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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-10-17 09:58:25 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-10-17 09:58:25 +0200 |
commit | bb3c3e807140816b5f5fd4840473ee52a916ad4f (patch) | |
tree | 9e8a69d266a7df86ca16177eefffab4b4e910753 /Documentation | |
parent | 595c36490deb49381dc51231a3d5e6b66786ed27 (diff) | |
parent | 012abeea669ea49636cf952d13298bb68654146a (diff) |
Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc5' into perf/probes
Conflicts:
kernel/trace/trace_event_profile.c
Merge reason: update to -rc5 and resolve conflict.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
48 files changed, 1073 insertions, 567 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-devices-cciss b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-devices-cciss index 0a92a7c93a6..4f29e5f1ebf 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-devices-cciss +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-devices-cciss @@ -31,3 +31,31 @@ Date: March 2009 Kernel Version: 2.6.30 Contact: iss_storagedev@hp.com Description: A symbolic link to /sys/block/cciss!cXdY + +Where: /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/rescan +Date: August 2009 +Kernel Version: 2.6.31 +Contact: iss_storagedev@hp.com +Description: Kicks of a rescan of the controller to discover logical + drive topology changes. + +Where: /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/lunid +Date: August 2009 +Kernel Version: 2.6.31 +Contact: iss_storagedev@hp.com +Description: Displays the 8-byte LUN ID used to address logical + drive Y of controller X. + +Where: /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/raid_level +Date: August 2009 +Kernel Version: 2.6.31 +Contact: iss_storagedev@hp.com +Description: Displays the RAID level of logical drive Y of + controller X. + +Where: /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/usage_count +Date: August 2009 +Kernel Version: 2.6.31 +Contact: iss_storagedev@hp.com +Description: Displays the usage count (number of opens) of logical drive Y + of controller X. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-usb_host b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-uwb_rc-wusbhc index 46b66ad1f1b..4e8106f7cfd 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-usb_host +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-uwb_rc-wusbhc @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -What: /sys/class/usb_host/usb_hostN/wusb_chid +What: /sys/class/uwb_rc/uwbN/wusbhc/wusb_chid Date: July 2008 KernelVersion: 2.6.27 Contact: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Description: Set an all zero CHID to stop the host controller. -What: /sys/class/usb_host/usb_hostN/wusb_trust_timeout +What: /sys/class/uwb_rc/uwbN/wusbhc/wusb_trust_timeout Date: July 2008 KernelVersion: 2.6.27 Contact: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com> diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index b7f9d3b4bbf..72651f788f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ your e-mail client so that it sends your patches untouched. When sending patches to Linus, always follow step #7. Large changes are not appropriate for mailing lists, and some -maintainers. If your patch, uncompressed, exceeds 40 kB in size, +maintainers. If your patch, uncompressed, exceeds 300 kB in size, it is preferred that you store your patch on an Internet-accessible server, and provide instead a URL (link) pointing to your patch. diff --git a/Documentation/arm/tcm.txt b/Documentation/arm/tcm.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..77fd9376e6d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arm/tcm.txt @@ -0,0 +1,147 @@ +ARM TCM (Tightly-Coupled Memory) handling in Linux +---- +Written by Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com> + +Some ARM SoC:s have a so-called TCM (Tightly-Coupled Memory). +This is usually just a few (4-64) KiB of RAM inside the ARM +processor. + +Due to being embedded inside the CPU The TCM has a +Harvard-architecture, so there is an ITCM (instruction TCM) +and a DTCM (data TCM). The DTCM can not contain any +instructions, but the ITCM can actually contain data. +The size of DTCM or ITCM is minimum 4KiB so the typical +minimum configuration is 4KiB ITCM and 4KiB DTCM. + +ARM CPU:s have special registers to read out status, physical +location and size of TCM memories. arch/arm/include/asm/cputype.h +defines a CPUID_TCM register that you can read out from the +system control coprocessor. Documentation from ARM can be found +at http://infocenter.arm.com, search for "TCM Status Register" +to see documents