- 03 Oct, 2013 3 commits
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Paul E. McKenney authored
The csum_partial_copy_generic() function saves the PowerPC non-volatile r14, r15, and r16 registers for the main checksum-and-copy loop. Unfortunately, it fails to restore them upon error exit from this loop, which results in silent corruption of these registers in the presumably rare event of an access exception within that loop. This commit therefore restores these register on error exit from the loop. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
The csum_partial_copy_generic() uses register r7 to adjust the remaining bytes to process. Unfortunately, r7 also holds a parameter, namely the address of the flag to set in case of access exceptions while reading the source buffer. Lacking a quantum implementation of PowerPC, this commit instead uses register r9 to do the adjusting, leaving r7's pointer uncorrupted. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Nathan Fontenot authored
Previous commit 46723bfa... introduced a new config option HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE that ended up breaking memory hot-remove for ppc when sparse vmemmap is not defined. This patch defines HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE for ppc and adds the call to register_page_bootmem_info_node. Without this we get a BUG_ON for memory hot remove in put_page_bootmem(). This also adds a stub for register_page_bootmem_memmap to allow ppc to build with sparse vmemmap defined. Leaving this as a stub is fine since the same vmemmap addresses are also handled in vmemmap_populate and as such are properly mapped. Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.9+]
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- 25 Sep, 2013 35 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull Xen fixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk: "Bug-fixes and one update to the kernel-paramters.txt documentation. - Fix PV spinlocks triggering jump_label code bug - Remove extraneous code in the tpm front driver - Fix ballooning out of pages when non-preemptible - Fix deadlock when using a 32-bit initial domain with large amount of memory - Add xen_nopvpsin parameter to the documentation" * tag 'stable/for-linus-3.12-rc2-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: xen/spinlock: Document the xen_nopvspin parameter. xen/p2m: check MFN is in range before using the m2p table xen/balloon: don't alloc page while non-preemptible xen: Do not enable spinlocks before jump_label_init() has executed tpm: xen-tpmfront: Remove the locality sysfs attribute tpm: xen-tpmfront: Fix default durations
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dmLinus Torvalds authored
Pull device-mapper fixes from Mike Snitzer: "A few fixes for dm-snapshot, a 32 bit fix for dm-stats, a couple error handling fixes for dm-multipath. A fix for the thin provisioning target to not expose non-zero discard limits if discards are disabled. Lastly, add two DM module parameters which allow users to tune the emergency memory reserves that DM mainatins per device -- this helps fix a long-standing issue for dm-multipath. The conservative default reserve for request-based dm-multipath devices (256) has proven problematic for users with many multipathed SCSI devices but relatively little memory. To responsibly select a smaller value users should use the new nr_bios tracepoint info (via commit 75afb352 "block: Add nr_bios to block_rq_remap tracepoint") to determine the peak number of bios their workloads create" * tag 'dm-3.12-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: dm: add reserved_bio_based_ios module parameter dm: add reserved_rq_based_ios module parameter dm: lower bio-based mempool reservation dm thin: do not expose non-zero discard limits if discards disabled dm mpath: disable WRITE SAME if it fails dm-snapshot: fix performance degradation due to small hash size dm snapshot: workaround for a false positive lockdep warning dm stats: fix possible counter corruption on 32-bit systems dm mpath: do not fail path on -ENOSPC
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git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds authored
Pull MIPS fixes from Ralf Baechle: - Fix a comment - A small cleanup the main purpose of which is to work around an internal compiler error bug in certain Codesource toolchains. * git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: MIPS: mm: Move some checks out of 'for' loop in DMA operations MIPS: cpu-features.h: s/MIPS53/MIPS64/
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpcLinus Torvalds authored
