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2010-06-03pipe: change /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-pages to byte sized interfaceJens Axboe1-4/+4
This changes the interface to be based on bytes instead. The API matches that of F_SETPIPE_SZ in that it rounds up the passed in size so that the resulting page array is a power-of-2 in size. The proc file is renamed to /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size to reflect this change. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-05-26Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds1-1/+3
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (63 commits) drivers/net/usb/asix.c: Fix pointer cast. be2net: Bug fix to avoid disabling bottom half during firmware upgrade. proc_dointvec: write a single value hso: add support for new products Phonet: fix potential use-after-free in pep_sock_close() ath9k: remove VEOL support for ad-hoc ath9k: change beacon allocation to prefer the first beacon slot sock.h: fix kernel-doc warning cls_cgroup: Fix build error when built-in macvlan: do proper cleanup in macvlan_common_newlink() V2 be2net: Bug fix in init code in probe net/dccp: expansion of error code size ath9k: Fix rx of mcast/bcast frames in PS mode with auto sleep wireless: fix sta_info.h kernel-doc warnings wireless: fix mac80211.h kernel-doc warnings iwlwifi: testing the wrong variable in iwl_add_bssid_station() ath9k_htc: rare leak in ath9k_hif_usb_alloc_tx_urbs() ath9k_htc: dereferencing before check in hif_usb_tx_cb() rt2x00: Fix rt2800usb TX descriptor writing. rt2x00: Fix failed SLEEP->AWAKE and AWAKE->SLEEP transitions. ...
2010-05-26proc_dointvec: write a single valueJ. R. Okajima1-1/+3
The commit 00b7c3395aec3df43de5bd02a3c5a099ca51169f "sysctl: refactor integer handling proc code" modified the behaviour of writing to /proc. Before the commit, write("1\n") to /proc/sys/kernel/printk succeeded. But now it returns EINVAL. This commit supports writing a single value to a multi-valued entry. Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp> Reviewed-and-tested-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-25mm: compaction: add a tunable that decides when memory should be compacted ↵Mel Gorman1-0/+15
and when it should be reclaimed The kernel applies some heuristics when deciding if memory should be compacted or reclaimed to satisfy a high-order allocation. One of these is based on the fragmentation. If the index is below 500, memory will not be compacted. This choice is arbitrary and not based on data. To help optimise the system and set a sensible default for this value, this patch adds a sysctl extfrag_threshold. The kernel will only compact memory if the fragmentation index is above the extfrag_threshold. [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: Fix build errors when proc fs is not configured] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25mm: compaction: add /proc trigger for memory compactionMel Gorman1-0/+10
Add a proc file /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory. When an arbitrary value is written to the file, all zones are compacted. The expected user of such a trigger is a job scheduler that prepares the system before the target application runs. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-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>
2010-05-22Merge branch 'for-2.6.35' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds1-0/+9
* 'for-2.6.35' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (86 commits) pipe: set lower and upper limit on max pages in the pipe page array pipe: add support for shrinking and growing pipes drbd: This is now equivalent to drbd release 8.3.8rc1 drbd: Do not free p_uuid early, this is done in the exit code of the receiver drbd: Null pointer deref fix to the large "multi bio rewrite" drbd: Fix: Do not detach, if a bio with a barrier fails drbd: Ensure to not trigger late-new-UUID creation multiple times drbd: Do not Oops when C_STANDALONE when uuid gets generated writeback: fix mixed up arguments to bdi_start_writeback() writeback: fix problem with !CONFIG_BLOCK compilation block: improve automatic native capacity unlocking block: use struct parsed_partitions *state universally in partition check code block,ide: simplify bdops->set_capacity() to ->unlock_native_capacity() block: restart partition scan after resizing a device buffer: make invalidate_bdev() drain all percpu LRU add caches block: remove all rcu head initializations writeback: fixups for !dirty_writeback_centisecs writeback: bdi_writeback_task() must set task state before calling schedule() writeback: ensure that WB_SYNC_NONE writeback with sb pinned is sync drivers/block/drbd: Use kzalloc ...
2010-05-22sysctl: fix kernel-doc notation and typosRandy Dunlap1-19/+19
Fix kernel-doc warnings, kernel-doc special characters, and typos in recent kernel/sysctl.c additions. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-21Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.35Jens Axboe1-164/+415
Conflicts: fs/ext3/fsync.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-21pipe: set lower and upper limit on max pages in the pipe page arrayJens Axboe1-0/+9
We need at least two to guarantee proper POSIX behaviour, so never allow a smaller limit than that. Also expose a /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-pages sysctl file that allows root to define a sane upper limit. Make it default to 16 times the default size, which is 16 pages. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-21Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6Linus Torvalds1-161/+390
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1674 commits) qlcnic: adding co maintainer ixgbe: add support for active DA cables ixgbe: dcb, do not tag tc_prio_control frames ixgbe: fix ixgbe_tx_is_paused logic ixgbe: always enable vlan strip/insert when DCB is enabled ixgbe: remove some redundant code in setting FCoE FIP filter ixgbe: fix wrong offset to fc_frame_header in ixgbe_fcoe_ddp ixgbe: fix header len when unsplit packet overflows to data buffer ipv6: Never schedule DAD timer on dead address ipv6: Use POSTDAD state ipv6: Use state_lock to protect ifa state ipv6: Replace inet6_ifaddr->dead with state cxgb4: notify upper drivers if the device is already up when they load cxgb4: keep interrupts available when the ports are brought down cxgb4: fix initial addition of MAC address cnic: Return SPQ credit to bnx2x after ring setup and shutdown. cnic: Convert cnic_local_flags to atomic ops. can: Fix SJA1000 command register writes on SMP systems bridge: fix build for CONFIG_SYSFS disabled ARCNET: Limit com20020 PCI ID matches for SOHARD cards ... Fix up various conflicts with pcmcia tree drivers/net/ {pcmcia/3c589_cs.c, wireless/orinoco/orinoco_cs.c and wireless/orinoco/spectrum_cs.c} and feature removal (Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt). Also fix a non-content conflict due to pm_qos_requirement getting renamed in the PM tree (now pm_qos_request) in net/mac80211/scan.c
2010-05-20Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+22
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (40 commits) Input: psmouse - small formatting changes to better follow coding style Input: synaptics - set dimensions as reported by firmware Input: elantech - relax signature checks Input: elantech - enforce common prefix on messages Input: wistron_btns - switch to using kmemdup() Input: usbtouchscreen - switch to using kmemdup() Input: do not force selecting i8042 on Moorestown Input: Documentation/sysrq.txt - update KEY_SYSRQ info Input: 88pm860x_onkey - remove invalid irq number assignment Input: i8042 - add a PNP entry to the aux device list Input: i8042 - add some extra PNP keyboard types Input: wm9712 - fix wm97xx_set_gpio() logic Input: add keypad driver for keys interfaced to TCA6416 Input: remove obsolete {corgi,spitz,tosa}kbd.c Input: kbtab - do not advertise unsupported events Input: kbtab - simplify kbtab_disconnect() Input: kbtab - fix incorrect size parameter in usb_buffer_free Input: acecad - don't advertise mouse events Input: acecad - fix some formatting issues Input: acecad - simplify usb_acecad_disconnect() ... Trivial conflict in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
2010-05-17[S390] debug: enable exception-trace debug facilityHeiko Carstens1-2/+3
The exception-trace facility on x86 and other architectures prints traces to dmesg whenever a user space application crashes. s390 has such a feature since ages however it is called userprocess_debug and is enabled differently. This patch makes sure that whenever one of the two procfs files /proc/sys/kernel/userprocess_debug /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace is modified the contents of the second one changes as well. That way we keep backwards compatibilty but also support the same interface like other architectures do. Besides that the output of the traces is improved since it will now also contain the corresponding filename of the vma (when available) where the process caused a fault or trap. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2010-05-16sysctl: add proc_do_large_bitmapOctavian Purdila1-0/+161
The new function can be used to read/write large bitmaps via /proc. A comma separated range format is used for compact output and input (e.g. 1,3-4,10-10). Writing into the file will first reset the bitmap then update it based on the given input. Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-16sysctl: refactor integer handling proc codeAmerigo Wang1-161/+229
