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Alexey Dobriyan
6be4b78993 seq_file: use proc_create() in documentation
Using create_proc_entry() + ->proc_fops assignment is racy because
->proc_fops will be NULL for some time, use proc_create() to avoid race.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16 07:20:07 -08:00
john stultz
4614a696bd procfs: allow threads to rename siblings via /proc/pid/tasks/tid/comm
Setting a thread's comm to be something unique is a very useful ability
and is helpful for debugging complicated threaded applications.  However
currently the only way to set a thread name is for the thread to name
itself via the PR_SET_NAME prctl.

However, there may be situations where it would be advantageous for a
thread dispatcher to be naming the threads its managing, rather then
having the threads self-describe themselves.  This sort of behavior is
available on other systems via the pthread_setname_np() interface.

This patch exports a task's comm via proc/pid/comm and
proc/pid/task/tid/comm interfaces, and allows thread siblings to write to
these values.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Fulton <fultonm@ca.ibm.com>
Cc: Sean Foley <Sean_Foley@ca.ibm.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
3126c136bc Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: (21 commits)
  ext3: PTR_ERR return of wrong pointer in setup_new_group_blocks()
  ext3: Fix data / filesystem corruption when write fails to copy data
  ext4: Support for 64-bit quota format
  ext3: Support for vfsv1 quota format
  quota: Implement quota format with 64-bit space and inode limits
  quota: Move definition of QFMT_OCFS2 to linux/quota.h
  ext2: fix comment in ext2_find_entry about return values
  ext3: Unify log messages in ext3
  ext2: clear uptodate flag on super block I/O error
  ext2: Unify log messages in ext2
  ext3: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"
  ext3: Don't update the superblock in ext3_statfs()
  ext3: journal all modifications in ext3_xattr_set_handle
  ext2: Explicitly assign values to on-disk enum of filetypes
  quota: Fix WARN_ON in lookup_one_len
  const: struct quota_format_ops
  ubifs: remove manual O_SYNC handling
  afs: remove manual O_SYNC handling
  kill wait_on_page_writeback_range
  vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics
  ...
2009-12-11 15:31:13 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
4e2ccdb040 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2: (49 commits)
  nilfs2: separate wait function from nilfs_segctor_write
  nilfs2: add iterator for segment buffers
  nilfs2: hide nilfs_write_info struct in segment buffer code
  nilfs2: relocate io status variables to segment buffer
  nilfs2: do not return io error for bio allocation failure
  nilfs2: use list_splice_tail or list_splice_tail_init
  nilfs2: replace mark_inode_dirty as nilfs_mark_inode_dirty
  nilfs2: delete mark_inode_dirty in nilfs_delete_entry
  nilfs2: delete mark_inode_dirty in nilfs_commit_chunk
  nilfs2: change return type of nilfs_commit_chunk
  nilfs2: split nilfs_unlink as nilfs_do_unlink and nilfs_unlink
  nilfs2: delete redundant mark_inode_dirty
  nilfs2: expand inode_inc_link_count and inode_dec_link_count
  nilfs2: delete mark_inode_dirty from nilfs_set_link
  nilfs2: delete mark_inode_dirty in nilfs_new_inode
  nilfs2: add norecovery mount option
  nilfs2: add helper to get if volume is in a valid state
  nilfs2: move recovery completion into load_nilfs function
  nilfs2: apply readahead for recovery on mount
  nilfs2: clean up get/put function of a segment usage
  ...
2009-12-11 11:49:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
4515c3069d Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (47 commits)
  ext4: Fix potential fiemap deadlock (mmap_sem vs. i_data_sem)
  ext4: Do not override ext2 or ext3 if built they are built as modules
  jbd2: Export jbd2_log_start_commit to fix ext4 build
  ext4: Fix insufficient checks in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT
  ext4: Wait for proper transaction commit on fsync
  ext4: fix incorrect block reservation on quota transfer.
  ext4: quota macros cleanup
  ext4: ext4_get_reserved_space() must return bytes instead of blocks
  ext4: remove blocks from inode prealloc list on failure
  ext4: wait for log to commit when umounting
  ext4: Avoid data / filesystem corruption when write fails to copy data
  ext4: Use ext4 file system driver for ext2/ext3 file system mounts
  ext4: Return the PTR_ERR of the correct pointer in setup_new_group_blocks()
  jbd2: Add ENOMEM checking in and for jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer()
  ext4: remove unused parameter wbc from __ext4_journalled_writepage()
  ext4: remove encountered_congestion trace
  ext4: move_extent_per_page() cleanup
  ext4: initialize moved_len before calling ext4_move_extents()
  ext4: Fix double-free of blocks with EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT
  ext4: use ext4_data_block_valid() in ext4_free_blocks()
  ...
2009-12-10 09:33:29 -08:00
Eric Sandeen
dee1d3b627 ext3: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"
Users on the list recently complained about differences across
filesystems w.r.t. how to mount without a journal replay.

