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Linus Torvalds
e596c79050 Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* '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
  ...
2010-10-28 16:18:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
51399a3919 Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* '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
2010-10-28 16:16:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c9e2a72ff1 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* '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
2010-10-28 15:13:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
150cd843fa Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging
* '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
  ...
2010-10-28 12:17:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f063a0c0c9 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6: (841 commits)
  Staging: brcm80211: fix usage of roundup in structures
  Staging: bcm: fix up network device reference counting
  Staging: keucr: fix up US_ macro change
  staging: brcm80211: brcmfmac: Removed codeversion from firmware filenames.
  staging: brcm80211: Remove unnecessary header files.
  staging: brcm80211: Remove unnecessary includes from bcmutils.c
  staging: brcm80211: Removed unnecessary pktsetprio() function.
  Staging: brcm80211: remove typedefs.h
  Staging: brcm80211: remove uintptr typedef usage
  Staging: hv: remove struct vmbus_channel_interface
  Staging: hv: remove Open from struct vmbus_channel_interface
  Staging: hv: storvsc: call vmbus_open directly
  Staging: hv: netvsc: call vmbus_open directly
  Staging: hv: channel: export vmbus_open to modules
  Staging: hv: remove Close from struct vmbus_channel_interface
  Staging: hv: netvsc: call vmbus_close directly
  Staging: hv: storvsc: call vmbus_close directly
  Staging: hv: channel: export vmbus_close to modules
  Staging: hv: remove SendPacket from struct vmbus_channel_interface
  Staging: hv: storvsc: call vmbus_sendpacket directly
  ...

Fix up conflicts in
	drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-audio-upstream.c
	drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-audio.h
due to warring whitespace cleanups (neither of which were all that great)
2010-10-28 12:13:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e9f29c9a56 Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* '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
  ...
2010-10-28 11:59:52 -07:00
Jean Delvare
44c1bcd4bc hwmon: (it87) Add support for the IT8721F/IT8758E
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>
2010-10-28 20:31:51 +02:00
Jean Delvare
f6c61cff8b hwmon: (lm85) Add support for ADT7468 high-frequency PWM mode
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>
2010-10-28 20:31:50 +02:00
Jean Delvare
c36364dbf3 hwmon: (lm85) Document the ADT7468 as supported
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>
2010-10-28 20:31:50 +02:00
Jean Delvare
6dfee85397 hwmon: (pcf8591) Don't attempt to detect devices
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>
2010-10-28 20:31:50 +02:00
Jean Delvare
c4f99a2b8f hwmon: (lm90) Add support for the W83L771W/G
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>
2010-10-28 20:31:44 +02:00
Guenter Roeck
06e1c0a216 hwmon: (lm90) Add support for max6695 and max6696
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2010-10-28 20:31:43 +02:00
Guenter Roeck
6948708dd0 hwmon: (lm90) Add support for extra features of max6659
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2010-10-28 20:31:43 +02:00
Guenter Roeck
13c84951a3 hwmon: (lm90) Add explicit support for max6659
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2010-10-28 20:31:43 +02:00
Guenter Roeck
28e7438faa hwmon: Add tempX_emergency attribute to sysfs ABI
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2010-10-28 20:31:42 +02:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
e4c5bf8e3d Merge 'staging-next' to Linus's tree
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>
2010-10-28 09:44:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0851668fdd Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6
* '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
  ...
2010-10-28 09:35:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
00ebb6382b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc
* '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
  ...
2010-10-28 09:33:42 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
76381a42e4 fs/9p: Add access = client option to opt in acl evaluation.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2010-10-28 09:08:46 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
a107e5a3a4 Merge branch 'next' into upstream-merge
Conflicts:
	fs/ext4/inode.c
	fs/ext4/mballoc.c
	include/trace/events/ext4.h
2010-10-27 23:44:47 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
9ae6d03922 Merge branch 'viafb-next' of git://github.com/schandinat/linux-2.6
* '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
  ...
2010-10-27 19:02:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
17bb51d56c Merge branch 'akpm-incoming-2'
* 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
  ...
2010-10-27 18:42:52 -07:00
Lukas Czerner
bfff68738f ext4: add support for lazy inode table initialization
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>
2010-10-27 21:30:05 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
22cdbd1d57 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (108 commits)
  ehea: Fixing statistics
  bonding: Fix lockdep warning after bond_vlan_rx_register()
  tunnels: Fix tunnels change rcu protection
  caif-u5500: Build config for CAIF shared mem driver
  caif-u5500: CAIF shared memory mailbox interface
  caif-u5500: CAIF shared memory transport protocol
  caif-u5500: Adding shared memory include
  drivers/isdn: delete double assignment
  drivers/net/typhoon.c: delete double assignment
  drivers/net/sb1000.c: delete double assignment
  qlcnic: define valid vlan id range
  qlcnic: reduce rx ring size
  qlcnic: fix mac learning
  ehea: fix use after free
  inetpeer: __rcu annotations
  fib_rules: __rcu annotates ctarget
  tunnels: add __rcu annotations
  net: add __rcu annotations to protocol
  ipv4: add __rcu annotations to routes.c
  qlge: bugfix: Restoring the vlan setting.
  ...
2010-10-27 18:28:00 -07:00
Mel Gorman
db9e5679d6 delay-accounting: reimplement -c for getdelays.c to report information on a target command
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>
2010-10-27 18:03:17 -07:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
03f890f8c2 /proc/pid/pagemap: document in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
Document /proc/pid/pagemap in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-27 18:03:13 -07:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
b40d4f84be /proc/pid/smaps: export amount of anonymous memory in a mapping
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>
2010-10-27 18:03:13 -07:00
Daniel Lezcano
45531757b4 cgroup: notify ns_cgroup deprecated
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>
2010-10-27 18:03:09 -07:00
Daniel Lezcano
97978e6d1f cgroup: add clone_children control file
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>
2010-10-27 18:03:09 -07:00
Andrea Righi
abffc0207f doc: clarify the behaviour of dirty_ratio/dirty_bytes
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>
2010-10-27 18:03:08 -07:00
Nicolas Palix
9dcf7990c2 Coccinelle: Fix documentation
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>
2010-10-28 00:32:23 +02:00
Michal Marek
b74b953b99 Merge commit 'v2.6.36' into kbuild/misc
Update to be able to fix a recent change to scripts/basic/docproc.c
(commit eda603f).
2010-10-28 00:15:57 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
426e1f5cec Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* '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()
  ...
2010-10-26 17:58:44 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
56083ab17e docbook: add idr/ida to kernel-api docbook
Add idr/ida to kernel-api docbook.
Fix typos and kernel-doc notation.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Naohiro Aota <naota@elisp.net>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26 17:40:56 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
ee2f154a59 docbook: add more wait/wake/completion to device-drivers docbook
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>
2010-10-26 17:32:41 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
003bb8ab7c documentation: update sysrq.txt magic sysrq keys
Update Documentation/sysrq.txt magic sysrq keys:

