- 23 Mar, 2011 40 commits
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Joe Perches authored
wiki-analog doesn't seem to work, but wiki.analog does. Signed-off-by:
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> 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
Typo in path. Signed-off-by:
Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Add quotes around email address with periods and commas. So they don't explode when pasted into certain email clients. Signed-off-by:
Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com> Cc: "Mark F. Brown" <mark.brown314@gmail.com> Cc: "Gustavo F. Padovan" <padovan@profusion.mobi> Cc: "Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Cc: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@novell.com> Acked-by:
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Harry Wei authored
At least one tree: ARM/EZX SMARTPHONES (A780, A910, A1200, E680, ROKR E2 and ROKR E6) is available via topgit. Add mention of topgit in the MAINTAINERS description section. Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Extend the usage of the K section in the MAINTAINERS file to support matching regular expressions to any arbitrary text that may precede the patch itself. For example, the commit message or mail headers generated by git-format-patch. Signed-off-by:
L. Alberto Giménez <agimenez@sysvalve.es> Acked-by:
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Mandeep Singh Baines authored
We've been burned by regressions/bugs which we later realized could have been triaged quicker if only we'd paid closer attention to dmesg. To make it easier to audit dmesg, we'd like to make DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LEVEL Kconfig-settable. That way we can set it to KERN_NOTICE and audit any messages <= KERN_WARNING. Signed-off-by:
Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Olof Johansson <olofj@chromium.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Kees Cook authored
In an effort to reduce kernel address leaks that might be used to help target kernel privilege escalation exploits, this patch uses %pK when displaying addresses in /proc/kallsyms, /proc/modules, and /sys/module/*/sections/*. Note that this changes %x to %p, so some legitimately 0 values in /proc/kallsyms would have changed from 00000000 to "(null)". To avoid this, "(null)" is not used when using the "K" format. Anything that was already successfully parsing "(null)" in addition to full hex digits should have no problem with this change. (Thanks to Joe Perches for the suggestion.) Due to the %x to %p, "void *" casts are needed since these addresses are already "unsigned long" everywhere internally, due to their starting life as ELF section offsets. Signed-off-by:
Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> Cc: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com> Cc: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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Feng Tang authored
For a platform with many consoles like: "console=tty1 console=ttyMFD2 console=ttyS0 earlyprintk=mrst" Each time when the non "selected_console" (tty1 and ttyMFD2 here) get registered, the existing kernel message will be printed out on registered consoles again, the "mrst" early console will get some same message for 3 times, and "tty1" will get some for twice. As suggested by Andrew Morton, every time a new console is registered, it will be set as the "exclusive" console which will dump the already existing kernel messages. Signed-off-by:
Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Fabio M. Di Nitto authored
On some architectures, the boot process involves de-registering the boot console (early boot), initialize drivers and then re-register the console. This mechanism introduces a window in which no printk can happen on the console and messages are buffered and then printed once the new console is available. If a kernel crashes during this window, all it's left on the boot console is "console [foo] enabled, bootconsole disabled" making debug of the crash rather 'interesting'. By adding "keep_bootcon" option, do not unregister the boot console, that will allow to printk everything that is happening up to the crash. The option is clearly meant only for debugging purposes as it introduces lots of duplicated info printed on console, but will make bug report from users easier as it doesn't require a kernel build just to figure out where we crash. Signed-off-by:
Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net> Acked-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
If kptr restrictions are on, just set the passed pointer to NULL. $ size lib/vsprintf.o.* text data bss dec hex filename 8247 4 2 8253 203d lib/vsprintf.o.new 8282 4 2 8288 2060 lib/vsprintf.o.old Signed-off-by:
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
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Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Don Zickus authored
