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2015-05-07Docs: proc: fix kernel versionChen Hanxiao1-1/+1
Change the kernel version in table 1-2 from 3.20 to 4.1 Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-04-18Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds1-3/+3
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Numerous fixes, the overdue removal of the i2o docs, some new Chinese translations, and, hopefully, the README fix that will end the flow of identical patches to that file" * tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: (34 commits) Documentation/memcg: update memcg/kmem status Documentation: blackfin: Makefile: Typo building issue Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt: correct location of page-types tool Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: typo fix doc: Add guest_nice column to example output of `cat /proc/stat' Documentation/kernel-parameters: Move "eagerfpu" to its right place Documentation: gpio: Update ACPI part of the document to mention _DSD docs/completion.txt: Various tweaks and corrections doc: completion: context, scope and language fixes Documentation:Update Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/memory.txt Documentation:Update Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/booting.txt Documentation: Chinese translation of arm64/legacy_instructions.txt DocBook media: fix broken EIA hyperlink Documentation: tweak the maintainers entry README: Change gzip/bzip2 to xz compression format README: Update version number reference doc:pci: Fix typo in Documentation/PCI Documentation: drm: Use '->' when describing access through pointers. Documentation: Remove mentioning of block barriers Documentation/email-clients.txt: Fix one grammar mistake, add extra info about TB ...
2015-04-17proc: show locks in /proc/pid/fdinfo/XAndrey Vagin1-0/+4
Let's show locks which are associated with a file descriptor in its fdinfo file. Currently we don't have a reliable way to determine who holds a lock. We can find some information in /proc/locks, but PID which is reported there can be wrong. For example, a process takes a lock, then forks a child and dies. In this case /proc/locks contains the parent pid, which can be reused by another process. $ cat /proc/locks ... 6: FLOCK ADVISORY WRITE 324 00:13:13431 0 EOF ... $ ps -C rpcbind PID TTY TIME CMD 332 ? 00:00:00 rpcbind $ cat /proc/332/fdinfo/4 pos: 0 flags: 0100000 mnt_id: 22 lock: 1: FLOCK ADVISORY WRITE 324 00:13:13431 0 EOF $ ls -l /proc/332/fd/4 lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Mar 5 14:43 /proc/332/fd/4 -> /run/rpcbind.lock $ ls -l /proc/324/fd/ total 0 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Feb 27 14:50 0 -> /dev/pts/0 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Feb 27 14:50 1 -> /dev/pts/0 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Feb 27 14:49 2 -> /dev/pts/0 You can see that the process with the 324 pid doesn't hold the lock. This information is required for proper dumping and restoring file locks. Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net> Acked-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-17docs: add missing and new /proc/PID/status file entries, fix typosNathan Scott1-3/+8
docs: add missing and new /proc/PID/status file entries, fix typos Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-04doc: Add guest_nice column to example output of `cat /proc/stat'Tobias Klauser1-3/+3
Commit ce0e7b28fb75cb00 ("sched, cpuacct: Fix niced guest time accounting") added the guest_nice column to /proc/stat, but the example output of `cat /proc/stat' in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt wasn't updated accordingly. Do so now. Cc: Ryota Ozaki <ozaki.ryota@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-02-12fs: proc: task_mmu: show page size in /proc/<pid>/numa_mapsRafael Aquini1-15/+15
The output of /proc/$pid/numa_maps is in terms of number of pages like anon=22 or dirty=54. Here's some output: 7f4680000000 default file=/hugetlb/bigfile anon=50 dirty=50 N0=50 7f7659600000 default file=/anon_hugepage\040(deleted) anon=50 dirty=50 N0=50 7fff8d425000 default stack anon=50 dirty=50 N0=50 Looks like we have a stack and a couple of anonymous hugetlbfs areas page which both use the same amount of memory. They don't. The 'bigfile' uses 1GB pages and takes up ~50GB of space. The anon_hugepage uses 2MB pages and takes up ~100MB of space while the stack uses normal 4k pages. You can go over to smaps to figure out what the page size _really_ is with KernelPageSize or MMUPageSize. But, I think this is a pretty nasty and counterintuitive interface as it stands. This patch introduces 'kernelpagesize_kB' line element to /proc/<pid>/numa_maps report file in order to help identifying the size of pages that are backing memory areas mapped by a given task. This is specially useful to help differentiating between HUGE and GIGANTIC page backed VMAs. This patch is based on Dave Hansen's proposal and reviewer's follow-ups taken from the following dicussion threads: * https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/21/454 * https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/20/66 Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-12Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: add /proc/pid/numa_maps interface ↵Rafael Aquini1-0/+33
