- 30 Nov, 2009 8 commits
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git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: Staging: octeon-ethernet: Assign proper MAC addresses. Staging: Octeon: Use symbolic values for irq numbers. MIPS: Octeon: Fix compile error in drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mdio.c
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David Woodhouse authored
In 2.6.23 kernel, commit a32ea1e1 ("Fix read/truncate race") fixed a race in the generic code, and as a side effect, now do_generic_file_read() can ask us to readpage() past the i_size. This seems to be correctly handled by the block routines (e.g. block_read_full_page() fills the page with zeroes in case if somebody is trying to read past the last inode's block). JFFS2 doesn't handle this; it assumes that it won't be asked to read pages which don't exist -- and thus that there will be at least _one_ valid 'frag' on the page it's being asked to read. It will fill any holes with the following memset: memset(buf, 0, min(end, frag->ofs + frag->size) - offset); When the 'closest smaller match' returned by jffs2_lookup_node_frag() is actually on a previous page and ends before 'offset', that results in: memset(buf, 0, <huge unsigned negative>); Hopefully, in most cases the corruption is fatal, and quickly causing random oopses, like this: root@10.0.0.4:~/ltp-fs-20090531# ./testcases/kernel/fs/ftest/ftest01 Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000008 Faulting instruction address: 0xc01cd980 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] [...] NIP [c01cd980] rb_insert_color+0x38/0x184 LR [c0043978] enqueue_hrtimer+0x88/0xc4 Call Trace: [c6c63b60] [c004f9a8] tick_sched_timer+0xa0/0xe4 (unreliable) [c6c63b80] [c0043978] enqueue_hrtimer+0x88/0xc4 [c6c63b90] [c0043a48] __run_hrtimer+0x94/0xbc [c6c63bb0] [c0044628] hrtimer_interrupt+0x140/0x2b8 [c6c63c10] [c000f8e8] timer_interrupt+0x13c/0x254 [c6c63c30] [c001352c] ret_from_except+0x0/0x14 --- Exception: 901 at memset+0x38/0x5c LR = jffs2_read_inode_range+0x144/0x17c [c6c63cf0] [00000000] (null) (unreliable) This patch fixes the issue, plus fixes all LTP tests on NAND/UBI with JFFS2 filesystem that were failing since 2.6.23 (seems like the bug above also broke the truncation). Reported-By: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Tested-By: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Geert Uytterhoeven authored
The fbdev mailing lists at SourceForge have been migrated to a single mailing list at kernel.org: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-kconfigLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-kconfig: kconfig: Fix make O=<dir> local{mod,yes}config
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-devLinus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: sata_fsl: Split hard and soft reset
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscacheLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache: (31 commits) FS-Cache: Provide nop fscache_stat_d() if CONFIG_FSCACHE_STATS=n SLOW_WORK: Fix GFS2 to #include <linux/module.h> before using THIS_MODULE SLOW_WORK: Fix CIFS to pass THIS_MODULE to slow_work_register_user() CacheFiles: Don't log lookup/create failing with ENOBUFS CacheFiles: Catch an overly long wait for an old active object CacheFiles: Better showing of debugging information in active object problems CacheFiles: Mark parent directory locks as I_MUTEX_PARENT to keep lockdep happy CacheFiles: Handle truncate unlocking the page we're reading CacheFiles: Don't write a full page if there's only a partial page to cache FS-Cache: Actually requeue an object when requested FS-Cache: Start processing an object's operations on that object's death FS-Cache: Make sure FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP cleared on lookup failure FS-Cache: Add a retirement stat counter FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions FS-Cache: Handle read request vs lookup, creation or other cache failure FS-Cache: Don't delete pending pages from the page-store tracking tree FS-Cache: Fix lock misorder in fscache_write_op() FS-Cache: The object-available state can't rely on the cookie to be available FS-Cache: Permit cache retrieval ops to be interrupted in the initial wait phase FS-Cache: Use radix tree preload correctly in tracking of pages to be stored ...
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Gertjan van Wingerde authored
We can have bzip2 compressed images nowadays. Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Helge Deller authored
kernel unwinding is broken with gcc >= 4.x. Part of the problem is that binutils seems very sensitive to where the unwind information is stored. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 23 Nov, 2009 3 commits
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David Daney authored
Allocate MAC addresses using the same method as the bootloader. This avoids changing the MAC between bootloader and kernel operation as well as avoiding duplicates and use of addresses outside of the assigned range. Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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David Daney authored
In addition to being magic numbers, the irq number passed to free_irq is incorrect. We need to use the correct symbolic value instead. Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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David Daney authored
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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- 20 Nov, 2009 9 commits
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David Howells authored
Provide nop fscache_stat_d() macro if CONFIG_FSCACHE_STATS=n lest errors like the following occur: fs/fscache/cache.c: In function 'fscache_withdraw_cache': fs/fscache/cache.c:386: error: implicit declaration of function 'fscache_stat_d' fs/fscache/cache.c:386: error: 'fscache_n_cop_sync_cache' undeclared (first use in this function) fs/fscache/cache.c:386: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once fs/fscache/cache.c:386: error: for each function it appears in.) fs/fscache/cache.c:392: error: 'fscache_n_cop_dissociate_pages' undeclared (first use in this function) Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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David Howells authored
GFS2 has been altered to pass THIS_MODULE to slow_work_register_user(), but hasn't been altered to #include <linux/module.h> to provide it, resulting in the following error: fs/gfs2/recovery.c:596: error: 'THIS_MODULE' undeclared here (not in a function) Add the missing #include. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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David Howells authored
As of the patch: SLOW_WORK: Wait for outstanding work items belonging to a module to clear Wait for outstanding slow work items belonging to a module to clear when unregistering that module as a user of the facility. This prevents the put_ref code of a work item from being taken away before it returns. slow_work_register_user() takes a module pointer as an argument. CIFS must now pass THIS_MODULE as that argument, lest the following error be observed: fs/cifs/cifsfs.c: In function 'init_cifs': fs/cifs/cifsfs.c:1040: error: too few arguments to function 'slow_work_register_user' Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
When the output directory is something other than the kernel source, the streamline_config script gets confused. This patch passes in the source directory to the script so that it can find the proper files. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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git://git.fluff.org/bjdooks/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
* 'i2c-pnx-fixes' of git://git.fluff.org/bjdooks/linux: i2c: i2c-pnx: Added missing mach/i2c.h and linux/io.h header file includes i2c: i2c-pnx: Made buf type unsigned to prevent sign extension i2c: i2c-pnx: Limit minimum jiffie timeout to 2
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2Linus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2: ocfs2: Trivial cleanup of jbd compatibility layer removal ocfs2: Refresh documentation ocfs2: return f_fsid info in ocfs2_statfs() ocfs2: duplicate inline data properly during reflink. ocfs2: Move ocfs2_complete_reflink to the right place. ocfs2: Return -EINVAL when a device is not ocfs2.
