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2010-10-26writeback: add /sys/devices/system/node/<node>/vmstatMichael Rubin
For NUMA node systems it is important to have visibility in memory characteristics. Two of the /proc/vmstat values "nr_written" and "nr_dirtied" are added here. # cat /sys/devices/system/node/node20/vmstat nr_written 0 nr_dirtied 0 Signed-off-by: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com> Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26writeback: add nr_dirtied and nr_written to /proc/vmstatMichael Rubin
To help developers and applications gain visibility into writeback behaviour adding two entries to vm_stat_items and /proc/vmstat. This will allow us to track the "written" and "dirtied" counts. # grep nr_dirtied /proc/vmstat nr_dirtied 3747 # grep nr_written /proc/vmstat nr_written 3618 Signed-off-by: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com> Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26mm: add account_page_writeback()Michael Rubin
To help developers and applications gain visibility into writeback behaviour this patch adds two counters to /proc/vmstat. # grep nr_dirtied /proc/vmstat nr_dirtied 3747 # grep nr_written /proc/vmstat nr_written 3618 These entries allow user apps to understand writeback behaviour over time and learn how it is impacting their performance. Currently there is no way to inspect dirty and writeback speed over time. It's not possible for nr_dirty/nr_writeback. These entries are necessary to give visibility into writeback behaviour. We have /proc/diskstats which lets us understand the io in the block layer. We have blktrace for more in depth understanding. We have e2fsprogs and debugsfs to give insight into the file systems behaviour, but we don't offer our users the ability understand what writeback is doing. There is no way to know how active it is over the whole system, if it's falling behind or to quantify it's efforts. With these values exported users can easily see how much data applications are sending through writeback and also at what rates writeback is processing this data. Comparing the rates of change between the two allow developers to see when writeback is not able to keep up with incoming traffic and the rate of dirty memory being sent to the IO back end. This allows folks to understand their io workloads and track kernel issues. Non kernel engineers at Google often use these counters to solve puzzling performance problems. Patch #4 adds a pernode vmstat file with nr_dirtied and nr_written Patch #5 add writeback thresholds to /proc/vmstat Currently these values are in debugfs. But they should be promoted to /proc since they are useful for developers who are writing databases and file servers and are not debugging the kernel. The output is as below: # grep threshold /proc/vmstat nr_pages_dirty_threshold 409111 nr_pages_dirty_background_threshold 818223 This patch: This allows code outside of the mm core to safely manipulate page writeback state and not worry about the other accounting. Not using these routines means that some code will lose track of the accounting and we get bugs. Modify nilfs2 to use interface. Signed-off-by: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26mm/mempolicy.c: check return code of check_rangeVasiliy Kulikov
Function check_range may return ERR_PTR(...). Check for it. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26vmscan: prevent background aging of anon page in no swap systemMinchan Kim
Ying Han reported that backing aging of anon pages in no swap system causes unnecessary TLB flush. When I sent a patch(69c8548175), I wanted this patch but Rik pointed out and allowed aging of anon pages to give a chance to promote from inactive to active LRU. It has a two problem. 1) non-swap system Never make sense to age anon pages. 2) swap configured but still doesn't swapon It doesn't make sense to age anon pages until swap-on time. But it's arguable. If we have aged anon pages by swapon, VM have moved anon pages from active to inactive. And in the time swapon by admin, the VM can't reclaim hot pages so we can protect hot pages swapout. But let's think about it. When does swap-on happen? It depends on admin. we can't expect it. Nonetheless, we have done aging of anon pages to protect hot pages swapout. It means we lost run time overhead when below high watermark but gain hot page swap-[in/out] overhead when VM decide swapout. Is it true? Let's think more detail. We don't promote anon pages in case of non-swap system. So even though VM does aging of anon pages, the pages would be in inactive LRU for a long time. It means many of pages in there would mark access bit again. So access bit hot/code separation would be pointless. This patch prevents unnecessary anon pages demotion in not-yet-swapon and non-configured swap system. Even, in non-configuared swap system inactive_anon_is_low can be compiled out. It could make side effect that hot anon pages could swap out when admin does swap on. But I think sooner or later it would be steady state. So it's not a big problem. We could lose someting but gain more thing(TLB flush and unnecessary function call to demote anon pages). Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26memory hotplug: unify is_removable and offline detection codeKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Now, sysfs interface of memory hotplug shows whether the section is removable or not. But it checks only migrateype of pages and doesn't check details of cluster of pages. Next, memory hotplug's set_migratetype_isolate() has the same kind of check, too. This patch adds the function __count_unmovable_pages() and makes above 2 checks to use the same logic. Then, is_removable and hotremove code uses the same logic. No changes in the hotremove logic itself. TODO: need to find a way to check RECLAMABLE. But, considering bit, calling shrink_slab() against a range before starting memory hotremove sounds better. If so, this patch's logic doesn't need to be changed. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26memory hotplug: fix notifier's return value checkKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Even if notifier cannot find any pages, it doesn't mean no pages are available...And, if there are no notifiers registered, this condition will be always true and memory hotplug will show -EBUSY. This is a bug but not critical. In most case, a pageblock which will be offlined is MIGRATE_MOVABLE This "notifier" is called only when the pageblock is _not_ MIGRATE_MOVABLE. But if not MIGRATE_MOVABLE, it's common case that memory hotplug will fail. So, no one notice this bug. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26mm: compaction: fix COMPACTPAGEFAILED countingMinchan Kim
Presently update_nr_listpages() doesn't have a role. That's because lists passed is always empty just after calling migrate_pages. The migrate_pages cleans up page list which have failed to migrate before returning by aaa994b3. [PATCH] page migration: handle freeing of pages in migrate_pages() Do not leave pages on the lists passed to migrate_pages(). Seems that we will not need any postprocessing of pages. This will simplify the handling of pages by the callers of migrate_pages(). At that time, we thought we don't need any postprocessing of pages. But the situation is changed. The compaction need to know the number of failed to migrate for COMPACTPAGEFAILED stat This patch makes new rule for caller of migrate_pages to call putback_lru_pages. So caller need to clean up the lists so it has a chance to postprocess the pages. [suggested by Christoph Lameter] Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26mm: only build per-node scan_unevictable functions when NUMA is enabledThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Non-NUMA systems do never create these files anyway, since they are only created by driver subsystem when NUMA is configured. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26include/linux/pageblock-flags.h: fix set_pageblock_flags() macro definitonzeal
The presently-unused macro was missing one parameter. Signed-off-by: zeal <zealcook@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26writeback: remove nonblocking/encountered_congestion referencesWu Fengguang
This removes more dead code that was somehow missed by commit 0d99519efef (writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks). There are no behavior change except for the removal of two entries from one of the ext4 tracing interface. The nonblocking checks in ->writepages are no longer used because the flusher now prefer to block on get_request_wait() than to skip inodes on IO congestion. The latter will lead to more seeky IO. The nonblocking checks in ->writepage are no longer used because it's redundant with the WB_SYNC_NONE check. We no long set ->nonblocking in VM page out and page migration, because a) it's effectively redundant with WB_SYNC_NONE in current code b) it's old semantic of "Don't get stuck on request queues" is mis-behavior: that would skip some dirty inodes on congestion and page out others, which is unfair in terms of LRU age. Inspired by Christoph Hellwig. Thanks! Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26oom: fix locking for oom_adj and oom_score_adjDavid Rientjes
The locking order in oom_adjust_write() and oom_score_adj_write() for task->alloc_lock and task->sighand->siglock is reversed, and lockdep notices that irqs could encounter an ABBA scenario. This fixes the locking order so that we always take task_lock(task) prior to lock_task_sighand(task). Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26oom: rewrite error handling for oom_adj and oom_score_adj tunablesDavid Rientjes
It's better to use proper error handling in oom_adjust_write() and oom_score_adj_write() instead of duplicating the locking order on various exit paths. Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26oom: kill all threads sharing oom killed task's mmDavid Rientjes
It's necessary to kill all threads that share an oom killed task's mm if the goal is to lead to future memory freeing. This patch reintroduces the code removed in 8c5cd6f3 (oom: oom_kill doesn't kill vfork parent (or child)) since it is obsoleted. It's now guaranteed that any task passed to oom_kill_task() does not share an mm with any thread that is unkillable. Thus, we're safe to issue a SIGKILL to any thread sharing the same mm. This is especially necessary to solve an mm->mmap_sem livelock issue whereas an oom killed thread must acquire the lock in the exit path while another thread is holding it in the page allocator while trying to allocate memory itself (and will preempt the oom killer since a task was already killed). Since tasks with pending fatal signals are now granted access to memory reserves, the thread holding the lock may quickly allocate and release the lock so that the oom killed task may exit. This mainly is for threads that are cloned with CLONE_VM but not CLONE_THREAD, so they are in a different thread group. Non-NPTL threads exist in the wild and this change is necessary to prevent the livelock in such cases. We care more about preventing the livelock than incurring the additional tasklist in the oom killer when a task has been killed. Systems that are sufficiently large to not want the tasklist scan in the oom killer in the first place already have the option of enabling /proc/sys/vm/oom_kill_allocating_task, which was designed specifically for that purpose. This code had existed in the oom killer for over eight years dating back to the 2.4 kernel. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add nice comment] Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26oom: avoid killing a task if a thread sharing its mm cannot be killedDavid Rientjes
The oom killer's goal is to kill a memory-hogging task so that it may exit, free its memory, and allow the current context to allocate the memory that triggered it in the first place. Thus, killing a task is pointless if other threads sharing its mm cannot be killed because of its /proc/pid/oom_adj or /proc/pid/oom_score_adj value. This patch checks whether any other thread sharing p->mm has an oom_score_adj of OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN. If so, the thread cannot be killed and oom_badness(p) returns 0, meaning it's unkillable. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26oom: add per-mm oom disable countYing Han
It's pointless to kill a task if another thread sharing its mm cannot be killed to allow future memory freeing. A subsequent patch will prevent kills in such cases, but first it's necessary to have a way to flag a task that shares memory with an OOM_DISABLE task that doesn't incur an additional tasklist scan, which would make select_bad_process() an O(n^2) function. This patch adds an atomic counter to struct mm_struct that follows how many threads attached to it have an oom_score_adj of OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN. They cannot be killed by the kernel, so their memory cannot be freed in oom conditions. This only requires task_lock() on the task that we're operating on, it does not require mm->mmap_sem since task_lock() pins the mm and the operation is atomic. [rientjes@google.com: changelog and sys_unshare() code] [rientjes@google.com: protect oom_disable_count with task_lock in fork] [rientjes@google.com: use old_mm for oom_disable_count in exec] Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: improve smaps field documentationMatt Mackall
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26vmcore: it is not experimental any moreWANG Cong
We use vmcore in our production kernel for a long time, it is pretty stable now. So I don't think we need to mark it as experimental any more. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26um: fix IRQ flag handling namingRichard Weinberger
Commit df9ee292 ("Fix IRQ flag handling naming") changed the IRQ flag handling naming scheme and broke UML: In file included from arch/um/include/asm/fixmap.h:5, from arch/um/include/shared/um_uaccess.h:10, from arch/um/include/asm/uaccess.h:41, from arch/um/include/asm/thread_info.h:13, from include/linux/thread_info.h:56, from include/linux/preempt.h:9, from include/linux/spinlock.h:50, from include/linux/seqlock.h:29, from include/linux/time.h:8, from include/linux/stat.h:60, from include/linux/module.h:10, from init/main.c:13: arch/um/include/asm/system.h:11:1: warning: "local_save_flags" redefined This patch brings the new scheme to UML and makes it work again. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26percpu: fix list_head init bug in __percpu_counter_init()Masanori ITOH
WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:26 __list_add+0x3f/0x81() Hardware name: Express5800/B120a [N8400-085] list_add corruption. next->prev should be prev (ffffffff81a7ea00), but was dead000000200200. (next=ffff88080b872d58). Modules linked in: aoe ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat autofs4 sunrpc bridge 8021q garp stp llc ipv6 cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq freq_table dm_round_robin dm_multipath kvm_intel kvm uinput lpfc scsi_transport_fc igb ioatdma scsi_tgt i2c_i801 i2c_core dca iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support pcspkr shpchp megaraid_sas [last unloaded: aoe] Pid: 54, comm: events/3 Tainted: G W 2.6.34-vanilla1 #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8104bd77>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7c/0x94 [<ffffffff8104bde6>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x43 [<ffffffff8120fd2e>] __list_add+0x3f/0x81 [<ffffffff81212a12>] __percpu_counter_init+0x59/0x6b [<ffffffff810d8499>] bdi_init+0x118/0x17e [<ffffffff811f2c50>] blk_alloc_queue_node+0x79/0x143 [<ffffffff811f2d2b>] blk_alloc_queue+0x11/0x13 [<ffffffffa02a931d>] aoeblk_gdalloc+0x8e/0x1c9 [aoe] [<ffffffffa02aa655>] aoecmd_sleepwork+0x25/0xa8 [aoe] [<ffffffff8106186c>] worker_thread+0x1a9/0x237 [<ffffffffa02aa630>] ? aoecmd_sleepwork+0x0/0xa8 [aoe] [<ffffffff81065827>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x39 [<ffffffff810616c3>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x237 [<ffffffff810653ad>] kthread+0x7f/0x87 [<ffffffff8100aa24>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [<ffffffff8106532e>] ? kthread+0x0/0x87 [<ffffffff8100aa20>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10 It's because there is no initialization code for a list_head contained in the struct backing_dev_info under CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU, and the bug comes up when block device drivers calling blk_alloc_queue() are used. In case of me, I got them by using aoe. Signed-off-by: Masanori Itoh <itoumsn@nttdata.co.jp> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26kfifo: disable __kfifo_must_check_helper()Andrew Morton
This helper is wrong: it coerces signed values into unsigned ones, so code such as if (kfifo_alloc(...) < 0) { error } will fail to detect the error. So let's disable __kfifo_must_check_helper() for 2.6.36. Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26hostfs: fix UML crash: remove f_spare from hostfsRichard Weinberger
365b1818 ("add f_flags to struct statfs(64)") resized f_spare within struct statfs which caused a UML crash. There is no need to copy f_spare. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> Tested-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26ipmi: proper spinlock initializationEric Dumazet
Unloading ipmi module can trigger following error. (if CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y) [ 9633.779590] BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#1, rmmod/7170 [ 9633.779606] lock: f41f5414, .magic: 00000000, .owner: <none>/-1, .owner_cpu: 0 [ 9633.779626] Pid: 7170, comm: rmmod Not tainted 2.6.36-rc7-11474-gb71eb1e-dirty #328 [ 9633.779644] Call Trace: [ 9633.779657] [<c13921cc>] ? printk+0x18/0x1c [ 9633.779672] [<c11a1f33>] spin_bug+0xa3/0xf0 [ 9633.779685] [<c11a1ffd>] do_raw_spin_lock+0x7d/0x160 [ 9633.779702] [<c1131537>] ? release_sysfs_dirent+0x47/0xb0 [ 9633.779718] [<c1131b78>] ? sysfs_addrm_finish+0xa8/0xd0 [ 9633.779734] [<c1394bac>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xc/0x20 [ 9633.779752] [<f99d93da>] cleanup_one_si+0x6a/0x200 [ipmi_si] [ 9633.779768] [<c11305b2>] ? sysfs_hash_and_remove+0x72/0x80 [ 9633.779786] [<f99dcf26>] ipmi_pnp_remove+0xd/0xf [ipmi_si] [ 9633.779802] [<c11f622b>] pnp_device_remove+0x1b/0x40 Fix this by initializing spinlocks in a smi_info_alloc() helper function, right after memory allocation and clearing. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26drivers/misc/ad525x_dpot.c: fix typo in spi write16 and write24 transfer countsMichael Hennerich
This is a bug fix. Some SPI connected devices using 16/24 bit accesses, previously failed, now work. This typo slipped in after testing, during some restructuring. Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Chris Verges <chrisv@cyberswitching.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26um: remove PAGE_SIZE alignment in linker script causing kernel segfault.Richard Weinberger
The linker script cleanup that I did in commit 5d150a97f93 ("um: Clean up linker script using standard macros.") (2.6.32) accidentally introduced an ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE) when converting to use INIT_TEXT_SECTION; Richard Weinberger reported that this causes the kernel to segfault with CONFIG_STATIC_LINK=y. I'm not certain why this extra alignment is a problem, but it seems likely it is because previously __init_begin = _stext = _text = _sinittext and with the extra ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE), _sinittext becomes different from the rest. So there is likely a bug here where something is assuming that _sinittext is the same as one of those other symbols. But reverting the accidental change fixes the regression, so it seems worth committing that now. Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Tested by: Antoine Martin <antoine@nagafix.co.uk> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26sgi-xp: incoming XPC channel messages can come in after the channel's ↵Robin Holt
partition structures have been torn down Under some workloads, some channel messages have been observed being delayed on the sending side past the point where the receiving side has been able to tear down its partition structures. This condition is already detected in xpc_handle_activate_IRQ_uv(), but that information is not given to xpc_handle_activate_mq_msg_uv(). As a result, xpc_handle_activate_mq_msg_uv() assumes the structures still exist and references them, causing a NULL-pointer deref. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26um: fix global timer issue when using CONFIG_NO_HZRichard Weinberger
