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For general-purpose (i.e. distro) kernel builds it makes sense to build
with CONFIG_KEXEC to allow end users to choose what kind of things they
want to do with kexec. However, in the face of trying to lock down a
system with such a kernel, there needs to be a way to disable kexec_load
(much like module loading can be disabled). Without this, it is too easy
for the root user to modify kernel memory even when CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM
and modules_disabled are set. With this change, it is still possible to
load an image for use later, then disable kexec_load so the image (or lack
of image) can't be altered.
The intention is for using this in environments where "perfect"
enforcement is hard. Without a verified boot, along with verified
modules, and along with verified kexec, this is trying to give a system a
better chance to defend itself (or at least grow the window of
discoverability) against attack in the face of a privilege escalation.
In my mind, I consider several boot scenarios:
1) Verified boot of read-only verified root fs loading fd-based
verification of kexec images.
2) Secure boot of writable root fs loading signed kexec images.
3) Regular boot loading kexec (e.g. kcrash) image early and locking it.
4) Regular boot with no control of kexec image at all.
1 and 2 don't exist yet, but will soon once the verified kexec series has
landed. 4 is the state of things now. The gap between 2 and 4 is too
large, so this change creates scenario 3, a middle-ground above 4 when 2
and 1 are not possible for a system.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We can kill either task->did_exec or PF_FORKNOEXEC, they are mutually
exclusive. The patch kills ->did_exec because it has a single user.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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dup_mm() is used only in kernel/fork.c
Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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get_task_state() and task_state_array[] look confusing and suboptimal, it
is not clear what it can actually report to user-space and
task_state_array[] blows .data for no reason.
1. state = (tsk->state & TASK_REPORT) | tsk->exit_state is not
clear. TASK_REPORT is self-documenting but it is not clear
what ->exit_state can add.
Move the potential exit_state's (EXIT_ZOMBIE and EXIT_DEAD)
into TASK_REPORT and use it to calculate the final result.
2. With the change above it is obvious that task_state_array[]
has the unused entries just to make BUILD_BUG_ON() happy.
Change this BUILD_BUG_ON() to use TASK_REPORT rather than
TASK_STATE_MAX and shrink task_state_array[].
3. Turn the "while (state)" loop into fls(state).
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1. Remove fs/coredump.h. It is not clear why do we need it,
it only declares __get_dumpable(), signal.c includes it
for no reason.
2. Now that get_dumpable() and __get_dumpable() are really
trivial make them inline in linux/sched.h.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Alex Kelly <alex.page.kelly@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com>
Cc: Vasily Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nobody actually needs MMF_DUMPABLE/MMF_DUMP_SECURELY, they are only used
to enforce the encoding of SUID_DUMP_* enum in mm->flags &
MMF_DUMPABLE_MASK.
Now that set_dumpable() updates both bits atomically we can kill them and
simply store the value "as is" in 2 lower bits.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Alex Kelly <alex.page.kelly@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com>
Cc: Vasily Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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ramfs_nommu_mmap() static
Since commit 853ac43ab194 ("shmem: unify regular and tiny shmem"),
ramfs_nommu_get_unmapped_area() and ramfs_nommu_mmap() are not directly
referenced outside of file-nommu.c. Thus make them static.
Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add #include <linux/cache.h> to define __read_mostly.
Convert cache.h to use uapi/linux/kernel.h instead
of linux/kernel.h to avoid recursive #includes.
Convert the ALIGN macro to __ALIGN_KERNEL.
printk_once only sets the bool variable tested
once so mark it __read_mostly.
Neaten the alignment so it matches the rest of the
pr_<level>_once #defines too.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.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>
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match_wildcard function is a simple implementation of wildcard
matching algorithm. It only supports two usual wildcardes:
'*' - matches zero or more characters
'?' - matches one character
This algorithm is safe since it is non-recursive.
Signed-off-by: Du, Changbin <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The u64 type is not defined in any exported kernel headers, so trying to
use it will lead to build failures.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This header uses _IOW/_IOR defines but doesn't include ioctl.h for it.
If you try to use this w/out including ioctl.h yourself, it can fail to
build, so add the explicit include.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This header uses enum NPmode but doesn't include ppp_defs.h. If you try
to use this header w/out including the defs header first, it leads to a
build failure. So add the explicit include to fix it.
Don't know of any packages directly impacted, but noticed while building
some ppp code by hand.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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CONFIG_OF=n
Make for_each_child_of_node() reference its args when CONFIG_OF=n to
avoid warnings like:
drivers/leds/leds-pwm.c:88:22: warning: unused variable 'node' [-Wunused-variable]
struct device_node *node = pdev->dev.of_node;
^
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Now that the definition is centralized in <linux/kernel.h>, the
definitions of U32_MAX (and related) elsewhere in the kernel can be
removed.
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Create constants that define the maximum and minimum values
representable by the kernel types u8, s8, u16, s16, and so on.
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The symbol U32_MAX is defined in several spots. Change these
definitions to be conditional. This is in preparation for the next
patch, which centralizes the definition in <linux/kernel.h>.
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Many architectures provide an asm/fixmap.h which defines support for
compile-time 'special' virtual mappings which need to be made before
paging_init() has run. This support is also used for early ioremap on
x86. Much of this support is identical across the architectures. This
patch consolidates all of the common bits into asm-generic/fixmap.h
which is intended to be included from arch/*/include/asm/fixmap.h.
Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas.bonn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Now all 64-bit architectures have been converted to int-ll64.h, we can
remove int-l64.h in kernelspace.
For backwards compatibility, alpha, ia64, mips64, and powerpc64 still
use int-l64.h in userspace.
This is the (reworked for UAPI) non-documentation part of more than two
year old "asm/types.h: All architectures use int-ll64.h in kernelspace"
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/13/104)
Since <asm/types.h> (from include/uapi/asm-generic/types.h) is used for
both kernel and user space, include/asm-generic/int-ll64.h cannot just
become include/asm-generic/types.h, as Arnd suggested.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Compiling a C file which includes genalloc.h but without
spinlock_types.h being included before, we will see the compile error
below.
include/linux/genalloc.h:54:2: error: unknown type name `spinlock_t'
Include spinlock_types.h from genalloc.h to fix the problem.
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add a working sysctl to enable/disable automatic numa memory balancing
at runtime.
This allows us to track down performance problems with this feature and
is generally a good idea.
