- 27 Aug, 2006 14 commits
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Daniel Kobras authored
On an nForce4-equipped machine with two SATA disk in raid1 setup using dmraid, we experienced frequent deadlock of the system under high i/o load. 'cat /dev/zero > ~/zero' was the most reliable way to reproduce them: Randomly after a few GB, 'cp' would be left in 'D' state along with kjournald and kmirrord. The functions cp and kjournald were blocked in did vary, but kmirrord's wchan always pointed to 'mempool_alloc()'. We've seen this pattern on 2.6.15 and 2.6.17 kernels. http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/20/142 indicates that this problem has been around even before. So much for the facts, here's my interpretation: mempool_alloc() first tries to atomically allocate the requested memory, or falls back to hand out preallocated chunks from the mempool. If both fail, it puts the calling process (kmirrord in this case) on a private waitqueue until somebody refills the pool. Where the only 'somebody' is kmirrord itself, so we have a deadlock. I worked around this problem by falling back to a (blocking) kmalloc when before kmirrord would have ended up on the waitqueue. This defeats part of the benefits of using the mempool, but at least keeps the system running. And it could be done with a two-line change. Note that mempool_alloc() clears the GFP_NOIO flag internally, and only uses it to decide whether to wait or return an error if immediate allocation fails, so the attached patch doesn't change behaviour in the non-deadlocking case. Path is against current git (2.6.18-rc4), but should apply to earlier versions as well. I've tested on 2.6.15, where this patch makes the difference between random lockup and a stable system. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kobras <kobras@linux.de> Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ben Dooks authored
In the cleanups of drivers/rtc/s3c-rtc.c, the base address for the registers got broken. This patch fixes that by ensuring the readb/writeb are all prefixed with the base returned from ioremap()ing the registers. Also fix check for valid year range, which was the wrong way around. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ian McDonald authored
This fixes CCID3 to give much closer performance to RFC4342. CCID3 is meant to alter sending rate based on RTT and loss. The performance was verified against: http://wand.net.nz/~perry/max_download.php For example I tested with netem and had the following parameters: Delayed Acks 1, MSS 256 bytes, RTT 105 ms, packet loss 5%. This gives a theoretical speed of 71.9 Kbits/s. I measured across three runs with this patch set and got 70.1 Kbits/s. Without this patchset the average was 232 Kbits/s which means Linux can't be used for CCID3 research properly. I also tested with netem turned off so box just acting as router with 1.2 msec RTT. The performance with this is the same with or without the patch at around 30 Mbit/s. Signed off by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Stephen Hemminger authored
The bridge-netfilter code will overwrite memory if there is not headroom in the skb to save the header. This first showed up when using Xen with sky2 driver that doesn't allocate the extra space. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [DCCP]: Introduce dccp_rx_hist_find_entry [DCCP]: Introduces follows48 function [DCCP]: Update contact details and copyright [DCCP]: Fix typo [IPV6]: Segmentation offload not set correctly on TCP children [CONNECTOR]: Add userspace example code into Documentation/connector/
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Ian McDonald authored
This adds a new function dccp_rx_hist_find_entry. Signed off by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Ian McDonald authored
This adds a new function to see if two sequence numbers follow each other. Signed off by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Ian McDonald authored
Just updating copyright and contacts Signed off by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Ian McDonald authored
This fixes a small typo in net/dccp/libs/packet_history.c Signed off by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Stephen Hemminger authored
TCP over IPV6 would incorrectly inherit the GSO settings. This would cause kernel to send Tcp Segmentation Offload packets for IPV6 data to devices that can't handle it. It caused the sky2 driver to lock http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7050 and the e1000 would generate bogus packets. I can't blame the hardware for gagging if the upper layers feed it garbage. This was a new bug in 2.6.18 introduced with GSO support. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Evgeniy Polyakov authored
I was asked several times to include userspace example code into Documentation, so if there is no policy against it, consider attached patch for 2.6.18. This program works with included Documentation/connector/cn_test.c connector module. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jeff Mahoney authored
The current sun disklabel code uses a signed int for the sector count. When partitions larger than 1 TB are used, the cast to a sector_t causes the partition sizes to be invalid: # cat /proc/paritions | grep sdan 66 112 2146435072 sdan 66 115 9223372036853660736 sdan3 66 120 9223372036853660736 sdan8 This patch switches the sector count to an unsigned int to fix this. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Krzysztof Helt authored
It moves the smp_procesors_ready variable to sun4d_smp.c only. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt (krzysztof.h1@wp.pl) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Krzysztof Helt authored
smp_setup_cpu_possible_map() needs to run after paging_init() so that the in-kernel device tree is setup. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 26 Aug, 2006 16 commits
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Alan Stern authored