This fixes a issue which was introduced by fe2cc53e ("uml: track and make up lost ticks"). timeval_to_ns() returns long long and not int. Due to that UML's timer did not work properlt and caused timer freezes. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26mm, page-allocator: do not check the state of a non-existant buddy during freeMel Gorman
There is a bug in commit 6dda9d55 ("page allocator: reduce fragmentation in buddy allocator by adding buddies that are merging to the tail of the free lists") that means a buddy at order MAX_ORDER is checked for merging. A page of this order never exists so at times, an effectively random piece of memory is being checked. Alan Curry has reported that this is causing memory corruption in userspace data on a PPC32 platform (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/9/32). It is not clear why this is happening. It could be a cache coherency problem where pages mapped in both user and kernel space are getting different cache lines due to the bad read from kernel space (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/13/179). It could also be that there are some special registers being io-remapped at the end of the memmap array and that a read has special meaning on them. Compiler bugs have been ruled out because the assembly before and after the patch looks relatively harmless. This patch fixes the problem by ensuring we are not reading a possibly invalid location of memory. It's not clear why the read causes corruption but one way or the other it is a buggy read. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> Reported-by: Alan Curry <pacman@kosh.dhis.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26types.h: move misplaced commentAndrew Morton
This comment landed in the wrong place. Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26mm: fix return value of scan_lru_pages in memory unplugKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
scan_lru_pages returns pfn. So, it's type should be "unsigned long" not "int". Note: I guess this has been work until now because memory hotplug tester's machine has not very big memory.... physical address < 32bit << PAGE_SHIFT. Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26Merge branches 'amso1100', 'cma', 'cxgb3', 'cxgb4', 'ehca', 'iboe', 'ipoib', ↵Roland Dreier
'misc', 'mlx4', 'nes', 'qib' and 'srp' into for-next
2010-10-26IB/qib: clean up properly if pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() failsJason Gunthorpe
Clean up properly if pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() fails. Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2010-10-26IB/qib: Allow driver to load if PCIe AER failsRalph Campbell
Some PCIe root complex chip sets don't support advanced error reporting. Allow the driver to load OK if pci_enable_pcie_error_reporting() fails. Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <ralph.campbell@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2010-10-26IB/qib: Fix uninitialized pointer if CONFIG_PCI_MSI not setRalph Campbell
If CONFIG_PCI_MSI is not set, and a QLE7140 is present, the pointer "dd" is uninitialized. Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <ralph.campbell@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2010-10-26IB/qib: Fix extra log level in qib_early_err()Jason Gunthorpe
Noticed this odd looking thing in dmesg: ib_qib 0000:02:00.0: <3>ib_qib: Unable to enable pcie error reporting: -5 which is due to a bad use of dev_info. Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> Acked-by: Ralph Campbell <ralph.campbell@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2010-10-26RDMA/cxgb4: Remove unnecessary KERN_<level> useJoe Perches
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2010-10-26RDMA/cxgb3: Remove unnecessary KERN_<level> useJoe Perches
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2010-10-26intel_idle: do not use the LAPIC timer for ATOM C2Len Brown
If we use the LAPIC timer during ATOM C2 on some nvidia chisets, the system stalls. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21032 Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-10-26Merge branch 'misc' into releaseLen Brown
2010-10-26Merge branch 'acpi-mmio' into releaseLen Brown
Conflicts: drivers/acpi/osl.c Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-10-26Merge branch 'ima-memory-use-fixes'Linus Torvalds
* ima-memory-use-fixes: IMA: fix the ToMToU logic IMA: explicit IMA i_flag to remove global lock on inode_delete IMA: drop refcnt from ima_iint_cache since it isn't needed IMA: only allocate iint when needed IMA: move read counter into struct inode IMA: use i_writecount rather than a private counter IMA: use inode->i_lock to protect read and write counters IMA: convert internal flags from long to char IMA: use unsigned int instead of long for counters IMA: drop the inode opencount since it isn't needed for operation IMA: use rbtree instead of radix tree for inode information cache
2010-10-26IMA: fix the ToMToU logicEric Paris