This was possible earlier through debugfs, but only with special
debugging options set. Also fix the boot message.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/sched_numa_balancing/sysctl_numa_balancing/]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When calling free_all_bootmem() the free areas under memblock's control
are released to the buddy allocator. Additionally the reserved list is
freed if it was reallocated by memblock. The same should apply for the
memory list.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hachtmann <phacht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We relocate root cache's memcg_params whenever we need to grow the
memcg_caches array to accommodate all kmem-active memory cgroups.
Currently on relocation we free the old version immediately, which can
lead to use-after-free, because the memcg_caches array is accessed
lock-free (see cache_from_memcg_idx()). This patch fixes this by making
memcg_params RCU-protected for root caches.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently, we have rather a messy function set relating to per-memcg
kmem cache initialization/destruction.
Per-memcg caches are created in memcg_create_kmem_cache(). This
function calls kmem_cache_create_memcg() to allocate and initialize a
kmem cache and then "registers" the new cache in the
memcg_params::memcg_caches array of the parent cache.
During its work-flow, kmem_cache_create_memcg() executes the following
memcg-related functions:
- memcg_alloc_cache_params(), to initialize memcg_params of the newly
created cache;
- memcg_cache_list_add(), to add the new cache to the memcg_slab_caches
list.
On the other hand, kmem_cache_destroy() called on a cache destruction
only calls memcg_release_cache(), which does all the work: it cleans the
reference to the cache in its parent's memcg_params::memcg_caches,
removes the cache from the memcg_slab_caches list, and frees
memcg_params.
Such an inconsistency between destruction and initialization paths make
the code difficult to read, so let's clean this up a bit.
This patch moves all the code relating to registration of per-memcg
caches (adding to memcg list, setting the pointer to a cache from its
parent) to the newly created memcg_register_cache() and
memcg_unregister_cache() functions making the initialization and
destruction paths look symmetrical.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We do not free the cache's memcg_params if __kmem_cache_create fails.
Fix this.
Plus, rename memcg_register_cache() to memcg_alloc_cache_params(),
because it actually does not register the cache anywhere, but simply
initialize kmem_cache::memcg_params.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Most of the VM_BUG_ON assertions are performed on a page. Usually, when
one of these assertions fails we'll get a BUG_ON with a call stack and
the registers.
I've recently noticed based on the requests to add a small piece of code
that dumps the page to various VM_BUG_ON sites that the page dump is
quite useful to people debugging issues in mm.
This patch adds a VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(cond, page) which beyond doing what
VM_BUG_ON() does, also dumps the page before executing the actual
BUG_ON.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up includes]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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bad_page() is cool in that it prints out a bunch of data about the page.
But, I can never remember which page flags are good and which are bad,
or whether ->index or ->mapping is required to be NULL.
This patch allows bad/dump_page() callers to specify a string about why
they are dumping the page and adds explanation strings to a number of
places. It also adds a 'bad_flags' argument to bad_page(), which it
then dumps out separately from the flags which are actually set.
This way, the messages will show specifically why the page was bad,
*specifically* which flags it is complaining about, if it was a page
flag combination which was the problem.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: switch to pr_alert]
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
Pull fuse update from Miklos Szeredi:
"This contains a fix for a potential use-after-module-unload bug
noticed by Al and caching improvements for read-only fuse filesystems
by Andrew Gallagher"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
fuse: support clients that don't implement 'open'
fuse: don't invalidate attrs when not using atime
fuse: fix SetPageUptodate() condition in STORE
fuse: fix pipe_buf_operations
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
"In this round, a couple of sysfs entries were introduced to tune the
f2fs at runtime.
In addition, f2fs starts to support inline_data and improves the
read/write performance in some workloads by refactoring bio-related
flows.
This patch-set includes the following major enhancement patches.
- support inline_data
- refactor bio operations such as merge operations and rw type
assignment
- enhance the direct IO path
- enhance bio operations
- truncate a node page when it becomes obsolete
- add sysfs entries: small_discards, max_victim_search, and
in-place-update
- add a sysfs entry to control max_victim_search
The other bug fixes are as follows.
- fix a bug in truncate_partial_nodes
- avoid warnings during sparse and build process
- fix error handling flows
- fix potential bit overflows
And, there are a bunch of cleanups"
* tag 'for-f2fs-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (95 commits)
f2fs: drop obsolete node page when it is truncated
f2fs: introduce NODE_MAPPING for code consistency
f2fs: remove the orphan block page array
f2fs: add help function META_MAPPING
f2fs: move a branch for code redability
f2fs: call mark_inode_dirty to flush dirty pages
f2fs: clean checkpatch warnings
f2fs: missing REQ_META and REQ_PRIO when sync_meta_pages(META_FLUSH)
f2fs: avoid f2fs_balance_fs call during pageout
f2fs: add delimiter to seperate name and value in debug phrase
f2fs: use spinlock rather than mutex for better speed
f2fs: move alloc new orphan node out of lock protection region
f2fs: move grabing orphan pages out of protection region
f2fs: remove the needless parameter of f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback
f2fs: update documents and a MAINTAINERS entry
f2fs: add a sysfs entry to control max_victim_search
f2fs: improve write performance under frequent fsync calls
f2fs: avoid to read inline data except first page
f2fs: avoid to left uninitialized data in page when read inline data
f2fs: fix truncate_partial_nodes bug
...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux
Pull module updates from Rusty Russell.
* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
module: Add missing newline in printk call.
module: fix coding style
export: declare ksymtab symbols
module.h: Remove unnecessary semicolon
params: improve standard definitions
Add Documentation/module-signing.txt file
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull Xen updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
"Two major features that Xen community is excited about:
The first is event channel scalability by David Vrabel - we switch
over from an two-level per-cpu bitmap of events (IRQs) - to an FIFO
queue with priorities. This lets us be able to handle more events,
have lower latency, and better scalability. Good stuff.
The other is PVH by Mukesh Rathor. In short, PV is a mode where the
kernel lets the hypervisor program page-tables, segments, etc. With
EPT/NPT capabilities in current processors, the overhead of doing this
in an HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine) container is much lower than the
hypervisor doing it for us.
In short we let a PV guest run without doing page-table, segment,
syscall, etc updates through the hypervisor - instead it is all done
within the guest container. It is a "hybrid" PV - hence the 'PVH'
name - a PV guest within an HVM container.
The major benefits are less code to deal with - for example we only
use one function from the the pv_mmu_ops (which has 39 function
calls); faster performance for syscall (no context switches into the
hypervisor); less traps on various operations; etc.
