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pratyush.anand@st.com email-id doesn't exist anymore as I have left the
company. Replace ST's id with pratyush.anand@gmail.com.
Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand <pratyush.anand@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Change the "enabled" parameter to be configurable at runtime. Remove the
enabled check from init(), and move it to the frontswap store() function;
when enabled, pages will be stored, and when disabled, pages won't be
stored.
This is almost identical to Seth's patch from 2 years ago:
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1307.2/04289.html
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation]
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Suggested-by: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We currently don't support on-demand device creation. The one and only
way to have N zram devices is to specify num_devices module parameter
(default value: 1). IOW if, for some reason, at some point, user wants
to have N + 1 devies he/she must umount all the existing devices, unload
the module, load the module passing num_devices equals to N + 1. And do
this again, if needed.
This patch introduces zram control sysfs class, which has two sysfs
attrs:
- hot_add -- add a new zram device
- hot_remove -- remove a specific (device_id) zram device
hot_add sysfs attr is read-only and has only automatic device id
assignment mode (as requested by Minchan Kim). read operation performed
on this attr creates a new zram device and returns back its device_id or
error status.
Usage example:
# add a new specific zram device
cat /sys/class/zram-control/hot_add
2
# remove a specific zram device
echo 4 > /sys/class/zram-control/hot_remove
Returning zram_add() error code back to user (-ENOMEM in this case)
cat /sys/class/zram-control/hot_add
cat: /sys/class/zram-control/hot_add: Cannot allocate memory
NOTE, there might be users who already depend on the fact that at least
zram0 device gets always created by zram_init(). Preserve this behavior.
[minchan@kernel.org: use zram->claim to avoid lockdep splat]
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Limiting the number of zram devices to 32 (default max_num_devices value)
is confusing, let's drop it. A user with 2TB or 4TB of RAM, for example,
can request as many devices as he can handle.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We currently don't support zram on-demand device creation. The only way
to have N zram devices is to specify num_devices module parameter (default
value 1). That means that if, for some reason, at some point, user wants
to have N + 1 devies he/she must umount all the existing devices, unload
the module, load the module passing num_devices equals to N + 1.
This patchset introduces zram-control sysfs class, which has two sysfs
attrs:
- hot_add -- add a new zram device
- hot_remove -- remove a specific (device_id) zram device
Usage example:
# add a new specific zram device
cat /sys/class/zram-control/hot_add
1
# remove a specific zram device
echo 4 > /sys/class/zram-control/hot_remove
This patch (of 10):
Briefly describe missing `compact` sysfs entry.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Merge first patchbomb from Andrew Morton:
- a few misc things
- ocfs2 udpates
- kernel/watchdog.c feature work (took ages to get right)
- most of MM. A few tricky bits are held up and probably won't make 4.2.
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (91 commits)
mm: kmemleak_alloc_percpu() should follow the gfp from per_alloc()
mm, thp: respect MPOL_PREFERRED policy with non-local node
tmpfs: truncate prealloc blocks past i_size
mm/memory hotplug: print the last vmemmap region at the end of hot add memory
mm/mmap.c: optimization of do_mmap_pgoff function
mm: kmemleak: optimise kmemleak_lock acquiring during kmemleak_scan
mm: kmemleak: avoid deadlock on the kmemleak object insertion error path
mm: kmemleak: do not acquire scan_mutex in kmemleak_do_cleanup()
mm: kmemleak: fix delete_object_*() race when called on the same memory block
mm: kmemleak: allow safe memory scanning during kmemleak disabling
memcg: convert mem_cgroup->under_oom from atomic_t to int
memcg: remove unused mem_cgroup->oom_wakeups
frontswap: allow multiple backends
x86, mirror: x86 enabling - find mirrored memory ranges
mm/memblock: allocate boot time data structures from mirrored memory
mm/memblock: add extra "flags" to memblock to allow selection of memory based on attribute
mm: do not ignore mapping_gfp_mask in page cache allocation paths
mm/cma.c: fix typos in comments
mm/oom_kill.c: print points as unsigned int
mm/hugetlb: handle races in alloc_huge_page and hugetlb_reserve_pages
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There is a very subtle difference between mmap()+mlock() vs
mmap(MAP_LOCKED) semantic. The former one fails if the population of the
area fails while the later one doesn't. This basically means that
mmap(MAPLOCKED) areas might see major fault after mmap syscall returns
which is not the case for mlock. mmap man page has already been altered
but Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt deserves a clarification as well.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reported-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Change the default behavior of watchdog so it only runs on the
housekeeping cores when nohz_full is enabled at build and boot time.
