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Jesper Juhl
2de206d8f0 Fix compiler warning in smount example program from sharedsubtree.txt
If one compiles the example smount program, found in
Documentation/sharedsubtree.txt, with -Wall then there's a small
compiler warning rearing its ugly head :

 smount.c: In function 'main':
 smount.c:45: warning: implicit declaration of function 'strcmp'

Easily fixed by just including string.h

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 02:44:34 +02:00
Shaun Zinck
f8c34f9816 docs/sysfs: add missing word to sysfs attribute explanation
Add the obvious missing word.

Signed-off-by: Shaun Zinck <shaun.zinck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 02:39:43 +02:00
Shaun Zinck
7356337bd2 documentation/ext3: grammar fixes
Fix some grammar in the explanation of the Journal Block Device layer.

Signed-off-by: Shaun Zinck <shaun.zinck@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 02:38:36 +02:00
Shaun Zinck
59dd24d32c Documentation/java.txt: typo and grammar fixes
This fixes a typo and rearranges the sentence to make more sense.

Signed-off-by: Shaun Zinck <shaun.zinck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 02:37:21 +02:00
Shaun Zinck
bc5b1d55cc Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: typo fix
Signed-off-by: Shaun Zinck <shaun.zinck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 02:35:36 +02:00
Gabriel Craciunescu
e9534b3fd7 Typo fixes retrun -> return
Typo fixes retrun -> return

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Craciunescu <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 02:13:26 +02:00
Li Yang
507a6a8c9b Update 2.4 maintainer in document
Update the maintainer of 2.4 kernel in Documentations/SubmittingPatches.

Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leo@zh-kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 02:02:12 +02:00
Eric Dumazet
94547426db Documentation/filesystems/files.txt: remove rcuref_inc_lf() reverences
rcuref_inc_lf() is not used anymore. Replace it by atomic_inc_not_zero()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 01:47:49 +02:00
Matt LaPlante
01dd2fbf0d typo fixes
Most of these fixes were already submitted for old kernel versions, and were
approved, but for some reason they never made it into the releases.

Because this is a consolidation of a couple old missed patches, it touches both
Kconfigs and documentation texts.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 01:34:40 +02:00
Simon Arlott
0f035b8e84 spelling fixes: Documentation/
Spelling fixes in Documentation/.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 01:30:25 +02:00
Johann Deneux
118e78d1cd changed email
Changed email address of Johann Deneux (myself)
Also removed CVS tags in comments (no longer using cvs)

Signed-off-by: Johann Deneux <johann.deneux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 00:47:32 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
698524d78d Documentation: Remove unreferenced "blkmtd_*" parms
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 00:22:16 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
343b901980 Documentation: Add nested versions of mutex locks to docs
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 00:15:26 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
cfd348fd6e Documentation: Remove reference to non-existent "unwind_debug" kernel parm
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 00:12:55 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
646b1c9dad Documentation: Fix erroneous "dmascc=" documentation
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 00:11:36 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
30afddadac Documentation: Remove references to dead "eda" and "edb" kernel parms
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 00:03:32 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
23d028f69a Documentation: Remove references to dead "cyclades=" boot option
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 00:01:12 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
02a72fd675 Documentation: Remove reference to non-existent "applicom" kernel parm
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:47:50 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
ac0bf14df7 Documentation: Remove references to dead "noasync" kernel parm
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:33:35 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
634fe2fdbf Documentation: Remove reference to dead "lasi" kernel parm
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:32:16 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
cd1c34f21f Documentation: Delete final reference to "sg_def_reserved_size" kernel parm
given the following:

$ grep -rw sg_def_reserved_size *
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt:    sg_def_reserved_size=   [SCSI]
$

that kernel parameter looks exceedingly dead.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:28:40 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
bd9fcb44a7 Documentation: Remove remaining useless reference to acpi_fake_ecdt
>From commit cd8c93a4e0:

"Similar functionality was turned on by acpi_fake_ecdt=1 command line
before. Now it is on all the time."