(Based on Octavian's work, and I modified a lot.) As we are about to add another integer handling proc function a little bit of cleanup is in order: add a few helper functions to improve code readability and decrease code duplication. In the process a bug is also fixed: if the user specifies a number with more then 20 digits it will be interpreted as two integers (e.g. 10000...13 will be interpreted as 100.... and 13). Behavior for EFAULT handling was changed as well. Previous to this patch, when an EFAULT error occurred in the middle of a write operation, although some of the elements were set, that was not acknowledged to the user (by shorting the write and returning the number of bytes accepted). EFAULT is now treated just like any other errors by acknowledging the amount of bytes accepted. Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-14Input: implement SysRq as a separate input handlerDmitry Torokhov1-1/+22
Instead of keeping SysRq support inside of legacy keyboard driver split it out into a separate input handler (filter). This stops most SysRq input events from leaking into evdev clients (some events, such as first SysRq scancode - not keycode - event, are still leaked into both legacy keyboard and evdev). [martinez.javier@gmail.com: fix compile error when CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ is not defined] Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2010-03-13sysctl extern cleanup: lockdepDave Young1-3/+3
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file, and then include them in relavant .c files. Move lockdep extern declarations to linux/lockdep.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-13sysctl extern cleanup: rtmutexDave Young1-4/+3
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file, and then include them in relavant .c files. Move max_lock_depth extern declaration to linux/rtmutex.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-13sysctl extern cleanup: acctDave Young1-4/+3
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file, and then include them in relavant .c files. Move acct_parm extern declaration to linux/acct.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-13sysctl extern cleanup: sgDave Young1-4/+3
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file, and then include them in relavant .c files. Move sg_big_buff extern declaration to scsi/sg.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Acked-by: Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-13sysctl extern cleanup: moduleDave Young1-4/+0
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file, and then include them in relavant .c files. Move modprobe_path extern declaration to linux/kmod.h Move modules_disabled extern declaration to linux/module.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-13sysctl extern cleanup: rcuDave Young1-3/+0
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file, and then include them in relavant .c files. Move rcutorture_runnable extern declaration to linux/rcupdate.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-13sysctl extern cleanup: signalDave Young1-1/+1
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file, and then include them in relavant .c files. Move print_fatal_signals extern declaration to linux/signal.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-13sysctl extern cleanup: C_A_DDave Young1-1/+0
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file, and then include them in relavant .c files. Move C_A_D extern variable declaration to linux/reboot.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-05Merge branch 'perf-probes-for-linus-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+12
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-probes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Issue at least one memory barrier in stop_machine_text_poke() perf probe: Correct probe syntax on command line help perf probe: Add lazy line matching support perf probe: Show more lines after last line perf probe: Check function address range strictly in line finder perf probe: Use libdw callback routines perf probe: Use elfutils-libdw for analyzing debuginfo perf probe: Rename probe finder functions perf probe: Fix bugs in line range finder perf probe: Update perf probe document perf probe: Do not show --line option without dwarf support kprobes: Add documents of jump optimization kprobes/x86: Support kprobes jump optimization on x86 x86: Add text_poke_smp for SMP cross modifying code kprobes/x86: Cleanup save/restore registers kprobes/x86: Boost probes when reentering kprobes: Jump optimization sysctl interface kprobes: Introduce kprobes jump optimization kprobes: Introduce generic insn_slot framework kprobes/x86: Cleanup RELATIVEJUMP_INSTRUCTION to RELATIVEJUMP_OPCODE