for all CPUs. Reading this register you can +determine if ITCM (bit 0) and/or DTCM (bit 16) is present in the +machine. + +There is further a TCM region register (search for "TCM Region +Registers" at the ARM site) that can report and modify the location +size of TCM memories at runtime. This is used to read out and modify +TCM location and size. Notice that this is not a MMU table: you +actually move the physical location of the TCM around. At the +place you put it, it will mask any underlying RAM from the +CPU so it is usually wise not to overlap any physical RAM with +the TCM. + +The TCM memory can then be remapped to another address again using +the MMU, but notice that the TCM if often used in situations where +the MMU is turned off. To avoid confusion the current Linux +implementation will map the TCM 1 to 1 from physical to virtual +memory in the location specified by the machine. + +TCM is used for a few things: + +- FIQ and other interrupt handlers that need deterministic + timing and cannot wait for cache misses. + +- Idle loops where all external RAM is set to self-refresh + retention mode, so only on-chip RAM is accessible by + the CPU and then we hang inside ITCM waiting for an + interrupt. + +- Other operations which implies shutting off or reconfiguring + the external RAM controller. + +There is an interface for using TCM on the ARM architecture +in <asm/tcm.h>. Using this interface it is possible to: + +- Define the physical address and size of ITCM and DTCM. + +- Tag functions to be compiled into ITCM. + +- Tag data and constants to be allocated to DTCM and ITCM. + +- Have the remaining TCM RAM added to a special + allocation pool with gen_pool_create() and gen_pool_add() + and provice tcm_alloc() and tcm_free() for this + memory. Such a heap is great for things like saving + device state when shutting off device power domains. + +A machine that has TCM memory shall select HAVE_TCM in +arch/arm/Kconfig for itself, and then the +rest of the functionality will depend on the physical +location and size of ITCM and DTCM to be defined in +mach/memory.h for the machine. Code that needs to use +TCM shall #include <asm/tcm.h> If the TCM is not located +at the place given in memory.h it will be moved using +the TCM Region registers. + +Functions to go into itcm can be tagged like this: +int __tcmfunc foo(int bar); + +Variables to go into dtcm can be tagged like this: +int __tcmdata foo; + +Constants can be tagged like this: +int __tcmconst foo; + +To put assembler into TCM just use +.section ".tcm.text" or .section ".tcm.data" +respectively. + +Example code: + +#include <asm/tcm.h> + +/* Uninitialized data */ +static u32 __tcmdata tcmvar; +/* Initialized data */ +static u32 __tcmdata tcmassigned = 0x2BADBABEU; +/* Constant */ +static const u32 __tcmconst tcmconst = 0xCAFEBABEU; + +static void __tcmlocalfunc tcm_to_tcm(void) +{ + int i; + for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) + tcmvar ++; +} + +static void __tcmfunc hello_tcm(void) +{ + /* Some abstract code that runs in ITCM */ + int i; + for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) { + tcmvar ++; + } + tcm_to_tcm(); +} + +static void __init test_tcm(void) +{ + u32 *tcmem; + int i; + + hello_tcm(); + printk("Hello TCM executed from ITCM RAM\n"); + + printk("TCM variable from testrun: %u @ %p\n", tcmvar, &tcmvar); + tcmvar = 0xDEADBEEFU; + printk("TCM variable: 0x%x @ %p\n", tcmvar, &tcmvar); + + printk("TCM assigned variable: 0x%x @ %p\n", tcmassigned, &tcmassigned); + + printk("TCM constant: 0x%x @ %p\n", tcmconst, &tcmconst); + + /* Allocate some TCM memory from the pool */ + tcmem = tcm_alloc(20); + if (tcmem) { + printk("TCM Allocated 20 bytes of TCM @ %p\n", tcmem); + tcmem[0] = 0xDEADBEEFU; + tcmem[1] = 0x2BADBABEU; + tcmem[2] = 0xCAFEBABEU; + tcmem[3] = 0xDEADBEEFU; + tcmem[4] = 0x2BADBABEU; + for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) + printk("TCM tcmem[%d] = %08x\n", i, tcmem[i]); + tcm_free(tcmem, 20); + } +} diff --git a/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b-example.c b/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b-example.c index 1d2c010bae1..e7823ffb1ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b-example.c +++ b/Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b-example.c @@ -194,7 +194,6 @@ static void cfag12864b_blit(void) */ #include <stdio.h> -#include <string.h> #define EXAMPLES 6 diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt index 6eb1a97e88c..0b33bfe7dde 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt @@ -227,7 +227,14 @@ as the path relative to the root of the cgroup file system. Each cgroup