- 11 Nov, 2008 1 commit
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Gautham R Shenoy authored
Impact: fix incorrect locking triggered during hotplug-intense stress-tests While migrating the the CB_IRQSAFE_UNLOCKED timers during a cpu-offline, we queue them on the cb_pending list, so that they won't go stale. Thus, when the callbacks of the timers run from the softirq context, they could run into potential deadlocks, since these callbacks assume that they're running with irq's disabled, thereby annoying lockdep! Fix this by emulating hardirq context while running these callbacks from the hrtimer softirq. ================================= [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] 2.6.27 #2 -------------------------------- inconsistent {in-hardirq-W} -> {hardirq-on-W} usage. ksoftirqd/0/4 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes: (&rq->lock){++..}, at: [<c011db84>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x9e/0x1fc {in-hardirq-W} state was registered at: [<c014103c>] __lock_acquire+0x549/0x121e [<c0107890>] native_sched_clock+0x88/0x99 [<c013aa12>] clocksource_get_next+0x39/0x3f [<c0139abc>] update_wall_time+0x616/0x7df [<c0141d6b>] lock_acquire+0x5a/0x74 [<c0121724>] scheduler_tick+0x3a/0x18d [<c047ed45>] _spin_lock+0x1c/0x45 [<c0121724>] scheduler_tick+0x3a/0x18d [<c0121724>] scheduler_tick+0x3a/0x18d [<c012c436>] update_process_times+0x3a/0x44 [<c013c044>] tick_periodic+0x63/0x6d [<c013c062>] tick_handle_periodic+0x14/0x5e [<c010568c>] timer_interrupt+0x44/0x4a [<c0150c9f>] handle_IRQ_event+0x13/0x3d [<c0151c14>] handle_level_irq+0x79/0xbd [<c0105634>] do_IRQ+0x69/0x7d [<c01041e4>] common_interrupt+0x28/0x30 [<c047007b>] aac_probe_one+0x1a3/0x3f3 [<c047ec2d>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x36/0x39 [<c01512b4>] setup_irq+0x1be/0x1f9 [<c065d70b>] start_kernel+0x259/0x2c5 [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff irq event stamp: 50102 hardirqs last enabled at (50102): [<c047ebf4>] _spin_unlock_irq+0x20/0x23 hardirqs last disabled at (50101): [<c047edc2>] _spin_lock_irq+0xa/0x4b softirqs last enabled at (50088): [<c0128ba6>] do_softirq+0x37/0x4d softirqs last disabled at (50099): [<c0128ba6>] do_softirq+0x37/0x4d other info that might help us debug this: no locks held by ksoftirqd/0/4. stack backtrace: Pid: 4, comm: ksoftirqd/0 Not tainted 2.6.27 #2 [<c013f6cb>] print_usage_bug+0x13e/0x147 [<c013fef5>] mark_lock+0x493/0x797 [<c01410b1>] __lock_acquire+0x5be/0x121e [<c0141d6b>] lock_acquire+0x5a/0x74 [<c011db84>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x9e/0x1fc [<c047ed45>] _spin_lock+0x1c/0x45 [<c011db84>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x9e/0x1fc [<c011db84>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x9e/0x1fc [<c01210fd>] finish_task_switch+0x41/0xbd [<c0107890>] native_sched_clock+0x88/0x99 [<c011dae6>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x0/0x1fc [<c0136dda>] run_hrtimer_pending+0x54/0xe5 [<c011dae6>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x0/0x1fc [<c0128afb>] __do_softirq+0x7b/0xef [<c0128ba6>] do_softirq+0x37/0x4d [<c0128c12>] ksoftirqd+0x56/0xc5 [<c0128bbc>] ksoftirqd+0x0/0xc5 [<c0134649>] kthread+0x38/0x5d [<c0134611>] kthread+0x0/0x5d [<c0104477>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 ======================= Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 10 Nov, 2008 8 commits
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Impact: nohz powersavings and wakeup regression commit fb02fbc1 (NOHZ: restart tick device from irq_enter()) causes a serious wakeup regression. While the patch is correct it does not take into account that spurious wakeups happen on x86. A fix for this issue is available, but we just revert to the .27 behaviour and let long running softirqs screw themself. Disable it for now. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Impact: avoid spurious ksoftirqd wakeups The tick idle check which is called from irq_enter() was run before the call to __irq_enter() which did not set the in_interrupt() bits in preempt_count. That way the raise of a softirq woke up softirqd for nothing as the softirq was handled on return from interrupt. Call __irq_enter() before calling into the tick idle check code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Matt Fleming authored
Some functions that may be called from this handler require that interrupts are disabled. Also, combining IRQF_DISABLED and IRQF_SHARED does not reliably disable interrupts in a handler, so remove IRQF_SHARED from the irq flags (this irq is not shared anyway). Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <mjf@gentoo.org> Cc: mingo@elte.hu Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Cc: "Will Newton" <will.newton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Matt Fleming authored
In hpet_next_event() we check that the value we just wrote to HPET_Tn_CMP(timer) has reached the chip. Currently, we're checking that the value we wrote to HPET_Tn_CMP(timer) is in HPET_T0_CMP, which, if timer is anything other than timer 0, is likely to fail. Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <mjf@gentoo.org> Cc: mingo@elte.hu Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Matt Fleming authored
It is possible to flood the console with call traces if the WARN_ON condition is true because of the frequency with which this function is called. Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <mjf@gentoo.org> Cc: mingo@elte.hu Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Arjan van de Ven authored
It's showing up as regressions; disabling it very likely just papers over an underlying issue, but time is running out for 2.6.28, lets get back to this for 2.6.29 Fixes: #11826 and #11893 Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixesLinus Torvalds authored
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes: kbuild: Fixup deb-pkg target to generate separate firmware deb
