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2009-11-17net/can/mpc52xx_can: improve properties and their descriptionWolfram Sang
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Cc: devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-13net/can: add driver for mscan family & mpc52xx_mscanWolfram Sang
Taken from socketcan-svn, fixed remaining todos, cleaned up, tested with a phyCORE-MPC5200B-IO and a custom board. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-07udp: dynamically size hash tables at boot timeEric Dumazet
UDP_HTABLE_SIZE was initialy defined to 128, which is a bit small for several setups. 4000 active UDP sockets -> 32 sockets per chain in average. An incoming frame has to lookup all sockets to find best match, so long chains hurt latency. Instead of a fixed size hash table that cant be perfect for every needs, let UDP stack choose its table size at boot time like tcp/ip route, using alloc_large_system_hash() helper Add an optional boot parameter, uhash_entries=x so that an admin can force a size between 256 and 65536 if needed, like thash_entries and rhash_entries. dmesg logs two new lines : [ 0.647039] UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) [ 0.647099] UDP Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Maximal size on 64bit arches would be 65536 slots, ie 1 MBytes for non debugging spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-07make TLLAO option for NA packets configurableOctavian Purdila
On Friday 02 October 2009 20:53:51 you wrote: > This is good although I would have shortened the name. Ah, I knew I forgot something :) Here is v4. tavi >From 24d96d825b9fa832b22878cc6c990d5711968734 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:51:15 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] ipv6: new sysctl for sending TLLAO with unicast NAs Neighbor advertisements responding to unicast neighbor solicitations did not include the target link-layer address option. This patch adds a new sysctl option (disabled by default) which controls whether this option should be sent even with unicast NAs. The need for this arose because certain routers expect the TLLAO in some situations even as a response to unicast NS packets. Moreover, RFC 2461 recommends sending this to avoid a race condition (section 4.4, Target link-layer address) Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@ixiacom.com> Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-07bonding: introduce primary_reselect optionJiri Pirko
In some cases there is not desirable to switch back to primary interface when it's link recovers and rather stay with currently active one. We need to avoid packetloss as much as we can in some cases. This is solved by introducing primary_reselect option. Note that enslaved primary slave is set as current active no matter what. Patch modified by Jay Vosburgh as follows: fixed bug in action after change of option setting via sysfs, revised the documentation update, and bumped the bonding version number. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-06gigaset: add Kernel CAPI interface (v3)Tilman Schmidt
Add a Kernel CAPI interface to the Gigaset driver. Impact: optional new functionality Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-06Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
2009-10-06Documentation: expand isdn/INTERFACE.CAPI documentTilman Schmidt
- Note that send_message() may be called in interrupt context. - Describe the storage of CAPI messages and payload data in SKBs. - Add more details to the description of the _cmsg structure. - Describe kernelcapi debugging output. Impact: documentation Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-04pktgen: Fix multiqueue handlingEric Dumazet
It is not currently possible to instruct pktgen to use one selected tx queue. When Robert added multiqueue support in commit 45b270f8, he added an interval (queue_map_min, queue_map_max), and his code doesnt take into account the case of min = max, to select one tx queue exactly. I suspect a high performance setup on a eight txqueue device wants to use exactly eight cpus, and assign one tx queue to each sender. This patchs makes pktgen select the right tx queue, not the first one. Also updates Documentation to reflect Robert changes. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-04Merge branch 'i2c-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging * 'i2c-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging: macintosh: Don't assume i2c device probing always succeeds i2c: Hide probe errors caused by ACPI resource conflicts i2c: Minor documentation update mfd: AB3100 drop unused module parameters Staging: IIO: tsl2561: Drop unused module parameters leds: leds-pca9532 - Drop unused module parameters ltc4215/ltc4245: Discard obsolete detect methods ds2482: Discard obsolete detect method max6875: Discard obsolete detect method i2c: Move misc devices documentation
