26 Jun, 2015
1 commit
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Change the "enabled" parameter to be configurable at runtime. Remove the
enabled check from init(), and move it to the frontswap store() function;
when enabled, pages will be stored, and when disabled, pages won't be
stored.This is almost identical to Seth's patch from 2 years ago:
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1307.2/04289.html[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation]
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman
Suggested-by: Seth Jennings
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 Jun, 2015
1 commit
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There is a very subtle difference between mmap()+mlock() vs
mmap(MAP_LOCKED) semantic. The former one fails if the population of the
area fails while the later one doesn't. This basically means that
mmap(MAPLOCKED) areas might see major fault after mmap syscall returns
which is not the case for mlock. mmap man page has already been altered
but Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt deserves a clarification as well.Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko
Reported-by: David Rientjes
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 Apr, 2015
1 commit
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Numerous fixes, the overdue removal of the i2o docs, some new Chinese
translations, and, hopefully, the README fix that will end the flow of
identical patches to that file"* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: (34 commits)
Documentation/memcg: update memcg/kmem status
Documentation: blackfin: Makefile: Typo building issue
Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt: correct location of page-types tool
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: typo fix
doc: Add guest_nice column to example output of `cat /proc/stat'
Documentation/kernel-parameters: Move "eagerfpu" to its right place
Documentation: gpio: Update ACPI part of the document to mention _DSD
docs/completion.txt: Various tweaks and corrections
doc: completion: context, scope and language fixes
Documentation:Update Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/memory.txt
Documentation:Update Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/booting.txt
Documentation: Chinese translation of arm64/legacy_instructions.txt
DocBook media: fix broken EIA hyperlink
Documentation: tweak the maintainers entry
README: Change gzip/bzip2 to xz compression format
README: Update version number reference
doc:pci: Fix typo in Documentation/PCI
Documentation: drm: Use '->' when describing access through pointers.
Documentation: Remove mentioning of block barriers
Documentation/email-clients.txt: Fix one grammar mistake, add extra info about TB
...
16 Apr, 2015
4 commits
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Create zsmalloc doc which explains design concept and stat information.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim
Cc: Juneho Choi
Cc: Gunho Lee
Cc: Luigi Semenzato
Cc: Dan Streetman
Cc: Seth Jennings
Cc: Nitin Gupta
Cc: Jerome Marchand
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
munmap(2) of hugetlb memory requires a length that is hugepage aligned,
otherwise it may fail. Add this to the documentation.This also cleans up the documentation and separates it into logical units:
one part refers to MAP_HUGETLB and another part refers to requirements for
shared memory segments.Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Cc: Jonathan Corbet
Cc: Davide Libenzi
Cc: Luiz Capitulino
Cc: Shuah Khan
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Joern Engel
Cc: Jianguo Wu
Cc: Eric B Munson
Cc: Michael Ellerman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Add min_size mount option to the hugetlbfs documentation. Also, add the
missing pagesize option and mention that size can be specified as bytes or
a percentage of huge page pool.Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso
Cc: Aneesh Kumar
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: David Rientjes
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
…d the unevictable LRU
The memory compaction code uses the migration code to do most of the
work in compaction. However, the compaction code interacts with the
unevictable LRU differently than migration code and this difference
should be noted in the documentation.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: identify /proc/sys/vm/compact_unevictable directly]
Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 Apr, 2015
2 commits
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Currently, cleancache_register_ops returns the previous value of
cleancache_ops to allow chaining. However, chaining, as it is
implemented now, is extremely dangerous due to possible pool id
collisions. Suppose, a new cleancache driver is registered after the
previous one assigned an id to a super block. If the new driver assigns
the same id to another super block, which is perfectly possible, we will
have two different filesystems using the same id. No matter if the new
driver implements chaining or not, we are likely to get data corruption
with such a configuration eventually.This patch therefore disables the ability to override cleancache_ops
altogether as potentially dangerous. If there is already cleancache
driver registered, all further calls to cleancache_register_ops will
return EBUSY. Since no user of cleancache implements chaining, we only
need to make minor changes to the code outside the cleancache core.Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky
Cc: David Vrabel
Cc: Mark Fasheh
Cc: Joel Becker
Cc: Stefan Hengelein
Cc: Florian Schmaus
Cc: Andor Daam
Cc: Dan Magenheimer
Cc: Bob Liu
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
__mlock_vma_pages_range() doesn't necessarily mlock pages. It depends on
vma flags. The same codepath is used for MAP_POPULATE.Let's rename __mlock_vma_pages_range() to populate_vma_page_range().
