- 31 Aug, 2013 3 commits
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Merge branches 'doc.2013.08.19a', 'fixes.2013.08.20a', 'sysidle.2013.08.31a' and 'torture.2013.08.20a' into HEAD doc.2013.08.19a: Documentation updates fixes.2013.08.20a: Miscellaneous fixes sysidle.2013.08.31a: Detect system-wide idle state. torture.2013.08.20a: rcutorture updates.
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Because RCU's quiescent-state-forcing mechanism is used to drive the full-system-idle state machine, and because this mechanism is executed by RCU's grace-period kthreads, this commit forces these kthreads to run on the timekeeping CPU (tick_do_timer_cpu). To do otherwise would mean that the RCU grace-period kthreads would force the system into non-idle state every time they drove the state machine, which would be just a bit on the futile side. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This commit adds the state machine that takes the per-CPU idle data as input and produces a full-system-idle indication as output. This state machine is driven out of RCU's quiescent-state-forcing mechanism, which invokes rcu_sysidle_check_cpu() to collect per-CPU idle state and then rcu_sysidle_report() to drive the state machine. The full-system-idle state is sampled using rcu_sys_is_idle(), which also drives the state machine if RCU is idle (and does so by forcing RCU to become non-idle). This function returns true if all but the timekeeping CPU (tick_do_timer_cpu) are idle and have been idle long enough to avoid memory contention on the full_sysidle_state state variable. The rcu_sysidle_force_exit() may be called externally to reset the state machine back into non-idle state. For large systems the state machine is driven out of RCU's force-quiescent-state logic, which provides good scalability at the price of millisecond-scale latencies on the transition to full-system-idle state. This is not so good for battery-powered systems, which are usually small enough that they don't need to care about scalability, but which do care deeply about energy efficiency. Small systems therefore drive the state machine directly out of the idle-entry code. The number of CPUs in a "small" system is defined by a new NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE_SMALL Kconfig parameter, which defaults to 8. Note that this is a build-time definition. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> [ paulmck: Use true and false for boolean constants per Lai Jiangshan. ] Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> [ paulmck: Simplify logic and provide better comments for memory barriers, based on review comments and questions by Lai Jiangshan. ]
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- 20 Aug, 2013 9 commits
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Paul E. McKenney authored
According to the C standard 3.4.3p3, overflow of a signed integer results in undefined behavior. This commit therefore changes the definitions of time_after(), time_after_eq(), time_after64(), and time_after_eq64() to avoid this undefined behavior. The trick is that the subtraction is done using unsigned arithmetic, which according to 6.2.5p9 cannot overflow because it is defined as modulo arithmetic. This has the added (though admittedly quite small) benefit of shortening four lines of code by four characters each. Note that the C standard considers the cast from unsigned to signed to be implementation-defined, see 6.3.1.3p3. However, on a two's-complement system, an implementation that defines anything other than a reinterpretation of the bits is free to come to me, and I will be happy to act as a witness for its being committed to an insane asylum. (Although I have nothing against saturating arithmetic or signals in some cases, these things really should not be the default when compiling an operating-system kernel.) Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Kevin Easton <kevin@guarana.org> [ paulmck: Included time_after64() and time_after_eq64(), as suggested by Eric Dumazet, also fixed commit message.] Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This commit drops an unneeded ACCESS_ONCE() and simplifies an "our work is done" check in _rcu_barrier(). This applies feedback from Linus (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/26/777) that he gave to similar code in an unrelated patch. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> [ paulmck: Fix comment to match code, reported by Lai Jiangshan. ]
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Although rcutorture counts CPU-hotplug online failures, it does not explicitly record which CPUs were having trouble coming online. This commit therefore emits a console message when online failure occurs. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
