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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/00-INDEX | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/00-INDEX | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/devices.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ia64/kvm.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/cpm_qe/qe/firmware.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/page_migration | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets | 5 |
15 files changed, 58 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX index 2a39aeba1464..d05737aaa84b 100644 --- a/Documentation/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX @@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ cachetlb.txt - describes the cache/TLB flushing interfaces Linux uses. cdrom/ - directory with information on the CD-ROM drivers that Linux has. +cgroups/ + - cgroups features, including cpusets and memory controller. connector/ - docs on the netlink based userspace<->kernel space communication mod. console/ @@ -98,8 +100,6 @@ cpu-load.txt - document describing how CPU load statistics are collected. cpuidle/ - info on CPU_IDLE, CPU idle state management subsystem. -cpusets.txt - - documents the cpusets feature; assign CPUs and Mem to a set of tasks. cputopology.txt - documentation on how CPU topology info is exported via sysfs. cris/ diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/00-INDEX b/Documentation/cgroups/00-INDEX new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..3f58fa3d6d00 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/00-INDEX @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +00-INDEX + - this file +cgroups.txt + - Control Groups definition, implementation details, examples and API. +cpuacct.txt + - CPU Accounting Controller; account CPU usage for groups of tasks. +cpusets.txt + - documents the cpusets feature; assign CPUs and Mem to a set of tasks. +devices.txt + - Device Whitelist Controller; description, interface and security. +freezer-subsystem.txt + - checkpointing; rationale to not use signals, interface. +memcg_test.txt + - Memory Resource Controller; implementation details. +memory.txt + - Memory Resource Controller; design, accounting, interface, testing. +resource_counter.txt + - Resource Counter API. diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt index 4ea852345a47..6eb1a97e88ce 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ hierarchy, and a set of subsystems; each subsystem has system-specific state attached to each cgroup in the hierarchy. Each hierarchy has an instance of the cgroup virtual filesystem associated with it. -At any one time there may be multiple active hierachies of task +At any one time there may be multiple active hierarchies of task cgroups. Each hierarchy is a partition of all tasks in the system. User level code may create and destroy cgroups by name in an @@ -124,10 +124,10 @@ following lines: / \ Prof (15%) students (5%) -Browsers like firefox/lynx go into the WWW network class, while (k)nfsd go +Browsers like Firefox/Lynx go into the WWW network class, while (k)nfsd go into NFS network class. -At the same time firefox/lynx will share an appropriate CPU/Memory class +At the same time Firefox/Lynx will share an appropriate CPU/Memory class depending on who launched it (prof/student). With the ability to classify tasks differently for different resources @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ and then start a subshell 'sh' in that cgroup: Creating, modifying, using the cgroups can be done through the cgroup virtual filesystem. -To mount a cgroup hierarchy will all available subsystems, type: +To mount a cgroup hierarchy with all available subsystems, type: # mount -t cgroup xxx /dev/cgroup The "xxx" is not interpreted by the cgroup code, but will appear in @@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ always handled well. void post_clone(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp) (cgroup_mutex held by caller) -Called at the end of cgroup_clone() to do any paramater +Called at the end of cgroup_clone() to do any parameter initialization which might be required before a task could attach. For example in cpusets, no task may attach before 'cpus' and 'mems' are set up. diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt index 0611e9528c7c..f9ca389dddf4 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ Cpusets extends these two mechanisms as follows: - The hierarchy of cpusets can be mounted at /dev/cpuset, for browsing and manipulation from user space. - A cpuset may be marked exclusive, which ensures that no other - cpuset (except direct ancestors and descendents) may contain + cpuset (except direct ancestors and descendants) may contain any overlapping CPUs or Memory Nodes. - You can list all the tasks (by pid) attached to any cpuset. @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ nodes with memory--using the cpuset_track_online_nodes() hook. -------------------------------- If a cpuset is cpu or mem exclusive, no other cpuset, other than -a direct ancestor or descendent, may share any of the same CPUs or +a direct ancestor or descendant, may share any of the same CPUs or Memory Nodes. A cpuset that is mem_exclusive *or* mem_hardwall is "hardwalled", @@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ child cpusets have this flag enabled. When doing this, you