In the discussion it was noted that xfs's "norecovery" option is
perhaps more descriptively accurate than "noload," so let's make
that an alias for ext3.

Also show this status in /proc/mounts

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-10 15:02:52 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig
94004ed726 kill wait_on_page_writeback_range
All callers really want the more logical filemap_fdatawait_range interface,
so convert them to use it and merge wait_on_page_writeback_range into
filemap_fdatawait_range.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-10 15:02:50 +01:00
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
9f249162fb trivial: some small fixes in exofs documentation
Add exofs.txt to filesystems Documentation index and fix some typos,
identation and grammar.

Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2009-12-10 09:59:16 +02:00
Luis Garces-Erice
e3cc2226e9 Doc: better explanation of procs_running
the description in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt of the
procs_running entry in /proc/stat is confusing (according to that
description, it looks as if procs_running could only be a number
between 0 and the number of CPUs).

Changed it to a more accurate description in the patch attached.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-09 18:59:52 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
897e81bea1 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (35 commits)
  sched, cputime: Introduce thread_group_times()
  sched, cputime: Cleanups related to task_times()
  Revert "sched, x86: Optimize branch hint in __switch_to()"
  sched: Fix isolcpus boot option
  sched: Revert 498657a478
  sched, time: Define nsecs_to_jiffies()
  sched: Remove task_{u,s,g}time()
  sched: Introduce task_times() to replace task_{u,s}time() pair
  sched: Limit the number of scheduler debug messages
  sched.c: Call debug_show_all_locks() when dumping all tasks
  sched, x86: Optimize branch hint in __switch_to()
  sched: Optimize branch hint in context_switch()
  sched: Optimize branch hint in pick_next_task_fair()
  sched_feat_write(): Update ppos instead of file->f_pos
  sched: Sched_rt_periodic_timer vs cpu hotplug
  sched, kvm: Fix race condition involving sched_in_preempt_notifers
  sched: More generic WAKE_AFFINE vs select_idle_sibling()
  sched: Cleanup select_task_rq_fair()
  sched: Fix granularity of task_u/stime()
  sched: Fix/add missing update_rq_clock() calls
  ...
2009-12-05 15:30:49 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6e80133f7f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache: (31 commits)
  FS-Cache: Provide nop fscache_stat_d() if CONFIG_FSCACHE_STATS=n
  SLOW_WORK: Fix GFS2 to #include <linux/module.h> before using THIS_MODULE
  SLOW_WORK: Fix CIFS to pass THIS_MODULE to slow_work_register_user()
  CacheFiles: Don't log lookup/create failing with ENOBUFS
  CacheFiles: Catch an overly long wait for an old active object
  CacheFiles: Better showing of debugging information in active object problems
  CacheFiles: Mark parent directory locks as I_MUTEX_PARENT to keep lockdep happy
  CacheFiles: Handle truncate unlocking the page we're reading
  CacheFiles: Don't write a full page if there's only a partial page to cache
  FS-Cache: Actually requeue an object when requested
  FS-Cache: Start processing an object's operations on that object's death
  FS-Cache: Make sure FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP cleared on lookup failure
  FS-Cache: Add a retirement stat counter
  FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions
  FS-Cache: Handle read request vs lookup, creation or other cache failure
  FS-Cache: Don't delete pending pages from the page-store tracking tree
  FS-Cache: Fix lock misorder in fscache_write_op()
  FS-Cache: The object-available state can't rely on the cookie to be available
  FS-Cache: Permit cache retrieval ops to be interrupted in the initial wait phase
  FS-Cache: Use radix tree preload correctly in tracking of pages to be stored
  ...
2009-11-30 13:33:48 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
16bc67edeb Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
Merge reason: Pick up fixes that did not make it into .32.0

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 10:50:42 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
931ed94430 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2:
  ocfs2: Trivial cleanup of jbd compatibility layer removal
  ocfs2: Refresh documentation
  ocfs2: return f_fsid info in ocfs2_statfs()
  ocfs2: duplicate inline data properly during reflink.
  ocfs2: Move ocfs2_complete_reflink to the right place.
  ocfs2: Return -EINVAL when a device is not ocfs2.
2009-11-19 20:29:05 -08:00
Ryusuke Konishi
0234576d04 nilfs2: add norecovery mount option
This adds "norecovery" mount option which disables temporal write
access to read-only mounts or snapshots during mount/recovery.
Without this option, write access will be even performed for those
types of mounts; the temporal write access is needed to mount root
file system read-only after an unclean shutdown.