The oldbatch variable in rcu_torture_writer() is stored to, but never loaded from. This commit therefore removes it. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
There are getting to be too many module parameters to permit the current semi-random order, so this patch orders them. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Currently, rcutorture has separate torture_types to test synchronous, asynchronous, and expedited grace-period primitives. This has two disadvantages: (1) Three times the number of runs to cover the combinations and (2) Little testing of concurrent combinations of the three options. This commit therefore adds a pair of module parameters that control normal and expedited state, with the default being both types, randomly selected, by the fakewriter processes, thus reducing source-code size and increasing test coverage. In addtion, the writer task switches between asynchronous-normal and expedited grace-period primitives driven by the same pair of module parameters. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This commit adds a object_debug option to rcutorture to allow the debug-object-based checks for duplicate call_rcu() invocations to be deterministically tested. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> [ paulmck: Banish mid-function ifdef, more or less per Josh Triplett. ] Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> [ paulmck: Improve duplicate-callback test, per Lai Jiangshan. ]
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Each control-dependency example needs its barriers between the "if" condition and the body of the "if" because a control dependency is a dependency induced by a branch. This commit makes the needed adjustment. Reported-by: Yongming Shen <symingz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Note that this commit also updates the formatting of serveral of the bibtex entries to conform to that of my .bib files. I started accumulating entries back in the 1980s, back when bibtex insisted that comma (",") was a separator, not a terminator. This rule forced commas to the fronts of lines. 25 years later, bibtex allows commas to be terminators, but I am too lazy to rework all my .bib files. Keeping the same format as my .bib files allows my to simply incorporate my RCU.bib file into Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt, which is much easier than my earlier practice of keeping track of what had changed and adding individual entries. (I sometimes find relevant papers that were published some years back, for example.) In addition, this change adds entries for papers published in the last year or so. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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- 19 Aug, 2013 15 commits
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This commit adds an isidle and jiffies argument to force_qs_rnp(), dyntick_save_progress_counter(), and rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() to enable RCU's force-quiescent-state process to check for full-system idle. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> [ paulmck: Use true and false for boolean constants per Lai Jiangshan. ] Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This commit adds control variables and states for full-system idle. The system will progress through the states in numerical order when the system is fully idle (other than the timekeeping CPU), and reset down to the initial state if any non-timekeeping CPU goes non-idle. The current state is kept in full_sysidle_state. One flavor of RCU will be in charge of driving the state machine, defined by rcu_sysidle_state. This should be the busiest flavor of RCU. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This commit adds the code that updates the rcu_dyntick structure's new fields to track the per-CPU idle state based on interrupts and transitions into and out of the idle loop (NMIs are ignored because NMI handlers cannot cleanly read out the time anyway). This code is similar to the code that maintains RCU's idea of per-CPU idleness, but differs in that RCU treats CPUs running in user mode as idle, where this new code does not. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This commit adds fields to the rcu_dyntick structure that are used to detect idle CPUs. These new fields differ from the existing ones in that the existing ones consider a CPU executing in user mode to be idle, where the new ones consider CPUs executing in user mode to be busy. The handling of these new fields is otherwise quite similar to that for the exiting fields. This commit also adds the initialization required for these fields. So, why is usermode execution treated differently, with RCU considering it a quiescent state equivalent to idle, while in contrast the new full-system idle state detection considers usermode execution to be non-idle? It turns out that although one of