explanation snippet Add a small section to proc.txt doc in order to document its /proc/pid/numa_maps interface. It does not introduce any functional changes, just documentation. Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-12fs/proc/task_mmu.c: add user-space support for resetting mm->hiwater_rss ↵Petr Cermak1-0/+4
(peak RSS) Peak resident size of a process can be reset back to the process's current rss value by writing "5" to /proc/pid/clear_refs. The driving use-case for this would be getting the peak RSS value, which can be retrieved from the VmHWM field in /proc/pid/status, per benchmark iteration or test scenario. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify behaviour in documentation] Signed-off-by: Petr Cermak <petrcermak@chromium.org> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Primiano Tucci <primiano@chromium.org> Cc: Petr Cermak <petrcermak@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-11Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds1-0/+23
Merge second set of updates from Andrew Morton: "More of MM" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (83 commits) mm/nommu.c: fix arithmetic overflow in __vm_enough_memory() mm/mmap.c: fix arithmetic overflow in __vm_enough_memory() vmstat: Reduce time interval to stat update on idle cpu mm/page_owner.c: remove unnecessary stack_trace field Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: describe /proc/<pid>/map_files mm: incorporate read-only pages into transparent huge pages vmstat: do not use deferrable delayed work for vmstat_update mm: more aggressive page stealing for UNMOVABLE allocations mm: always steal split buddies in fallback allocations mm: when stealing freepages, also take pages created by splitting buddy page mincore: apply page table walker on do_mincore() mm: /proc/pid/clear_refs: avoid split_huge_page() mm: pagewalk: fix misbehavior of walk_page_range for vma(VM_PFNMAP) mempolicy: apply page table walker on queue_pages_range() arch/powerpc/mm/subpage-prot.c: use walk->vma and walk_page_vma() memcg: cleanup preparation for page table walk numa_maps: remove numa_maps->vma numa_maps: fix typo in gather_hugetbl_stats pagemap: use walk->vma instead of calling find_vma() clear_refs: remove clear_refs_private->vma and introduce clear_refs_test_walk() ...
2015-02-11Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: describe /proc/<pid>/map_filesCyrill Gorcunov1-0/+23
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweaks] Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Calvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-01-28Fixes column alignment in table of contents entry 1.9 in ↵Trace Pillars1-1/+1
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2014-11-24Documentation: fix formatting to make 's' happyMaisa Roponen1-1/+1
"That letter [the last s] is sad because all the others have those things [=] below them and it does not." This patch fixes the tragedy so all the letters can be happy again. Signed-off-by: Maisa Roponen <maisa.roponen@gmail.com> [The author being 4 years old needed some assistance] Signed-off-by: Tero Roponen <tero.roponen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2014-07-18docs: Procfs -- Document timerfd outputCyrill Gorcunov1-0/+19
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140715215703.199905126@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-06-04Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-3/+4
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial into next Pull trivial tree changes from Jiri Kosina: "Usual pile of patches from trivial tree that make the world go round" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (23 commits) staging: go7007: remove reference to CONFIG_KMOD aic7xxx: Remove obsolete preprocessor define of: dma: doc fixes doc: fix incorrect formula to calculate CommitLimit value doc: Note need of bc in the kernel build from 3.10 onwards mm: Fix printk typo in dmapool.c modpost: Fix comment typo "Modules.symvers" Kconfig.debug: Grammar s/addition/additional/ wimax: Spelling s/than/that/, wording s/destinatary/recipient/ aic7xxx: Spelling s/termnation/termination/ arm64: mm: Remove superfluous "the" in comment of: Spelling s/anonymouns/anonymous/ dma: imx-sdma: Spelling s/determnine/determine/ ath10k: Improve grammar in comments ath6kl: Spelling s/determnine/determine/ of: Improve grammar for of_alias_get_id() documentation drm/exynos: Spelling s/contro/control/ radio-bcm2048.c: fix wrong overflow check doc: printk-formats: do not mention casts for u64/s64 doc: spelling error changes ...
