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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'akpm' (Fixes from Andrew) · 2844a487
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "8 fixes"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (8 patches)
  futex: avoid wake_futex() for a PI futex_q
  watchdog: using u64 in get_sample_period()
  writeback: put unused inodes to LRU after writeback completion
  mm: vmscan: check for fatal signals iff the process was throttled
  Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD"
  proc: check vma->vm_file before dereferencing
  UAPI: strip the _UAPI prefix from header guards during header installation
  include/linux/bug.h: fix sparse warning related to BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID
      2844a487
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'tty-3.7-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty · 5687100a
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull TTY fix from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here is a single fix for a reported regression in 3.7-rc5 for the tty
  layer.  This fix has been in the linux-next tree and solves the
  reported problem.

  Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>"

* tag 'tty-3.7-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty:
  tty vt: Fix a regression in command line edition
      5687100a
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'mfd-for-linus-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/mfd-2.6 · c854539d
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull MFD fixes from Samuel Ortiz:

 - A twl fix preventing a buffer overflow.

 - A wm5102 register patch fix.

 - A wm5110 error misreport fix.

 - Arizona fixes: Use the right array size when adding subdevices,
   correctly report underclocked events, synchronize register cache
   after reset.

 - A twl4030 fix for preventing the system to hang from an interrupt
   flood.

* tag 'mfd-for-linus-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/mfd-2.6:
  mfd: twl4030: Fix chained irq handling on resume from suspend
  mfd: arizona: Sync regcache after reset
  mfd: arizona: Correctly report when AIF2/AIF1 is underclocked
  mfd: arizona: Use correct array for ARRAY_SIZE in mfd_add_devices call
  mfd: wm5110: Disable control interface error report for WM5110 rev B
  mfd: wm5102: Update register patch for latest evaluation
  mfd: twl-core: Fix chip ID for the twl6030-pwm module
      c854539d
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm · 33057692
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull ARM fixes from Russell King:
 "Not much here, just a couple minor/cosmetic fixes and a patch for the
  decompressor which fixes problems with modern GCC and CPUs."

* 'fixes' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: 7583/1: decompressor: Enable unaligned memory access for v6 and above
  ARM: 7572/1: proc-v6.S: fix comment
  ARM: 7570/1: quiet down the non make -s output
      33057692
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs · 87726c33
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull ext3 regression fix from Jan Kara:
 "Fix an ext3 regression introduced during 3.7 merge window.  It leads
  to deadlock if you stress the filesystem in the right way (luckily
  only if blocksize < pagesize)."

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  jbd: Fix lock ordering bug in journal_unmap_buffer()
      87726c33
    • Darren Hart's avatar
      futex: avoid wake_futex() for a PI futex_q · aa10990e
      Darren Hart authored 
      Dave Jones reported a bug with futex_lock_pi() that his trinity test
exposed.  Sometime between queue_me() and taking the q.lock_ptr, the
lock_ptr became NULL, resulting in a crash.

While futex_wake() is careful to not call wake_futex() on futex_q's with
a pi_state or an rt_waiter (which are either waiting for a
futex_unlock_pi() or a PI futex_requeue()), futex_wake_op() and
futex_requeue() do not perform the same test.

Update futex_wake_op() and futex_requeue() to test for q.pi_state and
q.rt_waiter and abort with -EINVAL if detected.  To ensure any future
breakage is caught, add a WARN() to wake_futex() if the same condition
is true.

This fix has seen 3 hours of testing with "trinity -c futex" on an
x86_64 VM with 4 CPUS.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tidy up the WARN()]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDarren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: default avatarDave Jones <davej@redat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      aa10990e
    • Chuansheng Liu's avatar
      watchdog: using u64 in get_sample_period() · 8ffeb9b0
      Chuansheng Liu authored 
      In get_sample_period(), unsigned long is not enough:

  watchdog_thresh * 2 * (NSEC_PER_SEC / 5)

case1:
  watchdog_thresh is 10 by default, the sample value will be: 0xEE6B2800

case2:
 set watchdog_thresh is 20, the sample value will be: 0x1 DCD6 5000

In case2, we need use u64 to express the sample period.  Otherwise,
changing the threshold thru proc often can not be successful.
Signed-off-by: default avatarliu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDon Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8ffeb9b0
    • Jan Kara's avatar
      writeback: put unused inodes to LRU after writeback completion · 4eff96dd
      Jan Kara authored 
      Commit 169ebd90 ("writeback: Avoid iput() from flusher thread")
removed iget-iput pair from inode writeback.  As a side effect, inodes
that are dirty during iput_final() call won't be ever added to inode LRU
(iput_final() doesn't add dirty inodes to LRU and later when the inode
is cleaned there's noone to add the inode there).  Thus inodes are
effectively unreclaimable until someone looks them up again.

The practical effect of this bug is limited by the fact that inodes are
pinned by a dentry for long enough that the inode gets cleaned.  But
still the bug can have nasty consequences leading up to OOM conditions
under certain circumstances.  Following can easily reproduce the
problem:

  for (( i = 0; i < 1000; i++ )); do
    mkdir $i
    for (( j = 0; j < 1000; j++ )); do
      touch $i/$j
      echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
    done
  done

then one needs to run 'sync; ls -lR' to make inodes reclaimable again.

