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* gpiolib: allow exported GPIO nodes to be named using sysfs linksJani Nikula2009-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 926b663ce8215ba448960e1ff6e58b67a2c3b99b (gpiolib: allow GPIOs to be named) already provides naming on the chip level. This patch provides more flexibility by allowing multiple names where ever in sysfs on a per GPIO basis. Adapted from David Brownell's comments on a similar concept: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/20/203. [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: fix build for CONFIG_GENERIC_GPIO=n] Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@nokia.com> Acked-by: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@simtec.co.uk> 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>
* rtc: add boot_timesource sysfs attributeMatthew Garrett2009-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS allows the kernel to read the system time from the RTC at boot and resume, avoiding the need for userspace to do so. Unfortunately userspace currently has no way to know whether this configuration option is enabled and thus cannot sensibly choose whether to run hwclock itself or not. Add a hctosys sysfs attribute which indicates whether a given RTC set the system clock. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* rtc: document the sysfs interfaceMatthew Garrett2009-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | The sysfs interface to the RTC class drivers is currently undocumented. Add some basic documentation defining the semantics of the fields. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* rtc: update documentation wrt RTC_PIE/irq_set_stateMike Frysinger2009-09-23
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* spi: fix spelling of `automatically' in documentationBen Dooks2009-09-23
| | | | | | | | | Fix spelling of `automatically' in Documentation/spi/spi-summary. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben@simtec.co.uk> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ncpfs: remove dead URL from documentationBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz2009-09-23
| | | | | | | | Noticed-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* procfs: provide stack information for threadsStefani Seibold2009-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A patch to give a better overview of the userland application stack usage, especially for embedded linux. Currently you are only able to dump the main process/thread stack usage which is showed in /proc/pid/status by the "VmStk" Value. But you get no information about the consumed stack memory of the the threads. There is an enhancement in the /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/*maps and which marks the vm mapping where the thread stack pointer reside with "[thread stack xxxxxxxx]". xxxxxxxx is the maximum size of stack. This is a value information, because libpthread doesn't set the start of the stack to the top of the mapped area, depending of the pthread usage. A sample output of /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/maps looks like: 08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8312 /opt/z 08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312 /opt/z 0804a000-0806b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] a7d12000-a7d13000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 a7d13000-a7f13000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [thread stack: 001ff4b4] a7f13000-a7f14000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 a7f14000-a7f36000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 a7f36000-a8069000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 a8069000-a806b000 r--p 00133000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 a806b000-a806c000 rw-p 00135000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 a806c000-a806f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 a806f000-a8083000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0 a8083000-a8084000 r--p 00013000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0 a8084000-a8085000 rw-p 00014000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0 a8085000-a8088000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 a8088000-a80a4000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 a80a4000-a80a5000 r--p 0001b000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 a80a5000-a80a6000 rw-p 0001c000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 afaf5000-afb0a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] Also there is a new entry "stack usage" in /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/status which will you give the current stack usage in kb. A sample output of /proc/self/status looks like: Name: cat State: R (running) Tgid: 507 Pid: 507 . . . CapBnd: fffffffffffffeff voluntary_ctxt_switches: 0 nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches: 0 Stack usage: 12 kB I also fixed stack base address in /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/stat to the base address of the associated thread stack and not the one of the main process. This makes more sense. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/proc/array.c now needs walk_page_range()] Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.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>
