- 03 Mar, 2010 1 commit
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Callers of a stacktrace might pass bad frame pointers. Those are usually checked for safety in stack walking helpers before any dereferencing, but this is not the case when we need to go through one more frame pointer that backlinks the irq stack to the previous one, as we don't have any reliable address boudaries to compare this frame pointer against. This raises crashes when we record callchains for ftrace events with perf because we don't use the right helpers to capture registers there. We get wrong frame pointers as we call task_pt_regs() even on kernel threads, which is a wrong thing as it gives us the initial state of any kernel threads freshly created. This is even not what we want for user tasks. What we want is a hot snapshot of registers when the ftrace event triggers, not the state before a task entered the kernel. This requires more thoughts to do it correctly though. So first put a guardian to ensure the given frame pointer can be dereferenced to avoid crashes. We'll think about how to fix the callers in a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: 2.6.33.x <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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- 28 Feb, 2010 1 commit
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
We support event unthrottling in breakpoint events. It means that if we have more than sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate/HZ, perf will throttle, ignoring subsequent events until the next tick. So if ptrace exceeds this max rate, it will omit events, which breaks the ptrace determinism that is supposed to report every triggered breakpoints. This is likely to happen if we set sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate to 1. This patch removes support for unthrottling in breakpoint events to break throttling and restore ptrace determinism. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: 2.6.33.x <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 22 Feb, 2010 1 commit
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Masami Hiramatsu authored
Clear struct probe_point before using it in show_perf_probe_events(), and set pp->found counter correctly in synthesize_perf_probe_point(). Without this initialization, clear_probe_point() will free random addresses. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> LKML-Reference: <20100218181652.26547.57790.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 19 Feb, 2010 2 commits
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
When the user enables breakpoints through dr7, he can choose between "local" or "global" enable bits but given how linux is implemented, both have the same effect. That said we don't keep track how the user enabled the breakpoints so when the user requests the dr7 value, we only translate the "enabled" status using the global enabled bits. It means that if the user enabled a breakpoint using the local enabled bit, reading back dr7 will set the global bit and clear the local one. Apps like Wine expect a full dr7 POKEUSER/PEEKUSER match for emulated softwares that implement old reverse engineering protection schemes. We fix that by keeping track of the whole dr7 value given by the user in the thread structure to drop this bug. We'll think about something more proper later. This fixes a 2.6.32 - 2.6.33-x ptrace regression. Reported-and-tested-by: Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Before we had a generic breakpoint API, ptrace was accepting breakpoints on NULL address in x86. The new API refuse them, without given strong reasons. We need to follow the previous behaviour as some userspace apps like Wine need such NULL breakpoints to ensure old emulated software protections are still working. This fixes a 2.6.32 - 2.6.33-x ptrace regression. Reported-and-tested-by: Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
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- 14 Feb, 2010 2 commits
