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*-. Merge branches 'slab/next' and 'slub/partial' into slab/for-linusPekka Enberg2011-10-261-2/+0
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| * | slub: doc: update the slabinfo.c file pathJason Liu2011-08-312-3/+1
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | slabinfo.c has been moved from Documentaion/vm/ to tools/slub/ by commit:0d24db337e6d81c0c620ab65cc6947bd6553f742 Update the slub.txt doc to reflect this change too. Signed-off-by: Jason Liu <jason.hui@linaro.org> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-10-252-3/+3
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: (59 commits) MAINTAINERS: linux-m32r is moderated for non-subscribers linux@lists.openrisc.net is moderated for non-subscribers Drop default from "DM365 codec select" choice parisc: Kconfig: cleanup Kernel page size default Kconfig: remove redundant CONFIG_ prefix on two symbols cris: remove arch/cris/arch-v32/lib/nand_init.S microblaze: add missing CONFIG_ prefixes h8300: drop puzzling Kconfig dependencies MAINTAINERS: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au is moderated for non-subscribers tty: drop superfluous dependency in Kconfig ARM: mxc: fix Kconfig typo 'i.MX51' Fix file references in Kconfig files aic7xxx: fix Kconfig references to READMEs Fix file references in drivers/ide/ thinkpad_acpi: Fix printk typo 'bluestooth' bcmring: drop commented out line in Kconfig btmrvl_sdio: fix typo 'btmrvl_sdio_sd6888' doc: raw1394: Trivial typo fix CIFS: Don't free volume_info->UNC until we are entirely done with it. treewide: Correct spelling of successfully in comments ...
| * | doc: fix broken referencesPaul Bolle2011-09-272-3/+3
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are numerous broken references to Documentation files (in other Documentation files, in comments, etc.). These broken references are caused by typo's in the references, and by renames or removals of the Documentation files. Some broken references are simply odd. Fix these broken references, sometimes by dropping the irrelevant text they were part of. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | thp: fix khugepaged defrag tunable documentationDavid Rientjes2011-09-221-3/+4
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit e27e6151b154 ("mm/thp: use conventional format for boolean attributes") changed /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag to be tuned by using 1 (enabled) or 0 (disabled) instead of "yes" and "no", respectively. Update the documentation. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Documentation: update cgroupfs mount pointJörg Sommer2011-06-151-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | According to commit 676db4af0430 ("cgroupfs: create /sys/fs/cgroup to mount cgroupfs on") the canonical mountpoint for the cgroup filesystem is /sys/fs/cgroup. Hence, this should be used in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-05-261-0/+278
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djm/tmem * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djm/tmem: xen: cleancache shim to Xen Transcendent Memory ocfs2: add cleancache support ext4: add cleancache support btrfs: add cleancache support ext3: add cleancache support mm/fs: add hooks to support cleancache mm: cleancache core ops functions and config fs: add field to superblock to support cleancache mm/fs: cleancache documentation Fix up trivial conflict in fs/btrfs/extent_io.c due to includes
| * mm/fs: cleancache documentationDan Magenheimer2011-05-261-0/+278
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patchset introduces cleancache, an optional new feature exposed by the VFS layer that potentially dramatically increases page cache effectiveness for many workloads in many environments at a negligible cost. It does this by providing an interface to transcendent memory, which is memory/storage that is not otherwise visible to and/or directly addressable by the kernel. Instead of being discarded, hooks in the reclaim code "put" clean pages to cleancache. Filesystems that "opt-in" may "get" pages from cleancache that were previously put, but pages in cleancache are "ephemeral", meaning they may disappear at any time. And the size of cleancache is entirely dynamic and unknowable to the kernel. Filesystems currently supported by this patchset include ext3, ext4, btrfs, and ocfs2. Other filesystems (especially those built entirely on VFS) should be easy to add, but should first be thoroughly tested to ensure coherency. Details and a FAQ are provided in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt This first patch of eight in this cleancache series only adds two new documentation files. [v8: minor documentation changes by author] [v3: akpm@linux-foundation.org: document sysfs API] [v3: hch@infradead.org: move detailed description to Documentation/vm] Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik Van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
* | mm: Convert i_mmap_lock to a mutexPeter Zijlstra2011-05-251-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Straightforward conversion of i_mmap_lock to a mutex. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi2011-03-313-3/+3
| | | | | | Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
* Documentation/vm/page-types.c: auto debugfs mount for hwpoison operationChen Gong2011-03-221-4/+101
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | page-types.c doesn't supply a way to specify the debugfs path and the original debugfs path is not usual on most machines. This patch supplies a way to auto mount debugfs if needed. This patch is heavily inspired by tools/perf/utils/debugfs.c [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make functions static] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix debugfs_mount() signature] Signed-off-by: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-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>
* doc: CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU doesn't exist anymoreMichal Hocko2011-03-171-2/+1
| | | | | | | | commit 6837765963 ("mm: remove CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU config option") has removed the configoption so we should sync up the doc as well. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* thp: transparent hugepage support documentationAndrea Arcangeli2011-01-131-0/+298
| | | | | | | | Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* slub: Fix build breakage in Documentation/vmPekka Enberg2010-11-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a build breakage introduced by commit f5ac4916e9840292edd33c7a52b10364526547f3 ("slub: move slabinfo.c to tools/slub/slabinfo.c") that was repoted by Stephen: After merging the slab tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this: gcc: /scratch/sfr/next/Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c: No such file or directory gcc: no input files Caused by commit f5ac4916e9840292edd33c7a52b10364526547f3 ("slub: move slabinfo.c to tools/slub/slabinfo.c"). Missing update to Documentation/vm/Makefile? Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
* slub: move slabinfo.c to tools/slub/slabinfo.cChristoph Lameter2010-11-061-1364/+0
| | | | | | | | | We now have a tools directory for these things. Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
* mm: highmem documentationPeter Zijlstra2010-10-261-0/+162
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document outlining some of the highmem issues, started by me, edited by David. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-10-241-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) Update broken web addresses in arch directory. Update broken web addresses in the kernel. Revert "drivers/usb: Remove unnecessary return's from void functions" for musb gadget Revert "Fix typo: configuation => configuration" partially ida: document IDA_BITMAP_LONGS calculation ext2: fix a typo on comment in ext2/inode.c drivers/scsi: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data drivers/s390: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data drivers/infiniband: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data drivers/gpu/drm: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data kernel/pm_qos_params.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data fs/ecryptfs: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data fs/seq_file.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data arm: uengine.c: remove C99 comments arm: scoop.c: remove C99 comments Fix typo configue => configure in comments Fix typo: configuation => configuration Fix typo interrest[ing|ed] => interest[ing|ed] Fix various typos of valid in comments ... Fix up trivial conflicts in: drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
| * Doc: Fix typo s/packages/packagedNikanth Karthikesan2010-09-211-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix typo s/packages/packaged in Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | page-types.c: fix name of unpoison interfaceNaoya Horiguchi2010-10-071-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | The page-types utility still uses an out of date name for the unpoison interface: debugfs:hwpoison/renew-pfn This patch renames and fixes it. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
* Documentation/vm: fix spelling in page-types.cTommi Rantala2010-08-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Trivial typo fixes. Signed-off-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* numa: update Documentation/vm/numa, add memoryless node infoLee Schermerhorn2010-05-271-39/+147
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kamezawa Hiroyuki requested documentation for the numa_mem_id() and slab related changes. He suggested Documentation/vm/numa for this documentation. Looking at this file, it seems to me to be hopelessly out of date relative to current Linux NUMA support. At the risk of going down a rathole, I have made an attempt to rewrite the doc at a slightly higher level [I think] and provide pointers to other in-tree documents and out-of-tree man pages that cover the details. Let the games begin. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Documentation/vm: use better value for MAP_HUGETLBCarlo Marcelo Arenas Belon2010-05-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | documentation: slightly more correct value for MAP_HUGETLB in map_hugetlb.c still not correct for alpha, mips, parisc or xtensa but working out of the box in the most common architectures without having to deal with complicated macros or including architecture specific headers. Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriateFrancis Galiegue2010-04-231-2/+2
| | | | | | | | Fix obvious cases of "it's" being used when "its" was meant. Signed-off-by: Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* Documentation/vm/: split txt and source filesRandy Dunlap2010-03-126-173/+209
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* failslab: add ability to filter slab cachesDmitry Monakhov2010-02-261-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch allow to inject faults only for specific slabs. In order to preserve default behavior cache filter is off by default (all caches are faulty). One may define specific set of slabs like this: # mark skbuff_head_cache as faulty echo 1 > /sys/kernel/slab/skbuff_head_cache/failslab # Turn on cache filter (off by default) echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/cache-filter # Turn on fault injection echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/times echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/probability Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
* HWPOISON: Use correct name for MADV_HWPOISON in documentationAndi Kleen2009-12-161-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
