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This patch limits the number of pages per memory slot to make
us free from extra care about type issues.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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MOL uses its own hypercall interface to call back into userspace when
the guest wants to do something.
So let's implement that as an exit reason, specify it with a CAP and
only really use it when userspace wants us to.
The only user of it so far is MOL.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Some times we don't want all capabilities to be available to all
our vcpus. One example for that is the OSI interface, implemented
in the next patch.
In order to have a generic mechanism in how to enable capabilities
individually, this patch introduces a new ioctl that can be used
for this purpose. That way features we don't want in all guests or
userspace configurations can just not be enabled and we're good.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Userspace can tell us that it wants to trigger an interrupt. But
so far it can't tell us that it wants to stop triggering one.
So let's interpret the parameter to the ioctl that we have anyways
to tell us if we want to raise or lower the interrupt line.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
v2 -> v3:
- Add CAP for unset irq
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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So far user space was not able to save and restore debug registers for
migration or after reset. Plug this hole.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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The interrupt shadow created by STI or MOV-SS-like operations is part of
the VCPU state and must be preserved across migration. Transfer it in
the spare padding field of kvm_vcpu_events.interrupt.
As a side effect we now have to make vmx_set_interrupt_shadow robust
against both shadow types being set. Give MOV SS a higher priority and
skip STI in that case to avoid that VMX throws a fault on next entry.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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We need to tell userspace that we can emulate paired single instructions.
So let's add a capability export.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lrg/voltage-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lrg/voltage-2.6:
mc13783-regulator: fix a memory leak in mc13783_regulator_remove
regulator: Let drivers know when they use the stub API
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This patch increases the current hardcoded limit of NR_IOBUS_DEVS
from 6 to 200. We are hitting this limit when creating a guest with more
than 1 virtio-net device using vhost-net backend. Each virtio-net
device requires 2 such devices to service notifications from rx/tx queues.
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Int is not long enough to store the size of a dirty bitmap.
This patch fixes this problem with the introduction of a wrapper
function to calculate the sizes of dirty bitmaps.
Note: in mark_page_dirty(), we have to consider the fact that
__set_bit() takes the offset as int, not long.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
rcu: Make RCU lockdep check the lockdep_recursion variable
rcu: Update docs for rcu_access_pointer and rcu_dereference_protected
rcu: Better explain the condition parameter of rcu_dereference_check()
rcu: Add rcu_access_pointer and rcu_dereference_protected
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Have the stub variant of regulator_get() return NULL, so that drivers
can (but still don't have to) handle this case specifically.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Jerome Oufella <jerome.oufella@savoirfairelinux.com>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
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The lockdep facility temporarily disables lockdep checking by
incrementing the current->lockdep_recursion variable. Such
disabling happens in NMIs and in other situations where lockdep
might expect to recurse on itself.
This patch therefore checks current->lockdep_recursion, disabling RCU
lockdep splats when this variable is non-zero. In addition, this patch
removes the "likely()", as suggested by Lai Jiangshan.
Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100415195039.GA22623@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
firewire: cdev: change license of exported header files to MIT license
firewire: cdev: comment fixlet
firewire: cdev: iso packet documentation
firewire: cdev: fix information leak
firewire: cdev: require quadlet-aligned headers for transmit packets
firewire: cdev: disallow receive packets without header
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
Input: wacom - switch mode upon system resume
Revert "Input: wacom - merge out and in prox events"
Input: matrix_keypad - allow platform to disable key autorepeat
Input: ALPS - add signature for HP Pavilion dm3 laptops
Input: i8042 - spelling fix
Input: sparse-keymap - implement safer freeing of the keymap
Input: update the status of the Multitouch X driver project
Input: clarify the no-finger event in multitouch protocol
Input: bcm5974 - retract efi-broken suspend_resume
Input: sparse-keymap - free the right keymap on error
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Among else, this allows projects like libdc1394 to carry copies of the
ABI related header files without them or distributors having to worry
about effects on the project's overall license terms. Switch to MIT
license as suggested by Kristian. Also update the year in the
copyright statement according to source history.
Cc: Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net>
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Better explain the condition parameter of
rcu_dereference_check() that describes the conditions under
which the dereference is permitted to take place (and
incorporate Yong Zhang's suggestion). This condition is only
checked under lockdep proving.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <1270852752-25278-2-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch adds variants of rcu_dereference() that handle
situations where the RCU-protected data structure cannot change,
perhaps due to our holding the update-side lock, or where the
RCU-protected pointer is only to be fetched, not dereferenced.
These are needed due to some performance concerns with using
rcu_dereference() where it is not required, aside from the need
for lockdep/sparse checking.
The new rcu_access_pointer() primitive is for the case where the
pointer is be fetch and not dereferenced. This primitive may be
used without protection, RCU or otherwise, due to the fact that
it uses ACCESS_ONCE().
The new rcu_dereference_protected() primitive is for the case
where updates are prevented, for example, due to holding the
update-side lock. This primitive does neither ACCESS_ONCE() nor
smp_read_barrier_depends(), so can only be used when updates are
somehow prevented.
Suggested-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <1270852752-25278-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arnaud Giersch reports that NFSv4 locking is broken when we hold a
delegation since commit 8e469ebd6dc32cbaf620e134d79f740bf0ebab79 (NFSv4:
Don't allow posix locking against servers that don't support it).
According to Arnaud, the lock succeeds the first time he opens the file
(since we cannot do a delegated open) but then fails after we start using
delegated opens.
The following patch fixes it by ensuring that locking behaviour is
governed by a per-filesystem capability flag that is initially set, but
gets cleared if the server ever returns an OPEN without the
NFS4_OPEN_RESULT_LOCKTYPE_POSIX flag being set.
Reported-by: Arnaud Giersch <arnaud.giersch@iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Add the missing documentation for iso packets.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (34 commits)
cfq-iosched: Fix the incorrect timeslice accounting with forced_dispatch
loop: Update mtime when writing using aops
block: expose the statistics in blkio.time and blkio.sectors for the root cgroup
backing-dev: Handle class_create() failure
Block: Fix block/elevator.c elevator_get() off-by-one error
drbd: lc_element_by_index() never returns NULL
cciss: unlock on error path
cfq-iosched: Do not merge queues of BE and IDLE classes
cfq-iosched: Add additional blktrace log messages in CFQ for easier debugging
i2o: Remove the dangerous kobj_to_i2o_device macro
block: remove 16 bytes of padding from struct request on 64bits
cfq-iosched: fix a kbuild regression
block: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP visible
Remove GENHD_FL_DRIVERFS
block: Export max number of segments and max segment size in sysfs
block: Finalize conversion of block limits functions
block: Fix overrun in lcm() and move it to lib
vfs: improve writeback_inodes_wb()
paride: fix off-by-one test
drbd: fix al-to-on-disk-bitmap for 4k logical_block_size
...
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radix_tree_tag_get() is not safe to use concurrently with radix_tree_tag_set()
or radix_tree_tag_clear(). The problem is that the double tag_get() in
radix_tree_tag_get():
if (!tag_get(node, tag, offset))
saw_unset_tag = 1;
if (height == 1) {
int ret = tag_get(node, tag, offset);
may see the value change due to the action of set/clear. RCU is no protection
against this as no pointers are being changed, no nodes are being replaced
according to a COW protocol - set/clear alter the node directly.
The documentation in linux/radix-tree.h, however, says that
radix_tree_tag_get() is an exception to the rule that "any function modifying
the tree or tags (...) must exclude other modifications, and exclude any
functions reading the tree".
The problem is that the next statement in radix_tree_tag_get() checks that the
tag doesn't vary over time:
BUG_ON(ret && saw_unset_tag);
This has been seen happening in FS-Cache:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-cachefs/2010-April/msg00013.html
To this end, remove the BUG_ON() from radix_tree_tag_get() and note in various
comments that the value of the tag may change whilst the RCU read lock is held,
and thus that the return value of radix_tree_tag_get() may not be relied upon
unless radix_tree_tag_set/clear() and radix_tree_delete() are excluded from
running concurrently with it.
Reported-by: Romain DEGEZ <romain.degez@smartjog.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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As suggested by Linus, introduce a kern_ptr_validate() helper that does some
sanity checks to make sure a pointer is a valid kernel pointer. This is a
preparational step for fixing SLUB kmem_ptr_validate().
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Most drives from Seagate, Hitachi, and possibly other brands,
do not allow LBA28 access to sector number 0x0fffffff (2^28 - 1).
So instead use LBA48 for such accesses.
This bug could bite a lot of systems, especially when the user has
taken care to align partitions to 4KB boundaries. On misaligned systems,
it is less likely to be encountered, since a 4KB read would end at
0x10000000 rather than at 0x0fffffff.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/ide-2.6:
ide: Fix IDE taskfile with cfq scheduler
ide: Must hold queue lock when requeueing
ide: Requeue request after DMA timeout
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Move MULTIPORT feature and related config changes
out of exported headers, and disable the feature
at runtime.
At this point, it seems less risky to keep code around
until we can enable it than rip it out completely.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Fix double enable_IR_x2apic() call on SMP kernel on !SMP boards
x86: Increase CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT max to 10
ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region() to find_ibft_region()
x86, hpet: Fix bug in RTC emulation
x86, hpet: Erratum workaround for read after write of HPET comparator
bootmem, x86: Fix 32bit numa system without RAM on node 0
nobootmem, x86: Fix 32bit numa system without RAM on node 0
x86: Handle overlapping mptables
x86: Make e820_remove_range to handle all covered case
x86-32, resume: do a global tlb flush in S4 resume
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Presently, memcg's FILE_MAPPED accounting has following race with
move_account (happens at rmdir()).
increment page->mapcount (rmap.c)
mem_cgroup_update_file_mapped() move_account()
lock_page_cgroup()
check page_mapped() if
page_mapped(page)>1 {
FILE_MAPPED -1 from old memcg
FILE_MAPPED +1 to old memcg
}
.....
overwrite pc->mem_cgroup
unlock_page_cgroup()
lock_page_cgroup()
FILE_MAPPED + 1 to pc->mem_cgroup
unlock_page_cgroup()
Then,
old memcg (-1 file mapped)
new memcg (+2 file mapped)
This happens because move_account see page_mapped() which is not guarded
by lock_page_cgroup(). This patch adds FILE_MAPPED flag to page_cgroup
and move account information based on it. Now, all checks are synchronous
with lock_page_cgroup().
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When we look into pagemap using page-types with option -p, the value of
pfn for hugepages looks wrong (see below.) This is because pte was
evaluated only once for one vma although it should be updated for each
hugepage. This patch fixes it.
$ page-types -p 3277 -Nl -b huge
voffset offset len flags
7f21e8a00 11e400 1 ___U___________H_G________________
7f21e8a01 11e401 1ff ________________TG________________
^^^
7f21e8c00 11e400 1 ___U___________H_G________________
7f21e8c01 11e401 1ff ________________TG________________
^^^
One hugepage contains 1 head page and 511 tail pages in x86_64 and each
two lines represent each hugepage. Voffset and offset mean virtual
address and physical address in the page unit, respectively. The
different hugepages should not have the same offset value.
With this patch applied:
$ page-types -p 3386 -Nl -b huge
voffset offset len flags
7fec7a600 112c00 1 ___UD__________H_G________________
7fec7a601 112c01 1ff ________________TG________________
^^^
7fec7a800 113200 1 ___UD__________H_G________________
7fec7a801 113201 1ff ________________TG________________
^^^
OK
More info:
- This patch modifies walk_page_range()'s hugepage walker. But the
change only affects pagemap_read(), which is the only caller of hugepage
callback.
- Without this patch, hugetlb_entry() callback is called per vma, that
doesn't match the natural expectation from its name.
- With this patch, hugetlb_entry() is called per hugepte entry and the
callback can become much simpler.
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When __ratelimit() returns 1 this means that we can go ahead.
Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang@windriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Requested by hch, for consistency now it is exported.
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit 148f948ba877f4d3cdef036b1ff6d9f68986706a (vfs: Introduce new
helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode) broke
the raw driver.
