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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-04-14 16:49:17 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-04-14 16:49:17 -0700 |
commit | 1dcf58d6e6e6eb7ec10e9abc56887b040205b06f (patch) | |
tree | c03e7a25ef13eea62f1547914a76e5c68f3f4c28 /Documentation | |
parent | 80dcc31fbe55932ac9204daee5f2ebc0c49b6da3 (diff) | |
parent | e4b0db72be2487bae0e3251c22f82c104f7c1cfd (diff) |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge first patchbomb from Andrew Morton:
- arch/sh updates
- ocfs2 updates
- kernel/watchdog feature
- about half of mm/
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (122 commits)
Documentation: update arch list in the 'memtest' entry
Kconfig: memtest: update number of test patterns up to 17
arm: add support for memtest
arm64: add support for memtest
memtest: use phys_addr_t for physical addresses
mm: move memtest under mm
mm, hugetlb: abort __get_user_pages if current has been oom killed
mm, mempool: do not allow atomic resizing
memcg: print cgroup information when system panics due to panic_on_oom
mm: numa: remove migrate_ratelimited
mm: fold arch_randomize_brk into ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
mm: split ET_DYN ASLR from mmap ASLR
s390: redefine randomize_et_dyn for ELF_ET_DYN_BASE
mm: expose arch_mmap_rnd when available
s390: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
powerpc: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
mips: extract logic for mmap_rnd()
arm64: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
x86: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
arm: factor out mmap ASLR into mmap_rnd
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cma/debugfs.txt | 21 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 10 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 62 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt | 26 |
5 files changed, 90 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cma/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/cma/debugfs.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6cef20a8cedc --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/cma/debugfs.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +The CMA debugfs interface is useful to retrieve basic information out of the +different CMA areas and to test allocation/release in each of the areas. + +Each CMA zone represents a directory under <debugfs>/cma/, indexed by the +kernel's CMA index. So the first CMA zone would be: + + <debugfs>/cma/cma-0 + +The structure of the files created under that directory is as follows: + + - [RO] base_pfn: The base PFN (Page Frame Number) of the zone. + - [RO] count: Amount of memory in the CMA area. + - [RO] order_per_bit: Order of pages represented by one bit. + - [RO] bitmap: The bitmap of page states in the zone. + - [WO] alloc: Allocate N pages from that CMA area. For example: + + echo 5 > <debugfs>/cma/cma-2/alloc + +would try to allocate 5 pages from the cma-2 area. + + - [WO] free: Free N pages from that CMA area, similar to the above. diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 05c36118f8d7..327556349757 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1989,7 +1989,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. seconds. Use this parameter to check at some other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. - memtest= [KNL,X86] Enable memtest + memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest Format: <integer> default : 0 <disable> Specifies the number of memtest passes to be @@ -2236,8 +2236,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] - Valid num: 0 + Valid num: 0 or 1 0 - turn nmi_watchdog off + 1 - turn nmi_watchdog on When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite default). @@ -2322,6 +2323,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. register save and restore. The kernel will only save legacy floating-point registers on task switch. + nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. + noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. @@ -2464,7 +2467,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem - nowatchdog [KNL] Disable the lockup detector (NMI watchdog). + nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. + soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). nowb [ARM] diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 83ab25660fc9..99d7eb3a1416 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -77,12 +77,14 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - shmmax [ sysv ipc ] - shmmni - softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace +- soft_watchdog - stop-a [ SPARC only ] - sysrq ==> Documentation/sysrq.txt - sysctl_writes_strict - tainted - threads-max - unknown_nmi_panic +- watchdog - watchdog_thresh - version @@ -417,16 +419,23 @@ successful IPC object allocation. nmi_watchdog: -Enables/Disables the NMI watchdog on x86 systems. When the value is -non-zero the NMI watchdog is enabled and will continuously test all -online cpus to determine whether or not they are still functioning -properly. Currently, passing "nmi_watchdog=" parameter at boot time is -required for this function to work. +This parameter can be used to control the NMI watchdog +(i.e. the hard lockup detector) on x86 systems. -If LAPIC NMI watchdog method is in use (nmi_watchdog=2 kernel -parameter), the NMI watchdog shares registers with oprofile. By -disabling the NMI watchdog, oprofile may have more registers to -utilize. + 0 - disable the hard lockup detector + 1 - enable the hard lockup detector + +The hard lockup detector monitors each CPU for its ability to respond to +timer interrupts. The mechanism utilizes CPU performance counter registers +that are programmed to generate Non-Maskable Interrupts (NMIs) periodically +while a CPU is busy. Hence, the alternative name 'NMI watchdog'. + +The NMI watchdog is disabled by default if the kernel is running as a guest +in a KVM virtual machine. This default can be overridden by adding + + nmi_watchdog=1 + +to the guest kernel command line (see Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt). ============================================================== @@ -816,6 +825,22 @@ NMI. ============================================================== +soft_watchdog + +This parameter can be used to control the soft lockup detector. + + 0 - disable the soft lockup detector + 1 - enable the soft lockup