Andrew Morton [Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:12:01 +0000 (01:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] build compile.h earlier
compile.h is created super-late in the build. But proc_misc.c want to include
it, and it's generally not sane to have a header file in include/linux be
created at the end of the build: it's either not present or, worse, wrong for
most of the build.
So the patch arranges for compile.h to be built at the start of the build
process. It also consolidates the compile.h rules with those for version.h
and utsname.h, so they all get built together.
I hope. My chances of having got this right are about 2%.
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ingo Molnar [Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:11:56 +0000 (01:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] sched: fix bad missed wakeups in the i386, x86_64, ia64, ACPI and APM idle code
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano reported frequent scheduling latencies and audio
xruns starting at the 2.6.18-rt kernel, and those problems persisted all
until current -rt kernels. The latencies were serious and unjustified by
system load, often in the milliseconds range.
After a patient and heroic multi-month effort of Fernando, where he
tested dozens of kernels, tried various configs, boot options,
test-patches of mine and provided latency traces of those incidents, the
following 'smoking gun' trace was captured by him:
what is visible in this trace is that CPU#1 ran try_to_wake_up() for
PID:5856, it placed PID:5856 on CPU#0's runqueue and ran resched_task()
for CPU#0. But it decided to not send an IPI that no CPU - due to
TS_POLLING. But CPU#0 never woke up after its NEED_RESCHED bit was set,
and only rescheduled to PID:5856 upon the next lapic timer IRQ. The
result was a 600+ usecs latency and a missed wakeup!
the bug turned out to be an idle-wakeup bug introduced into the mainline
kernel this summer via an optimization in the x86_64 tree:
[PATCH] i386/x86-64/ia64: Move polling flag into thread_info_status
During some profiling I noticed that default_idle causes a lot of
memory traffic. I think that is caused by the atomic operations
to clear/set the polling flag in thread_info. There is actually
no reason to make this atomic - only the idle thread does it
to itself, other CPUs only read it. So I moved it into ti->status.
the problem is this type of change:
if (!hlt_counter && boot_cpu_data.hlt_works_ok) {
- clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
+ current_thread_info()->status &= ~TS_POLLING;
smp_mb__after_clear_bit();
while (!need_resched()) {
local_irq_disable();
this changes clear_thread_flag() to an explicit clearing of TS_POLLING.
clear_thread_flag() is defined as:
clear_bit(flag, &ti->flags);
and clear_bit() is a LOCK-ed atomic instruction on all x86 platforms:
hence smp_mb__after_clear_bit() is defined as a simple compile barrier:
#define smp_mb__after_clear_bit() barrier()
but the explicit TS_POLLING clearing introduced by the patch:
+ current_thread_info()->status &= ~TS_POLLING;
is not an atomic op! So the clearing of the TS_POLLING bit is freely
reorderable with the reading of the NEED_RESCHED bit - and both now
reside in different memory addresses.
CPU idle wakeup very much depends on ordered memory ops, the clearing of
the TS_POLLING flag must always be done before we test need_resched()
and hit the idle instruction(s). [Symmetrically, the wakeup code needs
to set NEED_RESCHED before it tests the TS_POLLING flag, so memory
ordering is paramount.]
Fernando's dual-core Athlon64 system has a sufficiently advanced memory
ordering model so that it triggered this scenario very often.
( And it also turned out that the reason why these latencies never
triggered on my testsystems is that i routinely use idle=poll, which
was the only idle variant not affected by this bug. )
The fix is to change the smp_mb__after_clear_bit() to an smp_mb(), to
act as an absolute barrier between the TS_POLLING write and the
NEED_RESCHED read. This affects almost all idling methods (default,
ACPI, APM), on all 3 x86 architectures: i386, x86_64, ia64.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Hisashi Hifumi [Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:11:50 +0000 (01:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] jbd: wait for already submitted t_sync_datalist buffer to complete
In the current jbd code, if a buffer on BJ_SyncData list is dirty and not
locked, the buffer is refiled to BJ_Locked list, submitted to the IO and
waited for IO completion.
But the fsstress test showed the case that when a buffer was already
submitted to the IO just before the buffer_dirty(bh) check, the buffer was
not waited for IO completion.
Following patch solves this problem. If it is assumed that a buffer is
submitted to the IO before the buffer_dirty(bh) check and still being
written to disk, this buffer is refiled to BJ_Locked list.
Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown [Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:11:41 +0000 (01:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] md: fix a few problems with the interface (sysfs and ioctl) to md
While developing more functionality in mdadm I found some bugs in md...
- When we remove a device from an inactive array (write 'remove' to
the 'state' sysfs file - see 'state_store') would should not
update the superblock information - as we may not have
read and processed it all properly yet.
- initialise all raid_disk entries to '-1' else the 'slot sysfs file
will claim '0' for all devices in an array before the array is
started.
- all '\n' not to be present at the end of words written to
sysfs files
- when we use SET_ARRAY_INFO to set the md metadata version,
set the flag to say that there is persistant metadata.
- allow GET_BITMAP_FILE to be called on an array that hasn't
been started yet.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:11:36 +0000 (01:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] increase CARDBUS_MEM_SIZE
Linus sayeth:
Google knows everything, and finds, on MS own site no less:
"Windows 2000 default resources:
One 4K memory window
One 2 MB memory window
Two 256-byte I/O windows"
which is clearly utterly bogus and insufficient. But Microsoft apparently
realized this, and:
"Windows XP default resources:
Because one memory window of 4K and one window of 2 MB are not
sufficient for CardBus controllers in many configurations, Windows XP
allocates larger memory windows to CardBus controllers where possible.
However, resource windows are static (that is, the operating system
does not dynamically allocate larger memory windows if new devices
appear.) Under Windows XP, CardBus controllers will be assigned the
following resources:
One 4K memory window, as in Windows 2000
64 MB memory, if that amount of memory is available. If 64 MB is not
available the controller will receive 32 MB; if 32 MB is not available,
the controller will receive 16 MB; if 16 MB is not available, the
bridge will receive 8 MB; and so on down to a minimum assignment of 1
MB in configurations where memory is too constrained for the operating
system to provide a larger window.
Two 256-byte I/O windows"
So I think we have our answer. Windows uses one 4k window, and one 64MB
window. And they are no more dynamic than we are (we _could_ try to do it
dynamically, but let's face it, it's fairly painful to dynamically expand
PCI bus resources - you may need to reprogram everything up to the root,
so it would be absolutely crazy to do that unless you have some serious
masochistic tendencies).
So let's just increase our default value to 64M too.
Cc: Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@gmail.com> Cc: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] ptrace: Fix EFL_OFFSET value according to i386 pda changes
The PDA patches introduced a bug in ptrace: it reads eflags from the wrong
place on the target's stack, but writes it back to the correct place. The
result is a corrupted eflags, which is most visible when it turns interrupts
off unexpectedly.
This patch fixes this by making the ptrace code a little less fragile. It
changes [gs]et_stack_long to take a straightforward byte offset into struct
pt_regs, rather than requiring all callers to do a sizeof(struct pt_regs)
offset adjustment. This means that the eflag's offset (EFL_OFFSET) on the
target stack can be simply computed with offsetof().
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@free.fr> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Randy Dunlap [Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:10:50 +0000 (01:10 -0800)]
[PATCH] kernel-doc: allow unnamed structs/unions
Make kernel-doc support unnamed (anonymous) structs and unions. There is
one (union) in include/linux/skbuff.h (inside struct sk_buff) that is
currently generating a kernel-doc warning, so this fixes that warning.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Vadim Lobanov [Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:10:43 +0000 (01:10 -0800)]
[PATCH] fdtable: Provide free_fdtable() wrapper
Christoph Hellwig has expressed concerns that the recent fdtable changes
expose the details of the RCU methodology used to release no-longer-used
fdtable structures to the rest of the kernel. The trivial patch below
addresses these concerns by introducing the appropriate free_fdtable()
calls, which simply wrap the release RCU usage. Since free_fdtable() is a
one-liner, it makes sense to promote it to an inline helper.
Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Mackerras [Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:10:36 +0000 (01:10 -0800)]
[PATCH] gxt4500: Fix colormap and PLL setting, support GXT6000P
This fixes some bugs in the gxt4500 framebuffer driver, and adds support
for GXT6000P cards.