* powerpc: introduce and document sdhci,wp-inverted property for eSDHCAnton Vorontsov2009-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | eSDHC block in MPC837x SOCs reports inverted write-protect state, soon sdhci-of driver will look for sdhci,wp-inverted properties to decide whether apply a specific quirk. So, document the property and add it to device tree source files. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Cc: Pierre Ossman <pierre@ossman.eu> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com> Cc: Ben Dooks <ben@fluff.org> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Documentation/: fix warnings from -Wmissing-prototypes in HOSTCFLAGSLadinu Chandrasinghe2009-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | Fix up -Wmissing-prototypes in compileable userspace code, mainly under Documentation/. Signed-off-by: Ladinu Chandrasinghe <ladinu.pub@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Trevor Keith <tsrk@tsrk.net> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* printk: add printk_delay to make messages readable for some scenariosDave Young2009-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When syslog is not possible, at the same time there's no serial/net console available, it will be hard to read the printk messages. For example oops/panic/warning messages in shutdown phase. Add a printk delay feature, we can make each printk message delay some milliseconds. Setting the delay by proc/sysctl interface: /proc/sys/kernel/printk_delay The value range from 0 - 10000, default value is 0 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix a few things] Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-09-22
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck: kmemcheck: add missing braces to do-while in kmemcheck_annotate_bitfield kmemcheck: update documentation kmemcheck: depend on HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK kmemcheck: remove useless check kmemcheck: remove duplicated #include
| * kmemcheck: update documentationVegard Nossum2009-07-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The download instructions are no longer needed since kmemcheck was included in mainline. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
* | Merge branch 'for-2.6.32' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linuxLinus Torvalds2009-09-22
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-2.6.32' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (68 commits) nfsd4: nfsv4 clients should cross mountpoints nfsd: revise 4.1 status documentation sunrpc/cache: avoid variable over-loading in cache_defer_req sunrpc/cache: use list_del_init for the list_head entries in cache_deferred_req nfsd: return success for non-NFS4 nfs4_state_start nfsd41: Refactor create_client() nfsd41: modify nfsd4.1 backchannel to use new xprt class nfsd41: Backchannel: Implement cb_recall over NFSv4.1 nfsd41: Backchannel: cb_sequence callback nfsd41: Backchannel: Setup sequence information nfsd41: Backchannel: Server backchannel RPC wait queue nfsd41: Backchannel: Add sequence arguments to callback RPC arguments nfsd41: Backchannel: callback infrastructure nfsd4: use common rpc_cred for all callbacks nfsd4: allow nfs4 state startup to fail SUNRPC: Defer the auth_gss upcall when the RPC call is asynchronous nfsd4: fix null dereference creating nfsv4 callback client nfsd4: fix whitespace in NFSPROC4_CLNT_CB_NULL definition nfsd41: sunrpc: add new xprt class for nfsv4.1 backchannel sunrpc/cache: simplify cache_fresh_locked and cache_fresh_unlocked. ...
| * | nfsd: revise 4.1 status documentationJ. Bruce Fields2009-09-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some small updates, a caveat about the minorversion control interface, and an attempt to put missing features in context. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
* | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-09-22
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits) trivial: fix typo in aic7xxx comment trivial: fix comment typo in drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c trivial: typo in kernel-parameters.txt trivial: fix typo in tracing documentation trivial: add __init/__exit macros in drivers/gpio/bt8xxgpio.c trivial: add __init macro/ fix of __exit macro location in ipmi_poweroff.c trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons trivial: Fix duplicated word "options" in comment trivial: kbuild: remove extraneous blank line after declaration of usage() trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options trivial: doc: hpfall: accept disk device to unload as argument trivial: doc: hpfall: reduce risk that hpfall can do harm trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered step trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management" trivial: media/video/cx88: add __init/__exit macros to cx88 drivers trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc trivial: fix missing printk space in amd_k7_smp_check trivial: fix typo s/ketymap/keymap/ in comment trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files trivial: fix typos in comments s/DGBU/DBGU/ ...