This patch also drops mlock_vma_pages_range() references from
documentation. It has gone in cea10a19b797 ("mm: directly use
__mlock_vma_pages_range() in find_extend_vma()").Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds
Acked-by: David Rientjes
Cc: Michel Lespinasse
Cc: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Apr, 2015
1 commit
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The page-types tool was relocated to tools/vm in the 3.4 kernel timeframe.
Signed-off-by: Randy Wright
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
20 Mar, 2015
1 commit
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max_ptes_none specifies how many extra small pages (that are
not already mapped) can be allocated when collapsing a group
of small pages into one large page./sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_none
A higher value leads to use additional memory for programs.
A lower value leads to gain less thp performance. Value of
max_ptes_none can waste cpu time very little, you can
ignore it.Signed-off-by: Ebru Akagunduz
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
12 Feb, 2015
1 commit
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Add KPF_ZERO_PAGE flag for zero_page, so that userspace processes can
detect zero_page in /proc/kpageflags, and then do memory analysis more
accurately.Signed-off-by: Yalin Wang
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Feb, 2015
2 commits
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Pull trivial tree changes from Jiri Kosina:
"Patches from trivial.git that keep the world turning around.Mostly documentation and comment fixes, and a two corner-case code
fixes from Alan Cox"* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
kexec, Kconfig: spell "architecture" properly
mm: fix cleancache debugfs directory path
blackfin: mach-common: ints-priority: remove unused function
doubletalk: probe failure causes OOPS
ARM: cache-l2x0.c: Make it clear that cache-l2x0 handles L310 cache controller
msdos_fs.h: fix 'fields' in comment
scsi: aic7xxx: fix comment
ARM: l2c: fix comment
ibmraid: fix writeable attribute with no store method
dynamic_debug: fix comment
doc: usbmon: fix spelling s/unpriviledged/unprivileged/
x86: init_mem_mapping(): use capital BIOS in comment -
remap_file_pages(2) was invented to be able efficiently map parts of
huge file into limited 32-bit virtual address space such as in database
workloads.Nonlinear mappings are pain to support and it seems there's no
legitimate use-cases nowadays since 64-bit systems are widely available.Let's drop it and get rid of all these special-cased code.
The patch replaces the syscall with emulation which creates new VMA on
each remap_file_pages(), unless they it can be merged with an adjacent
one.I didn't find *any* real code that uses remap_file_pages(2) to test
emulation impact on. I've checked Debian code search and source of all
packages in ALT Linux. No real users: libc wrappers, mentions in
strace, gdb, valgrind and this kind of stuff.There are few basic tests in LTP for the syscall. They work just fine
with emulation.To test performance impact, I've written small test case which
demonstrate pretty much worst case scenario: map 4G shmfs file, write to
begin of every page pgoff of the page, remap pages in reverse order,
read every page.The test creates 1 million of VMAs if emulation is in use, so I had to
set vm.max_map_count to 1100000 to avoid -ENOMEM.Before: 23.3 ( +- 4.31% ) seconds
After: 43.9 ( +- 0.85% ) seconds
Slowdown: 1.88xI believe we can live with that.