is represented by a directory in the cgroup file system containing the following files describing that cgroup: - - tasks: list of tasks (by pid) attached to that cgroup + - tasks: list of tasks (by pid) attached to that cgroup. This list + is not guaranteed to be sorted. Writing a thread id into this file + moves the thread into this cgroup. + - cgroup.procs: list of tgids in the cgroup. This list is not + guaranteed to be sorted or free of duplicate tgids, and userspace + should sort/uniquify the list if this property is required. + Writing a tgid into this file moves all threads with that tgid into + this cgroup. - notify_on_release flag: run the release agent on exit? - release_agent: the path to use for release notifications (this file exists in the top cgroup only) @@ -374,7 +381,7 @@ Now you want to do something with this cgroup. In this directory you can find several files: # ls -notify_on_release tasks +cgroup.procs notify_on_release tasks (plus whatever files added by the attached subsystems) Now attach your shell to this cgroup: @@ -408,6 +415,26 @@ You can attach the current shell task by echoing 0: # echo 0 > tasks +2.3 Mounting hierarchies by name +-------------------------------- + +Passing the name=<x> option when mounting a cgroups hierarchy +associates the given name with the hierarchy. This can be used when +mounting a pre-existing hierarchy, in order to refer to it by name +rather than by its set of active subsystems. Each hierarchy is either +nameless, or has a unique name. + +The name should match [\w.-]+ + +When passing a name=<x> option for a new hierarchy, you need to +specify subsystems manually; the legacy behaviour of mounting all +subsystems when none are explicitly specified is not supported when +you give a subsystem a name. + +The name of the subsystem appears as part of the hierarchy description +in /proc/mounts and /proc/<pid>/cgroups. + + 3. Kernel API ============= @@ -501,7 +528,7 @@ rmdir() will fail with it. From this behavior, pre_destroy() can be called multiple times against a cgroup. int can_attach(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp, - struct task_struct *task) + struct task_struct *task, bool threadgroup) (cgroup_mutex held by caller) Called prior to moving a task into a cgroup; if the subsystem @@ -509,14 +536,20 @@ returns an error, this will abort the attach operation. If a NULL task is passed, then a successful result indicates that *any* unspecified task can be moved into the cgroup. Note that this isn't called on a fork. If this method returns 0 (success) then this should -remain valid while the caller holds cgroup_mutex. +remain valid while the caller holds cgroup_mutex. If threadgroup is +true, then a successful result indicates that all threads in the given +thread's threadgroup can be moved together. void attach(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp, - struct cgroup *old_cgrp, struct task_struct *task) + struct cgroup *old_cgrp, struct task_struct *task, + bool threadgroup) (cgroup_mutex held by caller) Called after the task has been attached to the cgroup, to allow any post-attachment activity that requires memory allocations or blocking. +If threadgroup is true, the subsystem should take care of all threads +in the specified thread's threadgroup. Currently does not support any +subsystem that might need the old_cgrp for every thread in the group. void fork(struct cgroup_subsy *ss, struct task_struct *task) diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index 23d1262c077..b871f2552b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -179,6 +179,9 @@ The reclaim algorithm has not been modified for cgroups, except that pages that are selected for reclaiming come from the per cgroup LRU list. +NOTE: Reclaim does not work for the root cgroup, since we cannot set any +limits on the root cgroup. + 2. Locking The memory controller uses the following hierarchy @@ -210,6 +213,7 @@ We can alter the memory limit: NOTE: We can use a suffix (k, K, m, M, g or G) to indicate values in kilo, mega or gigabytes. NOTE: We can write "-1" to reset the *.limit_in_bytes(unlimited). +NOTE: We cannot set limits on the root cgroup any more. # cat /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes 4194304 @@ -375,7 +379,42 @@ cgroups created below it. NOTE2: This feature can be enabled/disabled per subtree. -7. TODO +7. Soft limits + +Soft limits allow for greater sharing of memory. The idea behind soft limits +is to allow control groups to use as much of the memory as needed, provided + +a. There is no memory contention +b. They do not exceed their hard limit + +When the system detects memory