- 24 Aug, 2012 3 commits
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Timur Tabi authored
Similar to fsl_pq_mdio.c, this driver is for the 10G MDIO controller on Freescale Frame Manager Ethernet controllers. Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Neil Horman authored
The network classifier cgroup initalizes each cgroups instance classid value to 0. However, the sock_update_classid function only updates classid's in sockets if the tasks cgroup classid is not zero, and if it differs from the current classid. The later check is to prevent cache line dirtying, but the former is detrimental, as it prevents resetting a classid for a cgroup to 0. While this is not a common action, it has administrative usefulness (if the admin wants to disable classification of a certain group temporarily for instance). Easy fix, just remove the zero check. Tested successfully by myself Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.open-mesh.org/linux-mergeDavid S. Miller authored
Antonio Quartulli says: ==================== Included changes: - a set of codestyle rearrangements/fixes - new feature to early detect new joining (mesh-unaware) clients - a minor fix for the gw-feature - substitution of shift operations with the BIT() macro - reorganization of the main batman-adv structure (struct batadv_priv) - some more (very) minor cleanups and fixes =================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 23 Aug, 2012 29 commits
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Rami Rosen authored
This patch fixes a broken build due to a missing header: ... CC net/ipv4/proc.o In file included from include/net/net_namespace.h:15, from net/ipv4/proc.c:35: include/net/netns/packet.h:11: error: field 'sklist_lock' has incomplete type ... The lock of netns_packet has been replaced by a recent patch to be a mutex instead of a spinlock, but we need to replace the header file to be linux/mutex.h instead of linux/spinlock.h as well. See commit 0fa7fa98: packet: Protect packet sk list with mutex (v2) patch, Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <rosenr@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Eric Biederman pointed out that not holding RTNL while calling call_netdevice_notifiers() was racy. This patch is a direct transcription his feedback against commit 0115e8e3 (net: remove delay at device dismantle) Thanks Eric ! Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Sven Eckelmann authored
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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Antonio Quartulli authored
In order to understand where a broadcast packet is coming from and use this information to detect not yet announced clients, this patch modifies the interface_rx() function by passing a new argument: the orig node corresponding to the node that originated the received packet (if known). This new argument if not NULL for broadcast packets only (other packets does not have source field). Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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Antonio Quartulli authored
With the current TT mechanism a new client joining the network is not immediately able to communicate with other hosts because its MAC address has not been announced yet. This situation holds until the first OGM containing its joining event will be spread over the mesh network. This behaviour can be acceptable in networks where the originator interval is a small value (e.g. 1sec) but if that value is set to an higher time (e.g. 5secs) the client could suffer from several malfunctions like DHCP client timeouts, etc. This patch adds an early detection mechanism that makes nodes in the network able to recognise "not yet announced clients" by means of the broadcast packets they emitted on connection (e.g. ARP or DHCP request). The added client will then be confirmed upon receiving the OGM claiming it or purged if such OGM is not received within a fixed amount of time. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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Sven Eckelmann authored
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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Sven Eckelmann authored
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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Sven Eckelmann authored
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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Martin Hundebøll authored
When enabling promiscuous mode, tt queries for other hosts might be received. Before this patch, "foreign" tt queries were processed like any other query and thus forwarded to its destination again and thereby causing a loop. This patch adds a check to drop foreign tt queries. Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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Martin Hundebøll authored
batadv_check_unicast_packet() is needed in batadv_recv_tt_query(), so move the former to before the latter. Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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Sven Eckelmann authored
The structure batadv_priv grows everytime a new feature is introduced. It gets hard to find the parts of the struct that belongs to a specific feature. This becomes even harder by the fact that not every feature uses a prefix in the member name. The variables for bridge loop avoidence, gateway handling, translation table and visualization server are moved into separate structs that are included in the bat_priv main struct. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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Simon Wunderlich authored