It is still being baked - the ABI is not yet set in stone. But it is
pretty awesome and we are excited about it.
Lastly, there are some changes to ARM code - you should get a simple
conflict which has been resolved in #linux-next.
In short, this pull has awesome features.
Features:
- FIFO event channels. Key advantages: support for over 100,000
events (2^17), 16 different event priorities, improved fairness in
event latency through the use of FIFOs.
- Xen PVH support. "It’s a fully PV kernel mode, running with
paravirtualized disk and network, paravirtualized interrupts and
timers, no emulated devices of any kind (and thus no qemu), no BIOS
or legacy boot — but instead of requiring PV MMU, it uses the HVM
hardware extensions to virtualize the pagetables, as well as system
calls and other privileged operations." (from "The
Paravirtualization Spectrum, Part 2: From poles to a spectrum")
Bug-fixes:
- Fixes in balloon driver (refactor and make it work under ARM)
- Allow xenfb to be used in HVM guests.
- Allow xen_platform_pci=0 to work properly.
- Refactors in event channels"
* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (52 commits)
xen/pvh: Set X86_CR0_WP and others in CR0 (v2)
MAINTAINERS: add git repository for Xen
xen/pvh: Use 'depend' instead of 'select'.
xen: delete new instances of __cpuinit usage
xen/fb: allow xenfb initialization for hvm guests
xen/evtchn_fifo: fix error return code in evtchn_fifo_setup()
xen-platform: fix error return code in platform_pci_init()
xen/pvh: remove duplicated include from enlighten.c
xen/pvh: Fix compile issues with xen_pvh_domain()
xen: Use dev_is_pci() to check whether it is pci device
xen/grant-table: Force to use v1 of grants.
xen/pvh: Support ParaVirtualized Hardware extensions (v3).
xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM XenBus.
xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for grant driver (v4)
xen/grant: Implement an grant frame array struct (v3).
xen/grant-table: Refactor gnttab_init
xen/grants: Remove gnttab_max_grant_frames dependency on gnttab_init.
xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for event channels (v2)
xen/pvh: Update E820 to work with PVH (v2)
xen/pvh: Secondary VCPU bringup (non-bootup CPUs)
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"First round of KVM updates for 3.14; PPC parts will come next week.
Nothing major here, just bugfixes all over the place. The most
interesting part is the ARM guys' virtualized interrupt controller
overhaul, which lets userspace get/set the state and thus enables
migration of ARM VMs"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (67 commits)
kvm: make KVM_MMU_AUDIT help text more readable
KVM: s390: Fix memory access error detection
KVM: nVMX: Update guest activity state field on L2 exits
KVM: nVMX: Fix nested_run_pending on activity state HLT
KVM: nVMX: Clean up handling of VMX-related MSRs
KVM: nVMX: Add tracepoints for nested_vmexit and nested_vmexit_inject
KVM: nVMX: Pass vmexit parameters to nested_vmx_vmexit
KVM: nVMX: Leave VMX mode on clearing of feature control MSR
KVM: VMX: Fix DR6 update on #DB exception
KVM: SVM: Fix reading of DR6
KVM: x86: Sync DR7 on KVM_SET_DEBUGREGS
add support for Hyper-V reference time counter
KVM: remove useless write to vcpu->hv_clock.tsc_timestamp
KVM: x86: fix tsc catchup issue with tsc scaling
KVM: x86: limit PIT timer frequency
KVM: x86: handle invalid root_hpa everywhere
kvm: Provide kvm_vcpu_eligible_for_directed_yield() stub
kvm: vfio: silence GCC warning
KVM: ARM: Remove duplicate include
arm/arm64: KVM: relax the requirements of VMA alignment for THP
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
"Usual rocket science stuff from trivial.git"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
neighbour.h: fix comment
sched: Fix warning on make htmldocs caused by wait.h
slab: struct kmem_cache is protected by slab_mutex
doc: Fix typo in USB Gadget Documentation
of/Kconfig: Spelling s/one/once/
mkregtable: Fix sscanf handling
lp5523, lp8501: comment improvements
thermal: rcar: comment spelling
treewide: fix comments and printk msgs
IXP4xx: remove '1 &&' from a condition check in ixp4xx_restart()
Documentation: update /proc/uptime field description
Documentation: Fix size parameter for snprintf
arm: fix comment header and macro name
asm-generic: uaccess: Spelling s/a ny/any/
mtd: onenand: fix comment header
doc: driver-model/platform.txt: fix a typo
drivers: fix typo in DEVTMPFS_MOUNT Kconfig help text
doc: Fix typo (acces_process_vm -> access_process_vm)
treewide: Fix typos in printk
drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/Kconfig: reformat the help text
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm
Pull device-mapper changes from Mike Snitzer:
"A lot of attention was paid to improving the thin-provisioning
target's handling of metadata operation failures and running out of
space. A new 'error_if_no_space' feature was added to allow users to
error IOs rather than queue them when either the data or metadata
space is exhausted.
