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2020-12-16Merge tag 'pm-5.11-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "These update cpufreq (core and drivers), cpuidle (polling state implementation and the PSCI driver), the OPP (operating performance points) framework, devfreq (core and drivers), the power capping RAPL (Running Average Power Limit) driver, the Energy Model support, the generic power domains (genpd) framework, the ACPI device power management, the core system-wide suspend code and power management utilities. Specifics: - Use local_clock() instead of jiffies in the cpufreq statistics to improve accuracy (Viresh Kumar). - Fix up OPP usage in the cpufreq-dt and qcom-cpufreq-nvmem cpufreq drivers (Viresh Kumar). - Clean up the cpufreq core, the intel_pstate driver and the schedutil cpufreq governor (Rafael Wysocki). - Fix up error code paths in the sti-cpufreq and mediatek cpufreq drivers (Yangtao Li, Qinglang Miao). - Fix cpufreq_online() to return error codes instead of success (0) in all cases when it fails (Wang ShaoBo). - Add mt8167 support to the mediatek cpufreq driver and blacklist mt8516 in the cpufreq-dt-platdev driver (Fabien Parent). - Modify the tegra194 cpufreq driver to always return values from the frequency table as the current frequency and clean up that driver (Sumit Gupta, Jon Hunter). - Modify the arm_scmi cpufreq driver to allow it to discover the power scale present in the performance protocol and provide this information to the Energy Model (Lukasz Luba). - Add missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE to several cpufreq drivers (Pali Rohár). - Clean up the CPPC cpufreq driver (Ionela Voinescu). - Fix NVMEM_IMX_OCOTP dependency in the imx cpufreq driver (Arnd Bergmann). - Rework the poling interval selection for the polling state in cpuidle (Mel Gorman). - Enable suspend-to-idle for PSCI OSI mode in the PSCI cpuidle driver (Ulf Hansson). - Modify the OPP framework to support empty (node-less) OPP tables in DT for passing dependency information (Nicola Mazzucato). - Fix potential lockdep issue in the OPP core and clean up the OPP core (Viresh Kumar). - Modify dev_pm_opp_put_regulators() to accept a NULL argument and update its users accordingly (Viresh Kumar). - Add frequency changes tracepoint to devfreq (Matthias Kaehlcke). - Add support for governor feature flags to devfreq, make devfreq sysfs file permissions depend on the governor and clean up the devfreq core (Chanwoo Choi). - Clean up the tegra20 devfreq driver and deprecate it to allow another driver based on EMC_STAT to be used instead of it (Dmitry Osipenko). - Add interconnect support to the tegra30 devfreq driver, allow it to take the interconnect and OPP information from DT and clean it up (Dmitry Osipenko). - Add interconnect support to the exynos-bus devfreq driver along with interconnect properties documentation (Sylwester Nawrocki). - Add suport for AMD Fam17h and Fam19h processors to the RAPL power capping driver (Victor Ding, Kim Phillips). - Fix handling of overly long constraint names in the powercap framework (Lukasz Luba). - Fix the wakeup configuration handling for bridges in the ACPI device power management core (Rafael Wysocki). - Add support for using an abstract scale for power units in the Energy Model (EM) and document it (Lukasz Luba). - Add em_cpu_energy() micro-optimization to the EM (Pavankumar Kondeti). - Modify the generic power domains (genpd) framwework to support suspend-to-idle (Ulf Hansson). - Fix creation of debugfs nodes in genpd (Thierry Strudel). - Clean up genpd (Lina Iyer). - Clean up the core system-wide suspend code and make it print driver flags for devices with debug enabled (Alex Shi, Patrice Chotard, Chen Yu). - Modify the ACPI system reboot code to make it prepare for system power off to avoid confusing the platform firmware (Kai-Heng Feng). - Update the pm-graph (multiple changes, mostly usability-related) and cpupower (online and offline CPU information support) PM utilities (Todd Brandt, Brahadambal Srinivasan)" * tag 'pm-5.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (86 commits) cpufreq: Fix cpufreq_online() return value on errors cpufreq: Fix up several kerneldoc comments cpufreq: stats: Use local_clock() instead of jiffies cpufreq: schedutil: Simplify sugov_update_next_freq() cpufreq: intel_pstate: Simplify intel_cpufreq_update_pstate() PM: domains: create debugfs nodes when adding power domains opp: of: Allow empty opp-table with opp-shared dt-bindings: opp: Allow empty OPP tables media: venus: dev_pm_opp_put_*() accepts NULL argument drm/panfrost: dev_pm_opp_put_*() accepts NULL argument drm/lima: dev_pm_opp_put_*() accepts NULL argument PM / devfreq: exynos: dev_pm_opp_put_*() accepts NULL argument cpufreq: qcom-cpufreq-nvmem: dev_pm_opp_put_*() accepts NULL argument cpufreq: dt: dev_pm_opp_put_regulators() accepts NULL argument opp: Allow dev_pm_opp_put_*() APIs to accept NULL opp_table opp: Don't create an OPP table from dev_pm_opp_get_opp_table() cpufreq: dt: Don't (ab)use dev_pm_opp_get_opp_table() to create OPP table opp: Reduce the size of critical section in _opp_kref_release() PM / EM: Micro optimization in em_cpu_energy cpufreq: arm_scmi: Discover the power scale in performance protocol ...
2020-11-19Documentation: scheduler: fix information on arch SD flags, sched_domain and ↵Barry Song1-15/+11
sched_debug This document seems to be out of date for many, many years. Even it has misspelled from the first day. ARCH_HASH_SCHED_TUNE should be ARCH_HAS_SCHED_TUNE ARCH_HASH_SCHED_DOMAIN should be ARCH_HAS_SCHED_DOMAIN Since v2.6.14, kernel completely deleted the relevant code and even arch_init_sched_domains() was deleted. Right now, kernel is asking architectures to call set_sched_topology() to override the default sched domains. On the other hand, to print the schedule debug information, users need to set sched_debug cmdline or enable it by sysfs entry. So this patch also adds the description for sched_debug. Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201113115018.1628-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com
2020-11-10PM: EM: Clarify abstract scale usage for power values in Energy ModelLukasz Luba1-0/+5
The Energy Model (EM) can store power values in milli-Watts or in abstract scale. This might cause issues in the subsystems which use the EM for estimating the device power, such as: - mixing of different scales in a subsystem which uses multiple (cooling) devices (e.g. thermal Intelligent Power Allocation (IPA)) - assuming that energy [milli-Joules] can be derived from the EM power values which might not be possible since the power scale doesn't have to be in milli-Watts To avoid misconfiguration add the requisite documentation to the EM and related subsystems: EAS and IPA. Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2020-09-10docs: scheduler: fix the directory name on two filesMauro Carvalho Chehab2-2/+2
The name of the directory where the schedule docs are stored are wrong on those files. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a32c2bba17aa69dc18670b7de1a3a35bfa1e1f88.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-08-01sched/doc: Factorize bits between sched-energy.rst & sched-capacity.rstValentin Schneider1-10/+2
Documentation/scheduler/sched-capacity.rst ought to be the canonical place to blabber about SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY, so remove its explanation from sched-energy.rst and point to sched-capacity.rst instead. Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200731192016.7484-4-valentin.schneider@arm.com
2020-08-01sched/doc: Document capacity aware schedulingValentin Schneider2-0/+440
Add some documentation detailing the concepts, requirements and implementation of capacity aware scheduling across the different scheduler classes. Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200731192016.7484-3-valentin.schneider@arm.com
2020-04-21Documentation: scheduler: fix outdated information on sched groupsAdrian Freund1-4/+6
The documentation claims that two sched groups must not overlap. This is no longer true, as overlapping sched groups are used on NUMA systems. This change has been introduced by commit e3589f6c81e47 and was documented by an in-code comment in commit 35a566e6e8a18. Signed-off-by: Adrian Freund <adrian@freund.io> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200407130525.76663-1-adrian@freund.io Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-10-29Documentation/scheduler: fix links in sched-statsAndre Azevedo1-2/+2
The rain.com domain recently moved to pdxhosts.com, making the scheduler documentation point to broken links. Fix the links in the scheduler documentation. CC: Rick Lindsley <ricklind@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andre Azevedo <andre.azevedo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-08-08sched/fair: Fix low cpu usage with high throttling by removing expiration of ↵Dave Chiluk1-14/+60
cpu-local slices It has been observed, that highly-threaded, non-cpu-bound applications running under cpu.cfs_quota_us constraints can hit a high percentage of periods throttled while simultaneously not consuming the allocated amount of quota. This use case is typical of user-interactive non-cpu bound applications, such as those running in kubernetes or mesos when run on multiple cpu cores. This has been root caused to cpu-local run queue being allocated per cpu bandwidth slices, and then not fully using that slice within the period. At which point the slice and quota expires. This expiration of unused slice results in applications not being able to utilize the quota for which they are allocated. The non-expiration of per-cpu slices was recently fixed by 'commit 512ac999d275 ("sched/fair: Fix bandwidth timer clock drift condition")'. Prior to that it appears that this had been broken since at least 'commit 51f2176d74ac ("sched/fair: Fix unlocked reads of some cfs_b->quota/period")' which was introduced in v3.16-rc1 in 2014. That added the following conditional which resulted in slices never being expired. if (cfs_rq->runtime_expires != cfs_b->runtime_expires) { /* extend local deadline, drift is bounded above by 2 ticks */ cfs_rq->runtime_expires += TICK_NSEC; Because this was broken for nearly 5 years, and has recently been fixed and is now being noticed by many users running kubernetes (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/67577) it is my opinion that the mechanisms around expiring runtime should be removed altogether. This allows quota already allocated to per-cpu run-queues to live longer than the period boundary. This allows threads on runqueues that do not use much CPU to continue to use their remaining slice over a longer period of time than cpu.cfs_period_us. However, this helps prevent the above condition of hitting throttling while also not fully utilizing your cpu quota. This theoretically allows a machine to use slightly more than its allotted quota in some periods. This overflow would be bounded by the remaining quota left on each per-cpu runqueueu. This is typically no more than min_cfs_rq_runtime=1ms per cpu. For CPU bound tasks this will change nothing, as they should theoretically fully utilize all of their quota in each period. For user-interactive tasks as described above this provides a much better user/application experience as their cpu utilization will more closely match the amount they requested when they hit throttling. This means that cpu limits no longer strictly apply per period for non-cpu bound applications, but that they are still accurate over longer timeframes. This greatly improves performance of high-thread-count, non-cpu bound applications with low cfs_quota_us allocation on high-core-count machines. In the case of an artificial testcase (10ms/100ms of quota on 80 CPU machine), this commit resulted in almost 30x performance improvement, while still maintaining correct cpu quota restrictions. That testcase is available at https://github.com/indeedeng/fibtest. Fixes: 512ac999d275 ("sched/fair: Fix bandwidth timer clock drift condition") Signed-off-by: Dave Chiluk <chiluk+linux@indeed.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: John Hammond <jhammond@indeed.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kyle Anderson <kwa@yelp.com> Cc: Gabriel Munos <gmunoz@netflix.com> Cc: Peter Oskolkov <posk@posk.io> Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <bgregg@netflix.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1563900266-19734-2-git-send-email-chiluk+linux@indeed.com
2019-07-16Merge tag 'docs/v5.3-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds4-5/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media Pull rst conversion of docs from Mauro Carvalho Chehab: "As agreed with Jon, I'm sending this big series directly to you, c/c him, as this series required a special care, in order to avoid conflicts with other trees" * tag 'docs/v5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (77 commits) docs: kbuild: fix build with pdf and fix some minor issues docs: block: fix pdf output docs: arm: fix a breakage with pdf output docs: don't use nested tables docs: gpio: add sysfs interface to the admin-guide docs: locking: add it to the main index docs: add some directories to the main documentation index docs: add SPDX tags to new index files docs: add a memory-devices subdir to driver-api docs: phy: place documentation under driver-api docs: serial: move it to the driver-api docs: driver-api: add remaining converted dirs to it docs: driver-api: add xilinx driver API documentation docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents docs: cgroup-v1: add it to the admin-guide book docs: aoe: add it to the driver-api book docs: add some documentation dirs to the driver-api book docs: driver-model: move it to the driver-api book docs: lp855x-driver.rst: add it to the driver-api book ...
2019-07-16Merge tag 'pci-v5.3-changes' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-3/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci Pull PCI updates from Bjorn Helgaas: "Enumeration changes: - Evaluate PCI Boot Configuration _DSM to learn if firmware wants us to preserve its resource assignments (Benjamin Herrenschmidt) - Simplify resource distribution (Nicholas Johnson) - Decode 32 GT/s link speed (Gustavo Pimentel) Virtualization: - Fix incorrect caching of VF config space size (Alex Williamson) - Fix VF driver probing sysfs knobs (Alex Williamson) Peer-to-peer DMA: - Fix dma_virt_ops check (Logan Gunthorpe) Altera host bridge driver: - Allow building as module (Ley Foon Tan) Armada 8K host bridge driver: - add PHYs support (Miquel Raynal) DesignWare host bridge driver: - Export APIs to support removable loadable module (Vidya Sagar) - Enable Relaxed Ordering erratum workaround only on Tegra20 & Tegra30 (Vidya Sagar) Hyper-V host bridge driver: - Fix use-after-free in eject (Dexuan Cui) Mobiveil host bridge driver: - Clean up and fix many issues, including non-identify mapped windows, 64-bit windows, multi-MSI, class code, INTx clearing (Hou Zhiqiang) Qualcomm host bridge driver: - Use clk bulk API for 2.4.0 controllers (Bjorn Andersson) - Add QCS404 support (Bjorn Andersson) - Assert PERST for at least 100ms (Niklas Cassel) R-Car host bridge driver: - Add r8a774a1 DT support (Biju Das) Tegra host bridge driver: - Add support for Gen2, opportunistic UpdateFC and ACK (PCIe protocol details) AER, GPIO-based PERST# (Manikanta Maddireddy) - Fix many issues, including power-on failure cases, interrupt masking in suspend, UPHY settings, AFI dynamic clock gating, pending DLL transactions (Manikanta Maddireddy) Xilinx host bridge driver: - Fix NWL Multi-MSI programming (Bharat Kumar Gogada) Endpoint support: - Fix 64bit BAR support (Alan Mikhak) - Fix pcitest build issues (Alan Mikhak, Andy Shevchenko) Bug fixes: - Fix NVIDIA GPU multi-function power dependencies (Abhishek Sahu) - Fix NVIDIA GPU HDA enablement issue (Lukas Wunner) - Ignore lockdep for sysfs "remove" (Marek Vasut) Misc: - Convert docs to reST (Changbin Du, Mauro Carvalho Chehab)" * tag 'pci-v5.3-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (107 commits) PCI: Enable NVIDIA HDA controllers tools: PCI: Fix installation when `make tools/pci_install` PCI: dwc: pci-dra7xx: Fix compilation when !CONFIG_GPIOLIB PCI: Fix typos and whitespace errors PCI: mobiveil: Fix INTx interrupt clearing in mobiveil_pcie_isr() PCI: mobiveil: Fix infinite-loop in the INTx handling function PCI: mobiveil: Move PCIe PIO enablement out of inbound window routine PCI: mobiveil: Add upper 32-bit PCI base address setup in inbound window PCI: mobiveil: Add upper 32-bit CPU base address setup in outbound window PCI: mobiveil: Mask out hardcoded bits in inbound/outbound windows setup PCI: mobiveil: Clear the control fields before updating it PCI: mobiveil: Add configured inbound windows counter PCI: mobiveil: Fix the valid check for inbound and outbound windows PCI: mobiveil: Clean-up program_{ib/ob}_windows() PCI: mobiveil: Remove an unnecessary return value check PCI: mobiveil: Fix error return values PCI: mobiveil: Refactor the MEM/IO outbound window initialization PCI: mobiveil: Make some register updates more readable PCI: mobiveil: Reformat the code for readability dt-bindings: PCI: mobiveil: Change gpio_slave and apb_csr to optional ...
2019-07-15docs: driver-api: add remaining converted dirs to itMauro Carvalho Chehab1-2/+0
There are a number of driver-specific descriptions that contain a mix of userspace and kernelspace documentation. Just like we did with other similar subsystems, add them at the driver-api groupset, but don't move the directories. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15docs: cgroup-v1: add it to the admin-guide bookMauro Carvalho Chehab3-3/+3
Those files belong to the admin guide, so add them. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-09Merge tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds12-236/+334
Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs: - A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on. - A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos, and one on Spectre vulnerabilities. - Various improvements to the build system, including automatic markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I will never understand, were of the opinion that :c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type. - We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4. - Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits) docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/ Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used ...
2019-07-09Merge branch 'for-5.3' of ↵Linus Torvalds3-3/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: "Documentation updates and the addition of cgroup_parse_float() which will be used by new controllers including blk-iocost" * 'for-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: docs: cgroup-v1: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst cgroup: Move cgroup_parse_float() implementation out of CONFIG_SYSFS cgroup: add cgroup_parse_float()
2019-06-17sched/fair: Fix "runnable_avg_yN_inv" not used warningsQian Cai1-1/+2
runnable_avg_yN_inv[] is only used in kernel/sched/pelt.c but was included in several other places because they need other macros all came from kernel/sched/sched-pelt.h which was generated by Documentation/scheduler/sched-pelt. As the result, it causes compilation a lot of warnings, kernel/sched/sched-pelt.h:4:18: warning: 'runnable_avg_yN_inv' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=] kernel/sched/sched-pelt.h:4:18: warning: 'runnable_avg_yN_inv' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=] kernel/sched/sched-pelt.h:4:18: warning: 'runnable_avg_yN_inv' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=] ... Silence it by appending the __maybe_unused attribute for it, so all generated variables and macros can still be kept in the same file. Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1559596304-31581-1-git-send-email-cai@lca.pw Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-06-15docs: power: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab1-3/+3
Convert the PM documents to ReST, in order to allow them to build with Sphinx. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and indentation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>
2019-06-14docs: scheduler: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab12-236/+334
In order to prepare to add them to the Kernel API book, convert the files to ReST format. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-06-14docs: cgroup-v1: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab3-3/+3
Convert the cgroup-v1 files to ReST format, in order to allow a later addition to the admin-guide. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2019-01-27sched/doc: Document Energy Aware SchedulingQuentin Perret1-0/+425
Add some documentation detailing the main design points of EAS, as well as a list of its dependencies. Parts of this documentation are taken from Morten Rasmussen's original EAS posting: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/7/754 Co-authored-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: corbet@lwn.net Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: patrick.bellasi@arm.com Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190110110546.8101-3-quentin.perret@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-10-24Merge tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2-19/+2
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome readability improvements for the formatted output, some LICENSES updates including the addition of the ISC license, the removal of the unloved and unmaintained 00-INDEX files, the deprecated APIs document from Kees, more MM docs from Mike Rapoport, and the usual pile of typo fixes and corrections" * tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (41 commits) docs: Fix typos in histogram.rst docs: Introduce deprecated APIs list kernel-doc: fix declaration type determination doc: fix a typo in adding-syscalls.rst docs/admin-guide: memory-hotplug: remove table of contents doc: printk-formats: Remove bogus kobject references for device nodes Documentation: preempt-locking: Use better example dm flakey: Document "error_writes" feature docs/completion.txt: Fix a couple of punctuation nits LICENSES: Add ISC license text LICENSES: Add note to CDDL-1.0 license that it should not be used docs/core-api: memory-hotplug: add some details about locking internals docs/core-api: rename memory-hotplug-notifier to memory-hotplug docs: improve readability for people with poorer eyesight yama: clarify ptrace_scope=2 in Yama documentation docs/vm: split memory hotplug notifier description to Documentation/core-api docs: move memory hotplug description into admin-guide/mm doc: Fix acronym "FEKEK" in ecryptfs docs: fix some broken documentation references iommu: Fix passthrough option documentation ...