Pull powerpc fixes from Ben Herrenschmidt: "Here are a few things for -rc2, this time it's all written by me so it can only be perfect .... right ? :) So we have the fix to call irq_enter/exit on the irq stack we've been discussing, plus a cleanup on top to remove an unused (and broken) stack limit tracking feature (well, make it 32-bit only in fact where it is used and works properly). Then we have two things that I wrote over the last couple of days and made the executive decision to include just because I can (and I'm sure you won't object .... right ?). They fix a couple of annoying and long standing "issues": - We had separate zImages for when booting via Open Firmware vs. booting via a flat device-tree, while it's trivial to make one that deals with both - We wasted a ton of cycles spinning secondary CPUs uselessly at boot instead of starting them when needed on pseries, thus contributing significantly to global warming" * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: powerpc/pseries: Do not start secondaries in Open Firmware powerpc/zImage: make the "OF" wrapper support ePAPR boot powerpc: Remove ksp_limit on ppc64 powerpc/irq: Run softirqs off the top of the irq stack
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar: "An EFI fix and two reboot-quirk fixes" * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/reboot: Fix apparent cut-n-paste mistake in Dell reboot workaround x86/reboot: Add quirk to make Dell C6100 use reboot=pci automatically x86, efi: Don't map Boot Services on i386
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Three small fixes" * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/balancing: Fix cfs_rq->task_h_load calculation sched/balancing: Fix 'local->avg_load > busiest->avg_load' case in fix_small_imbalance() sched/balancing: Fix 'local->avg_load > sds->avg_load' case in calculate_imbalance()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Assorted standalone fixes" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf/x86/intel: Add model number for Avoton Silvermont perf: Fix capabilities bitfield compatibility in 'struct perf_event_mmap_page' perf/x86/intel/uncore: Don't use smp_processor_id() in validate_group() perf: Update ABI comment tools lib lk: Uninclude linux/magic.h in debugfs.c perf tools: Fix old GCC build error in trace-event-parse.c:parse_proc_kallsyms() perf probe: Fix finder to find lines of given function perf session: Check for SIGINT in more loops perf tools: Fix compile with libelf without get_phdrnum perf tools: Fix buildid cache handling of kallsyms with kcore perf annotate: Fix objdump line parsing offset validation perf tools: Fill in new definitions for madvise()/mmap() flags perf tools: Sharpen the libaudit dependencies test
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Mikael Pettersson authored
My old @it.uu.se email address is going away, so update relevant files to point to my @gmail.com address instead. In sata_promise.c just delete the address, people can get it from MAINTAINERS. Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jayachandran C authored
The check cpu_needs_post_dma_flush() in mips_dma_sync_sg_for_cpu() and the check !plat_device_is_coherent() in mips_dma_sync_sg_for_device() can be moved outside the for loop. As a side effect, this also avoids a GCC bug that caused kernel compile to fail with the error: arch/mips/mm/dma-default.c: In function 'mips_dma_sync_sg_for_cpu': arch/mips/mm/dma-default.c:316:1: internal compiler error: in add_insn_before, at emit-rtl.c:3852 This gcc failure is seen in Code Sourcery toolchains [e.g. gcc version 4.7.2 (Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2012.09-99)] after commit "MIPS: Optimize current_cpu_type() for better code." Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C <jchandra@broadcom.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5907/Reviewed-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com> Tested-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk authored
Which disables in the ticketlock slowpath the Xen PV optimization's. Useful for diagnosing issues and comparing benchmarks in over-commit CPU scenarios. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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David Vrabel authored
On hosts with more than 168 GB of memory, a 32-bit guest may attempt to grant map an MFN that is error cannot lookup in its mapping of the m2p table. There is an m2p lookup as part of m2p_add_override() and m2p_remove_override(). The lookup falls off the end of the mapped portion of the m2p and (because the mapping is at the highest virtual address) wraps around and the lookup causes a fault on what appears to be a user space address. do_page_fault() (thinking it's a fault to a userspace address), tries to lock mm->mmap_sem. If the gntdev device is used for the grant map, m2p_add_override() is called from from gnttab_mmap() with mm->mmap_sem already locked. do_page_fault() then deadlocks. The deadlock would most commonly occur when a 64-bit guest is started and xenconsoled attempts to grant map its console ring. Introduce mfn_to_pfn_no_overrides() which checks the MFN is within the mapped portion of the m2p table before accessing the table and use this in m2p_add_override(), m2p_remove_override(), and mfn_to_pfn() (which already had the correct range check). All faults caused by accessing the non-existant parts of the m2p are thus within the kernel address space and exception_fixup() is called without trying to lock mm->mmap_sem. This means that for MFNs that are outside the mapped range of the m2p then mfn_to_pfn() will always look in the m2p overrides. This is correct because it must be a foreign MFN (and the PFN in the m2p in this case is only relevant for the other domain). Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@citrix.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> -- v3: check for auto_translated_physmap in mfn_to_pfn_no_overrides() v2: in mfn_to_pfn() look in m2p_overrides if the MFN is out of range as it's probably foreign. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
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Dave Jones authored
This seems to have been copied from the Optiplex 990 entry above, but somoene forgot to change the ident text. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130925001344.GA13554@redhat.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
Starting secondary CPUs early on from Open Firmware and placing them in a holding spin loop slows down the boot process significantly under some hypervisors such as KVM. This is also unnecessary when RTAS supports querying the CPU state So let's not do it. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
This makes the "OF" zImage wrapper (zImage.pseries, zImage.pmac, zImage.maple) work if booted via a flat device-tree (ePAPR boot mode), and thus potentially usable with kexec. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
We've been keeping that field in thread_struct for a while, it contains the "limit" of the current stack pointer and is meant to be used for detecting stack overflows. It has a few problems however: - First, it was never actually *used* on 64-bit. Set and updated but not actually exploited - When switching stack to/from irq and softirq stacks, it's update is racy unless we hard disable interrupts, which is costly. This is fine on 32-bit as we don't soft-disable there but not on 64-bit. Thus rather than fixing 2 in order to implement 1 in some hypothetical future, let's remove the code completely from 64-bit. In order to avoid a clutter of ifdef's, we remove the updates from C code completely during interrupt stack switching, and instead maintain it from the asm helper that is used to do the stack switching in the first place. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
Nowadays, irq_exit() calls __do_softirq() pretty much directly instead of calling do_softirq() which switches to the decicated softirq stack. This has lead to observed stack overflows on powerpc since we call irq_enter() and irq_exit() outside of the scope that switches to the irq stack. This fixes it by moving the stack switching up a level, making irq_enter() and irq_exit() run off the irq stack. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
There is a loop in do_mlockall() that lacks a preemption point, which means that the following can happen on non-preemptible builds of the kernel. Dave Jones reports: "My fuzz tester keeps hitting this. Every instance shows the non-irq stack came in from mlockall. I'm only seeing this on one box, but that has more ram (8gb) than my other machines, which might explain it. INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU { 3} (t=6500 jiffies g=470344 c=470343 q=0) sending NMI to all CPUs: NMI backtrace for cpu 3 CPU: 3 PID: 29664 Comm: trinity-child2 Not tainted 3.11.0-rc1+ #32 Call Trace: lru_add_drain_all+0x15/0x20 SyS_mlockall+0xa5/0x1a0 tracesys+0xdd/0xe2" This commit addresses this problem by inserting the required preemption point. Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge fixes from Andrew Morton: "Bunch of fixes. And a reversion of mhocko's "Soft limit rework" patch series. This is actually your fault for opening the merge window when I was off racing ;) I didn't read the email thread before sending everything off. Johannes Weiner raised significant issues: http://www.spinics.net/lists/cgroups/msg08813.html and we agreed to back it all out" I clearly need to be more aware of Andrew's racing schedule. * akpm: MAINTAINERS: update mach-bcm related email address checkpatch: make extern in .h prototypes quieter cciss: fix info leak in cciss_ioctl32_passthru() cpqarray: fix info leak in ida_locked_ioctl() kernel/reboot.c: re-enable the function of variable reboot_default audit: fix endless wait in audit_log_start() revert "memcg, vmscan: integrate soft reclaim tighter with zone shrinking code" revert "memcg: get rid of soft-limit tree infrastructure" revert "vmscan, memcg: do softlimit reclaim also for targeted reclaim" revert "memcg: enhance memcg iterator to support predicates" revert "memcg: track children in soft limit excess to improve soft limit" revert "memcg, vmscan: do not attempt soft limit reclaim if it would not scan anything" revert "memcg: track all children over limit in the root" revert "memcg, vmscan: do not fall into reclaim-all pass too quickly" fs/ocfs2/super.c: use a bigger nodestr in ocfs2_dismount_volume watchdog: update watchdog_thresh properly watchdog: update watchdog attributes atomically