Test case:
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include
#include
#include
#include#define MB (1024UL * 1024)
#define SIZE (4096 * MB)int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
unsigned long *p;
long i, pass;for (pass = 0; pass < 10; pass++) {
p = mmap(NULL, SIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
if (p == MAP_FAILED) {
perror("mmap");
return -1;
}for (i = 0; i < SIZE / 4096; i++)
p[i * 4096 / sizeof(*p)] = i;for (i = 0; i < SIZE / 4096; i++) {
if (remap_file_pages(p + i * 4096 / sizeof(*p), 4096,
0, (SIZE - 4096 * (i + 1)) >> 12, 0)) {
perror("remap_file_pages");
return -1;
}
}for (i = SIZE / 4096 - 1; i >= 0; i--)
assert(p[i * 4096 / sizeof(*p)] == SIZE / 4096 - i - 1);munmap(p, SIZE);
}return 0;
}[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
[sasha.levin@oracle.com: initialize populate before usage]
[sasha.levin@oracle.com: grab file ref to prevent race while mmaping]
Signed-off-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov"
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Dave Jones
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Armin Rigo
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Jan, 2015
1 commit
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Minor fixes for cleancache about wrong debugfs paths
in documentation and code comment.Signed-off-by: Marcin Jabrzyk
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
14 Dec, 2014
2 commits
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Merge second patchbomb from Andrew Morton:
- the rest of MM
- misc fs fixes
- add execveat() syscall
- new ratelimit feature for fault-injection
- decompressor updates
- ipc/ updates
- fallocate feature creep
- fsnotify cleanups
- a few other misc things* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (99 commits)
cgroups: Documentation: fix trivial typos and wrong paragraph numberings
parisc: percpu: update comments referring to __get_cpu_var
percpu: update local_ops.txt to reflect this_cpu operations
percpu: remove __get_cpu_var and __raw_get_cpu_var macros
fsnotify: remove destroy_list from fsnotify_mark
fsnotify: unify inode and mount marks handling
fallocate: create FAN_MODIFY and IN_MODIFY events
mm/cma: make kmemleak ignore CMA regions
slub: fix cpuset check in get_any_partial
slab: fix cpuset check in fallback_alloc
shmdt: use i_size_read() instead of ->i_size
ipc/shm.c: fix overly aggressive shmdt() when calls span multiple segments
ipc/msg: increase MSGMNI, remove scaling
ipc/sem.c: increase SEMMSL, SEMMNI, SEMOPM
ipc/sem.c: change memory barrier in sem_lock() to smp_rmb()
lib/decompress.c: consistency of compress formats for kernel image
decompress_bunzip2: off by one in get_next_block()
usr/Kconfig: make initrd compression algorithm selection not expert
fault-inject: add ratelimit option
ratelimit: add initialization macro
... -
page owner is for the tracking about who allocated each page. This
document explains what is the page owner feature and what is the merit of
it. And, simple HOW-TO is also explained. See the document for detailed
information.Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz
Cc: Jungsoo Son
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Nov, 2014
1 commit
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This patch adds 1GB large page support information in
Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txtReference:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/31/366Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida
Reviewed-by: Luiz Capitulino
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
23 Oct, 2014
1 commit
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Commit 75897d60 (hugetlb: allow sticky directory mount option) added
support for mounting hugetlbfs with sticky option set, like /tmp is
usually mounted, but forgot to document that.Acked-by: Ken Chen
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
07 Jun, 2014
1 commit
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The remap_file_pages() system call is used to create a nonlinear
mapping, that is, a mapping in which the pages of the file are mapped
into a nonsequential order in memory. The advantage of using
remap_file_pages() over using repeated calls to mmap(2) is that the
former approach does not require the kernel to create additional VMA
(Virtual Memory Area) data structures.Supporting of nonlinear mapping requires significant amount of
non-trivial code in kernel virtual memory subsystem including hot paths.
Also to get nonlinear mapping work kernel need a way to distinguish
normal page table entries from entries with file offset (pte_file).
Kernel reserves flag in PTE for this purpose. PTE flags are scarce
resource especially on some CPU architectures. It would be nice to free
up the flag for other usage.Fortunately, there are not many users of remap_file_pages() in the wild.
It's only known that one enterprise RDBMS implementation uses the
syscall on 32-bit systems to map files bigger than can linearly fit into
32-bit virtual address space. This use-case is not critical anymore
since 64-bit systems are widely available.The plan is to deprecate the syscall and replace it with an emulation.
The emulation will create new VMAs instead of nonlinear mappings. It's
going to work slower for rare users of remap_file_pages() but ABI is
preserved.One side effect of emulation (apart from performance) is that user can
hit vm.max_map_count limit more easily due to additional VMAs. See
comment for DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT for more details on the limit.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Dave Jones
Cc: Armin Rigo
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
05 Jun, 2014
1 commit
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Currently memory error handler handles action optional errors in the
deferred manner by default. And if a recovery aware application wants
to handle it immediately, it can do it by setting PF_MCE_EARLY flag.
However, such signal can be sent only to the main thread, so it's
problematic if the application wants to have a dedicated thread to
handler such signals.So this patch adds dedicated thread support to memory error handler. We
have PF_MCE_EARLY flags for each thread separately, so with this patch
AO signal is sent to the thread with PF_MCE_EARLY flag set, not the main
thread. If you want to implement a dedicated thread, you call prctl()
to set PF_MCE_EARLY on the thread.Memory error handler collects processes to be killed, so this patch lets
it check PF_MCE_EARLY flag on each thread in the collecting routines.No behavioral change for all non-early kill cases.