Allow modifying the set of cores the watchdog is currently running on
with a new kernel.watchdog_cpumask sysctl.
In the current system, the watchdog subsystem runs a periodic timer that
schedules the watchdog kthread to run. However, nohz_full cores are
designed to allow userspace application code running on those cores to
have 100% access to the CPU. So the watchdog system prevents the
nohz_full application code from being able to run the way it wants to,
thus the motivation to suppress the watchdog on nohz_full cores, which
this patchset provides by default.
However, if we disable the watchdog globally, then the housekeeping
cores can't benefit from the watchdog functionality. So we allow
disabling it only on some cores. See Documentation/lockup-watchdogs.txt
for more information.
[jhubbard@nvidia.com: fix a watchdog crash in some configurations]
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs
Pull UDF fixes and cleanups from Jan Kara:
"The contains some small fixes and improvements in error handling for
UDF.
Bundled is also one ext3 coding style fix and a fix in quota
documentation"
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
udf: fix udf_load_pvoldesc()
udf: remove double err declaration in udf_file_write_iter()
UDF: support NFSv2 export
fs: ext3: super: fixed a space coding style issue
quota: Update documentation
udf: Return error from udf_find_entry()
udf: Make udf_get_filename() return error instead of 0 length file name
udf: bug on exotic flag in udf_get_filename()
udf: improve error management in udf_CS0toNLS()
udf: improve error management in udf_CS0toUTF8()
udf: unicode: update function name in comments
udf: remove unnecessary test in udf_build_ustr_exact()
udf: Return -ENOMEM when allocation fails in udf_get_filename()
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Mention that quota netlink messages are sent only in initial network
namespace.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"The main thing here is Ingo's big subdirectory documenting feature
support for each architecture. Beyond that, it's the usual pile of
fixes, tweaks, and small additions"
* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: (79 commits)
doc:md: fix typo in md.txt.
Documentation/mic/mpssd: don't build x86 userspace when cross compiling
Documentation/prctl: don't build tsc tests when cross compiling
Documentation/vDSO: don't build tests when cross compiling
Doc:ABI/testing: Fix typo in sysfs-bus-fcoe
Doc: Docbook: Change wikipedia's URL from http to https in scsi.tmpl
Doc: Change wikipedia's URL from http to https
Documentation/kernel-parameters: add missing pciserial to the earlyprintk
Doc:pps: Fix typo in pps.txt
kbuild : Fix documentation of INSTALL_HDR_PATH
Documentation: filesystems: updated struct file_operations documentation in vfs.txt
kbuild: edit explanation of clean-files variable
Doc: ja_JP: Fix typo in HOWTO
Move freefall program from Documentation/ to tools/
Documentation: ARM: EXYNOS: Describe boot loaders interface
Doc:nfc: Fix typo in nfc-hci.txt
vfs: Minor documentation fix
Doc: networking: txtimestamp: fix printf format warning
Documentation, intel_pstate: Improve legacy mode internal governors description
Documentation: extend use case for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()
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Signed-off-by: Wei Fang <fangwei1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The following was seen in linux-next build coverage, which is somewhat
unique since it uses powerpc host to cross compile x86:
Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:93:10: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function
Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:96:10: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function
Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:113:10: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function
Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:116:10: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function
Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:119:3: error: initializer element is not constant
Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:119:3: error: (near initialization for 'virtnet_dev_page.host_features')
Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:146:10: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function
Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:149:3: error: initializer element is not constant
Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:149:3: error: (near initialization for 'virtblk_dev_page.host_features')
Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:151:3: error: initializer element is not constant
Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:151:3: error: (near initialization for 'virtblk_dev_page.blk_config.seg_max')
Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:152:3: error: initializer element is not constant
Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:152:3: error: (near initialization for 'virtblk_dev_page.blk_config.capacity')
make[5]: *** [Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.o] Error 1
Since it is building /usr/sbin/mpssd and /usr/sbin/micctrl
for x86_64 and the original authors indicated[1] that:
MIC card is expected to work with x86_64 host, not with ppc64.
