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commit 856bf4d717feb8c55d4e2f817b71ebb70cfbc67b upstream.
s_syncing livelock avoidance was breaking data integrity guarantee of
sys_sync, by allowing sys_sync to skip writing or waiting for superblocks
if there is a concurrent sys_sync happening.
This livelock avoidance is much less important now that we don't have the
get_super_to_sync() call after every sb that we sync. This was replaced
by __put_super_and_need_restart.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit 4f5a99d64c17470a784a6c68064207d82e3e74a5 upstream.
Remove WB_SYNC_HOLD. The primary motiviation is the design of my
anti-starvation code for fsync. It requires taking an inode lock over the
sync operation, so we could run into lock ordering problems with multiple
inodes. It is possible to take a single global lock to solve the ordering
problem, but then that would prevent a future nice implementation of "sync
multiple inodes" based on lock order via inode address.
Seems like a backward step to remove this, but actually it is busted
anyway: we can't use the inode lists for data integrity wait: an inode can
be taken off the dirty lists but still be under writeback. In order to
satisfy data integrity semantics, we should wait for it to finish
writeback, but if we only search the dirty lists, we'll miss it.
It would be possible to have a "writeback" list, for sys_sync, I suppose.
But why complicate things by prematurely optimise? For unmounting, we
could avoid the "livelock avoidance" code, which would be easier, but
again premature IMO.
Fixing the existing data integrity problem will come next.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit 25ff1c316f6a763f1eefe7f8984b2d8c03888432 upstream.
This patch (as1189c) adds some hacks to usb-storage for dealing with
the growing problems involving bad capacity values and last-sector
accesses:
A new flag, US_FL_CAPACITY_OK, is created to indicate that
the device is known to report its capacity correctly. An
unusual_devs entry for Linux's own File-backed Storage Gadget
is added with this flag set, since g_file_storage always
reports the correct capacity and since the capacity need
not be even (it is determined by the size of the backing
file).
An entry in unusual_devs.h which has only the CAPACITY_OK
flag set shouldn't prejudice libusual, since the device will
work perfectly well with either usb-storage or ub. So a
new macro, COMPLIANT_DEV, is added to let libusual know
about these entries.
When a last-sector access fails three times in a row and
neither the FIX_CAPACITY nor the CAPACITY_OK flag is set,
we assume the last-sector bug is present. We replace the
existing status and sense data with values that will cause
the SCSI core to fail the access immediately rather than
retry indefinitely. This should fix the difficulties
people have been having with Nokia phones.
This version of the patch differs from the version accepted into the
mainline only in that it does not trigger a WARN() when an
odd-numbered last-sector access succeeds. In a stable kernel series
we don't want to go around spamming users' logs and consoles for no
good reason.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit 18e6959c385f3edf3991fa6662a53dac4eb10d5b upstream.
This assertion is incorrect for lockless pagecache. By definition if we
have an unpinned page that we are trying to take a speculative reference
to, it may become the tail of a compound page at any time (if it is
freed, then reallocated as a compound page).
It was still a valid assertion for the vmscan.c LRU isolation case, but
it doesn't seem incredibly helpful... if somebody wants it, they can
put it back directly where it applies in the vmscan code.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit e8c82c2e23e3527e0c9dc195e432c16784d270fa upstream.
An XFS workload showed up a bug in the lockless pagecache patch. Basically it
would go into an "infinite" loop, although it would sometimes be able to break
out of the loop! The reason is a missing compiler barrier in the "increment
reference count unless it was zero" case of the lockless pagecache protocol in
the gang lookup functions.
This would cause the compiler to use a cached value of struct page pointer to
retry the operation with, rather than reload it. So the page might have been
removed from pagecache and freed (refcount==0) but the lookup would not correctly
notice the page is no longer in pagecache, and keep attempting to increment the
refcount and failing, until the page gets reallocated for something else. This
isn't a data corruption because the condition will be detected if the page has
been reallocated. However it can result in a lockup.
Linus points out that ACCESS_ONCE is also required in that pointer load, even
if it's absence is not causing a bug on our particular build. The most general
way to solve this is just to put an rcu_dereference in radix_tree_deref_slot.
Assembly of find_get_pages,
before:
.L220:
movq (%rbx), %rax #* ivtmp.1162, tmp82
movq (%rax), %rdi #, prephitmp.1149
.L218:
testb $1, %dil #, prephitmp.1149
jne .L217 #,
testq %rdi, %rdi # prephitmp.1149
je .L203 #,
cmpq $-1, %rdi #, prephitmp.1149
je .L217 #,
movl 8(%rdi), %esi # <variable>._count.counter, c
testl %esi, %esi # c
je .L218 #,
after:
.L212:
movq (%rbx), %rax #* ivtmp.1109, tmp81
movq (%rax), %rdi #, ret
testb $1, %dil #, ret
jne .L211 #,
testq %rdi, %rdi # ret
je .L197 #,
cmpq $-1, %rdi #, ret
je .L211 #,
movl 8(%rdi), %esi # <variable>._count.counter, c
testl %esi, %esi # c
je .L212 #,
(notice the obvious infinite loop in the first example, if page->count remains 0)
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit 2b66421995d2e93c9d1a0111acf2581f8529c6e5 upstream.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit d4e82042c4cfa87a7d51710b71f568fe80132551 upstream.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit ee6a093222549ac0c72cfd296c69fa5e7d6daa34 upstream.
This enables the use of syscall wrappers to do proper sign extension
for 64-bit programs.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit 1a94bc34768e463a93cb3751819709ab0ea80a01 upstream.
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
By selecting HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS architectures can activate
system call wrappers in order to sign extend system call arguments.
All architectures where the ABI defines that the caller of a function
has to perform sign extension probably need this.
Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit e55380edf68796d75bf41391a781c68ee678587d upstream.
This way it matches the generic system call name convention.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit 2ed7c03ec17779afb4fcfa3b8c61df61bd4879ba upstream.
Convert all system calls to return a long. This should be a NOP since all
converted types should have the same size anyway.
With the exception of sys_exit_group which returned void. But that doesn't
matter since the system call doesn't return.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit 4c696ba7982501d43dea11dbbaabd2aa8a19cc42 upstream.
Move declarations to correct header file.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit 4ae8978cf92a96257cd8998a49e781be83571d64 upstream.
The problems lie in the types used for some inotify interfaces, both at the kernel level and at the glibc level. This mail addresses the kernel problem. I will follow up with some suggestions for glibc changes.
For the sys_inotify_rm_watch() interface, the type of the 'wd' argument is
currently 'u32', it should be '__s32' . That is Robert's suggestion, and
is consistent with the other declarations of watch descriptors in the
kernel source, in particular, the inotify_event structure in
include/linux/inotify.h:
struct inotify_event {
__s32 wd; /* watch descriptor */
__u32 mask; /* watch mask */
__u32 cookie; /* cookie to synchronize two events */
__u32 len; /* length (including nulls) of name */
char name[0]; /* stub for possible name */
};
The patch makes the changes needed for inotify_rm_watch().
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit 1c5745aa380efb6417b5681104b007c8612fb496 upstream.
Redo:
5b7dba4: sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards
which had to be reverted due to s2ram hangs:
ca7e716: Revert "sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards"
... this time with resume restoring GTOD later in the sequence
taken into account as well.
The "timekeeping_suspended" flag is not very nice but we cannot call into
GTOD before it has been properly resumed and the scheduler will run very
early in the resume sequence.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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commit 54566b2c1594c2326a645a3551f9d989f7ba3c5e upstream.
With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it
could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the
allocations happened. They are done in write_begin, which would always
assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim. This bug could
cause filesystem deadlocks.
The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really
allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be
called. It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to
take the page lock. The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS
anyway, so turn that into a single flag.
Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS. Filesystems can now act on
this flag in their write_begin function. Change __grab_cache_page to
accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there,
change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive
and does away with random leading underscores).
This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a
filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache
ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than
GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg. ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a
random example).
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Cleaned up the calling convention: just pass in the AOP flags
untouched to the grab_cache_page_write_begin() function. That
just simplifies everybody, and may even allow future expansion of the
logic. - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The ACPI interpreter usually runs with irqs enabled.
