2) force an administrator to regularly check
and clean these cgroups.
This patchset removes the ns_cgroup by adding a new flag to the cgroup and
the cgroupfs mount option. It enables the copy of the parent cgroup when
a child cgroup is created. We can then safely remove the ns_cgroup as
this flag brings a compatibility. We have now to manually create and add
the task to a cgroup, which is consistent with the cgroup framework.
This patch:
Sent as an answer to a previous thread around the ns_cgroup.
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-June/018627.html
It adds a control file 'clone_children' for a cgroup. This control file
is a boolean specifying if the child cgroup should be a clone of the
parent cgroup or not. The default value is 'false'.
This flag makes the child cgroup to call the post_clone callback of all
the subsystem, if it is available.
At present, the cpuset is the only one which had implemented the
post_clone callback.
The option can be set at mount time by specifying the 'clone_children'
mount option.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When dirty_ratio or dirty_bytes is written the other parameter is disabled
and set to 0 (in dirty_bytes_handler() / dirty_ratio_handler()).
We do the same for dirty_background_ratio and dirty_background_bytes.
However, in the sysctl documentation, we say that the counterpart becomes
a function of the old value, that is not correct.
Clarify the documentation reporting the actual behaviour.
Reviewed-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A file used as example has been moved elsewhere.
Update the documentation accordingly
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix.work@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (52 commits)
split invalidate_inodes()
fs: skip I_FREEING inodes in writeback_sb_inodes
fs: fold invalidate_list into invalidate_inodes
fs: do not drop inode_lock in dispose_list
fs: inode split IO and LRU lists
fs: switch bdev inode bdi's correctly
fs: fix buffer invalidation in invalidate_list
fsnotify: use dget_parent
smbfs: use dget_parent
exportfs: use dget_parent
fs: use RCU read side protection in d_validate
fs: clean up dentry lru modification
fs: split __shrink_dcache_sb
fs: improve DCACHE_REFERENCED usage
fs: use percpu counter for nr_dentry and nr_dentry_unused
fs: simplify __d_free
fs: take dcache_lock inside __d_path
fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode
fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator
new helper: ihold()
...
Add more wait, wake, and completion interfaces to the device-drivers
docbook.
Fix kernel-doc notation in the added files.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add short documentation for two ALS / proximity chip drivers.
Signed-off-by: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Document outlining some of the highmem issues, started by me, edited by
David.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There have been numerous reports of stalls that pointed at the problem
being somewhere in the VM. There are multiple roots to the problems which
means dealing with any of the root problems in isolation is tricky to
justify on their own and they would still need integration testing. This
patch series puts together two different patch sets which in combination
should tackle some of the root causes of latency problems being reported.
Patch 1 adds a tracepoint for shrink_inactive_list. For this series, the
most important results is being able to calculate the scanning/reclaim
ratio as a measure of the amount of work being done by page reclaim.
Patch 2 accounts for time spent in congestion_wait.
Patches 3-6 were originally developed by Kosaki Motohiro but reworked for
this series. It has been noted that lumpy reclaim is far too aggressive
and trashes the system somewhat. As SLUB uses high-order allocations, a
large cost incurred by lumpy reclaim will be noticeable. It was also
reported during transparent hugepage support testing that lumpy reclaim
was trashing the system and these patches should mitigate that problem
without disabling lumpy reclaim.
Patch 7 adds wait_iff_congested() and replaces some callers of
congestion_wait(). wait_iff_congested() only sleeps if there is a BDI
that is currently congested. Patch 8 notes that any BDI being congested
is not necessarily a problem because there could be multiple BDIs of
varying speeds and numberous zones. It attempts to track when a zone
being reclaimed contains many pages backed by a congested BDI and if so,
reclaimers wait on the congestion queue.
I ran a number of tests with monitoring on X86, X86-64 and PPC64. Each
machine had 3G of RAM and the CPUs were
X86: Intel P4 2-core
X86-64: AMD Phenom 4-core
PPC64: PPC970MP
Each used a single disk and the onboard IO controller. Dirty ratio was
left at 20. I'm just going to report for X86-64 and PPC64 in a vague
attempt to keep this report short. Four kernels were tested each based on
v2.6.36-rc4
traceonly-v2r2: Patches 1 and 2 to instrument vmscan reclaims and congestion_wait
lowlumpy-v2r3: Patches 1-6 to test if lumpy reclaim is better
waitcongest-v2r3: Patches 1-7 to only wait on congestion
waitwriteback-v2r4: Patches 1-8 to detect when a zone is congested
nocongest-v1r5: Patches 1-3 for testing wait_iff_congestion
nodirect-v1r5: Patches 1-10 to disable filesystem writeback for better IO
The tests run were as follows
kernbench
compile-based benchmark. Smoke test performance
sysbench
OLTP read-only benchmark. Will be re-run in the future as read-write
micro-mapped-file-stream
This is a micro-benchmark from Johannes Weiner that accesses a
large sparse-file through mmap(). It was configured to run in only
single-CPU mode but can be indicative of how well page reclaim
identifies suitable pages.
stress-highalloc
Tries to allocate huge pages under heavy load.
kernbench, iozone and sysbench did not report any performance regression
on any machine. sysbench did pressure the system lightly and there was
reclaim activity but there were no difference of major interest between
the kernels.
X86-64 micro-mapped-file-stream
traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3 waitwriteback-v2r4
pgalloc_dma 1639.00 ( 0.00%) 667.00 (-145.73%) 1167.00 ( -40.45%) 578.00 (-183.56%)
pgalloc_dma32 2842410.00 ( 0.00%) 2842626.00 ( 0.01%) 2843043.00 ( 0.02%) 2843014.00 ( 0.02%)
pgalloc_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pgsteal_dma 729.00 ( 0.00%) 85.00 (-757.65%) 609.00 ( -19.70%) 125.00 (-483.20%)
pgsteal_dma32 2338721.00 ( 0.00%) 2447354.00 ( 4.44%) 2429536.00 ( 3.74%) 2436772.00 ( 4.02%)
pgsteal_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pgscan_kswapd_dma 1469.00 ( 0.00%) 532.00 (-176.13%) 1078.00 ( -36.27%) 220.00 (-567.73%)
pgscan_kswapd_dma32 4597713.00 ( 0.00%) 4503597.00 ( -2.09%) 4295673.00 ( -7.03%) 3891686.00 ( -18.14%)
pgscan_kswapd_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pgscan_direct_dma 71.00 ( 0.00%) 134.00 ( 47.01%) 243.00 ( 70.78%) 352.00 ( 79.83%)
pgscan_direct_dma32 305820.00 ( 0.00%) 280204.00 ( -9.14%) 600518.00 ( 49.07%) 957485.00 ( 68.06%)
pgscan_direct_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pageoutrun 16296.00 ( 0.00%) 21254.00 ( 23.33%) 18447.00 ( 11.66%) 20067.00 ( 18.79%)
allocstall 443.00 ( 0.00%) 273.00 ( -62.27%) 513.00 ( 13.65%) 1568.00 ( 71.75%)
These are based on the raw figures taken from /proc/vmstat. It's a rough
measure of reclaim activity. Note that allocstall counts are higher
because we are entering direct reclaim more often as a result of not
sleeping in congestion. In itself, it's not necessarily a bad thing.
It's easier to get a view of what happened from the vmscan tracepoint
report.
FTrace Reclaim Statistics: vmscan
traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3 waitwriteback-v2r4
Direct reclaims 443 273 513 1568
Direct reclaim pages scanned 305968 280402 600825 957933
Direct reclaim pages reclaimed 43503 19005 30327 117191
Direct reclaim write file async I/O 0 0 0 0
Direct reclaim write anon async I/O 0 3 4 12
Direct reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Wake kswapd requests 187649 132338 191695 267701
Kswapd wakeups 3 1 4 1
Kswapd pages scanned 4599269 4454162 4296815 3891906
Kswapd pages reclaimed 2295947 2428434 2399818 2319706
Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O 1 0 1 1
Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O 59 187 41 222
Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Time stalled direct reclaim (seconds) 4.34 2.52 6.63 2.96
Time kswapd awake (seconds) 11.15 10.25 11.01 10.19
Total pages scanned 4905237 4734564 4897640 4849839
Total pages reclaimed 2339450 2447439 2430145 2436897
%age total pages scanned/reclaimed 47.69% 51.69% 49.62% 50.25%
%age total pages scanned/written 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
%age file pages scanned/written 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Percentage Time Spent Direct Reclaim 29.23% 19.02% 38.48% 20.25%
Percentage Time kswapd Awake 78.58% 78.85% 76.83% 79.86%
What is interesting here for nocongest in particular is that while direct
reclaim scans more pages, the overall number of pages scanned remains the
same and the ratio of pages scanned to pages reclaimed is more or less the
same. In other words, while we are sleeping less, reclaim is not doing
more work and as direct reclaim and kswapd is awake for less time, it
would appear to be doing less work.
FTrace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait
Direct number congest waited 87 196 64 0
Direct time congest waited 4604ms 4732ms 5420ms 0ms
Direct full congest waited 72 145 53 0
Direct number conditional waited 0 0 324 1315
Direct time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms
Direct full conditional waited 0 0 0 0
KSwapd number congest waited 20 10 15 7
KSwapd time congest waited 1264ms 536ms 884ms 284ms
KSwapd full congest waited 10 4 6 2
KSwapd number conditional waited 0 0 0 0
KSwapd time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms
KSwapd full conditional waited 0 0 0 0
The vanilla kernel spent 8 seconds asleep in direct reclaim and no time at
all asleep with the patches.
MMTests Statistics: duration
User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 10.51 10.73 10.6 11.66
Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 14.19 13.00 14.33 12.76
Overall, the tests completed faster. It is interesting to note that backing off further
when a zone is congested and not just a BDI was more efficient overall.
PPC64 micro-mapped-file-stream
pgalloc_dma 3024660.00 ( 0.00%) 3027185.00 ( 0.08%) 3025845.00 ( 0.04%) 3026281.00 ( 0.05%)
pgalloc_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pgsteal_dma 2508073.00 ( 0.00%) 2565351.00 ( 2.23%) 2463577.00 ( -1.81%) 2532263.00 ( 0.96%)
pgsteal_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pgscan_kswapd_dma 4601307.00 ( 0.00%) 4128076.00 ( -11.46%) 3912317.00 ( -17.61%) 3377165.00 ( -36.25%)
pgscan_kswapd_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pgscan_direct_dma 629825.00 ( 0.00%) 971622.00 ( 35.18%) 1063938.00 ( 40.80%) 1711935.00 ( 63.21%)
pgscan_direct_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pageoutrun 27776.00 ( 0.00%) 20458.00 ( -35.77%) 18763.00 ( -48.04%) 18157.00 ( -52.98%)
allocstall 977.00 ( 0.00%) 2751.00 ( 64.49%) 2098.00 ( 53.43%) 5136.00 ( 80.98%)
Similar trends to x86-64. allocstalls are up but it's not necessarily bad.
FTrace Reclaim Statistics: vmscan
Direct reclaims 977 2709 2098 5136
Direct reclaim pages scanned 629825 963814 1063938 1711935
Direct reclaim pages reclaimed 75550 242538 150904 387647
Direct reclaim write file async I/O 0 0 0 2
Direct reclaim write anon async I/O 0 10 0 4
Direct reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Wake kswapd requests 392119 1201712 571935 571921
Kswapd wakeups 3 2 3 3
Kswapd pages scanned 4601307 4128076 3912317 3377165
Kswapd pages reclaimed 2432523 2318797 2312673 2144616
Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O 20 1 1 1
Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O 57 132 11 121
Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Time stalled direct reclaim (seconds) 6.19 7.30 13.04 10.88
Time kswapd awake (seconds) 21.73 26.51 25.55 23.90
Total pages scanned 5231132 5091890 4976255 5089100
Total pages reclaimed 2508073 2561335 2463577 2532263
%age total pages scanned/reclaimed 47.95% 50.30% 49.51% 49.76%
%age total pages scanned/written 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
%age file pages scanned/written 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Percentage Time Spent Direct Reclaim 18.89% 20.65% 32.65% 27.65%
Percentage Time kswapd Awake 72.39% 80.68% 78.21% 77.40%
Again, a similar trend that the congestion_wait changes mean that direct
reclaim scans more pages but the overall number of pages scanned while
slightly reduced, are very similar. The ratio of scanning/reclaimed
remains roughly similar. The downside is that kswapd and direct reclaim
was awake longer and for a larger percentage of the overall workload.
