We currently have a kernel internal type called aligned_u64 which aligns
__u64's on 8 bytes boundaries even on systems which would normally align
them on 4 byte boundaries. This patch creates a new type __aligned_u64
which does the same thing but which is exposed to userspace rather than
being kernel internal.
[akpm: merge early as both the net and audit trees want this]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: enhance the comment describing the reasons for using aligned_u64. Via Andreas and Andi.]
Based-on-patch-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tony Luck reports that the addition of the access_ok() check in commit
0eead9ab41 ("Don't dump task struct in a.out core-dumps") broke the
ia64 compile due to missing the necessary header file includes.
Rather than add yet another include (<asm/unistd.h>) to make everything
happy, just uninline the silly core dump helper functions and move the
bodies to fs/exec.c where they make a lot more sense.
dump_seek() in particular was too big to be an inline function anyway,
and none of them are in any way performance-critical. And we really
don't need to mess up our include file headers more than they already
are.
Reported-and-tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
akiphie points out that a.out core-dumps have that odd task struct
dumping that was never used and was never really a good idea (it goes
back into the mists of history, probably the original core-dumping
code). Just remove it.
Also do the access_ok() check on dump_write(). It probably doesn't
matter (since normal filesystems all seem to do it anyway), but he
points out that it's normally done by the VFS layer, so ...
[ I suspect that we should possibly do "vfs_write()" instead of
calling ->write directly. That also does the whole fsnotify and write
statistics thing, which may or may not be a good idea. ]
And just to be anal, do this all for the x86-64 32-bit a.out emulation
code too, even though it's not enabled (and won't currently even
compile)
Reported-by: akiphie <akiphie@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch disables the fanotify syscalls by just not building them and
letting the cond_syscall() statements in kernel/sys_ni.c redirect them
to sys_ni_syscall().
It was pointed out by Tvrtko Ursulin that the fanotify interface did not
include an explicit prioritization between groups. This is necessary
for fanotify to be usable for hierarchical storage management software,
as they must get first access to the file, before inotify-like notifiers
see the file.
This feature can be added in an ABI compatible way in the next release
(by using a number of bits in the flags field to carry the info) but it
was suggested by Alan that maybe we should just hold off and do it in
the next cycle, likely with an (new) explicit argument to the syscall.
I don't like this approach best as I know people are already starting to
use the current interface, but Alan is all wise and noone on list backed
me up with just using what we have. I feel this is needlessly ripping
the rug out from under people at the last minute, but if others think it
needs to be a new argument it might be the best way forward.
Three choices:
Go with what we got (and implement the new feature next cycle). Add a
new field right now (and implement the new feature next cycle). Wait
till next cycle to release the ABI (and implement the new feature next
cycle). This is number 3.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2.6.36 introduces an API for drivers to switch the IO scheduler
instead of manually calling the elevator exit and init functions.
This API was added since q->elevator must be cleared in between
those two calls. And since we already have this functionality
directly from use by the sysfs interface to switch schedulers
online, it was prudent to reuse it internally too.
But this API needs the queue to be in a fully initialized state
before it is called, or it will attempt to unregister elevator
kobjects before they have been added. This results in an oops
like this:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000051
IP: [<ffffffff8116f15e>] sysfs_create_dir+0x2e/0xc0
PGD 47ddfc067 PUD 47c6a1067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:04:00.1/irq
CPU 2
Modules linked in: t(+) loop hid_apple usbhid ahci ehci_hcd uhci_hcd libahci usbcore nls_base igb
Pid: 7319, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.36-rc6+ #132 QSSC-S4R/QSSC-S4R
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8116f15e>] [<ffffffff8116f15e>] sysfs_create_dir+0x2e/0xc0
RSP: 0018:ffff88027da25d08 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffff88047c68c528 RBX: 00000000fffffffe RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 000000000000002f RSI: 000000000000002f RDI: ffff88047e196c88
RBP: ffff88027da25d38 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: d84156c5635688c0
R10: d84156c5635688c0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88047e196c88
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88047c68c528
FS: 00007fcb0b26f6e0(0000) GS:ffff880287400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000051 CR3: 000000047e76e000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process modprobe (pid: 7319, threadinfo ffff88027da24000, task ffff88027d377090)
Stack:
ffff88027da25d58 ffff88047c68c528 00000000fffffffe ffff88047e196c88
<0> ffff88047c68c528 ffff88047e05bd90 ffff88027da25d78 ffffffff8123fb77
<0> ffff88047e05bd90 0000000000000000 ffff88047e196c88 ffff88047c68c528
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8123fb77>] kobject_add_internal+0xe7/0x1f0
[<ffffffff8123fd98>] kobject_add_varg+0x38/0x60
[<ffffffff8123feb9>] kobject_add+0x69/0x90
[<ffffffff8116efe0>] ? sysfs_remove_dir+0x20/0xa0
[<ffffffff8103d48d>] ? sub_preempt_count+0x9d/0xe0
[<ffffffff8143de20>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x30/0x50
[<ffffffff8116efe0>] ? sysfs_remove_dir+0x20/0xa0
[<ffffffff8116eff4>] ? sysfs_remove_dir+0x34/0xa0
[<ffffffff81224204>] elv_register_queue+0x34/0xa0
[<ffffffff81224aad>] elevator_change+0xfd/0x250
[<ffffffffa007e000>] ? t_init+0x0/0x361 [t]
[<ffffffffa007e000>] ? t_init+0x0/0x361 [t]
[<ffffffffa007e0a8>] t_init+0xa8/0x361 [t]
[<ffffffff810001de>] do_one_initcall+0x3e/0x170
[<ffffffff8108c3fd>] sys_init_module+0xbd/0x220
[<ffffffff81002f2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: e5 41 56 41 55 41 54 49 89 fc 53 48 83 ec 10 48 85 ff 74 52 48 8b 47 18 49 c7 c5 00 46 61 81 48 85 c0 74 04 4c 8b 68 30 45 31 f6 <41> 80 7d 51 00 74 0e 49 8b 44 24 28 4c 89 e7 ff 50 20 49 89 c6
RIP [<ffffffff8116f15e>] sysfs_create_dir+0x2e/0xc0
RSP <ffff88027da25d08>
CR2: 0000000000000051
---[ end trace a6541d3bf07945df ]---
Fix this by adding a registered bit to the elevator queue, which is
set when the sysfs kobjects have been registered.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
The "flags" member of "struct wait_queue_t" is used in several places in
the kernel code without beeing initialized by init_wait(). "flags" is
used in bitwise operations.
If "flags" not initialized then unexpected behaviour may take place.
Incorrect flags might used later in code.
Added initialization of "wait_queue_t.flags" with zero value into
"init_wait".
Signed-off-by: Evgeny Kuznetsov <EXT-Eugeny.Kuznetsov@nokia.com>
[ The bit we care about does end up being initialized by both
prepare_to_wait() and add_to_wait_queue(), so this doesn't seem to
cause actual bugs, but is definitely the right thing to do -Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With all the recent module loading cleanups, we've minimized the code
that sits under module_mutex, fixing various deadlocks and making it
possible to do most of the module loading in parallel.
However, that whole conversion totally missed the rather obscure code
that adds a new module to the list for BUG() handling. That code was
doubly obscure because (a) the code itself lives in lib/bugs.c (for
dubious reasons) and (b) it gets called from the architecture-specific
"module_finalize()" rather than from generic code.
Calling it from arch-specific code makes no sense what-so-ever to begin
with, and is now actively wrong since that code isn't protected by the
module loading lock any more.
So this commit moves the "module_bug_{finalize,cleanup}()" calls away
from the arch-specific code, and into the generic code - and in the
process protects it with the module_mutex so that the list operations
are now safe.
Future fixups:
- move the module list handling code into kernel/module.c where it
belongs.
- get rid of 'module_bug_list' and just use the regular list of modules
(called 'modules' - imagine that) that we already create and maintain
for other reasons.
Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Avoid TLB flush IPIs for the cores in deeper c-states by voluntary leave_mm()
before entering into that state. CPUs tend to flush TLB in those c-states
anyways.
acpi_idle does this with C3-type states, but it was not caried over
when intel_idle was introduced. intel_idle can apply it
to C-states in addition to those that ACPI might export as C3...
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx:
dmaengine: fix interrupt clearing for mv_xor
missing inline keyword for static function in linux/dmaengine.h
dma/shdma: move dereference below the NULL check
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (47 commits)
tcp: Fix >4GB writes on 64-bit.
net/9p: Mount only matching virtio channels
de2104x: fix ethtool
tproxy: check for transparent flag in ip_route_newports
ipv6: add IPv6 to neighbour table overflow warning
tcp: fix TSO FACK loss marking in tcp_mark_head_lost
3c59x: fix regression from patch "Add ethtool WOL support"
ipv6: add a missing unregister_pernet_subsys call
s390: use free_netdev(netdev) instead of kfree()
sgiseeq: use free_netdev(netdev) instead of kfree()
rionet: use free_netdev(netdev) instead of kfree()
ibm_newemac: use free_netdev(netdev) instead of kfree()
smsc911x: Add MODULE_ALIAS()
net: reset skb queue mapping when rx'ing over tunnel
br2684: fix scheduling while atomic
de2104x: fix TP link detection
de2104x: fix power management
de2104x: disable autonegotiation on broken hardware
net: fix a lockdep splat
e1000e: 82579 do not gate auto config of PHY by hardware during nominal use
...
Fixes kernel bugzilla #16603
tcp_sendmsg() truncates iov_len to an 'int' which a 4GB write to write
zero bytes, for example.
There is also the problem higher up of how verify_iovec() works. It
wants to prevent the total length from looking like an error return
value.
However it does this using 'int', but syscalls return 'long' (and
thus signed 64-bit on 64-bit machines). So it could trigger
false-positives on 64-bit as written. So fix it to use 'long'.
Reported-by: Olaf Bonorden <bono@onlinehome.de>
Reported-by: Daniel Büse <dbuese@gmx.de>
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86/amd-iommu: Fix rounding-bug in __unmap_single
x86/amd-iommu: Work around S3 BIOS bug
x86/amd-iommu: Set iommu configuration flags in enable-loop
x86, setup: Fix earlyprintk=serial,0x3f8,115200
x86, setup: Fix earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200
rcu_dereference_bh() doesnt know yet about hard irq being disabled, so
lockdep can trigger in netpoll_rx() after commit f0f9deae9e (netpoll:
Disable IRQ around RCU dereference in netpoll_rx)
Reported-by: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch adds a workaround for an IOMMU BIOS problem to
the AMD IOMMU driver. The result of the bug is that the
IOMMU does not execute commands anymore when the system
comes out of the S3 state resulting in system failure. The
bug in the BIOS is that is does not restore certain hardware
specific registers correctly. This workaround reads out the
contents of these registers at boot time and restores them
on resume from S3. The workaround is limited to the specific
IOMMU chipset where this problem occurs.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
This fixes the regression caused by the commit 6fee48cd33
("dma-mapping: arm: use generic pci_set_dma_mask and
pci_set_consistent_dma_mask").
ARM needs to clip the dma coherent mask for dmabounce devices. This
restores the old trick.
Note that strictly speaking, the DMA API doesn't allow architectures to do
such but I'm not sure it's worth adding the new API to set the dma mask
that allows architectures to clip it.
Reported-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a missing inline keyword for static function in linux/dmaengine.h to
avoid duplicate symbol definitions.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
This patch reduces namespace pollution by moving the "struct net" declaration
out of the userspace-facing portion of linux/netlink.h. It has no impact on
the kernel.
(This came up because we have several C++ applications which use "net" as a
namespace name.)
Signed-off-by: Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The lock structs are currently protected by the BKL, but are accessed by
code in fs/locks.c and misc file system and DLM code. These stubs will
allow all users to switch to the new interface before the implementation
is changed to a spinlock.
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (21 commits)
dca: disable dca on IOAT ver.3.0 multiple-IOH platforms
netpoll: Disable IRQ around RCU dereference in netpoll_rx
sctp: Do not reset the packet during sctp_packet_config().
net/llc: storing negative error codes in unsigned short
MAINTAINERS: move atlx discussions to netdev
drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
drivers/net/eql.c: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
drivers/net/usb/hso.c: prevent reading uninitialized memory
xfrm: dont assume rcu_read_lock in xfrm_output_one()
r8169: Handle rxfifo errors on 8168 chips
3c59x: Remove atomic context inside vortex_{set|get}_wol
tcp: Prevent overzealous packetization by SWS logic.
net: RPS needs to depend upon USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
phylib: fix PAL state machine restart on resume
net: use rcu_barrier() in rollback_registered_many
bonding: correctly process non-linear skbs
ipv4: enable getsockopt() for IP_NODEFRAG
ipv4: force_igmp_version ignored when a IGMPv3 query received
ppp: potential NULL dereference in ppp_mp_explode()
net/llc: make opt unsigned in llc_ui_setsockopt()
...
We cannot use rcu_dereference_bh safely in netpoll_rx as we may
be called with IRQs disabled. We could however simply disable
IRQs as that too causes BH to be disabled and is safe in either
case.
Thanks to John Linville for discovering this bug and providing
a patch.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* ssh://master.kernel.org/home/hpa/tree/sec:
x86-64, compat: Retruncate rax after ia32 syscall entry tracing
x86-64, compat: Test %rax for the syscall number, not %eax
compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok()
* 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
SUNRPC: Fix the NFSv4 and RPCSEC_GSS Kconfig dependencies
statfs() gives ESTALE error
NFS: Fix a typo in nfs_sockaddr_match_ipaddr6
sunrpc: increase MAX_HASHTABLE_BITS to 14
gss:spkm3 miss returning error to caller when import security context
gss:krb5 miss returning error to caller when import security context
Remove incorrect do_vfs_lock message
SUNRPC: cleanup state-machine ordering
SUNRPC: Fix a race in rpc_info_open
SUNRPC: Fix race corrupting rpc upcall
Fix null dereference in call_allocate
compat_alloc_user_space() expects the caller to independently call
access_ok() to verify the returned area. A missing call could
introduce problems on some architectures.
This patch incorporates the access_ok() check into
compat_alloc_user_space() and also adds a sanity check on the length.
The existing compat_alloc_user_space() implementations are renamed
arch_compat_alloc_user_space() and are used as part of the
implementation of the new global function.
This patch assumes NULL will cause __get_user()/__put_user() to either
fail or access userspace on all architectures. This should be
followed by checking the return value of compat_access_user_space()
for NULL in the callers, at which time the access_ok() in the callers
can also be removed.
Reported-by: Ben Hawkes <hawkes@sota.gen.nz>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
* 'next-spi' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
spi/pl022: move probe call to subsys_initcall()
powerpc/5200: mpc52xx_uart.c: Add of_node_put to avoid memory leak
spi/pl022: fix APB pclk power regression on U300
spi/spi_s3c64xx: Warn if PIO transfers time out
spi/s3c64xx: Fix incorrect reuse of 'val' local variable.
spi/s3c64xx: Fix compilation warning
spi/dw_spi: clean the cs_control code
spi/dw_spi: Allow interrupt sharing
spi/spi_s3c64xx: Increase dead reckoning time in wait_for_xfer()
spi/spi_s3c64xx: Move to subsys_initcall()
spi: free children in spi_unregister_master, not siblings
gpiolib: Add 'struct gpio_chip' forward declaration for !GPIOLIB case
of: Fix missing includes - ll_temac
spi/spi_s3c64xx: Staticise non-exported functions
spi/spi_s3c64xx: Make probe more robust against missing board config
There is a race between rpc_info_open and rpc_release_client()
in that nothing stops a process from opening the file after
the clnt->cl_kref goes to zero.
Fix this by using atomic_inc_unless_zero()...
