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Jonathan Corbet 7085f6c354 docs/completion.txt: Various tweaks and corrections
Mostly language improvements to the new completions.txt document, but there
is also a semantic correction in the description of completion_done() at
the very end.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-04-04 15:20:26 +02:00
Nicholas Mc Guire 4988aaa6e5 doc: completion: context, scope and language fixes
Fix for imprecise/wrong statements on context in which wait_for_completion*()
can be called, updated notes on "going out of scope" problems and some
language fixups.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-04-04 15:20:26 +02:00
Nicholas Mc Guire 202799be44 doc: brief user documentation for completion
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
[jc: cleaned up some spurious blank lines]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-01-30 11:19:25 -07:00
Juri Lelli 13924d2a98 Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt: Add minimal main() appendix
Add an appendix providing a simple self-contained code snippet
showing how SCHED_DEADLINE reservations can be created by
application developers.

Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410256636-26171-6-git-send-email-juri.lelli@arm.com
[ Fixed some whitespace inconsistencies. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-09-16 10:23:45 +02:00
Juri Lelli f5801933ce Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt: Add tests suite appendix
Add an appendix briefly describing tools that can be used to
test SCHED_DEADLINE (and the scheduler in general). Links to
where source code of the tools is hosted are also provided.

Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410256636-26171-5-git-send-email-juri.lelli@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-09-16 10:23:02 +02:00
Luca Abeni b56bfc6cd1 Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt: Improve and clarify AC bits
Admission control is of key importance for SCHED_DEADLINE, since
it guarantees system schedulability (or tells us something about
the degree of guarantees we can provide to the user).

This patch improves and clarifies bits and pieces regarding AC,
both for UP and SMP systems.

Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410256636-26171-4-git-send-email-juri.lelli@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-09-16 10:23:01 +02:00
Juri Lelli 0d9ba8b03c Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt: Rewrite section 4 intro
Section 4 intro was still describing the old interface. Rewrite
it.

Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it>
Reviewed-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410256636-26171-3-git-send-email-juri.lelli@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-09-16 10:23:01 +02:00
Luca Abeni ad67dc316f Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt: Fix terminology and improve clarity
Several small changes regarding SCHED_DEADLINE documentation
that fix terminology and improve clarity and readability:

 - "current runtime" becomes "remaining runtime"

 - readablity of an equation is improved by introducing more spacing

 - clarify when admission control will certainly fail

 - new URL for CBS technical report

 - substitue "smallest" with "earliest"

Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410256636-26171-2-git-send-email-juri.lelli@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-09-16 10:23:00 +02:00
David Howells 9566328578 asm/system.h: clean asm/system.h from docs
Clean asm/system.h from docs as nothing should refer to that header anymore.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:11 -07:00
Henrik Austad 3cf8ca1c25 Documentation/: update 00-INDEX files
Some of the 00-INDEX files are somewhat outdated and some folders does
not contain 00-INDEX at all.  Only outdated (with the notably exception
of spi) indexes are touched here, the 169 folders without 00-INDEX has
not been touched.