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Commit 22e19085 ("Honour event state for aux stream data") introduced a bug where we would drop FORK events. The thing is that we deliver FORK events to the child process' event, which at that time will be PERF_EVENT_STATE_INACTIVE because the child won't be scheduled in (we're in the middle of fork). Solve this twice, change the event state filter to exclude only disabled (STATE_OFF) or worse, and deliver FORK events to the current (parent). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> LKML-Reference: <1266142324.5273.411.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Kirill Smelkov authored
Print this: Mapped keys: [d] display refresh delay. (2) [e] display entries (lines). (46) [f] profile display filter (count). (5) [F] annotate display filter (percent). (5%) [s] annotate symbol. (NULL) [S] stop annotation. [K] hide kernel_symbols symbols. (no) [U] hide user symbols. (no) [z] toggle sample zeroing. (0) [qQ] quit. instead of: Mapped keys: [d] display refresh delay. (2) [e] display entries (lines). (46) [f] profile display filter (count). (5) [F] annotate display filter (percent). (5%) [s] annotate symbol. (NULL) [S] stop annotation. [K] hide kernel_symbols symbols. (no) [U] hide user symbols. (no) [z] toggle sample zeroing. (0) [qQ] quit. Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100212162059.GA30041@landau.phys.spbu.ru> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 09 Feb, 2010 1 commit
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Anton Blanchard authored
cpumode bits are defined as such: #define PERF_RECORD_MISC_KERNEL (1 << 0) #define PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER (2 << 0) #define PERF_RECORD_MISC_HYPERVISOR (3 << 0) We need to compare against the complete value of cpumode, otherwise hypervisor samples get incorrectly attributed as userspace. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com LKML-Reference: <20100209034304.GA3702@kryten> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 04 Feb, 2010 1 commit
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Mahesh Salgaonkar authored
Change 'bp_len' type to __u64 to make it work across archs as the s390 architecture watch point length can be upto 2^64. reference: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/25/212 This is an ABI change that is not backward compatible with the previous hardware breakpoint info layout integrated in this development cycle, a rebuilt of perf tools is necessary for versions based on 2.6.33-rc1 - 2.6.33-rc6 to work with a kernel based on this patch. Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20100130045518.GA20776@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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- 03 Feb, 2010 18 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: kernel/cred.c: use kmem_cache_free
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (23 commits) connector: Delete buggy notification code. be2net: use eq-id to calculate cev-isr reg offset Bluetooth: Use the control channel for raw HID reports Bluetooth: Add DFU driver for Atheros Bluetooth chipset AR3011 Bluetooth: Redo checks in IRQ handler for shared IRQ support Bluetooth: Fix memory leak in L2CAP Bluetooth: Remove double free of SKB pointer in L2CAP cdc_ether: Partially revert "usbnet: Set link down initially ..." be2net: Fix memset() arg ordering. bonding: bond_open error return value ixgbe: if ixgbe_copy_dcb_cfg is going to fail learn about it early ixgbe: set the correct DCB bit for pg tx settings igbvf: fix issue w/ mapped_as_page being left set after unmap drivers/net: ks8851_mll ethernet network driver be2net: Bug fix to support newer generation of BE ASIC starfire: clean up properly if firmware loading fails mac80211: fix NULL pointer dereference when ftrace is enabled netfilter: ctnetlink: fix expectation mask dump ipv6: conntrack: Add member of user to nf_ct_frag6_queue structure ath9k: fix eeprom INI values override for 2GHz-only cards ...
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Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo authored
This is the counterpart to cba76717 ("pktcdvd: remove broken dev_t export of class devices"). Device is not registered using dev_t, so it should not be destroyed using device_destroy which looks up the device by dev_t. This will fail and adding the device again will fail with the "duplicate name" error. This is fixed using device_unregister instead of device_destroy. Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Shaohui Zheng authored
Newly added memory can not be accessed via /dev/mem, because we do not update the variables high_memory, max_pfn and max_low_pfn. Add a function update_end_of_memory_vars() to update these variables for 64-bit kernels. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplify comment] Signed-off-by: Shaohui Zheng <shaohui.zheng@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Li Haicheng <haicheng.li@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Anton Blanchard authored
init_fault_attr_entries() should be init_fault_attr_dentries(). cleanup_fault_attr_entries() should be cleanup_fault_attr_dentries(). Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jeff Mahoney authored
hugetlb_sysfs_add_hstate is called by hugetlb_register_node directly during init and also indirectly via sysfs after init. This patch removes the __init tag from hugetlb_sysfs_add_hstate. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Richard Röjfors authored
Move the ulite_console_setup to the .devinit section since it might be called on probe, which is in devinit. Fixes the crash below where the uartlite hw is probed after the .init section is freed from the kernel. uartlite: ttyUL0 at MMIO 0xc8000100 (irq = 30) is a uartlite BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [<c176720e>] ulite_console_setup+0x6f/0xa8 *pdpt = 0000000036fb0001 *pde = 0000000000000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.1/host0/uevent Modules linked in: puffin(+) serio_raw Pid: 151, comm: modprobe Not tainted (2.6.31.5-1.0.b1-b1 #1) POULSBO EIP: 0060:[<c176720e>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0 EIP is at ulite_console_setup+0x6f/0xa8 EAX: c16ec824 EBX: c16ec824 ECX: c176719f EDX: 00000000 ESI: 00000000 EDI: c17b42c4 EBP: f6fd1cf0 ESP: f6fd1cd8 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 Process modprobe (pid: 151, ti=f6fd0000 task=f6fa1020 task.ti=f6fd0000) Stack: c1031f51 00000000 00000000 00000246 c182237c f7742000 f6fd1d5c c11fd316 <0> c16ec85c f77420d4 0000001e 00000000 00000000 c1633e78 4f494d4d 63783020 <0> 30303038 00303031 f6fd1d3c c10e0786 f6fd1d48 00000000 f6fd1d48 00000000 Call Trace: [<c1031f51>] ? register_console+0xf6/0x1fc [<c11fd316>] ? uart_add_one_port+0x237/0x2bb [<c10e0786>] ? sysfs_add_one+0x13/0xd3 [<c10e142f>] ? sysfs_do_create_link+0xba/0xfc [<c146f200>] ? ulite_probe+0x198/0x1eb [<c12064ee>] ? platform_drv_probe+0xc/0xe [<c120597b>] ? driver_probe_device+0x79/0x105 [<c1205a8e>] ? __device_attach+0x28/0x30 [<c120511f>] ? bus_for_each_drv+0x3d/0x67 [<c1205af9>] ? device_attach+0x44/0x58 [<c1205a66>] ? __device_attach+0x0/0x30 [<c1204fb8>] ? bus_probe_device+0x1f/0x34 [<c1203e68>] ? device_add+0x385/0x4c0 [<c148491f>] ? _write_unlock+0x8/0x1f [<c1206aac>] ? platform_device_add+0xd9/0x11c [<c120c685>] ? mfd_add_devices+0x165/0x1bc [<f831b378>] ? puffin_probe+0x2d0/0x390 [puffin] [<c11a08ef>] ? pci_match_device+0xa0/0xa7 [<c11a07bc>] ? local_pci_probe+0xe/0x10 [<c11a11db>] ? pci_device_probe+0x43/0x66 [<c120597b>] ? driver_probe_device+0x79/0x105 [<c1205a4a>] ? __driver_attach+0x43/0x5f [<c120535d>] ? bus_for_each_dev+0x3d/0x67 [<c1205852>] ? driver_attach+0x14/0x16 [<c1205a07>] ? __driver_attach+0x0/0x5f [<c1204dea>] ? bus_add_driver+0xf9/0x220 [<c1205c8f>] ? driver_register+0x8b/0xeb [<c11a1518>] ? __pci_register_driver+0x43/0x9f [<c10477ef>] ? __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x40/0x4c [<f831f000>] ? puffin_init+0x0/0x48 [puffin] [<f831f017>] ? puffin_init+0x17/0x48 [puffin] [<c1001139>] ? do_one_initcall+0x4c/0x131 [<c105607b>] ? sys_init_module+0xa7/0x1b7 [<c1002a61>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb Code: 6e 74 00 00 00 92 33 00 00 18 00 0e 01 73 79 6e 63 65 2d 72 65 67 69 73 74 72 79 0c 00 49 32 00 00 14 00 09 01 61 6c 73 61 2d 69 <6e> 66 6f 00 00 00 42 37 00 00 10 00 07 01 6b 69 6c 6c 61 6c 6c EIP: [<c176720e>] ulite_console_setup+0x6f/0xa8 SS:ESP 0068:f6fd1cd8 CR2: 0000000000000000 Signed-off-by: Richard Röjfors <richard.rojfors@pelagicore.com> Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Uwe Kleine-König authored
The probe function passes a pointer to a struct fb_info to platform_set_drvdata(), so don't interpret the return value of platform_get_drvdata() as a pointer to struct imxfb_info. The original imxfb_info *fbi backlight_power was NULL but in imxfb_suspend it was 4 resulting in an oops as imxfb_suspend calls imxfb_disable_controller(fbi) which in turn has if (fbi->backlight_power) fbi->backlight_power(0); Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de> Cc: <stable@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 Zefan authored
In cgroup_create(), if alloc_css_id() returns failure, the errno is not propagated to userspace, so mkdir will fail silently. To trigger this bug, we mount blkio (or memory subsystem), and create more then 65534 cgroups. (The number of cgroups is limited to 65535 if a subsystem has use_id == 1) # mount -t cgroup -o blkio xxx /mnt # for ((i = 0; i < 65534; i++)); do mkdir /mnt/$i; done # mkdir /mnt/65534 (should return ENOSPC) # Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Hui Zhu authored
When I use markup_oops.pl parse a x8664 oops, I got: objdump: --start-address: bad number: NaN No matching code found This is because: main::(./m.pl:228): open(FILE, "objdump -dS --adjust-vma=$vmaoffset --start-address=$decodestart --stop-address=$decodestop $filename |") || die "Cannot start objdump"; DB<3> p $decodestart NaN This NaN is from: main::(./m.pl:176): my $decodestart = Math::BigInt->from_hex("0x$target") - Math::BigInt->from_hex("0x$func_offset"); DB<2> p $func_offset 0x175 There is already a "0x" in $func_offset, another 0x makes it a NaN. The $func_offset is from line: if ($line =~ /RIP: 0010:\[\<[0-9a-f]+\>\] \[\<[0-9a-f]+\>\] ([a-zA-Z0-9\_]+)\+(0x[0-9a-f]+)\/0x[a-f0-9]/) { $function = $1; $func_offset = $2; } I make a patch to change "(0x[0-9a-f]+)\/0x[a-f0-9]/)" to "0x([0-9a-f]+)\/0x[a-f0-9]/)". Signed-off-by: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Richard Kennedy authored
When git has been set to always use color in .gitconfig then I get the warning message Bad divisor in main::vcs_assign: 0 This is caused by vcs_file_signoffs not matching any commits due to the pattern not understand the colour codes. Fix this by telling git log to never use colour. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Wu Fengguang authored
write_kmem() used to assume vwrite() always return the full buffer length. However now vwrite() could return 0 to indicate memory hole. This creates a bug that "buf" is not advanced accordingly. Fix it to simply ignore the return value, hence the memory hole. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki authored
Otherwise vmalloc_to_page() will BUG(). This also makes the kmem read/write implementation aligned with mem(4): "References to nonexistent locations cause errors to be returned." Here we return -ENXIO (inspired by Hugh) if no bytes have been transfered to/from user space, otherwise return partial read/write results. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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anfei zhou authored
The cache alias problem will happen if the changes of user shared mapping is not flushed before copying, then user and kernel mapping may be mapped into two different cache line, it is impossible to guarantee the coherence after iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic. So the right steps should be: flush_dcache_page(page); kmap_atomic(page); write to page; kunmap_atomic(page); flush_dcache_page(page); More precisely, we might create two new APIs flush_dcache_user_page and flush_dcache_kern_page to replace the two flush_dcache_page accordingly. Here is a snippet tested on omap2430 with VIPT cache, and I think it is not ARM-specific: int val = 0x11111111; fd = open("abc", O_RDWR); addr = mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); *(addr+0) = 0x44444444; tmp = *(addr+0); *(addr+1) = 0x77777777; write(fd, &val, sizeof(int)); close(fd); The results are not always 0x11111111 0x77777777 at the beginning as expected. Sometimes we see 0x44444444 0x77777777. Signed-off-by: Anfei <anfei.zhou@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Fix kfifo kernel-doc warnings: Warning(kernel/kfifo.c:361): No description found for parameter 'total' Warning(kernel/kfifo.c:402): bad line: @ @lenout: pointer to output variable with copied data Warning(kernel/kfifo.c:412): No description found for parameter 'lenout' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Sergey Matyukevich authored
