- 14 Jan, 2011 37 commits
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Michel Lespinasse authored
When faulting in pages for mlock(), we want to break COW for anonymous or file pages within VM_WRITABLE, non-VM_SHARED vmas. However, there is no need to write-fault into VM_SHARED vmas since shared file pages can be mlocked first and dirtied later, when/if they actually get written to. Skipping the write fault is desirable, as we don't want to unnecessarily cause these pages to be dirtied and queued for writeback. Signed-off-by:
Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@google.com> Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michel Lespinasse authored
Reorganize the code so that dirty pages are handled closer to the place that makes them dirty (handling write fault into shared, writable VMAs). No behavior changes. Signed-off-by:
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Michel Lespinasse authored
mlocking a shared, writable vma currently causes the corresponding pages to be marked as dirty and queued for writeback. This seems rather unnecessary given that the pages are not being actually modified during mlock. It is understood that for non-shared mappings (file or anon) we want to use a write fault in order to break COW, but there is just no such need for shared mappings. The first two patches in this series do not introduce any behavior change. The intent there is to make it obvious that dirtying file pages is only done in the (writable, shared) case. I think this clarifies the code, but I wouldn't mind dropping these two patches if there is no consensus about them. The last patch is where we actually avoid dirtying shared mappings during mlock. Note that as a side effect of this, we won't call page_mkwrite() for the mappings that define it, and won't be pre-allocating data blocks at the FS level if the mapped file was sparsely allocated. My understanding is that mlock does not need to provide such guarantee, as evidenced by the fact that it never did for the filesystems that don't define page_mkwrite() - including some common ones like ext3. However, I would like to gather feedback on this from filesystem people as a precaution. If this turns out to be a showstopper, maybe block preallocation can be added back on using a different interface. Large shared mlocks are getting significantly (>2x) faster in my tests, as the disk can be fully used for reading the file instead of having to share between this and writeback. This patch: Reorganize the code to remove the 'reuse' flag. No behavior changes. Signed-off-by:
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Rik van Riel authored
Temporary IO failures, eg. due to loss of both multipath paths, can permanently leave the PageError bit set on a page, resulting in msync or fsync returning -EIO over and over again, even if IO is now getting to the disk correctly. We already clear the AS_ENOSPC and AS_IO bits in mapping->flags in the filemap_fdatawait_range function. Also clearing the PageError bit on the page allows subsequent msync or fsync calls on this file to return without an error, if the subsequent IO succeeds. Unfortunately data written out in the msync or fsync call that returned -EIO can still get lost, because the page dirty bit appears to not get restored on IO error. However, the alternative could be potentially all of memory filling up with uncleanable dirty pages, hanging the system, so there is no nice choice here... Signed-off-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by:
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Mandeep Singh Baines authored
We'd like to be able to oom_score_adj a process up/down as it enters/leaves the foreground. Currently, it is not possible to oom_adj down without CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. This patch allows a task to decrease its oom_score_adj back to the value that a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE thread set it to or its inherited value at fork. Assuming the thread that has forked it has oom_score_adj of 0, each process could decrease it back from 0 upon activation unless a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE thread elevated it to something higher. Alternative considered: * a setuid binary * a daemon with CAP_SYS_RESOURCE Since you don't wan't all processes to be able to reduce their oom_adj, a setuid or daemon implementation would be complex. The alternatives also have much higher overhead. This patch updated from original patch based on feedback from David Rientjes. Signed-off-by:
Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Acked-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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David Rientjes authored
Four architectures (arm, mips, sparc, x86) use __vmalloc_area() for module_init(). Much of the code is duplicated and can be generalized in a globally accessible function, __vmalloc_node_range(). __vmalloc_node() now calls into __vmalloc_node_range() with a range of [VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END) for functionally equivalent behavior. Each architecture may then use __vmalloc_node_range() directly to remove the duplication of code. Signed-off-by:
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David Rientjes authored
pcpu_get_vm_areas() only uses GFP_KERNEL allocations, so remove the gfp_t formal and use the mask internally. Signed-off-by:
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David Rientjes authored
get_vm_area_node() is unused in the kernel and can thus be removed. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
With compaction being used instead of lumpy reclaim, the name lumpy_mode and associated variables is a bit misleading. Rename lumpy_mode to reclaim_mode which is a better fit. There is no functional change. Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
try_to_compact_pages() is initially called to only migrate pages asychronously and kswapd always compacts asynchronously. Both are being optimistic so it is important to complete the work as quickly as possible to minimise stalls. This patch alters the scanner when asynchronous to only consider MIGRATE_MOVABLE pageblocks as migration candidates. This reduces stalls when allocating huge pages while not impairing allocation success rates as a full scan will be performed if necessary after direct reclaim. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
With the introduction of the boolean sync parameter, the API looks a little inconsistent as offlining is still an int. Convert offlining to a bool for the sake of being tidy. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
mm: migration: allow migration to operate asynchronously and avoid synchronous compaction in the faster path Migration synchronously waits for writeback if the initial passes fails. Callers of memory compaction do not necessarily want this behaviour if the caller is latency sensitive or expects that synchronous migration is not going to have a significantly better success rate. This patch adds a sync parameter to migrate_pages() allowing the caller to indicate if wait_on_page_writeback() is allowed within migration or not. For reclaim/compaction, try_to_compact_pages() is first called asynchronously, direct reclaim runs and then try_to_compact_pages() is called synchronously as there is a greater expectation that it'll succeed. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build/merge fix] Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Lumpy reclaim is disruptive. It reclaims a large number of pages and ignores the age of the pages it reclaims. This can incur significant stalls and potentially increase the number of major faults. Compaction has reached the point where it is considered reasonably stable (meaning it has passed a lot of testing) and is a potential candidate for displacing lumpy reclaim. This patch introduces an alternative to lumpy reclaim whe compaction is available called reclaim/compaction. The basic operation is very simple - instead of selecting a contiguous range of pages to reclaim, a number of order-0 pages are reclaimed and then compaction is later by either kswapd (compact_zone_order()) or direct compaction (__alloc_pages_direct_compact()). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use conventional task_struct naming] Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Currently lumpy_mode is an enum and determines if lumpy reclaim is off, syncronous or asyncronous. In preparation for using compaction instead of lumpy reclaim, this patch converts the flags into a bitmap. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
In preparation for a patches promoting the use of memory compaction over lumpy reclaim, this patch adds trace points for memory compaction activity. Using them, we can monitor the scanning activity of the migration and free page scanners as well as the number and success rates of pages passed to page migration. Signed-off-by:
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Nikanth Karthikesan authored
Currently there is no way to find whether a process has locked its pages in memory or not. And which of the memory regions are locked in memory. Add a new field "Locked" to export this information via the smaps file. Signed-off-by:
Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Acked-by:
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
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Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Hai Shan authored
Merge mpage_end_io_read() and mpage_end_io_write() into mpage_end_io() to eliminate code duplication. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
Hai Shan <shan.hai@windriver.com> Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Testing ->mapping and ->index without a ref is not stable as the page may have been reused at this point. Signed-off-by:
Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Reviewed-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
Currently, kswapd() has deep nesting and is slightly hard to read. Clean this up. Signed-off-by:
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by:
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Bob Liu authored
__set_page_dirty_no_writeback() should return true if it actually transitioned the page from a clean to dirty state although it seems nobody uses its return value at present. Signed-off-by:
Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Acked-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
Use correct function name, remove incorrect apostrophe Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Kara authored
When wb_writeback() is called in WB_SYNC_ALL mode, work->nr_to_write is usually set to LONG_MAX. The logic in wb_writeback() then calls __writeback_inodes_sb() with nr_to_write == MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES and we easily end up with non-positive nr_to_write after the function returns, if the inode has more than MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES dirty pages at the moment. When nr_to_write is <= 0 wb_writeback() decides we need another round of writeback but this is wrong in some cases! For example when a single large file is continuously dirtied, we would never finish syncing it because each pass would be able to write MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES and inode dirty timestamp never gets updated (as inode is never completely clean). Thus __writeback_inodes_sb() would write the redirtied inode again and again. Fix the issue by setting nr_to_write to LONG_MAX in WB_SYNC_ALL mode. We do not need nr_to_write in WB_SYNC_ALL mode anyway since write_cache_pages() does livelock avoidance using page tagging in WB_SYNC_ALL mode. This makes wb_writeback() call __writeback_inodes_sb() only once on WB_SYNC_ALL. The latter function won't livelock because it works on - a finite set of files by doing queue_io() once at the beginning - a finite set of pages by PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE page tagging After this patch, program from http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/24/154 is no longer able to stall sync forever. [fengguang.wu@intel.com: fix locking comment] Signed-off-by:
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Jan Kara authored
