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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/mc13xxx.txt | 78 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/twl-familly.txt | 47 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/00-INDEX | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/fault_injection.txt | 69 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/mmc/mmc-dev-attrs.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/mmc/mmc-dev-parts.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/slub.txt | 5 |
14 files changed, 264 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab index 8b093f8..91bd6ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab @@ -346,6 +346,10 @@ Description: number of objects per slab. If a slab cannot be allocated because of fragmentation, SLUB will retry with the minimum order possible depending on its characteristics. + When debug_guardpage_minorder=N (N > 0) parameter is specified + (see Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt), the minimum possible + order is used and this sysfs entry can not be used to change + the order at run time. What: /sys/kernel/slab/cache/order_fallback Date: April 2008 diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index 4d8774f..4c95c00 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Brief summary of control files. memory.failcnt # show the number of memory usage hits limits memory.memsw.failcnt # show the number of memory+Swap hits limits memory.max_usage_in_bytes # show max memory usage recorded - memory.memsw.usage_in_bytes # show max memory+Swap usage recorded + memory.memsw.max_usage_in_bytes # show max memory+Swap usage recorded memory.soft_limit_in_bytes # set/show soft limit of memory usage memory.stat # show various statistics memory.use_hierarchy # set/show hierarchical account enabled @@ -410,8 +410,11 @@ memory.stat file includes following statistics cache - # of bytes of page cache memory. rss - # of bytes of anonymous and swap cache memory. mapped_file - # of bytes of mapped file (includes tmpfs/shmem) -pgpgin - # of pages paged in (equivalent to # of charging events). -pgpgout - # of pages paged out (equivalent to # of uncharging events). +pgpgin - # of charging events to the memory cgroup. The charging + event happens each time a page is accounted as either mapped + anon page(RSS) or cache page(Page Cache) to the cgroup. +pgpgout - # of uncharging events to the memory cgroup. The uncharging + event happens each time a page is unaccounted from the cgroup. swap - # of bytes of swap usage inactive_anon - # of bytes of anonymous memory and swap cache memory on LRU list. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/mc13xxx.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/mc13xxx.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..19f6af4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/mc13xxx.txt @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +* Freescale MC13783/MC13892 Power Management Integrated Circuit (PMIC) + +Required properties: +- compatible : Should be "fsl,mc13783" or "fsl,mc13892" + +Optional properties: +- fsl,mc13xxx-uses-adc : Indicate the ADC is being used +- fsl,mc13xxx-uses-codec : Indicate the Audio Codec is being used +- fsl,mc13xxx-uses-rtc : Indicate the RTC is being used +- fsl,mc13xxx-uses-touch : Indicate the touchscreen controller is being used + +Sub-nodes: +- regulators : Contain the regulator nodes. The MC13892 regulators are + bound using their names as listed below with their registers and bits + for enabling. + + vcoincell : regulator VCOINCELL (register 13, bit 23) + sw1 : regulator SW1 (register 24, bit 0) + sw2 : regulator SW2 (register 25, bit 0) + sw3 : regulator SW3 (register 26, bit 0) + sw4 : regulator SW4 (register 27, bit 0) + swbst : regulator SWBST (register 29, bit 20) + vgen1 : regulator VGEN1 (register 32, bit 0) + viohi : regulator VIOHI (register 32, bit 3) + vdig : regulator VDIG (register 32, bit 9) + vgen2 : regulator VGEN2 (register 32, bit 12) + vpll : regulator VPLL (register 32, bit 15) + vusb2 : regulator VUSB2 (register 32, bit 18) + vgen3 : regulator VGEN3 (register 33, bit 0) + vcam : regulator VCAM (register 33, bit 6) + vvideo : regulator VVIDEO (register 33, bit 12) + vaudio : regulator VAUDIO (register 33, bit 15) + vsd : regulator VSD (register 33, bit 18) + gpo1 : regulator GPO1 (register 34, bit 6) + gpo2 : regulator GPO2 (register 34, bit 8) + gpo3 : regulator GPO3 (register 34, bit 10) + gpo4 : regulator GPO4 (register 34, bit 12) + pwgt1spi : regulator PWGT1SPI (register 34, bit 15) + pwgt2spi : regulator PWGT2SPI (register 34, bit 16) + vusb : regulator VUSB (register 50, bit 3) + + The bindings details of individual regulator device can be found in: + Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt + +Examples: + +ecspi@70010000 { /* ECSPI1 */ + fsl,spi-num-chipselects = <2>; + cs-gpios = <&gpio3 24 0>, /* GPIO4_24 */ + <&gpio3 25 0>; /* GPIO4_25 */ + status = "okay"; + + pmic: mc13892@0 { + #address-cells = <1>; + #size-cells = <0>; + compatible = "fsl,mc13892"; + spi-max-frequency = <6000000>; + reg = <0>; + interrupt-parent = <&gpio0>; + interrupts = <8>; + + regulators { + sw1_reg: mc13892__sw1 { + regulator-min-microvolt = <600000>; + regulator-max-microvolt = <1375000>; + regulator-boot-on; + regulator-always-on; + }; + + sw2_reg: mc13892__sw2 { + regulator-min-microvolt = <900000>; + regulator-max-microvolt = <1850000>; + regulator-boot-on; + regulator-always-on; + }; + }; + }; +}; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/twl-familly.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/twl-familly.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a66fcf9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/twl-familly.