From 312f1f0141627a58bf72c55f0e7bc5d6f118a372 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Horms Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:57:55 +0900 Subject: [IA64] Document the "nomca" boot parameter "nomca" can be used to disable machine check handling Signed-Off-By: Horms Signed-off-by: Tony Luck --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index b874771..75205391 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1034,6 +1034,8 @@ running once the system is up. nomce [IA-32] Machine Check Exception + nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling + noresidual [PPC] Don't use residual data on PReP machines. noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap -- cgit v1.1 From 2d748ba1669070a12bab11b19d20fd8daf537ef5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Krufky Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:07:46 -0300 Subject: V4L/DVB (3336): Bt8xx documentation authors fix - use one Author per line, which allows us to add more authors later without creating a mess. - Add Michael Krufky due to -git commit 2cbeddc976645262dbe036d6ec0825f96af70da3 Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt index df6c054..52ed462 100644 --- a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt +++ b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt @@ -111,4 +111,8 @@ source: linux/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.bttv If you have problems with this please do ask on the mailing list. -- -Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham +Authors: Richard Walker, + Jamie Honan, + Michael Hunold, + Manu Abraham, + Michael Krufky -- cgit v1.1 From ca659a41373afc40de6276d24d8279bcd547e0a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karsten Suehring Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:08:08 -0300 Subject: V4L/DVB (3347): Pinnacle PCTV 40i: add filtered Composite2 input This patch adds another composite input to the Pinnacle PCTV 100i definition which filters the chrominace signal from the luma input. This improves video quality for Composite signals on the S-Video connector of the card. In addition the name string of the card is changed to include PCTV 40i and 50i since these cards are identical. Signed-off-by: Karsten Suehring Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.saa7134 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.saa7134 b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.saa7134 index 8a35259..9d48fb3 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.saa7134 +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.saa7134 @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ 74 -> LifeView FlyTV Platinum Mini2 [14c0:1212] 75 -> AVerMedia AVerTVHD MCE A180 [1461:1044] 76 -> SKNet MonsterTV Mobile [1131:4ee9] - 77 -> Pinnacle PCTV 110i (saa7133) [11bd:002e] + 77 -> Pinnacle PCTV 40i/50i/110i (saa7133) [11bd:002e] 78 -> ASUSTeK P7131 Dual [1043:4862] 79 -> Sedna/MuchTV PC TV Cardbus TV/Radio (ITO25 Rev:2B) 80 -> ASUS Digimatrix TV [1043:0210] -- cgit v1.1 From 6ba54abe627577270a9baeb1d984bf84fba8b2e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Krufky Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:22:49 -0300 Subject: V4L/DVB (3399): ELSA EX-VISION 500TV: fix incorrect PCI subsystem ID - ELSA EX-VISION 500TV was incorrectly programmed to have the same subsystem ID as ELSA EX-VISION 300TV, (1048:226b) - This changeset replaces the incorrect subsystem ID (1048:226b) with the correct one (1048:226a) for the ELSA EX-VISION 500TV. Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.saa7134 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.saa7134 b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.saa7134 index 9d48fb3..da4fb89 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.saa7134 +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.saa7134 @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ 12 -> Medion 7134 [16be:0003] 13 -> Typhoon TV+Radio 90031 14 -> ELSA EX-VISION 300TV [1048:226b] - 15 -> ELSA EX-VISION 500TV [1048:226b] + 15 -> ELSA EX-VISION 500TV [1048:226a] 16 -> ASUS TV-FM 7134 [1043:4842,1043:4830,1043:4840] 17 -> AOPEN VA1000 POWER [1131:7133] 18 -> BMK MPEX No Tuner -- cgit v1.1 From 21a1ea9eb40411d4ee29448c53b9e4c0654d6ceb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dipankar Sarma Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 21:55:33 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] rcu batch tuning This patch adds new tunables for RCU queue and finished batches. There are two types of controls - number of completed RCU updates invoked in a batch (blimit) and monitoring for high rate of incoming RCUs on a cpu (qhimark, qlowmark). By default, the per-cpu batch limit is set to a small value. If the input RCU rate exceeds the high watermark, we do two things - force quiescent state on all cpus and set the batch limit of the CPU to INTMAX. Setting batch limit to INTMAX forces all finished RCUs to be processed in one shot. If we have more than INTMAX RCUs queued up, then we have bigger problems anyway. Once the incoming queued RCUs fall below the low watermark, the batch limit is set to the default. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 75205391..bad5987 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1284,6 +1284,19 @@ running once the system is up. New name for the ramdisk parameter. See Documentation/ramdisk.txt. + rcu.blimit= [KNL,BOOT] Set maximum number of finished + RCU callbacks to process in one batch. + + rcu.qhimark= [KNL,BOOT] Set threshold of queued + RCU callbacks over which batch limiting is disabled. + + rcu.qlowmark= [KNL,BOOT] Set threshold of queued + RCU callbacks below which batch limiting is re-enabled. + + rcu.rsinterval= [KNL,BOOT,SMP] Set the number of additional + RCU callbacks to queued before forcing reschedule + on all cpus. + rdinit= [KNL] Format: Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, -- cgit v1.1 From f9262c12c0084ddba445a9a42e98994018e51400 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:57:25 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] i386: port ATI timer fix from x86_64 to i386 II ATI chipsets tend to generate double timer interrupts for the local APIC timer when both the 8254 and the IO-APIC timer pins are enabled. This is because they route it to both and the result is anded together and the CPU ends up processing it twice. This patch changes check_timer to disable the 8254 routing for interrupt 0. I think it would be safe on all chipsets actually (i tested it on a couple and it worked everywhere) and Windows seems to do it in a similar way, but to be conservative this patch only enables this mode on ATI (and adds options to enable/disable too) Ported over from a similar x86-64 change. I reused the ACPI earlyquirk infrastructure for the ATI bridge check, but tweaked it a bit to work even without ACPI. Inspired by a patch from Chuck Ebbert, but redone. Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Cc: "Brown, Len" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index bad5987..fc99075 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -335,6 +335,12 @@ running once the system is up. timesource is not avalible, it defaults to PIT. Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } + disable_8254_timer + enable_8254_timer + [IA32/X86_64] Disable/Enable interrupt 0 timer routing + over the 8254 in addition to over the IO-APIC. The + kernel tries to set a sensible default. + hpet= [IA-32,HPET] option to disable HPET and use PIT. Format: disable -- cgit v1.1 From cf028d1715cfa8db1ad95ed9ee479b7a0b9e1cc5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ralf Baechle Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:50:12 +0000 Subject: [MIPS] Threaten removal of code for NEC DDB5074 and DDB5476 evaluation boards. What: Support for NEC DDB5074 and DDB5476 evaluation boards. When: June 2006 Why: Board specific code doesn't build anymore since ~2.6.0 and no users have complained indicating there is no more need for these boards. This should really be considered a last call. Who: Ralf Baechle --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index be5ae60..81bc513 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -180,3 +180,12 @@ Why: These events are not correct, and do not properly let userspace know when a file system has been mounted or unmounted. Userspace should poll the /proc/mounts file instead to detect this properly. Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman + +--------------------------- + +What: Support for NEC DDB5074 and DDB5476 evaluation boards. +When: June 2006 +Why: Board specific code doesn't build anymore since ~2.6.0 and no + users have complained indicating there is no more need for these + boards. This should really be considered a last call. +Who: Ralf Baechle -- cgit v1.1 From b4fb376628e63bfc8071fc915b921da3db4a3385 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Lameter Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:50:20 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Page migration documentation update Update the documentation for page migration. - Fix up bits and pieces in cpusets.txt - Rework text in vm/page-migration to be clearer and reflect the final version of page migration in 2.6.16. Mention Andi Kleen's numactl package that contains user space tools for page migration via libnuma. Add reference to numa_maps and to the manpage in numactl. - Add todo list for outstanding issues Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Acked-by: Paul Jackson Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/cpusets.txt | 41 +++++--------- Documentation/vm/page_migration | 118 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 2 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt index 990998e..30c4145 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpusets.txt @@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ Copyright (C) 2004 BULL SA. Written by Simon.Derr@bull.net -Portions Copyright (c) 2004 Silicon Graphics, Inc. +Portions Copyright (c) 2004-2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc. Modified by Paul Jackson +Modified by Christoph Lameter CONTENTS: ========= @@ -90,7 +91,8 @@ This can be especially valuable on: These subsets, or "soft partitions" must be able to be dynamically adjusted, as the job mix changes, without impacting other concurrently -executing jobs. +executing jobs. The location of the running jobs pages may also be moved +when the memory locations are changed. The kernel cpuset patch provides the minimum essential kernel mechanisms required to efficiently implement such subsets. It @@ -102,8 +104,8 @@ memory allocator code. 1.3 How are cpusets implemented ? --------------------------------- -Cpusets provide a Linux kernel (2.6.7 and above) mechanism to constrain -which CPUs and Memory Nodes are used by a process or set of processes. +Cpusets provide a Linux kernel mechanism to constrain which CPUs and +Memory Nodes are used by a process or set of processes. The Linux kernel already has a pair of mechanisms to specify on which CPUs a task may be scheduled (sched_setaffinity) and on which Memory @@ -371,22 +373,17 @@ cpusets memory placement policy 'mems' subsequently changes. If the cpuset flag file 'memory_migrate' is set true, then when tasks are attached to that cpuset, any pages that task had allocated to it on nodes in its previous cpuset are migrated -to the tasks new cpuset. Depending on the implementation, -this migration may either be done by swapping the page out, -so that the next time the page is referenced, it will be paged -into the tasks new cpuset, usually on the node where it was -referenced, or this migration may be done by directly copying -the pages from the tasks previous cpuset to the new cpuset, -where possible to the same node, relative to the new cpuset, -as the node that held the page, relative to the old cpuset. +to the tasks new cpuset. The relative placement of the page within +the cpuset is preserved during these migration operations if possible. +For example if the page was on the second valid node of the prior cpuset +then the page will be placed on the second valid node of the new cpuset. + Also if 'memory_migrate' is set true, then if that cpusets 'mems' file is modified, pages allocated to tasks in that cpuset, that were on nodes in the previous setting of 'mems', -will be moved to nodes in the new setting of 'mems.' Again, -depending on the implementation, this might be done by swapping, -or by direct copying. In either case, pages that were not in -the tasks prior cpuset, or in the cpusets prior 'mems' setting, -will not be moved. +will be moved to nodes in the new setting of 'mems.' +Pages that were not in the tasks prior cpuset, or in the cpusets +prior 'mems' setting, will not be moved. There is an exception to the above. If hotplug functionality is used to remove all the CPUs that are currently assigned to a cpuset, @@ -434,16 +431,6 @@ and then start a subshell 'sh' in that cpuset: # The next line should display '/Charlie' cat /proc/self/cpuset -In the case that a change of cpuset includes wanting to move already -allocated memory pages, consider further the work of IWAMOTO -Toshihiro for page remapping and memory -hotremoval, which can be found at: - - http://people.valinux.co.jp/~iwamoto/mh.html - -The integration of cpusets with such memory migration is not yet -available. - In the future, a C library interface to cpusets will likely be available. For now, the only way to query or modify cpusets is via the cpuset file system, using the various cd, mkdir, echo, cat, diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_migration b/Documentation/vm/page_migration index c52820f..0dd4ef3 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/page_migration +++ b/Documentation/vm/page_migration @@ -12,12 +12,18 @@ is running. Page migration allows a process to manually relocate the node on which its pages are located through the MF_MOVE and MF_MOVE_ALL options while setting -a new memory policy. The pages of process can also be relocated +a new memory policy via mbind(). The pages of process can also be relocated from another process using the sys_migrate_pages() function call. The migrate_pages function call takes two sets of nodes and moves pages of a process that are located on the from nodes to the destination nodes. - -Manual migration is very useful if for example the scheduler has relocated +Page migration functions are provided by the numactl package by Andi Kleen +(a version later than 0.9.3 is required. Get it from +ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/ak). numactl provided libnuma which +provides an interface similar to other numa functionality for page migration. +cat /proc//numa_maps allows an easy review of where the pages of +a process are located. See also the numa_maps manpage in the numactl package. + +Manual migration is useful if for example the scheduler has relocated a process to a processor on a distant node. A batch scheduler or an administrator may detect the situation and move the pages of the process nearer to the new processor. At some point in the future we may have @@ -25,10 +31,12 @@ some mechanism in the scheduler that will automatically move the pages. Larger installations usually partition the system using cpusets into sections of nodes. Paul Jackson has equipped cpusets with the ability to -move pages when a task is moved to another cpuset. This allows automatic -control over locality of a process. If a task is moved to a new cpuset -then also all its pages are moved with it so that the performance of the -process does not sink dramatically (as is the case today). +move pages when a task is moved to another cpuset (See ../cpusets.txt). +Cpusets allows the automation of process locality. If a task is moved to +a new cpuset then also all its pages are moved with it so that the +performance of the process does not sink dramatically. Also the pages +of processes in a cpuset are moved if the allowed memory nodes of a +cpuset are changed. Page migration allows the preservation of the relative location of pages within a group of nodes for all migration techniques which will preserve a @@ -37,22 +45,26 @@ process. This is necessary in order to preserve the memory latencies. Processes will run with similar performance after migration. Page migration occurs in several steps. First a high level -description for those trying to use migrate_pages() and then -a low level description of how the low level details work. +description for those trying to use migrate_pages() from the kernel +(for userspace usage see the Andi Kleen's numactl package mentioned above) +and then a low level description of how the low level details work. -A. Use of migrate_pages() -------------------------- +A. In kernel use of migrate_pages() +----------------------------------- 1. Remove pages from the LRU. Lists of pages to be migrated are generated by scanning over pages and moving them into lists. This is done by - calling isolate_lru_page() or __isolate_lru_page(). + calling isolate_lru_page(). Calling isolate_lru_page increases the references to the page - so that it cannot vanish under us. + so that it cannot vanish while the page migration occurs. + It also prevents the swapper or other scans to encounter + the page. -2. Generate a list of newly allocates page to move the contents - of the first list to. +2. Generate a list of newly allocates page. These pages will contain the + contents of the pages from the first list after page migration is + complete. 