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  trivial: NULL noise: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_*test.c
  trivial: NULL noise: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drx397xD_fw.h
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "Celsius".
  trivial: remove unused variable 'path' in alloc_file()
  trivial: fix a pdlfush -> pdflush typo in comment
  trivial: jbd header comment typo fix for JBD_PARANOID_IOFAIL
  trivial: wusb: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: drivers/char/bsr.c: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: h8300: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to
  trivial: Give the right path in Documentation example
  trivial: MTD: remove EOL from MODULE_DESCRIPTION
  trivial: Fix typo in bio_split()'s documentation
  trivial: PWM: fix of #endif comment
  trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts
  trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware
  trivial: cgroups: documentation typo and spelling corrections
  trivial: Update contact info for Jochen Hein
  trivial: fix typo "resgister" -> "register"
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10 changes: 8 additions & 2 deletions CREDITS
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D: National Language Support
D: Linux Internationalization Project
D: German Localization for Linux and GNU software
S: Kriemhildring 12a
S: 65795 Hattersheim am Main
S: Auf der Fittel 18
S: 53347 Alfter
S: Germany

N: Christoph Hellwig
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D: Co-author of German book ``Linux-Kernel-Programmierung''
D: Co-founder of Berlin Linux User Group

N: Riku Voipio
E: [email protected]
D: Author of PCA9532 LED and Fintek f75375s hwmon driver
D: Some random ARM board patches
S: Finland

N: Patrick Volkerding
E: [email protected]
D: Produced the Slackware distribution, updated the SVGAlib
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions Documentation/00-INDEX
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- describes the cache/TLB flushing interfaces Linux uses.
cdrom/
- directory with information on the CD-ROM drivers that Linux has.
cgroups/
- cgroups features, including cpusets and memory controller.
connector/
- docs on the netlink based userspace<->kernel space communication mod.
console/
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- document describing how CPU load statistics are collected.
cpuidle/
- info on CPU_IDLE, CPU idle state management subsystem.
cpusets.txt
- documents the cpusets feature; assign CPUs and Mem to a set of tasks.
cputopology.txt
- documentation on how CPU topology info is exported via sysfs.
cris/
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18 changes: 18 additions & 0 deletions Documentation/cgroups/00-INDEX
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00-INDEX
- this file
cgroups.txt
- Control Groups definition, implementation details, examples and API.
cpuacct.txt
- CPU Accounting Controller; account CPU usage for groups of tasks.
cpusets.txt
- documents the cpusets feature; assign CPUs and Mem to a set of tasks.
devices.txt
- Device Whitelist Controller; description, interface and security.
freezer-subsystem.txt
- checkpointing; rationale to not use signals, interface.
memcg_test.txt
- Memory Resource Controller; implementation details.
memory.txt
- Memory Resource Controller; design, accounting, interface, testing.
resource_counter.txt
- Resource Counter API.
10 changes: 5 additions & 5 deletions Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
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Expand Up @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ hierarchy, and a set of subsystems; each subsystem has system-specific
state attached to each cgroup in the hierarchy. Each hierarchy has
an instance of the cgroup virtual filesystem associated with it.

At any one time there may be multiple active hierachies of task
At any one time there may be multiple active hierarchies of task
cgroups. Each hierarchy is a partition of all tasks in the system.

User level code may create and destroy cgroups by name in an
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/ \
Prof (15%) students (5%)

Browsers like firefox/lynx go into the WWW network class, while (k)nfsd go
Browsers like Firefox/Lynx go into the WWW network class, while (k)nfsd go
into NFS network class.

At the same time firefox/lynx will share an appropriate CPU/Memory class
At the same time Firefox/Lynx will share an appropriate CPU/Memory class
depending on who launched it (prof/student).

With the ability to classify tasks differently for different resources
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Creating, modifying, using the cgroups can be done through the cgroup
virtual filesystem.

To mount a cgroup hierarchy will all available subsystems, type:
To mount a cgroup hierarchy with all available subsystems, type:
# mount -t cgroup xxx /dev/cgroup

The "xxx" is not interpreted by the cgroup code, but will appear in
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void post_clone(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp)
(cgroup_mutex held by caller)

Called at the end of cgroup_clone() to do any paramater
Called at the end of cgroup_clone() to do any parameter
initialization which might be required before a task could attach. For
example in cpusets, no task may attach before 'cpus' and 'mems' are set
up.
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12 changes: 6 additions & 6 deletions Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
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- The hierarchy of cpusets can be mounted at /dev/cpuset, for
browsing and manipulation from user space.
- A cpuset may be marked exclusive, which ensures that no other
cpuset (except direct ancestors and descendents) may contain
cpuset (except direct ancestors and descendants) may contain
any overlapping CPUs or Memory Nodes.
- You can list all the tasks (by pid) attached to any cpuset.

