- 16 Aug, 2018 1 commit
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Mikulas Patocka authored
wc->dirty_bitmap_size is in bytes so must multiply it by 8, not by BITS_PER_LONG, to get number of bitmap_bits. Fixes crash in find_next_bit() that was reported: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200819 Reported-by: edo.rus@gmail.com Fixes: 48debafe ("dm: add writecache target") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.18 Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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- 13 Aug, 2018 1 commit
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Mikulas Patocka authored
dm-crypt should only increase device limits, it should not decrease them. This fixes a bug where the user could creates a crypt device with 1024 sector size on the top of scsi device that had 4096 logical block size. The limit 4096 would be lost and the user could incorrectly send 1024-I/Os to the crypt device. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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- 09 Aug, 2018 2 commits
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Ilya Dryomov authored
Quoting Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt: The 'dirty' state for a cache block changes far too frequently for us to keep updating it on the fly. So we treat it as a hint. In normal operation it will be written when the dm device is suspended. If the system crashes all cache blocks will be assumed dirty when restarted. This got broken in commit f177940a ("dm cache metadata: switch to using the new cursor api for loading metadata") in 4.9, which removed the code that consulted cmd->clean_when_opened (CLEAN_SHUTDOWN on-disk flag) when loading cache blocks. This results in data corruption on an unclean shutdown with dirty cache blocks on the fast device. After the crash those blocks are considered clean and may get evicted from the cache at any time. This can be demonstrated by doing a lot of reads to trigger individual evictions, but uncache is more predictable: ### Disable auto-activation in lvm.conf to be able to do uncache in ### time (i.e. see uncache doing flushing) when the fix is applied. # xfs_io -d -c 'pwrite -b 4M -S 0xaa 0 1G' /dev/vdb # vgcreate vg_cache /dev/vdb /dev/vdc # lvcreate -L 1G -n lv_slowdev vg_cache /dev/vdb # lvcreate -L 512M -n lv_cachedev vg_cache /dev/vdc # lvcreate -L 256M -n lv_metadev vg_cache /dev/vdc # lvconvert --type cache-pool --cachemode writeback vg_cache/lv_cachedev --poolmetadata vg_cache/lv_metadev # lvconvert --type cache vg_cache/lv_slowdev --cachepool vg_cache/lv_cachedev # xfs_io -d -c 'pwrite -b 4M -S 0xbb 0 512M' /dev/mapper/vg_cache-lv_slowdev # xfs_io -d -c 'pread -v 254M 512' /dev/mapper/vg_cache-lv_slowdev | head -n 2 0fe00000: bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ................ 0fe00010: bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ................ # dmsetup status vg_cache-lv_slowdev 0 2097152 cache 8 27/65536 128 8192/8192 1 100 0 0 0 8192 7065 2 metadata2 writeback 2 migration_threshold 2048 smq 0 rw - ^^^^ 7065 * 64k = 441M yet to be written to the slow device # echo b >/proc/sysrq-trigger # vgchange -ay vg_cache # xfs_io -d -c 'pread -v 254M 512' /dev/mapper/vg_cache-lv_slowdev | head -n 2 0fe00000: bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ................ 0fe00010: bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ................ # lvconvert --uncache vg_cache/lv_slowdev Flushing 0 blocks for cache vg_cache/lv_slowdev. Logical volume "lv_cachedev" successfully removed Logical volume vg_cache/lv_slowdev is not cached. # xfs_io -d -c 'pread -v 254M 512' /dev/mapper/vg_cache-lv_slowdev | head -n 2 0fe00000: aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa ................ 0fe00010: aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa ................ This is the case with both v1 and v2 cache pool metatata formats. After applying this patch: # vgchange -ay vg_cache # xfs_io -d -c 'pread -v 254M 512' /dev/mapper/vg_cache-lv_slowdev | head -n 2 0fe00000: bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ................ 0fe00010: bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ................ # lvconvert --uncache vg_cache/lv_slowdev Flushing 3724 blocks for cache vg_cache/lv_slowdev. ... Flushing 71 blocks for cache vg_cache/lv_slowdev. Logical volume "lv_cachedev" successfully removed Logical volume vg_cache/lv_slowdev is not cached. # xfs_io -d -c 'pread -v 254M 512' /dev/mapper/vg_cache-lv_slowdev | head -n 2 0fe00000: bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ................ 0fe00010: bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ................ Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: f177940a ("dm cache metadata: switch to using the new cursor api for loading metadata") Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Mike Snitzer authored
Commit ae1093be ("dm snapshot: use mutex instead of rw_semaphore") eliminated the need to worry about read vs write locking. So remove a FIXME in snapshot_map() that is concerned about selectively taking a write lock. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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- 08 Aug, 2018 2 commits
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David Jeffery authored
copy_complete()'s processing of out_of_order_list can result in quadratic complexity in the worst case. As such it was the source of consuming too much cpu and the source of significant loss in performance. Fix this by converting out_of_order_list to an rbtree. This improved a dm-snapshot test copy workload from 32 seconds to 4 seconds. Signed-off-by: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Tested-by: Brett Hull <bhull@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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John Pittman authored