Tony said:
: The old behavior was crazy - someone with a multithreaded process might
: well expect that if they call prctl(PF_MCE_EARLY) in just one thread, then
: that thread would see the SIGBUS with si_code = BUS_MCEERR_A0 - even if
: that thread wasn't the main thread for the process.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck
Cc: Kamil Iskra
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Chen Gong
Cc: [3.2+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 Jun, 2014
1 commit
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Pull trivial tree changes from Jiri Kosina:
"Usual pile of patches from trivial tree that make the world go round"* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (23 commits)
staging: go7007: remove reference to CONFIG_KMOD
aic7xxx: Remove obsolete preprocessor define
of: dma: doc fixes
doc: fix incorrect formula to calculate CommitLimit value
doc: Note need of bc in the kernel build from 3.10 onwards
mm: Fix printk typo in dmapool.c
modpost: Fix comment typo "Modules.symvers"
Kconfig.debug: Grammar s/addition/additional/
wimax: Spelling s/than/that/, wording s/destinatary/recipient/
aic7xxx: Spelling s/termnation/termination/
arm64: mm: Remove superfluous "the" in comment
of: Spelling s/anonymouns/anonymous/
dma: imx-sdma: Spelling s/determnine/determine/
ath10k: Improve grammar in comments
ath6kl: Spelling s/determnine/determine/
of: Improve grammar for of_alias_get_id() documentation
drm/exynos: Spelling s/contro/control/
radio-bcm2048.c: fix wrong overflow check
doc: printk-formats: do not mention casts for u64/s64
doc: spelling error changes
...
05 May, 2014
1 commit
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Fixed multiple spelling errors.
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Carlos E. Garcia
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
19 Apr, 2014
1 commit
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In document numa_memory_policy.txt, the following examples for flag
MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES are incorrect.For example, consider a task that is attached to a cpuset with
mems 2-5 that sets an Interleave policy over the same set with
MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES. If the cpuset's mems change to 3-7, the
interleave now occurs over nodes 3,5-6. If the cpuset's mems
then change to 0,2-3,5, then the interleave occurs over nodes
0,3,5.According to the comment of the patch adding flag MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES,
the nodemasks the user specifies should be considered relative to the
current task's mems_allowed.(https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/29/428)
And according to numa_memory_policy.txt, if the user's nodemask includes
nodes that are outside the range of the new set of allowed nodes, then
the remap wraps around to the beginning of the nodemask and, if not
already set, sets the node in the mempolicy nodemask.So in the example, if the user specifies 2-5, for a task whose
mems_allowed is 3-7, the nodemasks should be remapped the third, fourth,
fifth, sixth node in mems_allowed. like the following:mems_allowed: 3 4 5 6 7
relative index: 0 1 2 3 4
5So the nodemasks should be remapped to 3,5-7, but not 3,5-6.
And for a task whose mems_allowed is 0,2-3,5, the nodemasks should be
remapped to 0,2-3,5, but not 0,3,5.mems_allowed: 0 2 3 5
relative index: 0 1 2 3
4 5Signed-off-by: Tang Chen
Cc: Randy Dunlap
Acked-by: David Rientjes
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 Mar, 2014
1 commit
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Fix double words "the the" in various files
within Documentations.Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
11 Feb, 2014
1 commit
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Some of the 00-INDEX files are somewhat outdated and some folders does
not contain 00-INDEX at all. Only outdated (with the notably exception
of spi) indexes are touched here, the 169 folders without 00-INDEX has
not been touched.New 00-INDEX
- spi/* was added in a series of commits dating back to 2006Added files (missing in (*/)00-INDEX)
- dmatest.txt was added by commit 851b7e16a07d ("dmatest: run test via
debugfs")
- this_cpu_ops.txt was added by commit a1b2a555d637 ("percpu: add
documentation on this_cpu operations")
- ww-mutex-design.txt was added by commit 040a0a371005 ("mutex: Add
support for wound/wait style locks")
- bcache.txt was added by commit cafe56359144 ("bcache: A block layer
cache")
- kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt was added by commit 49717cb40410
("kthread: Document ways of reducing OS jitter due to per-CPU
kthreads")
- phy.txt was added by commit ff764963479a ("drivers: phy: add generic
PHY framework")
- block/null_blk was added by commit 12f8f4fc0314 ("null_blk:
documentation")
- module-signing.txt was added by commit 3cafea307642 ("Add
Documentation/module-signing.txt file")
- assoc_array.txt was added by commit 3cb989501c26 ("Add a generic
associative array implementation.")