2010-03-01sparc: Support show_unhandled_signals.David S. Miller1-1/+1
Just faults right now, will add other traps later. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-25kprobes: Jump optimization sysctl interfaceMasami Hiramatsu1-0/+12
Add /proc/sys/debug/kprobes-optimization sysctl which enables and disables kprobes jump optimization on the fly for debugging. Changes in v7: - Remove ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED for upstream compatibility. Changes in v6: - Update comments and coding style. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com> Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20100225133415.6725.8274.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: Keys: KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT needs TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME architecture support NOMMU: Optimise away the {dac_,}mmap_min_addr tests security/min_addr.c: make init_mmap_min_addr() static keys: PTR_ERR return of wrong pointer in keyctl_get_security()
2009-12-18kernel/sysctl.c: fix the incomplete part of ↵WANG Cong1-1/+1
sysctl_max_map_count-should-be-non-negative.patch It is a mistake that we used 'proc_dointvec', it should be 'proc_dointvec_minmax', as in the original patch. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-17NOMMU: Optimise away the {dac_,}mmap_min_addr testsDavid Howells1-0/+2
In NOMMU mode clamp dac_mmap_min_addr to zero to cause the tests on it to be skipped by the compiler. We do this as the minimum mmap address doesn't make any sense in NOMMU mode. mmap_min_addr and round_hint_to_min() can be discarded entirely in NOMMU mode. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-12-15'sysctl_max_map_count' should be non-negativeAmerigo Wang1-1/+2
Jan Engelhardt reported we have this problem: setting max_map_count to a value large enough results in programs dying at first try. This is on 2.6.31.6: 15:59 borg:/proc/sys/vm # echo $[1<<31-1] >max_map_count 15:59 borg:/proc/sys/vm # cat max_map_count 1073741824 15:59 borg:/proc/sys/vm # echo $[1<<31] >max_map_count 15:59 borg:/proc/sys/vm # cat max_map_count Killed This is because we have a chance to make 'max_map_count' negative. but it's meaningless. Make it only accept non-negative values. Reported-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15hugetlb: derive huge pages nodes allowed from task mempolicyLee Schermerhorn1-2/+13
This patch derives a "nodes_allowed" node mask from the numa mempolicy of the task modifying the number of persistent huge pages to control the allocation, freeing and adjusting of surplus huge pages when the pool page count is modified via the new sysctl or sysfs attribute "nr_hugepages_mempolicy". The nodes_allowed mask is derived as follows: * For "default" [NULL] task mempolicy, a NULL nodemask_t pointer is produced. This will cause the hugetlb subsystem to use node_online_map as the "nodes_allowed". This preserves the behavior before this patch. * For "preferred" mempolicy, including explicit local allocation, a nodemask with the single preferred node will be produced. "local" policy will NOT track any internode migrations of the task adjusting nr_hugepages. * For "bind" and "interleave" policy, the mempolicy's nodemask will be used. * Other than to inform the construction of the nodes_allowed node mask, the actual mempolicy mode is ignored. That is, all modes behave like interleave over the resulting nodes_allowed mask with no "fallback". See the updated documentation [next patch] for more information about the implications of this patch. Examples: Starting with: Node 0 HugePages_Total: 0 Node 1 HugePages_Total: 0 Node 2 HugePages_Total: 0 Node 3 HugePages_Total: 0 Default behavior [with or without this patch] balances persistent hugepage allocation across nodes [with sufficient contiguous memory]: sysctl vm.nr_hugepages[_mempolicy]=32 yields: Node 0 HugePages_Total: 8 Node 1 HugePages_Total: 8 Node 2 HugePages_Total: 8 Node 3 HugePages_Total: 8 Of course, we only have nr_hugepages_mempolicy with the patch, but with default mempolicy, nr_hugepages_mempolicy behaves the same as nr_hugepages. Applying mempolicy--e.g., with numactl [using '-m' a.k.a. '--membind' because it allows multiple nodes to be specified and it's easy to type]--we can allocate huge pages on individual nodes or sets of nodes. So, starting from the condition above, with 8 huge pages per node, add 8 more to node 2 using: numactl -m 2 sysctl vm.nr_hugepages_mempolicy=40 This yields: Node 0 HugePages_Total: 8 Node 1 HugePages_Total: 8 Node 2 HugePages_Total: 16 Node 3 HugePages_Total: 8 The incremental 8 huge pages were restricted to node 2 by the specified mempolicy. Similarly, we can use mempolicy to free persistent huge pages from specified nodes: numactl -m 0,1 sysctl vm.nr_hugepages_mempolicy=32 yields: Node 0 HugePages_Total: 4 Node 1 HugePages_Total: 4 Node 2 HugePages_Total: 16 Node 3 HugePages_Total: 8 The 8 huge pages freed were balanced over nodes 0 and 1. [rientjes@google.com: accomodate reworked NODEMASK_ALLOC] Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.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: 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>
