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mark gross
0109c2c48d PM QoS: Correct pr_debug() misuse and improve parameter checks
Correct some pr_debug() misuse and add a stronger parameter check to
pm_qos_write() for the ASCII hex value case.  Thanks to Dan Carpenter
for pointing out the problem!

Signed-off-by: mark gross <markgross@thegnar.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2010-09-11 00:53:05 +02:00
Dave Chinner
51749e47e1 xfs: log IO completion workqueue is a high priority queue
The workqueue implementation in 2.6.36-rcX has changed, resulting
in the workqueues no longer having dedicated threads for work
processing. This has caused severe livelocks under heavy parallel
create workloads because the log IO completions have been getting
held up behind metadata IO completions.  Hence log commits would
stall, memory allocation would stall because pages could not be
cleaned, and lock contention on the AIL during inode IO completion
processing was being seen to slow everything down even further.

By making the log Io completion workqueue a high priority workqueue,
they are queued ahead of all data/metadata IO completions and
processed before the data/metadata completions. Hence the log never
gets stalled, and operations needed to clean memory can continue as
quickly as possible. This avoids the livelock conditions and allos
the system to keep running under heavy load as per normal.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-09-10 10:16:54 -05:00
Roland McGrath
9aea5a65aa execve: make responsive to SIGKILL with large arguments
An execve with a very large total of argument/environment strings
can take a really long time in the execve system call.  It runs
uninterruptibly to count and copy all the strings.  This change
makes it abort the exec quickly if sent a SIGKILL.

Note that this is the conservative change, to interrupt only for
SIGKILL, by using fatal_signal_pending().  It would be perfectly
correct semantics to let any signal interrupt the string-copying in
execve, i.e. use signal_pending() instead of fatal_signal_pending().
We'll save that change for later, since it could have user-visible
consequences, such as having a timer set too quickly make it so that
an execve can never complete, though it always happened to work before.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-10 08:10:26 -07:00
Roland McGrath
7993bc1f46 execve: improve interactivity with large arguments
This adds a preemption point during the copying of the argument and
environment strings for execve, in copy_strings().  There is already
a preemption point in the count() loop, so this doesn't add any new
points in the abstract sense.

When the total argument+environment strings are very large, the time
spent copying them can be much more than a normal user time slice.
So this change improves the interactivity of the rest of the system
when one process is doing an execve with very large arguments.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-10 08:10:26 -07:00
Roland McGrath
1b528181b2 setup_arg_pages: diagnose excessive argument size
The CONFIG_STACK_GROWSDOWN variant of setup_arg_pages() does not
check the size of the argument/environment area on the stack.
When it is unworkably large, shift_arg_pages() hits its BUG_ON.
This is exploitable with a very large RLIMIT_STACK limit, to
create a crash pretty easily.

Check that the initial stack is not too large to make it possible
to map in any executable.  We're not checking that the actual
executable (or intepreter, for binfmt_elf) will fit.  So those
mappings might clobber part of the initial stack mapping.  But
that is just userland lossage that userland made happen, not a
kernel problem.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-10 08:10:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
be6200aac9 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: x86: Perform hardware_enable in CPU_STARTING callback
  KVM: i8259: fix migration
  KVM: fix i8259 oops when no vcpus are online
  KVM: x86 emulator: fix regression with cmpxchg8b on i386 hosts
2010-09-10 08:02:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f2955b490b Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: t_start: reset FTRACE_ITER_HASH in case of seek/pread
  perf symbols: Fix multiple initialization of symbol system
  perf: Fix CPU hotplug
  perf, trace: Fix module leak
  tracing/kprobe: Fix handling of C-unlike argument names
  tracing/kprobes: Fix handling of argument names
  perf probe: Fix handling of arguments names
  perf probe: Fix return probe support
  tracing/kprobe: Fix a memory leak in error case
  tracing: Do not allow llseek to set_ftrace_filter
2010-09-10 07:31:24 -07:00
David Howells
3d96406c7d KEYS: Fix bug in keyctl_session_to_parent() if parent has no session keyring
Fix a bug in keyctl_session_to_parent() whereby it tries to check the ownership
of the parent process's session keyring whether or not the parent has a session
keyring [CVE-2010-2960].

