This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled numa: add a sysctl for numa_balancing to the 3.13-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: numa-add-a-sysctl-for-numa_balancing.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.13 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 54a43d54988a3731d644fdeb7a1d6f46b4ac64c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:53:13 -0800 Subject: numa: add a sysctl for numa_balancing From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 54a43d54988a3731d644fdeb7a1d6f46b4ac64c7 upstream. Add a working sysctl to enable/disable automatic numa memory balancing at runtime. This allows us to track down performance problems with this feature and is generally a good idea. This was possible earlier through debugfs, but only with special debugging options set. Also fix the boot message. [akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: s/sched_numa_balancing/sysctl_numa_balancing/] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/sched/sysctl.h | 4 ++++ kernel/sched/core.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++- kernel/sysctl.c | 9 +++++++++ mm/mempolicy.c | 2 +- 4 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h +++ b/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h @@ -100,4 +100,8 @@ extern int sched_rt_handler(struct ctl_t void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); +extern int sysctl_numa_balancing(struct ctl_table *table, int write, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, + loff_t *ppos); + #endif /* _SCHED_SYSCTL_H */ --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -1763,7 +1763,29 @@ void set_numabalancing_state(bool enable numabalancing_enabled = enabled; } #endif /* CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG */ -#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */ + +#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL +int sysctl_numa_balancing(struct ctl_table *table, int write, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) +{ + struct ctl_table t; + int err; + int state = numabalancing_enabled; + + if (write && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM; + + t = *table; + t.data = &state; + err = proc_dointvec_minmax(&t, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); + if (err < 0) + return err; + if (write) + set_numabalancing_state(state); + return err; +} +#endif +#endif /* * fork()/clone()-time setup: --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -398,6 +398,15 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, }, + { + .procname = "numa_balancing", + .data = NULL, /* filled in by handler */ + .maxlen = sizeof(unsigned int), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = sysctl_numa_balancing, + .extra1 = &zero, + .extra2 = &one, + }, #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */ #endif /* CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG */ { --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -2668,7 +2668,7 @@ static void __init check_numabalancing_e if (nr_node_ids > 1 && !numabalancing_override) { printk(KERN_INFO "Enabling automatic NUMA balancing. " - "Configure with numa_balancing= or sysctl"); + "Configure with numa_balancing= or the kernel.numa_balancing sysctl"); set_numabalancing_state(numabalancing_default); } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.13/numa-add-a-sysctl-for-numa_balancing.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html