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* Merge branch 'i2c-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-10-046-12/+16
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging * 'i2c-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging: macintosh: Don't assume i2c device probing always succeeds i2c: Hide probe errors caused by ACPI resource conflicts i2c: Minor documentation update mfd: AB3100 drop unused module parameters Staging: IIO: tsl2561: Drop unused module parameters leds: leds-pca9532 - Drop unused module parameters ltc4215/ltc4245: Discard obsolete detect methods ds2482: Discard obsolete detect method max6875: Discard obsolete detect method i2c: Move misc devices documentation
| * i2c: Minor documentation updateJean Delvare2009-10-041-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The sysfs path to i2c adapters has changed recently, update the documentation to reflect that change. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
| * ltc4215/ltc4245: Discard obsolete detect methodsJean Delvare2009-10-042-6/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is no point in implementing a detect callback for the LTC4215 and LTC4245, as these devices can't be detected. It was there solely to handle "force" module parameters to instantiate devices, but now we have a better sysfs interface that can do the same. So we can get rid of the ugly module parameters and the detect callbacks. This shrinks the binary module sizes by 36% and 46%, respectively. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
| * ds2482: Discard obsolete detect methodJean Delvare2009-10-041-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is no point in implementing a detect callback for the DS2482, as this device can't be detected. It was there solely to handle "force" module parameters to instantiate devices, but now we have a better sysfs interface that can do the same. So we can get rid of the ugly module parameters and the detect callback. This shrinks the binary module size by 21%. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Ben Gardner <gardner.ben@gmail.com>
| * max6875: Discard obsolete detect methodJean Delvare2009-10-041-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is no point in implementing a detect callback for the MAX6875, as this device can't be detected. It was there solely to handle "force" module parameters to instantiate devices, but now we have a better sysfs interface that can do the same. So we can get rid of the ugly module parameters and the detect callback. This basically divides the binary module size by 2. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Ben Gardner <gardner.ben@gmail.com>
| * i2c: Move misc devices documentationJean Delvare2009-10-042-0/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some times ago the eeprom and max6875 drivers moved to drivers/misc/eeprom, but their documentation did not follow. It's finally time to get rid of Documentation/i2c/chips. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Ben Gardner <gardner.ben@gmail.com> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2009-10-041-0/+28
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (41 commits) Revert "Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests" cfq-iosched: don't delay async queue if it hasn't dispatched at all block: Topology ioctls cfq-iosched: use assigned slice sync value, not default cfq-iosched: rename 'desktop' sysfs entry to 'low_latency' cfq-iosched: implement slower async initiate and queue ramp up cfq-iosched: delay async IO dispatch, if sync IO was just done cfq-iosched: add a knob for desktop interactiveness Add a tracepoint for block request remapping block: allow large discard requests block: use normal I/O path for discard requests swapfile: avoid NULL pointer dereference in swapon when s_bdev is NULL fs/bio.c: move EXPORT* macros to line after function Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfs cciss: fix build when !PROC_FS block: Do not clamp max_hw_sectors for stacking devices block: Set max_sectors correctly for stacking devices cciss: cciss_host_attr_groups should be const cciss: Dynamically allocate the drive_info_struct for each logical drive. cciss: Add usage_count attribute to each logical drive in /sys ...
