- 01 Sep, 2006 16 commits
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Pavel Mironchik authored
This patch works around a complex dm-related deadlock/livelock down in the mempool allocator. Alasdair said: Several dm targets suffer from this. Mempools are not yet used correctly everywhere in device-mapper: they can get shared when devices are stacked, and some targets share them across multiple instances. I made fixing this one of the prerequisites for this patch: md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch which in some cases makes people more likely to hit the problem. There's been some progress on this recently with (unfinished) dm-crypt patches at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/ (dm-crypt-move-io-to-workqueue.patch plus dependencies) and: I've no problems with a temporary workaround like that, but Milan Broz (a new Redhat developer in the Czech Republic) has started reviewing all the mempool usage in device-mapper so I'm expecting we'll soon have a proper fix for this associated problems. [He's back from holiday at the start of next week.] For now, this sad-but-safe little patch will allow the machine to recover. [akpm@osdl.org: rewrote changelog] Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support the same hardware) for removal. A rationale of the patch is in http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/186Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by:
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Corey Minyard authored
Olaf Kirch of SuSE tracked down a problem where module unloads of the IPMI driver would occasionally result in Oopses. He tracked that down to a variable that wasn't always initialized properly in some situations. This patch initializes that variable. Olaf sent a patch that kzalloc-ed the data, but this structure is large enough that I would perfer to not do that. Thanks Olaf! Signed-off-by:
Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Henrik Kretzschmar authored
Adds the description of the parameters from handle_bad_irq(). Signed-off-by:
Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de> Signed-off-by:
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Ian E. Morgan authored
The last argument of module_param is permissions, not default value. Acked-by:
Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by:
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Olaf Hering authored
modprobe -v floppy on a Apple G5 writes incorrect stuff to dmesg: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M The reason is that the legacy io check happens very late, when part of the floppy stuff is already initialized. check_legacy_ioport() returns either -ENODEV right away, or it walks the device-tree looking for a floppy node. Signed-off-by:
Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Acked-by:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
Vitezslav Samel <samel@mail.cz> reports that an HP DL380 g4 fails using the default arch due to the ISA bus having an ID of 32. It would have worked OK with the generic arch - for some reason the default arch doesn't support as many busses. So bump that up to support 256 busses, but leave it at 32 if we're building a tiny system to save a bit of memory. Cc: Vitezslav Samel <samel@mail.cz> Acked-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by:
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Bill Huey (hui authored
We're testing the wrong task_struct field. Acked-by:
Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Signed-off-by:
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Shailabh Nagar authored
Cleanup allocation and freeing of tsk->delays used by delay accounting. This solves two problems reported for delay accounting: 1. oops in __delayacct_blkio_ticks http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.2/1844.html Currently tsk->delays is getting freed too early in task exit which can cause a NULL tsk->delays to get accessed via reading of /proc/<tgid>/stats. The patch fixes this problem by freeing tsk->delays closer to when task_struct itself is freed up. As a result, it also eliminates the use of tsk->delays_lock which was only being used (inadequately) to safeguard access to tsk->delays while a task was exiting. 2. Possible memory leak in kernel/delayacct.c http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.2/1389.html The patch cleans up tsk->delays allocations after a bad fork which was missing earlier. The patch has been tested to fix the problems listed above and stress tested with rapid calls to delay accounting's taskstats command interface (which is the other path that can access the same data, besides the /proc interface causing the oops above). Signed-off-by:
Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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john stultz authored
Apparently some systems export valid HPET addresses, but hpet_enable() fails. Then when the HPET clocksource starts up, it only checks for a valid HPET address, and the result is a system where time does not advance. See http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7062 for details. This patch just makes sure we better check that the HPET is functional before registering the HPET clocksource. Signed-off-by:
John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Paul Fulghum authored
Fix receive tty error handling in synclink_gt driver. Adrian reported compiler warning for incorrect bit test against char variable. I determined these and other device specific error bits were incorrectly defined. Signed-off-by:
Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by:
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NeilBrown authored
