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2010-11-10xfs: remove experimental tag from the delaylog optionChristoph Hellwig1-11/+0
We promised to do this for 2.6.37, and the code looks stable enough to keep that promise. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-11-10OMAP: DSS: Fix documentation regarding 'vram' kernel parameterTomi Valkeinen1-3/+4
The DSS documentation didn't mention the option to give the VRAM start address. Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2010-11-01Merge branch 'i2c-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging * 'i2c-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging: i2c-i801: Add PCI idents for Patsburg 'IDF' SMBus controllers i2c-i801: Handle multiple instances instead of keeping global state i2c-i801: Add Intel Patsburg device ID i2c: Drop unused I2C_CLASS_TV flags
2010-11-01Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6Linus Torvalds1-0/+47
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (70 commits) [SCSI] pmcraid: add support for set timestamp command and other fixes [SCSI] pmcraid: remove duplicate struct member [SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix cmd check in qla4xxx_cmd_wait [SCSI] megaraid_sas: Version and documentation update [SCSI] megaraid_sas: Add three times Online controller reset [SCSI] megaraid_sas: Add input parameter for max_sectors [SCSI] megaraid_sas: support devices update flag [SCSI] libosd: write/read_sg_kern API [SCSI] libosd: Support for scatter gather write/read commands [SCSI] libosd: Free resources in reverse order of allocation [SCSI] libosd: Fix bug in attr_page handling [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.18: Update lpfc driver version to 8.3.18 [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.18: Add new WQE support [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.18: Fix critical errors [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.18: Adapter Shutdown and Unregistration cleanup [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.18: Add logic to detect last devloss timeout [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.18: Add support of received ELS commands [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.18: FC/FCoE Discovery fixes [SCSI] ipr: add definitions for a new adapter [SCSI] bfa: fix comments for c files ...
2010-10-31i2c-i801: Add PCI idents for Patsburg 'IDF' SMBus controllersDavid Woodhouse1-0/+3
These are the extra 'Integrated Device Function' SMBus controllers found on the Patsburg chipset. Mention the absence of slave mode support. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2010-10-31i2c-i801: Add Intel Patsburg device IDSeth Heasley1-1/+2
Add support for the Intel Patsburg PCH SMBus Controller. Signed-off-by: Seth Heasley <seth.heasley@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2010-10-31locks: remove fl_copy_lock lock_manager operationChristoph Hellwig1-2/+0
This one was only used for a nasty hack in nfsd, which has recently been removed. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-29Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+12
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: kgdb,ppc: Individual register get/set for ppc kgdbts: prevent re-entry to kgdbts before it unregisters debug_core,x86,blackfin: Clean up hw debug disable API kdb: Fix early debugging crash regression kgdb,arm: fix register dump kdb: fix per_cpu command to remove supress mask kdb: Add kdb kernel module sample
2010-10-29kdb: Add kdb kernel module sampleJason Wessel1-1/+12
Add an example of how to add a dynamic kdb shell command via a kernel module. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-10-29Merge branch 'misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-383/+400
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 * 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: (39 commits) Revert "namespace: add source file location exceptions" Coccinelle: Add contextual message Coccinelle: Fix documentation Coccinelle: Find doubled arguments to boolean or bit operators. Coccinelle: Find nested lock+irqsave functions that use the same flags variables. namespace: add source file location exceptions scripts/extract-ikconfig: add support for bzip2, lzma and lzo kbuild: check return value of asprintf() scripts/namespace.pl: improve to get more correct results scripts/namespace.pl: some bug fixes scripts/namespace.pl: update file exclusion list scripts/namespace.pl: fix wrong source path Coccinelle: Use the -no_show_diff option for org and report mode Coccinelle: Add a new mode named 'chain' Coccinelle: Use new comment format to explain kfree.cocci Coccinelle: Improve user information with a new kind of comment Coccinelle: Update documentation MAINTAINERS: Coccinelle: Update email address Documentation/kbuild: modules.txt cleanup Documentation/kbuild: major edit of modules.txt sections 5-8 ...
2010-10-29Merge branch 'kconfig' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 * 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: (38 commits) kbuild: convert `arch/tile' to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade README: cite nconfig Revert "kconfig: Temporarily disable dependency warnings" kconfig: Use PATH_MAX instead of 128 for path buffer sizes. kconfig: Fix realloc usage() kconfig: Propagate const kconfig: Don't go out from read config loop when you read new symbol kconfig: fix menuconfig on debian lenny kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade kconfig: expand file names kconfig: use the file's name of sourced file kconfig: constify file name kconfig: don't emit warning upon rootmenu's prompt redefinition kconfig: replace KERNELVERSION usage by the mainmenu's prompt kconfig: delay gconf window initialization kconfig: expand by default the rootmenu's prompt kconfig: add a symbol string expansion helper kconfig: regen parser kconfig: implement the `mainmenu' directive kconfig: allow PACKAGE to be defined on the compiler's command-line ... Fix up trivial conflict in arch/mn10300/Kconfig
2010-10-29Merge branch 'kbuild' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+7
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 * 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: initramfs: Fix build break on symbol-prefixed archs initramfs: fix initramfs size calculation initramfs: generalize initramfs_data.xxx.S variants scripts/kallsyms: Enable error messages while hush up unnecessary warnings scripts/setlocalversion: update comment kbuild: Use a single clean rule for kernel and external modules kbuild: Do not run make clean in $(srctree) scripts/mod/modpost.c: fix commentary accordingly to last changes kbuild: Really don't clean bounds.h and asm-offsets.h
2010-10-28Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds5-51/+112
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging * 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging: (68 commits) hwmon: (it87) Add support for the IT8721F/IT8758E hwmon: (it87) Move conversion functions hwmon: Remove many EXPERIMENTAL flags hwmon: (lm85) Add support for ADT7468 high-frequency PWM mode hwmon: (lm85) Document the ADT7468 as supported hwmon: (lm85) Fix ADT7468 frequency table hwmon: I2C addresses are constant Move ams driver to macintosh hwmon: (pcf8591) Don't attempt to detect devices hwmon: (pcf8591) Register as a hwmon device hwmon: (w83795) Use standard attributes for chassis intrusion hwmon: (w83795) Exclude fan control feature by default hwmon: (w83795) Add myself as co-author and maintainer hwmon: (w83795) More style cleanups hwmon: (w83795) Fix LSB reading of voltage limits hwmon: (w83795) Use dev_get_drvdata() where possible hwmon: (w83795) Delay reading pwm config registers hwmon: (w83795) Delay reading limit registers hwmon: (w83795) Move register reads to dedicated functions hwmon: (w83795) Pack similar register reads ...
