)]}' { "log": [ { "commit": "bb90110dcb9e93bf79e3c988abc6cbcabd46d57f", "tree": "0c082570bea12431636bd44fe470ebc0c9a6d8ab", "parents": [ "ee78b0a61f0514ffc3d59257fbe6863b43477829" ], "author": { "name": "Kawai, Hidehiro", "email": "hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com", "time": "Thu Jul 19 01:48:31 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Thu Jul 19 10:04:47 2007 -0700" }, "message": "coredump masking: documentation for /proc/pid/coredump_filter\n\nThis patch adds the documentation for /proc/\u003cpid\u003e/coredump_filter.\n\nSigned-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai \u003chidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com\u003e\nCc: Alan Cox \u003calan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk\u003e\nCc: David Howells \u003cdhowells@redhat.com\u003e\nCc: Hugh Dickins \u003chugh@veritas.com\u003e\nCc: Nick Piggin \u003cnickpiggin@yahoo.com.au\u003e\nCc: \"Randy.Dunlap\" \u003crdunlap@xenotime.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "bdf4c48af20a3b0f01671799ace345e3d49576da", "tree": "7c3b903d2de1cba6e212ad6f347bc8742b08035a", "parents": [ "b111757c50ee30dad162192df6168e270a90c252" ], "author": { "name": "Peter Zijlstra", "email": "a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl", "time": "Thu Jul 19 01:48:15 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Thu Jul 19 10:04:45 2007 -0700" }, "message": "audit: rework execve audit\n\nThe purpose of audit_bprm() is to log the argv array to a userspace daemon at\nthe end of the execve system call. Since user-space hasn\u0027t had time to run,\nthis array is still in pristine state on the process\u0027 stack; so no need to\ncopy it, we can just grab it from there.\n\nIn order to minimize the damage to audit_log_*() copy each string into a\ntemporary kernel buffer first.\n\nCurrently the audit code requires that the full argument vector fits in a\nsingle packet. So currently it does clip the argv size to a (sysctl) limit,\nbut only when execve auditing is enabled.\n\nIf the audit protocol gets extended to allow for multiple packets this check\ncan be removed.\n\nSigned-off-by: Peter Zijlstra \u003ca.p.zijlstra@chello.nl\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Ollie Wild \u003caaw@google.com\u003e\nCc: \u003clinux-audit@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ed7ed365172e27b0efe9d43cc962723c7193e34e", "tree": "6c22daf6908f92c64aae2b425e6383fe0ed404ac", "parents": [ "396faf0303d273219db5d7eb4a2879ad977ed185" ], "author": { "name": "Mel Gorman", "email": "mel@csn.ul.ie", "time": "Tue Jul 17 04:03:14 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue Jul 17 10:22:59 2007 -0700" }, "message": "handle kernelcore\u003d: generic\n\nThis patch adds the kernelcore\u003d parameter for x86.\n\nOnce all patches are applied, a new command-line parameter exist and a new\nsysctl. This patch adds the necessary documentation.\n\nFrom: Yasunori Goto \u003cy-goto@jp.fujitsu.com\u003e\n\n When \"kernelcore\" boot option is specified, kernel can\u0027t boot up on ia64\n because of an infinite loop. In addition, the parsing code can be handled\n in an architecture-independent manner.\n\n This patch uses common code to handle the kernelcore\u003d parameter. It is\n only available to architectures that support arch-independent zone-sizing\n (i.e. define CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP). Other architectures will\n ignore the boot parameter.\n\n[bunk@stusta.de: make cmdline_parse_kernelcore() static]\nSigned-off-by: Mel Gorman \u003cmel@csn.ul.ie\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Yasunori Goto \u003cy-goto@jp.fujitsu.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Andy Whitcroft \u003capw@shadowen.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "18d96779d92902d2113b6f39bd2d42e805fa05e7", "tree": "83b7fafe628c4d793dbe682b1a2a91d0148e3f82", "parents": [ "9e6077bd84a7bffa73b59d9704682aeab5781fa0" ], "author": { "name": "Kees Cook", "email": "kees@outflux.net", "time": "Sun Jul 15 23:40:38 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Jul 16 09:05:45 2007 -0700" }, "message": "Documentation: /proc/$pid/stat files\n\nDocumentation for the /proc/$pid/stat file.\n\nSigned-off-by: Kees Cook \u003ckees@outflux.net\u003e\nCc: Rob Landley \u003crob@landley.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "8b60756a628a73bc8bf8b59d8716cb3f09b7e7eb", "tree": "97ae34be8647f28bf12b0150fd94d90c2b35ad49", "parents": [ "1591275cb57bc5df7ff59774b85c8af84bc45e87" ], "author": { "name": "Randy Dunlap", "email": "randy.dunlap@oracle.com", "time": "Wed May 09 07:19:14 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@stusta.de", "time": "Wed May 09 07:19:14 2007 +0200" }, "message": "Fix more \"deprecated\" spellos.\n\nSigned-off-by: Randy Dunlap \u003crandy.dunlap@oracle.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@stusta.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "5096add84b9e96e2e0a9c72675c442fe5433388a", "tree": "f0444013cb7db32596d2b6febafc1ee4c2a4ea1f", "parents": [ "4a1ccb5b1eff949a90ab830869cb23d6609c3d5f" ], "author": { "name": "Kees Cook", "email": "kees@outflux.net", "time": "Tue May 08 00:26:04 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue May 08 11:15:02 2007 -0700" }, "message": "proc: maps protection\n\nThe /proc/pid/ \"maps\", \"smaps\", and \"numa_maps\" files contain sensitive\ninformation about the memory location and usage of processes. Issues:\n\n- maps should not be world-readable, especially if programs expect any\n kind of ASLR protection from local attackers.\n- maps cannot just be 0400 because \"-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE\u003d2 -O2\" makes glibc\n check the maps when %n is in a *printf call, and a setuid(getuid())\n process wouldn\u0027t be able to read its own maps file. (For reference\n see http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/22/150)\n- a system-wide toggle is needed to allow prior behavior in the case of\n non-root applications that depend on access to the maps contents.\n\nThis change implements a check using \"ptrace_may_attach\" before allowing\naccess to read the maps contents. To control this protection, the new knob\n/proc/sys/kernel/maps_protect has been added, with corresponding updates to\nthe procfs documentation.\n\n[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]\n[akpm@linux-foundation.org: New sysctl numbers are old hat]\nSigned-off-by: Kees Cook \u003ckees@outflux.net\u003e\nCc: Arjan van de Ven \u003carjan@infradead.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "b813e931b4c8235bb42e301096ea97dbdee3e8fe", "tree": "f8182687bffe8e3b95bac69b2cc7fdfe674ddc53", "parents": [ "f79f177c25016647cc92ffac8afa7cb96ce47011" ], "author": { "name": "David Rientjes", "email": "rientjes@google.com", "time": "Sun May 06 14:49:24 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon May 07 12:12:52 2007 -0700" }, "message": "smaps: add clear_refs file to clear reference\n\nAdds /proc/pid/clear_refs. When any non-zero number is written to this file,\npte_mkold() and ClearPageReferenced() is called for each pte and its\ncorresponding page, respectively, in that task\u0027s VMAs. This file is only\nwritable by the user who owns the task.\n\nIt is now possible to measure _approximately_ how much memory a task is using\nby clearing the reference bits with\n\n\techo 1 \u003e /proc/pid/clear_refs\n\nand checking the reference count for each VMA from the /proc/pid/smaps output\nat a measured time interval. For example, to observe the approximate change\nin memory footprint for a task, write a script that clears the references\n(echo 1 \u003e /proc/pid/clear_refs), sleeps, and then greps for Pgs_Referenced and\nextracts the size in kB. Add the sizes for each VMA together for the total\nreferenced footprint. Moments later, repeat the process and observe the\ndifference.\n\nFor example, using an efficient Mozilla:\n\n\taccumulated time\t\treferenced memory\n\t----------------\t\t-----------------\n\t\t 0 s\t\t\t\t 408 kB\n\t\t 1 s\t\t\t\t 408 kB\n\t\t 2 s\t\t\t\t 556 kB\n\t\t 3 s\t\t\t\t1028 kB\n\t\t 4 s\t\t\t\t 872 kB\n\t\t 5 s\t\t\t\t1956 kB\n\t\t 6 s\t\t\t\t 416 kB\n\t\t 7 s\t\t\t\t1560 kB\n\t\t 8 s\t\t\t\t2336 kB\n\t\t 9 s\t\t\t\t1044 kB\n\t\t10 s\t\t\t\t 416 kB\n\nThis is a valuable tool to get an approximate measurement of the memory\nfootprint for a task.\n\nCc: Hugh Dickins \u003chugh@veritas.com\u003e\nCc: Paul Mundt \u003clethal@linux-sh.org\u003e\nCc: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: David Rientjes \u003crientjes@google.com\u003e\n[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]\n[mpm@selenic.com: rename for_each_pmd]\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "a2a316fd068c455c609ecc155dcfaa7e208d29fe", "tree": "9839e2c7e05e9d25241fa7c7b27fd06214120292", "parents": [ "ae40eb1ef30ab4120bd3c8b7e3da99ee53d27a23" ], "author": { "name": "Stephen Hemminger", "email": "shemminger@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Thu Mar 08 20:41:08 2007 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "David S. Miller", "email": "davem@sunset.davemloft.net", "time": "Wed Apr 25 22:24:05 2007 -0700" }, "message": "[NET]: Replace CONFIG_NET_DEBUG with sysctl.\n\nCovert network warning messages from a compile time to runtime choice.\nRemoves kernel config option and replaces it with new /proc/sys/net/core/warnings.\n\nSigned-off-by: Stephen Hemminger \u003cshemminger@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: David S. Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "f9c99463b0cd05603d125c915e2886d55a686b82", "tree": "1ad8dbe05e053bf47fed277ea269993e4c8cec40", "parents": [ "721c04c65f5905ef64732394f6ae147be0aebf69" ], "author": { "name": "Roland Kletzing", "email": "devzero@web.de", "time": "Mon Mar 05 00:30:54 2007 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Mar 05 07:57:54 2007 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] Documentation for io-accounting / reporting via procfs\n\nAdd some documentation for the new and very useful io-accounting feature.\nIt\u0027s being added to Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt\n\nSigned-off-by: Roland Kletzing \u003cdevzero@web.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "4ae0edc21b152c126e4a8c94ad5391f8ea051b31", "tree": "4b2800a40527316f36a329cf20782293d081e80e", "parents": [ "fa00e7e152690adc17fdc318e64909d4aff1763e" ], "author": { "name": "Matt LaPlante", "email": "kernel1@cyberdogtech.com", "time": "Thu Nov 30 04:58:40 2006 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@stusta.de", "time": "Thu Nov 30 04:58:40 2006 +0100" }, "message": "Fix typos in /Documentation : \u0027U-Z\u0027\n\nThis patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some\n+words starting with the letters \u0027U-Z\u0027.\n\nLooks like I made it through the alphabet...just in time to start over again\n+too! Maybe I can fit more profound fixes into the next round...? Time will\n+tell. :)\n\nSigned-off-by: Matt LaPlante \u003ckernel1@cyberdogtech.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Randy Dunlap \u003crdunlap@xenotime.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@stusta.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "fa00e7e152690adc17fdc318e64909d4aff1763e", "tree": "8d22553cc2ff2505a8973b3b7a37c718cac8926b", "parents": [ "98c4f0c336afe4318c12397bc74910d86ee036a2" ], "author": { "name": "Matt LaPlante", "email": "kernel1@cyberdogtech.com", "time": "Thu Nov 30 04:55:36 2006 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@stusta.de", "time": "Thu Nov 30 04:55:36 2006 +0100" }, "message": "Fix typos in /Documentation : \u0027T\u0027\u0027\n\nThis patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some\n+words starting with the letter \u0027T\u0027.\n\nSigned-off-by: Matt LaPlante \u003ckernel1@cyberdogtech.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Randy Dunlap \u003crdunlap@xenotime.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@stusta.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "53cb47268e6b38180d9f253527135e1c69c5d310", "tree": "b264d89e3d21f0365fc4df0f32f5070bb4c6e91a", "parents": [ "d6bc8ac9e13e466e844313b590fbc49f7f1abdea" ], "author": { "name": "Matt LaPlante", "email": "kernel1@cyberdogtech.com", "time": "Tue Oct 03 22:55:17 2006 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@stusta.de", "time": "Tue Oct 03 22:55:17 2006 +0200" }, "message": "Fix typos in Documentation/: \u0027S\u0027\n\nThis patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses\nsome words starting with the letter \u0027S\u0027.\n\nSigned-off-by: Matt LaPlante \u003ckernel1@cyberdogtech.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Alan Cox \u003calan@redhat.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Randy Dunlap \u003crdunlap@xenotime.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@stusta.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "84eb8d0608af1576175307ed8fb3c8fde329e579", "tree": "13f3223e6907ebe309328d460fe51ce7ac346ae1", "parents": [ "992caacf1141b31e94540eb31e0540e3da3a5e25" ], "author": { "name": "Matt LaPlante", "email": "kernel1@cyberdogtech.com", "time": "Tue Oct 03 22:53:09 2006 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@stusta.de", "time": "Tue Oct 03 22:53:09 2006 +0200" }, "message": "Fix \"can not\" in Documentation and Kconfig\n\nRandy brought it to my attention that in proper english \"can not\" should always\nbe written \"cannot\". I donot see any reason to argue, even if I mightnot\nunderstand why this rule exists. This patch fixes \"can not\" in several\nDocumentation files as well as three Kconfigs.\n\nSigned-off-by: Matt LaPlante \u003ckernel1@cyberdogtech.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Randy Dunlap \u003crdunlap@xenotime.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@stusta.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "2fe0ae78c6975d6fa2fc0c84f2b8944543054105", "tree": "005a185c1043f5b99f4cd851ad071d6e95025064", "parents": [ "a2ffd2751683f4275d4d1aa5ce37e5a6a1ae21df" ], "author": { "name": "Matt LaPlante", "email": "kernel1@cyberdogtech.com", "time": "Tue Oct 03 22:50:39 2006 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@stusta.de", "time": "Tue Oct 03 22:50:39 2006 +0200" }, "message": "Fix typos in Documentation/: \u0027H\u0027-\u0027M\u0027\n\nThis patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses\nsome words starting with the letters \u0027H\u0027-\u0027M\u0027.\n\nSigned-off-by: Matt LaPlante \u003ckernel1@cyberdogtech.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Randy Dunlap \u003crdunlap@xenotime.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@stusta.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "3f6dee9b2a22cc66050682287a77d5fccadb9733", "tree": "2670d9a0e9f445cc60e52b85f33ebcfef101ec86", "parents": [ "cab00891c5489cb6d0cde0a55d39bd5f2871fa70" ], "author": { "name": "Matt LaPlante", "email": "kernel1@cyberdogtech.com", "time": "Tue Oct 03 22:45:33 2006 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@stusta.de", "time": "Tue Oct 03 22:45:33 2006 +0200" }, "message": "Fix some typos in Documentation/: \u0027A\u0027\n\nThis patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts.\nThis patch addresses some words starting with the letter \u0027A\u0027.\n\nSigned-off-by: Matt LaPlante \u003ckernel1@cyberdogtech.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Randy Dunlap \u003crdunlap@xenotime.net\u003e\nAcked-by: Alan Cox \u003calan@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@stusta.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "d7ff0dbf45ee8a7c4802ff46844e6e8167b7f360", "tree": "42a5f6bd33a5decb8c3a0bb6ad8fcce3120b7e56", "parents": [ "db630637b2f192bea2ba1c000e9cbe4e542a03ea" ], "author": { "name": "Jan-Frode Myklebust", "email": "mykleb@no.ibm.com", "time": "Fri Sep 29 01:59:45 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Sep 29 09:18:10 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] oom_adj/oom_score documentation\n\nI was looking for the a way around an OOM-problem, and found a couple of\nundocumented new features for tuning the OOM-score of individual processes.\n Here\u0027s a small documentation patch for /proc/\u003cpid\u003e/oom_adj and\n/proc/\u003cpid\u003e/oom_score.\n\nSigned-off-by: Jan-Frode Myklebust \u003cmykleb@no.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "e33e89ab1a8d295de0500b697f4f31c3ceee9aa2", "tree": "51a7955a1a67f65169278a97d3d54305cb18e8ae", "parents": [ "407984f1af259b31957c7c05075a454a751bb801" ], "author": { "name": "Don Zickus", "email": "dzickus@redhat.com", "time": "Tue Sep 26 10:52:27 2006 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "andi@basil.nowhere.org", "time": "Tue Sep 26 10:52:27 2006 +0200" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86: Add abilty to enable/disable nmi watchdog from procfs (update)\n\nAdds a new /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog call that will enable/disable the\nnmi watchdog.\n\nBy entering a non-zero value here, a user can enable the nmi watchdog to\nmonitor the online cpus in the system. By entering a zero value here, a\nuser can disable the nmi watchdog and free up a performance counter which\ncould then be utilized by the oprofile subsystem, otherwise oprofile may be\nshort a counter when in use.\n\nSigned-off-by: Don Zickus \u003cdzickus@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nCc: Andi Kleen \u003cak@muc.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "c30fe7f73194650148b58ee80908c1bc38246397", "tree": "0433d79fb7c737f838aa2b787b5d9682bc60c66c", "parents": [ "c690a72253b962b7274559f2cdf4844553076c03" ], "author": { "name": "Uwe Zeisberger", "email": "zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de", "time": "Fri Mar 24 18:23:14 2006 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@stusta.de", "time": "Fri Mar 24 18:23:14 2006 +0100" }, "message": "fix typos \"wich\" -\u003e \"which\"\n\nSigned-off-by: Uwe Zeisberger \u003czeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@stusta.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "e82443c092fc37a907c117d36f44b6fe143567ae", "tree": "f54f9011ad0fcedf3540d14e2e6623395969e3f5", "parents": [ "c28ab5d23a9c8dd99f12602e6ae7feba6f0b43ea" ], "author": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@stusta.de", "time": "Tue Jan 10 00:20:30 2006 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@r063144.stusta.swh.mhn.de", "time": "Tue Jan 10 00:20:30 2006 +0100" }, "message": "Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: indentation fix\n\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@stusta.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "9d0243bca345d5ce25d3f4b74b7facb3a6df1232", "tree": "a3a0a763bf83a483282dc1c3caab587941a98fc2", "parents": [ "bec6b0c89b234090681a4516e20ac5debe3e7c59" ], "author": { "name": "Andrew Morton", "email": "akpm@osdl.org", "time": "Sun Jan 08 01:00:39 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Jan 08 20:12:40 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] drop-pagecache\n\nAdd /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. When written to, this will cause the kernel to\ndiscard as much pagecache and/or reclaimable slab objects as it can. THis\noperation requires root permissions.\n\nIt won\u0027t drop dirty data, so the user should run `sync\u0027 first.\n\nCaveats:\n\na) Holds inode_lock for exorbitant amounts of time.\n\nb) Needs to be taught about NUMA nodes: propagate these all the way through\n so the discarding can be controlled on a per-node basis.\n\nThis is a debugging feature: useful for getting consistent results between\nfilesystem benchmarks. We could possibly put it under a config option, but\nit\u0027s less than 300 bytes.\n\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "af97c7220a0376beed827e72e3bb27731af7109d", "tree": "dae9462270cf9345184b23c95fedbe0fb414514b", "parents": [ "ddb99f3d35b178f0715aab2f9d9ab25f61814347" ], "author": { "name": "Chuck Ebbert", "email": "76306.1226@compuserve.com", "time": "Fri Sep 09 13:10:15 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Sep 09 14:03:43 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] docs: fix misinformation about overcommit_memory\n\nSomeone complained about the docs for vm_overcommit_memory being wrong.\nThis patch copies the text from the vm documentation into procfs.\n\nSigned-off-by: Chuck Ebbert \u003c76306.1226@compuserve.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "e070ad49f31155d872d8e96cab2142840993e3c0", "tree": "16d5bfd3d7627d6616c6b1008fac80e4cf77379e", "parents": [ "00e145b6d59a16dd7740197a18f7abdb3af004a9" ], "author": { "name": "Mauricio Lin", "email": "mauriciolin@gmail.com", "time": "Sat Sep 03 15:55:10 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@evo.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Sep 05 00:05:49 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] add /proc/pid/smaps\n\nAdd a \"smaps\" entry to /proc/pid: show howmuch memory is resident in each\nmapping.\n\nPeople that want to perform a memory consumption analysing can use it\nmainly if someone needs to figure out which libraries can be reduced for\nembedded systems. So the new features are the physical size of shared and\nclean [or dirty]; private and clean [or dirty].\n\nTake a look the example below:\n\n# cat /proc/4576/smaps\n\n08048000-080dc000 r-xp /bin/bash\nSize: 592 KB\nRss: 500 KB\nShared_Clean: 500 KB\nShared_Dirty: 0 KB\nPrivate_Clean: 0 KB\nPrivate_Dirty: 0 KB\n080dc000-080e2000 rw-p /bin/bash\nSize: 24 KB\nRss: 24 KB\nShared_Clean: 0 KB\nShared_Dirty: 0 KB\nPrivate_Clean: 0 KB\nPrivate_Dirty: 24 KB\n080e2000-08116000 rw-p\nSize: 208 KB\nRss: 208 KB\nShared_Clean: 0 KB\nShared_Dirty: 0 KB\nPrivate_Clean: 0 KB\nPrivate_Dirty: 208 KB\nb7e2b000-b7e34000 r-xp /lib/tls/libnss_files-2.3.2.so\nSize: 36 KB\nRss: 12 KB\nShared_Clean: 12 KB\nShared_Dirty: 0 KB\nPrivate_Clean: 0 KB\nPrivate_Dirty: 0 KB\n...\n\n(Includes a cleanup from \"Richard Purdie\" \u003crpurdie@rpsys.net\u003e)\n\nFrom: Torsten Foertsch \u003ctorsten.foertsch@gmx.net\u003e\n\nshow_smap calls first show_map and then prints its additional information to\nthe seq_file. show_map checks if all it has to print fits into the buffer and\nif yes marks the current vma as written. While that is correct for show_map\nit is not for show_smap. Here the vma should be marked as written only after\nthe additional information is also written.\n\nThe attached patch cures the problem. It moves the functionality of the\nshow_map function to a new function show_map_internal that is called with an\nadditional struct mem_size_stats* argument. Then show_map calls\nshow_map_internal with NULL as struct mem_size_stats* whereas show_smap calls\nit with a real pointer. Now the final\n\n\tif (m-\u003ecount \u003c m-\u003esize) /* vma is copied successfully */\n\t\tm-\u003eversion \u003d (vma !\u003d get_gate_vma(task))? vma-\u003evm_start: 0;\n\nis done only if the whole entry fits into the buffer.\n\nSigned-off-by: Hugh Dickins \u003chugh@veritas.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "c31403a1f5a761599df38bcc2d6ba94f24320c33", "tree": "b753650fba949d8b56c65d024b7e82363b894871", "parents": [ "fd4a3244941ed74fffc24b64857977270e6f64e2" ], "author": { "name": "Cosmin Nicolaescu", "email": "can29@bandersnatch.cs.drexel.edu", "time": "Sun May 01 08:59:28 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sun May 01 08:59:28 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] Documentation: remove super-{nr, max} to reflect fs/super.c\n\nThe patch updates the documentation for /proc. super-nr and super-max have\nbeen dropped from the kernel since 2.4.9 due to minor numbering issues.\nThis change was not documented in the documentation.\n\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2", "tree": "0bba044c4ce775e45a88a51686b5d9f90697ea9d", "parents": [], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "message": "Linux-2.6.12-rc2\n\nInitial git repository build. I\u0027m not bothering with the full history,\neven though we have it. We can create a separate \"historical\" git\narchive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it\u0027s about\n3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early\ngit days unnecessarily complicated, when we don\u0027t have a lot of good\ninfrastructure for it.\n\nLet it rip!\n" } ] }