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2008-09-24posix-timers: don't switch to ->group_leader if ->it_process diesOleg Nesterov
posix_timer_event() drops SIGEV_THREAD_ID and switches to ->group_leader if send_sigqueue() fails. This is not very useful and doesn't work reliably. send_sigqueue() can only fail if ->it_process is dead. But it can die before it dequeues the SI_TIMER signal, in that case the timer stops anyway. Remove this code. I guess it was needed a long ago to ensure that the timer is not destroyed when when its creator thread dies. Q: perhaps it makes sense to change sys_timer_settime() to return an error if ->it_process is dead? Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: mingo@elte.hu Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, v2Frank Mayhar
This is the second resubmission of the posix timer rework patch, posted a few days ago. This includes the changes from the previous resubmittion, which addressed Oleg Nesterov's comments, removing the RCU stuff from the patch and un-inlining the thread_group_cputime() function for SMP. In addition, per Ingo Molnar it simplifies the UP code, consolidating much of it with the SMP version and depending on lower-level SMP/UP handling to take care of the differences. It also cleans up some UP compile errors, moves the scheduler stats-related macros into kernel/sched_stats.h, cleans up a merge error in kernel/fork.c and has a few other minor fixes and cleanups as suggested by Oleg and Ingo. Thanks for the review, guys. Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, cleanupsIngo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, fix #2Ingo Molnar
fix the UP build: In file included from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c:9, from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:3: include/linux/sched.h: In function ‘thread_group_cputime_clone_thread’: include/linux/sched.h:2272: warning: no return statement in function returning non-void include/linux/sched.h: In function ‘thread_group_cputime_account_user’: include/linux/sched.h:2284: error: invalid type argument of ‘->’ (have ‘struct task_cputime’) include/linux/sched.h:2284: error: invalid type argument of ‘->’ (have ‘struct task_cputime’) include/linux/sched.h: In function ‘thread_group_cputime_account_system’: include/linux/sched.h:2291: error: invalid type argument of ‘->’ (have ‘struct task_cputime’) include/linux/sched.h:2291: error: invalid type argument of ‘->’ (have ‘struct task_cputime’) include/linux/sched.h: In function ‘thread_group_cputime_account_exec_runtime’: include/linux/sched.h:2298: error: invalid type argument of ‘->’ (have ‘struct task_cputime’) distcc[14501] ERROR: compile arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c on a/30 failed make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, fixIngo Molnar
fix: kernel/fork.c:843: error: ‘struct signal_struct’ has no member named ‘sum_sched_runtime’ kernel/irq/handle.c:117: warning: ‘sparse_irq_lock’ defined but not used Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14timers: fix itimer/many thread hangFrank Mayhar
Overview This patch reworks the handling of POSIX CPU timers, including the ITIMER_PROF, ITIMER_VIRT timers and rlimit handling. It was put together with the help of Roland McGrath, the owner and original writer of this code. The problem we ran into, and the reason for this rework, has to do with using a profiling timer in a process with a large number of threads. It appears that the performance of the old implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() was at least O(n*3) (where "n" is the number of threads in a process) or worse. Everything is fine with an increasing number of threads until the time taken for that routine to run becomes the same as or greater than the tick time, at which point things degrade rather quickly. This patch fixes bug 9906, "Weird hang with NPTL and SIGPROF." Code Changes This rework corrects the implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() to make it run in constant time for a particular machine. (Performance may vary between one machine and another depending upon whether the kernel is built as single- or multiprocessor and, in the latter case, depending upon the number of running processors.) To do this, at each tick we now update fields in signal_struct as well as task_struct. The run_posix_cpu_timers() function uses those fields to make its decisions. We define a new structure, "task_cputime," to contain user, system and scheduler times and use these in appropriate places: struct task_cputime { cputime_t utime; cputime_t stime; unsigned long long sum_exec_runtime; }; This is included in the structure "thread_group_cputime," which