RCU's quiescent states is usermode execution, it is not a full-system idle state. This is because the purpose of the full-system idle state is not RCU, but rather determining when accurate timekeeping can safely be disabled. Whenever accurate timekeeping is required in a CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL kernel, at least one CPU must keep the scheduling-clock tick going. If even one CPU is executing in user mode, accurate timekeeping is requires, particularly for architectures where gettimeofday() and friends do not enter the kernel. Only when all CPUs are really and truly idle can accurate timekeeping be disabled, allowing all CPUs to turn off the scheduling clock interrupt, thus greatly improving energy efficiency. This naturally raises the question "Why is this code in RCU rather than in timekeeping?", and the answer is that RCU has the data and infrastructure to efficiently make this determination. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
At least one CPU must keep the scheduling-clock tick running for timekeeping purposes whenever there is a non-idle CPU. However, with the new nohz_full adaptive-idle machinery, it is difficult to distinguish between all CPUs really being idle as opposed to all non-idle CPUs being in adaptive-ticks mode. This commit therefore adds a Kconfig parameter as a first step towards enabling a scalable detection of full-system idle state. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> [ paulmck: Update help text per Frederic Weisbecker. ] Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This commit adds information about testing nohz_full, and also emphasizes the fact that you need a multi-CPU system to get any benefit from nohz_full. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
The rcu_user_enter_after_irq() and rcu_user_exit_after_irq() functions were intended for use by adaptive ticks, but changes in implementation have rendered them unnecessary. This commit therefore removes them. Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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James Hogan authored
TREE_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU both cause kernel/rcutree.c to be built, but only TREE_RCU selects IRQ_WORK, which can result in an undefined reference to irq_work_queue for some (random) configs: kernel/built-in.o In function `rcu_start_gp_advanced': kernel/rcutree.c:1564: undefined reference to `irq_work_queue' Select IRQ_WORK from TREE_PREEMPT_RCU too to fix this. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Tejun Heo authored
list_first_or_null() should test whether the list is empty and return pointer to the first entry if not in a RCU safe manner. It's broken in several ways. * It compares __kernel @__ptr with __rcu @__next triggering the following sparse warning. net/core/dev.c:4331:17: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces) * It doesn't perform rcu_dereference*() and computes the entry address using container_of() directly from the __rcu pointer which is inconsitent with other rculist interface. As a result, all three in-kernel users - net/core/dev.c, macvlan, cgroup - are buggy. They dereference the pointer w/o going through read barrier. * While ->next dereference passes through list_next_rcu(), the compiler is still free to fetch ->next more than once and thus nullify the "__ptr != __next" condition check. Fix it by making list_first_or_null_rcu() dereference ->next directly using ACCESS_ONCE() and then use list_entry_rcu() on it like other rculist accessors. v2: Paul pointed out that the compiler may fetch the pointer more than once nullifying the condition check. ACCESS_ONCE() added on ->next dereference. v3: Restored () around macro param which was accidentally removed. Spotted by Paul. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
When setting up an in-the-future "advanced" grace period, the code needs to wake up the relevant grace-period kthread, which it currently does unconditionally. However, this results in needless wakeups in the case where the advanced grace period is being set up by the grace-period kthread itself, which is a non-uncommon situation. This commit therefore checks to see if the running thread is the grace-period kthread, and avoids doing the irq_work_queue()-mediated wakeup in that case. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
If someone does a duplicate call_rcu(), the worst thing the second call_rcu() could do would be to actually queue the callback the second time because doing so corrupts whatever list the callback was already queued on. This commit therefore makes __call_rcu() check the new return value from debug-objects and leak the callback upon error. This commit also substitutes rcu_leak_callback() for whatever callback function was previously in place in order to avoid freeing the callback out from under any readers that might still be referencing it. These changes increase the probability that the debug-objects error messages will actually make it somewhere visible. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
In order to better respond to things like duplicate invocations of call_rcu(), RCU needs to see the status of a call to debug_object_activate(). This would allow RCU to leak the callback in order to avoid adding freelist-reuse mischief to the duplicate invoations. This commit therefore makes debug_object_activate() return status, zero for success and -EINVAL for failure. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
The current debug-objects fixups are complex and heavyweight, and the fixups are not complete: Even with the fixups, RCU's callback lists can still be corrupted. This commit therefore strips the fixups down to their minimal form, eliminating two of the three. It would be even better if (for example) call_rcu() simply leaked any problematic callbacks, but for that to happen, the debug-objects system would need to inform its caller of suspicious situations. This is the subject of a later commit in this series. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Borislav Petkov authored
CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ can increase grace-period durations by up to a factor of four, which can result in long suspend and resume times. Thus, this commit temporarily switches to expedited grace periods when suspending the box and return to normal settings when resuming. Similar logic is applied to hibernation. Because expedited grace periods are of dubious benefit on very large systems, so this commit restricts their automated use during suspend and resume to systems of 256 or fewer CPUs. (Some day a number of Linux-kernel facilities, including RCU's expedited grace periods, will be more scalable, but I need to see bug reports first.) [ paulmck: This also papers over an audio/irq bug, but hopefully that will be fixed soon. ] Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
There was a time when rcu_barrier() was guaranteed to wait for at least a grace period, but that time ended due to energy-efficiency concerns. So now rcu_barrier() is a no-op if there are no RCU callbacks queued in the system. This commit updates the documentation to reflect this change. Now, rcu_barrier() often does wait for a grace period, so, one could imagine some modification to rcu_barrier() to more efficiently handle cases where both rcu_barrier() and a grace period are needed. But this must wait until someone shows a real-world need for a change. Reported-by: Bob Copeland <bob@cozybit.com> Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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- 29 Jul, 2013 3 commits
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Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) authored
Currently, RCU tracepoints save only a pointer to strings in the ring buffer. When displayed via the /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace file they are referenced like the printf "%s" that looks at the address in the ring buffer and prints out the string it points too. This requires that the strings are constant and persistent in the kernel. The problem with this is for tools like trace-cmd and perf that read the binary data from the buffers but have no access to the kernel memory to find out what string is represented by the address in the buffer. By using the tracepoint_string infrastructure, the RCU tracepoint strings can be exported such that userspace tools can map the addresses to the strings. # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/printk_formats 0xffffffff81a4a0e8 : "rcu_preempt" 0xffffffff81a4a0f4 : "rcu_bh" 0xffffffff81a4a100 : "rcu_sched" 0xffffffff818437a0 : "cpuqs" 0xffffffff818437a6 : "rcu_sched" 0xffffffff818437a0 : "cpuqs" 0xffffffff818437b0 : "rcu_bh" 0xffffffff818437b7 : "Start context switch" 0xffffffff818437cc : "End context switch" 0xffffffff818437a0 : "cpuqs" [...] Now userspaces tools can display: rcu_utilization: Start context switch rcu_dyntick: Start 1 0 rcu_utilization: End context switch rcu_batch_start: rcu_preempt CBs=0/5 bl=10 rcu_dyntick: End 0 140000000000000 rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880071c0d600 func=proc_i_callback rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880077b5b230 func=__d_free rcu_dyntick: Start 140000000000000 0 rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880077563980 func=file_free_rcu rcu_batch_end: rcu_preempt CBs-invoked=3 idle=>c<>c<>c<>c< rcu_utilization: End RCU core rcu_grace_period: rcu_preempt 9741 start rcu_dyntick: Start 1 0 rcu_dyntick: End 0 140000000000000 rcu_dyntick: Start 140000000000000 0 Instead of: rcu_utilization: ffffffff81843110 rcu_future_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 9939 9940 0 0 3 ffffffff81842f32 rcu_batch_start: ffffffff81842f1d CBs=0/4 bl=10 rcu_future_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 9939 9940 0 0 3 ffffffff81842f3c rcu_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 ffffffff81842f80 rcu_invoke_callback: ffffffff81842f1d rhp=0xffff88007888aac0 func=file_free_rcu rcu_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 ffffffff81842f95 rcu_invoke_callback: ffffffff81842f1d rhp=0xffff88006aeb4600 func=proc_i_callback rcu_future_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 9939 9940 0 0 3 ffffffff81842f32 rcu_future_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 9939 9940 0 0 3 ffffffff81842f3c rcu_invoke_callback: ffffffff81842f1d rhp=0xffff880071cb9fc0 func=__d_free rcu_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 ffffffff81842f80 rcu_invoke_callback: ffffffff81842f1d rhp=0xffff88007888ae80 func=file_free_rcu rcu_batch_end: ffffffff81842f1d CBs-invoked=4 idle=>c<>c<>c<>c< rcu_utilization: ffffffff8184311f Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) authored
The RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER() macro is used only in the rcutree.c file as well as the rcutree_plugin.h file. It is passed as a rvalue to a variable of a similar name. A per_cpu variable is also created with a similar name as well. The uses of RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER() can be simplified to remove some of the duplicate code that is done. Currently the three users of this macro has this format: struct rcu_state rcu_sched_state = RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER(rcu_sched, call_rcu_sched); DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_data, rcu_sched_data); Notice that "rcu_sched" is called three times. This is the same with the other two users. This can be condensed to just: RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER(rcu_sched, call_rcu_sched); by moving the rest into the macro itself. This also opens the door to allow the RCU tracepoint strings and their addresses to be exported so that userspace tracing tools can translate the contents of the pointers of the RCU tracepoints. The change will allow for helper code to be placed in the RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER() macro to export the name that is used. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) authored
All the RCU tracepoints and functions that reference char pointers do so with just 'char *' even though they do not modify the contents of the string itself. This will cause warnings if a const char * is used in one of these functions. The RCU tracepoints store the pointer to the string to refer back to them when the trace output is displayed. As this can be minutes, hours or even days later, those strings had better be constant. This change also opens the door to allow the RCU tracepoint strings and their addresses to be exported so that userspace tracing tools can translate the contents of the pointers of the RCU tracepoints. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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- 26 Jul, 2013 1 commit
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Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) authored
There are several tracepoints (mostly in RCU), that reference a string pointer and uses the print format of "%s" to display the string that exists in the kernel, instead of copying the actual string to the ring buffer (saves time and ring buffer space). But this has an issue with userspace tools that read the binary buffers that has the address of the string but has no access to what the string itself is. The end result is just output that looks like: rcu_dyntick: ffffffff818adeaa 1 0 rcu_dyntick: ffffffff818adeb5 0 140000000000000 rcu_dyntick: ffffffff818adeb5 0 140000000000000 rcu_utilization: ffffffff8184333b rcu_utilization: ffffffff8184333b The above is pretty useless when read by the userspace tools. Ideally we would want something that looks like this: rcu_dyntick: Start 1 0 rcu_dyntick: End 0 140000000000000 rcu_dyntick: Start 140000000000000 0 rcu_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880037aff710 func=put_cred_rcu 0/4 rcu_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880078961980 func=file_free_rcu 0/5 rcu_dyntick: End 0 1 The trace_printk() which also only stores the address of the string format instead of recording the string into the buffer itself, exports the mapping of kernel addresses to format strings via the printk_format file in the debugfs tracing directory. The tracepoint strings can use this same method and output the format to the same file and the userspace tools will be able to decipher the address without any modification. The tracepoint strings need its own section to save the strings because the trace_printk section will cause the trace_printk() buffers to be allocated if anything exists within the section. trace_printk() is only used for debugging and should never exist in the kernel, we can not use the trace_printk sections. Add a new tracepoint_str section that will also be examined by the output of the printk_format file. Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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- 21 Jul, 2013 5 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pmLinus Torvalds authored