3. The migrate_pages() function is called which attempts to do the migration. It returns the moved pages in the @@ -63,13 +75,17 @@ A. Use of migrate_pages() 4. The leftover pages of various types are returned to the LRU using putback_to_lru_pages() or otherwise disposed of. The pages will still have the refcount as - increased by isolate_lru_pages()! + increased by isolate_lru_pages() if putback_to_lru_pages() is not + used! The kernel may want to handle the various cases of failures in + different ways. -B. Operation of migrate_pages() --------------------------------- +B. How migrate_pages() works +---------------------------- -migrate_pages does several passes over its list of pages. A page is moved -if all references to a page are removable at the time. +migrate_pages() does several passes over its list of pages. A page is moved +if all references to a page are removable at the time. The page has +already been removed from the LRU via isolate_lru_page() and the refcount +is increased so that the page cannot be freed while page migration occurs. Steps: @@ -79,36 +95,40 @@ Steps: 3. Make sure that the page has assigned swap cache entry if it is an anonyous page. The swap cache reference is necessary - to preserve the information contain in the page table maps. + to preserve the information contain in the page table maps while + page migration occurs. 4. Prep the new page that we want to move to. It is locked and set to not being uptodate so that all accesses to the new - page immediately lock while we are moving references. + page immediately lock while the move is in progress. -5. All the page table references to the page are either dropped (file backed) - or converted to swap references (anonymous pages). This should decrease the - reference count. +5. All the page table references to the page are either dropped (file + backed pages) or converted to swap references (anonymous pages). + This should decrease the reference count. -6. The radix tree lock is taken +6. The radix tree lock is taken. This will cause all processes trying + to reestablish a pte to block on the radix tree spinlock. 7. The refcount of the page is examined and we back out if references remain otherwise we know that we are the only one referencing this page. 8. The radix tree is checked and if it does not contain the pointer to this - page then we back out. + page then we back out because someone else modified the mapping first. 9. The mapping is checked. If the mapping is gone then a truncate action may be in progress and we back out. -10. The new page is prepped with some settings from the old page so that accesses - to the new page will be discovered to have the correct settings. +10. The new page is prepped with some settings from the old page so that + accesses to the new page will be discovered to have the correct settings. 11. The radix tree is changed to point to the new page. -12. The reference count of the old page is dropped because the reference has now - been removed. +12. The reference count of the old page is dropped because the radix tree + reference is gone. -13. The radix tree lock is dropped. +13. The radix tree lock is dropped. With that lookups become possible again + and other processes will move from spinning on the tree lock to sleeping on + the locked new page. 14. The page contents are copied to the new page. @@ -119,11 +139,37 @@ Steps: 17. Queued up writeback on the new page is triggered. -18. If swap pte's were generated for the page then remove them again. +18. If swap pte's were generated for the page then replace them with real + ptes. This will reenable access for processes not blocked by the page lock. + +19. The page locks are dropped from the old and new page. + Processes waiting on the page lock can continue. + +20. The new page is moved to the LRU and can be scanned by the swapper + etc again. + +TODO list +--------- + +- Page migration requires the use of swap handles to preserve the + information of the anonymous page table entries. This means that swap + space is reserved but never used. The maximum number of swap handles used + is determined by CHUNK_SIZE (see mm/mempolicy.c) per ongoing migration. + Reservation of pages could be avoided by having a special type of swap + handle that does not require swap space and that would only track the page + references. Something like that was proposed by Marcelo Tosatti in the + past (search for migration cache on lkml or linux-mm@kvack.org). -19. The locks are dropped from the old and new page. +- Page migration unmaps ptes for file backed pages and requires page + faults to reestablish these ptes. This could be optimized by somehow + recording the references before migration and then reestablish them later. + However, there are several locking challenges that have to be overcome + before this is possible. -20. The new page is moved to the LRU. +- Page migration generates read ptes for anonymous pages. Dirty page + faults are required to make the pages writable again. It may be possible + to generate a pte marked dirty if it is known that the page is dirty and + that this process has the only reference to that page. -Christoph Lameter, December 19, 2005. +Christoph Lameter, March 8, 2006. -- cgit v1.1