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Wu Fengguang b3bba872dd writeback: show writeback reason with __print_symbolic
This makes the binary trace understandable by trace-cmd.

CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
CC: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-12-18 14:20:17 +08:00
Linus Torvalds 32aaeffbd4 Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux
* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
  Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
  irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
  bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
  ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
  nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
  include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
  include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
  crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
  uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
  pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
  linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
  miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
  stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
  of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
  of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
  acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
  miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
  device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
  net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h>
  net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h>
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and  removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
 - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
 - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
 - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
 - include/linux/dmaengine.h
2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 208bca0860 Merge branch 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux
* 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
  writeback: Add a 'reason' to wb_writeback_work
  writeback: send work item to queue_io, move_expired_inodes
  writeback: trace event balance_dirty_pages
  writeback: trace event bdi_dirty_ratelimit
  writeback: fix ppc compile warnings on do_div(long long, unsigned long)
  writeback: per-bdi background threshold
  writeback: dirty position control - bdi reserve area
  writeback: control dirty pause time
  writeback: limit max dirty pause time
  writeback: IO-less balance_dirty_pages()
  writeback: per task dirty rate limit
  writeback: stabilize bdi->dirty_ratelimit
  writeback: dirty rate control
  writeback: add bg_threshold parameter to __bdi_update_bandwidth()
  writeback: dirty position control
  writeback: account per-bdi accumulated dirtied pages
2011-11-06 19:02:23 -08:00
Linus Torvalds f1f8935a5c Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (97 commits)
  jbd2: Unify log messages in jbd2 code
  jbd/jbd2: validate sb->s_first in journal_get_superblock()
  ext4: let ext4_ext_rm_leaf work with EXT_DEBUG defined
  ext4: fix a syntax error in ext4_ext_insert_extent when debugging enabled
  ext4: fix a typo in struct ext4_allocation_context
  ext4: Don't normalize an falloc request if it can fit in 1 extent.
  ext4: remove comments about extent mount option in ext4_new_inode()
  ext4: let ext4_discard_partial_buffers handle unaligned range correctly
  ext4: return ENOMEM if find_or_create_pages fails
  ext4: move vars to local scope in ext4_discard_partial_page_buffers_no_lock()
  ext4: Create helper function for EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN and i_aiodio_unwritten
  ext4: optimize locking for end_io extent conversion
  ext4: remove unnecessary call to waitqueue_active()
  ext4: Use correct locking for ext4_end_io_nolock()
  ext4: fix race in xattr block allocation path
  ext4: trace punch_hole correctly in ext4_ext_map_blocks
  ext4: clean up AGGRESSIVE_TEST code
  ext4: move variables to their scope
  ext4: fix quota accounting during migration
  ext4: migrate cleanup
  ...
2011-11-02 10:06:20 -07:00
Minchan Kim 4356f21d09 mm: change isolate mode from #define to bitwise type
Change ISOLATE_XXX macro with bitwise isolate_mode_t type.  Normally,
macro isn't recommended as it's type-unsafe and making debugging harder as
symbol cannot be passed throught to the debugger.

Quote from Johannes
" Hmm, it would probably be cleaner to fully convert the isolation mode
into independent flags.  INACTIVE, ACTIVE, BOTH is currently a
tri-state among flags, which is a bit ugly."

This patch moves isolate mode from swap.h to mmzone.h by memcontrol.h

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
Paul Gortmaker 67b84999b1 Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
This reverts commit 3a9f987b31.

With all the files that are real modules now having module.h
explicitly called out for inclusion, and no reliance on any
implicit presence of module.h assumed, we should no longer
need this workaround.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:32:35 -04:00
Paul Gortmaker de47725421 include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
The <linux/module.h> pretty much brings in the kitchen sink along
with it, so it should be avoided wherever reasonably possible in
terms of being included from other commonly used <linux/something.h>
files, as it results in a measureable increase on compile times.

The worst culprit was probably device.h since it is used everywhere.
This file also had an implicit dependency/usage of mutex.h which was
masked by module.h, and is also fixed here at the same time.

There are over a dozen other headers that simply declare the
struct instead of pulling in the whole file, so follow their lead
and simply make it a few more.

Most of the implicit dependencies on module.h being present by
these headers pulling it in have been now weeded out, so we can
finally make this change with hopefully minimal breakage.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:32:32 -04:00
Curt Wohlgemuth 0e175a1835 writeback: Add a 'reason' to wb_writeback_work
This creates a new 'reason' field in a wb_writeback_work
structure, which unambiguously identifies who initiates
writeback activity.  A 'wb_reason' enumeration has been
added to writeback.h, to enumerate the possible reasons.

The 'writeback_work_class' and tracepoint event class and
'writeback_queue_io' tracepoints are updated to include the
symbolic 'reason' in all trace events.

And the 'writeback_inodes_sbXXX' family of routines has had
a wb_stats parameter added to them, so callers can specify
why writeback is being started.