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Kevin Wells authored
Added missing mach/i2c.h and linux/io.h header file includes Signed-off-by: Kevin Wells <kevin.wells@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
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Kevin Wells authored
Made buf type unsigned to prevent sign extension Signed-off-by: Kevin Wells <kevin.wells@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
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Kevin Wells authored
Limit minimum jiffie timeout to 2 to prevent early timeout on systems with low tick rates Signed-off-by: Kevin Wells <kevin.wells@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
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- 19 Nov, 2009 20 commits
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Jiang Yutang authored
Split sata_fsl_softreset() into hard and soft resets to make error-handling more efficient & device and PMP detection more reliable. Also includes fix for PMP support, driver tested with Sil3726, Sil4726 & Exar PMP controllers. [AV: Also fixes resuming from deep sleep on MPC8315 CPUs] Signed-off-by: Jiang Yutang <b14898@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Linus Torvalds authored
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git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: SUNRPC: Address buffer overrun in rpc_uaddr2sockaddr() NFSv4: Fix a cache validation bug which causes getcwd() to return ENOENT
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Alan Cox authored
As this struct is exposed to user space and the API was added for this release it's a bit of a pain for the C++ world and we still have time to fix it. Rename the fields before we end up with that pain in an actual release. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Reported-by: Olivier Goffart Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Woodhouse authored
Commit 86cf898e ("intel-iommu: Check for 'DMAR at zero' BIOS error earlier.") was supposed to work by pretending not to detect an IOMMU if it was actually being reported by the BIOS at physical address zero. However, the intel_iommu_init() function is called unconditionally, as are the corresponding functions for other IOMMU hardware. So the patch only worked if you have RAM above the 4GiB boundary. It caused swiotlb to be initialised when no IOMMU was detected during early boot, and thus the later IOMMU init would refuse to run. But if you have less RAM than that, swiotlb wouldn't get set up and the IOMMU _would_ still end up being initialised, even though we never claimed to detect it. This patch also sets the dmar_disabled flag when the error is detected during the initial detection phase -- so that the later call to intel_iommu_init() will return without doing anything, regardless of whether swiotlb is used or not. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Howells authored
Don't log the CacheFiles lookup/create object routined failing with ENOBUFS as under high memory load or high cache load they can do this quite a lot. This error simply means that the requested object cannot be created on disk due to lack of space, or due to failure of the backing filesystem to find sufficient resources. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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David Howells authored
Catch an overly long wait for an old, dying active object when we want to replace it with a new one. The probability is that all the slow-work threads are hogged, and the delete can't get a look in. What we do instead is: (1) if there's nothing in the slow work queue, we sleep until either the dying object has finished dying or there is something in the slow work queue behind which we can queue our object. (2) if there is something in the slow work queue, we return ETIMEDOUT to fscache_lookup_object(), which then puts us back on the slow work queue, presumably behind the deletion that we're blocked by. We are then deferred for a while until we work our way back through the queue - without blocking a slow-work thread unnecessarily. A backtrace similar to the following may appear in the log without this patch: INFO: task kslowd004:5711 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. kslowd004 D 0000000000000000 0 5711 2 0x00000080 ffff88000340bb80 0000000000000046 ffff88002550d000 0000000000000000 ffff88002550d000 0000000000000007 ffff88000340bfd8 ffff88002550d2a8 000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff88002550d2a8 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81058e21>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf [<ffffffffa011c4d8>] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles] [<ffffffffa011c4e1>] cachefiles_wait_bit+0x9/0xd [cachefiles] [<ffffffff81353153>] __wait_on_bit+0x43/0x76 [<ffffffff8111ae39>] ? ext3_xattr_get+0x1ec/0x270 [<ffffffff813531ef>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x69/0x74 [<ffffffffa011c4d8>] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles] [<ffffffff8104c125>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x2e [<ffffffffa011bc79>] cachefiles_mark_object_active+0x203/0x23b [cachefiles] [<ffffffffa011c209>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x558/0x827 [cachefiles] [<ffffffffa011a429>] cachefiles_lookup_object+0xac/0x12a [cachefiles] [<ffffffffa00aa1e9>] fscache_lookup_object+0x1c7/0x214 [fscache] [<ffffffffa00aafc5>] fscache_object_state_machine+0xa5/0x52d [fscache] [<ffffffffa00ab4ac>] fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x5f/0xa0 [fscache] [<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1 [<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34 [<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308 [<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82 [<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20 [<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30 [<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82 [<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20 1 lock held by kslowd004/5711: #0: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#7/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa011be64>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x1b3/0x827 [cachefiles] Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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David Howells authored
Show more debugging information if cachefiles_mark_object_active() is asked to activate an active object. This may happen, for instance, if the netfs tries to register an object with the same key multiple times. The code is changed to (a) get the appropriate object lock to protect the cookie pointer whilst we dereference it, and (b) get and display the cookie key if available. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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David Howells authored
Mark parent directory locks as I_MUTEX_PARENT in the callers of cachefiles_bury_object() so that lockdep doesn't complain when that invokes vfs_unlink(): ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] 2.6.32-rc6-cachefs #47 --------------------------------------------- kslowd002/3089 is trying to acquire lock: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#7){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810bbf72>] vfs_unlink+0x8b/0x128 but task is already holding lock: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#7){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa00e4e61>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x1b0/0x831 [cachefiles] other info that might help us debug this: 1 lock held by kslowd002/3089: #0: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#7){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa00e4e61>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x1b0/0x831 [cachefiles] stack backtrace: Pid: 3089, comm: kslowd002 Not tainted 2.6.32-rc6-cachefs #47 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8105ad7b>] __lock_acquire+0x1649/0x16e3 [<ffffffff8118170e>] ? inode_has_perm+0x5f/0x61 [<ffffffff8105ae6c>] lock_acquire+0x57/0x6d [<ffffffff810bbf72>] ? vfs_unlink+0x8b/0x128 [<ffffffff81353ac3>] mutex_lock_nested+0x54/0x292 [<ffffffff810bbf72>] ? vfs_unlink+0x8b/0x128 [<ffffffff8118179e>] ? selinux_inode_permission+0x8e/0x90 [<ffffffff8117e271>] ? security_inode_permission+0x1c/0x1e [<ffffffff810bb4fb>] ? inode_permission+0x99/0xa5 [<ffffffff810bbf72>] vfs_unlink+0x8b/0x128 [<ffffffff810adb19>] ? kfree+0xed/0xf9 [<ffffffffa00e3f00>] cachefiles_bury_object+0xb6/0x420 [cachefiles] [<ffffffff81058e21>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf [<ffffffffa00e7e24>] ? cachefiles_check_object_xattr+0x233/0x293 [cachefiles] [<ffffffffa00e51b0>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x4ff/0x831 [cachefiles] [<ffffffff81032238>] ? finish_task_switch+0x0/0xb2 [<ffffffffa00e3429>] cachefiles_lookup_object+0xac/0x12a [cachefiles] [<ffffffffa00741e9>] fscache_lookup_object+0x1c7/0x214 [fscache] [<ffffffffa0074fc5>] fscache_object_state_machine+0xa5/0x52d [fscache] [<ffffffffa00754ac>] fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x5f/0xa0 [fscache] [<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1 [<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34 [<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308 [<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82 [<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20 [<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30 [<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82 [<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20 Signed-off-by: Daivd Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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David Howells authored