We have never compiled on ppc host..
so it probably makes sense to just skip building these userspace
programs when we are cross compiling.
[1] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2014-December/123296.html
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Cc: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
Cc: Caz Yokoyama <Caz.Yokoyama@intel.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The following was seen in linux-next build coverage, which is somewhat
unique since it uses powerpc host to cross compile x86:
Documentation/prctl/disable-tsc-on-off-stress-test.c:36:1: error:
impossible register constraint in 'asm'
Documentation/prctl/disable-tsc-ctxt-sw-stress-test.c:34:1: error:
impossible register constraint in 'asm'
Documentation/prctl/disable-tsc-test.c:36:1: error: impossible
register constraint in 'asm'
It probably makes sense to just skip building these tests when
we are cross compiling.
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Erik Bosman <ejbosman@cs.vu.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The following was seen in linux-next build coverage, which is somewhat
unique since it uses powerpc host to cross compile x86:
Documentation/vDSO/vdso_standalone_test_x86.c:49:2: error: impossible
register constraint in 'asm'
make[4]: *** [Documentation/vDSO/vdso_standalone_test_x86.o] Error 1
It probably makes sense to just skip building these tests when
we are cross compiling.
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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This patch fix some spelling typo in sysfs-bus-fcoe
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Recently wikipedia announced to secure access to the servers.
Now all http access re-route to https.
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Recently wikipedia announced to secure access to the servers.
Now all http access re-route to https.
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The PCI based UART can be specified for earlyprintk with the 'pciserial'
parameter from the ea9e9d802. This patch adds missing information about
this parameter.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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This patch fix a spelling typo in Documentation/pps/pps.txt
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
[jc: did s/into/in the/ on the same line while we were there]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The header install makefile creates an 'include' directory inside
INSTALL_HDR_PATH and appending include to the path results in headers
being installed to include/include.
Don't recommend appending include to the path as makefile already does
this.
Signed-off-by: Anish Bhatt <anish@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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vfs.txt
Updated struct file_operations documentation in vfs.txt to match
current implementation
Signed-off-by: Thomas de Beauchene <chauvo_t@epitech.eu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Commit 976591810f8a (kbuild Update documentation of clean-files and clean-dirs)
changed the example for the clean-files variable, but left the explanation
unchanged. Edit the explanation to match the example.
Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Rogers <jeffreydavidrogers@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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This patch fix a spelling typo in ja_JP/HOWTO.
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Various boot loaders for Exynos based boards use certain memory
addresses during booting for different purposes. Mostly this is one of
following :
1. as a CPU boot address,
2. for storing magic cookie related to low power mode (AFTR, sleep).
The document, based solely on kernel source code, tries to group the
information scattered over different files. This would help in the
future when adding support for new SoC or when extending features
related to low power modes.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski.k@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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This patch fix a spelling typo in nfc-hci.txt
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The check_acl inode operation and the IPERM_FLAG_RCU flag are long gone; update
the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Documentation/networking/timestamping/txtimestamp.c: In function ‘__print_timestamp’:
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fprintf(stderr, " (%+ld us)", cur_ms - prev_ms);
int64_t differs per platform, so a type specifier that differs along
with it is required.
