- 09 Dec, 2012 8 commits
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Jiri Olsa authored
Adding perf_hpp__list list to register and contain all period related columns the command is interested in. This way we get rid of static array holding all possible columns and enable commands to register their own columns. It'll be handy for diff command in future to process and display data for multiple files. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kiykge4igrcl7etmpmveto1h@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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David Miller authored
This is a suggested patch to fix the bug I reported at: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=135033028924652&w=2 Essentially, there is a hard requirement that when perf analyzes a trace, it must have the entire thing mmap()'d. Therefore the scheme used on 32-bit where we have a fixed (8) number of 32MB mmaps, and cycle through them, simply does not work. One of the reasons this requirement exists is because the iterators maintain references to perf entry objects and those references don't just simply go away when this mmap code decides to cycle an old mmap area out and reuse it. At this point, those entry pointers now point to garbage resulting in unpredictable behavior and crashes. It is better to try to mmap() as much as we can and if we do actually run into address space limitations, the failure of the mmap() call will indicate that and stop processing. I noticed that perf_session->mmap_window is set to a constant in one location, and only used in one other location. So I got rid of it altogether. So we adjust the size of the mmaps[] array to the maximum we could need. On 64-bit we only need one slot. On 32-bit we could need up to 128 (128 * 32MB == 4GB). I've verified that this allows a large (~600MB) perf.data file to be analyzed properly with a 32-bit perf binary, which previously was not possible. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121110.141219.582924082787523608.davem@davemloft.netSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
The perf_event__process_sample function, when not finding a machine associated with a sample, was calling pr_err without a newline, garbling the screen on TUI mode due to a problem introduced by a recent ui_helpline patch. On --stdio it would just concatenate the messages for each sample with no machine associated, fix it by adding the newline. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vuz88welqvp15c2uybd9osnz@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Namhyung Kim authored
The perf session environment information was saved (so allocated) during perf_session__open, but was not freed. As free(3) handles NULL pointer input properly it won't cause a issue for writing modes - e.g. perf record Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1353472999-23042-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Namhyung Kim authored
Current perf build process checks various system configuration on invocation to make. But this is not needed just for cleaning. To do that, move some of python related variables out of conditional since 'clean' target needs them. Normal path should not be affected by this. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352867990-658-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Namhyung Kim authored
The ui_helpline__vshow() will be used for pr_* functions. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352911664-24620-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Namhyung Kim authored
It is used everywhere so always build it regardless of ui engine. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352911664-24620-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Stephane Eranian authored
Was ignoring the dso type (function vs. variable) and was therefore printing bogus information. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121120095101.GA5939@quadSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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- 08 Dec, 2012 5 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/core Pull ftrace updates from Steve Rostedt. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'uprobes/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc into perf/core Pull uprobes fixes, cleanups and preparation for the ARM port from Oleg Nesterov. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Conflicts: tools/perf/Makefile tools/perf/builtin-test.c tools/perf/perf.h tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c tools/perf/util/evsel.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo: - UAPI fixes, from David Howels - Separate perf tests into multiple objects, one per test, from Jiri Olsa. - Fixes to /proc/pid/maps parsing, preparatory to supporting data maps, from Namhyung Kim - Fix compile error for non-NEWT builds, from Namhyung Kim - Implement ui_progress for GTK, from Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netLinus Torvalds authored
Pull networking fixes from David Miller: "Two stragglers: 1) The new code that adds new flushing semantics to GRO can cause SKB pointer list corruption, manage the lists differently to avoid the OOPS. Fix from Eric Dumazet. 2) When TCP fast open does a retransmit of data in a SYN-ACK or similar, we update retransmit state that we shouldn't triggering a WARN_ON later. Fix from Yuchung Cheng." * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: net: gro: fix possible panic in skb_gro_receive() tcp: bug fix Fast Open client retransmission
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- 07 Dec, 2012 3 commits
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Eric Dumazet authored
commit 2e71a6f8 (net: gro: selective flush of packets) added a bug for skbs using frag_list. This part of the GRO stack is rarely used, as it needs skb not using a page fragment for their skb->head. Most drivers do use a page fragment, but some of them use GFP_KERNEL allocations for the initial fill of their RX ring buffer. napi_gro_flush() overwrite skb->prev that was used for these skb to point to the last skb in frag_list. Fix this using a separate field in struct napi_gro_cb to point to the last fragment. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Yuchung Cheng authored