Handle truncate unlocking the page we're attempting to read from the backing device before the read has completed. This was causing reports like the following to occur: Pid: 4765, comm: kslowd Not tainted 2.6.30.1 #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffffa0331d7a>] ? cachefiles_read_waiter+0xd9/0x147 [cachefiles] [<ffffffff804b74bd>] ? __wait_on_bit+0x60/0x6f [<ffffffff8022bbbb>] ? __wake_up_common+0x3f/0x71 [<ffffffff8022cc32>] ? __wake_up+0x30/0x44 [<ffffffff8024a41f>] ? __wake_up_bit+0x28/0x2d [<ffffffffa003a793>] ? ext3_truncate+0x4d7/0x8ed [ext3] [<ffffffff80281f90>] ? pagevec_lookup+0x17/0x1f [<ffffffff8028c2ff>] ? unmap_mapping_range+0x59/0x1ff [<ffffffff8022cc32>] ? __wake_up+0x30/0x44 [<ffffffff8028e286>] ? vmtruncate+0xc2/0xe2 [<ffffffff802b82cf>] ? inode_setattr+0x22/0x10a [<ffffffffa003baa5>] ? ext3_setattr+0x17b/0x1e6 [ext3] [<ffffffff802b853d>] ? notify_change+0x186/0x2c9 [<ffffffffa032d9de>] ? cachefiles_attr_changed+0x133/0x1cd [cachefiles] [<ffffffffa032df7f>] ? cachefiles_lookup_object+0xcf/0x12a [cachefiles] [<ffffffffa0318165>] ? fscache_lookup_object+0x110/0x122 [fscache] [<ffffffffa03188c3>] ? fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x590/0x6bc [fscache] [<ffffffff80278f82>] ? slow_work_thread+0x285/0x43a [<ffffffff8024a446>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e [<ffffffff80278cfd>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x43a [<ffffffff8024a317>] ? kthread+0x54/0x81 [<ffffffff8020c93a>] ? child_rip+0xa/0x20 [<ffffffff8024a2c3>] ? kthread+0x0/0x81 [<ffffffff8020c930>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20 CacheFiles: I/O Error: Readpage failed on backing file 200000000000810 FS-Cache: Cache cachefiles stopped due to I/O error Reported-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de> Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Reported-by: Duc Le Minh <duclm.vn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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David Howells authored
cachefiles_write_page() writes a full page to the backing file for the last page of the netfs file, even if the netfs file's last page is only a partial page. This causes the EOF on the backing file to be extended beyond the EOF of the netfs, and thus the backing file will be truncated by cachefiles_attr_changed() called from cachefiles_lookup_object(). So we need to limit the write we make to the backing file on that last page such that it doesn't push the EOF too far. Also, if a backing file that has a partial page at the end is expanded, we discard the partial page and refetch it on the basis that we then have a hole in the file with invalid data, and should the power go out... A better way to deal with this could be to record a note that the partial page contains invalid data until the correct data is written into it. This isn't a problem for netfs's that discard the whole backing file if the file size changes (such as NFS). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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David Howells authored
FS-Cache objects have an FSCACHE_OBJECT_EV_REQUEUE event that can theoretically be raised to ask the state machine to requeue the object for further processing before the work function returns to the slow-work facility. However, fscache_object_work_execute() was clearing that bit before checking the event mask to see whether the object has any pending events that require it to be requeued immediately. Instead, the bit should be cleared after the check and enqueue. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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David Howells authored
Start processing an object's operations when that object moves into the DYING state as the object cannot be destroyed until all its outstanding operations have completed. Furthermore, make sure that read and allocation operations handle being woken up on a dead object. Such events are recorded in the Allocs.abt and Retrvls.abt statistics as viewable through /proc/fs/fscache/stats. The code for waiting for object activation for the read and allocation operations is also extracted into its own function as it is much the same in all cases, differing only in the stats incremented. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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David Howells authored
We must make sure that FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP is cleared on lookup failure (if an object reaches the LC_DYING state), and we should clear it before clearing FSCACHE_COOKIE_CREATING. If this doesn't happen then fscache_wait_for_deferred_lookup() may hold allocation and retrieval operations indefinitely until they're interrupted by signals - which in turn pins the dying object until they go away. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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David Howells authored
Add a stat counter to count retirement events rather than ordinary release events (the retire argument to fscache_relinquish_cookie()). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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David Howells authored