If this call fails, some of the orig_nodes spaces may have been resized for the increased number of interface, and some may not. If we would just continue with the larger number of interfaces, this would lead to access to not allocated memory later. We better check the return code, and don't add the interface if no memory is available. OTOH, keeping some of the orig_nodes with too much memory allocated should hurt no one (except for a few too many bytes allocated). Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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Antonio Quartulli authored
the word millisecond is misspelled in several comments. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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Antonio Quartulli authored
The batadv_tt_orig_list_entry structure didn't have any refcounting mechanism so far. This patch introduces it and makes the structure being usable in much more complex context. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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Jonathan Corbet authored
As much as I'm happy to see LWN links sprinkled through the kernel by the dozen, this one in particular reflects a very old state of reality; the associated comment is now incorrect. So just delete it. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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Marek Lindner authored
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Acked-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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Simon Wunderlich authored
for consistency reasons within the code and with the documentation, we should always call it "claim" and "unclaim". Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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Simon Wunderlich authored
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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Simon Wunderlich authored
This is especially useful if there are no claims yet, but we still want to know which gateways are using bridge loop avoidance in the network. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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Antonio Quartulli authored
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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Pavel Emelyanov authored
Change since v1: * Fixed inuse counters access spotted by Eric In patch eea68e2f (packet: Report socket mclist info via diag module) I've introduced a "scheduling in atomic" problem in packet diag module -- the socket list is traversed under rcu_read_lock() while performed under it sk mclist access requires rtnl lock (i.e. -- mutex) to be taken. [152363.820563] BUG: scheduling while atomic: crtools/12517/0x10000002 [152363.820573] 4 locks held by crtools/12517: [152363.820581] #0: (sock_diag_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81a2dcb5>] sock_diag_rcv+0x1f/0x3e [152363.820613] #1: (sock_diag_table_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81a2de70>] sock_diag_rcv_msg+0xdb/0x11a [152363.820644] #2: (nlk->cb_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81a67d01>] netlink_dump+0x23/0x1ab [152363.820693] #3: (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff81b6a049>] packet_diag_dump+0x0/0x1af Similar thing was then re-introduced by further packet diag patches (fanount mutex and pgvec mutex for rings) :( Apart from being terribly sorry for the above, I propose to change the packet sk list protection from spinlock to mutex. This lock currently protects two modifications: * sklist * prot inuse counters The sklist modifications can be just reprotected with mutex since they already occur in a sleeping context. The inuse counters modifications are trickier -- the __this_cpu_-s are used inside, thus requiring the caller to handle the potential issues with contexts himself. Since packet sockets' counters are modified in two places only (packet_create and packet_release) we only need to protect the context from being preempted. BH disabling is not required in this case. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Allan, Bruce W authored
The helper functions which translate IEEE MDIO Manageable Device (MMD) Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) registers 3.20, 7.60 and 7.61 to and from the comparable ethtool supported/advertised settings will be needed by drivers other than those in PHYLIB (e.g. e1000e in a follow-on patch). In the same fashion as similar translation functions in linux/mii.h, move these functions from the PHYLIB core to the linux/mdio.h header file so the code will not have to be duplicated in each driver needing MMD-to-ethtool (and vice-versa) translations. The function and some variable names have been renamed to be more descriptive. Not tested on the only hardware that currently calls the related functions, stmmac, because I don't have access to any. Has been compile tested and the translations have been tested on a locally modified version of e1000e. Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Cc: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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danborkmann@iogearbox.net authored
Instead of using a hard-coded value for the status variable, it would make the code more readable to use its destined define from linux/if_packet.h. Signed-off-by: daniel.borkmann@tik.ee.ethz.ch Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Ying Xue authored
Since we have already in BH context when *_write_space(), *_data_ready() as well as *_state_change() are called, it's unnecessary to disable BH. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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John Eaglesham authored
