Merge branch 'sched/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip into trace/tip/tracing/core-4

7 files changed, 14 insertions, 86 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/HOWTO b/Documentation/HOWTO
index f5395af88a41..40ada93b820a 100644
--- a/Documentation/HOWTO
+++ b/Documentation/HOWTO
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ process is as follows:
     Linus, usually the patches that have already been included in the
     -next kernel for a few weeks.  The preferred way to submit big changes
     is using git (the kernel's source management tool, more information
-    can be found at http://git.or.cz/) but plain patches are also just
+    can be found at http://git-scm.com/) but plain patches are also just
     fine.
   - After two weeks a -rc1 kernel is released it is now possible to push
     only patches that do not include new features that could affect the
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
index 0e50bc2aa1e2..5d9016795fd8 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
@@ -182,16 +182,6 @@ Similarly, sched_expedited RCU provides the following:
         sched_expedited-torture: Reader Pipe:  12660320201 95875 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
         sched_expedited-torture: Reader Batch:  12660424885 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
         sched_expedited-torture: Free-Block Circulation:  1090795 1090795 1090794 1090793 1090792 1090791 1090790 1090789 1090788 1090787 0
-        state: -1 / 0:0 3:0 4:0
-
-As before, the first four lines are similar to those for RCU.
-The last line shows the task-migration state.  The first number is
--1 if synchronize_sched_expedited() is idle, -2 if in the process of
-posting wakeups to the migration kthreads, and N when waiting on CPU N.
-Each of the colon-separated fields following the "/" is a CPU:state pair.
-Valid states are "0" for idle, "1" for waiting for quiescent state,
-"2" for passed through quiescent state, and "3" when a race with a
-CPU-hotplug event forces use of the synchronize_sched() primitive.
 
 
 USAGE
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
index fd588ff0e296..a1ca5924faff 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
@@ -235,8 +235,7 @@ containing the following files describing that cgroup:
  - cgroup.procs: list of tgids in the cgroup.  This list is not
    guaranteed to be sorted or free of duplicate tgids, and userspace
    should sort/uniquify the list if this property is required.
-   Writing a tgid into this file moves all threads with that tgid into
-   this cgroup.
+   This is a read-only file, for now.
  - notify_on_release flag: run the release agent on exit?
  - release_agent: the path to use for release notifications (this file
    exists in the top cgroup only)
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 21a99474df93..907010cea9ad 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1198,7 +1198,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
         libata.force=   [LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
                         separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
-                        PORT[:DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
+                        PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
                         matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
                         the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
                         the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt
index 6f33593e59e2..8239ebbcddce 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ provide fair CPU time to each such task group.  For example, it may be
 desirable to first provide fair CPU time to each user on the system and then to
 each task belonging to a user.
 
-CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED strives to achieve exactly that.  It lets tasks to be
+CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED strives to achieve exactly that.  It lets tasks to be
 grouped and divides CPU time fairly among such groups.
 
 CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED permits to group real-time (i.e., SCHED_FIFO and
@@ -220,38 +220,11 @@ SCHED_RR) tasks.
 CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED permits to group CFS (i.e., SCHED_NORMAL and
 SCHED_BATCH) tasks.
 
-At present, there are two (mutually exclusive) mechanisms to group tasks for
-CPU bandwidth control purposes:
-
- - Based on user id (CONFIG_USER_SCHED)
-
-   With this option, tasks are grouped according to their user id.
-
- - Based on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem (CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED)
-
-   This options needs CONFIG_CGROUPS to be defined, and lets the administrator
+   These options need CONFIG_CGROUPS to be defined, and let the administrator
    create arbitrary groups of tasks, using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.  See
    Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for more information about this filesystem.
 