This option will be helpful when user wants to prevent any write
access to the device.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
2009-11-20 10:05:52 +09:00
Jiro SEKIBA
91f1953bf3 nilfs2: Using nobarrier option instead of barrier=off
Since most of fs using nofoobar style option,
modified barrier=off option as nobarrier.

Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-11-20 10:05:47 +09:00
Eric Sandeen
e3bb52ae2b ext4: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"
Users on the linux-ext4 list recently complained about differences
across filesystems w.r.t. how to mount without a journal replay.

In the discussion it was noted that xfs's "norecovery" option is
perhaps more descriptively accurate than "noload," so let's make
that an alias for ext4.

Also show this status in /proc/mounts

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-19 14:28:50 -05:00
Eric Sandeen
5328e63531 ext4: make trim/discard optional (and off by default)
It is anticipated that when sb_issue_discard starts doing
real work on trim-capable devices, we may see issues.  Make
this mount-time optional, and default it to off until we know
that things are working out OK.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-19 14:25:42 -05:00
David Howells
fee096deb4 CacheFiles: Catch an overly long wait for an old active object
Catch an overly long wait for an old, dying active object when we want to
replace it with a new one.  The probability is that all the slow-work threads
are hogged, and the delete can't get a look in.

What we do instead is:

 (1) if there's nothing in the slow work queue, we sleep until either the dying
     object has finished dying or there is something in the slow work queue
     behind which we can queue our object.

 (2) if there is something in the slow work queue, we return ETIMEDOUT to
     fscache_lookup_object(), which then puts us back on the slow work queue,
     presumably behind the deletion that we're blocked by.  We are then
     deferred for a while until we work our way back through the queue -
     without blocking a slow-work thread unnecessarily.

A backtrace similar to the following may appear in the log without this patch:

	INFO: task kslowd004:5711 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
	"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
	kslowd004     D 0000000000000000     0  5711      2 0x00000080
	 ffff88000340bb80 0000000000000046 ffff88002550d000 0000000000000000
	 ffff88002550d000 0000000000000007 ffff88000340bfd8 ffff88002550d2a8
	 000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff88002550d2a8
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffff81058e21>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
	 [<ffffffffa011c4d8>] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa011c4e1>] cachefiles_wait_bit+0x9/0xd [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffff81353153>] __wait_on_bit+0x43/0x76
	 [<ffffffff8111ae39>] ? ext3_xattr_get+0x1ec/0x270
	 [<ffffffff813531ef>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x69/0x74
	 [<ffffffffa011c4d8>] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffff8104c125>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x2e
	 [<ffffffffa011bc79>] cachefiles_mark_object_active+0x203/0x23b [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa011c209>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x558/0x827 [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa011a429>] cachefiles_lookup_object+0xac/0x12a [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa00aa1e9>] fscache_lookup_object+0x1c7/0x214 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa00aafc5>] fscache_object_state_machine+0xa5/0x52d [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa00ab4ac>] fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x5f/0xa0 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
	 [<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
	 [<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
	 [<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
	1 lock held by kslowd004/5711:
	 #0:  (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#7/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa011be64>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x1b3/0x827 [cachefiles]

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:12:05 +00:00
David Howells
60d543ca72 FS-Cache: Start processing an object's operations on that object's death
Start processing an object's operations when that object moves into the DYING
state as the object cannot be destroyed until all its outstanding operations
have completed.

Furthermore, make sure that read and allocation operations handle being woken
up on a dead object.  Such events are recorded in the Allocs.abt and
Retrvls.abt statistics as viewable through /proc/fs/fscache/stats.

The code for waiting for object activation for the read and allocation
operations is also extracted into its own function as it is much the same in
all cases, differing only in the stats incremented.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:45 +00:00
David Howells
201a15428b FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions
Handle netfs pages that the vmscan algorithm wants to evict from the pagecache
under OOM conditions, but that are waiting for write to the cache.  Under these
conditions, vmscan calls the releasepage() function of the netfs, asking if a
page can be discarded.

The problem is typified by the following trace of a stuck process:

	kslowd005     D 0000000000000000     0  4253      2 0x00000080
	 ffff88001b14f370 0000000000000046 ffff880020d0d000 0000000000000007
	 0000000000000006 0000000000000001 ffff88001b14ffd8 ffff880020d0d2a8
	 000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff880020d0d2a8
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffffa00782d8>] __fscache_wait_on_page_write+0x8b/0xa7 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffffa0078240>] ? __fscache_check_page_write+0x63/0x70 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa00b671d>] nfs_fscache_release_page+0x4e/0xc4 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffffa00927f0>] nfs_release_page+0x3c/0x41 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffff810885d3>] try_to_release_page+0x32/0x3b
	 [<ffffffff81093203>] shrink_page_list+0x316/0x4ac
	 [<ffffffff8109372b>] shrink_inactive_list+0x392/0x67c
	 [<ffffffff813532fa>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x100/0x10b
	 [<ffffffff81058df0>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x130
	 [<ffffffff8135330e>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0xb
	 [<ffffffff81093aa2>] shrink_list+0x8d/0x8f
	 [<ffffffff81093d1c>] shrink_zone+0x278/0x33c
	 [<ffffffff81052d6c>] ? ktime_get_ts+0xad/0xba
	 [<ffffffff81094b13>] try_to_free_pages+0x22e/0x392
	 [<ffffffff81091e24>] ? isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x212
	 [<ffffffff8108e743>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3dc/0x5cf
	 [<ffffffff81089529>] grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x65/0xaa
	 [<ffffffff8110f8c0>] ext3_write_begin+0x78/0x1eb
	 [<ffffffff81089ec5>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x109/0x28c
	 [<ffffffff8103cb69>] ? current_fs_time+0x22/0x29
	 [<ffffffff8108a509>] __generic_file_aio_write+0x350/0x385
	 [<ffffffff8108a588>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x4a/0xae
	 [<ffffffff8108a59e>] generic_file_aio_write+0x60/0xae
	 [<ffffffff810b2e82>] do_sync_write+0xe3/0x120
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffff810b18e1>] ? __dentry_open+0x1a5/0x2b8
	 [<ffffffff810b1a76>] ? dentry_open+0x82/0x89
	 [<ffffffffa00e693c>] cachefiles_write_page+0x298/0x335 [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa0077147>] fscache_write_op+0x178/0x2c2 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa0075656>] fscache_op_execute+0x7a/0xd1 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
	 [<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
	 [<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
	 [<ffffffff8102ef83>] ? tg_shares_up+0x171/0x227
	 [<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20

In the above backtrace, the following is happening:

 (1) A page storage operation is being executed by a slow-work thread
     (fscache_write_op()).

 (2) FS-Cache farms the operation out to the cache to perform
     (cachefiles_write_page()).

 (3) CacheFiles is then calling Ext3 to perform the actual write, using Ext3's
     standard write (do_sync_write()) under KERNEL_DS directly from the netfs
     page.

 (4) However, for Ext3 to perform the write, it must allocate some memory, in
     particular, it must allocate at least one page cache page into which it
     can copy the data from the netfs page.

 (5) Under OOM conditions, the memory allocator can't immediately come up with
     a page, so it uses vmscan to find something to discard
     (try_to_free_pages()).

 (6) vmscan finds a clean netfs page it might be able to discard (possibly the
     one it's trying to write out).

 (7) The netfs is called to throw the page away (nfs_release_page()) - but it's
     called with __GFP_WAIT, so the netfs decides to wait for the store to
     complete (__fscache_wait_on_page_write()).

 (8) This blocks a slow-work processing thread - possibly against itself.

The system ends up stuck because it can't write out any netfs pages to the
cache without allocating more memory.

To avoid this, we make FS-Cache cancel some writes that aren't in the middle of
actually being performed.  This means that some data won't make it into the
cache this time.  To support this, a new FS-Cache function is added
fscache_maybe_release_page() that replaces what the netfs releasepage()
functions used to do with respect to the cache.

The decisions fscache_maybe_release_page() makes are counted and displayed
through /proc/fs/fscache/stats on a line labelled "VmScan".  There are four
counters provided: "nos=N" - pages that weren't pending storage; "gon=N" -
pages that were pending storage when we first looked, but weren't by the time
we got the object lock; "bsy=N" - pages that we ignored as they were actively
being written when we looked; and "can=N" - pages that we cancelled the storage
of.

What I'd really like to do is alter the behaviour of the cancellation
heuristics, depending on how necessary it is to expel pages.  If there are
plenty of other pages that aren't waiting to be written to the cache that
could be ejected first, then it would be nice to hold up on immediate
cancellation of cache writes - but I don't see a way of doing that.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:35 +00:00
David Howells
e3d4d28b1c FS-Cache: Handle read request vs lookup, creation or other cache failure
FS-Cache doesn't correctly handle the netfs requesting a read from the cache
on an object that failed or was withdrawn by the cache.  A trace similar to
the following might be seen:

	CacheFiles: Lookup failed error -105
	[exe   ] unexpected submission OP165afe [OBJ6cac OBJECT_LC_DYING]
	[exe   ] objstate=OBJECT_LC_DYING [OBJECT_LC_DYING]
	[exe   ] objflags=0
	[exe   ] objevent=9 [fffffffffffffffb]
	[exe   ] ops=0 inp=0 exc=0
	Pid: 6970, comm: exe Not tainted 2.6.32-rc6-cachefs #50
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffffa0076477>] fscache_submit_op+0x3ff/0x45a [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa0077997>] __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages+0x187/0x3c4 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa00b6480>] ? nfs_readpage_from_fscache_complete+0x0/0x66 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffffa00b6388>] __nfs_readpages_from_fscache+0x7e/0x176 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffff8108e483>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x11c/0x5cf
	 [<ffffffffa009d796>] nfs_readpages+0x114/0x1d7 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffff81090314>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x15f/0x1ec
	 [<ffffffff81090228>] ? __do_page_cache_readahead+0x73/0x1ec
	 [<ffffffff810903bd>] ra_submit+0x1c/0x20
	 [<ffffffff810906bb>] ondemand_readahead+0x227/0x23a
	 [<ffffffff81090762>] page_cache_sync_readahead+0x17/0x19
	 [<ffffffff8108a99e>] generic_file_aio_read+0x236/0x5a0
	 [<ffffffffa00937bd>] nfs_file_read+0xe4/0xf3 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffff810b2fa2>] do_sync_read+0xe3/0x120
	 [<ffffffff81354cc3>] ? _spin_unlock_irq+0x2b/0x31
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffff811848e5>] ? selinux_file_permission+0x5d/0x10f
	 [<ffffffff81352bdb>] ? thread_return+0x3e/0x101
	 [<ffffffff8117d7b0>] ? security_file_permission+0x11/0x13
	 [<ffffffff810b3b06>] vfs_read+0xaa/0x16f
	 [<ffffffff81058df0>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x130
	 [<ffffffff810b3c84>] sys_read+0x45/0x6c
	 [<ffffffff8100ae2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

The object state might also be OBJECT_DYING or OBJECT_WITHDRAWING.

This should be handled by simply rejecting the new operation with ENOBUFS.
There's no need to log an error for it.  Events of this type now appear in the
stats file under Ops:rej.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:32 +00:00
David Howells
1bccf513ac FS-Cache: Fix lock misorder in fscache_write_op()
FS-Cache has two structs internally for keeping track of the internal state of
a cached file: the fscache_cookie struct, which represents the netfs's state,
and fscache_object struct, which represents the cache's state.  Each has a
pointer that points to the other (when both are in existence), and each has a
spinlock for pointer maintenance.

Since netfs operations approach these structures from the cookie side, they get
the cookie lock first, then the object lock.  Cache operations, on the other
hand, approach from the object side, and get the object lock first.  It is not
then permitted for a cache operation to get the cookie lock whilst it is
holding the object lock lest deadlock occur; instead, it must do one of two
things:

 (1) increment the cookie usage counter, drop the object lock and then get both
     locks in order, or

 (2) simply hold the object lock as certain parts of the cookie may not be
     altered whilst the object lock is held.

It is also not permitted to follow either pointer without holding the lock at
the end you start with.  To break the pointers between the cookie and the
object, both locks must be held.

fscache_write_op(), however, violates the locking rules: It attempts to get the
cookie lock without (a) checking that the cookie pointer is a valid pointer,
and (b) holding the object lock to protect the cookie pointer whilst it follows
it.  This is so that it can access the pending page store tree without
interference from __fscache_write_page().

This is fixed by splitting the cookie lock, such that the page store tracking
tree is protected by its own lock, and checking that the cookie pointer is
non-NULL before we attempt to follow it whilst holding the object lock.

The new lock is subordinate to both the cookie lock and the object lock, and so
should be taken after those.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:25 +00:00
David Howells
5753c44188 FS-Cache: Permit cache retrieval ops to be interrupted in the initial wait phase
Permit the operations to retrieve data from the cache or to allocate space in
the cache for future writes to be interrupted whilst they're waiting for
permission for the operation to proceed.  Typically this wait occurs whilst the
cache object is being looked up on disk in the background.

If an interruption occurs, and the operation has not yet been given the
go-ahead to run, the operation is dequeued and cancelled, and control returns
to the read operation of the netfs routine with none of the requested pages
having been read or in any way marked as known by the cache.

This means that the initial wait is done interruptibly rather than
uninterruptibly.