New 00-INDEX
 - spi/* was added in a series of commits dating back to 2006

Added files (missing in (*/)00-INDEX)
 - dmatest.txt was added by commit 851b7e16a0 ("dmatest: run test via
   debugfs")
 - this_cpu_ops.txt was added by commit a1b2a555d6 ("percpu: add
   documentation on this_cpu operations")
 - ww-mutex-design.txt was added by commit 040a0a3710 ("mutex: Add
   support for wound/wait style locks")
 - bcache.txt was added by commit cafe563591 ("bcache: A block layer
   cache")
 - kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt was added by commit 49717cb404
   ("kthread: Document ways of reducing OS jitter due to per-CPU
   kthreads")
 - phy.txt was added by commit ff76496347 ("drivers: phy: add generic
   PHY framework")
 - block/null_blk was added by commit 12f8f4fc03 ("null_blk:
   documentation")
 - module-signing.txt was added by commit 3cafea3076 ("Add
   Documentation/module-signing.txt file")
 - assoc_array.txt was added by commit 3cb989501c ("Add a generic
   associative array implementation.")
 - arm/IXP4xx was part of the initial repo
 - arm/cluster-pm-race-avoidance.txt was added by commit 7fe31d28e8
   ("ARM: mcpm: introduce helpers for platform coherency exit/setup")
 - arm/firmware.txt was added by commit 7366b92a77 ("ARM: Add
   interface for registering and calling firmware-specific operations")
 - arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt was added by commit 2afd0a0524 ("ARM:
   7825/1: document the use of NEON in kernel mode")
 - arm/tcm.txt was added by commit bc581770cf ("ARM: 5580/2: ARM TCM
   (Tightly-Coupled Memory) support v3")
 - arm/vlocks.txt was added by commit 9762f12d3e ("ARM: mcpm: Add
   baremetal voting mutexes")
 - blackfin/gptimers-example.c, Makefile was added by commit
   4b60779d5e ("Blackfin: add an example showing how to use the
   gptimers API")
 - devicetree/usage-model.txt was added by commit 31134efc68 ("dt:
   Linux DT usage model documentation")
 - fb/api.txt was added by commit fb21c2f428 ("fbdev: Add FOURCC-based
   format configuration API")
 - fb/sm501.txt was added by commit e6a0498071 ("video, sm501: add
   edid and commandline support")
 - fb/udlfb.txt was added by commit 96f8d864af ("fbdev: move udlfb out
   of staging.")
 - filesystems/Makefile was added by commit 1e0051ae48
   ("Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files")
 - filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt was added by commit
   8a4c6e19cf ("nfsd: document kernel interfaces for nfsd
   configuration")
 - ide/warm-plug-howto.txt was added by commit f74c91413e ("ide: add
   warm-plug support for IDE devices (take 2)")
 - laptops/Makefile was added by commit d49129accc
   ("Documentation/laptop/: split txt and source files")
 - leds/leds-blinkm.txt was added by commit b54cf35a7f ("LEDS: add
   BlinkM RGB LED driver, documentation and update MAINTAINERS")
 - leds/ledtrig-oneshot.txt was added by commit 5e417281cd ("leds: add
   oneshot trigger")
 - leds/ledtrig-transient.txt was added by commit 44e1e9f8e7 ("leds:
   add new transient trigger for one shot timer activation")
 - m68k/README.buddha was part of the initial repo
 - networking/LICENSE.(qla3xxx|qlcnic|qlge) was added by commits
   40839129f7, c4e84bde1d, 5a4faa8737
 - networking/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812 ("docsrc: build
   Documentation/ sources")
 - networking/i40evf.txt was added by commit 105bf2fe6b ("i40evf: add
   driver to kernel build system")
 - networking/ipsec.txt was added by commit b3c6efbc36 ("xfrm: Add
   file to document IPsec corner case")
 - networking/mac80211-auth-assoc-deauth.txt was added by commit
   3cd7920a2b ("mac80211: add auth/assoc/deauth flow diagram")
 - networking/netlink_mmap.txt was added by commit 5683264c39
   ("netlink: add documentation for memory mapped I/O")
 - networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt was added by commit c9f9e0e159
   ("netfilter: doc: add nf_conntrack sysctl api documentation") lan)
 - networking/team.txt was added by commit 3d249d4ca7 ("net: introduce
   ethernet teaming device")
 - networking/vxlan.txt was added by commit d342894c5d ("vxlan:
   virtual extensible lan")
 - power/runtime_pm.txt was added by commit 5e928f77a0 ("PM: Introduce
   core framework for run-time PM of I/O devices (rev.  17)")
 - power/charger-manager.txt was added by commit 3bb3dbbd56
   ("power_supply: Add initial Charger-Manager driver")
 - RCU/lockdep-splat.txt was added by commit d7bd2d68aa ("rcu:
   Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats")
 - s390/kvm.txt was added by 5ecee4b (KVM: s390: API documentation)
 - s390/qeth.txt was added by commit b4d72c08b3 ("qeth: bridgeport
   support - basic control")
 - scheduler/sched-bwc.txt was added by commit 88ebc08ea9 ("sched: Add
   documentation for bandwidth control")
 - scsi/advansys.txt was added by commit 4bd6d7f356 ("[SCSI] advansys:
   Move documentation to Documentation/scsi")
 - scsi/bfa.txt was added by commit 1ec90174bd ("[SCSI] bfa: add
   readme file")
 - scsi/bnx2fc.txt was added by commit 12b8fc10ea ("[SCSI] bnx2fc: Add
   driver documentation")
 - scsi/cxgb3i.txt was added by commit c3673464eb ("[SCSI] cxgb3i: Add
   cxgb3i iSCSI driver.")
 - scsi/hpsa.txt was added by commit 992ebcf14f ("[SCSI] hpsa: Add
   hpsa.txt to Documentation/scsi")
 - scsi/link_power_management_policy.txt was added by commit
   ca77329fb7 ("[libata] Link power management infrastructure")
 - scsi/osd.txt was added by commit 78e0c621de ("[SCSI] osd:
   Documentation for OSD library")
 - scsi/scsi-parameter.txt was created/moved by commit 163475fb11
   ("Documentation: move SCSI parameters to their own text file")
 - serial/driver was part of the initial repo
 - serial/n_gsm.txt was added by commit 323e84122e ("n_gsm: add a
   documentation")
 - timers/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812 ("docsrc: build
   Documentation/ sources")
 - virt/kvm/s390.txt was added by commit d9101fca3d ("KVM: s390:
   diagnose call documentation")
 - vm/split_page_table_lock was added by commit 49076ec2cc ("mm:
   dynamically allocate page->ptl if it cannot be embedded to struct
   page")
 - w1/slaves/w1_ds28e04 was added by commit fbf7f7b4e2 ("w1: Add
   1-wire slave device driver for DS28E04-100")
 - w1/masters/omap-hdq was added by commit e0a29382c6 ("hdq:
   documentation for OMAP HDQ")
 - x86/early-microcode.txt was added by commit 0d91ea86a8 ("x86, doc:
   Documentation for early microcode loading")
 - x86/earlyprintk.txt was added by commit a1aade4788 ("x86/doc:
   mini-howto for using earlyprintk=dbgp")
 - x86/entry_64.txt was added by commit 8b4777a4b5 ("x86-64: Document
   some of entry_64.S")
 - x86/pat.txt was added by commit d27554d874 ("x86: PAT
   documentation")