2010-10-28Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6Linus Torvalds4-11/+100
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6: (841 commits) Staging: brcm80211: fix usage of roundup in structures Staging: bcm: fix up network device reference counting Staging: keucr: fix up US_ macro change staging: brcm80211: brcmfmac: Removed codeversion from firmware filenames. staging: brcm80211: Remove unnecessary header files. staging: brcm80211: Remove unnecessary includes from bcmutils.c staging: brcm80211: Removed unnecessary pktsetprio() function. Staging: brcm80211: remove typedefs.h Staging: brcm80211: remove uintptr typedef usage Staging: hv: remove struct vmbus_channel_interface Staging: hv: remove Open from struct vmbus_channel_interface Staging: hv: storvsc: call vmbus_open directly Staging: hv: netvsc: call vmbus_open directly Staging: hv: channel: export vmbus_open to modules Staging: hv: remove Close from struct vmbus_channel_interface Staging: hv: netvsc: call vmbus_close directly Staging: hv: storvsc: call vmbus_close directly Staging: hv: channel: export vmbus_close to modules Staging: hv: remove SendPacket from struct vmbus_channel_interface Staging: hv: storvsc: call vmbus_sendpacket directly ... Fix up conflicts in drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-audio-upstream.c drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-audio.h due to warring whitespace cleanups (neither of which were all that great)
2010-10-28Merge branch 'linux-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 * 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (27 commits) x86: allocate space within a region top-down x86: update iomem_resource end based on CPU physical address capabilities x86/PCI: allocate space from the end of a region, not the beginning PCI: allocate bus resources from the top down resources: support allocating space within a region from the top down resources: handle overflow when aligning start of available area resources: ensure callback doesn't allocate outside available space resources: factor out resource_clip() to simplify find_resource() resources: add a default alignf to simplify find_resource() x86/PCI: MMCONFIG: fix region end calculation PCI: Add support for polling PME state on suspended legacy PCI devices PCI: Export some PCI PM functionality PCI: fix message typo PCI: log vendor/device ID always PCI: update Intel chipset names and defines PCI: use new ccflags variable in Makefile PCI: add PCI_MSIX_TABLE/PBA defines PCI: add PCI vendor id for STmicroelectronics x86/PCI: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Patsburg DeviceIDs PCI: OLPC: Only enable PCI configuration type override on XO-1 ...
2010-10-28hwmon: (it87) Add support for the IT8721F/IT8758EJean Delvare1-9/+19
Add support for the IT8721F/IT8758E. These new chips differ from the older IT87xxF chips in the following ways: * ADC LSB is 12 mV instead of 16 mV. * PWM values are 8-bit instead of 7-bit. There are other minor changes we don't have to care about in the driver. Another change is that we will handle internal voltage scaling in the driver instead of delegating the work to user-space. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2010-10-28hwmon: (lm85) Add support for ADT7468 high-frequency PWM modeJean Delvare1-0/+7
The ADT7468 supports a high-frequency PWM output mode where all PWM outputs are driven by a 22.5 kHz clock. Add support for this mode, and document it, as it may surprise the user that setting one PWM output frequency also affects the other PWM outputs. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
2010-10-28hwmon: (lm85) Document the ADT7468 as supportedJean Delvare1-24/+29
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
2010-10-28hwmon: (pcf8591) Don't attempt to detect devicesJean Delvare1-10/+8
The PCF8591 can't be detected, don't even try. There are plenty of other means to instantiate i2c devices these days. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> Cc: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2010-10-28hwmon: (lm90) Add support for the W83L771W/GJean Delvare1-2/+10
I was wondering if that chip ever existed publicly... Apparently yes, so add support for it. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Tested-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
2010-10-28hwmon: (lm90) Add support for max6695 and max6696Guenter Roeck1-0/+17
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2010-10-28hwmon: (lm90) Add support for extra features of max6659Guenter Roeck1-4/+5
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2010-10-28hwmon: (lm90) Add explicit support for max6659Guenter Roeck1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2010-10-28hwmon: Add tempX_emergency attribute to sysfs ABIGuenter Roeck1-0/+15
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2010-10-28Merge 'staging-next' to Linus's treeGreg Kroah-Hartman4-11/+100
This merges the staging-next tree to Linus's tree and resolves some conflicts that were present due to changes in other trees that were affected by files here. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-28Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds29-128/+632
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6 * 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6: (505 commits) [media] af9015: Fix max I2C message size when used with tda18271 [media] IR: initialize ir_raw_event in few more drivers [media] Guard a divide in v4l1 compat layer [media] imon: fix nomouse modprobe option [media] imon: remove redundant change_protocol call [media] imon: fix my egregious brown paper bag w/rdev/idev split [media] cafe_ccic: Configure ov7670 correctly [media] ov7670: allow configuration of image size, clock speed, and I/O method [media] af9015: support for DigitalNow TinyTwin v3 [1f4d:9016] [media] af9015: map DigitalNow TinyTwin v2 remote [media] DigitalNow TinyTwin remote controller [media] af9015: RC fixes and improvements videodev2.h.xml: Update to reflect the latest changes at videodev2.h [media] v4l: document new Bayer and monochrome pixel formats [media] DocBook/v4l: Add missing formats used on gspca cpia1 and sn9c2028 [media] firedtv: add parameter to fake ca_system_ids in CA_INFO [media] tm6000: fix a macro coding style issue tm6000: Remove some ugly debug code [media] Nova-S-Plus audio line input [media] [RFC,1/1] V4L2: Use new CAP bits in existing RDS capable drivers ...