Pull ACPI video support fixes from Rafael Wysocki: "I'm sending a separate pull request for this as it may be somewhat controversial. The breakage addressed here is not really new and the fixes may not satisfy all users of the affected systems, but we've had so much back and forth dance in this area over the last several weeks that I think it's time to actually make some progress. The source of the problem is that about a year ago we started to tell BIOSes that we're compatible with Windows 8, which we really need to do, because some systems shipping with Windows 8 are tested with it and nothing else, so if we tell their BIOSes that we aren't compatible with Windows 8, we expose our users to untested BIOS/AML code paths. However, as it turns out, some Windows 8-specific AML code paths are not tested either, because Windows 8 actually doesn't use the ACPI methods containing them, so if we declare Windows 8 compatibility and attempt to use those ACPI methods, things break. That occurs mostly in the backlight support area where in particular the _BCM and _BQC methods are plain unusable on some systems if the OS declares Windows 8 compatibility. [ The additional twist is that they actually become usable if the OS says it is not compatible with Windows 8, but that may cause problems to show up elsewhere ] Investigation carried out by Matthew Garrett indicates that what Windows 8 does about backlight is to leave backlight control up to individual graphics drivers. At least there's evidence that it does that if the Intel graphics driver is used, so we've decided to follow Windows 8 in that respect and allow i915 to control backlight (Daniel likes that part). The first commit from Aaron Lu makes ACPICA export the variable from which we can infer whether or not the BIOS believes that we are compatible with Windows 8. The second commit from Matthew Garrett prepares the ACPI video driver by making it initialize the ACPI backlight even if it is not going to be used afterward (that is needed for backlight control to work on Thinkpads). The third commit implements the actual workaround making i915 take over backlight control if the firmware thinks it's dealing with Windows 8 and is based on the work of multiple developers, including Matthew Garrett, Chun-Yi Lee, Seth Forshee, and Aaron Lu. The final commit from Aaron Lu makes us follow Windows 8 by informing the firmware through the _DOS method that it should not carry out automatic brightness changes, so that brightness can be controlled by GUI. Hopefully, this approach will allow us to avoid using blacklists of systems that should not declare Windows 8 compatibility just to avoid backlight control problems in the future. - Change from Aaron Lu makes ACPICA export a variable which can be used by driver code to determine whether or not the BIOS believes that we are compatible with Windows 8. - Change from Matthew Garrett makes the ACPI video driver initialize the ACPI backlight even if it is not going to be used afterward (that is needed for backlight control to work on Thinkpads). - Fix from Rafael J Wysocki implements Windows 8 backlight support workaround making i915 take over bakclight control if the firmware thinks it's dealing with Windows 8. Based on the work of multiple developers including Matthew Garrett, Chun-Yi Lee, Seth Forshee, and Aaron Lu. - Fix from Aaron Lu makes the kernel follow Windows 8 by informing the firmware through the _DOS method that it should not carry out automatic brightness changes, so that brightness can be controlled by GUI" * tag 'acpi-video-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: ACPI / video: no automatic brightness changes by win8-compatible firmware ACPI / video / i915: No ACPI backlight if firmware expects Windows 8 ACPI / video: Always call acpi_video_init_brightness() on init ACPICA: expose OSI version
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4Linus Torvalds authored
Pull ext[34] tmpfile bugfix from Ted Ts'o: "Fix regression caused by commit af51a2ac which added ->tmpfile() support (along with a similar fix for ext3)" * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext3: fix a BUG when opening a file with O_TMPFILE flag ext4: fix a BUG when opening a file with O_TMPFILE flag
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Zheng Liu authored