Add missing braces for multiline 'if' statements in fm3130_probe. Signed-off-by: Sergey Matyukevich <geomatsi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: Sergey Lapin <slapin@ossfans.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alberto Panizzo authored
Fix the kernel oops when dev_dbg is called with mx3_fbi->txd == NULL Fix the late initialisation of mx3fb->backlight_level. If not, in the chain of function started by init_fb_chan(), in __blank() call sdc_set_brightness(mx3fb, mx3fb->backlight_level) that will shut down the CONTRAST PWM output. Signed-off-by: Alberto Panizzo <maramaopercheseimorto@gmail.com> Acked-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski <at> gmx.de> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tejun Heo authored
Eric Paris located a bug in idr. With IDR_BITS of 6, it grows to three layers when id 4096 is first allocated. When that happens, idr wraps incorrectly and searches the idr array ignoring the high bits. The following test code from Eric demonstrates the bug nicely. #include <linux/idr.h> #include <linux/kernel.h> #include <linux/module.h> static DEFINE_IDR(test_idr); int init_module(void) { int ret, forty95, forty96; void *addr; /* add 2 entries both with 4095 as the start address */ again1: if (!idr_pre_get(&test_idr, GFP_KERNEL)) return -ENOMEM; ret = idr_get_new_above(&test_idr, (void *)4095, 4095, &forty95); if (ret) { if (ret == -EAGAIN) goto again1; return ret; } if (forty95 != 4095) printk(KERN_ERR "hmmm, forty95=%d\n", forty95); again2: if (!idr_pre_get(&test_idr, GFP_KERNEL)) return -ENOMEM; ret = idr_get_new_above(&test_idr, (void *)4096, 4095, &forty96); if (ret) { if (ret == -EAGAIN) goto again2; return ret; } if (forty96 != 4096) printk(KERN_ERR "hmmm, forty96=%d\n", forty96); /* try to find the 2 entries, noticing that 4096 broke */ addr = idr_find(&test_idr, forty95); if ((int)addr != forty95) printk(KERN_ERR "hmmm, after find forty95=%d addr=%d\n", forty95, (int)addr); addr = idr_find(&test_idr, forty96); if ((int)addr != forty96) printk(KERN_ERR "hmmm, after find forty96=%d addr=%d\n", forty96, (int)addr); /* really weird, the entry which should be at 4096 is actually at 0!! */ addr = idr_find(&test_idr, 0); if ((int)addr) printk(KERN_ERR "found an entry at id=0 for addr=%d\n", (int)addr); idr_remove(&test_idr, forty95); idr_remove(&test_idr, forty96); return 0; } void cleanup_module(void) { } MODULE_AUTHOR("Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Simple idr test"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); This happens because when sub_alloc() back tracks it doesn't always do it step-by-step while the over-the-limit detection assumes step-by-step backtracking. The logic in sub_alloc() looks like the following. restart: clear pa[top level + 1] for end cond detection l = top level while (true) { search for empty slot at this level if (not found) { push id to the next possible value l++ A: if (pa[l] is clear) failed, return asking caller to grow the tree if (going up 1 level gives more slots to search) continue the while loop above with the incremented l else C: goto restart } adjust id accordingly to the found slot if (l == 0) return found id; create lower level if not there yet record pa[l] and l-- } Test A is the fail exit condition but this assumes that failure is propagated upwared one level at a time but the B optimization path breaks the assumption and restarts the whole thing with a start value which is above the possible limit with the current layers. sub_alloc() assumes the start id value is inside the limit when called and test A is the only exit condition check, so it ends up searching for empty slot while ignoring high set bit. So, for 4095->4096 test, level0 search fails but pa[1] contains a valid pointer. However, going up 1 level wouldn't give any more empty slot so it takes C and when the whole thing restarts nobody notices the high bit set beyond the top level. This patch fixes the bug by changing the fail exit condition check to full id limit check. Based-on-patch-from: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 02 Feb, 2010 13 commits
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Evgeniy Polyakov authored
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:57:14PM -0800, Greg KH (gregkh@suse.de) wrote: > > There are at least two ways to fix it: using a big cannon and a small > > one. The former way is to disable notification registration, since it is > > not used by anyone at all. Second way is to check whether calling > > process is root and its destination group is -1 (kind of priveledged > > one) before command is dispatched to workqueue. > > Well if no one is using it, removing it makes the most sense, right? > > No objection from me, care to make up a patch either way for this? Getting it is not used, let's drop support for notifications about (un)registered events from connector. Another option was to check credentials on receiving, but we can always restore it without bugs if needed, but genetlink has a wider code base and none complained, that userspace can not get notification when some other clients were (un)registered. Kudos for Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@suse.de>, who found a bug in the code. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Julia Lawall authored
Free memory allocated using kmem_cache_zalloc using kmem_cache_free rather than kfree. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression x,E,c; @@ x = \(kmem_cache_alloc\|kmem_cache_zalloc\|kmem_cache_alloc_node\)(c,...) ... when != x = E when != &x ?-kfree(x) +kmem_cache_free(c,x) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: cfq-iosched: Do not idle on async queues blk-cgroup: Fix potential deadlock in blk-cgroup block: fix bugs in bio-integrity mempool usage block: fix bio_add_page for non trivial merge_bvec_fn case drbd: null dereference bug drbd: fix max_segment_size initialization
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Nick Piggin authored
Improve handling of fragmented per-CPU vmaps. We previously don't free up per-CPU maps until all its addresses have been used and freed. So fragmented blocks could fill up vmalloc space even if they actually had no active vmap regions within them. Add some logic to allow all CPUs to have these blocks purged in the case of failure to allocate a new vm area, and also put some logic to trim such blocks of a current CPU if we hit them in the allocation path (so as to avoid a large build up of them). Christoph reported some vmap allocation failures when using the per CPU vmap APIs in XFS, which cannot be reproduced after this patch and the previous bug fix. Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: stable@kernel.org Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> -- Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nick Piggin authored
RCU list walking of the per-cpu vmap cache was broken. It did not use RCU primitives, and also the union of free_list and rcu_head is obviously wrong (because free_list is indeed the list we are RCU walking). While we are there, remove a couple of unused fields from an earlier iteration. These APIs aren't actually used anywhere, because of problems with the XFS conversion. Christoph has now verified that the problems are solved with these patches. Also it is an exported interface, so I think it will be good to be merged now (and Christoph wants to get the XFS changes into their local tree). Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> -- Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: random: Remove unused inode variable crypto: padlock-sha - Add import/export support random: drop weird m_time/a_time manipulation
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-fixesLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-fixes: GFS2: Use GFP_NOFS for alloc structure GFS2: Fix previous patch GFS2: Don't withdraw on partial rindex entries GFS2: Fix refcnt leak on gfs2_follow_link() error path
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'sh/for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: sh: Fix access to released memory in clk_debugfs_register_one() sh: Fix access to released memory in dwarf_unwinder_cleanup() usb: r8a66597-hdc disable interrupts fix spi: spi_sh_msiof: Fixed data sampling on the correct edge
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git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: MIPS: 64-bit: Detect virtual memory size MIPS: AR7: Fix USB slave mem range typo MIPS: Alchemy: Fix dbdma ring destruction memory debugcheck.
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Linus Torvalds authored
Commit 221af7f8 ("Split 'flush_old_exec' into two functions") split the function at the point of no return - ie right where there were no more error cases to check. That made sense from a technical standpoint, but when we then also combined it with the actual personality setting going in between flush_old_exec() and setup_new_exec(), it needs to be a bit more careful. In particular, we need to make sure that we really flush the old personality bits in the 'flush' stage, rather than later in the 'setup' stage, since otherwise we might be flushing the _new_ personality state that we're just setting up. So this moves the flags and personality flushing (and 'flush_thread()', which is the arch-specific function that generally resets lazy FP state etc) of the old process into flush_old_exec(), so that it doesn't affect any state that execve() is setting up for the new process environment. This was reported by Michal Simek as breaking his Microblaze qemu environment. Reported-and-tested-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@petalogix.com> Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vivek Goyal authored
Few weeks back, Shaohua Li had posted similar patch. I am reposting it with more test results. This patch does two things. - Do not idle on async queues. - It also changes the write queue depth CFQ drives (cfq_may_dispatch()). Currently, we seem to driving queue depth of 1 always for WRITES. This is true even if there is only one write queue in the system and all the logic of infinite queue depth in case of single busy queue as well as slowly increasing queue depth based on last delayed sync request does not seem to be kicking in at all. This patch will allow deeper WRITE queue depths (subjected to the other WRITE queue depth contstraints like cfq_quantum and last delayed sync request). Shaohua Li had reported getting more out of his SSD. For me, I have got one Lun exported from an HP EVA and when pure buffered writes are on, I can get more out of the system. Following are test results of pure buffered writes (with end_fsync=1) with vanilla and patched kernel. These results are average of 3 sets of run with increasing number of threads. AVERAGE[bufwfs][vanilla] ------- job Set NR ReadBW(KB/s) MaxClat(us) WriteBW(KB/s) MaxClat(us) --- --- -- ------------ ----------- ------------- ----------- bufwfs 3 1 0 0 95349 474141 bufwfs 3 2 0 0 100282 806926 bufwfs 3 4 0 0 109989 2.7301e+06 bufwfs 3 8 0 0 116642 3762231 bufwfs 3 16 0 0 118230 6902970 AVERAGE[bufwfs] [patched kernel] ------- bufwfs 3 1 0 0 270722 404352 bufwfs 3 2 0 0 206770 1.06552e+06 bufwfs 3 4 0 0 195277 1.62283e+06 bufwfs 3 8 0 0 260960 2.62979e+06 bufwfs 3 16 0 0 299260 1.70731e+06 I also ran buffered writes along with some sequential reads and some buffered reads going on in the system on a SATA disk because the potential risk could be that we should not be driving queue depth higher in presence of sync IO going to keep the max clat low. With some random and sequential reads going on in the system on one SATA disk I did not see any significant increase in max clat. So it looks like other WRITE queue depth control logic is doing its job. Here are the results. AVERAGE[brr, bsr, bufw together] [vanilla] ------- job Set NR ReadBW(KB/s) MaxClat(us) WriteBW(KB/s) MaxClat(us) --- --- -- ------------ ----------- ------------- ----------- brr 3 1 850 546345 0 0 bsr 3 1 14650 729543 0 0 bufw 3 1 0 0 23908 8274517 brr 3 2 981.333 579395 0 0 bsr 3 2 14149.7 1175689 0 0 bufw 3 2 0 0 21921 1.28108e+07 brr 3 4 898.333 1.75527e+06 0 0 bsr 3 4 12230.7 1.40072e+06 0 0 bufw 3 4 0 0 19722.3 2.4901e+07 brr 3 8 900 3160594 0 0 bsr 3 8 9282.33 1.91314e+06 0 0 bufw 3 8 0 0 18789.3 23890622 AVERAGE[brr, bsr, bufw mixed] [patched kernel] ------- job Set NR ReadBW(KB/s) MaxClat(us) WriteBW(KB/s) MaxClat(us) --- --- -- ------------ ----------- ------------- ----------- brr 3 1 837 417973 0 0 bsr 3 1 14357.7 591275 0 0 bufw 3 1 0 0 24869.7 8910662 brr 3 2 1038.33 543434 0 0 bsr 3 2 13351.3 1205858 0 0 bufw 3 2 0 0 18626.3 13280370 brr 3 4 913 1.86861e+06 0 0 bsr 3 4 12652.3 1430974 0 0 bufw 3 4 0 0 15343.3 2.81305e+07 brr 3 8 890 2.92695e+06 0 0 bsr 3 8 9635.33 1.90244e+06 0 0 bufw 3 8 0 0 17200.3 24424392 So looks like it might make sense to include this patch. Thanks Vivek Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Guenter Roeck authored
Linux kernel 2.6.32 and later allocate address space from the top of the kernel virtual memory address space. This patch implements virtual memory size detection for 64 bit MIPS CPUs to avoid resulting crashes. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/935/Reviewed-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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