Signed-off-by: Frans Klaver <fransklaver@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The current documentation is incomplete wrt the intel_pstate legacy
internal governors. The confusion comes from the general cpufreq
governors which also use the names performance and powersave. This patch
better differentiates between the two sets of governors and gives an
explanation of how the internal P-state governors behave differently from
one another.
Also fix two minor typos.
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Current documentation over use case for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()
only acknowledges functions which are "an internal implementation
issue, and not really an interface". In practice these days
though we have some maintainers taking on preferences to require
all new functionality go in with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().
A maintainer asking developers to use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()
for new functionality tends to be a well accepted and understood
position that maintainers can take and typically requires the
maintainers educating contributing developers on their own
positions and requirements.
Developers who submit code to maintainers not familiar with
these preferences as optional for new functionality need explicit
guidence though as existing documentation does not acknowledge
this as a valid possibility. Without this being documented some
maintainers are reluctant to accept new functionality with
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().
This extends the use case documentation for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()
to acknowledge acceptance for new functionality.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
[jc: wording tweaked with permission]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Clearly specify that "Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org" is strongly preferred so
that developers understand that the other options should only be used when
absolutely required.
Also specify how upstream commit ids should be referenced in patches
submitted directly to stable (I gathered this from looking at the stable
archives), and specify that any modified patches for stable should be
clearly documented in the patch description.
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Also remove spaces before TABs while we're at it.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Description of nomce tells opposite.
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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I misunderstood this section as simply asking me to add an email Cc, and
was unaware of the existence of Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.
Hopefully this clarification will help save maintainers and new/rare
submitters time in the future.
Signed-off-by: Luke Dashjr <luke-jr+git@utopios.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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4a88d44ab17da ("tracing: Remove mentioning of legacy latency_trace file
from documentation") changed a sentence to refer to only one file
instead of two, but the sentence still uses "they". Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The SCC_MAGIC define was removed in commit 1ec3ba93c5fad9dc ("Staging:
remove drivers/char/scc.h as it should have gone a while ago"), while
its actual last user was removed before in commit bb2a97e9ccd525dd
("Staging: delete generic_serial drivers").
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The SCI_MAGIC define was removed in commit f8e53553f452dcbf ("serial:
sh-sci: Kill off more unused defines.").
Its last user was the old drivers/char sh-sci driver, which was removed
in 2004.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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commit dc6c9a35b66b ("mm: account pmd page tables to the process")
add VmPMD in /proc/PID/status.
This patch add a description in proc.txt for it.
Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Fix a couple of typos in the kasan document.
Signed-off-by: Wang Long <wanglong@laoqinren.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Change the kernel version in table 1-2 from 3.20 to 4.1
Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: f2027543b9 ('documentation: update CodingStyle on local variables naming in macros')
Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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While trying to test a Cinterion GSM/GPS/3G module I had reconfigured
the USB interface by mistake and therefore needed to run a different
USB driver than CDC-ACM. It turned out that I need the "usbserial" driver.
This file is an official description how to use it:
Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt
But it is outdated. The parameters vendor= and product= have been
superseded by a /sys interface.
Here was the solution:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=175499
insmod usbserial vendor=0x#### product=0x####
becomes (first #### is vendor, second is product)
modprobe usbserial
echo #### #### >/sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/generic/new_id
This patch changes the documentation file to describe the modern variant.
Please note that the old one still works (if compiled as module).
Signed-off-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Belisko <marek@goldelico.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Not all blackfin machines support IRQ_TIMER5, but all machines support
IRQ_TIMER2. So add a switch macro for them. The related error:
Documentation/blackfin/gptimers-example.c: In function 'gptimer_example_init':
Documentation/blackfin/gptimers-example.c:60:20: error: 'IRQ_TIMER5' undeclared (first use in this function)
ret = request_irq(IRQ_TIMER5, gptimer_example_irq, IRQF_SHARED, DRIVER_NAME, &data);
^
Documentation/blackfin/gptimers-example.c:60:20: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
Documentation/blackfin/gptimers-example.c: In function 'gptimer_example_exit':
Documentation/blackfin/gptimers-example.c:78:11: error: 'IRQ_TIMER5' undeclared (first use in this function)
free_irq(IRQ_TIMER5, &data);
^
Also notice about 80 columns limitation.