We fix the issue by inserting unused clean inodes into the LRU after
writeback finishes in inode_sync_complete().
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: default avatarOGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>		[3.5+]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4eff96dd
    • Mel Gorman's avatar
      mm: vmscan: check for fatal signals iff the process was throttled · 50694c28
      Mel Gorman authored 
      Commit 5515061d ("mm: throttle direct reclaimers if PF_MEMALLOC
reserves are low and swap is backed by network storage") introduced a
check for fatal signals after a process gets throttled for network
storage.  The intention was that if a process was throttled and got
killed that it should not trigger the OOM killer.  As pointed out by
Minchan Kim and David Rientjes, this check is in the wrong place and too
broad.  If a system is in am OOM situation and a process is exiting, it
can loop in __alloc_pages_slowpath() and calling direct reclaim in a
loop.  As the fatal signal is pending it returns 1 as if it is making
forward progress and can effectively deadlock.

This patch moves the fatal_signal_pending() check after throttling to
throttle_direct_reclaim() where it belongs.  If the process is killed
while throttled, it will return immediately without direct reclaim
except now it will have TIF_MEMDIE set and will use the PFMEMALLOC
reserves.

Minchan pointed out that it may be better to direct reclaim before
returning to avoid using the reserves because there may be pages that
can easily reclaim that would avoid using the reserves.  However, we do
no such targetted reclaim and there is no guarantee that suitable pages
are available.  As it is expected that this throttling happens when
swap-over-NFS is used there is a possibility that the process will
instead swap which may allocate network buffers from the PFMEMALLOC
reserves.  Hence, in the swap-over-nfs case where a process can be
throtted and be killed it can use the reserves to exit or it can
potentially use reserves to swap a few pages and then exit.  This patch
takes the option of using the reserves if necessary to allow the process
exit quickly.

If this patch passes review it should be considered a -stable candidate
for 3.6.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>
Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      50694c28
    • Mel Gorman's avatar
      Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD" · 82b212f4
      Mel Gorman authored 
      With "mm: vmscan: scale number of pages reclaimed by reclaim/compaction
based on failures" reverted, Zdenek Kabelac reported the following

  Hmm,  so it's just took longer to hit the problem and observe
  kswapd0 spinning on my CPU again - it's not as endless like before -
  but still it easily eats minutes - it helps to	turn off  Firefox
  or TB  (memory hungry apps) so kswapd0 stops soon - and restart
  those apps again.  (And I still have like >1GB of cached memory)

  kswapd0         R  running task        0    30      2 0x00000000
  Call Trace:
    preempt_schedule+0x42/0x60
    _raw_spin_unlock+0x55/0x60
    put_super+0x31/0x40
    drop_super+0x22/0x30
    prune_super+0x149/0x1b0
    shrink_slab+0xba/0x510

The sysrq+m indicates the system has no swap so it'll never reclaim
anonymous pages as part of reclaim/compaction.  That is one part of the
problem but not the root cause as file-backed pages could also be
reclaimed.

The likely underlying problem is that kswapd is woken up or kept awake
for each THP allocation request in the page allocator slow path.

If compaction fails for the requesting process then compaction will be
deferred for a time and direct reclaim is avoided.  However, if there
are a storm of THP requests that are simply rejected, it will still be
the the case that kswapd is awake for a prolonged period of time as
pgdat->kswapd_max_order is updated each time.  This is noticed by the
main kswapd() loop and it will not call kswapd_try_to_sleep().  Instead
it will loopp, shrinking a small number of pages and calling
shrink_slab() on each iteration.

The temptation is to supply a patch that checks if kswapd was woken for
THP and if so ignore pgdat->kswapd_max_order but it'll be a hack and not
backed up by proper testing.  As 3.7 is very close to release and this
is not a bug we should release with, a safer path is to revert "mm:
remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD" for now and revisit it with the view to ironing
out the balance_pgdat() logic in general.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      82b212f4
    • Stanislav Kinsbursky's avatar
      proc: check vma->vm_file before dereferencing · 05f56484
      Stanislav Kinsbursky authored 
      Commit 7b540d06 ("proc_map_files_readdir(): don't bother with
grabbing files") switched proc_map_files_readdir() to use @f_mode
directly instead of grabbing @file reference, but same time the test for
@vm_file presence was lost leading to nil dereference.  The patch brings
the test back.

The all proc_map_files feature is CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE wrapped
(which is set to 'n' by default) so the bug doesn't affect regular
kernels.

The regression is 3.7-rc1 only as far as I can tell.

[gorcunov@openvz.org: provided changelog]
Signed-off-by: default avatarStanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Acked-by: default avatarCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      05f56484
    • David Howells's avatar
      UAPI: strip the _UAPI prefix from header guards during header installation · 56c176c9
      David Howells authored 
      Strip the _UAPI prefix from header guards during header installation so
that any userspace dependencies aren't affected.  glibc, for example,
checks for linux/types.h, linux/kernel.h, linux/compiler.h and
linux/list.h by their guards - though the last two aren't actually
exported.

  libtool: compile:  gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -Wall -Werror -Wformat -Wformat-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -fstack-protector -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i686 -mtune=atom -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -c child.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/child.o
  In file included from cli.c:20:0:
  common.h:152:8: error: redefinition of 'struct sysinfo'
  In file included from /usr/include/linux/kernel.h:4:0,
  		 from /usr/include/linux/sysctl.h:25,
  		 from /usr/include/sys/sysctl.h:43,
  		 from common.h:50,
  		 from cli.c:20:
  /usr/include/linux/sysinfo.h:7:8: note: originally defined here
Reported-by: default avatarTomasz Torcz <tomek@pipebreaker.pl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJosh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      56c176c9
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