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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 2.6.26-rc6 · 5dd34572
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      .. and a new name, courtesy of Alan.
      5dd34572
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of... · cbfa66b8
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: fix pointer type warning in arch/x86/mm/init_64.c:early_memtest
  x86, lockdep: fix "WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2658 check_flags+0x4c/0x128()"
  x86: fix an incompatible pointer type warning on 64-bit compilations
  x86: fix lockdep warning during suspend-to-ram
  x86: fix unused variable 'loops' warning in arch/x86/boot/a20.c
  Revert "x86: fix ioapic bug again"
  x86: fix asm warning in head_32.S
  x86: fix endless page faults in mount_block_root for Linux 2.6
  geode: fix modular build
      cbfa66b8
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of... · 1b3cba8e
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: 64-bit: fix arithmetics overflow
  sched: fair group: fix overflow(was: fix divide by zero)
  sched: fix TASK_WAKEKILL vs SIGKILL race
      1b3cba8e
    • Kevin Winchester's avatar
      x86: fix pointer type warning in arch/x86/mm/init_64.c:early_memtest · f8a45704
      Kevin Winchester authored 
      Changed the call to find_e820_area_size to pass u64 instead of unsigned long.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      f8a45704
    • Vegard Nossum's avatar
      x86, lockdep: fix "WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2658 check_flags+0x4c/0x128()" · 4461145e
      Vegard Nossum authored 
      Alessandro Suardi reported:
> Recently upgraded my FC6 desktop to Fedora 9; with the
>  latest nautilus RPM updates my VNC session went nuts
>  with nautilus pegging the CPU for everything that breathed.
>
> I now reverted to an earlier nautilus package, but during
>  the peak CPU period my kernel spat this:
>
> [314185.623294] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [314185.623414] WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2658 check_flags+0x4c/0x128()
> [314185.623514] Modules linked in: iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables
> sunrpc ipv6 fuse snd_via82xx snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_mpu401_uart
> snd_rawmidi via686a hwmon parport_pc sg parport uhci_hcd ehci_hcd
> [314185.623924] Pid: 12314, comm: nautilus Not tainted 2.6.26-rc5-git2 #4
> [314185.624021]  [<c0115b95>] warn_on_slowpath+0x41/0x7b
> [314185.624021]  [<c010de70>] ? do_page_fault+0x2c1/0x5fd
> [314185.624021]  [<c0128396>] ? up_read+0x16/0x28
> [314185.624021]  [<c010de70>] ? do_page_fault+0x2c1/0x5fd
> [314185.624021]  [<c012fa33>] ? __lock_acquire+0xbb4/0xbc3
> [314185.624021]  [<c012d0a0>] check_flags+0x4c/0x128
> [314185.624021]  [<c012fa73>] lock_acquire+0x31/0x7d
> [314185.624021]  [<c0128cf6>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x30/0x80
> [314185.624021]  [<c0128cc6>] ? __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0x80
> [314185.624021]  [<c0128d52>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xc/0xe
> [314185.624021]  [<c0128d81>] notify_die+0x2d/0x2f
> [314185.624021]  [<c01043b0>] do_int3+0x1f/0x4d
> [314185.624021]  [<c02f2d3b>] int3+0x27/0x2c
> [314185.624021]  =======================
> [314185.624021] ---[ end trace 1923f65a2d7bb246 ]---
> [314185.624021] possible reason: unannotated irqs-off.
> [314185.624021] irq event stamp: 488879
> [314185.624021] hardirqs last  enabled at (488879): [<c0102d67>]
> restore_nocheck+0x12/0x15
> [314185.624021] hardirqs last disabled at (488878): [<c0102dca>]
> work_resched+0x19/0x30
> [314185.624021] softirqs last  enabled at (488876): [<c011a1ba>]
> __do_softirq+0xa6/0xac
> [314185.624021] softirqs last disabled at (488865): [<c010476e>]
> do_softirq+0x57/0xa6
>
> I didn't seem to find it with some googling, so here it is.
>
> I was incidentally ltracing that process to try and find out
>  what was gulping down that much CPU (sorry, no idea
>  whether ltrace and the WARNING happened at the same
>  time or which came first) and:

Yeah, this is extremely likely to be the source of the warning.

The warning should be harmless, however.

> Box is my trusty noname K7-800, 512MB RAM; if there's
>  anything else useful I might be able to provide, just ask.

It would be interesting to see where the int3 comes from.  Too bad,
lockdep doesn't provide the register dump. The stacktrace also doesn't
go further than the int3(), I wonder if this int3 came from userspace?
The ltrace readme says "software breakpoints, like gdb", so I guess
this is the case. Yep, seems like it.

This looks relevant:

| commit fb1dac90
| Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
| Date:   Wed Jan 16 09:51:59 2008 +0100
|
|     lockdep: more hardirq annotations for notify_die()

I'm attaching a similarly-looking patch for this case (DO_VM86_ERROR),
though I suspect it might be missing for the other cases
(DO_ERROR/DO_ERROR_INFO) as well.
Reported-by: default avatarAlessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      4461145e
    • David Howells's avatar
      x86: fix an incompatible pointer type warning on 64-bit compilations · eb53e9f3
      David Howells authored 
      Fix an incompatible pointer type warning on x86_64 compilations.
early_memtest() is passing a u64* to find_e820_area_size() which is expecting
an unsigned long.  Change t_start and t_size to unsigned long as those are
also 64-bit types on x88_64.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      eb53e9f3
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      x86: fix lockdep warning during suspend-to-ram · e32e58a9
      Peter Zijlstra authored 
      Andrew Morton wrote:

> I've been seeing the below for a long time during suspend-to-ram on the Vaio.
>
>
> PM: Syncing filesystems ... done.
> PM: Preparing system for mem sleep
> Freezing user space processes ... <4>------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2658 check_flags+0x4c/0x127()
> Modules linked in: i915 drm ipw2200 sonypi ipv6 autofs4 hidp l2cap bluetooth sunrpc nf_conntrack_netbios_ns ipt_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv4 xt_state nf_conntrack xt_tcpudp iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables acpi_cpufreq nvram ohci1394 ieee1394 ehci_hcd uhci_hcd sg joydev snd_hda_intel snd_seq_dummy sr_mod snd_seq_oss cdrom snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss ieee80211 pcspkr ieee80211_crypt snd_pcm i2c_i801 snd_timer i2c_core ide_pci_generic piix snd soundcore snd_page_alloc button ext3 jbd ide_disk ide_core [last unloaded: ipw2200]
> Pid: 3250, comm: zsh Not tainted 2.6.26-rc5 #1
>  [<c011c5f5>] warn_on_slowpath+0x41/0x6d
>  [<c01080e6>] ? native_sched_clock+0x82/0x96
>  [<c013789c>] ? mark_held_locks+0x41/0x5c
>  [<c0315688>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x36/0x58
>  [<c0137a29>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xe6/0x10d
>  [<c0138637>] ? __lock_acquire+0xae3/0xb2b
>  [<c0313413>] ? schedule+0x39b/0x3b4
>  [<c0135596>] check_flags+0x4c/0x127
>  [<c01386b9>] lock_acquire+0x3a/0x86
>  [<c0315075>] _spin_lock+0x26/0x53
>  [<c0140660>] ? refrigerator+0x13/0xc3
>  [<c0140660>] refrigerator+0x13/0xc3
>  [<c012684a>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x3c/0x31e
>  [<c0102fe7>] do_notify_resume+0x91/0x6ee
>  [<c01359fd>] ? lock_release_holdtime+0x50/0x56
>  [<c0315688>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x36/0x58
>  [<c0235d24>] ? read_chan+0x0/0x58c
>  [<c0137a29>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xe6/0x10d
>  [<c0315694>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x42/0x58
>  [<c0230afa>] ? tty_ldisc_deref+0x5c/0x63
>  [<c0233104>] ? tty_read+0x66/0x98
>  [<c014b3f0>] ? audit_syscall_exit+0x2aa/0x2c5
>  [<c0109430>] ? do_syscall_trace+0x6b/0x16f
>  [<c0103a9c>] work_notifysig+0x13/0x1b
>  =======================
> ---[ end trace 25b49fe59a25afa5 ]---
> possible reason: unannotated irqs-off.
> irq event stamp: 58919
> hardirqs last  enabled at (58919): [<c0103afd>] syscall_exit_work+0x11/0x26

Joy - I so love entry.S

Best I can make of it:

syscall_exit_work
  resume_userspace
    DISABLE_INTERRUPTS
    (no TRACE_IRQS_OFF)
      work_pending
        work_notifysig
          do_notify_resume()
            do_signal()
              get_signal_to_deliver()
                try_to_freeze()
                  refrigerator()
                    task_lock() -> check_flags() -> BANG

The normal path is:

syscall_exit_work
  resume_userspace
    DISABLE_INTERRUPTS
    restore_all
      TRACE_IRQS_IRET
      iret

No idea why that would not warn..
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      e32e58a9
    • Manish Katiyar's avatar
      x86: fix unused variable 'loops' warning in arch/x86/boot/a20.c · 52aaa12f
      Manish Katiyar authored 
      Following patch fixes the below warning message :
arch/x86/boot/a20.c:118: warning: unused variable 'loops'

Signed-off-by : Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      52aaa12f
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      Revert "x86: fix ioapic bug again" · 0b6a39f7
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      This reverts commit 6e908947.

Németh Márton reported:

| there is a problem in 2.6.26-rc3 which was not there in case of
| 2.6.25: the CPU wakes up ~90,000 times per sec instead of ~60 per sec.
|
| I also "git bisected" the problem, the result is:
|
| 6e908947 is first bad commit
| commit 6e908947
| Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| Date:   Fri Mar 21 14:32:36 2008 +0100
|
|     x86: fix ioapic bug again

the original problem is fixed by Maciej W. Rozycki in the tip/x86/apic
branch (confirmed by Márton), but those changes are too intrusive for
v2.6.26 so we'll go for the less intrusive (repeated) revert now.
Reported-and-bisected-by: default avatarNémeth Márton <nm127@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      0b6a39f7
    • Joe Korty's avatar
      x86: fix asm warning in head_32.S · 86b2b70e
      Joe Korty authored 
      On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 04:10:02PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It also causes these warnings on 32-bit PAE:
>
> 	  AS      arch/x86/kernel/head_32.o
> 	arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S: Assembler messages:
> 	arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S:225: Warning: left operand is a bignum; integer 0 assumed
> 	arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S:609: Warning: left operand is a bignum; integer 0 assumed
>
> and I do not see why (the end result seems to be identical).

Fix head_32.S gcc bignum warnings when CONFIG_PAE=y.

    arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S: Assembler messages:
    arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S:225: Warning: left operand is a bignum; integer 0 assumed
    arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S:609: Warning: left operand is a bignum; integer 0 assumed

The assembler was stumbling over the 64-bit constant 0x100000000 in the
KPMDS #define.

Testing: a cmp(1) on head_32.o before and after shows the binary is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Cc: "Pallipadi Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: "Siddha Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org
Cc: airlied@linux.ie
Cc: "Barnes Jesse" <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      86b2b70e
    • Henry Nestler's avatar
      x86: fix endless page faults in mount_block_root for Linux 2.6 · b29c701d
      Henry Nestler authored 
      Page faults in kernel address space between PAGE_OFFSET up to
VMALLOC_START should not try to map as vmalloc.

Fix rarely endless page faults inside mount_block_root for root
filesystem at boot time.

All 32bit kernels up to 2.6.25 can fail into this hole.
I can not present this under native linux kernel. I see, that the 64bit
has fixed the problem. I copied the same lines into 32bit part.

Recorded debugs are from coLinux kernel 2.6.22.18 (virtualisation):
http://www.henrynestler.com/colinux/testing/pfn-check-0.7.3/20080410-antinx/bug16-recursive-page-fault-endless.txt
The physicaly memory was trimmed down to 192MB to better catch the bug.
More memory gets the bug more rarely.

Details, how every x86 32bit system can fail:

Start from "mount_block_root",
http://lxr.linux.no/linux/init/do_mounts.c#L297
There the variable "fs_names" got one memory page with 4096 bytes.
Variable "p" walks through the existing file system types. The first
string is no problem.
But, with the second loop in mount_block_root the offset of "p" is not
at beginning of page, the offset is for example +9, if "reiserfs" is the
first in list.
Than calls do_mount_root, and lands in sys_mount.
Remember: Variable "type_page" contains now "fs_type+9" and not contains
a full page.
The sys_mount copies 4096 bytes with function "exact_copy_from_user()":
http://lxr.linux.no/linux/fs/namespace.c#L1540

Mostly exist pages after the buffer "fs_names+4096+9" and the page fault
handler was not called. No problem.

In the case, if the page after "fs_names+4096" is not mapped, the page
fault handler was called from http://lxr.linux.no/linux/fs/namespace.c#L1320

The do_page_fault gots an address 0xc03b4000.
It's kernel address, address >= TASK_SIZE, but not from vmalloc! It's
from "__getname()" alias "kmem_cache_alloc".
The "error_code" is 0. "vmalloc_fault" will be call:
http://lxr.linux.no/linux/arch/i386/mm/fault.c#L332

"vmalloc_fault" tryed to find the physical page for a non existing
virtual memory area. The macro "pte_present" in vmalloc_fault()
got a next page fault for 0xc0000ed0 at:
http://lxr.linux.no/linux/arch/i386/mm/fault.c#L282

No PTE exist for such virtual address. The page fault handler was trying
to sync the physical page for the PTE lockup.

This called vmalloc_fault() again for address 0xc000000, and that also
was not existing. The endless began...

In normal case the cpu would still loop with disabled interrrupts. Under
coLinux this was catched by a stack overflow inside printk debugs.
Signed-off-by: default avatarHenry Nestler <henry.nestler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      b29c701d
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      geode: fix modular build · 3703f399
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      -tip testing found this build bug:

 MODPOST 331 modules
 ERROR: "geode_mfgpt_toggle_event" [drivers/watchdog/geodewdt.ko] undefined!
 ERROR: "geode_mfgpt_alloc_timer" [drivers/watchdog/geodewdt.ko] undefined!
 make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
 make: *** [modules] Error 2

with this config:

  http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Wed_Jun__4_18_01_59_CEST_2008.bad

export those symbols.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      3703f399
    • Carl Henrik Lunde's avatar
      block: disable IRQs until data is written to relay channel · 14a73f54
      Carl Henrik Lunde authored 
      As we may run relay_reserve from interrupt context we must always disable
IRQs.  This is because a call to relay_reserve may expose previously written
data to use space.

Updated new message code and an old but related comment.
Signed-off-by: default avatarCarl Henrik Lunde <chlunde@ping.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      14a73f54
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes · 95dcf835
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes:
  kbuild: ignore powerpc specific symbols in modpost
      95dcf835
    • Paul Mundt's avatar
      nommu: Correct kobjsize() page validity checks. · 5a1603be
      Paul Mundt authored 
      This implements a few changes on top of the recent kobjsize() refactoring
introduced by commit 6cfd53fc.

As Christoph points out:

	virt_to_head_page cannot return NULL. virt_to_page also
	does not return NULL. pfn_valid() needs to be used to
	figure out if a page is valid.  Otherwise the page struct
	reference that was returned may have PageReserved() set
	to indicate that it is not a valid page.

As discussed further in the thread, virt_addr_valid() is the preferable
way to validate the object pointer in this case. In addition to fixing
up the reserved page case, it also has the benefit of encapsulating the
hack introduced by commit 4016a139 on
the impacted platforms, allowing us to get rid of the extra checking in
kobjsize() for the platforms that don't perform this type of bizarre
memory_end abuse (every nommu platform that isn't blackfin). If blackfin
decides to get in line with every other platform and use PageReserved
for the DMA pages in question, kobjsize() will also continue to work
fine.

It also turns out that compound_order() will give us back 0-order for
non-head pages, so we can get rid of the PageCompound check and just
use compound_order() directly. Clean that up while we're at it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5a1603be
    • Jeff Mahoney's avatar
      fsl-diu-db: compile fix · f969c567
      Jeff Mahoney authored 
      This patch fixes a compile failure in 2.6.26-rc5-git5.

The variable is expected to be called ofdev.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f969c567
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'core/iter-div' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip · dc10885d
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      * 'core/iter-div' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  always_inline timespec_add_ns
  add an inlined version of iter_div_u64_rem
  common implementation of iterative div/mod
      dc10885d
    • Sam Ravnborg's avatar
      kbuild: ignore powerpc specific symbols in modpost · 4d7365d6
      Sam Ravnborg authored 
      Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
We have a case in powerpc in which we want to link some library
routines with all module objects.  The routines are intended for
handling out-of-line function call register save/restore so having
them as EXPORT_SYMBOL() is counter productive (we do also need to
link the same "library" code into the kernel).

Without this patch a powerpc build would error out and fail
to build modules with the added register save/restore module.

There were two obvious solutions:
1) To link the .o file before the modpost stage
2) To ignore the symbols in modpost

Option 1) was ruled out because we do not have any separate
linking stage for single file modules.

This patch implements option 2 - and do so only for powerpc.

The symbols we ignore are all undefined symbols named:
_restgpr_*, _savegpr_*, _rest32gpr_*, _save32gpr_*
Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      4d7365d6
    • Lai Jiangshan's avatar
      sched: 64-bit: fix arithmetics overflow · 7a232e03
      Lai Jiangshan authored 
      (overflow means weight >= 2^32 here, because inv_weigh = 2^32/weight)

A weight of a cfs_rq is the sum of weights of which entities
are queued on this cfs_rq, so it will overflow when there are
too many entities.

Although, overflow occurs very rarely, but it break fairness when
it occurs. 64-bits systems have more memory than 32-bit systems
and 64-bit systems can create more process usually, so overflow may
occur more frequently.

This patch guarantees fairness when overflow happens on 64-bit systems.
Thanks to the optimization of compiler, it changes nothing on 32-bit.
Signed-off-by: default avatarLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      7a232e03
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