Handle netfs pages that the vmscan algorithm wants to evict from the pagecache under OOM conditions, but that are waiting for write to the cache. Under these conditions, vmscan calls the releasepage() function of the netfs, asking if a page can be discarded. The problem is typified by the following trace of a stuck process: kslowd005 D 0000000000000000 0 4253 2 0x00000080 ffff88001b14f370 0000000000000046 ffff880020d0d000 0000000000000007 0000000000000006 0000000000000001 ffff88001b14ffd8 ffff880020d0d2a8 000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff880020d0d2a8 Call Trace: [<ffffffffa00782d8>] __fscache_wait_on_page_write+0x8b/0xa7 [fscache] [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34 [<ffffffffa0078240>] ? __fscache_check_page_write+0x63/0x70 [fscache] [<ffffffffa00b671d>] nfs_fscache_release_page+0x4e/0xc4 [nfs] [<ffffffffa00927f0>] nfs_release_page+0x3c/0x41 [nfs] [<ffffffff810885d3>] try_to_release_page+0x32/0x3b [<ffffffff81093203>] shrink_page_list+0x316/0x4ac [<ffffffff8109372b>] shrink_inactive_list+0x392/0x67c [<ffffffff813532fa>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x100/0x10b [<ffffffff81058df0>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x130 [<ffffffff8135330e>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0xb [<ffffffff81093aa2>] shrink_list+0x8d/0x8f [<ffffffff81093d1c>] shrink_zone+0x278/0x33c [<ffffffff81052d6c>] ? ktime_get_ts+0xad/0xba [<ffffffff81094b13>] try_to_free_pages+0x22e/0x392 [<ffffffff81091e24>] ? isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x212 [<ffffffff8108e743>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3dc/0x5cf [<ffffffff81089529>] grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x65/0xaa [<ffffffff8110f8c0>] ext3_write_begin+0x78/0x1eb [<ffffffff81089ec5>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x109/0x28c [<ffffffff8103cb69>] ? current_fs_time+0x22/0x29 [<ffffffff8108a509>] __generic_file_aio_write+0x350/0x385 [<ffffffff8108a588>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x4a/0xae [<ffffffff8108a59e>] generic_file_aio_write+0x60/0xae [<ffffffff810b2e82>] do_sync_write+0xe3/0x120 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34 [<ffffffff810b18e1>] ? __dentry_open+0x1a5/0x2b8 [<ffffffff810b1a76>] ? dentry_open+0x82/0x89 [<ffffffffa00e693c>] cachefiles_write_page+0x298/0x335 [cachefiles] [<ffffffffa0077147>] fscache_write_op+0x178/0x2c2 [fscache] [<ffffffffa0075656>] fscache_op_execute+0x7a/0xd1 [fscache] [<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1 [<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34 [<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308 [<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82 [<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20 [<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30 [<ffffffff8102ef83>] ? tg_shares_up+0x171/0x227 [<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82 [<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20 In the above backtrace, the following is happening: (1) A page storage operation is being executed by a slow-work thread (fscache_write_op()). (2) FS-Cache farms the operation out to the cache to perform (cachefiles_write_page()). (3) CacheFiles is then calling Ext3 to perform the actual write, using Ext3's standard write (do_sync_write()) under KERNEL_DS directly from the netfs page. (4) However, for Ext3 to perform the write, it must allocate some memory, in particular, it must allocate at least one page cache page into which it can copy the data from the netfs page. (5) Under OOM conditions, the memory allocator can't immediately come up with a page, so it uses vmscan to find something to discard (try_to_free_pages()). (6) vmscan finds a clean netfs page it might be able to discard (possibly the one it's trying to write out). (7) The netfs is called to throw the page away (nfs_release_page()) - but it's called with __GFP_WAIT, so the netfs decides to wait for the store to complete (__fscache_wait_on_page_write()). (8) This blocks a slow-work processing thread - possibly against itself. The system ends up stuck because it can't write out any netfs pages to the cache without allocating more memory. To avoid this, we make FS-Cache cancel some writes that aren't in the middle of actually being performed. This means that some data won't make it into the cache this time. To support this, a new FS-Cache function is added fscache_maybe_release_page() that replaces what the netfs releasepage() functions used to do with respect to the cache. The decisions fscache_maybe_release_page() makes are counted and displayed through /proc/fs/fscache/stats on a line labelled "VmScan". There are four counters provided: "nos=N" - pages that weren't pending storage; "gon=N" - pages that were pending storage when we first looked, but weren't by the time we got the object lock; "bsy=N" - pages that we ignored as they were actively being written when we looked; and "can=N" - pages that we cancelled the storage of. What I'd really like to do is alter the behaviour of the cancellation heuristics, depending on how necessary it is to expel pages. If there are plenty of other pages that aren't waiting to be written to the cache that could be ejected first, then it would be nice to hold up on immediate cancellation of cache writes - but I don't see a way of doing that. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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David Howells authored
