This document is based on three recent lwn.net articles.
Some of the introductory material and linkage between articles
has been removed, and some time-based descriptions have been
revised.
Also all links to code have been removed as the code is very close by.
Contains corrections and improvements from Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add documentation on how to use slabinfo-gnuplot.sh script.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This patch fix some spelling typos in Documentation/ABI/stable.
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The kernel NMI watchdog acts as both a hardlockup and softlockup detector.
However, the kernel parameter nmi_watchdog can only enable or disable the
hardlockup detector. Clarify that in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The #kernelnewbies irc channel is no longer hosted on
irc.openprojects.net but on irc.oftc.net.
Removed pointer to different regional servers since oftc already uses
geo-IP load balancing.
The "description" quoted from the website no longer exists,
therefore removed the reference, quotes and carets.
The paragraph also contains a pointer to the kernelnewbies.org website.
Therefore changing the title to:
"Kernel Newbies IRC Channel and Website."
Signed-off-by: Richard Sailer <richard@weltraumpflege.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This patch fix spelling typos in Documentation/virtual/kvm.
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
bc is mentioned lower in a dedicated section.
Yet it is useful to have all dependencies listed in
"Current Minimal Requirements" section.
Signed-off-by: Benoit Lemarchand <benoit.lemarchand@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Currently the encoding of documents generated by DocBook depends on
the current locale. Make the output reproducible independently of
the locale, by setting the encoding to UTF-8 (LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8) by
preference, or ASCII (LC_CTYPE=C) as a fallback.
LC_CTYPE can normally be overridden by LC_ALL, but the top-level
Makefile unsets that.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
[jc: added check-lc_ctype to .gitignore]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This form of the earlycon parameter was added by commit fb11ffe74c
("of/fdt: add FDT serial scanning for earlycon") without documentation.
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The examples should better match what kernel developers actually expect,
so that they set a good example both for this project and for other
projects with similar development processes.
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The gpiolib supports parsing DT properties of the form <function>-gpio
but it was only added for compatibility with older DT bindings that got
it wrong and should not be used in newer bindings.
The commit that added support for this was:
dd34c37aa3 ("gpio: of: Allow -gpio suffix for property names")
but didn't update the documentation to explain this so it's been a source
of confusion. So let's make clear this in the GPIO documentation.
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Just fix some typos in blkio-controller.txt, freezer-subsystem.txt,
unified-hierarchy.txt.
Signed-off-by: Yuan Sun <sunyuan3@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add document for how to install selftests.
Signed-off-by: Wang Long <long.wanglong@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The nents argument to the DMA API functions operating on scatterlists is
always the same. The documentation used different argument names and the
matter was not mentioned in Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt at all. Fix
these.
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
In commit 94fb933 ("x86/crash: Allocate enough low memory when
crashkernel=high") the default value of crashkernel low memory
is changed to 256M. In this patch update it accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Several documentation changes.
First, we never mentioned any errors and never required any
error checks in documentation.
Second, mention that there is another way to configure and
manage zram devices -- zramctl, provided by util-linux.
Third, add a bit of clarification on why `mem_used_max' attr
is RW and correct some typos.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
A disappointingly large collection of fixes for SPI issues, though
almost all in drivers (and there mainly the newly added Mediatek
driver) and the core fixes are documentation and error handling. The
driver fixes are all of the usual important if you see them variety.
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Merge tag 'spi-fix-v4.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi
Pull spi fixes from Mark Brown:
"A disappointingly large collection of fixes for SPI issues, though
almost all in drivers (and there mainly the newly added Mediatek
driver) and the core fixes are documentation and error handling.
The driver fixes are all of the usual 'important if you see them'
variety"
* tag 'spi-fix-v4.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi:
spi: xtensa-xtfpga: fix register endianness
spi: meson: Fix module autoload for OF platform driver
spi: mediatek: fix wrong error return value on probe
spi: fix kernel-doc warnings in spi.h
spi: spidev: fix possible NULL dereference
spi: atmel: remove warning when !CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
spi: bcm2835: BUG: fix wrong use of PAGE_MASK
spi: mediatek: fix spi cs polarity error
spi: Fix documentation of spi_alloc_master()
spi: spi-pxa2xx: Check status register to determine if SSSR_TINT is disabled
spi: Mediatek: Document devicetree bindings update for spi bus
spi: mediatek: fix spi clock usage error
spi: mediatek: remove clk_disable_unprepare()
This patch fix spelling typos in Documentation/misc-devices.