2014-05-25Documentation: update /proc/stat "intr" count summaryJan Moskyto Matejka1-2/+3
The sum at the beginning of line "intr" includes also unnumbered interrupts. It implies that the sum at the beginning isn't the sum of the remainder of the line, not even an estimation. Fixed the documentation to mention that. This behaviour was added to /proc/stat in commit a2eddfa95919 ("x86: make /proc/stat account for all interrupts") Signed-off-by: Jan Moskyto Matejka <mq@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-05-22doc: fix incorrect formula to calculate CommitLimit valuePetr Oros1-1/+2
The formula to calculate "CommitLimit" value mentioned in kernel documentation is incorrect. Right formula is: CommitLimit = ([total RAM pages] - [total huge TLB pages]) * overcommit_ratio / 100 + [total swap pages] Signed-off-by: Petr Oros <poros@redhat.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-05-05doc: spelling error changesCarlos Garcia1-2/+2
Fixed multiple spelling errors. Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Carlos E. Garcia <carlos@cgarcia.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-04-07proc: show mnt_id in /proc/pid/fdinfoAndrey Vagin1-5/+12
Currently we don't have a way how to determing from which mount point file has been opened. This information is required for proper dumping and restoring file descriptos due to presence of mount namespaces. It's possible, that two file descriptors are opened using the same paths, but one fd references mount point from one namespace while the other fd -- from other namespace. $ ls -l /proc/1/fd/1 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Mar 19 23:54 /proc/1/fd/1 -> /dev/null $ cat /proc/1/fdinfo/1 pos: 0 flags: 0100002 mnt_id: 16 $ cat /proc/1/mountinfo | grep ^16 16 32 0:4 / /dev rw,nosuid shared:2 - devtmpfs devtmpfs rw,size=1013356k,nr_inodes=253339,mode=755 Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-30mm, oom: base root bonus on current usageDavid Rientjes1-2/+2
A 3% of system memory bonus is sometimes too excessive in comparison to other processes. With commit a63d83f427fb ("oom: badness heuristic rewrite"), the OOM killer tries to avoid killing privileged tasks by subtracting 3% of overall memory (system or cgroup) from their per-task consumption. But as a result, all root tasks that consume less than 3% of overall memory are considered equal, and so it only takes 33+ privileged tasks pushing the system out of memory for the OOM killer to do something stupid and kill dhclient or other root-owned processes. For example, on a 32G machine it can't tell the difference between the 1M agetty and the 10G fork bomb member. The changelog describes this 3% boost as the equivalent to the global overcommit limit being 3% higher for privileged tasks, but this is not the same as discounting 3% of overall memory from _every privileged task individually_ during OOM selection. Replace the 3% of system memory bonus with a 3% of current memory usage bonus. By giving root tasks a bonus that is proportional to their actual size, they remain comparable even when relatively small. In the example above, the OOM killer will discount the 1M agetty's 256 badness points down to 179, and the 10G fork bomb's 262144 points down to 183500 points and make the right choice, instead of discounting both to 0 and killing agetty because it's first in the task list. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reported-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina: "Usual rocket science stuff from trivial.git" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) neighbour.h: fix comment sched: Fix warning on make htmldocs caused by wait.h slab: struct kmem_cache is protected by slab_mutex doc: Fix typo in USB Gadget Documentation of/Kconfig: Spelling s/one/once/ mkregtable: Fix sscanf handling lp5523, lp8501: comment improvements thermal: rcar: comment spelling treewide: fix comments and printk msgs IXP4xx: remove '1 &&' from a condition check in ixp4xx_restart() Documentation: update /proc/uptime field description Documentation: Fix size parameter for snprintf arm: fix comment header and macro name asm-generic: uaccess: Spelling s/a ny/any/ mtd: onenand: fix comment header doc: driver-model/platform.txt: fix a typo drivers: fix typo in DEVTMPFS_MOUNT Kconfig help text doc: Fix typo (acces_process_vm -> access_process_vm) treewide: Fix typos in printk drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/Kconfig: reformat the help text ...
