- 24 Dec, 2013 8 commits
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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds authored
Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe: - fix for a memory leak on certain unplug events - a collection of bcache fixes from Kent and Nicolas - a few null_blk fixes and updates form Matias - a marking of static of functions in the stec pci-e driver * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: null_blk: support submit_queues on use_per_node_hctx null_blk: set use_per_node_hctx param to false null_blk: corrections to documentation null_blk: warning on ignored submit_queues param null_blk: refactor init and init errors code paths null_blk: documentation null_blk: mem garbage on NUMA systems during init drivers: block: Mark the functions as static in skd_main.c bcache: New writeback PD controller bcache: bugfix for race between moving_gc and bucket_invalidate bcache: fix for gc and writeback race bcache: bugfix - moving_gc now moves only correct buckets bcache: fix for gc crashing when no sectors are used bcache: Fix heap_peek() macro bcache: Fix for can_attach_cache() bcache: Fix dirty_data accounting bcache: Use uninterruptible sleep in writeback bcache: kthread don't set writeback task to INTERUPTIBLE block: fix memory leaks on unplugging block device bcache: fix sparse non static symbol warning
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroupLinus Torvalds authored
Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo: "Two fixes. One fixes a bug in the error path of cgroup_create(). The other changes cgrp->id lifetime rule so that the id doesn't get recycled before all controller states are destroyed. This premature id recycling made memcg malfunction" * 'for-3.13-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: don't recycle cgroup id until all csses' have been destroyed cgroup: fix cgroup_create() error handling path
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpuLinus Torvalds authored
Pull percpu fix from Tejun Heo: "A single commit to fix a spurious sparse warning coming from DEFINE_PER_CPU()'s hack to support the use of weak symbols. Shouldn't cause observable behavior change" * 'for-3.13-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: percpu: fix spurious sparse warnings from DEFINE_PER_CPU()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libataLinus Torvalds authored
Pull libata fixes from Tejun Heo: "There's one interseting commit - "libata, freezer: avoid block device removal while system is frozen". It's an ugly hack working around a deadlock condition between driver core resume and block layer device removal paths through freezer which was made more reproducible by writeback being converted to workqueue some releases ago. The bug has nothing to do with libata but it's just an workaround which is easy to backport. After discussion, Rafael and I seem to agree that we don't really need kernel freezables - both kthread and workqueue. There are few specific workqueues which constitute PM operations and require freezing, which will be converted to use workqueue_set_max_active() instead. All other kernel freezer uses are planned to be removed, followed by the removal of kthread and workqueue freezer support, hopefully. Others are device-specific fixes. The most notable is the addition of NO_NCQ_TRIM which is used to disable queued TRIM commands to Micro M500 SSDs which otherwise suffers data corruption" * 'for-3.13-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata: libata, freezer: avoid block device removal while system is frozen libata: implement ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_TRIM and apply it to Micro M500 SSDs libata: disable a disk via libata.force params ahci: bail out on ICH6 before using AHCI BAR ahci: imx: Explicitly clear IMX6Q_GPR13_SATA_MPLL_CLK_EN libata: add ATA_HORKAGE_BROKEN_FPDMA_AA quirk for Seagate Momentus SpinPoint M8
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
Commit 2171364d ("powerpc: Add HWCAP2 aux entry") introduced a new AT_ auxv entry type AT_HWCAP2 but failed to update AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE accordingly. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Fixes: 2171364d (powerpc: Add HWCAP2 aux entry) Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Michael Neuling <michael@neuling.org> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-securityLinus Torvalds authored
Pull SELinux fixes from James Morris. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: selinux: selinux_setprocattr()->ptrace_parent() needs rcu_read_lock() selinux: fix broken peer recv check
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull ext2 fix from Jan Kara: "One simple fix of oops in ext2 which was recently hit by Christoph" * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: ext2: Fix oops in ext2_get_block() called from ext2_quota_write()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infinibandLinus Torvalds authored