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
With Linux 3.15 the infrastructure for CAN FD hardware drivers had been
introduced into the kernel. Now the M_CAN driver and the peak_usb driver
support CAN FD. Update the documentation to show the latest CAN related
configuration options of 'ip' from iproute2 and describe the CAN FD specific
options to set the data bitrate and protocol version (ISO/non-ISO).
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Pull locking fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Spinlock performance regression fix, plus documentation fixes"
* 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
locking/static_keys: Fix up the static keys documentation
locking/qspinlock/x86: Only emit the test-and-set fallback when building guest support
locking/qspinlock/x86: Fix performance regression under unaccelerated VMs
locking/static_keys: Fix a silly typo
Add support for NCT6793D, and fix swapped registers.
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Merge tag 'hwmon-for-linus-v4.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging
Pull hwmon fixes from Guenter Roeck:
"Two patches for the nct6775 driver: add support for NCT6793D, and fix
swapped registers"
* tag 'hwmon-for-linus-v4.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging:
hwmon: (nct6775) Add support for NCT6793D
hwmon: (nct6775) Swap STEP_UP_TIME and STEP_DOWN_TIME registers for most chips
Fix a few small mistakes in the static key documentation and
delete an unneeded sentence.
Suggested-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150914171105.511e1e21@lwn.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The GPIO documentation mentions that GPIOs are mapped by defining a
<function>-gpios property in the consumer device's node but a -gpio
sufix is also supported after commit:
dd34c37aa3 ("gpio: of: Allow -gpio suffix for property names")
Update the documentation to match the implementation.
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
The con_id parameter has to match the GPIO description and is automatically
extended by the GPIO suffix if not NULL. I had to look into the code to
understand this and properly find the GPIO I've been looking for, so document
this.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
With commit 39b2bbe3d7 ("gpio: add flags argument to gpiod_get*()
functions") the gpiod_get*() functions got a 'flags' parameter. Reflect
this in the documentation, too.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Without knowing this, the use of sysfs_streq() becomes puzzling.
The termination happens in kernfs_fop_write().
Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com>
[jc: moved the new text to a different paragraph]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
- sysfs_dirent is now kernfs_node - see commit 324a56e16e ("kernfs:
s/sysfs_dirent/kernfs_node/ and rename its friends accordingly")
- sysfs_super_info is now kernfs_super_info - see commit c525aaddc3
("kernfs: s/sysfs/kernfs/ in various data structures")
- the 's_' prefix was dropped from various fields - see
commit adc5e8b58f ("kernfs: drop s_ prefix from kernfs_node members")
Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
sysfs_dirent went away when kernfs was extracted from sysfs. The reference
to the kobject now lives in a kernfs_node (in the 'priv' member).
See commit 324a56e16e ("kernfs: s/sysfs_dirent/kernfs_node/ and rename
its friends accordingly").
Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
These are generated as part of 'make htmldocs'. If we don't ignore them,
then most of our generated subdirectories get treated as "untracked" by
git.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
NCT6793D is register compatible with NCT6792D.
Also move nct6775_sio_names[] closer to enum kinds to simplify
adding new chips.
Tested-by: Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Pull more input updates from Dmitry Torokhov:
"Second round of updates for the input subsystem.
This introduces two brand new touchscreen drivers (Colibri and
imx6ul_tsc), some small driver fixes, and we are no longer report
errors from evdev_flush() as users do not really have a way of
handling errors, error codes that we were returning were not on the
list of errors supposed to be returned by close(), and errors were
causing issues with one of older versions of systemd"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
Input: imx_keypad - remove obsolete comment
Input: touchscreen - add imx6ul_tsc driver support
Input: Add touchscreen support for Colibri VF50
Input: i8042 - lower log level for "no controller" message
Input: evdev - do not report errors form flush()
Input: elants_i2c - extend the calibration timeout to 12 seconds
Input: sparcspkr - fix module autoload for OF platform drivers
Input: regulator-haptic - fix module autoload for OF platform driver
Input: pwm-beeper - fix module autoload for OF platform driver
Input: ab8500-ponkey - Fix module autoload for OF platform driver
Input: cyttsp - remove unnecessary MODULE_ALIAS()
Input: elan_i2c - add ACPI ID "ELAN1000"
Pull thermal updates from Zhang Rui:
- use int instead of unsigned long to represent temperature to avoid
bogus overheat detection when negative temperature reported. From
Sascha Hauer.
