- 29 Oct, 2006 1 commit
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Giridhar Pemmasani authored
As reported by Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@google.com>, we let through some non-slab bits to slab allocation through __get_vm_area_node when doing a vmalloc. I haven't been able to reproduce this, although I understand why it happens: vmalloc allocates memory with GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM and commit 52fd24ca resulted in the same flags are passed down to cache_alloc_refill, causing the BUG. The following patch fixes it. Note that when calling kmalloc_node, I am masking off __GFP_HIGHMEM with GFP_LEVEL_MASK, whereas __vmalloc_area_node does the same with ~(__GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO). IMHO, using GFP_LEVEL_MASK is preferable, but either should fix this problem. Signed-off-by: Giridhar Pemmasani (pgiri@yahoo.com) Cc: Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@google.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 28 Oct, 2006 39 commits
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git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] cio: Make ccw_device_register() static. [S390] Improve AP bus device removal. [S390] uaccess error handling. [S390] cio: css_probe_device() must be called enabled. [S390] Initialize interval value to 0. [S390] sys_getcpu compat wrapper.
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Mel Gorman authored
absent_pages_in_range() made the assumption that users of the arch-independent zone-sizing API would not care about holes beyound the end of physical memory. This was not the case and was "fixed" in a patch called "Account for holes that are outside the range of physical memory". However, when given a range that started before a hole in "real" memory and ended beyond the end of memory, it would get the result wrong. The bug is in mainline but a patch is below. It has been tested successfully on a number of machines and architectures. Additional credit to Keith Mannthey for discovering the problem, helping identify the correct fix and confirming it Worked For Him. Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: keith mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Stern authored
This patch (as812) changes the kerneldoc comments explaining the return values from queue_work(), queue_delayed_work(), and queue_delayed_work_on(). The updated comments explain more accurately the meaning of the return code and avoid suggesting that a 0 value means the routine was unsuccessful. Signed-off-by:
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
The Jmicron JMB368 is PATA only so has the PATA on function zero. Don't therefore skip function zero on this device when probing Signed-off-by:
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Satoru Takeuchi authored
_cpu_down() acquires `workqueue_mutex' on its process, but doen't release it if __cpu_disable() fails. Signed-off-by:
Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jim Houston authored
I notice that the code which implements adjtime clears the time_adjust value before using it. The attached patch makes the obvious fix. Acked-by:
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by:
Jim Houston <jim.houston@ccur.com> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Randy Dunlap authored
Put SYS_HYPERVISOR inside the Generic Driver Config menu where it should be. Otherwise xconfig displays it as a dangling (lost) menu item under Device Drivers, all by itself (when all options are displayed). Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
fill_tgid() should skip not only an already exited group leader. If the task has ->exit_state != 0 it already did exit_notify(), so it also did fill_tgid_exit()->delayacct_add_tsk(->signal->stats) and we should skip it to avoid a double accounting. This patch doesn't close the race completely, but it cleanups the code. Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Remove tasklist_lock from taskstats.c. find_task_by_pid() is rcu-safe. ->siglock allows us to traverse subthread without tasklist. Q: delay accounting looks wrong to me. If sub-thread has already called taskstats_exit_send() but didn't call release_task(self) yet it will be accounted twice. The window is big. No? Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
signal_struct is (mostly) protected by ->sighand->siglock, I think we don't need ->taskstats_lock to protect ->stats. This also allows us to simplify the locking in fill_tgid(). Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Every subthread (except first) does unneeded kmem_cache_alloc/kmem_cache_free. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
taskstats_tgid_free() is called on copy_process's error path. This is wrong. IF (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) We should not clear ->signal->taskstats, current uses it, it probably has a valid accumulated info. ELSE taskstats_tgid_init() set ->signal->taskstats = NULL, there is nothing to free. Move the callsite to __exit_signal(). We don't need any locking, entire thread group is exiting, nobody should have a reference to soon to be released ->signal. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
1. ts = timespec_sub(uptime, current->group_leader->start_time); It is possible that current != tsk. Probably it was supposed to be 'tsk->group_leader->start_time. But why we are reading group_leader's start_time ? This accounting is per thread, not per procees, I changed this to 'tsk->start_time. Please corect me. 2. stats->ac_ppid = (tsk->parent) ? tsk->parent->pid : 0; tsk->parent never == NULL, and it is unsafe to dereference it. Both the task and it's parent may exit after the caller unlocks tasklist_lock, the memory could be unmapped (DEBUG_SLAB). (And we should use ->real_parent->tgid in fact). Q: I don't understand the 'if (thread_group_leader(tsk))' check. Why it is needed ? Signed-off-by:
Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
1. fill_tgid() forgets to do put_task_struct(first). 2. release_task(first) can happen after fill_tgid() drops tasklist_lock, it is unsafe to dereference first->signal. This is a temporary fix, imho the locking should be reworked. Signed-off-by:
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Michael Holzheu authored
strstrip() does not remove the last blank from strings which only consist of blanks. Example: char string[] = " "; strstrip(string); results in " ", but should produce an empty string! The following patch solves this problem: Acked-by:
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Rothwell authored
This means we can call it when the bitmap we want to fetch is declared const. Signed-off-by:
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
With Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru> Fix an error in unused dentry counting in shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree() in which the count is modified without the dcache_lock held. Signed-off-by:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Vasily Averin authored
On the the following patch: http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/gnupatch@449b144ecSF1rYskg3q-SeR2vf88zg # ChangeSet # 2006/06/22 15:05:57-07:00 neilb@suse.de # [PATCH] Fix dcache race during umount # If prune_dcache finds a dentry that it cannot free, it leaves it where it # is (at the tail of the list) and exits, on the assumption that some other # thread will be removing that dentry soon. However as far as I see this comment is not correct: when we cannot take s_umount rw_semaphore (for example because it was taken in do_remount) this dentry is already extracted from dentry_unused list and we do not add it into the list again. Therefore dentry will not be found by prune_dcache() and shrink_dcache_sb() and will leave in memory very long time until the partition will be unmounted. The patch adds this dentry into tail of the dentry_unused list. Signed-off-by:
Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Acked-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
If you truncated an mmap'ed hugetlbfs file, then faulted on the truncated area, /proc/meminfo's HugePages_Rsvd wrapped hugely "negative". Reinstate my preliminary i_size check before attempting to allocate the page (though this only fixes the most obvious case: more work will be needed here). Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
hugetlb_vmtruncate_list was misconverted to prio_tree: its prio_tree is in units of PAGE_SIZE (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE) like any other, not HPAGE_SIZE (whereas its radix_tree is kept in units of HPAGE_SIZE, otherwise slots would be absurdly sparse). At first I thought the error benign, just calling __unmap_hugepage_range on more vmas than necessary; but on 32-bit machines, when the prio_tree is searched correctly, it happens to ensure the v_offset calculation won't overflow. As it stood, when truncating at or beyond 4GB, it was liable to discard pages COWed from lower offsets; or even to clear pmd entries of preceding vmas, triggering exit_mmap's BUG_ON(nr_ptes). Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
On 32-bit machines, mount -t hugetlbfs -o size=4G gave a 0GB filesystem, size=5G gave a 1GB filesystem etc: there's no point in masking size with HPAGE_MASK just before shifting its lower bits away, and since HPAGE_MASK is a UL, that removed all the higher bits of the unsigned long long size. Signed-off-by:
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Randy Dunlap authored
Fix printk format warnings: drivers/block/cciss.c:2000: warning: long long int format, long unsigned int arg (arg 2) drivers/block/cciss.c:2035: warning: long long int format, long unsigned int arg (arg 2) Signed-off-by:
Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
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Randy Dunlap authored
Fix printk format warning: drivers/misc/ioc4.c:213: warning: long long int format, u64 arg (arg 3) Signed-off-by:
Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Dittmer authored
Obvious fix. Signed-off-by:
Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org> Acked-by:
Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by:
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Andrey Panin authored
Fix this: > Subject : CONFIG_X86_VISWS=3Dy, CONFIG_SMP=3Dn compile error > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/7/51 > Submitter : Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> > Caused-By : David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> > commit 7d12e780 > Status : unknown Via undescribed means. Signed-off-by:
Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by:
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Giridhar Pemmasani authored
If __vmalloc is called to allocate memory with GFP_ATOMIC in atomic context, the chain of calls results in __get_vm_area_node allocating memory for vm_struct with GFP_KERNEL, causing the 'sleeping from invalid context' warning. This patch fixes it by passing the gfp flags along so __get_vm_area_node allocates memory for vm_struct with the same flags. Signed-off-by:
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Pavel Emelianov authored
blkdev_open() calls bc_acquire() to get a struct block_device. Since bc_acquire() may return NULL when system is out of memory an appropriate check is required. Signed-off-by:
Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by:
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Yasunori Goto authored
Add __GFP_NOWARN flag to calling of __alloc_pages() in __kmalloc_section_memmap(). It can reduce noisy failure message. In ia64, section size is 1 GB, this means that order 8 pages are necessary for each section's memmap. It is often very hard requirement under heavy memory pressure as you know. So, __alloc_pages() gives up allocation and shows many noisy stack traces which means no page for each sections. (Current my environment shows 32 times of stack trace....) But, __kmalloc_section_memmap() calls vmalloc() after failure of it, and it can succeed allocation of memmap. So, its stack trace warning becomes just noisy. I suppose it shouldn't be shown. Signed-off-by:
Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Randy Dunlap authored
drivers/md/raid1.c:1479: warning: long long unsigned int format, long unsigned int arg (arg 4) drivers/md/raid10.c:1475: warning: long long unsigned int format, long unsigned int arg (arg 4) Signed-off-by:
Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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NeilBrown authored
A recent fix which made sure ->degraded was initialised properly exposed a second bug - ->degraded wasn't been updated when drives failed or were hot-added. Signed-off-by:
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NeilBrown authored
When "mdadm --grow --size=xxx" is used to resize an array (use more or less of each device), we check the new siza against the available space in each device. We already have that number recorded in rdev->size, so calculating it is pointless (and wrong in one obscure case). Signed-off-by:
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NeilBrown authored
If save_raid_disk is >= 0, then the device could be a device that is already in sync that is being re-added. So we need to default this value to -1. Signed-off-by:
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bibo,mao authored
efi_memory_present_wrapper() parameter start/end is physical address, but function memory_present parameter is PFN, this patch converts physical address to PFN. Signed-off-by:
bibo, mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Eric Sandeen authored
When running several fsx's and other filesystem stress tests, we found cases where an unmapped buffer was still being sent to submit_bh by the ext3 dirty data journaling code. I saw this happen in two ways, both related to another thread doing a truncate which would unmap the buffer in question. Either we would get into journal_dirty_data with a bh which was already unmapped (although journal_dirty_data_fn had checked for this earlier, the state was not locked at that point), or it would get unmapped in the middle of journal_dirty_data when we dropped locks to call sync_dirty_buffer. By re-checking for mapped state after we've acquired the bh state lock, we should avoid these races. If we find a buffer which is no longer mapped, we essentially ignore it, because journal_unmap_buffer has already decided that this buffer can go away. I've also added tracepoints in these two cases, and made a couple other tracepoint changes that I found useful in debugging this. Signed-off-by:
Eric Sandeen <esandeen@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Eric Sandeen authored
When running several fsx's and other filesystem stress tests, we found cases where an unmapped buffer was still being sent to submit_bh by the ext3 dirty data journaling code. I saw this happen in two ways, both related to another thread doing a truncate which would unmap the buffer in question. Either we would get into journal_dirty_data with a bh which was already unmapped (although journal_dirty_data_fn had checked for this earlier, the state was not locked at that point), or it would get unmapped in the middle of journal_dirty_data when we dropped locks to call sync_dirty_buffer. By re-checking for mapped state after we've acquired the bh state lock, we should avoid these races. If we find a buffer which is no longer mapped, we essentially ignore it, because journal_unmap_buffer has already decided that this buffer can go away. I've also added tracepoints in these two cases, and made a couple other tracepoint changes that I found useful in debugging this. Signed-off-by:
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Randy Dunlap authored
fs/ext4/resize.c:72: warning: long long unsigned int format, __u64 arg (arg 4) fs/ext4/resize.c:76: warning: long long unsigned int format, __u64 arg (arg 4) fs/ext4/resize.c:81: warning: long long unsigned int format, __u64 arg (arg 4) fs/ext4/resize.c:85: warning: long long unsigned int format, __u64 arg (arg 4) fs/ext4/resize.c:89: warning: long long unsigned int format, __u64 arg (arg 4) fs/ext4/resize.c:89: warning: long long unsigned int format, __u64 arg (arg 5) fs/ext4/resize.c:93: warning: long long unsigned int format, __u64 arg (arg 4) fs/ext4/resize.c:93: warning: long long unsigned int format, __u64 arg (arg 5) fs/ext4/resize.c:98: warning: long long unsigned int format, __u64 arg (arg 4) fs/ext4/resize.c:103: warning: long long unsigned int format, __u64 arg (arg 4) fs/ext4/resize.c:109: warning: long long unsigned int format, __u64 arg (arg 4) Signed-off-by:
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Martin Bligh authored
If try_to_free_pages / balance_pgdat are called with a gfp_mask specifying GFP_IO and/or GFP_FS, they will reclaim the requisite number of pages, and the reset prev_priority to DEF_PRIORITY (or to some other high (ie: unurgent) value). However, another reclaimer without those gfp_mask flags set (say, GFP_NOIO) may still be struggling to reclaim pages. The concurrent overwrite of zone->prev_priority will cause this GFP_NOIO thread to unexpectedly cease deactivating mapped pages, thus causing reclaim difficulties. Fix this is to key the distress calculation not off zone->prev_priority, but also take into account the local caller's priority by using min(zone->prev_priority, sc->priority) Signed-off-by:
Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Martin Bligh authored
The temp_priority field in zone is racy, as we can walk through a reclaim path, and just before we copy it into prev_priority, it can be overwritten (say with DEF_PRIORITY) by another reclaimer. The same bug is contained in both try_to_free_pages and balance_pgdat, but it is fixed slightly differently. In balance_pgdat, we keep a separate priority record per zone in a local array. In try_to_free_pages there is no need to do this, as the priority level is the same for all zones that we reclaim from. Impact of this bug is that temp_priority is copied into prev_priority, and setting this artificially high causes reclaimers to set distress artificially low. They then fail to reclaim mapped pages, when they are, in fact, under severe memory pressure (their priority may be as low as 0). This causes the OOM killer to fire incorrectly. From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> __zone_reclaim() isn't modifying zone->prev_priority. But zone->prev_priority is used in the decision whether or not to bring mapped pages onto the inactive list. Hence there's a risk here that __zone_reclaim() will fail because zone->prev_priority ir large (ie: low urgency) and lots of mapped pages end up stuck on the active list. Fix that up by decreasing (ie making more urgent) zone->prev_priority as __zone_reclaim() scans the zone's pages. This bug perhaps explains why ZONE_RECLAIM_PRIORITY was created. It should be possible to remove that now, and to just start out at DEF_PRIORITY? Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
- Consolidate page_cache_alloc - Fix splice: only the pagecache pages and filesystem data need to use mapping_gfp_mask. - Fix grab_cache_page_nowait: same as splice, also honour NUMA placement. Signed-off-by:
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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