detector + +The soft lockup detector monitors CPUs for threads that are hogging the CPUs +without rescheduling voluntarily, and thus prevent the 'watchdog/N' threads +from running. The mechanism depends on the CPUs ability to respond to timer +interrupts which are needed for the 'watchdog/N' threads to be woken up by +the watchdog timer function, otherwise the NMI watchdog - if enabled - can +detect a hard lockup condition. + +============================================================== + tainted: Non-zero if the kernel has been tainted. Numeric values, which @@ -858,6 +883,25 @@ example. If a system hangs up, try pressing the NMI switch. ============================================================== +watchdog: + +This parameter can be used to disable or enable the soft lockup detector +_and_ the NMI watchdog (i.e. the hard lockup detector) at the same time. + + 0 - disable both lockup detectors + 1 - enable both lockup detectors + +The soft lockup detector and the NMI watchdog can also be disabled or +enabled individually, using the soft_watchdog and nmi_watchdog parameters. +If the watchdog parameter is read, for example by executing + + cat /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog + +the output of this command (0 or 1) shows the logical OR of soft_watchdog +and nmi_watchdog. + +============================================================== + watchdog_thresh: This value can be used to control the frequency of hrtimer and NMI diff --git a/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt b/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt index 01d76282444e..e4b49df7a048 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt @@ -28,9 +28,7 @@ IMPLEMENTATION OVERVIEW A cleancache "backend" that provides transcendent memory registers itself to the kernel's cleancache "frontend" by calling cleancache_register_ops, passing a pointer to a cleancache_ops structure with funcs set appropriately. -Note that cleancache_register_ops returns the previous settings so that -chaining can be performed if desired. The functions provided must conform to -certain semantics as follows: +The functions provided must conform to certain semantics as follows: Most important, cleancache is "ephemeral". Pages which are copied into cleancache have an indefinite lifetime which is completely unknowable diff --git a/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt b/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt index 744f82f86c58..86cb4624fc5a 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt @@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ If the VMA passes some filtering as described in "Filtering Special Vmas" below, mlock_fixup() will attempt to merge the VMA with its neighbors or split off a subset of the VMA if the range does not cover the entire VMA. Once the VMA has been merged or split or neither, mlock_fixup() will call -__mlock_vma_pages_range() to fault in the pages via get_user_pages() and to +populate_vma_page_range() to fault in the pages via get_user_pages() and to mark the pages as mlocked via mlock_vma_page(). Note that the VMA being mlocked might be mapped with PROT_NONE. In this case, @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ fault path or in vmscan. Also note that a page returned by get_user_pages() could be truncated or migrated out from under us, while we're trying to mlock it. To detect this, -__mlock_vma_pages_range() checks page_mapping() after acquiring the page lock. +populate_vma_page_range() checks page_mapping() after acquiring the page lock. If the page is still associated with its mapping, we'll go ahead and call mlock_vma_page(). If the mapping is gone, we just unlock the page and move on. In the worst case, this will result in a page mapped in a VM_LOCKED VMA @@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ ignored for munlock. If the VMA is VM_LOCKED, mlock_fixup() again attempts to merge or split off the specified range. The range is then munlocked via the function -__mlock_vma_pages_range() - the same function used to mlock a VMA range - +populate_vma_page_range() - the same function used to mlock a VMA range - passing a flag to indicate that munlock() is being performed. Because the VMA access protections could have been changed to PROT_NONE after @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ get_user_pages() was enhanced to accept a flag to ignore the permissions when fetching the pages - all of which should be resident as a result of previous mlocking. -For munlock(), __mlock_vma_pages_range() unlocks individual pages by calling +For munlock(), populate_vma_page_range() unlocks individual pages by calling munlock_vma_page(). munlock_vma_page() unconditionally clears the PG_mlocked flag using TestClearPageMlocked(). As with mlock_vma_page(), munlock_vma_page() use the Test*PageMlocked() function to handle the case where @@ -463,21 +463,11 @@ populate the page table. To mlock a range of memory under the unevictable/mlock infrastructure, the mmap() handler and task address space expansion functions call -mlock_vma_pages_range() specifying the vma and the address range to mlock. -mlock_vma_pages_range() filters VMAs like mlock_fixup(), as described above in -"Filtering Special VMAs". It will clear the VM_LOCKED flag, which will have -already been set by the caller, in filtered VMAs. Thus these VMA's need not be -visited for munlock when the region is unmapped. - -For "normal" VMAs, mlock_vma_pages_range() calls __mlock_vma_pages_range() to -fault/allocate the pages and mlock them. Again, like mlock_fixup(), -mlock_vma_pages_range() downgrades the mmap semaphore to read mode before -attempting to fault/allocate and mlock the pages and "upgrades" the semaphore -back to write mode before returning. - -The callers of mlock_vma_pages_range() will have already added the memory range +populate_vma_page_range() specifying the vma and the address range to mlock. + +The callers of populate_vma_page_range() will have already added the memory range to be mlocked to the task's "locked_vm". To account for filtered VMAs, -mlock_vma_pages_range() returns the number of pages NOT mlocked. All of the +populate_vma_page_range() returns the number of pages NOT mlocked. All of the callers then subtract a non-negative return value from the task's locked_vm. A negative return value represent an error - for example, from get_user_pages() attempting to fault in a VMA with PROT_NONE access. In this case, we leave the |