When we try to open a file with O_TMPFILE flag, we will trigger a bug. The root cause is that in ext4_orphan_add() we check ->i_nlink == 0 and this check always fails because we set ->i_nlink = 1 in inode_init_always(). We can use the following program to trigger it: int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int fd; fd = open(argv[1], O_TMPFILE, 0666); if (fd < 0) { perror("open "); return -1; } close(fd); return 0; } The oops message looks like this: kernel: kernel BUG at fs/ext3/namei.c:1992! kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP kernel: Modules linked in: ext4 jbd2 crc16 cpufreq_ondemand ipv6 dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod parport_pc parport serio_raw sg dcdbas pcspkr i2c_i801 ehci_pci ehci_hcd button acpi_cpufreq mperf e1000e ptp pps_core ttm drm_kms_helper drm hwmon i2c_algo_bit i2c_core ext3 jbd sd_mod ahci libahci libata scsi_mod uhci_hcd kernel: CPU: 0 PID: 2882 Comm: tst_tmpfile Not tainted 3.11.0-rc1+ #4 kernel: Hardware name: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 780 /0V4W66, BIOS A05 08/11/2010 kernel: task: ffff880112d30050 ti: ffff8801124d4000 task.ti: ffff8801124d4000 kernel: RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa00db5ae>] [<ffffffffa00db5ae>] ext3_orphan_add+0x6a/0x1eb [ext3] kernel: RSP: 0018:ffff8801124d5cc8 EFLAGS: 00010202 kernel: RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880111510128 RCX: ffff8801114683a0 kernel: RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880111510128 RDI: ffff88010fcf65a8 kernel: RBP: ffff8801124d5d18 R08: 0080000000000000 R09: ffffffffa00d3b7f kernel: R10: ffff8801114683a0 R11: ffff8801032a2558 R12: 0000000000000000 kernel: R13: ffff88010fcf6800 R14: ffff8801032a2558 R15: ffff8801115100d8 kernel: FS: 00007f5d172b5700(0000) GS:ffff880117c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 kernel: CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b kernel: CR2: 00007f5d16df15d0 CR3: 0000000110b1d000 CR4: 00000000000407f0 kernel: Stack: kernel: 000000000000000c ffff8801048a7dc8 ffff8801114685a8 ffffffffa00b80d7 kernel: ffff8801124d5e38 ffff8801032a2558 ffff88010ce24d68 0000000000000000 kernel: ffff88011146b300 ffff8801124d5d44 ffff8801124d5d78 ffffffffa00db7e1 kernel: Call Trace: kernel: [<ffffffffa00b80d7>] ? journal_start+0x8c/0xbd [jbd] kernel: [<ffffffffa00db7e1>] ext3_tmpfile+0xb2/0x13b [ext3] kernel: [<ffffffff821076f8>] path_openat+0x11f/0x5e7 kernel: [<ffffffff821c86b4>] ? list_del+0x11/0x30 kernel: [<ffffffff82065fa2>] ? __dequeue_entity+0x33/0x38 kernel: [<ffffffff82107cd5>] do_filp_open+0x3f/0x8d kernel: [<ffffffff82112532>] ? __alloc_fd+0x50/0x102 kernel: [<ffffffff820f9296>] do_sys_open+0x13b/0x1cd kernel: [<ffffffff820f935c>] SyS_open+0x1e/0x20 kernel: [<ffffffff82398c02>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b kernel: Code: 39 c7 0f 85 67 01 00 00 0f b7 03 25 00 f0 00 00 3d 00 40 00 00 74 18 3d 00 80 00 00 74 11 3d 00 a0 00 00 74 0a 83 7b 48 00 74 04 <0f> 0b eb fe 49 8b 85 50 03 00 00 4c 89 f6 48 c7 c7 c0 99 0e a0 kernel: RIP [<ffffffffa00db5ae>] ext3_orphan_add+0x6a/0x1eb [ext3] kernel: RSP <ffff8801124d5cc8> Here we couldn't call clear_nlink() directly because in d_tmpfile() we will call inode_dec_link_count() to decrease ->i_nlink. So this commit tries to call d_tmpfile() before ext4_orphan_add() to fix this problem. Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Zheng Liu authored
When we try to open a file with O_TMPFILE flag, we will trigger a bug. The root cause is that in ext4_orphan_add() we check ->i_nlink == 0 and this check always fails because we set ->i_nlink = 1 in inode_init_always(). We can use the following program to trigger it: int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int fd; fd = open(argv[1], O_TMPFILE, 0666); if (fd < 0) { perror("open "); return -1; } close(fd); return 0; } The oops message looks like this: kernel BUG at fs/ext4/namei.c:2572! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Modules linked in: dlci bridge stp hidp cmtp kernelcapi l2tp_ppp l2tp_netlink l2tp_core sctp libcrc32c rfcomm tun fuse nfnetli nk can_raw ipt_ULOG can_bcm x25 scsi_transport_iscsi ipx p8023 p8022 appletalk phonet psnap vmw_vsock_vmci_transport af_key vmw_vmci rose vsock atm can netrom ax25 af_rxrpc ir da pppoe pppox ppp_generic slhc bluetooth nfc rfkill rds caif_socket caif crc_ccitt af_802154 llc2 llc snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec serio_raw snd_pcm pcsp kr edac_core snd_page_alloc snd_timer snd soundcore r8169 mii sr_mod cdrom pata_atiixp radeon backlight drm_kms_helper ttm CPU: 1 PID: 1812571 Comm: trinity-child2 Not tainted 3.11.0-rc1+ #12 Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-MA78GM-S2H/GA-MA78GM-S2H, BIOS F12a 04/23/2010 task: ffff88007dfe69a0 ti: ffff88010f7b6000 task.ti: ffff88010f7b6000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8125ce69>] [<ffffffff8125ce69>] ext4_orphan_add+0x299/0x2b0 