2009-10-04i2c: Minor documentation updateJean Delvare
The sysfs path to i2c adapters has changed recently, update the documentation to reflect that change. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2009-10-04ltc4215/ltc4245: Discard obsolete detect methodsJean Delvare
There is no point in implementing a detect callback for the LTC4215 and LTC4245, as these devices can't be detected. It was there solely to handle "force" module parameters to instantiate devices, but now we have a better sysfs interface that can do the same. So we can get rid of the ugly module parameters and the detect callbacks. This shrinks the binary module sizes by 36% and 46%, respectively. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
2009-10-04ds2482: Discard obsolete detect methodJean Delvare
There is no point in implementing a detect callback for the DS2482, as this device can't be detected. It was there solely to handle "force" module parameters to instantiate devices, but now we have a better sysfs interface that can do the same. So we can get rid of the ugly module parameters and the detect callback. This shrinks the binary module size by 21%. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Ben Gardner <gardner.ben@gmail.com>
2009-10-04max6875: Discard obsolete detect methodJean Delvare
There is no point in implementing a detect callback for the MAX6875, as this device can't be detected. It was there solely to handle "force" module parameters to instantiate devices, but now we have a better sysfs interface that can do the same. So we can get rid of the ugly module parameters and the detect callback. This basically divides the binary module size by 2. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Ben Gardner <gardner.ben@gmail.com>
2009-10-04i2c: Move misc devices documentationJean Delvare
Some times ago the eeprom and max6875 drivers moved to drivers/misc/eeprom, but their documentation did not follow. It's finally time to get rid of Documentation/i2c/chips. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Ben Gardner <gardner.ben@gmail.com> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2009-10-04Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (41 commits) Revert "Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests" cfq-iosched: don't delay async queue if it hasn't dispatched at all block: Topology ioctls cfq-iosched: use assigned slice sync value, not default cfq-iosched: rename 'desktop' sysfs entry to 'low_latency' cfq-iosched: implement slower async initiate and queue ramp up cfq-iosched: delay async IO dispatch, if sync IO was just done cfq-iosched: add a knob for desktop interactiveness Add a tracepoint for block request remapping block: allow large discard requests block: use normal I/O path for discard requests swapfile: avoid NULL pointer dereference in swapon when s_bdev is NULL fs/bio.c: move EXPORT* macros to line after function Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfs cciss: fix build when !PROC_FS block: Do not clamp max_hw_sectors for stacking devices block: Set max_sectors correctly for stacking devices cciss: cciss_host_attr_groups should be const cciss: Dynamically allocate the drive_info_struct for each logical drive. cciss: Add usage_count attribute to each logical drive in /sys ...
2009-10-03Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 * 'for-linus' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: (21 commits) ALSA: usb - Use strlcat() correctly ALSA: Fix invalid __exit in sound/mips/*.c ALSA: hda - Fix / improve ALC66x parser ALSA: ctxfi: Swapped SURROUND-SIDE mute sound: Make keywest_driver static ALSA: intel8x0 - Mute External Amplifier by default for Sony VAIO VGN-B1VP ALSA: hda - Fix digita/analog mic auto-switching with IDT codecs ASoC: fix kconfig order of Blackfin drivers ALSA: hda - Added quirk to enable sound on Toshiba NB200 ASoC: Fix dependency of CONFIG_SND_PXA2XX_SOC_IMOTE2 ALSA: Don't assume i2c device probing always succeeds ALSA: intel8x0 - Mute External Amplifier by default for Sony VAIO VGN-T350P ALSA: echoaudio - Re-enable the line-out control for the Mia card ALSA: hda - Resurrect input-source mixer of ALC268 model=acer ALSA: hda - Analog Devices AD1984A add HP Touchsmart model ALSA: hda - Add HP Pavilion dv4t-1300 to MSI whitelist ALSA: hda - CD-audio sound for hda-intel conexant benq laptop ASoC: DaVinci: Correct McASP FIFO initialization ASoC: Davinci: Fix race with cpu_dai->dma_data ASoC: DaVinci: Fix divide by zero error during 1st execution ...