If SYN-ACK partially acks SYN-data, the client retransmits the remaining data by tcp_retransmit_skb(). This increments lost recovery state variables like tp->retrans_out in Open state. If loss recovery happens before the retransmission is acked, it triggers the WARN_ON check in tcp_fastretrans_alert(). For example: the client sends SYN-data, gets SYN-ACK acking only ISN, retransmits data, sends another 4 data packets and get 3 dupacks. Since the retransmission is not caused by network drop it should not update the recovery state variables. Further the server may return a smaller MSS than the cached MSS used for SYN-data, so the retranmission needs a loop. Otherwise some data will not be retransmitted until timeout or other loss recovery events. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmcLinus Torvalds authored
Pull MMC fixes from Chris Ball: "Two small regression fixes: - sdhci-s3c: Fix runtime PM regression against 3.7-rc1 - sh-mmcif: Fix oops against 3.6" * tag 'mmc-fixes-for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc: mmc: sh-mmcif: avoid oops on spurious interrupts (second try) Revert misapplied "mmc: sh-mmcif: avoid oops on spurious interrupts" mmc: sdhci-s3c: fix missing clock for gpio card-detect
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- 06 Dec, 2012 11 commits
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Mel Gorman authored
This fixes a regression in 3.7-rc, which has since gone into stable. Commit 00442ad0 ("mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in alloc_pages_vma()") changed get_vma_policy() to raise the refcount on a shmem shared mempolicy; whereas shmem_alloc_page() went on expecting alloc_page_vma() to drop the refcount it had acquired. This deserves a rework: but for now fix the leak in shmem_alloc_page(). Hugh: shmem_swapin() did not need a fix, but surely it's clearer to use the same refcounting there as in shmem_alloc_page(), delete its onstack mempolicy, and the strange mpol_cond_copy() and __mpol_cond_copy() - those were invented to let swapin_readahead() make an unknown number of calls to alloc_pages_vma() with one mempolicy; but since 00442ad0, alloc_pages_vma() has kept refcount in balance, so now no problem. Reported-and-tested-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Johannes Weiner authored
When a zone meets its high watermark and is compactable in case of higher order allocations, it contributes to the percentage of the node's memory that is considered balanced. This requirement, that a node be only partially balanced, came about when kswapd was desparately trying to balance tiny zones when all bigger zones in the node had plenty of free memory. Arguably, the same should apply to compaction: if a significant part of the node is balanced enough to run compaction, do not get hung up on that tiny zone that might never get in shape. When the compaction logic in kswapd is reached, we know that at least 25% of the node's memory is balanced properly for compaction (see zone_balanced and pgdat_balanced). Remove the individual zone checks that restart the kswapd cycle. Otherwise, we may observe more endless looping in kswapd where the compaction code loops back to reclaim because of a single zone and reclaim does nothing because the node is considered balanced overall. See for example https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=866988Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-and-tested-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@leemhuis.info> Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Tested-by: John Ellson <john.ellson@comcast.net> Tested-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com> Tested-by: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored
Commit 0bf380bc ("mm: compaction: check pfn_valid when entering a new MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES block during isolation for migration") added a check for pfn_valid() when isolating pages for migration as the scanner does not necessarily start pageblock-aligned. Since commit c89511ab ("mm: compaction: Restart compaction from near where it left off"), the free scanner has the same problem. This patch makes sure that the pfn range passed to isolate_freepages_block() is within the same block so that pfn_valid() checks are unnecessary. In answer to Henrik's wondering why others have not reported this: reproducing this requires a large enough hole with the right aligment to have compaction walk into a PFN range with no memmap. Size and alignment depends in the memory model - 4M for FLATMEM and 128M for SPARSEMEM on x86. It needs a "lucky" machine. Reported-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Guennadi Liakhovetski authored
On some systems, e.g., kzm9g, MMCIF interfaces can produce spurious interrupts without any active request. To prevent the Oops, that results in such cases, don't dereference the mmc request pointer until we make sure, that we are indeed processing such a request. Reported-by: Tetsuyuki Kobayashi <koba@kmckk.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> Tested-by: Tetsuyuki Kobayashi <koba@kmckk.co.jp> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
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Chris Ball authored
This reverts commit 8464dd52, which was a misapplied debugging version of the patch, not the final patch itself. Signed-off-by: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Heiko Stübner authored
2abeb5c5 ("Add clk_(enable/disable) in runtime suspend/resume") added the capability to stop the clocks when the device is runtime suspended, but forgot to handle the case of the card-detect using an external gpio. Therefore in the case that runtime-pm is enabled, start the io-clock when a card is inserted and stop it again once it is removed. Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> Signed-off-by: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
