- 20 Sep, 2012 1 commit
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Al Viro authored
TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME will work in precisely the same way; all that is achieved by TIF_IRET is appearing that there's some work to be done, so we end up on the iret exit path. Just use NOTIFY_RESUME. And for execve() do that in 32bit start_thread(), not sys_execve() itself. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 19 Sep, 2012 10 commits
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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds authored
Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe: "A small collection of driver fixes/updates and a core fix for 3.6. It contains: - Bug fixes for mtip32xx, and support for new hardware (just addition of IDs). They have been queued up for 3.7 for a few weeks as well. - rate-limit a failing command error message in block core. - A fix for an old cciss bug from Stephen. - Prevent overflow of partition count from Alan." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: cciss: fix handling of protocol error blk: add an upper sanity check on partition adding mtip32xx: fix user_buffer check in exec_drive_command mtip32xx: Remove dead code mtip32xx: Change printk to pr_xxxx mtip32xx: Proper reporting of write protect status on big-endian mtip32xx: Increase timeout for standby command mtip32xx: Handle NCQ commands during the security locked state mtip32xx: Add support for new devices block: rate-limit the error message from failing commands
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git://github.com/pmundt/linux-shLinus Torvalds authored
Pull SuperH fixes from Paul Mundt. * tag 'sh-for-linus' of git://github.com/pmundt/linux-sh: sh: Fix up TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME sans TIF_SIGPENDING handling. sh: pfc: Release spinlock in sh_pfc_gpio_request_enable() error path sh: intc: Fix up multi-evt irq association.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ohad/rpmsgLinus Torvalds authored
Pull rpmsg fix from Ohad Ben-Cohen: "A quick rpmsg fix from Fernando, fixing two buggy invocations of dma_free_coherent" * tag 'rpmsg-3.6-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ohad/rpmsg: rpmsg: fix dma_free_coherent dev parameter
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git://neil.brown.name/mdLinus Torvalds authored
Pull md fixes from NeilBrown: "3 fixes for md in 3.6. One reverts a recent patch which turns out to not be such a good idea. Other two fix minor bugs with the new (since 3.3) 'replacement' code and have been tagged for -stable." * tag 'md-3.6-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md: md: make sure metadata is updated when spares are activated or removed. md/raid5: fix calculate of 'degraded' when a replacement becomes active. Revert "md/raid5: For odirect-write performance, do not set STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE."
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds authored
Pull workqueue / powernow-k8 fix from Tejun Heo: "This is the fix for the bug where cpufreq/powernow-k8 was tripping BUG_ON() in try_to_wake_up_local() by migrating workqueue worker to a different CPU. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47301 As discussed, the fix is now two parts - one to reimplement work_on_cpu() so that it doesn't create a new kthread each time and the actual fix which makes powernow-k8 use work_on_cpu() instead of performing manual migration. While pretty late in the merge cycle, both changes are on the safer side. Jiri and I verified two existing users of work_on_cpu() and Duncan confirmed that the powernow-k8 fix survived about 18 hours of testing." * 'for-3.6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: cpufreq/powernow-k8: workqueue user shouldn't migrate the kworker to another CPU workqueue: reimplement work_on_cpu() using system_wq
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Tejun Heo authored
powernowk8_target() runs off a per-cpu work item and if the cpufreq_policy->cpu is different from the current one, it migrates the kworker to the target CPU by manipulating current->cpus_allowed. The function migrates the kworker back to the original CPU but this is still broken. Workqueue concurrency management requires the kworkers to stay on the same CPU and powernowk8_target() ends up triggerring BUG_ON(rq != this_rq()) in try_to_wake_up_local() if it contends on fidvid_mutex and sleeps. It is unclear why this bug is being reported now. Duncan says it appeared to be a regression of 3.6-rc1 and couldn't reproduce it on 3.5. Bisection seemed to point to 63d95a91 "workqueue: use @pool instead of @gcwq or @cpu where applicable" which is an non-functional change. Given that the reproduce case sometimes took upto days to trigger, it's easy to be misled while bisecting. Maybe something made contention on fidvid_mutex more likely? I don't know. This patch fixes the bug by using work_on_cpu() instead if @pol->cpu isn't the same as the current one. The code assumes that cpufreq_policy->cpu is kept online by the caller, which Rafael tells me is the case. stable: ed48ece2 ("workqueue: reimplement work_on_cpu() using system_wq") should be applied before this; otherwise, the behavior could be horrible. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Tested-by: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47301