2014-01-21/proc/meminfo: provide estimated available memoryRik van Riel1-0/+9
Many load balancing and workload placing programs check /proc/meminfo to estimate how much free memory is available. They generally do this by adding up "free" and "cached", which was fine ten years ago, but is pretty much guaranteed to be wrong today. It is wrong because Cached includes memory that is not freeable as page cache, for example shared memory segments, tmpfs, and ramfs, and it does not include reclaimable slab memory, which can take up a large fraction of system memory on mostly idle systems with lots of files. Currently, the amount of memory that is available for a new workload, without pushing the system into swap, can be estimated from MemFree, Active(file), Inactive(file), and SReclaimable, as well as the "low" watermarks from /proc/zoneinfo. However, this may change in the future, and user space really should not be expected to know kernel internals to come up with an estimate for the amount of free memory. It is more convenient to provide such an estimate in /proc/meminfo. If things change in the future, we only have to change it in one place. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reported-by: Erik Mouw <erik.mouw_2@nxp.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-02Documentation: update /proc/uptime field descriptionRob Landley1-1/+1
/proc/uptime has two fields, update description to describe both ala http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1312.3/01454.html Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-11-13/proc/pid/smaps: show VM_SOFTDIRTY flag in VmFlags lineNaoya Horiguchi1-0/+1
This flag shows that the VMA is "newly created" and thus represents "dirty" in the task's VM. You can clear it by "echo 4 > /proc/pid/clear_refs." Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: fix mistake in the description of ↵Minto Joseph1-10/+9
Committed_AS Fix mistake in the description of Committed_AS in kernel documentation. Signed-off-by: Minto Joseph <mvaliyav@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes trackingPavel Emelyanov1-1/+6
The soft-dirty is a bit on a PTE which helps to track which pages a task writes to. In order to do this tracking one should 1. Clear soft-dirty bits from PTEs ("echo 4 > /proc/PID/clear_refs) 2. Wait some time. 3. Read soft-dirty bits (55'th in /proc/PID/pagemap2 entries) To do this tracking, the writable bit is cleared from PTEs when the soft-dirty bit is. Thus, after this, when the task tries to modify a page at some virtual address the #PF occurs and the kernel sets the soft-dirty bit on the respective PTE. Note, that although all the task's address space is marked as r/o after the soft-dirty bits clear, the #PF-s that occur after that are processed fast. This is so, since the pages are still mapped to physical memory, and thus all the kernel does is finds this fact out and puts back writable, dirty and soft-dirty bits on the PTE. Another thing to note, is that when mremap moves PTEs they are marked with soft-dirty as well, since from the user perspective mremap modifies the virtual memory at mremap's new address. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17docs: update documentation about /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> fanotify outputCyrill Gorcunov1-11/+17
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Helsley <matt.helsley@gmail.com> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@onelan.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17docs: add documentation about /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> outputCyrill Gorcunov1-0/+82
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation] Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Helsley <matt.helsley@gmail.com> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@onelan.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17/proc/pid/status: add "Seccomp" fieldKees Cook1-0/+2
It is currently impossible to examine the state of seccomp for a given process. While attaching with gdb and attempting "call prctl(PR_GET_SECCOMP,...)" will work with some situations, it is not reliable. If the process is in seccomp mode 1, this query will kill the process (prctl not allowed), if the process is in mode 2 with prctl not allowed, it will similarly be killed, and in weird cases, if prctl is filtered to return errno 0, it can look like seccomp is disabled. When reviewing the state of running processes, there should be a way to externally examine the seccomp mode. ("Did this build of Chrome end up using seccomp?" "Did my distro ship ssh with seccomp enabled?") This adds the "Seccomp" line to /proc/$pid/status. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17procfs: add VmFlags field in smaps outputCyrill Gorcunov1-2/+38
During c/r sessions we've found that there is no way at the moment to fetch some VMA associated flags, such as mlock() and madvise(). This leads us to a problem -- we don't know if we should call for mlock() and/or madvise() after restore on the vma area we're bringing back to life. This patch intorduces a new field into "smaps" output called VmFlags, where all set flags associated with the particular VMA is shown as two letter mnemonics. [ Strictly speaking for c/r we only need mlock/madvise bits but it has been said that providing just a few flags looks somehow inconsistent. So all flags are here now. ] This feature is made available on CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE=n kernels, as other applications may start to use these fields. The data is encoded in a somewhat awkward two letters mnemonic form, to encourage userspace to be prepared for fields being added or removed in the future. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: props to use for_each_set_bit] [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: props to use array instead of struct] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: overall redesign and simplification] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded braces per sfr, avoid using bloaty for_each_set_bit()] Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-11-16mm, oom: reintroduce /proc/pid/oom_adjDavid Rientjes1-4/+12