Pull infiniband fixes from Roland Dreier: "Last batch of InfiniBand/RDMA changes for 3.13 / 2014: - Additional checks for uverbs to ensure forward compatibility, handle malformed input better. - Fix potential use-after-free in iWARP connection manager. - Make a function static" * tag 'rdma-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: IB/uverbs: Check access to userspace response buffer in extended command IB/uverbs: Check input length in flow steering uverbs IB/uverbs: Set error code when fail to consume all flow_spec items IB/uverbs: Check reserved fields in create_flow IB/uverbs: Check comp_mask in destroy_flow IB/uverbs: Check reserved field in extended command header IB/uverbs: New macro to set pointers to NULL if length is 0 in INIT_UDATA() IB/core: const'ify inbuf in struct ib_udata RDMA/iwcm: Don't touch cm_id after deref in rem_ref RDMA/cxgb4: Make _c4iw_write_mem_dma() static
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- 23 Dec, 2013 9 commits
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Oleg Nesterov authored
selinux_setprocattr() does ptrace_parent(p) under task_lock(p), but task_struct->alloc_lock doesn't pin ->parent or ->ptrace, this looks confusing and triggers the "suspicious RCU usage" warning because ptrace_parent() does rcu_dereference_check(). And in theory this is wrong, spin_lock()->preempt_disable() doesn't necessarily imply rcu_read_lock() we need to access the ->parent. Reported-by: Evan McNabb <emcnabb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
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Chad Hanson authored
Fix a broken networking check. Return an error if peer recv fails. If secmark is active and the packet recv succeeds the peer recv error is ignored. Signed-off-by: Chad Hanson <chanson@trustedcs.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
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git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull drm fixes from Dave Airlie: "Xmas fixes pull, all small nothing major, intel, radeon, one ttm regression, and one build fix" * 'drm-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: drm/ttm: Fix swapin regression gpu: fix qxl missing crc32_le drm/radeon: fix asic gfx values for scrapper asics drm/i915: Use the correct GMCH_CTRL register for Sandybridge+ drm/radeon: check for 0 count in speaker allocation and SAD code drm/radeon/dpm: disable ss on Cayman drm/radeon/dce6: set correct number of audio pins drm/i915: get a PC8 reference when enabling the power well drm/i915: change CRTC assertion on LCPLL disable drm/i915: Fix erroneous dereference of batch_obj inside reset_status drm/i915: Prevent double unref following alloc failure during execbuffer
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull virtio balloon driver fixes from Rusty Russell: "Refactoring broke the balloon driver, and fixing kallsyms on ARM broke some (non-ARM) MMUless setups, so we're making that fix ARM-only for now. Unfortunately, the ARM refactoring which broke kallsyms/perf was CC:stable, so the fix (which broken non-ARM) was also CC:stable, so now the partial reversion is also CC:stable..." * tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: scripts/link-vmlinux.sh: only filter kernel symbols for arm virtio_balloon: update_balloon_size(): update correct field
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Roland Dreier authored
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Dave Airlie authored
Merge tag 'drm-intel-fixes-2013-12-18' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel into drm-fixes Besides the 2 fixes for tricky corner cases in gem from Chris I've promised already two patche from Paulo to fix pc8 warnings (both ported from -next, bug report from Dave Jones) and one patch from to fix vga enable/disable on snb+. That one is a really old bug, but apparently it can cause machine hangs if you try hard enough with vgacon/efifb handover. * tag 'drm-intel-fixes-2013-12-18' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel: drm/i915: Use the correct GMCH_CTRL register for Sandybridge+ drm/i915: get a PC8 reference when enabling the power well drm/i915: change CRTC assertion on LCPLL disable drm/i915: Fix erroneous dereference of batch_obj inside reset_status drm/i915: Prevent double unref following alloc failure during execbuffer
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git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linuxDave Airlie authored
- fix for a long standing corruption bug on some Trinity/Richland parts. - Stability fix for cayman dpm - audio fixes for dce6+ * 'drm-fixes-3.13' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux: drm/radeon: fix asic gfx values for scrapper asics drm/radeon: check for 0 count in speaker allocation and SAD code drm/radeon/dpm: disable ss on Cayman drm/radeon/dce6: set correct number of audio pins
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Thomas Hellstrom authored