FS-Cache doesn't correctly handle the netfs requesting a read from the cache on an object that failed or was withdrawn by the cache. A trace similar to the following might be seen: CacheFiles: Lookup failed error -105 [exe ] unexpected submission OP165afe [OBJ6cac OBJECT_LC_DYING] [exe ] objstate=OBJECT_LC_DYING [OBJECT_LC_DYING] [exe ] objflags=0 [exe ] objevent=9 [fffffffffffffffb] [exe ] ops=0 inp=0 exc=0 Pid: 6970, comm: exe Not tainted 2.6.32-rc6-cachefs #50 Call Trace: [<ffffffffa0076477>] fscache_submit_op+0x3ff/0x45a [fscache] [<ffffffffa0077997>] __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages+0x187/0x3c4 [fscache] [<ffffffffa00b6480>] ? nfs_readpage_from_fscache_complete+0x0/0x66 [nfs] [<ffffffffa00b6388>] __nfs_readpages_from_fscache+0x7e/0x176 [nfs] [<ffffffff8108e483>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x11c/0x5cf [<ffffffffa009d796>] nfs_readpages+0x114/0x1d7 [nfs] [<ffffffff81090314>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x15f/0x1ec [<ffffffff81090228>] ? __do_page_cache_readahead+0x73/0x1ec [<ffffffff810903bd>] ra_submit+0x1c/0x20 [<ffffffff810906bb>] ondemand_readahead+0x227/0x23a [<ffffffff81090762>] page_cache_sync_readahead+0x17/0x19 [<ffffffff8108a99e>] generic_file_aio_read+0x236/0x5a0 [<ffffffffa00937bd>] nfs_file_read+0xe4/0xf3 [nfs] [<ffffffff810b2fa2>] do_sync_read+0xe3/0x120 [<ffffffff81354cc3>] ? _spin_unlock_irq+0x2b/0x31 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34 [<ffffffff811848e5>] ? selinux_file_permission+0x5d/0x10f [<ffffffff81352bdb>] ? thread_return+0x3e/0x101 [<ffffffff8117d7b0>] ? security_file_permission+0x11/0x13 [<ffffffff810b3b06>] vfs_read+0xaa/0x16f [<ffffffff81058df0>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x130 [<ffffffff810b3c84>] sys_read+0x45/0x6c [<ffffffff8100ae2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b The object state might also be OBJECT_DYING or OBJECT_WITHDRAWING. This should be handled by simply rejecting the new operation with ENOBUFS. There's no need to log an error for it. Events of this type now appear in the stats file under Ops:rej. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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David Howells authored
Don't delete pending pages from the page-store tracking tree, but rather send them for another write as they've presumably been updated. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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David Howells authored
FS-Cache has two structs internally for keeping track of the internal state of a cached file: the fscache_cookie struct, which represents the netfs's state, and fscache_object struct, which represents the cache's state. Each has a pointer that points to the other (when both are in existence), and each has a spinlock for pointer maintenance. Since netfs operations approach these structures from the cookie side, they get the cookie lock first, then the object lock. Cache operations, on the other hand, approach from the object side, and get the object lock first. It is not then permitted for a cache operation to get the cookie lock whilst it is holding the object lock lest deadlock occur; instead, it must do one of two things: (1) increment the cookie usage counter, drop the object lock and then get both locks in order, or (2) simply hold the object lock as certain parts of the cookie may not be altered whilst the object lock is held. It is also not permitted to follow either pointer without holding the lock at the end you start with. To break the pointers between the cookie and the object, both locks must be held. fscache_write_op(), however, violates the locking rules: It attempts to get the cookie lock without (a) checking that the cookie pointer is a valid pointer, and (b) holding the object lock to protect the cookie pointer whilst it follows it. This is so that it can access the pending page store tree without interference from __fscache_write_page(). This is fixed by splitting the cookie lock, such that the page store tracking tree is protected by its own lock, and checking that the cookie pointer is non-NULL before we attempt to follow it whilst holding the object lock. The new lock is subordinate to both the cookie lock and the object lock, and so should be taken after those. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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David Howells authored
The object-available state in the object processing state machine (as processed by fscache_object_available()) can't rely on the cookie to be available because the FSCACHE_COOKIE_CREATING bit may have been cleared by fscache_obtained_object() prior to the object being put into the FSCACHE_OBJECT_AVAILABLE state. Clearing the FSCACHE_COOKIE_CREATING bit on a cookie permits __fscache_relinquish_cookie() to proceed and detach the cookie from the object. To deal with this, we don't dereference object->cookie in fscache_object_available() if the object has already been detached. In addition, a couple of assertions are added into fscache_drop_object() to make sure the object is unbound from the cookie before it gets there. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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