First, I had the red and blue channels swapped in the colormap update code,
resulting in penguins' noses and feet turning blue (though the penguins
weren't actually shivering :).
Secondly, the code that calculated the values to put in the PLL that
generates the pixel clock wasn't observing some constraints that I wasn't
originally aware of, but am now that I have some documentation on the chip.
The GXT6000P is essentially identical from software's point of view, except
for a different reference clock for the PLL, and the addition of a geometry
engine (which this driver doesn't use).
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Akinobu Mita [Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:10:09 +0000 (01:10 -0800)]
[PATCH] gss_spkm3: fix error handling in module init
Return error and prevent from loading module when gss_mech_register()
failed.
Cc: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu> Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Akinobu Mita [Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:10:02 +0000 (01:10 -0800)]
[PATCH] audit: fix kstrdup() error check
kstrdup() returns NULL on error.
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Yasunori Goto [Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:09:54 +0000 (01:09 -0800)]
[PATCH] compile error of register_memory()
register_memory() becomes double definition in 2.6.20-rc1. It is defined
in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c as static definition in 2.6.19. But it is
moved to arch/i386/kernel/e820.c in 2.6.20-rc1. And same name function is
defined in driver/base/memory.c too. So, it becomes cause of compile error
of duplicate definition if memory hotplug option is on.
Ed L. Cashin [Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:09:21 +0000 (01:09 -0800)]
[PATCH] fix aoe without scatter-gather [Bug 7662]
Fix a bug that only appears when AoE goes over a network card that does not
support scatter-gather. The headers in the linear part of the skb appeared
to be larger than they really were, resulting in data that was offset by 24
bytes.
This patch eliminates the offset data on cards that don't support
scatter-gather or have had scatter-gather turned off. There remains an
unrelated issue that I'll address in a separate email.
Robert P. J. Day [Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:09:11 +0000 (01:09 -0800)]
[PATCH] Add a new section to CodingStyle, promoting include/linux/kernel.h
Add a new section to the CodingStyle file, encouraging people not to
re-invent available kernel macros such as ARRAY_SIZE(), FIELD_SIZEOF(),
min() and max(), among others.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matthew Wilcox noticed that the debug_locks_silent use should be inverted
in DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(). This bug was causing spurious stacktraces and
incorrect failures in the locking self-test on the parisc kernel.
Bug-found-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The addition of copy_inode_size breaks eCryptfs, since eCryptfs needs to
interpolate the file sizes (eCryptfs has extra space in the lower file for
the header). The setting of the upper inode size occurs elsewhere in
eCryptfs, and the new copy_attr_all now undoes what eCryptfs was doing
right beforehand.
I see three ways of going forward from here. (1) Something like this patch
needs to go in (assuming it jives with Unionfs), (2) we need to make a
change to the fsstack API for more fine-grained control over copying
attributes (e.g., by also including a callback function for calculating the
right file size, which will require some more work on both eCryptfs and
Unionfs), or (3) the fsstack patch on eCryptfs (commit 0cc72dc7f050188d8d7344b1dd688cbc68d3cd30 made on Fri Dec 8 02:36:31 2006
-0800) needs to be yanked in 2.6.20.
I think the simplest solution, from eCryptfs' perspective, is to just
remove the inode size copy.
Remove inode size copy in general fsstack attr copy code. Stacked
filesystems may need to interpolate the inode size, since the file
size in the lower file may be different than the file size in the
stacked layer.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Thomas Gleixner [Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:08:14 +0000 (01:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] genirq: fix irq flow handler uninstall
The sanity check for no_irq_chip in __set_irq_hander() is unconditional on
both install and uninstall of an handler. This triggers false warnings and
replaces no_irq_chip by dummy_irq_chip in the uninstall case.
Check only, when a real handler is installed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tNt.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Magnus Damm [Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:08:01 +0000 (01:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] fix vm_events_fold_cpu() build breakage
fix vm_events_fold_cpu() build breakage
2.6.20-rc1 does not build properly if CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS is set
and CONFIG_HOTPLUG is unset:
CC init/version.o
LD init/built-in.o
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
mm/built-in.o: In function `page_alloc_cpu_notify':
page_alloc.c:(.text+0x56eb): undefined reference to `vm_events_fold_cpu'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tim Chen [Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:07:50 +0000 (01:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] sched: remove __cpuinitdata anotation to cpu_isolated_map
The structure cpu_isolated_map is used not only during initialization.
Multi-core scheduler configuration changes and exclusive cpusets
use this during run time. During setting of sched_mc_power_savings
policy, this structure is accessed to update sched_domains.
Nigel Cunningham [Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:07:21 +0000 (01:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix swapped parameters in mm/vmscan.c
The version of mm/vmscan.c in Linus' current tree has swapped parameters in
the shrink_all_zones declaration and call, used by the various
suspend-to-disk implementations. This doesn't seem to have any great
adverse effect, but it's clearly wrong.
Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Badari Pulavarty [Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:06:23 +0000 (01:06 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix for shmem_truncate_range() BUG_ON()
Ran into BUG() while doing madvise(REMOVE) testing. If we are punching a
hole into shared memory segment using madvise(REMOVE) and the entire hole
is below the indirect blocks, we hit following assert.
Mark Fasheh [Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:06:15 +0000 (01:06 -0800)]
[PATCH] Conditionally check expected_preempt_count in __resched_legal()
Commit 2d7d253548cffdce80f4e03664686e9ccb1b0ed7 ("fix cond_resched() fix")
introduced an 'expected_preempt_count' parameter to __resched_legal() to
fix a bug where it was returning a false negative when called from
cond_resched_lock() and preemption was enabled.
Unfortunately this broke things for when preemption is disabled.
preempt_count() will always return zero, thus failing the check against any
value of expected_preempt_count not equal to zero. cond_resched_lock() for
example, passes an expected_preempt_count value of 1.
So fix the fix for the cond_resched() fix by skipping the check of
preempt_count() against expected_preempt_count when preemption is disabled.
Credit should go to Sunil Mushran for spotting the bug during testing.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The VM event counters, enabled by CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS, which provides
VM event counters in /proc/vmstat, has become more essential to
non-EMBEDDED kernel configurations than they were in the past. Comments in
the code and the Kconfig configuration explanation were stale, downplaying
their role excessively.
Refresh those comments to correctly reflect the current role of VM event
counters.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jens Axboe [Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:20:01 +0000 (21:20 +0100)]
[PATCH] elevator: fixup typo in merge logic
The recent io scheduler allow_merge commit left the block layer with
no merging, oops. This patch fixes that up.
That means the CFQ change needs to be verified again, it might not fix
the original bug now. But that's a seperate thing, I'll double check
that tomorrow.
Andrew Morton [Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:00:33 +0000 (11:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] truncate: clear page dirtiness before running try_to_free_buffers()
truncate presently invalidates the dirty page's buffer_heads then shoots down
the page. But try_to_free_buffers() will now bale out because the page is
dirty.
Net effect: the LRU gets filled with dirty pages which have invalidated
buffer_heads attached. They have no ->mapping and hence cannot be cleaned.
The machine leaks memory at an enormous rate.
Fix this by cleaning the page before running try_to_free_buffers(), so
try_to_free_buffers() can do its work.
Also, remember to do dirty-page-acoounting in cancel_dirty_page() so the
machine won't wedge up trying to write non-existent dirty pages.
Probably still wrong, but now less so.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
David Chinner [Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:24:01 +0000 (10:24 +1100)]
[PATCH] Fix XFS after clear_page_dirty() removal
XFS appears to call clear_page_dirty to get the mapping tree dirty tag
set correctly at the same time the page dirty flag is cleared. I note
that this can be done by set_page_writeback() if we clear the dirty flag
on the page first when we are writing back the entire page.
Hence it seems to me that the XFS call to clear_page_dirty() could
easily be substituted by clear_page_dirty_for_io() followed by a call to
set_page_writeback() to get the mapping tree tags set correctly after
the page has been marked clean.
Dave Kleikamp [Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:55:35 +0000 (15:55 -0600)]
[PATCH] Fix JFS after clear_page_dirty() removal
This patch removes some questionable code that attempted to make a
no-longer-used page easier to reclaim.
Calling metapage_writepage against such a page will not result in any
I/O being performed, so removing this code shouldn't be a big deal.
[ It's likely that we could have just replaced the "clear_page_dirty()"
call with a call to "cancel_dirty_page()" instead, but in the
meantime this is cleaner and simpler anyway, so unless there is some
overriding reason (and Dave implies there isn't) I'll just use this
patch as-is. - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:46:42 +0000 (13:46 -0800)]
VM: Remove "clear_page_dirty()" and "test_clear_page_dirty()" functions
They were horribly easy to mis-use because of their tempting naming, and
they also did way more than any users of them generally wanted them to
do.
A dirty page can become clean under two circumstances:
(a) when we write it out. We have "clear_page_dirty_for_io()" for
this, and that function remains unchanged.
In the "for IO" case it is not sufficient to just clear the dirty
bit, you also have to mark the page as being under writeback etc.
(b) when we actually remove a page due to it becoming inaccessible to
users, notably because it was truncate()'d away or the file (or
metadata) no longer exists, and we thus want to cancel any
outstanding dirty state.
For the (b) case, we now introduce "cancel_dirty_page()", which only
touches the page state itself, and verifies that the page is not mapped
(since cancelling writes on a mapped page would be actively wrong as it
is still accessible to users).
Some filesystems need to be fixed up for this: CIFS, FUSE, JFS,
ReiserFS, XFS all use the old confusing functions, and will be fixed
separately in subsequent commits (with some of them just removing the
offending logic, and others using clear_page_dirty_for_io()).
This was confirmed by Martin Michlmayr to fix the apt database
corruption on ARM.
Cc: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Andrei Popa <andrei.popa@i-neo.ro> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:21:59 +0000 (15:21 -0800)]
Clean up and make try_to_free_buffers() not race with dirty pages
This is preparatory work in our continuing saga on some hard-to-trigger
file corruption with shared writable mmap() after the dirty page
tracking changes (commit d08b3851da41d0ee60851f2c75b118e1f7a5fc89 etc)
were merged.
Peter Williams [Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:48:50 +0000 (12:48 +1000)]
[PATCH] sched: improve efficiency of sched_fork()
Problem:
sched_fork() has always called scheduler_tick() in some (unlikely)
circumstances in order to update the current task in light of those
circumstances. It has always been the case that the work done by
scheduler_tick() was more than was required to handle the problem in
hand but no harm was done except for the waste of a few CPU cycles.
However, the splitting of scheduler_tick() into two procedures in
2.6.20-rc1 enables the wasted cycles to be saved as the new procedure
task_running_tick() does all the work that is required to rectify the
problem being handled.
Solution:
Replace the call to scheduler_tick() in sched_fork() with a call to
task_running_tick().
Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.com.au> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ingo Molnar [Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:53:32 +0000 (11:53 +0100)]
[PATCH] x86_64: fix boot time hang in detect_calgary()
if CONFIG_CALGARY_IOMMU is built into the kernel via
CONFIG_CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT, or is enabled via the
iommu=calgary boot option, then the detect_calgary() function runs to
detect the presence of a Calgary IOMMU.
detect_calgary() first searches the BIOS EBDA area for a "rio_table_hdr"
BIOS table. It has this parsing algorithm for the EBDA:
while (offset) {
...
/* The next offset is stored in the 1st word. 0 means no more */
offset = *((unsigned short *)(ptr + offset));
}
got that? Lets repeat it slowly: we've got a BIOS-supplied data
structure, plus Linux kernel code that will only break out of an
infinite parsing loop once the BIOS gives a zero offset. Ok?
Translation: what an excellent opportunity for BIOS writers to lock up
the Linux boot process in an utterly hard to debug place! Indeed the
BIOS jumped on that opportunity on my box, which has the following EBDA
chaining layout:
see the pattern? So my, definitely non-Calgary system happily locks up
in detect_calgary()!
the patch below fixes the boot hang by trusting the BIOS-supplied data
structure a bit less: the parser always has to make forward progress,
and if it doesnt, we break out of the loop and i get the expected kernel
message:
Calgary: Unable to locate Rio Grande Table in EBDA - bailing!
Ingo Molnar [Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:28:46 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
[PATCH] x86_64: fix boot hang caused by CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT
one of my boxes didnt boot the 2.6.20-rc1-rt0 kernel rpm, it hung during
early bootup. After an hour or two of happy debugging i narrowed it down
to the CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT option, which was freshly added
to 2.6.20 via the x86_64 tree and /enabled by default/.