contention or low memory control groups +are pushed back to their soft limits. If the soft limit of each control +group is very high, they are pushed back as much as possible to make +sure that one control group does not starve the others of memory. + +Please note that soft limits is a best effort feature, it comes with +no guarantees, but it does its best to make sure that when memory is +heavily contended for, memory is allocated based on the soft limit +hints/setup. Currently soft limit based reclaim is setup such that +it gets invoked from balance_pgdat (kswapd). + +7.1 Interface + +Soft limits can be setup by using the following commands (in this example we +assume a soft limit of 256 megabytes) + +# echo 256M > memory.soft_limit_in_bytes + +If we want to change this to 1G, we can at any time use + +# echo 1G > memory.soft_limit_in_bytes + +NOTE1: Soft limits take effect over a long period of time, since they involve + reclaiming memory for balancing between memory cgroups +NOTE2: It is recommended to set the soft limit always below the hard limit, + otherwise the hard limit will take precedence. + +8. TODO 1. Add support for accounting huge pages (as a separate controller) 2. Make per-cgroup scanner reclaim not-shared pages first diff --git a/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c b/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c index 1711adc3337..b07add3467f 100644 --- a/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c +++ b/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ static char cn_test_name[] = "cn_test"; static struct sock *nls; static struct timer_list cn_test_timer; -static void cn_test_callback(struct cn_msg *msg) +static void cn_test_callback(struct cn_msg *msg, struct netlink_skb_parms *nsp) { pr_info("%s: %lu: idx=%x, val=%x, seq=%u, ack=%u, len=%d: %s.\n", __func__, jiffies, msg->id.idx, msg->id.val, diff --git a/Documentation/connector/connector.txt b/Documentation/connector/connector.txt index 81e6bf6ead5..78c9466a9aa 100644 --- a/Documentation/connector/connector.txt +++ b/Documentation/connector/connector.txt @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ handling, etc... The Connector driver allows any kernelspace agents to use netlink based networking for inter-process communication in a significantly easier way: -int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (void *)); +int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (struct cn_msg *, struct netlink_skb_parms *)); void cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __group, int gfp_mask); struct cb_id @@ -53,15 +53,15 @@ struct cn_msg Connector interfaces. /*****************************************/ -int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (void *)); +int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (struct cn_msg *, struct netlink_skb_parms *)); Registers new callback with connector core. struct cb_id *id - unique connector's user identifier. It must be registered in connector.h for legal in-kernel users. char *name - connector's callback symbolic name. - void (*callback) (void *) - connector's callback. - Argument must be dereferenced to struct cn_msg *. + void (*callback) (struct cn..) - connector's callback. + cn_msg and the sender's credentials void cn_del_callback(struct cb_id *id); diff --git a/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt b/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt index 9f59fcbf5d8..ba046b8fa92 100644 --- a/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt @@ -54,20 +54,23 @@ features surfaced as a result: 3.1 General format of the API: struct dma_async_tx_descriptor * -async_<operation>(<op specific parameters>, - enum async_tx_flags flags, - struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *dependency, - dma_async_tx_callback callback_routine, - void *callback_parameter); +async_<operation>(<op specific parameters>, struct async_submit ctl *submit) 3.2 Supported operations: -memcpy - memory copy between a source and a destination buffer -memset - fill a destination buffer with a byte value -xor - xor a series of source buffers and write the result to a - destination buffer -xor_zero_sum - xor a series of source buffers and set a flag if the - result is zero. The implementation attempts to prevent - writes to memory +memcpy - memory copy between a source and a destination buffer +memset - fill a destination buffer with a byte value +xor - xor a series of source buffers and write the result to a + destination buffer +xor_val - xor a series of source buffers and set a flag if the + result is zero. The implementation attempts to prevent + writes to