Commit "drm/ttm: Don't move non-existing data" didn't take the swapped-out corner case into account. This patch corrects that. Fixes blank screen after attempted suspend / hibernate on vmwgfx. Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Fix build error: qxl uses crc32 functions so it needs to select CRC32. Also use angle quotes around a kernel header file name. drivers/built-in.o: In function `qxl_display_read_client_monitors_config': (.text+0x19d754): undefined reference to `crc32_le' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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- 22 Dec, 2013 6 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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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: "Much smaller batch of fixes this week. Biggest one is a revert of an OMAP display change that removed some non-DT pinmux code that was still needed for 3.13 to get DSI displays to work. There's also a fix that resolves some misdescribed GPIO controller resources on shmobile. The rest are mostly smaller fixes, a couple of MAINTAINERS updates, etc" * tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: Revert "ARM: OMAP2+: Remove legacy mux code for display.c" MAINTAINERS: Add keystone clock drivers MAINTAINERS: Add keystone git tree information ARM: s3c64xx: dt: Fix boot failure due to double clock initialization ARM: shmobile: r8a7790: Fix GPIO resources in DTS irqchip: renesas-intc-irqpin: Fix register bitfield shift calculation ARM: shmobile: lager: phy fixup needs CONFIG_PHYLIB
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394Linus Torvalds authored
Pull firewire fixlet from Stefan Richter: "A one-liner to reenable WRITE SAME over SBP-2 like in v3.8...v3.12. Buggy targets which could malfunction when being subjected to this command are already sufficiently protected by a scsi_level check in sd + SCSI core" * tag 'firewire-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394: firewire: sbp2: bring back WRITE SAME support
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pendingLinus Torvalds authored
Pull SCSI target fixes from Nicholas Bellinger: "Mostly minor items this time around, the most notable being a FILEIO backend change to enforce hw_max_sectors based upon the current block_size to address a bug where large sized I/Os (> 1M) where being rejected" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: qla2xxx: Fix scsi_host leak on qlt_lport_register callback failure target: Remove extra percpu_ref_init target/file: Update hw_max_sectors based on current block_size iser-target: Move INIT_WORK setup into isert_create_device_ib_res iscsi-target: Fix incorrect np->np_thread NULL assignment qla2xxx: Fix schedule_delayed_work() for target timeout calculations iser-target: fix error return code in isert_create_device_ib_res() iscsi-target: Fix-up all zero data-length CDBs with R/W_BIT set target: Remove write-only stats fields and lock from struct se_node_acl iscsi-target: return -EINVAL on oversized configfs parameter
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git://git.kvack.org/~bcrl/aio-nextLinus Torvalds authored
Pull AIO leak fixes from Ben LaHaise: "I've put these two patches plus Linus's change through a round of tests, and it passes millions of iterations of the aio numa migratepage test, as well as a number of repetitions of a few simple read and write tests. The first patch fixes the memory leak Kent introduced, while the second patch makes aio_migratepage() much more paranoid and robust" * git://git.kvack.org/~bcrl/aio-next: aio/migratepages: make aio migrate pages sane aio: fix kioctx leak introduced by "aio: Fix a trinity splat"
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Linus Torvalds authored
Since commit 36bc08cc ("fs/aio: Add support to aio ring pages migration") the aio ring setup code has used a special per-ring backing inode for the page allocations, rather than just using random anonymous pages. However, rather than remembering the pages as it allocated them, it would allocate the pages, insert them into the file mapping (dirty, so that they couldn't be free'd), and then forget about them. And then to look them up again, it would mmap the mapping, and then use "get_user_pages()" to get back an array of the pages we just created. Now, not only is that incredibly inefficient, it also leaked all the pages if the mmap failed (which could happen due to excessive number of mappings, for example). So clean it all up, making it much more straightforward. Also remove some left-overs of the previous (broken) mm_populate() usage that was removed in commit d6c355c7 ("aio: fix race in ring buffer page lookup introduced by page migration support") but left the pointless and now misleading MAP_POPULATE flag around. Tested-and-acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 21 Dec, 2013 6 commits
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Benjamin LaHaise authored
The arbitrary restriction on page counts offered by the core migrate_page_move_mapping() code results in rather suspicious looking fiddling with page reference counts in the aio_migratepage() operation. To fix this, make migrate_page_move_mapping() take an extra_count parameter that allows aio to tell the code about its own reference count on the page being migrated. While cleaning up aio_migratepage(), make it validate that the old page being passed in is actually what aio_migratepage() expects to prevent misbehaviour in the case of races. Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