We now call through generic_file_aio_write -> generic_write_sync ->
vfs_fsync_range. vfs_fsync_range has:
if (!fop || !fop->fsync) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto out;
}
But drivers/char/raw.c doesn't set an fsync method.
We have two options: fix it or remove the raw driver completely. I'm
happy to do either, the fact this has been broken for so long suggests it
is rarely used.
The patch below adds an fsync method to the raw driver. My knowledge of
the block layer is pretty sketchy so this could do with a once over.
If we instead decide to remove the raw driver, this patch might still be
useful as a backport to 2.6.33 and 2.6.32.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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DECLARE_KFIFO creates a union with a struct kfifo and a buffer array with
size [size + sizeof(struct kfifo)].
INIT_KFIFO then sets the buffer pointer in struct kfifo to point to the
beginning of the buffer array which means that the first call to kfifo_in
will overwrite members of the struct kfifo.
Signed-off-by: David Härdeman <david@hardeman.nu>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Migration has been completed so remove this now. There's one straggler in
linux-next's drivers/mtd/sm_ftl.c. A patch has been sent.
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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: unlock HPA if device shrunk
libata: disable NCQ on Crucial C300 SSD
libata: don't whine on spurious IRQ
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Some BIOSes don't configure HPA during boot but do so while resuming.
This causes harddrives to shrink during resume making libata detach
and reattach them. This can be worked around by unlocking HPA if old
size equals native size.
Add ATA_DFLAG_UNLOCK_HPA so that HPA unlocking can be controlled
per-device and update ata_dev_revalidate() such that it sets
ATA_DFLAG_UNLOCK_HPA and fails with -EIO when the above condition is
detected.
This patch fixes the following bug.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15396
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Oleksandr Yermolenko <yaa.bta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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In an embedded system the matrix_keypad driver might be used to
interface with an external control panel and not an actual keyboard.
On the control panel some of the keys could be used to turn on/off
various functions. If key autorepeat is enabled this causes the
function to quickly toggle between the on and off states and makes
operation difficult.
Add an option in the platform-specific data to disable the key
autorepeat.
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
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Module refcounting is implemented with a per-cpu counter for speed.
However there is a race when tallying the counter where a reference may
be taken by one CPU and released by another. Reference count summation
may then see the decrement without having seen the previous increment,
leading to lower than expected count. A module which never has its
actual reference drop below 1 may return a reference count of 0 due to
this race.
Module removal generally runs under stop_machine, which prevents this
race causing bugs due to removal of in-use modules. However there are
other real bugs in module.c code and driver code (module_refcount is
exported) where the callers do not run under stop_machine.
Fix this by maintaining running per-cpu counters for the number of
module refcount increments and the number of refcount decrements. The
increments are tallied after the decrements, so any decrement seen will
always have its corresponding increment counted. The final refcount is
the difference of the total increments and decrements, preventing a
low-refcount from being returned.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* 'slabh' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc:
eeepc-wmi: include slab.h
staging/otus: include slab.h from usbdrv.h
percpu: don't implicitly include slab.h from percpu.h
kmemcheck: Fix build errors due to missing slab.h
include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
iwlwifi: don't include iwl-dev.h from iwl-devtrace.h
x86: don't include slab.h from arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_32.h
Fix up trivial conflicts in include/linux/percpu.h due to
is_kernel_percpu_address() having been introduced since the slab.h
cleanup with the percpu_up.c splitup.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
module: add stub for is_module_percpu_address
percpu, module: implement and use is_kernel/module_percpu_address()
module: encapsulate percpu handling better and record percpu_size
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf: Always build the powerpc perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs version
perf: Always build the stub perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs version
perf, probe-finder: Build fix on Debian
perf/scripts: Tuple was set from long in both branches in python_process_event()
perf: Fix 'perf sched record' deadlock
perf, x86: Fix callgraphs of 32-bit processes on 64-bit kernels
perf, x86: Fix AMD hotplug & constraint initialization
x86: Move notify_cpu_starting() callback to a later stage
x86,kgdb: Always initialize the hw breakpoint attribute
perf: Use hot regs with software sched switch/migrate events
perf: Correctly align perf event tracing buffer
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* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
ARM: 5965/1: Fix soft lockup in at91 udc driver
ARM: 6006/1: ARM: Use the correct NOP size in memmove for Thumb-2 kernel builds
ARM: 6005/1: arm: kprobes: fix register corruption with jprobes
ARM: 6003/1: removing compilation warning from pl061.h
ARM: 6001/1: removing compilation warning comming from clkdev.h
ARM: 6000/1: removing compilation warning comming from <asm/irq.h>
ARM: 5999/1: Including device.h and resource.h header files in linux/amba/bus.h
ARM: 5997/1: ARM: Correct the VFPv3 detection
ARM: 5996/1: ARM: Change the mandatory barriers implementation (4/4)
ARM: 5995/1: ARM: Add L2x0 outer_sync() support (3/4)
ARM: 5994/1: ARM: Add outer_cache_fns.sync function pointer (2/4)
ARM: 5993/1: ARM: Move the outer_cache definitions into a separate file (1/4)
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6
* 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
Freezer: Fix buggy resume test for tasks frozen with cgroup freezer
Freezer: Only show the state of tasks refusing to freeze
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/urgent
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This allows arch code could decide the way to reserve the ibft.
And we should reserve ibft as early as possible, instead of BOOTMEM
stage, in case the table is in RAM range and is not reserved by BIOS
(this will often be the case.)
Move to just after find_smp_config().
Also when CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM=y, We will not have reserve_bootmem() anymore.
-v2: fix typo about ibft pointed by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4BB510FB.80601@kernel.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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I noticed that my KVM virtual machines were experiencing IDE
issues resulting in processes stuck on waiting for buffers to
complete.
The root cause is of course race conditions in the ancient qemu
backend that I'm using. However, the fact that the guest isn't
recovering is a bug.
I've tracked it down to the change made last year to dequeue
requests at the start rather than at the end in the IDE layer.
commit 8f6205cd572fece673da0255d74843680f67f879
Author: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: Fri May 8 11:53:59 2009 +0900
ide: dequeue in-flight request
The problem is that the function ide_dma_timeout_retry does not
requeue the current request, causing one request to be lost for
each DMA timeout.
This patch fixes this by requeueing the request.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Scheduler's task migration events don't work because they always
pass NULL regs perf_sw_event(). The event hence gets filtered
in perf_swevent_add().
Scheduler's context switches events use task_pt_regs() to get
the context when the event occured which is a wrong thing to
do as this won't give us the place in the kernel where we went
to sleep but the place where we left userspace. The result is
even more wrong if we switch from a kernel thread.
Use the hot regs snapshot for both events as they belong to the
non-interrupt/exception based events family. Unlike page faults
or so that provide the regs matching the exact origin of the event,
we need to save the current context.
This makes the task migration event working and fix the context
switch callchains and origin ip.
Example: perf record -a -e cs
Before:
10.91% ksoftirqd/0 0 [k] 0000000000000000
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--- (nil)
perf_callchain
perf_prepare_sample
__perf_event_overflow
perf_swevent_overflow
perf_swevent_add
perf_swevent_ctx_event
do_perf_sw_event
__perf_sw_event
perf_event_task_sched_out
schedule
run_ksoftirqd
kthread
kernel_thread_helper
After:
23.77% hald-addon-stor [kernel.kallsyms] [k] schedule
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--- schedule
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|--60.00%-- schedule_timeout
| wait_for_common
| wait_for_completion
| blk_execute_rq
| scsi_execute
| scsi_execute_req
| sr_test_unit_ready
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| |--66.67%-- sr_media_change
| | media_changed
| | cdrom_media_changed
| | sr_block_media_changed
| | check_disk_change
| | cdrom_open
v2: Always build perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs() now that software
events need that too. They don't need it from modules, unlike trace
events, so we keep the EXPORT_SYMBOL in trace_event_perf.c
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Fix build for CONFIG_MODULES not enabled by providing a stub
for is_module_percpu_address().
kernel/lockdep.c:605: error: implicit declaration of function 'is_module_percpu_address'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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