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Tejun Heo authored
The existing work_on_cpu() implementation is hugely inefficient. It creates a new kthread, execute that single function and then let the kthread die on each invocation. Now that system_wq can handle concurrent executions, there's no advantage of doing this. Reimplement work_on_cpu() using system_wq which makes it simpler and way more efficient. stable: While this isn't a fix in itself, it's needed to fix a workqueue related bug in cpufreq/powernow-k8. AFAICS, this shouldn't break other existing users. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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NeilBrown authored
It isn't always necessary to update the metadata when spares are removed as the presence-or-not of a spare isn't really important to the integrity of an array. Also activating a spare doesn't always require updating the metadata as the update on 'recovery-completed' is usually sufficient. However the introduction of 'replacement' devices have made these transitions sometimes more important. For example the 'Replacement' flag isn't cleared until the original device is removed, so we need to ensure a metadata update after that 'spare' is removed. So set MD_CHANGE_DEVS whenever a spare is activated or removed, to complement the current situation where it is set when a spare is added or a device is failed (or a number of other less common situations). This is suitable for -stable as out-of-data metadata could lead to data corruption. This is only relevant for 3.3 and later 9when 'replacement' as introduced. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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NeilBrown authored
When a replacement device becomes active, we mark the device that it replaces as 'faulty' so that it can subsequently get removed. However 'calc_degraded' only pays attention to the primary device, not the replacement, so the array appears to become degraded, which is wrong. So teach 'calc_degraded' to consider any replacement if a primary device is faulty. This is suitable for -stable as an incorrect 'degraded' value can confuse md and could lead to data corruption. This is only relevant for 3.3 and later. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Robin Hill <robin@robinhill.me.uk> Reported-by: John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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NeilBrown authored
This reverts commit 895e3c5c. While this patch seemed like a good idea and did help some workloads, it hurts other workloads. Large sequential O_DIRECT writes were faster, Small random O_DIRECT writes were slower. Other changes (batching RAID5 writes) have improved the sequential writes using a different mechanism, so the net result of this patch is definitely negative. So revert it. Reported-by: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Tested-by: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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- 18 Sep, 2012 6 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ohad/hwspinlockLinus Torvalds authored
Pull hwspinlock fix from Ohad Ben-Cohen: "A single hwspinlock fix by Wei Yongjun, which prevents potential NULL dereferences" * tag 'hwspinlock-3.6-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ohad/hwspinlock: hwspinlock/core: move the dereference below the NULL test
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Miklos Szeredi authored
IBM reported a soft lockup after applying the fix for the rename_lock deadlock. Commit c83ce989 ("VFS: Fix the nfs sillyrename regression in kernel 2.6.38") was found to be the culprit. The nfs sillyrename fix used DCACHE_DISCONNECTED to indicate that the dentry was killed. This flag can be set on non-killed dentries too, which results in infinite retries when trying to traverse the dentry tree. This patch introduces a separate flag: DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED, which is only set in d_kill() and makes try_to_ascend() test only this flag. IBM reported successful test results with this patch. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Stephen M. Cameron authored
If a command completes with a status of CMD_PROTOCOL_ERR, this information should be conveyed to the SCSI mid layer, not dropped on the floor. Unlike a similar bug in the hpsa driver, this bug only affects tape drives and CD and DVD ROM drives in the cciss driver, and to induce it, you have to disconnect (or damage) a cable, so it is not a very likely scenario (which would explain why the bug has gone undetected for the last 10 years.) Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Alan Cox authored
65536 should be ludicrous anyway but without it we overflow the memory computation doing the allocation and badness occurs. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Al Viro authored
As Al notes, we missed a TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME check which caused any handlers without TIF_SIGPENDING also set to skip the notification: Looks like while it is in the relevant masks *and* checked in do_notify_resume() both on 32bit and 64bit variants since commit ab99c733 ("sh: Make syscall tracer use tracehook notifiers, add TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME.") they are actually *not* reached without simulataneous SIGPENDING, since the actual glue in the callers had not been updated back then and still checks for _TIF_SIGPENDING alone when deciding whether to hit do_notify_resume() or not. Reported-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro.iwamatsu.yj@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro.iwamatsu.yj@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Laurent Pinchart authored
The sh_pfc_gpio_request_enable() function acquires a spinlock but fails to release it before returning if the requested mux type is not supported. Fix this. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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- 17 Sep, 2012 18 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds authored
Pull another workqueue fix from Tejun Heo: "Unfortunately, yet another late fix. This too is discovered and fixed by Lai. This bug was introduced during this merge window by commit 25511a47 ("workqueue: reimplement CPU online rebinding to handle idle workers") which started using WORKER_REBIND flag for idle rebind too. The bug is relatively easy to trigger if the CPU rapidly goes through off, on and then off (and stay off). The fix is on the safer side. This hasn't been on linux-next yet but I'm pushing early so that it can get more exposure before v3.6 release." * 'for-3.6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: always clear WORKER_REBIND in busy_worker_rebind_fn()
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Lai Jiangshan authored
busy_worker_rebind_fn() didn't clear WORKER_REBIND if rebinding failed (CPU is down again). This used to be okay because the flag wasn't used for anything else. However, after 25511a47 "workqueue: reimplement CPU online rebinding to handle idle workers", WORKER_REBIND is also used to command idle workers to rebind. If not cleared, the worker may confuse the next CPU_UP cycle by having REBIND spuriously set or oops / get stuck by prematurely calling idle_worker_rebind(). WARNING: at /work/os/wq/kernel/workqueue.c:1323 worker_thread+0x4cd/0x5 00() Hardware name: Bochs Modules linked in: test_wq(O-) Pid: 33, comm: kworker/1:1 Tainted: G O 3.6.0-rc1-work+ #3 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8109039f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [<ffffffff810903fa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff810b3f1d>] worker_thread+0x4cd/0x500 [<ffffffff810bc16e>] kthread+0xbe/0xd0 [<ffffffff81bd2664>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 ---[ end trace e977cf20f4661968 ]--- BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [<ffffffff810b3db0>] worker_thread+0x360/0x500 PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Modules linked in: test_wq(O-) CPU 0 Pid: 33, comm: kworker/1:1 Tainted: G W O 3.6.0-rc1-work+ #3 Bochs Bochs RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810b3db0>] [<ffffffff810b3db0>] worker_thread+0x360/0x500 RSP: 0018:ffff88001e1c9de0 EFLAGS: 00010086 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88001e633e00 RCX: 0000000000004140 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000009 RBP: ffff88001e1c9ea0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88001fc8d580 R13: ffff88001fc8d590 R14: ffff88001e633e20 R15: ffff88001e1c6900 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88001fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000130e8000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process kworker/1:1 (pid: 33, threadinfo ffff88001e1c8000, task ffff88001e1c6900) Stack: ffff880000000000 ffff88001e1c9e40 0000000000000001 ffff88001e1c8010 ffff88001e519c78 ffff88001e1c9e58 ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001fc8d340 ffff88001fc8d340 Call Trace: [<ffffffff810bc16e>] kthread+0xbe/0xd0 [<ffffffff81bd2664>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 Code: b1 00 f6 43 48 02 0f 85 91 01 00 00 48 8b 43 38 48 89 df 48 8b 00 48 89 45 90 e8 ac f0 ff ff 3c 01 0f 85 60 01 00 00 48 8b 53 50 <8b> 02 83 e8 01 85 c0 89 02 0f 84 3b 01 00 00 48 8b 43 38 48 8b RIP [<ffffffff810b3db0>] worker_thread+0x360/0x500 RSP <ffff88001e1c9de0> CR2: 0000000000000000 There was no reason to keep WORKER_REBIND on failure in the first place - WORKER_UNBOUND is guaranteed to be set in such cases preventing incorrectly activating concurrency management. Always clear WORKER_REBIND. tj: Updated comment and description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge fixes from Andrew Morton: "13 patches. 12 are fixes and one is a little preparatory thing for Andi." * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (13 commits) memory hotplug: fix section info double registration bug mm/page_alloc: fix the page address of higher page's buddy calculation drivers/rtc/rtc-twl.c: ensure all interrupts are disabled during probe compiler.h: add __visible pid-namespace: limit value of ns_last_pid to (0, max_pid) include/net/sock.h: squelch compiler warning in sk_rmem_schedule() slub: consider pfmemalloc_match() in get_partial_node() slab: fix starting index for finding another object slab: do ClearSlabPfmemalloc() for all pages of slab nbd: clear waiting_queue on shutdown MAINTAINERS: fix TXT maintainer list and source repo path mm/ia64: fix a memory block size bug memory hotplug: reset pgdat->kswapd to NULL if creating kernel thread fails
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qiuxishi authored
There may be a bug when registering section info. For example, on my Itanium platform, the pfn range of node0 includes the other nodes, so other nodes' section info will be double registered, and memmap's page count will equal to 3. node0: start_pfn=0x100, spanned_pfn=0x20fb00, present_pfn=0x7f8a3, => 0x000100-0x20fc00 node1: start_pfn=0x80000, spanned_pfn=0x80000, present_pfn=0x80000, => 0x080000-0x100000 node2: start_pfn=0x100000, spanned_pfn=0x80000, present_pfn=0x80000, => 0x100000-0x180000 node3: start_pfn=0x180000, spanned_pfn=0x80000, present_pfn=0x80000, => 0x180000-0x200000 free_all_bootmem_node() register_page_bootmem_info_node() register_page_bootmem_info_section() When hot remove memory, we can't free the memmap's page because page_count() is 2 after put_page_bootmem(). sparse_remove_one_section() free_section_usemap() free_map_bootmem() put_page_bootmem() [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add code comment] Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Li Haifeng authored
The heuristic method for buddy has been introduced since commit 43506fad ("mm/page_alloc.c: simplify calculation of combined index of adjacent buddy lists"). But the page address of higher page's buddy was wrongly calculated, which will lead page_is_buddy to fail for ever. IOW, the heuristic method would be disabled with the wrong page address of higher page's buddy. Calculating the page address of higher page's buddy should be based higher_page with the offset between index of higher page and index of higher page's buddy. Signed-off-by: Haifeng Li <omycle@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KyongHo Cho <pullip.cho@samsung.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [2.6.38+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kevin Hilman authored
On some platforms, bootloaders are known to do some interesting RTC programming. Without going into the obscurities as to why this may be the case, suffice it to say the the driver should not make any assumptions about the state of the RTC when the driver loads. In particular, the driver probe should be sure that all interrupts are disabled until otherwise programmed. This was discovered when finding bursty I2C traffic every second on Overo platforms. This I2C overhead was keeping the SoC from hitting deep power states. The cause was found to be the RTC firing every second on the I2C-connected TWL PMIC. Special thanks to Felipe Balbi for suggesting to look for a rogue driver as the source of the I2C traffic rather than the I2C driver itself. Special thanks to Steve Sakoman for helping track down the source of the continuous RTC interrups on the Overo boards. Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Tested-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Tested-by: Shubhrajyoti Datta <omaplinuxkernel@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andi Kleen authored
gcc 4.6+ has support for a externally_visible attribute that prevents the optimizer from optimizing unused symbols away. Add a __visible macro to use it with that compiler version or later. This is used (at least) by the "Link Time Optimization" patchset. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Vagin authored
The kernel doesn't check the pid for negative values, so if you try to write -2 to /proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid, you will get a kernel panic. The crash happens because the next pid is -1, and alloc_pidmap() will try to access to a nonexistent pidmap. map = &pid_ns->pidmap[pid/BITS_PER_PAGE]; Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Chuck Lever authored
