- 09 Mar, 2006 1 commit
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Christoph Lameter authored
A pte may be zapped by the swapper, exiting process, unmapping or page migration while the accessed or dirty bit handers are about to run. In that case the accessed bit or dirty is set on an zeroed pte which leads the VM to conclude that this is a swap pte. This may lead to - Messages from the vm like swap_free: Bad swap file entry 4000000000000000 - Processes being aborted swap_dup: Bad swap file entry 4000000000000000 VM: killing process .... Page migration is particular suitable for the creation of this race since it needs to remove and restore page table entries. The fix here is to check for the present bit and simply not update the pte if the page is not present anymore. If the page is not present then the fault handler should run next which will take care of the problem by bringing the page back and then mark the page dirty or move it onto the active list. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 08 Mar, 2006 24 commits
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Michael Matz authored
While testing kexec and kdump we hit problems where the new kernel would freeze or instantly reboot. The easiest way to trigger it was to kexec a kernel compiled for CONFIG_M586 on an athlon cpu. Compiling for CONFIG_MK7 instead would work fine. The patch fixes a few problems with the kexec inline asm. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Matt Mackall authored
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Tested-by: Anders K. Pedersen <akp@cohaesio.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Jack Steiner authored
kmem_cache_init() incorrectly assumes that the cache_cache object will fit in an order 0 allocation. On very large systems, this is not true. Change the code to try larger order allocations if order 0 fails. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Latchesar Ionkov authored
Miscellaneous fixes related to accessing uninitialized variables or memory that was already freed. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Shaohua Li authored
The x86_model calculation also applies for family 6. early_cpu_detect does the right thing, but generic_identify misses. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Horst Hummel authored
DASD allows to open a device as soon as gendisk is registered, which means the device is a fake device (capacity=0) and we do know nothing about blocksize and partitions at that point of time. In case the device is opened by someone, the bdev and inode creation is done with the fake device info and the following partition detection code is just using the wrong data. To avoid this modify the DASD state machine to make sure that the open is rejected until the device analysis is either finished or an unformatted device was detected. Signed-off-by: Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Martin Schwidefsky authored
The message limit on the iucv connect call for the smsg module is too low. Therefore increase the smsg message limit to 255. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Gerald Schaefer authored
strnlen_user is supposed to return then length count + 1 if no terminating \0 is found, and it should return 0 on exception. Found by David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>. Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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David Woodhouse authored
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Dipankar Sarma authored
I have benchmarked this on an x86_64 NUMA system and see no significant performance difference on kernbench. Tested on both x86_64 and powerpc. The way we do file struct accounting is not very suitable for batched freeing. For scalability reasons, file accounting was constructor/destructor based. This meant that nr_files was decremented only when the object was removed from the slab cache. This is susceptible to slab fragmentation. With RCU based file structure, consequent batched freeing and a test program like Serge's, we just speed this up and end up with a very fragmented slab - llm22:~ # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr 587730 0 758844 At the same time, I see only a 2000+ objects in filp cache. The following patch I fixes this problem. This patch changes the file counting by removing the filp_count_lock. Instead we use a separate percpu counter, nr_files, for now and all accesses to it are through get_nr_files() api. In the sysctl handler for nr_files, we populate files_stat.nr_files before returning to user. Counting files as an when they are created and destroyed (as opposed to inside slab) allows us to correctly count open files with RCU. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Dipankar Sarma authored
This patch adds new tunables for RCU queue and finished batches. There are two types of controls - number of completed RCU updates invoked in a batch (blimit) and monitoring for high rate of incoming RCUs on a cpu (qhimark, qlowmark). By default, the per-cpu batch limit is set to a small value. If the input RCU rate exceeds the high watermark, we do two things - force quiescent state on all cpus and set the batch limit of the CPU to INTMAX. Setting batch limit to INTMAX forces all finished RCUs to be processed in one shot. If we have more than INTMAX RCUs queued up, then we have bigger problems anyway. Once the incoming queued RCUs fall below the low watermark, the batch limit is set to the default. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Implement percpu_counter_sum(). This is a more accurate but slower version of percpu_counter_read_positive(). We need this for Alex's speedup-ext3_statfs patch and for the nr_file accounting fix. Otherwise these things would be too inaccurate on large CPU counts. Cc: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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GOTO Masanori authored
Fix i386 nmi_watchdog that does not meet watchdog timeout condition. It does not hit die_nmi when it should be triggered, because the current nmi_watchdog_tick in arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c never count up alert_counter like this: void nmi_watchdog_tick (struct pt_regs * regs) { if (last_irq_sums[cpu] == sum) { alert_counter[cpu]++; <- count up alert_counter, but if (alert_counter[cpu] == 5*nmi_hz) die_nmi(regs, "NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP"); alert_counter[cpu] = 0; <- reset alert_counter This patch changes it back to the previous and working version. This was found and originally written by Kohta NAKASHIMA. (akpm: also uninline write_watchdog_counter(), saving 184 byets) Signed-off-by: GOTO Masanori <gotom@sanori.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Atsushi Nemoto authored
If the 'ptr' is a const, this code cause "assignment of read-only variable" error on gcc 4.x. Use __u64 instead of __typeof__(*(ptr)) for temporary variable to get rid of errors on gcc 4.x. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Idle threads should have a sane ->timestamp value, to avoid init kernel thread(s) from inheriting it and causing miscalculations in try_to_wake_up(). Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Phillip Susi authored