memory +pq - generate the p+q (raid6 syndrome) from a series of source buffers +pq_val - validate that a p and or q buffer are in sync with a given series of + sources +datap - (raid6_datap_recov) recover a raid6 data block and the p block + from the given sources +2data - (raid6_2data_recov) recover 2 raid6 data blocks from the given + sources 3.3 Descriptor management: The return value is non-NULL and points to a 'descriptor' when the operation @@ -80,8 +83,8 @@ acknowledged by the application before the offload engine driver is allowed to recycle (or free) the descriptor. A descriptor can be acked by one of the following methods: 1/ setting the ASYNC_TX_ACK flag if no child operations are to be submitted -2/ setting the ASYNC_TX_DEP_ACK flag to acknowledge the parent - descriptor of a new operation. +2/ submitting an unacknowledged descriptor as a dependency to another + async_tx call will implicitly set the acknowledged state. 3/ calling async_tx_ack() on the descriptor. 3.4 When does the operation execute? @@ -119,30 +122,42 @@ of an operation. Perform a xor->copy->xor operation where each operation depends on the result from the previous operation: -void complete_xor_copy_xor(void *param) +void callback(void *param) { - printk("complete\n"); + struct completion *cmp = param; + + complete(cmp); } -int run_xor_copy_xor(struct page **xor_srcs, - int xor_src_cnt, - struct page *xor_dest, - size_t xor_len, - struct page *copy_src, - struct page *copy_dest, - size_t copy_len) +void run_xor_copy_xor(struct page **xor_srcs, + int xor_src_cnt, + struct page *xor_dest, + size_t xor_len, + struct page *copy_src, + struct page *copy_dest, + size_t copy_len) { struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx; + addr_conv_t addr_conv[xor_src_cnt]; + struct async_submit_ctl submit; + addr_conv_t addr_conv[NDISKS]; + struct completion cmp; + + init_async_submit(&submit, ASYNC_TX_XOR_DROP_DST, NULL, NULL, NULL, + addr_conv); + tx = async_xor(xor_dest, xor_srcs, 0, xor_src_cnt, xor_len, &submit) - tx = async_xor(xor_dest, xor_srcs, 0, xor_src_cnt, xor_len, - ASYNC_TX_XOR_DROP_DST, NULL, NULL, NULL); - tx = async_memcpy(copy_dest, copy_src, 0, 0, copy_len, - ASYNC_TX_DEP_ACK, tx, NULL, NULL); - tx = async_xor(xor_dest, xor_srcs, 0, xor_src_cnt, xor_len, - ASYNC_TX_XOR_DROP_DST | ASYNC_TX_DEP_ACK | ASYNC_TX_ACK, - tx, complete_xor_copy_xor, NULL); + submit->depend_tx = tx; + tx = async_memcpy(copy_dest, copy_src, 0, 0, copy_len, &submit); + + init_completion(&cmp); + init_async_submit(&submit, ASYNC_TX_XOR_DROP_DST | ASYNC_TX_ACK, tx, + callback, &cmp, addr_conv); + tx = async_xor(xor_dest, xor_srcs, 0, xor_src_cnt, xor_len, &submit); async_tx_issue_pending_all(); + + wait_for_completion(&cmp); } See include/linux/async_tx.h for more information on the flags. See the diff --git a/Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt b/Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt index 59a91e5c690..611f5a5499b 100644 --- a/Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt +++ b/Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt @@ -64,14 +64,14 @@ be used to view the printk buffer of a remote machine, even with live update. Bernhard Kaindl enhanced firescope to support accessing 64-bit machines from 32-bit firescope and vice versa: -- ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/tools/firescope-0.2.2.tar.bz2 +- http://halobates.de/firewire/firescope-0.2.2.tar.bz2 and he implemented fast system dump (alpha version - read README.txt): -- ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/tools/firedump-0.1.tar.bz2 +- http://halobates.de/firewire/firedump-0.1.tar.bz2 There is also a gdb proxy for firewire which allows to use gdb to access data which can be referenced from symbols found by gdb in vmlinux: -- ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/tools/fireproxy-0.33.tar.bz2 +- http://halobates.de/firewire/fireproxy-0.33.tar.bz2 The latest version of this gdb proxy (fireproxy-0.34) can communicate (not yet stable) with kgdb over an memory-based communication module (kgdbom). @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ Step-by-step instructions for using firescope with early OHCI initialization: Notes ----- -Documentation and specifications: ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/docs +Documentation and specifications: http://halobates.de/firewire/ FireWire is a trademark of Apple Inc. - for more information please refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireWire diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index fa75220f8d3..04e6c819b28 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |