linux-toradex.git/Documentation/vm, branch v3.0-rc3

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djm/tmem

2011-05-26T17:50:56+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djm/tmem:
  xen: cleancache shim to Xen Transcendent Memory
  ocfs2: add cleancache support
  ext4: add cleancache support
  btrfs: add cleancache support
  ext3: add cleancache support
  mm/fs: add hooks to support cleancache
  mm: cleancache core ops functions and config
  fs: add field to superblock to support cleancache
  mm/fs: cleancache documentation

Fix up trivial conflict in fs/btrfs/extent_io.c due to includes

mm/fs: cleancache documentation

2011-05-26T16:00:56+00:00

This patchset introduces cleancache, an optional new feature exposed
by the VFS layer that potentially dramatically increases page cache
effectiveness for many workloads in many environments at a negligible
cost.  It does this by providing an interface to transcendent memory,
which is memory/storage that is not otherwise visible to and/or directly
addressable by the kernel.

Instead of being discarded, hooks in the reclaim code "put" clean
pages to cleancache.  Filesystems that "opt-in" may "get" pages
from cleancache that were previously put, but pages in cleancache are
"ephemeral", meaning they may disappear at any time. And the size
of cleancache is entirely dynamic and unknowable to the kernel.
Filesystems currently supported by this patchset include ext3, ext4,
btrfs, and ocfs2.  Other filesystems (especially those built entirely
on VFS) should be easy to add, but should first be thoroughly tested to
ensure coherency.

Details and a FAQ are provided in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt

This first patch of eight in this cleancache series only adds two
new documentation files.

[v8: minor documentation changes by author]
[v3: akpm@linux-foundation.org: document sysfs API]
[v3: hch@infradead.org: move detailed description to Documentation/vm]
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer 
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Acked-by: Andrew Morton 
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Rik Van Riel 
Cc: Jan Beulich 
Cc: Chris Mason 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: Ted Ts'o 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Nitin Gupta

mm: Convert i_mmap_lock to a mutex

2011-05-25T15:39:18+00:00

Straightforward conversion of i_mmap_lock to a mutex.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

Documentation/vm/page-types.c: auto debugfs mount for hwpoison operation

2011-03-23T00:44:17+00:00

page-types.c doesn't supply a way to specify the debugfs path and the
original debugfs path is not usual on most machines.  This patch supplies
a way to auto mount debugfs if needed.

This patch is heavily inspired by tools/perf/utils/debugfs.c

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make functions static]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix debugfs_mount() signature]
Signed-off-by: Chen Gong 
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

doc: CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU doesn't exist anymore

2011-03-16T23:37:19+00:00

commit 6837765963 ("mm: remove CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU config option")
has removed the configoption so we should sync up the doc as well.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

thp: transparent hugepage support documentation

2011-01-14T01:32:38+00:00

Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

slub: Fix build breakage in Documentation/vm

2010-11-06T07:04:33+00:00

This patch fixes a build breakage introduced by commit
f5ac4916e9840292edd33c7a52b10364526547f3 ("slub: move slabinfo.c to
tools/slub/slabinfo.c") that was repoted by Stephen:

  After merging the slab tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig)
  failed like this:

  gcc: /scratch/sfr/next/Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c: No such file or directory
  gcc: no input files

  Caused by commit f5ac4916e9840292edd33c7a52b10364526547f3 ("slub: move
  slabinfo.c to tools/slub/slabinfo.c").  Missing update to
  Documentation/vm/Makefile?

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

slub: move slabinfo.c to tools/slub/slabinfo.c

2010-11-06T07:04:32+00:00

We now have a tools directory for these things.

Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

mm: highmem documentation

2010-10-26T23:52:08+00:00

Document outlining some of the highmem issues, started by me, edited by
David.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds