- 14 9月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Ian Abbott 提交于
Describe how the comedi minor device numbers are split across comedi devices and comedi subdevices. Replace the current, long dead URL with an official URL for the Comedi project. Signed-off-by: NIan Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- 06 9月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Adam Borowski 提交于
This advice is obsolete and slightly harmful for filesystems from this millenium: any modern filesystem can handle unexpected crashes without requiring fsck -- and on the other hand, trying to write to the disk when the kernel is in a bad state risks introducing corruption. For ext2, any unsafe shutdown meant widespread breakage, but it's no longer a reasonable filesystem for any non-special use. Signed-off-by: NAdam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- 01 8月, 2019 6 次提交
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
The filenames for cifs documentation is not using the same convention as almost all Kernel documents is using. So, rename them to a more appropriate name. Then, manually convert the documentation files for CIFS to ReST. By doing a manual conversion, we can preserve the original author's style, while making it to look more like the other Kernel documents. Most of the conversion here is trivial. The most complex one was the README file (which was renamed to usage.rst). Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Manually convert wimax documentation to ReST and add theit to the Kernel doc body, inside the admin-guide. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Those two files describe userspace-faced information. While part of it might fit on uAPI, it sounds to me that the admin guide is the best place for them. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: NMiguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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由 Shobhit Kukreti 提交于
This converts the plain text documentation of ufs.txt to reStructuredText format. Added to documentation build process and verified with make htmldocs Signed-off-by: NShobhit Kukreti <shobhitkukreti@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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由 Shobhit Kukreti 提交于
This converts the plain text documentation of jfs.txt to reStructuredText format. Added to documentation build process and verified with make htmldocs Signed-off-by: NShobhit Kukreti <shobhitkukreti@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
changeset fb5772cb ("blkio-controller.txt: Remove references to CFQ") removed cgroup references to CFQ, but it kept one left. Get rid of it. Fixes: fb5772cb ("blkio-controller.txt: Remove references to CFQ") Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- 31 7月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Sheriff Esseson 提交于
the "Removed Sysctls" section is a table - bring it alive with ReST. Signed-off-by: NSheriff Esseson <sheriffesseson@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- 23 7月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Jeremy Cline 提交于
Fix an off-by-one typo in the transparent huge pages admin documentation. Signed-off-by: NJeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com> Acked-by: NMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- 17 7月, 2019 5 次提交
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Now that the latex_documents are handled automatically, we can remove those extra conf.py files. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Zhenzhong Duan 提交于
Clean up unnecessory code after that operation. Signed-off-by: NZhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: NBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: NJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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由 Zhenzhong Duan 提交于
In virtualization environment, PV extensions (drivers, interrupts, timers, etc) are enabled in the majority of use cases which is the best option. However, in some cases (kexec not fully working, benchmarking) we want to disable PV extensions. We have "xen_nopv" for that purpose but only for XEN. For a consistent admin experience a common command line parameter "nopv" set across all PV guest implementations is a better choice. There are guest types which just won't work without PV extensions, like Xen PV, Xen PVH and jailhouse. add a "ignore_nopv" member to struct hypervisor_x86 set to true for those guest types and call the detect functions only if nopv is false or ignore_nopv is true. Suggested-by: NJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: NZhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: NJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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由 Juergen Gross 提交于
The Xen tmem (transcendent memory) driver can be removed, as the related Xen hypervisor feature never made it past the "experimental" state and will be removed in future Xen versions (>= 4.13). The xen-selfballoon driver depends on tmem, so it can be removed, too. Signed-off-by: NJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Acked-by: NBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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由 Kairui Song 提交于
Since commit 2724273e ("vmcore: add API to collect hardware dump in second kernel"), drivers are allowed to add device related dump data to vmcore as they want by using the device dump API. This has a potential issue, the data is stored in memory, drivers may append too much data and use too much memory. The vmcore is typically used in a kdump kernel which runs in a pre-reserved small chunk of memory. So as a result it will make kdump unusable at all due to OOM issues. So introduce new 'novmcoredd' command line option. User can disable device dump to reduce memory usage. This is helpful if device dump is using too much memory, disabling device dump could make sure a regular vmcore without device dump data is still available. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: vmcore.c needs moduleparam.h] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528111856.7276-1-kasong@redhat.comSigned-off-by: NKairui Song <kasong@redhat.com> Acked-by: NDave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: NBhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> Cc: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com> Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 16 7月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Sheriff Esseson 提交于