2010-10-28Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+6
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc: (66 commits) mmc: add new sdhci-pxa driver for Marvell SoCs mmc: make number of mmcblk minors configurable mmc_spi: Recover from CRC errors for r/w operation over SPI. mmc: sdhci-pltfm: add -pltfm driver for imx35/51 mmc: sdhci-of-esdhc: factor out common stuff mmc: sdhci_pltfm: pass more data on custom init call mmc: sdhci: introduce get_ro private write-protect hook mmc: sdhci-pltfm: move .h file into appropriate subdir mmc: sdhci-pltfm: Add structure for host-specific data mmc: fix cb710 kconfig dependency warning mmc: cb710: remove debugging printk (info duplicated from mmc-core) mmc: cb710: clear irq handler on init() error path mmc: cb710: remove unnecessary msleep() mmc: cb710: implement get_cd() callback mmc: cb710: partially demystify clock selection mmc: add a file to debugfs for changing host clock at runtime mmc: sdhci: allow for eMMC 74 clock generation by controller mmc: sdhci: highspeed: check for mmc as well as sd cards mmc: sdhci: Add Moorestown device support mmc: sdhci: Intel Medfield support ...
2010-10-28fs/9p: Add access = client option to opt in acl evaluation.Aneesh Kumar K.V1-1/+3
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2010-10-28Merge branch 'next' into upstream-mergeTheodore Ts'o1-0/+14
Conflicts: fs/ext4/inode.c fs/ext4/mballoc.c include/trace/events/ext4.h
2010-10-28Merge branch 'viafb-next' of git://github.com/schandinat/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds1-0/+48
* 'viafb-next' of git://github.com/schandinat/linux-2.6: (29 commits) viafb: add initial VX900 support viafb: fix hardware acceleration for suspend & resume viafb: make suspend and resume work (on all machines?) viafb: restore display on resume Minimal support for viafb suspend/resume viafb: use proper register for colour when doing fill ops viafb: add documentation for proc interface viafb: rename output devices viafb: add a mapping of supported output devices viafb: set sync polarity for all output devices viafb: add function to change sync polarity per device viafb: reduce I2C timeout and delay viafb: enable I2C for CRT viafb: fix i2c_transfer error handling viafb: vt1636 cleanup viafb: introduce per output device power management viafb: limit LCD code impact viafb: add interface for output device configuration viafb: merge the remaining output path with enable functions viafb: use new device routing ...
2010-10-28Merge branch 'akpm-incoming-2'Linus Torvalds5-11/+87
* akpm-incoming-2: (139 commits) epoll: make epoll_wait() use the hrtimer range feature select: rename estimate_accuracy() to select_estimate_accuracy() Remove duplicate includes from many files ramoops: use the platform data structure instead of module params kernel/resource.c: handle reinsertion of an already-inserted resource kfifo: fix kfifo_alloc() to return a signed int value w1: don't allow arbitrary users to remove w1 devices alpha: remove dma64_addr_t usage mips: remove dma64_addr_t usage sparc: remove dma64_addr_t usage fuse: use release_pages() taskstats: use real microsecond granularity for CPU times taskstats: split fill_pid function taskstats: separate taskstats commands delayacct: align to 8 byte boundary on 64-bit systems delay-accounting: reimplement -c for getdelays.c to report information on a target command namespaces Kconfig: move namespace menu location after the cgroup namespaces Kconfig: remove the cgroup device whitelist experimental tag namespaces Kconfig: remove pointless cgroup dependency namespaces Kconfig: make namespace a submenu ...
