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2010-10-26docbook: add idr/ida to kernel-api docbookRandy Dunlap
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>
2010-10-26docbook: add more wait/wake/completion to device-drivers docbookRandy Dunlap
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>
2010-10-26Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (53 commits) ACPI: install ACPI table handler before any dynamic tables being loaded ACPI / PM: Blacklist another machine that needs acpi_sleep=nonvs ACPI: Page based coalescing of I/O remappings optimization ACPI: Convert simple locking to RCU based locking ACPI: Pre-map 'system event' related register blocks ACPI: Add interfaces for ioremapping/iounmapping ACPI registers ACPI: Maintain a list of ACPI memory mapped I/O remappings ACPI: Fix ioremap size for MMIO reads and writes ACPI / Battery: Return -ENODEV for unknown values in get_property() ACPI / PM: Fix reference counting of power resources Subject: [PATCH] ACPICA: Fix Scope() op in module level code ACPI battery: support percentage battery remaining capacity ACPI: Make Embedded Controller command timeout delay configurable ACPI dock: move some functions to .init.text ACPI: thermal: remove unused limit code ACPI: static sleep_states[] and acpi_gts_bfs_check ACPI: remove dead code ACPI: delete dedicated MAINTAINERS entries for ACPI EC and BATTERY drivers ACPI: Only processor needs CPU_IDLE ACPICA: Update version to 20101013 ...
2010-10-26Merge branch 'sfi-release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-sfi-2.6 * 'sfi-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-sfi-2.6: SFI: remove the v0.7 related definitions from sfi.h
2010-10-26Merge branch 'akpm-incoming-1'Linus Torvalds
* akpm-incoming-1: (176 commits) scripts/checkpatch.pl: add check for declaration of pci_device_id scripts/checkpatch.pl: add warnings for static char that could be static const char checkpatch: version 0.31 checkpatch: statement/block context analyser should look at sanitised lines checkpatch: handle EXPORT_SYMBOL for DEVICE_ATTR and similar checkpatch: clean up structure definition macro handline checkpatch: update copyright dates checkpatch: Add additional attribute #defines checkpatch: check for incorrect permissions checkpatch: ensure kconfig help checks only apply when we are adding help checkpatch: simplify and consolidate "missing space after" checks checkpatch: add check for space after struct, union, and enum checkpatch: returning errno typically should be negative checkpatch: handle casts better fixing false categorisation of : as binary checkpatch: ensure we do not collapse bracketed sections into constants checkpatch: suggest cleanpatch and cleanfile when appropriate checkpatch: types may sit on a line on their own checkpatch: fix regressions in "fix handling of leading spaces" div64_u64(): improve precision on 32bit platforms lib/parser: cleanup match_number() ...
2010-10-26div64_u64(): improve precision on 32bit platformsBrian Behlendorf
The current implementation of div64_u64 for 32bit systems returns an approximately correct result when the divisor exceeds 32bits. Since doing 64bit division using 32bit hardware is a long since solved problem we just use one of the existing proven methods. Additionally, add a div64_s64 function to correctly handle doing signed 64bit division. Addresses https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=616105 Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ben Woodard <bwoodard@llnl.gov> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Mark Grondona <mgrondona@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26ratelimit: add comment warning people off printk_ratelimit()Andrew Morton
printk_ratelimit() was a bad idea - we don't want subsytem A causing ratelimiting of subsystem B's messages. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26printk: declare printk_ratelimit_state in ratelimit.hNamhyung Kim
Adding declaration of printk_ratelimit_state in ratelimit.h removes potential build breakage and following sparse warning: kernel/printk.c:1426:1: warning: symbol 'printk_ratelimit_state' was not declared. Should it be static? [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded ifdef] Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26kernel: remove PF_FLUSHERPeter Zijlstra
PF_FLUSHER is only ever set, not tested, remove it. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26fs: allow for more than 2^31 filesEric Dumazet