Background writeback is easily livelockable in a loop in wb_writeback() by a process continuously re-dirtying pages (or continuously appending to a file). This is in fact intended as the target of background writeback is to write dirty pages it can find as long as we are over dirty_background_threshold. But the above behavior gets inconvenient at times because no other work queued in the flusher thread's queue gets processed. In particular, since e.g. sync(1) relies on flusher thread to do all the IO for it, sync(1) can hang forever waiting for flusher thread to do the work. Generally, when a flusher thread has some work queued, someone submitted the work to achieve a goal more specific than what background writeback does. Moreover by working on the specific work, we also reduce amount of dirty pages which is exactly the target of background writeout. So it makes sense to give specific work a priority over a generic page cleaning. Thus we interrupt background writeback if there is some other work to do. We return to the background writeback after completing all the queued work. This may delay the writeback of expired inodes for a while, however the expired inodes will eventually be flushed to disk as long as the other works won't livelock. [fengguang.wu@intel.com: update comment] Signed-off-by:
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Wu Fengguang authored
This tracks when balance_dirty_pages() tries to wakeup the flusher thread for background writeback (if it was not started already). Suggested-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Kara authored
Check whether background writeback is needed after finishing each work. When bdi flusher thread finishes doing some work check whether any kind of background writeback needs to be done (either because dirty_background_ratio is exceeded or because we need to start flushing old inodes). If so, just do background write back. This way, bdi_start_background_writeback() just needs to wake up the flusher thread. It will do background writeback as soon as there is no other work. This is a preparatory patch for the next patch which stops background writeback as soon as there is other work to do. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
reduce_pgdat_percpu_threshold() and restore_pgdat_percpu_threshold() exist to adjust the per-cpu vmstat thresholds while kswapd is awake to avoid errors due to counter drift. The functions duplicate some code so this patch replaces them with a single set_pgdat_percpu_threshold() that takes a callback function to calculate the desired threshold as a parameter. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: readability tweak] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(): don't use for_each_online_cpu] Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Reviewed-by:
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Commit aa454840 ("calculate a better estimate of NR_FREE_PAGES when memory is low") noted that watermarks were based on the vmstat NR_FREE_PAGES. To avoid synchronization overhead, these counters are maintained on a per-cpu basis and drained both periodically and when a threshold is above a threshold. On large CPU systems, the difference between the estimate and real value of NR_FREE_PAGES can be very high. The system can get into a case where pages are allocated far below the min watermark potentially causing livelock issues. The commit solved the problem by taking a better reading of NR_FREE_PAGES when memory was low. Unfortately, as reported by Shaohua Li this accurate reading can consume a large amount of CPU time on systems with many sockets due to cache line bouncing. This patch takes a different approach. For large machines where counter drift might be unsafe and while kswapd is awake, the per-cpu thresholds for the target pgdat are reduced to limit the level of drift to what should be a safe level. This incurs a performance penalty in heavy memory pressure by a factor that depends on the workload and the machine but the machine should function correctly without accidentally exhausting all memory on a node. There is an additional cost when kswapd wakes and sleeps but the event is not expected to be frequent - in Shaohua's test case, there was one recorded sleep and wake event at least. To ensure that kswapd wakes up, a safe version of zone_watermark_ok() is introduced that takes a more accurate reading of NR_FREE_PAGES when called from wakeup_kswapd, when deciding whether it is really safe to go back to sleep in sleeping_prematurely() and when deciding if a zone is really balanced or not in balance_pgdat(). We are still using an expensive function but limiting how often it is called. When the test case is reproduced, the time spent in the watermark functions is reduced. The following report is on the percentage of time spent cumulatively spent in the functions zone_nr_free_pages(), zone_watermark_ok(), __zone_watermark_ok(), zone_watermark_ok_safe(), zone_page_state_snapshot(), zone_page_state(). vanilla 11.6615% disable-threshold 0.2584% David said: : We had to pull aa454840 "mm: page allocator: calculate a better estimate : of NR_FREE_PAGES when memory is low and kswapd is awake" from 2.6.36 : internally because tests showed that it would cause the machine to stall : as the result of heavy kswapd activity. I merged it back with this fix as : it is pending in the -mm tree and it solves the issue we were seeing, so I : definitely think this should be pushed to -stable (and I would seriously : consider it for 2.6.37 inclusion even at this late date). Signed-off-by:
Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Reviewed-by:
Nicolas Bareil <nico@chdir.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.37.1, 2.6.36.x] Signed-off-by:
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Dave Jones authored
This warning was added in commit bdff746a ("clone: prepare to recycle CLONE_STOPPED") three years ago. 2.6.26 came and went. As far as I know, no-one is actually using CLONE_STOPPED. Signed-off-by:
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Claudio Scordino authored