2010-10-28ext4: add support for lazy inode table initializationLukas Czerner1-0/+14
When the lazy_itable_init extended option is passed to mke2fs, it considerably speeds up filesystem creation because inode tables are not zeroed out. The fact that parts of the inode table are uninitialized is not a problem so long as the block group descriptors, which contain information regarding how much of the inode table has been initialized, has not been corrupted However, if the block group checksums are not valid, e2fsck must scan the entire inode table, and the the old, uninitialized data could potentially cause e2fsck to report false problems. Hence, it is important for the inode tables to be initialized as soon as possble. This commit adds this feature so that mke2fs can safely use the lazy inode table initialization feature to speed up formatting file systems. This is done via a new new kernel thread called ext4lazyinit, which is created on demand and destroyed, when it is no longer needed. There is only one thread for all ext4 filesystems in the system. When the first filesystem with inititable mount option is mounted, ext4lazyinit thread is created, then the filesystem can register its request in the request list. This thread then walks through the list of requests picking up scheduled requests and invoking ext4_init_inode_table(). Next schedule time for the request is computed by multiplying the time it took to zero out last inode table with wait multiplier, which can be set with the (init_itable=n) mount option (default is 10). We are doing this so we do not take the whole I/O bandwidth. When the thread is no longer necessary (request list is empty) it frees the appropriate structures and exits (and can be created later later by another filesystem). We do not disturb regular inode allocations in any way, it just do not care whether the inode table is, or is not zeroed. But when zeroing, we have to skip used inodes, obviously. Also we should prevent new inode allocations from the group, while zeroing is on the way. For that we take write alloc_sem lock in ext4_init_inode_table() and read alloc_sem in the ext4_claim_inode, so when we are unlucky and allocator hits the group which is currently being zeroed, it just has to wait. This can be suppresed using the mount option no_init_itable. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-28Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds1-18/+0
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (108 commits) ehea: Fixing statistics bonding: Fix lockdep warning after bond_vlan_rx_register() tunnels: Fix tunnels change rcu protection caif-u5500: Build config for CAIF shared mem driver caif-u5500: CAIF shared memory mailbox interface caif-u5500: CAIF shared memory transport protocol caif-u5500: Adding shared memory include drivers/isdn: delete double assignment drivers/net/typhoon.c: delete double assignment drivers/net/sb1000.c: delete double assignment qlcnic: define valid vlan id range qlcnic: reduce rx ring size qlcnic: fix mac learning ehea: fix use after free inetpeer: __rcu annotations fib_rules: __rcu annotates ctarget tunnels: add __rcu annotations net: add __rcu annotations to protocol ipv4: add __rcu annotations to routes.c qlge: bugfix: Restoring the vlan setting. ...
2010-10-28delay-accounting: reimplement -c for getdelays.c to report information on a ↵Mel Gorman1-2/+36
target command Task delay-accounting was identified as one means of determining how long a process spends in congestion_wait() without adding new statistics. For example, if the workload should not be doing IO, delay-accounting could reveal how long it was spending in unexpected IO or delays. Unfortunately, on closer examination it was clear that getdelays does not act as documented. Commit a3baf649 ("per-task-delay-accounting: documentation") added Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c with a -c switch that was documented to fork/exec a child and report statistics on it but for reasons that are unclear to me, commit 9e06d3f9 deleted support for this switch but did not update the documentation. It might be an oversight or it might be because the control flow of the program meant that accounting information would be printed once early in the lifetime of the program making it of limited use. This patch reimplements -c for getdelays.c to act as documented. Unlike the original version, it waits until the command completes before printing any information on it. An example of it being used looks like $ ./getdelays -d -c find /home/mel -name mel print delayacct stats ON /home/mel /home/mel/.notes-wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/mel /home/mel/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/mel /home/mel/git-configs/dot.kde/share/apps/konqueror/home/mel PID 5923 CPU count real total virtual total delay total 42779 5051232096 5164722692 564207988 IO count delay total 41727 97804147758 SWAP count delay total 0 0 RECLAIM count delay total 0 0 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-28/proc/pid/pagemap: document in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txtNikanth Karthikesan1-0/+4
Document /proc/pid/pagemap in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Cc: Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-28/proc/pid/smaps: export amount of anonymous memory in a mappingNikanth Karthikesan1-3/+10
Export the number of anonymous pages in a mapping via smaps. Even the private pages in a mapping backed by a file, would be marked as anonymous, when they are modified. Export this information to user-space via smaps. Exporting this count will help gdb to make a better decision on which areas need to be dumped in its coredump; and should be useful to others studying the memory usage of a process. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-28cgroup: notify ns_cgroup deprecatedDaniel Lezcano1-0/+17
The ns_cgroup will be removed very soon. Let's warn, for this version, ns_cgroup is deprecated. Make ns_cgroup and clone_children exclusive. If the clone_children is set and the ns_cgroup is mounted, let's fail with EINVAL when the ns_cgroup subsys is created (a printk will help the user to understand why the creation fails). Update the feature remove schedule file with the deprecated ns_cgroup. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-28cgroup: add clone_children control fileDaniel Lezcano1-2/+12
The ns_cgroup is a control group interacting with the namespaces. When a new namespace is created, a corresponding cgroup is automatically created too. The cgroup name is the pid of the process who did 'unshare' or the child of 'clone'. This cgroup is tied with the namespace because it prevents a process to escape the control group and use the post_clone callback, so the child cgroup inherits the values of the parent cgroup. Unfortunately, the more we use this cgroup and the more we are facing problems with it: (1) when a process unshares, the cgroup name may conflict with a previous cgroup with the same pid, so unshare or clone return -EEXIST (2) the cgroup creation is out of control because there may have an application creating several namespaces where the system will automatically create several cgroups in his back and let them on the cgroupfs (eg. a vrf based on the network namespace). (3) the mix of (1) and (2) force an administrator to regularly check and clean these cgroups. This patchset removes the ns_cgroup by adding a new flag to the cgroup and the cgroupfs mount option. It enables the copy of the parent cgroup when a child cgroup is created. We can then safely remove the ns_cgroup as this flag brings a compatibility. We have now to manually create and add the task to a cgroup, which is consistent with the cgroup framework. This patch: Sent as an answer to a previous thread around the ns_cgroup. https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-June/018627.html It adds a control file 'clone_children' for a cgroup. This control file is a boolean specifying if the child cgroup should be a clone of the parent cgroup or not. The default value is 'false'. This flag makes the child cgroup to call the post_clone callback of all the subsystem, if it is available. At present, the cpuset is the only one which had implemented the post_clone callback. The option can be set at mount time by specifying the 'clone_children' mount option. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-28doc: clarify the behaviour of dirty_ratio/dirty_bytesAndrea Righi1-4/+8
When dirty_ratio or dirty_bytes is written the other parameter is disabled and set to 0 (in dirty_bytes_handler() / dirty_ratio_handler()). We do the same for dirty_background_ratio and dirty_background_bytes. However, in the sysctl documentation, we say that the counterpart becomes a function of the old value, that is not correct. Clarify the documentation reporting the actual behaviour. Reviewed-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-28Coccinelle: Fix documentationNicolas Palix1-4/+4
A file used as example has been moved elsewhere. Update the documentation accordingly Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix.work@gmail.com> Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-10-28Merge commit 'v2.6.36' into kbuild/miscMichal Marek518-6434/+22446
Update to be able to fix a recent change to scripts/basic/docproc.c (commit eda603f).
