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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-rtc-rtc0-device-rtc_calibration12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/twl-rtc.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt39
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt19
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/events-kmem.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/postprocess/trace-pagealloc-postprocess.pl20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/tracepoint-analysis.txt40
7 files changed, 118 insertions, 36 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-rtc-rtc0-device-rtc_calibration b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-rtc-rtc0-device-rtc_calibration
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4cf1e72222d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-rtc-rtc0-device-rtc_calibration
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+What: Attribute for calibrating ST-Ericsson AB8500 Real Time Clock
+Date: Oct 2011
+KernelVersion: 3.0
+Contact: Mark Godfrey <mark.godfrey@stericsson.com>
+Description: The rtc_calibration attribute allows the userspace to
+ calibrate the AB8500.s 32KHz Real Time Clock.
+ Every 60 seconds the AB8500 will correct the RTC's value
+ by adding to it the value of this attribute.
+ The range of the attribute is -127 to +127 in units of
+ 30.5 micro-seconds (half-parts-per-million of the 32KHz clock)
+Users: The /vendor/st-ericsson/base_utilities/core/rtc_calibration
+ daemon uses this interface.
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/twl-rtc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/twl-rtc.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..596e0c97be7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/twl-rtc.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+* TI twl RTC
+
+The TWL family (twl4030/6030) contains a RTC.
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible : Should be twl4030-rtc
+
+Examples:
+
+rtc@0 {
+ compatible = "ti,twl4030-rtc";
+};
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 0ec91f03422e..12fee132fbe2 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ Table of Contents
3.5 /proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts
3.6 /proc/<pid>/comm & /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/comm
+ 4 Configuring procfs
+ 4.1 Mount options
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Preface
@@ -1542,3 +1544,40 @@ a task to set its own or one of its thread siblings comm value. The comm value
is limited in size compared to the cmdline value, so writing anything longer
then the kernel's TASK_COMM_LEN (currently 16 chars) will result in a truncated
comm value.
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Configuring procfs
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+4.1 Mount options
+---------------------
+
+The following mount options are supported:
+
+ hidepid= Set /proc/<pid>/ access mode.
+ gid= Set the group authorized to learn processes information.
+
+hidepid=0 means classic mode - everybody may access all /proc/<pid>/ directories
+(default).
+
+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. This makes it impossible to learn whether any user runs
+specific program (given the program doesn't reveal itself by its behaviour).
+As an additional bonus, as /proc/<pid>/cmdline is unaccessible for other users,
+poorly written programs passing sensitive information via program arguments are
+now protected against local eavesdroppers.
+
+hidepid=2 means hidepid=1 plus all /proc/<pid>/ will be fully invisible to other
+users. It doesn't mean that it hides a fact whether a process with a specific
+pid value exists (it can be learned by other means, e.g. by "kill -0 $PID"),
+but it hides process' uid and gid, which may be learned by stat()'ing
+/proc/<pid>/ otherwise. It greatly complicates an intruder's task of gathering
+information about running processes, whether some daemon runs with elevated
+privileges, whether other user runs some sensitive program, whether other users
+run any program at all, etc.
+
+gid= defines a group authorized to learn processes information otherwise
+prohibited by hidepid=. If you use some daemon like identd which needs to learn
+information about processes information, just add identd to this group.
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 73baff1e0c70..c92b1532f05a 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -628,6 +628,25 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
no_debug_objects
[KNL] Disable object debugging
+ debug_guardpage_minorder=
+ [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
+ parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
+ be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
+ buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
+ of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
+ amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
+ possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
+ to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
+ memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
+ driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
+ random memory location. Note that there exists a class
+ of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
+ F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
+ memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
+ bypassed) which are not detectable by
+ CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
+ tracking down these problems.
+
debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.txt b/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.txt
index aa82ee4a5a87..194800410061 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.txt
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ but the call_site can usually be used to extrapolate that information.
==================
mm_page_alloc page=%p pfn=%lu order=%d migratetype=%d gfp_flags=%s
mm_page_alloc_zone_locked page=%p pfn=%lu order=%u migratetype=%d cpu=%d percpu_refill=%d
-mm_page_free_direct page=%p pfn=%lu order=%d
-mm_pagevec_free page=%p pfn=%lu order=%d cold=%d
+mm_page_free page=%p pfn=%lu order=%d
+mm_page_free_batched page=%p pfn=%lu order=%d cold=%d
These four events deal with page allocation and freeing. mm_page_alloc is
a simple indicator of page allocator activity. Pages may be allocated from
@@ -53,13 +53,13 @@ amounts of activity imply high activity on the zone->lock. Taking this lock
impairs performance by disabling interrupts, dirtying cache lines between
CPUs and serialising many CPUs.
