- 03 Feb, 2010 19 commits
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Peter Zijlstra authored
hrtimers callbacks are always done from hardirq context, either the jiffy tick interrupt or the hrtimer device interrupt. [ there is currently one exception that can still call a hrtimer callback from softirq, but even in that case this will still work correctly. ] Reported-by:
Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Yury Polyanskiy <ypolyans@princeton.edu> Tested-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> LKML-Reference: <1265120401.24455.306.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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/$i; done # mkdir /mnt/65534 (should return ENOSPC) # Signed-off-by:
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by:
Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by:
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Hui Zhu authored
When I use markup_oops.pl parse a x8664 oops, I got: objdump: --start-address: bad number: NaN No matching code found This is because: main::(./m.pl:228): open(FILE, "objdump -dS --adjust-vma=$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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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- 02 Feb, 2010 18 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:
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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:
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:
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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:
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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:
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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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Sathya Perla authored
cev-isr reg offset for each function is better calculated using (any) eq-id alloted to that function instead of using pci-func number(which does not work in some configurations...) Signed-off-by:
Sathya Perla <sathyap@serverengines.com> Signed-off-by:
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Marek Skuczynski authored
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Marek Skuczynski <mareksk7@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Marek Skuczynski authored
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Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org> Signed-off-by:
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Magnus Damm authored
This patch improves disable_controller() in the r8a66597-hdc driver to disable all interrupts and clear status flags. It also makes sure that disable_controller() is called during probe(). This fixes the relatively rare case of unexpected pending interrupts after kexec reboot. Signed-off-by:
Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> Acked-by:
Yoshihiro Shimoda <shimoda.yoshihiro@renesas.com> Signed-off-by:
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Markus Pietrek authored
The spi_sh_msiof.c driver presently misconfigures REDG and TEDG. TEDG==0 outputs data at the **rising edge** of the clock and REDG==0 samples data at the **falling edge** of the clock. Therefore for SPI, TEDG must be equal to REDG, otherwise the last byte received is not sampled in SPI mode 3. This brings the driver in line with the SH7723 HW Reference Manual settings documented in Figures 20.20 and 20.21 ("SPI Clock and data timing"). Signed-off-by:Markus Pietrek <Markus.Pietrek@emtrion.de> Acked-by:
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Herbert Xu authored
The previous changeset left behind an unused inode variable. This patch removes it. Reported-by:
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by:
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Herbert Xu authored
As the padlock driver for SHA uses a software fallback to perform partial hashing, it must implement custom import/export functions. Otherwise hmac which depends on import/export for prehashing will not work with padlock-sha. Reported-by:
Wolfgang Walter <wolfgang.walter@stwm.de> Signed-off-by:
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Matt Mackall authored
No other driver does anything remotely like this that I know of except for the tty drivers, and I can't see any reason for random/urandom to do it. In fact, it's a (trivial, harmless) timing information leak. And obviously, it generates power- and flash-cycle wasting I/O, especially if combined with something like hwrngd. Also, it breaks ubifs's expectations. Signed-off-by:
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by:
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