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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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N: Pavel Machek
E: pavel@ucw.cz
E: pavel@suse.cz
D: Softcursor for vga, hypertech cdrom support, vcsa bugfix, nbd
D: sun4/330 port, capabilities for elf, speedup for rm on ext2, USB,
D: work on suspend-to-ram/disk, killing duplicates from ioctl32
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap
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What: /sys/firmware/memmap/
Date: June 2008
Contact: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Contact: Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle@gmx.de>
Description:
On all platforms, the firmware provides a memory map which the
kernel reads. The resources from that memory map are registered
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/PCI/PCIEBUS-HOWTO.txt
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int pcie_port_service_register(struct pcie_port_service_driver *new)

This API replaces the Linux Driver Model's pci_module_init API. A
This API replaces the Linux Driver Model's pci_register_driver API. A
service driver should always calls pcie_port_service_register at
module init. Note that after service driver being loaded, calls
such as pci_enable_device(dev) and pci_set_master(dev) are no longer
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6 changes: 2 additions & 4 deletions Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
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When a task is moved from one cgroup to another, it gets a new
css_set pointer - if there's an already existing css_set with the
desired collection of cgroups then that group is reused, else a new
css_set is allocated. Note that the current implementation uses a
linear search to locate an appropriate existing css_set, so isn't
very efficient. A future version will use a hash table for better
performance.
css_set is allocated. The appropriate existing css_set is located by
looking into a hash table.

To allow access from a cgroup to the css_sets (and hence tasks)
that comprise it, a set of cg_cgroup_link objects form a lattice;
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65 changes: 37 additions & 28 deletions Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
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Expand Up @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ into the rest of the kernel, none in performance critical paths:
- in fork and exit, to attach and detach a task from its cpuset.
- in sched_setaffinity, to mask the requested CPUs by what's
allowed in that tasks cpuset.
- in sched.c migrate_all_tasks(), to keep migrating tasks within
- in sched.c migrate_live_tasks(), to keep migrating tasks within
the CPUs allowed by their cpuset, if possible.
- in the mbind and set_mempolicy system calls, to mask the requested
Memory Nodes by what's allowed in that tasks cpuset.
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- mem_exclusive flag: is memory placement exclusive?
- mem_hardwall flag: is memory allocation hardwalled
- memory_pressure: measure of how much paging pressure in cpuset
- memory_spread_page flag: if set, spread page cache evenly on allowed nodes
- memory_spread_slab flag: if set, spread slab cache evenly on allowed nodes
- sched_load_balance flag: if set, load balance within CPUs on that cpuset
- sched_relax_domain_level: the searching range when migrating tasks

In addition, the root cpuset only has the following file:
- memory_pressure_enabled flag: compute memory_pressure?
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This is useful both on tightly managed systems running a wide mix of
submitted jobs, which may choose to terminate or re-prioritize jobs that
are trying to use more memory than allowed on the nodes assigned them,
are trying to use more memory than allowed on the nodes assigned to them,
and with tightly coupled, long running, massively parallel scientific
computing jobs that will dramatically fail to meet required performance
goals if they start to use more memory than allowed to them.
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The algorithmic cost of load balancing and its impact on key shared
kernel data structures such as the task list increases more than
linearly with the number of CPUs being balanced. So the scheduler
has support to partition the systems CPUs into a number of sched
has support to partition the systems CPUs into a number of sched
domains such that it only load balances within each sched domain.
Each sched domain covers some subset of the CPUs in the system;
no two sched domains overlap; some CPUs might not be in any sched
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The internal kernel cpuset to scheduler interface passes from the
cpuset code to the scheduler code a partition of the load balanced
CPUs in the system. This partition is a set of subsets (represented
as an array of cpumask_t) of CPUs, pairwise disjoint, that cover all
the CPUs that must be load balanced.

Whenever the 'sched_load_balance' flag changes, or CPUs come or go
from a cpuset with this flag enabled, or a cpuset with this flag
enabled is removed, the cpuset code builds a new such partition and
passes it to the scheduler sched domain setup code, to have the sched
domains rebuilt as necessary.
as an array of struct cpumask) of CPUs, pairwise disjoint, that cover
all the CPUs that must be load balanced.

The cpuset code builds a new such partition and passes it to the
scheduler sched domain setup code, to have the sched domains rebuilt
as necessary, whenever:
- the 'sched_load_balance' flag of a cpuset with non-empty CPUs changes,
- or CPUs come or go from a cpuset with this flag enabled,
- or 'sched_relax_domain_level' value of a cpuset with non-empty CPUs
and with this flag enabled changes,
- or a cpuset with non-empty CPUs and with this flag enabled is removed,
- or a cpu is offlined/onlined.

This partition exactly defines what sched domains the scheduler should
setup - one sched domain for each element (cpumask_t) in the partition.
setup - one sched domain for each element (struct cpumask) in the
partition.

The scheduler remembers the currently active sched domain partitions.
When the scheduler routine partition_sched_domains() is invoked from
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requests 0 and others are -1 then 0 is used.

Note that modifying this file will have both good and bad effects,
and whether it is acceptable or not will be depend on your situation.
and whether it is acceptable or not depends on your situation.
Don't modify this file if you are not sure.