This is mostly a revert of 01dc52ebdf47 ("oom: remove deprecated oom_adj") from Davidlohr Bueso. It reintroduces /proc/pid/oom_adj for backwards compatibility with earlier kernels. It simply scales the value linearly when /proc/pid/oom_score_adj is written. The major difference is that its scheduled removal is no longer included in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. We do warn users with a single printk, though, to suggest the more powerful and supported /proc/pid/oom_score_adj interface. Reported-by: Artem S. Tashkinov <t.artem@lycos.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-09oom: remove deprecated oom_adjDavidlohr Bueso1-18/+4
The deprecated /proc/<pid>/oom_adj is scheduled for removal this month. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31c/r: procfs: add arg_start/end, env_start/end and exit_code members to ↵Cyrill Gorcunov1-0/+5
/proc/$pid/stat We would like to have an ability to restore command line arguments and program environment pointers but first we need to obtain them somehow. Thus we put these values into /proc/$pid/stat. The exit_code is needed to restore zombie tasks. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31fs, proc: introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entryCyrill Gorcunov1-0/+18
When we do checkpoint of a task we need to know the list of children the task, has but there is no easy and fast way to generate reverse parent->children chain from arbitrary <pid> (while a parent pid is provided in "PPid" field of /proc/<pid>/status). So instead of walking over all pids in the system (creating one big process tree in memory, just to figure out which children a task has) -- we add explicit /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entry, because the kernel already has this kind of information but it is not yet exported. This is a first level children, not the whole process tree. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-29mm: document the meminfo and vmstat fields of relevance to transparent hugepagesMel Gorman1-0/+2
Update Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt and Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt with some information on monitoring transparent huge page usage and the associated overhead. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-15tokenring: delete all remaining driver supportPaul Gortmaker1-1/+0
This represents the mass deletion of the of the tokenring support. It gets rid of: - the net/tr.c which the drivers depended on - the drivers/net component - the Kbuild infrastructure around it - any tokenring related CONFIG_ settings in any defconfigs - the tokenring headers in the include/linux dir - the firmware associated with the tokenring drivers. - any associated token ring documentation. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-03-21procfs: mark thread stack correctly in proc/<pid>/mapsSiddhesh Poyarekar1-2/+30
Stack for a new thread is mapped by userspace code and passed via sys_clone. This memory is currently seen as anonymous in /proc/<pid>/maps, which makes it difficult to ascertain which mappings are being used for thread stacks. This patch uses the individual task stack pointers to determine which vmas are actually thread stacks. For a multithreaded program like the following: #include <pthread.h> void *thread_main(void *foo) { while(1); } int main() { pthread_t t; pthread_create(&t, NULL, thread_main, NULL); pthread_join(t, NULL); } proc/PID/maps looks like the following: 00400000-00401000 r-xp 00000000 fd:0a 3671804 /home/siddhesh/a.out 00600000-00601000 rw-p 00000000 fd:0a 3671804 /home/siddhesh/a.out 019ef000-01a10000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] 7f8a44491000-7f8a44492000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a44492000-7f8a44c92000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a44c92000-7f8a44e3d000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a44e3d000-7f8a4503d000 ---p 001ab000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a4503d000-7f8a45041000 r--p 001ab000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a45041000-7f8a45043000 rw-p 001af000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a45043000-7f8a45048000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45048000-7f8a4505f000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a4505f000-7f8a4525e000 ---p 00017000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a4525e000-7f8a4525f000 r--p 00016000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a4525f000-7f8a45260000 rw-p 00017000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a45260000-7f8a45264000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45264000-7f8a45286000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2097348 /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so 7f8a45457000-7f8a4545a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45484000-7f8a45485000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45485000-7f8a45486000 r--p 00021000 fd:00 2097348 /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so 7f8a45486000-7f8a45487000 rw-p 00022000 fd:00 2097348 /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so 7f8a45487000-7f8a45488000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fff6273b000-7fff6275c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] 7fff627ff000-7fff62800000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall] Here, one