Robin Holt tried to boot a 16TB system and found af_unix was overflowing a 32bit value : <quote> We were seeing a failure which prevented boot. The kernel was incapable of creating either a named pipe or unix domain socket. This comes down to a common kernel function called unix_create1() which does: atomic_inc(&unix_nr_socks); if (atomic_read(&unix_nr_socks) > 2 * get_max_files()) goto out; The function get_max_files() is a simple return of files_stat.max_files. files_stat.max_files is a signed integer and is computed in fs/file_table.c's files_init(). n = (mempages * (PAGE_SIZE / 1024)) / 10; files_stat.max_files = n; In our case, mempages (total_ram_pages) is approx 3,758,096,384 (0xe0000000). That leaves max_files at approximately 1,503,238,553. This causes 2 * get_max_files() to integer overflow. </quote> Fix is to let /proc/sys/fs/file-nr & /proc/sys/fs/file-max use long integers, and change af_unix to use an atomic_long_t instead of atomic_t. get_max_files() is changed to return an unsigned long. get_nr_files() is changed to return a long. unix_nr_socks is changed from atomic_t to atomic_long_t, while not strictly needed to address Robin problem. Before patch (on a 64bit kernel) : # echo 2147483648 >/proc/sys/fs/file-max # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max -18446744071562067968 After patch: # echo 2147483648 >/proc/sys/fs/file-max # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max 2147483648 # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr 704 0 2147483648 Reported-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Tested-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26drivers/misc: driver for APDS990X ALS and proximity sensorsSamu Onkalo
This is a driver for Avago APDS990X combined ALS and proximity sensor. Interface is sysfs based. The driver uses interrupts to provide new data. The driver supports pm_runtime and regulator frameworks. See Documentation/misc-devices/apds990x.txt for details 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>
2010-10-26drivers/misc: driver for bh1770glc / sfh7770 ALS and proximity sensorSamu Onkalo
This is a driver for ROHM BH1770GLC and OSRAM SFH7770 combined ALS and proximity sensor. Interface is sysfs based. The driver uses interrupts to provide new data. The driver supports pm_runtime and regulator frameworks. See Documentation/misc-devices/bh1770glc.txt for details 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>
2010-10-26workqueues: s/ON_STACK/ONSTACK/Andrew Morton
Silly though it is, completions and wait_queue_heads use foo_ONSTACK (COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK, DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK, __WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD_INIT_ONSTACK and DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD_ONSTACK) so I guess workqueues should do the same thing. s/INIT_WORK_ON_STACK/INIT_WORK_ONSTACK/ s/INIT_DELAYED_WORK_ON_STACK/INIT_DELAYED_WORK_ONSTACK/ Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26modules: no need to align .modinfo stringsJan Beulich
gcc aligns strings as a performance consideration for those cases where strings are being used a lot. Their use is not performance critical, and hence it seems better to save some space. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26include/linux/kernel.h: add __must_check to strict_strto*()Andrew Morton
The whole point to using the strict functions is to check the return value. If you don't, strict_strto*() will return you uninitialised garbage. Offenders have been observed in the wild. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26kernel.h: add {min,max}3 macrosHagen Paul Pfeifer
Introduce two additional min/max macros to compare three operands. This will save some cycles as well as some bytes on the stack and last but not least more pleasing as macro nesting. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings] Signed-off-by: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26mm: add vzalloc() and vzalloc_node() helpersDave Young
Add vzalloc() and vzalloc_node() to encapsulate the vmalloc-then-memset-zero operation. Use __GFP_ZERO to zero fill the allocated memory. Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26mm: fix sparse warnings on GFP_ZONE_TABLE/BADNamhyung Kim
Introduce ___GFP_* masks in order for gfp_t to not be mixed with plain integers which causes a lot of warnings like the following: warning: restricted gfp_t degrades to integer Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26mm: declare some external symbolsNamhyung Kim
Declare 'bdi_pending_list' and 'tag_pages_for_writeback()' to remove following sparse warnings: mm/backing-dev.c:46:1: warning: symbol 'bdi_pending_list' was not declared. Should it be static? mm/page-writeback.c:825:6: warning: symbol 'tag_pages_for_writeback' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26rmap: wrap page_check_address() using __cond_lock()Namhyung Kim
The page_check_address() conditionally grabs *@ptlp in case of returning non-NULL. Rename and wrap it using __cond_lock() removes following warnings from sparse: mm/rmap.c:472:9: warning: context imbalance in 'page_mapped_in_vma' - unexpected unlock mm/rmap.c:524:9: warning: context imbalance in 'page_referenced_one' - unexpected unlock mm/rmap.c:706:9: warning: context imbalance in 'page_mkclean_one' - unexpected unlock mm/rmap.c:1066:9: warning: context imbalance in 'try_to_unmap_one' - unexpected unlock Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26rmap: annotate lock context change on page_[un]lock_anon_vma()Namhyung Kim
The page_lock_anon_vma() conditionally grabs RCU and anon_vma lock but page_unlock_anon_vma() releases them unconditionally. This leads sparse to complain about context imbalance. Annotate them. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26mm: wrap get_locked_pte() using __cond_lock()Namhyung Kim
The get_locked_pte() conditionally grabs 'ptl' in case of returning non-NULL. This leads sparse to complain about context imbalance. Rename and wrap it using __cond_lock() to make sparse happy. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26mm: retry page fault when blocking on disk transferMichel Lespinasse
This change reduces mmap_sem hold times that are caused by waiting for disk transfers when accessing file mapped VMAs. It introduces the VM_FAULT_ALLOW_RETRY flag, which indicates that the call site wants mmap_sem to be released if blocking on a pending disk transfer. In that case, filemap_fault() returns the VM_FAULT_RETRY status bit and do_page_fault() will then re-acquire mmap_sem and retry the page fault. It is expected that the retry will hit the same page which will now be cached, and thus it will complete with a low mmap_sem hold time. Tests: - microbenchmark: thread A mmaps a large file and does random read accesses to the mmaped area - achieves about 55 iterations/s. Thread B does mmap/munmap in a loop at a separate location - achieves 55 iterations/s before, 15000 iterations/s after. - We are seeing related effects in some applications in house, which show significant performance regressions when running without this change. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning & crash] Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26mm: remove alignment padding from anon_vma on (some) 64 bit buildsRichard Kennedy
Reorder structure anon_vma to remove alignment padding on 64 builds when (CONFIG_KSM || CONFIG_MIGRATION). This will shrink the size of the anon_vma structure from 40 to 32 bytes & allow more objects per slab in its kmem_cache. Under slub the objects in the anon_vma kmem_cache will then be 40 bytes with 102 objects per slab. (On v2.6.36 without this patch,the size is 48 bytes and 85 objects/slab.) Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26mm: stack based kmap_atomic()Peter Zijlstra
Keep the current interface but ignore the KM_type and use a stack based approach. The advantage is that we get rid of crappy code like: #define __KM_PTE \ (in_nmi() ? KM_NMI_PTE : \ in_irq() ? KM_IRQ_PTE : \ KM_PTE0) and in general can stop worrying about what context we're in and what kmap slots might be appropriate for that. The downside is that FRV kmap_atomic() gets more expensive. For now we use a CPP trick suggested by Andrew: #define kmap_atomic(page, args...) __kmap_atomic(page) to avoid having to touch all kmap_atomic() users in a single patch. [ not compiled on: - mn10300: the arch doesn't actually build with highmem to begin with ] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_overlay.c] Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.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> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26mm: strictly nested kmap_atomic()Peter Zijlstra
Ensure kmap_atomic() usage is strictly nested Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.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>
2010-10-26writeback: do not sleep on the congestion queue if there are no congested ↵Mel Gorman
BDIs or if significant congestion is not being encountered in the current zone If congestion_wait() is called with no BDI congested, the caller will sleep for the full timeout and this may be an unnecessary sleep. This patch adds a wait_iff_congested() that checks congestion and only sleeps if a BDI is congested else, it calls cond_resched() to ensure the caller is not hogging the CPU longer than its quota but otherwise will not sleep. This is aimed at reducing some of the major desktop stalls reported during IO. For example, while kswapd is operating, it calls congestion_wait() but it could just have been reclaiming clean page cache pages with no congestion. Without this patch, it would sleep for a full timeout but after this patch, it'll just call schedule() if it has been on the CPU too long. Similar logic applies to direct reclaimers that are not making enough progress. 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> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26mm: fix typo in mm.h when NODE_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGSWill Deacon
NODE_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS is defined in mm.h when the node information is not stored in the page flags bitmap. Unfortunately, there's a typo in one of the checks for it. This patch fixes it (s/NODE_NOT_IN_PAGEFLAGS/NODE_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS/). Since this has been around for ages, I doubt it's been causing any serious problems. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26writeback: add nr_dirtied and nr_written to /proc/vmstatMichael Rubin
To help developers and applications gain visibility into writeback behaviour adding two entries to vm_stat_items and /proc/vmstat. This will allow us to track the "written" and "dirtied" counts. # grep nr_dirtied /proc/vmstat nr_dirtied 3747 # grep nr_written /proc/vmstat nr_written 3618 Signed-off-by: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com> Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26mm: add account_page_writeback()Michael Rubin