- arm/IXP4xx was part of the initial repo
- arm/cluster-pm-race-avoidance.txt was added by commit 7fe31d28e839
("ARM: mcpm: introduce helpers for platform coherency exit/setup")
- arm/firmware.txt was added by commit 7366b92a77fc ("ARM: Add
interface for registering and calling firmware-specific operations")
- arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt was added by commit 2afd0a05241d ("ARM:
7825/1: document the use of NEON in kernel mode")
- arm/tcm.txt was added by commit bc581770cfdd ("ARM: 5580/2: ARM TCM
(Tightly-Coupled Memory) support v3")
- arm/vlocks.txt was added by commit 9762f12d3e05 ("ARM: mcpm: Add
baremetal voting mutexes")
- blackfin/gptimers-example.c, Makefile was added by commit
4b60779d5ea7 ("Blackfin: add an example showing how to use the
gptimers API")
- devicetree/usage-model.txt was added by commit 31134efc681a ("dt:
Linux DT usage model documentation")
- fb/api.txt was added by commit fb21c2f42879 ("fbdev: Add FOURCC-based
format configuration API")
- fb/sm501.txt was added by commit e6a049807105 ("video, sm501: add
edid and commandline support")
- fb/udlfb.txt was added by commit 96f8d864afd6 ("fbdev: move udlfb out
of staging.")
- filesystems/Makefile was added by commit 1e0051ae48a2
("Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files")
- filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt was added by commit
8a4c6e19cfed ("nfsd: document kernel interfaces for nfsd
configuration")
- ide/warm-plug-howto.txt was added by commit f74c91413ec6 ("ide: add
warm-plug support for IDE devices (take 2)")
- laptops/Makefile was added by commit d49129accc21
("Documentation/laptop/: split txt and source files")
- leds/leds-blinkm.txt was added by commit b54cf35a7f65 ("LEDS: add
BlinkM RGB LED driver, documentation and update MAINTAINERS")
- leds/ledtrig-oneshot.txt was added by commit 5e417281cde2 ("leds: add
oneshot trigger")
- leds/ledtrig-transient.txt was added by commit 44e1e9f8e705 ("leds:
add new transient trigger for one shot timer activation")
- m68k/README.buddha was part of the initial repo
- networking/LICENSE.(qla3xxx|qlcnic|qlge) was added by commits
40839129f779, c4e84bde1d59, 5a4faa873782
- networking/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812ef ("docsrc: build
Documentation/ sources")
- networking/i40evf.txt was added by commit 105bf2fe6b32 ("i40evf: add
driver to kernel build system")
- networking/ipsec.txt was added by commit b3c6efbc36e2 ("xfrm: Add
file to document IPsec corner case")
- networking/mac80211-auth-assoc-deauth.txt was added by commit
3cd7920a2be8 ("mac80211: add auth/assoc/deauth flow diagram")
- networking/netlink_mmap.txt was added by commit 5683264c3981
("netlink: add documentation for memory mapped I/O")
- networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt was added by commit c9f9e0e1597f
("netfilter: doc: add nf_conntrack sysctl api documentation") lan)
- networking/team.txt was added by commit 3d249d4ca7d0 ("net: introduce
ethernet teaming device")
- networking/vxlan.txt was added by commit d342894c5d2f ("vxlan:
virtual extensible lan")
- power/runtime_pm.txt was added by commit 5e928f77a09a ("PM: Introduce
core framework for run-time PM of I/O devices (rev. 17)")
- power/charger-manager.txt was added by commit 3bb3dbbd56ea
("power_supply: Add initial Charger-Manager driver")
- RCU/lockdep-splat.txt was added by commit d7bd2d68aa2e ("rcu:
Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats")
- s390/kvm.txt was added by 5ecee4b (KVM: s390: API documentation)
- s390/qeth.txt was added by commit b4d72c08b358 ("qeth: bridgeport
support - basic control")
- scheduler/sched-bwc.txt was added by commit 88ebc08ea9f7 ("sched: Add
documentation for bandwidth control")
- scsi/advansys.txt was added by commit 4bd6d7f35661 ("[SCSI] advansys:
Move documentation to Documentation/scsi")
- scsi/bfa.txt was added by commit 1ec90174bdb4 ("[SCSI] bfa: add
readme file")
- scsi/bnx2fc.txt was added by commit 12b8fc10eaf4 ("[SCSI] bnx2fc: Add
driver documentation")
- scsi/cxgb3i.txt was added by commit c3673464ebc0 ("[SCSI] cxgb3i: Add
cxgb3i iSCSI driver.")