2018-10-17sched/completions/Documentation: Add recommendation for dynamic and ONSTACK ↵Nicholas Mc Guire1-8/+34
completions To prevent dynamic completion objects from being de-allocated while still in use, add a recommendation to embed them in long lived data structures. Also add a note for the on-stack case that emphasizes the dangers of the limited scope, and recommends dynamic allocation if scope limitations are not clearly understood. [ mingo: Minor touch-ups of the text, expanded it a bit to make the warnings Nicholas added more prominent. ] Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john.garry@huawei.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1539697539-24055-1-git-send-email-hofrat@osadl.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-10-12docs/completion.txt: Fix a couple of punctuation nitsJohn Garry1-3/+3
This patch fixes a couple of punctuation nits which can make the document more correct and readable. Also missing "()" are added to some function references for consistency. Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-10-11sched/completions/Documentation: Clean up the document some moreIngo Molnar1-108/+125
Refresh the document: - Remove unnecessary liguistic complexity and improve the clarity of the text - Improve the explanations all around - Remove unnecessary and stale version info - Fix whitespace noise - Make pseudo-code match kernel style - Fix minor syntax errors in pseudo-code - Use consistent denotation - Mark multi-CPU sequences more explicitly - Unbreak line breaks - Use quotes to refer to 'struct completion' - Use 'IRQ context' and 'IRQs' consistently - Improve grammar - etc. Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: corbet@lwn.net Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1539183392-239389-1-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-10-11sched/completions/Documentation: Fix a couple of punctuation nitsJohn Garry1-3/+3
This patch fixes a couple of punctuation nits which can make the document more correct and readable. Also missing "()" are added to some function references for consistency. Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: corbet@lwn.net Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1539183392-239389-1-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-09-10Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/Henrik Austad1-18/+0
This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned) and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox. The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their usefulness is brought into question. Often a simple "ls" would reveal the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers) A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps it is time to just throw them out. A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX. List of outdated 00-INDEX: Documentation: (4/10) Documentation/sysctl: (0/1) Documentation/timers: (1/0) Documentation/blockdev: (3/1) Documentation/w1/slaves: (0/1) Documentation/locking: (0/1) Documentation/devicetree: (0/5) Documentation/power: (1/1) Documentation/powerpc: (0/5) Documentation/arm: (1/0) Documentation/x86: (0/9) Documentation/x86/x86_64: (1/1) Documentation/scsi: (4/4) Documentation/filesystems: (2/9) Documentation/filesystems/nfs: (0/2) Documentation/cgroup-v1: (0/2) Documentation/kbuild: (0/4) Documentation/spi: (1/0) Documentation/virtual/kvm: (1/0) Documentation/scheduler: (0/2) Documentation/fb: (0/1) Documentation/block: (0/1) Documentation/networking: (6/37) Documentation/vm: (1/3) Then there are 364 subdirectories in Documentation/ with several files that are missing 00-INDEX alltogether (and another 120 with a single file and no 00-INDEX). I don't really have an opinion to whether or not we /should/ have 00-INDEX, but the above 00-INDEX should either be removed or be kept up to date. If we should keep the files, I can try to keep them updated, but I rather not if we just want to delete them anyway. As a starting point, remove all index-files and references to 00-INDEX and see where the discussion is going. Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: [Almost everybody else] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-14sched/deadline/Documentation: Add overrun signal and GRUB-PA documentationClaudio Scordino1-1/+24
Signed-off-by: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522741362-4542-1-git-send-email-claudio@evidence.eu.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-11-16sched/deadline: Fix the description of runtime accounting in the documentationClaudio Scordino1-3/+10
Signed-off-by: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1510658366-28995-1-git-send-email-claudio@evidence.eu.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-08sched/deadline: Add documentation about GRUB reclaimingClaudio Scordino1-0/+168
This patch adds the documentation about the GRUB reclaiming algorithm, adding a few details discussed in list. Signed-off-by: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495138417-6203-11-git-send-email-luca.abeni@santannapisa.it Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-04-14sched/Documentation: Add 'sched-pelt' toolYuyang Du1-0/+108
Add a user-space program to compute/generate the PELT constants. The kernel/sched/sched-pelt.h header will contain the output of this program. Signed-off-by: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: bsegall@google.com Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: matt@codeblueprint.co.uk Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486935863-25251-2-git-send-email-yuyang.du@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-01-22sched/Documentation/sched-rt-group: Fix incorrect exampleZhou Chengming1-4/+4
I feel that the example given in the document to show the possibility of task starvation of configurable period is wrong. The example says group A and B both have 50% bandwidth, and a while (1) loop in A will run for the full period of B and can starve B's tasks. So I think the runtime of group A should be 50000us, then the period and runtime of group B should be 50000us and 25000us. Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@huawei.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: corbet@lwn.net Cc: iamyooon@gmail.com Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: lizefan@huawei.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485069755-44287-1-git-send-email-zhouchengming1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-01-14sched/deadline: Show leftover runtime and abs deadline in /proc/*/schedTommaso Cucinotta1-0/+6