To help developers and applications gain visibility into writeback behaviour this patch adds two counters to /proc/vmstat. # grep nr_dirtied /proc/vmstat nr_dirtied 3747 # grep nr_written /proc/vmstat nr_written 3618 These entries allow user apps to understand writeback behaviour over time and learn how it is impacting their performance. Currently there is no way to inspect dirty and writeback speed over time. It's not possible for nr_dirty/nr_writeback. These entries are necessary to give visibility into writeback behaviour. We have /proc/diskstats which lets us understand the io in the block layer. We have blktrace for more in depth understanding. We have e2fsprogs and debugsfs to give insight into the file systems behaviour, but we don't offer our users the ability understand what writeback is doing. There is no way to know how active it is over the whole system, if it's falling behind or to quantify it's efforts. With these values exported users can easily see how much data applications are sending through writeback and also at what rates writeback is processing this data. Comparing the rates of change between the two allow developers to see when writeback is not able to keep up with incoming traffic and the rate of dirty memory being sent to the IO back end. This allows folks to understand their io workloads and track kernel issues. Non kernel engineers at Google often use these counters to solve puzzling performance problems. Patch #4 adds a pernode vmstat file with nr_dirtied and nr_written Patch #5 add writeback thresholds to /proc/vmstat Currently these values are in debugfs. But they should be promoted to /proc since they are useful for developers who are writing databases and file servers and are not debugging the kernel. The output is as below: # grep threshold /proc/vmstat nr_pages_dirty_threshold 409111 nr_pages_dirty_background_threshold 818223 This patch: This allows code outside of the mm core to safely manipulate page writeback state and not worry about the other accounting. Not using these routines means that some code will lose track of the accounting and we get bugs. Modify nilfs2 to use interface. Signed-off-by: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26memory hotplug: unify is_removable and offline detection codeKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Now, sysfs interface of memory hotplug shows whether the section is removable or not. But it checks only migrateype of pages and doesn't check details of cluster of pages. Next, memory hotplug's set_migratetype_isolate() has the same kind of check, too. This patch adds the function __count_unmovable_pages() and makes above 2 checks to use the same logic. Then, is_removable and hotremove code uses the same logic. No changes in the hotremove logic itself. TODO: need to find a way to check RECLAMABLE. But, considering bit, calling shrink_slab() against a range before starting memory hotremove sounds better. If so, this patch's logic doesn't need to be changed. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> 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>
2010-10-26mm: only build per-node scan_unevictable functions when NUMA is enabledThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Non-NUMA systems do never create these files anyway, since they are only created by driver subsystem when NUMA is configured. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26include/linux/pageblock-flags.h: fix set_pageblock_flags() macro definitonzeal
The presently-unused macro was missing one parameter. Signed-off-by: zeal <zealcook@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26oom: add per-mm oom disable countYing Han
It's pointless to kill a task if another thread sharing its mm cannot be killed to allow future memory freeing. A subsequent patch will prevent kills in such cases, but first it's necessary to have a way to flag a task that shares memory with an OOM_DISABLE task that doesn't incur an additional tasklist scan, which would make select_bad_process() an O(n^2) function. This patch adds an atomic counter to struct mm_struct that follows how many threads attached to it have an oom_score_adj of OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN. They cannot be killed by the kernel, so their memory cannot be freed in oom conditions. This only requires task_lock() on the task that we're operating on, it does not require mm->mmap_sem since task_lock() pins the mm and the operation is atomic. [rientjes@google.com: changelog and sys_unshare() code] [rientjes@google.com: protect oom_disable_count with task_lock in fork] [rientjes@google.com: use old_mm for oom_disable_count in exec] Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.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>
2010-10-26kfifo: disable __kfifo_must_check_helper()Andrew Morton
This helper is wrong: it coerces signed values into unsigned ones, so code such as if (kfifo_alloc(...) < 0) { error } will fail to detect the error. So let's disable __kfifo_must_check_helper() for 2.6.36. Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26types.h: move misplaced commentAndrew Morton
This comment landed in the wrong place. Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26Merge branches 'amso1100', 'cma', 'cxgb3', 'cxgb4', 'ehca', 'iboe', 'ipoib', ↵Roland Dreier
