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FUJITA Tomonori 2fd74e25df Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO: add ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN description
Add ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN description in "Platform Issues" section.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:53 -07:00
FUJITA Tomonori 4ae9ca825e Documentation: move the error handling to the better place in DMA-API-HOWTO
Handing DMA mapping errors is essential.  Let's put it in the more
appropriate place rather than the end of the doc.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:53 -07:00
FUJITA Tomonori b02de87161 Documentation: update scatterlist struct description in DMA-API-HOWTO
Now we have <asm-generic/scatterlist.h>.  Architectures should use it
instead of inventing the own scatterlist struct.  Let's update the
description.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:53 -07:00
FUJITA Tomonori 7cdcc8e476 Documentation: add SCSI drivers' mapping error handling to DMA-API-HOWTO
Add the concrete DMA mapping error handling for SCSI drivers on the
queuecommand path.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:53 -07:00
FUJITA Tomonori f671be04dc Documentation: add networking driver's mapping error handling to DMA-API-HOWTO
Adds the concrete DMA mapping error handling for Networking drivers on the
transmit path.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:52 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki dc10e281f5 memcg: update documentation
Some information are old, and I think current document doesn't work as "a
guide for users".  We need summary of all of our controls, at least.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:43 -07:00
Daisuke Nishimura 87946a7228 memcg: move charge of file pages
This patch adds support for moving charge of file pages, which include
normal file, tmpfs file and swaps of tmpfs file.  It's enabled by setting
bit 1 of <target cgroup>/memory.move_charge_at_immigrate.

Unlike the case of anonymous pages, file pages(and swaps) in the range
mmapped by the task will be moved even if the task hasn't done page fault,
i.e.  they might not be the task's "RSS", but other task's "RSS" that maps
the same file.  And mapcount of the page is ignored(the page can be moved
even if page_mapcount(page) > 1).  So, conditions that the page/swap
should be met to be moved is that it must be in the range mmapped by the
target task and it must be charged to the old cgroup.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:43 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 3c11ecf448 memcg: oom kill disable and oom status
This adds a feature to disable oom-killer for memcg, if disabled, of
course, tasks under memcg will stop.

But now, we have oom-notifier for memcg.  And the world around memcg is
not under out-of-memory.  memcg's out-of-memory just shows memcg hits
limit.  Then, administrator or management daemon can recover the situation
by

	- kill some process
	- enlarge limit, add more swap.
	- migrate some tasks
	- remove file cache on tmps (difficult ?)

Unlike oom-killer, you can take enough information before killing tasks.
(by gcore, or, ps etc.)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:43 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 9490ff2756 memcg: oom notifier
Considering containers or other resource management softwares in userland,
event notification of OOM in memcg should be implemented.  Now, memcg has
"threshold" notifier which uses eventfd, we can make use of it for oom
notification.

This patch adds oom notification eventfd callback for memcg.  The usage is
very similar to threshold notifier, but control file is memory.oom_control
and no arguments other than eventfd is required.

	% cgroup_event_notifier /cgroup/A/memory.oom_control dummy
	(About cgroup_event_notifier, see Documentation/cgroup/)

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:43 -07:00
Trevor Woerner 595f4b694c Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt: fix reference to "numtasks"
Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:43 -07:00
Arce, Abraham 6d06b81bce Documentation: SubmittingDrivers: Resources
- Add additional location (Git) for the kernel master tree
- Add reference to Git Project

Signed-off-by: Abraham Arce <x0066660@ti.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 63a6440326 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus:
  squashfs: update documentation to include description of xattr layout
  squashfs: fix name reading in squashfs_xattr_get
  squashfs: constify xattr handlers
  squashfs: xattr fix sparse warnings
  squashfs: xattr_lookup sparse fix
  squashfs: add xattr support configure option
  squashfs: add new extended inode types
  squashfs: add support for xattr reading
  squashfs: add xattr id support
2010-05-26 08:57:20 -07:00
Phillip Lougher 899f453033 squashfs: update documentation to include description of xattr layout
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
2010-05-26 01:12:26 +01:00
Tejun Heo 43c9c59185 libata: implement dump_id force param
Add dump_id libata.force parameter.  If specified, libata dumps full
IDENTIFY data during device configuration.  This is to aid debugging.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Larry Baker <baker@usgs.gov>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2010-05-25 19:41:19 -04:00
Kay Sievers 578454ff7e driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading
This adds:
  alias: devname:<name>
to some common kernel modules, which will allow the on-demand loading
of the kernel module when the device node is accessed.

Ideally all these modules would be compiled-in, but distros seems too
much in love with their modularization that we need to cover the common
cases with this new facility. It will allow us to remove a bunch of pretty
useless init scripts and modprobes from init scripts.

The static device node aliases will be carried in the module itself. The
program depmod will extract this information to a file in the module directory:
  $ cat /lib/modules/2.6.34-00650-g537b60d-dirty/modules.devname
  # Device nodes to trigger on-demand module loading.
  microcode cpu/microcode c10:184
  fuse fuse c10:229
  ppp_generic ppp c108:0
  tun net/tun c10:200
  dm_mod mapper/control c10:235

Udev will pick up the depmod created file on startup and create all the
static device nodes which the kernel modules specify, so that these modules
get automatically loaded when the device node is accessed:
  $ /sbin/udevd --debug
  ...
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/cpu/microcode' c10:184
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/fuse' c10:229
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/ppp' c108:0
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/net/tun' c10:200
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/mapper/control' c10:235
  udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/net/tun' 0666
  udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/fuse' 0666

A few device nodes are switched to statically allocated numbers, to allow
the static nodes to work. This might also useful for systems which still run
a plain static /dev, which is completely unsafe to use with any dynamic minor
numbers.