Move xfs.txt to admin-guide, convert xfs.txt to ReST and broken references Signed-off-by: NSheriff Esseson <sheriffesseson@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: NMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: NDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
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- 15 7月, 2019 21 次提交
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Nested tables aren't supported for pdf output on Sphinx 1.7.9: admin-guide/laptops/sonypi:: nested tables are not yet implemented. admin-guide/laptops/toshiba_haps:: nested tables are not yet implemented. driver-api/nvdimm/btt:: nested tables are not yet implemented. s390/debugging390:: nested tables are not yet implemented. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> # laptops
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
While this is stated as obsoleted, the sysfs interface described there is still valid, and belongs to the admin-guide. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: NLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
All those new files I added are under GPL v2.0 license. Add the corresponding SPDX headers to them. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
There are lots of documents under Documentation/*.txt and a few other orphan documents elsehwere that belong to the driver-API book. Move them to their right place. Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> # vfio-related parts Acked-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> # switchtec Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
There are lots of documents that belong to the admin-guide but are on random places (most under Documentation root dir). Move them to the admin guide. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: NAlexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> Acked-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Those files belong to the admin guide, so add them. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Those files belong to the admin guide, so add them. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: NJustin Sanders <justin@coraid.com>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
The blockdev book basically contains user-faced documentation. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
The Kdump documentation describes procedures with admins use in order to solve issues on their systems. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
The docs under Documentation/laptops contain users specific information. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: NAndy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
The stuff under sysctl describes /sys interface from userspace point of view. So, add it to the admin-guide and remove the :orphan: from its index file. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
The DM support describes lots of aspects related to mapped disk partitions from the userspace PoV. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
As stated at the documentation, this is meant to be for users to better understand namespaces. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
The perf infrastructure is used for userspace to track issues. At least a good part of what's described here is related to it. So, add it to the admin-guide. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
This is actually a subsystem description, with contains both kAPI and uAPI. While it should ideally be slplit, let's place it at driver-api, as most things are related to kAPI and driver-specific info. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Rename the block documentation files to ReST, add an index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html output via the Sphinx build system. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Rename the /proc/sys/ documentation files to ReST, using the README file as a template for an index.rst, adding the other files there via TOC markup. Despite being written on different times with different styles, try to make them somewhat coherent with a similar look and feel, ensuring that they'll look nice as both raw text file and as via the html output produced by the Sphinx build system. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Rename the blockdev documentation files to ReST, add an index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html output via the Sphinx build system. The drbd sub-directory contains some graphs and data flows. Add those too to the documentation. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Rename the laptops documentation files to ReST, add an index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html output via the Sphinx build system. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: NAndy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Rename the accounting documentation files to ReST, add an index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html output via the Sphinx build system. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Convert the m68k kernel-options.txt file to ReST. The conversion is trivial, as the document is already on a format close enough to ReST. Just some small adjustments were needed in order to make it both good for being parsed while keeping it on a good txt shape. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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- 13 7月, 2019 3 次提交
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由 Alexander Potapenko 提交于