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- 09 Nov, 2008 10 commits
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Jonathan McDowell authored
The below is a simplistic fix for "make deb-pkg"; it splits the firmware out to a linux-firmware-image package and adds an (unversioned) Suggests to the linux package for this firmware. Signed-Off-By: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> Acked-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
The "Exclude staging drivers" question is there so that we don't build staging drivers for allyesconfig or allnoconfig settings, but it's very irritating when you've already said "no" to staging drivers earlier. There is absolutely no point in declining twice - once you've declined the staging drivers, you're done. So make the second question depend on the first question having been answered in the affirmative. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-2.6.28' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: Fix nfsd truncation of readdir results
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds authored
* 'cpus4096' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything, v3 cpumask: new API, v2 cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything
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Doug Nazar authored
Commit 8d7c4203 "nfsd: fix failure to set eof in readdir in some situations" introduced a bug: on a directory in an exported ext3 filesystem with dir_index unset, a READDIR will only return about 250 entries, even if the directory was larger. Bisected it back to this commit; reverting it fixes the problem. It turns out that in this case ext3 reads a block at a time, then returns from readdir, which means we can end up with buf.full==0 but with more entries in the directory still to be read. Before 8d7c4203 (but after c002a6c7 "Optimise NFS readdir hack slightly"), this would cause us to return the READDIR result immediately, but with the eof bit unset. That could cause a performance regression (because the client would need more roundtrips to the server to read the whole directory), but no loss in correctness, since the cleared eof bit caused the client to send another readdir. After 8d7c4203, the setting of the eof bit made this a correctness problem. So, move nfserr_eof into the loop and remove the buf.full check so that we loop until buf.used==0. The following seems to do the right thing and reduces the network traffic since we don't return a READDIR result until the buffer is full. Tested on an empty directory & large directory; eof is properly sent and there are no more short buffers. Signed-off-by: Doug Nazar <nazard@dragoninc.ca> Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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Rusty Russell authored
Impact: cleanup Clean up based on feedback from Andrew Morton and others: - change to inline functions instead of macros - add __init to bootmem method - add a missing debug check Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
Previously I assumed that the receive queues of candidates don't change during the GC. This is only half true, nothing can be received from the queues (see comment in unix_gc()), but buffers could be added through the other half of the socket pair, which may still have file descriptors referring to it. This can result in inc_inflight_move_tail() erronously increasing the "inflight" counter for a unix socket for which dec_inflight() wasn't previously called. This in turn can trigger the "BUG_ON(total_refs < inflight_refs)" in a later garbage collection run. Fix this by only manipulating the "inflight" counter for sockets which are candidates themselves. Duplicating the file references in unix_attach_fds() is also needed to prevent a socket becoming a candidate for GC while the skb that contains it is not yet queued. Reported-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nicolas Pitre authored
Currently, all existing users of cnt32_to_63() are fine since the CPU architectures where it is used don't do read access reordering, and user mode preemption is disabled already. It is nevertheless a good idea to better elaborate usage requirements wrt preemption, and use an explicit memory barrier on SMP to avoid different CPUs accessing the counter value in the wrong order. On UP a simple compiler barrier is sufficient. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmcLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc: mmc: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() mmc: increase SD write timeout for crappy cards
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Takashi Iwai authored
Use menuconfig instead of flat configs so that you can disable/enable regulator items with one selection. Also, use depends instead of reverse selections to make life easier, too. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
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- 08 Nov, 2008 10 commits
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Kay Sievers authored
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-Off-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
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Pierre Ossman authored
It seems that some cards are slightly out of spec and occasionally will not be able to complete a write in the alloted 250 ms [1]. Incease the timeout slightly to allow even these cards to function properly. [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/23/390Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: optimize sched_clock() a bit sched: improve sched_clock() performance
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'oprofile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'oprofile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: oprofile: Fix p6 counter overflow check Cell OProfile: Incorrect local array size in activate spu profiling function Revert "Cell OProfile: Incorrect local array size in activate spu profiling function" oprofile: fix memory ordering Cell OProfile: Incorrect local array size in activate spu profiling function Change UTF8 chars in Kconfig help text about Oprofile AMD barcelona
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6: Staging: make usbip depend on CONFIG_NET Staging: only build the tree if we really want to
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Rafael J. Wysocki authored
Fix the __pfn_to_page(pfn) macro so that it doesn't evaluate its argument twice in the CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y case, because 'pfn' may be a result of a funtion call having side effects. For example, the hibernation code applies pfn_to_page(pfn) to the result of a function returning the pfn corresponding to the next set bit in a bitmap and the current bit position is modified on each call. This leads to "interesting" failures for CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y due to the current behavior of __pfn_to_page(pfn). Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
sched_clock() uses cycles_2_ns() needlessly - which is an irq-disabling variant of __cycles_2_ns(). Most of the time sched_clock() is called with irqs disabled already. The few places that call it with irqs enabled need to be updated. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
in scheduler-intense workloads native_read_tsc() overhead accounts for 20% of the system overhead: 659567 system_call 41222.9375 686796 schedule 435.7843 718382 __switch_to 665.1685 823875 switch_mm 4526.7857 1883122 native_read_tsc 55385.9412 9761990 total 2.8468 this is large part due to the rdtsc_barrier() that is done before and after reading the TSC. But sched_clock() is not a precise clock in the GTOD sense, using such barriers is completely pointless. So remove the barriers and only use them in vget_cycles(). This improves lat_ctx performance by about 5%. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
Thanks to Randy Dunlap for finding this problem. Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
This Kconfig change allows the common 'make allmodconfig' and 'make allyesconfig' build options to skip the staging tree, which is probably what you want to have happen anyway. This makes the linux-next developer's life a lot easier so he doesn't have to worry about changes that break the staging tree, that's for me to worry about... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- 07 Nov, 2008 11 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'oprofile-for-tip' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile into x86/urgent
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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] Reserve elfcorehdr memory in CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP [IA64] fix boot panic caused by offline CPUs [IA64] reorder Kconfig options to match x86 [IA64] Build VT-D iommu support into generic kernel [IA64] remove dead BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY definition [IA64] remove duplicated #include from pci-dma.c [IA64] use common header for software IO/TLB [IA64] fix the difference between node_mem_map and node_start_pfn [IA64] Add error_recovery_info field to SAL section header [IA64] Add UV watchlist support. [IA64] Simplify SGI uv vs. sn2 driver issues
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Jay Lan authored
IA64 kdump kernel failed to initialize /proc/vmcore in 2.6.28-rc2. A bug was introduced in this patch commit: d9a9855d always reserve elfcore header memory in crash kernel The problem was that the call to reserve_elfcorehdr() should be placed in CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP rather than in CONFIG_CRASH_KERNEL, which does not exist. Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Acked-by: Simon Hormon <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: PCI: fix range check on mmapped sysfs resource files PCI: remove excess kernel-doc notation PCI: annotate return value of pci_ioremap_bar with __iomem PCI: fix VPD limit quirk for Broadcom 5708S
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, xen: fix use of pgd_page now that it really does return a page
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: fine-tune SD_SIBLING_INIT sched: fine-tune SD_MC_INIT sched: fix memory leak in a failure path sched: fix a bug in sched domain degenerate
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: xen: make sure stray alias mappings are gone before pinning vmap: cope with vm_unmap_aliases before vmalloc_init()
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Andi Kleen authored
Fix the counter overflow check for CPUs with counter width > 32 I had a similar change in a different patch that I didn't submit and I didn't notice the problem earlier because it was always tested together. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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Alan Cox authored
This triggers false bug reports as it does a bogus kmalloc with locks held but is never really compiled into the kernel. Closes #8329 Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alan Cox authored
As we've lost our trivial maintainer for the moment I'll send this directly. Only touches a comment Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: add checksum calculation when clearing UNINIT flag in ext4_new_inode ext4: Mark the buffer_heads as dirty and uptodate after prepare_write ext4: calculate journal credits correctly ext4: wait on all pending commits in ext4_sync_fs() ext4: Convert to host order before using the values. ext4: fix missing ext4_unlock_group in error path jbd2: deregister proc on failure in jbd2_journal_init_inode jbd2: don't give up looking for space so easily in __jbd2_log_wait_for_space jbd: don't give up looking for space so easily in __log_wait_for_space
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