don't usually want to leave any unpinned tasks in the top cpuset that might use non-trivial amounts of CPU, as such tasks may be artificially constrained to some subset of CPUs, depending on -the particulars of this flag setting in descendent cpusets. Even if +the particulars of this flag setting in descendant cpusets. Even if such a task could use spare CPU cycles in some other CPUs, the kernel scheduler might not consider the possibility of load balancing that task to that underused CPU. @@ -531,9 +531,9 @@ be idle. Of course it takes some searching cost to find movable tasks and/or idle CPUs, the scheduler might not search all CPUs in the domain -everytime. In fact, in some architectures, the searching ranges on +every time. In fact, in some architectures, the searching ranges on events are limited in the same socket or node where the CPU locates, -while the load balance on tick searchs all. +while the load balance on tick searches all. For example, assume CPU Z is relatively far from CPU X. Even if CPU Z is idle while CPU X and the siblings are busy, scheduler can't migrate @@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ its new cpuset, then the task will continue to use whatever subset of MPOL_BIND nodes are still allowed in the new cpuset. If the task was using MPOL_BIND and now none of its MPOL_BIND nodes are allowed in the new cpuset, then the task will be essentially treated as if it -was MPOL_BIND bound to the new cpuset (even though its numa placement, +was MPOL_BIND bound to the new cpuset (even though its NUMA placement, as queried by get_mempolicy(), doesn't change). If a task is moved from one cpuset to another, then the kernel will adjust the tasks memory placement, as above, the next time that the kernel attempts diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/devices.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/devices.txt index 7cc6e6a60672..57ca4c89fe5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/devices.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/devices.txt @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ suffice, but we can decide the best way to adequately restrict movement as people get some experience with this. We may just want to require CAP_SYS_ADMIN, which at least is a separate bit from CAP_MKNOD. We may want to just refuse moving to a cgroup which -isn't a descendent of the current one. Or we may want to use +isn't a descendant of the current one. Or we may want to use CAP_MAC_ADMIN, since we really are trying to lock down root. CAP_SYS_ADMIN is needed to modify the whitelist or move another diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt index 8a11caf417a0..72db89ed0609 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ Under below explanation, we assume CONFIG_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP=y. (Shell-B) # move all tasks in /cgroup/test to /cgroup # /sbin/swapoff -a - # rmdir /test/cgroup + # rmdir /cgroup/test # kill malloc task. Of course, tmpfs v.s. swapoff test should be tested, too. diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index e1501964df1e..a98a7fe7aabb 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ will be charged as a new owner of it. unevictable - # of pages cannot be reclaimed.(mlocked etc) Below is depend on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM. - inactive_ratio - VM inernal parameter. (see mm/page_alloc.c) + inactive_ratio - VM internal parameter. (see mm/page_alloc.c) recent_rotated_anon - VM internal parameter. (see mm/vmscan.c) recent_rotated_file - VM internal parameter. (see mm/vmscan.c) recent_scanned_anon - VM internal parameter. (see mm/vmscan.c) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt index e5f3833a6ef8..570f9bd9be2b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt @@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ Options When mounting an ext3 filesystem, the following option are accepted: (*) == default +ro Mount filesystem read only. Note that ext3 will replay + the journal (and thus write to the partition) even when + mounted "read only". Mount options "ro,noload" can be + used to prevent writes to the filesystem. + journal=update Update the ext3 file system's journal to the current format. @@ -27,7 +32,9 @@ journal_dev=devnum When the external journal device's major/minor numbers identified through its new major/minor numbers encoded in devnum. -noload Don't load the journal on mounting. +noload Don't load the journal on mounting. Note that this forces + mount of inconsistent filesystem, which can lead to + various problems. data=journal All data are committed into the journal prior to being written into the main file system. @@ -92,9 +99,12 @@ nocheck debug Extra debugging information is sent to syslog. -errors=remount-ro(*) Remount the filesystem read-only on an error. +errors=remount-ro Remount the filesystem read-only on an error. errors=continue Keep going on a filesystem error. errors=panic Panic and halt the machine if an error occurs. + (These mount options override the errors behavior + specified in the superblock, which can be + configured using tune2fs.) data_err=ignore(*) Just print an error message if an error occurs in a file data buffer in ordered mode. diff --git a/Documentation/ia64/kvm.txt b/Documentation/ia64/kvm.txt index 84f7cb3d5bec..ffb5c80bec3e 100644 --- a/Documentation/ia64/kvm.txt +++ b/Documentation/ia64/kvm.txt @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Note: For step 2, please make sure that host page size == TARGET_PAGE_SIZE of qe hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/efi-vfirmware.hg you can get the firmware's binary in the directory of efi-vfirmware.hg/binaries. - (3) Rename the firware you owned to Flash.fd, and copy it to /usr/local/share/qemu + (3) Rename the firmware you owned to Flash.fd, and copy it to /usr/local/share/qemu 4. Boot up Linux or Windows guests: 4.1 Create or install a image for guest boot. If you have xen experience, it should be easy. diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index bdc0c433e88c..421920897a37 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1605,7 +1605,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. noswapaccount [KNL] Disable accounting of swap in memory resource - controller. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt) + controller. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. @@ -1955,7 +1955,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file relax_domain_level= [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. - See Documentation/cpusets.txt. + See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt. reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/cpm_qe/qe/firmware.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/cpm_qe/qe/firmware.txt index 6c238f59b2a9..249db3a15d15 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/cpm_qe/qe/firmware.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/cpm_qe/qe/firmware.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ * Uploaded QE firmware - If a new firwmare has been uploaded to the QE (usually by the + If a new firmware has been uploaded to the QE (usually by the boot loader), then a 'firmware' child node should be added to the QE node. This node provides information on the uploaded firmware that device drivers may need. diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt index 3ef339f491e0..5ba4d3fc625a 100644 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ This uses the /cgroup virtual file system and "/cgroup/<cgroup>/cpu.rt_runtime_u to control the CPU time reserved for each control group instead. For more information on working with control groups, you should read -Documentation/cgroups.txt as well. +Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt as well. Group settings are checked against the following limits in order to keep the configuration schedulable: diff --git a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt index 6aaaeb38730c..be45dbb9d7f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ The current memory policy support was added to Linux 2.6 around May 2004. This document attempts to describe the concepts and APIs of the 2.6 memory policy support. -Memory policies should not be confused with cpusets (Documentation/cpusets.txt) +Memory policies should not be confused with cpusets +(Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt) which is an administrative mechanism for restricting the nodes from which memory may be allocated by a set of processes. Memory policies are a programming interface that a NUMA-aware application can take advantage of. When diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_migration b/Documentation/vm/page_migration index d5fdfd34bbaf..6513fe2d90b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/page_migration +++ b/Documentation/vm/page_migration @@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ locations. Larger installations usually partition the system using cpusets into sections of nodes. Paul Jackson has equipped cpusets with the ability to -move pages when a task is moved to another cpuset (See ../cpusets.txt). +move pages when a task is moved to another cpuset (See +Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt). Cpusets allows the automation of process locality. If a task is moved to a new cpuset then also all its pages are moved with it so that the performance of the process does not sink dramatically. Also the pages diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets index 33bb56655991..0f11d9becb0b 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets @@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ you can create fake NUMA nodes that represent contiguous chunks of memory and assign them to cpusets and their attached tasks. This is a way of limiting the amount of system memory that are available to a certain class of tasks. -For more information on the features of cpusets, see Documentation/cpusets.txt. +For more information on the features of cpusets, see +Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt. There are a number of different configurations you can use for your needs. For more information on the numa=fake command line option and its various ways of configuring fake nodes, see Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt. @@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ A machine may be split as follows with "numa=fake=4*512," as reported by dmesg: On node 3 totalpages: 131072 Now following the instructions for mounting the cpusets filesystem from -Documentation/cpusets.txt, you can assign fake nodes (i.e. contiguous memory +Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt, you can assign fake nodes (i.e. contiguous memory address spaces) to individual cpusets: [root@xroads /]# mkdir exampleset |