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--------------------------------

If a cpuset is cpu or mem exclusive, no other cpuset, other than
a direct ancestor or descendent, may share any of the same CPUs or
a direct ancestor or descendant, may share any of the same CPUs or
Memory Nodes.

A cpuset that is mem_exclusive *or* mem_hardwall is "hardwalled",
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When doing this, you don't usually want to leave any unpinned tasks in
the top cpuset that might use non-trivial amounts of CPU, as such tasks
may be artificially constrained to some subset of CPUs, depending on
the particulars of this flag setting in descendent cpusets. Even if
the particulars of this flag setting in descendant cpusets. Even if
such a task could use spare CPU cycles in some other CPUs, the kernel
scheduler might not consider the possibility of load balancing that
task to that underused CPU.
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Of course it takes some searching cost to find movable tasks and/or
idle CPUs, the scheduler might not search all CPUs in the domain
everytime. In fact, in some architectures, the searching ranges on
every time. In fact, in some architectures, the searching ranges on
events are limited in the same socket or node where the CPU locates,
while the load balance on tick searchs all.
while the load balance on tick searches all.

For example, assume CPU Z is relatively far from CPU X. Even if CPU Z
is idle while CPU X and the siblings are busy, scheduler can't migrate
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of MPOL_BIND nodes are still allowed in the new cpuset. If the task
was using MPOL_BIND and now none of its MPOL_BIND nodes are allowed
in the new cpuset, then the task will be essentially treated as if it
was MPOL_BIND bound to the new cpuset (even though its numa placement,
was MPOL_BIND bound to the new cpuset (even though its NUMA placement,
as queried by get_mempolicy(), doesn't change). If a task is moved
from one cpuset to another, then the kernel will adjust the tasks
memory placement, as above, the next time that the kernel attempts
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movement as people get some experience with this. We may just want
to require CAP_SYS_ADMIN, which at least is a separate bit from
CAP_MKNOD. We may want to just refuse moving to a cgroup which
isn't a descendent of the current one. Or we may want to use
isn't a descendant of the current one. Or we may want to use
CAP_MAC_ADMIN, since we really are trying to lock down root.

CAP_SYS_ADMIN is needed to modify the whitelist or move another
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(Shell-B)
# move all tasks in /cgroup/test to /cgroup
# /sbin/swapoff -a
# rmdir /test/cgroup
# rmdir /cgroup/test
# kill malloc task.

Of course, tmpfs v.s. swapoff test should be tested, too.
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unevictable - # of pages cannot be reclaimed.(mlocked etc)

Below is depend on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.
inactive_ratio - VM inernal parameter. (see mm/page_alloc.c)
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)
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When mounting an ext3 filesystem, the following option are accepted:
(*) == default

ro Mount filesystem read only. Note that ext3 will replay
the journal (and thus write to the partition) even when
mounted "read only". Mount options "ro,noload" can be
used to prevent writes to the filesystem.

journal=update Update the ext3 file system's journal to the current
format.

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identified through its new major/minor numbers encoded
in devnum.

noload Don't load the journal on mounting.
noload Don't load the journal on mounting. Note that this forces
mount of inconsistent filesystem, which can lead to
various problems.

data=journal All data are committed into the journal prior to being
written into the main file system.
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debug Extra debugging information is sent to syslog.

errors=remount-ro(*) Remount the filesystem read-only on an error.
errors=remount-ro Remount the filesystem read-only on an error.
errors=continue Keep going on a filesystem error.
errors=panic Panic and halt the machine if an error occurs.
(These mount options override the errors behavior
specified in the superblock, which can be
configured using tune2fs.)

data_err=ignore(*) Just print an error message if an error occurs
in a file data buffer in ordered mode.
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hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/efi-vfirmware.hg
you can get the firmware's binary in the directory of efi-vfirmware.hg/binaries.

(3) Rename the firware you owned to Flash.fd, and copy it to /usr/local/share/qemu
(3) Rename the firmware you owned to Flash.fd, and copy it to /usr/local/share/qemu

4. Boot up Linux or Windows guests:
4.1 Create or install a image for guest boot. If you have xen experience, it should be easy.
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nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.

noswapaccount [KNL] Disable accounting of swap in memory resource
controller. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt)
controller. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)

nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.

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relax_domain_level=
[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
See Documentation/cpusets.txt.
See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt.

reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area

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* Uploaded QE firmware

If a new firwmare has been uploaded to the QE (usually by the
If a new firmware has been uploaded to the QE (usually by the
boot loader), then a 'firmware' child node should be added to the QE
node. This node provides information on the uploaded firmware that
device drivers may need.
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to control the CPU time reserved for each control group instead.

For more information on working with control groups, you should read
Documentation/cgroups.txt as well.
Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt as well.

Group settings are checked against the following limits in order to keep the configuration
schedulable:
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Expand Up @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ The current memory policy support was added to Linux 2.6 around May 2004. This
document attempts to describe the concepts and APIs of the 2.6 memory policy
support.

Memory policies should not be confused with cpusets (Documentation/cpusets.txt)
Memory policies should not be confused with cpusets
(Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt)
which is an administrative mechanism for restricting the nodes from which
memory may be allocated by a set of processes. Memory policies are a
programming interface that a NUMA-aware application can take advantage of. When
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Larger installations usually partition the system using cpusets into
sections of nodes. Paul Jackson has equipped cpusets with the ability to
move pages when a task is moved to another cpuset (See ../cpusets.txt).
move pages when a task is moved to another cpuset (See
Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt).
Cpusets allows the automation of process locality. If a task is moved to
a new cpuset then also all its pages are moved with it so that the
performance of the process does not sink dramatically. Also the pages
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Expand Up @@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ you can create fake NUMA nodes that represent contiguous chunks of memory and
assign them to cpusets and their attached tasks. This is a way of limiting the
amount of system memory that are available to a certain class of tasks.

For more information on the features of cpusets, see Documentation/cpusets.txt.
For more information on the features of cpusets, see
Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt.
There are a number of different configurations you can use for your needs. For
more information on the numa=fake command line option and its various ways of
configuring fake nodes, see Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt.
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On node 3 totalpages: 131072

Now following the instructions for mounting the cpusets filesystem from
Documentation/cpusets.txt, you can assign fake nodes (i.e. contiguous memory
Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt, you can assign fake nodes (i.e. contiguous memory
address spaces) to individual cpusets:

[root@xroads /]# mkdir exampleset
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L: [email protected]
S: Maintained

FINTEK F75375S HARDWARE MONITOR AND FAN CONTROLLER DRIVER
P: Riku Voipio
M: [email protected]
L: [email protected]
S: Maintained

FIREWIRE SUBSYSTEM (drivers/firewire, <linux/firewire*.h>)
P: Kristian Hoegsberg, Stefan Richter
M: [email protected], [email protected]
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M: [email protected]
S: Maintained

PCA9532 LED DRIVER
P: Riku Voipio
M: [email protected]
S: Maintained

PCI ERROR RECOVERY
P: Linas Vepstas
M: [email protected]
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#define NETX_PA_XPEC(no) (NETX_IO_PHYS + NETX_OFS_XPEC(no))
#define NETX_PA_VIC (NETX_IO_PHYS + NETX_OFS_VIC)

/* virual addresses */
/* virtual addresses */
#define NETX_VA_SYSTEM (NETX_IO_VIRT + NETX_OFS_SYSTEM)
#define NETX_VA_MEMCR (NETX_IO_VIRT + NETX_OFS_MEMCR)
#define NETX_VA_DPMAS (NETX_IO_VIRT + NETX_OFS_DPMAS)
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help
Support for the Palm Zire71 PDA. To boot the kernel,
you'll need a PalmOS compatible bootloader; check out
http://hackndev.com/palm/z71 for more informations.
http://hackndev.com/palm/z71 for more information.
Say Y here if you have such a PDA, say N otherwise.

config MACH_OMAP_PALMTT
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select CPU_AT32AP7000
select USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD
help
The Hammerhead platform is built around a AVR32 32-bit microcontroller from Atmel.
The Hammerhead platform is built around an AVR32 32-bit microcontroller from Atmel.
It offers versatile peripherals, such as ethernet, usb device, usb host etc.

The board also incooperates a power supply and is a Power over Ethernet (PoE) Powered
The board also incorporates a power supply and is a Power over Ethernet (PoE) Powered
Device (PD).

Additonally, a Cyclone III FPGA from Altera is integrated on the board. The FPGA is
Additionally, a Cyclone III FPGA from Altera is integrated on the board. The FPGA is
mapped into the 32-bit AVR memory bus. The FPGA offers two DDR2 SDRAM interfaces, which
will cover even the most exceptional need of memory bandwidth. Together with the onboard
video decoder the board is ready for video processing.
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default n if BF54x
depends on !BF531
help
If enabled, cacheline_anligned data is linked
If enabled, cacheline_aligned data is linked
into L1 data memory. (less latency)

config SYSCALL_TAB_L1
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memory they do not own. This comes at a performance penalty
and is recommended only for debugging.

comment "Asynchonous Memory Configuration"
comment "Asynchronous Memory Configuration"

menu "EBIU_AMGCTL Global Control"
config C_AMCKEN
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default n

choice
prompt"Enable Asynchonous Memory Banks"
prompt "Enable Asynchronous Memory Banks"
default C_AMBEN_ALL

config C_AMBEN
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