This patch addresses a couple of problems. One was the case when the hardlockup failed to start, it also failed to start the softlockup. There were valid cases when the hardlockup shouldn't start and that shouldn't block the softlockup (no lapic, bios controls perf counters). The second problem was when the hardlockup failed to start on boxes (from a no lapic or bios controlled perf counter case), it reported failure to the cpu notifier chain. This blocked the notifier from continuing to start other more critical pieces of cpu bring-up (in our case based on a 2.6.32 fork, it was the mce). As a result, during soft cpu online/offline testing, the system would panic when a cpu was offlined because the cpu notifier would succeed in processing a watchdog disable cpu event and would panic in the mce case as a result of un-initialized variables from a never executed cpu up event. I realized the hardlockup/softlockup cases are really just debugging aids and should never impede the progress of a cpu up/down event. Therefore I modified the code to always return NOTIFY_OK and instead rely on printks to inform the user of problems. Signed-off-by:
Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by:
WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Don Zickus authored
When a cpu is considered stuck, instead of limping along and just printing a warning, it is sometimes preferred to just panic, let kdump capture the vmcore and reboot. This gets the machine back into a stable state quickly while saving the info that got it into a stuck state to begin with. Add a Kconfig option to allow users to set the hardlockup to panic by default. Also add in a 'nmi_watchdog=nopanic' to override this. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix strncmp length] Signed-off-by:
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Phil Carmody authored
Systems with unmaskable interrupts such as SMIs may massively underestimate loops_per_jiffy, and fail to converge anywhere near the real value. A case seen on x86_64 was an initial estimate of 256<<12, which converged to 511<<12 where the real value should have been over 630<<12. This admitedly requires bypassing the TSC calibration (lpj_fine), and a failure to settle in the direct calibration too, but is physically possible. This failure does not depend on my previous calibration optimisation, but by luck is easy to fix with the optimisation in place with a trivial retry loop. In the context of the optimised converging method, as we can no longer trust the starting estimate, enlarge the search bounds exponentially so that the number of retries is logarithmically bounded. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: mention x86_64 SMIs in comment] Signed-off-by:
Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Tested-by:
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by:
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Phil Carmody authored
Binary chop with a jiffy-resync on each step to find an upper bound is slow, so just race in a tight-ish loop to find an underestimate. If done with lots of individual steps, sometimes several hundreds of iterations would be required, which would impose a significant overhead, and make the initial estimate very low. By taking slowly increasing steps there will be less overhead. E.g. an x86_64 2.67GHz could have fitted in 613 individual small delays, but in reality should have been able to fit in a single delay 644 times longer, so underestimated by 31 steps. To reach the equivalent of 644 small delays with the accelerating scheme now requires about 130 iterations, so has <1/4th of the overhead, and can therefore be expected to underestimate by only 7 steps. As now we have a better initial estimate we can binary chop over a smaller range. With the loop overhead in the initial estimate kept low, and the step sizes moderate, we won't have under-estimated by much, so chose as tight a range as we can. Signed-off-by:
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Phil Carmody authored
The motivation for this patch series is that currently our OMAP calibrates itself using the trial-and-error binary chop fallback that some other architectures no longer need to perform. This is a lengthy process, taking 0.2s in an environment where boot time is of great interest. Patch 2/4 has two optimisations. Firstly, it replaces the initial repeated- doubling to find the relevant power of 2 with a tight loop that just does as much as it can in a jiffy. Secondly, it doesn't binary chop over an entire power of 2 range, it choses a much smaller range based on how much it squeezed in, and failed to squeeze in, during the first stage. Both are significant optimisations, and bring our calibration down from 23 jiffies to 5, and, in the process, often arrive at a more accurate lpj value. The 'bands' and 'sub-logarithmic' growth may look over-engineered, but they only cost a small level of inaccuracy in the initial guess (for all architectures) in order to avoid the very large inaccuracies that appeared during testing (on x86_64 architectures, and presumably others with less metronomic operation). Note that due to the existence of the TSC and other timers, the x86_64 will not typically use this fallback routine, but I wanted to code defensively, able to cope with all kinds of processor behaviours and kernel command line options. Patch 3/4 is an additional trap for the nightmare scenario where the initial estimate is very inaccurate, possibly due to things like SMIs. It simply retries with a larger bound. Stephen said: I tried this patch set out on an MSM7630. : : Before: : : Calibrating delay loop... 681.57 BogoMIPS (lpj=3407872) : : After: : : Calibrating delay loop... 680.75 BogoMIPS (lpj=3403776) : : But the really good news is calibration time dropped from ~247ms to ~56ms. : Sadly we won't be able to benefit from this should my udelay patches make : it into ARM because we would be using calibrate_delay_direct() instead (at : least on machines who choose to). Can we somehow reapply the logic behind : this to calibrate_delay_direct()? That would be even better, but this is : definitely a boot time improvement. : : Or maybe we could just replace calibrate_delay_direct() with this fallback : calculation? If __delay() is a thin wrapper around read_current_timer() : it should work just as well (plus patch 3 makes it handle SMIs). I'll try : that out. This patch: ... so that it can be modified more clinically. This is almost entirely cosmetic. The only change to the operation is that the global variable is only set once after the estimation is completed, rather than taking on all the intermediate values. However, there are no readers of that variable, so this change is unimportant. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Cleanup: kill the dead code which does nothing but complicates the code and confuses the reader. sys_unshare(CLONE_THREAD/SIGHAND/VM) is not really implemented, and I doubt very much it will ever work. At least, nobody even tried since the original 99d1419d ("unshare system call -v5: system call handler function") was applied more than 4 years ago. And the code is not consistent. unshare_thread() always fails unconditionally, while unshare_sighand() and unshare_vm() pretend to work if there is nothing to unshare. Remove unshare_thread(), unshare_sighand(), unshare_vm() helpers and related variables and add a simple CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_SIGHAND| CLONE_VM check into check_unshare_flags(). Also, move the "CLONE_NEWNS needs CLONE_FS" check from check_unshare_flags() to sys_unshare(). This looks more consistent and matches the similar do_sysvsem check in sys_unshare(). Note: with or without this patch "atomic_read(mm->mm_users) > 1" can give a false positive due to get_task_mm(). Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by:
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Michael Rodriguez authored
Change the printk() calls to have the KERN_INFO/KERN_ERROR stuff, and fixes other coding style errors. Not _all_ of them are gone, though. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert the bits I disagree with] Signed-off-by:
Michael Rodriguez <dkingston02@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Amerigo Wang authored
Move setup_nr_cpu_ids(), smp_init() and some other SMP boot parameter setup functions from init/main.c to kenrel/smp.c, saves some #ifdef CONFIG_SMP. Signed-off-by:
WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Uwe Kleine-König authored
PTR_RET() can be used if you have an error-pointer and are only interested in the eventual error value, but not the pointer. Yields the usual 0 for no error, -ESOMETHING otherwise. Signed-off-by:
Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
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Olaf Hering authored
The oops=panic cmdline option is not x86 specific, move it to generic code. Update documentation. Signed-off-by:
Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by:
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Axel Lin authored
The device table is required to load modules based on modaliases. Signed-off-by:
Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com> Cc: Masayuki Ohtak <masa-korg@dsn.okisemi.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Vasiliy Kulikov authored
Don't allow everybody to change device settings. Signed-off-by:
Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Acked-by:
Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com> Cc: Matthieu Crapet <mcrapet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Axel Lin authored
request_mem_region() will call kzalloc to allocate memory for struct resource. release_resource() unregisters the resource but does not free the allocated memory, thus use release_mem_region() instead to fix the memory leak. Signed-off-by:
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Axel Lin authored
i2c_master_recv() returns negative errno, or else the number of bytes read. Thus i2c_master_recv(client, i2c_data, 2) returns 2 instead of 1 in success case. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make `ret' signed] Signed-off-by:
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Hong Liu authored
Put the device into runtime suspend after resume()/probe() is handled by the PM core and the device core code. No need to manually add them in each single driver. And correct the runtime state in remove(). Signed-off-by:
Hong Liu <hong.liu@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Pratyush Anand authored
This is a configurable gadget. can be configured by configfs interface. Any IP available at PCIE bus can be programmed to be used by host controller.It supoorts both INTX and MSI. By default, the gadget is configured for INTX and SYSRAM1 is mapped to BAR0 with size 0x1000 Signed-off-by:
Pratyush Anand <pratyush.anand@st.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com> Cc: Shiraz Hashim <shiraz.hashim@st.com> Signed-off-by:
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Shubhrajyoti Datta authored
Free the memory that is used only at init Signed-off-by:
Shubhrajyoti Datta <shubhrajyoti@ti.com> Signed-off-by:
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Shubhrajyoti Datta authored
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Richard Kennedy authored
Re-ordering struct block_inode to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64 bit builds, which also shrinks bdev_inode by 8 bytes (776 -> 768) allowing it to fit into one fewer cache lines. Signed-off-by:
Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by:
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Borislav Petkov authored
Unify identical gcc3.x and gcc4.x macros. Signed-off-by:
Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mandeep Singh Baines authored
printk()s without a priority level default to KERN_WARNING. To reduce noise at KERN_WARNING, this patch set the priority level appriopriately for unleveled printks()s. This should be useful to folks that look at dmesg warnings closely. Signed-off-by:
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FUJITA Tomonori authored
All architectures can use the common dma_addr_t typedef now. We can remove the arch specific dma_addr_t. Signed-off-by:
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by:
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Signed-off-by:
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Richard Weinberger authored
Commit 6caa76b7 ("tty: now phase out the ioctl file pointer for good") removed the ioctl file pointer. User Mode Linux's line driver uses this ioctl and needs a signature update too. Signed-off-by:
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by:
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Paul Pluzhnikov authored
One of our users reported that when a user-level program SIGSEGVs under UML kernel, the resulting core dump is not very usable. I have reproduced that with the latest kernel: make ARCH=um defconfig; make ARCH=um Run the resulting kernel, then "inside" run this program: #include <pthread.h> void *fn(void *p) { abort(); } int main() { pthread_t tid; pthread_create(&tid, 0, fn, 0); pthread_join(tid, 0); return 0; } Analyze the coredump with GDB. Here is what you'll see: sudo gdb -q -ex 'set solib-absolute-prefix ../root_fs' -ex 'file ../root_fs/var/tmp/mt-abort' -ex 'core ../root_fs/var/tmp/core.762' Reading symbols from /usr/local/google/root_fs/var/tmp/mt-abort...done. [New Thread 763] [New Thread 762] Core was generated by `./mt-abort'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0x0000000040255250 in raise () from ../root_fs/lib64/libc.so.6 (gdb) info thread 2 Thread 762 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () * 1 Thread 763 0x0000000040255250 in raise () from ../root_fs/lib64/libc.so.6 Note that thread#2 looks funny. (gdb) thread 2 [Switching to thread 2 (Thread 762)]#0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () (gdb) info reg rax 0x0 0 rbx 0x0 0 rcx 0x0 0 rdx 0x0 0 rsi 0x0 0 rdi 0x0 0 rbp 0x0 0x0 rsp 0x0 0x0 r8 0x0 0 r9 0x0 0 r10 0x0 0 r11 0x0 0 r12 0x0 0 r13 0x0 0 r14 0x0 0 r15 0x0 0 rip 0x0 0 eflags 0x0 [ ] cs 0x0 0 ss 0x0 0 ds 0x0 0 es 0x0 0 fs 0x0 0 gs 0x0 0 Examining the core shows that NT_PRSTATUS notes for all threads other than the one that crashed are zeroed out. I believe this is happening because neither ELF_CORE_COPY_TASK_REGS nor task_pt_regs are defined under ARCH=um, and so elf_core_copy_task_regs() becomes a no-op. Attached patch fixes this for SUBARCH={x86_64,i386}. Signed-off-by:Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Acked-by:
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Shaohua Li authored
Clean up code and remove duplicate code. Next patch will use pagevec_lru_move_fn introduced here too. Signed-off-by:
Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Reviewed-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Up to 2.6.22, you could use remap_file_pages(2) on a tmpfs file or a shared mapping of /dev/zero or a shared anonymous mapping. In 2.6.23 we disabled it by default, but set VM_CAN_NONLINEAR to enable it on safe mappings. We made sure to set it in shmem_mmap() for tmpfs files, but missed it in shmem_zero_setup() for the others. Fix that at last. Reported-by:
Kenny Simpson <theonetruekenny@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
Currently memblock_reserve() or memblock_free() don't handle overlaps of any kind. There is some special casing for coalescing exactly adjacent regions but that's about it. This is annoying because typically memblock_reserve() is used to mark regions passed by the firmware as reserved and we all know how much we can trust our firmwares... Also, with the current code, if we do something it doesn't handle right such as trying to memblock_reserve() a large range spanning multiple existing smaller reserved regions for example, or doing overlapping reservations, it can silently corrupt the internal region array, causing odd errors much later on, such as allocations returning reserved regions etc... This patch rewrites the underlying functions that add or remove a region to the arrays. The new code is a lot more robust as it fully handles overlapping regions. It's also, imho, simpler than the previous implementation. In addition, while doing so, I found a bug where if we fail to double the array while adding a region, we would remove the last region of the array rather than the region we just allocated. This fixes it too. Signed-off-by:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by:
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
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Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by:
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Namhyung Kim authored
KM_USER1 is never used for vwrite() path so the caller doesn't need to guarantee it is not used. Only the caller should guarantee is KM_USER0 and it is commented already. Signed-off-by:
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Acked-by:
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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