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-10-31 00:33:36 +08:00
Curt Wohlgemuth ad4e38dd6a writeback: send work item to queue_io, move_expired_inodes
Instead of sending ->older_than_this to queue_io() and
move_expired_inodes(), send the entire wb_writeback_work
structure.  There are other fields of a work item that are
useful in these routines and in tracepoints.

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-10-31 00:33:27 +08:00
Wu Fengguang ece13ac31b writeback: trace event balance_dirty_pages
Useful for analyzing the dynamics of the throttling algorithms and
debugging user reported problems.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-10-31 00:29:38 +08:00
Wu Fengguang b48c104d22 writeback: trace event bdi_dirty_ratelimit
It helps understand how various throttle bandwidths are updated.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-10-31 00:29:21 +08:00
Linus Torvalds 68d99b2c8e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound: (549 commits)
  ALSA: hda - Fix ADC input-amp handling for Cx20549 codec
  ALSA: hda - Keep EAPD turned on for old Conexant chips
  ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix missing volume controls with ALC260
  ASoC: wm8940: Properly set codec->dapm.bias_level
  ALSA: hda - Fix pin-config for ASUS W90V
  ALSA: hda - Fix surround/CLFE headphone and speaker pins order
  ALSA: hda - Fix typo
  ALSA: Update the sound git tree URL
  ALSA: HDA: Add new revision for ALC662
  ASoC: max98095: Convert codec->hw_write to snd_soc_write
  ASoC: keep pointer to resource so it can be freed
  ASoC: sgtl5000: Fix wrong mask in some snd_soc_update_bits calls
  ASoC: wm8996: Fix wrong mask for setting WM8996_AIF_CLOCKING_2
  ASoC: da7210: Add support for line out and DAC
  ASoC: da7210: Add support for DAPM
  ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix DAC assignments of multiple speakers
  ASoC: Use SGTL5000_LINREG_VDDD_MASK instead of hardcoded mask value
  ASoC: Set sgtl5000->ldo in ldo_regulator_register
  ASoC: wm8996: Use SND_SOC_DAPM_AIF_OUT for AIF2 Capture
  ASoC: wm8994: Use SND_SOC_DAPM_AIF_OUT for AIF3 Capture
  ...
2011-10-28 14:25:01 -07:00
Eric Gouriou 6f91bc5fda ext4: optimize ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized()
This patch introduces a fast path in ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized()
for the case when the conversion can be performed by transferring
the newly initialized blocks from the uninitialized extent into
an adjacent initialized extent. Doing so removes the expensive
invocations of memmove() which occur during extent insertion and
the subsequent merge.

In practice this should be the common case for clients performing
append writes into files pre-allocated via
fallocate(FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE). In such a workload performed via
direct IO and when using a suboptimal implementation of memmove()
(x86_64 prior to the 2.6.39 rewrite), this patch reduces kernel CPU
consumption by 32%.

Two new trace points are added to ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized()
to offer visibility into its operations. No exit trace point has
been added due to the multiplicity of return points. This can be
revisited once the upstream cleanup is backported.

Signed-off-by: Eric Gouriou <egouriou@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-10-27 11:43:23 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 8a4a8918ed Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
  llist: Add back llist_add_batch() and llist_del_first() prototypes
  sched: Don't use tasklist_lock for debug prints
  sched: Warn on rt throttling
  sched: Unify the ->cpus_allowed mask copy
  sched: Wrap scheduler p->cpus_allowed access
  sched: Request for idle balance during nohz idle load balance
  sched: Use resched IPI to kick off the nohz idle balance
  sched: Fix idle_cpu()
  llist: Remove cpu_relax() usage in cmpxchg loops
  sched: Convert to struct llist
  llist: Add llist_next()
  irq_work: Use llist in the struct irq_work logic
  llist: Return whether list is empty before adding in llist_add()
  llist: Move cpu_relax() to after the cmpxchg()
  llist: Remove the platform-dependent NMI checks
  llist: Make some llist functions inline
  sched, tracing: Show PREEMPT_ACTIVE state in trace_sched_switch
  sched: Remove redundant test in check_preempt_tick()
  sched: Add documentation for bandwidth control
  sched: Return unused runtime on group dequeue
  ...
2011-10-26 17:08:43 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 7115e3fcf4 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (121 commits)
  perf symbols: Increase symbol KSYM_NAME_LEN size
  perf hists browser: Refuse 'a' hotkey on non symbolic views
  perf ui browser: Use libslang to read keys
  perf tools: Fix tracing info recording
  perf hists browser: Elide DSO column when it is set to just one DSO, ditto for threads
  perf hists: Don't consider filtered entries when calculating column widths
  perf hists: Don't decay total_period for filtered entries
  perf hists browser: Honour symbol_conf.show_{nr_samples,total_period}
  perf hists browser: Do not exit on tab key with single event
  perf annotate browser: Don't change selection line when returning from callq
  perf tools: handle endianness of feature bitmap
  perf tools: Add prelink suggestion to dso update message
  perf script: Fix unknown feature comment
  perf hists browser: Apply the dso and thread filters when merging new batches
  perf hists: Move the dso and thread filters from hist_browser
  perf ui browser: Honour the xterm colors
  perf top tui: Give color hints just on the percentage, like on --stdio
  perf ui browser: Make the colors configurable and change the defaults
  perf tui: Remove unneeded call to newtCls on startup
  perf hists: Don't format the percentage on hist_entry__snprintf
  ...

Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c manually.

Ingo's tree did the insane "add volatile to const array", which just
doesn't make sense ("volatile const"?).  But we could remove the const
*and* make the array volatile to make doubly sure that gcc doesn't
optimize it away..

Also fix up kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c non-data-conflicts manually: the
reader_lock has been turned into a raw lock by the core locking merge,
and there was a new user of it introduced in this perf core merge.  Make
sure that new use also uses the raw accessor functions.
2011-10-26 17:03:38 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 19b4a8d520 Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
  rcu: Move propagation of ->completed from rcu_start_gp() to rcu_report_qs_rsp()
  rcu: Remove rcu_needs_cpu_flush() to avoid false quiescent states
  rcu: Wire up RCU_BOOST_PRIO for rcutree
  rcu: Make rcu_torture_boost() exit loops at end of test
  rcu: Make rcu_torture_fqs() exit loops at end of test
  rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled
  rcu: Avoid having just-onlined CPU resched itself when RCU is idle
  rcu: Suppress NMI backtraces when stall ends before dump
  rcu: Prohibit grace periods during early boot
  rcu: Simplify unboosting checks
  rcu: Prevent early boot set_need_resched() from __rcu_pending()
  rcu: Dump local stack if cannot dump all CPUs' stacks
  rcu: Move __rcu_read_unlock()'s barrier() within if-statement
  rcu: Improve rcu_assign_pointer() and RCU_INIT_POINTER() documentation
  rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer() unconditionally insert a memory barrier
  rcu: Make rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() locals be correct size
  rcu: Eliminate in_irq() checks in rcu_enter_nohz()
  nohz: Remove nohz_cpu_mask
  rcu: Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats
  rcu: Allow rcutorture's stat_interval parameter to be changed at runtime
  ...
2011-10-26 16:26:53 +02:00
Linus Torvalds e33bae14fd Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://github.com/ericvh/linux
* 'for-linus' of git://github.com/ericvh/linux:
  9p: fix 9p.txt to advertise msize instead of maxdata
  net/9p: Convert net/9p protocol dumps to tracepoints
  fs/9p: change an int to unsigned int
  fs/9p: Cleanup option parsing in 9p
  9p: move dereference after NULL check
  fs/9p: inode file operation is properly initialized init_special_inode
  fs/9p: Update zero-copy implementation in 9p
2011-10-26 14:20:53 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 7e0bb71e75 Merge branch 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
* 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (63 commits)
  PM / Clocks: Remove redundant NULL checks before kfree()
  PM / Documentation: Update docs about suspend and CPU hotplug
  ACPI / PM: Add Sony VGN-FW21E to nonvs blacklist.
  ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A4R support (v4)
  ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A3SP support (v4)
  PM / Sleep: Mark devices involved in wakeup signaling during suspend
  PM / Hibernate: Improve performance of LZO/plain hibernation, checksum image
  PM / Hibernate: Do not initialize static and extern variables to 0
  PM / Freezer: Make fake_signal_wake_up() wake TASK_KILLABLE tasks too
  PM / Hibernate: Add resumedelay kernel param in addition to resumewait
  MAINTAINERS: Update linux-pm list address
  PM / ACPI: Blacklist Vaio VGN-FW520F machine known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs
  PM / ACPI: Blacklist Sony Vaio known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs
  PM / Hibernate: Add resumewait param to support MMC-like devices as resume file
  PM / Hibernate: Fix typo in a kerneldoc comment
  PM / Hibernate: Freeze kernel threads after preallocating memory
  PM: Update the policy on default wakeup settings
  PM / VT: Cleanup #if defined uglyness and fix compile error
  PM / Suspend: Off by one in pm_suspend()
  PM / Hibernate: Include storage keys in hibernation image on s390
  ...
2011-10-25 15:18:39 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 4e7e2a2008 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://opensource.wolfsonmicro.com/regmap
* 'for-linus' of git://opensource.wolfsonmicro.com/regmap: (62 commits)
  mfd: Enable rbtree cache for wm831x devices
  regmap: Support some block operations on cached devices
  regmap: Allow caches for devices with no defaults
  regmap: Ensure rbtree syncs registers set to zero properly
  regmap: Allow rbtree to cache zero default values
  regmap: Warn on raw I/O as well as bulk reads that bypass cache
  regmap: Return a sensible error code if we fail to read the cache
  regmap: Use bsearch() to search the register defaults
  regmap: Fix doc comment
  regmap: Optimize the lookup path to use binary search
  regmap: Ensure we scream if we enable cache bypass/only at the same time
  regmap: Implement regcache_cache_bypass helper function
  regmap: Save/restore the bypass state upon syncing
  regmap: Lock the sync path, ensure we use the lockless _regmap_write()
  regmap: Fix apostrophe usage
  regmap: Make _regmap_write() global
  regmap: Fix lock used for regcache_cache_only()
  regmap: Grab the lock in regcache_cache_only()
  regmap: Modify map->cache_bypass directly
  regmap: Fix regcache_sync generic implementation
  ...
2011-10-25 13:57:45 +02:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 348b59012e net/9p: Convert net/9p protocol dumps to tracepoints
This helps in more control over debugging.
root@qemu-img-64:~# ls /pass/123
ls: cannot access /pass/123: No such file or directory
root@qemu-img-64:~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
# tracer: nop
#
#           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
#              | |       |          |         |
              ls-1536  [001]    70.928584: 9p_protocol_dump: clnt 18446612132784021504 P9_TWALK(tag = 1)
000: 16 00 00 00 6e 01 00 01 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 01
010: 00 03 00 31 32 33 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00

