- 18 Sep, 2014 2 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulatorLinus Torvalds authored
Pull regulator fix from Mark Brown: "Fix some leaked OF node references in regulator drivers that have been left over following a fix on a fix to the reference counting" * tag 'regulator-v3.17-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator: regulator: remove unnecessary of_node_get() to parent
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spiLinus Torvalds authored
Pull spi fixes from Mark Brown: "A few driver specific fixes for v3.17: - Fix davinci so that GPIO chip selects work with deferred probe of GPIOs (which could happen in production depending on kernel config) plus one incremental stylistic fix to that. - Several fixes for the newly introduced rockchip driver that came up in wider testing of the device. - A couple of small things in the sirf driver, one bug that would stop DMA transfers working and another update to follow the documented procedure in the datasheet. - Fix some memory leaks with devm_kzalloc() being used outside of the device bind path" * tag 'spi-v3.17-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi: spi: davinci: remove empty function davinci_spi_cleanup spi: davinci: request cs_gpio's from probe spi/pl022: Fix error message spi/rockchip: Mark DMA as optional spi/rockchip: Don't warn if SPI is busy but disabled spi/rockchip: Fix the wait_for_idle() timeout spi: sirf: add fifo reset/start for cmd transfer spi: sirf: enable RX_IO_DMA_INT interrupt spi: dw: Don't use devm_kzalloc in master->setup callback spi: fsl: Don't use devm_kzalloc in master->setup callback
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- 17 Sep, 2014 1 commit
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Paul Gortmaker authored
This reverts commit 4dfe694f. In that, we did: Here we move the rootdelay code to be right beside the rootwait code, so that their behaviour is consistent. ...which is fine, but in hindsight, perhaps moving the rootwait to be beside the rootdelay would have been better. We also indicated: It should be noted that in doing so, the actions based on the saved_root_name[0] and initrd_load() were previously put on hold by rootdelay=N and now currently will not be delayed. However, I think consistent behaviour is more important than matching historical behaviour of delaying the above two operations. But Pavel reported an instance where an ARM target with root on MMC was failing to mount root, and Russell diagnosed it to the fact that the call to set ROOT_DEV within the saved_root_name[0] processing block mentioned above was no longer being delayed. Rather than moving both wait clauses to the original position of rootdelay and risking unearthing other possible corner case breakage at this point in time, we simply revert now and we can revisit trying the alternate/earlier location in another development cycle. Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 16 Sep, 2014 5 commits
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Mark Brown authored
Merge remote-tracking branches 'spi/fix/davinci', 'spi/fix/dw', 'spi/fix/fsl', 'spi/fix/pl022', 'spi/fix/rockchip' and 'spi/fix/sirf' into spi-linus
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Grygorii Strashko authored
Remove empty function davinci_spi_cleanup(). Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-fixesLinus Torvalds authored
Pull gfs2 fixes from Steven Whitehouse: "Here are a number of small fixes for GFS2. There is a fix for FIEMAP on large sparse files, a negative dentry hashing fix, a fix for flock, and a bug fix relating to d_splice_alias usage. There are also (patches 1 and 5) a couple of updates which are less critical, but small and low risk" * tag 'gfs2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-fixes: GFS2: fix d_splice_alias() misuses GFS2: Don't use MAXQUOTAS value GFS2: Hash the negative dentry during inode lookup GFS2: Request demote when a "try" flock fails GFS2: Change maxlen variables to size_t GFS2: fs/gfs2/super.c: replace seq_printf by seq_puts
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James Hogan authored
Commit d6bb3e90 ("vfs: simplify and shrink stack frame of link_path_walk()") introduced build problems with GCC versions older than 4.6 due to the initialisation of a member of an anonymous union in struct qstr without enclosing braces. This hits GCC bug 10676 [1] (which was fixed in GCC 4.6 by [2]), and causes the following build error: fs/namei.c: In function 'link_path_walk': fs/namei.c:1778: error: unknown field 'hash_len' specified in initializer This is worked around by adding explicit braces. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10676 [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc?view=revision&revision=159206 Fixes: d6bb3e90 (vfs: simplify and shrink stack frame of link_path_walk()) Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull virtio fixes from Rusty Russell: "virtio-rng corner case fixes, with cc:stable. Survived a few days in linux-next" * tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: virtio-rng: skip reading when we start to remove the device virtio-rng: fix stuck of hot-unplugging busy device
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- 15 Sep, 2014 8 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmapLinus Torvalds authored
Pull regmap fix from Mark Brown: "Fix registers file in debugfs Ensure that the mode reported for the registers file in debugfs is accurate by marking it as read only when the define to enable writes has not been set. This is on the edge of being a bug fix but it's debugfs and it makes it much easier for users to spot what's going wrong when they forget to enable writeability" * tag 'regmap-v3.17-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmap: regmap: Fix debugfs-file 'registers' mode
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/inputLinus Torvalds authored
Pull input updates from Dmitry Torokhov: "A few quirks for i8042/AT keyboards and a small device tree doc fix for Atmel Touchscreens" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: atmel_mxt_ts - fix merge in DT documentation Input: i8042 - also set the firmware id for MUXed ports Input: i8042 - add nomux quirk for Avatar AVIU-145A6 Input: i8042 - add Fujitsu U574 to no_timeout dmi table Input: atkbd - do not try 'deactivate' keyboard on any LG laptops
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Tony Luck authored
Cut & paste typo from the line above. Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Commit 9226b5b4 ("vfs: avoid non-forwarding large load after small store in path lookup") made link_path_walk() always access the "hash_len" field as a single 64-bit entity, in order to avoid mixed size accesses to the members. However, what I didn't notice was that that effectively means that the whole "struct qstr this" is now basically redundant. We already explicitly track the "const char *name", and if we just use "u64 hash_len" instead of "long len", there is nothing else left of the "struct qstr". We do end up wanting the "struct qstr" if we have a filesystem with a "d_hash()" function, but that's a rare case, and we might as well then just squirrell away the name and hash_len at that point. End result: fewer live variables in the loop, a smaller stack frame, and better code generation. And we don't need to pass in pointers variables to helper functions any more, because the return value contains all the relevant information. So this removes more lines than it adds, and the source code is clearer too. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
Pull crypto fixes from Herbert Xu: "This fixes the newly added drbg generator so that it actually works on 32-bit machines. Previously the code was only tested on 64-bit and on 32-bit it overflowed and simply doesn't work" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: crypto: drbg - remove check for uninitialized DRBG handle crypto: drbg - backport "fix maximum value checks on 32 bit systems"
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Linus Torvalds authored
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro: "double iput() on failure exit in lustre, racy removal of spliced dentries from ->s_anon in __d_materialise_dentry() plus a bunch of assorted RCU pathwalk fixes" The RCU pathwalk fixes end up fixing a couple of cases where we incorrectly dropped out of RCU walking, due to incorrect initialization and testing of the sequence locks in some corner cases. Since dropping out of RCU walk mode forces the slow locked accesses, those corner cases slowed down quite dramatically. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: be careful with nd->inode in path_init() and follow_dotdot_rcu() don't bugger nd->seq on set_root_rcu() from follow_dotdot_rcu() fix bogus read_seqretry() checks introduced in b37199e6 move the call of __d_drop(anon) into __d_materialise_unique(dentry, anon) [fix] lustre: d_make_root() does iput() on dentry allocation failure
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Linus Torvalds authored
The performance regression that Josef Bacik reported in the pathname lookup (see commit 99d263d4 "vfs: fix bad hashing of dentries") made me look at performance stability of the dcache code, just to verify that the problem was actually fixed. That turned up a few other problems in this area. There are a few cases where we exit RCU lookup mode and go to the slow serializing case when we shouldn't, Al has fixed those and they'll come in with the next VFS pull. But my performance verification also shows that link_path_walk() turns out to have a very unfortunate 32-bit store of the length and hash of the name we look up, followed by a 64-bit read of the combined hash_len field. That screws up the processor store to load forwarding, causing an unnecessary hickup in this critical routine. It's caused by the ugly calling convention for the "hash_name()" function, and easily fixed by just making hash_name() fill in the whole 'struct qstr' rather than passing it a pointer to just the hash value. With that, the profile for this function looks much smoother. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 14 Sep, 2014 12 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller: "The most important patch is a new Light Weigth Syscall (LWS) for 8, 16, 32 and 64 bit atomic CAS operations which is required in order to be able to implement the atomic gcc builtins on our platform. Other than that, we wire up the seccomp, getrandom and memfd_create syscalls, fixes a minor off-by-one bug and a wrong printk string" * 'parisc-3.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux: parisc: Implement new LWS CAS supporting 64 bit operations. parisc: Wire up seccomp, getrandom and memfd_create syscalls parisc: dino: fix %d confusingly prefixed with 0x in format string parisc: sys_hpux: NUL terminator is one past the end