[PATCH] Calgary: allow compiling Calgary in but not using it by default
This patch makes it possible to compile Calgary in but not use it by
default. In this mode, use 'iommu=calgary' to activate it.
but the change does not actually practice it:
config CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT
bool "Should Calgary be enabled by default?"
default y
depends on CALGARY_IOMMU
help
Should Calgary be enabled by default? if you choose 'y', Calgary
will be used (if it exists). If you choose 'n', Calgary will not be
used even if it exists. If you choose 'n' and would like to use
Calgary anyway, pass 'iommu=calgary' on the kernel command line.
If unsure, say Y.
it's both 'default y', and says "If unsure, say Y". Clearly not a typo.
disabling this option makes my box boot again. The patch below fixes the
Kconfig entry. Grumble.
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:03:38 +0000 (00:03 -0800)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
[PATCH] block: document io scheduler allow_merge_fn hook
[PATCH] cfq-iosched: don't allow sync merges across queues
[PATCH] Fixup blk_rq_unmap_user() API
[PATCH] __blk_rq_unmap_user() fails to return error
[PATCH] __blk_rq_map_user() doesn't need to grab the queue_lock
[PATCH] Remove queue merging hooks
[PATCH] ->nr_sectors and ->hard_nr_sectors are not used for BLOCK_PC requests
[PATCH] cciss: fix XFER_READ/XFER_WRITE in do_cciss_request
[PATCH] cciss: set default raid level when reading geometry fails
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:02:35 +0000 (00:02 -0800)]
Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
[libata] sata_svw, sata_vsc: kill iomem warnings
[PATCH] libata: take scmd->cmd_len into account when translating SCSI commands
[PATCH] libata: kill @cdb argument from xlat methods
[PATCH] libata: clean up variable name usage in xlat related functions
[libata] Move some PCI IDs from sata_nv to ahci
[libata] pata_via: suspend/resume support fix
[libata] pata_cs5530: suspend/resume support tweak
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (34 commits)
USB Storage: remove duplicate Nokia entry in unusual_devs.h
[PATCH] bluetooth: add support for another Kensington dongle
[PATCH] usb serial: add support for Novatel S720/U720 CDMA/EV-DO modems
[PATCH] USB: Nokia E70 is an unusual device
USB: fix to usbfs_snoop logging of user defined control urbs
USB: at91_udc: Additional checks
USB: at91_udc: Cleanup variables after failure in usb_gadget_register_driver()
USB: at91_udc: allow drivers that support high speed
USB: u132-hcd/ftdi-elan: add support for Option GT 3G Quad card
USB: at91_udc, misc fixes
USB: at91 udc, support at91sam926x addresses
USB: OHCI support for PNX8550
USB: ohci handles hardware faults during root port resets
USB: ohci at91 warning fix
USB: ohci whitespace/comment fixups
USB: MAINTAINERS update, EHCI and OHCI
USB: gadget driver unbind() is optional; section fixes; misc
UHCI: module parameter to ignore overcurrent changes
USB: Nokia E70 is an unusual device
USB AUERSWALD: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc
...
Jeff Garzik [Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:37:04 +0000 (14:37 -0500)]
[libata] sata_svw, sata_vsc: kill iomem warnings
Now that iomap merge is close to reality, and since the warnings and
issue have been around so long, we don't need a reminder on every build
that libata needs to be converted over to iomap.
Tejun Heo [Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:46:33 +0000 (10:46 +0900)]
[PATCH] libata: take scmd->cmd_len into account when translating SCSI commands
libata depended on SCSI command to have the correct length when
tranlating it into an ATA command. This generally worked for commands
issued by SCSI HLD but user could issue arbitrary broken command using
sg interface.
Also, when building ATAPI command, full command size was always
copied. Because some ATAPI devices needs bytes after CDB cleared, if
upper layer doesn't clear bytes after CDB, such devices will
malfunction. This necessiated recent clear-garbage-after-CDB fix in
sg interfaces. However, scsi_execute() isn't fixed yet and HL-DT-ST
DVD-RAM GSA-H30N malfunctions on initialization commands issued from
SCSI.