The existing unusual_devs entry for the UCR-61S2B appears to have too wide a revision range. It matches at least one device that doesn't respond to the initialization sequence. Perhaps the sequence needs to be updated, or perhaps something else can be done. For now, this patch (as764) restricts the range to include only the revision mentioned in the original comment. This resolves (for now!) Bugzilla entry #6950. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Tomasz Kazmierczak authored
This patch removes support for a clone of Nokia DKU-5 cable made by Ours Technology Inc, as it turned out that the cable does not use the pl2303 chip, but OTI-6858 chip which is not compatible with the pl2303. Signed-off-by: Tomasz Kazmierczak <tomek.fizyk@op.pl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
This was pointed out by Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, as found by the Coverity Checker. Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Oliver Bock <o.bock@fh-wolfenbuettel.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Henrik Kretzschmar authored
Removes an unused kerneldoc entry from pci_match_device and put the others into correct order. Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Scott Murray authored
Here is a patch against the CPCI hotplug core to fix up PCI resource assignment such that things will actually work when a hot inserted device is enabled. I mentioned this patch to you way back in April at ELC, but am only now out from under things enough to clean it up and submit it. I've basically cribbed the corresponding code from shpchp_pci.c, so there are no big surprises. If it's still possible, I wouldn't mind this going into 2.6.18, but it wouldn't be the end of the world if it went into 2.6.19. Signed-off-by: Scott Murray <scottm@somanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Daniel Ritz authored
- add the ICH6(R) LPC to the ICH6 ACPI quirks. currently only the ICH6-M is handled. [ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ICH6_1 is the ICH6-M LPC, ICH6_0 is the ICH6(R) ] - remove the wrong quirk calling asus_hides_smbus_lpc() for ICH6. the register modified in asus_hides_smbus_lpc() has a different meaning in ICH6. Signed-off-by: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Daniel Ritz authored
On i386 PCI mmconfig forgets the bus number when setting the fallback_slots bits which means fallback to conf1 only works for bus 0. Signed-off-by: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Daniel Ritz authored
there was a change in 2.6.17 which affected the order in which the PCI access methods are probed. this gives regressions on some machines with broken BIOS. the problem is that PCBIOS sometimes reports last bus wrong, leaving cardbus non-funcational. previously those system worked fine with direct access. The patch changes the PCI init code to have PCBIOS as last fallback, yet the PCBIOS code still has to run first to set pcibios_last_bus to the value reported by the BIOS. this is needed in case legacy PCI probing (arch/i386/pci/legacy.c) is used to detect peer busses. using direct access if available fixes the cardbus problems. Signed-off-by: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Hans de Goede authored
This patch contains 2 sets of fixes for the abituguru: 1) Much improved timeout handling, drasticly reducing the amount of timeout errors on some motherboards 2) Fix the exit paths in the bank1 sensor type detect code to always restore the original settings even on an error. Without this our special test settings could remain seriously confusing the system BIOS's setup menu. Both are very much related and are must haves, to avoid messing up the uguru CMOS settings. Detailed changes: - Much improved timeout / wait for status handling. Many thanks to Sunil Kumar, for all his testing, ideas and patches! The code now first busy waits, polling the uguru for the expected status as this usually succeeds pretty quickly (within 90 reads). To avoid unnecessary CPU burn in timeout conditions, the amount of busy waiting has been halved from previous versions (120 tries instead of 250). This is not a problem, because this version goes to sleep after 120 attemps for 1 jiffy and then tries again, it does this sleep and try again 5 times before finally giving up. This (almost?) completly removes the timeout errors some people have seen regulary. Apparently some older uguru versions sometimes are distracted for a (relatively) long time. This solves this. - These timeout errors not only occur in the sending address part of reading the uguru but also in the wait for read state, so errors in this state are now handled as retryable just like send address state errors and are only logged and reported to userspace if 3 executive tries fail. - Fix a very nasty bug in the bank1 sensor type detection code, where it would not restore the original settings in any of the error paths! - Since not successfully restoring the original settings can seriously confuse the system BIOS (hang when entering the relevant setup menu), we now try restoring them 3 times before giving up. Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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David Brownell authored
The tps65010.c driver in the main tree never got updated with build fixes since the last batch of I2C driver changes; and the genirq trigger flags were updated wierdly too. This also includes a minor tweak to reduce the frequency used to poll for unplug-the-AC-power on the TPS chips that don't provide relevant IRQs. It _would_ be nice to sense whether there's even a battery, but that'd normally be an HDQ/1-wire interface to a smart battery, and such APIs aren't standardized. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
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Mike Christie authored
The callers of scsi_send_eh_cmnd are setting the cmnd buffer, and then scsi_send_eh_cmnd is copying that updated buffer to the old_cmnd variable. Then after the command runs, we end up copying that old_cmnd var which has the new cmnd to the scsi command buffer. When this command gets recent, all types of fun things happen like getting TUR or START_STOP commands with data and scatterlists. This patch made against scsi-rc-fixes, has the callers of scsi_send_eh_cmnd pass in the command so scsi_send_eh_cmnd can do the right thing. This should go into 2.6.18 since this fixes a regression added when we removed some of the scsi_cmnd fields and replaced them with local variables. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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Andrew Vasquez authored
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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Andrew Vasquez authored
Software must explicitely re-enable extended firmware tracing after any ISP abort condition. Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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Andrew Vasquez authored
Original code attempts to retry PLOGIs to fcports that are FCP_TARGETs only. If the driver never performed a successful PLOGI/PRLI, the port-type would never be assigned, and the relogin logic would silently drop the request (and thus the port would not be recognized and registered). The fix is relatively straightforward, drop the FCP_TARGET-only check. Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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Douglas Gilbert authored
There's a problem where sg is executing a ->nopage operation on a compound page, it actually calls get_page() on the first page in the compound rather than the page which is being mapped. The fix is to select the correct page by indexing into the compound. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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- 25 Aug, 2006 1 commit
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- 24 Aug, 2006 9 commits
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Trond Myklebust authored
The check in open_exec() for inode->i_mode & 0111 has been made redundant by the fix to permission(). Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> (cherry picked from 1d3741c5d991686699f100b65b9956f7ee7ae0ae commit)
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Trond Myklebust authored
The check in prepare_binfmt() for inode->i_mode & 0111 is redundant, since open_exec() will already have done that. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> (cherry picked from 822dec482ced07af32c378cd936d77345786572b commit)
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Trond Myklebust authored
Currently, the access() call will return incorrect information on NFS if there exists an ACL that grants execute access to the user on a regular file. The reason the information is incorrect is that the VFS overrides this execute access in open_exec() by checking (inode->i_mode & 0111). This patch propagates the VFS execute bit check back into the generic permission() call. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> (cherry picked from 64cbae98848c4c99851cb0a405f0b4982cd76c1e commit)
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Trond Myklebust authored
This is needed in order to handle any NFS4ERR_DELAY errors that might be returned by the server. It also ensures that we map the NFSv4 errors before they are returned to userland. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> (cherry picked from 71c12b3f0abc7501f6ed231a6d17bc9c05a238dc commit)
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David Howells authored
Check the bounds of length specifiers more thoroughly in the XDR decoding of NFS4 readdir reply data. Currently, if the server returns a bitmap or attr length that causes the current decode point pointer to wrap, this could go undetected (consider a small "negative" length on a 32-bit machine). Also add a check into the main XDR decode handler to make sure that the amount of data is a multiple of four bytes (as specified by RFC-1014). This makes sure that we can do u32* pointer subtraction in the NFS client without risking an undefined result (the result is undefined if the pointers are not correctly aligned with respect to one another). Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> (cherry picked from 5861fddd64a7eaf7e8b1a9997455a24e7f688092 commit)
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J. Bruce Fields authored
Neil Brown observed that the current limit of 32 bytes isn't enough to hold two ip addresses and the rest of the stuff we're putting in it, so it's often truncated to the point where it's unlikely to be unique. This can cause spurious CLID_INUSE's from the server. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> (cherry picked from fc8c17ec251e984ab3df9182ed097aa5b577c915 commit)
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Chuck Lever authored
Some hardware uses port 664 for its hardware-based IPMI listener. Teach the RPC client to avoid using that port by raising the default minimum port number to 665. Test plan: Find a mainboard known to use port 664 for IPMI; enable IPMI; mount NFS servers in a tight loop. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> (cherry picked from 58e8cb3a035d22fc386e1c53a5d98c3f219530fb commit)
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Trond Myklebust authored
The problem is that we may be caching writes that would extend the file and create a hole in the region that we are reading. In this case, we need to detect the eof from the server, ensure that we zero out the pages that are part of the hole and mark them as up to date. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> (cherry picked from 856b603b01b99146918c093969b6cb1b1b0f1c01 commit)
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Trond Myklebust authored
nlm_traverse_files() is not allowed to hold the nlm_file_mutex while calling nlm_inspect file, since it may end up calling nlm_release_file() when releaseing the blocks. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> (cherry picked from e558d3cde986e04f68afe8c790ad68ef4b94587a commit)
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