| * cciss: Add usage_count attribute to each logical drive in /sysStephen M. Cameron2009-10-011-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add usage_count attribute to each logical drive at /sys/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/usage_count for controller X, logical drive Y. The usage count is the number of times the device has currently been opened. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
| * cciss: Add a "raid_level" attribute to each logical drive in /sysStephen M. Cameron2009-10-011-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | and change get rid of some magic numbers in raid lavel decoding. Add raid_level attribute to each logical drive at /sys/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/raid_level for controller X, logical drive Y Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
| * cciss: Add lunid attribute to each logical drive in /sysStephen M. Cameron2009-10-011-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add lunid attribute to each logical drive at /sys/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/lunid for controller X, logical drive Y Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
| * cciss: Allow triggering of rescan of logical drive topology via sysfs entryAndrew Patterson2009-10-011-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Added /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/rescan sysfs entry used to kick off a rescan that discovers logical drive topology changes. Signed-off-by: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-10-031-0/+1
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 * 'for-linus' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: (21 commits) ALSA: usb - Use strlcat() correctly ALSA: Fix invalid __exit in sound/mips/*.c ALSA: hda - Fix / improve ALC66x parser ALSA: ctxfi: Swapped SURROUND-SIDE mute sound: Make keywest_driver static ALSA: intel8x0 - Mute External Amplifier by default for Sony VAIO VGN-B1VP ALSA: hda - Fix digita/analog mic auto-switching with IDT codecs ASoC: fix kconfig order of Blackfin drivers ALSA: hda - Added quirk to enable sound on Toshiba NB200 ASoC: Fix dependency of CONFIG_SND_PXA2XX_SOC_IMOTE2 ALSA: Don't assume i2c device probing always succeeds ALSA: intel8x0 - Mute External Amplifier by default for Sony VAIO VGN-T350P ALSA: echoaudio - Re-enable the line-out control for the Mia card ALSA: hda - Resurrect input-source mixer of ALC268 model=acer ALSA: hda - Analog Devices AD1984A add HP Touchsmart model ALSA: hda - Add HP Pavilion dv4t-1300 to MSI whitelist ALSA: hda - CD-audio sound for hda-intel conexant benq laptop ASoC: DaVinci: Correct McASP FIFO initialization ASoC: Davinci: Fix race with cpu_dai->dma_data ASoC: DaVinci: Fix divide by zero error during 1st execution ...
| * \ Merge branch 'fix/hda' into for-linusTakashi Iwai2009-10-031-0/+1
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| | * | ALSA: hda - Analog Devices AD1984A add HP Touchsmart modelMiguel de Barros2009-09-291-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reference: ALSA bug #0004614 https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=4614 port-A (0x11) - front hp-out port-D (0x12) - rear line out port-E (0x1c) - front mic-in port-F (0x16) - Internal speakers digital-mic (0x17) - Internal mic init verbs, mixers, jack sensing and PCI_QUIRK to support this hardware Signed-off-by: Miguel de Barros <miguel.de.barros@bluewin.ch> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
* | | | Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds2009-10-031-4/+6
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (25 commits) ARM: 5728/1: Proper prefetch abort handling on ARMv6 and ARMv7 ARM: 5727/1: Pass IFSR register to do_PrefetchAbort() ARM: 5740/1: fix valid_phys_addr_range() range check ARM: 5739/1: ARM: allow empty ATAG_CORE ARM: 5735/1: sa1111: CodingStyle cleanups ARM: 5738/1: Correct TCM documentation ARM: 5734/1: arm: fix compilation of entry-common.S for older CPUs ARM: 5733/1: fix bcmring compile error ARM: 5732/1: remove redundant include file ARM: 5731/2: Fix U300 generic GPIO, remove ifdefs from MMCI v3 ARM: Ensure do_cache_op takes mmap_sem ARM: Fix __cpuexit section mismatch warnings ARM: Don't allow highmem on SMP platforms without h/w TLB ops broadcast ARM: includecheck fix: mach-davinci, board-dm365-evm.c ARM: Remove unused CONFIG SA1100_H3XXX ARM: Fix warning: unused variable 'highmem' ARM: Fix warning: #warning syscall migrate_pages not implemented ARM: Fix SA11x0 clocksource warning ARM: Fix SA1100 Neponset serial section mismatch ARM: Fix SA1100 Assabet/Neponset PCMCIA section mismatch warnings ...
| * | | | ARM: 5738/1: Correct TCM documentationLinus Walleij2009-10-011-4/+6
| | |_|/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It turns out that the TCM memory can be remap:ed by the MMU just like any other memory. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-10-023-6/+6
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (46 commits) cnic: Fix NETDEV_UP event processing. uvesafb/connector: Disallow unpliviged users to send netlink packets pohmelfs/connector: Disallow unpliviged users to configure pohmelfs dst/connector: Disallow unpliviged users to configure dst dm/connector: Only process connector packages from privileged processes connector: Removed the destruct_data callback since it is always kfree_skb() connector/dm: Fixed a compilation warning connector: Provide the sender's credentials to the callback connector: Keep the skb in cn_callback_data e1000e/igb/ixgbe: Don't report an error if devices don't support AER net: Fix wrong sizeof net: splice() from tcp to pipe should take into account O_NONBLOCK net: Use sk_mark for routing lookup in more places sky2: irqname based on pci address skge: use unique IRQ name IPv4 TCP fails to send window scale option when window scale is zero net/ipv4/tcp.c: fix min() type mismatch warning Kconfig: STRIP: Remove stale bits of STRIP help text NET: mkiss: Fix typo tg3: Remove prev_vlan_tag from struct tx_ring_info ...
