13 Jan, 2012

1 commit

  • In trace_mm_vmscan_lru_isolate(), we don't output 'file' information to
    the trace event and it is a bit inconvenient for the user to get the
    real information(like pasted below). mm_vmscan_lru_isolate:
    isolate_mode=2 order=0 nr_requested=32 nr_scanned=32 nr_taken=32
    contig_taken=0 contig_dirty=0 contig_failed=0

    'active' can be obtained by analyzing mode(Thanks go to Minchan and
    Mel), So this patch adds 'file' to the trace event and it now looks
    like: mm_vmscan_lru_isolate: isolate_mode=2 order=0 nr_requested=32
    nr_scanned=32 nr_taken=32 contig_taken=0 contig_dirty=0 contig_failed=0
    file=0

    Signed-off-by: Tao Ma
    Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
    Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
    Cc: Mel Gorman
    Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim
    Cc: Rik van Riel
    Cc: Johannes Weiner
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Tao Ma
     

11 Jan, 2012

5 commits

  • * 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
    writeback: move MIN_WRITEBACK_PAGES to fs-writeback.c
    writeback: balanced_rate cannot exceed write bandwidth
    writeback: do strict bdi dirty_exceeded
    writeback: avoid tiny dirty poll intervals
    writeback: max, min and target dirty pause time
    writeback: dirty ratelimit - think time compensation
    btrfs: fix dirtied pages accounting on sub-page writes
    writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty
    writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on sub-page writes
    writeback: charge leaked page dirties to active tasks
    writeback: Include all dirty inodes in background writeback

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • Andrew elucidates:
    - First installmeant of MM. We have a HUGE number of MM patches this
    time. It's crazy.
    - MAINTAINERS updates
    - backlight updates
    - leds
    - checkpatch updates
    - misc ELF stuff
    - rtc updates
    - reiserfs
    - procfs
    - some misc other bits

    * akpm: (124 commits)
    user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces
    workqueue: make alloc_workqueue() take printf fmt and args for name
    procfs: add hidepid= and gid= mount options
    procfs: parse mount options
    procfs: introduce the /proc//map_files/ directory
    procfs: make proc_get_link to use dentry instead of inode
    signal: add block_sigmask() for adding sigmask to current->blocked
    sparc: make SA_NOMASK a synonym of SA_NODEFER
    reiserfs: don't lock root inode searching
    reiserfs: don't lock journal_init()
    reiserfs: delay reiserfs lock until journal initialization
    reiserfs: delete comments referring to the BKL
    drivers/rtc/interface.c: fix alarm rollover when day or month is out-of-range
    drivers/rtc/rtc-twl.c: add DT support for RTC inside twl4030/twl6030
    drivers/rtc/: remove redundant spi driver bus initialization
    drivers/rtc/rtc-jz4740.c: make jz4740_rtc_driver static
    drivers/rtc/rtc-mc13xxx.c: make mc13xxx_rtc_idtable static
    rtc: convert drivers/rtc/* to use module_platform_driver()
    drivers/rtc/rtc-wm831x.c: convert to devm_kzalloc()
    drivers/rtc/rtc-wm831x.c: remove unused period IRQ handler
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • oom_score_adj is used for guarding processes from OOM-Killer. One of
    problem is that it's inherited at fork(). When a daemon set oom_score_adj
    and make children, it's hard to know where the value is set.

    This patch adds some tracepoints useful for debugging. This patch adds
    3 trace points.
    - creating new task
    - renaming a task (exec)
    - set oom_score_adj

    To debug, users need to enable some trace pointer. Maybe filtering is useful as

    # EVENT=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/task/
    # echo "oom_score_adj != 0" > $EVENT/task_newtask/filter
    # echo "oom_score_adj != 0" > $EVENT/task_rename/filter
    # echo 1 > $EVENT/enable
    # EVENT=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/oom/
    # echo 1 > $EVENT/enable

    output will be like this.
    # grep oom /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
    bash-7699 [007] d..3 5140.744510: oom_score_adj_update: pid=7699 comm=bash oom_score_adj=-1000
    bash-7699 [007] ...1 5151.818022: task_newtask: pid=7729 comm=bash clone_flags=1200011 oom_score_adj=-1000
    ls-7729 [003] ...2 5151.818504: task_rename: pid=7729 oldcomm=bash newcomm=ls oom_score_adj=-1000
    bash-7699 [002] ...1 5175.701468: task_newtask: pid=7730 comm=bash clone_flags=1200011 oom_score_adj=-1000
    grep-7730 [007] ...2 5175.701993: task_rename: pid=7730 oldcomm=bash newcomm=grep oom_score_adj=-1000

    Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
    Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
    Acked-by: David Rientjes
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
     
  • Rename mm_page_free_direct into mm_page_free and mm_pagevec_free into
    mm_page_free_batched

    Since v2.6.33-5426-gc475dab the kernel triggers mm_page_free_direct for
    all freed pages, not only for directly freed. So, let's name it properly.
    For pages freed via page-list we also trigger mm_page_free_batched event.

    Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov
    Cc: Mel Gorman
    Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
    Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim
    Cc: Hugh Dickins
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Konstantin Khlebnikov
     
  • Conflicts:
    fs/ext4/ioctl.c

    Theodore Ts'o
     

09 Jan, 2012

1 commit

  • * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmap: (36 commits)
    mfd: Clearing events requires event registers to be writable for da9052-core
    mfd: Fix annotations in da9052-core
    gpiolib: Mark da9052 driver broken
    mfd: Declare da9052_regmap_config for the bus drivers
    MFD: DA9052/53 MFD core module add SPI support v2
    MFD: DA9052/53 MFD core module
    regmap: Add irq_base accessor to regmap_irq
    regmap: Allow drivers to reinitialise the register cache at runtime
    regmap: Add trace event for successful cache reads
    regmap: Allow regmap_update_bits() users to detect changes
    regmap: Report if we actually handled an interrupt in regmap-irq
    regmap: Fix rbtreee build when not using debugfs
    regmap: Provide debugfs dump of the rbtree cache data
    regmap: Do debugfs init before cache init
    regmap: Suppress noop writes in regmap_update_bits()
    regmap: Remove indexed cache type
    regmap: Drop check whether a register is readable in regcache_read
    regmap: Properly round cache_word_size
    regmap: Add support for 10/14 register formating
    regmap: Try cached read before checking if a hardware read is possible
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

07 Jan, 2012

2 commits

  • * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
    sched/tracing: Add a new tracepoint for sleeptime
    sched: Disable scheduler warnings during oopses
    sched: Fix cgroup movement of waking process
    sched: Fix cgroup movement of newly created process
    sched: Fix cgroup movement of forking process
    sched: Remove cfs bandwidth period check in tg_set_cfs_period()
    sched: Fix load-balance lock-breaking
    sched: Replace all_pinned with a generic flags field
    sched: Only queue remote wakeups when crossing cache boundaries
    sched: Add missing rcu_dereference() around ->real_parent usage
    [S390] fix cputime overflow in uptime_proc_show
    [S390] cputime: add sparse checking and cleanup
    sched: Mark parent and real_parent as __rcu
    sched, nohz: Fix missing RCU read lock
    sched, nohz: Set the NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK flag for idle load balancer
    sched, nohz: Fix the idle cpu check in nohz_idle_balance
    sched: Use jump_labels for sched_feat
    sched/accounting: Fix parameter passing in task_group_account_field
    sched/accounting: Fix user/system tick double accounting
    sched/accounting: Re-use scheduler statistics for the root cgroup
    ...

    Fix up conflicts in
    - arch/ia64/include/asm/cputime.h, include/asm-generic/cputime.h
    usecs_to_cputime64() vs the sparse cleanups
    - kernel/sched/fair.c, kernel/time/tick-sched.c
    scheduler changes in multiple branches