It's possible there were big differences in the amount of time spent
reclaiming slab pages between the different kernels which is plausible
considering that the micro tests runs after fsmark and sysbench.
Trace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait
Direct number congest waited 845 1312 104 0
Direct time congest waited 19416ms 26560ms 7544ms 0ms
Direct full congest waited 745 1105 72 0
Direct number conditional waited 0 0 1322 2935
Direct time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 12ms 312ms
Direct full conditional waited 0 0 0 3
KSwapd number congest waited 39 102 75 63
KSwapd time congest waited 2484ms 6760ms 5756ms 3716ms
KSwapd full congest waited 20 48 46 25
KSwapd number conditional waited 0 0 0 0
KSwapd time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms
KSwapd full conditional waited 0 0 0 0
The vanilla kernel spent 20 seconds asleep in direct reclaim and only
312ms asleep with the patches. The time kswapd spent congest waited was
also reduced by a large factor.
MMTests Statistics: duration
ser/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 26.58 28.05 26.9 28.47
Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 30.02 32.86 32.67 30.88
With all patches applies, the completion times are very similar.
X86-64 STRESS-HIGHALLOC
traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3waitwriteback-v2r4
Pass 1 82.00 ( 0.00%) 84.00 ( 2.00%) 85.00 ( 3.00%) 85.00 ( 3.00%)
Pass 2 90.00 ( 0.00%) 87.00 (-3.00%) 88.00 (-2.00%) 89.00 (-1.00%)
At Rest 92.00 ( 0.00%) 90.00 (-2.00%) 90.00 (-2.00%) 91.00 (-1.00%)
Success figures across the board are broadly similar.
traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3waitwriteback-v2r4
Direct reclaims 1045 944 886 887
Direct reclaim pages scanned 135091 119604 109382 101019
Direct reclaim pages reclaimed 88599 47535 47863 46671
Direct reclaim write file async I/O 494 283 465 280
Direct reclaim write anon async I/O 29357 13710 16656 13462
Direct reclaim write file sync I/O 154 2 2 3
Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O 14594 571 509 561
Wake kswapd requests 7491 933 872 892
Kswapd wakeups 814 778 731 780
Kswapd pages scanned 7290822 15341158 11916436 13703442
Kswapd pages reclaimed 3587336 3142496 3094392 3187151
Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O 91975 32317 28022 29628
Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O 1992022 789307 829745 849769
Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Time stalled direct reclaim (seconds) 4588.93 2467.16 2495.41 2547.07
Time kswapd awake (seconds) 2497.66 1020.16 1098.06 1176.82
Total pages scanned 7425913 15460762 12025818 13804461
Total pages reclaimed 3675935 3190031 3142255 3233822
%age total pages scanned/reclaimed 49.50% 20.63% 26.13% 23.43%
%age total pages scanned/written 28.66% 5.41% 7.28% 6.47%
%age file pages scanned/written 1.25% 0.21% 0.24% 0.22%
Percentage Time Spent Direct Reclaim 57.33% 42.15% 42.41% 42.99%
Percentage Time kswapd Awake 43.56% 27.87% 29.76% 31.25%
Scanned/reclaimed ratios again look good with big improvements in
efficiency. The Scanned/written ratios also look much improved. With a
better scanned/written ration, there is an expectation that IO would be
more efficient and indeed, the time spent in direct reclaim is much
reduced by the full series and kswapd spends a little less time awake.
