- 20 Sep, 2010 17 commits
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Luis R. Rodriguez authored
commit 90487974 upstream. The 5 GHz CTL indexes were not being read for all hardware devices due to the masking out through the CTL_MODE_M mask being one bit too short. Without this the calibrated regulatory maximum values were not being picked up when devices operate on 5 GHz in HT40 mode. The final output power used for Atheros devices is the minimum between the calibrated CTL values and what CRDA provides. Signed-off-by:
Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
commit 595afaf9 upstream. David Bartly reported that fuse can hang in fuse_get_req_nofail() when the connection to the filesystem server is no longer active. If bg_queue is not empty then flush_bg_queue() called from request_end() can put more requests on to the pending queue. If this happens while ending requests on the processing queue then those background requests will be queued to the pending list and never ended. Another problem is that fuse_dev_release() didn't wake up processes sleeping on blocked_waitq. Solve this by: a) flushing the background queue before calling end_requests() on the pending and processing queues b) setting blocked = 0 and waking up processes waiting on blocked_waitq() Thanks to David for an excellent bug report. Reported-by:
David Bartley <andareed@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Hank Janssen authored
commit 77c5ceaf upstream. Fixed lockup problem with bounce_buffer scatter list which caused crashes in heavy loads. And minor code indentation cleanup in effected area. Removed whitespace and noted minor indentation changes in description as pointed out by Joe Perches. (Thanks for reviewing Joe) Signed-off-by:
Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by:
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by:
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Hank Janssen authored
commit 15dd1c9f upstream. Increased storvsc ringbuffer and max_io_requests. This now more closely mimics the numbers on Hyper-V. And will allow more IO requests to take place for the SCSI driver. Max_IO is set to double from what it was before, Hyper-V allows it and we have had appliance builder requests to see if it was a problem to increase the number. Ringbuffer size for storvsc is now increased because I have seen A few buffer problems on extremely busy systems. They were Set pretty low before. And since max_io_requests is increased I Really needed to increase the buffer as well. Signed-off-by:
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Haiyang Zhang authored
commit e5fa721d upstream. Fixed the value of the 64bit-hole inside ring buffer, this caused a problem on Hyper-V when running checked Windows builds. Checked builds of Windows are used internally and given to external system integrators at times. They are builds that for example that all elements in a structure follow the definition of that Structure. The bug this fixed was for a field that we did not fill in at all (Because we do Not use it on the Linux side), and the checked build of windows gives errors on it internally to the Windows logs. This fixes that error. Signed-off-by:
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Hank Janssen authored
commit 0c47a70a upstream. Fixed bounce offset kmap problem by using correct index. The symptom of the problem is that in some NAS appliances this problem represents Itself by a unresponsive VM under a load with many clients writing small files. Signed-off-by:
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Haiyang Zhang authored
commit b681b588 upstream. Fix missing functions for net_device_ops. It's a bug when porting the drivers from 2.6.27 to 2.6.32. In 2.6.27, the default functions for Ethernet, like eth_change_mtu(), were assigned by ether_setup(). But in 2.6.32, these function pointers moved to net_device_ops structure and no longer be assigned in ether_setup(). So we need to set these functions in our driver code. It will ensure the MTU won't be set beyond 1500. Otherwise, this can cause an error on the server side, because the HyperV linux driver doesn't support jumbo frame yet. Signed-off-by:
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Mike Galbraith authored
This commit does not appear to have been meant for 32-stable, and causes ltp's cpusets testcases to fail, revert it. Original commit text: sched: Fix a race between ttwu() and migrate_task() Based on commit e2912009 upstream, but done differently as this issue is not present in .33 or .34 kernels due to rework in this area. If a task is in the TASK_WAITING state, then try_to_wake_up() is working on it, and it will place it on the correct cpu. This commit ensures that neither migrate_task() nor __migrate_task() calls set_task_cpu(p) while p is in the TASK_WAKING state. Otherwise, there could be two concurrent calls to set_task_cpu(p), resulting in the task's cfs_rq being inconsistent with its cpu. Signed-off-by:
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
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Amit Arora authored