| * | | | connector: Provide the sender's credentials to the callbackPhilipp Reisner2009-10-022-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Acked-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | | net: Fix wrong sizeofJean Delvare2009-10-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Which is why I have always preferred sizeof(struct foo) over sizeof(var). Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | | | docs: update patch size in SubmittingPatchesRandy Dunlap2009-10-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch size comment is like so last millenium. Update it to modern times. Signed-off-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>
* | | | | Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-09-302-4/+10
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: Fix time encoding with extra epoch bits ext4: Add a stub for mpage_da_data in the trace header jbd2: Use tracepoints for history file ext4: Use tracepoints for mb_history trace file ext4, jbd2: Drop unneeded printks at mount and unmount time ext4: Handle nested ext4_journal_start/stop calls without a journal ext4: Make sure ext4_dirty_inode() updates the inode in no journal mode ext4: Avoid updating the inode table bh twice in no journal mode ext4: EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT: Check for different original and donor inodes first ext4: async direct IO for holes and fallocate support ext4: Use end_io callback to avoid direct I/O fallback to buffered I/O ext4: Split uninitialized extents for direct I/O ext4: release reserved quota when block reservation for delalloc retry ext4: Adjust ext4_da_writepages() to write out larger contiguous chunks ext4: Fix hueristic which avoids group preallocation for closed files ext4: Use ext4_msg() for ext4_da_writepage() errors ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
| * | | | | ext4: Use tracepoints for mb_history trace fileTheodore Ts'o2009-09-301-1/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The /proc/fs/ext4/<dev>/mb_history was maintained manually, and had a number of problems: it required a largish amount of memory to be allocated for each ext4 filesystem, and the s_mb_history_lock introduced a CPU contention problem. By ripping out the mb_history code and replacing it with ftrace tracepoints, and we get more functionality: timestamps, event filtering, the ability to correlate mballoc history with other ext4 tracepoints, etc. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
| * | | | | ext4: Update documentation about quota mount optionsJan Kara2009-09-291-3/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | | | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-09-301-1/+1
|\ \ \ \ \ \ | |_|_|/ / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6: fat: Check s_dirt in fat_sync_fs() vfat: change the default from shortname=lower to shortname=mixed fat/nls: Fix handling of utf8 invalid char
| * | | | | vfat: change the default from shortname=lower to shortname=mixedPaul Wise2009-08-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because, with "shortname=lower", copying one FAT filesystem tree to another FAT filesystem tree using Linux results in semantically different filesystems. (E.g.: Filenames which were once "all uppercase" are now "all lowercase"). So, this changes the default of "shortname=lower" to "shortname=mixed". Signed-off-by: Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net> [change fat_show_options()] Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
* | | | | | Merge branch 'thinkpad-2.6.32-part2' into releaseLen Brown2009-09-261-21/+27