is a new substructure of signal_struct and which varies for uniprocessor versus multiprocessor kernels. For uniprocessor kernels, it uses "task_cputime" as a simple substructure, while for multiprocessor kernels it is a pointer: struct thread_group_cputime { struct task_cputime totals; }; struct thread_group_cputime { struct task_cputime *totals; }; We also add a new task_cputime substructure directly to signal_struct, to cache the earliest expiration of process-wide timers, and task_cputime also replaces the it_*_expires fields of task_struct (used for earliest expiration of thread timers). The "thread_group_cputime" structure contains process-wide timers that are updated via account_user_time() and friends. In the non-SMP case the structure is a simple aggregator; unfortunately in the SMP case that simplicity was not achievable due to cache-line contention between CPUs (in one measured case performance was actually _worse_ on a 16-cpu system than the same test on a 4-cpu system, due to this contention). For SMP, the thread_group_cputime counters are maintained as a per-cpu structure allocated using alloc_percpu(). The timer functions update only the timer field in the structure corresponding to the running CPU, obtained using per_cpu_ptr(). We define a set of inline functions in sched.h that we use to maintain the thread_group_cputime structure and hide the differences between UP and SMP implementations from the rest of the kernel. The thread_group_cputime_init() function initializes the thread_group_cputime structure for the given task. The thread_group_cputime_alloc() is a no-op for UP; for SMP it calls the out-of-line function thread_group_cputime_alloc_smp() to allocate and fill in the per-cpu structures and fields. The thread_group_cputime_free() function, also a no-op for UP, in SMP frees the per-cpu structures. The thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() function (also a UP no-op) for SMP calls thread_group_cputime_alloc() if the per-cpu structures haven't yet been allocated. The thread_group_cputime() function fills the task_cputime structure it is passed with the contents of the thread_group_cputime fields; in UP it's that simple but in SMP it must also safely check that tsk->signal is non-NULL (if it is it just uses the appropriate fields of task_struct) and, if so, sums the per-cpu values for each online CPU. Finally, the three functions account_group_user_time(), account_group_system_time() and account_group_exec_runtime() are used by timer functions to update the respective fields of the thread_group_cputime structure. Non-SMP operation is trivial and will not be mentioned further. The per-cpu structure is always allocated when a task creates its first new thread, via a call to thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() from copy_signal(). It is freed at process exit via a call to thread_group_cputime_free() from cleanup_signal(). All functions that formerly summed utime/stime/sum_sched_runtime values from from all threads in the thread group now use thread_group_cputime() to snapshot the values in the thread_group_cputime structure or the values in the task structure itself if the per-cpu structure hasn't been allocated. Finally, the code in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c has changed quite a bit. The run_posix_cpu_timers() function has been split into a fast path and a slow path; the former safely checks whether there are any expired thread timers and, if not, just returns, while the slow path does the heavy lifting. With the dedicated thread group fields, timers are no longer "rebalanced" and the process_timer_rebalance() function and related code has gone away. All summing loops are gone and all code that used them now uses the thread_group_cputime() inline. When process-wide timers are set, the new task_cputime structure in signal_struct is used to cache the earliest expiration; this is checked in the fast path. Performance The fix appears not to add significant overhead to existing operations. It generally performs the same as the current code except in two cases, one in which it performs slightly worse (Case 5 below) and one in which it performs very significantly better (Case 2 below). Overall it's a wash except in those two cases. I've since done somewhat more involved testing on a dual-core Opteron system. Case 1: With no itimer running, for a test with 100,000 threads, the fixed kernel took 1428.5 seconds, 513 seconds more than the unfixed system, all of which was spent in the system. There were twice as many voluntary context switches with the fix as without it. Case 2: With an itimer running at .01 second ticks and 4000 threads (the most an unmodified