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into docs-next
A week late but I managed to complete it all and moved it into Git, for better
structure and easy pulling.
Changes relative to the last submission:
- Added higher level subsystem directories to collect features by
subsystem:
triton:~/tip> ls Documentation/features/
arch-support.txt core debug io lib list-arch.sh locking perf sched seccomp time vm
each subsystem directory contains the feature directories. For example locking
has:
triton:~/tip> ls Documentation/features/locking/
cmpxchg-local lockdep queued-rwlocks queued-spinlocks rwsem-optimized
It's all pretty straightforward to navigate. Advantages are better
visualization, plus git log is able to list changes per subsystem.
- Prettified the visualization some more.
- Improved/corrected the support matrices based on feedback to earlier submissions.
- Updated the support matrices to today's linux-next, so that by the time this
shows up in upstream in the next merge window it's really recent.
Most notably there's a new architecture in linux-next (h8300).
This structure should address all feedback that I got and should minimize the
maintenance overhead (chance of conflicts).
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visualization script
The previous patches added arch support matrices for more than 40 generic kernel features
that need per architecture support.
The structure of the feature descriptions is the following:
Each feature has its own directory under Documentation/features/subsystem_name/feature_name/,
and the arch-support.txt file shows its current arch porting status.
For example, lockdep support is shown the following way:
triton:~/tip> cat Documentation/features/locking/lockdep/arch-support.txt
#
# Feature name: lockdep
# Kconfig: LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
# description: arch supports the runtime locking correctness debug facility
#
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| arch |status|
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| alpha: | TODO |
| arc: | ok |
| arm: | ok |
| arm64: | ok |
| avr32: | ok |
| blackfin: | ok |
| c6x: | TODO |
| cris: | TODO |
| frv: | TODO |
| h8300: | TODO |
| hexagon: | ok |
| ia64: | TODO |
| m32r: | TODO |
| m68k: | TODO |
| metag: | ok |
| microblaze: | ok |
| mips: | ok |
| mn10300: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| s390: | ok |
| score: | ok |
| sh: | ok |
| sparc: | ok |
| tile: | ok |
| um: | ok |
| unicore32: | ok |
| x86: | ok |
| xtensa: | ok |
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For generic kernel features that need architecture support, the
arch-support.txt file in each feature directory shows the arch
support matrix, for all upstream Linux architectures.
The meaning of entries in the tables is:
| ok | # feature supported by the architecture
|TODO| # feature not yet supported by the architecture
| .. | # feature cannot be supported by the hardware
This directory structure can be used in the future to add other
files - such as porting guides, testing description, etc.
The Documentation/features/ hierarchy may also include generic
kernel features that works on every architecture, in that case
the arch-support.txt file will list every architecture as
supported.
To list an architecture's unsupported features, just do something
like:
triton:~/tip> git grep -lE 'x86.*TODO' Documentation/features/*/*/arch-support.txt
Documentation/features/lib/strncasecmp/arch-support.txt
Documentation/features/time/arch-tick-broadcast/arch-support.txt
which will print the list of not yet supported features.