Overall, indications here are that allocations were happening much faster
and this can be seen with a graph of the latency figures as the
allocations were taking place
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/postings/vmscanreduce-20101509/highalloc-interlatency-hydra-mean.ps
FTrace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait
Direct number congest waited 1333 204 169 4
Direct time congest waited 78896ms 8288ms 7260ms 200ms
Direct full congest waited 756 92 69 2
Direct number conditional waited 0 0 26 186
Direct time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 2504ms
Direct full conditional waited 0 0 0 25
KSwapd number congest waited 4 395 227 282
KSwapd time congest waited 384ms 25136ms 10508ms 18380ms
KSwapd full congest waited 3 232 98 176
KSwapd number conditional waited 0 0 0 0
KSwapd time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms
KSwapd full conditional waited 0 0 0 0
KSwapd full conditional waited 318 0 312 9
Overall, the time spent speeping is reduced. kswapd is still hitting
congestion_wait() but that is because there are callers remaining where it
wasn't clear in advance if they should be changed to wait_iff_congested()
or not. Overall the sleep imes are reduced though - from 79ish seconds to
about 19.
MMTests Statistics: duration
User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 3415.43 3386.65 3388.39 3377.5
Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 5733.48 3660.33 3689.41 3765.39
With the full series, the time to complete the tests are reduced by 30%
PPC64 STRESS-HIGHALLOC
traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3waitwriteback-v2r4
Pass 1 17.00 ( 0.00%) 34.00 (17.00%) 38.00 (21.00%) 43.00 (26.00%)
Pass 2 25.00 ( 0.00%) 37.00 (12.00%) 42.00 (17.00%) 46.00 (21.00%)
At Rest 49.00 ( 0.00%) 43.00 (-6.00%) 45.00 (-4.00%) 51.00 ( 2.00%)
Success rates there are *way* up particularly considering that the 16MB
huge pages on PPC64 mean that it's always much harder to allocate them.
FTrace Reclaim Statistics: vmscan
stress-highalloc stress-highalloc stress-highalloc stress-highalloc
traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3waitwriteback-v2r4
Direct reclaims 499 505 564 509
Direct reclaim pages scanned 223478 41898 51818 45605
Direct reclaim pages reclaimed 137730 21148 27161 23455
Direct reclaim write file async I/O 399 136 162 136
Direct reclaim write anon async I/O 46977 2865 4686 3998
Direct reclaim write file sync I/O 29 0 1 3
Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O 31023 159 237 239
Wake kswapd requests 420 351 360 326
Kswapd wakeups 185 294 249 277
Kswapd pages scanned 15703488 16392500 17821724 17598737
Kswapd pages reclaimed 5808466 2908858 3139386 3145435
Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O 159938 18400 18717 13473
Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O 3467554 228957 322799 234278
Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Time stalled direct reclaim (seconds) 9665.35 1707.81 2374.32 1871.23
Time kswapd awake (seconds) 9401.21 1367.86 1951.75 1328.88
Total pages scanned 15926966 16434398 17873542 17644342
Total pages reclaimed 5946196 2930006 3166547 3168890
%age total pages scanned/reclaimed 37.33% 17.83% 17.72% 17.96%
%age total pages scanned/written 23.27% 1.52% 1.94% 1.43%
%age file pages scanned/written 1.01% 0.11% 0.11% 0.08%
Percentage Time Spent Direct Reclaim 44.55% 35.10% 41.42% 36.91%
Percentage Time kswapd Awake 86.71% 43.58% 52.67% 41.14%
While the scanning rates are slightly up, the scanned/reclaimed and
scanned/written figures are much improved. The time spent in direct
reclaim and with kswapd are massively reduced, mostly by the lowlumpy
patches.
FTrace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait
Direct number congest waited 725 303 126 3
Direct time congest waited 45524ms 9180ms 5936ms 300ms
Direct full congest waited 487 190 52 3
Direct number conditional waited 0 0 200 301
Direct time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 1904ms
Direct full conditional waited 0 0 0 19
KSwapd number congest waited 0 2 23 4
KSwapd time congest waited 0ms 200ms 420ms 404ms
KSwapd full congest waited 0 2 2 4
KSwapd number conditional waited 0 0 0 0
KSwapd time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms
KSwapd full conditional waited 0 0 0 0
Not as dramatic a story here but the time spent asleep is reduced and we
can still see what wait_iff_congested is going to sleep when necessary.