This warning: In file included from linux/include/linux/tcp.h:227:0, from linux/include/linux/ipv6.h:221, from linux/include/net/ipv6.h:16, from linux/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h:26, from linux/net/sunrpc/stats.c:22: linux/include/net/sock.h: In function `sk_rmem_schedule': linux/nfs-2.6/include/net/sock.h:1339:13: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions [-Wsign-compare] is seen with gcc (GCC) 4.6.3 20120306 (Red Hat 4.6.3-2) using the -Wextra option. Commit c76562b6 ("netvm: prevent a stream-specific deadlock") accidentally replaced the "size" parameter of sk_rmem_schedule() with an unsigned int. This changes the semantics of the comparison in the return statement. In sk_wmem_schedule we have syntactically the same comparison, but "size" is a signed integer. In addition, __sk_mem_schedule() takes a signed integer for its "size" parameter, so there is an implicit type conversion in sk_rmem_schedule() anyway. Revert the "size" parameter back to a signed integer so that the semantics of the expressions in both sk_[rw]mem_schedule() are exactly the same. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joonsoo Kim authored
get_partial() is currently not checking pfmemalloc_match() meaning that it is possible for pfmemalloc pages to leak to non-pfmemalloc users. This is a problem in the following situation. Assume that there is a request from normal allocation and there are no objects in the per-cpu cache and no node-partial slab. In this case, slab_alloc enters the slow path and new_slab_objects() is called which may return a PFMEMALLOC page. As the current user is not allowed to access PFMEMALLOC page, deactivate_slab() is called ([5091b74a: mm: slub: optimise the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks]) and returns an object from PFMEMALLOC page. Next time, when we get another request from normal allocation, slab_alloc() enters the slow-path and calls new_slab_objects(). In new_slab_objects(), we call get_partial() and get a partial slab which was just deactivated but is a pfmemalloc page. We extract one object from it and re-deactivate. "deactivate -> re-get in get_partial -> re-deactivate" occures repeatedly. As a result, access to PFMEMALLOC page is not properly restricted and it can cause a performance degradation due to frequent deactivation. deactivation frequently. This patch changes get_partial_node() to take pfmemalloc_match() into account and prevents the "deactivate -> re-get in get_partial() scenario. Instead, new_slab() is called. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joonsoo Kim authored
In array cache, there is a object at index 0, check it. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored
Right now, we call ClearSlabPfmemalloc() for first page of slab when we clear SlabPfmemalloc flag. This is fine for most swap-over-network use cases as it is expected that order-0 pages are in use. Unfortunately it is possible that that __ac_put_obj() checks SlabPfmemalloc on a tail page and while this is harmless, it is sloppy. This patch ensures that the head page is always used. This problem was originally identified by Joonsoo Kim. [js1304@gmail.com: Original implementation and problem identification] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Paul Clements authored
Fix a serious but uncommon bug in nbd which occurs when there is heavy I/O going to the nbd device while, at the same time, a failure (server, network) or manual disconnect of the nbd connection occurs. There is a small window between the time that the nbd_thread is stopped and the socket is shutdown where requests can continue to be queued to nbd's internal waiting_queue. When this happens, those requests are never completed or freed. The fix is to clear the waiting_queue on shutdown of the nbd device, in the same way that the nbd request queue (queue_head) is already being cleared. Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Gang Wei authored
Signed-off-by: Gang Wei <gang.wei@intel.com> Cc: Richard L Maliszewski <richard.l.maliszewski@intel.com> Cc: Gang Wei <gang.wei@intel.com> Cc: Shane Wang <shane.wang@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jianguo Wu authored
I found following definition in include/linux/memory.h, in my IA64 platform, SECTION_SIZE_BITS is equal to 32, and MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE will be 0. #define MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE (1 << SECTION_SIZE_BITS) Because MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE is int type and length of 32bits, so MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE(1 << 32) will will equal to 0. Actually when SECTION_SIZE_BITS >= 31, MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE will be wrong. This will cause wrong system memory infomation in sysfs. I think it should be: #define MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE (1UL << SECTION_SIZE_BITS) And "echo offline > memory0/state" will cause following call trace: kernel BUG at mm/memory_hotplug.c:885! sh[6455]: bugcheck! 0 [1] Pid: 6455, CPU 0, comm: sh psr : 0000101008526030 ifs : 8000000000000fa4 ip : [<a0000001008c40f0>] Not tainted (3.6.0-rc1) ip is at offline_pages+0x210/0xee0 Call Trace: show_stack+0x80/0xa0 show_regs+0x640/0x920 die+0x190/0x2c0 die_if_kernel+0x50/0x80 ia64_bad_break+0x3d0/0x6e0 ia64_native_leave_kernel+0x0/0x270 offline_pages+0x210/0xee0 alloc_pages_current+0x180/0x2a0 Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Wen Congyang authored