Reported-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
block: Range check cpu in blk_cpu_to_group
scatterlist: prevent invalid free when alloc fails
writeback: Fix lost wake-up shutting down writeback thread
writeback: do not lose wakeup events when forking bdi threads
cciss: fix reporting of max queue depth since init
block: switch s390 tape_block and mg_disk to elevator_change()
block: add function call to switch the IO scheduler from a driver
fs/bio-integrity.c: return -ENOMEM on kmalloc failure
bio-integrity.c: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL
BLOCK: fix bio.bi_rw handling
block: put dev->kobj in blk_register_queue fail path
cciss: handle allocation failure
cfq-iosched: Documentation help for new tunables
cfq-iosched: blktrace print per slice sector stats
cfq-iosched: Implement tunable group_idle
cfq-iosched: Do group share accounting in IOPS when slice_idle=0
cfq-iosched: Do not idle if slice_idle=0
cciss: disable doorbell reset on reset_devices
blkio: Fix return code for mkdir calls
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
libata-sff: Reenable Port Multiplier after libata-sff remodeling.
libata: skip EH autopsy and recovery during suspend
ahci: AHCI and RAID mode SATA patch for Intel Patsburg DeviceIDs
ata_piix: IDE Mode SATA patch for Intel Patsburg DeviceIDs
libata,pata_via: revert ata_wait_idle() removal from ata_sff/via_tf_load()
ahci: fix hang on failed softreset
pata_artop: Fix device ID parity check
Keep track of the link on the which the current request is in progress.
It allows support of links behind port multiplier.
Not all libata-sff is PMP compliant. Code for native BMDMA controller
does not take in accound PMP.
Tested on Marvell 7042 and Sil7526.
Signed-off-by: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
For some mysterious reason, certain hardware reacts badly to usual EH
actions while the system is going for suspend. As the devices won't
be needed until the system is resumed, ask EH to skip usual autopsy
and recovery and proceed directly to suspend.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Stephan Diestelhorst <stephan.diestelhorst@amd.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Ordinarily watermark checks are based on the vmstat NR_FREE_PAGES as it is
cheaper than scanning a number of lists. To avoid synchronization
overhead, counter deltas are maintained on a per-cpu basis and drained
both periodically and when the delta is above a threshold. On large CPU
systems, the difference between the estimated and real value of
NR_FREE_PAGES can be very high. If NR_FREE_PAGES is much higher than
number of real free page in buddy, the VM can allocate pages below min
watermark, at worst reducing the real number of pages to zero. Even if
the OOM killer kills some victim for freeing memory, it may not free
memory if the exit path requires a new page resulting in livelock.
This patch introduces a zone_page_state_snapshot() function (courtesy of
Christoph) that takes a slightly more accurate view of an arbitrary vmstat
counter. It is used to read NR_FREE_PAGES while kswapd is awake to avoid
the watermark being accidentally broken. The estimate is not perfect and
may result in cache line bounces but is expected to be lighter than the
IPI calls necessary to continually drain the per-cpu counters while kswapd
is awake.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tests with recent firmware on Intel X25-M 80GB and OCZ Vertex 60GB SSDs
show a shift since I last tested in December: in part because of firmware
updates, in part because of the necessary move from barriers to awaiting
completion at the block layer. While discard at swapon still shows as
slightly beneficial on both, discarding 1MB swap cluster when allocating
is now disadvanteous: adds 25% overhead on Intel, adds 230% on OCZ (YMMV).
Surrender: discard as presently implemented is more hindrance than help
for swap; but might prove useful on other devices, or with improvements.
So continue to do the discard at swapon, but make discard while swapping
conditional on a SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD to sys_swapon() (which has been using
only the lower 16 bits of int flags).
We can add a --discard or -d to swapon(8), and a "discard" to swap in
/etc/fstab: matching the mount option for btrfs, ext4, fat, gfs2, nilfs2.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Please revert 2.6.36-rc commit d2997b1042
"hibernation: freeze swap at hibernation". It complicated matters by
adding a second swap allocation path, just for hibernation; without in any
way fixing the issue that it was intended to address - page reclaim after
fixing the hibernation image might free swap from a page already imaged as
swapcache, letting its swap be reallocated to store a different page of
the image: resulting in data corruption if the imaged page were freed as
clean then swapped back in. Pages freed to si->swap_map were still in
danger of being reallocated by the alternative allocation path.