-Only one of these options to group tasks can be chosen and not both.
-
-When CONFIG_USER_SCHED is defined, a directory is created in sysfs for each new
-user and a "cpu_share" file is added in that directory.
-
-        # cd /sys/kernel/uids
-        # cat 512/cpu_share             # Display user 512's CPU share
-        1024
-        # echo 2048 > 512/cpu_share     # Modify user 512's CPU share
-        # cat 512/cpu_share             # Display user 512's CPU share
-        2048
-        #
-
-CPU bandwidth between two users is divided in the ratio of their CPU shares.
-For example: if you would like user "root" to get twice the bandwidth of user
-"guest," then set the cpu_share for both the users such that "root"'s cpu_share
-is twice "guest"'s cpu_share.
-
-When CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED is defined, a "cpu.shares" file is created for each
+When CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is defined, a "cpu.shares" file is created for each
 group created using the pseudo filesystem.  See example steps below to create
 task groups and modify their CPU share using the "cgroups" pseudo filesystem.
 
@@ -273,24 +246,3 @@ task groups and modify their CPU share using the "cgroups" pseudo filesystem.
 
         # #Launch gmplayer (or your favourite movie player)
         # echo <movie_player_pid> > multimedia/tasks
-
-8. Implementation note: user namespaces
-
-User namespaces are intended to be hierarchical.  But they are currently
-only partially implemented.  Each of those has ramifications for CFS.
-
-First, since user namespaces are hierarchical, the /sys/kernel/uids
-presentation is inadequate.  Eventually we will likely want to use sysfs
-tagging to provide private views of /sys/kernel/uids within each user
-namespace.
-
-Second, the hierarchical nature is intended to support completely
-unprivileged use of user namespaces.  So if using user groups, then
-we want the users in a user namespace to be children of the user
-who created it.
-
-That is currently unimplemented.  So instead, every user in a new
-user namespace will receive 1024 shares just like any user in the
-initial user namespace.  Note that at the moment creation of a new
-user namespace requires each of CAP_SYS_ADMIN, CAP_SETUID, and
-CAP_SETGID.
diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt
index 86eabe6c3419..605b0d40329d 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt
@@ -126,23 +126,12 @@ priority!
 2.3 Basis for grouping tasks
 ----------------------------
 
-There are two compile-time settings for allocating CPU bandwidth. These are
-configured using the "Basis for grouping tasks" multiple choice menu under
-General setup > Group CPU Scheduler:
-
-a. CONFIG_USER_SCHED (aka "Basis for grouping tasks" =  "user id")
-
-This lets you use the virtual files under
-"/sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/cpu_rt_runtime_us" to control he CPU time reserved for
-each user .
-
-The other option is:
-
-.o CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED (aka "Basis for grouping tasks" = "Control groups")
+Enabling CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED lets you explicitly allocate real
+CPU bandwidth to task groups.
 
 This uses the /cgroup virtual file system and
 "/cgroup/<cgroup>/cpu.rt_runtime_us" to control the CPU time reserved for each
-control group instead.
+control group.
 
 For more information on working with control groups, you should read
 Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt as well.
@@ -161,8 +150,7 @@ For now, this can be simplified to just the following (but see Future plans):
 ===============
 
 There is work in progress to make the scheduling period for each group
-("/sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/cpu_rt_period_us" or
-"/cgroup/<cgroup>/cpu.rt_period_us" respectively) configurable as well.
+("/cgroup/<cgroup>/cpu.rt_period_us") configurable as well.
 
 The constraint on the period is that a subgroup must have a smaller or
 equal period to its parent. But realistically its not very useful _yet_
diff --git a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
index 5effa5bd993b..e213f45cf9d7 100644
--- a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
+++ b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
@@ -18,16 +18,15 @@ Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and which ones are not, into the
  - It cannot contain any "trivial" fixes in it (spelling changes,
    whitespace cleanups, etc).
  - It must follow the Documentation/SubmittingPatches rules.
- - It or an equivalent fix must already exist in Linus' tree.  Quote the
-   respective commit ID in Linus' tree in your patch submission to -stable.
+ - It or an equivalent fix must already exist in Linus' tree (upstream).
 
 
 Procedure for submitting patches to the -stable tree:
 
  - Send the patch, after verifying that it follows the above rules, to
-   stable@kernel.org.
- - To have the patch automatically included in the stable tree, add the
-   the tag
+   stable@kernel.org.  You must note the upstream commit ID in the changelog
+   of your submission.
+ - To have the patch automatically included in the stable tree, add the tag
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
    in the sign-off area. Once the patch is merged it will be applied to
    the stable tree without anything else needing to be done by the author