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Benjamin LaHaise authored
e34ecee2 reworked the percpu reference counting to correct a bug trinity found. Unfortunately, the change lead to kioctxes being leaked because there was no final reference count to put. Add that reference count back in to fix things. Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Matias Bjørling authored
In the case of both the submit_queues param and use_per_node_hctx param are used. We limit the number af submit_queues to the number of online nodes. If the submit_queues is a multiple of nr_online_nodes, its trivial. Simply map them to the nodes. For example: 8 submit queues are mapped as node0[0,1], node1[2,3], ... If uneven, we are left with an uneven number of submit_queues that must be mapped. These are mapped toward the first node and onward. E.g. 5 submit queues mapped onto 4 nodes are mapped as node0[0,1], node1[2], ... Signed-off-by: Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Matias Bjørling authored
The defaults for the module is to instantiate itself with blk-mq and a submit queue for each CPU node in the system. To save resources, initialize instead with a single submit queue. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Matias Bjørling authored
Randy Dunlap reported a couple of grammar errors and unfortunate usages of socket/node/core. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Commit 1bf49dd4 ("./Makefile: export initial ramdisk compression config option") started setting the INITRD_COMPRESS environment variable depending on which decompression models the kernel had available. That is completely broken. For example, we by default have CONFIG_RD_LZ4 enabled, and are able to decompress such an initrd, but the user tools to *create* such an initrd may not be availble. So trying to tell dracut to generate an lz4-compressed image just because we can decode such an image is completely inappropriate. Cc: J P <ppandit@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 20 Dec, 2013 11 commits
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git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull xfs bugfixes from Ben Myers: "This contains fixes for some asserts related to project quotas, a memory leak, a hang when disabling group or project quotas before disabling user quotas, Dave's email address, several fixes for the alignment of file allocation to stripe unit/width geometry, a fix for an assertion with xfs_zero_remaining_bytes, and the behavior of metadata writeback in the face of IO errors. Details: - fix memory leak in xfs_dir2_node_removename - fix quota assertion in xfs_setattr_size - fix quota assertions in xfs_qm_vop_create_dqattach - fix for hang when disabling group and project quotas before disabling user quotas - fix Dave Chinner's email address in MAINTAINERS - fix for file allocation alignment - fix for assertion in xfs_buf_stale by removing xfsbdstrat - fix for alignment with swalloc mount option - fix for "retry forever" semantics on IO errors" * tag 'xfs-for-linus-v3.13-rc5' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: xfs: abort metadata writeback on permanent errors xfs: swalloc doesn't align allocations properly xfs: remove xfsbdstrat error xfs: align initial file allocations correctly MAINTAINERS: fix incorrect mail address of XFS maintainer xfs: fix infinite loop by detaching the group/project hints from user dquot xfs: fix assertion failure at xfs_setattr_nonsize xfs: fix false assertion at xfs_qm_vop_create_dqattach xfs: fix memory leak in xfs_dir2_node_removename
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Olof Johansson authored
Commit 597d795a ('mm: do not allocate page->ptl dynamically, if spinlock_t fits to long') restructures some allocators that are compiled even if USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS arn't used. It results in compilation failure: mm/memory.c:4282:6: error: 'struct page' has no member named 'ptl' mm/memory.c:4288:12: error: 'struct page' has no member named 'ptl' Add in the missing ifdef. Fixes: 597d795a ('mm: do not allocate page->ptl dynamically, if spinlock_t fits to long') Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arcLinus Torvalds authored
Pull ARC fix from Vineet Gupta: "Fix busted syscall table due to unistd header inclusion issue" * tag 'arc-fixes-for-3.13-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: ARC: Allow conditional multiple inclusion of uapi/asm/unistd.h
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull arm64 ptrace fix from Catalin Marinas. * tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: arm64: ptrace: avoid using HW_BREAKPOINT_EMPTY for disabled events
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Luck, Tony authored
