linux-toradex.git/Documentation/accounting, branch v3.2.5

Documentation: update cgroupfs mount point

2011-06-16T04:52:50+00:00

According to commit 676db4af0430 ("cgroupfs: create /sys/fs/cgroup to
mount cgroupfs on") the canonical mountpoint for the cgroup filesystem
is /sys/fs/cgroup.  Hence, this should be used in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer 
Acked-by: Paul Menage 
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

getdelays: show average CPU/IO/SWAP/RECLAIM delays

2011-05-27T00:12:34+00:00

I find it very handy to show the average delays in milliseconds.

Example output (on 100 concurrent dd reading sparse files):

  CPU             count     real total  virtual total    delay total  delay average
                    986     3223509952     3207643301    38863410579         39.415ms
  IO              count    delay total  delay average
                      0              0              0ms
  SWAP            count    delay total  delay average
                      0              0              0ms
  RECLAIM         count    delay total  delay average
                   1059     5131834899              4ms
  dd: read=0, write=0, cancelled_write=0

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Reviewed-by: Satoru Moriya 
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: handle sendto() failures

2011-05-27T00:12:34+00:00

Fixes

  Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: In function `get_family_id':
  Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:172:14: warning: variable `rc' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

Reported-by: "Justin P. Mattock" 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: fix unused var warning

2011-05-27T00:12:34+00:00

Fixes

  Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: In function `main':
  Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:436:7: warning: variable `i' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

taskstats: pad taskstats netlink response for aligment issues on ia64

2010-12-23T03:43:34+00:00

The taskstats structure is internally aligned on 8 byte boundaries but the
layout of the aggregrate reply, with two NLA headers and the pid (each 4
bytes), actually force the entire structure to be unaligned.  This causes
the kernel to issue unaligned access warnings on some architectures like
ia64.  Unfortunately, some software out there doesn't properly unroll the
NLA packet and assumes that the start of the taskstats structure will
always be 20 bytes from the start of the netlink payload.  Aligning the
start of the taskstats structure breaks this software, which we don't
want.  So, for now the alignment only happens on architectures that
require it and those users will have to update to fixed versions of those
packages.  Space is reserved in the packet only when needed.  This ifdef
should be removed in several years e.g.  2012 once we can be confident
that fixed versions are installed on most systems.  We add the padding
before the aggregate since the aggregate is already a defined type.

Commit 85893120 ("delayacct: align to 8 byte boundary on 64-bit systems")
previously addressed the alignment issues by padding out the pid field.
This was supposed to be a compatible change but the circumstances
described above mean that it wasn't.  This patch backs out that change,
since it was a hack, and introduces a new NULL attribute type to provide
the padding.  Padding the response with 4 bytes avoids allocating an
aligned taskstats structure and copying it back.  Since the structure
weighs in at 328 bytes, it's too big to do it on the stack.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney 
Reported-by: Brian Rogers 
Cc: Jeff Mahoney 
Cc: Guillaume Chazarain 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

delay-accounting: reimplement -c for getdelays.c to report information on a target command

2010-10-28T01:03:17+00:00

Task delay-accounting was identified as one means of determining how long
a process spends in congestion_wait() without adding new statistics.  For
example, if the workload should not be doing IO, delay-accounting could
reveal how long it was spending in unexpected IO or delays.
Unfortunately, on closer examination it was clear that getdelays does not
act as documented.

Commit a3baf649 ("per-task-delay-accounting: documentation") added
Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c with a -c switch that was documented
to fork/exec a child and report statistics on it but for reasons that are
unclear to me, commit 9e06d3f9 deleted support for this switch but did not
update the documentation.  It might be an oversight or it might be because
the control flow of the program meant that accounting information would be
printed once early in the lifetime of the program making it of limited
use.

This patch reimplements -c for getdelays.c to act as documented.  Unlike
the original version, it waits until the command completes before printing
any information on it.  An example of it being used looks like

$ ./getdelays -d -c find /home/mel -name mel
print delayacct stats ON
/home/mel
/home/mel/.notes-wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/mel
/home/mel/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/mel
/home/mel/git-configs/dot.kde/share/apps/konqueror/home/mel
PID	5923

CPU             count     real total  virtual total    delay total
                42779     5051232096     5164722692      564207988
IO              count    delay total
                41727    97804147758
SWAP            count    delay total
                    0              0
RECLAIM         count    delay total
                    0              0

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Balbir Singh 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation/: fix warnings from -Wmissing-prototypes in HOSTCFLAGS

2009-09-23T14:39:28+00:00

Fix up -Wmissing-prototypes in compileable userspace code, mainly under
Documentation/.

Signed-off-by: Ladinu Chandrasinghe 
Signed-off-by: Trevor Keith 
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c intialize the variable before using it

2009-06-17T02:47:51+00:00

Fix compilation warning:

Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: In function `main':
Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:249: warning: `cmd_type' may be used uninitialized in this function

This is in fact a false positive.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput 
Acked-by: Balbir Singh 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: fix endless loop

2009-01-16T00:39:37+00:00

When no option is passed to getdelays it just hangs, waiting
for a reply which will never come.

This patch prints usage() when no output marker is specified.

Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

.gitignore updates

2008-10-30T18:38:45+00:00

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds