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Author SHA1 Message Date
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
7d98c21bd0 kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt: standardize document format
Each text file under Documentation follows a different
format. Some doesn't even have titles!

Change its representation to follow the adopted standard,
using ReST markups for it to be parseable by Sphinx:

- Use title markups;
- use "-" for bulletted lists;
- Split Name/Purpose on two lines, in order to make visually
  easier to read (in text format), and to bold the title
  (on ReST output)
- Add blank lines to split bulleted lists;
- use sub-titles for the several kthread softirq types;
- mark one literal var with asterisk as such, in order to
  avoid an error warning on Sphinx.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-07-14 13:51:43 -06:00
Paul E. McKenney
44c65ff2e3 rcu: Eliminate NOCBs CPU-state Kconfig options
The CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL, CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE, and
CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO Kconfig options are used only in testing and
are redundant with the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.  This commit therefore
removes these three Kconfig options and adjusts the rcutorture scripts
to use the boot parameter instead.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08 18:52:43 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
8c27ceff36 docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved
The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced
along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to
the right places.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
seokhoon.yoon
09c3bcce7c Documenation: update cgroup's document path
cgroup's document path is changed to "cgroup-v1". update it.

Signed-off-by: seokhoon.yoon <iamyooon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-08-03 15:43:58 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
511cbce2ff irq_poll: make blk-iopoll available outside the block layer
The new name is irq_poll as iopoll is already taken.  Better suggestions
welcome.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
2015-12-11 11:52:24 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
f1360570f4 documentation: Update per-CPU kthreads documentation
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26 11:57:30 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
89bf5d82ed documentation: Update based on on-demand vmstat workers
Now that the on-demand vmstat workers commit is in mainline, it is
possible to eliminate vmstat_update()-induced OS jitter.  This commit
updates the documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26 11:57:28 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
bbf393b0d5 Documentation/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt: Workqueue affinity
This commit documents the ability to apply CPU affinity to WQ_SYSFS
workqueues, thus offloading them from the desired worker CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-17 14:56:08 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
64f26e5c86 kthread: Add pointer to vmstat-avoidance patch
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-09-25 06:49:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
80cc38b163 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
 "The usual stuff from trivial tree"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
  treewide: relase -> release
  Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt: fix stat file documentation
  sysctl/net.txt: delete reference to obsolete 2.4.x kernel
  spinlock_api_smp.h: fix preprocessor comments
  treewide: Fix typo in printk
  doc: device tree: clarify stuff in usage-model.txt.
  open firmware: "/aliasas" -> "/aliases"
  md: bcache: Fixed a typo with the word 'arithmetic'
  irq/generic-chip: fix a few kernel-doc entries
  frv: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table
  sgi: xpc: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table
  doc: clk: Fix incorrect wording
  Documentation/arm/IXP4xx fix a typo
  Documentation/networking/ieee802154 fix a typo
  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l fix a typo
  Documentation/video4linux/si476x.txt fix a typo
  Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt fix a typo
  Documentation/early-userspace/README fix a typo
  Documentation/video4linux/soc-camera.txt fix a typo
  lguest: fix CONFIG_PAE -> CONFIG_x86_PAE in comment
  ...
2013-07-04 11:40:58 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
f7bac9b85a kthread: Add kworker kthreads to OS-jitter documentation
The kworker workqueue kthreads can also contribute to OS jitter.
The amount of jitter depends on their use, so this commit adds
documentation on avoiding OS jitter due to workqueue use.

Reported-by: Jonathan Clairembault <jonathan.clairembault@novasparks.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-06-10 13:42:38 -07:00
Paul Bolle
b965162208 rcu: Fix Documentation typo 'CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPUS'
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-05-28 10:10:33 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
49717cb404 kthread: Document ways of reducing OS jitter due to per-CPU kthreads
The Linux kernel uses a number of per-CPU kthreads, any of which might
contribute to OS jitter at any time.  The usual approach to normal
kthreads, namely to bind them to a "housekeeping" CPU, does not work
with these kthreads because they cannot operate correctly if moved to
some other CPU.  This commit therefore lists ways of controlling OS
jitter from the Linux kernel's per-CPU kthreads.  It also lists some
ways of diagnosing excessive jitter.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Olivier Baetz <olivier.baetz@novasparks.com>
Cc: Pradeep Satyanarayana <pradeeps@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
2013-04-27 16:52:47 -07:00