EDAC is still causing a few problems and the code is relatively green. Mark
it as experimental until thing settle down.
Also, provide some documentation pointers in Kconfig help.
Signed-off-by: Tim Small <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Currently the code tries up to spin_retry times to grab a lock using the cs
instruction. The cs instruction has exclusive access to a memory region
and therefore invalidates the appropiate cache line of all other cpus. If
there is contention on a lock this leads to cache line trashing. This can
be avoided if we first check wether a cs instruction is likely to succeed
before the instruction gets actually executed.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
The kobject_put() can free the memory at *cmd, but cmd->lock points to a
persistent lock that is not freed with cmd.
Signed-off-by: Max Asbock <[email protected]>
Cc: Vernon Mauery <[email protected]>
Cc: Srihari Vijayaraghavan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
If the process has already set PF_MALLOC and is already using
current->reclaim_state then do not try to reclaim memory from the zone.
This is set by kswapd and/or synchrononous global reclaim which will not
take it lightly if we zap the reclaim_state.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
- wrong test for 'is this a BARRIER bio'
- not freeing on all possible paths.
- using r1_bio after freeing it.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
/usr/src/ctest/git/kernel/mm/rmap.c: In function `page_referenced_one':
/usr/src/ctest/git/kernel/mm/rmap.c:354: warning: implicit declaration of function `rwsem_is_locked'
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Fix some bugs in mtd/jffs2 on 64bit platform.
The MEMGETBADBLOCK/MEMSETBADBLOCK ioctl are not listed in compat_ioctl.h.
And some variables in jffs2 are declared as uint32_t but used to hold
size_t values.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Fix a lockup which was introduced during the conversion to the generic IRQ
framework.
Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
smi_data_buf_free() references dcdbas_pdev when calling
dma_free_coherent(). In dcdbas_exit(), smi_data_buf_free() is called after
platform_device_unregister(dcdbas_pdev).
This patch moves platform_device_unregister(dcdbas_pdev) after
smi_data_buf_free() in dcdbas_exit().
Signed-off-by: Doug Warzecha <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Remove two early-development BUG_ONs from page_add_file_rmap.
The pfn_valid test (originally useful for checking that nobody passed an
artificial struct page) comes too late, since we already have the struct
page.
The PageAnon test (useful when anon was first distinguished from file rmap)
prevents ->nopage implementations from reusing ->mapping, which would
otherwise be available.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
The patch fixes following issues:
(1) Replace scsi_add_device with scsi_scan_target.
(Thus the rport instead of the scsi_host becomes parent of a
scsi_target again.)
(2) Avoid scsi_device allocation during registration of an remote port.
(Would be done during fc_scsi_scan_rport.)
(3) Fix queuecommand behaviour when an zfcp unit is blocked.
(Call scsi_done with DID_NO_CONNECT instead of returning
SCSI_MLQUEUE_DEVICE_BUSY otherwise we might end up waiting
for completion in blk_execute_rq for ever.)
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <[email protected]>
Turn on truncation to prevent getting choked by frames larger than expected.
Without this fix, driver hangs after receiving an oversize packet.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Avoid premature transmit ring full conditions.
Force a transmit status interrupt if transmit ring gets nearly full
and after a TSO send.
Allow more entries in transmit ring to be used if dma_addr is 32 bits
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Don't use sky2 to seed random pool beacause the network packet arrival time
will not be truly random due to NAPI and interrupt mitigation.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
de_init_hw enables the irq thus it must be issued after request_irq.
Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <[email protected]>
This is gluing the build of cirrusfb but really the mess that would need
cleaning and fixing is <video/vga.h> and <linux/vt_buffer.h> ...
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
At times gcc will place bits of __exit functions into .rodata. If
compiled into the kernle itself we used to discard .exit.text - but
not the bits left in .rodata. While harmless this did at times result
in a large number of warnings. So until gcc fixes this, discard
.exit.text at runtime.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
In case a particular system doesn't support highmem the runtime checks
will ensure nothing bad is going to happen.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
What: Support for NEC DDB5074 and DDB5476 evaluation boards.
When: June 2006
Why: Board specific code doesn't build anymore since ~2.6.0 and no
users have complained indicating there is no more need for these
boards. This should really be considered a last call.
Who: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
In the past I added an host attribute but unfortunately
I forgot to increase FC_HOST_NUM_ATTRS.
This is fixed with the patch. Otherwise an fibre channel
lld might run into
BUG_ON(count > FC_HOST_NUM_ATTRS);
in fc_attach_transport().
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <[email protected]>
The low level PCI DMA mapping functions should handle it in most cases.
This should fix problems with depleting the DMA zone early. The old
code used precious GFP_DMA memory in many cases where it was not needed.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
ATI chipsets tend to generate double timer interrupts for the local APIC
timer when both the 8254 and the IO-APIC timer pins are enabled. This is
because they route it to both and the result is anded together and the CPU
ends up processing it twice.
This patch changes check_timer to disable the 8254 routing for interrupt 0.
I think it would be safe on all chipsets actually (i tested it on a couple
and it worked everywhere) and Windows seems to do it in a similar way, but
to be conservative this patch only enables this mode on ATI (and adds
options to enable/disable too)
Ported over from a similar x86-64 change.
I reused the ACPI earlyquirk infrastructure for the ATI bridge check, but
tweaked it a bit to work even without ACPI.
Inspired by a patch from Chuck Ebbert, but redone.
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
A recent change to compat. dev_ifconf() in fs/compat_ioctl.c
causes ifconf data to be truncated 1 entry too early when copying it
to userspace. The correct amount of data (length) is returned,
but the final entry is empty (zero, not filled in).
The for-loop 'i' check should use <= to allow the final struct
ifreq32 to be copied. I also used the ifconf-corruption program
in kernel bugzilla #4746 to make sure that this change does not
re-introduce the corruption.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
A pte may be zapped by the swapper, exiting process, unmapping or page
migration while the accessed or dirty bit handers are about to run. In that
case the accessed bit or dirty is set on an zeroed pte which leads the VM to
conclude that this is a swap pte. This may lead to
- Messages from the vm like
swap_free: Bad swap file entry 4000000000000000
- Processes being aborted
swap_dup: Bad swap file entry 4000000000000000
VM: killing process ....
Page migration is particular suitable for the creation of this race since
it needs to remove and restore page table entries.
The fix here is to check for the present bit and simply not update
the pte if the page is not present anymore. If the page is not present
then the fault handler should run next which will take care of the problem
by bringing the page back and then mark the page dirty or move it onto the
active list.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Patch from Alessandro Zummo
The patch that would have made the NSLU2
kernel non compatible with other ixp4xx machs
never entered the kernel. So it is actually
safe to remove the prompt dependencies.
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
Patch from Alessandro Zummo
Disable GPIO clocks to allow
the power led to work properly.
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
While testing kexec and kdump we hit problems where the new kernel would
freeze or instantly reboot. The easiest way to trigger it was to kexec a
kernel compiled for CONFIG_M586 on an athlon cpu. Compiling for CONFIG_MK7
instead would work fine.
The patch fixes a few problems with the kexec inline asm.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <[email protected]>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
kmem_cache_init() incorrectly assumes that the cache_cache object will fit
in an order 0 allocation. On very large systems, this is not true. Change
the code to try larger order allocations if order 0 fails.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Miscellaneous fixes related to accessing uninitialized variables or memory
that was already freed.
Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
DASD allows to open a device as soon as gendisk is registered, which means the
device is a fake device (capacity=0) and we do know nothing about blocksize
and partitions at that point of time. In case the device is opened by
someone, the bdev and inode creation is done with the fake device info and the
following partition detection code is just using the wrong data.
To avoid this modify the DASD state machine to make sure that the open is
rejected until the device analysis is either finished or an unformatted device
was detected.
Signed-off-by: Horst Hummel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
The message limit on the iucv connect call for the smsg module is too low.
Therefore increase the smsg message limit to 255.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
strnlen_user is supposed to return then length count + 1 if no terminating \0
is found, and it should return 0 on exception. Found by David Howells
<[email protected]>.
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Acked-By: David Howells <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
I have benchmarked this on an x86_64 NUMA system and see no significant
performance difference on kernbench. Tested on both x86_64 and powerpc.
The way we do file struct accounting is not very suitable for batched
freeing. For scalability reasons, file accounting was
constructor/destructor based. This meant that nr_files was decremented
only when the object was removed from the slab cache. This is susceptible
to slab fragmentation. With RCU based file structure, consequent batched
freeing and a test program like Serge's, we just speed this up and end up
with a very fragmented slab -
llm22:~ # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr
587730 0 758844
At the same time, I see only a 2000+ objects in filp cache. The following
patch I fixes this problem.
This patch changes the file counting by removing the filp_count_lock.
Instead we use a separate percpu counter, nr_files, for now and all
accesses to it are through get_nr_files() api. In the sysctl handler for
nr_files, we populate files_stat.nr_files before returning to user.
Counting files as an when they are created and destroyed (as opposed to
inside slab) allows us to correctly count open files with RCU.
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <[email protected]>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
This patch adds new tunables for RCU queue and finished batches. There are
two types of controls - number of completed RCU updates invoked in a batch
(blimit) and monitoring for high rate of incoming RCUs on a cpu (qhimark,
qlowmark).
By default, the per-cpu batch limit is set to a small value. If the input
RCU rate exceeds the high watermark, we do two things - force quiescent
state on all cpus and set the batch limit of the CPU to INTMAX. Setting
batch limit to INTMAX forces all finished RCUs to be processed in one shot.
If we have more than INTMAX RCUs queued up, then we have bigger problems
anyway. Once the incoming queued RCUs fall below the low watermark, the
batch limit is set to the default.
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <[email protected]>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Implement percpu_counter_sum(). This is a more accurate but slower version of
percpu_counter_read_positive().
We need this for Alex's speedup-ext3_statfs patch and for the nr_file
accounting fix. Otherwise these things would be too inaccurate on large CPU
counts.
Cc: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <[email protected]>
Cc: Alex Tomas <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Fix i386 nmi_watchdog that does not meet watchdog timeout condition. It
does not hit die_nmi when it should be triggered, because the current
nmi_watchdog_tick in arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c never count up alert_counter
like this:
void nmi_watchdog_tick (struct pt_regs * regs) {
if (last_irq_sums[cpu] == sum) {
alert_counter[cpu]++; <- count up alert_counter, but
if (alert_counter[cpu] == 5*nmi_hz)
die_nmi(regs, "NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP");
alert_counter[cpu] = 0; <- reset alert_counter
This patch changes it back to the previous and working version.
This was found and originally written by Kohta NAKASHIMA.
(akpm: also uninline write_watchdog_counter(), saving 184 byets)
Signed-off-by: GOTO Masanori <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
