Commits · 4f84e4be53a04a65d97bf0faa0c8f99e29bc0170 · nexedi / linux

24 Jun, 2007 21 commits

x86_64: fix misplaced `continue' in mce.c · 4f84e4be

Joshua Wise authored Jun 23, 2007

Background:
  When a userspace application wants to know about machine check events, it
  opens /dev/mcelog and does a read(). Usually, we found that this interface
  works well, but in some cases, when the system was taking large numbers of
  machine check exceptions, the read() would hang. The system would output a
  soft-lockup warning, and the daemon reading from /dev/mcelog would suck up
  as much of a single CPU as it could spinning in system space.

Description:
  This patch fixes this bug. In particular, there was a "continue" inside a
  timeout loop that presumably was intended to break out of the outer loop,
  but instead caused the inner loop to continue. This patch also makes the
  condition for the break-out a little more evident by changing a
  !time_before to a time_after_eq.

Result:
  The read() no longer hangs in this test case.

Testing:
  On my system, I could replicate the bug with the following command:
    # for i in `seq 15000`; do ./inject_sbe.sh; done
  where inject_sbe.sh contains commands to inject a single-bit error into the
  next memory write transaction.

Patch:
  This patch is against git f1518a08.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Wise <jwise@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

4f84e4be

update checkpatch.pl to version 0.06 · d8aaf121

Andy Whitcroft authored Jun 23, 2007

Update to checkpatch.pl v0.06.  Of note:

 - do { and else handled correctly as control structures for { matching
 - trailing whitespace correctly tripped when line otherwise empty
 - support for const, including const foo * const bar
 - multiline macros defining values correctly reported

This version of checkpatch.pl can be found at the following URL:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/apw/checkpatch/checkpatch.pl-0.06

Full Changelog:

Andy Whitcroft (14):
      Version: 0.06
      cleanup the Type regular expression declarations
      fix up block counting
      end of line counts as a space for ++ and --
      do { needs the same checks as if, for et al
      handle "const foo * const a" as a valid type
      add spacing checks following ;
      complete whitespace lines should trip trailing whitespace check
      else is also a block control structure
      badly formatted else can trip function declaration
      detect and report trailing statements after else
      types need to be terminated by a boundary
      multiline macros defining values should be surrounded by parentheses
      soften the wording of the Signed-off-by: warnings
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

d8aaf121

slab allocators: MAX_ORDER one off fix · debee076

Christoph Lameter authored Jun 23, 2007

MAX_ORDER is the first order that is not possible.

Use MAX_ORDER - 1 to calculate the larges possible object size in slab.h
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

debee076

document nlink function · 71c42157

Dave Hansen authored Jun 23, 2007

These should have been documented from the beginning.  Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

71c42157

"volatile considered harmful" · 0faa4548

Jonathan Corbet authored Jun 23, 2007

Encourage developers to avoid the volatile type class in kernel code.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

0faa4548

uml: add asm/paravirt.h · 4c18a325

Jeff Dike authored Jun 23, 2007

Add asm-um/paravirt.h so that i386 headers that get pulled into UML
don't cause build failures when they want asm/paravirt.h.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

4c18a325

uml: use generic BUG · 08932a19

Nick Piggin authored Jun 23, 2007

Get UML to use the generic bug support rather than arch specific one.

If I insert an artificial bug right before loading init, I get this:

 Kernel panic - not syncing: Kernel mode signal 4

 EIP: 0023:[<0819d501>] CPU: 0 Not tainted ESP: 002b:f7fd4fbc EFLAGS: 00000246
    Not tainted
    EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00007870 ECX: 00000013 EDX: 00007870
    ESI: 0000786d EDI: 00000011 EBP: f7fd4fd8 DS: 002b ES: 002b
    08273bec:  [<0806e814>] show_regs+0x104/0x106
    08273c08:  [<08058927>] panic_exit+0x2c/0x4b
    08273c18:  [<08080ee7>] notifier_call_chain+0x32/0x5b
    08273c38:  [<08080fbd>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x30/0x32
    08273c54:  [<08080fee>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x2f/0x31
    08273c70:  [<08073b88>] panic+0x75/0x131
    08273c94:  [<080586c7>] relay_signal+0x87/0x95
    08273cb0:  [<0806b9ee>] sig_handler_common_skas+0x9e/0x120
    08273cd8:  [<08067738>] sig_handler+0x28/0x4f
    08273cec:  [<0806792e>] handle_signal+0x53/0x89
    08273d0c:  [<08069f60>] hard_handler+0x18/0x28
    08273d1c:  [<ffffe500>] transitions+0xf7d598b8/0xfffffff0

With this patch in place, this is how it looks:

 BUG: failure at init/main.c:779/init_post()!
 Kernel panic - not syncing: BUG!