We need to be careful when referencing mirrors[i].rdev. It can disappear under us at various times. So: fix a couple of problem places. comment a couple of non-problem places move an 'atomic_add' which deferences rdev down a little way to some where where it is sure to not be NULL. Signed-off-by:Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
The ZVC counter update threshold is currently set to a fixed value of 32. This patch sets up the threshold depending on the number of processors and the sizes of the zones in the system. With the current threshold of 32, I was able to observe slight contention when more than 130-140 processors concurrently updated the counters. The contention vanished when I either increased the threshold to 64 or used Andrew's idea of overstepping the interval (see ZVC overstep patch). However, we saw contention again at 220-230 processors. So we need higher values for larger systems. But the current default is already a bit of an overkill for smaller systems. Some systems have tiny zones where precision matters. For example i386 and x86_64 have 16M DMA zones and either 900M ZONE_NORMAL or ZONE_DMA32. These are even present on SMP and NUMA systems. The patch here sets up a threshold based on the number of processors in the system and the size of the zone that these counters are used for. The threshold should grow logarithmically, so we use fls() as an easy approximation. Results of tests on a system with 1024 processors (4TB RAM) The following output is from a test allocating 1GB of memory concurrently on each processor (Forking the process. So contention on mmap_sem and the pte locks is not a factor): X MIN TYPE: CPUS WALL WALL SYS USER TOTCPU fork 1 0.552 0.552 0.540 0.012 0.552 fork 4 0.552 0.548 2.164 0.036 2.200 fork 16 0.564 0.548 8.812 0.164 8.976 fork 128 0.580 0.572 72.204 1.208 73.412 fork 256 1.300 0.660 310.400 2.160 312.560 fork 512 3.512 0.696 1526.836 4.816 1531.652 fork 1020 20.024 0.700 17243.176 6.688 17249.863 So a threshold of 32 is fine up to 128 processors. At 256 processors contention becomes a factor. Overstepping the counter (earlier patch) improves the numbers a bit: fork 4 0.552 0.548 2.164 0.040 2.204 fork 16 0.552 0.548 8.640 0.148 8.788 fork 128 0.556 0.548 69.676 0.956 70.632 fork 256 0.876 0.636 212.468 2.108 214.576 fork 512 2.276 0.672 997.324 4.260 1001.584 fork 1020 13.564 0.680 11586.436 6.088 11592.523 Still contention at 512 and 1020. Contention at 1020 is down by a third. 256 still has a slight bit of contention. After this patch the counter threshold will be set to 125 which reduces contention significantly: fork 128 0.560 0.548 69.776 0.932 70.708 fork 256 0.636 0.556 143.460 2.036 145.496 fork 512 0.640 0.548 284.244 4.236 288.480 fork 1020 1.500 0.588 1326.152 8.892 1335.044 [akpm@osdl.org: !SMP build fix] Signed-off-by:Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
Increments and decrements are usually grouped rather than mixed. We can optimize the inc and dec functions for that case. Increment and decrement the counters by 50% more than the threshold in those cases and set the differential accordingly. This decreases the need to update the atomic counters. The idea came originally from Andrew Morton. The overstepping alone was sufficient to address the contention issue found when updating the global and the per zone counters from 160 processors. Also remove some code in dec_zone_page_state. Signed-off-by:
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infinibandLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: IB/mthca: Use IRQ safe locks to protect allocation bitmaps
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Roland Dreier authored
It is supposed to be OK to call mthca_create_ah() and mthca_destroy_ah() from any context. However, for mem-full HCAs, these functions use the mthca_alloc() and mthca_free() bitmap helpers, and those helpers use non-IRQ-safe spin_lock() internally. Lockdep correctly warns that this could lead to a deadlock. Fix this by changing mthca_alloc() and mthca_free() to use spin_lock_irqsave(). Signed-off-by:Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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- 31 Aug, 2006 10 commits
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Wei Dong authored
When I tested Linux kernel 2.6.17.7 about statistics "ipFragFails",found that this counter couldn't increase correctly. The criteria is RFC2011: RFC2011 ipFragFails OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Counter32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of IP datagrams that have been discarded because they needed to be fragmented at this entity but could not be, e.g., because their Don't Fragment flag was set." ::= { ip 18 } When I send big IP packet to a router with DF bit set to 1 which need to be fragmented, and router just sends an ICMP error message ICMP_FRAG_NEEDED but no increments for this counter(in the function ip_fragment). Signed-off-by:Wei Dong <weid@nanjing-fnst.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Akinobu Mita authored
This patch limits the warning messages when socket allocation failures happen. It happens under memory pressure. Signed-off-by:
Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com> Signed-off-by:
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YOSHIFUJI Hideaki authored
Bug noticed by Remi Denis-Courmont <rdenis@simphalempin.com>. Signed-off-by:
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by:
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git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] cio: unsolicited interrupts during sense pgid. [S390] cio: no path after machine check. [S390] cio: kernel stack overflow. [S390] dasd: fix device shutdown process. [S390] broken copy_in_user function.
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Chris Wright authored
Commit 8c749327 ("i386: Remove alternative_smp") did not actually compile on x86 with CONFIG_SMP. This fixes the __build_read/write_lock helpers. I've boot tested on SMP. [ Andi: "Oops, I think that was a quilt unrefreshed patch. Sorry. I fixed those before testing, but then still send out the old patch." ] Signed-off-by:
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> Acked-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpcLinus Torvalds authored
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: [POWERPC] Fix return value from memcpy [POWERPC] iseries: Define insw et al. so libata/ide will compile [POWERPC] Fix irq enable/disable in smp_generic_take_timebase [POWERPC] Fix problem with time not advancing on 32-bit platforms [POWERPC] Restore copyright notice in arch/powerpc/kernel/fpu.S [POWERPC] Fix up ibm_architecture_vec definition [POWERPC] Make OF irq map code detect more error cases [POWERPC] Support for "weird" MPICs and fixup mpc7448_hpc2 [POWERPC] Fix MPIC sense codes in documentation [POWERPC] Fix performance regression in IRQ radix tree locking [POWERPC] Add mpc7448hpc2 device tree source file [POWERPC] Add MPC8349E MDS device tree source file to arch/powerpc/boot/dts [POWERPC] modify mpc83xx platforms to use new IRQ layer [POWERPC] Adapt ipic driver to new host_ops interface, add set_irq_type to set IRQ sense [POWERPC] back up old school ipic.[hc] to arch/ppc [POWERPC] Use mpc8641hpcn PIC base address from dev tree. [POWERPC] Allow MPC8641 HPCN to build with CONFIG_PCI disabled too. [POWERPC] Fix powerpc 44x_mmu build [POWERPC] Remove flush_dcache_all export
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Paul Mackerras authored
This fixes a hang on ppc32. The problem was that I was comparing a 32-bit quantity with a 64-bit quantity, and consequently time wasn't advancing. This makes us use a 64-bit quantity on all platforms, which ends up simplifying the code since we can now get rid of the tb_last_stamp variable (which actually fixes another bug that Ben H and I noticed while going carefully through the code). This works fine on my G4 tibook. Let me know how it goes on your machines. Acked-by:
Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Signed-off-by:
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
The backlight changes that went in had a bug where they could cause the kernel to access an unitialized pointer when blanking if there is no backlight control on a machine. The bug affects atyfb, aty128fb, nvidiafb and rivafb. radeonfb seems to be ok. This fixes it. Signed-off-by:
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Paul Mackerras authored
As pointed out by Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, our memcpy implementation didn't return the destination pointer as its return value, and there is code in the kernel that expects that. This fixes it. Signed-off-by:Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] Increase default nodes shift to 10, nr_cpus to 1024 [IA64] remove redundant local_irq_save() calls from sn_sal.h [IA64] panic if topology_init kzalloc fails [IA64-SGI] Silent data corruption caused by XPC V2.
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- 30 Aug, 2006 14 commits
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Roland Scheidegger authored
The radeon requires a VAP state flush when enabling/disabling vertex programs on the r200 cards. Signed-off-by:
Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
The following change from -mm is important to 2.6.18 (actually to 2.6.17 but its too late for that). This was contributed over three months ago by VIA to Bartlomiej and nothing happened. As a result the new chipset is now out and Linux won't run on it. By the time 2.6.18 is finalised this will be the defacto standard VIA chipset so support would be a good plan. Tested in -mm for a while, its essentially a PCI ident update but for the bridge chip because VIA do things in weird ways. Signed-off-by: -
Suleiman Souhlal authored
It's possible to get an invalid page fault in kernel mode when we try to write out segments from vsyscall32 when dumping core for a 32bit process if the vsyscall32 DSO is not mapped in its address space (which can happen if, for example, ulimit -v 100 is run). Signed-off-by:
Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Keith Owens authored
The values in init_tss.ist[] can change when an IST event occurs. Save the original IST values for checking stack addresses when debugging or doing stack traces. Signed-off-by:
Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
After all their only point is having them in user space. Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
There was a bogus hunk from the genirq merge that essentially broke stack switching for hard interrupts. Remove it since it isn't needed. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
After all their only point is having them in user space. On x86-64 they don't even work in kernel space. Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
As a replacement for the earlier removal of the e820 MCFG check we blacklist the Intel SDV with the original BIOS bug that motivated that check. On those machines don't use MMCONFIG. This also adds a new pci=mmconf parameter to override the blacklist. Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
The .fill causes miscompilations with some binutils version. Instead just patch the lock prefix in the lock constructs. That is the majority of the cost and should be good enough. Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
The .fill causes miscompilations with some binutils version. Instead just patch the lock prefix in the lock constructs. That is the majority of the cost and should be good enough. Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
Noticed by Jan Beulich. When the kernel was moved from 1MB to 2MB in 2.6.17 the kernel reservation code wasn't adjusted and it still reserved starting with 1MB. This means 1MB always were lost. This patch fixes this by reserving only starting with _text. Signed-off-by:
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Jan Beulich authored
The unwinder fallback logic still had potential for falling through to the legacy stack trace code without printing an indication (at once serving as a separator) of this. Further, the stack pointer retrieval for the fallback should be as restrictive as possible (in order to avoid having the legacy stack tracer try to access invalid memory). The patch tightens that, but this could certainly be further improved. Also making the call_trace command line option now conditional upon CONFIG_STACK_UNWIND (as it's meaningless otherwise). Signed-off-by:
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Beulich authored
By hard-coding the cpuid keys for alternative_smp() rather than using the symbolic constant it turned out that incorrect values were used on both i386 (0x68 instead of 0x69) and x86-64 (0x66 instead of 0x68). Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
One open question: Should this added push perhaps be made conditional upon CONFIG_STACK_UNWIND or CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO? [AK: not needed, these are all very slow paths] Signed-off-by:
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