kernel/include/uapi/linux/taskstats.h, branch linux-5.4.y

delayacct: track delays from thrashing cache pages

2018-10-26T23:26:32Z

Delay accounting already measures the time a task spends in direct reclaim and waiting for swapin, but in low memory situations tasks spend can spend a significant amount of their time waiting on thrashing page cache. This isn't tracked right now. To know the full impact of memory contention on an individual task, measure the delay when waiting for a recently evicted active cache page to read back into memory. Also update tools/accounting/getdelays.c: [hannes@computer accounting]$ sudo ./getdelays -d -p 1 print delayacct stats ON PID 1 CPU count real total virtual total delay total delay average 50318 745000000 847346785 400533713 0.008ms IO count delay total delay average 435 122601218 0ms SWAP count delay total delay average 0 0 0ms RECLAIM count delay total delay average 0 0 0ms THRASHING count delay total delay average 19 12621439 0ms Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828172258.3185-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Tested-by: Daniel Drake Tested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Christopher Lameter Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Enderborg Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Vinayak Menon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license

2017-11-02T10:20:11Z

Many user space API headers have licensing information, which is either incomplete, badly formatted or just a shorthand for referring to the license under which the file is supposed to be. This makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license. Update these files with an SPDX license identifier. The identifier was chosen based on the license information in the file. GPL/LGPL licensed headers get the matching GPL/LGPL SPDX license identifier with the added 'WITH Linux-syscall-note' exception, which is the officially assigned exception identifier for the kernel syscall exception: NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". This exception makes it possible to include GPL headers into non GPL code, without confusing license compliance tools. Headers which have either explicit dual licensing or are just licensed under a non GPL license are updated with the corresponding SPDX identifier and the GPLv2 with syscall exception identifier. The format is: ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR SPDX-ID-OF-OTHER-LICENSE) SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. The update does not remove existing license information as this has to be done on a case by case basis and the copyright holders might have to be consulted. This will happen in a separate step. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. See the previous patch in this series for the methodology of how this patch was researched. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux

2012-10-13T09:46:48Z

Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Dave Jones