'misc', 'mlx4', 'nes', 'qib' and 'srp' into for-next
2010-10-26resources: support allocating space within a region from the top downBjorn Helgaas
Allocate space from the top of a region first, then work downward, if an architecture desires this. When we allocate space from a resource, we look for gaps between children of the resource. Previously, we always looked at gaps from the bottom up. For example, given this: [mem 0xbff00000-0xf7ffffff] PCI Bus 0000:00 [mem 0xbff00000-0xbfffffff] gap -- available [mem 0xc0000000-0xdfffffff] PCI Bus 0000:02 [mem 0xe0000000-0xf7ffffff] gap -- available we attempted to allocate from the [mem 0xbff00000-0xbfffffff] gap first, then the [mem 0xe0000000-0xf7ffffff] gap. With this patch an architecture can choose to allocate from the top gap [mem 0xe0000000-0xf7ffffff] first. We can't do this across the board because iomem_resource.end is initialized to 0xffffffff_ffffffff on 64-bit architectures, and most machines can't address the entire 64-bit physical address space. Therefore, we only allocate top-down if the arch requests it by clearing "resource_alloc_from_bottom". Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-10-26Merge branch 'misc' into releaseLen Brown
2010-10-26Merge branch 'ima-memory-use-fixes'Linus Torvalds
* ima-memory-use-fixes: IMA: fix the ToMToU logic IMA: explicit IMA i_flag to remove global lock on inode_delete IMA: drop refcnt from ima_iint_cache since it isn't needed IMA: only allocate iint when needed IMA: move read counter into struct inode IMA: use i_writecount rather than a private counter IMA: use inode->i_lock to protect read and write counters IMA: convert internal flags from long to char IMA: use unsigned int instead of long for counters IMA: drop the inode opencount since it isn't needed for operation IMA: use rbtree instead of radix tree for inode information cache
2010-10-26IMA: explicit IMA i_flag to remove global lock on inode_deleteEric Paris
Currently for every removed inode IMA must take a global lock and search the IMA rbtree looking for an associated integrity structure. Instead we explicitly mark an inode when we add an integrity structure so we only have to take the global lock and do the removal if it exists. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26IMA: move read counter into struct inodeEric Paris
IMA currently allocated an inode integrity structure for every inode in core. This stucture is about 120 bytes long. Most files however (especially on a system which doesn't make use of IMA) will never need any of this space. The problem is that if IMA is enabled we need to know information about the number of readers and the number of writers for every inode on the box. At the moment we collect that information in the per inode iint structure and waste the rest of the space. This patch moves those counters into the struct inode so we can eventually stop allocating an IMA integrity structure except when absolutely needed. This patch does the minimum needed to move the location of the data. Further cleanups, especially the location of counter updates, may still be possible. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26Merge git://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6: power_supply: Makefile cleanup bq27x00_battery: Add missing kfree(di->bus) in bq27x00_battery_remove() power_supply: Introduce maximum current property power_supply: Add types for USB chargers ds2782_battery: Fix units power_supply: Add driver for TWL4030/TPS65950 BCI charger bq20z75: Add support for more power supply properties wm831x_power: Add missing kfree(wm831x_power) in wm831x_power_remove() jz4740-battery: Add missing kfree(jz_battery) in jz_battery_remove() ds2760_battery: Add missing kfree(di) in ds2760_battery_remove() olpc_battery: Fix endian neutral breakage for s16 values ds2760_battery: Fix W1 and W1_SLAVE_DS2760 dependency pcf50633-charger: Add missing sysfs_remove_group() power_supply: Add driver for TI BQ20Z75 gas gauge IC wm831x_power: Remove duplicate chg mask omap: rx51: Add support for USB chargers power_supply: Add isp1704 charger detection driver
2010-10-26Merge branch 'hwpoison' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: (22 commits) Add _addr_lsb field to ia64 siginfo Fix migration.c compilation on s390 HWPOISON: Remove retry loop for try_to_unmap HWPOISON: Turn addr_valid from bitfield into char HWPOISON: Disable DEBUG by default HWPOISON: Convert pr_debugs to pr_info HWPOISON: Improve comments in memory-failure.c x86: HWPOISON: Report correct address granuality for huge hwpoison faults Encode huge page size for VM_FAULT_HWPOISON errors Fix build error with !CONFIG_MIGRATION hugepage: move is_hugepage_on_freelist inside ifdef to avoid warning Clean up __page_set_anon_rmap HWPOISON, hugetlb: fix unpoison for hugepage HWPOISON, hugetlb: soft offlining for hugepage HWPOSION, hugetlb: recover from free hugepage error when !MF_COUNT_INCREASED hugetlb: move refcounting in hugepage allocation inside hugetlb_lock HWPOISON, hugetlb: add free check to dequeue_hwpoison_huge_page() hugetlb: hugepage migration core hugetlb: redefine hugepage copy functions hugetlb: add allocate function for hugepage migration ...