kernel can handle), the fixed kernel ran the test in eight percent of the time (5.8 seconds as opposed to 70 seconds) and had better tick accuracy (.012 seconds per tick as opposed to .023 seconds per tick). Case 3: A 4000-thread test with an initial timer tick of .01 second and an interval of 10,000 seconds (i.e. a timer that ticks only once) had very nearly the same performance in both cases: 6.3 seconds elapsed for the fixed kernel versus 5.5 seconds for the unfixed kernel. With fewer threads (eight in these tests), the Case 1 test ran in essentially the same time on both the modified and unmodified kernels (5.2 seconds versus 5.8 seconds). The Case 2 test ran in about the same time as well, 5.9 seconds versus 5.4 seconds but again with much better tick accuracy, .013 seconds per tick versus .025 seconds per tick for the unmodified kernel. Since the fix affected the rlimit code, I also tested soft and hard CPU limits. Case 4: With a hard CPU limit of 20 seconds and eight threads (and an itimer running), the modified kernel was very slightly favored in that while it killed the process in 19.997 seconds of CPU time (5.002 seconds of wall time), only .003 seconds of that was system time, the rest was user time. The unmodified kernel killed the process in 20.001 seconds of CPU (5.014 seconds of wall time) of which .016 seconds was system time. Really, though, the results were too close to call. The results were essentially the same with no itimer running. Case 5: With a soft limit of 20 seconds and a hard limit of 2000 seconds (where the hard limit would never be reached) and an itimer running, the modified kernel exhibited worse tick accuracy than the unmodified kernel: .050 seconds/tick versus .028 seconds/tick. Otherwise, performance was almost indistinguishable. With no itimer running this test exhibited virtually identical behavior and times in both cases. In times past I did some limited performance testing. those results are below. On a four-cpu Opteron system without this fix, a sixteen-thread test executed in 3569.991 seconds, of which user was 3568.435s and system was 1.556s. On the same system with the fix, user and elapsed time were about the same, but system time dropped to 0.007 seconds. Performance with eight, four and one thread were comparable. Interestingly, the timer ticks with the fix seemed more accurate: The sixteen-thread test with the fix received 149543 ticks for 0.024 seconds per tick, while the same test without the fix received 58720 for 0.061 seconds per tick. Both cases were configured for an interval of 0.01 seconds. Again, the other tests were comparable. Each thread in this test computed the primes up to 25,000,000. I also did a test with a large number of threads, 100,000 threads, which is impossible without the fix. In this case each thread computed the primes only up to 10,000 (to make the runtime manageable). System time dominated, at 1546.968 seconds out of a total 2176.906 seconds (giving a user time of 629.938s). It received 147651 ticks for 0.015 seconds per tick, still quite accurate. There is obviously no comparable test without the fix. Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-13Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] Fix PCI_DMA_BUS_IS_PHYS for ARM [ARM] 5247/1: tosa: SW_EAR_IN support [ARM] 5246/1: tosa: add proper clock alias for tc6393xb clock [ARM] 5245/1: Fix warning about unused return value in drivers/pcmcia [ARM] OMAP: Fix MMC device data imx serial: fix rts handling for non imx1 based hardware imx serial: set RXD mux bit on i.MX27 and i.MX31 i.MX serial: fix init failure pcm037: add rts/cts support for serial port
2008-09-13Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev * 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: [libata] LBA28/LBA48 off-by-one bug in ata.h sata_inic162x: enable LED blinking ata: duplicate variable sparse warning
2008-09-13Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: PCI: re-add debug prints for unmodified BARs PCI: fix pciehp_free_irq() PCI Hotplug: fakephp: fix deadlock... again PCI: Fix printk warnings in setup-bus.c PCI: Fix printk warnings in probe.c PCI/iommu: blacklist DMAR on Intel G31/G33 chipsets
2008-09-13Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: niu: panic on reset netlink: fix overrun in attribute iteration [Bluetooth] Fix regression from using default link policy ath9k: Assign seq# when mac80211 requests this
2008-09-13Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: sparc: Fix user_regset 'n' field values. sparc64: Fix PCI error interrupt registry on PSYCHO. sparc32: Fix function signature of of_bus_sbus_get_flags(). sparc64: Fix interrupt register calculations on Psycho and Sabre.