MMTests Statistics: duration
User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 12028.09 3157.17 3357.79 3199.16
Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 10842.07 3138.72 3705.54 3229.85
The time to complete this test goes way down. With the full series, we
are allocating over twice the number of huge pages in 30% of the time and
there is a corresponding impact on the allocation latency graph available
at.
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/postings/vmscanreduce-20101509/highalloc-interlatency-powyah-mean.ps
This patch:
Add a trace event for shrink_inactive_list() and updates the sample
postprocessing script appropriately. It can be used to determine how many
pages were reclaimed and for non-lumpy reclaim where exactly the pages
were reclaimed from.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Allocate space from the top of a region first, then work downward,
if an architecture desires this.
When we allocate space from a resource, we look for gaps between children
of the resource. Previously, we always looked at gaps from the bottom up.
For example, given this:
[mem 0xbff00000-0xf7ffffff] PCI Bus 0000:00
[mem 0xbff00000-0xbfffffff] gap -- available
[mem 0xc0000000-0xdfffffff] PCI Bus 0000:02
[mem 0xe0000000-0xf7ffffff] gap -- available
we attempted to allocate from the [mem 0xbff00000-0xbfffffff] gap first,
then the [mem 0xe0000000-0xf7ffffff] gap.
With this patch an architecture can choose to allocate from the top gap
[mem 0xe0000000-0xf7ffffff] first.
We can't do this across the board because iomem_resource.end is initialized
to 0xffffffff_ffffffff on 64-bit architectures, and most machines can't
address the entire 64-bit physical address space. Therefore, we only
allocate top-down if the arch requests it by clearing
"resource_alloc_from_bottom".
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
This patch renames the idmapper upcall program from nfs.upcall to nfs.idmap in
the NFS documentation. This is because the program has been renamed in the
nfs-utils source.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* 'for-2.6.37' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (99 commits)
svcrpc: svc_tcp_sendto XPT_DEAD check is redundant
svcrpc: no need for XPT_DEAD check in svc_xprt_enqueue
svcrpc: assume svc_delete_xprt() called only once
svcrpc: never clear XPT_BUSY on dead xprt
nfsd4: fix connection allocation in sequence()
nfsd4: only require krb5 principal for NFSv4.0 callbacks
nfsd4: move minorversion to client
nfsd4: delay session removal till free_client
nfsd4: separate callback change and callback probe
nfsd4: callback program number is per-session
nfsd4: track backchannel connections
nfsd4: confirm only on succesful create_session
nfsd4: make backchannel sequence number per-session
nfsd4: use client pointer to backchannel session
nfsd4: move callback setup into session init code
nfsd4: don't cache seq_misordered replies
SUNRPC: Properly initialize sock_xprt.srcaddr in all cases
SUNRPC: Use conventional switch statement when reclassifying sockets
sunrpc/xprtrdma: clean up workqueue usage
sunrpc: Turn list_for_each-s into the ..._entry-s
...
Fix up trivial conflicts (two different deprecation notices added in
separate branches) in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
* 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
net/sunrpc: Use static const char arrays
nfs4: fix channel attribute sanity-checks
NFSv4.1: Use more sensible names for 'initialize_mountpoint'
NFSv4.1: pnfs: filelayout: add driver's LAYOUTGET and GETDEVICEINFO infrastructure
NFSv4.1: pnfs: add LAYOUTGET and GETDEVICEINFO infrastructure
NFS: client needs to maintain list of inodes with active layouts
NFS: create and destroy inode's layout cache
NFSv4.1: pnfs: filelayout: introduce minimal file layout driver
NFSv4.1: pnfs: full mount/umount infrastructure
NFS: set layout driver
NFS: ask for layouttypes during v4 fsinfo call
NFS: change stateid to be a union
NFSv4.1: pnfsd, pnfs: protocol level pnfs constants
SUNRPC: define xdr_decode_opaque_fixed
NFSD: remove duplicate NFS4_STATEID_SIZE
Documentation: Fix trivial typo in filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt
This typo is easy to ignore unless you have spent a great deal of time
thinking about how to eliminate duplicate dentries in unions.
Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/staging: (24 commits)
hwmon: lis3: Release resources in case of failure
hwmon: lis3: Short explanations of platform data fields
hwmon: lis3: Enhance lis3 selftest with IRQ line test
hwmon: lis3: use block read to access data registers
hwmon: lis3: Adjust fuzziness for 8 bit device
hwmon: lis3: New parameters to platform data
hwmon: lis3: restore axis enabled bits
hwmon: lis3: Power on corrections
hwmon: lis3: Update coordinates at polled device open
hwmon: lis3: Cleanup interrupt handling
hwmon: lis3: regulator control
hwmon: lis3: pm_runtime support
Kirkwood: add fan support for Network Space Max v2
hwmon: add generic GPIO fan driver
hwmon: (coretemp) fix reading of microcode revision (v2)
hwmon: ({core, pkg, via-cpu}temp) remove unnecessary CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU ifdefs
hwmon: (pkgtemp) align driver initialization style with coretemp
hwmon: LTC4261 Hardware monitoring driver
hwmon: (lis3) add axes module parameter for custom axis-mapping
hwmon: (hp_accel) Add HP Mini 510x family support
...
This driver adds support for Linear Technology LTC4261 I2C Negative
Voltage Hot Swap Controller.
Reviewed-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
Reviewed-by: Tom Grennan <tom.grennan@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
* 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (67 commits)
SUNRPC: Cleanup duplicate assignment in rpcauth_refreshcred
nfs: fix unchecked value
Ask for time_delta during fsinfo probe
Revalidate caches on lock
SUNRPC: After calling xprt_release(), we must restart from call_reserve
NFSv4: Fix up the 'dircount' hint in encode_readdir
NFSv4: Clean up nfs4_decode_dirent
NFSv4: nfs4_decode_dirent must clear entry->fattr->valid
NFSv4: Fix a regression in decode_getfattr
NFSv4: Fix up decode_attr_filehandle() to handle the case of empty fh pointer
NFS: Ensure we check all allocation return values in new readdir code
NFS: Readdir plus in v4
NFS: introduce generic decode_getattr function
NFS: check xdr_decode for errors
NFS: nfs_readdir_filler catch all errors
NFS: readdir with vmapped pages
NFS: remove page size checking code
NFS: decode_dirent should use an xdr_stream
SUNRPC: Add a helper function xdr_inline_peek
NFS: remove readdir plus limit
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: (365 commits)
ALSA: hda - Disable sticky PCM stream assignment for AD codecs
ALSA: usb - Creative USB X-Fi volume knob support
ALSA: ca0106: Use card specific dac id for mute controls.
ALSA: ca0106: Allow different sound cards to use different SPI channel mappings.
ALSA: ca0106: Create a nice spot for mapping channels to dacs.
ALSA: ca0106: Move enabling of front dac out of hardcoded setup sequence.
ALSA: ca0106: Pull out dac powering routine into separate function.
ALSA: ca0106 - add Sound Blaster 5.1vx info.
ASoC: tlv320dac33: Use usleep_range for delays
ALSA: usb-audio: add Novation Launchpad support
ALSA: hda - Add workarounds for CT-IBG controllers
ALSA: hda - Fix wrong TLV mute bit for STAC/IDT codecs
ASoC: tpa6130a2: Error handling for broken chip
ASoC: max98088: Staticise m98088_eq_band
ASoC: soc-core: Fix codec->name memory leak
ALSA: hda - Apply ideapad quirk to Acer laptops with Cxt5066
ALSA: hda - Add some workarounds for Creative IBG
ALSA: hda - Fix wrong SPDIF NID assignment for CA0110
ALSA: hda - Fix codec rename rules for ALC662-compatible codecs
ALSA: hda - Add alc_init_jacks() call to other codecs
...