- scsi/hpsa.txt was added by commit 992ebcf14f3c ("[SCSI] hpsa: Add
hpsa.txt to Documentation/scsi")
- scsi/link_power_management_policy.txt was added by commit
ca77329fb713 ("[libata] Link power management infrastructure")
- scsi/osd.txt was added by commit 78e0c621deca ("[SCSI] osd:
Documentation for OSD library")
- scsi/scsi-parameter.txt was created/moved by commit 163475fb111c
("Documentation: move SCSI parameters to their own text file")
- serial/driver was part of the initial repo
- serial/n_gsm.txt was added by commit 323e84122ec6 ("n_gsm: add a
documentation")
- timers/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812ef ("docsrc: build
Documentation/ sources")
- virt/kvm/s390.txt was added by commit d9101fca3d57 ("KVM: s390:
diagnose call documentation")
- vm/split_page_table_lock was added by commit 49076ec2ccaf ("mm:
dynamically allocate page->ptl if it cannot be embedded to struct
page")
- w1/slaves/w1_ds28e04 was added by commit fbf7f7b4e2ae ("w1: Add
1-wire slave device driver for DS28E04-100")
- w1/masters/omap-hdq was added by commit e0a29382c6f5 ("hdq:
documentation for OMAP HDQ")
- x86/early-microcode.txt was added by commit 0d91ea86a895 ("x86, doc:
Documentation for early microcode loading")
- x86/earlyprintk.txt was added by commit a1aade478862 ("x86/doc:
mini-howto for using earlyprintk=dbgp")
- x86/entry_64.txt was added by commit 8b4777a4b50c ("x86-64: Document
some of entry_64.S")
- x86/pat.txt was added by commit d27554d874c7 ("x86: PAT
documentation")Moved files
- arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt was moved out of arch/arm/kernel by
commit 37b8304642c7 ("ARM: kuser: move interface documentation out of
the source code")
- efi-stub.txt was moved out of x86/ and down into Documentation/ in
commit 4172fe2f8a47 ("EFI stub documentation updates")
- laptops/hpfall.c was moved out of hwmon/ and into laptops/ in commit
efcfed9bad88 ("Move hp_accel to drivers/platform/x86")
- commit 5616c23ad9cd ("x86: doc: move x86-generic documentation from
Doc/x86/i386"):
* x86/usb-legacy-support.txt
* x86/boot.txt
* x86/zero_page.txt
- power/video_extension.txt was moved to acpi in commit 70e66e4df191
("ACPI / video: move video_extension.txt to Documentation/acpi")Removed files (left in 00-INDEX)
- memory.txt was removed by commit 00ea8990aadf ("memory.txt: remove
stray information")
- gpio.txt was moved to gpio/ in commit fd8e198cfcaa ("Documentation:
gpiolib: document new interface")
- networking/DLINK.txt was removed by commit 168e06ae26dd
("drivers/net: delete old parallel port de600/de620 drivers")
- serial/hayes-esp.txt was removed by commit f53a2ade0bb9 ("tty: esp:
remove broken driver")
- s390/TAPE was removed by commit 9e280f669308 ("[S390] remove tape
block docu")
- vm/locking was removed by commit 57ea8171d2bc ("mm: documentation:
remove hopelessly out-of-date locking doc")
- laptops/acer-wmi.txt was remvoed by commit 020036678e81 ("acer-wmi:
Delete out-of-date documentation")Typos/misc issues
- rpc-server-gss.txt was added as knfsd-rpcgss.txt in commit
030d794bf498 ("SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS
authentication.")