If kthread_run() fails, pgdat->kswapd contains errno. When we stop this thread, we only check whether pgdat->kswapd is NULL and access it. If it contains errno, it will cause page fault. Reset pgdat->kswapd to NULL when creating kernel thread fails can avoid this problem. Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infinibandLinus Torvalds authored
Pull InfiniBand/RDMA fixes from Roland Dreier: - A couple more IPoIB fixes for regressions introduced by path database conversion - Minor other fixes to low-level drivers (cxgb4, mlx4, qib, ocrdma) * tag 'rdma-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: IB/qib: Fix failure of compliance test C14-024#06_LocalPortNum RDMA/ocrdma: Fix CQE expansion of unsignaled WQE mlx4_core: Fix integer overflows so 8TBs of memory registration works IPoIB: Fix AB-BA deadlock when deleting neighbours IPoIB: Fix memory leak in the neigh table deletion flow RDMA/cxgb4: Move dereference below NULL test
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Francesco Ruggeri authored
The unregister_sysctl_table() function hangs if all references to its ctl_table_header structure are not dropped. This can happen sometimes because of a leak in proc_sys_lookup(): proc_sys_lookup() gets a reference to the table via lookup_entry(), but it does not release it when a subsequent call to sysctl_follow_link() fails. This patch fixes this leak by making sure the reference is always dropped on return. See also commit 076c3eed ("sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_lookup introducing find_entry and lookup_entry") which reorganized this code in 3.4. Tested in Linux 3.4.4. Signed-off-by: Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@aristanetworks.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 16 Sep, 2012 5 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/mfd-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
Pull mfd fixes from Samuel Ortiz: "This is the remaining MFD fixes for 3.6, with 5 pending fixes: - A tps65217 build error fix. - A lcp_ich regression fix caused by the MFD driver failing to initialize the watchdog sub device due to ACPI conflicts. - 2 MAX77693 interrupt handling bug fixes. - An MFD core fix, adding an IRQ domain argument to the MFD device addition API in order to prevent silent and potentially harmful remapping behaviour changes for drivers supporting non-DT platforms." * tag 'mfd-for-linus-3.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/mfd-2.6: mfd: MAX77693: Fix NULL pointer error when initializing irqs mfd: MAX77693: Fix interrupt handling bug mfd: core: Push irqdomain mapping out into devices mfd: lpc_ich: Fix a 3.5 kernel regression for iTCO_wdt driver mfd: Move tps65217 regulator plat data handling to regulator
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git://gitorious.org/linux-pwm/linux-pwmLinus Torvalds authored
Pull pwm fixes from Thierry Reding: "While this comes a bit later than I had wished, both patches are rather minor and touch only new drivers so I think these are still safe for merging." * tag 'for-3.6-rc6' of git://gitorious.org/linux-pwm/linux-pwm: pwm: pwm-tiehrpwm: Fix conflicting channel period setting pwm: pwm-tiecap: Disable APWM mode after configure
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pendingLinus Torvalds authored
Pull scsi target fixes from Nicholas Bellinger: "Here is the current set of target-pending fixes headed for v3.6-final The main parts of this series include bug-fixes from Paolo Bonzini to address an use-after-free bug in pSCSI sense exception handling, along with addressing some long-standing bugs wrt the handling of zero- length SCSI CDB payloads also specific to pSCSI pass-through device backends." * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: target: go through normal processing for zero-length REQUEST_SENSE target: support zero allocation length in REQUEST SENSE target: support zero-size allocation lengths in transport_kmap_data_sg target: fail REPORT LUNS with less than 16 bytes of payload target: report too-small parameter lists everywhere target: go through normal processing for zero-length PSCSI commands target: fix use-after-free with PSCSI sense data target: simplify code around transport_get_sense_data target: move transport_get_sense_data target: Check idr_get_new return value in iscsi_login_zero_tsih_s1 target: Fix ->data_length re-assignment bug with SCSI overflow
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pmLinus Torvalds authored
Pull power management fixes from Rafael J. Wysocki: "Three ACPI device power management fixes related to checking and setting device power states." * tag 'pm-for-3.6-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: ACPI / PM: Use KERN_DEBUG when no power resources are found ACPI / PM: Fix resource_lock dead lock in acpi_power_on_device ACPI / PM: Infer parent power state from child if unknown, v2
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