Moved files
 - arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt was moved out of arch/arm/kernel by
   commit 37b8304642 ("ARM: kuser: move interface documentation out of
   the source code")
 - efi-stub.txt was moved out of x86/ and down into Documentation/ in
   commit 4172fe2f8a ("EFI stub documentation updates")
 - laptops/hpfall.c was moved out of hwmon/ and into laptops/ in commit
   efcfed9bad ("Move hp_accel to drivers/platform/x86")
 - commit 5616c23ad9 ("x86: doc: move x86-generic documentation from
   Doc/x86/i386"):
   * x86/usb-legacy-support.txt
   * x86/boot.txt
   * x86/zero_page.txt
 - power/video_extension.txt was moved to acpi in commit 70e66e4df1
   ("ACPI / video: move video_extension.txt to Documentation/acpi")

Removed files (left in 00-INDEX)
 - memory.txt was removed by commit 00ea8990aa ("memory.txt: remove
   stray information")
 - gpio.txt was moved to gpio/ in commit fd8e198cfc ("Documentation:
   gpiolib: document new interface")
 - networking/DLINK.txt was removed by commit 168e06ae26
   ("drivers/net: delete old parallel port de600/de620 drivers")
 - serial/hayes-esp.txt was removed by commit f53a2ade0b ("tty: esp:
   remove broken driver")
 - s390/TAPE was removed by commit 9e280f6693 ("[S390] remove tape
   block docu")
 - vm/locking was removed by commit 57ea8171d2 ("mm: documentation:
   remove hopelessly out-of-date locking doc")
 - laptops/acer-wmi.txt was remvoed by commit 020036678e ("acer-wmi:
   Delete out-of-date documentation")

Typos/misc issues
 - rpc-server-gss.txt was added as knfsd-rpcgss.txt in commit
   030d794bf4 ("SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS
   authentication.")
 - commit b88cf73d92 ("net: add missing entries to
   Documentation/networking/00-INDEX")
   * generic-hdlc.txt was added as generic_hdlc.txt
   * spider_net.txt was added as spider-net.txt
 - w1/master/mxc-w1 was added as mxc_w1 by commit a5fd9139f7 ("w1: add
   1-wire master driver for i.MX27 / i.MX31")
 - s390/zfcpdump.txt was added as zfcpdump by commit 6920c12a40
   ("[S390] Add Documentation/s390/00-INDEX.")

Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>	[rcu bits]
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-02-10 16:01:40 -08:00
Dario Faggioli 712e5e34ae sched/deadline: Add sched_dl documentation
Add in Documentation/scheduler/ some hints about the design
choices, the usage and the future possible developments of the
sched_dl scheduling class and of the SCHED_DEADLINE policy.