- commit b88cf73d9278 ("net: add missing entries to
Documentation/networking/00-INDEX")
* generic-hdlc.txt was added as generic_hdlc.txt
* spider_net.txt was added as spider-net.txt
- w1/master/mxc-w1 was added as mxc_w1 by commit a5fd9139f74c ("w1: add
1-wire master driver for i.MX27 / i.MX31")
- s390/zfcpdump.txt was added as zfcpdump by commit 6920c12a407e
("[S390] Add Documentation/s390/00-INDEX.")Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney [rcu bits]
Acked-by: Rob Landley
Cc: Jiri Kosina
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Rob Herring
Cc: David S. Miller
Cc: Mark Brown
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Gleb Natapov
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Len Brown
Cc: James Bottomley
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
24 Jan, 2014
1 commit
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Documentation/vm/locking is a blast from the past. In the entire git
history, it has had precisely Three modifications. Two of those look to
be pure renames, and the third was from 2005.The doc contains such gems as:
> The page_table_lock is grabbed while holding the
> kernel_lock spinning monitor.> Page stealers hold kernel_lock to protect against a bunch of
> races.Or this which talks about mmap_sem:
> 4. The exception to this rule is expand_stack, which just
> takes the read lock and the page_table_lock, this is ok
> because it doesn't really modify fields anybody relies on.expand_stack() doesn't take any locks any more directly, and the
mmap_sem acquisition was long ago moved up in to the page fault code
itself.It could be argued that we need to rewrite this, but it is dangerous to
leave it as-is. It will confuse more people than it helps.Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Wanpeng Li
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 Jan, 2014
1 commit
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Some applications that run on HPC clusters are designed around the
availability of RAM and the overcommit ratio is fine tuned to get the
maximum usage of memory without swapping. With growing memory, the
1%-of-all-RAM grain provided by overcommit_ratio has become too coarse
for these workload (on a 2TB machine it represents no less than 20GB).This patch adds the new overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable that allow a
much finer grain.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build]
Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Alan Cox
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 Nov, 2013
1 commit
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There are two code paths how page with pmd page table can be freed:
pmd_free() and pmd_free_tlb().I've missed the second one and didn't add page table destructor call
there. It leads to leak of page->ptl for pmd page tables, if
dynamically allocated page->ptl is in use.The patch adds the missed destructor and modifies documentation
accordingly.Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Reported-by: Andrey Vagin
Tested-by: Andrey Vagin
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
16 Nov, 2013
1 commit
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Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
"Usual earth-shaking, news-breaking, rocket science pile from
trivial.git"* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (23 commits)
doc: usb: Fix typo in Documentation/usb/gadget_configs.txt
doc: add missing files to timers/00-INDEX
timekeeping: Fix some trivial typos in comments
mm: Fix some trivial typos in comments
irq: Fix some trivial typos in comments
NUMA: fix typos in Kconfig help text
mm: update 00-INDEX
doc: Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt fix typo
DRM: comment: `halve' -> `half'
Docs: Kconfig: `devlopers' -> `developers'
doc: typo on word accounting in kprobes.c in mutliple architectures
treewide: fix "usefull" typo
treewide: fix "distingush" typo
mm/Kconfig: Grammar s/an/a/
kexec: Typo s/the/then/
Documentation/kvm: Update cpuid documentation for steal time and pv eoi
treewide: Fix common typo in "identify"
__page_to_pfn: Fix typo in comment
Correct some typos for word frequency
clk: fixed-factor: Fix a trivial typo
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15 Nov, 2013
1 commit
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If split page table lock is in use, we embed the lock into struct page
of table's page. We have to disable split lock, if spinlock_t is too
big be to be embedded, like when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
enabled.This patch add support for dynamic allocation of split page table lock
if we can't embed it to struct page.page->ptl is unsigned long now and we use it as spinlock_t if
sizeof(spinlock_t) ptl.Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Nov, 2013
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Christian Hesse
Acked-by: Seth Jennings
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Oct, 2013
1 commit
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The following files moved files out of Documentation/vm/
c6dd897f ("mm: move page-types.c from Documentation to tools/vm")
f0f57b2b ("move hugepage test examples to tools/testing/selftests/vm)Remove these files from vm/00-INDEX.
