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NUMA slab allocator cpu migration bugfix
The NUMA slab allocator (specifically, cache_alloc_refill)
is not refreshing its local copies of what cpu and what
numa node it is on, when it drops and reacquires the irq
block that it inherited from its caller. As a result
those values become invalid if an attempt to migrate the
process to another numa node occured while the irq block
had been dropped.
The solution is to make cache_alloc_refill reload these
variables whenever it drops and reacquires the irq block.
The error is very difficult to hit. When it does occur,
one gets the following oops + stack traceback bits in
check_spinlock_acquired:
kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:2417
cache_alloc_refill+0xe6
kmem_cache_alloc+0xd0
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This patch was developed against 2.6.23, ported to and
compiled-tested only against 2.6.25-rc4.
Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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SLUB should pack even small objects nicely into cachelines if that is what
has been asked for. Use the same algorithm as SLAB for this.
The effect of this patch for a system with a cacheline size of 64
bytes is that the 24 byte sized slab caches will now put exactly
2 objects into a cacheline instead of 3 with some overlap into
the next cacheline. This reduces the object density in a 4k slab
from 170 to 128 objects (same as SLAB).
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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Make them all use angle brackets and the directory name.
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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The NUMA fallback logic should be passing local_flags to kmem_get_pages() and not simply the
flags passed in.
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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The remote frees are in the freelist of the page and not in the
percpu freelist.
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6:
UBI: mtd/ubi/vtbl.c: fix memory leak
UBI: fix sparse errors in ubi.h
UBI: fix error message
UBI: silence warning
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On 32bits boxes, boundary_size becomes zero due to a overflow and we
hit BUG_ON in iommu_is_span_boundary.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Acked-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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mm migration is no longer done in cpuset_update_task_memory_state() so it
can no longer take current->mm->mmap_sem, so fix the obsolete comment.
[ This changed in commit 04c19fa6f16047abff2288ddbc1f0798ede5a849
("cpuset: migrate all tasks in cpuset at once") when the mm migration
was moved from cpuset_update_task_memory_state() to update_nodemask() ]
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: (27 commits)
[SCSI] mpt fusion: don't oops if NumPhys==0
[SCSI] iscsi class: regression - fix races with state manipulation and blocking/unblocking
[SCSI] qla4xxx: regression - add start scan callout
[SCSI] qla4xxx: fix host reset dpc race
[SCSI] tgt: fix build errors when dprintk is defined
[SCSI] tgt: set the data length properly
[SCSI] tgt: stop zero'ing scsi_cmnd
[SCSI] ibmvstgt: set up scsi_host properly before __scsi_alloc_queue
[SCSI] docbook: fix fusion source files
[SCSI] docbook: fix scsi source file
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.02.00-k9.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct usage of inconsistent timeout values while issuing ELS commands.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct discrepancies during OVERRUN handling on FWI2-capable cards.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct needless clean-up resets during shutdown.
[SCSI] arcmsr: update version and changelog
[SCSI] ps3rom: disable clustering
[SCSI] ps3rom: fix wrong resid calculation bug
[SCSI] mvsas: fix phy sas address
[SCSI] gdth: fix to internal commands execution
[SCSI] gdth: bugfix for the at-exit problems
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6:
NFS: use new LSM interfaces to explicitly set mount options
LSM/SELinux: Interfaces to allow FS to control mount options
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* 'fixes-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] fix section mismatch warnings
[CPUFREQ] Remove debugging message from e_powersaver
[CPUFREQ] Fix missing cpufreq_cpu_put() call in ->store
[CPUFREQ] Fix missing cpufreq_cpu_put() call in ->show
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* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
[S390] incorrect reipl nss name.
[S390] Load disabled wait psw if reipl fails.
[S390] Fix IPL from NSS.
[S390] zcrypt: fix ap_device_list handling
[S390] sclp_vt220: speed up console output for interactive work
[S390] dasd: fix reference counting in display method for proc/dasd/devices
[S390] dasd: let dasd erp matching recognize alias recovery
[S390] Get rid of memcpy gcc warning workaround.
[S390] idle: Fix machine check handling in idle loop.
[S390] Update default configuration.
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NFS and SELinux worked together previously because SELinux had NFS
specific knowledge built in. This design was approved by both groups
back in 2004 but the recent NFS changes to use nfs_parsed_mount_data and
the usage of nfs_clone_mount_data showed this to be a poor fragile
solution. This patch fixes the NFS functionality regression by making
use of the new LSM interfaces to allow an FS to explicitly set its own
mount options.
The explicit setting of mount options is done in the nfs get_sb
functions which are called before the generic vfs hooks try to set mount
options for filesystems which use text mount data.