could guess that 7f8a44492000-7f8a44c92000 is a stack since the earlier vma that has no permissions (7f8a44e3d000-7f8a4503d000) but that is not always a reliable way to find out which vma is a thread stack. Also, /proc/PID/maps and /proc/PID/task/TID/maps has the same content. With this patch in place, /proc/PID/task/TID/maps are treated as 'maps as the task would see it' and hence, only the vma that that task uses as stack is marked as [stack]. All other 'stack' vmas are marked as anonymous memory. /proc/PID/maps acts as a thread group level view, where all thread stack vmas are marked as [stack:TID] where TID is the process ID of the task that uses that vma as stack, while the process stack is marked as [stack]. So /proc/PID/maps will look like this: 00400000-00401000 r-xp 00000000 fd:0a 3671804 /home/siddhesh/a.out 00600000-00601000 rw-p 00000000 fd:0a 3671804 /home/siddhesh/a.out 019ef000-01a10000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] 7f8a44491000-7f8a44492000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a44492000-7f8a44c92000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack:1442] 7f8a44c92000-7f8a44e3d000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a44e3d000-7f8a4503d000 ---p 001ab000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a4503d000-7f8a45041000 r--p 001ab000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a45041000-7f8a45043000 rw-p 001af000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a45043000-7f8a45048000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45048000-7f8a4505f000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a4505f000-7f8a4525e000 ---p 00017000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a4525e000-7f8a4525f000 r--p 00016000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a4525f000-7f8a45260000 rw-p 00017000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a45260000-7f8a45264000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45264000-7f8a45286000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2097348 /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so 7f8a45457000-7f8a4545a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45484000-7f8a45485000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45485000-7f8a45486000 r--p 00021000 fd:00 2097348 /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so 7f8a45486000-7f8a45487000 rw-p 00022000 fd:00 2097348 /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so 7f8a45487000-7f8a45488000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fff6273b000-7fff6275c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] 7fff627ff000-7fff62800000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall] Thus marking all vmas that are used as stacks by the threads in the thread group along with the process stack. The task level maps will however like this: 00400000-00401000 r-xp 00000000 fd:0a 3671804 /home/siddhesh/a.out 00600000-00601000 rw-p 00000000 fd:0a 3671804 /home/siddhesh/a.out 019ef000-01a10000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] 7f8a44491000-7f8a44492000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a44492000-7f8a44c92000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] 7f8a44c92000-7f8a44e3d000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a44e3d000-7f8a4503d000 ---p 001ab000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a4503d000-7f8a45041000 r--p 001ab000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a45041000-7f8a45043000 rw-p 001af000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a45043000-7f8a45048000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45048000-7f8a4505f000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a4505f000-7f8a4525e000 ---p 00017000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a4525e000-7f8a4525f000 r--p 00016000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a4525f000-7f8a45260000 rw-p 00017000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a45260000-7f8a45264000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45264000-7f8a45286000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2097348 /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so 7f8a45457000-7f8a4545a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45484000-7f8a45485000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45485000-7f8a45486000 r--p 00021000 fd:00 2097348 /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so 7f8a45486000-7f8a45487000 rw-p 00022000 fd:00 2097348 /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so 7f8a45487000-7f8a45488000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fff6273b000-7fff6275c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fff627ff000-7fff62800000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall] where only the vma that is being used as a stack by *that* task is marked as [stack]. Analogous changes have been made to /proc/PID/smaps, /proc/PID/numa_maps, /proc/PID/task/TID/smaps and /proc/PID/task/TID/numa_maps. Relevant snippets from smaps and numa_maps: [siddhesh@localhost ~ ]$ pgrep a.out 1441 [siddhesh@localhost ~ ]$ cat /proc/1441/smaps | grep "\[stack" 7f8a44492000-7f8a44c92000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack:1442] 7fff6273b000-7fff6275c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] [siddhesh@localhost ~ ]$ cat /proc/1441/task/1442/smaps | grep "\[stack" 7f8a44492000-7f8a44c92000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] [siddhesh@localhost ~ ]$ cat /proc/1441/task/1441/smaps | grep "\[stack" 7fff6273b000-7fff6275c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] [siddhesh@localhost ~ ]$ cat /proc/1441/numa_maps | grep "stack" 7f8a44492000 default stack:1442 anon=2 dirty=2 N0=2 7fff6273a000 default stack anon=3 dirty=3 N0=3 [siddhesh@localhost ~ ]$ cat /proc/1441/task/1442/numa_maps | grep "stack" 7f8a44492000 default stack anon=2 dirty=2 N0=2 [siddhesh@localhost ~ ]$ cat /proc/1441/task/1441/numa_maps | grep "stack" 7fff6273a000 default stack anon=3 dirty=3 N0=3 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12c/r: procfs: add start_data, end_data, start_brk members to /proc/$pid/stat v4Cyrill Gorcunov1-0/+3