This results in the following oops:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a0
  IP: [<ffffffff811ae4dd>] keyctl_session_to_parent+0x251/0x443
  ...
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff811ae2f3>] ? keyctl_session_to_parent+0x67/0x443
   [<ffffffff8109d286>] ? __do_fault+0x24b/0x3d0
   [<ffffffff811af98c>] sys_keyctl+0xb4/0xb8
   [<ffffffff81001eab>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

if the parent process has no session keyring.

If the system is using pam_keyinit then it mostly protected against this as all
processes derived from a login will have inherited the session keyring created
by pam_keyinit during the log in procedure.

To test this, pam_keyinit calls need to be commented out in /etc/pam.d/.

Reported-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@cmpxchg8b.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@cmpxchg8b.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-10 07:30:00 -07:00
David Howells
9d1ac65a96 KEYS: Fix RCU no-lock warning in keyctl_session_to_parent()
There's an protected access to the parent process's credentials in the middle
of keyctl_session_to_parent().  This results in the following RCU warning:

  ===================================================
  [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
  ---------------------------------------------------
  security/keys/keyctl.c:1291 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!

  other info that might help us debug this:

  rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
  1 lock held by keyctl-session-/2137:
   #0:  (tasklist_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff811ae2ec>] keyctl_session_to_parent+0x60/0x236

  stack backtrace:
  Pid: 2137, comm: keyctl-session- Not tainted 2.6.36-rc2-cachefs+ #1
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff8105606a>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xaa/0xb3
   [<ffffffff811ae379>] keyctl_session_to_parent+0xed/0x236
   [<ffffffff811af77e>] sys_keyctl+0xb4/0xb6
   [<ffffffff81001eab>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

The code should take the RCU read lock to make sure the parents credentials
don't go away, even though it's holding a spinlock and has IRQ disabled.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-10 07:30:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ff3cb3fec3 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  block: Range check cpu in blk_cpu_to_group
  scatterlist: prevent invalid free when alloc fails
  writeback: Fix lost wake-up shutting down writeback thread
  writeback: do not lose wakeup events when forking bdi threads
  cciss: fix reporting of max queue depth since init
  block: switch s390 tape_block and mg_disk to elevator_change()
  block: add function call to switch the IO scheduler from a driver
  fs/bio-integrity.c: return -ENOMEM on kmalloc failure
  bio-integrity.c: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL
  BLOCK: fix bio.bi_rw handling
  block: put dev->kobj in blk_register_queue fail path
  cciss: handle allocation failure
  cfq-iosched: Documentation help for new tunables
  cfq-iosched: blktrace print per slice sector stats
  cfq-iosched: Implement tunable group_idle
  cfq-iosched: Do group share accounting in IOPS when slice_idle=0
  cfq-iosched: Do not idle if slice_idle=0
  cciss: disable doorbell reset on reset_devices
  blkio: Fix return code for mkdir calls
2010-09-10 07:26:27 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6ccaa31729 Merge branch 'at91-fixes-for-linus' of git://github.com/at91linux/linux-2.6-at91
* 'at91-fixes-for-linus' of git://github.com/at91linux/linux-2.6-at91:
  AT91: at91sam9261ek: remove C99 comments but keep information
  AT91: at91sam9261ek board: remove warnings related to use of SPI or SD/MMC
  AT91: dm9000 initialization update
  AT91: SAM9G45 - add a separate clock entry for every single TC block
  AT91: clock: peripheral clocks can have other parent than mck
  AT91: change dma resource index
2010-09-10 07:24:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3657423c02 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
  ALSA: rawmidi: fix the get next midi device ioctl
  ALSA: hda - Fix wrong HP pin detection in snd_hda_parse_pin_def_config()
  ALSA: seq/oss - Fix double-free at error path of snd_seq_oss_open()
  ALSA: msnd-classic: Fix invalid cfg parameter
  ALSA: hda - Enable PC-beep for EeePC with ALC269 codec
  ALSA: hda - Add errata initverb sequence for CS42xx codecs
  ALSA: usb - Release capture substream URBs properly
  ALSA: virtuoso: fix setting of Xonar DS line-in/mic-in controls
  ALSA: virtuoso: work around missing reset in the Xonar DS Windows driver
  ALSA: hda - Add quirk for Lenovo T400s
  ALSA: usb-audio: fix detection of vendor-specific device protocol settings
  ALSA: usb-audio: Assume first control interface is for audio
  ALSA: hda - Add a new hp-laptop model for Conexant 5066, tested on HP G60
2010-09-10 07:23:45 -07:00
Jesse Barnes
dd8849c8f5 drm/i915: don't enable self-refresh on Ironlake
We don't know how to enable it safely, especially as outputs turn on and
off.  When disabling LP1 we also need to make sure LP2 and 3 are already
disabled.

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29173
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29082
Reported-by: Chris Lord <chris@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Tested-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
2010-09-10 15:11:43 +01:00
Dan Rosenberg
a122eb2fdf xfs: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
The XFS_IOC_FSGETXATTR ioctl allows unprivileged users to read 12
bytes of uninitialized stack memory, because the fsxattr struct
declared on the stack in xfs_ioc_fsgetxattr() does not alter (or zero)
the 12-byte fsx_pad member before copying it back to the user.  This
patch takes care of it.

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-09-10 07:39:28 -05:00
Nicolas Ferre
4deb22a600 AT91: at91sam9261ek: remove C99 comments but keep information
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
2010-09-10 14:36:06 +02:00
Nicolas Ferre
64d72bbeeb AT91: at91sam9261ek board: remove warnings related to use of SPI or SD/MMC
The sd/mmc data structure is not used if SPI is selected. The configuration
of PIO on the board prevent from using both interfaces at the same time
(board dependent).
Remove the warnings at compilation time adding a preprocessor condition.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
2010-09-10 12:00:56 +02:00
Nicolas Ferre
1879c45cce AT91: dm9000 initialization update
Add information in dm9000 mac/phy chip initialization:
- irq resource details
- platform data details

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
2010-09-10 11:39:23 +02:00
Brian King
be14eb6191 block: Range check cpu in blk_cpu_to_group
While testing CPU DLPAR, the following problem was discovered.
We were DLPAR removing the first CPU, which in this case was
logical CPUs 0-3. CPUs 0-2 were already marked offline and
we were in the process of offlining CPU 3. After marking
the CPU inactive and offline in cpu_disable, but before the
cpu was completely idle (cpu_die), we ended up in __make_request
on CPU 3. There we looked at the topology map to see which CPU
to complete the I/O on and found no CPUs in the cpu_sibling_map.
This resulted in the block layer setting the completion cpu
to be NR_CPUS, which then caused an oops when we tried to
complete the I/O.

Fix this by sanity checking the value we return from blk_cpu_to_group
to be a valid cpu value.

Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10 09:03:21 +02:00
Takashi Iwai
5431427b1a Merge branch 'fix/hda' into for-linus 2010-09-10 08:27:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
9efdda310c Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/urgent 2010-09-10 08:05:34 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e1d4e08d1f Merge branch 'perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/urgent 2010-09-10 07:34:14 +02:00
David S. Miller
053d8f6622 Merge branch 'vhost-net' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost 2010-09-09 21:59:51 -07:00
Dan Williams
c9cedbba0f ipheth: remove incorrect devtype to WWAN
The 'wwan' devtype is meant for devices that require preconfiguration
and *every* time setup before the ethernet interface can be used, like
cellular modems which require a series of setup commands on serial ports
or other mechanisms before the ethernet interface will handle packets.

As ipheth only requires one-per-hotplug pairing setup with no
preconfiguration (like APN, phone #, etc) and the network interface is
usable at any time after that initial setup, remove the incorrect
devtype wwan.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-09 21:41:59 -07:00
Joe Perches
201b6bab67 MAINTAINERS: Add CAIF
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-09 21:41:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
df423dc7f2 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
  libata-sff: Reenable Port Multiplier after libata-sff remodeling.
  libata: skip EH autopsy and recovery during suspend
  ahci: AHCI and RAID mode SATA patch for Intel Patsburg DeviceIDs
  ata_piix: IDE Mode SATA patch for Intel Patsburg DeviceIDs
  libata,pata_via: revert ata_wait_idle() removal from ata_sff/via_tf_load()
  ahci: fix hang on failed softreset
  pata_artop: Fix device ID parity check
2010-09-09 20:28:19 -07:00
Chris Wright
df09162550 tracing: t_start: reset FTRACE_ITER_HASH in case of seek/pread
Be sure to avoid entering t_show() with FTRACE_ITER_HASH set without
having properly started the iterator to iterate the hash.  This case is
degenerate and, as discovered by Robert Swiecki, can cause t_hash_show()
to misuse a pointer.  This causes a NULL ptr deref with possible security
implications.  Tracked as CVE-2010-3079.