The Documentation/features/list-arch.sh script will print the current
support matrix of one architecture:
triton:~/tip> Documentation/features/list-arch.sh
#
# Kernel feature support matrix of the 'x86' architecture:
#
core/ BPF-JIT : ok | HAVE_BPF_JIT # arch supports BPF JIT optimizations
core/ generic-idle-thread : ok | GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD # arch makes use of the generic SMP idle thread facility
core/ jump-labels : ok | HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL # arch supports live patched, high efficiency branches
core/ tracehook : ok | HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK # arch supports tracehook (ptrace) register handling APIs
debug/ gcov-profile-all : ok | ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL # arch supports whole-kernel GCOV code coverage profiling
debug/ KASAN : ok | HAVE_ARCH_KASAN # arch supports the KASAN runtime memory checker
debug/ kgdb : ok | HAVE_ARCH_KGDB # arch supports the kGDB kernel debugger
debug/ kprobes : ok | HAVE_KPROBES # arch supports live patched kernel probe
debug/ kprobes-on-ftrace : ok | HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE # arch supports combined kprobes and ftrace live patching
debug/ kretprobes : ok | HAVE_KRETPROBES # arch supports kernel function-return probes
debug/ optprobes : ok | HAVE_OPTPROBES # arch supports live patched optprobes
debug/ stackprotector : ok | HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR # arch supports compiler driven stack overflow protection
debug/ uprobes : ok | ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES # arch supports live patched user probes
debug/ user-ret-profiler : ok | HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER # arch supports user-space return from system call profiler
io/ dma-api-debug : ok | HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG # arch supports DMA debug facilities
io/ dma-contiguous : ok | HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS # arch supports the DMA CMA (continuous memory allocator)
io/ dma_map_attrs : ok | HAVE_DMA_ATTRS # arch provides dma_*map*_attrs() APIs
io/ sg-chain : ok | ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN # arch supports chained scatter-gather lists
lib/ strncasecmp : TODO | __HAVE_ARCH_STRNCASECMP # arch provides an optimized strncasecmp() function
locking/ cmpxchg-local : ok | HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL # arch supports the this_cpu_cmpxchg() API
locking/ lockdep : ok | LOCKDEP_SUPPORT # arch supports the runtime locking correctness debug facility
locking/ queued-rwlocks : ok | ARCH_USE_QUEUED_RWLOCKS # arch supports queued rwlocks
locking/ queued-spinlocks : ok | ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS # arch supports queued spinlocks
locking/ rwsem-optimized : ok | Optimized asm/rwsem.h # arch provides optimized rwsem APIs
perf/ kprobes-event : ok | HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API # arch supports kprobes with perf events
perf/ perf-regs : ok | HAVE_PERF_REGS # arch supports perf events register access
perf/ perf-stackdump : ok | HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP # arch supports perf events stack dumps
sched/ numa-balancing : ok | ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING # arch supports NUMA balancing
seccomp/ seccomp-filter : ok | HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER # arch supports seccomp filters
time/ arch-tick-broadcast : TODO | ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST # arch provides tick_broadcast()
time/ clockevents : ok | GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS # arch support generic clock events
time/ context-tracking : ok | HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING # arch supports context tracking for NO_HZ_FULL
time/ irq-time-acct : ok | HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING # arch supports precise IRQ time accounting
time/ modern-timekeeping : ok | !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET # arch does not use arch_gettimeoffset() anymore
time/ virt-cpuacct : ok | HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING # arch supports precise virtual CPU time accounting
vm/ ELF-ASLR : ok | ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE # arch randomizes the stack, heap and binary images of ELF binaries
vm/ huge-vmap : ok | HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP # arch supports the ioremap_pud_enabled() and ioremap_pmd_enabled() VM APIs
vm/ ioremap_prot : ok | HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT # arch has ioremap_prot()
vm/ numa-memblock : ok | HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP # arch supports NUMA aware memblocks
vm/ PG_uncached : ok | ARCH_USES_PG_UNCACHED # arch supports the PG_uncached page flag
vm/ pmdp_splitting_flush : ok | __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_SPLITTING_FLUSH # arch supports the pmdp_splitting_flush() VM API
vm/ pte_special : ok | __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL # arch supports the pte_special()/pte_mkspecial() VM APIs
vm/ THP : ok | HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE # arch supports transparent hugepages
Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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file for 'BPF-JIT'
Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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status file for 'queued-rwlocks'
Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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