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:27:18 +02:00
Marcin Garski
db955170d4 more UTF-8 conversions
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:22:11 +02:00
Jan Engelhardt
96de0e252c Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups
* Convert files to UTF-8.

  * Also correct some people's names
    (one example is Eißfeldt, which was found in a source file.
    Given that the author used an ß at all in a source file
    indicates that the real name has in fact a 'ß' and not an 'ss',
    which is commonly used as a substitute for 'ß' when limited to
    7bit.)

  * Correct town names (Goettingen -> Göttingen)

  * Update Eberhard Mönkeberg's address (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/8/313)

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:21:04 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
3f5b98a2a0 Documentation: Delete dead OSS-related kernel parameter.
Since the OSS-related "sb" kernel parameter doesn't seem to be
supported, drop its reference from the kernel-parameters.txt file.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:15:26 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
9f5e0bffe5 Documentation: Drop reference to dead "eicon" kernel paramter.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Armin Schindler <armin@melware.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:14:24 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
3a4fa0a25d Fix misspellings of "system", "controller", "interrupt" and "necessary".
Fix the various misspellings of "system", controller", "interrupt" and
"[un]necessary".

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:10:43 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
c4ec207173 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (41 commits)
  ACPICA: hw: Don't carry spinlock over suspend
  ACPICA: hw: remove use_lock flag from acpi_hw_register_{read, write}
  ACPI: cpuidle: port idle timer suspend/resume workaround to cpuidle
  ACPI: clean up acpi_enter_sleep_state_prep
  Hibernation: Make sure that ACPI is enabled in acpi_hibernation_finish
  ACPI: suppress uninitialized var warning
  cpuidle: consolidate 2.6.22 cpuidle branch into one patch
  ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: skip blanks before the data when parsing sysfs
  ACPI: AC: Add sysfs interface
  ACPI: SBS: Add sysfs alarm
  ACPI: SBS: Add ACPI_PROCFS around procfs handling code.
  ACPI: SBS: Add support for power_supply class (and sysfs)
  ACPI: SBS: Make SBS reads table-driven.
  ACPI: SBS: Simplify data structures in SBS
  ACPI: SBS: Split host controller (ACPI0001) from SBS driver (ACPI0002)
  ACPI: EC: Add new query handler to list head.
  ACPI: Add acpi_bus_generate_event4() function
  ACPI: Battery: add sysfs alarm
  ACPI: Battery: Add sysfs support
  ACPI: Battery: Misc clean-ups, no functional changes
  ...

Fix up conflicts in drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.[ch] manually
2007-10-19 13:12:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0a4908e19f Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
  [MIPS] Delete totally outdated Documentation/mips/time.README
  [MIPS] Kill duplicated setup_irq() for cp0 timer
  [MIPS] Sibyte: Finish conversion to modern time APIs.
  [MIPS] time: Helpers to compute clocksource/event shift and mult values.
  [MIPS] SMTC: Build fix.
  [MIPS] time: Delete dead code.
  [MIPS] MIPSsim: Strip defconfig file to the bones.
2007-10-19 12:01:22 -07:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
26e3d11dd3 Linux Kernel Markers - Documentation
Here is some documentation explaining what is/how to use the Linux
Kernel Markers.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:55 -07:00
Bernhard Walle
fb391599f2 Add documentation for extended crashkernel syntax
This adds the documentation for the extended crashkernel syntax into
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:51 -07:00
Cliff Wickman
470fd64644 hotplug cpu: migrate a task within its cpuset
When a cpu is disabled, move_task_off_dead_cpu() is called for tasks that have
been running on that cpu.

