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    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      cleanuplets. · 4f50dc9d
      Andrew Morton authored 
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      4f50dc9d
  7. 12 Sep, 2009 3 commits
  9. 11 Nov, 2009 4 commits
    • Vincent Li's avatar
      If we can't isolate pages from LRU list, we don't have to account page · a9e01acd
      Vincent Li authored 
      movement, either.  Already, in commit 5343daceec, KOSAKI did it about
shrink_inactive_list.

This patch removes unnecessary overhead of page accounting and locking in
shrink_active_list as follow-up work of commit 5343daceec.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVincent Li <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      a9e01acd
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar" · 3a220441
      Andrew Morton authored 
      #116: FILE: mm/mmap.c:1835:
+static int __split_vma(struct mm_struct * mm, struct vm_area_struct * vma,

ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar"
#138: FILE: mm/mmap.c:1888:
+int split_vma(struct mm_struct * mm, struct vm_area_struct * vma,

total: 2 errors, 0 warnings, 67 lines checked

./patches/mmap-dont-return-enomem-when-mapcount-is-temporarily-exceeded-in-munmap.patch has style problems, please review.  If any of these errors
are false positives report them to the maintainer, see
CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.

Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      3a220441
    • KOSAKI Motohiro's avatar
      On ia64, the following test program exit abnormally, because glibc thread · 06666f81
      KOSAKI Motohiro authored 
      library called abort().

 ========================================================
 (gdb) bt
 #0  0xa000000000010620 in __kernel_syscall_via_break ()
 #1  0x20000000003208e0 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6.1
 #2  0x2000000000324090 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6.1
 #3  0x200000000027c3e0 in __deallocate_stack () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
 #4  0x200000000027f7c0 in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
 #5  0x200000000047ef60 in __clone2 () from /lib/libc.so.6.1
 ========================================================

The fact is, glibc call munmap() when thread exitng time for freeing
stack, and it assume munlock() never fail.  However, munmap() often make
vma splitting and it with many mapcount make -ENOMEM.

Oh well, that's crazy, because stack unmapping never increase mapcount. 
The maxcount exceeding is only temporary.  internal temporary exceeding
shouldn't make ENOMEM.

This patch does it.

 test_max_mapcount.c
 ==================================================================
  #include<stdio.h>
  #include<stdlib.h>
  #include<string.h>
  #include<pthread.h>
  #include<errno.h>
  #include<unistd.h>

  #define THREAD_NUM 30000
  #define MAL_SIZE (8*1024*1024)

 void *wait_thread(void *args)
 {
 	void *addr;

 	addr = malloc(MAL_SIZE);
 	sleep(10);

 	return NULL;
 }

 void *wait_thread2(void *args)
 {
 	sleep(60);

 	return NULL;
 }

 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
 	int i;
 	pthread_t thread[THREAD_NUM], th;
 	int ret, count = 0;
 	pthread_attr_t attr;

 	ret = pthread_attr_init(&attr);
 	if(ret) {
 		perror("pthread_attr_init");
 	}

 	ret = pthread_attr_setdetachstate(&attr, PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED);
 	if(ret) {
 		perror("pthread_attr_setdetachstate");
 	}

 	for (i = 0; i < THREAD_NUM; i++) {
 		ret = pthread_create(&th, &attr, wait_thread, NULL);
 		if(ret) {
 			fprintf(stderr, "[%d] ", count);
 			perror("pthread_create");
 		} else {
 			printf("[%d] create OK.\n", count);
 		}
 		count++;

 		ret = pthread_create(&thread[i], &attr, wait_thread2, NULL);
 		if(ret) {
 			fprintf(stderr, "[%d] ", count);
 			perror("pthread_create");
 		} else {
 			printf("[%d] create OK.\n", count);
 		}
 		count++;
 	}

 	sleep(3600);
 	return 0;
 }
 ==================================================================
Signed-off-by: default avatarKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      06666f81
    • Alex Chiang's avatar
      On a system with large amount of memory (256GB), invoking page-types can · 7e6e1679
      Alex Chiang authored 
      take quite a long time, which is unreasonable considering the user only
wants a description of the flags:

	# time ./page-types -d 0x10
	0x0000000000000010	____D_____________________________	dirty

	real	0m34.285s
	user	0m1.966s
	sys	0m32.313s

This is because we still walk the entire address range.

Exiting early seems like a reasonble solution:

# time ./page-types -d 0x10
	0x0000000000000010	____D_____________________________	dirty

	real	0m0.007s
	user	0m0.001s
	sys	0m0.005s
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      7e6e1679
  11. 17 Nov, 2009 1 commit
  13. 11 Nov, 2009 1 commit
    • Wu Fengguang's avatar
      Teach page-types to describe page flags directly from the command · 3af04adb
      Wu Fengguang authored 
      line.
Why is this useful? For instance, if you're using memory hotplug
and see this in /var/log/messages:
	kernel: removing from LRU failed 3836dd0/1/1e00000000000010

It would be nice to decode those page flags without staring at
the source.
Example usage and output:

# Documentation/vm/page-types -d 0x10
0x0000000000000010	____D_____________________________	dirty

# Documentation/vm/page-types -d anon
0x0000000000001000	____________a_____________________	anonymous

# Documentation/vm/page-types -d anon,0x10
0x0000000000001010	____D_______a_____________________	dirty,anonymous

[achiang@hp.com: documentation]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      3af04adb
  15. 12 Oct, 2009 2 commits
  17. 11 Nov, 2009 1 commit
  19. 21 Sep, 2009 1 commit
    • Hisashi Hifumi's avatar
      I added blk_run_backing_dev on page_cache_async_readahead so readahead I/O · fd437237
      Hisashi Hifumi authored 
      is unpluged to improve throughput on especially RAID environment.

The normal case is, if page N become uptodate at time T(N), then T(N) <=
T(N+1) holds.  With RAID (and NFS to some degree), there is no strict
ordering, the data arrival time depends on runtime status of individual
disks, which breaks that formula.  So in do_generic_file_read(), just
after submitting the async readahead IO request, the current page may well
be uptodate, so the page won't be locked, and the block device won't be
implicitly unplugged:

               if (PageReadahead(page))
                        page_cache_async_readahead()
                if (!PageUptodate(page))
                                goto page_not_up_to_date;
                //...
page_not_up_to_date:
                lock_page_killable(page);

Therefore explicit unplugging can help.

Following is the test result with dd.

#dd if=testdir/testfile of=/dev/null bs=16384

-2.6.30-rc6
1048576+0 records in
1048576+0 records out
17179869184 bytes (17 GB) copied, 224.182 seconds, 76.6 MB/s

-2.6.30-rc6-patched
1048576+0 records in
1048576+0 records out
17179869184 bytes (17 GB) copied, 206.465 seconds, 83.2 MB/s

(7Disks RAID-0 Array)

-2.6.30-rc6
1054976+0 records in
1054976+0 records out
17284726784 bytes (17 GB) copied, 212.233 seconds, 81.4 MB/s

-2.6.30-rc6-patched
1054976+0 records out
17284726784 bytes (17 GB) copied, 198.878 seconds, 86.9 MB/s

(7Disks RAID-5 Array)

The patch was found to improve performance with the SCST scsi target
driver.  See
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=a0272b440906030714g67eabc5k8f847fb1e538cc62%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=scst-devel

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: unbust comment layout]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: "fix" CONFIG_BLOCK=n]
Signed-off-by: default avatarHisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: default avatarWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: default avatarRonald <intercommit@gmail.com>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
Cc: Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      fd437237
  21. 09 Oct, 2009 1 commit
  23. 13 Nov, 2009 1 commit
  25. 11 Nov, 2009 1 commit
  27. 30 Sep, 2009 1 commit
  29. 13 Aug, 2009 1 commit
  31. 24 Jul, 2009 1 commit
  33. 17 Nov, 2009 1 commit
  35. 30 Sep, 2009 2 commits
    • Sage Weil's avatar
      Get rid of the goto by flipping the if (!result) over. Make the comments · 98022231
      Sage Weil authored 
      a bit more descriptive.  Fix a few kernel style problems.  No functional
changes.

Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYehuda Sadeh <yehuda@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      98022231
    • Sage Weil's avatar
      real_lookup() is called by do_lookup() if dentry revalidation fails. If · cb21ed84
      Sage Weil authored 
      the cache is re-populated while waiting for i_mutex, it may find that a
d_lookup() subsequently succeeds (see the "Uhhuh!  Nasty case" comment).

Previously, real_lookup() would drop i_mutex and do_revalidate() again. 
If revalidate failed _again_, however, it would give up with -ENOENT.  The
problem here that network file systems may be invalidating dentries via
server callbacks, e.g.  due to concurrent access from another client, and
-ENOENT is frequently the wrong answer.