-When a page is freed directly by the caller, the mm_page_free_direct event
+When a page is freed directly by the caller, the only mm_page_free event
is triggered. Significant amounts of activity here could indicate that the
callers should be batching their activities.
-When pages are freed using a pagevec, the mm_pagevec_free is
-triggered. Broadly speaking, pages are taken off the LRU lock in bulk and
-freed in batch with a pagevec. Significant amounts of activity here could
+When pages are freed in batch, the also mm_page_free_batched is triggered.
+Broadly speaking, pages are taken off the LRU lock in bulk and
+freed in batch with a page list. Significant amounts of activity here could
indicate that the system is under memory pressure and can also indicate
contention on the zone->lru_lock.
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/postprocess/trace-pagealloc-postprocess.pl b/Documentation/trace/postprocess/trace-pagealloc-postprocess.pl
index 7df50e8cf4d9..0a120aae33ce 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/postprocess/trace-pagealloc-postprocess.pl
+++ b/Documentation/trace/postprocess/trace-pagealloc-postprocess.pl
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ use Getopt::Long;
# Tracepoint events
use constant MM_PAGE_ALLOC => 1;
-use constant MM_PAGE_FREE_DIRECT => 2;
-use constant MM_PAGEVEC_FREE => 3;
+use constant MM_PAGE_FREE => 2;
+use constant MM_PAGE_FREE_BATCHED => 3;
use constant MM_PAGE_PCPU_DRAIN => 4;
use constant MM_PAGE_ALLOC_ZONE_LOCKED => 5;
use constant MM_PAGE_ALLOC_EXTFRAG => 6;
@@ -223,10 +223,10 @@ EVENT_PROCESS:
# Perl Switch() sucks majorly
if ($tracepoint eq "mm_page_alloc") {
$perprocesspid{$process_pid}->{MM_PAGE_ALLOC}++;
- } elsif ($tracepoint eq "mm_page_free_direct") {
- $perprocesspid{$process_pid}->{MM_PAGE_FREE_DIRECT}++;
- } elsif ($tracepoint eq "mm_pagevec_free") {
- $perprocesspid{$process_pid}->{MM_PAGEVEC_FREE}++;
+ } elsif ($tracepoint eq "mm_page_free") {
+ $perprocesspid{$process_pid}->{MM_PAGE_FREE}++
+ } elsif ($tracepoint eq "mm_page_free_batched") {
+ $perprocesspid{$process_pid}->{MM_PAGE_FREE_BATCHED}++;
} elsif ($tracepoint eq "mm_page_pcpu_drain") {
$perprocesspid{$process_pid}->{MM_PAGE_PCPU_DRAIN}++;
$perprocesspid{$process_pid}->{STATE_PCPU_PAGES_DRAINED}++;
@@ -336,8 +336,8 @@ sub dump_stats {
$process_pid,
$stats{$process_pid}->{MM_PAGE_ALLOC},
$stats{$process_pid}->{MM_PAGE_ALLOC_ZONE_LOCKED},
- $stats{$process_pid}->{MM_PAGE_FREE_DIRECT},
- $stats{$process_pid}->{MM_PAGEVEC_FREE},
+ $stats{$process_pid}->{MM_PAGE_FREE},
+ $stats{$process_pid}->{MM_PAGE_FREE_BATCHED},
$stats{$process_pid}->{MM_PAGE_PCPU_DRAIN},
$stats{$process_pid}->{HIGH_PCPU_DRAINS},
$stats{$process_pid}->{HIGH_PCPU_REFILLS},
@@ -364,8 +364,8 @@ sub aggregate_perprocesspid() {
$perprocess{$process}->{MM_PAGE_ALLOC} += $perprocesspid{$process_pid}->{MM_PAGE_ALLOC};
$perprocess{$process}->{MM_PAGE_ALLOC_ZONE_LOCKED} += $perprocesspid{$process_pid}->{MM_PAGE_ALLOC_ZONE_LOCKED};
- $perprocess{$process}->{MM_PAGE_FREE_DIRECT} += $perprocesspid{$process_pid}->{MM_PAGE_FREE_DIRECT};
- $perprocess{$process}->{MM_PAGEVEC_FREE} += $perprocesspid{$process_pid}->{MM_PAGEVEC_FREE};
+ $perprocess{$process}->{MM_PAGE_FREE} += $perprocesspid{$process_pid}->{MM_PAGE_FREE};
+ $perprocess{$process}->{MM_PAGE_FREE_BATCHED} += $perprocesspid{$process_pid}->{MM_PAGE_FREE_BATCHED};
$perprocess{$process}->{MM_PAGE_PCPU_DRAIN} += $perprocesspid{$process_pid}->{MM_PAGE_PCPU_DRAIN};
$perprocess{$process}->{HIGH_PCPU_DRAINS} += $perprocesspid{$process_pid}->{HIGH_PCPU_DRAINS};
$perprocess{$process}->{HIGH_PCPU_REFILLS} += $perprocesspid{$process_pid}->{HIGH_PCPU_REFILLS};
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/tracepoint-analysis.txt b/Documentation/trace/tracepoint-analysis.txt
index 87bee3c129ba..058cc6c9dc56 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/tracepoint-analysis.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/tracepoint-analysis.txt
@@ -93,14 +93,14 @@ By specifying the -a switch and analysing sleep, the system-wide events
for a duration of time can be examined.