The mm->start_code/end_code, mm->start_data/end_data, mm->start_brk are involved into calculation of program text/data segment sizes (which might be seen in /proc/<pid>/statm) and into brk() call final address. For restore we need to know all these values. While mm->start_code/end_code already present in /proc/$pid/stat, the rest members are not, so this patch brings them in. The restore procedure of these members is addressed in another patch using prctl(). Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-10procfs: add hidepid= and gid= mount optionsVasiliy Kulikov1-0/+39
Add support for mount options to restrict access to /proc/PID/ directories. The default backward-compatible "relaxed" behaviour is left untouched. The first mount option is called "hidepid" and its value defines how much info about processes we want to be available for non-owners: hidepid=0 (default) means the old behavior - anybody may read all world-readable /proc/PID/* files. hidepid=1 means users may not access any /proc/<pid>/ directories, but their own. Sensitive files like cmdline, sched*, status are now protected against other users. As permission checking done in proc_pid_permission() and files' permissions are left untouched, programs expecting specific files' modes are not confused. hidepid=2 means hidepid=1 plus all /proc/PID/ will be invisible to other users. It doesn't mean that it hides whether a process exists (it can be learned by other means, e.g. by kill -0 $PID), but it hides process' euid and egid. It compicates intruder's task of gathering info about running processes, whether some daemon runs with elevated privileges, whether another user runs some sensitive program, whether other users run any program at all, etc. gid=XXX defines a group that will be able to gather all processes' info (as in hidepid=0 mode). This group should be used instead of putting nonroot user in sudoers file or something. However, untrusted users (like daemons, etc.) which are not supposed to monitor the tasks in the whole system should not be added to the group. hidepid=1 or higher is designed to restrict access to procfs files, which might reveal some sensitive private information like precise keystrokes timings: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/05/3 hidepid=1/2 doesn't break monitoring userspace tools. ps, top, pgrep, and conky gracefully handle EPERM/ENOENT and behave as if the current user is the only user running processes. pstree shows the process subtree which contains "pstree" process. Note: the patch doesn't deal with setuid/setgid issues of keeping preopened descriptors of procfs files (like https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/7/368). We rely on that the leaked information like the scheduling counters of setuid apps doesn't threaten anybody's privacy - only the user started the setuid program may read the counters. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-27doc: fix broken referencesPaul Bolle1-1/+1
There are numerous broken references to Documentation files (in other Documentation files, in comments, etc.). These broken references are caused by typo's in the references, and by renames or removals of the Documentation files. Some broken references are simply odd. Fix these broken references, sometimes by dropping the irrelevant text they were part of. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-06-14rcu: Use softirq to address performance regressionShaohua Li1-0/+1
Commit a26ac2455ffcf3(rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread) introduced performance regression. In an AIM7 test, this commit degraded performance by about 40%. The commit runs rcu callbacks in a kthread instead of softirq. We observed high rate of context switch which is caused by this. Out test system has 64 CPUs and HZ is 1000, so we saw more than 64k context switch per second which is caused by RCU's per-CPU kthread. A trace showed that most of the time the RCU per-CPU kthread doesn't actually handle any callbacks, but instead just does a very small amount of work handling grace periods. This means that RCU's per-CPU kthreads are making the scheduler do quite a bit of work in order to allow a very small amount of RCU-related processing to be done. Alex Shi's analysis determined that this slowdown is due to lock contention within the scheduler. Unfortunately, as Peter Zijlstra points out, the scheduler's real-time semantics require global action, which means that this contention is inherent in real-time scheduling. (Yes, perhaps someone will come up with a workaround -- otherwise, -rt is not going to do well on large SMP systems -- but this patch will work around this issue in the meantime. And "the meantime" might well be forever.) This patch therefore re-introduces softirq processing to RCU, but only for core RCU work. RCU callbacks are still executed in kthread context, so that only a small amount of RCU work runs in softirq context in the common case. This should minimize ksoftirqd execution, allowing us to skip boosting of ksoftirqd for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y kernels. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Tested-by: "Alex,Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-05-25bitmap, irq: add smp_affinity_list interface to /proc/irqMike Travis1-2/+9