In addition, extra stats values are made available to show the number of ops
cancelled and the number of cache space allocations interrupted.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:19 +00:00
David Howells
52bd75fdb1 FS-Cache: Add counters for entry/exit to/from cache operation functions
Count entries to and exits from cache operation table functions.  Maintain
these as a single counter that's added to or removed from as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:08 +00:00
David Howells
4fbf4291aa FS-Cache: Allow the current state of all objects to be dumped
Allow the current state of all fscache objects to be dumped by doing:

	cat /proc/fs/fscache/objects

By default, all objects and all fields will be shown.  This can be restricted
by adding a suitable key to one of the caller's keyrings (such as the session
keyring):

	keyctl add user fscache:objlist "<restrictions>" @s

The <restrictions> are:

	K	Show hexdump of object key (don't show if not given)
	A	Show hexdump of object aux data (don't show if not given)

And paired restrictions:

	C	Show objects that have a cookie
	c	Show objects that don't have a cookie
	B	Show objects that are busy
	b	Show objects that aren't busy
	W	Show objects that have pending writes
	w	Show objects that don't have pending writes
	R	Show objects that have outstanding reads
	r	Show objects that don't have outstanding reads
	S	Show objects that have slow work queued
	s	Show objects that don't have slow work queued

If neither side of a restriction pair is given, then both are implied.  For
example:

	keyctl add user fscache:objlist KB @s

shows objects that are busy, and lists their object keys, but does not dump
their auxiliary data.  It also implies "CcWwRrSs", but as 'B' is given, 'b' is
not implied.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:04 +00:00
Sunil Mushran
7ab8f5244d ocfs2: Refresh documentation
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2009-11-13 15:45:01 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d4da6c9ccf Revert "ext4: Remove journal_checksum mount option and enable it by default"
This reverts commit d0646f7b63, as
requested by Eric Sandeen.

It can basically cause an ext4 filesystem to miss recovery (and thus get
mounted with errors) if the journal checksum does not match.

Quoth Eric:

   "My hand-wavy hunch about what is happening is that we're finding a
    bad checksum on the last partially-written transaction, which is
    not surprising, but if we have a wrapped log and we're doing the
    initial scan for head/tail, and we abort scanning on that bad
    checksum, then we are essentially running an unrecovered filesystem.

    But that's hand-wavy and I need to go look at the code.

    We lived without journal checksums on by default until now, and at
    this point they're doing more harm than good, so we should revert
    the default-changing commit until we can fix it and do some good
    power-fail testing with the fixes in place."

See

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14354

for all the gory details.

Requested-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Alexey Fisher <bug-track@fisher-privat.net>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathias Burén <mathias.buren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-11-02 10:15:27 -08:00
Ryota Ozaki
ce0e7b28fb sched, cpuacct: Fix niced guest time accounting
CPU time of a guest is always accounted in 'user' time
without concern for the nice value of its counterpart
process although the guest is scheduled under the nice
value.

This patch fixes the defect and accounts cpu time of
a niced guest in 'nice' time as same as a niced process.

And also the patch adds 'guest_nice' to cpuacct. The
value provides niced guest cpu time which is like 'nice'
to 'user'.

The original discussions can be found here:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg23982.html
  http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg23860.html

Signed-off-by: Ryota Ozaki <ozaki.ryota@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1256314810-7897-1-git-send-email-ozaki.ryota@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-25 17:31:30 +01:00
Jan Kara
6dbce52182 ext3: Update documentation about ext3 quota mount options
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-10-13 00:06:43 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
9f44fdc518 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: Fix time encoding with extra epoch bits
  ext4: Add a stub for mpage_da_data in the trace header
  jbd2: Use tracepoints for history file
  ext4: Use tracepoints for mb_history trace file
  ext4, jbd2: Drop unneeded printks at mount and unmount time
  ext4: Handle nested ext4_journal_start/stop calls without a journal
  ext4: Make sure ext4_dirty_inode() updates the inode in no journal mode
  ext4: Avoid updating the inode table bh twice in no journal mode
  ext4: EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT: Check for different original and donor inodes first
  ext4: async direct IO for holes and fallocate support
  ext4: Use end_io callback to avoid direct I/O fallback to buffered I/O
  ext4: Split uninitialized extents for direct I/O
  ext4: release reserved quota when block reservation for delalloc retry
  ext4: Adjust ext4_da_writepages() to write out larger contiguous chunks
  ext4: Fix hueristic which avoids group preallocation for closed files
  ext4: Use ext4_msg() for ext4_da_writepage() errors
  ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
2009-09-30 09:32:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4c8f1cb266 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6:
  fat: Check s_dirt in fat_sync_fs()
  vfat: change the default from shortname=lower to shortname=mixed
  fat/nls: Fix handling of utf8 invalid char
2009-09-30 09:31:14 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
296c355cd6 ext4: Use tracepoints for mb_history trace file
The /proc/fs/ext4/<dev>/mb_history was maintained manually, and had a
number of problems: it required a largish amount of memory to be
allocated for each ext4 filesystem, and the s_mb_history_lock
introduced a CPU contention problem.  