Currently, such a task is migrated:
 1) to any cpu on the same node as the disabled cpu, which is both online
    and among that task's cpus_allowed
 2) to any cpu which is both online and among that task's cpus_allowed

It is typical of a multithreaded application running on a large NUMA system to
have its tasks confined to a cpuset so as to cluster them near the memory that
they share.  Furthermore, it is typical to explicitly place such a task on a
specific cpu in that cpuset.  And in that case the task's cpus_allowed
includes only a single cpu.

This patch would insert a preference to migrate such a task to some cpu within
its cpuset (and set its cpus_allowed to its entire cpuset).

With this patch, migrate the task to:
 1) to any cpu on the same node as the disabled cpu, which is both online
    and among that task's cpus_allowed
 2) to any online cpu within the task's cpuset
 3) to any cpu which is both online and among that task's cpus_allowed

In order to do this, move_task_off_dead_cpu() must make a call to
cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked(), a new subset of cpuset_cpus_allowed(), that will
not block.  (name change - per Oleg's suggestion)

Calls are made to cpuset_lock() and cpuset_unlock() in migration_call() to set
the cpuset mutex during the whole migrate_live_tasks() and
migrate_dead_tasks() procedure.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[pj@sgi.com: Fix indentation and spacing]
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:44 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
7b19ada2ed get rid of input BIT* duplicate defines
get rid of input BIT* duplicate defines

use newly global defined macros for input layer. Also remove includes of
input.h from non-input sources only for BIT macro definiton. Define the
macro temporarily in local manner, all those local definitons will be
removed further in this patchset (to not break bisecting).
BIT macro will be globally defined (1<<x)

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: <dtor@mail.ru>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: <lenb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: <perex@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: <vernux@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:42 -07:00
Paul Jackson
029190c515 cpuset sched_load_balance flag
Add a new per-cpuset flag called 'sched_load_balance'.

When enabled in a cpuset (the default value) it tells the kernel scheduler
that the scheduler should provide the normal load balancing on the CPUs in
that cpuset, sometimes moving tasks from one CPU to a second CPU if the
second CPU is less loaded and if that task is allowed to run there.

When disabled (write "0" to the file) then it tells the kernel scheduler
that load balancing is not required for the CPUs in that cpuset.

Now even if this flag is disabled for some cpuset, the kernel may still
have to load balance some or all the CPUs in that cpuset, if some
overlapping cpuset has its sched_load_balance flag enabled.

If there are some CPUs that are not in any cpuset whose sched_load_balance
flag is enabled, the kernel scheduler will not load balance tasks to those
CPUs.

Moreover the kernel will partition the 'sched domains' (non-overlapping
sets of CPUs over which load balancing is attempted) into the finest
granularity partition that it can find, while still keeping any two CPUs
that are in the same shed_load_balance enabled cpuset in the same element
of the partition.

This serves two purposes:
 1) It provides a mechanism for real time isolation of some CPUs, and
 2) it can be used to improve performance on systems with many CPUs
    by supporting configurations in which load balancing is not done
    across all CPUs at once, but rather only done in several smaller
    disjoint sets of CPUs.

This mechanism replaces the earlier overloading of the per-cpuset
flag 'cpu_exclusive', which overloading was removed in an earlier
patch: cpuset-remove-sched-domain-hooks-from-cpusets

See further the Documentation and comments in the code itself.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't be weird]
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:41 -07:00
Balbir Singh
846c7bb055 Add cgroupstats
This patch is inspired by the discussion at
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/11/187 and implements per cgroup statistics
as suggested by Andrew Morton in http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/11/263.  The
patch is on top of 2.6.21-mm1 with Paul's cgroups v9 patches (forward
ported)

This patch implements per cgroup statistics infrastructure and re-uses
code from the taskstats interface.  A new set of cgroup operations are
registered with commands and attributes.  It should be very easy to
*extend* per cgroup statistics, by adding members to the cgroupstats
structure.

The current model for cgroupstats is a pull, a push model (to post
statistics on interesting events), should be very easy to add.  Currently
user space requests for statistics by passing the cgroup file
descriptor.  Statistics about the state of all the tasks in the cgroup
is returned to user space.

