linux/Documentation/vm, branch v2.6.28

.gitignore updates

2008-10-30T18:38:45Z

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

doc: unevictable LRU and mlocked pages documentation

2008-10-20T15:52:31Z

Documentation for unevictable lru list and its usage. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation/vm/page_migration: update reference to numa_maps + fix download URI

2008-08-15T15:35:42Z

With man-pages-3.07, the numa_maps documentation home is now proc(5), so the reference in Documentation/vm/page_migration needs updating. (Cliff/Lee are removing numa_maps.5 from the numactl package.) Also, the download location for the numactl package changed a while back. This patch fixes both things, as well as a typo (provided-->provides). Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Cliff Wickman Cc: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

docsrc: build Documentation/ sources

2008-08-12T23:07:30Z

Currently source files in the Documentation/ sub-dir can easily bit-rot since they are not generally buildable, either because they are hidden in text files or because there are no Makefile rules for them. This needs to be fixed so that the source files remain usable and good examples of code instead of bad examples. Add the ability to build source files that are in the Documentation/ dir. Add to Kconfig as "BUILD_DOCSRC" config symbol. Use "CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC=1 make ..." to build objects from the Documentation/ sources. Or enable BUILD_DOCSRC in the *config system. However, this symbol depends on HEADERS_CHECK since the header files need to be installed (for userspace builds). Built (using cross-tools) for x86-64, i386, alpha, ia64, sparc32, sparc64, powerpc, sh, m68k, & mips. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections.

2008-07-26T19:00:06Z

Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

hugetlb: new sysfs interface

2008-07-24T17:47:17Z

Provide new hugepages user APIs that are more suited to multiple hstates in sysfs. There is a new directory, /sys/kernel/hugepages. Underneath that directory there will be a directory per-supported hugepage size, e.g.: /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64kB /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-16384kB /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-16777216kB corresponding to 64k, 16m and 16g respectively. Within each hugepages-size directory there are a number of files, corresponding to the tracked counters in the hstate, e.g.: /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/nr_hugepages /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/nr_overcommit_hugepages /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/free_hugepages /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/resv_hugepages /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/surplus_hugepages Of these files, the first two are read-write and the latter three are read-only. The size of the hugepage being manipulated is trivially deducible from the enclosing directory and is always expressed in kB (to match meminfo). [dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com: fix build] [nacc@us.ibm.com: hugetlb: hang off of /sys/kernel/mm rather than /sys/kernel] [nacc@us.ibm.com: hugetlb: remove CONFIG_SYSFS dependency] Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Cc: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Christoph has moved

2008-07-04T17:40:04Z

Remove all clameter@sgi.com addresses from the kernel tree since they will become invalid on June 27th. Change my maintainer email address for the slab allocators to cl@linux-foundation.org (which will be the new email address for the future). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

pagemap: add documentation for pagemap

2008-06-06T18:29:14Z

Just a quick explanation of the pagemap interface from a userspace point of view, and an example of how to use it (in English, not code). Signed-off-by: Thomas Tuttle Cc: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

slabinfo: Support printout of the number of fallbacks

2008-05-01T21:26:51Z

Add functionality to slabinfo to print out the number of fallbacks that have occurred for each slab cache when the -D option is specified. Also widen the allocation / free field since the numbers became too big after a week. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6

2008-04-28T21:08:56Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6: slub: pack objects denser slub: Calculate min_objects based on number of processors. slub: Drop DEFAULT_MAX_ORDER / DEFAULT_MIN_OBJECTS slub: Simplify any_slab_object checks slub: Make the order configurable for each slab cache slub: Drop fallback to page allocator method slub: Fallback to minimal order during slab page allocation slub: Update statistics handling for variable order slabs slub: Add kmem_cache_order_objects struct slub: for_each_object must be passed the number of objects in a slab slub: Store max number of objects in the page struct. slub: Dump list of objects not freed on kmem_cache_close() slub: free_list() cleanup slub: improve kmem_cache_destroy() error message slob: fix bug - when slob allocates "struct kmem_cache", it does not force alignment.