Current logic looks like this: rc = ima_must_measure(NULL, inode, MAY_READ, FILE_CHECK); if (rc < 0) goto out; if (mode & FMODE_WRITE) { if (inode->i_readcount) send_tomtou = true; goto out; } if (atomic_read(&inode->i_writecount) > 0) send_writers = true; Lets assume we have a policy which states that all files opened for read by root must be measured. Lets assume the file has permissions 777. Lets assume that root has the given file open for read. Lets assume that a non-root process opens the file write. The non-root process will get to ima_counts_get() and will check the ima_must_measure(). Since it is not supposed to measure it will goto out. We should check the i_readcount no matter what since we might be causing a ToMToU voilation! This is close to correct, but still not quite perfect. The situation could have been that root, which was interested in the mesurement opened and closed the file and another process which is not interested in the measurement is the one holding the i_readcount ATM. This is just overly strict on ToMToU violations, which is better than not strict enough... Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26IMA: explicit IMA i_flag to remove global lock on inode_deleteEric Paris
Currently for every removed inode IMA must take a global lock and search the IMA rbtree looking for an associated integrity structure. Instead we explicitly mark an inode when we add an integrity structure so we only have to take the global lock and do the removal if it exists. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26IMA: drop refcnt from ima_iint_cache since it isn't neededEric Paris
Since finding a struct ima_iint_cache requires a valid struct inode, and the struct ima_iint_cache is supposed to have the same lifetime as a struct inode (technically they die together but don't need to be created at the same time) we don't have to worry about the ima_iint_cache outliving or dieing before the inode. So the refcnt isn't useful. Just get rid of it and free the structure when the inode is freed. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eapris@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26IMA: only allocate iint when neededEric Paris
IMA always allocates an integrity structure to hold information about every inode, but only needed this structure to track the number of readers and writers currently accessing a given inode. Since that information was moved into struct inode instead of the integrity struct this patch stops allocating the integrity stucture until it is needed. Thus greatly reducing memory usage. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26IMA: move read counter into struct inodeEric Paris
IMA currently allocated an inode integrity structure for every inode in core. This stucture is about 120 bytes long. Most files however (especially on a system which doesn't make use of IMA) will never need any of this space. The problem is that if IMA is enabled we need to know information about the number of readers and the number of writers for every inode on the box. At the moment we collect that information in the per inode iint structure and waste the rest of the space. This patch moves those counters into the struct inode so we can eventually stop allocating an IMA integrity structure except when absolutely needed. This patch does the minimum needed to move the location of the data. Further cleanups, especially the location of counter updates, may still be possible. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26IMA: use i_writecount rather than a private counterEric Paris
IMA tracks the number of struct files which are holding a given inode readonly and the number which are holding the inode write or r/w. It needs this information so when a new reader or writer comes in it can tell if this new file will be able to invalidate results it already made about existing files. aka if a task is holding a struct file open RO, IMA measured the file and recorded those measurements and then a task opens the file RW IMA needs to note in the logs that the old measurement may not be correct. It's called a "Time of Measure Time of Use" (ToMToU) issue. The same is true is a RO file is opened to an inode which has an open writer. We cannot, with any validity, measure the file in question since it could be changing. This patch attempts to use the i_writecount field to track writers. The i_writecount field actually embeds more information in it's value than IMA needs but it should work for our purposes and allow us to shrink the struct inode even more. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26IMA: use inode->i_lock to protect read and write countersEric Paris
Currently IMA used the iint->mutex to protect the i_readcount and i_writecount. This patch uses the inode->i_lock since we are going to start using in inode objects and that is the most appropriate lock. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26IMA: convert internal flags from long to charEric Paris
The IMA flags is an unsigned long but there is only 1 flag defined. Lets save a little space and make it a char. This packs nicely next to the array of u8's. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26IMA: use unsigned int instead of long for countersEric Paris
Currently IMA uses 2 longs in struct inode. To save space (and as it seems impossible to overflow 32 bits) we switch these to unsigned int. The switch to unsigned does require slightly different checks for underflow, but it isn't complex. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>