1. 10 Dec, 2012 2 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Revert "revert "Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD""" and associated damage · caf49191
      Linus Torvalds authored
      This reverts commits a5091539 and
      d7c3b937.
      
      This is a revert of a revert of a revert.  In addition, it reverts the
      even older i915 change to stop using the __GFP_NO_KSWAPD flag due to the
      original commits in linux-next.
      
      It turns out that the original patch really was bogus, and that the
      original revert was the correct thing to do after all.  We thought we
      had fixed the problem, and then reverted the revert, but the problem
      really is fundamental: waking up kswapd simply isn't the right thing to
      do, and direct reclaim sometimes simply _is_ the right thing to do.
      
      When certain allocations fail, we simply should try some direct reclaim,
      and if that fails, fail the allocation.  That's the right thing to do
      for THP allocations, which can easily fail, and the GPU allocations want
      to do that too.
      
      So starting kswapd is sometimes simply wrong, and removing the flag that
      said "don't start kswapd" was a mistake.  Let's hope we never revisit
      this mistake again - and certainly not this many times ;)
      Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      caf49191
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Revert "mm: avoid waking kswapd for THP allocations when compaction is deferred or contended" · 31f8d42d
      Linus Torvalds authored
      This reverts commit 782fd304.
      
      We are going to reinstate the __GFP_NO_KSWAPD flag that has been
      removed, the removal reverted, and then removed again.  Making this
      commit a pointless fixup for a problem that was caused by the removal of
      __GFP_NO_KSWAPD flag.
      
      The thing is, we really don't want to wake up kswapd for THP allocations
      (because they fail quite commonly under any kind of memory pressure,
      including when there is tons of memory free), and these patches were
      just trying to fix up the underlying bug: the original removal of
      __GFP_NO_KSWAPD in commit c6543459 ("mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD")
      was simply bogus.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      31f8d42d
  2. 08 Dec, 2012 3 commits
    • Johannes Weiner's avatar
      mm: vmscan: fix inappropriate zone congestion clearing · ed23ec4f
      Johannes Weiner authored
      commit c702418f ("mm: vmscan: do not keep kswapd looping forever due
      to individual uncompactable zones") removed zone watermark checks from
      the compaction code in kswapd but left in the zone congestion clearing,
      which now happens unconditionally on higher order reclaim.
      
      This messes up the reclaim throttling logic for zones with
      dirty/writeback pages, where zones should only lose their congestion
      status when their watermarks have been restored.
      
      Remove the clearing from the zone compaction section entirely.  The
      preliminary zone check and the reclaim loop in kswapd will clear it if
      the zone is considered balanced.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ed23ec4f
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      vfs: fix O_DIRECT read past end of block device · 684c9aae
      Linus Torvalds authored
      The direct-IO write path already had the i_size checks in mm/filemap.c,
      but it turns out the read path did not, and removing the block size
      checks in fs/block_dev.c (commit bbec0270: "blkdev_max_block: make
      private to fs/buffer.c") removed the magic "shrink IO to past the end of
      the device" code there.
      
      Fix it by truncating the IO to the size of the block device, like the
      write path already does.
      
      NOTE! I suspect the write path would be *much* better off doing it this
      way in fs/block_dev.c, rather than hidden deep in mm/filemap.c.  The
      mm/filemap.c code is extremely hard to follow, and has various
      conditionals on the target being a block device (ie the flag passed in
      to 'generic_write_checks()', along with a conditional update of the
      inode timestamp etc).
      
      It is also quite possible that we should treat this whole block device
      size as a "s_maxbytes" issue, and try to make the logic even more
      generic.  However, in the meantime this is the fairly minimal targeted
      fix.
      
      Noted by Milan Broz thanks to a regression test for the cryptsetup
      reencrypt tool.
      Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarMilan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      684c9aae
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net · 1b3c393c
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
       "Two stragglers:
      
         1) The new code that adds new flushing semantics to GRO can cause SKB
            pointer list corruption, manage the lists differently to avoid the
            OOPS.  Fix from Eric Dumazet.
      
         2) When TCP fast open does a retransmit of data in a SYN-ACK or
            similar, we update retransmit state that we shouldn't triggering a
            WARN_ON later.  Fix from Yuchung Cheng."
      
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net:
        net: gro: fix possible panic in skb_gro_receive()
        tcp: bug fix Fast Open client retransmission
      1b3c393c
  3. 07 Dec, 2012 3 commits
    • Eric Dumazet's avatar
      net: gro: fix possible panic in skb_gro_receive() · c3c7c254
      Eric Dumazet authored
      commit 2e71a6f8 (net: gro: selective flush of packets) added
      a bug for skbs using frag_list. This part of the GRO stack is rarely
      used, as it needs skb not using a page fragment for their skb->head.
      
      Most drivers do use a page fragment, but some of them use GFP_KERNEL
      allocations for the initial fill of their RX ring buffer.
      
      napi_gro_flush() overwrite skb->prev that was used for these skb to
      point to the last skb in frag_list.
      
      Fix this using a separate field in struct napi_gro_cb to point to the
      last fragment.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      c3c7c254
    • Yuchung Cheng's avatar
      tcp: bug fix Fast Open client retransmission · 93b174ad
      Yuchung Cheng authored
      If SYN-ACK partially acks SYN-data, the client retransmits the
      remaining data by tcp_retransmit_skb(). This increments lost recovery
      state variables like tp->retrans_out in Open state. If loss recovery
      happens before the retransmission is acked, it triggers the WARN_ON
      check in tcp_fastretrans_alert(). For example: the client sends
      SYN-data, gets SYN-ACK acking only ISN, retransmits data, sends
      another 4 data packets and get 3 dupacks.
      
      Since the retransmission is not caused by network drop it should not
      update the recovery state variables. Further the server may return a
      smaller MSS than the cached MSS used for SYN-data, so the retranmission
      needs a loop. Otherwise some data will not be retransmitted until timeout
      or other loss recovery events.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      93b174ad
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'mmc-fixes-for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc · 1afa4717
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull MMC fixes from Chris Ball:
       "Two small regression fixes:
      
         - sdhci-s3c: Fix runtime PM regression against 3.7-rc1
         - sh-mmcif: Fix oops against 3.6"
      
      * tag 'mmc-fixes-for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc:
        mmc: sh-mmcif: avoid oops on spurious interrupts (second try)
        Revert misapplied "mmc: sh-mmcif: avoid oops on spurious interrupts"
        mmc: sdhci-s3c: fix missing clock for gpio card-detect
      1afa4717
  4. 06 Dec, 2012 11 commits
  5. 05 Dec, 2012 6 commits
  6. 04 Dec, 2012 12 commits
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      watchdog: Fix CPU hotplug regression · 8d451690
      Thomas Gleixner authored
      Norbert reported:
      "3.7-rc6 booted with nmi_watchdog=0 fails to suspend to RAM or
       offline CPUs. It's reproducable with a KVM guest and physical
       system."
      
      The reason is that commit bcd951cf(watchdog: Use hotplug thread
      infrastructure) missed to take this into account. So the cpu offline
      code gets stuck in the teardown function because it accesses non
      initialized data structures.
      
      Add a check for watchdog_enabled into that path to cure the issue.
      Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarNorbert Warmuth <nwarmuth@t-online.de>
      Tested-by: default avatarJoseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1211231033230.2701@ionos
      Link: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1079534Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      8d451690
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux · df2fc246
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull module fixes from Rusty Russell:
       "Module signing build fixes for blackfin and metag"
      
      * 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
        modsign: add symbol prefix to certificate list
        linux/kernel.h: define SYMBOL_PREFIX
      df2fc246
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'upstream-3.7-rc9' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-ubi · 70dcc535
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull UBI changes from Artem Bityutskiy:
       "Fixes for 2 brown-paperbag bugs introduced this merge window by the
        fastmap code:
      
         1.  The UBI background thread got stuck when a bit-flip happened
             because free LEBs was not removed from the "free" tree when we
             started using it.
         2.  I/O debugging checks did not work because we called a sleeping
             function in atomic context."
      
      * tag 'upstream-3.7-rc9' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-ubi:
        UBI: dont call ubi_self_check_all_ff() in __wl_get_peb()
        UBI: remove PEB from free tree in get_peb_for_wl()
      70dcc535
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-3.7-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq · ca50496e
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull workqueue fixes from Tejun Heo:
       "So, safe fixes my ass.
      
        Commit 8852aac2 ("workqueue: mod_delayed_work_on() shouldn't queue
        timer on 0 delay") had the side-effect of performing delayed_work
        sanity checks even when @delay is 0, which should be fine for any sane
        use cases.
      
        Unfortunately, megaraid was being overly ingenious.  It seemingly
        wanted to use cancel_delayed_work_sync() before cancel_work_sync() was
        introduced, but didn't want to waste the space for full delayed_work
        as it was only going to use 0 @delay.  So, it only allocated space for
        struct work_struct and then cast it to struct delayed_work and passed
        it into delayed_work functions - truly awesome engineering tradeoff to
        save some bytes.
      
        Xiaotian fixed it by making megraid allocate full delayed_work for
        now.  It should be converted to use work_struct and cancel_work_sync()
        but I think we better do that after 3.7.
      
        I added another commit to change BUG_ON()s in __queue_delayed_work()
        to WARN_ON_ONCE()s so that the kernel doesn't crash even if there are
        more such abuses."
      
      * 'for-3.7-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
        workqueue: convert BUG_ON()s in __queue_delayed_work() to WARN_ON_ONCE()s
        megaraid: fix BUG_ON() from incorrect use of delayed work
      ca50496e
    • Ralf Baechle's avatar
      MIPS: N32: Fix preadv(2) and pwritev(2) entry points. · d5563715
      Ralf Baechle authored
      By using the native syscall entry point the kernel was also expecting
      64-bit iovec structures.
      
      This is broken since ddd9e91b [preadv/
      pwritev: MIPS: Add preadv(2) and pwritev(2) syscalls.] which originally
      added these two syscalls.  I walked through piles of code, including
      libc and couldn't find anything that would have worked around the issue
      so this change the API to what it should always have been.
      
      Noticed and patch suggested by Al Viro.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      d5563715
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc · 609e3ff3
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull sparc fixes from David Miller:
       "Two small fixes for Sparc, nobody uses sparc, so these are low risk :-)
      
         1) Piggyback is too picky about the symbol types that _start and _end
            have in the final kernel image, and it thus breaks with newer
            binutils.  Future proof by getting rid of the symbol type checks.
      
         2) exit_group() should kill register windows on sparc64 the same way
            we do for plain exit().  Thanks to Al Viro for spotting this."
      
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc:
        sparc: Fix piggyback with newer binutils.
        sparc64: exit_group should kill register windows just like plain exit.
      609e3ff3
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      vfs: avoid "attempt to access beyond end of device" warnings · 57302e0d
      Linus Torvalds authored
      The block device access simplification that avoided accessing the (racy)
      block size information (commit bbec0270: "blkdev_max_block: make
      private to fs/buffer.c") no longer checks the maximum block size in the
      block mapping path.
      
      That was _almost_ as simple as just removing the code entirely, because
      the readers and writers all check the size of the device anyway, so
      under normal circumstances it "just worked".
      
      However, the block size may be such that the end of the device may
      straddle one single buffer_head.  At which point we may still want to
      access the end of the device, but the buffer we use to access it
      partially extends past the end.
      
      The 'bd_set_size()' function intentionally sets the block size to avoid
      this, but mounting the device - or setting the block size by hand to
      some other value - can modify that block size.
      
      So instead, teach 'submit_bh()' about the special case of the buffer
      head straddling the end of the device, and turning such an access into a
      smaller IO access, avoiding the problem.
      
      This, btw, also means that unlike before, we can now access the whole
      device regardless of device block size setting.  So now, even if the
      device size is only 512-byte aligned, we can read and write even the
      last sector even when having a much bigger block size for accessing the
      rest of the device.
      
      So with this, we could now get rid of the 'bd_set_size()' block size
      code entirely - resulting in faster IO for the common case - but that
      would be a separate patch.
      Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarRomain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
      Reporeted-and-tested-by: default avatarMeelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
      Reported-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      57302e0d
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      workqueue: convert BUG_ON()s in __queue_delayed_work() to WARN_ON_ONCE()s · fc4b514f
      Tejun Heo authored
      8852aac2 ("workqueue: mod_delayed_work_on() shouldn't queue timer on
      0 delay") unexpectedly uncovered a very nasty abuse of delayed_work in
      megaraid - it allocated work_struct, casted it to delayed_work and
      then pass that into queue_delayed_work().
      
      Previously, this was okay because 0 @delay short-circuited to
      queue_work() before doing anything with delayed_work.  8852aac2
      moved 0 @delay test into __queue_delayed_work() after sanity check on
      delayed_work making megaraid trigger BUG_ON().
      
      Although megaraid is already fixed by c1d390d8 ("megaraid: fix
      BUG_ON() from incorrect use of delayed work"), this patch converts
      BUG_ON()s in __queue_delayed_work() to WARN_ON_ONCE()s so that such
      abusers, if there are more, trigger warning but don't crash the
      machine.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com>
      fc4b514f
    • David Daney's avatar
      MIPS: Avoid mcheck by flushing page range in huge_ptep_set_access_flags() · ac53c4fc
      David Daney authored
      Problem:
      
      1) Huge page mapping of anonymous memory is initially invalid.  Will be
         faulted in by copy-on-write mechanism.
      
      2) Userspace attempts store at the end of the huge mapping.
      
      3) TLB Refill exception handler fill TLB with a normal (4K sized)
         invalid page at the end of the huge mapping virtual address range.
      
      4) Userspace restarted, and re-attempts the store at the end of the
         huge mapping.
      
      5) Page from #3 is invalid, we get a fault and go to the hugepage
         fault handler.  This tries to map a huge page and calls
         huge_ptep_set_access_flags() to install the mapping.
      
      6) We just call the generic ptep_set_access_flags() to set up the page
         tables, but the flush there assumes a normal (4K sized) page and
         only tries to flush the first part of the huge page virtual address
         out of the TLB, since the existing entry from step #3 doesn't
         conflict, nothing is flushed.
      
      7) We attempt to load the mapping into the TLB, but because it
         conflicts with the entry from step #3, we get a Machine Check
         exception.
      
      The fix: Flush the entire rage covered by the huge page in
      huge_ptep_set_access_flags(), and remove the optimization in
      local_flush_tlb_range() so that the flush actually does the correct
      thing.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
      Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
      Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
      Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4661/Signed-off-by: default avatarRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      (cherry picked from commit dd617f258cc39d36be26afee9912624a2d23112c)
      ac53c4fc
    • Xiaotian Feng's avatar
      megaraid: fix BUG_ON() from incorrect use of delayed work · c1d390d8
      Xiaotian Feng authored
      megaraid use INIT_WORK to declare a hotplug_work, but cast the
      hotplug_work from work_struct to delayed_work and
      schedule_delayed_work on it.  This is very dangerous, as other part of
      delayed_work might be kernel memories allocated by others.
      
      With commit 8852aac2 ("workqueue: mod_delayed_work_on() shouldn't queue
      timer on 0 delay"), schedule_delayed_work() will check dwork->timer
      before queue_work even when @delay is 0, this causes megaraid code to
      hit the BUG_ON() in workqueue code.  Change megaraid code to use
      delayed work.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarXiaotian Feng <dannyfeng@tencent.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Neela Syam Kolli <megaraidlinux@lsi.com>
      Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
      Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
      c1d390d8
    • Richard Weinberger's avatar
      UBI: dont call ubi_self_check_all_ff() in __wl_get_peb() · 894aef21
      Richard Weinberger authored
      As ubi_self_check_all_ff() might sleep we are not allowed
      to call it from atomic context.
      For now we call it only from ubi_wl_get_peb().
      There are some code paths where it would also make sense,
      but these paths are currently atomic and only enabled
      when fastmap is used.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRichard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArtem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
      894aef21
    • Richard Weinberger's avatar
      UBI: remove PEB from free tree in get_peb_for_wl() · ed4b7021
      Richard Weinberger authored
      If UBI is built without fastmap, get_peb_for_wl() has to
      remove the PEB manially from the free tree.
      Otherwise the requested PEB lives in two trees.
      Reported-by: default avatarZach Sadecki <zsadecki@itwatchdogs.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRichard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArtem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
      ed4b7021
  7. 03 Dec, 2012 3 commits