This does not currently support NFSv4 as that functionality did not
exist in previous kernels and thus there is no regression. I will be
adding the needed code, which I believe to be the exact same as the v3
code, in nfs4_get_sb for 2.6.26.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Introduce new LSM interfaces to allow an FS to deal with their own mount
options. This includes a new string parsing function exported from the
LSM that an FS can use to get a security data blob and a new security
data blob. This is particularly useful for an FS which uses binary
mount data, like NFS, which does not pass strings into the vfs to be
handled by the loaded LSM. Also fix a BUG() in both SELinux and SMACK
when dealing with binary mount data. If the binary mount data is less
than one page the copy_page() in security_sb_copy_data() can cause an
illegal page fault and boom. Remove all NFSisms from the SELinux code
since they were broken by past NFS changes.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Don't oops if NumPhys==0, instead return -ENODEV.
This patch fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9909
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>
Acked-by: Eric Moore <Eric.Moore@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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Fix the following warnings:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xfe6711): Section mismatch in reference from the function cpufreq_unregister_driver() to the variable .cpuinit.data:cpufreq_cpu_notifier
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xfe68af): Section mismatch in reference from the function cpufreq_register_driver() to the variable .cpuinit.data:cpufreq_cpu_notifier
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.exit.text+0xc4fa): Section mismatch in reference from the function cpufreq_stats_exit() to the variable .cpuinit.data:cpufreq_stat_cpu_notifier
The warnings were casued by references to unregister_hotcpu_notifier()
from normal functions or exit functions.
This is flagged by modpost as a potential error because
it does not know that for the non HOTPLUG_CPU
scenario the unregister_hotcpu_notifier() is a nop.
Silence the warning by replacing the __initdata
annotation with a __refdata annotation.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
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We don't need to printk a message every time we transition.
Leave the code there, but ifdef'd out, as it's useful when
adding support for new processors.
Reported-by: Petr Titěra <P.Titera@century.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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refactor to use gotos instead of explicit exit paths
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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refactor to use gotos instead of explicit exit paths
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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blocking/unblocking
For qla4xxx, we could be starting a session, but some error (network,
target, IO from a device that got started, etc) could cause the session
to fail and curring the block/unblock and state manipulation could race
with each other. This patch just has those operations done in the
single threaded iscsi eh work queue, so that way they are serialized.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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We are seeing EXIST errors from sysfs during device addition.
We need a start scan callout so we do not start scanning sessions
found during hba setup, before the async scsi scan code is ready.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Acked-by: David C Somayajulu <david.somayajulu@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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The host reset callout could be starting to reset the hba at the same
time the dpc thread is. This creates lots of problems because they both
want to do wierd things with the firmware and interrupts, etc.
This patch just has the host reset function fully shutdown the dpc
thread before resetting the hba.
This patch also moves the setting of the session online bit to fix
a potential race with the dpc thread and iscsi recovery thread.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Acked-by: David C Somayajulu <david.somayajulu@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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This addresses the recent ATI SB600 errata, where the hardware does
not like 256-length PRD entries during FPDMA (aka NCQ).
It hurts performance on SB600, but it is more important to get a
correct patch eliminating the data corruption/lockups, and then later
on tune for performance.
We simply limit each command to a maximum of 255 sectors, on SB600.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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When masking, mask out the modes that are unsupported not the ones
that are supported. This makes life happier.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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/sys/firmware/reipl/nss/name contains the nss name when defsys or
savesys command has been executed. If the defsys or savesys command
fails the kernel_nss_name has to be cleared since a reipl on that
nss name won't be possible.
Signed-off-by: Hongjie Yang <hongjie@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Normally this should not happen, but it's cleaner to do it that way.
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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IPL from NSS didn't work because the memory detection routine omits any
memory sections with a size lower than what MAX_ORDER defines.
This causes the detection routine to skip the first memory segment which
has a size of 1MB. Which later on will let the kernel think that there
is no memory available at all.
Since in addition the z/VM memory increment size is 1MB force MAX_ORDER
to be 9, so we can support 1MB segments.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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In ap_device_probe() we can add the new ap device to the internal
device list only if the device probe function successfully returns.
Otherwise we might end up with an invalid device in the internal ap
device list.
Signed-off-by: Ralph Wuerthner <rwuerthn@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Currently an output buffer can wait up to HZ/2 until the buffer is
flushed. The wait time is noticeable in interactive tools like mc.
Change the value to HZ/20, which seems enough for interactive work.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Using the /proc/dasd/devices interface leaves the reference counter
of alias devices in an inconsistent state. A process that tries to set
such a device offline afterwards will hang.
The dasd_devices_show function returns immediately for alias devices
and this code path was missing a dasd_put_device call.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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When a request fails that was started on an alias device then the
first recovery step is to retry it on the base device. If the
recovery request fails again with the same symptoms, the next step
should not be a simple retry, but should be a proper recovery based
on sense data, etc. To do so, the dasd recovery functions need to
recognize the alias recovery step in the erp chain by comparing
the start devices.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Compile smp.o with -Wno-nonnull so gcc stops warning about memcpy
being used with a null parameter. Also remove the workaround code
and use a char * cast instead of a void * cast to do computations.
Cc: Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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If a machine check handling is pending when the idle loop is entered
default_idle will be left with timer ticks and virtual timer disabled.
Fix this by "calling" the idle_chain. Also a BUG_ON(!in_interrupt) in
start_hz_timer must be removed since the function now gets called from
non interrupt context as well.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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A change after 2.6.24 broke ndiswrapper by accidentally removing its
access to GPL-only symbols. Revert that change and add comments about
the reasons why ndiswrapper and driverloader are treated in a special
way.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (22 commits)
[IPCONFIG]: The kernel gets no IP from some DHCP servers
b43legacy: Fix module init message
rndis_wlan: fix broken data copy
libertas: compare the current command with response
libertas: fix sanity check on sequence number in command response
p54: fix eeprom parser length sanity checks
p54: fix EEPROM structure endianness
ssb: Add pcibios_enable_device() return value check
rc80211-pid: fix rate adjustment
[ESP]: Add select on AUTHENC
[TCP]: Improve ipv4 established hash function.
[NETPOLL]: Revert two bogus cleanups that broke netconsole.
[PPPOL2TP]: Add missing sock_put() in pppol2tp_tunnel_closeall()
Subject: [PPPOL2TP] add missing sock_put() in pppol2tp_recv_dequeue()
[BLUETOOTH]: l2cap info_timer delete fix in hci_conn_del
[NET]: Fix race in generic address resolution.
iucv: fix build error on !SMP
[TCP]: Must count fack_count also when skipping
[TUN]: Fix RTNL-locking in tun/tap driver
[SCTP]: Use proc_create to setup de->proc_fops.
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
[SPARC]: Fix link errors with gcc-4.3
sparc64: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurances
sparc: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurances
[SPARC]: Add reboot_command[] extern decl to asm/system.h
[SPARC]: Mark linux_sparc_{fpu,chips} static.
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Based upon a patch by Marcel Wappler:
This patch fixes a DHCP issue of the kernel: some DHCP servers
(i.e. in the Linksys WRT54Gv5) are very strict about the contents
of the DHCPDISCOVER packet they receive from clients.
Table 5 in RFC2131 page 36 requests the fields 'ciaddr' and
'siaddr' MUST be set to '0'. These DHCP servers ignore Linux
kernel's DHCP discovery packets with these two fields set to
'255.255.255.255' (in contrast to popular DHCP clients, such as
'dhclient' or 'udhcpc'). This leads to a not booting system.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] fix ia64 kprobes compilation
[IA64] move gcc_intrin.h from header-y to unifdef-y
[IA64] workaround tiger ia64_sal_get_physical_id_info hang
[IA64] move defconfig to arch/ia64/configs/
[IA64] Fix irq migration in multiple vector domain
[IA64] signal(ia64_ia32): add a signal stack overflow check
[IA64] signal(ia64): add a signal stack overflow check
[IA64] CONFIG_SGI_SN2 - auto select NUMA and ACPI_NUMA
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
debugfs: fix sparse warnings
Driver core: Fix cleanup when failing device_add().
driver core: Remove dpm_sysfs_remove() from error path of device_add()
PM: fix new mutex-locking bug in the PM core
PM: Do not acquire device semaphores upfront during suspend
kobject: properly initialize ksets
sysfs: CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED fix
driver core: fix up Kconfig text for CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6:
pci: hotplug: pciehp: fix error code path in hpc_power_off_slot
PCI: Add DECLARE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro
PCI: fix up error messages for pci_bus registering
PCI: fix section mismatch warning in pci_scan_child_bus
PCI: consolidate duplicated MSI enable functions
PCI: use dev_printk in quirk messages
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6:
USB: ftdi_sio - really enable EM1010PC
USB: remove incorrect struct class_device from the printer gadget
USB: pxa2xx_udc: fix misuse of clock enable/disable calls
USB: ftdi_sio: Workaround for broken Matrix Orbital serial port
USB: Add support for AXESSTEL MV110H CDMA modem
usb-storage: update earlier scatter-gather bug fix
USB: isp116x: fix enumeration on boot
USB: ehci: handle large bulk URBs correctly (again)
USB: spruce up the device blacklist
USB: fix comment of struct usb_interface
USB: update Kconfig entry for USB_SUSPEND
usb: Add support for the mos7820/7840-based B&B USB/RS485 converter to mos7840.c
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Fix a bug in regiseter_kretprobe() which does not check rp->kp.symbol_name ==
NULL before calling kprobe_lookup_name.
For maintainability, this introduces kprobe_addr helper function which
resolves addr field. It is used by register_kprobe and register_kretprobe.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add to help text that the Intel I2C ICH (i801) driver is also needed
for this kernel.
Add LEDS_CLASS to config since the driver makes les_classdev_*() calls:
ERROR: "led_classdev_register" [drivers/input/misc/apanel.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "__led_classdev_unregister" [drivers/input/misc/apanel.ko]
undefined!
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The "resize" option won't be noticed as it comes after the NULL option, so if
you try to mount (or in this case remount) with that option it won't be
recognized.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Adam Litke noticed that currently we grow the hugepage pool independent of any
cpuset the running process may be in, but when shrinking the pool, the cpuset
is checked. This leads to inconsistency when shrinking the pool in a
restricted cpuset -- an administrator may have been able to grow the pool on a
node restricted by a containing cpuset, but they cannot shrink it there.
There are two options: either prevent growing of the pool outside of the
cpuset or allow shrinking outside of the cpuset. >From previous discussions
on linux-mm, /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages is an administrative interface that
should not be restricted by cpusets. So allow shrinking the pool by removing
pages from nodes outside of current's cpuset.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhonr@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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A hugetlb reservation may be inadequately backed in the event of racing
allocations and frees when utilizing surplus huge pages. Consider the
following series of events in processes A and B:
A) Allocates some surplus pages to satisfy a reservation
B) Frees some huge pages
A) A notices the extra free pages and drops hugetlb_lock to free some of
its surplus pages back to the buddy allocator.
B) Allocates some huge pages
A) Reacquires hugetlb_lock and returns from gather_surplus_huge_pages()
Avoid this by commiting the reservation after pages have been allocated but
before dropping the lock to free excess pages. For parity, release the
reservation in return_unused_surplus_pages().
This patch also corrects the cpuset_mems_nr() error path in
hugetlb_acct_memory(). If the cpuset check fails, uncommit the
reservation, but also be sure to return any surplus huge pages that may
have been allocated to back the failed reservation.
Thanks to Andy Whitcroft for discovering this.
Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This message describes another issue about md RAID10 found by testing the
2.6.24 md RAID10 using new scsi fault injection framework.
Abstract:
When a scsi error results in disabling a disk during RAID10 recovery, the
resync threads of md RAID10 could stall.
This case, the raid array has already been broken and it may not matter. But
I think stall is not preferable. If it occurs, even shutdown or reboot will
fail because of resource busy.
The deadlock mechanism:
The r10bio_s structure has a "remaining" member to keep track of BIOs yet to
be handled when recovering. The "remaining" counter is incremented when
building a BIO in sync_request() and is decremented when finish a BIO in
end_sync_write().
If building a BIO fails for some reasons in sync_request(), the "remaining"
should be decremented if it has already been incremented. I found a case
where this decrement is forgotten. This causes a md_do_sync() deadlock
because md_do_sync() waits for md_done_sync() called by end_sync_write(), but
end_sync_write() never calls md_done_sync() because of the "remaining" counter
mismatch.
For example, this problem would be reproduced in the following case:
Personalities : [raid10]
md0 : active raid10 sdf1[4] sde1[5](F) sdd1[2] sdc1[1] sdb1[6](F)
3919616 blocks 64K chunks 2 near-copies [4/2] [_UU_]
[>....................] recovery = 2.2% (45376/1959808) finish=0.7min speed=45376K/sec
This case, sdf1 is recovering, sdb1 and sde1 are disabled.
An additional error with detaching sdd will cause a deadlock.
md0 : active raid10 sdf1[4] sde1[5](F) sdd1[6](F) sdc1[1] sdb1[7](F)
3919616 blocks 64K chunks 2 near-copies [4/1] [_U__]
[=>...................] recovery = 5.0% (99520/1959808) finish=5.9min speed=5237K/sec
2739 ? S< 0:17 [md0_raid10]
28608 ? D< 0:00 [md0_resync]
28629 pts/1 Ss 0:00 bash
28830 pts/1 R+ 0:00 ps ax
31819 ? D< 0:00 [kjournald]
The resync thread keeps working, but actually it is deadlocked.
Patch:
By this patch, the remaining counter will be decremented if needed.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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