* HWPOISON: add memory cgroup filterAndi Kleen2009-12-161-0/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The hwpoison test suite need to inject hwpoison to a collection of selected task pages, and must not touch pages not owned by them and thus kill important system processes such as init. (But it's OK to mis-hwpoison free/unowned pages as well as shared clean pages. Mis-hwpoison of shared dirty pages will kill all tasks, so the test suite will target all or non of such tasks in the first place.) The memory cgroup serves this purpose well. We can put the target processes under the control of a memory cgroup, and tell the hwpoison injection code to only kill pages associated with some active memory cgroup. The prerequisite for doing hwpoison stress tests with mem_cgroup is, the mem_cgroup code tracks task pages _accurately_ (unless page is locked). Which we believe is/should be true. The benefits are simplification of hwpoison injector code. Also the mem_cgroup code will automatically be tested by hwpoison test cases. The alternative interfaces pin-pfn/unpin-pfn can also delegate the (process and page flags) filtering functions reliably to user space. However prototype implementation shows that this scheme adds more complexity than we wanted. Example test case: mkdir /cgroup/hwpoison usemem -m 100 -s 1000 & echo `jobs -p` > /cgroup/hwpoison/tasks memcg_ino=$(ls -id /cgroup/hwpoison | cut -f1 -d' ') echo $memcg_ino > /debug/hwpoison/corrupt-filter-memcg page-types -p `pidof init` --hwpoison # shall do nothing page-types -p `pidof usemem` --hwpoison # poison its pages [AK: Fix documentation] [Add fix for problem noticed by Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>; dentry in the css could be NULL] CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> CC: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> CC: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> CC: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> CC: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> CC: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> CC: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
* HWPOISON: add page flags filterWu Fengguang2009-12-161-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When specified, only poison pages if ((page_flags & mask) == value). - corrupt-filter-flags-mask - corrupt-filter-flags-value This allows stress testing of many kinds of pages. Strictly speaking, the buddy pages requires taking zone lock, to avoid setting PG_hwpoison on a "was buddy but now allocated to someone" page. However we can just do nothing because we set PG_locked in the beginning, this prevents the page allocator from allocating it to someone. (It will BUG() on the unexpected PG_locked, which is fine for hwpoison testing.) [AK: Add select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR to satisfy dependency] CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
* HWPOISON: limit hwpoison injector to known page typesWu Fengguang2009-12-161-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | __memory_failure()'s workflow is set PG_hwpoison //... unset PG_hwpoison if didn't pass hwpoison filter That could kill unrelated process if it happens to page fault on the page with the (temporary) PG_hwpoison. The race should be big enough to appear in stress tests. Fix it by grabbing the page and checking filter at inject time. This also avoids the very noisy "Injecting memory failure..." messages. - we don't touch madvise() based injection, because the filters are generally not necessary for it. - if we want to apply the filters to h/w aided injection, we'd better to rearrange the logic in __memory_failure() instead of this patch. AK: fix documentation, use drain all, cleanups CC: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
* HWPOISON: add fs/device filtersWu Fengguang2009-12-161-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Filesystem data/metadata present the most tricky-to-isolate pages. It requires careful code review and stress testing to get them right. The fs/device filter helps to target the stress tests to some specific filesystem pages. The filter condition is block device's major/minor numbers: - corrupt-filter-dev-major - corrupt-filter-dev-minor When specified (non -1), only page cache pages that belong to that device will be poisoned. The filters are checked reliably on the locked and refcounted page. Haicheng: clear PG_hwpoison and drop bad page count if filter not OK AK: Add documentation CC: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@intel.com> CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
* HWPOISON: Add unpoisoning supportWu Fengguang2009-12-161-2/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The unpoisoning interface is useful for stress testing tools to reclaim poisoned pages (to prevent OOM) There is no hardware level unpoisioning, so this cannot be used for real memory errors, only for software injected errors. Note that it may leak pages silently - those who have been removed from LRU cache, but not isolated from page cache/swap cache at hwpoison time. Especially the stress test of dirty swap cache pages shall reboot system before exhausting memory. AK: Fix comments, add documentation, add printks, rename symbol Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
* page-types: add standard GPL license headerWu Fengguang2009-12-161-2/+13
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
* ksm: remove unswappable max_kernel_pagesHugh Dickins2009-12-151-15/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that ksm pages are swappable, and the known holes plugged, remove mention of unswappable kernel pages from KSM documentation and comments. Remove the totalram_pages/4 initialization of max_kernel_pages. In fact, remove max_kernel_pages altogether - we can reinstate it if removal turns out to break someone's script; but if we later want to limit KSM's memory usage, limiting the stable nodes would not be an effective approach. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* hugetlb: handle memory hot-plug eventsLee Schermerhorn2009-12-151-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Register per node hstate attributes only for nodes with memory. As suggested by David Rientjes. With Memory Hotplug, memory can be added to a memoryless node and a node with memory can become memoryless. Therefore, add a memory on/off-line notifier callback to [un]register a node's attributes on transition to/from memoryless state. N.B., Only tested build, boot, libhugetlbfs regression. i.e., no memory hotplug testing. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* hugetlb: use only nodes with memory for huge pagesLee Schermerhorn2009-12-151-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Register per node hstate sysfs attributes only for nodes with memory. Global replacement of 'all online nodes" with "all nodes with memory" in mm/hugetlb.c. Suggested by David Rientjes. A subsequent patch will handle adding/removing of per node hstate sysfs attributes when nodes transition to/from memoryless state via memory hotplug. NOTE: this patch has not been tested with memoryless nodes. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: 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> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* hugetlb: update hugetlb documentation for NUMA controlsLee Schermerhorn2009-12-151-85/+176