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +Texas Instruments TWL family + +The TWLs are Integrated Power Management Chips. +Some version might contain much more analog function like +USB transceiver or Audio amplifier. +These chips are connected to an i2c bus. + + +Required properties: +- compatible : Must be "ti,twl4030"; + For Integrated power-management/audio CODEC device used in OMAP3 + based boards +- compatible : Must be "ti,twl6030"; + For Integrated power-management used in OMAP4 based boards +- interrupts : This i2c device has an IRQ line connected to the main SoC +- interrupt-controller : Since the twl support several interrupts internally, + it is considered as an interrupt controller cascaded to the SoC one. +- #interrupt-cells = <1>; +- interrupt-parent : The parent interrupt controller. + +Optional node: +- Child nodes contain in the twl. The twl family is made of several variants + that support a different number of features. + The children nodes will thus depend of the capability of the variant. + + +Example: +/* + * Integrated Power Management Chip + * http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/twl6030.pdf + */ +twl@48 { + compatible = "ti,twl6030"; + reg = <0x48>; + interrupts = <39>; /* IRQ_SYS_1N cascaded to gic */ + interrupt-controller; + #interrupt-cells = <1>; + interrupt-parent = <&gic>; + #address-cells = <1>; + #size-cells = <0>; + + twl_rtc { + compatible = "ti,twl_rtc"; + interrupts = <11>; + reg = <0>; + }; +}; diff --git a/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt b/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt index 510eab3..225f96d 100644 --- a/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt +++ b/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt @@ -219,6 +219,10 @@ NOTES: If the exporter chooses not to allow an attach() operation once a map_dma_buf() API has been called, it simply returns an error. +Miscellaneous notes: +- Any exporters or users of the dma-buf buffer sharing framework must have + a 'select DMA_SHARED_BUFFER' in their respective Kconfigs. + References: [1] struct dma_buf_ops in include/linux/dma-buf.h [2] All interfaces mentioned above defined in include/linux/dma-buf.h diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt index 763d8eb..d6030aa 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt @@ -119,12 +119,20 @@ Mount Options must rely on TCP's error correction to detect data corruption in the data payload. - noasyncreaddir - Disable client's use its local cache to satisfy readdir - requests. (This does not change correctness; the client uses - cached metadata only when a lease or capability ensures it is - valid.) + dcache + Use the dcache contents to perform negative lookups and + readdir when the client has the entire directory contents in + its cache. (This does not change correctness; the client uses + cached metadata only when a lease or capability ensures it is + valid.) + + nodcache + Do not use the dcache as above. This avoids a significant amount of + complex code, sacrificing performance without affecting correctness, + and is useful for tracking down bugs. + noasyncreaddir + Do not use the dcache as above for readdir. More Information ================ diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/00-INDEX b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/00-INDEX index a57e124..1716874a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/00-INDEX @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ - this file (nfs-related documentation). Exporting - explanation of how to make filesystems exportable. +fault_injection.txt + - information for using fault injection on the server knfsd-stats.txt - statistics which the NFS server makes available to user space. nfs.txt diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/fault_injection.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/fault_injection.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..426d166 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/fault_injection.txt @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ + +Fault Injection +=============== +Fault injection is a method for forcing errors that may not normally occur, or +may be difficult to reproduce. Forcing these errors in a controlled environment +can help the developer find and fix bugs before their code is shipped in a +production system. Injecting an error on the Linux NFS server will allow us to +observe how the client reacts and if it manages to recover its state correctly. + +NFSD_FAULT_INJECTION must be selected when configuring the kernel to use this +feature. + + +Using Fault Injection +===================== +On the client, mount the fault injection server through NFS v4.0+ and do some +work over NFS (open files, take locks, ...). + +On the server, mount the debugfs filesystem to <debug_dir> and ls +<debug_dir>/nfsd. This will show a list of files that will be used for +injecting faults on the NFS server. As root, write a number n to the file +corresponding to the action you want the server to take. The server will then +process the first n items it finds. So if you want to forget 5 locks, echo '5' +to <debug_dir>/nfsd/forget_locks. A value of 0 will tell the server to forget +all corresponding items. A log message will be created containing the number +of items forgotten (check dmesg). + +Go back to work on the client and check if the client recovered from the error +correctly. + + +Available Faults +================ +forget_clients: + The NFS server keeps a list of clients that have placed a mount call. If + this list is cleared, the server will have no knowledge of who the client + is, forcing the client to reauthenticate with the server. + +forget_openowners: + The NFS server keeps a list of what files are currently opened and who + they were opened by. Clearing this list will force the client to reopen + its files. + +forget_locks: + The NFS server keeps a list of what files are currently locked in the VFS. + Clearing this list will force the client to reclaim its locks (files are + unlocked through