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@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
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-refs/heads/master: 39826a1e17c1957bd7b5cd7815b83940e5e3a230
+refs/heads/master: b21597d0268983f8f9e8b563494f75490403e948

trunk/Documentation/ABI/testing/debugfs-pktcdvd

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-What:           /debug/pktcdvd/pktcdvd[0-7]
+What:           /sys/kernel/debug/pktcdvd/pktcdvd[0-7]
 Date:           Oct. 2006
 KernelVersion:  2.6.20
 Contact:        Thomas Maier <balagi@justmail.de>
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ debugfs interface
 The pktcdvd module (packet writing driver) creates
 these files in debugfs:
 
-/debug/pktcdvd/pktcdvd[0-7]/
+/sys/kernel/debug/pktcdvd/pktcdvd[0-7]/
     info            (0444) Lots of driver statistics and infos.
 
 Example:
 -------
 
-cat /debug/pktcdvd/pktcdvd0/info
+cat /sys/kernel/debug/pktcdvd/pktcdvd0/info

trunk/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt

@@ -6,15 +6,14 @@ used here with the memory controller that is used in hardware.
 
 Salient features
 
-a. Enable control of both RSS (mapped) and Page Cache (unmapped) pages
+a. Enable control of Anonymous, Page Cache (mapped and unmapped) and
+   Swap Cache memory pages.
 b. The infrastructure allows easy addition of other types of memory to control
 c. Provides *zero overhead* for non memory controller users
 d. Provides a double LRU: global memory pressure causes reclaim from the
    global LRU; a cgroup on hitting a limit, reclaims from the per
    cgroup LRU
 
-NOTE: Swap Cache (unmapped) is not accounted now.
-
 Benefits and Purpose of the memory controller
 
 The memory controller isolates the memory behaviour of a group of tasks
@@ -290,34 +289,44 @@ will be charged as a new owner of it.
   moved to the parent. If you want to avoid that, force_empty will be useful.
 
 5.2 stat file
-  memory.stat file includes following statistics (now)
-	cache			- # of pages from page-cache and shmem.
-	rss			- # of pages from anonymous memory.
-	pgpgin			- # of event of charging
-	pgpgout			- # of event of uncharging
-	active_anon		- # of pages on active lru of anon, shmem.
-	inactive_anon 		- # of pages on active lru of anon, shmem
-	active_file		- # of pages on active lru of file-cache
-	inactive_file		- # of pages on inactive lru of file cache
-	unevictable		- # of pages cannot be reclaimed.(mlocked etc)
-
-	Below is depend on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.
-	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)
-	recent_scanned_file 	- VM internal parameter. (see mm/vmscan.c)
-
-  Memo:
+
+memory.stat file includes following statistics
+
+cache		- # of bytes of page cache memory.
+rss		- # of bytes of anonymous and swap cache memory.
+pgpgin		- # of pages paged in (equivalent to # of charging events).
+pgpgout		- # of pages paged out (equivalent to # of uncharging events).
+active_anon	- # of bytes of anonymous and  swap cache memory on active
+		  lru list.
+inactive_anon	- # of bytes of anonymous memory and swap cache memory on
+		  inactive lru list.
+active_file	- # of bytes of file-backed memory on active lru list.
+inactive_file	- # of bytes of file-backed memory on inactive lru list.
+unevictable	- # of bytes of memory that cannot be reclaimed (mlocked etc).
+
+The following additional stats are dependent on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.
+
+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)
+recent_scanned_file	- VM internal parameter. (see mm/vmscan.c)
+
+Memo:
 	recent_rotated means recent frequency of lru rotation.
 	recent_scanned means recent # of scans to lru.
 	showing for better debug please see the code for meanings.
 
+Note:
+	Only anonymous and swap cache memory is listed as part of 'rss' stat.
+	This should not be confused with the true 'resident set size' or the
+	amount of physical memory used by the cgroup. Per-cgroup rss
+	accounting is not done yet.
 
 5.3 swappiness
   Similar to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but affecting a hierarchy of groups only.
 
-  Following cgroup's swapiness can't be changed.
+  Following cgroups' swapiness can't be changed.
   - root cgroup (uses /proc/sys/vm/swappiness).
   - a cgroup which uses hierarchy and it has child cgroup.
   - a cgroup which uses hierarchy and not the root of hierarchy.

trunk/Documentation/cgroups/resource_counter.txt

@@ -47,13 +47,18 @@ to work with it.
 
 2. Basic accounting routines
 
- a. void res_counter_init(struct res_counter *rc)
+ a. void res_counter_init(struct res_counter *rc,
+				struct res_counter *rc_parent)
 
  	Initializes the resource counter. As usual, should be the first
 	routine called for a new counter.
 
- b. int res_counter_charge[_locked]
-			(struct res_counter *rc, unsigned long val)
+	The struct res_counter *parent can be used to define a hierarchical
+	child -> parent relationship directly in the res_counter structure,
+	NULL can be used to define no relationship.
+
+ c. int res_counter_charge(struct res_counter *rc, unsigned long val,
+				struct res_counter **limit_fail_at)
 
 	When a resource is about to be allocated it has to be accounted
 	with the appropriate resource counter (controller should determine
@@ -67,15 +72,25 @@ to work with it.
 	  * if the charging is performed first, then it should be uncharged
 	    on error path (if the one is called).
 
- c. void res_counter_uncharge[_locked]
+	If the charging fails and a hierarchical dependency exists, the
+	limit_fail_at parameter is set to the particular res_counter element
+	where the charging failed.
+
+ d. int res_counter_charge_locked
+			(struct res_counter *rc, unsigned long val)
+
+	The same as res_counter_charge(), but it must not acquire/release the
+	res_counter->lock internally (it must be called with res_counter->lock
+	held).
+
+ e. void res_counter_uncharge[_locked]
 			(struct res_counter *rc, unsigned long val)
 
 	When a resource is released (freed) it should be de-accounted
 	from the resource counter it was accounted to.  This is called
 	"uncharging".
 
-    The _locked routines imply that the res_counter->lock is taken.
-
+	The _locked routines imply that the res_counter->lock is taken.
 
  2.1 Other accounting routines
 

trunk/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt

@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ of struct cmsghdr structures with appended data.
 
 There is only one file in this directory.
 unix_dgram_qlen limits the max number of datagrams queued in Unix domain
-socket's buffer. It will not take effect unless PF_UNIX flag is spicified.
+socket's buffer. It will not take effect unless PF_UNIX flag is specified.
 
 
 3. /proc/sys/net/ipv4 - IPV4 settings

trunk/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 00-INDEX
 	- this file.
+active_mm.txt
+	- An explanation from Linus about tsk->active_mm vs tsk->mm.
 balance
 	- various information on memory balancing.
 hugetlbpage.txt

trunk/Documentation/vm/active_mm.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+List:       linux-kernel
+Subject:    Re: active_mm
+From:       Linus Torvalds <torvalds () transmeta ! com>
+Date:       1999-07-30 21:36:24
+
+Cc'd to linux-kernel, because I don't write explanations all that often,
+and when I do I feel better about more people reading them.
+
+On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, David Mosberger wrote:
+>
+> Is there a brief description someplace on how "mm" vs. "active_mm" in
+> the task_struct are supposed to be used?  (My apologies if this was
+> discussed on the mailing lists---I just returned from vacation and
+> wasn't able to follow linux-kernel for a while).
+
+Basically, the new setup is:
+
+ - we have "real address spaces" and "anonymous address spaces". The
+   difference is that an anonymous address space doesn't care about the
+   user-level page tables at all, so when we do a context switch into an
+   anonymous address space we just leave the previous address space
+   active.
+
+   The obvious use for a "anonymous address space" is any thread that
+   doesn't need any user mappings - all kernel threads basically fall into
+   this category, but even "real" threads can temporarily say that for
+   some amount of time they are not going to be interested in user space,
+   and that the scheduler might as well try to avoid wasting time on
+   switching the VM state around. Currently only the old-style bdflush
+   sync does that.
+
+ - "tsk->mm" points to the "real address space". For an anonymous process,
+   tsk->mm will be NULL, for the logical reason that an anonymous process
+   really doesn't _have_ a real address space at all.
+
+ - however, we obviously need to keep track of which address space we
+   "stole" for such an anonymous user. For that, we have "tsk->active_mm",
+   which shows what the currently active address space is.
+
+   The rule is that for a process with a real address space (ie tsk->mm is
+   non-NULL) the active_mm obviously always has to be the same as the real
+   one.
+
+   For a anonymous process, tsk->mm == NULL, and tsk->active_mm is the
+   "borrowed" mm while the anonymous process is running. When the
+   anonymous process gets scheduled away, the borrowed address space is
+   returned and cleared.
+
+To support all that, the "struct mm_struct" now has two counters: a
+"mm_users" counter that is how many "real address space users" there are,
+and a "mm_count" counter that is the number of "lazy" users (ie anonymous
+users) plus one if there are any real users.
+
+Usually there is at least one real user, but it could be that the real
+user exited on another CPU while a lazy user was still active, so you do
+actually get cases where you have a address space that is _only_ used by
+lazy users. That is often a short-lived state, because once that thread
+gets scheduled away in favour of a real thread, the "zombie" mm gets
+released because "mm_users" becomes zero.
+
+Also, a new rule is that _nobody_ ever has "init_mm" as a real MM any
+more. "init_mm" should be considered just a "lazy context when no other
+context is available", and in fact it is mainly used just at bootup when
+no real VM has yet been created. So code that used to check
+
+	if (current->mm == &init_mm)
+
+should generally just do
+
+	if (!current->mm)
+
+instead (which makes more sense anyway - the test is basically one of "do
+we have a user context", and is generally done by the page fault handler
+and things like that).
+
+Anyway, I put a pre-patch-2.3.13-1 on ftp.kernel.org just a moment ago,
+because it slightly changes the interfaces to accomodate the alpha (who
+would have thought it, but the alpha actually ends up having one of the
+ugliest context switch codes - unlike the other architectures where the MM
+and register state is separate, the alpha PALcode joins the two, and you
+need to switch both together).
+
+(From http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=93337278602211&w=2)