- 28 Nov, 2005 25 commits
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NeilBrown authored
raid10 has two different layouts. One uses near-copies (so multiple copies of a block are at the same or similar offsets of different devices) and the other uses far-copies (so multiple copies of a block are stored a greatly different offsets on different devices). The point of far-copies is that it allows the first section (normally first half) to be layed out in normal raid0 style, and thus provide raid0 sequential read performance. Unfortunately, the read balancing in raid10 makes some poor decisions for far-copies arrays and you don't get the desired performance. So turn off that bad bit of read_balance for far-copies arrays. With this patch, read speed of an 'f2' array is comparable with a raid0 with the same number of devices, though write speed is ofcourse still very slow. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Michael Krufky authored
Repair broken build configuration for hybrid v4l/dvb card frontend selection. Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Rik van Riel authored
Some users (hi Zwane) have seen a problem when running a workload that eats nearly all of physical memory - th system does an OOM kill, even when there is still a lot of swap free. The problem appears to be a very big task that is holding the swap token, and the VM has a very hard time finding any other page in the system that is swappable. Instead of ignoring the swap token when sc->priority reaches 0, we could simply take the swap token away from the memory hog and make sure we don't give it back to the memory hog for a few seconds. This patch resolves the problem Zwane ran into. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Latchesar Ionkov authored
Assign the appropriate dentry operations to the dentry. Fixes memory leak. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Paul Jackson authored
Move the cpuset_fork() call below the write_unlock_irq call in kernel/fork.c copy_process(). Since the cpuset-dual-semaphore-locking-overhaul.patch, the cpuset_fork() routine acquires task_lock(), so cannot be called while holding the tasklist_lock for write. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Nick Piggin authored
I believe this patch is required to fix breakage in the asynch reclaim watermark logic introduced by this patch: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=7fb1d9fca5c6e3b06773b69165a73f3fb786b8ee Just some background of the watermark logic in case it isn't clear... Basically what we have is this: --- pages_high | | (a) | --- pages_low | | (b) | --- pages_min | | (c) | --- 0 Now when pages_low is reached, we want to kick asynch reclaim, which gives us an interval of "b" before we must start synch reclaim, and gives kswapd an interval of "a" before it need go back to sleep. When pages_min is reached, normal allocators must enter synch reclaim, but PF_MEMALLOC, ALLOC_HARDER, and ALLOC_HIGH (ie. atomic allocations, recursive allocations, etc.) get access to varying amounts of the reserve "c". Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Glauber de Oliveira Costa authored
This patch corrects the return value for the EXT3_IOC_GROUP_ADD in case it fails due to the presence of multiple resizers at the filesystem. The problem is a little bit more serious than a wrong return value in this case, since the clause err=0 in the exit_journal path will lead to a call to update_backups which in turns causes a NULL pointer dereference. Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@br.ibm.com> Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Hirokazu Takata authored
This patch is for supporting IDE interface for M3A-2170(Mappi-III) board. Signed-off-by: Mamoru Sakugawa <sakugawa@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Hirokazu Takata authored
Introduce atomic_cmpxchg and atomic_inc_not_zero operations for m32r. Signed-off-by: Hayato Fujiwara <fujiwara@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Hirokazu Takata authored
This patch fixes a deadlock problem of the m32r SMP kernel. In the m32r kernel, sys_tas() system call is provided as a test-and-set function for userspace, for backward compatibility. In some multi-threading application program, deadlocks were rarely caused at sys_tas() funcion. Such a deadlock was caused due to a collision of __pthread_lock() and __pthread_unlock() operations. The "tas" syscall is repeatedly called by pthread_mutex_lock() to get a lock, while a lock variable's value is not 0. On the other hand, pthead_mutex_unlock() sets the lock variable to 0 for unlocking. In the previous implementation of sys_tas() routine, there was a possibility that a unlock operation was ignored in the following case: - Assume a lock variable (*addr) was equal to 1 before sys_tas() execution. - __pthread_unlock() operation is executed by the other processor and the lock variable (*addr) is set to 0, between a read operation ("oldval = *addr;") and the following write operation ("*addr = 1;") during a execution of sys_tas(). In this case, the following write operation ("*addr = 1;") overwrites the __pthread_unlock() result, and sys_tas() fails to get a lock in the next turn and after that. According to the attatched patch, sys_tas() returns 0 value in the next turn and deadlocks never happen. Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Yamamoto <Yamamoto.Hitoshi@ap.MitsubishiElectric.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ben Collins authored