Fix a bug in udf where it would write uid/gid = 0 to the disk for files owned by the id given with the uid=/gid= mount options. It also adds 4 new mount options: uid/gid=forget and uid/gid=ignore. Without any options the id in core and on disk always match. Giving uid/gid=nnn specifies a default ID to be used in core when the on disk ID is -1. uid/gid=ignore forces the in core ID to allways be used no matter what the on disk ID is. uid/gid=forget forces the on disk ID to always be written out as -1. The use of these options allows you to override ownerships on a disk or disable ownwership information from being written, allowing the media to be used portably between different computers and possibly different users without permissions issues that would require root to correct. Signed-off-by: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Fix the mm/mempolicy.c build for !CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE. Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Pavel Machek authored
We're presently getting oopses because Bluetooth (and possibly other) drivers are calling core functions after things have been shut down. So rather than oopsing, let's drop a warning then take avoiding action, so the machine survives. Once all the sub-drivers are fixed up we can remove the take-avoiding-action part. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Mark Fasheh authored
We fixed this: arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c: In function `eeh_add_device_tree_late': arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c:901: warning: implicit declaration of function `eeh_add_device_late' arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c: At top level: arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c:918: error: conflicting types for 'eeh_add_device_late' arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c:901: error: previous implicit declaration of 'eeh_add_device_late' was here make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.o] Error 1 But we forgot the !CONFIG_EEH stub. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
They aren't used (nor even really usable) outside of pipe.c anyway Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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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] mca recovery return value when no bus check [IA64] SGI SN drivers: don't report !sn2 hardware as an error [IA64] don't report !sn2 or !summit hardware as an error [IA64] gensparse_defconfig: turn on PNPACPI [IA64] Increase severity of MCA recovery messages
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Linus Torvalds authored
Instead of having a hard-to-read and confusing conditional in the caller, just make the slab order calculation handle this special case, since it's simple and obvious there. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial: [SERIAL] ip22zilog: Fix oops on runlevel change with serial console [SERIAL] Fix two bugs in parport_serial
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] 3353/1: NAS100d: protect nas100d_power_exit() with machine_is_nas100d() [ARM] 3352/1: DSB required for the completion of a TLB maintenance operation
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- 07 Mar, 2006 15 commits
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Russ Anderson authored
When there is no bus check, the return code should be failure, not success. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com) Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Bjorn Helgaas authored
This stuff is all in the generic ia64 kernel, and the new initcall error reporting complains about them. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Bjorn Helgaas authored
This stuff is all in the generic ia64 kernel, and the new initcall error reporting complains about them. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Bjorn Helgaas authored
Turn on CONFIG_PNPACPI. I recently removed 8250_acpi.c. All devices previously claimed by 8250_acpi.c should now be claimed by 8250_pnp.c. This depends on having CONFIG_PNPACPI so ACPI devices show up as PNP devices. All other ia64 defconfigs either have CONFIG_PNPACPI already, or don't have 8250 support turned on at all. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Russ Anderson authored
The MCA recovery messages are currently KERN_DEBUG, so they don't show up in /var/log/messages (by default). Increase the severity to KERN_ERR, for the initial message (and also add the physical address to this message). Leave the successful isolation message as KERN_DEBUG, but increase the severity when isolation fails to KERN_CRIT. [Russ' patch made these all KERN_CRIT] Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com) Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Thomas Graf authored
The size of the skb carrying the netlink message is not equivalent to the length of the actual netlink message due to padding. ip_queue matches the length of the payload against the original packet size to determine if packet mangling is desired, due to the above wrong assumption arbitary packets may not be mangled depening on their original size. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Alessandro Zummo authored
Patch from Alessandro Zummo nas100d_power_exit(void) gets some protection to avoid freeing an irq when it is not appropriate to do so. Signed-off-by: Rod Whitby <rod@whitby.id.au> Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Martin Michlmayr authored
Incorrect uart_write_wakeup() calls cause reference to a NULL tty pointer. This has been fixed in the sunsab and sunzilog serial drivers in October 2005. Update the ip22zilog, which is based on sunzilog, accordingly. Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [TG3]: Add DMA address workaround
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Linus Torvalds authored
We don't do interruptible waits for the pipe mutex anywhere else any more either, so don't do it in fifo_open() either. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Catalin Marinas authored
Patch from Catalin Marinas Chapter B2.7.3 in the latest ARM ARM (with v6 information) states that the completion of a TLB maintenance operation is only guaranteed by the execution of a DSB (Data Syncronization Barrier, formerly Data Write Barrier or Drain Write Buffer). Note that a DSB is only needed in the flush_tlb_kernel_* functions since the completion is guaranteed by a mode change (i.e. switching back to user mode) for the flush_tlb_user_* functions. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Michael Chan authored
Add DMA workaround for chips that do not support full 64-bit DMA addresses. 5714, 5715, and 5780 chips only support DMA addresses less than 40 bits. On 64-bit systems with IOMMU, set the dma_mask to 40-bit so that pci_map_xxx() calls will map the DMA address below 40 bits if necessary. On 64-bit systems without IOMMU, set the dma_mask to 64-bit and check for DMA addresses exceeding the limit in tg3_start_xmit(). 5788 only supports 32-bit DMA so need to set the mask appropriately also. Thanks to Chris Elmquist at SGI for reporting and helping to debug the problem on 5714. Thanks to David Miller for explaining the HIGHMEM and DMA stuff. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: IB/srp: Don't send task management commands after target removal
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Cornelia Huck authored
Rather than checking for some known failures, check positively for the success response code 0x0001 and return -EIO for unrecognized failure response codes. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Smith <gsmith@nc.rr.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Bastian Blank authored
Fix matching of devmodel in modaliases. It breaks automatic loading of any dasd module. Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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