This patch makes xlat functions always consider SCSI cmd_len. Each
translation function checks for proper cmd_len and ATAPI translaation
clears bytes after CDB.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Tejun Heo [Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:45:57 +0000 (10:45 +0900)]
[PATCH] libata: kill @cdb argument from xlat methods
xlat function will be updated to consider qc->scsicmd->cmd_len and
many xlat functions deference qc->scsicmd already. It doesn't make
sense to pass qc->scsicmd->cmnd as @cdb separately. Kill the
argument.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Tejun Heo [Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:45:08 +0000 (10:45 +0900)]
[PATCH] libata: clean up variable name usage in xlat related functions
Variable names in xlat functions are quite confusing now. 'scsicmd'
is used for CDB while qc->scsicmd points to struct scsi_cmnd while
'cmd' is used for struct scsi_cmnd.
This patch cleans up variable names in xlat functions such that 'scmd'
is used for struct scsi_cmnd and 'cdb' for CDB. Also, 'scmd' local
variable is added if qc->scsicmd is used multiple times.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Peer Chen [Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:18:00 +0000 (14:18 -0500)]
[libata] Move some PCI IDs from sata_nv to ahci
The content of memory map io of BAR5 have been change from MCP65 then
sata_nv can't work fine on the platform based on MCP65 and MCP67, so move
their IDs from sata_nv.c to ahci.c.
Signed-off-by: Peer Chen <pchen@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
kobject: kobject_uevent() returns manageable value
Since kobject_uevent() function does not return an integer value to
indicate if its operation was completed with success or not, it is worth
changing it in order to report a proper status (success or error) instead
of returning void.
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: Fix inline kobject functions] Cc: Mauricio Lin <mauriciolin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
With WARN_ON addition to kobject_init()
[ http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19/2.6.19-mm1/dont-use/broken-out/gregkh-driver-kobject-warn.patch ]
I started seeing following WARNING on CPU offline followed by online on my
x86_64 system.
I'm seeing:
`acpiphp_glue_exit' referenced in section `.init.text' of
drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of
drivers/built-in.o
when trying to compile an IA64 kernel with PCI hotplug enabled.
I suggest this patch:
Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Ralf Baechle [Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:12:08 +0000 (13:12 -0800)]
PCI legacy resource fix
Since commit 368c73d4f689dae0807d0a2aa74c61fd2b9b075f the kernel will try
to update the non-writeable BAR registers 0..3 of PIIX4 IDE adapters if
pci_assign_unassigned_resources() is used to do full resource assignment of
the bus. This fails because in the PIIX4 these BAR registers have
implicitly assumed values and read back as zero; it used to work because
the kernel used to just write zero to that register the read back value did
match what was written.
The fix is a new resource flag IORESOURCE_PCI_FIXED used to mark a resource
as non-movable. This will also be useful to keep other import system
resources from being moved around - for example system consoles on PCI
busses.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Jesper Juhl [Mon, 4 Dec 2006 23:14:48 +0000 (15:14 -0800)]
PCI: Be a bit defensive in quirk_nvidia_ck804() so we don't risk dereferencing a NULL pdev.
pci_get_slot() may return NULL if nothing was found. quirk_nvidia_ck804()
does not check the value returned from pci_get_slot(), so it may end up
causing a NULL pointer deref.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Alan Cox [Mon, 4 Dec 2006 23:14:45 +0000 (15:14 -0800)]
PCI: Fix multiple problems with VIA hardware
This patch is designed to fix:
- Disk eating corruptor on KT7 after resume from RAM
- VIA IRQ handling
- VIA fixups for bus lockups after resume from RAM
The core of this is to add a table of resume fixups run at resume time.
We need to do this for a variety of boards and features, but particularly
we need to do this to get various critical VIA fixups done on resume.
The second part of the problem is to handle VIA IRQ number rules which
are a bit odd and need special handling for PIC interrupts. Various
patches broke various boxes and while this one may not be perfect
(hopefully it is) it ensures the workaround is applied to the right
devices only.
From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Now that PCI quirks are replayed on software resume, we can safely
re-enable the Asus SMBus unhiding quirk even when software suspend support
is enabled.
[akpm@osdl.org: fix const warning] Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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