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits)
    cpu: Export cpu_up()
    rcu: Apply ACCESS_ONCE() to rcu_boost() return value
    Revert "rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled"
    docs: Additional LWN links to RCU API
    rcu: Augment rcu_batch_end tracing for idle and callback state
    rcu: Add rcutorture tests for srcu_read_lock_raw()
    rcu: Make rcutorture test for hotpluggability before offlining CPUs
    driver-core/cpu: Expose hotpluggability to the rest of the kernel
    rcu: Remove redundant rcu_cpu_stall_suppress declaration
    rcu: Adaptive dyntick-idle preparation
    rcu: Keep invoking callbacks if CPU otherwise idle
    rcu: Irq nesting is always 0 on rcu_enter_idle_common
    rcu: Don't check irq nesting from rcu idle entry/exit
    rcu: Permit dyntick-idle with callbacks pending
    rcu: Document same-context read-side constraints
    rcu: Identify dyntick-idle CPUs on first force_quiescent_state() pass
    rcu: Remove dynticks false positives and RCU failures
    rcu: Reduce latency of rcu_prepare_for_idle()
    rcu: Eliminate RCU_FAST_NO_HZ grace-period hang
    rcu: Avoid needlessly IPIing CPUs at GP end
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

24 Dec, 2011

1 commit

  • If CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS is defined, the kernel maintains
    information about how long the task was sleeping or
    in the case of iowait, blocking in the kernel before
    getting woken up.

    This will be useful for sleep time profiling.

    Note: this information is only provided for sched_fair.
    Other scheduling classes may choose to provide this in
    the future.

    Note: the delay includes the time spent on the runqueue
    as well.

    Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma
    Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Steven Rostedt
    Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers
    Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
    Cc: Andrew Vagin
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324512940-32060-2-git-send-email-asharma@fb.com
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Arun Sharma
     

19 Dec, 2011

1 commit


18 Dec, 2011

2 commits

  • Compensate the task's think time when computing the final pause time,
    so that ->dirty_ratelimit can be executed accurately.

    think time := time spend outside of balance_dirty_pages()

    In the rare case that the task slept longer than the 200ms period time
    (result in negative pause time), the sleep time will be compensated in
    the following periods, too, if it's less than 1 second.

    Accumulated errors are carefully avoided as long as the max pause area
    is not hitted.

    Pseudo code:

    period = pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit;
    think = jiffies - dirty_paused_when;
    pause = period - think;

    1) normal case: period > think

    pause = period - think
    dirty_paused_when = jiffies + pause
    nr_dirtied = 0

    period time
    |===============================>|
    think time pause time
    |===============>|==============>|
    ------|----------------|---------------|------------------------
    dirty_paused_when jiffies

    2) no pause case: period |
    think time
    |===================================================>|
    ------|--------------------------------+-------------------|----
    dirty_paused_when jiffies

    Acked-by: Jan Kara
    Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang

    Wu Fengguang
     
  • This makes the binary trace understandable by trace-cmd.

    CC: Dave Chinner
    CC: Curt Wohlgemuth
    CC: Steven Rostedt
    Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang

    Wu Fengguang
     

12 Dec, 2011

8 commits

  • The current rcu_batch_end event trace records only the name of the RCU
    flavor and the total number of callbacks that remain queued on the
    current CPU. This is insufficient for testing and tuning the new
    dyntick-idle RCU_FAST_NO_HZ code, so this commit adds idle state along
    with whether or not any of the callbacks that were ready to invoke
    at the beginning of rcu_do_batch() are still queued.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

    Paul E. McKenney
     
  • The current implementation of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ prevents CPUs from entering
    dyntick-idle state if they have RCU callbacks pending. Unfortunately,
    this has the side-effect of often preventing them from entering this
    state, especially if at least one other CPU is not in dyntick-idle state.
    However, the resulting per-tick wakeup is wasteful in many cases: if the
    CPU has already fully responded to the current RCU grace period, there
    will be nothing for it to do until this grace period ends, which will
    frequently take several jiffies.

    This commit therefore permits a CPU that has done everything that the
    current grace period has asked of it (rcu_pending() == 0) even if it
    still as RCU callbacks pending. However, such a CPU posts a timer to
    wake it up several jiffies later (6 jiffies, based on experience with
    grace-period lengths). This wakeup is required to handle situations
    that can result in all CPUs being in dyntick-idle mode, thus failing
    to ever complete the current grace period. If a CPU wakes up before
    the timer goes off, then it cancels that timer, thus avoiding spurious
    wakeups.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

    Paul E. McKenney
     
  • With the new implementation of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ, it was possible to hang
    RCU grace periods as follows:

    o CPU 0 attempts to go idle, cycles several times through the
    rcu_prepare_for_idle() loop, then goes dyntick-idle when
    RCU needs nothing more from it, while still having at least
    on RCU callback pending.

    o CPU 1 goes idle with no callbacks.

    Both CPUs can then stay in dyntick-idle mode indefinitely, preventing
    the RCU grace period from ever completing, possibly hanging the system.

    This commit therefore prevents CPUs that have RCU callbacks from entering
    dyntick-idle mode. This approach also eliminates the need for the
    end-of-grace-period IPIs used previously.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

    Paul E. McKenney
     
  • This commit adds trace_rcu_prep_idle(), which is invoked from
    rcu_prepare_for_idle() and rcu_wake_cpu() to trace attempts on
    the part of RCU to force CPUs into dyntick-idle mode.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

    Paul E. McKenney
     
  • This commit updates the trace_rcu_dyntick() header comment to reflect
    events added by commit 4b4f421.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

    Paul E. McKenney
     
  • The trace_rcu_dyntick() trace event did not print both the old and
    the new value of the nesting level, and furthermore printed only
    the low-order 32 bits of it. This could result in some confusion
    when interpreting trace-event dumps, so this commit prints both
    the old and the new value, prints the full 64 bits, and also selects
    the process-entry/exit increment to print nicely in hexadecimal.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

    Paul E. McKenney
     
  • Trace the rcutorture RCU accesses and dump the trace buffer when the
    first failure is detected.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

    Paul E. McKenney
     
  • Earlier versions of RCU used the scheduling-clock tick to detect idleness
    by checking for the idle task, but handled idleness differently for
    CONFIG_NO_HZ=y. But there are now a number of uses of RCU read-side
    critical sections in the idle task, for example, for tracing. A more
    fine-grained detection of idleness is therefore required.

    This commit presses the old dyntick-idle code into full-time service,
    so that rcu_idle_enter(), previously known as rcu_enter_nohz(), is
    always invoked at the beginning of an idle loop iteration. Similarly,
    rcu_idle_exit(), previously known as rcu_exit_nohz(), is always invoked
    at the end of an idle-loop iteration. This allows the idle task to
    use RCU everywhere except between consecutive rcu_idle_enter() and
    rcu_idle_exit() calls, in turn allowing architecture maintainers to
    specify exactly where in the idle loop that RCU may be used.

    Because some of the userspace upcall uses can result in what looks
    to RCU like half of an interrupt, it is not possible to expect that
    the irq_enter() and irq_exit() hooks will give exact counts. This
    patch therefore expands the ->dynticks_nesting counter to 64 bits
    and uses two separate bitfields to count process/idle transitions
    and interrupt entry/exit transitions. It is presumed that userspace
    upcalls do not happen in the idle loop or from usermode execution
    (though usermode might do a system call that results in an upcall).
    The counter is hard-reset on each process/idle transition, which
    avoids the interrupt entry/exit error from accumulating. Overflow
    is avoided by the 64-bitness of the ->dyntick_nesting counter.

    This commit also adds warnings if a non-idle task asks RCU to enter
    idle state (and these checks will need some adjustment before applying
    Frederic's OS-jitter patches (http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/7/246).
    In addition, validation of ->dynticks and ->dynticks_nesting is added.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

    Paul E. McKenney
     

06 Dec, 2011

1 commit


01 Dec, 2011

1 commit


07 Nov, 2011

2 commits

  • * 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
    Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
    irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
    bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
    ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
    nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
    include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
    include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
    crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
    uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
    pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
    linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
    miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
    stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
    of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
    of_platform.h: delete needless include
    acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
    miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
    device_cgroup.h: delete needless include
    net: sch_generic remove redundant use of
    net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need
    ...

    Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
    - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
    - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
    - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
    - include/linux/dmaengine.h

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • * 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
    writeback: Add a 'reason' to wb_writeback_work
    writeback: send work item to queue_io, move_expired_inodes
    writeback: trace event balance_dirty_pages
    writeback: trace event bdi_dirty_ratelimit
    writeback: fix ppc compile warnings on do_div(long long, unsigned long)
    writeback: per-bdi background threshold
    writeback: dirty position control - bdi reserve area
    writeback: control dirty pause time
    writeback: limit max dirty pause time
    writeback: IO-less balance_dirty_pages()
    writeback: per task dirty rate limit
    writeback: stabilize bdi->dirty_ratelimit
    writeback: dirty rate control
    writeback: add bg_threshold parameter to __bdi_update_bandwidth()
    writeback: dirty position control
    writeback: account per-bdi accumulated dirtied pages

    Linus Torvalds
     

03 Nov, 2011

1 commit

  • * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (97 commits)
    jbd2: Unify log messages in jbd2 code
    jbd/jbd2: validate sb->s_first in journal_get_superblock()
    ext4: let ext4_ext_rm_leaf work with EXT_DEBUG defined
    ext4: fix a syntax error in ext4_ext_insert_extent when debugging enabled
    ext4: fix a typo in struct ext4_allocation_context
    ext4: Don't normalize an falloc request if it can fit in 1 extent.
    ext4: remove comments about extent mount option in ext4_new_inode()
    ext4: let ext4_discard_partial_buffers handle unaligned range correctly
    ext4: return ENOMEM if find_or_create_pages fails
    ext4: move vars to local scope in ext4_discard_partial_page_buffers_no_lock()
    ext4: Create helper function for EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN and i_aiodio_unwritten
    ext4: optimize locking for end_io extent conversion
    ext4: remove unnecessary call to waitqueue_active()
    ext4: Use correct locking for ext4_end_io_nolock()
    ext4: fix race in xattr block allocation path
    ext4: trace punch_hole correctly in ext4_ext_map_blocks
    ext4: clean up AGGRESSIVE_TEST code
    ext4: move variables to their scope
    ext4: fix quota accounting during migration
    ext4: migrate cleanup
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

01 Nov, 2011

3 commits

  • Change ISOLATE_XXX macro with bitwise isolate_mode_t type. Normally,
    macro isn't recommended as it's type-unsafe and making debugging harder as
    symbol cannot be passed throught to the debugger.

    Quote from Johannes
    " Hmm, it would probably be cleaner to fully convert the isolation mode
    into independent flags. INACTIVE, ACTIVE, BOTH is currently a
    tri-state among flags, which is a bit ugly."

    This patch moves isolate mode from swap.h to mmzone.h by memcontrol.h

    Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim
    Cc: Johannes Weiner
    Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
    Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
    Cc: Mel Gorman
    Cc: Rik van Riel
    Cc: Michal Hocko
    Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Minchan Kim
     
  • This reverts commit 3a9f987b3141f086de27832514aad9f50a53f754.

    With all the files that are real modules now having module.h
    explicitly called out for inclusion, and no reliance on any
    implicit presence of module.h assumed, we should no longer
    need this workaround.

    Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

    Paul Gortmaker
     
  • The pretty much brings in the kitchen sink along
    with it, so it should be avoided wherever reasonably possible in
    terms of being included from other commonly used
    files, as it results in a measureable increase on compile times.

    The worst culprit was probably device.h since it is used everywhere.
    This file also had an implicit dependency/usage of mutex.h which was
    masked by module.h, and is also fixed here at the same time.

    There are over a dozen other headers that simply declare the
    struct instead of pulling in the whole file, so follow their lead
    and simply make it a few more.

    Most of the implicit dependencies on module.h being present by
    these headers pulling it in have been now weeded out, so we can
    finally make this change with hopefully minimal breakage.

    Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

    Paul Gortmaker
     

31 Oct, 2011

4 commits

  • This creates a new 'reason' field in a wb_writeback_work
    structure, which unambiguously identifies who initiates
    writeback activity. A 'wb_reason' enumeration has been
    added to writeback.h, to enumerate the possible reasons.

    The 'writeback_work_class' and tracepoint event class and
    'writeback_queue_io' tracepoints are updated to include the
    symbolic 'reason' in all trace events.

    And the 'writeback_inodes_sbXXX' family of routines has had
    a wb_stats parameter added to them, so callers can specify
    why writeback is being started.

    Acked-by: Jan Kara
    Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth
    Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang

    Curt Wohlgemuth
     
  • Instead of sending ->older_than_this to queue_io() and
    move_expired_inodes(), send the entire wb_writeback_work
    structure. There are other fields of a work item that are
    useful in these routines and in tracepoints.