Patch series "add init_on_alloc/init_on_free boot options", v10. Provide init_on_alloc and init_on_free boot options. These are aimed at preventing possible information leaks and making the control-flow bugs that depend on uninitialized values more deterministic. Enabling either of the options guarantees that the memory returned by the page allocator and SL[AU]B is initialized with zeroes. SLOB allocator isn't supported at the moment, as its emulation of kmem caches complicates handling of SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU caches correctly. Enabling init_on_free also guarantees that pages and heap objects are initialized right after they're freed, so it won't be possible to access stale data by using a dangling pointer. As suggested by Michal Hocko, right now we don't let the heap users to disable initialization for certain allocations. There's not enough evidence that doing so can speed up real-life cases, and introducing ways to opt-out may result in things going out of control. This patch (of 2): The new options are needed to prevent possible information leaks and make control-flow bugs that depend on uninitialized values more deterministic. This is expected to be on-by-default on Android and Chrome OS. And it gives the opportunity for anyone else to use it under distros too via the boot args. (The init_on_free feature is regularly requested by folks where memory forensics is included in their threat models.) init_on_alloc=1 makes the kernel initialize newly allocated pages and heap objects with zeroes. Initialization is done at allocation time at the places where checks for __GFP_ZERO are performed. init_on_free=1 makes the kernel initialize freed pages and heap objects with zeroes upon their deletion. This helps to ensure sensitive data doesn't leak via use-after-free accesses. Both init_on_alloc=1 and init_on_free=1 guarantee that the allocator returns zeroed memory. The two exceptions are slab caches with constructors and SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU flag. Those are never zero-initialized to preserve their semantics. Both init_on_alloc and init_on_free default to zero, but those defaults can be overridden with CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON and CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. If either SLUB poisoning or page poisoning is enabled, those options take precedence over init_on_alloc and init_on_free: initialization is only applied to unpoisoned allocations. Slowdown for the new features compared to init_on_free=0, init_on_alloc=0: hackbench, init_on_free=1: +7.62% sys time (st.err 0.74%) hackbench, init_on_alloc=1: +7.75% sys time (st.err 2.14%) Linux build with -j12, init_on_free=1: +8.38% wall time (st.err 0.39%) Linux build with -j12, init_on_free=1: +24.42% sys time (st.err 0.52%) Linux build with -j12, init_on_alloc=1: -0.13% wall time (st.err 0.42%) Linux build with -j12, init_on_alloc=1: +0.57% sys time (st.err 0.40%) The slowdown for init_on_free=0, init_on_alloc=0 compared to the baseline is within the standard error. The new features are also going to pave the way for hardware memory tagging (e.g. arm64's MTE), which will require both on_alloc and on_free hooks to set the tags for heap objects. With MTE, tagging will have the same cost as memory initialization. Although init_on_free is rather costly, there are paranoid use-cases where in-memory data lifetime is desired to be minimized. There are various arguments for/against the realism of the associated threat models, but given that we'll need the infrastructure for MTE anyway, and there are people who want wipe-on-free behavior no matter what the performance cost, it seems reasonable to include it in this series. [glider@google.com: v8] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190626121943.131390-2-glider@google.com [glider@google.com: v9] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190627130316.254309-2-glider@google.com [glider@google.com: v10] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190628093131.199499-2-glider@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190617151050.92663-2-glider@google.comSigned-off-by: NAlexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Acked-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> [page and dmapool parts Acked-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>] Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Sandeep Patil <sspatil@android.com> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Shakeel Butt 提交于
The memory controller in cgroup v2 exposes memory.events file for each memcg which shows the number of times events like low, high, max, oom and oom_kill have happened for the whole tree rooted at that memcg. Users can also poll or register notification to monitor the changes in that file. Any event at any level of the tree rooted at memcg will notify all the listeners along the path till root_mem_cgroup. There are existing users which depend on this behavior. However there are users which are only interested in the events happening at a specific level of the memcg tree and not in the events in the underlying tree rooted at that memcg. One such use-case is a centralized resource monitor which can dynamically adjust the limits of the jobs running on a system. The jobs can create their sub-hierarchy for their own sub-tasks. The centralized monitor is only interested in the events at the top level memcgs of the jobs as it can then act and adjust the limits of the jobs. Using the current memory.events for such centralized monitor is very inconvenient. The monitor will keep receiving events which it is not interested and to find if the received event is interesting, it has to read memory.event files of the next level and compare it with the top level one. So, let's introduce memory.events.local to the memcg which shows and notify for the events at the memcg level. Now, does memory.stat and memory.pressure need their local versions. IMHO no due to the no internal process contraint of the cgroup v2. The memory.stat file of the top level memcg of a job shows the stats and vmevents of the whole tree. The local stats or vmevents of the top level memcg will only change if there is a process running in that memcg but v2 does not allow that. Similarly for memory.pressure there will not be any process in the internal nodes and thus no chance of local pressure. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527174643.209172-1-shakeelb@google.comSigned-off-by: NShakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Reviewed-by: NRoman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Acked-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Vlastimil Babka 提交于
When debug_pagealloc is enabled, we currently allocate the page_ext array to mark guard pages with the PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_GUARD flag. Now that we have the page_type field in struct page, we can use that instead, as guard pages are neither PageSlab nor mapped to userspace. This reduces memory overhead when debug_pagealloc is enabled and there are no other features requiring the page_ext array. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190603143451.27353-4-vbabka@suse.czSigned-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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