$ perf stat -a \
- -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -e kmem:mm_page_free_direct \
- -e kmem:mm_pagevec_free \
+ -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -e kmem:mm_page_free \
+ -e kmem:mm_page_free_batched \
sleep 10
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 10':
9630 kmem:mm_page_alloc
- 2143 kmem:mm_page_free_direct
- 7424 kmem:mm_pagevec_free
+ 2143 kmem:mm_page_free
+ 7424 kmem:mm_page_free_batched
10.002577764 seconds time elapsed
@@ -119,15 +119,15 @@ basis using set_ftrace_pid.
Events can be activated and tracked for the duration of a process on a local
basis using PCL such as follows.
- $ perf stat -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -e kmem:mm_page_free_direct \
- -e kmem:mm_pagevec_free ./hackbench 10
+ $ perf stat -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -e kmem:mm_page_free \
+ -e kmem:mm_page_free_batched ./hackbench 10
Time: 0.909
Performance counter stats for './hackbench 10':
17803 kmem:mm_page_alloc
- 12398 kmem:mm_page_free_direct
- 4827 kmem:mm_pagevec_free
+ 12398 kmem:mm_page_free
+ 4827 kmem:mm_page_free_batched
0.973913387 seconds time elapsed
@@ -146,8 +146,8 @@ to know what the standard deviation is. By and large, this is left to the
performance analyst to do it by hand. In the event that the discrete event
occurrences are useful to the performance analyst, then perf can be used.
- $ perf stat --repeat 5 -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -e kmem:mm_page_free_direct
- -e kmem:mm_pagevec_free ./hackbench 10
+ $ perf stat --repeat 5 -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -e kmem:mm_page_free
+ -e kmem:mm_page_free_batched ./hackbench 10
Time: 0.890
Time: 0.895
Time: 0.915
@@ -157,8 +157,8 @@ occurrences are useful to the performance analyst, then perf can be used.
Performance counter stats for './hackbench 10' (5 runs):
16630 kmem:mm_page_alloc ( +- 3.542% )
- 11486 kmem:mm_page_free_direct ( +- 4.771% )
- 4730 kmem:mm_pagevec_free ( +- 2.325% )
+ 11486 kmem:mm_page_free ( +- 4.771% )
+ 4730 kmem:mm_page_free_batched ( +- 2.325% )
0.982653002 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.448% )
@@ -168,15 +168,15 @@ aggregation of discrete events, then a script would need to be developed.
Using --repeat, it is also possible to view how events are fluctuating over
time on a system-wide basis using -a and sleep.
- $ perf stat -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -e kmem:mm_page_free_direct \
- -e kmem:mm_pagevec_free \
+ $ perf stat -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -e kmem:mm_page_free \
+ -e kmem:mm_page_free_batched \
-a --repeat 10 \
sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1' (10 runs):
1066 kmem:mm_page_alloc ( +- 26.148% )
- 182 kmem:mm_page_free_direct ( +- 5.464% )
- 890 kmem:mm_pagevec_free ( +- 30.079% )
+ 182 kmem:mm_page_free ( +- 5.464% )
+ 890 kmem:mm_page_free_batched ( +- 30.079% )
1.002251757 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.005% )
@@ -220,8 +220,8 @@ were generating events within the kernel. To begin this sort of analysis, the
data must be recorded. At the time of writing, this required root:
$ perf record -c 1 \
- -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -e kmem:mm_page_free_direct \
- -e kmem:mm_pagevec_free \
+ -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -e kmem:mm_page_free \
+ -e kmem:mm_page_free_batched \
./hackbench 10
Time: 0.894
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.733 MB perf.data (~32010 samples) ]
@@ -260,8 +260,8 @@ noticed that X was generating an insane amount of page allocations so let's look
at it:
$ perf record -c 1 -f \
- -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -e kmem:mm_page_free_direct \
- -e kmem:mm_pagevec_free \
+ -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -e kmem:mm_page_free \
+ -e kmem:mm_page_free_batched \
-p `pidof X`
This was interrupted after a few seconds and
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