By ripping out the mb_history code and replacing it with ftrace
tracepoints, and we get more functionality: timestamps, event
filtering, the ability to correlate mballoc history with other ext4
tracepoints, etc.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-30 00:32:42 -04:00
Jan Kara
8365388827 ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-29 15:59:34 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
db16826367 Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6
* 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (21 commits)
  HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page on btrfs
  HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs
  HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4
  HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page for NFS
  HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems
  HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7
  HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process
  HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page
  HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation
  HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page
  HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2
  HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2
  HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap
  HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour
  HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler v2
  HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling
  HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3
  HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals
  HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2
  HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world
  ...
2009-09-24 07:53:22 -07:00
Peng Tao
16c01b20ae doc/filesystems: more mount cleanups
Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt needs updating because the
mount command in util-linux package is well aware of shared subtree
features now.  The patch also fixes two typos in sharedsubtree.txt.

Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:20:57 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
0288b95b43 doc/filesystems: remove smount program
mount(8) handles shared subtrees just fine, so remove the smount program
from Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt.

Fix annoying "Lets" -> "Let's".
Insert space between '#' prompt and "mount" command.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:20:57 -07:00
Abhishek Kulkarni
f4edeeb393 9p: Update documentation to add fscache related bits
Update the documentation to describe FS-Cache related
caching parameters. This patch also updates the pointers
to 9p-related papers and adds pointer to the Wiki.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2009-09-23 13:03:46 -05:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
1b83df308f ncpfs: remove dead URL from documentation
Noticed-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23 07:39:42 -07:00
Stefani Seibold
d899bf7b55 procfs: provide stack information for threads
A patch to give a better overview of the userland application stack usage,
especially for embedded linux.

Currently you are only able to dump the main process/thread stack usage
which is showed in /proc/pid/status by the "VmStk" Value.  But you get no
information about the consumed stack memory of the the threads.

There is an enhancement in the /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/*maps and which marks
the vm mapping where the thread stack pointer reside with "[thread stack
xxxxxxxx]".  xxxxxxxx is the maximum size of stack.  This is a value
information, because libpthread doesn't set the start of the stack to the
top of the mapped area, depending of the pthread usage.

A sample output of /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/maps looks like:

08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8312       /opt/z
08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312       /opt/z
0804a000-0806b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
a7d12000-a7d13000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
a7d13000-a7f13000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [thread stack: 001ff4b4]
a7f13000-a7f14000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
a7f14000-a7f36000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a7f36000-a8069000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
a8069000-a806b000 r--p 00133000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
a806b000-a806c000 rw-p 00135000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
a806c000-a806f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a806f000-a8083000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 14462      /lib/libpthread.so.0
a8083000-a8084000 r--p 00013000 03:00 14462      /lib/libpthread.so.0
a8084000-a8085000 rw-p 00014000 03:00 14462      /lib/libpthread.so.0
a8085000-a8088000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a8088000-a80a4000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8317       /lib/ld-linux.so.2
a80a4000-a80a5000 r--p 0001b000 03:00 8317       /lib/ld-linux.so.2
a80a5000-a80a6000 rw-p 0001c000 03:00 8317       /lib/ld-linux.so.2
afaf5000-afb0a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [stack]
ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]

Also there is a new entry "stack usage" in /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/status
which will you give the current stack usage in kb.

A sample output of /proc/self/status looks like:

Name:	cat
State:	R (running)
Tgid:	507
Pid:	507
.
.
.
CapBnd:	fffffffffffffeff
voluntary_ctxt_switches:	0
nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches:	0
Stack usage:	12 kB