The following commits added new files do Documentation/vm/
4fe4746a ("mm/fs: cleancache documentation") added vm/cleancache.txt
d65bfacb ("mm: highmem documentation") added vm/highmem.txt
1c9bf22c ("thp: transparent hugepage support documentation") added
vm/transhuge.txt
0f8975ec ("mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking")
61b0d760 ("zswap: add documentation")
27c6aec2 ("mm: frontswap: config and doc files")Add the missing documentation-files with a short description to 00-INDEX
Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
12 Sep, 2013
2 commits
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Pavel reported that in case if vma area get unmapped and then mapped (or
expanded) in-place, the soft dirty tracker won't be able to recognize this
situation since it works on pte level and ptes are get zapped on unmap,
loosing soft dirty bit of course.So to resolve this situation we need to track actions on vma level, there
VM_SOFTDIRTY flag comes in. When new vma area created (or old expanded)
we set this bit, and keep it here until application calls for clearing
soft dirty bit.Thus when user space application track memory changes now it can detect if
vma area is renewed.Reported-by: Pavel Emelyanov
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Matt Mackall
Cc: Xiao Guangrong
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Stephen Rothwell
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V"
Cc: Rob Landley
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Explicitly mention/recommend using the libhugetlbfs test cases when
changing related kernel code. Developers that are unaware of the project
can easily miss this and introduce potential regressions that may or may
not be caught by community review.Also do some cleanups that make the document visually easier to view at a
first glance.Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Jul, 2013
1 commit
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Add the documentation file for the zswap functionality
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings
Acked-by: Rik van Riel
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: Nitin Gupta
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Cc: Dan Magenheimer
Cc: Robert Jennings
Cc: Jenifer Hopper
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Larry Woodman
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Joe Perches
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Cody P Schafer
Cc: Hugh Dickens
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Jul, 2013
1 commit
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Transparent huge zero page is used during the page fault instead of in
khugepaged.# ls /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/
defrag enabled khugepaged use_zero_page
# ls /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/
alloc_sleep_millisecs defrag full_scans max_ptes_none pages_collapsed pages_to_scan scan_sleep_millisecsThis patch corrects the documentation just like the codes done.
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
05 Jul, 2013
1 commit
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Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
"The usual stuff from trivial tree"* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
treewide: relase -> release
Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt: fix stat file documentation
sysctl/net.txt: delete reference to obsolete 2.4.x kernel
spinlock_api_smp.h: fix preprocessor comments
treewide: Fix typo in printk
doc: device tree: clarify stuff in usage-model.txt.
open firmware: "/aliasas" -> "/aliases"
md: bcache: Fixed a typo with the word 'arithmetic'
irq/generic-chip: fix a few kernel-doc entries
frv: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table
sgi: xpc: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table
doc: clk: Fix incorrect wording
Documentation/arm/IXP4xx fix a typo
Documentation/networking/ieee802154 fix a typo
Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l fix a typo
Documentation/video4linux/si476x.txt fix a typo
Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt fix a typo
Documentation/early-userspace/README fix a typo
Documentation/video4linux/soc-camera.txt fix a typo
lguest: fix CONFIG_PAE -> CONFIG_x86_PAE in comment
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04 Jul, 2013
2 commits
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In order to reuse bits from pagemap entries gracefully, we leave the
entries as is but on pagemap open emit a warning in dmesg, that bits
55-60 are about to change in a couple of releases. Next, if a user
issues soft-dirty clear command via the clear_refs file (it was disabled
before v3.9) we assume that he's aware of the new pagemap format, note
that fact and report the bits in pagemap in the new manner.The "migration strategy" looks like this then:
1. existing users are not affected -- they don't touch soft-dirty feature, thus
see old bits in pagemap, but are warned and have time to fix themselves
2. those who use soft-dirty know about new pagemap format
3. some time soon we get rid of any signs of page-shift in pagemap as well as
this trick with clear-soft-dirty affecting pagemap format.Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov
Cc: Matt Mackall
Cc: Xiao Guangrong
Cc: Glauber Costa
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The soft-dirty is a bit on a PTE which helps to track which pages a task
writes to. In order to do this tracking one should1. Clear soft-dirty bits from PTEs ("echo 4 > /proc/PID/clear_refs)
2. Wait some time.
3. Read soft-dirty bits (55'th in /proc/PID/pagemap2 entries)To do this tracking, the writable bit is cleared from PTEs when the
soft-dirty bit is. Thus, after this, when the task tries to modify a
page at some virtual address the #PF occurs and the kernel sets the
soft-dirty bit on the respective PTE.Note, that although all the task's address space is marked as r/o after
the soft-dirty bits clear, the #PF-s that occur after that are processed
fast. This is so, since the pages are still mapped to physical memory,
and thus all the kernel does is finds this fact out and puts back
writable, dirty and soft-dirty bits on the PTE.Another thing to note, is that when mremap moves PTEs they are marked
with soft-dirty as well, since from the user perspective mremap modifies
the virtual memory at mremap's new address.Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov
Cc: Matt Mackall
Cc: Xiao Guangrong
Cc: Glauber Costa
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