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git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds authored
Pull MIPS fixes from Ralf Baechle: "These are the fixes for the N32 syscall bugs found by Al, an extraneous break that broke detection for R3000 and R3081 processors, an endless loop processing signals for kernel task (x86 received the same fix a while ago) and a fix for transparent huge page which took ages to track down because it was so hard to come up with a workable test case." * 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: MIPS: Fix endless loop when processing signals for kernel tasks MIPS: R3000/R3081: Fix CPU detection. MIPS: N32: Fix signalfd4 syscall entry point MIPS: N32: Fix preadv(2) and pwritev(2) entry points. MIPS: Avoid mcheck by flushing page range in huge_ptep_set_access_flags()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull build fix from Rusty Russell: "Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> writes: > It is $(obj)/oid_registry.o that is dependent on $(obj)/oid_registry_data.c. > The object file cannot be built until $(obj)/oid_registry_data.c has been > generated. > > A periodic and hard to reproduce parallel build failure is due to > this incorrect lib/Makefile dependency. The compile error is completely > disingenuous. > > GEN lib/oid_registry_data.c > Compiling 49 OIDs > CC lib/oid_registry.o > gcc: error: lib/oid_registry.c: No such file or directory > gcc: fatal error: no input files > compilation terminated. > make[3]: *** [lib/oid_registry.o] Error 4 I can't reproduce it either. It's completely weird; nothing ever removes lib/oid_registry.c, so either gcc is giving the wrong message or it's a weird fs with a very odd race. But your version is definitely more correct than the previous one, so..." * 'more-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: lib/Makefile: Fix oid_registry build dependency
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull module signing fixes from Rusty Russell: "David gave me these a month ago, during my git workflow churn :(" * 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: ASN.1: Fix an indefinite length skip error MODSIGN: Don't use enum-type bitfields in module signature info block
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull watchdog fix from Thomas Gleixner: "Trivial CPU hotplug regression fix for the watchdog code" * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: watchdog: Fix CPU hotplug regression
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Tim Gardner authored
It is $(obj)/oid_registry.o that is dependent on $(obj)/oid_registry_data.c. The object file cannot be built until $(obj)/oid_registry_data.c has been generated. A periodic and hard to reproduce parallel build failure is due to this incorrect lib/Makefile dependency. The compile error is completely disingenuous. GEN lib/oid_registry_data.c Compiling 49 OIDs CC lib/oid_registry.o gcc: error: lib/oid_registry.c: No such file or directory gcc: fatal error: no input files compilation terminated. make[3]: *** [lib/oid_registry.o] Error 4 Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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- 05 Dec, 2012 6 commits
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Dmitry Adamushko authored
The problem occurs [1] when a kernel-mode task returns from a system call with a pending signal. A real-life scenario is a child of 'khelper' returning from a failed kernel_execve() in ____call_usermodehelper() [ kernel/kmod.c ]. kernel_execve() fails due to a pending SIGKILL, which is the result of "kill -9 -1" (at least, busybox's init does it upon reboot). The loop is as follows: * syscall_exit_work: - work_pending: // start_of_the_loop - work_notifysig: - do_notify_resume() - do_signal() - if (!user_mode(regs)) return; - resume_userspace // TIF_SIGPENDING is still set - work_pending // so we call work_pending => goto // start_of_the_loop More information can be found in another LKML thread: http://www.serverphorums.com/read.php?12,457826 [1] The problem was also reproduced on !CONFIG_VM86 x86, and the following fix was accepted. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=29a2e2836ff9ea65a603c89df217f4198973a74fSigned-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/3571/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
Broken since e05ea74fc56f347f872ef9946d27c53e8bf20864 (lmo) rsp. cea7e2df (kernel.org) [MIPS: Sort out CPU type to name translation.] These CPUs are no longer very popular to say the least ... Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Reported-by: Murphy McCauley <murphy.mccauley@gmail.com>
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Ralf Baechle authored
This needs to use the compat entry point or it's going to fail on big endian systems. Noticed by Al Viro. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Dan Carpenter authored
READ is zero so the "rw & READ" test is always false. The intended test was "((rw & RW_MASK) == READ)". Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Howells authored
Fix an error in asn1_find_indefinite_length() whereby small definite length elements of size 0x7f are incorrecly classified as non-small. Without this fix, an error will be given as the length of the length will be perceived as being very much greater than the maximum supported size. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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David Howells authored
Don't use enum-type bitfields in the module signature info block as we can't be certain how the compiler will handle them. As I understand it, it is arch dependent, and it is possible for the compiler to rearrange them based on endianness and to insert a byte of padding to pad the three enums out to four bytes. Instead use u8 fields for these, which the compiler should emit in the right order without padding. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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- 04 Dec, 2012 7 commits
