Knowing tracepoints exist is not quite the same as knowing what they
should be used for. This patch adds a document giving a basic description
of the kmem tracepoints and why they might be useful to a performance
analyst.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The documentation for ftrace, events and tracepoints is pretty extensive.
Similarly, the perf PCL tools help files --help are there and the code
simple enough to figure out what much of the switches mean. However,
pulling the discrete bits and pieces together and translating that into
"how do I solve a problem" requires a fair amount of imagination.
This patch adds a simple document intended to get someone started on the
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds a simple post-processing script for the
page-allocator-related trace events. It can be used to give an indication
of who the most allocator-intensive processes are and how often the zone
lock was taken during the tracing period. Example output looks like
Process Pages Pages Pages Pages PCPU PCPU PCPU Fragment Fragment MigType Fragment Fragment Unknown
details allocd allocd freed freed pages drains refills Fallback Causing Changed Severe Moderate
under lock direct pagevec drain
swapper-0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Xorg-3770 10603 5952 3685 6978 5996 194 192 0 0 0 0 0 0
modprobe-21397 51 0 0 86 31 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
xchat-5370 228 93 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
awesome-4317 32 32 0 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 0 0
thinkfan-3863 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
hald-addon-stor-3935 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
akregator-4506 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
xmms-14888 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
khelper-12 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Optionally, the output can include information on the parent or aggregate
based on process name instead of aggregating based on each pid. Example output
including parent information and stripped out the PID looks something like;
Process Pages Pages Pages Pages PCPU PCPU PCPU Fragment Fragment MigType Fragment Fragment Unknown
details allocd allocd freed freed pages drains refills Fallback Causing Changed Severe Moderate
under lock direct pagevec drain
gdm-3756 :: Xorg-3770 3796 2976 99 3813 3224 104 98 0 0 0 0 0 0
init-1 :: hald-3892 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
git-21447 :: editor-21448 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
This says that Xorg allocated 3796 pages and it's parent process is gdm
with a PID of 3756;
The postprocessor parses the text output of tracing. While there is a
binary format, the expectation is that the binary output can be readily
translated into text and post-processed offline. Obviously if the text
format changes, the parser will break but the regular expression parser is
fairly rudimentary so should be readily adjustable.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The patch makes the clear_refs more versatile in adding the option to
select anonymous pages or file backed pages for clearing. This addition
has a measurable impact on user space application performance as it
decreases the number of pagewalks in scenarios where one is only
interested in a specific type of page (anonymous or file mapped).
The patch adds anonymous and file backed filters to the clear_refs interface.
echo 1 > /proc/PID/clear_refs resets the bits on all pages
echo 2 > /proc/PID/clear_refs resets the bits on anonymous pages only
echo 3 > /proc/PID/clear_refs resets the bits on file backed pages only
Any other value is ignored
Signed-off-by: Moussa A. Ba <moussa.a.ba@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jared E. Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.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>
Add Documentation/vm/ksm.txt: how to use the Kernel Samepage Merging feature
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Christian Thaeter <ct@pipapo.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove some very outdated recommendations in Documentation/memory.txt
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Attempt to clarify huge page administration and usage, and updates the
doucmentation to mention the balancing of huge pages across nodes when
allocating and freeing.
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We added a new column in cpuX lines of /proc/stat, to show the amount of
time spent by a cpu servicing a guest, without updating
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (58 commits)
perf_counter: Fix perf_copy_attr() pointer arithmetic
perf utils: Use a define for the maximum length of a trace event
perf: Add timechart help text and add timechart to "perf help"
tracing, x86, cpuidle: Move the end point of a C state in the power tracer
perf utils: Be consistent about minimum text size in the svghelper
perf timechart: Add "perf timechart record"
perf: Add the timechart tool
perf: Add a SVG helper library file
tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer
perf: Add a sample_event type to the event_union
perf: Allow perf utilities to have "callback" options without arguments
perf: Store trace event name/id pairs in perf.data
perf: Add a timestamp to fork events
sched_clock: Make it NMI safe
perf_counter: Fix up swcounter throttling
x86, perf_counter, bts: Optimize BTS overflow handling
perf sched: Add --input=file option to builtin-sched.c
perf trace: Sample timestamp and cpu when using record flag
perf tools: Increase MAX_EVENT_LENGTH
perf tools: Fix memory leak in read_ftrace_printk()
...
This patch converts the existing power tracer into an event tracer,
so that power events (C states and frequency changes) can be
tracked via "perf".
This also removes the perl script that was used to demo the tracer;
its functionality is being replaced entirely with timechart.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090912130542.6d314860@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Zolid_Hybrid_TV_Tuner
test status analog (PAL-B):
- Sometimes picture is noisy, but it becomes crystal clear after
switching between channels. (happens for example at 687.25 Mhz)
- On a lower frequency (511.25 Mhz) the picture is always sharp, but
lacks colour.
- No sound problems.
- radio untested.
Digital:
- DVB-T/H stream reception works.
- Would expect to see some more channels in the higher frequency region.
Overall is the impression that sensitivity still needs improvement
both in analog and digital modes.
Signed-off-by: Henk Vergonet <Henk.Vergonet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Warn when the desired device node number is already in use, except when
the new video_register_device_no_warn function is called since in some
use-cases that warning is not relevant.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
The term 'kernel number' is very vague, so replace it with the somewhat more
descriptive term 'device node number'.
In one place the local variable 'nr' was used to create the device node number
of the new device name. This has been replaced with the vdev->num field to
more clearly mark this as being the device node number and not the minor
number.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
video_register_device_index is never actually called, instead the
stream index number is always calculated automatically.
This patch removes this function and simplifies the internal get_index
function since that can now always just return the first free index.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Rewrite v4l2_i2c_new_subdev as a simplified version of v4l2_i2c_new_subdev_cfg
and remove v4l2_i2c_new_probed_subdev and v4l2_i2c_new_probed_subdev_addr.
This simplifies this API substantially.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
The initial soc-camera scaling and cropping implementation turned out to be
incompliant with the V4L2 API, e.g., it expected the user to specify cropping
in output window pixels, instead of input window pixels. This patch converts
the soc-camera core and all drivers to comply with the standard.
Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
- Add a few missing entities;
- Some text fixes at remote controllers;
- Add a missing tag at videodev2.h xml version.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Add support for NXP TDA18271 as a standalone tuner, allowing the use of
analog demodulators other than the Philips/NXP TDA829x.
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@kernellabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Support for Reddo DVB-C USB TV Box device. Remote is not working yet.
Thanks to Benjamin Larsson <banan@ludd.ltu.se>
Cc: Benjamin Larsson <banan@ludd.ltu.se>
Signed-off-by: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
SAA7164: Add support for a new HVR-2250 hardware revision
Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@kernellabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
This patch adds support for all of the known shipping Hauppauge HVR-2200
and HVR-2250 boards. Digital TV ATSC/QAM and DVB-T is enabled at this
time. Both tuners are supported.
Volatiles and typedefs need rework, the rest is coding style compliant.
Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@kernellabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Adds ISDB-T_and_ISDB-Tsb_with_S2API spec converted into DocBook format.
The text is authored by Patrick Boettcher, and was converted to DocBook
by me.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
The patch does the following:
a. it synchronizes /Documentation/dvb/technisat.txt to the current kernel
design
b. it syncs Trent Piepho' s latest changes to the flexcop driver concept:
implementation of the dvb pll library for some cards that need it
Signed-off-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pboettcher@kernellabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
There were never any satellite support for analog, and adding it
right now doesn't make sense. For digital TV, this is already
covered at part II.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
By default, when a callout is used, DocBook will try to use
a graphics image for callouts. This requires that the graphics
to be copied to the documentation directory. As this is not
done, use the text callouts: (1), (2), ...
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
DocBook makefile expects that the documents to be in tmpl extension,
since it has some preprocessing that it is done on it. This preprocessing
is not needed currently, but, as it removes the xml versions, we're
forced to rename anyway.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
The V4L and DVB API's are there for a long time. however, up to now,
no efforts were done to merge them to kernel DocBook.
This patch adds the current versions of the specs as an unique compendium.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Add af9015 firmware to get_dvb_firmware script.
Firmware version is 4.95.0.0.
Signed-off-by: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (38 commits)
x86: Move get/set_wallclock to x86_platform_ops
x86: platform: Fix section annotations
x86: apic namespace cleanup
x86: Distangle ioapic and i8259
x86: Add Moorestown early detection
x86: Add hardware_subarch ID for Moorestown
x86: Add early platform detection
x86: Move tsc_init to late_time_init
x86: Move tsc_calibration to x86_init_ops
x86: Replace the now identical time_32/64.c by time.c
x86: time_32/64.c unify profile_pc
x86: Move calibrate_cpu to tsc.c
x86: Make timer setup and global variables the same in time_32/64.c
x86: Remove mca bus ifdef from timer interrupt
x86: Simplify timer_ack magic in time_32.c
x86: Prepare unification of time_32/64.c
x86: Remove do_timer hook
x86: Add timer_init to x86_init_ops
x86: Move percpu clockevents setup to x86_init_ops
x86: Move xen_post_allocator_init into xen_pagetable_setup_done
...
Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/include/asm/io_apic.h
Now that the last users of markers have migrated to the event
tracer we can kill off the (now orphan) support code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090917173527.GA1699@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (64 commits)
ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
ext4: replace MAX_DEFRAG_SIZE with EXT_MAX_BLOCK
ext4: Fix the alloc on close after a truncate hueristic
ext4: Add a tracepoint for ext4_alloc_da_blocks()
ext4: store EXT4_EXT_MIGRATE in i_state instead of i_flags
ext4: limit block allocations for indirect-block files to < 2^32
ext4: Fix different block exchange issue in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT
ext4: Add null extent check to ext_get_path
ext4: Replace BUG_ON() with ext4_error() in move_extents.c
ext4: Replace get_ext_path macro with an inline funciton
ext4: Fix include/trace/events/ext4.h to work with Systemtap
ext4: Fix initalization of s_flex_groups
ext4: Always set dx_node's fake_dirent explicitly.
ext4: Fix async commit mode to be safe by using a barrier
ext4: Don't update superblock write time when filesystem is read-only
ext4: Clarify the locking details in mballoc
ext4: check for need init flag in ext4_mb_load_buddy
ext4: move ext4_mb_init_group() function earlier in the mballoc.c
ext4: Make non-journal fsync work properly
ext4: Assure that metadata blocks are written during fsync in no journal mode
...
Allow the short description after symbol name and dash in a kernel-doc
comment to span multiple lines, e.g. like this:
/**
* unmap_mapping_range - unmap the portion of all mmaps in the
* specified address_space corresponding to the specified
* page range in the underlying file.
* @mapping: the address space containing mmaps to be unmapped.
* ...
*/
The short description ends with a parameter description, an empty line
or the end of the comment block.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The kref_put() already occurs after the out label
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (262 commits)
sh: mach-ecovec24: Add user debug switch support
sh: Kill off unused se_skipped in alignment trap notification code.
sh: Wire up HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS.
video: sh_mobile_lcdcfb: use both register sets for display panning
video: sh_mobile_lcdcfb: implement display panning
sh: Fix up sh7705 flush_dcache_page() build.
sh: kfr2r09: document the PLL/FLL <-> RF relationship.
sh: mach-ecovec24: need asm/clock.h.
sh: mach-ecovec24: deassert usb irq on boot.
sh: Add KEYSC support for EcoVec24
sh: add kycr2_delay for sh_keysc
sh: cpufreq: Include CPU id in info messages.
sh: multi-evt support for SH-X3 proto CPU.
sh: clkfwk: remove bogus set_bus_parent() from SH7709.
sh: Fix the indication point of the liquid crystal of AP-325RXA(AP3300)
sh: Add EcoVec24 romImage defconfig
sh: USB disable process is needed if romImage boot for EcoVec24
sh: EcoVec24: add HIZA setting for LED
sh: EcoVec24: write MAC address in boot
sh: Add romImage support for EcoVec24
...
Mel Gorman
Moussa A. Ba
Hugh Dickins
Jan Kara
Andi Kleen
Lee Schermerhorn
Eric Dumazet
Linus Torvalds
Arjan van de Ven
Vladimir Geroy
Henk Vergonet
Hans Verkuil
Guennadi Liakhovetski
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Michael Krufky
Olivier Lorin
Antti Palosaari
Steven Toth
Uwe Bugla
Christoph Hellwig
Johannes Weiner
Roel Kluin