[Fixed in a different manner upstream, due to rewrites in this area] Problem : In a stress test where some heavy tests were running along with regular CPU offlining and onlining, a hang was observed. The system seems to be hung at a point where migration_call() tries to kill the migration_thread of the dying CPU, which just got moved to the current CPU. This migration thread does not get a chance to run (and die) since rt_throttled is set to 1 on current, and it doesn't get cleared as the hrtimer which is supposed to reset the rt bandwidth (sched_rt_period_timer) is tied to the CPU which we just marked dead! Solution : This patch pushes the killing of migration thread to "CPU_POST_DEAD" event. By then all the timers (including sched_rt_period_timer) should have got migrated (along with other callbacks). Signed-off-by:
Amit Arora <amitarora@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ben Hutchings authored
commit 30da5524 upstream. commit 2ca1af9aa3285c6a5f103ed31ad09f7399fc65d7 "PCI: MSI: Remove unsafe and unnecessary hardware access" changed read_msi_msg_desc() to return the last MSI message written instead of reading it from the device, since it may be called while the device is in a reduced power state. However, the pSeries platform code really does need to read messages from the device, since they are initially written by firmware. Therefore: - Restore the previous behaviour of read_msi_msg_desc() - Add new functions get_cached_msi_msg{,_desc}() which return the last MSI message written - Use the new functions where appropriate Acked-by:
Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by:
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by:
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by:
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Ben Hutchings authored
commit fcd097f3 upstream. During suspend on an SMP system, {read,write}_msi_msg_desc() may be called to mask and unmask interrupts on a device that is already in a reduced power state. At this point memory-mapped registers including MSI-X tables are not accessible, and config space may not be fully functional either. While a device is in a reduced power state its interrupts are effectively masked and its MSI(-X) state will be restored when it is brought back to D0. Therefore these functions can simply read and write msi_desc::msg for devices not in D0. Further, read_msi_msg_desc() should only ever be used to update a previously written message, so it can always read msi_desc::msg and never needs to touch the hardware. Tested-by:
"Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by:
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Suresh Siddha authored
commit cd7240c0 upstream. TSC's get reset after suspend/resume (even on cpu's with invariant TSC which runs at a constant rate across ACPI P-, C- and T-states). And in some systems BIOS seem to reinit TSC to arbitrary large value (still sync'd across cpu's) during resume. This leads to a scenario of scheduler rq->clock (sched_clock_cpu()) less than rq->age_stamp (introduced in 2.6.32). This leads to a big value returned by scale_rt_power() and the resulting big group power set by the update_group_power() is causing improper load balancing between busy and idle cpu's after suspend/resume. This resulted in multi-threaded workloads (like kernel-compilation) go slower after suspend/resume cycle on core i5 laptops. Fix this by recomputing cyc2ns_offset's during resume, so that sched_clock() continues from the point where it was left off during suspend. Reported-by:
Florian Pritz <flo@xssn.at> Signed-off-by:
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1282262618.2675.24.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Mark Lord authored
commit 44b73380 upstream. Fix DSM/TRIM commands in sata_mv (v2). These need to be issued using old-school "BM DMA", rather than via the EDMA host queue. Since the chips don't have proper BM DMA status, we need to be more careful with setting the ATA_DMA_INTR bit, since DSM/TRIM often has a long delay between "DMA complete" and "command complete". GEN_I chips don't have BM DMA, so no TRIM for them. Signed-off-by:
Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> Signed-off-by:
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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David Henningsson authored
commit 150b432f upstream. The non-standard name "iMic" makes PulseAudio ignore the microphone. BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/605101Signed-off-by:
David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com> Signed-off-by:
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
commit aaca4964 upstream. IPIs and VIRQs are inherently per-cpu event types, so treat them as such: - use a specific percpu irq_chip implementation, and - handle them with handle_percpu_irq This makes the path for delivering these interrupts more efficient (no masking/unmasking, no locks), and it avoid problems with attempts to migrate them. Signed-off-by:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
commit dffe2e1e upstream. Xen events are logically edge triggered, as Xen only calls the event upcall when an event is newly set, but not continuously as it remains set. As a result, use handle_edge_irq rather than handle_level_irq. This has the important side-effect of fixing a long-standing bug of events getting lost if: - an event's interrupt handler is running - the event is migrated to a different vcpu - the event is re-triggered The most noticable symptom of these lost events is occasional lockups of blkfront. Many thanks to Tom Kopec and Daniel Stodden in tracking this down. Signed-off-by:
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Andreas Herrmann authored