2009-12-12Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-11/+19
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (21 commits) sched: Remove forced2_migrations stats sched: Fix memory leak in two error corner cases sched: Fix build warning in get_update_sysctl_factor() sched: Update normalized values on user updates via proc sched: Make tunable scaling style configurable sched: Fix missing sched tunable recalculation on cpu add/remove sched: Fix task priority bug sched: cgroup: Implement different treatment for idle shares sched: Remove unnecessary RCU exclusion sched: Discard some old bits sched: Clean up check_preempt_wakeup() sched: Move update_curr() in check_preempt_wakeup() to avoid redundant call sched: Sanitize fork() handling sched: Clean up ttwu() rq locking sched: Remove rq->clock coupling from set_task_cpu() sched: Consolidate select_task_rq() callers sched: Remove sysctl.sched_features sched: Protect sched_rr_get_param() access to task->sched_class sched: Protect task->cpus_allowed access in sched_getaffinity() sched: Fix balance vs hotplug race ... Fixed up conflicts in kernel/sysctl.c (due to sysctl cleanup)
2009-12-09sched: Update normalized values on user updates via procChristian Ehrhardt1-5/+9
The normalized values are also recalculated in case the scaling factor changes. This patch updates the internally used scheduler tuning values that are normalized to one cpu in case a user sets new values via sysfs. Together with patch 2 of this series this allows to let user configured values scale (or not) to cpu add/remove events taking place later. Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1259579808-11357-4-git-send-email-ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ v2: fix warning ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09sched: Make tunable scaling style configurableChristian Ehrhardt1-0/+14
As scaling now takes place on all kind of cpu add/remove events a user that configures values via proc should be able to configure if his set values are still rescaled or kept whatever happens. As the comments state that log2 was just a second guess that worked the interface is not just designed for on/off, but to choose a scaling type. Currently this allows none, log and linear, but more important it allwos us to keep the interface even if someone has an even better idea how to scale the values. Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1259579808-11357-3-git-send-email-ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09sched: Remove sysctl.sched_featuresPeter Zijlstra1-8/+0
Since we've had a much saner debugfs interface to this, remove the sysctl one. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> [ v2: build fix ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-08Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6Linus Torvalds1-748/+145
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6: (43 commits) security/tomoyo: Remove now unnecessary handling of security_sysctl. security/tomoyo: Add a special case to handle accesses through the internal proc mount. sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler. sysctl: Remove CTL_NONE and CTL_UNNUMBERED sysctl: kill dead ctl_handler definitions. sysctl: Remove the last of the generic binary sysctl support sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code sysctl security/tomoyo: Don't look at ctl_name sysctl arm: Remove binary sysctl support sysctl x86: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl sh: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl powerpc: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl ia64: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl s390: Remove dead sysctl binary support sysctl frv: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl mips/lasat: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl drivers: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl crypto: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl security/keys: Remove dead binary sysctl support sysctl kernel: Remove binary sysctl logic ...