| * | | trivial: typo in kernel-parameters.txtStephen Hemminger2009-09-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
| * | | trivial: fix typo in tracing documentationMichal Sojka2009-09-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
| * | | trivial: doc: hpfall: accept disk device to unload as argumentFrans Pop2009-09-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allows users who use an IDE driver for their disk to use hpfall without having to modify the source. By default /dev/sda is used. Suggested by Christian Thaeter in http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/25/505. While we're add it, improve error message if opening /dev/freefall fails. Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Cc: Christian Thaeter <ct@pipapo.org> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
| * | | trivial: doc: hpfall: reduce risk that hpfall can do harmChristian Thaeter2009-09-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Improve the example code to be at least useable, as in not causing harm (as shown below). Code can still be improved further, but this adds some basic safeguards. 1. hpfall *MUST* mlockall(MCL_CURRENT|MCL_FUTURE); itself! Since the Program sits and waits most of the time it becomes very likely swapped out. If it gets woken up when the laptop drops from the table while it is swapped out it actually triggers harddrive activity! 2. Daemonize hpfall using 'daemon(0,0)' (quick and dirty). 3. Give hpfall realtime priority. Should give a chance that it has less latency when woken up. Signed-off-by: Christian Thaeter <ct@pipapo.org> Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
| * | | trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered stepMichael Brunner2009-09-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a reference to step "Select e-mail destination." which has been renumbered from 4) to 5) in linux-2.6.22. Signed-off-by: Michael Brunner <mibru@gmx.de> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
| * | | trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management"Uwe Kleine-Koenig2009-09-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-Koenig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
| * | | trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov docMarton Nemeth2009-09-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The correct name is CONFIG_DEBUG_FS, add the missing underscore. Signed-off-by: Marton Nemeth <nm127@freemail.hu> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
| * | | trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple filesAnand Gadiyar2009-09-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
| * | | trivial: fix typo "for for" in multiple filesAnand Gadiyar2009-09-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | trivial: fix typo "for for" in multiple files Signed-off-by: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
| * | | trivial: doc: document missing value 2 for randomize-va-spaceHorst Schirmeier2009-09-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The documentation for /proc/sys/kernel/* does not mention the possible value 2 for randomize-va-space yet. While being there, doing some reformatting, fixing grammar problems and clarifying the correlations between randomize-va-space, kernel parameter "norandmaps" and the CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK option. Signed-off-by: Horst Schirmeier <horst@schirmeier.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
| * | | trivial: cleanup hpfall example code (checkpatch)Frans Pop2009-09-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch makes hpfall.c conform to kernel coding style. I have not fixed the C99 // comments on two lines as they help indicate that those are not actually comments but incomplete code. Before: total: 10 errors, 6 warnings, 101 lines checked After: total: 2 errors, 0 warnings, 99 lines checked Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | | | hugetlb: add MAP_HUGETLB exampleEric B Munson2009-09-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add an example of how to use the MAP_HUGETLB flag to the vm documentation directory and a reference to the example in hugetlbpage.txt. Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | mm: fix NUMA accounting in numastat.txtMinchan Kim2009-09-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In Documentation/numastat.txt, it confused me. For example, there are nodes [0,1] in system. barrios:~$ cat /proc/zoneinfo | egrep 'numa|zone' Node 0, zone DMA numa_hit 33226 numa_miss 1739 numa_foreign 27978 .. .. Node 1, zone DMA numa_hit 307 numa_miss 46900 numa_foreign 0 1) In node 0, NUMA_MISS means it wanted to allocate page in node 1 but ended up with page in node 0 2) In node 0, NUMA_FOREIGN means it wanted to allocate page in node 0 but ended up with page from Node 1. But now, numastat explains it oppositely about (MISS, FOREIGN). Let's fix up with viewpoint of zone. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | oom: make oom_score to per-process valueKOSAKI Motohiro2009-09-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | oom-killer kills a process, not task. Then oom_score should be calculated as per-process too. it makes consistency more and makes speed up select_bad_process(). Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | tracing, documentation: Add a document on the kmem tracepointsMel Gorman2009-09-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Knowing tracepoints exist is not quite the same as knowing what they should be used for. This patch adds a document giving a basic description of the kmem tracepoints and why they might be useful to a performance analyst. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | tracing, documentation: add a document describing how to do some performance ↵Mel Gorman2009-09-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | analysis with tracepoints The documentation for ftrace, events and tracepoints is pretty extensive. Similarly, the perf PCL tools help files --help are there and the code simple enough to figure out what much of the switches mean. However, pulling the discrete bits and pieces together and translating that into "how do I solve a problem" requires a fair amount of imagination. This patch adds a simple document intended to get someone started on the Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | tracing, page-allocator: add a postprocessing script for ↵Mel Gorman2009-09-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | page-allocator-related ftrace events This patch adds a simple post-processing script for the page-allocator-related trace events. It can be used to give an indication of who the most allocator-intensive processes are and how often the zone lock was taken during the tracing period. Example output looks like Process Pages Pages Pages Pages PCPU PCPU PCPU Fragment Fragment MigType Fragment Fragment Unknown details allocd allocd freed freed pages drains refills Fallback Causing Changed Severe Moderate under lock direct pagevec drain swapper-0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Xorg-3770 10603 5952 3685 6978 5996 194 192 0 0 0 0 0 0 modprobe-21397 51 0 0 86 31 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 xchat-5370 228 93 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 awesome-4317 32 32 0 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 thinkfan-3863 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 hald-addon-stor-3935 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 akregator-4506 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 xmms-14888 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 khelper-12 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Optionally, the output can include information on the parent or aggregate based on process name instead of aggregating based on each pid. Example output including parent information and stripped out the PID looks something like; Process Pages Pages Pages Pages PCPU PCPU PCPU Fragment Fragment MigType Fragment Fragment Unknown details allocd allocd freed freed pages drains refills Fallback Causing Changed Severe Moderate under lock direct pagevec drain gdm-3756 :: Xorg-3770 3796 2976 99 3813 3224 104 98 0 0 0 0 0 0 init-1 :: hald-3892 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 git-21447 :: editor-21448 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 This says that Xorg allocated 3796 pages and it's parent process is gdm with a PID of 3756; The postprocessor parses the text output of tracing. While there is a binary format, the expectation is that the binary output can be readily translated into text and post-processed offline. Obviously if the text format changes, the parser will break but the regular expression parser is fairly rudimentary so should be readily adjustable. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | pagemap clear_refs: modify to specify anon or mapped vma clearingMoussa A. Ba2009-09-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The patch makes the clear_refs more versatile in adding the option to select anonymous pages or file backed pages for clearing. This addition has a measurable impact on user space application performance as it decreases the number of pagewalks in scenarios where one is only interested in a specific type of page (anonymous or file mapped). The patch adds anonymous and file backed filters to the clear_refs interface. echo 1 > /proc/PID/clear_refs resets the bits on all pages echo 2 > /proc/PID/clear_refs resets the bits on anonymous pages only echo 3 > /proc/PID/clear_refs resets the bits on file backed pages only Any other value is ignored Signed-off-by: Moussa A. Ba <moussa.a.ba@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jared E. Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | ksm: add some documentationHugh Dickins2009-09-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add Documentation/vm/ksm.txt: how to use the Kernel Samepage Merging feature Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | vm: document that setting vfs_cache_pressure to 0 isn't a good ideaJan Kara2009-09-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reported-by: Christian Thaeter <ct@pipapo.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | Documentation/memory.txt: remove some very outdated recommendationsAndi Kleen2009-09-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove some very outdated recommendations in Documentation/memory.txt Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | hugetlb: clean up and update huge pages documentationLee Schermerhorn2009-09-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Attempt to clarify huge page administration and usage, and updates the doucmentation to mention the balancing of huge pages across nodes when allocating and freeing. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | proc: document `guest' column in /proc/statEric Dumazet2009-09-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We added a new column in cpuX lines of /proc/stat, to show the amount of time spent by a cpu servicing a guest, without updating Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-09-21
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: kernel/profile.c: Switch /proc/irq/prof_cpu_mask to seq_file tracing: Export trace_profile_buf symbols tracing/events: use list_for_entry_continue tracing: remove max_tracer_type_len function-graph: use ftrace_graph_funcs directly tracing: Remove markers tracing: Allocate the ftrace event profile buffer dynamically tracing: Factorize the events profile accounting
| * | | | tracing: Remove markersChristoph Hellwig2009-09-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that the last users of markers have migrated to the event tracer we can kill off the (now orphan) support code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090917173527.GA1699@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | | | Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-09-21
|\ \ \ \ \ | |_|/ / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6: (222 commits) V4L/DVB (13033): pt1: Don't use a deprecated DMA_BIT_MASK macro V4L/DVB (13029): radio-si4713: remove #include <linux/version.h> V4L/DVB (13027): go7007: convert printks to v4l2_info V4L/DVB (13026): s2250-board: Implement brightness and contrast controls V4L/DVB (13025): s2250-board: Fix memory leaks V4L/DVB (13024): go7007: Implement vidioc_g_std and vidioc_querystd V4L/DVB (13023): go7007: Merge struct gofh and go declarations V4L/DVB (13022): go7007: Fix mpeg controls V4L/DVB (13021): go7007: Fix whitespace and line lengths V4L/DVB (13020): go7007: Updates to Kconfig and Makefile V4L/DVB (13019): video: initial support for ADV7180 V4L/DVB (13018): kzalloc failure ignored in au8522_probe() V4L/DVB (13017): gspca: kmalloc failure ignored in sd_start() V4L/DVB (13016): kmalloc failure ignored in lgdt3304_attach() and s921_attach() V4L/DVB (13015): kmalloc failure ignored in m920x_firmware_download() V4L/DVB (13014): Add support for Compro VideoMate E800 (DVB-T part only) V4L/DVB (13013): FM TX: si4713: Kconfig: Fixed two typos. V4L/DVB (13012): uvc: introduce missing kfree V4L/DVB (13011): Change tuner type of BeholdTV cards V4L/DVB (13009): gspca - stv06xx-hdcs: Reduce exposure range ...
| * | | | V4L/DVB (13014): Add support for Compro VideoMate E800 (DVB-T part only)Vladimir Geroy2009-09-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adding Compro VideoMate E800 (DVB-T part only) Cc: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Geroy <geroin22@yandex.ru> Signed-off-by: Douglas Schilling Landgraf <dougsland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
| * | | | V4L/DVB (13002): Adds support for Zolid Hybrid PCI card:Henk Vergonet2009-09-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Zolid_Hybrid_TV_Tuner test status analog (PAL-B): - Sometimes picture is noisy, but it becomes crystal clear after switching between channels. (happens for example at 687.25 Mhz) - On a lower frequency (511.25 Mhz) the picture is always sharp, but lacks colour. - No sound problems. - radio untested. Digital: - DVB-T/H stream reception works. - Would expect to see some more channels in the higher frequency region. Overall is the impression that sensitivity still needs improvement both in analog and digital modes. Signed-off-by: Henk Vergonet <Henk.Vergonet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
| * | | | V4L/DVB (12725): v4l: warn when desired devnodenr is in use & add _no_warn ↵Hans Verkuil2009-09-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | function Warn when the desired device node number is already in use, except when the new video_register_device_no_warn function is called since in some use-cases that warning is not relevant. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
| * | | | V4L/DVB (12722): v4l2-dev: replace 'kernel number' by 'device node number'.Hans Verkuil2009-09-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The term 'kernel number' is very vague, so replace it with the somewhat more descriptive term 'device node number'. In one place the local variable 'nr' was used to create the device node number of the new device name. This has been replaced with the vdev->num field to more clearly mark this as being the device node number and not the minor number. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
| * | | | V4L/DVB (12541): v4l: remove video_register_device_indexHans Verkuil2009-09-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | video_register_device_index is never actually called, instead the stream index number is always calculated automatically. This patch removes this function and simplifies the internal get_index function since that can now always just return the first free index. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
| * | | | V4L/DVB (12540): v4l: simplify v4l2_i2c_new_subdev and friendsHans Verkuil2009-09-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rewrite v4l2_i2c_new_subdev as a simplified version of v4l2_i2c_new_subdev_cfg and remove v4l2_i2c_new_probed_subdev and v4l2_i2c_new_probed_subdev_addr. This simplifies this API substantially. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
| * | | | V4L/DVB (12534): soc-camera: V4L2 API compliant scaling (S_FMT) and cropping ↵Guennadi Liakhovetski2009-09-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (S_CROP) The initial soc-camera scaling and cropping implementation turned out to be incompliant with the V4L2 API, e.g., it expected the user to specify cropping in output window pixels, instead of input window pixels. This patch converts the soc-camera core and all drivers to comply with the standard. Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
| * | | | Docbook/media: Fix some issues at the docbooksMauro Carvalho Chehab2009-09-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Add a few missing entities; - Some text fixes at remote controllers; - Add a missing tag at videodev2.h xml version. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
| * | | | V4L/DVB (12964): tuner-core: add support for NXP TDA18271 without TDA829X demodMichael Krufky2009-09-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support for NXP TDA18271 as a standalone tuner, allowing the use of analog demodulators other than the Philips/NXP TDA829x. Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@kernellabs.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>