commit a05e93f3 upstream. Commit 8bf0223ed515be24de0c671eedaff49e78bebc9c (hwmon, k8temp: Fix temperature reporting for ASB1 processor revisions) fixed temperature reporting for ASB1 CPUs. But those CPU models (model 0x6b, 0x6f, 0x7f) were packaged both as AM2 (desktop) and ASB1 (mobile). Thus the commit leads to wrong temperature reporting for AM2 CPU parts. The solution is to determine the package type for models 0x6b, 0x6f, 0x7f. This is done using BrandId from CPUID Fn8000_0001_EBX[15:0]. See "Constructing the processor Name String" in "Revision Guide for AMD NPT Family 0Fh Processors" (Rev. 3.46). Cc: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz> Reported-by:
Vladislav Guberinic <neosisani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Signed-off-by:
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by:
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- 26 Aug, 2010 23 commits
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
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Kerstin Jonsson authored
commit 8c3ba8d0 upstream. When the SMP kernel decides to crash_kexec() the local APICs may have pending interrupts in their vector tables. The setup routine for the local APIC has a deficient mechanism for clearing these interrupts, it only handles interrupts that has already been dispatched to the local core for servicing (the ISR register) safely, it doesn't consider lower prioritized queued interrupts stored in the IRR register. If you have more than one pending interrupt within the same 32 bit word in the LAPIC vector table registers you may find yourself entering the IO APIC setup with pending interrupts left in the LAPIC. This is a situation for wich the IO APIC setup is not prepared. Depending of what/which interrupt vector/vectors are stuck in the APIC tables your system may show various degrees of malfunctioning. That was the reason why the check_timer() failed in our system, the timer interrupts was blocked by pending interrupts from the old kernel when routed trough the IO APIC. Additional comment from Jiri Bohac: ============== If this should go into stable release, I'd add some kind of limit on the number of iterations, just to be safe from hard to debug lock-ups: +if (loops++ > MAX_LOOPS) { + printk("LAPIC pending clean-up") + break; +} while (queued); with MAX_LOOPS something like 1E9 this would leave plenty of time for the pending IRQs to be cleared and would and still cause at most a second of delay if the loop were to lock-up for whatever reason. [trenn@suse.de: V2: Use tsc if avail to bail out after 1 sec due to possible virtual apic_read calls which may take rather long (suggested by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>) If no tsc is available bail out quickly after cpu_khz, if we broke out too early and still have irqs pending (which should never happen?) we still get a WARN_ON... V3: - Fixed indentation -> checkpatch clean - max_loops must be signed V4: - Fix typo, mixed up tsc and ntsc in first rdtscll() call V5: Adjust WARN_ON() condition to also catch error in cpu_has_tsc case] Cc: <jbohac@novell.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Kerstin Jonsson <kerstin.jonsson@ericsson.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Tested-by:
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> LKML-Reference: <201005241913.o4OJDGWM010865@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Galen Seitz authored
commit ea233f80 upstream. Add ftdi product ID for Lenz LI-USB, a model train interface. This was NOT tested against 2.6.35, but a similar patch was tested with the CentOS 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 kernel. It wasn't clear to me what ordering is being used in ftdi_sio.c, so I inserted the ID after another model train entry(SPROG_II). Signed-off-by:
Galen Seitz <galens@seitzassoc.com> Signed-off-by:
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Martin Michlmayr authored
commit 666cc076 upstream. Add the ID for the Ionics PlugComputer (<http://ionicsplug.com/>). Signed-off-by:
Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> Signed-off-by:
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John Youn authored
commit a1669b2c upstream. The code to increment the TRB pointer has a slight ambiguity that could lead to a bug on different compilers. The ANSI C specification does not specify the precedence of the assignment operator over the postfix operator. gcc 4.4 produced the correct code (increment the pointer and assign the value), but a MIPS compiler that one of John's clients used assigned the old (unincremented) value. Remove the unnecessary assignment to make all compilers produce the correct assembly. Signed-off-by:
John Youn <johnyoun@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by:
Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
commit 0827a9ff upstream. If we can't read the firmware for a device from the disk, and yet the device already has a valid firmware image in it, we don't want to replace the firmware with something invalid. So check the version number to be less than the current one to verify this is the correct thing to do. Reported-by:
Chris Beauchamp <chris@chillibean.tv> Tested-by:
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Michael Wileczka authored
commit d1ab903d upstream. The USB max packet size (always little-endian) was not being byte swapped on big-endian systems. Applicable since [USB: ftdi_sio: fix hi-speed device packet size calculation] approx 2.6.31 Signed-off-by:
Michael Wileczka <mikewileczka@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by:
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Craig Shelley authored