              ls-1536  [001]    70.928587: <stack trace>
 => trace_9p_protocol_dump
 => p9pdu_finalize
 => p9_client_rpc
 => p9_client_walk
 => v9fs_vfs_lookup
 => d_alloc_and_lookup
 => walk_component
 => path_lookupat
              ls-1536  [000]    70.929696: 9p_protocol_dump: clnt 18446612132784021504 P9_RLERROR(tag = 1)
000: 0b 00 00 00 07 01 00 02 00 00 00 4e 03 00 02 00
010: 00 00 00 00 03 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 ff 43 00 00

              ls-1536  [000]    70.929697: <stack trace>
 => trace_9p_protocol_dump
 => p9_client_rpc
 => p9_client_walk
 => v9fs_vfs_lookup
 => d_alloc_and_lookup
 => walk_component
 => path_lookupat
 => do_path_lookup

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2011-10-24 11:13:12 -05:00
Rafael J. Wysocki d727b60659 Merge branch 'pm-runtime' into pm-for-linus
* pm-runtime:
  PM / Tracing: build rpm-traces.c only if CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME is set
  PM / Runtime: Replace dev_dbg() with trace_rpm_*()
  PM / Runtime: Introduce trace points for tracing rpm_* functions
  PM / Runtime: Don't run callbacks under lock for power.irq_safe set
  USB: Add wakeup info to debugging messages
  PM / Runtime: pm_runtime_idle() can be called in atomic context
  PM / Runtime: Add macro to test for runtime PM events
  PM / Runtime: Add might_sleep() to runtime PM functions
2011-10-07 23:16:55 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 9d01402023 Merge commit 'v3.1-rc9' into perf/core
Merge reason: pick up latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-06 12:49:21 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 22f92bacbe Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Merge reason: pick up the latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-04 11:09:08 +02:00
Andrew Vagin 92e51938f5 perf: Fix counter of ftrace events
Each event adds some points to its counters. By default it adds 1,
and a number of points may be transmited in event's parameters.

E.g. sched:sched_stat_runtime adds how long process has been running.

But this functionality was broken by v2.6.31-rc5-392-gf413cdb
and now the event's parameters doesn't affect on a number of points.

TP_perf_assign isn't defined, so __perf_count(c) isn't executed and
__count is always equal to 1.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1317052535-1765247-2-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-04 11:07:54 +02:00
Wu Fengguang 143dfe8611 writeback: IO-less balance_dirty_pages()
As proposed by Chris, Dave and Jan, don't start foreground writeback IO
inside balance_dirty_pages(). Instead, simply let it idle sleep for some
time to throttle the dirtying task. In the mean while, kick off the
per-bdi flusher thread to do background writeback IO.

RATIONALS
=========

- disk seeks on concurrent writeback of multiple inodes (Dave Chinner)

  If every thread doing writes and being throttled start foreground
  writeback, it leads to N IO submitters from at least N different
  inodes at the same time, end up with N different sets of IO being
  issued with potentially zero locality to each other, resulting in
  much lower elevator sort/merge efficiency and hence we seek the disk
  all over the place to service the different sets of IO.
  OTOH, if there is only one submission thread, it doesn't jump between
  inodes in the same way when congestion clears - it keeps writing to
  the same inode, resulting in large related chunks of sequential IOs
  being issued to the disk. This is more efficient than the above
  foreground writeback because the elevator works better and the disk
  seeks less.

- lock contention and cache bouncing on concurrent IO submitters (Dave Chinner)

  With this patchset, the fs_mark benchmark on a 12-drive software RAID0 goes
  from CPU bound to IO bound, freeing "3-4 CPUs worth of spinlock contention".

  * "CPU usage has dropped by ~55%", "it certainly appears that most of
    the CPU time saving comes from the removal of contention on the
    inode_wb_list_lock" (IMHO at least 10% comes from the reduction of
    cacheline bouncing, because the new code is able to call much less
    frequently into balance_dirty_pages() and hence access the global
    page states)

  * the user space "App overhead" is reduced by 20%, by avoiding the
    cacheline pollution by the complex writeback code path

  * "for a ~5% throughput reduction", "the number of write IOs have
    dropped by ~25%", and the elapsed time reduced from 41:42.17 to
    40:53.23.

  * On a simple test of 100 dd, it reduces the CPU %system time from 30% to 3%,
    and improves IO throughput from 38MB/s to 42MB/s.

- IO size too small for fast arrays and too large for slow USB sticks

  The write_chunk used by current balance_dirty_pages() cannot be
  directly set to some large value (eg. 128MB) for better IO efficiency.
  Because it could lead to more than 1 second user perceivable stalls.
  Even the current 4MB write size may be too large for slow USB sticks.
  The fact that balance_dirty_pages() starts IO on itself couples the
  IO size to wait time, which makes it hard to do suitable IO size while
  keeping the wait time under control.

  Now it's possible to increase writeback chunk size proportional to the
  disk bandwidth. In a simple test of 50 dd's on XFS, 1-HDD, 3GB ram,
  the larger writeback size dramatically reduces the seek count to 1/10
  (far beyond my expectation) and improves the write throughput by 24%.

- long block time in balance_dirty_pages() hurts desktop responsiveness

  Many of us may have the experience: it often takes a couple of seconds
  or even long time to stop a heavy writing dd/cp/tar command with
  Ctrl-C or "kill -9".

- IO pipeline broken by bumpy write() progress

  There are a broad class of "loop {read(buf); write(buf);}" applications
  whose read() pipeline will be under-utilized or even come to a stop if
  the write()s have long latencies _or_ don't progress in a constant rate.
  The current threshold based throttling inherently transfers the large
  low level IO completion fluctuations to bumpy application write()s,
  and further deteriorates with increasing number of dirtiers and/or bdi's.

  For example, when doing 50 dd's + 1 remote rsync to an XFS partition,
  the rsync progresses very bumpy in legacy kernel, and throughput is
  improved by 67% by this patchset. (plus the larger write chunk size,
  it will be 93% speedup).

  The new rate based throttling can support 1000+ dd's with excellent
  smoothness, low latency and low overheads.

For the above reasons, it's much better to do IO-less and low latency
pauses in balance_dirty_pages().

Jan Kara, Dave Chinner and me explored the scheme to let
balance_dirty_pages() wait for enough writeback IO completions to
safeguard the dirty limit. However it's found to have two problems:

- in large NUMA systems, the per-cpu counters may have big accounting
  errors, leading to big throttle wait time and jitters.

- NFS may kill large amount of unstable pages with one single COMMIT.
  Because NFS server serves COMMIT with expensive fsync() IOs, it is
  desirable to delay and reduce the number of COMMITs. So it's not
  likely to optimize away such kind of bursty IO completions, and the
  resulted large (and tiny) stall times in IO completion based throttling.

So here is a pause time oriented approach, which tries to control the
pause time in each balance_dirty_pages() invocations, by controlling
the number of pages dirtied before calling balance_dirty_pages(), for
smooth and efficient dirty throttling:

- avoid useless (eg. zero pause time) balance_dirty_pages() calls
- avoid too small pause time (less than   4ms, which burns CPU power)
- avoid too large pause time (more than 200ms, which hurts responsiveness)
- avoid big fluctuations of pause times

It can control pause times at will. The default policy (in a followup
patch) will be to do ~10ms pauses in 1-dd case, and increase to ~100ms
in 1000-dd case.

BEHAVIOR CHANGE
===============

(1) dirty threshold

Users will notice that the applications will get throttled once crossing
the global (background + dirty)/2=15% threshold, and then balanced around
17.5%. Before patch, the behavior is to just throttle it at 20% dirtyable
memory in 1-dd case.

Since the task will be soft throttled earlier than before, it may be
perceived by end users as performance "slow down" if his application
happens to dirty more than 15% dirtyable memory.

(2) smoothness/responsiveness

Users will notice a more responsive system during heavy writeback.
"killall dd" will take effect instantly.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-10-03 21:08:57 +08:00
Ingo Molnar 048b718029 Merge branch 'rcu/next' of git://github.com/paulmckrcu/linux into core/rcu 2011-10-01 14:21:36 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney d4c08f2ac3 rcu: Add grace-period, quiescent-state, and call_rcu trace events
Add trace events to record grace-period start and end, quiescent states,
CPUs noticing grace-period start and end, grace-period initialization,
call_rcu() invocation, tasks blocking in RCU read-side critical sections,
tasks exiting those same critical sections, force_quiescent_state()
detection of dyntick-idle and offline CPUs, CPUs entering and leaving
dyntick-idle mode (except from NMIs), CPUs coming online and going
offline, and CPUs being kicked for staying in dyntick-idle mode for too
long (as in many weeks, even on 32-bit systems).

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

rcu: Add the rcu flavor to callback trace events

The earlier trace events for registering RCU callbacks and for invoking
them did not include the RCU flavor (rcu_bh, rcu_preempt, or rcu_sched).
This commit adds the RCU flavor to those trace events.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28 21:38:21 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 385680a948 rcu: Add event-trace markers to TREE_RCU kthreads
Add event-trace markers to TREE_RCU kthreads to allow including these
kthread's CPU time in the utilization calculations.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28 21:38:19 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 72fe701b70 rcu: Add RCU type to callback-invocation tracing
Add a string to the rcu_batch_start() and rcu_batch_end() trace
messages that indicates the RCU type ("rcu_sched", "rcu_bh", or
"rcu_preempt").  The trace messages for the actual invocations
themselves are not marked, as it should be clear from the
rcu_batch_start() and rcu_batch_end() events before and after.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28 21:38:15 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 300df91ca9 rcu: Event-trace markers for computing RCU CPU utilization
This commit adds the trace_rcu_utilization() marker that is to be
used to allow postprocessing scripts compute RCU's CPU utilization,
give or take event-trace overhead.  Note that we do not include RCU's
dyntick-idle interface because event tracing requires RCU protection,
which is not available in dyntick-idle mode.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28 21:38:13 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 29c00b4a1d rcu: Add event-tracing for RCU callback invocation
There was recently some controversy about the overhead of invoking RCU
callbacks.  Add TRACE_EVENT()s to obtain fine-grained timings for the
start and stop of a batch of callbacks and also for each callback invoked.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28 21:38:12 -07:00
Ming Lei 53b615ccca PM / Runtime: Introduce trace points for tracing rpm_* functions
This patch introduces 3 trace points to prepare for tracing
rpm_idle/rpm_suspend/rpm_resume functions, so we can use these
trace points to replace the current dev_dbg().

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-09-27 22:53:27 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 557ab42542 sched, tracing: Show PREEMPT_ACTIVE state in trace_sched_switch
We had need to see the difference between scheduling a runnable task and
a runnable task being involuntarily preempted.

No app should rely on the old string output (the binary
trace event record format is not changed).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1316164603.10174.11.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-09-26 13:25:54 +02:00
Mark Brown e56235e099 ASoC: Add another DAPM stat for neighbour checks
The number of times we look at a potentially connected neighbour is just
as important as the number of times we actually recurse into looking at
that neighbour so also collect that statistic.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2011-09-22 17:24:40 +01:00
Mark Brown de02d0786d ASoC: Trace and collect statistics for DAPM graph walking
One of the longest standing areas for improvement in ASoC has been the
DAPM algorithm - it repeats the same checks many times whenever it is run
and makes no effort to limit the areas of the graph it checks meaning we
do an awful lot of walks over the full graph. This has never mattered too
much as the size of the graph has generally been small in relation to the
size of the devices supported and the speed of CPUs but it is annoying.

In preparation for work on improving this insert a trace point after the
graph walk has been done. This gives us specific timing information for
the walk, and in order to give quantifiable (non-benchmark) numbers also
count every time we check a link or check the power for a widget and report
those numbers. Substantial changes in the algorithm may require tweaks to
the stats but they should be useful for simpler things.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2011-09-21 14:53:44 +01:00
Dimitris Papastamos 5936008901 regmap: Add the regcache_sync trace event
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2011-09-19 19:06:34 +01:00
Aditya Kali d8990240d8 ext4: add some tracepoints in ext4/extents.c
This patch adds some tracepoints in ext4/extents.c and updates a tracepoint in
ext4/inode.c.

Tested: Built and ran the kernel and verified that these tracepoints work.
Also ran xfstests.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-09-09 19:18:51 -04:00
Wu Fengguang c8ad620638 writeback: show raw dirtied_when in trace writeback_single_inode
Save inode->dirtied_when in the raw trace output for reliable scripting,
and to also show in formatted output the relative age in seconds for
easy human reading.

CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-08-31 08:48:15 +08:00
Linus Torvalds 5ccc38740a Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (23 commits)
  Revert "cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs."
  block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags
  block: improve rq_affinity placement
  blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support
  Move some REQ flags to the common bio/request area
  allow blk_flush_policy to return REQ_FSEQ_DATA independent of *FLUSH
  xen/blkback: Make description more obvious.
  cfq-iosched: Add documentation about idling
  block: Make rq_affinity = 1 work as expected
  block: swim3: fix unterminated of_device_id table
  block/genhd.c: remove useless cast in diskstats_show()
  drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: relax check on dvd manufacturer value
  drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c: use bitmap_parse instead of __bitmap_parse
  bsg-lib: add module.h include
  cfq-iosched: Reduce linked group count upon group destruction
  blk-throttle: correctly determine sync bio
  loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other
  loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices
  loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation
  loop: replace linked list of allocated devices with an idr index
  ...
2011-08-19 10:47:07 -07:00
Namhyung Kim c09c47caed blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support
Add FLUSH/FUA support to blktrace. As FLUSH precedes WRITE and/or
FUA follows WRITE, use the same 'F' flag for both cases and
distinguish them by their (relative) position. The end results
look like (other flags might be shown also):

 - WRITE:            W
 - WRITE_FLUSH:      FW
 - WRITE_FUA:        WF
 - WRITE_FLUSH_FUA:  FWF

Note that we reuse TC_BARRIER due to lack of bit space of act_mask
so that the older versions of blktrace tools will report flush
requests as barriers from now on.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-08-11 10:36:05 +02:00
Mark Brown 3d9ead7c06 regmap: Use int rather than size_t for lengths when logging blocks
x86_64 warns as size_t is not an int.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2011-08-10 00:26:33 +09:00
Mark Brown fb2736bbae regmap: Add basic tracepoints
Trace single register reads and writes, plus start/stop tracepoints for
the actual I/O to see where we're spending time. This makes it easy to
have always on logging without overwhelming the logs and also lets us take
advantage of all the context and time information that the trace subsystem
collects for us.

We don't currently trace register values for bulk operations as this would
add complexity and overhead parsing the cooked data that's being worked
with.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2011-08-08 15:56:16 +09:00
Linus Torvalds 60ad446682 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (60 commits)
  ext4: prevent memory leaks from ext4_mb_init_backend() on error path
  ext4: use EXT4_BAD_INO for buddy cache to avoid colliding with valid inode #
  ext4: use ext4_msg() instead of printk in mballoc
  ext4: use ext4_kvzalloc()/ext4_kvmalloc() for s_group_desc and s_group_info
  ext4: introduce ext4_kvmalloc(), ext4_kzalloc(), and ext4_kvfree()
  ext4: use the correct error exit path in ext4_init_inode_table()
  ext4: add missing kfree() on error return path in add_new_gdb()
  ext4: change umode_t in tracepoint headers to be an explicit __u16
  ext4: fix races in ext4_sync_parent()
  ext4: Fix overflow caused by missing cast in ext4_fallocate()
  ext4: add action of moving index in ext4_ext_rm_idx for Punch Hole
  ext4: simplify parameters of reserve_backup_gdb()
  ext4: simplify parameters of add_new_gdb()
  ext4: remove lock_buffer in bclean() and setup_new_group_blocks()
  ext4: simplify journal handling in setup_new_group_blocks()
  ext4: let setup_new_group_blocks() set multiple bits at a time
  ext4: fix a typo in ext4_group_extend()
  ext4: let ext4_group_add_blocks() handle 0 blocks quickly
  ext4: let ext4_group_add_blocks() return an error code
  ext4: rename ext4_add_groupblocks() to ext4_group_add_blocks()
  ...

Fix up conflict in fs/ext4/inode.c: commit aacfc19c62 ("fs: simplify
the blockdev_direct_IO prototype") had changed the ext4_ind_direct_IO()
function for the new simplified calling convention, while commit
dae1e52cb1 ("ext4: move ext4_ind_* functions from inode.c to
indirect.c") moved the function to another file.
2011-08-01 13:56:03 -10:00
Theodore Ts'o 59be8e7280 ext4: change umode_t in tracepoint headers to be an explicit __u16
As requested by Al Viro, since umode_t may be changing to a u32 for
some architectures.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-30 12:38:46 -04:00
Linus Torvalds b993fdbc7f Merge branch 'upstream/xen-tracing2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen
* 'upstream/xen-tracing2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
  xen/tracing: fix compile errors when tracing is disabled.
2011-07-29 23:33:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 2ac232f37f Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6:
  jbd: change the field "b_cow_tid" of struct journal_head from type unsigned to tid_t
  ext3.txt: update the links in the section "useful links" to the latest ones
  ext3: Fix data corruption in inodes with journalled data
  ext2: check xattr name_len before acquiring xattr_sem in ext2_xattr_get
  ext3: Fix compilation with -DDX_DEBUG
  quota: Remove unused declaration
  jbd: Use WRITE_SYNC in journal checkpoint.
  jbd: Fix oops in journal_remove_journal_head()
  ext3: Return -EINVAL when start is beyond the end of fs in ext3_trim_fs()
  ext3/ioctl.c: silence sparse warnings about different address spaces
  ext3/ext4 Documentation: remove bh/nobh since it has been deprecated
  ext3: Improve truncate error handling
  ext3: use proper little-endian bitops
  ext2: include fs.h into ext2_fs.h
  ext3: Fix oops in ext3_try_to_allocate_with_rsv()
  jbd: fix a bug of leaking jh->b_jcount
  jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL
  ext3: Convert ext3 to new truncate calling convention
  jbd: Add fixed tracepoints
  ext3: Add fixed tracepoints

Resolve conflicts in fs/ext3/fsync.c due to fsync locking push-down and
new fixed tracepoints.
2011-07-26 11:34:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f01ef569cd Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback: (27 commits)
  mm: properly reflect task dirty limits in dirty_exceeded logic
  writeback: don't busy retry writeback on new/freeing inodes
  writeback: scale IO chunk size up to half device bandwidth
  writeback: trace global_dirty_state
  writeback: introduce max-pause and pass-good dirty limits
  writeback: introduce smoothed global dirty limit
  writeback: consolidate variable names in balance_dirty_pages()
  writeback: show bdi write bandwidth in debugfs
  writeback: bdi write bandwidth estimation
  writeback: account per-bdi accumulated written pages
  writeback: make writeback_control.nr_to_write straight
  writeback: skip tmpfs early in balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr()
  writeback: trace event writeback_queue_io
  writeback: trace event writeback_single_inode
  writeback: remove .nonblocking and .encountered_congestion
  writeback: remove writeback_control.more_io
  writeback: skip balance_dirty_pages() for in-memory fs
  writeback: add bdi_dirty_limit() kernel-doc
  writeback: avoid extra sync work at enqueue time
  writeback: elevate queue_io() into wb_writeback()
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/fs-writeback.c and mm/filemap.c
2011-07-26 10:39:54 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge b3c4b98250 xen/tracing: fix compile errors when tracing is disabled.
When CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER is disabled, compilation fails as follows:
  CC      arch/x86/xen/setup.o
In file included from arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h:42,
                 from arch/x86/xen/setup.c:19:
include/trace/events/xen.h:31: warning: 'struct multicall_entry' declared inside parameter list
include/trace/events/xen.h:31: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
include/trace/events/xen.h:31: warning: 'struct multicall_entry' declared inside parameter list
include/trace/events/xen.h:31: warning: 'struct multicall_entry' declared inside parameter list
include/trace/events/xen.h:31: warning: 'struct multicall_entry' declared inside parameter list
[...]
arch/x86/xen/trace.c:5: error: '__HYPERVISOR_set_trap_table' undeclared here (not in a function)
arch/x86/xen/trace.c:5: error: array index in initializer not of integer type
arch/x86/xen/trace.c:5: error: (near initialization for 'xen_hypercall_names')
arch/x86/xen/trace.c:6: error: '__HYPERVISOR_mmu_update' undeclared here (not in a function)
arch/x86/xen/trace.c:6: error: array index in initializer not of integer type
arch/x86/xen/trace.c:6: error: (near initialization for 'xen_hypercall_names')

Fix this by making sure struct multicall_entry has a declaration in
scope at all times, and don't bother compiling xen/trace.c when tracing
is disabled.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2011-07-25 15:51:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds c61264f98c Merge branch 'upstream/xen-tracing2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen
* 'upstream/xen-tracing2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
  xen/trace: use class for multicall trace
  xen/trace: convert mmu events to use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS()/DEFINE_EVENT()
  xen/multicall: move *idx fields to start of mc_buffer
  xen/multicall: special-case singleton hypercalls
  xen/multicalls: add unlikely around slowpath in __xen_mc_entry()
  xen/multicalls: disable MC_DEBUG
  xen/mmu: tune pgtable alloc/release
  xen/mmu: use extend_args for more mmuext updates
  xen/trace: add tlb flush tracepoints
  xen/trace: add segment desc tracing
  xen/trace: add xen_pgd_(un)pin tracepoints
  xen/trace: add ptpage alloc/release tracepoints
  xen/trace: add mmu tracepoints
  xen/trace: add multicall tracing
  xen/trace: set up tracepoint skeleton
  xen/multicalls: remove debugfs stats
  trace/xen: add skeleton for Xen trace events
2011-07-24 09:06:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e498037105 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: (297 commits)
  ALSA: asihpi - Replace with snd_ctl_boolean_mono_info()
  ALSA: asihpi - HPI version 4.08
  ALSA: asihpi - Add volume mute controls
  ALSA: asihpi - Control name updates
  ALSA: asihpi - Use size_t for sizeof result
  ALSA: asihpi - Explicitly include mutex.h
  ALSA: asihpi - Add new node and message defines
  ALSA: asihpi - Make local function static
  ALSA: asihpi - Fix minor typos and spelling
  ALSA: asihpi - Remove unused structures, macros and functions
  ALSA: asihpi - Remove spurious adapter index check
  ALSA: asihpi - Revise snd_pcm_debug_name, get rid of DEBUG_NAME macro
  ALSA: asihpi - DSP code loader API now independent of OS
  ALSA: asihpi - Remove controlex structs and associated special data transfer code
  ALSA: asihpi - Increase request and response buffer sizes
  ALSA: asihpi - Give more meaningful name to hpi request message type
  ALSA: usb-audio - Add quirk for  Roland / BOSS BR-800
  ALSA: hda - Remove a superfluous argument of via_auto_init_output()
  ALSA: hda - Fix indep-HP path (de-)activation for VT1708* codecs
  ALSA: hda - Add documentation for codec-specific mixer controls
  ...
2011-07-23 10:59:37 -07:00