 - 'g' is for kgdb (not arch-specific);
 - add 2 new uses for 'v', remove the Voyager info;
 - add 'y' info (SPARC-64 specific);

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Acked-by: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26 17:32:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
18a043f941 Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
* 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
  NFS: rename nfs.upcall -> nfs.idmap
  NFS: Fix a compile issue in nfs_root
2010-10-26 17:24:28 -07:00
Samu Onkalo
3f0f4a3f20 Documentation: short descriptions for bh1770glc and apds990x drivers
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>
2010-10-26 16:52:14 -07:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
aaaddfe0b3 Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c: add supporting info for hpet_example
$./hpet_example info /dev/hpet
-hpet: executing info
hpet_info: hi_irqfreq 0x0 hi_flags 0x0 hi_hpet 0 hi_timer 2

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: "Venkatesh Pallipadi (Venki)" <venki@google.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26 16:52:11 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
d65bfacb04 mm: highmem documentation
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>
2010-10-26 16:52:08 -07:00
Mel Gorman
e11da5b4fd tracing, vmscan: add trace events for LRU list shrinking
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>
2010-10-26 16:52:07 -07:00
Matt Mackall
0f4d208f19 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: improve smaps field documentation
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26 16:52:05 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
e7f8567db9 resources: support allocating space within a region from the top down
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>
2010-10-26 15:33:31 -07:00
Bryan Schumaker
eb1c86b8b5 NFS: rename nfs.upcall -> nfs.idmap
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>
2010-10-26 13:57:10 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
4390110fef Merge branch 'for-2.6.37' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* '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
2010-10-26 09:55:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a4dd8dce14 Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
* '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
2010-10-26 09:52:09 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
e1455d1bdc update block_device_operations documentation
Updated Documentation/filesystems/Locking to match the code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-10-25 21:18:22 -04:00
Valerie Aurora
d9d1dc802f Documentation: Fix trivial typo in filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt
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>
2010-10-25 21:18:21 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
b20f9e5bdd Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/staging
* '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
  ...
2010-10-25 16:25:31 -07:00
Guenter Roeck
e5f5c99a39 hwmon: LTC4261 Hardware monitoring driver
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>
2010-10-25 14:11:20 -07:00