Additional fixes/features include:
- a few fixes to properly support thin metadata device resizing
- a solution for reliably waiting for a DM device's embedded kobject
to be released before destroying the device
- old dm-snapshot is updated to use the dm-bufio interface to take
advantage of readahead capabilities that improve snapshot
activation
- new dm-cache target tunables to control how quickly data is
promoted to the cache (fast) device
- improved write efficiency of cluster mirror target by combining
userspace flush and mark requests"
* tag 'dm-3.14-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (35 commits)
dm log userspace: allow mark requests to piggyback on flush requests
dm space map metadata: fix bug in resizing of thin metadata
dm cache: add policy name to status output
dm thin: fix pool feature parsing
dm sysfs: fix a module unload race
dm snapshot: use dm-bufio prefetch
dm snapshot: use dm-bufio
dm snapshot: prepare for switch to using dm-bufio
dm snapshot: use GFP_KERNEL when initializing exceptions
dm cache: add block sizes and total cache blocks to status output
dm btree: add dm_btree_find_lowest_key
dm space map metadata: fix extending the space map
dm space map common: make sure new space is used during extend
dm: wait until embedded kobject is released before destroying a device
dm: remove pointless kobject comparison in dm_get_from_kobject
dm snapshot: call destroy_work_on_stack() to pair with INIT_WORK_ONSTACK()
dm cache policy mq: introduce three promotion threshold tunables
dm cache policy mq: use list_del_init instead of list_del + INIT_LIST_HEAD
dm thin: fix set_pool_mode exposed pool operation races
dm thin: eliminate the no_free_space flag
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi
Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
"This patch set is a lot of driver updates for qla4xxx, bfa, hpsa,
qla2xxx. It also removes the aic7xxx_old driver (which has been
deprecated for nearly a decade) and adds support for deadlines in
error handling"
* tag 'scsi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (75 commits)
[SCSI] hpsa: allow SCSI mid layer to handle unit attention
[SCSI] hpsa: do not require board "not ready" status after hard reset
[SCSI] hpsa: enable unit attention reporting
[SCSI] hpsa: rename scsi prefetch field
[SCSI] hpsa: use workqueue instead of kernel thread for lockup detection
[SCSI] ipr: increase dump size in ipr driver
[SCSI] mac_scsi: Fix crash on out of memory
[SCSI] st: fix enlarge_buffer
[SCSI] qla1280: Annotate timer on stack so object debug does not complain
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Update driver version to 5.04.00-k3
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Recreate chap data list during get chap operation
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Add support for ISCSI_PARAM_LOCAL_IPADDR sysfs attr
[SCSI] libiscsi: Add local_ipaddr parameter in iscsi_conn struct
[SCSI] scsi_transport_iscsi: Export ISCSI_PARAM_LOCAL_IPADDR attr for iscsi_connection
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Add host statistics support
[SCSI] scsi_transport_iscsi: Add host statistics support
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Added support for Diagnostics MBOX command
[SCSI] bfa: Driver version upgrade to 3.2.23.0
[SCSI] bfa: change FC_ELS_TOV to 20sec
[SCSI] bfa: Observed auto D-port mode instead of manual
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci
Pull PCI updates from Bjorn Helgaas:
"PCI changes for the v3.14 merge window:
Resource management
- Change pci_bus_region addresses to dma_addr_t (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Support 64-bit AGP BARs (Bjorn Helgaas, Yinghai Lu)
- Add pci_bus_address() to get bus address of a BAR (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Use pci_resource_start() for CPU address of AGP BARs (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Enforce bus address limits in resource allocation (Yinghai Lu)
- Allocate 64-bit BARs above 4G when possible (Yinghai Lu)
- Convert pcibios_resource_to_bus() to take pci_bus, not pci_dev (Yinghai Lu)
PCI device hotplug
- Major rescan/remove locking update (Rafael J. Wysocki)
- Make ioapic builtin only (not modular) (Yinghai Lu)
- Fix release/free issues (Yinghai Lu)
- Clean up pciehp (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Announce pciehp slot info during enumeration (Bjorn Helgaas)
MSI
- Add pci_msi_vec_count(), pci_msix_vec_count() (Alexander Gordeev)
- Add pci_enable_msi_range(), pci_enable_msix_range() (Alexander Gordeev)
- Deprecate "tri-state" interfaces: fail/success/fail+info (Alexander Gordeev)
- Export MSI mode using attributes, not kobjects (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
- Drop "irq" param from *_restore_msi_irqs() (DuanZhenzhong)
SR-IOV
- Clear NumVFs when disabling SR-IOV in sriov_init() (ethan.zhao)
Virtualization
- Add support for save/restore of extended capabilities (Alex Williamson)
- Add Virtual Channel to save/restore support (Alex Williamson)
- Never treat a VF as a multifunction device (Alex Williamson)
- Add pci_try_reset_function(), et al (Alex Williamson)
AER
- Ignore non-PCIe error sources (Betty Dall)
- Support ACPI HEST error sources for domains other than 0 (Betty Dall)
- Consolidate HEST error source parsers (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Add a TLP header print helper (Borislav Petkov)
Freescale i.MX6
- Remove unnecessary code (Fabio Estevam)
- Make reset-gpio optional (Marek Vasut)
- Report "link up" only after link training completes (Marek Vasut)
- Start link in Gen1 before negotiating for Gen2 mode (Marek Vasut)
- Fix PCIe startup code (Richard Zhu)
Marvell MVEBU
- Remove duplicate of_clk_get_by_name() call (Andrew Lunn)
- Drop writes to bridge Secondary Status register (Jason Gunthorpe)
- Obey bridge PCI_COMMAND_MEM and PCI_COMMAND_IO bits (Jason Gunthorpe)
- Support a bridge with no IO port window (Jason Gunthorpe)
- Use max_t() instead of max(resource_size_t,) (Jingoo Han)
- Remove redundant of_match_ptr (Sachin Kamat)
- Call pci_ioremap_io() at startup instead of dynamically (Thomas Petazzoni)
NVIDIA Tegra
- Disable Gen2 for Tegra20 and Tegra30 (Eric Brower)
Renesas R-Car
- Add runtime PM support (Valentine Barshak)
- Fix rcar_pci_probe() return value check (Wei Yongjun)
Synopsys DesignWare
- Fix crash in dw_msi_teardown_irq() (Bjørn Erik Nilsen)
- Remove redundant call to pci_write_config_word() (Bjørn Erik Nilsen)
- Fix missing MSI IRQs (Harro Haan)
- Add dw_pcie prefix before cfg_read/write (Pratyush Anand)
- Fix I/O transfers by using CPU (not realio) address (Pratyush Anand)
- Whitespace cleanup (Jingoo Han)
EISA
- Call put_device() if device_register() fails (Levente Kurusa)
- Revert EISA initialization breakage ((Bjorn Helgaas)
Miscellaneous
- Remove unused code, including PCIe 3.0 interfaces (Stephen Hemminger)
- Prevent bus conflicts while checking for bridge apertures (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Stop clearing bridge Secondary Status when setting up I/O aperture (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Use dev_is_pci() to identify PCI devices (Yijing Wang)
- Deprecate DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE (Joe Perches)
- Update documentation 00-INDEX (Erik Ekman)"
* tag 'pci-v3.14-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (119 commits)
Revert "EISA: Initialize device before its resources"
Revert "EISA: Log device resources in dmesg"
vfio-pci: Use pci "try" reset interface
PCI: Check parent kobject in pci_destroy_dev()
xen/pcifront: Use global PCI rescan-remove locking
powerpc/eeh: Use global PCI rescan-remove locking
PCI: Fix pci_check_and_unmask_intx() comment typos
PCI: Add pci_try_reset_function(), pci_try_reset_slot(), pci_try_reset_bus()
MPT / PCI: Use pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device_locked()
platform / x86: Use global PCI rescan-remove locking
PCI: hotplug: Use global PCI rescan-remove locking
pcmcia: Use global PCI rescan-remove locking
ACPI / hotplug / PCI: Use global PCI rescan-remove locking
ACPI / PCI: Use global PCI rescan-remove locking in PCI root hotplug
PCI: Add global pci_lock_rescan_remove()
PCI: Cleanup pci.h whitespace
PCI: Reorder so actual code comes before stubs
PCI/AER: Support ACPI HEST AER error sources for PCI domains other than 0
ACPICA: Add helper macros to extract bus/segment numbers from HEST table.