2009-10-03Merge branch 'fix/hda' into for-linusTakashi Iwai
2009-10-02Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (25 commits) ARM: 5728/1: Proper prefetch abort handling on ARMv6 and ARMv7 ARM: 5727/1: Pass IFSR register to do_PrefetchAbort() ARM: 5740/1: fix valid_phys_addr_range() range check ARM: 5739/1: ARM: allow empty ATAG_CORE ARM: 5735/1: sa1111: CodingStyle cleanups ARM: 5738/1: Correct TCM documentation ARM: 5734/1: arm: fix compilation of entry-common.S for older CPUs ARM: 5733/1: fix bcmring compile error ARM: 5732/1: remove redundant include file ARM: 5731/2: Fix U300 generic GPIO, remove ifdefs from MMCI v3 ARM: Ensure do_cache_op takes mmap_sem ARM: Fix __cpuexit section mismatch warnings ARM: Don't allow highmem on SMP platforms without h/w TLB ops broadcast ARM: includecheck fix: mach-davinci, board-dm365-evm.c ARM: Remove unused CONFIG SA1100_H3XXX ARM: Fix warning: unused variable 'highmem' ARM: Fix warning: #warning syscall migrate_pages not implemented ARM: Fix SA11x0 clocksource warning ARM: Fix SA1100 Neponset serial section mismatch ARM: Fix SA1100 Assabet/Neponset PCMCIA section mismatch warnings ...
2009-10-02Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (46 commits) cnic: Fix NETDEV_UP event processing. uvesafb/connector: Disallow unpliviged users to send netlink packets pohmelfs/connector: Disallow unpliviged users to configure pohmelfs dst/connector: Disallow unpliviged users to configure dst dm/connector: Only process connector packages from privileged processes connector: Removed the destruct_data callback since it is always kfree_skb() connector/dm: Fixed a compilation warning connector: Provide the sender's credentials to the callback connector: Keep the skb in cn_callback_data e1000e/igb/ixgbe: Don't report an error if devices don't support AER net: Fix wrong sizeof net: splice() from tcp to pipe should take into account O_NONBLOCK net: Use sk_mark for routing lookup in more places sky2: irqname based on pci address skge: use unique IRQ name IPv4 TCP fails to send window scale option when window scale is zero net/ipv4/tcp.c: fix min() type mismatch warning Kconfig: STRIP: Remove stale bits of STRIP help text NET: mkiss: Fix typo tg3: Remove prev_vlan_tag from struct tx_ring_info ...
2009-10-02connector: Provide the sender's credentials to the callbackPhilipp Reisner
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Acked-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-02net: Fix wrong sizeofJean Delvare
Which is why I have always preferred sizeof(struct foo) over sizeof(var). Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-01docs: update patch size in SubmittingPatchesRandy Dunlap
This patch size comment is like so last millenium. Update it to modern times. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-01cciss: Add usage_count attribute to each logical drive in /sysStephen M. Cameron
Add usage_count attribute to each logical drive at /sys/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/usage_count for controller X, logical drive Y. The usage count is the number of times the device has currently been opened. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01cciss: Add a "raid_level" attribute to each logical drive in /sysStephen M. Cameron
and change get rid of some magic numbers in raid lavel decoding. Add raid_level attribute to each logical drive at /sys/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/raid_level for controller X, logical drive Y Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01cciss: Add lunid attribute to each logical drive in /sysStephen M. Cameron
Add lunid attribute to each logical drive at /sys/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/lunid for controller X, logical drive Y Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01cciss: Allow triggering of rescan of logical drive topology via sysfs entryAndrew Patterson
Added /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/rescan sysfs entry used to kick off a rescan that discovers logical drive topology changes. Signed-off-by: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01ARM: 5738/1: Correct TCM documentationLinus Walleij
It turns out that the TCM memory can be remap:ed by the MMU just like any other memory. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-09-30Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: Fix time encoding with extra epoch bits ext4: Add a stub for mpage_da_data in the trace header jbd2: Use tracepoints for history file ext4: Use tracepoints for mb_history trace file ext4, jbd2: Drop unneeded printks at mount and unmount time ext4: Handle nested ext4_journal_start/stop calls without a journal ext4: Make sure ext4_dirty_inode() updates the inode in no journal mode ext4: Avoid updating the inode table bh twice in no journal mode ext4: EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT: Check for different original and donor inodes first ext4: async direct IO for holes and fallocate support ext4: Use end_io callback to avoid direct I/O fallback to buffered I/O ext4: Split uninitialized extents for direct I/O ext4: release reserved quota when block reservation for delalloc retry ext4: Adjust ext4_da_writepages() to write out larger contiguous chunks ext4: Fix hueristic which avoids group preallocation for closed files ext4: Use ext4_msg() for ext4_da_writepage() errors ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