Some pstore backing devices use on board flash as persistent storage. These have limited numbers of write cycles so it is a poor idea to use them from high frequency operations. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge tag 'dmaengine-fixes-3.13-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/dmaengine Pull dmaengine fixes from Dan Williams: - deprecation of net_dma to be removed in 3.14 - crash regression fix in pl330 from the dmaengine_unmap rework - crash regression fix for any channel running raid ops without CONFIG_ASYNC_TX_DMA from dmaengine_unmap - memory leak regression in mv_xor from dmaengine_unmap - build warning regressions in mv_xor, fsldma, ppc4xx, txx9, and at_hdmac from dmaengine_unmap - sleep in atomic regression in dma_async_memcpy_pg_to_pg - new fix in mv_xor for handling channel initialization failures * tag 'dmaengine-fixes-3.13-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/dmaengine: net_dma: mark broken dma: pl330: ensure DMA descriptors are zero-initialised dmaengine: fix sleep in atomic dmaengine: mv_xor: fix oops when channels fail to initialise dma: mv_xor: Use dmaengine_unmap_data for the self-tests dmaengine: fix enable for high order unmap pools dma: fix build warnings in txx9 dmatest: fix build warning on mips dma: fix fsldma build warnings dma: fix build warnings in ppc4xx dmaengine: at_hdmac: remove unused function dma: mv_xor: remove mv_desc_get_dest_addr()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds authored
Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini: "The PPC folks had a large amount of changes queued for 3.13, and now they are fixing the bugs" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't drop low-order page address bits powerpc: book3s: kvm: Don't abuse host r2 in exit path powerpc/kvm/booke: Fix build break due to stack frame size warning KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Enable interrupts earlier KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Make svcpu -> vcpu store preempt savvy KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Export kvmppc_copy_to|from_svcpu KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Don't clobber our exit handler id powerpc: kvm: fix rare but potential deadlock scene KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Take SRCU read lock around kvm_read_guest() call KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make tbacct_lock irq-safe KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Refine barriers in guest entry/exit KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix physical address calculations
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
In struct page we have enough space to fit long-size page->ptl there, but we use dynamically-allocated page->ptl if size(spinlock_t) is larger than sizeof(int). It hurts 64-bit architectures with CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK, where sizeof(spinlock_t) == 8, but it easily fits into struct page. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Johannes Weiner authored
Commit 81c0a2bb ("mm: page_alloc: fair zone allocator policy") meant to bring aging fairness among zones in system, but it was overzealous and badly regressed basic workloads on NUMA systems. Due to the way kswapd and page allocator interacts, we still want to make sure that all zones in any given node are used equally for all allocations to maximize memory utilization and prevent thrashing on the highest zone in the node. While the same principle applies to NUMA nodes - memory utilization is obviously improved by spreading allocations throughout all nodes - remote references can be costly and so many workloads prefer locality over memory utilization. The original change assumed that zone_reclaim_mode would be a good enough predictor for that, but it turned out to be as indicative as a coin flip. Revert the NUMA aspect of the fairness until we can find a proper way to make it configurable and agree on a sane default. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # 3.12 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored
This reverts commit 73f038b8. The NUMA behaviour of this patch is less than ideal. An alternative approch is to interleave allocations only within local zones which is implemented in the next patch. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
Sasha Levin found a NULL pointer dereference that is due to a missing page table lock, which in turn is due to the pmd entry in question being a transparent huge-table entry. The code - introduced in commit 1998cc04 ("mm: make madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) support swap file prefetch") - correctly checks for this situation using pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(), but it turns out that that function doesn't work correctly. pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() expected that pmd_bad() would trigger if the transparent hugepage bit was set, but it doesn't do that if pmd_numa() is also set. Note that the NUMA bit only gets set on real NUMA machines, so people trying to reproduce this on most normal development systems would never actually trigger this. Fix it by removing the very subtle (and subtly incorrect) expectation, and instead just checking pmd_trans_huge() explicitly. Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> [ Additionally remove the now stale test for pmd_trans_huge() inside the pmd_bad() case - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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