 EIP: 0023:[<081a65d1>] CPU: 0 Not tainted ESP: 002b:f7f0dfbc EFLAGS: 00000246
    Not tainted
    EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000069db ECX: 00000013 EDX: 000069db
    ESI: 000069d8 EDI: 00000011 EBP: f7f0dfd8 DS: 002b ES: 002b
    098efedc:  [<0806e9a4>] show_regs+0x104/0x106
    098efef8:  [<080589c7>] panic_exit+0x2c/0x4b
    098eff08:  [<080818d7>] notifier_call_chain+0x32/0x5b
    098eff28:  [<080819ad>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x30/0x32
    098eff44:  [<080819de>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x2f/0x31
    098eff60:  [<08073f28>] panic+0x75/0x131
    098eff84:  [<080541d5>] init_post+0xcd/0xe8
    098eff9c:  [<08048ad4>] kernel_init+0x8e/0x9a
    098effb4:  [<08066dee>] run_kernel_thread+0x41/0x53
    098effe0:  [<08058e75>] new_thread_handler+0x62/0x8b
    098efffc:  [<a55a5a5a>] 0xa55a5a5a

[ jdike - added BUG_TABLE to linker script ]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

08932a19

Char: stallion, fix oops during init with ISA cards · b08b5ad9

Ingo Korb authored Jun 23, 2007

The stallion driver oopses while initializing ISA cards due to an
uninitialized variable.  This patch changes the initialisation order to
match the PCI code path.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Korb <ml@akana.de>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

b08b5ad9

alpha: fix alignment problem in csum_ipv6_magic() · 58ed2f9c

Ivan Kokshaysky authored Jun 23, 2007

Hopefully this fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8635

The struct in6_addr passed to csum_ipv6_magic() is 4 byte aligned, so we
can't use the regular 64-bit loads.  Since the cost of handling of 4 byte
and 1 byte aligned 64-bit data is roughly the same, this code can cope with
any src/dst [mis]alignment.
Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Dustin Marquess <jailbird@alcatraz.fdf.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

58ed2f9c

update checkpatch.pl to version 0.05 · 653d4876

Andy Whitcroft authored Jun 23, 2007

This version brings a some new tests, and a host of changes to fix
false positives, of particular note:

 - detect 'var ++;' and 'var --;' as a bad combination
 - multistatement #defines are now checked based on statement count
 - multistatement #defines with initialisation correctly reported
 - checks the location of the inline keywords
 - EXPORT_SYMBOL for variables are now understood
 - typedefs are loosened to handle sparse etc

This version of checkpatch.pl can be found at the following URL:

      http://www.shadowen.org/~apw/public/checkpatch/checkpatch.pl-0.05

Full Changelog:

Andy Whitcroft (18):
      Version: 0.05
      macro definition checks should be for a single statement
      avoid assignements only in if conditionals
      declarations of function pointers need no space
      multiline macros which are purely initialisation cannot be wrapped
      EXPORT_SYMBOL can also directly follow a variable definition
      check on the location of the inline keyword
      EXPORT_SYMBOL needs to allow for attributes
      ensure we do not find C99 // in strings
      handle malformed #include lines
      accept the {0,} form
      typedefs are sensible for defining function pointer parameters
      ensure { handling correctly handles nested switch() statements
      trailing whitespace checks are not anchored
      typedefs for sparse bitwise annotations make sense
      update the type matcher to include sparse annotations
      clean up indent and spacing
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

653d4876

sched: fix next_interval determination in idle_balance() · 92c4ca5c

Christoph Lameter authored Jun 23, 2007

The intervals of domains that do not have SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE must be
considered for the calculation of the time of the next balance.  Otherwise
we may defer rebalancing forever.

Siddha also spotted that the conversion of the balance interval
to jiffies is missing. Fix that to.

From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

also continue the loop if !(sd->flags & SD_LOAD_BALANCE).
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

It did in fact trigger under all three of mainline, CFS, and -rt including CFS
-- see below for a couple of emails from last Friday giving results for these
three on the AMD box (where it happened) and on a single-quad NUMA-Q system
(where it did not, at least not with such severity).
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

92c4ca5c

SLUB: fix behavior if the text output of list_locations overflows PAGE_SIZE · 84966343

Christoph Lameter authored Jun 23, 2007

If slabs are allocated or freed from a large set of call sites (typical for
the kmalloc area) then we may create more output than fits into a single
PAGE and sysfs only gives us one page. The output should be truncated.
This patch fixes the checks to do the truncation properly.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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