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Norbert reported: "3.7-rc6 booted with nmi_watchdog=0 fails to suspend to RAM or offline CPUs. It's reproducable with a KVM guest and physical system." The reason is that commit bcd951cf(watchdog: Use hotplug thread infrastructure) missed to take this into account. So the cpu offline code gets stuck in the teardown function because it accesses non initialized data structures. Add a check for watchdog_enabled into that path to cure the issue. Reported-and-tested-by: Norbert Warmuth <nwarmuth@t-online.de> Tested-by: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1211231033230.2701@ionos Link: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1079534Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull module fixes from Rusty Russell: "Module signing build fixes for blackfin and metag" * 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: modsign: add symbol prefix to certificate list linux/kernel.h: define SYMBOL_PREFIX
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git://git.infradead.org/linux-ubiLinus Torvalds authored
Pull UBI changes from Artem Bityutskiy: "Fixes for 2 brown-paperbag bugs introduced this merge window by the fastmap code: 1. The UBI background thread got stuck when a bit-flip happened because free LEBs was not removed from the "free" tree when we started using it. 2. I/O debugging checks did not work because we called a sleeping function in atomic context." * tag 'upstream-3.7-rc9' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-ubi: UBI: dont call ubi_self_check_all_ff() in __wl_get_peb() UBI: remove PEB from free tree in get_peb_for_wl()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds authored
Pull workqueue fixes from Tejun Heo: "So, safe fixes my ass. Commit 8852aac2 ("workqueue: mod_delayed_work_on() shouldn't queue timer on 0 delay") had the side-effect of performing delayed_work sanity checks even when @delay is 0, which should be fine for any sane use cases. Unfortunately, megaraid was being overly ingenious. It seemingly wanted to use cancel_delayed_work_sync() before cancel_work_sync() was introduced, but didn't want to waste the space for full delayed_work as it was only going to use 0 @delay. So, it only allocated space for struct work_struct and then cast it to struct delayed_work and passed it into delayed_work functions - truly awesome engineering tradeoff to save some bytes. Xiaotian fixed it by making megraid allocate full delayed_work for now. It should be converted to use work_struct and cancel_work_sync() but I think we better do that after 3.7. I added another commit to change BUG_ON()s in __queue_delayed_work() to WARN_ON_ONCE()s so that the kernel doesn't crash even if there are more such abuses." * 'for-3.7-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: convert BUG_ON()s in __queue_delayed_work() to WARN_ON_ONCE()s megaraid: fix BUG_ON() from incorrect use of delayed work
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Ralf Baechle authored
By using the native syscall entry point the kernel was also expecting 64-bit iovec structures. This is broken since ddd9e91b [preadv/ pwritev: MIPS: Add preadv(2) and pwritev(2) syscalls.] which originally added these two syscalls. I walked through piles of code, including libc and couldn't find anything that would have worked around the issue so this change the API to what it should always have been. Noticed and patch suggested by Al Viro. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparcLinus Torvalds authored
Pull sparc fixes from David Miller: "Two small fixes for Sparc, nobody uses sparc, so these are low risk :-) 1) Piggyback is too picky about the symbol types that _start and _end have in the final kernel image, and it thus breaks with newer binutils. Future proof by getting rid of the symbol type checks. 2) exit_group() should kill register windows on sparc64 the same way we do for plain exit(). Thanks to Al Viro for spotting this." * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc: sparc: Fix piggyback with newer binutils. sparc64: exit_group should kill register windows just like plain exit.
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Linus Torvalds authored
The block device access simplification that avoided accessing the (racy) block size information (commit bbec0270: "blkdev_max_block: make private to fs/buffer.c") no longer checks the maximum block size in the block mapping path. That was _almost_ as simple as just removing the code entirely, because the readers and writers all check the size of the device anyway, so under normal circumstances it "just worked". However, the block size may be such that the end of the device may straddle one single buffer_head. At which point we may still want to access the end of the device, but the buffer we use to access it partially extends past the end. The 'bd_set_size()' function intentionally sets the block size to avoid this, but mounting the device - or setting the block size by hand to some other value - can modify that block size. So instead, teach 'submit_bh()' about the special case of the buffer head straddling the end of the device, and turning such an access into a smaller IO access, avoiding the problem. This, btw, also means that unlike before, we can now access the whole device regardless of device block size setting. So now, even if the device size is only 512-byte aligned, we can read and write even the last sector even when having a much bigger block size for accessing the rest of the device. So with this, we could now get rid of the 'bd_set_size()' block size code entirely - resulting in faster IO for the common case - but that would be a separate patch. Reported-and-tested-by: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> Reporeted-and-tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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