2009-09-30Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6: fat: Check s_dirt in fat_sync_fs() vfat: change the default from shortname=lower to shortname=mixed fat/nls: Fix handling of utf8 invalid char
2009-09-30ext4: Use tracepoints for mb_history trace fileTheodore Ts'o
The /proc/fs/ext4/<dev>/mb_history was maintained manually, and had a number of problems: it required a largish amount of memory to be allocated for each ext4 filesystem, and the s_mb_history_lock introduced a CPU contention problem. By ripping out the mb_history code and replacing it with ftrace tracepoints, and we get more functionality: timestamps, event filtering, the ability to correlate mballoc history with other ext4 tracepoints, etc. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-29ALSA: hda - Analog Devices AD1984A add HP Touchsmart modelMiguel de Barros
Reference: ALSA bug #0004614 https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=4614 port-A (0x11) - front hp-out port-D (0x12) - rear line out port-E (0x1c) - front mic-in port-F (0x16) - Internal speakers digital-mic (0x17) - Internal mic init verbs, mixers, jack sensing and PCI_QUIRK to support this hardware Signed-off-by: Miguel de Barros <miguel.de.barros@bluewin.ch> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2009-09-29ext4: Update documentation about quota mount optionsJan Kara
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-26Merge branch 'thinkpad-2.6.32-part2' into releaseLen Brown
2009-09-24Merge branch 'origin' into for-linusRussell King
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2009-09-24Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: truncate: use new helpers truncate: new helpers fs: fix overflow in sys_mount() for in-kernel calls fs: Make unload_nls() NULL pointer safe freeze_bdev: grab active reference to frozen superblocks freeze_bdev: kill bd_mount_sem exofs: remove BKL from super operations fs/romfs: correct error-handling code vfs: seq_file: add helpers for data filling vfs: remove redundant position check in do_sendfile vfs: change sb->s_maxbytes to a loff_t vfs: explicitly cast s_maxbytes in fiemap_check_ranges libfs: return error code on failed attr set seq_file: return a negative error code when seq_path_root() fails. vfs: optimize touch_time() too vfs: optimization for touch_atime() vfs: split generic_forget_inode() so that hugetlbfs does not have to copy it fs/inode.c: add dev-id and inode number for debugging in init_special_inode() libfs: make simple_read_from_buffer conventional
2009-09-24Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/mdLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (97 commits) md: raid-1/10: fix RW bits manipulation md: remove unnecessary memset from multipath. md: report device as congested when suspended md: Improve name of threads created by md_register_thread md: remove sparse warnings about lock context. md: remove sparse waring "symbol xxx shadows an earlier one" async_tx/raid6: add missing dma_unmap calls to the async fail case ioat3: fix uninitialized var warnings drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v2.c: fix warnings raid6test: fix stack overflow ioat2: clarify ring size limits md/raid6: cleanup ops_run_compute6_2 md/raid6: eliminate BUG_ON with side effect dca: module load should not be an error message ioat: driver version 4.0 dca: registering requesters in multiple dca domains async_tx: remove HIGHMEM64G restriction dmaengine: sh: Add Support SuperH DMA Engine driver dmaengine: Move all map_sg/unmap_sg for slave channel to its client fsldma: Add DMA_SLAVE support ...
2009-09-24Merge branch 'hwpoison' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 * 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (21 commits) HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page on btrfs HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4 HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page for NFS HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7 HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2 HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2 HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler v2 HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3 HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2 HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world ...
