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authorRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>2010-03-10 18:21:58 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-03-12 18:52:35 -0500
commit70bace8c1edefa700c7f7af522c5374ef63860ae (patch)
treea0d19cd6a2200890affef250bf4381d893e1a161 /Documentation/vm
parent1e0051ae48a253685e4309256f9c1ec2bdb74b5d (diff)
Documentation/vm/: split txt and source files
Documentation/vm/: Expose example and tool source files in the Documentation/ directory in their own files instead of being buried (almost hidden) in readme/txt files. This should help to prevent bitrot. This will make them more visible/usable to users who may need to use them, to developers who may need to test with them, and to anyone who would fix/update them if they were more visible. Also, if any of these possibly should not be in the kernel tree at all, it will be clearer that they are here and we can discuss if they should be removed. Also build the recently-added map_hugetlb.c. Make several functions static to prevent linker warnings. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/00-INDEX16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/hugepage-mmap.c91
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/hugepage-shm.c98
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt169
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c6
6 files changed, 209 insertions, 173 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX b/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX
index e57d6a9dd32b..dca82d7c83d8 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX
@@ -4,23 +4,35 @@ active_mm.txt
4 - An explanation from Linus about tsk->active_mm vs tsk->mm. 4 - An explanation from Linus about tsk->active_mm vs tsk->mm.
5balance 5balance
6 - various information on memory balancing. 6 - various information on memory balancing.
7hugepage-mmap.c
8 - Example app using huge page memory with the mmap system call.
9hugepage-shm.c
10 - Example app using huge page memory with Sys V shared memory system calls.
7hugetlbpage.txt 11hugetlbpage.txt
8 - a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in the Linux kernel. 12 - a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in the Linux kernel.
13hwpoison.txt
14 - explains what hwpoison is
9ksm.txt 15ksm.txt
10 - how to use the Kernel Samepage Merging feature. 16 - how to use the Kernel Samepage Merging feature.
11locking 17locking
12 - info on how locking and synchronization is done in the Linux vm code. 18 - info on how locking and synchronization is done in the Linux vm code.
19map_hugetlb.c
20 - an example program that uses the MAP_HUGETLB mmap flag.
13numa 21numa
14 - information about NUMA specific code in the Linux vm. 22 - information about NUMA specific code in the Linux vm.
15numa_memory_policy.txt 23numa_memory_policy.txt
16 - documentation of concepts and APIs of the 2.6 memory policy support. 24 - documentation of concepts and APIs of the 2.6 memory policy support.
17overcommit-accounting 25overcommit-accounting
18 - description of the Linux kernels overcommit handling modes. 26 - description of the Linux kernels overcommit handling modes.
27page-types.c
28 - Tool for querying page flags
19page_migration 29page_migration
20 - description of page migration in NUMA systems. 30 - description of page migration in NUMA systems.
31pagemap.txt
32 - pagemap, from the userspace perspective
21slabinfo.c 33slabinfo.c
22 - source code for a tool to get reports about slabs. 34 - source code for a tool to get reports about slabs.
23slub.txt 35slub.txt
24 - a short users guide for SLUB. 36 - a short users guide for SLUB.
25map_hugetlb.c 37unevictable-lru.txt
26 - an example program that uses the MAP_HUGETLB mmap flag. 38 - Unevictable LRU infrastructure
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/Makefile b/Documentation/vm/Makefile
index 5bd269b3731a..9dcff328b964 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/vm/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
2obj- := dummy.o 2obj- := dummy.o
3 3
4# List of programs to build 4# List of programs to build
5hostprogs-y := slabinfo page-types 5hostprogs-y := slabinfo page-types hugepage-mmap hugepage-shm map_hugetlb
6 6
7# Tell kbuild to always build the programs 7# Tell kbuild to always build the programs
8always := $(hostprogs-y) 8always := $(hostprogs-y)
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugepage-mmap.c b/Documentation/vm/hugepage-mmap.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..db0dd9a33d54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/vm/hugepage-mmap.c
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
1/*
2 * hugepage-mmap:
3 *
4 * Example of using huge page memory in a user application using the mmap
5 * system call. Before running this application, make sure that the
6 * administrator has mounted the hugetlbfs filesystem (on some directory
7 * like /mnt) using the command mount -t hugetlbfs nodev /mnt. In this
8 * example, the app is requesting memory of size 256MB that is backed by
9 * huge pages.