2009-12-05Merge branch 'core-printk-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-printk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: ratelimit: Make suppressed output messages more useful printk: Remove ratelimit.h from kernel.h ratelimit: Fix/allow use in atomic contexts ratelimit: Use per ratelimit context locking
2009-11-18sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler.Eric W. Biederman1-133/+133
For consistency drop & in front of every proc_handler. Explicity taking the address is unnecessary and it prevents optimizations like stubbing the proc_handlers to NULL. Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-12sysctl: Remove the last of the generic binary sysctl supportEric W. Biederman1-44/+0
Now that all of the users stopped using ctl_name and strategy it is safe to remove the fields from struct ctl_table, and it is safe to remove the stub strategy routines as well. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-11sysctl: Don't look at ctl_name and strategy in the generic codeEric W. Biederman1-22/+7
The ctl_name and strategy fields are unused, now that sys_sysctl is a compatibility wrapper around /proc/sys. No longer looking at them in the generic code is effectively what we are doing now and provides the guarantee that during further cleanups we can just remove references to those fields and everything will work ok. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-11sysctl: Remove references to ctl_name and strategy from the generic sysctl tableEric W. Biederman1-188/+7
Now that sys_sysctl is a generic wrapper around /proc/sys .ctl_name and .strategy members of sysctl tables are dead code. Remove them. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-11sysctl: Neuter the generic sysctl strategy routines.Eric W. Biederman1-198/+0
Now that sys_sysctl is a compatibility layer on top of /proc/sys these routines are never called but are still put in sysctl tables so I have reduced them to stubs until they can be removed entirely. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-06sysctl: Separate the binary sysctl logic into it's own file.Eric W. Biederman1-165/+0
In preparation for more invasive cleanups separate the core binary sysctl logic into it's own file. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-09-24Merge branch 'hwpoison' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+25
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 * 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (21 commits) HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page on btrfs HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4 HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page for NFS HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7 HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2 HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2 HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler v2 HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3 HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2 HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world ...
2009-09-24sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handlerAlexey Dobriyan1-45/+33
It's unused. It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl shouldn't care about the rest. It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24exec: let do_coredump() limit the number of concurrent dumps to pipesNeil Horman1-0/+9
Introduce core pipe limiting sysctl. Since we can dump cores to pipe, rather than directly to the filesystem, we create a condition in which a user can create a very high load on the system simply by running bad applications. If the pipe reader specified in core_pattern is poorly written, we can have lots of ourstandig resources and processes in the system. This sysctl introduces an ability to limit that resource consumption. core_pipe_limit defines how many in-flight dumps may be run in parallel, dumps beyond this value are skipped and a note is made in the kernel log. A special value of 0 in core_pipe_limit denotes unlimited core dumps may be handled (this is the default value). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reported-by: Earl Chew <earl_chew@agilent.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24headers: utsname.h reduxAlexey Dobriyan1-1/+0
* remove asm/atomic.h inclusion from linux/utsname.h -- not needed after kref conversion * remove linux/utsname.h inclusion from files which do not need it NOTE: it looks like fs/binfmt_elf.c do not need utsname.h, however due to some personality stuff it _is_ needed -- cowardly leave ELF-related headers and files alone. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23printk: add printk_delay to make messages readable for some scenariosDave Young1-0/+14
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>
2009-09-22printk: Remove ratelimit.h from kernel.hIngo Molnar1-0/+3
Decouple kernel.h from ratelimit.h: the global declaration of printk's ratelimit_state is not needed, and it leads to messy circular dependencies due to ratelimit.h's (new) adding of a spinlock_types.h include. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance EventsIngo Molnar1-11/+11
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events! In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging, monitoring, analysis facility. Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem 'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and less appropriate. All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion) The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well. Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and suggested a rename. User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to keep the size down.) This patch has been generated via the following script: FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \ -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \ -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \ -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \ -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \ -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g') mv $N $M done FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*) sed -i \ -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \ -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \ -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \ -e 's/counter/event/g' \ -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \ $FILES ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches is the smallest: the end of the merge window. Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch. ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but in case there's something left where 'counter' would be better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. ) Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>