Cc: Robert Swiecki <swiecki@google.com>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-09 22:43:49 -04:00
Gwendal Grignou
ea3c64506e libata-sff: Reenable Port Multiplier after libata-sff remodeling.
Keep track of the link on the which the current request is in progress.
It allows support of links behind port multiplier.

Not all libata-sff is PMP compliant. Code for native BMDMA controller
does not take in accound PMP.

Tested on Marvell 7042 and Sil7526.

Signed-off-by: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2010-09-09 22:31:55 -04:00
Tejun Heo
e2f3d75fc0 libata: skip EH autopsy and recovery during suspend
For some mysterious reason, certain hardware reacts badly to usual EH
actions while the system is going for suspend.  As the devices won't
be needed until the system is resumed, ask EH to skip usual autopsy
and recovery and proceed directly to suspend.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Stephan Diestelhorst <stephan.diestelhorst@amd.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2010-09-09 22:27:59 -04:00
Seth Heasley
992b3fb9b5 ahci: AHCI and RAID mode SATA patch for Intel Patsburg DeviceIDs
This patch adds the Intel Patsburg (PCH) SATA AHCI and RAID Controller
DeviceIDs.

Signed-off-by: Seth Heasley <seth.heasley@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2010-09-09 22:27:55 -04:00
Seth Heasley
238e149c7a ata_piix: IDE Mode SATA patch for Intel Patsburg DeviceIDs
This patch adds the Intel Patsburg (PCH) IDE mode SATA Controller DeviceIDs.

Signed-off-by: Seth Heasley <seth.heasley@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2010-09-09 22:27:48 -04:00
Tejun Heo
40c6023031 libata,pata_via: revert ata_wait_idle() removal from ata_sff/via_tf_load()
Commit 978c0666 (libata: Remove excess delay in the tf_load path)
removed ata_wait_idle() from ata_sff_tf_load() and via_tf_load().
This caused obscure detection problems in sata_sil.

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16606

The commit was pure performance optimization.  Revert it for now.

Reported-by: Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be>
Reported-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Bisected-by: gianluca <gianluca@sottospazio.it>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2010-09-09 22:27:44 -04:00
Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]
eee743fd7e minix: fix regression in minix_mkdir()
Commit 9eed1fb721 ("minix: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper")
broke directory creation on minix filesystems.

Fix it by passing the needed mode flag to inode init helper.

Signed-off-by: Jorge Boncompte [DTI2] <jorge@dti2.net>
Cc: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.35.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
Mel Gorman
9ee493ce0a mm: page allocator: drain per-cpu lists after direct reclaim allocation fails
When under significant memory pressure, a process enters direct reclaim
and immediately afterwards tries to allocate a page.  If it fails and no
further progress is made, it's possible the system will go OOM.  However,
on systems with large amounts of memory, it's possible that a significant
number of pages are on per-cpu lists and inaccessible to the calling
process.  This leads to a process entering direct reclaim more often than
it should increasing the pressure on the system and compounding the
problem.

This patch notes that if direct reclaim is making progress but allocations
are still failing that the system is already under heavy pressure.  In
this case, it drains the per-cpu lists and tries the allocation a second
time before continuing.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
aa45484031 mm: page allocator: calculate a better estimate of NR_FREE_PAGES when memory is low and kswapd is awake
Ordinarily watermark checks are based on the vmstat NR_FREE_PAGES as it is
cheaper than scanning a number of lists.  To avoid synchronization
overhead, counter deltas are maintained on a per-cpu basis and drained
both periodically and when the delta is above a threshold.  On large CPU
systems, the difference between the estimated and real value of
NR_FREE_PAGES can be very high.  If NR_FREE_PAGES is much higher than
number of real free page in buddy, the VM can allocate pages below min
watermark, at worst reducing the real number of pages to zero.  Even if
the OOM killer kills some victim for freeing memory, it may not free
memory if the exit path requires a new page resulting in livelock.