Currently the "bonding" driver does not support load balancing outgoing traffic in LACP mode for IPv6 traffic. IPv4 (and TCP or UDP over IPv4) are currently supported; this patch adds transmit hashing for IPv6 (and TCP or UDP over IPv6), bringing IPv6 up to par with IPv4 support in the bonding driver. In addition, bounds checking has been added to all transmit hashing functions. The algorithm chosen (xor'ing the bottom three quads of the source and destination addresses together, then xor'ing each byte of that result into the bottom byte, finally xor'ing with the last bytes of the MAC addresses) was selected after testing almost 400,000 unique IPv6 addresses harvested from server logs. This algorithm had the most even distribution for both big- and little-endian architectures while still using few instructions. Its behavior also attempts to closely match that of the IPv4 algorithm. The IPv6 flow label was intentionally not included in the hash as it appears to be unset in the vast majority of IPv6 traffic sampled, and the current algorithm not using the flow label already offers a very even distribution. Fragmented IPv6 packets are handled the same way as fragmented IPv4 packets, ie, they are not balanced based on layer 4 information. Additionally, IPv6 packets with intermediate headers are not balanced based on layer 4 information. In practice these intermediate headers are not common and this should not cause any problems, and the alternative (a packet-parsing loop and look-up table) seemed slow and complicated for little gain. Tested-by: John Eaglesham <linux@8192.net> Signed-off-by: John Eaglesham <linux@8192.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
ip6gre_err() miscomputes grehlen (sizeof(ipv6h) is 4 or 8, not 40 as expected), and should take into account 'offset' parameter. Also uses pskb_may_pull() to cope with some fragged skbs Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Kozlov <xeb@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
This patch reverts commit 56892261 (xfrm: Use rcu_dereference_bh to deference pointer protected by rcu_read_lock_bh), and fixes bugs introduced in commit 418a99ac ( Replace rwlock on xfrm_policy_afinfo with rcu ) 1) We properly use RCU variant in this file, not a mix of RCU/RCU_BH 2) We must defer some writes after the synchronize_rcu() call or a reader can crash dereferencing NULL pointer. 3) Now we use the xfrm_policy_afinfo_lock spinlock only from process context, we no longer need to block BH in xfrm_policy_register_afinfo() and xfrm_policy_unregister_afinfo() 4) Can use RCU_INIT_POINTER() instead of rcu_assign_pointer() in xfrm_policy_unregister_afinfo() 5) Remove a forward inline declaration (xfrm_policy_put_afinfo()), and also move xfrm_policy_get_afinfo() declaration. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Fan Du <fan.du@windriver.com> Cc: Priyanka Jain <Priyanka.Jain@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
I noticed extra one second delay in device dismantle, tracked down to a call to dst_dev_event() while some call_rcu() are still in RCU queues. These call_rcu() were posted by rt_free(struct rtable *rt) calls. We then wait a little (but one second) in netdev_wait_allrefs() before kicking again NETDEV_UNREGISTER. As the call_rcu() are now completed, dst_dev_event() can do the needed device swap on busy dst. To solve this problem, add a new NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL, called after a rcu_barrier(), but outside of RTNL lock. Use NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL with care ! Change dst_dev_event() handler to react to NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL Also remove NETDEV_UNREGISTER_BATCH, as its not used anymore after IP cache removal. With help from Gao feng Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://1984.lsi.us.es/nf-nextDavid S. Miller authored
Pablo Neira Ayuso says: ==================== This is the first batch of Netfilter and IPVS updates for your net-next tree. Mostly cleanups for the Netfilter side. They are: * Remove unnecessary RTNL locking now that we have support for namespace in nf_conntrack, from Patrick McHardy. * Cleanup to eliminate unnecessary goto in the initialization path of several Netfilter tables, from Jean Sacren. * Another cleanup from Wu Fengguang, this time to PTR_RET instead of if IS_ERR then return PTR_ERR. * Use list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu in nf_iterate, from Michael Wang. * Add pmtu_disc sysctl option to disable PMTU in their tunneling transmitter, from Julian Anastasov. * Generalize application protocol registration in IPVS and modify IPVS FTP helper to use it, from Julian Anastasov. * update Kconfig. The IPVS FTP helper depends on the Netfilter FTP helper for NAT support, from Julian Anastasov. * Add logic to update PMTU for IPIP packets in IPVS, again from Julian Anastasov. * A couple of sparse warning fixes for IPVS and Netfilter from Claudiu Ghioc and Patrick McHardy respectively. Patrick's IPv6 NAT changes will follow after this batch, I need to flush this batch first before refreshing my tree. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 22 Aug, 2012 5 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/net-nextDavid S. Miller authored
Jeff Kirsher says: ==================== This series contains updates to ethtool.h, e1000, e1000e, and igb to implement MDI/MDIx control. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jean Sacren authored
Usually it's a good practice to use goto statement for error recovery when initializing the module. This approach could be an overkill if: 1) there is only one fail case; 2) success and failure use the same return statement. For a cleaner approach, remove the unnecessary goto statement and directly implement error recovery. Signed-off-by: Jean Sacren <sakiwit@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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Michael Wang authored