- export available thermal governors information to user space via
sysfs. From Wei Ni.
- introduce new thermal driver for Wildcat Point platform controller
hub, which uses PCH thermal sensor and associated critical and hot
trip points. From Tushar Dave.
- add suuport for Intel Skylake and Denlow platforms in powerclamp
driver.
- some small cleanups in thermal core.
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux:
thermal: Add Intel PCH thermal driver
thermal: Add comment explaining test for critical temperature
thermal: Use IS_ENABLED instead of #ifdef
thermal: remove unnecessary call to thermal_zone_device_set_polling
thermal: trivial: fix typo in comment
thermal: consistently use int for temperatures
thermal: add available policies sysfs attribute
thermal/powerclamp: add cpu id for denlow platform
thermal/powerclamp: add cpu id for Skylake u/y
thermal/powerclamp: add cpu id for skylake h/s
Pull watchdog updates from Wim Van Sebroeck:
- new driver for NXP LPC18xx Watchdog Timer
- new driver for SAMA5D4 watchdog timer
- add support for MCP79 to nv_tco driver
- clean-up and improvement of the mpc8xxx watchdog driver
- improvements to gpio-wdt
- at91sam9_wdt clock improvements
... and other small fixes and improvements
* git://www.linux-watchdog.org/linux-watchdog: (25 commits)
Watchdog: Fix parent of watchdog_devices
watchdog: at91rm9200: Correct check for syscon_node_to_regmap() errors
watchdog: at91sam9: get and use slow clock
Documentation: dt: binding: atmel-sama5d4-wdt: for SAMA5D4 watchdog driver
watchdog: add a driver to support SAMA5D4 watchdog timer
watchdog: mpc8xxx: allow to compile for MPC512x
watchdog: mpc8xxx: use better error code when watchdog cannot be enabled
watchdog: mpc8xxx: use dynamic memory for device specific data
watchdog: mpc8xxx: use devm_ioremap_resource to map memory
watchdog: mpc8xxx: make use of of_device_get_match_data
watchdog: mpc8xxx: simplify registration
watchdog: mpc8xxx: remove dead code
watchdog: lpc18xx_wdt_get_timeleft() can be static
DT: watchdog: Add NXP LPC18xx Watchdog Timer binding documentation
watchdog: NXP LPC18xx Watchdog Timer Driver
watchdog: gpio-wdt: ping already at startup for always running devices
watchdog: gpio-wdt: be more strict about hw_algo matching
Documentation: watchdog: at91sam9_wdt: add clocks property
watchdog: booke_wdt: Use infrastructure to check timeout limits
watchdog: (nv_tco) add support for MCP79
...
Pull blk-cg updates from Jens Axboe:
"A bit later in the cycle, but this has been in the block tree for a a
while. This is basically four patchsets from Tejun, that improve our
buffered cgroup writeback. It was dependent on the other cgroup
changes, but they went in earlier in this cycle.
Series 1 is set of 5 patches that has cgroup writeback updates:
- bdi_writeback iteration fix which could lead to some wb's being
skipped or repeated during e.g. sync under memory pressure.
- Simplification of wb work wait mechanism.
- Writeback tracepoints updated to report cgroup.
Series 2 is is a set of updates for the CFQ cgroup writeback handling:
cfq has always charged all async IOs to the root cgroup. It didn't
have much choice as writeback didn't know about cgroups and there
was no way to tell who to blame for a given writeback IO.
writeback finally grew support for cgroups and now tags each
writeback IO with the appropriate cgroup to charge it against.
This patchset updates cfq so that it follows the blkcg each bio is
tagged with. Async cfq_queues are now shared across cfq_group,
which is per-cgroup, instead of per-request_queue cfq_data. This
makes all IOs follow the weight based IO resource distribution
implemented by cfq.
- Switched from GFP_ATOMIC to GFP_NOWAIT as suggested by Jeff.
- Other misc review points addressed, acks added and rebased.