the VFS as they are cleared from this list). + +forget_delegations: + A delegation is used to assure the client that a file, or part of a file, + has not changed since the delegation was awarded. Clearing this list will + force the client to reaquire its delegation before accessing the file + again. + +recall_delegations: + Delegations can be recalled by the server when another client attempts to + access a file. This test will notify the client that its delegation has + been revoked, forcing the client to reaquire the delegation before using + the file again. + + +tools/nfs/inject_faults.sh script +================================= +This script has been created to ease the fault injection process. This script +will detect the mounted debugfs directory and write to the files located there +based on the arguments passed by the user. For example, running +`inject_faults.sh forget_locks 1` as root will instruct the server to forget +one lock. Running `inject_faults forget_locks` will instruct the server to +forgetall locks. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 12fee13..a76a26a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -307,6 +307,9 @@ Table 1-4: Contents of the stat files (as of 2.6.30-rc7) blkio_ticks time spent waiting for block IO gtime guest time of the task in jiffies cgtime guest time of the task children in jiffies + start_data address above which program data+bss is placed + end_data address below which program data+bss is placed + start_brk address above which program heap can be expanded with brk() .............................................................................. The /proc/PID/maps file containing the currently mapped memory regions and diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt index 7db3ebd..403c090 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt @@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ byte alignment: Compressed data blocks are written to the filesystem as files are read from the source directory, and checked for duplicates. Once all file data has been -written the completed inode, directory, fragment, export and uid/gid lookup -tables are written. +written the completed inode, directory, fragment, export, uid/gid lookup and +xattr tables are written. 3.1 Compression options ----------------------- @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ in each metadata block. Directories are sorted in alphabetical order, and at lookup the index is scanned linearly looking for the first filename alphabetically larger than the filename being looked up. At this point the location of the metadata block the filename is in has been found. -The general idea of the index is ensure only one metadata block needs to be +The general idea of the index is to ensure only one metadata block needs to be decompressed to do a lookup irrespective of the length of the directory. This scheme has the advantage that it doesn't require extra memory overhead and doesn't require much extra storage on disk. diff --git a/Documentation/mmc/mmc-dev-attrs.txt b/Documentation/mmc/mmc-dev-attrs.txt index 8898a95..22ae844 100644 --- a/Documentation/mmc/mmc-dev-attrs.txt +++ b/Documentation/mmc/mmc-dev-attrs.txt @@ -64,3 +64,13 @@ Note on Erase Size and Preferred Erase Size: size specified by the card. "preferred_erase_size" is in bytes. + +SD/MMC/SDIO Clock Gating Attribute +================================== + +Read and write access is provided to following attribute. +This attribute appears only if CONFIG_MMC_CLKGATE is enabled. + + clkgate_delay Tune the clock gating delay with desired value in milliseconds. + +echo <desired delay> > /sys/class/mmc_host/mmcX/clkgate_delay diff --git a/Documentation/mmc/mmc-dev-parts.txt b/Documentation/mmc/mmc-dev-parts.txt index 2db28b8..f08d078 100644 --- a/Documentation/mmc/mmc-dev-parts.txt +++ b/Documentation/mmc/mmc-dev-parts.txt @@ -25,3 +25,16 @@ echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblkXbootY/force_ro To re-enable read-only access: echo 1 > /sys/block/mmcblkXbootY/force_ro + +The boot partitions can also be locked read only until the next power on, +with: + +echo 1 > /sys/block/mmcblkXbootY/ro_lock_until_next_power_on + +This is a feature of the card and not of the kernel. If the card does +not support boot partition locking, the file will not exist. If the +feature has been disabled on the card, the file will be read-only. + +The boot partitions can also be locked permanently, but this feature is +not accessible through sysfs in order to avoid accidental or malicious +bricking. diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 6d8cd8b..8c20fbd 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -415,6 +415,14 @@ PIDs of value pid_max or larger are not allocated. ============================================================== +ns_last_pid: + +The last pid allocated in the current (the one task using this sysctl +lives in) pid namespace. When selecting a pid for a next task on fork +kernel tries to allocate a number starting from this one. + +============================================================== + powersave-nap: (PPC only) If set, Linux-PPC will use the 'nap' mode of powersaving, diff --git a/Documentation/vm/slub.txt b/Documentation/vm/slub.txt index 2acdda9..6752870 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/slub.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/slub.txt @@ -131,7 +131,10 @@ slub_min_objects. slub_max_order specified the order at which slub_min_objects should no longer be checked. This is useful to avoid SLUB trying to generate super large order pages to fit slub_min_objects of a slab cache with -large object sizes into one high order page. +large object sizes into one high order page. Setting command line +parameter debug_guardpage_minorder=N (N > 0), forces setting +slub_max_order to 0, what cause minimum possible order of slabs +allocation. SLUB Debug output ----------------- |