This patch replaces list_for_each_continue_rcu() with list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu() to allow removing list_for_each_continue_rcu(). Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge fixes from Andrew Morton. Random drivers and some VM fixes. * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (17 commits) mm: compaction: Abort async compaction if locks are contended or taking too long mm: have order > 0 compaction start near a pageblock with free pages rapidio/tsi721: fix unused variable compiler warning rapidio/tsi721: fix inbound doorbell interrupt handling drivers/rtc/rtc-rs5c348.c: fix hour decoding in 12-hour mode mm: correct page->pfmemalloc to fix deactivate_slab regression drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf2123.c: initialize dynamic sysfs attributes mm/compaction.c: fix deferring compaction mistake drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c: SGI XPC fails to load when cpu 0 is out of IRQ resources string: do not export memweight() to userspace hugetlb: update hugetlbpage.txt checkpatch: add control statement test to SINGLE_STATEMENT_DO_WHILE_MACRO mm: hugetlbfs: correctly populate shared pmd cciss: fix incorrect scsi status reporting Documentation: update mount option in filesystem/vfat.txt mm: change nr_ptes BUG_ON to WARN_ON cs5535-clockevt: typo, it's MFGPT, not MFPGT
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- 21 Aug, 2012 3 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-mediaLinus Torvalds authored
Pull media fixes from Mauro Carvalho Chehab: "For bug fixes, at soc_camera, si470x, uvcvideo, iguanaworks IR driver, radio_shark Kbuild fixes, and at the V4L2 core (radio fixes)." * 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: [media] media: soc_camera: don't clear pix->sizeimage in JPEG mode [media] media: mx2_camera: Fix clock handling for i.MX27 [media] video: mx2_camera: Use clk_prepare_enable/clk_disable_unprepare [media] video: mx1_camera: Use clk_prepare_enable/clk_disable_unprepare [media] media: mx3_camera: buf_init() add buffer state check [media] radio-shark2: Only compile led support when CONFIG_LED_CLASS is set [media] radio-shark: Only compile led support when CONFIG_LED_CLASS is set [media] radio-shark*: Call cancel_work_sync from disconnect rather then release [media] radio-shark*: Remove work-around for dangling pointer in usb intfdata [media] Add USB dependency for IguanaWorks USB IR Transceiver [media] Add missing logging for rangelow/high of hwseek [media] VIDIOC_ENUM_FREQ_BANDS fix [media] mem2mem_testdev: fix querycap regression [media] si470x: v4l2-compliance fixes [media] DocBook: Remove a spurious character [media] uvcvideo: Reset the bytesused field when recycling an erroneous buffer
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netLinus Torvalds authored
Pull networking update from David Miller: "A couple weeks of bug fixing in there. The largest chunk is all the broken crap Amerigo Wang found in the netpoll layer." 1) netpoll and it's users has several serious bugs: a) uses GFP_KERNEL with locks held b) interfaces requiring interrupts disabled are called with them enabled c) and vice versa d) VLAN tag demuxing, as per all other RX packet input paths, is not applied All from Amerigo Wang. 2) Hopefully cure the ipv4 mapped ipv6 address TCP early demux bugs for good, from Neal Cardwell. 3) Unlike AF_UNIX, AF_PACKET sockets don't set a default credentials when the user doesn't specify one explicitly during sendmsg(). Instead we attach an empty (zero) SCM credential block which is definitely not what we want. Fix from Eric Dumazet. 4) IPv6 illegally invokes netdevice notifiers with RCU lock held, fix from Ben Hutchings. 5) inet_csk_route_child_sock() checks wrong inet options pointer, fix from Christoph Paasch. 6) When AF_PACKET is used for transmit, packet loopback doesn't behave properly when a socket fanout is enabled, from Eric Leblond. 7) On bluetooth l2cap channel create failure, we leak the socket, from Jaganath Kanakkassery. 8) Fix all the netprio file handling bugs found by Al Viro, from John Fastabend. 9) Several error return and NULL deref bug fixes in networking drivers from Julia Lawall. 10) A large smattering of struct padding et al. kernel memory leaks to userspace found of Mathias Krause. 11) Conntrack expections in netfilter can access an uninitialized timer, fix from Pablo Neira Ayuso. 12) Several netfilter SIP tracker bug fixes from Patrick McHardy. 13) IPSEC ipv6 routes are not initialized correctly all the time, resulting in an OOPS in inet_putpeer(). Also from Patrick McHardy. 14) Bridging does rcu_dereference() outside of RCU protected area, from Stephen Hemminger. 15) Fix routing cache removal performance regression when looking up output routes that have a local destination. From Zheng Yan. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (87 commits) af_netlink: force credentials passing [CVE-2012-3520] ipv4: fix ip header ident selection in __ip_make_skb() ipv4: Use newinet->inet_opt in inet_csk_route_child_sock() tcp: fix possible socket refcount problem net: tcp: move sk_rx_dst_set call after tcp_create_openreq_child() net/core/dev.c: fix kernel-doc warning netconsole: remove a redundant netconsole_target_put() net: ipv6: fix oops in inet_putpeer() net/stmmac: fix issue of clk_get for Loongson1B. caif: Do not dereference NULL in chnl_recv_cb() af_packet: don't emit packet on orig fanout group drivers/net/irda: fix error return code drivers/net/wan/dscc4.c: fix error return code drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/fw.c: fix error return code smsc75xx: add missing entry to MAINTAINERS net: qmi_wwan: new devices: UML290 and K5006-Z net: sh_eth: Add eth support for R8A7779 device netdev/phy: skip disabled mdio-mux nodes dt: introduce for_each_available_child_of_node, of_get_next_available_child net: netprio: fix cgrp create and write priomap race ...