2010-10-27Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-10/+25
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (52 commits) split invalidate_inodes() fs: skip I_FREEING inodes in writeback_sb_inodes fs: fold invalidate_list into invalidate_inodes fs: do not drop inode_lock in dispose_list fs: inode split IO and LRU lists fs: switch bdev inode bdi's correctly fs: fix buffer invalidation in invalidate_list fsnotify: use dget_parent smbfs: use dget_parent exportfs: use dget_parent fs: use RCU read side protection in d_validate fs: clean up dentry lru modification fs: split __shrink_dcache_sb fs: improve DCACHE_REFERENCED usage fs: use percpu counter for nr_dentry and nr_dentry_unused fs: simplify __d_free fs: take dcache_lock inside __d_path fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator new helper: ihold() ...
2010-10-27docbook: add idr/ida to kernel-api docbookRandy Dunlap1-0/+6
Add idr/ida to kernel-api docbook. Fix typos and kernel-doc notation. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Naohiro Aota <naota@elisp.net> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-27docbook: add more wait/wake/completion to device-drivers docbookRandy Dunlap1-0/+5
Add more wait, wake, and completion interfaces to the device-drivers docbook. Fix kernel-doc notation in the added files. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-27documentation: update sysrq.txt magic sysrq keysRandy Dunlap1-2/+5
Update Documentation/sysrq.txt magic sysrq keys: - 'g' is for kgdb (not arch-specific); - add 2 new uses for 'v', remove the Voyager info; - add 'y' info (SPARC-64 specific); Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@suse.de> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Acked-by: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-27Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-14/+14
git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6 * 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: NFS: rename nfs.upcall -> nfs.idmap NFS: Fix a compile issue in nfs_root
2010-10-27Documentation: short descriptions for bh1770glc and apds990x driversSamu Onkalo2-0/+227
Add short documentation for two ALS / proximity chip drivers. Signed-off-by: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-27Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c: add supporting info for hpet_exampleJaswinder Singh Rajput1-0/+27
$./hpet_example info /dev/hpet -hpet: executing info hpet_info: hi_irqfreq 0x0 hi_flags 0x0 hi_hpet 0 hi_timer 2 Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Cc: "Venkatesh Pallipadi (Venki)" <venki@google.com> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-27mm: highmem documentationPeter Zijlstra1-0/+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>
2010-10-27tracing, vmscan: add trace events for LRU list shrinkingMel Gorman1-10/+29
There have been numerous reports of stalls that pointed at the problem being somewhere in the VM. There are multiple roots to the problems which means dealing with any of the root problems in isolation is tricky to justify on their own and they would still need integration testing. This patch series puts together two different patch sets which in combination should tackle some of the root causes of latency problems being reported. Patch 1 adds a tracepoint for shrink_inactive_list. For this series, the most important results is being able to calculate the scanning/reclaim ratio as a measure of the amount of work being done by page reclaim. Patch 2 accounts for time spent in congestion_wait. Patches 3-6 were originally developed by Kosaki Motohiro but reworked for this series. It has been noted that lumpy reclaim is far too aggressive and trashes the system somewhat. As SLUB uses high-order allocations, a large cost incurred by lumpy reclaim will be noticeable. It was also reported during transparent hugepage support testing that lumpy reclaim was trashing the system and these patches should mitigate that problem without disabling lumpy reclaim. Patch 7 adds wait_iff_congested() and replaces some callers of congestion_wait(). wait_iff_congested() only sleeps if there is a BDI that is currently congested. Patch 8 notes that any BDI being congested is not necessarily a problem because there could be multiple BDIs of varying speeds and numberous zones. It attempts to track when a zone being reclaimed contains many pages backed by a congested BDI and if so, reclaimers wait on the congestion queue. I ran a number of tests with monitoring on X86, X86-64 and PPC64. Each machine had 3G of RAM and the CPUs were X86: Intel P4 2-core X86-64: AMD Phenom 4-core PPC64: PPC970MP Each used a single disk and the onboard IO controller. Dirty ratio was left at 20. I'm just going to report for X86-64 and PPC64 in a vague attempt to keep this report short. Four kernels were tested each based on v2.6.36-rc4 traceonly-v2r2: Patches 1 and 2 to instrument vmscan reclaims and congestion_wait lowlumpy-v2r3: Patches 1-6 to test if lumpy reclaim is better waitcongest-v2r3: Patches 1-7 to only wait on congestion waitwriteback-v2r4: Patches 1-8 to detect when a zone is congested nocongest-v1r5: Patches 1-3 for testing wait_iff_congestion nodirect-v1r5: Patches 1-10 to disable filesystem writeback for better IO The tests run were as follows kernbench compile-based benchmark. Smoke test performance sysbench OLTP read-only benchmark. Will be re-run