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| * | | | | thinkpad-acpi: hotkey event driver updateHenrique de Moraes Holschuh2009-09-201-20/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update the HKEY event driver to: 1. Handle better the second-gen firmware, which has no HKEY mask support but does report FN+F3, FN+F4 and FN+F12 without the need for NVRAM polling. a) always make the mask-related attributes available in sysfs; b) use DMI quirks to detect the second-gen firmware; c) properly report that FN+F3, FN+F4 and FN+F12 are enabled, and available even on mask-less second-gen firmware; 2. Decouple the issuing of hotkey events towards userspace from their reception from the firmware. ALSA mixer and brightness event reporting support will need this feature. 3. Clean up the mess in the hotkey driver a great deal. It is still very convoluted, and wants a full refactoring into a proper event API interface, but that is not going to happen today. 4. Fully reset firmware interface on resume (restore hotkey mask and status). 5. Stop losing polled events for no good reason when changing the mask and poll frequencies. We will still lose them when the hotkey_source_mask is changed, as well as any that happened between driver suspend and driver resume. The hotkey subdriver now has the notion of user-space-visible hotkey event mask, as well as of the set of "hotkey" events the driver needs (because brightness/volume change reports are not just keypress reports in most ThinkPad models). With this rewrite, the ABI level is bumped to 0x020500 should userspace need to know it is dealing with the updated hotkey subdriver. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| * | | | | thinkpad-acpi: drop HKEY event 0x5010Henrique de Moraes Holschuh2009-09-201-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | HKEY event 0x5010 is useless to us: old ThinkPads don't issue it. Newer ThinkPads won't issue it anymore. And all ThinkPads issue 0x1010 and 0x1011 events. Just silently drop it instead of sending it to userspace. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* | | | | | Merge branch 'origin' into for-linusRussell King2009-09-24231-1151/+40153
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| * | | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-09-241-1/+1
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: truncate: use new helpers truncate: new helpers fs: fix overflow in sys_mount() for in-kernel calls fs: Make unload_nls() NULL pointer safe freeze_bdev: grab active reference to frozen superblocks freeze_bdev: kill bd_mount_sem exofs: remove BKL from super operations fs/romfs: correct error-handling code vfs: seq_file: add helpers for data filling vfs: remove redundant position check in do_sendfile vfs: change sb->s_maxbytes to a loff_t vfs: explicitly cast s_maxbytes in fiemap_check_ranges libfs: return error code on failed attr set seq_file: return a negative error code when seq_path_root() fails. vfs: optimize touch_time() too vfs: optimization for touch_atime() vfs: split generic_forget_inode() so that hugetlbfs does not have to copy it fs/inode.c: add dev-id and inode number for debugging in init_special_inode() libfs: make simple_read_from_buffer conventional
| | * | | | | truncate: new helpersnpiggin@suse.de2009-09-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce new truncate helpers truncate_pagecache and inode_newsize_ok. vmtruncate is also consolidated from mm/memory.c and mm/nommu.c and into mm/truncate.c. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | | | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/mdLinus Torvalds2009-09-241-30/+45
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (97 commits) md: raid-1/10: fix RW bits manipulation md: remove unnecessary memset from multipath. md: report device as congested when suspended md: Improve name of threads created by md_register_thread md: remove sparse warnings about lock context. md: remove sparse waring "symbol xxx shadows an earlier one" async_tx/raid6: add missing dma_unmap calls to the async fail case ioat3: fix uninitialized var warnings drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v2.c: fix warnings raid6test: fix stack overflow ioat2: clarify ring size limits md/raid6: cleanup ops_run_compute6_2 md/raid6: eliminate BUG_ON with side effect dca: module load should not be an error message ioat: driver version 4.0 dca: registering requesters in multiple dca domains async_tx: remove HIGHMEM64G restriction dmaengine: sh: Add Support SuperH DMA Engine driver dmaengine: Move all map_sg/unmap_sg for slave channel to its client fsldma: Add DMA_SLAVE support ...