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Mel Gorman authored
Jim Schutt reported a problem that pointed at compaction contending heavily on locks. The workload is straight-forward and in his own words; The systems in question have 24 SAS drives spread across 3 HBAs, running 24 Ceph OSD instances, one per drive. FWIW these servers are dual-socket Intel 5675 Xeons w/48 GB memory. I've got ~160 Ceph Linux clients doing dd simultaneously to a Ceph file system backed by 12 of these servers. Early in the test everything looks fine procs -------------------memory------------------ ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu------- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 31 15 0 287216 576 38606628 0 0 2 1158 2 14 1 3 95 0 0 27 15 0 225288 576 38583384 0 0 18 2222016 203357 134876 11 56 17 15 0 28 17 0 219256 576 38544736 0 0 11 2305932 203141 146296 11 49 23 17 0 6 18 0 215596 576 38552872 0 0 7 2363207 215264 166502 12 45 22 20 0 22 18 0 226984 576 38596404 0 0 3 2445741 223114 179527 12 43 23 22 0 and then it goes to pot procs -------------------memory------------------ ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu------- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 163 8 0 464308 576 36791368 0 0 11 22210 866 536 3 13 79 4 0 207 14 0 917752 576 36181928 0 0 712 1345376 134598 47367 7 90 1 2 0 123 12 0 685516 576 36296148 0 0 429 1386615 158494 60077 8 84 5 3 0 123 12 0 598572 576 36333728 0 0 1107 1233281 147542 62351 7 84 5 4 0 622 7 0 660768 576 36118264 0 0 557 1345548 151394 59353 7 85 4 3 0 223 11 0 283960 576 36463868 0 0 46 1107160 121846 33006 6 93 1 1 0 Note that system CPU usage is very high blocks being written out has dropped by 42%. He analysed this with perf and found perf record -g -a sleep 10 perf report --sort symbol --call-graph fractal,5 34.63% [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave | |--97.30%-- isolate_freepages | compaction_alloc | unmap_and_move | migrate_pages | compact_zone | compact_zone_order | try_to_compact_pages | __alloc_pages_direct_compact | __alloc_pages_slowpath | __alloc_pages_nodemask | alloc_pages_vma | do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page | handle_mm_fault | do_page_fault | page_fault | | | |--87.39%-- skb_copy_datagram_iovec | | tcp_recvmsg | | inet_recvmsg | | sock_recvmsg | | sys_recvfrom | | system_call | | __recv | | | | | --100.00%-- (nil) | | | --12.61%-- memcpy --2.70%-- [...] There was other data but primarily it is all showing that compaction is contended heavily on the zone->lock and zone->lru_lock. commit [b2eef8c0: mm: compaction: minimise the time IRQs are disabled while isolating pages for migration] noted that it was possible for migration to hold the lru_lock for an excessive amount of time. Very broadly speaking this patch expands the concept. This patch introduces compact_checklock_irqsave() to check if a lock is contended or the process needs to be scheduled. If either condition is true then async compaction is aborted and the caller is informed. The page allocator will fail a THP allocation if compaction failed due to contention. This patch also introduces compact_trylock_irqsave() which will acquire the lock only if it is not contended and the process does not need to schedule. Reported-by: Jim Schutt <jaschut@sandia.gov> Tested-by: Jim Schutt <jaschut@sandia.gov> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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