Note:
The devname aliases must be limited to the *common* and *single*instance*
device nodes, like the misc devices, and never be used for conceptually limited
systems like the loop devices, which should rather get fixed properly and get a
control node for losetup to talk to, instead of creating a random number of
device nodes in advance, regardless if they are ever used.

This facility is to hide the mess distros are creating with too modualized
kernels, and just to hide that these modules are not compiled-in, and not to
paper-over broken concepts. Thanks! :)

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-Off-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-25 15:08:26 -07:00
Stefan Richter 3014420b6b ieee1394: schedule for removal
All application domains that are supported by the old ieee1394 driver
stack are supported by the newer firewire driver stack too.  There is
now good and extensive experience with the newer stack from deployment
in Fedora since F7 as well as by enthusiast users of other
distributions.

The new drivers have consequently been recommended as the default ones
since 2.6.33, in order to fix some severe usability problems of FireWire
on Linux due to limitations of the old stack.  It is now high time to
announce when the obsolete drivers will be removed.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
2010-05-25 21:37:40 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 702c0b0497 Merge branch 'next-spi' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6
* 'next-spi' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
  spi/xilinx: Fix compile error
  spi/davinci: Fix clock prescale factor computation
  spi: move bitbang txrx utility functions to private header
  spi/mpc5121: Add SPI master driver for MPC5121 PSC
  powerpc/mpc5121: move PSC FIFO memory init to platform code
  spi/ep93xx: implemented driver for Cirrus EP93xx SPI controller
  Documentation/spi/* compile warning fix
  spi/omap2_mcspi: Check params before dereference or use
  spi/omap2_mcspi: add turbo mode support
  spi/omap2_mcspi: change default DMA_MIN_BYTES value to 160
  spi/pl022: fix stop queue procedure
  spi/pl022: add support for the PL023 derivate
  spi/pl022: fix up differences between ARM and ST versions
  spi/spi_mpc8xxx: Do not use map_tx_dma to unmap rx_dma
  spi/spi_mpc8xxx: Fix QE mode Litte Endian
  spi/spi_mpc8xxx: fix potential memory corruption.
2010-05-25 12:04:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 51e618c357 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog:
  watchdog: Driver for the watchdog timer on Freescale IMX2 (and later) processors.
  watchdog: s3c2410_wdt - Fix on handling of the request_mem_region fail
  watchdog: s3c2410_wdt - Add extra option to include watchdog for Samsung SoCs
  iTCO_wdt: fix TCO V1 timeout values and limits
  watchdog: twl4030_wdt: Disable watchdog during probing
  watchdog: update/improve/consolidate watchdog driver
  watchdog: booke_wdt: fix ioctl status flags
  watchdog: fix several MODULE_PARM_DESC strings
  watchdog: bfin: use new common Blackfin watchdog header
2010-05-25 11:40:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 110b93842e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
  xfs: Ensure inode allocation buffers are fully replayed
  xfs: enable background pushing of the CIL
  xfs: forced unmounts need to push the CIL
  xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code
  xfs: Delayed logging design documentation
  xfs: Improve scalability of busy extent tracking
  xfs: make the log ticket ID available outside the log infrastructure
  xfs: clean up log ticket overrun debug output
  xfs: Clean up XFS_BLI_* flag namespace
  xfs: modify buffer item reference counting
  xfs: allow log ticket allocation to take allocation flags
  xfs: Don't reuse the same transaction ID for duplicated transactions.
2010-05-25 08:17:01 -07:00
Mel Gorman 5e77190580 mm: compaction: add a tunable that decides when memory should be compacted 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>
2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00
Mel Gorman ed4a6d7f06 mm: compaction: add /sys trigger for per-node memory compaction
Add a per-node sysfs file called compact.  When the file is written to,
each zone in that node is compacted.  The intention that this would be
used by something like a job scheduler in a batch system before a job
starts so that the job can allocate the maximum number of hugepages
without significant start-up cost.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: 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>
2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00
Mel Gorman 76ab0f530e mm: compaction: add /proc trigger for memory compaction
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>
2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00
Lee Schermerhorn 971ada0f66 mempolicy: document cpuset interaction with tmpfs mpol mount option
Update Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt to describe the interaction of
tmpfs mount option memory policy with tasks' cpuset mems_allowed.

Note: the mount(8) man page [in the util-linux-ng package] requires
similiar updates.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:06:57 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 4724ba575e watchdog: update/improve/consolidate watchdog driver
Move the limited watchdog driver help from kernel-parameters.txt
to Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt and add info to it
for all watchdog drivers except the ones that have driver-specific
files already.

Correct minor comments and MODULE_PARM_DESC() text in 2 places.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2010-05-25 09:05:34 +00:00
Grant Likely b1e50ebcf2 Merge remote branch 'origin' into secretlab/next-spi 2010-05-25 00:38:26 -06:00