RSP: 0018:ffff88010f7b7cf8 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8800966d3020 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88007dfe70b8 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: ffff88010f7b7d40 R08: ffff880126a3c4e0 R09: ffff88010f7b7ca0 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8801271fd668 R13: ffff8800966d2f78 R14: ffff88011d7089f0 R15: ffff88007dfe69a0 FS: 00007f70441a3740(0000) GS:ffff88012a800000(0000) knlGS:00000000f77c96c0 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000002834000 CR3: 0000000107964000 CR4: 00000000000007e0 DR0: 0000000000780000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600 Stack: 0000000000002000 00000020810b6dde 0000000000000000 ffff88011d46db00 ffff8800966d3020 ffff88011d7089f0 ffff88009c7f4c10 ffff88010f7b7f2c ffff88007dfe69a0 ffff88010f7b7da8 ffffffff8125cfac ffff880100000004 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8125cfac>] ext4_tmpfile+0x12c/0x180 [<ffffffff811cba78>] path_openat+0x238/0x700 [<ffffffff8100afc4>] ? native_sched_clock+0x24/0x80 [<ffffffff811cc647>] do_filp_open+0x47/0xa0 [<ffffffff811db73f>] ? __alloc_fd+0xaf/0x200 [<ffffffff811ba2e4>] do_sys_open+0x124/0x210 [<ffffffff81010725>] ? syscall_trace_enter+0x25/0x290 [<ffffffff811ba3ee>] SyS_open+0x1e/0x20 [<ffffffff816ca8d4>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2 [<ffffffff81001001>] ? start_thread_common.constprop.6+0x1/0xa0 Code: 04 00 00 00 89 04 24 31 c0 e8 c4 77 04 00 e9 43 fe ff ff 66 25 00 d0 66 3d 00 80 0f 84 0e fe ff ff 83 7b 48 00 0f 84 04 fe ff ff <0f> 0b 49 8b 8c 24 50 07 00 00 e9 88 fe ff ff 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 Here we couldn't call clear_nlink() directly because in d_tmpfile() we will call inode_dec_link_count() to decrease ->i_nlink. So this commit tries to call d_tmpfile() before ext4_orphan_add() to fix this problem. Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com> Tested-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 20 Jul, 2013 4 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/stagingLinus Torvalds authored
Pull staging tree fixes from Greg KH: "Here are a few iio driver fixes for 3.11-rc2. They are still spread across drivers/iio and drivers/staging/iio so they are coming in through this tree. I've also removed the drivers/staging/csr/ driver as the developers who originally sent it to me have moved on to other companies, and CSR still will not send us the specs for the device, making the driver pretty much obsolete and impossible to fix up. Deleting it now prevents people from sending in lots of tiny codingsyle fixes that will never go anywhere. It also helps to offset the large lustre filesystem merge that happened in 3.11-rc1 in the overall 3.11.0 diffstat. :)" * tag 'staging-3.11-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: staging: csr: remove driver iio: lps331ap: Fix wrong in_pressure_scale output value iio staging: fix lis3l02dq, read error handling staging:iio:ad7291: add missing .driver_module to struct iio_info iio: ti_am335x_adc: add missing .driver_module to struct iio_info iio: mxs-lradc: Remove useless check in read_raw iio: mxs-lradc: Fix misuse of iio->trig iio: inkern: fix iio_convert_raw_to_processed_unlocked iio: Fix iio_channel_has_info iio:trigger: device_unregister->device_del to avoid double free iio: dac: ad7303: fix error return code in ad7303_probe()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro: "The sget() one is a long-standing bug and will need to go into -stable (in fact, it had been originally caught in RHEL6), the other two are 3.11-only" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: vfs: constify dentry parameter in d_count() livelock avoidance in sget() allow O_TMPFILE to work with O_WRONLY
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4Linus Torvalds authored
Pull ext4 bugfixes from Ted Ts'o: "Fixes for 3.11-rc2, sent at 5pm, in the professoinal style. :-)" I'm not sure I like this new level of "professionalism". 9-5, people, 9-5. * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: call ext4_es_lru_add() after handling cache miss ext4: yield during large unlinks ext4: make the extent_status code more robust against ENOMEM failures ext4: simplify calculation of blocks to free on error ext4: fix error handling in ext4_ext_truncate()
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git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull NFS client bugfixes from Trond Myklebust: - Fix a regression against NFSv4 FreeBSD servers when creating a new file - Fix another regression in rpc_client_register() * tag 'nfs-for-3.11-3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: NFSv4: Fix a regression against the FreeBSD server SUNRPC: Fix another issue with rpc_client_register()
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