It was reported that softlockups occur when using dm-snapshot ontop of slow (rbd) storage. E.g.: [ 4047.990647] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#10 stuck for 22s! [kworker/10:23:26177] ... [ 4048.034151] Workqueue: kcopyd do_work [dm_mod] [ 4048.034156] RIP: 0010:copy_callback+0x41/0x160 [dm_snapshot] ... [ 4048.034190] Call Trace: [ 4048.034196] ? __chunk_is_tracked+0x70/0x70 [dm_snapshot] [ 4048.034200] run_complete_job+0x5f/0xb0 [dm_mod] [ 4048.034205] process_jobs+0x91/0x220 [dm_mod] [ 4048.034210] ? kcopyd_put_pages+0x40/0x40 [dm_mod] [ 4048.034214] do_work+0x46/0xa0 [dm_mod] [ 4048.034219] process_one_work+0x171/0x370 [ 4048.034221] worker_thread+0x1fc/0x3f0 [ 4048.034224] kthread+0xf8/0x130 [ 4048.034226] ? max_active_store+0x80/0x80 [ 4048.034227] ? kthread_bind+0x10/0x10 [ 4048.034231] ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 [ 4048.034233] Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks Fix this by calling cond_resched() after run_complete_job()'s callout to the dm_kcopyd_notify_fn (which is dm-snap.c:copy_callback in the above trace). Signed-off-by: John Pittman <jpittman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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- 07 Aug, 2018 2 commits
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Mike Snitzer authored
policy_hint_size starts as 0 during __write_initial_superblock(). It isn't until the policy is loaded that policy_hint_size is set in-core (cmd->policy_hint_size). But it never got recorded in the on-disk superblock because __commit_transaction() didn't deal with transfering the in-core cmd->policy_hint_size to the on-disk superblock. The in-core cmd->policy_hint_size gets initialized by metadata_open()'s __begin_transaction_flags() which re-reads all superblock fields. Because the superblock's policy_hint_size was never properly stored, when the cache was created, hints_array_available() would always return false when re-activating a previously created cache. This means __load_mappings() always considered the hints invalid and never made use of the hints (these hints served to optimize). Another detremental side-effect of this oversight is the cache_check utility would fail with: "invalid hint width: 0" Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Hou Tao authored
Now both check_for_space() and do_no_space_timeout() will read & write pool->pf.error_if_no_space. If these functions run concurrently, as shown in the following case, the default setting of "queue_if_no_space" can get lost. precondition: * error_if_no_space = false (aka "queue_if_no_space") * pool is in Out-of-Data-Space (OODS) mode * no_space_timeout worker has been queued CPU 0: CPU 1: // delete a thin device process_delete_mesg() // check_for_space() invoked by commit() set_pool_mode(pool, PM_WRITE) pool->pf.error_if_no_space = \ pt->requested_pf.error_if_no_space // timeout, pool is still in OODS mode do_no_space_timeout // "queue_if_no_space" config is lost pool->pf.error_if_no_space = true pool->pf.mode = new_mode Fix it by stopping no_space_timeout worker when switching to write mode. Fixes: bcc696fa ("dm thin: stay in out-of-data-space mode once no_space_timeout expires") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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- 31 Jul, 2018 1 commit
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Mike Snitzer authored
dm_kcopyd_copy() only ever returns 0 so there is no need for callers to account for possible failure. Same goes for dm_kcopyd_zero(). Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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- 30 Jul, 2018 1 commit
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Andy Grover authored
The metadata low watermark threshold is set by the kernel. But the kernel depends on userspace to extend the thinpool metadata device when the threshold is crossed. Since the metadata low watermark threshold is not visible to userspace, upon receiving an event, userspace cannot tell that the kernel wants the metadata device extended, instead of some other eventing condition. Making it visible (but not settable) enables userspace to affirmatively know the kernel is asking for a metadata device extension, by comparing metadata_low_watermark against nr_free_blocks_metadata, also reported in status. Current solutions like dmeventd have their own thresholds for extending the data and metadata devices, and both devices are checked against their thresholds on each event. This lessens the value of the kernel-set threshold, since userspace will either extend the metadata device sooner, when receiving another event; or will receive the metadata lowater event and do nothing, if dmeventd's threshold is less than the kernel's. (This second case is dangerous. The metadata lowater event will not be re-sent, so no further event will be generated before the metadata device is out if space, unless some other event causes userspace to recheck its thresholds.) Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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- 27 Jul, 2018 16 commits
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Mikulas Patocka authored
Fixes: d284f824 ("dm writecache: support optional offset for start of device") Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Kees Cook authored
In preparing to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], remove the discouraged use of AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK in favor of the smaller SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK by converting from ahash-wrapped-shash to direct shash. The stack allocation will be made a fixed size in a later patch to the crypto subsystem. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1RqZWA@mail.gmail.comSigned-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Mikulas Patocka authored
This is a small simplification of dm-crypt - use wake_up_process() instead of a wait queue in a case where only one process may be waiting. dm-writecache uses a similar pattern. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Mikulas Patocka authored
When using external metadata device and internal hash, recalculate the checksums when the device is created - so that dm-integrity doesn't have to overwrite the device. The superblock stores the last position when the recalculation ended, so that it is properly restarted. Integrity tags that haven't been recalculated yet are ignored. Also bump the target version. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Mikulas Patocka authored
Flush the journal on suspend when using separate data and metadata devices, so that the metadata device can be discarded and the table can be reloaded with a linear target pointing to the data device. NOTE: the journal is deliberately not flushed when using the same device for metadata and data, so that the journal replay code is tested. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Mikulas Patocka authored
Use version "2" in the superblock when data and metadata devices are separate, so that the device is not accidentally read by older kernel version. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Mikulas Patocka authored
Add the ability to store DM integrity metadata on a separate device. This feature is activated with the option "meta_device:/dev/device". Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Mikulas Patocka authored
A small refactoring. Add the variable ic->start to the result returned by get_data_sector() and not in the callers. This is a prerequisite for the commit that adds the ability to use an external metadata device. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Mikulas Patocka authored
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Mikulas Patocka authored
dm-integrity locks a range of sectors to prevent concurrent I/O or journal writeback. These locks were not fair - so that many small overlapping I/Os could starve a large I/O indefinitely. Fix this by making the range locks fair. The ranges that are waiting are added to the list "wait_list". If a new I/O overlaps some of the waiting I/Os, it is not dispatched, but it is also added to that wait list. Entries on the wait list are processed in first-in-first-out order, so that an I/O can't starve indefinitely. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Mikulas Patocka authored
Decouple how dm_integrity_map_continue() responds to being out of free sectors and when add_new_range() fails. This has no functional change, but helps prepare for the next commit. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Mikulas Patocka authored
Early alpha processors can't write a byte or short atomically - they read 8 bytes, modify the byte or two bytes in registers and write back 8 bytes. The modification of the variable "suspending" may race with modification of the variable "failed". Fix this by changing "suspending" to an int. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Mikulas Patocka authored
Add a new class for dm-delay that delays flush requests. Previously, flushes were delayed as writes, but it caused problems if the user needed to create a device with one or a few slow sectors for the purpose of testing - all flushes would be forwarded to this device and delayed, and that skews the test results. Fix this by allowing to select 0 delay for flushes. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Mikulas Patocka authored
dm-delay has a lot of code that is repeated for delaying read and write bios. Repetitive code is generally bad; refactor out the repetitive code in preperation for adding another delay class for flush bios. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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John Pittman authored
More than one io_mode feature can be requested when creating a dm cache device (as is: last one wins). The io_mode selections are incompatible with one another, we should force them to be selected exclusively. Add a counter to check for more than one io_mode selection. Fixes: 629d0a8a ("dm cache metadata: add "metadata2" feature") Signed-off-by: John Pittman <jpittman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Mike Snitzer authored
Documentation/device-mapper-/thin-provisioning.txt's "Status" section no longer reflected the current fitness level of DM thin-provisioning. That is, DM thinp is no longer "EXPERIMENTAL". It has since seen considerable improvement, has been fairly widely deployed and has performed in a robust manner. Update Documentation to dispel concern raised by potential DM thinp users. Reported-by: Drew Hastings <dhastings@crucialwebhost.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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- 22 Jul, 2018 8 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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git://git.infradead.org/nvmeLinus Torvalds authored
Pull NVMe fixes from Christoph Hellwig: - fix a regression in 4.18 that causes a memory leak on probe failure (Keith Bush) - fix a deadlock in the passthrough ioctl code (Scott Bauer) - don't enable AENs if not supported (Weiping Zhang) - fix an old regression in metadata handling in the passthrough ioctl code (Roland Dreier) * tag 'nvme-for-4.18' of git://git.infradead.org/nvme: nvme: fix handling of metadata_len for NVME_IOCTL_IO_CMD nvme: don't enable AEN if not supported nvme: ensure forward progress during Admin passthru nvme-pci: fix memory leak on probe failure