| | * \ \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'next' of ↵NeilBrown2009-09-231-30/+45
| | |\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx into for-linus
| | | * \ \ \ \ \ Merge commit 'md/for-linus' into async-tx-nextDan Williams2009-09-0939-1692/+2013
| | | |\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: drivers/md/raid5.c
| | | * \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'dmaengine' into async-tx-nextDan Williams2009-09-09181-1982/+6485
| | | |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: crypto/async_tx/async_xor.c drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v2.h drivers/dma/ioat/pci.c drivers/md/raid5.c
| | | * \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'md-raid6-accel' into ioat3.2Dan Williams2009-09-091-30/+45
| | | |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: include/linux/dmaengine.h
| | | | * | | | | | | | async_tx: add support for asynchronous RAID6 recovery operationsDan Williams2009-08-301-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | async_raid6_2data_recov() recovers two data disk failures async_raid6_datap_recov() recovers a data disk and the P disk These routines are a port of the synchronous versions found in drivers/md/raid6recov.c. The primary difference is breaking out the xor operations into separate calls to async_xor. Two helper routines are introduced to perform scalar multiplication where needed. async_sum_product() multiplies two sources by scalar coefficients and then sums (xor) the result. async_mult() simply multiplies a single source by a scalar. This implemention also includes, in contrast to the original synchronous-only code, special case handling for the 4-disk and 5-disk array cases. In these situations the default N-disk algorithm will present 0-source or 1-source operations to dma devices. To cover for dma devices where the minimum source count is 2 we implement 4-disk and 5-disk handling in the recovery code. [ Impact: asynchronous raid6 recovery routines for 2data and datap cases ] Cc: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com> Cc: Ilya Yanok <yanok@emcraft.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
| | | | * | | | | | | | async_tx: add support for asynchronous GF multiplicationDan Williams2009-08-301-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [ Based on an original patch by Yuri Tikhonov ] This adds support for doing asynchronous GF multiplication by adding two additional functions to the async_tx API: async_gen_syndrome() does simultaneous XOR and Galois field multiplication of sources. async_syndrome_val() validates the given source buffers against known P and Q values. When a request is made to run async_pq against more than the hardware maximum number of supported sources we need to reuse the previous generated P and Q values as sources into the next operation. Care must be taken to remove Q from P' and P from Q'. For example to perform a 5 source pq op with hardware that only supports 4 sources at a time the following approach is taken: p, q = PQ(src0, src1, src2, src3, COEF({01}, {02}, {04}, {08})) p', q' = PQ(p, q, q, src4, COEF({00}, {01}, {00}, {10})) p' = p + q + q + src4 = p + src4 q' = {00}*p + {01}*q + {00}*q + {10}*src4 = q + {10}*src4 Note: 4 is the minimum acceptable maxpq otherwise we punt to synchronous-software path. The DMA_PREP_CONTINUE flag indicates to the driver to reuse p and q as sources (in the above manner) and fill the remaining slots up to maxpq with the new sources/coefficients. Note1: Some devices have native support for P+Q continuation and can skip this extra work. Devices with this capability can advertise it with dma_set_maxpq. It is up to each driver how to handle the DMA_PREP_CONTINUE flag. Note2: The api supports disabling the generation of P when generating Q, this is ignored by the synchronous path but is implemented by some dma devices to save unnecessary writes. In this case the continuation algorithm is simplified to only reuse Q as a source. Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com> Signed-off-by: Ilya Yanok <yanok@emcraft.com> Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
| | | | * | | | | | | | async_xor: permit callers to pass in a 'dma/page scribble' regionDan Williams2009-06-031-15/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | async_xor() needs space to perform dma and page address conversions. In most cases the code can simply reuse the struct page * array because the size of the native pointer matches the size of a dma/page address. In order to support archs where sizeof(dma_addr_t) is larger than sizeof(struct page *), or to preserve the input parameters, we utilize a memory region passed in by the caller. Since the code is now prepared to handle the case where it cannot perform address conversions on the stack, we no longer need the !HIGHMEM64G dependency in drivers/dma/Kconfig. [ Impact: don't clobber input buffers for address conversions ] Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
| | | | * | | | | | | | async_tx: structify submission arguments, add scribbleDan Williams2009-06-031-5/+1Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Prepare the api for the arrival of a new parameter, 'scribble'. This will allow callers to identify scratchpad memory for dma address or page address conversions. As this adds yet another parameter, take this opportunity to convert the common submission parameters (flags, dependency, callback, and callback argument) into an object that is passed by reference. Also, take this opportunity to fix up the kerneldoc and add notes about the relevant ASYNC_TX_* flags for each routine. [ Impact: moves api pass-by-value parameters to a pass-by-reference struct ] Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
| | | | * | | | | | | | async_tx: kill ASYNC_TX_DEP_ACK flagDan Williams2009-06-031-5/+4Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In support of inter-channel chaining async_tx utilizes an ack flag to gate whether a dependent operation can be chained to another. While the flag is not set the chain can be considered open for appending. Setting the ack flag closes the chain and flags the descriptor for garbage collection. The ASYNC_TX_DEP_ACK flag essentially means "close the chain after adding this dependency". Since each operation can only have one child the api now implicitly sets the ack flag at dependency submission time. This removes an unnecessary management burden from clients of the api. [ Impact: clean up and enforce one dependency per operation ] Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
| | | | * | | | | | | | async_tx: rename zero_sum to valDan Williams2009-04-081-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'zero_sum' does not properly describe the operation of generating parity and checking that it validates against an existing buffer. Change the name of the operation to 'val' (for 'validate'). This is in anticipation of the p+q case where it is a requirement to identify the target parity buffers separately from the source buffers, because the target parity buffers will not have corresponding pq coefficients. Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
| | | | * | | | | | | | Merge branch 'dmaengine' into async-tx-raid6Dan Williams2009-04-084-7/+29
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| * | | | \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'hwpoison' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-09-242-1/+47
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 ...
| | * | | | | | | | | | | | HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7Andi Kleen2009-09-161-1/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the high level memory handler that poisons pages that got corrupted by hardware (typically by a two bit flip in a DIMM or a cache) on the Linux level. The goal is to prevent everyone from accessing these pages in the future. This done at the VM level by marking a page hwpoisoned and doing the appropriate action based on the type of page it is. The code that does this is portable and lives in mm/memory-failure.c To quote the overview comment: High level machine check handler. Handles pages reported by the hardware as being corrupted usually due to a 2bit ECC memory or cache failure. This focuses on pages detected as corrupted in the background. When the current CPU tries to consume corruption the currently running process can just be killed directly instead. This implies that if the error cannot be handled for some reason it's safe to just ignore it because no corruption has been consumed yet. Instead when that happens another machine check will happen. Handles page cache pages in various states. The tricky part here is that we can access any page asynchronous to other VM users, because memory failures could happen anytime and anywhere, possibly violating some of their assumptions. This is why this code has to be extremely careful. Generally it tries to use normal locking rules, as in get the standard locks, even if that means the error handling takes potentially a long time. Some of the operations here are somewhat inefficient and have non linear algorithmic complexity, because the data structures have not been optimized for this case. This is in particular the case for the mapping from a vma to a process. Since this case is expected to be rare we hope we can get away with this. There are in principle two strategies to kill processes on poison: - just unmap the data and wait for an actual reference before killing - kill as soon as corruption is detected. Both have advantages and disadvantages and should be used in different situations. Right now both are implemented and can be switched with a new sysctl vm.memory_failure_early_kill The default is early kill. The patch does some rmap data structure walking on its own to collect processes to kill. This is unusual because normally all rmap data structure knowledge is in rmap.c only. I put it here for now to keep everything together and rmap knowledge has been seeping out anyways Includes contributions from Johannes Weiner, Chris Mason, Fengguang Wu, Nick Piggin (who did a lot of great work) and others. Cc: npiggin@suse.de Cc: riel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
| | * | | | | | | | | | | | HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncationAndi Kleen2009-09-161-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Truncating metadata pages is not safe right now before we haven't audited all file systems. To enable truncation only for data address space define a new address_space callback error_remove_page. This is used for memory_failure.c memory error handling. This can be then set to truncate_inode_page() This patch just defines the new operation and adds documentation. Callers and users come in followon patches. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | drivers/char/uv_mmtimer.c: add memory mapped RTC driver for UVDimitri Sivanich2009-09-241-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This driver memory maps the UV Hub RTC. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | exec: let do_coredump() limit the number of concurrent dumps to pipesNeil Horman2009-09-241-0/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | memory controller: soft limit documentationBalbir Singh2009-09-241-1/+36
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Soft limits is a new feature for the memory resource controller, something similar has existed in the group scheduler in the form of shares. The CPU controllers interpretation of shares is very different though. Soft limits are the most useful feature to have for environments where the administrator wants to overcommit the system, such that only on memory contention do the limits become active. The current soft limits implementation provides a soft_limit_in_bytes interface for the memory controller and not for memory+swap controller. The implementation maintains an RB-Tree of groups that exceed their soft limit and starts reclaiming from the group that exceeds this limit by the maximum amount. This patch: Add documentation for soft limits Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | memcg: remove the overhead associated with the root cgroupBalbir Singh2009-09-241-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change the memory cgroup to remove the overhead associated with accounting all pages in the root cgroup. As a side-effect, we can no longer set a memory hard limit in the root cgroup. A new flag to track whether the page has been accounted or not has been added as well. Flags are now set atomically for page_cgroup, pcg_default_flags is now obsolete and removed. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix a few documentation glitches] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.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>