When working in RS485 mode, the atmel_serial driver keeps RTS high after the initialization of the serial port. It goes low only after the first character has been sent. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplify code] Signed-off-by:
Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com> Signed-off-by:
Arkadiusz Bubala <arkadiusz.bubala@gmail.com> Tested-by:
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Eric Dumazet authored
Use modern per_cpu API to increment {soft|hard}irq counters, and use per_cpu allocation for (struct irq_desc)->kstats_irq instead of an array. This gives better SMP/NUMA locality and saves few instructions per irq. With small nr_cpuids values (8 for example), kstats_irq was a small array (less than L1_CACHE_BYTES), potentially source of false sharing. In the !CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ case, remove the huge, NUMA/cache unfriendly kstat_irqs_all[NR_IRQS][NR_CPUS] array. Note: we still populate kstats_irq for all possible irqs in early_irq_init(). We probably could use on-demand allocations. (Code included in alloc_descs()). Problem is not all IRQS are used with a prior alloc_descs() call. kstat_irqs_this_cpu() is not used anymore, remove it. Signed-off-by:Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
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Bruce Chang authored
Since the original maintainer-Joseph Chan (josephchan@via.com.tw) doesn't handle the Linux driver for VIA now, I would like to request to update the maintainer for the SD/MMC CARD CONTROLLER DRIVER and VIA UNICHROME(PRO)/CHROME9 FRAMEBUFFER DRIVER before we find a better one. Signed-off-by:
Bruce Chang <brucechang@via.com.tw> Signed-off-by:
Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> Cc: Joseph Chan <JosephChan@via.com.tw> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Harald Welte <HaraldWelte@viatech.com> Signed-off-by:
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dmLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm: (32 commits) dm: raid456 basic support dm: per target unplug callback support dm: introduce target callbacks and congestion callback dm mpath: delay activate_path retry on SCSI_DH_RETRY dm: remove superfluous irq disablement in dm_request_fn dm log: use PTR_ERR value instead of ENOMEM dm snapshot: avoid storing private suspended state dm snapshot: persistent make metadata_wq multithreaded dm: use non reentrant workqueues if equivalent dm: convert workqueues to alloc_ordered dm stripe: switch from local workqueue to system_wq dm: dont use flush_scheduled_work dm snapshot: remove unused dm_snapshot queued_bios_work dm ioctl: suppress needless warning messages dm crypt: add loop aes iv generator dm crypt: add multi key capability dm crypt: add post iv call to iv generator dm crypt: use io thread for reads only if mempool exhausted dm crypt: scale to multiple cpus dm crypt: simplify compatible table output ...
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git://neil.brown.name/mdLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: md: Fix removal of extra drives when converting RAID6 to RAID5 md: range check slot number when manually adding a spare. md/raid5: handle manually-added spares in start_reshape. md: fix sync_completed reporting for very large drives (>2TB) md: allow suspend_lo and suspend_hi to decrease as well as increase. md: Don't let implementation detail of curr_resync leak out through sysfs. md: separate meta and data devs md-new-param-to_sync_page_io md-new-param-to-calc_dev_sboffset md: Be more careful about clearing flags bit in ->recovery md: md_stop_writes requires mddev_lock. md/raid5: use sysfs_notify_dirent_safe to avoid NULL pointer md: Ensure no IO request to get md device before it is properly initialised. md: Fix single printks with multiple KERN_<level>s md: fix regression resulting in delays in clearing bits in a bitmap md: fix regression with re-adding devices to arrays with no metadata
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] fix build error - arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
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Linus Torvalds authored
This reverts commit 0fdae42d, which wasn't really supposed to go in, and causes lots of annoying warnings. Quoth Andrew: "Complete brainfart - I meant to drop that patch ages ago." Quoth Greg: "Ick, yeah, that patch isn't ok to go in as-is, all of the callers need to be fixed up first, which is what I thought we had agreed on..." Reported-by:
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by:
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
Stephen Rothwell reports that the vfs merge broke the build of ecryptfs. The breakage comes from commit 66cb7666 ("sanitize ecryptfs ->mount()") which was obviously not even build tested. Tssk, tssk, Al. This is the minimal build fixup for the situation, although I don't have a filesystem to actually test it with. Reported-by:
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- 13 Jan, 2011 3 commits
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Tony Luck authored
arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c:621: error: duplicate 'static' Introduced by commit c74a1cbb pass default dentry_operations to mount_pseudo() Signed-off-by:
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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NeilBrown authored
When a RAID6 is converted to a RAID5, the extra drive should be discarded. However it isn't due to a typo in a comparison. This bug was introduced in commit e93f68a1 in 2.6.35-rc4 and is suitable for any -stable since than. As the extra drive is not removed, the 'degraded' counter is wrong and so the RAID5 will not respond correctly to a subsequent failure. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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NeilBrown authored
When adding a spare to an active array, we should check the slot number, but allow it to be larger than raid_disks if a reshape is being prepared. Apply the same test when adding a device to an array-under-construction. It already had most of the test in place, but not quite all. Signed-off-by:
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