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro: "Fix several places that screw up cleanups after failures halfway through opening a file (one open-coding filp_clone_open() and getting it wrong, two misusing alloc_file()). That part is -stable fodder from the 'work.open' branch. And Christoph's regression fix for uapi breakage in aio series; include/uapi/linux/aio_abi.h shouldn't be pulling in the kernel definition of sigset_t, the reason for doing so in the first place had been bogus - there's no need to expose struct __aio_sigset in aio_abi.h at all" * 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: aio: don't expose __aio_sigset in uapi ocxlflash_getfile(): fix double-iput() on alloc_file() failures cxl_getfile(): fix double-iput() on alloc_file() failures drm_mode_create_lease_ioctl(): fix open-coded filp_clone_open()
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Al Viro authored
kernel_wait4() expects a userland address for status - it's only rusage that goes as a kernel one (and needs a copyout afterwards) [ Also, fix the prototype of kernel_wait4() to have that __user annotation - Linus ] Fixes: 92ebce5a ("osf_wait4: switch to kernel_wait4()") Cc: stable@kernel.org # v4.13+ Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-socLinus Torvalds authored
Pull ARM SoC fixes from Olof Johansson: - Fix interrupt type on ethernet switch for i.MX-based RDU2 - GPC on i.MX exposed too large a register window which resulted in userspace being able to crash the machine. - Fixup of bad merge resolution moving GPIO DT nodes under pinctrl on droid4. * tag 'armsoc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: ARM: dts: imx6: RDU2: fix irq type for mv88e6xxx switch soc: imx: gpc: restrict register range for regmap access ARM: dts: omap4-droid4: fix dts w.r.t. pwm
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull x86 fix from Ingo Molnar: "A single fix for a MCE-polling regression, which prevented the disabling of polling" * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/MCE: Remove min interval polling limitation
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull x86 pti fixes from Ingo Molnar: "An APM fix, and a BTS hardware-tracing fix related to PTI changes" * 'x86-pti-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/apm: Don't access __preempt_count with zeroed fs x86/events/intel/ds: Fix bts_interrupt_threshold alignment
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Two fixes: a stop-machine preemption fix and a SCHED_DEADLINE fix" * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/deadline: Fix switched_from_dl() warning stop_machine: Disable preemption when waking two stopper threads
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- 21 Jul, 2018 6 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull core kernel fixes from Ingo Molnar: "This is mostly the copy_to_user_mcsafe() related fixes from Dan Williams, and an ORC fix for Clang" * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Fix copy_to_user_mcsafe() exception handling lib/iov_iter: Fix pipe handling in _copy_to_iter_mcsafe() lib/iov_iter: Document _copy_to_iter_flushcache() lib/iov_iter: Document _copy_to_iter_mcsafe() objtool: Use '.strtab' if '.shstrtab' doesn't exist, to support ORC tables on Clang
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman: "Two regression fixes, one for xmon disassembly formatting and the other to fix the E500 build. Two commits to fix a potential security issue in the VFIO code under obscure circumstances. And finally a fix to the Power9 idle code to restore SPRG3, which is user visible and used for sched_getcpu(). Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, David Gibson. Gautham R. Shenoy, James Clarke" * tag 'powerpc-4.18-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: powerpc/powernv: Fix save/restore of SPRG3 on entry/exit from stop (idle) powerpc/Makefile: Assemble with -me500 when building for E500 KVM: PPC: Check if IOMMU page is contained in the pinned physical page vfio/spapr: Use IOMMU pageshift rather than pagesize powerpc/xmon: Fix disassembly since printf changes
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull btrfs fix from David Sterba: "A fix of a corruption regarding fsync and clone, under some very specific conditions explained in the patch. The fix is marked for stable 3.16+ so I'd like to get it merged now given the impact" * tag 'for-4.18-rc5-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux: Btrfs: fix file data corruption after cloning a range and fsync
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Linus Torvalds authored
Like vm_area_dup(), it initializes the anon_vma_chain head, and the basic mm pointer. The rest of the fields end up being different for different users, although the plan is to also initialize the 'vm_ops' field to a dummy entry. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
.. and re-initialize th eanon_vma_chain head. This removes some boiler-plate from the users, and also makes it clear why it didn't need use the 'zalloc()' version. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
The vm_area_struct is one of the most fundamental memory management objects, but the management of it is entirely open-coded evertwhere, ranging from allocation and freeing (using kmem_cache_[z]alloc and kmem_cache_free) to initializing all the fields. We want to unify this in order to end up having some unified initialization of the vmas, and the first step to this is to at least have basic allocation functions. Right now those functions are literally just wrappers around the kmem_cache_*() calls. This is a purely mechanical conversion: # new vma: kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL) -> vm_area_alloc() # copy old vma kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL) -> vm_area_dup(old) # free vma kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma) -> vm_area_free(vma) to the point where the old vma passed in to the vm_area_dup() function isn't even used yet (because I've left all the old manual initialization alone). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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