If your situation is:
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If a cpuset has its 'cpus' modified, then each task in that cpuset
will have its allowed CPU placement changed immediately. Similarly,
if a tasks pid is written to a cpusets 'tasks' file, in either its
current cpuset or another cpuset, then its allowed CPU placement is
changed immediately. If such a task had been bound to some subset
of its cpuset using the sched_setaffinity() call, the task will be
allowed to run on any CPU allowed in its new cpuset, negating the
affect of the prior sched_setaffinity() call.
if a tasks pid is written to another cpusets 'tasks' file, then its
allowed CPU placement is changed immediately. If such a task had been
bound to some subset of its cpuset using the sched_setaffinity() call,
the task will be allowed to run on any CPU allowed in its new cpuset,
negating the effect of the prior sched_setaffinity() call.

In summary, the memory placement of a task whose cpuset is changed is
updated by the kernel, on the next allocation of a page for that task,
but the processor placement is not updated, until that tasks pid is
rewritten to the 'tasks' file of its cpuset. This is done to avoid
impacting the scheduler code in the kernel with a check for changes
in a tasks processor placement.
and the processor placement is updated immediately.

Normally, once a page is allocated (given a physical page
of main memory) then that page stays on whatever node it
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# The next line should display '/Charlie'
cat /proc/self/cpuset

In the future, a C library interface to cpusets will likely be
available. For now, the only way to query or modify cpusets is
via the cpuset file system, using the various cd, mkdir, echo, cat,
rmdir commands from the shell, or their equivalent from C.
There are ways to query or modify cpusets:
- via the cpuset file system directly, using the various cd, mkdir, echo,
cat, rmdir commands from the shell, or their equivalent from C.
- via the C library libcpuset.
- via the C library libcgroup.
(http://sourceforge.net/proects/libcg/)
- via the python application cset.
(http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Cpuset)

The sched_setaffinity calls can also be done at the shell prompt using
SGI's runon or Robert Love's taskset. The mbind and set_mempolicy
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is equivalent to

mount -t cgroup -ocpuset X /dev/cpuset
mount -t cgroup -ocpuset,noprefix X /dev/cpuset
echo "/sbin/cpuset_release_agent" > /dev/cpuset/release_agent

2.2 Adding/removing cpus
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Attributes
~~~~~~~~~~
struct device_attribute {
struct attribute attr;
ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, char * buf, size_t count, loff_t off);
ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, const char * buf, size_t count, loff_t off);
struct attribute attr;
ssize_t (*show)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
char *buf);
ssize_t (*store)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t count);
};

Attributes of devices can be exported via drivers using a simple
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sysfs - _The_ filesystem for exporting kernel objects.

Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Mike Murphy <mamurph@cs.clemson.edu>

10 January 2003
Revised: 22 February 2009
Original: 10 January 2003


What it is:
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struct attribute {
char * name;
struct module *owner;
mode_t mode;
};


int sysfs_create_file(struct kobject * kobj, struct attribute * attr);
void sysfs_remove_file(struct kobject * kobj, struct attribute * attr);
int sysfs_create_file(struct kobject * kobj, const struct attribute * attr);
void sysfs_remove_file(struct kobject * kobj, const struct attribute * attr);


A bare attribute contains no means to read or write the value of the
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For example, the driver model defines struct device_attribute like:

struct device_attribute {
struct attribute attr;
ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, char * buf);
ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, const char * buf);
struct attribute attr;
ssize_t (*show)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
char *buf);
ssize_t (*store)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t count);
};

int device_create_file(struct device *, struct device_attribute *);
void device_remove_file(struct device *, struct device_attribute *);

It also defines this helper for defining device attributes:

#define DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store) \
struct device_attribute dev_attr_##_name = { \
.attr = {.name = __stringify(_name) , .mode = _mode }, \
.show = _show, \
.store = _store, \
};
#define DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store) \
struct device_attribute dev_attr_##_name = __ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store)

For example, declaring

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.attr = {
.name = "foo",
.mode = S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO,
.show = show_foo,
.store = store_foo,
},
.show = show_foo,
.store = store_foo,
};


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specified when declaring the attribute. The method types should be as
simple as those defined for device attributes:

ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, char * buf);
ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, const char * buf);
ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute * attr,
char * buf);
ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute * attr,
const char * buf);

IOW, they should take only an object and a buffer as parameters.
IOW, they should take only an object, an attribute, and a buffer as parameters.


sysfs allocates a buffer of size (PAGE_SIZE) and passes it to the
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Structure:

struct device_attribute {
struct attribute attr;
ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, char * buf);
ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, const char * buf);
struct attribute attr;
ssize_t (*show)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
char *buf);
ssize_t (*store)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t count);
};

Declaring:

DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _str, _mode, _show, _store);
DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store);

Creation/Removal:

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struct driver_attribute {
struct attribute attr;
ssize_t (*show)(struct device_driver *, char * buf);
ssize_t (*store)(struct device_driver *, const char * buf);
ssize_t (*store)(struct device_driver *, const char * buf,
size_t count);
};

Declaring:
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