However, during suspend/resume it runs with
irqs disabled to evaluate _GTS/_BFS, as well as
by irqrouter_resume() which evaluates _CRS, _PRS, _SRS.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12252
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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acpi_early_init() was changed to over-write the cmdline param,
making it really inconvenient to set debug flags at boot-time.
Also,
This sets the default level to "info", which is what all the ACPI
drivers use. So to enable messages from drivers, you only have to
supply the "layer" (a.k.a. "component"). For non-"info" ACPI core
and ACPI interpreter messages, you have to supply both level and
layer masks, as before.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
bnx2: Fix bug in bnx2_free_rx_mem().
irda: Add irda_skb_cb qdisc related padding
jme: Fixed a typo
net: kernel BUG at drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:165!
drivers/net: starfire: Fix napi ->poll() weight handling
tlan: Fix pci memory unmapping
enc28j60: use netif_rx_ni() to deliver RX packets
tlan: Fix small (< 64 bytes) datagram transmissions
netfilter: ctnetlink: fix missing CTA_NAT_SEQ_UNSPEC
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We need to pad irda_skb_cb in order to keep it safe accross dev_queue_xmit()
calls. This is some ugly and temporary hack triggered by recent qisc code
changes.
Even though it fixes bugzilla.kernel.org bug #11795, it will be replaced by a
proper fix before 2.6.29 is released.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch fixes a comment and clarifies the documentation about the
endianness of descriptors. The current policy is that descriptors will
be little-endian at the API even on big-endian systems; however the
/proc/bus/usb API predates this policy and presents descriptors with
some multibyte fields byte-swapped.
Signed-off-by: Phil Endecott <usb_endian_patch@chezphil.org>
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch fixes an inconsistency in nfnetlink_conntrack.h that
I introduced myself. The problem is that CTA_NAT_SEQ_UNSPEC is
missing from enum ctattr_natseq. This inconsistency may lead to
problems in the message parsing in userspace (if the message
contains the CTA_NAT_SEQ_* attributes, of course).
This patch breaks backward compatibility, however, the only known
client of this code is libnetfilter_conntrack which indeed crashes
because it assumes the existence of CTA_NAT_SEQ_UNSPEC to do
the parsing.
The CTA_NAT_SEQ_* attributes were introduced in 2.6.25.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
Phonet: keep TX queue disabled when the device is off
SCHED: netem: Correct documentation comment in code.
netfilter: update rwlock initialization for nat_table
netlabel: Compiler warning and NULL pointer dereference fix
e1000e: fix double release of mutex
IA64: HP_SIMETH needs to depend upon NET
netpoll: fix race on poll_list resulting in garbage entry
ipv6: silence log messages for locally generated multicast
sungem: improve ethtool output with internal pcs and serdes
tcp: tcp_vegas cong avoid fix
sungem: Make PCS PHY support partially work again.
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Otherwise those using it in transition patches (eg. kvm) can't compile
with CONFIG_SMP=n:
arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c: In function 'make_all_cpus_request':
arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:380: error: implicit declaration of function 'smp_call_function_many'
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This reverts commit b1ee26bab14886350ba12a5c10cbc0696ac679bf, along with
the "fixes" for it that all just caused problems:
- c4c6fa9891f3d1bcaae4f39fb751d5302965b566 "radeonfb: fix problem with
color expansion & alignment"
- f3179748a157c21d44d929fd3779421ebfbeaa93 "radeonfb: Disable new color
expand acceleration unless explicitely enabled"
because even when disabled, it breaks for people. See
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12191
for the latest example.
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: Jean-Luc Coulon <jean.luc.coulon@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix __put_user_asm8() by jumping to the end label (3:) from the exception
handler, rather than jumping back to retry the second store instruction (label
2:).
Signed-off-by: Akira Takeuchi <takeuchi.akr@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Miles Lane tailing /sys files hit a BUG which Pekka Enberg has tracked
to my 966c8c12dc9e77f931e2281ba25d2f0244b06949 sprint_symbol(): use
less stack exposing a bug in slub's list_locations() -
kallsyms_lookup() writes a 0 to namebuf[KSYM_NAME_LEN-1], but that was
beyond the end of page provided.
The 100 slop which list_locations() allows at end of page looks roughly
enough for all the other stuff it might print after the symbol before
it checks again: break out KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN earlier than before.
Latencytop and ftrace and are using KSYM_NAME_LEN buffers where they
need KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN buffers, and vmallocinfo a 2*KSYM_NAME_LEN buffer
where it wants a KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN buffer: fix those before anyone copies
them.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: ftrace.h needs module.h]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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atomic_long_xchg() is not correctly defined for 32bit arches.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Revert
commit e8ced39d5e8911c662d4d69a342b9d053eaaac4e
Author: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Date: Fri Jul 11 19:27:31 2008 -0400
percpu_counter: new function percpu_counter_sum_and_set
As described in
revert "percpu counter: clean up percpu_counter_sum_and_set()"
the new percpu_counter_sum_and_set() is racy against updates to the
cpu-local accumulators on other CPUs. Revert that change.
This means that ext4 will be slow again. But correct.
Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.27.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Revert
commit 1f7c14c62ce63805f9574664a6c6de3633d4a354
Author: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Date: Thu Oct 9 12:50:59 2008 -0400
percpu counter: clean up percpu_counter_sum_and_set()
Before this patch we had the following:
percpu_counter_sum(): return the percpu_counter's value
percpu_counter_sum_and_set(): return the percpu_counter's value, copying
that value into the central value and zeroing the per-cpu counters before
returning.
After this patch, percpu_counter_sum_and_set() has gone, and
percpu_counter_sum() gets the old percpu_counter_sum_and_set()
functionality.
Problem is, as Eric points out, the old percpu_counter_sum_and_set()
functionality was racy and wrong. It zeroes out counters on "other" cpus,
without holding any locks which will prevent races agaist updates from
those other CPUS.
This patch reverts 1f7c14c62ce63805f9574664a6c6de3633d4a354. This means
that percpu_counter_sum_and_set() still has the race, but
percpu_counter_sum() does not.
Note that this is not a simple revert - ext4 has since started using
percpu_counter_sum() for its dirty_blocks counter as well.
Note that this revert patch changes percpu_counter_sum() semantics.
Before the patch, a call to percpu_counter_sum() will bring the counter's
central counter mostly up-to-date, so a following percpu_counter_read()
will return a close value.
After this patch, a call to percpu_counter_sum() will leave the counter's
central accumulator unaltered, so a subsequent call to
percpu_counter_read() can now return a significantly inaccurate result.
If there is any code in the tree which was introduced after
e8ced39d5e8911c662d4d69a342b9d053eaaac4e was merged, and which depends
upon the new percpu_counter_sum() semantics, that code will break.
Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.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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A few months back a race was discused between the netpoll napi service
path, and the fast path through net_rx_action:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2007/10/16/345470
A patch was submitted for that bug, but I think we missed a case.
Consider the following scenario:
INITIAL STATE
CPU0 has one napi_struct A on its poll_list
CPU1 is calling netpoll_send_skb and needs to call poll_napi on the same
napi_struct A that CPU0 has on its list
CPU0 CPU1
net_rx_action poll_napi
!list_empty (returns true) locks poll_lock for A
poll_one_napi
napi->poll
netif_rx_complete
__napi_complete
(removes A from poll_list)
list_entry(list->next)
In the above scenario, net_rx_action assumes that the per-cpu poll_list is
exclusive to that cpu. netpoll of course violates that, and because the netpoll
path can dequeue from the poll list, its possible for CPU0 to detect a non-empty
list at the top of the while loop in net_rx_action, but have it become empty by
the time it calls list_entry. Since the poll_list isn't surrounded by any other
structure, the returned data from that list_entry call in this situation is
garbage, and any number of crashes can result based on what exactly that garbage
is.