    Acked-by: Jan Kara
    Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth
    Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang

    Curt Wohlgemuth
     
  • Useful for analyzing the dynamics of the throttling algorithms and
    debugging user reported problems.

    Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang

    Wu Fengguang
     
  • It helps understand how various throttle bandwidths are updated.

    Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang

    Wu Fengguang
     

29 Oct, 2011

1 commit

  • * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound: (549 commits)
    ALSA: hda - Fix ADC input-amp handling for Cx20549 codec
    ALSA: hda - Keep EAPD turned on for old Conexant chips
    ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix missing volume controls with ALC260
    ASoC: wm8940: Properly set codec->dapm.bias_level
    ALSA: hda - Fix pin-config for ASUS W90V
    ALSA: hda - Fix surround/CLFE headphone and speaker pins order
    ALSA: hda - Fix typo
    ALSA: Update the sound git tree URL
    ALSA: HDA: Add new revision for ALC662
    ASoC: max98095: Convert codec->hw_write to snd_soc_write
    ASoC: keep pointer to resource so it can be freed
    ASoC: sgtl5000: Fix wrong mask in some snd_soc_update_bits calls
    ASoC: wm8996: Fix wrong mask for setting WM8996_AIF_CLOCKING_2
    ASoC: da7210: Add support for line out and DAC
    ASoC: da7210: Add support for DAPM
    ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix DAC assignments of multiple speakers
    ASoC: Use SGTL5000_LINREG_VDDD_MASK instead of hardcoded mask value
    ASoC: Set sgtl5000->ldo in ldo_regulator_register
    ASoC: wm8996: Use SND_SOC_DAPM_AIF_OUT for AIF2 Capture
    ASoC: wm8994: Use SND_SOC_DAPM_AIF_OUT for AIF3 Capture
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

27 Oct, 2011

1 commit

  • This patch introduces a fast path in ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized()
    for the case when the conversion can be performed by transferring
    the newly initialized blocks from the uninitialized extent into
    an adjacent initialized extent. Doing so removes the expensive
    invocations of memmove() which occur during extent insertion and
    the subsequent merge.

    In practice this should be the common case for clients performing
    append writes into files pre-allocated via
    fallocate(FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE). In such a workload performed via
    direct IO and when using a suboptimal implementation of memmove()
    (x86_64 prior to the 2.6.39 rewrite), this patch reduces kernel CPU
    consumption by 32%.

    Two new trace points are added to ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized()
    to offer visibility into its operations. No exit trace point has
    been added due to the multiplicity of return points. This can be
    revisited once the upstream cleanup is backported.

    Signed-off-by: Eric Gouriou
    Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

    Eric Gouriou
     

26 Oct, 2011

4 commits

  • * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
    llist: Add back llist_add_batch() and llist_del_first() prototypes
    sched: Don't use tasklist_lock for debug prints
    sched: Warn on rt throttling
    sched: Unify the ->cpus_allowed mask copy
    sched: Wrap scheduler p->cpus_allowed access
    sched: Request for idle balance during nohz idle load balance
    sched: Use resched IPI to kick off the nohz idle balance
    sched: Fix idle_cpu()
    llist: Remove cpu_relax() usage in cmpxchg loops
    sched: Convert to struct llist
    llist: Add llist_next()
    irq_work: Use llist in the struct irq_work logic
    llist: Return whether list is empty before adding in llist_add()
    llist: Move cpu_relax() to after the cmpxchg()
    llist: Remove the platform-dependent NMI checks
    llist: Make some llist functions inline
    sched, tracing: Show PREEMPT_ACTIVE state in trace_sched_switch
    sched: Remove redundant test in check_preempt_tick()
    sched: Add documentation for bandwidth control
    sched: Return unused runtime on group dequeue
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (121 commits)
    perf symbols: Increase symbol KSYM_NAME_LEN size
    perf hists browser: Refuse 'a' hotkey on non symbolic views
    perf ui browser: Use libslang to read keys
    perf tools: Fix tracing info recording
    perf hists browser: Elide DSO column when it is set to just one DSO, ditto for threads
    perf hists: Don't consider filtered entries when calculating column widths
    perf hists: Don't decay total_period for filtered entries
    perf hists browser: Honour symbol_conf.show_{nr_samples,total_period}
    perf hists browser: Do not exit on tab key with single event
    perf annotate browser: Don't change selection line when returning from callq
    perf tools: handle endianness of feature bitmap
    perf tools: Add prelink suggestion to dso update message
    perf script: Fix unknown feature comment
    perf hists browser: Apply the dso and thread filters when merging new batches
    perf hists: Move the dso and thread filters from hist_browser
    perf ui browser: Honour the xterm colors
    perf top tui: Give color hints just on the percentage, like on --stdio
    perf ui browser: Make the colors configurable and change the defaults
    perf tui: Remove unneeded call to newtCls on startup
    perf hists: Don't format the percentage on hist_entry__snprintf
    ...

    Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c manually.

    Ingo's tree did the insane "add volatile to const array", which just
    doesn't make sense ("volatile const"?). But we could remove the const
    *and* make the array volatile to make doubly sure that gcc doesn't
    optimize it away..

    Also fix up kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c non-data-conflicts manually: the
    reader_lock has been turned into a raw lock by the core locking merge,
    and there was a new user of it introduced in this perf core merge. Make
    sure that new use also uses the raw accessor functions.

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
    rcu: Move propagation of ->completed from rcu_start_gp() to rcu_report_qs_rsp()
    rcu: Remove rcu_needs_cpu_flush() to avoid false quiescent states
    rcu: Wire up RCU_BOOST_PRIO for rcutree
    rcu: Make rcu_torture_boost() exit loops at end of test
    rcu: Make rcu_torture_fqs() exit loops at end of test
    rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled
    rcu: Avoid having just-onlined CPU resched itself when RCU is idle
    rcu: Suppress NMI backtraces when stall ends before dump
    rcu: Prohibit grace periods during early boot
    rcu: Simplify unboosting checks
    rcu: Prevent early boot set_need_resched() from __rcu_pending()
    rcu: Dump local stack if cannot dump all CPUs' stacks
    rcu: Move __rcu_read_unlock()'s barrier() within if-statement
    rcu: Improve rcu_assign_pointer() and RCU_INIT_POINTER() documentation
    rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer() unconditionally insert a memory barrier
    rcu: Make rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() locals be correct size
    rcu: Eliminate in_irq() checks in rcu_enter_nohz()
    nohz: Remove nohz_cpu_mask
    rcu: Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats
    rcu: Allow rcutorture's stat_interval parameter to be changed at runtime
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • * 'for-linus' of git://github.com/ericvh/linux:
    9p: fix 9p.txt to advertise msize instead of maxdata
    net/9p: Convert net/9p protocol dumps to tracepoints
    fs/9p: change an int to unsigned int
    fs/9p: Cleanup option parsing in 9p
    9p: move dereference after NULL check
    fs/9p: inode file operation is properly initialized init_special_inode
    fs/9p: Update zero-copy implementation in 9p

    Linus Torvalds
     

25 Oct, 2011

1 commit

  • * 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (63 commits)
    PM / Clocks: Remove redundant NULL checks before kfree()
    PM / Documentation: Update docs about suspend and CPU hotplug
    ACPI / PM: Add Sony VGN-FW21E to nonvs blacklist.
    ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A4R support (v4)
    ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A3SP support (v4)
    PM / Sleep: Mark devices involved in wakeup signaling during suspend
    PM / Hibernate: Improve performance of LZO/plain hibernation, checksum image
    PM / Hibernate: Do not initialize static and extern variables to 0
    PM / Freezer: Make fake_signal_wake_up() wake TASK_KILLABLE tasks too
    PM / Hibernate: Add resumedelay kernel param in addition to resumewait
    MAINTAINERS: Update linux-pm list address
    PM / ACPI: Blacklist Vaio VGN-FW520F machine known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs
    PM / ACPI: Blacklist Sony Vaio known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs
    PM / Hibernate: Add resumewait param to support MMC-like devices as resume file
    PM / Hibernate: Fix typo in a kerneldoc comment
    PM / Hibernate: Freeze kernel threads after preallocating memory
    PM: Update the policy on default wakeup settings
    PM / VT: Cleanup #if defined uglyness and fix compile error
    PM / Suspend: Off by one in pm_suspend()
    PM / Hibernate: Include storage keys in hibernation image on s390
    ...

    Linus Torvalds