10 *
11 * For the ia64 architecture, the Linux kernel reserves Region number 4 for
12 * huge pages. That means that if one requires a fixed address, a huge page
13 * aligned address starting with 0x800000... will be required. If a fixed
14 * address is not required, the kernel will select an address in the proper
15 * range.
16 * Other architectures, such as ppc64, i386 or x86_64 are not so constrained.
17 */
18
19#include <stdlib.h>
20#include <stdio.h>
21#include <unistd.h>
22#include <sys/mman.h>
23#include <fcntl.h>
24
25#define FILE_NAME "/mnt/hugepagefile"
26#define LENGTH (256UL*1024*1024)
27#define PROTECTION (PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE)
28
29/* Only ia64 requires this */
30#ifdef __ia64__
31#define ADDR (void *)(0x8000000000000000UL)
32#define FLAGS (MAP_SHARED | MAP_FIXED)
33#else
34#define ADDR (void *)(0x0UL)
35#define FLAGS (MAP_SHARED)
36#endif
37
38static void check_bytes(char *addr)
39{
40 printf("First hex is %x\n", *((unsigned int *)addr));
41}
42
43static void write_bytes(char *addr)
44{
45 unsigned long i;
46
47 for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++)
48 *(addr + i) = (char)i;
49}
50
51static void read_bytes(char *addr)
52{
53 unsigned long i;
54
55 check_bytes(addr);
56 for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++)
57 if (*(addr + i) != (char)i) {
58 printf("Mismatch at %lu\n", i);
59 break;
60 }
61}
62
63int main(void)
64{
65 void *addr;
66 int fd;
67
68 fd = open(FILE_NAME, O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0755);
69 if (fd < 0) {
70 perror("Open failed");
71 exit(1);
72 }
73
74 addr = mmap(ADDR, LENGTH, PROTECTION, FLAGS, fd, 0);
75 if (addr == MAP_FAILED) {
76 perror("mmap");
77 unlink(FILE_NAME);
78 exit(1);
79 }
80
81 printf("Returned address is %p\n", addr);
82 check_bytes(addr);
83 write_bytes(addr);
84 read_bytes(addr);
85
86 munmap(addr, LENGTH);
87 close(fd);
88 unlink(FILE_NAME);
89
90 return 0;
91}
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugepage-shm.c b/Documentation/vm/hugepage-shm.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..07956d8592c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/vm/hugepage-shm.c
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
1/*
2 * hugepage-shm:
3 *
4 * Example of using huge page memory in a user application using Sys V shared
5 * memory system calls. In this example the app is requesting 256MB of
6 * memory that is backed by huge pages. The application uses the flag
7 * SHM_HUGETLB in the shmget system call to inform the kernel that it is
8 * requesting huge pages.
9 *
10 * For the ia64 architecture, the Linux kernel reserves Region number 4 for
11 * huge pages. That means that if one requires a fixed address, a huge page
12 * aligned address starting with 0x800000... will be required. If a fixed
13 * address is not required, the kernel will select an address in the proper
14 * range.
15 * Other architectures, such as ppc64, i386 or x86_64 are not so constrained.
16 *
17 * Note: The default shared memory limit is quite low on many kernels,
18 * you may need to increase it via:
19 *
20 * echo 268435456 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
21 *
22 * This will increase the maximum size per shared memory segment to 256MB.