Reviewed-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
[ Re-wrote sections 2 and 3. ]
Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390821615-23247-1-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-28 13:08:40 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 4b4d2b4634 H8/300 has been dead for several years, the kernel for it has
not compiled for ages, and recent versions of gcc for it are broken.
 Remove support for it.
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Merge tag 'h8300-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging

Pull h8300 platform removal from Guenter Roeck:
 "The patch series has been in -next for more than one relase cycle.  I
  did get a number of Acks, and no objections.

  H8/300 has been dead for several years, the kernel for it has not
  compiled for ages, and recent versions of gcc for it are broken.
  Remove support for it"

* tag 'h8300-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging:
  CREDITS: Add Yoshinori Sato for h8300
  fs/minix: Drop dependency on H8300
  Drop remaining references to H8/300 architecture
  Drop MAINTAINERS entry for H8/300
  watchdog: Drop references to H8300 architecture
  net/ethernet: Drop H8/300 Ethernet driver
  net/ethernet: smsc9194: Drop conditional code for H8/300
  ide: Drop H8/300 driver
  Drop support for Renesas H8/300 (h8300) architecture
2013-11-12 14:13:14 +09:00
Guenter Roeck 4b08478422 Drop support for Renesas H8/300 (h8300) architecture
H8/300 has been dead for several years, and the kernel for it
has not compiled for ages. Drop support for it.

Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
2013-09-16 18:19:04 -07:00
Li Bin 3b524d6094 sched/Documentation: Update sched-design-CFS.txt documentation
2bd2d6f2dc ("sched: Replace use of entity_key()") had remove the
entity_key() which function is to subtract a tasks vruntime by
its groups minvruntime as the rbtree key.
The phrase "there is a subtraction using rq->cfs.min_vruntime
to account for possible wraparounds" in documentation feels strange
and meaningless. So remove it.

Signed-off-by: Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1378706740-7500-1-git-send-email-huawei.libin@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-12 19:14:17 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 0a0fca9d83 sched: Rename sched.c as sched/core.c in comments and Documentation
Most of the stuff from kernel/sched.c was moved to kernel/sched/core.c long time
back and the comments/Documentation never got updated.

I figured it out when I was going through sched-domains.txt and so thought of
fixing it globally.

I haven't crossed check if the stuff that is referenced in sched/core.c by all
these files is still present and hasn't changed as that wasn't the motive behind
this patch.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cdff76a265326ab8d71922a1db5be599f20aad45.1370329560.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-19 12:58:42 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra f3e9478674 sched: Remove __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
Now that the last architecture to use this has stopped doing so (ARM,
thanks Catalin!) we can remove this complexity from the scheduler
core.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-g9p2a1w81xxbrze25v9zpzbf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-13 16:52:04 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 8e7fbcbc22 sched: Remove stale power aware scheduling remnants and dysfunctional knobs
It's been broken forever (i.e. it's not scheduling in a power
aware fashion), as reported by Suresh and others sending
patches, and nobody cares enough to fix it properly ...
so remove it to make space free for something better.

There's various problems with the code as it stands today, first
and foremost the user interface which is bound to topology
levels and has multiple values per level. This results in a
state explosion which the administrator or distro needs to
master and almost nobody does.

Furthermore large configuration state spaces aren't good, it
means the thing doesn't just work right because it's either
under so many impossibe to meet constraints, or even if
there's an achievable state workloads have to be aware of
it precisely and can never meet it for dynamic workloads.

So pushing this kind of decision to user-space was a bad idea
even with a single knob - it's exponentially worse with knobs
on every node of the topology.

There is a proposal to replace the user interface with a single
3 state knob:

 sched_balance_policy := { performance, power, auto }

where 'auto' would be the preferred default which looks at things
like Battery/AC mode and possible cpufreq state or whatever the hw
exposes to show us power use expectations - but there's been no
progress on it in the past many months.

Aside from that, the actual implementation of the various knobs
is known to be broken. There have been sporadic attempts at
fixing things but these always stop short of reaching a mergable
state.

Therefore this wholesale removal with the hopes of spurring
people who care to come forward once again and work on a
coherent replacement.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1326104915.2442.53.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-17 13:48:56 +02:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto 489a71b029 sched: Update documentation and comments
Change sched_*.c to sched/*.c in documentation and comments.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F795CAC.9080206@ct.jp.nec.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-07 15:04:18 +02:00
Rakib Mullick 30fd049afc sched: Remove sched_switch
Currently we don't utilize the sched_switch field anymore.

But, simply removing sched_switch field from the middle of the
sched_stat output will break tools.