I also fixed stack base address in /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/stat to the base
address of the associated thread stack and not the one of the main
process.  This makes more sense.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/proc/array.c now needs walk_page_range()]
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23 07:39:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a87e84b5cd Merge branch 'for-2.6.32' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'for-2.6.32' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (68 commits)
  nfsd4: nfsv4 clients should cross mountpoints
  nfsd: revise 4.1 status documentation
  sunrpc/cache: avoid variable over-loading in cache_defer_req
  sunrpc/cache: use list_del_init for the list_head entries in cache_deferred_req
  nfsd: return success for non-NFS4 nfs4_state_start
  nfsd41: Refactor create_client()
  nfsd41: modify nfsd4.1 backchannel to use new xprt class
  nfsd41: Backchannel: Implement cb_recall over NFSv4.1
  nfsd41: Backchannel: cb_sequence callback
  nfsd41: Backchannel: Setup sequence information
  nfsd41: Backchannel: Server backchannel RPC wait queue
  nfsd41: Backchannel: Add sequence arguments to callback RPC arguments
  nfsd41: Backchannel: callback infrastructure
  nfsd4: use common rpc_cred for all callbacks
  nfsd4: allow nfs4 state startup to fail
  SUNRPC: Defer the auth_gss upcall when the RPC call is asynchronous
  nfsd4: fix null dereference creating nfsv4 callback client
  nfsd4: fix whitespace in NFSPROC4_CLNT_CB_NULL definition
  nfsd41: sunrpc: add new xprt class for nfsv4.1 backchannel
  sunrpc/cache: simplify cache_fresh_locked and cache_fresh_unlocked.
  ...
2009-09-22 07:54:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
342ff1a1b5 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
  trivial: fix typo in aic7xxx comment
  trivial: fix comment typo in drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c
  trivial: typo in kernel-parameters.txt
  trivial: fix typo in tracing documentation
  trivial: add __init/__exit macros in drivers/gpio/bt8xxgpio.c
  trivial: add __init macro/ fix of __exit macro location in ipmi_poweroff.c
  trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons
  trivial: Fix duplicated word "options" in comment
  trivial: kbuild: remove extraneous blank line after declaration of usage()
  trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options
  trivial: doc: hpfall: accept disk device to unload as argument
  trivial: doc: hpfall: reduce risk that hpfall can do harm
  trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered step
  trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management"
  trivial: media/video/cx88: add __init/__exit macros to cx88 drivers
  trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc
  trivial: fix missing printk space in amd_k7_smp_check
  trivial: fix typo s/ketymap/keymap/ in comment
  trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files
  trivial: fix typos in comments s/DGBU/DBGU/
  ...
2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
495789a51a oom: make oom_score to per-process value
oom-killer kills a process, not task.  Then oom_score should be calculated
as per-process too.  it makes consistency more and makes speed up
select_bad_process().

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:39 -07:00
Moussa A. Ba
398499d5f3 pagemap clear_refs: modify to specify anon or mapped vma clearing
The patch makes the clear_refs more versatile in adding the option to
select anonymous pages or file backed pages for clearing.  This addition
has a measurable impact on user space application performance as it
decreases the number of pagewalks in scenarios where one is only
interested in a specific type of page (anonymous or file mapped).

The patch adds anonymous and file backed filters to the clear_refs interface.

echo 1 > /proc/PID/clear_refs resets the bits on all pages
echo 2 > /proc/PID/clear_refs resets the bits on anonymous pages only
echo 3 > /proc/PID/clear_refs resets the bits on file backed pages only

Any other value is ignored

Signed-off-by: Moussa A. Ba <moussa.a.ba@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jared E. Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:33 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
c574358e8b proc: document `guest' column in /proc/stat
We added a new column in cpuX lines of /proc/stat, to show the amount of
time spent by a cpu servicing a guest, without updating
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:24 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
285a0f00c2 nfsd: revise 4.1 status documentation
Some small updates, a caveat about the minorversion control interface,
and an attempt to put missing features in context.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-09-21 11:13:45 -04:00
Anand Gadiyar
411c940385 trivial: fix typo "for for" in multiple files
trivial: fix typo "for for" in multiple files

Signed-off-by: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21 15:14:54 +02:00
Jan Kara
1358870dea ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-18 12:22:29 -04:00
Andi Kleen
2571873621 HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation
Truncating metadata pages is not safe right now before
we haven't audited all file systems.

To enable truncation only for data address space define
a new address_space callback error_remove_page.

This is used for memory_failure.c memory error handling.

This can be then set to truncate_inode_page()

This patch just defines the new operation and adds documentation.

Callers and users come in followon patches.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:13 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
a9bbd210a4 Merge branch 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
* 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
  Document the flex_array library.
  Doc: seq_file.txt fix wrong dd command example.
2009-09-14 17:52:32 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
33f1de6931 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw:
  GFS2: Whitespace fixes
  GFS2: Remove unused sysfs file
  GFS2: Be extra careful about deallocating inodes
  GFS2: Remove no_formal_ino generating code
  GFS2: Rename eattr.[ch] as xattr.[ch]
  GFS2: Clean up of extended attribute support
  GFS2: Add explanation of extended attr on-disk format
  GFS2: Add "-o errors=panic|withdraw" mount options
  GFS2: jumping to wrong label?
  GFS2: free disk inode which is deleted by remote node -V2
  GFS2: Add a document explaining GFS2's uevents
  GFS2: Add sysfs link to device
  GFS2: Replace assertion with proper error handling
  GFS2: Improve error handling in inode allocation
  GFS2: Add some more info to uevents
  GFS2: Add online uevent to GFS2
2009-09-14 14:35:56 -07:00