23 * The other limit that you will hit eventually is shmall which is the
24 * total amount of shared memory in pages. To set it to 16GB on a system
25 * with a 4kB pagesize do:
26 *
27 * echo 4194304 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmall
28 */
29
30#include <stdlib.h>
31#include <stdio.h>
32#include <sys/types.h>
33#include <sys/ipc.h>
34#include <sys/shm.h>
35#include <sys/mman.h>
36
37#ifndef SHM_HUGETLB
38#define SHM_HUGETLB 04000
39#endif
40
41#define LENGTH (256UL*1024*1024)
42
43#define dprintf(x) printf(x)
44
45/* Only ia64 requires this */
46#ifdef __ia64__
47#define ADDR (void *)(0x8000000000000000UL)
48#define SHMAT_FLAGS (SHM_RND)
49#else
50#define ADDR (void *)(0x0UL)
51#define SHMAT_FLAGS (0)
52#endif
53
54int main(void)
55{
56 int shmid;
57 unsigned long i;
58 char *shmaddr;
59
60 if ((shmid = shmget(2, LENGTH,
61 SHM_HUGETLB | IPC_CREAT | SHM_R | SHM_W)) < 0) {
62 perror("shmget");
63 exit(1);
64 }
65 printf("shmid: 0x%x\n", shmid);
66
67 shmaddr = shmat(shmid, ADDR, SHMAT_FLAGS);
68 if (shmaddr == (char *)-1) {
69 perror("Shared memory attach failure");
70 shmctl(shmid, IPC_RMID, NULL);
71 exit(2);
72 }
73 printf("shmaddr: %p\n", shmaddr);
74
75 dprintf("Starting the writes:\n");
76 for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++) {
77 shmaddr[i] = (char)(i);
78 if (!(i % (1024 * 1024)))
79 dprintf(".");
80 }
81 dprintf("\n");
82
83 dprintf("Starting the Check...");
84 for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++)
85 if (shmaddr[i] != (char)i)
86 printf("\nIndex %lu mismatched\n", i);
87 dprintf("Done.\n");
88
89 if (shmdt((const void *)shmaddr) != 0) {
90 perror("Detach failure");
91 shmctl(shmid, IPC_RMID, NULL);
92 exit(3);
93 }
94
95 shmctl(shmid, IPC_RMID, NULL);
96
97 return 0;
98}
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
index bc31636973e3..457634c1e03e 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
@@ -299,176 +299,11 @@ map_hugetlb.c.
299******************************************************************* 299*******************************************************************
300 300
301/* 301/*
302 * Example of using huge page memory in a user application using Sys V shared 302 * hugepage-shm: see Documentation/vm/hugepage-shm.c
303 * memory system calls. In this example the app is requesting 256MB of
304 * memory that is backed by huge pages. The application uses the flag
305 * SHM_HUGETLB in the shmget system call to inform the kernel that it is
306 * requesting huge pages.
307 *
308 * For the ia64 architecture, the Linux kernel reserves Region number 4 for
309 * huge pages. That means that if one requires a fixed address, a huge page
310 * aligned address starting with 0x800000... will be required. If a fixed
311 * address is not required, the kernel will select an address in the proper
312 * range.
313 * Other architectures, such as ppc64, i386 or x86_64 are not so constrained.
314 *
315 * Note: The default shared memory limit is quite low on many kernels,
316 * you may need to increase it via:
317 *
318 * echo 268435456 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
319 *
320 * This will increase the maximum size per shared memory segment to 256MB.
321 * The other limit that you will hit eventually is shmall which is the
322 * total amount of shared memory in pages. To set it to 16GB on a system
323 * with a 4kB pagesize do:
324 *
325 * echo 4194304 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmall
326 */ 303 */
327#include <stdlib.h>
328#include <stdio.h>
329#include <sys/types.h>
330#include <sys/ipc.h>
331#include <sys/shm.h>
332#include <sys/mman.h>
333
334#ifndef SHM_HUGETLB
335#define SHM_HUGETLB 04000
336#endif
337
338#define LENGTH (256UL*1024*1024)
339
340#define dprintf(x) printf(x)
341
342#define ADDR (void *)(0x0UL) /* let kernel choose address */
343#define SHMAT_FLAGS (0)
344
345int main(void)
346{
347 int shmid;
348 unsigned long i;
349 char *shmaddr;
350
351 if ((shmid = shmget(2, LENGTH,
352 SHM_HUGETLB | IPC_CREAT | SHM_R | SHM_W)) < 0) {
353 perror("shmget");
354 exit(1);
355 }
356 printf("shmid: 0x%x\n", shmid);
357
358 shmaddr = shmat(shmid, ADDR, SHMAT_FLAGS);
359 if (shmaddr == (char *)-1) {
360 perror("Shared memory attach failure");
361 shmctl(shmid, IPC_RMID, NULL);
362 exit(2);
363 }
364 printf("shmaddr: %p\n", shmaddr);
365
366 dprintf("Starting the writes:\n");
367 for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++) {
368 shmaddr[i] = (char)(i);
369 if (!(i % (1024 * 1024)))
370 dprintf(".");
371 }
372 dprintf("\n");
373
374 dprintf("Starting the Check...");
375 for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++)
376 if (shmaddr[i] != (char)i)
377 printf("\nIndex %lu mismatched\n", i);
378 dprintf("Done.\n");
379
380 if (shmdt((const void *)shmaddr) != 0) {
381 perror("Detach failure");
382 shmctl(shmid, IPC_RMID, NULL);
383 exit(3);
384 }
385
386 shmctl(shmid, IPC_RMID, NULL);
387
388 return 0;
389}
390 304
391******************************************************************* 305*******************************************************************
392 306
393/* 307/*
394 * Example of using huge page memory in a user application using the mmap 308 * hugepage-mmap: see Documentation/vm/hugepage-mmap.c
395 * system call. Before running this application, make sure that the
396 * administrator has mounted the hugetlbfs filesystem (on some directory
397 * like /mnt) using the command mount -t hugetlbfs nodev /mnt. In this
398 * example, the app is requesting memory of size 256MB that is backed by
399 * huge pages.