Series 3 is the blkcg policy cleanup patches:
This patchset contains assorted cleanups for blkcg_policy methods
and blk[c]g_policy_data handling.
- alloc/free added for blkg_policy_data. exit dropped.
- alloc/free added for blkcg_policy_data.
- blk-throttle's async percpu allocation is replaced with direct
allocation.
- all methods now take blk[c]g_policy_data instead of blkcg_gq or
blkcg.
And finally, series 4 is a set of patches cleaning up the blkcg stats
handling:
blkcg's stats have always been somwhat of a mess. This patchset
tries to improve the situation a bit.
- The following patches added to consolidate blkcg entry point and
blkg creation. This is in itself is an improvement and helps
colllecting common stats on bio issue.
- per-blkg stats now accounted on bio issue rather than request
completion so that bio based and request based drivers can behave
the same way. The issue was spotted by Vivek.
- cfq-iosched implements custom recursive stats and blk-throttle
implements custom per-cpu stats. This patchset make blkcg core
support both by default.
- cfq-iosched and blk-throttle keep track of the same stats
multiple times. Unify them"
* 'for-4.3/blkcg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (45 commits)
blkcg: use CGROUP_WEIGHT_* scale for io.weight on the unified hierarchy
blkcg: s/CFQ_WEIGHT_*/CFQ_WEIGHT_LEGACY_*/
blkcg: implement interface for the unified hierarchy
blkcg: misc preparations for unified hierarchy interface
blkcg: separate out tg_conf_updated() from tg_set_conf()
blkcg: move body parsing from blkg_conf_prep() to its callers
blkcg: mark existing cftypes as legacy
blkcg: rename subsystem name from blkio to io
blkcg: refine error codes returned during blkcg configuration
blkcg: remove unnecessary NULL checks from __cfqg_set_weight_device()
blkcg: reduce stack usage of blkg_rwstat_recursive_sum()
blkcg: remove cfqg_stats->sectors
blkcg: move io_service_bytes and io_serviced stats into blkcg_gq
blkcg: make blkg_[rw]stat_recursive_sum() to be able to index into blkcg_gq
blkcg: make blkcg_[rw]stat per-cpu
blkcg: add blkg_[rw]stat->aux_cnt and replace cfq_group->dead_stats with it
blkcg: consolidate blkg creation in blkcg_bio_issue_check()
blk-throttle: improve queue bypass handling
blkcg: move root blkg lookup optimization from throtl_lookup_tg() to __blkg_lookup()
blkcg: inline [__]blkg_lookup()
...
Merge third patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- even more of the rest of MM
- lib/ updates
- checkpatch updates
- small changes to a few scruffy filesystems
- kmod fixes/cleanups
- kexec updates
- a dma-mapping cleanup series from hch
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (81 commits)
dma-mapping: consolidate dma_set_mask
dma-mapping: consolidate dma_supported
dma-mapping: cosolidate dma_mapping_error
dma-mapping: consolidate dma_{alloc,free}_noncoherent
dma-mapping: consolidate dma_{alloc,free}_{attrs,coherent}
mm: use vma_is_anonymous() in create_huge_pmd() and wp_huge_pmd()
mm: make sure all file VMAs have ->vm_ops set
mm, mpx: add "vm_flags_t vm_flags" arg to do_mmap_pgoff()
mm: mark most vm_operations_struct const
namei: fix warning while make xmldocs caused by namei.c
ipc: convert invalid scenarios to use WARN_ON
zlib_deflate/deftree: remove bi_reverse()
lib/decompress_unlzma: Do a NULL check for pointer
lib/decompressors: use real out buf size for gunzip with kernel
fs/affs: make root lookup from blkdev logical size
sysctl: fix int -> unsigned long assignments in INT_MIN case
kexec: export KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE to vmcoreinfo
kexec: align crash_notes allocation to make it be inside one physical page
kexec: remove unnecessary test in kimage_alloc_crash_control_pages()
kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code
...
This is a collection of a few late fixes and other misc. stuff that
had dependencies on things being merged from other trees.
The bulk of the changes are for samsung/exynos SoCs for some changes
that needed a few minor reworks so ended up a bit late. The others
are mainly for qcom SoCs: a couple fixes and some DTS updates.