2009-09-24drivers/char/uv_mmtimer.c: add memory mapped RTC driver for UVDimitri Sivanich
This driver memory maps the UV Hub RTC. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24exec: let do_coredump() limit the number of concurrent dumps to pipesNeil Horman
Introduce core pipe limiting sysctl. Since we can dump cores to pipe, rather than directly to the filesystem, we create a condition in which a user can create a very high load on the system simply by running bad applications. If the pipe reader specified in core_pattern is poorly written, we can have lots of ourstandig resources and processes in the system. This sysctl introduces an ability to limit that resource consumption. core_pipe_limit defines how many in-flight dumps may be run in parallel, dumps beyond this value are skipped and a note is made in the kernel log. A special value of 0 in core_pipe_limit denotes unlimited core dumps may be handled (this is the default value). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reported-by: Earl Chew <earl_chew@agilent.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24memory controller: soft limit documentationBalbir Singh
Soft limits is a new feature for the memory resource controller, something similar has existed in the group scheduler in the form of shares. The CPU controllers interpretation of shares is very different though. Soft limits are the most useful feature to have for environments where the administrator wants to overcommit the system, such that only on memory contention do the limits become active. The current soft limits implementation provides a soft_limit_in_bytes interface for the memory controller and not for memory+swap controller. The implementation maintains an RB-Tree of groups that exceed their soft limit and starts reclaiming from the group that exceeds this limit by the maximum amount. This patch: Add documentation for soft limits Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24memcg: remove the overhead associated with the root cgroupBalbir Singh
Change the memory cgroup to remove the overhead associated with accounting all pages in the root cgroup. As a side-effect, we can no longer set a memory hard limit in the root cgroup. A new flag to track whether the page has been accounted or not has been added as well. Flags are now set atomically for page_cgroup, pcg_default_flags is now obsolete and removed. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix a few documentation glitches] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24cgroups: let ss->can_attach and ss->attach do whole threadgroups at a timeBen Blum
Alter the ss->can_attach and ss->attach functions to be able to deal with a whole threadgroup at a time, for use in cgroup_attach_proc. (This is a pre-patch to cgroup-procs-writable.patch.) Currently, new mode of the attach function can only tell the subsystem about the old cgroup of the threadgroup leader. No subsystem currently needs that information for each thread that's being moved, but if one were to be added (for example, one that counts tasks within a group) this bit would need to be reworked a bit to tell the subsystem the right information. [hidave.darkstar@gmail.com: fix build] Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24cgroups: support named cgroups hierarchiesPaul Menage
To simplify referring to cgroup hierarchies in mount statements, and to allow disambiguation in the presence of empty hierarchies and multiply-bindable subsystems this patch adds support for naming a new cgroup hierarchy via the "name=" mount option A pre-existing hierarchy may be specified by either name or by subsystems; a hierarchy's name cannot be changed by a remount operation. Example usage: # To create a hierarchy called "foo" containing the "cpu" subsystem mount -t cgroup -oname=foo,cpu cgroup /mnt/cgroup1 # To mount the "foo" hierarchy on a second location mount -t cgroup -oname=foo cgroup /mnt/cgroup2 Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24page-types: add feature for walking process address spaceWu Fengguang
Introduce "-p|--pid <pid>" for walking the process address space. The default action is to walk raw memory PFNs. Both the virtual address and physical address of each present pages will be listed: # ./tools/vm/page-types -lp $$ | head -3 voffset offset len flags 400 11bebe 1 __RU_lA____M______________________ 402 11bebc 1 __RU_lA____M______________________ Note that voffset/offset/len are now showed as hex numbers. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24Documentation/vm/.gitignore: add page-typesJosh Triplett
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> 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>
2009-09-24includecheck fix: Documentation, cfag12864b-example.cJaswinder Singh Rajput
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning: Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b-example.c: string.h is included more than once. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24Documentation: update stale definition of file-nr in fs.txtXiaotian Feng
In "documentation: update Documentation/filesystem/proc.txt and Documentation/sysctls" (commit 760df93ec) we merged /proc/sys/fs documentation in Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt and Documentation/filesystem/proc.txt, but stale file-nr definition remained. This patch adds back the right fs-nr definition for 2.6 kernel. Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng<dfeng@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24doc/filesystems: more mount cleanupsPeng Tao
Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt needs updating because the mount command in util-linux package is well aware of shared subtree features now. The patch also fixes two typos in sharedsubtree.txt. Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24doc/filesystems: remove smount programRandy Dunlap
mount(8) handles shared subtrees just fine, so remove the smount program from Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt. Fix annoying "Lets" -> "Let's". Insert space between '#' prompt and "mount" command. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>