Manually adjusting the smp_affinity for IRQ's becomes unwieldy when the cpu count is large. Setting smp affinity to cpus 256 to 263 would be: echo 000000ff,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000 > smp_affinity instead of: echo 256-263 > smp_affinity_list Think about what it looks like for cpus around say, 4088 to 4095. We already have many alternate "list" interfaces: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/indexY/shared_cpu_list /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings_list /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings_list /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/cpulist /sys/devices/pci***/***/local_cpulist Add a companion interface, smp_affinity_list to use cpu lists instead of cpu maps. This conforms to other companion interfaces where both a map and a list interface exists. This required adding a bitmap_parselist_user() function in a manner similar to the bitmap_parse_user() function. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make __bitmap_parselist() static] Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-05rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthreadPaul E. McKenney1-1/+0
If RCU priority boosting is to be meaningful, callback invocation must be boosted in addition to preempted RCU readers. Otherwise, in presence of CPU real-time threads, the grace period ends, but the callbacks don't get invoked. If the callbacks don't get invoked, the associated memory doesn't get freed, so the system is still subject to OOM. But it is not reasonable to priority-boost RCU_SOFTIRQ, so this commit moves the callback invocations to a kthread, which can be boosted easily. Also add comments and properly synchronized all accesses to rcu_cpu_kthread_task, as suggested by Lai Jiangshan. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi1-3/+3
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-01-13oom: allow a non-CAP_SYS_RESOURCE proces to oom_score_adj downMandeep Singh Baines1-0/+4
We'd like to be able to oom_score_adj a process up/down as it enters/leaves the foreground. Currently, it is not possible to oom_adj down without CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. This patch allows a task to decrease its oom_score_adj back to the value that a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE thread set it to or its inherited value at fork. Assuming the thread that has forked it has oom_score_adj of 0, each process could decrease it back from 0 upon activation unless a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE thread elevated it to something higher. Alternative considered: * a setuid binary * a daemon with CAP_SYS_RESOURCE Since you don't wan't all processes to be able to reduce their oom_adj, a setuid or daemon implementation would be complex. The alternatives also have much higher overhead. This patch updated from original patch based on feedback from David Rientjes. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13mm: smaps: export mlock informationNikanth Karthikesan1-0/+3
Currently there is no way to find whether a process has locked its pages in memory or not. And which of the memory regions are locked in memory. Add a new field "Locked" to export this information via the smaps file. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-16console: add /proc/consolesJiri Slaby1-0/+24
It allows users to see what consoles are currently known to the system and with what flags. It is based on Werner's patch, the part about traversing fds was removed, the code was moved to kernel/printk.c, where consoles are handled and it makes more sense to me. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> [cleanups] Signed-off-by: "Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-27/proc/pid/pagemap: document in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txtNikanth Karthikesan1-0/+4
Document /proc/pid/pagemap in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Cc: Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-27/proc/pid/smaps: export amount of anonymous memory in a mappingNikanth Karthikesan1-3/+10
Export the number of anonymous pages in a mapping via smaps. Even the private pages in a mapping backed by a file, would be marked as anonymous, when they are modified. Export this information to user-space via smaps. Exporting this count will help gdb to make a better decision on which areas need to be dumped in its coredump; and should be useful to others studying the memory usage of a process. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: improve smaps field documentationMatt Mackall1-7/+7
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-23Revert "tty: Add a new file /proc/tty/consoles"Linus Torvalds1-32/+0
This reverts commit f4a3e0bceb57466c31757f25e4e0ed108d1299ec. Jiri Sladby points out that the tty structure we're using may already be gone, and Al Viro doesn't hold back in complaining about the random loading of 'filp->private_data' which doesn't have to be a pointer at all, nor does checking the magic field for TTY_MAGIC prove anything. Belated review by Al: "a) global variable depending on stdin of the last opener? Affecting output of read(2)? Really? b) iterator is broken; list should be locked in ->start(), unlocked in ->stop() and *NOT* unlocked/relocked in ->next() c) ->show() ought to do nothing in case of ->device == NULL, instead of skipping those in ->next()/->start() d) regardless of the merits of the bright idea about asterisk at that line in output *and* regardless of (a), the implementation is not only atrociously ugly, it's actually very likely to be a roothole. Verifying that Cthulhu knows what number happens to be address of a tty_struct by blindly dereferencing memory at that address... Ouch. Please revert that crap." And Christoph pipes in and NAK's the approach of walking fd tables etc too. So it's pretty unanimous. Noticed-by: Jri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>