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86: (44 commits)
eeepc-wmi: Add cpufv sysfs interface
eeepc-wmi: add additional hotkeys
panasonic-laptop: Simplify calls to acpi_pcc_retrieve_biosdata
panasonic-laptop: Handle errors properly if they happen
intel_pmic_gpio: fix off-by-one value range checking
IBM Real-Time "SMI Free" mode driver -v7
Add OLPC XO-1 rfkill driver
Move hdaps driver to platform/x86
ideapad-laptop: Fix Makefile
intel_pmic_gpio: swap the bits and mask args for intel_scu_ipc_update_register
ideapad: Add param: no_bt_rfkill
ideapad: Change the driver name to ideapad-laptop
ideapad: rewrite the sw rfkill set
ideapad: rewrite the hw rfkill notify
ideapad: use EC command to control camera
ideapad: use return value of _CFG to tell if device exist or not
ideapad: make sure we bind on the correct device
ideapad: check VPC bit before sync rfkill hw status
ideapad: add ACPI helpers
dell-laptop: Add debugfs support
...
* 'ieee1394-removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
ieee1394: remove the old IEEE 1394 driver stack
ieee1394: move init_ohci1394_dma to drivers/firewire/
Fix trivial change/delete conflict: drivers/ieee1394/eth1394.c is
getting removed, but was modified by the networking merge.
Switch default value of the kernel parameter 'topology' from off to on.
Various performance measurements have finally shown that there are no
(known) regressions anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The old limit of number of minor numbers per mmcblk device was hardcoded
at 8. This isn't enough for some of the more elaborate partitioning
schemes, for example those used by Chrome OS.
Since there might be a bunch of systems out there with static /dev
contents that relies on the old numbering scheme, let's make it a
build-time option with the default set to the previous 8.
Also provide a boot/modprobe-time parameter to override the config
default: mmcblk.perdev_minors.
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Mandeep Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Cc: <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
The following functions are not used directly by any drivers:
phy_attach_direct
phy_device_create
phy_prepare_link
genphy_config_advert
genphy_setup_forced
phy_config_interrupt
phy_clear_interrypt
phy_sanitize_settings
phy_enable_interrupts
phy_disable_interrupts
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Allow a module implementing a layout type to register, and
have its mount/umount routines called for filesystems that
the server declares support it.
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Bian Naimeng <biannm@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (321 commits)
KVM: Drop CONFIG_DMAR dependency around kvm_iommu_map_pages
KVM: Fix signature of kvm_iommu_map_pages stub
KVM: MCE: Send SRAR SIGBUS directly
KVM: MCE: Add MCG_SER_P into KVM_MCE_CAP_SUPPORTED
KVM: fix typo in copyright notice
KVM: Disable interrupts around get_kernel_ns()
KVM: MMU: Avoid sign extension in mmu_alloc_direct_roots() pae root address
KVM: MMU: move access code parsing to FNAME(walk_addr) function
KVM: MMU: audit: check whether have unsync sps after root sync
KVM: MMU: audit: introduce audit_printk to cleanup audit code
KVM: MMU: audit: unregister audit tracepoints before module unloaded
KVM: MMU: audit: fix vcpu's spte walking
KVM: MMU: set access bit for direct mapping
KVM: MMU: cleanup for error mask set while walk guest page table
KVM: MMU: update 'root_hpa' out of loop in PAE shadow path
KVM: x86 emulator: Eliminate compilation warning in x86_decode_insn()
KVM: x86: Fix constant type in kvm_get_time_scale
KVM: VMX: Add AX to list of registers clobbered by guest switch
KVM guest: Move a printk that's using the clock before it's ready
KVM: x86: TSC catchup mode
...
The default state of 'kvm-amd.nested' is enabled now, so fix the documentation
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This is the guest side of the mtsr acceleration. Using this a guest can now
call mtsrin with almost no overhead as long as it ensures that it only uses
it with (MSR_IR|MSR_DR) == 0. Linux does that, so we're good.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Basic informational document about x86 timekeeping and how KVM
is affected.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