PCI: Make local functions static
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"This pull request has a new feature to ftrace, namely the trace event
triggers by Tom Zanussi. A trigger is a way to enable an action when
an event is hit. The actions are:
o trace on/off - enable or disable tracing
o snapshot - save the current trace buffer in the snapshot
o stacktrace - dump the current stack trace to the ringbuffer
o enable/disable events - enable or disable another event
Namhyung Kim added updates to the tracing uprobes code. Having the
uprobes add support for fetch methods.
The rest are various bug fixes with the new code, and minor ones for
the old code"
* tag 'trace-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (38 commits)
tracing: Fix buggered tee(2) on tracing_pipe
tracing: Have trace buffer point back to trace_array
ftrace: Fix synchronization location disabling and freeing ftrace_ops
ftrace: Have function graph only trace based on global_ops filters
ftrace: Synchronize setting function_trace_op with ftrace_trace_function
tracing: Show available event triggers when no trigger is set
tracing: Consolidate event trigger code
tracing: Fix counter for traceon/off event triggers
tracing: Remove double-underscore naming in syscall trigger invocations
tracing/kprobes: Add trace event trigger invocations
tracing/probes: Fix build break on !CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT
tracing/uprobes: Add @+file_offset fetch method
uprobes: Allocate ->utask before handler_chain() for tracing handlers
tracing/uprobes: Add support for full argument access methods
tracing/uprobes: Fetch args before reserving a ring buffer
tracing/uprobes: Pass 'is_return' to traceprobe_parse_probe_arg()
tracing/probes: Implement 'memory' fetch method for uprobes
tracing/probes: Add fetch{,_size} member into deref fetch method
tracing/probes: Move 'symbol' fetch method to kprobes
tracing/probes: Implement 'stack' fetch method for uprobes
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Having this struct in module memory could Oops when if the module is
unloaded while the buffer still persists in a pipe.
Since sock_pipe_buf_ops is essentially the same as fuse_dev_pipe_buf_steal
merge them into nosteal_pipe_buf_ops (this is the same as
default_pipe_buf_ops except stealing the page from the buffer is not
allowed).
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Missing "@" in include/linux/wait.h cause "make htmldocs" failed
with following warning messages.
Warning(/home/iida/Repo/linux-next//include/linux/wait.h:304):
No description found for parameter 'cmd1'
Warning(/home/iida/Repo/linux-next//include/linux/wait.h:304):
No description found for parameter 'cmd2'
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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In the cluster evironment, cluster write has poor performance because
userspace_flush() has to contact a userspace program (cmirrord) for
clear/mark/flush requests. But both mark and flush requests require
cmirrord to communicate the message to all the cluster nodes for each
flush call. This behaviour is really slow.
To address this we now merge mark and flush requests together to reduce
the kernel-userspace-kernel time. We allow a new directive,
"integrated_flush" that can be used to instruct the kernel log code to
combine flush and mark requests when directed by userspace. If not
directed by userspace (due to an older version of the userspace code
perhaps), the kernel will function as it did previously - preserving
backwards compatibility. Additionally, flush requests are performed
lazily when only clear requests exist.
Signed-off-by: Dongmao Zhang <dmzhang@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- a couple of misc things
- inotify/fsnotify work from Jan
- ocfs2 updates (partial)
- about half of MM
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (117 commits)
mm/migrate: remove unused function, fail_migrate_page()
mm/migrate: remove putback_lru_pages, fix comment on putback_movable_pages
mm/migrate: correct failure handling if !hugepage_migration_support()
mm/migrate: add comment about permanent failure path
mm, page_alloc: warn for non-blockable __GFP_NOFAIL allocation failure
mm: compaction: reset scanner positions immediately when they meet
mm: compaction: do not mark unmovable pageblocks as skipped in async compaction
mm: compaction: detect when scanners meet in isolate_freepages
mm: compaction: reset cached scanner pfn's before reading them
mm: compaction: encapsulate defer reset logic
mm: compaction: trace compaction begin and end
memcg, oom: lock mem_cgroup_print_oom_info
sched: add tracepoints related to NUMA task migration
mm: numa: do not automatically migrate KSM pages
mm: numa: trace tasks that fail migration due to rate limiting
mm: numa: limit scope of lock for NUMA migrate rate limiting
mm: numa: make NUMA-migrate related functions static
lib/show_mem.c: show num_poisoned_pages when oom
mm/hwpoison: add '#' to hwpoison_inject
mm/memblock: use WARN_ONCE when MAX_NUMNODES passed as input parameter
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata
Pull libata updates from Tejun Heo:
"Support for some new embedded controllers.
A couple late (<= a week) fixes have stable cc'd and one patch ("SATA:
MV: Add support for the optional PHYs") got committed yesterday
because otherwise the resulting kernel would fail boot on an embedded
board due to interdependent changes in its platform tree.
Other than that, nothing too noteworthy"
* 'for-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata:
SATA: MV: Add support for the optional PHYs
sata-highbank: Remove unnecessary ahci_platform.h include
libata: disable LPM for some WD SATA-I devices
ARM: mvebu: update the SATA compatible string for Armada 370/XP
ata: sata_mv: fix disk hotplug for Armada 370/XP SoCs
ata: sata_mv: introduce compatible string "marvell, armada-370-sata"
ata: pata_samsung_cf: Remove unused macros
ata: pata_samsung_cf: Use devm_ioremap_resource()
ata: pata_samsung_cf: Merge pata_samsung_cf.h into pata_samsung_cf.c
ata: pata_samsung_cf: Move plat/regs-ata.h to drivers/ata
drivers: ata: Mark the function as static in libahci.c
drivers: ata: Mark the function ahci_init_interrupts() as static in ahci.c
ahci: imx: fix the error handling in imx_ahci_probe()
ahci: imx: ahci_imx_softreset() can be static
ahci: imx: Add i.MX53 support
ahci: imx: Pull out the clock enable/disable calls
libata, dt: Document sata_rcar bindings
sata_rcar: Add R-Car Gen2 SATA PHY support
ahci: mcp89: enter AHCI mode under Apple BIOS emulation
ata: libata-eh: Remove unnecessary snprintf arithmetic
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
"The bulk of changes are cleanups and preparations for the upcoming
kernfs conversion.