This patch introduces a zone_page_state_snapshot() function (courtesy of
Christoph) that takes a slightly more accurate view of an arbitrary vmstat
counter.  It is used to read NR_FREE_PAGES while kswapd is awake to avoid
the watermark being accidentally broken.  The estimate is not perfect and
may result in cache line bounces but is expected to be lighter than the
IPI calls necessary to continually drain the per-cpu counters while kswapd
is awake.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-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>
2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
Mel Gorman
72853e2991 mm: page allocator: update free page counters after pages are placed on the free list
When allocating a page, the system uses NR_FREE_PAGES counters to
determine if watermarks would remain intact after the allocation was made.
This check is made without interrupts disabled or the zone lock held and
so is race-prone by nature.  Unfortunately, when pages are being freed in
batch, the counters are updated before the pages are added on the list.
During this window, the counters are misleading as the pages do not exist
yet.  When under significant pressure on systems with large numbers of
CPUs, it's possible for processes to make progress even though they should
have been stalled.  This is particularly problematic if a number of the
processes are using GFP_ATOMIC as the min watermark can be accidentally
breached and in extreme cases, the system can livelock.

This patch updates the counters after the pages have been added to the
list.  This makes the allocator more cautious with respect to preserving
the watermarks and mitigates livelock possibilities.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: avoid modifying incoming args]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
5ee28a4476 vmstat: update zone stat threshold when onlining a cpu
refresh_zone_stat_thresholds() calculates parameter based on the number of
online cpus.  It's called at cpu offlining but needs to be called at
onlining, too.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
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>
2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
James Bottomley
3ab04d5cf9 vfs: take O_NONBLOCK out of the O_* uniqueness test
O_NONBLOCK on parisc has a dual value:

#define O_NONBLOCK	000200004 /* HPUX has separate NDELAY & NONBLOCK */

It is caught by the O_* bits uniqueness check and leads to a parisc
compile error.  The fix would be to take O_NONBLOCK out.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
3399446632 swap: discard while swapping only if SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD
Tests with recent firmware on Intel X25-M 80GB and OCZ Vertex 60GB SSDs
show a shift since I last tested in December: in part because of firmware
updates, in part because of the necessary move from barriers to awaiting
completion at the block layer.  While discard at swapon still shows as
slightly beneficial on both, discarding 1MB swap cluster when allocating
is now disadvanteous: adds 25% overhead on Intel, adds 230% on OCZ (YMMV).

Surrender: discard as presently implemented is more hindrance than help
for swap; but might prove useful on other devices, or with improvements.
So continue to do the discard at swapon, but make discard while swapping
conditional on a SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD to sys_swapon() (which has been using
only the lower 16 bits of int flags).

We can add a --discard or -d to swapon(8), and a "discard" to swap in
/etc/fstab: matching the mount option for btrfs, ext4, fat, gfs2, nilfs2.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
8f2ae0faa3 swap: do not send discards as barriers
The swap code already uses synchronous discards, no need to add I/O
barriers.

This fixes the worst of the terrible slowdown in swap allocation for
hibernation, reported on 2.6.35 by Nigel Cunningham; but does not entirely
eliminate that regression.

[tj@kernel.org: superflous newlines removed]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
b73d7fcecd swap: prevent reuse during hibernation
Move the hibernation check from scan_swap_map() into try_to_free_swap():
to catch not only the common case when hibernation's allocation itself
triggers swap reuse, but also the less likely case when concurrent page
reclaim (shrink_page_list) might happen to try_to_free_swap from a page.

Hibernation already clears __GFP_IO from the gfp_allowed_mask, to stop
reclaim from going to swap: check that to prevent swap reuse too.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
Cc: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gmail.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
910321ea81 swap: revert special hibernation allocation
Please revert 2.6.36-rc commit d2997b1042
"hibernation: freeze swap at hibernation".  It complicated matters by
adding a second swap allocation path, just for hibernation; without in any
way fixing the issue that it was intended to address - page reclaim after
fixing the hibernation image might free swap from a page already imaged as
swapcache, letting its swap be reallocated to store a different page of
the image: resulting in data corruption if the imaged page were freed as
clean then swapped back in.  Pages freed to si->swap_map were still in
danger of being reallocated by the alternative allocation path.

I guess it inadvertently fixed slow SSD swap allocation for hibernation,
as reported by Nigel Cunningham: by missing out the discards that occur on
the usual swap allocation path; but that was unintentional, and needs a
separate fix.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
Cc: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gmail.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
Gary King
ac8456d6f9 bounce: call flush_dcache_page() after bounce_copy_vec()
I have been seeing problems on Tegra 2 (ARMv7 SMP) systems with HIGHMEM
enabled on 2.6.35 (plus some patches targetted at 2.6.36 to perform cache
maintenance lazily), and the root cause appears to be that the mm bouncing
code is calling flush_dcache_page before it copies the bounce buffer into
the bio.

The bounced page needs to be flushed after data is copied into it, to
ensure that architecture implementations can synchronize instruction and
data caches if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Gary King <gking@nvidia.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
Linus Walleij
4701643425 drivers/rtc/rtc-pl031.c: do not mark PL031 IRQ as shared
It was a mistake to mark the PL031 IRQ as shared (for the U8500),
we misread the datasheet. Get rid of this.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Cc: Jonas Aberg <jonas.aberg@stericsson.com>
Cc: Mian Yousaf Kaukab <mian.yousaf.kaukab@stericsson.com>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-09 18:57:24 -07:00
Wolfram Sang
b7bbbf354e MAINTAINERS: correct entry for legacy RTC-driver
Because no one dared to remove it so far, let's keep the entry correct, at
least.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker@yahoo.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-09 18:57:24 -07:00
David Brownell
c956126c13 gpio: doc updates
There's been some recent confusion about error checking GPIO numbers.
briefly, it should be handled mostly during setup, when gpio_request() is
called, and NEVER by expectig gpio_is_valid to report more than
never-usable GPIO numbers.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: terminate unterminated comment]
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Eric Miao" <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ryan Mallon" <ryan@bluewatersys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-09 18:57:24 -07:00
Gregory Bean
5affb60772 gpio: sx150x: correct and refine reset-on-probe behavior
Replace the arbitrary software-reset call from the device-probe
method, because:

- It is defective.  To work correctly, it should be two byte writes,
  not a single word write.  As it stands, it does nothing.

- Some devices with sx150x expanders installed have their NRESET pins
  ganged on the same line, so resetting one causes the others to reset -
  not a nice thing to do arbitrarily!

- The probe, usually taking place at boot, implies a recent hard-reset,
  so a software reset at this point is just a waste of energy anyway.

Therefore, make it optional, defaulting to off, as this will match the
common case of probing at powerup and also matches the current broken
no-op behavior.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Bean <gbean@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-09 18:57:24 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
0dcc48c15f memory hotplug: fix next block calculation in is_removable
next_active_pageblock() is for finding next _used_ freeblock.  It skips
several blocks when it finds there are a chunk of free pages lager than
pageblock.  But it has 2 bugs.

  1. We have no lock. page_order(page) - pageblock_order can be minus.
  2. pageblocks_stride += is wrong. it should skip page_order(p) of pages.

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>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-09 18:57:24 -07:00
Minchan Kim
bc69304574 mm: compaction: handle active and inactive fairly in too_many_isolated
Iram reported that compaction's too_many_isolated() loops forever.
(http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg08123.html)

The meminfo when the situation happened was inactive anon is zero.  That's
because the system has no memory pressure until then.  While all anon
pages were in the active lru, compaction could select active lru as well
as inactive lru.  That's a different thing from vmscan's isolated.  So we
has been two too_many_isolated.

While compaction can isolate pages in both active and inactive, current
implementation of too_many_isolated only considers inactive.  It made
Iram's problem.

This patch handles active and inactive fairly.  That's because we can't
expect where from and how many compaction would isolated pages.

This patch changes (nr_isolated > nr_inactive) with
nr_isolated > (nr_active + nr_inactive) / 2.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Iram Shahzad <iram.shahzad@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-09 18:57:24 -07:00
Jerome Marchand
1c24de60e5 kernel/groups.c: fix integer overflow in groups_search
gid_t is a unsigned int.  If group_info contains a gid greater than
MAX_INT, groups_search() function may look on the wrong side of the search
tree.

This solves some unfair "permission denied" problems.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-09 18:57:24 -07:00
Ira W. Snyder
94131e174f arch/powerpc/include/asm/fsldma.h needs slab.h
The slab.h header is required to use the kmalloc() family of functions.
Due to recent kernel changes, this header must be directly included by
code that calls into the memory allocator.

Without this patch, any code which includes this header fails to build.

Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-09 18:57:24 -07:00