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Christian Daudt authored
Update email address on mach-bcm + drivers for Broadcom mobile SoCs. Signed-off-by: Christian Daudt <csd@broadcom.com> Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joe Perches authored
The use of extern in .h files is a bit contentious. Make the warning be emitted only when --strict is used on the command line. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dan Carpenter authored
The arg64 struct has a hole after ->buf_size which isn't cleared. Or if any of the calls to copy_from_user() fail then that would cause an information leak as well. This was assigned CVE-2013-2147. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dan Carpenter authored
The pciinfo struct has a two byte hole after ->dev_fn so stack information could be leaked to the user. This was assigned CVE-2013-2147. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Chuansheng Liu authored
Commit 1b3a5d02 ("reboot: move arch/x86 reboot= handling to generic kernel") did some cleanup for reboot= command line, but it made the reboot_default inoperative. The default value of variable reboot_default should be 1, and if command line reboot= is not set, system will use the default reboot mode. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment layout] Signed-off-by: Li Fei <fei.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: liu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@intel.com> Acked-by: Robin Holt <robinmholt@linux.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.11.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Konstantin Khlebnikov authored
After commit 82919919 ("kernel/audit.c: avoid negative sleep durations") audit emitters will block forever if userspace daemon cannot handle backlog. After the timeout the waiting loop turns into busy loop and runs until daemon dies or returns back to work. This is a minimal patch for that bug. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Chuck Anderson <chuck.anderson@oracle.com> Cc: Dan Duval <dan.duval@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Revert commit 3b38722e ("memcg, vmscan: integrate soft reclaim tighter with zone shrinking code") I merged this prematurely - Michal and Johannes still disagree about the overall design direction and the future remains unclear. Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Revert commit e883110a ("memcg: get rid of soft-limit tree infrastructure") I merged this prematurely - Michal and Johannes still disagree about the overall design direction and the future remains unclear. Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Revert commit a5b7c87f ("vmscan, memcg: do softlimit reclaim also for targeted reclaim") I merged this prematurely - Michal and Johannes still disagree about the overall design direction and the future remains unclear. Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Revert commit de57780d ("memcg: enhance memcg iterator to support predicates") I merged this prematurely - Michal and Johannes still disagree about the overall design direction and the future remains unclear. Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Revert commit 7d910c05 ("memcg: track children in soft limit excess to improve soft limit") I merged this prematurely - Michal and Johannes still disagree about the overall design direction and the future remains unclear. Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Revert commit e839b6a1 ("memcg, vmscan: do not attempt soft limit reclaim if it would not scan anything") I merged this prematurely - Michal and Johannes still disagree about the overall design direction and the future remains unclear. Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Revert commit 1be171d6 ("memcg: track all children over limit in the root") I merged this prematurely - Michal and Johannes still disagree about the overall design direction and the future remains unclear. Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Revert commit e975de99 ("memcg, vmscan: do not fall into reclaim-all pass too quickly") I merged this prematurely - Michal and Johannes still disagree about the overall design direction and the future remains unclear. Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Goldwyn Rodrigues authored
While printing 32-bit node numbers, an 8-byte string is not enough. Increase the size of the string to 12 chars. This got left out in commit 49fa8140 ("fs/ocfs2/super.c: Use bigger nodestr to accomodate 32-bit node numbers"). Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michal Hocko authored
