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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs-rdma.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 28 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt | 29 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt | 1 |
7 files changed, 70 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt index 19533f93b7a..523a9c16c40 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Memory Resource Controller(Memcg) Implementation Memo. -Last Updated: 2008/12/15 -Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.28-rc8-mm. +Last Updated: 2009/1/19 +Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.29-rc2. Because VM is getting complex (one of reasons is memcg...), memcg's behavior is complex. This is a document for memcg's internal behavior. @@ -340,3 +340,23 @@ Under below explanation, we assume CONFIG_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP=y. # mount -t cgroup none /cgroup -t cpuset,memory,cpu,devices and do task move, mkdir, rmdir etc...under this. + + 9.7 swapoff. + Besides management of swap is one of complicated parts of memcg, + call path of swap-in at swapoff is not same as usual swap-in path.. + It's worth to be tested explicitly. + + For example, test like following is good. + (Shell-A) + # mount -t cgroup none /cgroup -t memory + # mkdir /cgroup/test + # echo 40M > /cgroup/test/memory.limit_in_bytes + # echo 0 > /cgroup/test/tasks + Run malloc(100M) program under this. You'll see 60M of swaps. + (Shell-B) + # move all tasks in /cgroup/test to /cgroup + # /sbin/swapoff -a + # rmdir /test/cgroup + # kill malloc task. + + Of course, tmpfs v.s. swapoff test should be tested, too. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs-rdma.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs-rdma.txt index 44bd766f2e5..85eaeaddd27 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs-rdma.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs-rdma.txt @@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ NFS/RDMA Setup Instruct the server to listen on the RDMA transport: - $ echo rdma 2050 > /proc/fs/nfsd/portlist + $ echo rdma 20049 > /proc/fs/nfsd/portlist - On the client system @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ NFS/RDMA Setup Regardless of how the client was built (module or built-in), use this command to mount the NFS/RDMA server: - $ mount -o rdma,port=2050 <IPoIB-server-name-or-address>:/<export> /mnt + $ mount -o rdma,port=20049 <IPoIB-server-name-or-address>:/<export> /mnt To verify that the mount is using RDMA, run "cat /proc/mounts" and check the "proto" field for the given mount. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index bbebc3a43ac..a87be42f821 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -2027,6 +2027,34 @@ increase the likelihood of this process being killed by the oom-killer. Valid values are in the range -16 to +15, plus the special value -17, which disables oom-killing altogether for this process. +The process to be killed in an out-of-memory situation is selected among all others +based on its badness score. This value equals the original memory size of the process +and is then updated according to its CPU time (utime + stime) and the +run time (uptime - start time). The longer it runs the smaller is the score. +Badness score is divided by the square root of the CPU time and then by +the double square root of the run time. + +Swapped out tasks are killed first. Half of each child's memory size is added to +the parent's score if they do not share the same memory. Thus forking servers +are the prime candidates to be killed. Having only one 'hungry' child will make +parent less preferable than the child. + +/proc/<pid>/oom_score shows process' current badness score. + +The following heuristics are then applied: + * if the task was reniced, its score doubles + * superuser or direct hardware access tasks (CAP_SYS_ADMIN, CAP_SYS_RESOURCE + or CAP_SYS_RAWIO) have their score divided by 4 + * if oom condition happened in one cpuset and checked task does not belong + to it, its score is divided by 8 + * the resulting score is multiplied by two to the power of oom_adj, i.e. + points <<= oom_adj when it is positive and + points >>= -(oom_adj) otherwise + +The task with the highest badness score is then selected and its children +are killed, process itself will be killed in an OOM situation when it does +not have children or some of them disabled oom like described above. + 2.13 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score ------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt index 923f9ddee8f..f3355b6812d 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Environment variables KCPPFLAGS -------------------------------------------------- Additional options to pass when preprocessing. The preprocessing options -will be used in all cases where kbuild do preprocessing including +will be used in all cases where kbuild does preprocessing including building C files and assembler files. KAFLAGS @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Additional options to the C