There's one conflict with drivers/cpufreq/exynos-cpufreq.c because
it's now been completely removed, but there were some fixes that hit
mainline in the meantime.
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Merge tag 'armsoc-late' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Pull late ARM SoC updates from Kevin Hilman:
"This is a collection of a few late fixes and other misc stuff that had
dependencies on things being merged from other trees.
The bulk of the changes are for samsung/exynos SoCs for some changes
that needed a few minor reworks so ended up a bit late. The others
are mainly for qcom SoCs: a couple fixes and some DTS updates"
* tag 'armsoc-late' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (37 commits)
ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable PBIAS regulator
soc: qcom: smd: Correct fBLOCKREADINTR handling
soc: qcom: smd: Use correct remote processor ID
soc: qcom: smem: Fix errant private access
ARM: dts: qcom: msm8974-sony-xperia-honami: Use stdout-path
ARM: dts: qcom: msm8960-cdp: Use stdout-path
ARM: dts: qcom: msm8660-surf: Use stdout-path
ARM: dts: qcom: ipq8064-ap148: Use stdout-path
ARM: dts: qcom: apq8084-mtp: Use stdout-path
ARM: dts: qcom: apq8084-ifc6540: Use stdout-path
ARM: dts: qcom: apq8074-dragonboard: Use stdout-path
ARM: dts: qcom: apq8064-ifc6410: Use stdout-path
ARM: dts: qcom: apq8064-cm-qs600: Use stdout-path
ARM: dts: qcom: Label serial nodes for aliasing and stdout-path
reset: ath79: Fix missing spin_lock_init
reset: Add (devm_)reset_control_get stub functions
ARM: EXYNOS: switch to using generic cpufreq driver for exynos4x12
cpufreq: exynos: Remove unselectable rule for arm-exynos-cpufreq.o
ARM: dts: add iommu property to JPEG device for exynos4
ARM: dts: enable SPI1 for exynos4412-odroidu3
...
As noted by Minchan, a benefit of reading idle flag from /proc/kpageflags
is that one can easily filter dirty and/or unevictable pages while
estimating the size of unused memory.
Note that idle flag read from /proc/kpageflags may be stale in case the
page was accessed via a PTE, because it would be too costly to iterate
over all page mappings on each /proc/kpageflags read to provide an
up-to-date value. To make sure the flag is up-to-date one has to read
/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap first.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Knowing the portion of memory that is not used by a certain application or
memory cgroup (idle memory) can be useful for partitioning the system
efficiently, e.g. by setting memory cgroup limits appropriately.
Currently, the only means to estimate the amount of idle memory provided
by the kernel is /proc/PID/{clear_refs,smaps}: the user can clear the
access bit for all pages mapped to a particular process by writing 1 to
clear_refs, wait for some time, and then count smaps:Referenced. However,
this method has two serious shortcomings:
- it does not count unmapped file pages
- it affects the reclaimer logic
To overcome these drawbacks, this patch introduces two new page flags,
Idle and Young, and a new sysfs file, /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap.
A page's Idle flag can only be set from userspace by setting bit in
/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap at the offset corresponding to the page,
and it is cleared whenever the page is accessed either through page tables
(it is cleared in page_referenced() in this case) or using the read(2)
system call (mark_page_accessed()). Thus by setting the Idle flag for
pages of a particular workload, which can be found e.g. by reading
/proc/PID/pagemap, waiting for some time to let the workload access its
working set, and then reading the bitmap file, one can estimate the amount
of pages that are not used by the workload.
The Young page flag is used to avoid interference with the memory
reclaimer. A page's Young flag is set whenever the Access bit of a page
table entry pointing to the page is cleared by writing to the bitmap file.
If page_referenced() is called on a Young page, it will add 1 to its
return value, therefore concealing the fact that the Access bit was
cleared.
Note, since there is no room for extra page flags on 32 bit, this feature
uses extended page flags when compiled on 32 bit.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: kpageidle requires an MMU]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: decouple from page-flags rework]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/proc/kpagecgroup contains a 64-bit inode number of the memory cgroup each
page is charged to, indexed by PFN. Having this information is useful for
estimating a cgroup working set size.
The file is present if CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR && CONFIG_MEMCG.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change the Documentation/vm/zswap.txt doc to indicate that the "zpool" and
"compressor" params are now changeable at runtime.
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