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update the kernel huge tlb documentation to describe the numa memory policy based huge page management. Additionaly, the patch includes a fair amount of rework to improve consistency, eliminate duplication and set the context for documenting the memory policy interaction. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* page-types: exit early when invoked with -d|--describeAlex Chiang2009-12-151-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On a system with large amount of memory (256GB), invoking page-types can take quite a long time, which is unreasonable considering the user only wants a description of the flags: # time ./page-types -d 0x10 0x0000000000000010 ____D_____________________________ dirty real 0m34.285s user 0m1.966s sys 0m32.313s This is because we still walk the entire address range. Exiting early seems like a reasonble solution: # time ./page-types -d 0x10 0x0000000000000010 ____D_____________________________ dirty real 0m0.007s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.005s Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@intel.com> Acked-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>
* page-types: whitespace alignmentAlex Chiang2009-12-151-23/+23
| | | | | | | | | Align the output when page-type -h is invoked. Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Acked-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>
* page-types: learn to describe flags directly from command lineAlex Chiang2009-12-151-1/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Teach page-types to describe page flags directly from the command line. Why is this useful? For instance, if you're using memory hotplug and see this in /var/log/messages: kernel: removing from LRU failed 3836dd0/1/1e00000000000010 It would be nice to decode those page flags without staring at the source. Example usage and output: # Documentation/vm/page-types -d 0x10 0x0000000000000010 ____D_____________________________ dirty # Documentation/vm/page-types -d anon 0x0000000000001000 ____________a_____________________ anonymous # Documentation/vm/page-types -d anon,0x10 0x0000000000001010 ____D_______a_____________________ dirty,anonymous [achiang@hp.com: documentation] Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* page-types: unsigned cannot be less than 0 in add_page()Roel Kluin2009-12-151-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | If not signed, testing of the read() return value in this function will not work. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.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>
* page-types: constify read only arraysTommi Rantala2009-12-151-3/+3
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> 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>
* Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linusJiri Kosina2009-12-072-2/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: kernel/irq/chip.c
| * doc: Fix a typo in slub.txt.Justin P. Mattock2009-12-041-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
| * tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the placeAndré Goddard Rosa2009-12-041-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | That is "success", "unknown", "through", "performance", "[re|un]mapping" , "access", "default", "reasonable", "[con]currently", "temperature" , "channel", "[un]used", "application", "example","hierarchy", "therefore" , "[over|under]flow", "contiguous", "threshold", "enough" and others. Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | Merge branch 'hostprogs-wmissing-prototypes' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-11-171-1/+1
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josh/linux-misc * 'hostprogs-wmissing-prototypes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josh/linux-misc: Makefile: Add -Wmising-prototypes to HOSTCFLAGS oss: Mark loadhex static in hex2hex.c dtc: Mark various internal functions static dtc: Set "noinput" in the lexer to avoid an unused function drm: radeon: Mark several functions static in mkregtable arch/sparc/boot/*.c: Mark various internal functions static arch/powerpc/boot/addRamDisk.c: Mark several internal functions static arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c: Mark "usage" static Documentation/vm/page-types.c: Declare checked_open static genksyms: Mark is_reserved_word static kconfig: Mark various internal functions static kconfig: Make zconf.y work with current bison
| * Documentation/vm/page-types.c: Declare checked_open staticJosh Triplett2009-11-151-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Nothing outside of Documentation/vm/page-types.c references checked_open. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
* | Merge branch 'hwpoison-2.6.32' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-10-291-0/+136
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 * 'hwpoison-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: HWPOISON: fix invalid page count in printk output HWPOISON: Allow schedule_on_each_cpu() from keventd HWPOISON: fix/proc/meminfo alignment HWPOISON: fix oops on ksm pages HWPOISON: Fix page count leak in hwpoison late kill in do_swap_page HWPOISON: return early on non-LRU pages HWPOISON: Add brief hwpoison description to Documentation HWPOISON: Clean up PR_MCE_KILL interface
| * HWPOISON: Add brief hwpoison description to DocumentationAndi Kleen2009-10-041-0/+136
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
* | page-types: add hwpoison/unpoison featureWu Fengguang2009-10-081-1/+72
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For hwpoison stress testing. The debugfs mount point is assumed to be /debug/. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | page-types: introduce kpageflags_flags()Wu Fengguang2009-10-081-4/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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