2008-09-13memstick: fix MSProHG 8-bit interface mode supportAlex Dubov
- 8-bit interface mode never worked properly. The only adapter I have which supports the 8b mode (the Jmicron) had some problems with its clock wiring and they discovered it only now. We also discovered that ProHG media is more sensitive to the ordering of initialization commands. - Make the driver fall back to highest supported mode instead of always falling back to serial. The driver will attempt the switch to 8b mode for any new MSPro card, but not all of them support it. Previously, these new cards ended up in serial mode, which is not the best idea (they work fine with 4b, after all). - Edit some macros for better conformance to Sony documentation Signed-off-by: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13rescan_partitions(): make device capacity errors non-fatalAndrew Morton
Herton Krzesinski reports that the error-checking changes in 04ebd4aee52b06a2c38127d9208546e5b96f3a19 ("block/ioctl.c and fs/partition/check.c: check value returned by add_partition") cause his buggy USB camera to no longer mount. "The camera is an Olympus X-840. The original issue comes from the camera itself: its format program creates a partition with an off by one error". Buggy devices happen. It is better for the kernel to warn and to proceed with the mount. Reported-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br> Cc: Abdel Benamrouche <draconux@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13spi_s3c24xx: fix section warningBen Dooks
Fix the section mismatch warning generated by the incorrect naming of s3c24xx_spidrv which should be s3c24xx_spi_driver: WARNING: drivers/spi/spi_s3c24xx.o(.data+0x4): Section mismatch in reference from the variable s3c24xx_spidrv to the (unknown reference) .exit.text:(unknown) Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13atmel_lcdfb: disable LCD and DMA engines when suspendingHaavard Skinnemoen
When suspending the system with atmel_lcdfb enabled, I sometimes see this: atmel_lcdfb atmel_lcdfb.0: FIFO underflow 0x10 Which can be explained by the fact that we're not stopping the LCD controller and its DMA engine when suspending, we're just gating the clocks to them. There's another potential issue which may be harder to trigger but much more nasty: If we gate the clocks at _just_ the right moment, e.g. when the DMA engine is doing a bus transaction, we may cause the DMA engine to violate the system bus protocol and cause a lockup. Avoid these issues by shutting down the LCD controller before entering suspend (and restarting it when resuming). This prevents the underrun from happening in the first place, and prevents whatever nastiness is happening when the bus clock stops in the middle of a DMA transfer. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com> Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13ia64: fix panic during `modprobe -r xpc'Robin Holt
If you are on ia64 and you modprobe xpc then modprobe -r xpc, you immediately get a panic. xpc depends on xp which depends on gru for a symbol. That symbol is only used when we are running on UV hardware. Currently, the GRU driver detects we are not on UV hardware and does no initializing. It does not do the same check when unloading. As a result, the gru driver attempts to tear down stuff that was not setup. This is a simple two-line workaround to get us through this release. Once 2.6.28 is opened, we need to rework the symbols that xp is depending on from gru so the gru driver can properly fail to load when hardware is not available. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13MAINTAINERS: fix USB VIDEO CLASS mail list addressMing Lei
It should be linux-uvc-devel@lists.berlios.de. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13Documentation/ABI: /sys/class/gpioDavid Brownell
Provide summary ABI docs about the /sys/class/gpio files. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13mm: mark the correct zone as full when scanning zonelistsMel Gorman
The iterator for_each_zone_zonelist() uses a struct zoneref *z cursor when scanning zonelists to keep track of where in the zonelist it is. The zoneref that is returned corresponds to the the next zone that is to be scanned, not the current one. It was intended to be treated as an opaque list. When the page allocator is scanning a zonelist, it marks elements in the zonelist corresponding to zones that are temporarily full. As the zonelist is being updated, it uses the cursor here; if (NUMA_BUILD) zlc_mark_zone_full(zonelist, z); This is intended to prevent rescanning in the near future but the zoneref cursor does not correspond to the zone that has been found to be full. This is an easy misunderstanding to make so this patch corrects the problem by changing zoneref cursor to be the current zone being scanned instead of the next one. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.26.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13pxa2xx_spi: dma bugfixesNed Forrester
Fixes two DMA bugs in the pxa2xx_spi driver. The first bug is in all versions of this driver; the second was introduced in the 2.6.20 kernel, and prevents using the driver with chips like m25p16 flash (which can issue large DMA reads). 1. Zero length transfers are permitted for use to insert timing, but pxa2xx_spi.c will fail if this is requested in DMA mode. Fixed by using programmed I/O (PIO) mode for such transfers. 2. Transfers larger than 8191 are not permitted in DMA mode. A test for length rejects all large transfers regardless of DMA or PIO mode. Worked around by rejecting only large transfers with DMA mapped buffers, and forcing all other transfers larger than 8191 to use PIO mode. A rate limited warning is issued for DMA transfers forced to PIO mode. This patch should apply to all kernels back to and including 2.6.20; it was test patched against 2.6.20. An additional patch would be required for older kernels, but those versions are very buggy anyway. Signed-off-by: Ned Forrester <nforrester@whoi.edu> Cc: Vernon Sauder <vernoninhand@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13pxa2xx_spi: chipselect bugfixesNed Forrester
Fixes several chipselect bugs in the pxa2xx_spi driver. These bugs are in all versions of this driver and prevent using it with chips like m25p16 flash. 1. The spi_transfer.cs_change flag is handled too early: before spi_transfer.delay_usecs applies, thus making the delay ineffective at holding chip select. 2. spi_transfer.delay_usecs is ignored on the last transfer of a message (likewise not holding chipselect long enough). 3. If spi_transfer.cs_change is set on the last transfer, the chip select is always disabled, instead of the intended meaning: optionally holding chip select enabled for the next message. Those first three bugs were fixed with a relocation of delays and chip select de-assertions. 4. If a message has the cs_change flag set on the last transfer, and had the chip select stayed enabled as requested (see 3, above), it would not have been disabled if the next message is for a different chip. Fixed by dropping chip select regardless of cs_change at end of a message, if there is no next message or if the next message is for a different chip. This patch should apply to all kernels back to and including 2.6.20; it was test patched against 2.6.20. An additional patch would be required for older kernels, but those versions are very buggy anyway. Signed-off-by: Ned Forrester <nforrester@whoi.edu> Cc: Vernon Sauder <vernoninhand@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13spi_mpc83xx: reject invalid transfer sizesPeter Korsgaard
Error out on transfer length != multiple of bytes per word with -EINVAL. Fixes a buffer overrun crash if length < bytes per word. Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Acked-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13spi_mpc83xx: fix clockrate calculation for low speedPeter Korsgaard
Commit a61f5345 (spi_mpc83xx clockrate fixes) broke clockrate calculation for low speeds. SPMODE_DIV16 should be set if the divider is higher than 64, not only if the divider gets clipped to 1024. Furthermore, the clipping check was off by a factor 16 as well. Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13mm: ifdef Quicklists in /proc/meminfoHugh Dickins
A "Quicklists: 0 kB" line has just started appearing in /proc/meminfo, but most architectures (including x86) don't have them configured, so #ifdef it, like the highmem lines. And those architectures which do have quicklists configured are using them for page tables: so let's place it next to PageTables. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13bfs: fix Lockdep warningEric Sesterhenn
This fixes: ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] 2.6.27-rc5-00283-g70bb089 #68 --------------------------------------------- touch/6855 is trying to acquire lock: (&info->bfs_lock){--..}, at: [<c02262f5>] bfs_delete_inode+0x9e/0x18c but task is already holding lock: (&info->bfs_lock){--..}, at: [<c0226c00>] bfs_create+0x45/0x187 other info that might help us debug this: 2 locks held by touch/6855: #0: (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#5){--..}, at: [<c018ad13>] do_filp_open+0x10b/0x62f #1: (&info->bfs_lock){--..}, at: [<c0226c00>] bfs_create+0x45/0x187 stack backtrace: Pid: 6855, comm: touch Not tainted 2.6.27-rc5-00283-g70bb089 #68 [<c013e769>] validate_chain+0x458/0x9f4 [<c013bece>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0xd [<c013f36b>] __lock_acquire+0x666/0x6e0 [<c013f440>] lock_acquire+0x5b/0x77 [<c02262f5>] ? bfs_delete_inode+0x9e/0x18c [<c06aab74>] mutex_lock_nested+0xbc/0x234 [<c02262f5>] ? bfs_delete_inode+0x9e/0x18c [<c02262f5>] ? bfs_delete_inode+0x9e/0x18c [<c02262f5>] bfs_delete_inode+0x9e/0x18c [<c0226257>] ? bfs_delete_inode+0x0/0x18c [<c01925e1>] generic_delete_inode+0x94/0xfe [<c019265d>] generic_drop_inode+0x12/0x12f [<c0191b7e>] iput+0x4b/0x4e [<c0226d1e>] bfs_create+0x163/0x187 [<c0188b42>] vfs_create+0xa6/0x114 [<c018adb5>] do_filp_open+0x1ad/0x62f [<c0107cdc>] ? native_sched_clock+0x82/0x96 [<c06ac309>] ? _spin_unlock+0x27/0x3c [<c019379e>] ? alloc_fd+0xbf/0xc9 [<c06ae2f4>] ? sub_preempt_count+0x9d/0xab [<c019379e>] ? alloc_fd+0xbf/0xc9 [<c0180391>] do_sys_open+0x42/0xb8 [<c041d564>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0xc/0x10 [<c0180449>] sys_open+0x1e/0x26 [<c01038bd>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x31 ======================= The problem is that we don't unlock the bfs->lock mutex before calling iput (we do in the other cases). Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13coredump_filter: add description of bit 4Hidehiro Kawai
There is no description of bit 4 of coredump_filter in the documentation. This patch adds it. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13cpuset: hotplug documentation fixLi Zefan
If all the cpus in a cpuset are offlined, the tasks in it will be moved to the nearest ancestor with non-empty cpus. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13cpuset: avoid changing cpuset's cpus when -errno returnedLi Zefan
After the patch: commit 0b2f630a28d53b5a2082a5275bc3334b10373508 Author: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Fri Jul 25 01:47:21 2008 -0700 cpusets: restructure the function update_cpumask() and update_nodemask() It might happen that 'echo 0 > /cpuset/sub/cpus' returned failure but 'cpus' has been changed, because cpus was changed before calling heap_init() which may return -ENOMEM. This patch restores the orginal behavior. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13include/linux/ioport.h: add missing macro argument for devm_release_* familyHiroshi DOYU
akpm: these have no callers at this time, but they shall soon, so let's get them right. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Hiroshi DOYU <Hiroshi.DOYU@nokia.com> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13proc: more debugging for "already registered" caseAlexey Dobriyan
Print parent directory name as well. The aim is to catch non-creation of parent directory when proc_mkdir will return NULL and all subsequent registrations go directly in /proc instead of intended directory. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ Fixed insane printk string while at it. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13[libata] LBA28/LBA48 off-by-one bug in ata.hTaisuke Yamada
I recently bought 3 HGST P7K500-series 500GB SATA drives and had trouble accessing the block right on the LBA28-LBA48 border. Here's how it fails (same for all 3 drives): # dd if=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=1 skip=268435455 > /dev/null dd: reading `/dev/sdc': Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.288033 seconds, 0.0 kB/s # dmesg ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:f8:ff:ff/00:00:00:00:00/ef tag 0 dma 4096 in res 51/04:08:f8:ff:ff/00:00:00:00:00/ef Emask 0x1 (device error) ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } ata1.00: error: { ABRT } ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33 ata1: EH complete ... After some investigations, it turned out this seems to be caused by misinterpretation of the ATA specification on LBA28 access. Following part is the code in question: === include/linux/ata.h === static inline int lba_28_ok(u64 block, u32 n_block) { /* check the ending block number */ return ((block + n_block - 1) < ((u64)1 << 28)) && (n_block <= 256); } HGST drive (sometimes) fails with LBA28 access of {block = 0xfffffff, n_block = 1}, and this behavior seems to be comformant. Other drives, including other HGST drives are not that strict, through. >From the ATA specification: (http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/project/d1410r3b-ATA-ATAPI-6.pdf) 8.15.29 Word (61:60): Total number of user addressable sectors This field contains a value that is one greater than the total number of user addressable sectors (see 6.2). The maximum value that shall be placed in this field is 0FFFFFFFh. So the driver shouldn't use the value of 0xfffffff for LBA28 request as this exceeds maximum user addressable sector. The logical maximum value for LBA28 is 0xffffffe. The obvious fix is to cut "- 1" part, and the patch attached just do that. I've been using the patched kernel for about a month now, and the same fix is also floating on the net for some time. So I believe this fix works reliably. Just FYI, many Windows/Intel platform users also seems to be struck by this, and HGST has issued a note pointing to Intel ICH8/9 driver. "28-bit LBA command is being used to access LBAs 29-bits in length" http://www.hitachigst.com/hddt/knowtree.nsf/cffe836ed7c12018862565b000530c74/b531b8bce8745fb78825740f00580e23 Also, *BSDs seems to have similar fix included sometime around ~2004, through I have not checked out exact portion of the code. Signed-off-by: Taisuke Yamada <tai@rakugaki.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-09-13sata_inic162x: enable LED blinkingBob Stewart
Enable LED blinking. Signed-off-by: Bob Stewart <bob@evoria.net> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-09-13ata: duplicate variable sparse warningStephen Hemminger
drivers/ata/ata_piix.c:1502:7: warning: symbol 'rc' shadows an earlier one Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-09-13[ARM] Fix PCI_DMA_BUS_IS_PHYS for ARMRussell King
PCI_DMA_BUS_IS_PHYS was defined to be zero, which meant we ignored the DMA mask for IDE and SCSI transfers. This is wrong - we have no DMA translation hardware. We want to obey DMA masks so that the block layer performs bouncing itself. Reported-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-09-13Merge branch 'for-rmk' of ↵Russell King
git://pasiphae.extern.pengutronix.de/git/imx/linux-2.6.git
2008-09-13[ARM] 5247/1: tosa: SW_EAR_IN supportDmitry Baryshkov
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-09-13[ARM] 5246/1: tosa: add proper clock alias for tc6393xb clockDmitry Baryshkov
Add clock alias for clock that is used by tc6393xb device on tosa. As that chip plays pretty major part in tosa life and is currently disabled, this is 2.4.27 material. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-09-13[ARM] 5245/1: Fix warning about unused return value in drivers/pcmciaJürgen Schindele
Fix warning when compiling "drivers/pcmcia/soc-common.c" The return value of the function "device_create_file" was not used / assigned. Signed-off-by: Jrgen Schindele <linux@schindele.name> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-09-12PCI: re-add debug prints for unmodified BARsYinghai Lu
Print out for device BAR values before the kernel tries to update them. Also make related output use KERN_DEBUG. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-09-12niu: panic on resetSantwona Behera
The reset_task function in the niu driver does not reset the tx and rx buffers properly. This leads to panic on reset. This patch is a modified implementation of the previously posted fix. Signed-off-by: Santwona Behera <santwona.behera@sun.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-12sparc: Fix user_regset 'n' field values.David S. Miller
As noticed by Russell King, we were not setting this properly to the number of entries, but rather the total size. This results in the core dumping code allocating waayyyy too much memory. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-12sparc64: Fix PCI error interrupt registry on PSYCHO.David S. Miller
We need to pass IRQF_SHARED, otherwise we get things like: IRQ handler type mismatch for IRQ 33 current handler: PSYCHO_UE Call Trace: [000000000048394c] request_irq+0xac/0x120 [00000000007c5f6c] psycho_scan_bus+0x98/0x158 [00000000007c2bc0] pcibios_init+0xdc/0x12c [0000000000426a5c] do_one_initcall+0x1c/0x160 [00000000007c0180] kernel_init+0x9c/0xfc [0000000000427050] kernel_thread+0x30/0x60 [00000000006ae1d0] rest_init+0x10/0x60 on e3500 and similar systems. On a single board, the UE interrupts of two Psycho nodes are funneled through the same interrupt, from of_debug=3 dump: /pci@b,4000: direct translate 2ee --> 21 ... /pci@b,2000: direct translate 2ee --> 21 Decimal "33" mentioned above is the hex "21" mentioned here. Thanks to Meelis Roos for dumps and testing. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-11Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/holtmann/bluetooth-2.6
2008-09-11netlink: fix overrun in attribute iterationVegard Nossum
kmemcheck reported this: kmemcheck: Caught 16-bit read from uninitialized memory (f6c1ba30) 0500110001508abf050010000500000002017300140000006f72672e66726565 i i i i i i i i i i i i i u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u ^ Pid: 3462, comm: wpa_supplicant Not tainted (2.6.27-rc3-00054-g6397ab9-dirty #13) EIP: 0060:[<c05de64a>] EFLAGS: 00010296 CPU: 0 EIP is at nla_parse+0x5a/0xf0 EAX: 00000008 EBX: fffffffd ECX: c06f16c0 EDX: 00000005 ESI: 00000010 EDI: f6c1ba30 EBP: f6367c6c ESP: c0a11e88 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 CR0: 8005003b CR2: f781cc84 CR3: 3632f000 CR4: 000006d0 DR0: c0ead9bc DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 DR6: ffff4ff0 DR7: 00000400 [<c05d4b23>] rtnl_setlink+0x63/0x130 [<c05d5f75>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x165/0x200 [<c05ddf66>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x76/0xa0 [<c05d5dfe>] rtnetlink_rcv+0x1e/0x30 [<c05dda21>] netlink_unicast+0x281/0x290 [<c05ddbe9>] netlink_sendmsg+0x1b9/0x2b0 [<c05beef2>] sock_sendmsg+0xd2/0x100 [<c05bf945>] sys_sendto+0xa5/0xd0 [<c05bf9a6>] sys_send+0x36/0x40 [<c05c03d6>] sys_socketcall+0x1e6/0x2c0 [<c020353b>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x3f [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff This is the line in nla_ok(): /** * nla_ok - check if the netlink attribute fits into the remaining bytes * @nla: netlink attribute * @remaining: number of bytes remaining in attribute stream */ static inline int nla_ok(const struct nlattr *nla, int remaining) { return remaining >= sizeof(*nla) && nla->nla_len >= sizeof(*nla) && nla->nla_len <= remaining; } It turns out that remaining can become negative due to alignment in nla_next(). But GCC promotes "remaining" to unsigned in the test against sizeof(*nla) above. Therefore the test succeeds, and the nla_for_each_attr() may access memory outside the received buffer. A short example illustrating this point is here: #include <stdio.h> main(void) { printf("%d\n", -1 >= sizeof(int)); } ...which prints "1". This patch adds a cast in front of the sizeof so that GCC will make a signed comparison and fix the illegal memory dereference. With the patch applied, there is no kmemcheck report. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-12[Bluetooth] Fix regression from using default link policyMarcel Holtmann
To speed up the Simple Pairing connection setup, the support for the default link policy has been enabled. This is in contrast to settings the link policy on every connection setup. Using the default link policy is the preferred way since there is no need to dynamically change it for every connection. For backward compatibility reason and to support old userspace the HCISETLINKPOL ioctl has been switched over to using hci_request() to issue the HCI command for setting the default link policy instead of just storing it in the HCI device structure. However the hci_request() can only be issued when the device is brought up. If used on a device that is registered, but still down it will timeout and fail. This is problematic since the command is put on the TX queue and the Bluetooth core tries to submit it to hardware that is not ready yet. The timeout for these requests is 10 seconds and this causes a significant regression when setting up a new device. The userspace can perfectly handle a failure of the HCISETLINKPOL ioctl and will re-submit it later, but the 10 seconds delay causes a problem. So in case hci_request() is called on a device that is still down, just fail it with ENETDOWN to indicate what happens. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2008-09-11Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: sg: disable interrupts inside sg_copy_buffer
2008-09-11MN10300: Change the fault handler to check in_atomic() not in_interrupt()David Howells
Change the MN10300 fault handler to make it check in_atomic() rather than in_interrupt() as commit 6edaf68a87d17570790fd55f0c451a29ec1d6703 did for other architectures: Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Date: Wed Dec 6 20:32:18 2006 -0800 [PATCH] mm: arch do_page_fault() vs in_atomic() In light of the recent pagefault and filemap_copy_from_user work I've gone through all the arch pagefault handlers to make sure the inc_preempt_count() 'feature' works as expected. Several sections of code (including the new filemap_copy_from_user) rely on the fact that faults do not take locks under increased preempt count. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-11sg: disable interrupts inside sg_copy_bufferFUJITA Tomonori
The callers of sg_copy_buffer must disable interrupts before calling it (since it uses kmap_atomic). Some callers use it on interrupt-disabled code but some need to take the trouble to disable interrupts just for this. No wonder they forget about it and we hit a bug like: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11529 James said that it might be better to disable interrupts inside the function rather than risk the callers getting it wrong. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-09-11Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: block: disable sysfs parts of the disk command filter
2008-09-11Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.27' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm * 'kvm-updates/2.6.27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm: KVM: VMX: Always return old for clear_flush_young() when using EPT KVM: SVM: fix guest global tlb flushes with NPT KVM: SVM: fix random segfaults with NPT enabled