linux/Documentation/vm, branch v3.6

hugetlb: update hugetlbpage.txt

2012-08-21T23:45:03Z

Commit f0f57b2b1488 ("mm: move hugepage test examples to tools/testing/selftests/vm") moved map_hugetlb.c, hugepage-shm.c and hugepage-mmap.c tests into tools/testing/selftests/vm/ directory, but it didn't update hugetlbpage.txt Signed-off-by: Zhouping Liu Acked-by: Dave Young Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/frontswap: cleanup doc and comment error

2012-07-23T15:16:20Z

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

Merge tag 'stable/frontswap.v16-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/mm

2012-06-04T19:28:45Z

Pull frontswap feature from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk: "Frontswap provides a "transcendent memory" interface for swap pages. In some environments, dramatic performance savings may be obtained because swapped pages are saved in RAM (or a RAM-like device) instead of a swap disk. This tag provides the basic infrastructure along with some changes to the existing backends." Fix up trivial conflict in mm/Makefile due to removal of swap token code changing a line next to the new frontswap entry. This pull request came in before the merge window even opened, it got delayed to after the merge window by me just wanting to make sure it had actual users. Apparently IBM is using this on their embedded side, and Jan Beulich says that it's already made available for SLES and OpenSUSE users. Also acked by Rik van Riel, and Konrad points to other people liking it too. So in it goes. By Dan Magenheimer (4) and Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (2) via Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk * tag 'stable/frontswap.v16-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/mm: frontswap: s/put_page/store/g s/get_page/load MAINTAINER: Add myself for the frontswap API mm: frontswap: config and doc files mm: frontswap: core frontswap functionality mm: frontswap: core swap subsystem hooks and headers mm: frontswap: add frontswap header file

Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux

2012-06-01T23:50:23Z

Pull slab updates from Pekka Enberg: "Mainly a bunch of SLUB fixes from Joonsoo Kim" * 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux: slub: use __SetPageSlab function to set PG_slab flag slub: fix a memory leak in get_partial_node() slub: remove unused argument of init_kmem_cache_node() slub: fix a possible memory leak Documentations: Fix slabinfo.c directory in vm/slub.txt slub: fix incorrect return type of get_any_partial()

proc: report file/anon bit in /proc/pid/pagemap

2012-06-01T00:49:29Z

This is an implementation of Andrew's proposal to extend the pagemap file bits to report what is missing about tasks' working set. The problem with the working set detection is multilateral. In the criu (checkpoint/restore) project we dump the tasks' memory into image files and to do it properly we need to detect which pages inside mappings are really in use. The mincore syscall I though could help with this did not. First, it doesn't report swapped pages, thus we cannot find out which parts of anonymous mappings to dump. Next, it does report pages from page cache as present even if they are not mapped, and it doesn't make that has not been cow-ed. Note, that issue with swap pages is critical -- we must dump swap pages to image file. But the issues with file pages are optimization -- we can take all file pages to image, this would be correct, but if we know that a page is not mapped or not cow-ed, we can remove them from dump file. The dump would still be self-consistent, though significantly smaller in size (up to 10 times smaller on real apps). Andrew noticed, that the proc pagemap file solved 2 of 3 above issues -- it reports whether a page is present or swapped and it doesn't report not mapped page cache pages. But, it doesn't distinguish cow-ed file pages from not cow-ed. I would like to make the last unused bit in this file to report whether the page mapped into respective pte is PageAnon or not. [comment stolen from Pavel Emelyanov's v1 patch] Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Matt Mackall Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Rik van Riel Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: document the meminfo and vmstat fields of relevance to transparent hugepages

2012-05-29T23:22:23Z

Update Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt and Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt with some information on monitoring transparent huge page usage and the associated overhead. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

frontswap: s/put_page/store/g s/get_page/load

2012-05-15T15:34:08Z

Sounds so much more natural. Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

mm: frontswap: config and doc files

2012-05-15T15:34:03Z

This patch 4of4 adds configuration and documentation files including a FAQ. [v14: updated docs/FAQ to use zcache and RAMster as examples] [v10: no change] [v9: akpm@linux-foundation.org: sysfs->debugfs; no longer need Doc/ABI file] [v8: rebase to 3.0-rc4] [v7: rebase to 3.0-rc3] [v6: rebase to 3.0-rc1] [v5: change config default to n] [v4: rebase to 2.6.39] Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer Acked-by: Jan Beulich Acked-by: Seth Jennings Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Nitin Gupta Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Rik Riel Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

Documentations: Fix slabinfo.c directory in vm/slub.txt

2012-05-10T08:45:23Z

Because the place of slabinfo.c changed.So update in slub.txt. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: majianpeng Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

mm: move hugepage test examples to tools/testing/selftests/vm

2012-03-29T00:14:37Z

hugepage-mmap.c, hugepage-shm.c and map_hugetlb.c in Documentation/vm are simple pass/fail tests, It's better to promote them to tools/testing/selftests. Thanks suggestion of Andrew Morton about this. They all need firstly setting up proper nr_hugepages and hugepage-mmap need to mount hugetlbfs. So I add a shell script run_vmtests to do such work which will call the three test programs and check the return value of them. Changes to original code including below: a. add run_vmtests script b. return error when read_bytes mismatch with writed bytes. c. coding style fixes: do not use assignment in if condition [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build the targets before trying to execute them] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Documentation/vm/ no longer has a Makefile. Fixes "make clean"] Signed-off-by: Dave Young Cc: Wu Fengguang Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds