- 16 Feb, 2009 2 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
Fix merge error in drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c. This resulted in non-working perfcounters on certain Nehalem systems. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 13 Feb, 2009 10 commits
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Paul Mackerras authored
Jaswinder Singh Rajput reported that commit 23a185ca caused the context switch and migration software counters to report zero always. With that commit, the software counters only count events that occur between sched-in and sched-out for a task. This is necessary for the counter enable/disable prctls and ioctls to work. However, the context switch and migration counts are incremented after sched-out for one task and before sched-in for the next. Since the increment doesn't occur while a task is scheduled in (as far as the software counters are concerned) it doesn't count towards any counter. Thus the context switch and migration counters need to count events that occur at any time, provided the counter is enabled, not just those that occur while the task is scheduled in (from the perf_counter subsystem's point of view). The problem though is that the software counter code can't tell the difference between being enabled and being scheduled in, and between being disabled and being scheduled out, since we use the one pair of enable/disable entry points for both. That is, the high-level disable operation simply arranges for the counter to not be scheduled in any more, and the high-level enable operation arranges for it to be scheduled in again. One way to solve this would be to have sched_in/out operations in the hw_perf_counter_ops struct as well as enable/disable. However, this takes a simpler approach: it adds a 'prev_state' field to the perf_counter struct that allows a counter's enable method to know whether the counter was previously disabled or just inactive (scheduled out), and therefore whether the enable method is being called as a result of a high-level enable or a schedule-in operation. This then allows the context switch, migration and page fault counters to reset their hw.prev_count value in their enable functions only if they are called as a result of a high-level enable operation. Although page faults would normally only occur while the counter is scheduled in, this changes the page fault counter code too in case there are ever circumstances where page faults get counted against a task while its counters are not scheduled in. Reported-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Conflicts: arch/x86/Kconfig arch/x86/kernel/apic.c arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branches 'x86/paravirt', 'x86/pat', 'x86/setup-v2', 'x86/subarch', 'x86/uaccess' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/core
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Ingo Molnar authored
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branches 'x86/acpi', 'x86/asm', 'x86/cpudetect', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/doc', 'x86/header-fixes', 'x86/headers' and 'x86/minor-fixes' into x86/core
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Ingo Molnar authored
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Ingo Molnar authored
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Ingo Molnar authored
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c arch/x86/mm/fault.c
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Ingo Molnar authored
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
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john stultz authored
Between 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc1 a change was made that broke IBM LS21 systems that had the HPET enabled in the BIOS, resulting in boot hangs for x86_64. Specifically commit b8ce3359, which merges the i386 and x86_64 HPET code. Prior to this commit, when we setup the HPET timers in x86_64, we did the following: hpet_writel(HPET_TN_ENABLE | HPET_TN_PERIODIC | HPET_TN_SETVAL | HPET_TN_32BIT, HPET_T0_CFG); However after the i386/x86_64 HPET merge, we do the following: cfg = hpet_readl(HPET_Tn_CFG(timer)); cfg |= HPET_TN_ENABLE | HPET_TN_PERIODIC | HPET_TN_SETVAL | HPET_TN_32BIT; hpet_writel(cfg, HPET_Tn_CFG(timer)); However on LS21s with HPET enabled in the BIOS, the HPET_T0_CFG register boots with Level triggered interrupts (HPET_TN_LEVEL) enabled. This causes the periodic interrupt to be not so periodic, and that results in the boot time hang I reported earlier in the delay calibration. My fix: Always disable HPET_TN_LEVEL when setting up periodic mode. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 12 Feb, 2009 18 commits
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Impact: Flush the lazy MMU only once Pending mmu updates only need to be flushed once to bring the in-memory pagetable state up to date. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Impact: Catch cases where lazy MMU state is active in a preemtible context arch_flush_lazy_mmu_cpu() has been changed to disable preemption so the checks in enter/leave will never trigger. Put the preemtible() check into arch_flush_lazy_mmu_cpu() to catch such cases. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Impact: avoid access to percpu vars in preempible context They are intended to be used whenever there's the possibility that there's some stale state which is going to be overwritten with a queued update, or to force a state change when we may be in lazy mode. Either way, we could end up calling it with preemption enabled, so wrap the functions in their own little preempt-disable section so they can be safely called in any context (though preemption should never be enabled if we're actually in a lazy state). (Move out of line to avoid #include dependencies.) Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6: mm: Export symbol ksize()
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Nick Piggin authored
A bug was introduced into write_cache_pages cyclic writeout by commit 31a12666 ("mm: write_cache_pages cyclic fix"). The intention (and comments) is that we should cycle back and look for more dirty pages at the beginning of the file if there is no more work to be done. But the !done condition was dropped from the test. This means that any time the page writeout loop breaks (eg. due to nr_to_write == 0), we will set index to 0, then goto again. This will set done_index to index, then find done is set, so will proceed to the end of the function. When updating mapping->writeback_index for cyclic writeout, we now use done_index == 0, so we're always cycling back to 0. This seemed to be causing random mmap writes (slapadd and iozone) to start writing more pages from the LRU and writeout would slowdown, and caused bugzilla entry http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12604 about Berkeley DB slowing down dramatically. With this patch, iozone random write performance is increased nearly 5x on my system (iozone -B -r 4k -s 64k -s 512m -s 1200m on ext2). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Reported-and-tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
Commit 7b2cd92a ("crypto: api - Fix zeroing on free") added modular user of ksize(). Export that to fix crypto.ko compilation. Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: cleanup Make the max_low_pfn logic a bit more standard between lowmem_pfn_init() and highmem_pfn_init(). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: cleanup Split find_low_pfn_range() into two functions: - lowmem_pfn_init() - highmem_pfn_init() The former gets called if all of RAM fits into lowmem, otherwise we call highmem_pfn_init(). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
It was enabled by mistake - iscsi is not included in a typical default PC, and no other architecture has it built-in (=y) either. Turn it off. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
deprecation warnings have become rather noisy lately: drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c: In function ‘i2c_new_device’: drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:283: warning: ‘i2c_attach_client’ is deprecated (declared at include/linux/i2c.h:434) drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c: In function ‘i2c_del_adapter’: drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:646: warning: ‘detach_client’ is deprecated (declared at include/linux/i2c.h:154) drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c: In function ‘i2c_register_driver’: drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:713: warning: ‘detach_client’ is deprecated (declared at include/linux/i2c.h:154) drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c: In function ‘__detach_adapter’: drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:780: warning: ‘detach_client’ is deprecated (declared at include/linux/i2c.h:154) drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c: At top level: drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:876: warning: ‘i2c_attach_client’ is deprecated (declared at drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:827) drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:876: warning: ‘i2c_attach_client’ is deprecated (declared at drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:827) drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:904: warning: ‘i2c_detach_client’ is deprecated (declared at drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:879) drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:904: warning: ‘i2c_detach_client’ is deprecated (declared at drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:879) So turn it off for now - these reminders can obscure critical warnings. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Suresh Siddha authored
Jeff Mahoney reported: > With Suse's hwinfo tool, on -tip: > WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/pat.c:637 reserve_pfn_range+0x5b/0x26d() reserve_pfn_range() is not tracking the memory range below 1MB as non-RAM and as such is inconsistent with similar checks in reserve_memtype() and free_memtype() Rename the pagerange_is_ram() to pat_pagerange_is_ram() and add the "track legacy 1MB region as non RAM" condition. And also, fix reserve_pfn_range() to return -EINVAL, when the pfn range is RAM. This is to be consistent with this API design. Reported-and-tested-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Impact: fix race leading to crash under KVM and Xen The CPA code may be called while we're in lazy mmu update mode - for example, when using DEBUG_PAGE_ALLOC and doing a slab allocation in an interrupt handler which interrupted a lazy mmu update. In this case, the in-memory pagetable state may be out of date due to pending queued updates. We need to flush any pending updates before inspecting the page table. Similarly, we must explicitly flush any modifications CPA may have made (which comes down to flushing queued operations when flushing the TLB). Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Impact: Fixes warning Fix uv.h struct usage: arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv.h:16: warning: 'struct mm_struct' declared inside parameter list arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv.h:16: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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H. Peter Anvin authored
Impact: cleanup With the recent changes in the 32-bit code to make system calls which use struct pt_regs take a pointer, sys_rt_sigreturn() have become identical between 32 and 64 bits, and both are empty wrappers around do_rt_sigreturn(). Remove both wrappers and rename both to sys_rt_sigreturn(). Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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git://git.infradead.org/users/cbou/battery-2.6.29Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.infradead.org/users/cbou/battery-2.6.29: pcf50633_charger: Fix typo
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- 11 Feb, 2009 10 commits
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Ian Dall authored
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12646 When the temperature exceeds 32767 milli-degrees the temperature overflows to -32768 millidegrees. These are bothe well within the -55 - +125 degree range for the sensor. Fix overflow in left-shift of a u8. Signed-off-by: Ian Dall <ian@beware.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Paul Clements authored
Fix a problem that causes I/O to a disconnected (or partially initialized) nbd device to hang indefinitely. To reproduce: # ioctl NBD_SET_SIZE_BLOCKS /dev/nbd23 514048 # dd if=/dev/nbd23 of=/dev/null bs=4096 count=1 ...hangs... This can also occur when an nbd device loses its nbd-client/server connection. Although we clear the queue of any outstanding I/Os after the client/server connection fails, any additional I/Os that get queued later will hang. This bug may also be the problem reported in this bug report: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12277 Testing would need to be performed to determine if the two issues are the same. This problem was introduced by the new request handling thread code ("NBD: allow nbd to be used locally", 3/2008), which entered into mainline around 2.6.25. The fix, which is fairly simple, is to restore the check for lo->sock being NULL in do_nbd_request. This causes I/O to an uninitialized nbd to immediately fail with an I/O error, as it did prior to the introduction of this bug. Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Reported-by: Jon Nelson <jnelson-kernel-bugzilla@jamponi.net> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x, 2.6.28.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Christophe Saout reported [in precursor to: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123209902707347&w=4]: > Note that I also some a different issue with CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU. > Seems like Xen tears down current->mm early on process termination, so > that __get_user_pages in exit_mmap causes nasty messages when the > process had any mlocked pages. (in fact, it somehow manages to get into > the swapping code and produces a null pointer dereference trying to get > a swap token) Jeremy explained: Yes. In the normal case under Xen, an in-use pagetable is "pinned", meaning that it is RO to the kernel, and all updates must go via hypercall (or writes are trapped and emulated, which is much the same thing). An unpinned pagetable is not currently in use by any process, and can be directly accessed as normal RW pages. As an optimisation at process exit time, we unpin the pagetable as early as possible (switching the process to init_mm), so that all the normal pagetable teardown can happen with direct memory accesses. This happens in exit_mmap() -> arch_exit_mmap(). The munlocking happens a few lines below. The obvious thing to do would be to move arch_exit_mmap() to below the munlock code, but I think we'd want to call it even if mm->mmap is NULL, just to be on the safe side. Thus, this patch: exit_mmap() needs to unlock any locked vmas before calling arch_exit_mmap, as the latter may switch the current mm to init_mm, which would cause the former to fail. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de> Cc: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> Cc: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jiri Slaby authored
Since netmos 9835 with subids 0x1014(IBM):0x0299 is now bound with serial/8250_pci, because it has no parallel ports and subdevice id isn't in the expected form, return -ENODEV from probe function. This is performed in netmos preinit_hook. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Federico Cuello authored
Commit dcf6a79d ("write-back: fix nr_to_write counter") fixed nr_to_write counter, but didn't set the break condition properly. If nr_to_write == 0 after being decremented it will loop one more time before setting done = 1 and breaking the loop. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Heiko Carstens authored
With the new system call defines we get this on uml: arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table': (.rodata+0x308): undefined reference to `sys_sigprocmask' Reason for this is that uml passes the preprocessor option -Dsigprocmask=kernel_sigprocmask to gcc when compiling the kernel. This causes SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sigprocmask, ...) to be expanded to SYSCALL_DEFINEx(3, kernel_sigprocmask, ...) and finally to a system call named sys_kernel_sigprocmask. However sys_sigprocmask is missing because of this. To avoid macro expansion for the system call name just concatenate the name at first define instead of carrying it through severel levels. This was pointed out by Al Viro. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Carsten Otte authored
For a reason that I was unable to understand in three months of debugging, mount ext2 -o remount stopped working properly when remounting from regular operation to xip, or the other way around. According to a git bisect search, the problem was introduced with the VM_MIXEDMAP/PTE_SPECIAL rework in the vm: commit 70688e4d Author: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Date: Mon Apr 28 02:13:02 2008 -0700 xip: support non-struct page backed memory In the failing scenario, the filesystem is mounted read only via root= kernel parameter on s390x. During remount (in rc.sysinit), the inodes of the bash binary and its libraries are busy and cannot be invalidated (the bash which is running rc.sysinit resides on subject filesystem). Afterwards, another bash process (running ifup-eth) recurses into a subshell, runs dup_mm (via fork). Some of the mappings in this bash process were created from inodes that could not be invalidated during remount. Both parent and child process crash some time later due to inconsistencies in their address spaces. The issue seems to be timing sensitive, various attempts to recreate it have failed. This patch refuses to change the xip flag during remount in case some inodes cannot be invalidated. This patch keeps users from running into that issue. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Li Zefan authored
I enabled all cgroup subsystems when compiling kernel, and then: # mount -t cgroup -o net_cls xxx /mnt # mkdir /mnt/0 This showed up immediately: BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES too low! turning off the locking correctness validator. It's caused by the cgroup hierarchy lock: for (i = 0; i < CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT; i++) { struct cgroup_subsys *ss = subsys[i]; if (ss->root == root) mutex_lock_nested(&ss->hierarchy_mutex, i); } Now we have 9 cgroup subsystems, and the above 'i' for net_cls is 8, but MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES is 8. This patch uses different lockdep keys for different subsystems. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.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>
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
Add Li Zefan as co-maintainer. Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roel Kluin authored
With a postfix decrement t will reach -1 rather than 0, so neither the warning nor the `goto error_out' will occur. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Manuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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