- cgroup_event mechanism which is and will be used only by memcg is
moved to memcg.
- pidlist handling is updated so that it can be served by seq_file.
Also, the list is not sorted if sane_behavior. cgroup
documentation explicitly states that the file is not sorted but it
has been for quite some time.
- All cgroup file handling now happens on top of seq_file. This is
to prepare for kernfs conversion. In addition, all operations are
restructured so that they map 1-1 to kernfs operations.
- Other cleanups and low-pri fixes"
* 'for-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (40 commits)
cgroup: trivial style updates
cgroup: remove stray references to css_id
doc: cgroups: Fix typo in doc/cgroups
cgroup: fix fail path in cgroup_load_subsys()
cgroup: fix missing unlock on error in cgroup_load_subsys()
cgroup: remove for_each_root_subsys()
cgroup: implement for_each_css()
cgroup: factor out cgroup_subsys_state creation into create_css()
cgroup: combine css handling loops in cgroup_create()
cgroup: reorder operations in cgroup_create()
cgroup: make for_each_subsys() useable under cgroup_root_mutex
cgroup: css iterations and css_from_dir() are safe under cgroup_mutex
cgroup: unify pidlist and other file handling
cgroup: replace cftype->read_seq_string() with cftype->seq_show()
cgroup: attach cgroup_open_file to all cgroup files
cgroup: generalize cgroup_pidlist_open_file
cgroup: unify read path so that seq_file is always used
cgroup: unify cgroup_write_X64() and cgroup_write_string()
cgroup: remove cftype->read(), ->read_map() and ->write()
hugetlb_cgroup: convert away from cftype->read()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmw
Pull GFS2 updates from Steven Whitehouse:
"The main topics this time are allocation, in the form of Bob's
improvements when searching resource groups and several updates to
quotas which should increase scalability. The quota changes follow on
from those in the last merge window, and there will likely be further
work to come in this area in due course.
There are also a few patches which help to improve efficiency of
adding entries into directories, and clean up some of that code.
One on-disk change is included this time, which is to write some
additional information which should be useful to fsck and also
potentially for debugging.
Other than that, its just a few small random bug fixes and clean ups"
* tag 'gfs2-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmw: (24 commits)
GFS2: revert "GFS2: d_splice_alias() can't return error"
GFS2: Small cleanup
GFS2: Don't use ENOBUFS when ENOMEM is the correct error code
GFS2: Fix kbuild test robot reported warning
GFS2: Move quota bitmap operations under their own lock
GFS2: Clean up quota slot allocation
GFS2: Only run logd and quota when mounted read/write
GFS2: Use RCU/hlist_bl based hash for quotas
GFS2: No need to invalidate pages for a dio read
GFS2: Add initialization for address space in super block
GFS2: Add hints to directory leaf blocks
GFS2: For exhash conversion, only one block is needed
GFS2: Increase i_writecount during gfs2_setattr_chown
GFS2: Remember directory insert point
GFS2: Consolidate transaction blocks calculation for dir add
GFS2: Add directory addition info structure
GFS2: Use only a single address space for rgrps
GFS2: Use range based functions for rgrp sync/invalidation
GFS2: Remove test which is always true
GFS2: Remove gfs2_quota_change_host structure
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fail_migrate_page() isn't used anywhere, so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Some part of putback_lru_pages() and putback_movable_pages() is
duplicated, so it could confuse us what we should use. We can remove
putback_lru_pages() since it is not really needed now. This makes us
undestand and maintain the code more easily.
And comment on putback_movable_pages() is stale now, so fix it.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently there are several functions to manipulate the deferred
compaction state variables. The remaining case where the variables are
touched directly is when a successful allocation occurs in direct
compaction, or is expected to be successful in the future by kswapd.
Here, the lowest order that is expected to fail is updated, and in the
case of successful allocation, the deferred status and counter is reset
completely.
Create a new function compaction_defer_reset() to encapsulate this
functionality and make it easier to understand the code. No functional
change.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The broad goal of the series is to improve allocation success rates for
huge pages through memory compaction, while trying not to increase the
compaction overhead. The original objective was to reintroduce
capturing of high-order pages freed by the compaction, before they are
split by concurrent activity. However, several bugs and opportunities
for simple improvements were found in the current implementation, mostly
through extra tracepoints (which are however too ugly for now to be
considered for sending).
The patches mostly deal with two mechanisms that reduce compaction
overhead, which is caching the progress of migrate and free scanners,
and marking pageblocks where isolation failed to be skipped during
further scans.
Patch 1 (from mgorman) adds tracepoints that allow calculate time spent in
compaction and potentially debug scanner pfn values.
Patch 2 encapsulates the some functionality for handling deferred compactions
for better maintainability, without a functional change
type is not determined without being actually needed.
Patch 3 fixes a bug where cached scanner pfn's are sometimes reset only after
they have been read to initialize a compaction run.
Patch 4 fixes a bug where scanners meeting is sometimes not properly detected
and can lead to multiple compaction attempts quitting early without
doing any work.
Patch 5 improves the chances of sync compaction to process pageblocks that
async compaction has skipped due to being !MIGRATE_MOVABLE.
Patch 6 improves the chances of sync direct compaction to actually do anything
when called after async compaction fails during allocation slowpath.
The impact of patches were validated using mmtests's stress-highalloc
benchmark with mmtests's stress-highalloc benchmark on a x86_64 machine
with 4GB memory.
Due to instability of the results (mostly related to the bugs fixed by
patches 2 and 3), 10 iterations were performed, taking min,mean,max
values for success rates and mean values for time and vmstat-based
metrics.