watchdog_tresh controls how often nmi perf event counter checks per-cpu hrtimer_interrupts counter and blows up if the counter hasn't changed since the last check. The counter is updated by per-cpu watchdog_hrtimer hrtimer which is scheduled with 2/5 watchdog_thresh period which guarantees that hrtimer is scheduled 2 times per the main period. Both hrtimer and perf event are started together when the watchdog is enabled. So far so good. But... But what happens when watchdog_thresh is updated from sysctl handler? proc_dowatchdog will set a new sampling period and hrtimer callback (watchdog_timer_fn) will use the new value in the next round. The problem, however, is that nobody tells the perf event that the sampling period has changed so it is ticking with the period configured when it has been set up. This might result in an ear ripping dissonance between perf and hrtimer parts if the watchdog_thresh is increased. And even worse it might lead to KABOOM if the watchdog is configured to panic on such a spurious lockup. This patch fixes the issue by updating both nmi perf even counter and hrtimers if the threshold value has changed. The nmi one is disabled and then reinitialized from scratch. This has an unpleasant side effect that the allocation of the new event might fail theoretically so the hard lockup detector would be disabled for such cpus. On the other hand such a memory allocation failure is very unlikely because the original event is deallocated right before. It would be much nicer if we just changed perf event period but there doesn't seem to be any API to do that right now. It is also unfortunate that perf_event_alloc uses GFP_KERNEL allocation unconditionally so we cannot use on_each_cpu() and do the same thing from the per-cpu context. The update from the current CPU should be safe because perf_event_disable removes the event atomically before it clears the per-cpu watchdog_ev so it cannot change anything under running handler feet. The hrtimer is simply restarted (thanks to Don Zickus who has pointed this out) if it is queued because we cannot rely it will fire&adopt to the new sampling period before a new nmi event triggers (when the treshold is decreased). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: the UP version of __smp_call_function_single ended up in the wrong place] Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michal Hocko authored
proc_dowatchdog doesn't synchronize multiple callers which might lead to confusion when two parallel callers might confuse watchdog_enable_all_cpus resp watchdog_disable_all_cpus (eg watchdog gets enabled even if watchdog_thresh was set to 0 already). This patch adds a local mutex which synchronizes callers to the sysctl handler. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 24 Sep, 2013 2 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge bcache fixes from Kent Overstreet: "There's fixes for _three_ different data corruption bugs, all of which were found by users hitting them in the wild. The first one isn't bcache specific - in 3.11 bcache was switched to the bio_copy_data in fs/bio.c, and that's when the bug in that code was discovered, but it's also used by raid1 and pktcdvd. (That was my code too, so the bug's doubly embarassing given that it was or should've been just a cut and paste from bcache code. Dunno what happened there). Most of these (all the non data corruption bugs, actually) were ready before the merge window and have been sitting in Jens' tree, but I don't know what's been up with him lately..." * emailed patches from Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>: bcache: Fix flushes in writeback mode bcache: Fix for handling overlapping extents when reading in a btree node bcache: Fix a shrinker deadlock bcache: Fix a dumb CPU spinning bug in writeback bcache: Fix a flush/fua performance bug bcache: Fix a writeback performance regression bcache: Correct printf()-style format length modifier bcache: Fix for when no journal entries are found bcache: Strip endline when writing the label through sysfs bcache: Fix a dumb journal discard bug block: Fix bio_copy_data()
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Kent Overstreet authored
In writeback mode, when we get a cache flush we need to make sure we issue a flush to the backing device. The code for sending down an extra flush was wrong - by cloning the bio we were probably getting flags that didn't make sense for a bare flush, and also the old code was firing for FUA bios, for which we don't need to send a flush to the backing device. This was causing data corruption somehow - the mechanism was never determined, but this patch fixes it for the users that were seeing it. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com> Cc: linux-stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # >= v3.10 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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