- 22 Jul, 2011 5 commits
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Russell King authored
Conflicts: arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
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Russell King authored
Merge branches 'btc', 'dma', 'entry', 'fixes', 'linker-layout', 'misc', 'mmci', 'suspend' and 'vfp' into for-next
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Mikael Pettersson authored
Building kernel 3.0 for an n2100 (plat-iop) results in: In file included from arch/arm/plat-iop/cp6.c:20: /tmp/linux-3.0/arch/arm/include/asm/traps.h:12: warning: 'struct pt_regs' declared inside parameter list /tmp/linux-3.0/arch/arm/include/asm/traps.h:12: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want /tmp/linux-3.0/arch/arm/include/asm/traps.h:48: warning: 'struct pt_regs' declared inside parameter list /tmp/linux-3.0/arch/arm/include/asm/traps.h:48: warning: 'struct task_struct' declared inside parameter list arch/arm/plat-iop/cp6.c:45: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type Nothing here depends on the layout of pt_regs or task_struct, so this can be fixed by adding forward struct declarations to asm/traps.h. Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Heechul Yun authored
Improve scalability by avoiding costly and unnecessary L2 cache sync in handling bitops. Signed-off-by: Heechul Yun <hyun@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Petr Štetiar authored
I've got hands on one ts-7300 board, which is equiped with 128MB RAM in two 64MB memory chips, so it's 16 banks/8MB each. Without this patch, the bootmem init code complains about small NR_BANKS number and only lower 64MB is accessible. Cc: Ryan Mallon <ryan@bluewatersys.com> Acked-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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- 21 Jul, 2011 5 commits
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Russell King authored
Commit 66a625a8 (ARM: mm: proc-macros: Add generic proc/cache/tlb struct definition macros) introduced build errors when PM_SLEEP is not enabled. The per-CPU do_suspend/do_resume functions are defined via the preprocessor to constant 0. However, the macros which use these were converted to assembly, resulting in undefined references to these functions. Fix that by moving the ! ifdef section into proc-macros.S and deleting it from all effected proc-*.S files. Acked-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Russell King authored
Our selection of interrupts to consider for IRQ migration is sub- standard. We were potentially including per-CPU interrupts in our migration strategy, but omitting chained interrupts. This caused some interrupts to remain on a downed CPU. We were also trying to migrate interrupts which were not migratable, resulting in an OOPS. Instead, iterate over all interrupts, skipping per-CPU interrupts or interrupts whose affinity does not include the downed CPU, and attempt to set the affinity for every one else if their chip implements irq_set_affinity(). Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Russell King authored
Now that the GIC takes care of selecting a target interrupt from the affinity mask, we don't need all this complexity in the core code anymore. Just detect when we need to break affinity. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Russell King authored
The irq_set_affinity() method can be called with masks which include offline CPUs. This allows offline CPUs to have interrupts routed to them by writing to /proc/irq/*/smp_affinity after hotplug has taken a CPU offline. Fix this by ensuring that we select a target CPU present in both the required affinity and the online CPU mask. Ensure that we return IRQ_SET_MASK_OK (which happens to be 0) on success to ensure generic code copies the new mask into the irq_data structure. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Russell King authored
irqdesc's node member is supposed to mark the numa node number for the interrupt. Our use of it is non-standard. Remove this, replacing the functionality with a test of the affinity mask. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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- 20 Jul, 2011 20 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: signal: align __lock_task_sighand() irq disabling and RCU softirq,rcu: Inform RCU of irq_exit() activity sched: Add irq_{enter,exit}() to scheduler_ipi() rcu: protect __rcu_read_unlock() against scheduler-using irq handlers rcu: Streamline code produced by __rcu_read_unlock() rcu: Fix RCU_BOOST race handling current->rcu_read_unlock_special rcu: decrease rcu_report_exp_rnp coupling with scheduler
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Avoid creating superfluous NUMA domains on non-NUMA systems sched: Allow for overlapping sched_domain spans sched: Break out cpu_power from the sched_group structure
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86. reboot: Make Dell Latitude E6320 use reboot=pci x86, doc only: Correct real-mode kernel header offset for init_size x86: Disable AMD_NUMA for 32bit for now
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'rcu/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu into core/urgent
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Paul E. McKenney authored
The __lock_task_sighand() function calls rcu_read_lock() with interrupts and preemption enabled, but later calls rcu_read_unlock() with interrupts disabled. It is therefore possible that this RCU read-side critical section will be preempted and later RCU priority boosted, which means that rcu_read_unlock() will call rt_mutex_unlock() in order to deboost itself, but with interrupts disabled. This results in lockdep splats, so this commit nests the RCU read-side critical section within the interrupt-disabled region of code. This prevents the RCU read-side critical section from being preempted, and thus prevents the attempt to deboost with interrupts disabled. It is quite possible that a better long-term fix is to make rt_mutex_unlock() disable irqs when acquiring the rt_mutex structure's ->wait_lock. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
The rcu_read_unlock_special() function relies on in_irq() to exclude scheduler activity from interrupt level. This fails because exit_irq() can invoke the scheduler after clearing the preempt_count() bits that in_irq() uses to determine that it is at interrupt level. This situation can result in failures as follows: $task IRQ SoftIRQ rcu_read_lock() /* do stuff */ <preempt> |= UNLOCK_BLOCKED rcu_read_unlock() --t->rcu_read_lock_nesting irq_enter(); /* do stuff, don't use RCU */ irq_exit(); sub_preempt_count(IRQ_EXIT_OFFSET); invoke_softirq() ttwu(); spin_lock_irq(&pi->lock) rcu_read_lock(); /* do stuff */ rcu_read_unlock(); rcu_read_unlock_special() rcu_report_exp_rnp() ttwu() spin_lock_irq(&pi->lock) /* deadlock */ rcu_read_unlock_special(t); Ed can simply trigger this 'easy' because invoke_softirq() immediately does a ttwu() of ksoftirqd/# instead of doing the in-place softirq stuff first, but even without that the above happens. Cure this by also excluding softirqs from the rcu_read_unlock_special() handler and ensuring the force_irqthreads ksoftirqd/# wakeup is done from full softirq context. [ Alternatively, delaying the ->rcu_read_lock_nesting decrement until after the special handling would make the thing more robust in the face of interrupts as well. And there is a separate patch for that. ] Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reported-and-tested-by: Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Ensure scheduler_ipi() calls irq_{enter,exit} when it does some actual work. Traditionally we never did any actual work from the resched IPI and all magic happened in the return from interrupt path. Now that we do do some work, we need to ensure irq_{enter,exit} are called so that we don't confuse things. This affects things like timekeeping, NO_HZ and RCU, basically everything with a hook in irq_enter/exit. Explicit examples of things going wrong are: sched_clock_cpu() -- has a callback when leaving NO_HZ state to take a new reading from GTOD and TSC. Without this callback, time is stuck in the past. RCU -- needs in_irq() to work in order to avoid some nasty deadlocks Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
The addition of RCU read-side critical sections within runqueue and priority-inheritance lock critical sections introduced some deadlock cycles, for example, involving interrupts from __rcu_read_unlock() where the interrupt handlers call wake_up(). This situation can cause the instance of __rcu_read_unlock() invoked from interrupt to do some of the processing that would otherwise have been carried out by the task-level instance of __rcu_read_unlock(). When the interrupt-level instance of __rcu_read_unlock() is called with a scheduler lock held from interrupt-entry/exit situations where in_irq() returns false, deadlock can result. This commit resolves these deadlocks by using negative values of the per-task ->rcu_read_lock_nesting counter to indicate that an instance of __rcu_read_unlock() is in flight, which in turn prevents instances from interrupt handlers from doing any special processing. This patch is inspired by Steven Rostedt's earlier patch that similarly made __rcu_read_unlock() guard against interrupt-mediated recursion (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/15/326), but this commit refines Steven's approach to avoid the need for preemption disabling on the __rcu_read_unlock() fastpath and to also avoid the need for manipulating a separate per-CPU variable. This patch avoids need for preempt_disable() by instead using negative values of the per-task ->rcu_read_lock_nesting counter. Note that nested rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pairs are still permitted, but they will never see ->rcu_read_lock_nesting go to zero, and will therefore never invoke rcu_read_unlock_special(), thus preventing them from seeing the RCU_READ_UNLOCK_BLOCKED bit should it be set in ->rcu_read_unlock_special. This patch also adds a check for ->rcu_read_unlock_special being negative in rcu_check_callbacks(), thus preventing the RCU_READ_UNLOCK_NEED_QS bit from being set should a scheduling-clock interrupt occur while __rcu_read_unlock() is exiting from an outermost RCU read-side critical section. Of course, __rcu_read_unlock() can be preempted during the time that ->rcu_read_lock_nesting is negative. This could result in the setting of the RCU_READ_UNLOCK_BLOCKED bit after __rcu_read_unlock() checks it, and would also result it this task being queued on the corresponding rcu_node structure's blkd_tasks list. Therefore, some later RCU read-side critical section would enter rcu_read_unlock_special() to clean up -- which could result in deadlock if that critical section happened to be in the scheduler where the runqueue or priority-inheritance locks were held. This situation is dealt with by making rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() check for negative ->rcu_read_lock_nesting, thus refraining from queuing the task (and from setting RCU_READ_UNLOCK_BLOCKED) if we are already exiting from the outermost RCU read-side critical section (in other words, we really are no longer actually in that RCU read-side critical section). In addition, rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() invokes rcu_read_unlock_special() to carry out the cleanup in this case, which clears out the ->rcu_read_unlock_special bits and dequeues the task (if necessary), in turn avoiding needless delay of the current RCU grace period and needless RCU priority boosting. It is still illegal to call rcu_read_unlock() while holding a scheduler lock if the prior RCU read-side critical section has ever had either preemption or irqs enabled. However, the common use case is legal, namely where then entire RCU read-side critical section executes with irqs disabled, for example, when the scheduler lock is held across the entire lifetime of the RCU read-side critical section. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
When creating sched_domains, stop when we've covered the entire target span instead of continuing to create domains, only to later find they're redundant and throw them away again. This avoids single node systems from touching funny NUMA sched_domain creation code and reduces the risks of the new SD_OVERLAP code. Requested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1311180177.29152.57.camel@twinsSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Allow for sched_domain spans that overlap by giving such domains their own sched_group list instead of sharing the sched_groups amongst each-other. This is needed for machines with more than 16 nodes, because sched_domain_node_span() will generate a node mask from the 16 nearest nodes without regard if these masks have any overlap. Currently sched_domains have a sched_group that maps to their child sched_domain span, and since there is no overlap we share the sched_group between the sched_domains of the various CPUs. If however there is overlap, we would need to link the sched_group list in different ways for each cpu, and hence sharing isn't possible. In order to solve this, allocate private sched_groups for each CPU's sched_domain but have the sched_groups share a sched_group_power structure such that we can uniquely track the power. Reported-and-tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-08bxqw9wis3qti9u5inifh3y@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
In order to prepare for non-unique sched_groups per domain, we need to carry the cpu_power elsewhere, so put a level of indirection in. Reported-and-tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qkho2byuhe4482fuknss40ad@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-clientLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client: ceph: fix file mode calculation
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/linux-arm-socLinus Torvalds authored
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/linux-arm-soc: davinci: DM365 EVM: fix video input mux bits ARM: davinci: Check for NULL return from irq_alloc_generic_chip arm: davinci: Fix low level gpio irq handlers' argument
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Shaohua Li authored
I'm running a workload which triggers a lot of swap in a machine with 4 nodes. After I kill the workload, I found a kswapd livelock. Sometimes kswapd3 or kswapd2 are keeping running and I can't access filesystem, but most memory is free. This looks like a regression since commit 08951e54 ("mm: vmscan: correct check for kswapd sleeping in sleeping_prematurely"). Node 2 and 3 have only ZONE_NORMAL, but balance_pgdat() will return 0 for classzone_idx. The reason is end_zone in balance_pgdat() is 0 by default, if all zones have watermark ok, end_zone will keep 0. Later sleeping_prematurely() always returns true. Because this is an order 3 wakeup, and if classzone_idx is 0, both balanced_pages and present_pages in pgdat_balanced() are 0. We add a special case here. If a zone has no page, we think it's balanced. This fixes the livelock. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> 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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Akinobu Mita authored
Assume that /sys/kernel/debug/dummy64 is debugfs file created by debugfs_create_x64(). # cd /sys/kernel/debug # echo 0x1234567812345678 > dummy64 # cat dummy64 0x0000000012345678 # echo 0x80000000 > dummy64 # cat dummy64 0xffffffff80000000 A value larger than INT_MAX cannot be written to the debugfs file created by debugfs_create_u64 or debugfs_create_x64 on 32bit machine. Because simple_attr_write() uses simple_strtol() for the conversion. To fix this, use simple_strtoll() instead. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: vfs: fix race in rcu lookup of pruned dentry Fix cifs_get_root() [ Edited the last commit to get rid of a 'unused variable "seq"' warning due to Al editing the patch. - Linus ]
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Linus Torvalds authored
Don't update *inode in __follow_mount_rcu() until we'd verified that there is mountpoint there. Kudos to Hugh Dickins for catching that one in the first place and eventually figuring out the solution (and catching a braino in the earlier version of patch). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Given some common flag combinations, particularly -Os, gcc will inline rcu_read_unlock_special() despite its being in an unlikely() clause. Use noinline to prohibit this misoptimization. In addition, move the second barrier() in __rcu_read_unlock() so that it is not on the common-case code path. This will allow the compiler to generate better code for the common-case path through __rcu_read_unlock(). Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
The RCU_BOOST commits for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU introduced an other-task write to a new RCU_READ_UNLOCK_BOOSTED bit in the task_struct structure's ->rcu_read_unlock_special field, but, as noted by Steven Rostedt, without correctly synchronizing all accesses to ->rcu_read_unlock_special. This could result in bits in ->rcu_read_unlock_special being spuriously set and cleared due to conflicting accesses, which in turn could result in deadlocks between the rcu_node structure's ->lock and the scheduler's rq and pi locks. These deadlocks would result from RCU incorrectly believing that the just-ended RCU read-side critical section had been preempted and/or boosted. If that RCU read-side critical section was executed with either rq or pi locks held, RCU's ensuing (incorrect) calls to the scheduler would cause the scheduler to attempt to once again acquire the rq and pi locks, resulting in deadlock. More complex deadlock cycles are also possible, involving multiple rq and pi locks as well as locks from multiple rcu_node structures. This commit fixes synchronization by creating ->rcu_boosted field in task_struct that is accessed and modified only when holding the ->lock in the rcu_node structure on which the task is queued (on that rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks list). This results in tasks accessing only their own current->rcu_read_unlock_special fields, making unsynchronized access once again legal, and keeping the rcu_read_unlock() fastpath free of atomic instructions and memory barriers. The reason that the rcu_read_unlock() fastpath does not need to access the new current->rcu_boosted field is that this new field cannot be non-zero unless the RCU_READ_UNLOCK_BLOCKED bit is set in the current->rcu_read_unlock_special field. Therefore, rcu_read_unlock() need only test current->rcu_read_unlock_special: if that is zero, then current->rcu_boosted must also be zero. This bug does not affect TINY_PREEMPT_RCU because this implementation of RCU accesses current->rcu_read_unlock_special with irqs disabled, thus preventing races on the !SMP systems that TINY_PREEMPT_RCU runs on. Maybe-reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Maybe-reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
PREEMPT_RCU read-side critical sections blocking an expedited grace period invoke rcu_report_exp_rnp(). When the last such critical section has completed, rcu_report_exp_rnp() invokes the scheduler to wake up the task that invoked synchronize_rcu_expedited() -- needlessly holding the root rcu_node structure's lock while doing so, thus needlessly providing a way for RCU and the scheduler to deadlock. This commit therefore releases the root rcu_node structure's lock before calling wake_up(). Reported-by: Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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- 19 Jul, 2011 7 commits
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Sage Weil authored
open(2) must always include one of O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY, or O_RDWR. No need for any O_APPEND special case. Passing O_WRONLY|O_RDWR is undefined according to the man page, but the Linux VFS interprets this as O_RDWR, so we'll do the same. This fixes open(2) with flags O_RDWR|O_APPEND, which was incorrectly being translated to readonly. Reported-by: Fyodor Ustinov <ufm@ufm.su> Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
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Linus Walleij authored
The ARM version maximum clock divider is 512 whereas for the ST variants it's 257. Let's use DIV_ROUND_UP() for both cases so we can see clearly what's going on here. [Use DIV_ROUND_UP to clarify elder code] Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@stericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Rasmussen <sebastian.rasmussen@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Catalin Marinas authored
Currently using just long but this is not enough for the LPAE format (64-bit entries). Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Dave Martin authored
Currently, the documented kernel entry requirements are not explicit about whether the kernel should be entered in ARM or Thumb, leading to an ambiguitity about how to enter Thumb-2 kernels. As a result, the kernel is reliant on the zImage decompressor to enter the kernel proper in the correct instruction set state. This patch changes the boot entry protocol for head.S and Image to be the same as for zImage: in all cases, the kernel is now entered in ARM. Documentation/arm/Booting is updated to reflect this new policy. A different rule will be needed for Cortex-M class CPUs as and when support for those lands in mainline, since these CPUs don't support the ARM instruction set at all: a note is added to the effect that the kernel must be entered in Thumb on such systems. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Russell King authored
Kernel space needs very little in the way of BTC maintanence as most mappings which are created and destroyed are non-executable, and so could never enter the instruction stream. The case which does warrant BTC maintanence is when a module is loaded. This creates a new executable mapping, but at that point the pages have not been initialized with code and data, so at that point they contain unpredictable information. Invalidating the BTC at this stage serves little useful purpose. Before we execute module code, we call flush_icache_range(), which deals with the BTC maintanence requirements. This ensures that we have a BTC maintanence operation before we execute code via the newly created mapping. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Jon Povey authored
Video input mux settings for tvp7002 and imager inputs were swapped. Comment was correct. Tested on EVM with tvp7002 input. Signed-off-by: Jon Povey <jon.povey@racelogic.co.uk> Acked-by: Manjunath Hadli <manjunath.hadli@ti.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>
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Todd Poynor authored
Avoid NULL dereference of irq_alloc_generic_chip return in low memory conditions. Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>
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- 18 Jul, 2011 3 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: pppoe: Must flush connections when MAC address changes too. include/linux/sdla.h: remove the prototype of sdla() tulip: dmfe: Remove old log spamming pr_debugs
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Nicolas Pitre authored
One less dependency on mach/memory.h. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
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