First, the default GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE allocations were tested with the
patches stacked on top of v3.13-rc2. Patch 2 is OK to serve as baseline
due to no functional changes in 1 and 2. Comments below.
stress-highalloc
3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2
2-nothp 3-nothp 4-nothp 5-nothp 6-nothp
Success 1 Min 9.00 ( 0.00%) 10.00 (-11.11%) 43.00 (-377.78%) 43.00 (-377.78%) 33.00 (-266.67%)
Success 1 Mean 27.50 ( 0.00%) 25.30 ( 8.00%) 45.50 (-65.45%) 45.90 (-66.91%) 46.30 (-68.36%)
Success 1 Max 36.00 ( 0.00%) 36.00 ( 0.00%) 47.00 (-30.56%) 48.00 (-33.33%) 52.00 (-44.44%)
Success 2 Min 10.00 ( 0.00%) 8.00 ( 20.00%) 46.00 (-360.00%) 45.00 (-350.00%) 35.00 (-250.00%)
Success 2 Mean 26.40 ( 0.00%) 23.50 ( 10.98%) 47.30 (-79.17%) 47.60 (-80.30%) 48.10 (-82.20%)
Success 2 Max 34.00 ( 0.00%) 33.00 ( 2.94%) 48.00 (-41.18%) 50.00 (-47.06%) 54.00 (-58.82%)
Success 3 Min 65.00 ( 0.00%) 63.00 ( 3.08%) 85.00 (-30.77%) 84.00 (-29.23%) 85.00 (-30.77%)
Success 3 Mean 76.70 ( 0.00%) 70.50 ( 8.08%) 86.20 (-12.39%) 85.50 (-11.47%) 86.00 (-12.13%)
Success 3 Max 87.00 ( 0.00%) 86.00 ( 1.15%) 88.00 ( -1.15%) 87.00 ( 0.00%) 87.00 ( 0.00%)
3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2
2-nothp 3-nothp 4-nothp 5-nothp 6-nothp
User 6437.72 6459.76 5960.32 5974.55 6019.67
System 1049.65 1049.09 1029.32 1031.47 1032.31
Elapsed 1856.77 1874.48 1949.97 1994.22 1983.15
3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2
2-nothp 3-nothp 4-nothp 5-nothp 6-nothp
Minor Faults 253952267 254581900 250030122 250507333 250157829
Major Faults 420 407 506 530 530
Swap Ins 4 9 9 6 6
Swap Outs 398 375 345 346 333
Direct pages scanned 197538 189017 298574 287019 299063
Kswapd pages scanned 1809843 1801308 1846674 1873184 1861089
Kswapd pages reclaimed 1806972 1798684 1844219 1870509 1858622
Direct pages reclaimed 197227 188829 298380 286822 298835
Kswapd efficiency 99% 99% 99% 99% 99%
Kswapd velocity 953.382 970.449 952.243 934.569 922.286
Direct efficiency 99% 99% 99% 99% 99%
Direct velocity 104.058 101.832 153.961 143.200 148.205
Percentage direct scans 9% 9% 13% 13% 13%
Zone normal velocity 347.289 359.676 348.063 339.933 332.983
Zone dma32 velocity 710.151 712.605 758.140 737.835 737.507
Zone dma velocity 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
Page writes by reclaim 557.600 429.000 353.600 426.400 381.800
Page writes file 159 53 7 79 48
Page writes anon 398 375 345 346 333
Page reclaim immediate 825 644 411 575 420
Sector Reads 2781750 2769780 2878547 2939128 2910483
Sector Writes 12080843 12083351 12012892 12002132 12010745
Page rescued immediate 0 0 0 0 0
Slabs scanned 1575654 1545344 1778406 1786700 1794073
Direct inode steals 9657 10037 15795 14104 14645
Kswapd inode steals 46857 46335 50543 50716 51796
Kswapd skipped wait 0 0 0 0 0
THP fault alloc 97 91 81 71 77
THP collapse alloc 456 506 546 544 565
THP splits 6 5 5 4 4
THP fault fallback 0 1 0 0 0
THP collapse fail 14 14 12 13 12
Compaction stalls 1006 980 1537 1536 1548
Compaction success 303 284 562 559 578
Compaction failures 702 696 974 976 969
Page migrate success 1177325 1070077 3927538 3781870 3877057
Page migrate failure 0 0 0 0 0
Compaction pages isolated 2547248 2306457 8301218 8008500 8200674
Compaction migrate scanned 42290478 38832618 153961130 154143900 159141197
Compaction free scanned 89199429 79189151 356529027 351943166 356326727
Compaction cost 1566 1426 5312 5156 5294
NUMA PTE updates 0 0 0 0 0
NUMA hint faults 0 0 0 0 0
NUMA hint local faults 0 0 0 0 0
NUMA hint local percent 100 100 100 100 100
NUMA pages migrated 0 0 0 0 0
AutoNUMA cost 0 0 0 0 0
Observations:
- The "Success 3" line is allocation success rate with system idle
(phases 1 and 2 are with background interference). I used to get stable
values around 85% with vanilla 3.11. The lower min and mean values came
with 3.12. This was bisected to commit 81c0a2bb ("mm: page_alloc: fair
zone allocator policy") As explained in comment for patch 3, I don't
think the commit is wrong, but that it makes the effect of compaction
bugs worse. From patch 3 onwards, the results are OK and match the 3.11
results.
- Patch 4 also clearly helps phases 1 and 2, and exceeds any results
I've seen with 3.11 (I didn't measure it that thoroughly then, but it
was never above 40%).
- Compaction cost and number of scanned pages is higher, especially due
to patch 4. However, keep in mind that patches 3 and 4 fix existing
bugs in the current design of compaction overhead mitigation, they do
not change it. If overhead is found unacceptable, then it should be
decreased differently (and consistently, not due to random conditions)
than the current implementation does. In contrast, patches 5 and 6
(which are not strictly bug fixes) do not increase the overhead (but
also not success rates). This might be a limitation of the
stress-highalloc benchmark as it's quite uniform.