This problem has been seen with both Lustre and Ceph.  It seems possible
to hit this case with NFS as well if the cache lifetime is very short.

Instead, we should do_revalidate() while i_mutex is still held.  If
revalidation fails, we can move on to a ->lookup() and ensure a correct
result without worrying about any subsequent races.

Note that do_revalidate() is called with i_mutex held elsewhere.  For
example, do_filp_open(), lookup_create(), do_unlinkat(), do_rmdir(), and
possibly others all take the directory i_mutex, and then

-> lookup_hash
        -> __lookup_hash
                -> cached_lookup
                        -> do_revalidate

so this does not introduce any new locking rules for d_revalidate
implementations.

Yes, the goto is ugly.  A cleanup patch follows.

Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYehuda Sadeh <yehuda@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      cb21ed84
  37. 25 Sep, 2009 1 commit
    • Nick Piggin's avatar
      Invalidate sb->s_bdev on remount,ro. · d14ff77a
      Nick Piggin authored 
      Fixes a problem reported by Jorge Boncompte who is seeing corruption
trying to snapshot a minix filesystem image.  Some filesystems modify
their metadata via a path other than the bdev buffer cache (eg.  they may
use a private linear mapping for their metadata, or implement directories
in pagecache, etc).  Also, file data modifications usually go to the bdev
via their own mappings.

These updates are not coherent with buffercache IO (eg.  via /dev/bdev)
and never have been.  However there could be a reasonable expectation that
after a mount -oremount,ro operation then the buffercache should
subsequently be coherent with previous filesystem modifications.

So invalidate the bdev mappings on a remount,ro operation to provide a
coherency point.

The problem was exposed when we switched the old rd to brd because old rd
didn't really function like a normal block device and updates to rd via
mappings other than the buffercache would still end up going into its
buffercache.  But the same problem has always affected other "normal"
block devices, including loop.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: repair comment layout]
Reported-by: default avatar"Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]" <jorge@dti2.net>
Tested-by: default avatar"Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]" <jorge@dti2.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      d14ff77a
  39. 11 Nov, 2009 5 commits
    • Nick Piggin's avatar
      Filesystems outside the regular namespace do not have to clear · 5e6bb6c5
      Nick Piggin authored 
      DCACHE_UNHASHED in order to have a working /proc/$pid/fd/XXX.  Nothing in
proc prevents the fd link from being used if its dentry is not in the
hash.

Also, it does not get put into the dcache hash if DCACHE_UNHASHED is
clear; that depends on the filesystem calling d_add or d_rehash.

So delete the misleading comments and needless code.
Acked-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      5e6bb6c5
    • Roland Dreier's avatar
      > ============================================= · 399da0ba
      Roland Dreier authored 
       >  [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
 >  2.6.31-2-generic #14~rbd3
 >  ---------------------------------------------
 >  firefox-3.5/4162 is trying to acquire lock:
 >   (&s->s_vfs_rename_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81139d31>] lock_rename+0x41/0xf0
 >
 >  but task is already holding lock:
 >   (&s->s_vfs_rename_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81139d31>] lock_rename+0x41/0xf0
 >
 >  other info that might help us debug this:
 >  3 locks held by firefox-3.5/4162:
 >   #0:  (&s->s_vfs_rename_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81139d31>] lock_rename+0x41/0xf0
 >   #1:  (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#11/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81139d5a>] lock_rename+0x6a/0xf0
 >   #2:  (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#11/2){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81139d6f>] lock_rename+0x7f/0xf0
 >
 >  stack backtrace:
 >  Pid: 4162, comm: firefox-3.5 Tainted: G         C 2.6.31-2-generic #14~rbd3
 >  Call Trace:
 >   [<ffffffff8108ae74>] print_deadlock_bug+0xf4/0x100
 >   [<ffffffff8108ce26>] validate_chain+0x4c6/0x750
 >   [<ffffffff8108d2e7>] __lock_acquire+0x237/0x430
 >   [<ffffffff8108d585>] lock_acquire+0xa5/0x150
 >   [<ffffffff81139d31>] ? lock_rename+0x41/0xf0
 >   [<ffffffff815526ad>] __mutex_lock_common+0x4d/0x3d0
 >   [<ffffffff81139d31>] ? lock_rename+0x41/0xf0
 >   [<ffffffff81139d31>] ? lock_rename+0x41/0xf0
 >   [<ffffffff8120eaf9>] ? ecryptfs_rename+0x99/0x170
 >   [<ffffffff81552b36>] mutex_lock_nested+0x46/0x60
 >   [<ffffffff81139d31>] lock_rename+0x41/0xf0
 >   [<ffffffff8120eb2a>] ecryptfs_rename+0xca/0x170
 >   [<ffffffff81139a9e>] vfs_rename_dir+0x13e/0x160
 >   [<ffffffff8113ac7e>] vfs_rename+0xee/0x290
 >   [<ffffffff8113c212>] ? __lookup_hash+0x102/0x160
 >   [<ffffffff8113d512>] sys_renameat+0x252/0x280
 >   [<ffffffff81133eb4>] ? cp_new_stat+0xe4/0x100
 >   [<ffffffff8101316a>] ? sysret_check+0x2e/0x69
 >   [<ffffffff8108c34d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x14d/0x190
 >   [<ffffffff8113d55b>] sys_rename+0x1b/0x20
 >   [<ffffffff81013132>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

The trace above is totally reproducible by doing a cross-directory
rename on an ecryptfs directory.

The issue seems to be that sys_renameat() does lock_rename() then calls
into the filesystem; if the filesystem is ecryptfs, then
ecryptfs_rename() again does lock_rename() on the lower filesystem, and
lockdep can't tell that the two s_vfs_rename_mutexes are different.  It
seems an annotation like the following is sufficient to fix this (it
does get rid of the lockdep trace in my simple tests); however I would
like to make sure I'm not misunderstanding the locking, hence the CC
list...
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      399da0ba
    • Tony Battersby's avatar
      Improve the description of fget_light(), which is currently incorrect · bc95777a
      Tony Battersby authored 
      about needing a prior refcnt (judging by the way it is actually used).
Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      bc95777a
    • Al Viro's avatar
      RAW_SETBIND and RAW_GETBIND 32bit versions are fscked in interesting ways. · 0083395f
      Al Viro authored 
      1) fs/compat_ioctl.c has COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(RAW_SETBIND) followed by
HANDLE_IOCTL(RAW_SETBIND, raw_ioctl).  The latter is ignored.

2) on amd64 (and itanic) the damn thing is broken - we have int + u64 + u64
and layouts on i386 and amd64 are _not_ the same.  raw_ioctl() would
work there, but it's never called due to (1).  As it is, i386 /sbin/raw
definitely doesn't work on amd64 boxen.

3) switching to raw_ioctl() as is would *not* work on e.g. sparc64 and ppc64,
which would be rather sad, seeing that normal userland there is 32bit.
The thing is, slapping __packed on the struct in question does not DTRT -
it eliminates *all* padding.  The real solution is to use compat_u64.

4) of course, all that stuff has no business being outside of raw.c in the
first place - there should be ->compat_ioctl() for /dev/rawctl instead of
messing with compat_ioctl.c.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      0083395f
    • Miklos Szeredi's avatar
      vfs_rename_dir() doesn't properly account for filesystems with · ca05021f
      Miklos Szeredi authored 
      FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE.  If new_dentry has a target inode attached, it
unhashes the new_dentry prior to the rename() iop and rehashes it after,
but doesn't account for the possibility that rename() may have swapped
{old,new}_dentry.  For FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE filesystems, it rehashes
new_dentry (now the old renamed-from name, which d_move() expected to go
away), such that a subsequent lookup will find it.

This was caught by the recently posted POSIX fstest suite, rename/10.t
test 62 (and others) on ceph.

The bug was introduced by: commit 349457cc
"[PATCH] Allow file systems to manually d_move() inside of ->rename()"

Fix by not rehashing the new dentry.  Rehashing used to be needed by
d_move() but isn't anymore.
Reported-by: default avatarSage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      ca05021f
  41. 10 Nov, 2009 1 commit
  43. 09 Nov, 2009 1 commit
  45. 06 Oct, 2009 1 commit
  47. 03 Nov, 2009 2 commits
  49. 12 Nov, 2009 1 commit
    • Alex Chiang's avatar
      No need to export those device attributes. · 7b53d30e
      Alex Chiang authored 
      In fact, without this patch, we can trip over a build error if hpsa
is a built-in and another driver also declares and exports attributes
with the same name.

You'll see errors like:

	drivers/scsi/built-in.o: multiple definition of `dev_attr_lunid'
	drivers/block/built-in.o: first defined here
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Cc: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Cc: Mike Miller <mikem@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      7b53d30e