2010-10-26Merge branch 'for-2.6.37' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linuxLinus Torvalds
* 'for-2.6.37' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (99 commits) svcrpc: svc_tcp_sendto XPT_DEAD check is redundant svcrpc: no need for XPT_DEAD check in svc_xprt_enqueue svcrpc: assume svc_delete_xprt() called only once svcrpc: never clear XPT_BUSY on dead xprt nfsd4: fix connection allocation in sequence() nfsd4: only require krb5 principal for NFSv4.0 callbacks nfsd4: move minorversion to client nfsd4: delay session removal till free_client nfsd4: separate callback change and callback probe nfsd4: callback program number is per-session nfsd4: track backchannel connections nfsd4: confirm only on succesful create_session nfsd4: make backchannel sequence number per-session nfsd4: use client pointer to backchannel session nfsd4: move callback setup into session init code nfsd4: don't cache seq_misordered replies SUNRPC: Properly initialize sock_xprt.srcaddr in all cases SUNRPC: Use conventional switch statement when reclassifying sockets sunrpc/xprtrdma: clean up workqueue usage sunrpc: Turn list_for_each-s into the ..._entry-s ... Fix up trivial conflicts (two different deprecation notices added in separate branches) in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
2010-10-26Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: net/sunrpc: Use static const char arrays nfs4: fix channel attribute sanity-checks NFSv4.1: Use more sensible names for 'initialize_mountpoint' NFSv4.1: pnfs: filelayout: add driver's LAYOUTGET and GETDEVICEINFO infrastructure NFSv4.1: pnfs: add LAYOUTGET and GETDEVICEINFO infrastructure NFS: client needs to maintain list of inodes with active layouts NFS: create and destroy inode's layout cache NFSv4.1: pnfs: filelayout: introduce minimal file layout driver NFSv4.1: pnfs: full mount/umount infrastructure NFS: set layout driver NFS: ask for layouttypes during v4 fsinfo call NFS: change stateid to be a union NFSv4.1: pnfsd, pnfs: protocol level pnfs constants SUNRPC: define xdr_decode_opaque_fixed NFSD: remove duplicate NFS4_STATEID_SIZE
2010-10-26Merge branch 'tip/perf/ringbuffer-2' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/urgent
2010-10-26mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: make sector erase command variableGuillaume LECERF
Some old SST chips use 0x50 as sector erase command, instead of 0x30. Make this value variable to handle such chips. Signed-off-by: Guillaume LECERF <glecerf@gmail.com> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2010-10-26genirq: Add single IRQ reservation helperPaul Mundt
For cases that wish to reserve a single IRQ at a given place simply provide a wrapper in to the ranged reservation routine. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> LKML-Reference: <20101026071912.GD4733@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-10-26sh: Switch dynamic IRQ creation to generic irq allocator.Paul Mundt
Now that the genirq code provides an IRQ bitmap of its own and the necessary API to manipulate it, there's no need to keep our own version around anymore. In the process we kill off some unused IRQ reservation code, with future users now having to tie in to the genirq API as normal. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>