TODO's/NOTE:

This patch provides an infrastructure for implementing cgroup statistics.
Based on the needs of each controller, we can incrementally add more statistics,
event based support for notification of statistics, accumulation of taskstats
into cgroup statistics in the future.

Sample output

# ./cgroupstats -C /cgroup/a
sleeping 2, blocked 0, running 1, stopped 0, uninterruptible 0

# ./cgroupstats -C /cgroup/
sleeping 154, blocked 0, running 0, stopped 0, uninterruptible 0

If the approach looks good, I'll enhance and post the user space utility for
the same

Feedback, comments, test results are always welcome!

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
Paul Menage
8793d854ed Task Control Groups: make cpusets a client of cgroups
Remove the filesystem support logic from the cpusets system and makes cpusets
a cgroup subsystem

The "cpuset" filesystem becomes a dummy filesystem; attempts to mount it get
passed through to the cgroup filesystem with the appropriate options to
emulate the old cpuset filesystem behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
Paul Menage
817929ec27 Task Control Groups: shared cgroup subsystem group arrays
Replace the struct css_set embedded in task_struct with a pointer; all tasks
that have the same set of memberships across all hierarchies will share a
css_set object, and will be linked via their css_sets field to the "tasks"
list_head in the css_set.

Assuming that many tasks share the same cgroup assignments, this reduces
overall space usage and keeps the size of the task_struct down (three pointers
added to task_struct compared to a non-cgroups kernel, no matter how many
subsystems are registered).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix a printk]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
Paul Menage
697f416108 Task Control Groups: add cgroup_clone() interface
Add support for cgroup_clone(), a way to create new cgroups intended to
be used for systems such as namespace unsharing.  A new subsystem callback,
post_clone(), is added to allow subsystems to automatically configure cloned
cgroups.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
Paul Menage
ddbcc7e8e5 Task Control Groups: basic task cgroup framework
Generic Process Control Groups
--------------------------

There have recently been various proposals floating around for
resource management/accounting and other task grouping subsystems in
the kernel, including ResGroups, User BeanCounters, NSProxy
cgroups, and others.  These all need the basic abstraction of being
able to group together multiple processes in an aggregate, in order to
track/limit the resources permitted to those processes, or control
other behaviour of the processes, and all implement this grouping in
different ways.

This patchset provides a framework for tracking and grouping processes
into arbitrary "cgroups" and assigning arbitrary state to those
groupings, in order to control the behaviour of the cgroup as an
aggregate.

The intention is that the various resource management and
virtualization/cgroup efforts can also become task cgroup
clients, with the result that:

- the userspace APIs are (somewhat) normalised

- it's easier to test e.g. the ResGroups CPU controller in
 conjunction with the BeanCounters memory controller, or use either of
them as the resource-control portion of a virtual server system.

- the additional kernel footprint of any of the competing resource
 management systems is substantially reduced, since it doesn't need
 to provide process grouping/containment, hence improving their
 chances of getting into the kernel

This patch:

Add the main task cgroups framework - the cgroup filesystem, and the
basic structures for tracking membership and associating subsystem state
objects to tasks.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
8f731f7d83 kernel-api docbook: fix content problems
Fix kernel-api docbook contents problems.

docproc: linux-2.6.23-git13/include/asm-x86/unaligned_32.h: No such file or directory
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git13//include/linux/list.h:482): bad line: 			of list entry
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git13//mm/filemap.c:864): No description found for parameter 'ra'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git13//block/ll_rw_blk.c:3760): No description found for parameter 'req'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git13//include/linux/input.h:1077): No description found for parameter 'private'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git13//include/linux/input.h:1077): No description found for parameter 'cdev'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:35 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1c7037db50 remove unused flush_tlb_pgtables
Nobody uses flush_tlb_pgtables anymore, this patch removes all remaining
traces of it from all archs.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:34 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
6f75aaa72a [MIPS] Delete totally outdated Documentation/mips/time.README
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-19 18:15:58 +01:00
Corey Minyard
612b5a8d3a IPMI: new NMI handling
Convert over to the new NMI handling for getting IPMI watchdog timeouts via an
NMI.  This add config options to know if there is the ability to receive NMIs
and if it has an NMI post processing call.  Then it modifies the IPMI watchdog
to take advantage of this so that it can know if an NMI comes in.