Another set of results is when configuring stress-highalloc t allocate
with similar flags as THP uses:
(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NO_KSWAPD)
stress-highalloc
3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2
2-thp 3-thp 4-thp 5-thp 6-thp
Success 1 Min 2.00 ( 0.00%) 7.00 (-250.00%) 18.00 (-800.00%) 19.00 (-850.00%) 26.00 (-1200.00%)
Success 1 Mean 19.20 ( 0.00%) 17.80 ( 7.29%) 29.20 (-52.08%) 29.90 (-55.73%) 32.80 (-70.83%)
Success 1 Max 27.00 ( 0.00%) 29.00 ( -7.41%) 35.00 (-29.63%) 36.00 (-33.33%) 37.00 (-37.04%)
Success 2 Min 3.00 ( 0.00%) 8.00 (-166.67%) 21.00 (-600.00%) 21.00 (-600.00%) 32.00 (-966.67%)
Success 2 Mean 19.30 ( 0.00%) 17.90 ( 7.25%) 32.20 (-66.84%) 32.60 (-68.91%) 35.70 (-84.97%)
Success 2 Max 27.00 ( 0.00%) 30.00 (-11.11%) 36.00 (-33.33%) 37.00 (-37.04%) 39.00 (-44.44%)
Success 3 Min 62.00 ( 0.00%) 62.00 ( 0.00%) 85.00 (-37.10%) 75.00 (-20.97%) 64.00 ( -3.23%)
Success 3 Mean 66.30 ( 0.00%) 65.50 ( 1.21%) 85.60 (-29.11%) 83.40 (-25.79%) 83.50 (-25.94%)
Success 3 Max 70.00 ( 0.00%) 69.00 ( 1.43%) 87.00 (-24.29%) 86.00 (-22.86%) 87.00 (-24.29%)
3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2
2-thp 3-thp 4-thp 5-thp 6-thp
User 6547.93 6475.85 6265.54 6289.46 6189.96
System 1053.42 1047.28 1043.23 1042.73 1038.73
Elapsed 1835.43 1821.96 1908.67 1912.74 1956.38
3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2 3.13-rc2
2-thp 3-thp 4-thp 5-thp 6-thp
Minor Faults 256805673 253106328 253222299 249830289 251184418
Major Faults 395 375 423 434 448
Swap Ins 12 10 10 12 9
Swap Outs 530 537 487 455 415
Direct pages scanned 71859 86046 153244 152764 190713
Kswapd pages scanned 1900994 1870240 1898012 1892864 1880520
Kswapd pages reclaimed 1897814 1867428 1894939 1890125 1877924
Direct pages reclaimed 71766 85908 153167 152643 190600
Kswapd efficiency 99% 99% 99% 99% 99%
Kswapd velocity 1029.000 1067.782 1000.091 991.049 951.218
Direct efficiency 99% 99% 99% 99% 99%
Direct velocity 38.897 49.127 80.747 79.983 96.468
Percentage direct scans 3% 4% 7% 7% 9%
Zone normal velocity 351.377 372.494 348.910 341.689 335.310
Zone dma32 velocity 716.520 744.414 731.928 729.343 712.377
Zone dma velocity 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
Page writes by reclaim 669.300 604.000 545.700 538.900 429.900
Page writes file 138 66 58 83 14
Page writes anon 530 537 487 455 415
Page reclaim immediate 806 655 772 548 517
Sector Reads 2711956 2703239 2811602 2818248 2839459
Sector Writes 12163238 12018662 12038248 11954736 11994892
Page rescued immediate 0 0 0 0 0
Slabs scanned 1385088 1388364 1507968 1513292 1558656
Direct inode steals 1739 2564 4622 5496 6007
Kswapd inode steals 47461 46406 47804 48013 48466
Kswapd skipped wait 0 0 0 0 0
THP fault alloc 110 82 84 69 70
THP collapse alloc 445 482 467 462 539
THP splits 6 5 4 5 3
THP fault fallback 3 0 0 0 0
THP collapse fail 15 14 14 14 13
Compaction stalls 659 685 1033 1073 1111
Compaction success 222 225 410 427 456
Compaction failures 436 460 622 646 655
Page migrate success 446594 439978 1085640 1095062 1131716
Page migrate failure 0 0 0 0 0
Compaction pages isolated 1029475 1013490 2453074 2482698 2565400
Compaction migrate scanned 9955461 11344259 24375202 27978356 30494204
Compaction free scanned 27715272 28544654 80150615 82898631 85756132
Compaction cost 552 555 1344 1379 1436
NUMA PTE updates 0 0 0 0 0
NUMA hint faults 0 0 0 0 0
NUMA hint local faults 0 0 0 0 0
NUMA hint local percent 100 100 100 100 100
NUMA pages migrated 0 0 0 0 0
AutoNUMA cost 0 0 0 0 0
There are some differences from the previous results for THP-like allocations:
- Here, the bad result for unpatched kernel in phase 3 is much more
consistent to be between 65-70% and not related to the "regression" in
3.12. Still there is the improvement from patch 4 onwards, which brings
it on par with simple GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE allocations.
- Compaction costs have increased, but nowhere near as much as the
non-THP case. Again, the patches should be worth the gained
determininsm.
- Patches 5 and 6 somewhat increase the number of migrate-scanned pages.
This is most likely due to __GFP_NO_KSWAPD flag, which means the cached
pfn's and pageblock skip bits are not reset by kswapd that often (at
least in phase 3 where no concurrent activity would wake up kswapd) and
the patches thus help the sync-after-async compaction. It doesn't
however show that the sync compaction would help so much with success
rates, which can be again seen as a limitation of the benchmark
scenario.
This patch (of 6):
Add two tracepoints for compaction begin and end of a zone. Using this it
is possible to calculate how much time a workload is spending within
compaction and potentially debug problems related to cached pfns for
scanning. In combination with the direct reclaim and slab trace points it
should be possible to estimate most allocation-related overhead for a
workload.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch adds three tracepoints
o trace_sched_move_numa when a task is moved to a node
o trace_sched_swap_numa when a task is swapped with another task
o trace_sched_stick_numa when a numa-related migration fails
The tracepoints allow the NUMA scheduler activity to be monitored and the
following high-level metrics can be calculated
o NUMA migrated stuck nr trace_sched_stick_numa
o NUMA migrated idle nr trace_sched_move_numa
o NUMA migrated swapped nr trace_sched_swap_numa
o NUMA local swapped trace_sched_swap_numa src_nid == dst_nid (should never happen)
o NUMA remote swapped trace_sched_swap_numa src_nid != dst_nid (should == NUMA migrated swapped)
o NUMA group swapped trace_sched_swap_numa src_ngid == dst_ngid
Maybe a small number of these are acceptable
but a high number would be a major surprise.
It would be even worse if bounces are frequent.
o NUMA avg task migs. Average number of migrations for tasks
o NUMA stddev task mig Self-explanatory
o NUMA max task migs. Maximum number of migrations for a single task
In general the intent of the tracepoints is to help diagnose problems
where automatic NUMA balancing appears to be doing an excessive amount
of useless work.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove semicolon-after-if, repair coding-style]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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A low local/remote numa hinting fault ratio is potentially explained by
failed migrations. This patch adds a tracepoint that fires when
migration fails due to migration rate limitation.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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