I guess it inadvertently fixed slow SSD swap allocation for hibernation,
as reported by Nigel Cunningham: by missing out the discards that occur on
the usual swap allocation path; but that was unintentional, and needs a
separate fix.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
Cc: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gmail.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Replace the arbitrary software-reset call from the device-probe
method, because:
- It is defective. To work correctly, it should be two byte writes,
not a single word write. As it stands, it does nothing.
- Some devices with sx150x expanders installed have their NRESET pins
ganged on the same line, so resetting one causes the others to reset -
not a nice thing to do arbitrarily!
- The probe, usually taking place at boot, implies a recent hard-reset,
so a software reset at this point is just a waste of energy anyway.
Therefore, make it optional, defaulting to off, as this will match the
common case of probing at powerup and also matches the current broken
no-op behavior.
Signed-off-by: Gregory Bean <gbean@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The pte_same check is reliable only if the swap entry remains pinned (by
the page lock on swapcache). We've also to ensure the swapcache isn't
removed before we take the lock as try_to_free_swap won't care about the
page pin.
One of the possible impacts of this patch is that a KSM-shared page can
point to the anon_vma of another process, which could exit before the page
is freed.
This can leave a page with a pointer to a recycled anon_vma object, or
worse, a pointer to something that is no longer an anon_vma.
[riel@redhat.com: changelog help]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add cgroup_attach_task_all()
The existing cgroup_attach_task_current_cg() API is called by a thread to
attach another thread to all of its cgroups; this is unsuitable for cases
where a privileged task wants to attach itself to the cgroups of a less
privileged one, since the call must be made from the context of the target
task.
This patch adds a more generic cgroup_attach_task_all() API that allows
both the source task and to-be-moved task to be specified.
cgroup_attach_task_current_cg() becomes a specialization of the more
generic new function.
[menage@google.com: rewrote changelog]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: address reviewer comments]
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some macro parameter references inside typeof() operator are not enclosed
with parenthesis. It should be safer to add them.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The introduction of support for SD combo cards breaks the initialization
of all CSR SDIO chips. The GO_IDLE (CMD0) in mmc_sd_get_cid() causes CSR
chips to be reset (this is non-standard behavior).
When initializing an SDIO card check for a combo card by using the memory
present bit in the R4 response to IO_SEND_OP_COND (CMD5). This avoids the
call to mmc_sd_get_cid() on an SDIO-only card.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>
Acked-by: Michal Mirolaw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Cc: <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lg_lock_global() currently only acquires spinlocks for online CPUs, but
it's meant to lock all possible CPUs. Lglock-protected resources may be
associated with removed CPUs - and, indeed, that could happen with the
per-superblock open files lists.
At Nick's suggestion, change for_each_online_cpu() to
for_each_possible_cpu() to protect accesses to those resources.
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
So it can be used by all that need to check for that.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Alex Shi found a regression when doing ffsb test. The test has several threads,
and each thread creates a small file, write to it and then delete it. ffsb
reports about 20% regression and Alex bisected it to 43d2932d88. The test
will call __mark_inode_dirty 3 times. without this commit, we only take
inode_lock one time, while with it, we take the lock 3 times with flags (
I_DIRTY_SYNC,I_DIRTY_PAGES,I_DIRTY). Perf shows the lock contention increased
too much. Below proposed patch fixes it.
fs is allocating blocks, which usually means file writes and the inode
will be dirtied soon. We fully dirty the inode to reduce some inode_lock
contention in several calls of __mark_inode_dirty.
Jan Kara: Added comment.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, mcheck: Avoid duplicate sysfs links/files for thresholding banks
io-mapping: Fix the address space annotations
x86: Fix the address space annotations of iomap_atomic_prot_pfn()
x86, mm: Fix CONFIG_VMSPLIT_1G and 2G_OPT trampoline
x86, hwmon: Fix unsafe smp_processor_id() in thermal_throttle_add_dev
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
gcc-4.6: kernel/*: Fix unused but set warnings
mutex: Fix annotations to include it in kernel-locking docbook
pid: make setpgid() system call use RCU read-side critical section
MAINTAINERS: Add RCU's public git tree