400 *
401 * For the ia64 architecture, the Linux kernel reserves Region number 4 for
402 * huge pages. That means that if one requires a fixed address, a huge page
403 * aligned address starting with 0x800000... will be required. If a fixed
404 * address is not required, the kernel will select an address in the proper
405 * range.
406 * Other architectures, such as ppc64, i386 or x86_64 are not so constrained.
407 */ 309 */
408#include <stdlib.h>
409#include <stdio.h>
410#include <unistd.h>
411#include <sys/mman.h>
412#include <fcntl.h>
413
414#define FILE_NAME "/mnt/hugepagefile"
415#define LENGTH (256UL*1024*1024)
416#define PROTECTION (PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE)
417
418#define ADDR (void *)(0x0UL) /* let kernel choose address */
419#define FLAGS (MAP_SHARED)
420
421void check_bytes(char *addr)
422{
423 printf("First hex is %x\n", *((unsigned int *)addr));
424}
425
426void write_bytes(char *addr)
427{
428 unsigned long i;
429
430 for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++)
431 *(addr + i) = (char)i;
432}
433
434void read_bytes(char *addr)
435{
436 unsigned long i;
437
438 check_bytes(addr);
439 for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++)
440 if (*(addr + i) != (char)i) {
441 printf("Mismatch at %lu\n", i);
442 break;
443 }
444}
445
446int main(void)
447{
448 void *addr;
449 int fd;
450
451 fd = open(FILE_NAME, O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0755);
452 if (fd < 0) {
453 perror("Open failed");
454 exit(1);
455 }
456
457 addr = mmap(ADDR, LENGTH, PROTECTION, FLAGS, fd, 0);
458 if (addr == MAP_FAILED) {
459 perror("mmap");
460 unlink(FILE_NAME);
461 exit(1);
462 }
463
464 printf("Returned address is %p\n", addr);
465 check_bytes(addr);
466 write_bytes(addr);
467 read_bytes(addr);
468
469 munmap(addr, LENGTH);
470 close(fd);
471 unlink(FILE_NAME);
472
473 return 0;
474}
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c b/Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c
index e2bdae37f499..9969c7d9f985 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c
+++ b/Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c
@@ -31,12 +31,12 @@
31#define FLAGS (MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB) 31#define FLAGS (MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB)
32#endif 32#endif
33 33
34void check_bytes(char *addr) 34static void check_bytes(char *addr)
35{ 35{
36 printf("First hex is %x\n", *((unsigned int *)addr)); 36 printf("First hex is %x\n", *((unsigned int *)addr));
37} 37}
38 38
39void write_bytes(char *addr) 39static void write_bytes(char *addr)
40{ 40{
41 unsigned long i; 41 unsigned long i;
42 42
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ void write_bytes(char *addr)
44 *(addr + i) = (char)i; 44 *(addr + i) = (char)i;
45} 45}
46 46
47void read_bytes(char *addr) 47static void read_bytes(char *addr)
48{ 48{
49 unsigned long i; 49 unsigned long i;
50 50