in the future as read-write micro-mapped-file-stream This is a micro-benchmark from Johannes Weiner that accesses a large sparse-file through mmap(). It was configured to run in only single-CPU mode but can be indicative of how well page reclaim identifies suitable pages. stress-highalloc Tries to allocate huge pages under heavy load. kernbench, iozone and sysbench did not report any performance regression on any machine. sysbench did pressure the system lightly and there was reclaim activity but there were no difference of major interest between the kernels. X86-64 micro-mapped-file-stream traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3 waitwriteback-v2r4 pgalloc_dma 1639.00 ( 0.00%) 667.00 (-145.73%) 1167.00 ( -40.45%) 578.00 (-183.56%) pgalloc_dma32 2842410.00 ( 0.00%) 2842626.00 ( 0.01%) 2843043.00 ( 0.02%) 2843014.00 ( 0.02%) pgalloc_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) pgsteal_dma 729.00 ( 0.00%) 85.00 (-757.65%) 609.00 ( -19.70%) 125.00 (-483.20%) pgsteal_dma32 2338721.00 ( 0.00%) 2447354.00 ( 4.44%) 2429536.00 ( 3.74%) 2436772.00 ( 4.02%) pgsteal_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) pgscan_kswapd_dma 1469.00 ( 0.00%) 532.00 (-176.13%) 1078.00 ( -36.27%) 220.00 (-567.73%) pgscan_kswapd_dma32 4597713.00 ( 0.00%) 4503597.00 ( -2.09%) 4295673.00 ( -7.03%) 3891686.00 ( -18.14%) pgscan_kswapd_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) pgscan_direct_dma 71.00 ( 0.00%) 134.00 ( 47.01%) 243.00 ( 70.78%) 352.00 ( 79.83%) pgscan_direct_dma32 305820.00 ( 0.00%) 280204.00 ( -9.14%) 600518.00 ( 49.07%) 957485.00 ( 68.06%) pgscan_direct_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) pageoutrun 16296.00 ( 0.00%) 21254.00 ( 23.33%) 18447.00 ( 11.66%) 20067.00 ( 18.79%) allocstall 443.00 ( 0.00%) 273.00 ( -62.27%) 513.00 ( 13.65%) 1568.00 ( 71.75%) These are based on the raw figures taken from /proc/vmstat. It's a rough measure of reclaim activity. Note that allocstall counts are higher because we are entering direct reclaim more often as a result of not sleeping in congestion. In itself, it's not necessarily a bad thing. It's easier to get a view of what happened from the vmscan tracepoint report. FTrace Reclaim Statistics: vmscan traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3 waitwriteback-v2r4 Direct reclaims 443 273 513 1568 Direct reclaim pages scanned 305968 280402 600825 957933 Direct reclaim pages reclaimed 43503 19005 30327 117191 Direct reclaim write file async I/O 0 0 0 0 Direct reclaim write anon async I/O 0 3 4 12 Direct reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Wake kswapd requests 187649 132338 191695 267701 Kswapd wakeups 3 1 4 1 Kswapd pages scanned 4599269 4454162 4296815 3891906 Kswapd pages reclaimed 2295947 2428434 2399818 2319706 Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O 1 0 1 1 Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O 59 187 41 222 Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Time stalled direct reclaim (seconds) 4.34 2.52 6.63 2.96 Time kswapd awake (seconds) 11.15 10.25 11.01 10.19 Total pages scanned 4905237 4734564 4897640 4849839 Total pages reclaimed 2339450 2447439 2430145 2436897 %age total pages scanned/reclaimed 47.69% 51.69% 49.62% 50.25% %age total pages scanned/written 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% %age file pages scanned/written 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% Percentage Time Spent Direct Reclaim 29.23% 19.02% 38.48% 20.25% Percentage Time kswapd Awake 78.58% 78.85% 76.83% 79.86% What is interesting here for nocongest in particular is that while direct reclaim scans more pages, the overall number of pages scanned remains the same and the ratio of pages scanned to pages reclaimed is more or less the same. In other words, while we are sleeping less, reclaim is not doing more work and as direct reclaim and kswapd is awake for less time, it would appear to be doing less work. FTrace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait Direct number congest waited 87 196 64 0 Direct time congest waited 4604ms 4732ms 5420ms 0ms Direct full congest waited 72 145 53 0 Direct number conditional waited 0 0 324 1315 Direct time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms Direct full conditional waited 0 0 0 0 KSwapd number congest waited 20 10 15 7 KSwapd time congest waited 1264ms 536ms 884ms 284ms KSwapd full congest waited 10 4 6 2 KSwapd number conditional waited 0 0 0 0 KSwapd time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms KSwapd full conditional waited 0 0 0 0 The vanilla kernel spent 8 seconds asleep in direct reclaim and no time at all asleep with the patches. MMTests Statistics: duration User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 10.51 10.73 10.6 11.66 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 14.19 13.00 14.33 12.76 Overall, the tests completed faster. It is interesting to note that backing off further when a zone is congested and not just a BDI was more efficient overall. PPC64 micro-mapped-file-stream pgalloc_dma 3024660.00 ( 0.00%) 3027185.00 ( 0.08%) 3025845.00 ( 0.04%) 3026281.00 ( 0.05%) pgalloc_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) pgsteal_dma 2508073.00 ( 0.00%) 2565351.00 ( 2.23%) 2463577.00 ( -1.81%) 2532263.00 ( 0.96%) pgsteal_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) pgscan_kswapd_dma 4601307.00 ( 0.00%) 4128076.00 ( -11.46%) 3912317.00 ( -17.61%) 3377165.00 ( -36.25%) pgscan_kswapd_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) pgscan_direct_dma 629825.00 ( 0.00%) 971622.00 ( 35.18%) 1063938.00 ( 40.80%) 1711935.00 ( 63.21%) pgscan_direct_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) pageoutrun 27776.00 ( 0.00%) 20458.00 ( -35.77%) 18763.00 ( -48.04%) 18157.00 ( -52.98%) allocstall 977.00 ( 0.00%) 2751.00 ( 64.49%) 2098.00 ( 53.43%) 5136.00 ( 80.98%) Similar trends to x86-64. allocstalls are up but it's not necessarily bad. FTrace Reclaim Statistics: vmscan Direct reclaims 977 2709 2098 5136 Direct reclaim pages scanned 629825 963814 1063938 1711935 Direct reclaim pages reclaimed 75550 242538 150904 387647 Direct reclaim write file async I/O 0 0 0 2 Direct reclaim write anon async I/O 0 10 0 4 Direct reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Wake kswapd requests 392119 1201712 571935 571921 Kswapd wakeups 3 2 3 3 Kswapd pages scanned 4601307 4128076 3912317 3377165 Kswapd pages reclaimed 2432523 2318797 2312673 2144616 Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O 20 1 1 1 Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O 57 132 11 121 Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Time stalled direct reclaim (seconds) 6.19 7.30 13.04 10.88 Time kswapd awake (seconds) 21.73 26.51 25.55 23.90 Total pages scanned 5231132 5091890 4976255 5089100 Total pages reclaimed 2508073 2561335 2463577 2532263 %age total pages scanned/reclaimed 47.95% 50.30% 49.51% 49.76% %age total pages scanned/written 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% %age file pages scanned/written 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% Percentage Time Spent Direct Reclaim 18.89% 20.65% 32.65% 27.65% Percentage Time kswapd Awake 72.39% 80.68% 78.21% 77.40% Again, a similar trend that the congestion_wait changes mean that direct reclaim scans more pages but the overall number of pages scanned while slightly reduced, are very similar. The ratio of scanning/reclaimed remains roughly similar. The downside is that kswapd and direct reclaim was awake longer and for a larger percentage of the overall workload. It's possible there were big differences in the amount of time spent reclaiming slab pages between the different kernels which is plausible considering that the micro tests runs after fsmark and sysbench. Trace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait Direct number congest waited 845 1312 104 0 Direct time congest waited 19416ms 26560ms 7544ms 0ms Direct full congest waited 745 1105 72 0 Direct number conditional waited 0 0 1322 2935 Direct time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 12ms 312ms Direct full conditional waited 0 0 0 3 KSwapd number congest waited 39 102 75 63 KSwapd time congest waited 2484ms 6760ms 5756ms 3716ms KSwapd full congest waited 20 48 46 25 KSwapd number conditional waited 0 0 0 0 KSwapd time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms KSwapd full conditional waited 0 0 0 0 The vanilla kernel spent 20 seconds asleep in direct reclaim and only 312ms asleep with the patches. The time kswapd spent congest waited was also reduced by a large factor. MMTests Statistics: duration ser/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 26.58 28.05 26.9 28.47 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 30.02 32.86 32.67 30.88 With all patches applies, the completion times are very similar. X86-64 STRESS-HIGHALLOC traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3waitwriteback-v2r4 Pass 1 82.00 ( 0.00%) 84.00 ( 2.00%) 85.00 ( 3.00%) 85.00 ( 3.00%) Pass 2 90.00 ( 0.00%) 87.00 (-3.00%) 88.00 (-2.00%) 89.00 (-1.00%) At Rest 92.00 ( 0.00%) 90.00 (-2.00%) 90.00 (-2.00%) 91.00 (-1.00%) Success figures across the board are broadly similar. traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3waitwriteback-v2r4 Direct reclaims 1045 944 886 887 Direct reclaim pages scanned 135091 119604 109382 101019 Direct reclaim pages reclaimed 88599 47535 47863 46671 Direct reclaim write file async I/O 494 283 465 280 Direct reclaim write anon async I/O 29357 13710 16656 13462 Direct reclaim write file sync I/O 154 2 2 3 Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O 14594 571 509 561 Wake kswapd requests 7491 933 872 892 Kswapd wakeups 814 778 731 780 Kswapd pages scanned 7290822 15341158 11916436 13703442 Kswapd pages reclaimed 3587336 3142496 3094392 3187151 Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O 91975 32317 28022 29628 Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O 1992022 789307 829745 849769 Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Time stalled direct reclaim (seconds) 4588.93 2467.16 2495.41 2547.07 Time kswapd awake (seconds) 2497.66 1020.16 1098.06 1176.82 Total pages scanned 7425913 15460762 12025818 13804461 Total pages reclaimed 3675935 3190031 3142255 3233822 %age total pages scanned/reclaimed 49.50% 20.63% 26.13% 23.43% %age total pages scanned/written 28.66% 5.41% 7.28% 6.47% %age file pages scanned/written 1.25% 0.21% 0.24% 0.22% Percentage Time Spent Direct Reclaim 57.33% 42.15% 42.41% 42.99% Percentage Time kswapd Awake 43.56% 27.87% 29.76% 31.25% Scanned/reclaimed ratios again look good with big improvements in efficiency. The Scanned/written ratios also look much improved. With a better scanned/written ration, there is an expectation that IO would be more efficient and indeed, the time spent