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Al Viro authored
in the former we simply check if dentry is still valid after picking its ->d_inode; in the latter we fetch ->d_inode in the same places where we fetch dentry and its ->d_seq, under the same checks. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.38+ Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
return the value instead, and have path_init() do the assignment. Broken by "vfs: Fix absolute RCU path walk failures due to uninitialized seq number", which was Cc-stable with 2.6.38+ as destination. This one should go where it went. To avoid dummy value returned in case when root is already set (it would do no harm, actually, since the only caller that doesn't ignore the return value is guaranteed to have nd->root *not* set, but it's more obvious that way), lift the check into callers. And do the same to set_root(), to keep them in sync. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.38+ Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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git://github.com/jonmason/ntbLinus Torvalds authored
Pull ntb driver bugfixes from Jon Mason: "NTB driver fixes for queue spread and buffer alignment. Also, update to MAINTAINERS to reflect new e-mail address" * tag 'ntb-3.17' of git://github.com/jonmason/ntb: ntb: Add alignment check to meet hardware requirement MAINTAINERS: update NTB info NTB: correct the spread of queues over mw's
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull ARM irq chip fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "Another pile of ARM specific irq chip fixlets: - off by one bugs in the crossbar driver - missing annotations - a bunch of "make it compile" updates I pulled the lot today from Jason, but it has been in -next for at least a week" * 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: irqchip: gic-v3: Declare rdist as __percpu pointer to __iomem pointer irqchip: gic: Make gic_default_routable_irq_domain_ops static irqchip: exynos-combiner: Fix compilation error on ARM64 irqchip: crossbar: Off by one bugs in init irqchip: gic-v3: Tag all low level accessors __maybe_unused irqchip: gic-v3: Only define gic_peek_irq() when building SMP
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git://git.infradead.org/users/jcooper/linuxThomas Gleixner authored
irqchip fixes for v3.17 from Jason Cooper - GIC/GICV3: Various fixlets - crossbar: Fix off-by-one bug - exynos-combiner: Fix arm64 build error
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Dave Jiang authored
The NTB translate register must have the value to be BAR size aligned. This alignment check make sure that the DMA memory allocated has the proper alignment. Another requirement for NTB to function properly with memory window BAR size greater or equal to 4M is to use the CMA feature in 3.16 kernel with the appropriate CONFIG_CMA_ALIGNMENT and CONFIG_CMA_SIZE_MBYTES set. Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
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Jon Mason authored
Update my contact info to my personal email address and add Dave Jiang. Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
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Jon Mason authored
The detection of an uneven number of queues on the given memory windows was not correct. The mw_num is zero based and the mod should be division to spread them evenly over the mw's. Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com>
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Al Viro authored
read_seqretry() returns true on mismatch, not on match... Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.15+ Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
and lock the right list there Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
double-free is a bad thing Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 13 Sep, 2014 9 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branches 'locking-urgent-for-linus' and 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull futex and timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "A oneliner bugfix for the jinxed futex code: - Drop hash bucket lock in the error exit path. I really could slap myself for intruducing that bug while fixing all the other horror in that code three month ago ... and the timer department is not too proud about the following fixes: - Deal with a long standing rounding bug in the timeval to jiffies conversion. It's a real issue and this fix fell through the cracks for quite some time. - Another round of alarmtimer fixes. Finally this code gets used more widely and the subtle issues hidden for quite some time are noticed and fixed. Nothing really exciting, just the itty bitty details which bite the serious users here and there" * 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: futex: Unlock hb->lock in futex_wait_requeue_pi() error path * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: alarmtimer: Lock k_itimer during timer callback alarmtimer: Do not signal SIGEV_NONE timers alarmtimer: Return relative times in timer_gettime jiffies: Fix timeval conversion to jiffies
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Guy Martin authored
The current LWS cas only works correctly for 32bit. The new LWS allows for CAS operations of variable size. Signed-off-by: Guy Martin <gmsoft@tuxicoman.be> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.13+ Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Josef Bacik found a performance regression between 3.2 and 3.10 and narrowed it down to commit bfcfaa77 ("vfs: use 'unsigned long' accesses for dcache name comparison and hashing"). He reports: "The test case is essentially for (i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) mkdir("a$i"); On xfs on a fio card this goes at about 20k dir/sec with 3.2, and 12k dir/sec with 3.10. This is because we spend waaaaay more time in __d_lookup on 3.10 than in 3.2. The new hashing function for strings is suboptimal for < sizeof(unsigned long) string names (and hell even > sizeof(unsigned long) string names that I've tested). I broke out the old hashing function and the new one into a userspace helper to get real numbers and this is what I'm getting: Old hash table had 1000000 entries, 0 dupes, 0 max dupes New hash table had 12628 entries, 987372 dupes, 900 max dupes We had 11400 buckets with a p50 of 30 dupes, p90 of 240 dupes, p99 of 567 dupes for the new hash My test does the hash, and then does the d_hash into a integer pointer array the same size as the dentry hash table on my system, and then just increments the value at the address we got to see how many entries we overlap with. As you can see the old hash function ended up with all 1 million entries in their own bucket, whereas the new one they are only distributed among ~12.5k buckets, which is why we're using so much more CPU in __d_lookup". The reason for this hash regression is two-fold: - On 64-bit architectures the down-mixing of the original 64-bit word-at-a-time hash into the final 32-bit hash value is very simplistic and suboptimal, and just adds the two 32-bit parts together. In particular, because there is no bit shuffling and the mixing boundary is also a byte boundary, similar character patterns in the low and high word easily end up just canceling each other out. - the old byte-at-a-time hash mixed each byte into the final hash as it hashed the path component name, resulting in the low bits of the hash generally being a good source of hash data. That is not true for the word-at-a-time case, and the hash data is distributed among all the bits. The fix is the same in both cases: do a better job of mixing the bits up and using as much of the hash data as possible. We already have the "hash_32|64()" functions to do that. Reported-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
The hash_64() function historically does the multiply by the GOLDEN_RATIO_PRIME_64 number with explicit shifts and adds, because unlike the 32-bit case, gcc seems unable to turn the constant multiply into the more appropriate shift and adds when required. However, that means that we generate those shifts and adds even when the architecture has a fast multiplier, and could just do it better in hardware. Use the now-cleaned-up CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER (together with "is it a 64-bit architecture") to decide whether to use an integer multiply or the explicit sequence of shift/add instructions. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
It used to be an ad-hoc hack defined by the x86 version of <asm/bitops.h> that enabled a couple of library routines to know whether an integer multiply is faster than repeated shifts and additions. This just makes it use the real Kconfig system instead, and makes x86 (which was the only architecture that did this) select the option. NOTE! Even for x86, this really is kind of wrong. If we cared, we would probably not enable this for builds optimized for netburst (P4), where shifts-and-adds are generally faster than multiplies. This patch does *not* change that kind of logic, though, it is purely a syntactic change with no code changes. This was triggered by the fact that we have other places that really want to know "do I want to expand multiples by constants by hand or not", particularly the hash generation code. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dmLinus Torvalds authored
Pull device mapper fix from Mike Snitzer: "Fix a race in the DM cache target that caused dirty blocks to be marked as clean. This could cause no writeback to occur or spurious dirty block counts" * tag 'dm-3.17-fix2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: dm cache: fix race causing dirty blocks to be marked as clean
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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds authored
Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe: "A small collection of fixes for the current rc series. This contains: - Two small blk-mq patches from Rob Elliott, cleaning up error case at init time. - A fix from Ming Lei, fixing SG merging for blk-mq where QUEUE_FLAG_SG_NO_MERGE is the default. - A dev_t minor lifetime fix from Keith, fixing an issue where a minor might be reused before all references to it were gone. - Fix from Alan Stern where an unbalanced queue bypass caused SCSI some headaches when it does a series of add/del on devices without fully registrering the queue. - A fix from me for improving the scaling of tag depth in blk-mq if we are short on memory" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: blk-mq: scale depth and rq map appropriate if low on memory Block: fix unbalanced bypass-disable in blk_register_queue block: Fix dev_t minor allocation lifetime blk-mq: cleanup after blk_mq_init_rq_map failures blk-mq: pass along blk_mq_alloc_tag_set return values blk-merge: fix blk_recount_segments
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Grygorii Strashko authored
Now CS GPIOs are requested from struct spi_master.setup() callback and that causes failures when Client SPI device is getting accessed through SPIDEV driver. The failure happens, because .setup() callback may be called many times from IOCTL handler and when it's called second time gpio_request() will fail and return -EBUSY. Hence, fix it by moving CS GPIOs requesting code in .probe(). Reported-by: Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.17-b-rc4-arm-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip Pull Xen ARM bugfix from Stefano Stabellini: "The patches fix the "xen_add_mach_to_phys_entry: cannot add" bug that has been affecting xen on arm and arm64 guests since 3.16. They require a few hypervisor side changes that just went in xen-unstable. A couple of days ago David sent out a pull request with a few other Xen fixes (it is already in master). Sorry we didn't synchronized better among us" * tag 'stable/for-linus-3.17-b-rc4-arm-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: xen/arm: remove mach_to_phys rbtree xen/arm: reimplement xen_dma_unmap_page & friends xen/arm: introduce XENFEAT_grant_map_identity
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- 12 Sep, 2014 3 commits
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Richard Larocque authored
Locks the k_itimer's it_lock member when handling the alarm timer's expiry callback. The regular posix timers defined in posix-timers.c have this lock held during timout processing because their callbacks are routed through posix_timer_fn(). The alarm timers follow a different path, so they ought to grab the lock somewhere else. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Sharvil Nanavati <sharvil@google.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Larocque <rlarocque@google.com> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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Richard Larocque authored
Avoids sending a signal to alarm timers created with sigev_notify set to SIGEV_NONE by checking for that special case in the timeout callback. The regular posix timers avoid sending signals to SIGEV_NONE timers by not scheduling any callbacks for them in the first place. Although it would be possible to do something similar for alarm timers, it's simpler to handle this as a special case in the timeout. Prior to this patch, the alarm timer would ignore the sigev_notify value and try to deliver signals to the process anyway. Even worse, the sanity check for the value of sigev_signo is skipped when SIGEV_NONE was specified, so the signal number could be bogus. If sigev_signo was an unitialized value (as it often would be if SIGEV_NONE is used), then it's hard to predict which signal will be sent. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Sharvil Nanavati <sharvil@google.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Larocque <rlarocque@google.com> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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Richard Larocque authored
Returns the time remaining for an alarm timer, rather than the time at which it is scheduled to expire. If the timer has already expired or it is not currently scheduled, the it_value's members are set to zero. This new behavior matches that of the other posix-timers and the POSIX specifications. This is a change in user-visible behavior, and may break existing applications. Hopefully, few users rely on the old incorrect behavior. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Sharvil Nanavati <sharvil@google.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Larocque <rlarocque@google.com> [jstultz: minor style tweak] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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