This patch allows for reading the current (leftover) runtime and absolute deadline of a SCHED_DEADLINE task through /proc/*/sched (entries dl.runtime and dl.deadline), while debugging/testing. Signed-off-by: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it> Acked-by: Daniel Bistrot de Oliveira <danielbristot@gmail.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477473437-10346-2-git-send-email-tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-11-17docs/completion.txt: drop dangling reference to completions-design.txtBrian Norris1-2/+1
Per the original author, the proposed document was never deemed necessary, and the important bits got merged into completion.txt. Let's just stop confusing readers by pointing at a nonexistent doc. Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-10sched/deadline: Document behavior of sched_yield()Tommaso Cucinotta1-0/+18
This is a documentation only patch, explaining the behavior of sched_yield() when a SCHED_DEADLINE task calls it (give up remaining runtime and be throttled until next period begins). Signed-off-by: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it> Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-dl@retis.sssup.it Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473443117-11794-2-git-send-email-tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-08-04Documenation: update cgroup's document pathseokhoon.yoon3-3/+3
cgroup's document path is changed to "cgroup-v1". update it. Signed-off-by: seokhoon.yoon <iamyooon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-05-19sched/dl/Documentation: Split Section 3Luca Abeni1-0/+16
Introduce 4 subsections to make Section 3 more readable. Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: henrik@austad.us Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com Cc: raistlin@linux.it Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431954032-16473-10-git-send-email-luca.abeni@unitn.it Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19sched/dl/Documentation: Clarify the relationship between tasks' deadlines ↵Luca Abeni1-3/+11
and absolute scheduling deadlines Clarify what is the relationship between tasks' parameters and scheduling parameters, explaining how to set the scheduling parameters so that all the absolute deadlines of a task are respected. Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: henrik@austad.us Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com Cc: raistlin@linux.it Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431954032-16473-9-git-send-email-luca.abeni@unitn.it Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19sched/dl/Documentation: Add some referencesLuca Abeni1-6/+67
Add a description of the Dhall's effect, some discussion about schedulability tests for global EDF, and references to real-time literature. Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: henrik@austad.us Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com Cc: raistlin@linux.it Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431954032-16473-8-git-send-email-luca.abeni@unitn.it Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19sched/dl/Documentation: Add some notes on EDF schedulabilityLuca Abeni1-3/+42
Add a short discussion about sufficient and necessary schedulability tests, and add a simple example showing that if D_i != P_i then density based tests are only sufficient. Also add some references to scientific papers on schedulability tests for EDF that are both necessary and sufficient, and on their computational complexity. Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: henrik@austad.us Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com Cc: raistlin@linux.it Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431954032-16473-7-git-send-email-luca.abeni@unitn.it Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19sched/dl/Documentation: Clarify indexing notationLuca Abeni1-5/+5
The "_i" index is used in this document to to denote a particular task, so "sum_i", "max_i" and "min_i" might be confusing. Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: henrik@austad.us Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com Cc: raistlin@linux.it Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431954032-16473-6-git-send-email-luca.abeni@unitn.it Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19sched/dl/Documentation: Use consistent namingLuca Abeni1-2/+2
The name "C_i" was used (without previously defining it) instead of "WCET_i". Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: henrik@austad.us Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com Cc: raistlin@linux.it Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431954032-16473-5-git-send-email-luca.abeni@unitn.it Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19sched/dl/Documentation: Fix typosLuca Abeni1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: henrik@austad.us Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com Cc: raistlin@linux.it Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431954032-16473-4-git-send-email-luca.abeni@unitn.it Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19sched/dl/Documentation: Switch to American EnglishLuca Abeni1-16/+16
This file previously mixed American and British English; switch to American for consistency. Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: henrik@austad.us Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com Cc: raistlin@linux.it Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431954032-16473-3-git-send-email-luca.abeni@unitn.it Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19sched/dl/Documentation: Correct the definition of density as C_i/min{D_i,P_i}Zhiqiang Zhang1-2/+2
C_i/min{D_i,T_i}, where T_i is not referred before, should be substituted with C_i/min{D_i,P_i}. Signed-off-by: Zhiqiang Zhang <zhangzhiqiang.zhang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: henrik@austad.us Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com Cc: raistlin@linux.it Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431954032-16473-2-git-send-email-luca.abeni@unitn.it Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-04docs/completion.txt: Various tweaks and correctionsJonathan Corbet1-29/+30
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>
2015-04-04doc: completion: context, scope and language fixesNicholas Mc Guire1-44/+55
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>
2015-01-30doc: brief user documentation for completionNicholas Mc Guire1-0/+236
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>
2014-09-16Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt: Add minimal main() appendixJuri Lelli1-0/+126
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>
2014-09-16Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt: Add tests suite appendixJuri Lelli1-0/+52
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>
2014-09-16Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt: Improve and clarify AC bitsLuca Abeni1-17/+82
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>