It also adds testing that the IPMI NMI watchdog works.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:32 -07:00
Corey Minyard
650dd0c7fa IPMI: documentation fixes
Clean up IPMI documentation to remove references to high-res timers and add
info about the polling thread.  Also fix an doc error for a parameter.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:32 -07:00
Nick Piggin
26333576fd bitops: introduce lock ops
Introduce test_and_set_bit_lock / clear_bit_unlock bitops with lock semantics.
Convert all architectures to use the generic implementation.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:29 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
fc37449f79 The next round of scheduled OSS code removal
This patch contains the next round of scheduled OSS code removal.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
7058cb02dd sysctl: deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion.
After adding checking to register_sysctl_table and finding a whole new set
of bugs.  Missed by countless code reviews and testers I have finally lost
patience with the binary sysctl interface.

The binary sysctl interface has been sort of deprecated for years and
finding a user space program that uses the syscall is more difficult then
finding a needle in a haystack.  Problems continue to crop up, with the in
kernel implementation.  So since supporting something that no one uses is
silly, deprecate sys_sysctl with a sufficient grace period and notice that
the handful of user space applications that care can be fixed or replaced.

The /proc/sys sysctl interface that people use will continue to be
supported indefinitely.

This patch moves the tested warning about sysctls from the path where
sys_sysctl to a separate path called from both implementations of
sys_sysctl, and it adds a proper entry into
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.

Allowing us to revisit this in a couple years time and actually kill
sys_sysctl.

[lethal@linux-sh.org: sysctl: Fix syscall disabled build]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:23 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
25398a158d sysctl: parport remove binary paths
The sysctl binary paths don't look as if they even code work, .data is not
filled in, and all of the proc_handlers look at extra1 and there is not
strategy routine.

So just kill the binary paths.

In addition this patch removes the setting of extra1 on directories.  It
doesn't look like the parport code ever examines it, and it's bad sysctl form.

[bunk@kernel.org: remove parport_device_num()]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:23 -07:00
Andres Salomon
8f4ce8c32f serial: turn serial console suspend a boot rather than compile time option
Currently, there's a CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND that allows one to stop
the serial console from being suspended when the rest of the machine goes
to sleep.  This is incredibly useful for debugging power management-related
things; however, having it as a compile-time option has proved to be
incredibly inconvenient for us (OLPC).  There are plenty of times that we
want serial console to not suspend, but for the most part we'd like serial
console to be suspended.

This drops CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND, and replaces it with a kernel
boot parameter (no_console_suspend).  By default, the serial console will
be suspended along with the rest of the system; by passing
'no_console_suspend' to the kernel during boot, serial console will remain
alive during suspend.

For now, this is pretty serial console specific; further fixes could be
applied to make this work for things like netconsole.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:19 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
d5d8c5976d freezer: do not send signals to kernel threads
The freezer should not send signals to kernel threads, since that may lead to
subtle problems.  In particular, commit
b74d0deb96 has changed recalc_sigpending_tsk()
so that it doesn't clear TIF_SIGPENDING.  For this reason, if the freezer
continues to send fake signals to kernel threads and the freezing of kernel
threads fails, some of them may be running with TIF_SIGPENDING set forever.

Accordingly, recalc_sigpending_tsk() shouldn't set the task's TIF_SIGPENDING
flag if TIF_FREEZE is set.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:19 -07:00