Tracked this down on an Ultra Enterprise 3000. It's a 6-way machine. Odd thing about this machine (and it's good for finding bugs like this) is that the CPU id's are not 0 based. For instance, on my machine the CPU's are 6/7/10/11/14/15. This caused some NULL pointer dereference in kernel/workqueue.c because for single_threaded workqueue's, it hardcoded the cpu to 0. I changed the 0's to any_online_cpu(cpu_online_mask), which cpumask.h claims is "First cpu in mask". So this fits the same usage. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
fix 32bit overflow in timespec_to_sample() Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Chris Humbert authored
genalloc improperly stores the sizes of freed chunks, allocates overlapping memory regions, and oopses after its in-band data is overwritten. Signed-off-by: Chris Humbert <mahadri-kernel@drigon.com> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Oleg Drokin authored
I now see another overflow in reiserfs that should lead to data corruptions with files that are bigger than 4G under certain circumstances when using mmap. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
Remove bogus usage of test/set_bit() from fbcon rotation code and just manipulate the bits directly. This fixes an oops on powerpc among others and should be faster. Seems to work fine on the G5 here. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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David Howells authored
The attached patch implements a bunch of small changes to the FRV arch to make it work again. It deals with the following problems: (1) SEM_DEBUG should be SEMAPHORE_DEBUG. (2) The argument list to pcibios_penalize_isa_irq() has changed. (3) CONFIG_HIGHMEM can't be used directly in #if as it may not be defined. (4) page->private is no longer directly accessible. (5) linux/hardirq.h assumes asm/hardirq.h will include linux/irq.h (6) The IDE MMIO access functions are given pointers, not integers, and so get type casting errors. (7) __pa() is passed an explicit u64 type in drivers/char/mem.c, but that can't be cast directly to a pointer on a 32-bit platform. (8) SEMAPHORE_DEBUG should not be contingent on WAITQUEUE_DEBUG as that no longer exists. (9) PREEMPT_ACTIVE is too low a value. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Don't do that - it does GFP_KERNEL allocations, for a start. (Reported by Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>) Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
So don't define it as extern in the header file. drivers/base/memory.c:28: error: static declaration of 'memory_sysdev_class' follows non-static declaration include/linux/memory.h:88: error: previous declaration of 'memory_sysdev_class' was here Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ashok Raj authored
There are some callers in cpufreq hotplug notify path that the lowest function calls lock_cpu_hotplug(). The lock is already held during cpu_up() and cpu_down() calls when the notify calls are broadcast to registered clients. Ideally if possible, we could disable_preempt() at the highest caller and make sure we dont sleep in the path down in cpufreq->driver_target() calls but the calls are so intertwined and cumbersome to cleanup. Hence we consistently use lock_cpu_hotplug() and unlock_cpu_hotplug() in all places. - Removed export of cpucontrol semaphore and made it static. - removed explicit uses of up/down with lock_cpu_hotplug() so we can keep track of the the callers in same thread context and just keep refcounts without calling a down() that causes a deadlock. - Removed current_in_hotplug() uses - Removed PF_HOTPLUG_CPU in sched.h introduced for the current_in_hotplug() temporary workaround. Tested with insmod of cpufreq_stat.ko, and logical online/offline to make sure we dont have any hang situations. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Alan Stern authored
LD .tmp_vmlinux1 mm/built-in.o(.text+0x100d6): In function `copy_page_range': : undefined reference to `__pud_alloc' mm/built-in.o(.text+0x1010b): In function `copy_page_range': : undefined reference to `__pmd_alloc' mm/built-in.o(.text+0x11ef4): In function `__handle_mm_fault': : undefined reference to `__pud_alloc' fs/built-in.o(.text+0xc930): In function `install_arg_page': : undefined reference to `__pud_alloc' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 Those missing references in mm/memory.c arise from this code in include/linux/mm.h, combined with the fact that __PGTABLE_PMD_FOLDED and __PGTABLE_PUD_FOLDED are both set and __ARCH_HAS_4LEVEL_HACK is not: /* * The following ifdef needed to get the 4level-fixup.h header to work. * Remove it when 4level-fixup.h has been removed. */ #if defined(CONFIG_MMU) && !defined(__ARCH_HAS_4LEVEL_HACK) static inline pud_t *pud_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long address) { return (unlikely(pgd_none(*pgd)) && __pud_alloc(mm, pgd, address))? NULL: pud_offset(pgd, address); } static inline pmd_t *pmd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud, unsigned long address) { return (unlikely(pud_none(*pud)) && __pmd_alloc(mm, pud, address))? NULL: pmd_offset(pud, address); } #endif /* CONFIG_MMU && !__ARCH_HAS_4LEVEL_HACK */ With my configuration the pgd_none and pud_none routines are inlines returning a constant 0. Apparently the old compiler avoids generating calls to __pud_alloc and __pmd_alloc but still lists them as undefined references in the module's symbol table. I don't know which change caused this problem. I think it was added somewhere between 2.6.14 and 2.6.15-rc1, because I remember building several 2.6.14-rc kernels without difficulty. However I can't point to an individual culprit. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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David S. Miller authored
Here are the Sparc bits. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
This replaces the (in my opinion horrible) VM_UNMAPPED logic with very explicit support for a "remapped page range" aka VM_PFNMAP. It allows a VM area to contain an arbitrary range of page table entries that the VM never touches, and never considers to be normal pages. Any user of "remap_pfn_range()" automatically gets this new functionality, and doesn't even have to mark the pages reserved or indeed mark them any other way. It just works. As a side effect, doing mmap() on /dev/mem works for arbitrary ranges. Sparc update from David in the next commit. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
The Coverity checker spotted this obvious NULL pointer dereference. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Mark Salyzyn <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
The Coverity checker spotted this obvious use-after-release bug caused by a wrong order of the cleanups. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
The Coverity checker spotted this obvious NULL pointer dereference. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 26 Nov, 2005 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- 25 Nov, 2005 14 commits
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Trond Myklebust authored
In __rpc_purge_upcall (net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c), the newer code to clean up the in_upcall list has a typo. Thanks to Vince Busam <vbusam@google.com> for spotting this! Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Trond Myklebust authored
In cases where the server has gone insane, nfs_update_inode() may end up calling nfs_invalidate_inode(), which again calls stuff that takes the inode->i_lock that we're already holding. In addition, given the sort of things we have in NFS these days that need to be cleaned up on inode release, I'm not sure we should ever be calling make_bad_inode(). Fix up spinlock recursion, and limit nfs_invalidate_inode() to clearing the caches, and marking the inode as being stale. Thanks to Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com> for spotting this. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Trond Myklebust authored
When caching locks due to holding a file delegation, we must always check against local locks before sending anything to the server. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Trond Myklebust authored
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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David Gibson authored
Blah. The patch [0] I recently sent fixing errors with in_hugepage_area() and prepare_hugepage_range() for powerpc itself has an off-by-one bug. Furthermore, the related functions touches_hugepage_*_range() and within_hugepage_*_range() are also buggy. Some of the bugs, like those addressed in [0] originated with commit 7d24f0b8 where we tweaked the semantics of where hugepages are allowed. Other bugs have been there essentially forever, and are due to the undefined behaviour of '<<' with shift counts greater than the type width (LOW_ESID_MASK could return non-zero for high ranges with the right congruences). The good news is that I now have a testsuite which should pick up things like this if they creep in again. [0] "powerpc-fix-for-hugepage-areas-straddling-4gb-boundary" Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Paul Mackerras authored
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Stephen Rothwell authored
With the removal of include/asm-powerpc, we no longer need arch/powerpc/include/asm for the 64 bit build. We also do not need -Iarch/powerpc for the 64 bit build either. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Nathan Scott authored
SGI-PV: 946205 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:24567a Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
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Nathan Scott authored
SGI-PV: 941645 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:24566a Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
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Felix Blyakher authored
its queue of IO completion callbacks, thus creating the deadlock between umount and xfslogd. Breaking the loop solves the problem. SGI-PV: 943821 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:202363a Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
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Nathan Scott authored
direct write. SGI-PV: 944820 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:24351a Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
SGI-PV: 945483 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:201884a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
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