in direct reclaim is much reduced by the full series and kswapd spends a little less time awake. Overall, indications here are that allocations were happening much faster and this can be seen with a graph of the latency figures as the allocations were taking place http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/postings/vmscanreduce-20101509/highalloc-interlatency-hydra-mean.ps FTrace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait Direct number congest waited 1333 204 169 4 Direct time congest waited 78896ms 8288ms 7260ms 200ms Direct full congest waited 756 92 69 2 Direct number conditional waited 0 0 26 186 Direct time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 2504ms Direct full conditional waited 0 0 0 25 KSwapd number congest waited 4 395 227 282 KSwapd time congest waited 384ms 25136ms 10508ms 18380ms KSwapd full congest waited 3 232 98 176 KSwapd number conditional waited 0 0 0 0 KSwapd time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms KSwapd full conditional waited 0 0 0 0 KSwapd full conditional waited 318 0 312 9 Overall, the time spent speeping is reduced. kswapd is still hitting congestion_wait() but that is because there are callers remaining where it wasn't clear in advance if they should be changed to wait_iff_congested() or not. Overall the sleep imes are reduced though - from 79ish seconds to about 19. MMTests Statistics: duration User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 3415.43 3386.65 3388.39 3377.5 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 5733.48 3660.33 3689.41 3765.39 With the full series, the time to complete the tests are reduced by 30% PPC64 STRESS-HIGHALLOC traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3waitwriteback-v2r4 Pass 1 17.00 ( 0.00%) 34.00 (17.00%) 38.00 (21.00%) 43.00 (26.00%) Pass 2 25.00 ( 0.00%) 37.00 (12.00%) 42.00 (17.00%) 46.00 (21.00%) At Rest 49.00 ( 0.00%) 43.00 (-6.00%) 45.00 (-4.00%) 51.00 ( 2.00%) Success rates there are *way* up particularly considering that the 16MB huge pages on PPC64 mean that it's always much harder to allocate them. FTrace Reclaim Statistics: vmscan stress-highalloc stress-highalloc stress-highalloc stress-highalloc traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3waitwriteback-v2r4 Direct reclaims 499 505 564 509 Direct reclaim pages scanned 223478 41898 51818 45605 Direct reclaim pages reclaimed 137730 21148 27161 23455 Direct reclaim write file async I/O 399 136 162 136 Direct reclaim write anon async I/O 46977 2865 4686 3998 Direct reclaim write file sync I/O 29 0 1 3 Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O 31023 159 237 239 Wake kswapd requests 420 351 360 326 Kswapd wakeups 185 294 249 277 Kswapd pages scanned 15703488 16392500 17821724 17598737 Kswapd pages reclaimed 5808466 2908858 3139386 3145435 Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O 159938 18400 18717 13473 Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O 3467554 228957 322799 234278 Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Time stalled direct reclaim (seconds) 9665.35 1707.81 2374.32 1871.23 Time kswapd awake (seconds) 9401.21 1367.86 1951.75 1328.88 Total pages scanned 15926966 16434398 17873542 17644342 Total pages reclaimed 5946196 2930006 3166547 3168890 %age total pages scanned/reclaimed 37.33% 17.83% 17.72% 17.96% %age total pages scanned/written 23.27% 1.52% 1.94% 1.43% %age file pages scanned/written 1.01% 0.11% 0.11% 0.08% Percentage Time Spent Direct Reclaim 44.55% 35.10% 41.42% 36.91% Percentage Time kswapd Awake 86.71% 43.58% 52.67% 41.14% While the scanning rates are slightly up, the scanned/reclaimed and scanned/written figures are much improved. The time spent in direct reclaim and with kswapd are massively reduced, mostly by the lowlumpy patches. FTrace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait Direct number congest waited 725 303 126 3 Direct time congest waited 45524ms 9180ms 5936ms 300ms Direct full congest waited 487 190 52 3 Direct number conditional waited 0 0 200 301 Direct time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 1904ms Direct full conditional waited 0 0 0 19 KSwapd number congest waited 0 2 23 4 KSwapd time congest waited 0ms 200ms 420ms 404ms KSwapd full congest waited 0 2 2 4 KSwapd number conditional waited 0 0 0 0 KSwapd time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms KSwapd full conditional waited 0 0 0 0 Not as dramatic a story here but the time spent asleep is reduced and we can still see what wait_iff_congested is going to sleep when necessary. MMTests Statistics: duration User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 12028.09 3157.17 3357.79 3199.16 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 10842.07 3138.72 3705.54 3229.85 The time to complete this test goes way down. With the full series, we are allocating over twice the number of huge pages in 30% of the time and there is a corresponding impact on the allocation latency graph available at. http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/postings/vmscanreduce-20101509/highalloc-interlatency-powyah-mean.ps This patch: Add a trace event for shrink_inactive_list() and updates the sample postprocessing script appropriately. It can be used to determine how many pages were reclaimed and for non-lumpy reclaim where exactly the pages were reclaimed from. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>