compiler. KBUILD_VERBOSE -------------------------------------------------- -Set the kbuild verbosity. Can be assinged same values as "V=...". +Set the kbuild verbosity. Can be assigned same values as "V=...". See make help for the full list. Setting "V=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_VERBOSE. @@ -35,14 +35,14 @@ KBUILD_OUTPUT -------------------------------------------------- Specify the output directory when building the kernel. The output directory can also be specificed using "O=...". -Setting "O=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_OUTPUT +Setting "O=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_OUTPUT. ARCH -------------------------------------------------- Set ARCH to the architecture to be built. In most cases the name of the architecture is the same as the directory name found in the arch/ directory. -But some architectures suach as x86 and sparc has aliases. +But some architectures such as x86 and sparc have aliases. x86: i386 for 32 bit, x86_64 for 64 bit sparc: sparc for 32 bit, sparc64 for 64 bit @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ CF is often used on the command-line like this: INSTALL_PATH -------------------------------------------------- INSTALL_PATH specifies where to place the updated kernel and system map -images. Default is /boot, but you can set it to other values +images. Default is /boot, but you can set it to other values. MODLIB @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ INSTALL_MOD_STRIP will used as the options to the strip command. INSTALL_FW_PATH -------------------------------------------------- -INSTALL_FW_PATH specify where to install the firmware blobs. +INSTALL_FW_PATH specifies where to install the firmware blobs. The default value is: $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/firmware @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ The value can be overridden in which case the default value is ignored. INSTALL_HDR_PATH -------------------------------------------------- -INSTALL_HDR_PATH specify where to install user space headers when +INSTALL_HDR_PATH specifies where to install user space headers when executing "make headers_*". The default value is: @@ -112,22 +112,23 @@ The value can be overridden in which case the default value is ignored. KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN -------------------------------------------------- -KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN can be set to avoid error out in case of undefined -symbols in the final module linking stage. +KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN can be set to avoid errors in case of undefined +symbols in the final module linking stage. It changes such errors +into warnings. -KBUILD_MODPOST_FINAL +KBUILD_MODPOST_NOFINAL -------------------------------------------------- KBUILD_MODPOST_NOFINAL can be set to skip the final link of modules. -This is solely usefull to speed up test compiles. +This is solely useful to speed up test compiles. KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS -------------------------------------------------- -For modules use symbols from another modules. +For modules that use symbols from other modules. See more details in modules.txt. ALLSOURCE_ARCHS -------------------------------------------------- -For tags/TAGS/cscope targets, you can specify more than one archs -to be included in the databases, separated by blankspace. e.g. +For tags/TAGS/cscope targets, you can specify more than one arch +to be included in the databases, separated by blank space. E.g.: $ make ALLSOURCE_ARCHS="x86 mips arm" tags diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 8511d3532c2..d8362cf9909 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -577,9 +577,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for a example. - cs4232= [HW,OSS] - Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<mpuio>,<mpuirq> - cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] Format: <dma> @@ -732,10 +729,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Default value is 0. Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce. - es1371= [HW,OSS] - Format: <spdif>,[<nomix>,[<amplifier>]] - See also header of sound/oss/es1371.c. - ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt index 3c2f2b32863..8d022073e3e 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt @@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ Built-in netconsole starts immediately after the TCP stack is initialized and attempts to bring up the supplied dev at the supplied address. -The remote host can run either 'netcat -u -l -p <port>' or syslogd. +The remote host can run either 'netcat -u -l -p <port>', +'nc -l -u <port>' or syslogd. Dynamic reconfiguration: ======================== diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt index 64eb1100eec..0f5d26bea80 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt @@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ STAC92HD73* STAC92HD83* =========== ref Reference board + mic-ref Reference board with power managment for ports STAC9872 ======== |