Given that its not fasible for performance reasons to place exclusive locks
arround each cpus poll list to provide that mutal exclusion, I think the best
solution is modify the netpoll path in such a way that we continue to guarantee
that the poll_list for a cpu is in fact exclusive to that cpu. To do this I've
implemented the patch below. It adds an additional bit to the state field in
the napi_struct. When executing napi->poll from the netpoll_path, this bit will
be set. When a driver calls netif_rx_complete, if that bit is set, it will not
remove the napi_struct from the poll_list. That work will be saved for the next
iteration of net_rx_action.
I've tested this and it seems to work well. About the biggest drawback I can
see to it is the fact that it might result in an extra loop through
net_rx_action in the event that the device is actually contended for (i.e. the
netpoll path actually preforms all the needed work no the device, and the call
to net_rx_action winds up doing nothing, except removing the napi_struct from
the poll_list. However I think this is probably a small price to pay, given
that the alternative is a crash.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current
* 'audit.b59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
[PATCH] fix broken timestamps in AVC generated by kernel threads
[patch 1/1] audit: remove excess kernel-doc
[PATCH] asm/generic: fix bug - kernel fails to build when enable some common audit code on Blackfin
[PATCH] return records for fork() both to child and parent
[PATCH] Audit: make audit=0 actually turn off audit
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Timestamp in audit_context is valid only if ->in_syscall is set.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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audit code on Blackfin
If you enable some common audit code, the kernel fails to build.
In file included from lib/audit.c:17:
include/asm-generic/audit_write.h:3: error: '__NR_swapon' undeclared here (not in a function)
make[1]: *** [lib/audit.o] Error 1
make: *** [lib] Error 2
So do not use __NR_swapon if it isnt defined for a port.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
tproxy: fixe a possible read from an invalid location in the socket match
zd1211rw: use unaligned safe memcmp() in-place of compare_ether_addr()
mac80211: use unaligned safe memcmp() in-place of compare_ether_addr()
ipw2200: fix netif_*_queue() removal regression
iwlwifi: clean key table in iwl_clear_stations_table function
tcp: tcp_vegas ssthresh bug fix
can: omit received RTR frames for single ID filter lists
ATM: CVE-2008-5079: duplicate listen() on socket corrupts the vcc table
netx-eth: initialize per device spinlock
tcp: make urg+gso work for real this time
enc28j60: Fix sporadic packet loss (corrected again)
hysdn: fix writing outside the field on 64 bits
b1isa: fix b1isa_exit() to really remove registered capi controllers
can: Fix CAN_(EFF|RTR)_FLAG handling in can_filter
Phonet: do not dump addresses from other namespaces
netlabel: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference
bnx2: Add workaround to handle missed MSI.
xfrm: Fix kernel panic when flush and dump SPD entries
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There's no point in having too short SG_IO timeouts, since if the
command does end up timing out, we'll end up through the reset sequence
that is several seconds long in order to abort the command that timed
out.
As a result, shorter timeouts than a few seconds simply do not make
sense, as the recovery would be longer than the timeout itself.
Add a BLK_MIN_SG_TIMEOUT to match the existign BLK_DEFAULT_SG_TIMEOUT.
Suggested-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Make sure all FMODE_ constants are documents, and ensure a coherent
style for the already existing comments.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Update FMODE_NDELAY before each ioctl call so that we can kill the
magic FMODE_NDELAY_NOW. It would be even better to do this directly
in setfl(), but for that we'd need to have FMODE_NDELAY for all files,
not just block special files.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Due to a wrong safety check in af_can.c it was not possible to filter
for SFF frames with a specific CAN identifier without getting the
same selected CAN identifier from a received EFF frame also.
This fix has a minimum (but user visible) impact on the CAN filter
API and therefore the CAN version is set to a new date.
Indeed the 'old' API is still working as-is. But when now setting
CAN_(EFF|RTR)_FLAG in can_filter.can_mask you might get less traffic
than before - but still the stuff that you expected to get for your
defined filter ...
Thanks to Kurt Van Dijck for pointing at this issue and for the review.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net>
Acked-by: Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.dijck@eia.be>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Fix setting of max_segment_size and seg_boundary mask for stacked md/dm
devices.
When stacking devices (LVM over MD over SCSI) some of the request queue
parameters are not set up correctly in some cases by default, namely
max_segment_size and and seg_boundary mask.
If you create MD device over SCSI, these attributes are zeroed.
Problem become when there is over this mapping next device-mapper mapping
- queue attributes are set in DM this way:
request_queue max_segment_size seg_boundary_mask
SCSI 65536 0xffffffff
MD RAID1 0 0
LVM 65536 -1 (64bit)
Unfortunately bio_add_page (resp. bio_phys_segments) calculates number of
physical segments according to these parameters.
During the generic_make_request() is segment cout recalculated and can
increase bio->bi_phys_segments count over the allowed limit. (After
bio_clone() in stack operation.)
Thi is specially problem in CCISS driver, where it produce OOPS here
BUG_ON(creq->nr_phys_segments > MAXSGENTRIES);
(MAXSEGENTRIES is 31 by default.)
Sometimes even this command is enough to cause oops:
dd iflag=direct if=/dev/<vg>/<lv> of=/dev/null bs=128000 count=10
This command generates bios with 250 sectors, allocated in 32 4k-pages
(last page uses only 1024 bytes).
For LVM layer, it allocates bio with 31 segments (still OK for CCISS),
unfortunatelly on lower layer it is recalculated to 32 segments and this
violates CCISS restriction and triggers BUG_ON().
The patch tries to fix it by:
* initializing attributes above in queue request constructor
blk_queue_make_request()
* make sure that blk_queue_stack_limits() inherits setting
(DM uses its own function to set the limits because it
blk_queue_stack_limits() was introduced later. It should probably switch
to use generic stack limit function too.)
* sets the default seg_boundary value in one place (blkdev.h)
* use this mask as default in DM (instead of -1, which differs in 64bit)
Bugs related to this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471639
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8672
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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blkdev_dequeue_request() and elv_dequeue_request() are equivalent and
both start the timeout timer. Barrier code dequeues the original
barrier request but doesn't passes the request itself to lower level
driver, only broken down proxy requests; however, as the original
barrier code goes through the same dequeue path and timeout timer is
started on it. If barrier sequence takes long enough, this timer
expires but the low level driver has no idea about this request and
oops follows.
Timeout timer shouldn't have been started on the original barrier
request as it never goes through actual IO. This patch unexports
elv_dequeue_request(), which has no external user anyway, and makes it
operate on elevator proper w/o adding the timer and make
blkdev_dequeue_request() call elv_dequeue_request() and add timer.
Internal users which don't pass the request to driver - barrier code
and end_that_request_last() - are converted to use
elv_dequeue_request().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (30 commits)
MAINTAINERS: add netdev to ATM
ATM: horizon, fix hrz_probe fail path
pppol2tp: Add missing sock_put() in pppol2tp_release()
net: Fix soft lockups/OOM issues w/ unix garbage collector
macvlan: don't broadcast PAUSE frames to macvlan devices
Phonet: fix oops in phonet_address_del() on non-Phonet device
netfilter: ctnetlink: fix GFP_KERNEL allocation under spinlock
sungem: Fix PCS_MIICTRL register write in gem_init_phy().
net: make skb_truesize_bug() call WARN()
net: hp-plus uses eip_poll
net/wireless/reg.c: fix bad WARN_ON in if statement
ath5k: disable beacon filter when station is not associated
ath5k: fix Security issue in DebugFS part of ath5k
ath9k: correct expected max RX buffer size
ath9k: Fix SW-IOMMU bounce buffer starvation
mac80211 : Fix setting ad-hoc mode and non-ibss channel
iwlagn: fix DMA sync
phylib: Add Vitesse VSC8221 SGMII PHY
rose: zero length frame filtering in af_rose.c
bridge: netfilter: fix update_pmtu crash with GRE
...
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6:
alim15x3: fix sparse warning
ide: remove dead code from drive_is_ready()
ide: fix build for DEBUG_PM
ide: respect current DMA setting during resume
ide: add SAMSUNG SP0822N with firmware WA100-10 to ivb_list[]
amd74xx: workaround unreliable AltStatus register for nVidia controllers
ide: fix the ide_release_lock imbalance
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6:
[SCSI] stex: switch to block timeout
[SCSI] make scsi_eh_try_stu use block timeout
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: switch to block timeout
[SCSI] ibmvscsi: switch to block timeout
[SCSI] aacraid: switch to block timeout
[SCSI] zfcp: prevent double decrement on host_busy while being busy
[SCSI] zfcp: fix deadlock between wq triggered port scan and ERP
[SCSI] zfcp: eliminate race between validation and locking
[SCSI] zfcp: verify for correct rport state before scanning for SCSI devs
[SCSI] zfcp: returning an ERR_PTR where a NULL value is expected
[SCSI] zfcp: Fix opening of wka ports
[SCSI] zfcp: fix remote port status check
[SCSI] fc_transport: fix old bug on bitflag definitions
[SCSI] Fix hang in starved list processing
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The previous patch from Alan Cox ("nfsd: fix vm overcommit crash",
commit 731572d39fcd3498702eda4600db4c43d51e0b26) fixed the problem where
knfsd crashes on exported shmemfs objects and strict overcommit is set.
But the patch forgot supporting the case when CONFIG_SECURITY is
disabled.
This patch copies a part of his fix which is mainly for detecting a bug
earlier.
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junjiro R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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It seems that on some nVidia controllers using AltStatus register
can be unreliable so default to Status register if the PCI device
is in Compatibility Mode. In order to achieve this:
* Add ide_pci_is_in_compatibility_mode() inline helper to <linux/ide.h>.
* Add IDE_HFLAG_BROKEN_ALTSTATUS host flag and set it in amd74xx host
driver for nVidia controllers in Compatibility Mode.
* Teach actual_try_to_identify() and drive_is_ready() about the new flag.
This fixes the regression caused by removal of CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ
config option in 2.6.25 and using AltStatus register unconditionally when
available (kernel.org bugs #11659 and #10216).
[ Moreover for CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y (which is what most people
and distributions use) it never worked correctly. ]
Thanks to Remy LABENE and Lars Winterfeld for help with debugging the problem.
More info at:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11659
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10216
Reported-by: Remy LABENE <remy.labene@free.fr>
Tested-by: Remy LABENE <remy.labene@free.fr>
Tested-by: Lars Winterfeld <lars.winterfeld@tu-ilmenau.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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2nd part of the fixes needed for
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11796.
When the idr tree is either grown or shrunk, then the update to the number
of layers and the top pointer were not atomic. This race caused crashes.
The attached patch fixes that by replicating the layers counter in each
layer, thus idr_find doesn't need idp->layers anymore.
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Clement Calmels <cboulte@gmail.com>
Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.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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It has been thought that the per-user file descriptors limit would also
limit the resources that a normal user can request via the epoll
interface. Vegard Nossum reported a very simple program (a modified
version attached) that can make a normal user to request a pretty large
amount of kernel memory, well within the its maximum number of fds. To
solve such problem, default limits are now imposed, and /proc based
configuration has been introduced. A new directory has been created,
named /proc/sys/fs/epoll/ and inside there, there are two configuration
points:
max_user_instances = Maximum number of devices - per user
max_user_watches = Maximum number of "watched" fds - per user
The current default for "max_user_watches" limits the memory used by epoll
to store "watches", to 1/32 of the amount of the low RAM. As example, a
256MB 32bit machine, will have "max_user_watches" set to roughly 90000.
That should be enough to not break existing heavy epoll users. The
default value for "max_user_instances" is set to 128, that should be
enough too.
This also changes the userspace, because a new error code can now come out
from EPOLL_CTL_ADD (-ENOSPC). The EMFILE from epoll_create() was already
listed, so that should be ok.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use get_current_user()]
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
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: blacklist Seagate drives which time out FLUSH_CACHE when used with NCQ
[libata] pata_rb532_cf: fix signature of the xfer function
[libata] pata_rb532_cf: fix and rename register definitions
ata_piix: add borked Tecra M4 to broken suspend list
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
IB/mlx4: Fix MTT leakage in resize CQ
IB/ehca: Fix problem with generated flush work completions
IB/ehca: Change misleading error message on memory hotplug
mlx4_core: Save/restore default port IB capability mask
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