So, to stay compatible we hardcode it to zero and remove the
field from the scheduler data structures.

Update the schedstat documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327422836.27181.5.camel@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-01-27 13:28:53 +01:00
Bharata B Rao 88ebc08ea9 sched: Add documentation for bandwidth control
Basic description of usage and effect for CFS Bandwidth Control.

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184758.498036116@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:03:58 +02:00
Jiri Kosina b7e9c223be Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Sync with Linus' tree to be able to apply pending patches that
are based on newer code already present upstream.
2011-07-11 14:15:55 +02:00
Jörg Sommer f6e07d3807 Documentation: update cgroupfs mount point
According to commit 676db4af04 ("cgroupfs: create /sys/fs/cgroup to
mount cgroupfs on") the canonical mountpoint for the cgroup filesystem
is /sys/fs/cgroup.  Hence, this should be used in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 21:52:50 -07:00
Wanlong Gao 25eb650a69 doc: fix wrong arch/i386 references
Change all "arch/i386" to "arch/x86" in Documentaion/,
since the directory has changed.

Also update the files which have changed their filename
in the meantime accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com>
[jkosina@suse.cz: reword changelog]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-06-13 13:43:05 +02:00
Borislav Petkov e2495b5773 sched, doc: Beef up load balancing description
Correct all function names pertaining to load balancing and explain
shortly how load balancing is performed.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1301241433-3790-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-31 13:00:35 +02:00
Borislav Petkov 1232d6132a sched, doc: Update sched-design-CFS.txt
Correct ->dequeue_tree() thinko into sched_class->dequeue_task
and drop all references to ->task_new() since it is obviously
gone.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1300815978-16618-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-23 14:09:41 +01:00
Javi Merino 1e1dbb259c sched, docs: Update schedstats documentation to version 15
Version 15 of schedstats was introduced in:

   67aa0f767af4: sched: remove unused fields from struct rq

and removed three unused counters in sched_yield(). Update
the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Javi Merino <cibervicho@gmail.com>
Cc: henrix@sapo.pt
Cc: rdunlap@xenotime.net
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1296515496-8229-1-git-send-email-cibervicho@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-01 09:07:13 +01:00
Michael Witten 1ed7c2077a Docs: typo: Complete -> Completely
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-11-02 22:47:39 -04:00
Li Zefan 25c2d55c00 sched: Remove USER_SCHED from documentation
USER_SCHED has been removed, so update the documentation
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BA9A07E.8070508@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02 20:12:01 +02:00
Wolfram Sang d4ec36bac3 sched: Documentation/sched-rt-group: Fix style issues & bump version
- add missing closing bracket
- fix two 80-chars issues (as the rest of the document adheres to it)
- bump a reference to kernel version, so the document does not feel aged

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1245580359-4465-1-git-send-email-w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-21 13:12:46 +02:00
Matt LaPlante 19f5946001 trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
Fix various typos in documentation txts.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
GeunSik Lim f04d82b7e0 sched: fix typo in sched-rt-group.txt file
Fix typo about static priority's range.

    Kernel Space                     User Space
    ===============================================================
      0(high) to  98(low)     user RT priority 99(high) to 1(low)
                              with SCHED_RR or SCHED_FIFO
    ---------------------------------------------------------------
     99                       sched_priority is not used in scheduling
                              decisions(it must be specified as 0)
    ---------------------------------------------------------------
    100(high) to 139(low)     user nice -20(high) to 19(low)
    ---------------------------------------------------------------
    140                       idle task priority
    ---------------------------------------------------------------
    * ref) http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/sched_setscheduler.2.html

Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-29 16:21:09 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 60aa605dfc sched: rt: document the risk of small values in the bandwidth settings
Thomas noted that we should disallow sysctl_sched_rt_runtime == 0 for
(!RT_GROUP) since the root group always has some RT tasks in it.

Further, update the documentation to inspire clue.

[ Impact: exclude corner-case sysctl_sched_rt_runtime value ]

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155436.863098054@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-05 20:07:57 +02:00
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo 21acb9caa2 trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to
cgroup documentation was moved to Documentation/cgroups/. There are some
places that still refer to Documentation/controllers/,
Documentation/cgroups.txt and Documentation/cpusets.txt. Fix those.

Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-03-30 15:22:02 +02:00
Wang Chen 72fd455ba5 sched, documentation: remove old O(1) scheduler document
Since we don't have O(1) scheduler implementation anymore,
remove the legacy doc.

Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02 12:02:52 +01:00
Li Zefan 45ce80fb6b cgroups: consolidate cgroup documents
Move Documentation/cpusets.txt and Documentation/controllers/* to
Documentation/cgroups/

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-15 16:39:37 -08:00
Linus Torvalds a39b863342 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (31 commits)
  sched: fix warning in fs/proc/base.c
  schedstat: consolidate per-task cpu runtime stats
  sched: use RCU variant of list traversal in for_each_leaf_rt_rq()
  sched, cpuacct: export percpu cpuacct cgroup stats
  sched, cpuacct: refactoring cpuusage_read / cpuusage_write
  sched: optimize update_curr()
  sched: fix wakeup preemption clock
  sched: add missing arch_update_cpu_topology() call
  sched: let arch_update_cpu_topology indicate if topology changed
  sched: idle_balance() does not call load_balance_newidle()
  sched: fix sd_parent_degenerate on non-numa smp machine
  sched: add uid information to sched_debug for CONFIG_USER_SCHED
  sched: move double_unlock_balance() higher
  sched: update comment for move_task_off_dead_cpu
  sched: fix inconsistency when redistribute per-cpu tg->cfs_rq shares
  sched/rt: removed unneeded defintion
  sched: add hierarchical accounting to cpu accounting controller
  sched: include group statistics in /proc/sched_debug
  sched: rename SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER => SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER
  sched: clean up SCHED_CPUMASK_ALLOC
  ...
2008-12-28 12:27:58 -08:00
Serge E. Hallyn 94d6a5f734 user namespaces: document CFS behavior
Documented the currently bogus state of support for CFS user groups with
user namespaces.  In particular, all users in a user namespace should be
children of the user which created the user namespace.  This is yet to
be implemented.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-12-09 09:25:53 +11:00
Randy Dunlap 90080bf4b8 sched, documentation: update scheduler header file paths
Impact: update documentation

Update Documentation/scheduler/ files to reflect changed header files locations.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 09:02:15 +01:00
Li Zefan a0e5ebdc1d sched: remove sched-design.txt from 00-INDEX
Impact: remove stale documentation reference

sched-design.txt has been removed.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-30 11:37:58 +01:00
Jiri Kosina 4078e359c4 sched: fix documentation reference for sched_min_granularity_ns
Impact: documentation fix

sched-design-CFS.txt wrongly references sched_granularity_ns sysctl,
as its name in fact is sched_min_granularity_ns.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-27 18:49:19 +01:00
Martin Steigerwald 1a73ef6ac3 CFS scheduler: documentation about scheduling policies
The documentation about the CFS scheduler is scarse when it comes to
scheduling policies. This patch adds a chapter about the scheduling
policies it supports. Peter Zijlstra provided most of the information
for it in

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122210038326356&w=2

Signed-off-by: Martin Steigerwald <ms@teamix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 13:49:44 +02:00
Claudio Scordino f58e2c33ff sched: new documentation about CFS
Rewrite of the CFS documentation - because the old one was sorely
out-dated.

Signed-off-by: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-21 08:17:24 +02:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto f7d62364b2 sched: fix typo in Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt
Fix minor typos.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-18 12:34:15 +02:00
Gautham R Shenoy e29c98d12b sched: update the sched-domains debug documentation
SCHED_DOMAIN_DEBUG mentioned in the Documentation for sched-domains
for enabling sched-domains debugging doesn't exist anymore.

Update the documentation to reflect the correct way of enabling
sched-domain debugging.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-06 15:19:39 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 733a0771df sched: remove old sched doc
Fabio Checconi noticed that Documentation/scheduler/sched-design.txt was
a stale copy of the old scheduler. Remove it.

Reported-by: Fabio Checconi <fabio@gandalf.sssup.it>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-05 23:56:17 +02:00
Viktor Radnai b9b158fe1c sched: better rt-group documentation
Viktor was nice enough to enhance the document based on my replies to
his questions on the subject.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:45:01 +02:00
J. Bruce Fields d396c5f158 Move sched-rt-group.txt to scheduler/
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-11 13:21:03 -06:00
Masatake YAMATO 9afa802ff5 Typo in Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt
I have found a very small typo in Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt.
See the end of this mail.

Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-10 18:01:19 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields 9b8eae7248 Documentation: create new scheduler/ subdirectory
The top-level Documentation/ directory is unmanageably large, so we
should take any obvious opportunities to move stuff into subdirectories.
These sched-*.txt files seem an obvious easy case.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00