commit 72916791 upstream. The definitions for BREAK_ON and BREAK_OFF are inverted, causing break requests to fail. This patch sets BREAK_ON and BREAK_OFF to the correct values. Signed-off-by:
Craig Shelley <craig@microtron.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Jef Driesen authored
commit f36ecd5d upstream. Add support for the Zeagle N2iTiON3 dive computer interface. Since Zeagle devices are actually manufactured by Seiko, this patch will support other Seiko based models as well. Signed-off-by:
Jef Driesen <jefdriesen@telenet.be> Signed-off-by:
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Ross Burton authored
commit 0eee6a2b upstream. I recently bought a i-gotU USB GPS, and whilst hunting around for linux support discovered this post by you back in 2009: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-usb/2009/3/12/5148644 >Try the navman driver instead. You can either add the device id to the > driver and rebuild it, or do this before you plug the device in: > modprobe navman > echo -n "0x0df7 0x0900" > /sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/navman/new_id > > and then plug your device in and see if that works. I can confirm that the navman driver works with the right device IDs on my i-gotU GT-600, which has the same device IDs. Attached is a patch adding the IDs. From: Ross Burton <ross@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Michael Tokarev authored
commit 76078dc4 upstream. Signed-off-by:
Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> Signed-off-by:
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Anatolij Gustschin authored
commit c686ecf5 upstream. Commit e32e78c5 (powerpc: fix build with make 3.82) introduced a typo in uImage target and broke building uImage: make: *** No rule to make target `uImage'. Stop. Signed-off-by:
Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de> Signed-off-by:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
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Dave Airlie authored
commit b9f0aee8 upstream. non-critical issue, CVE-2010-2803 Userspace controls the amount of memory to be allocate, so it can get the ioctl to allocate more memory than the kernel uses, and get access to kernel stack. This can only be done for processes authenticated to the X server for DRI access, and if the user has DRI access. Fix is to just memset the data to 0 if the user doesn't copy into it in the first place. Reported-by:
Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by:
Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alex Deucher authored
commit 0537398b upstream. Looks like this got copied from the ddx wrong. Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Berg authored
commit 68d6ac6d upstream. Since commit 1dacc76d Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Date: Wed Jul 1 11:26:02 2009 +0000 net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasks we had a race condition when setting and then restoring frag_list. Eric attempted to fix it, but the fix created even worse problems. However, the original motivation I had when I added the code that turned out to be racy is no longer clear to me, since we only copy up to skb->len to userspace, which doesn't include the frag_list length. As a result, not doing any frag_list clearing and restoring avoids the race condition, while not introducing any other problems. Additionally, while preparing this patch I found that since none of the remaining netlink code is really aware of the frag_list, we need to use the original skb's information for packet information and credentials. This fixes, for example, the group information received by compat tasks. Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by:
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by:
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Daniel T Chen authored
commit 9c77b846 upstream. BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/619439 This ThinkPad model needs External Amplifier muted for audible playback, so set the inv_eapd quirk for it. Reported-and-tested-by:
Dennis Bell <dennis.bell@parkerg.co.uk> Signed-off-by:
Daniel T Chen <crimsun@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Beulich authored
commit 3c955b40 upstream. It doesn't like pattern and explicit rules to be on the same line, and it seems to be more picky when matching file (or really directory) names with different numbers of trailing slashes. Signed-off-by:
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-by:
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Andrew Benton <b3nton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Josh Hunt authored
commit a7c55cbe upstream. Newer Intel processors identifying themselves as model 30 are not recognized by oprofile. <cpuinfo snippet> model : 30 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3470 @ 2.93GHz </cpuinfo snippet> Running oprofile on these machines gives the following: + opcontrol --init + opcontrol --list-events oprofile: available events for CPU type "Intel Architectural Perfmon" See Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 3B (Document 253669) Chapter 18 for architectural perfmon events This is a limited set of fallback events because oprofile doesn't know your CPU CPU_CLK_UNHALTED: (counter: all) Clock cycles when not halted (min count: 6000) INST_RETIRED: (counter: all) number of instructions retired (min count: 6000) LLC_MISSES: (counter: all) Last level cache demand requests from this core that missed the LLC (min count: 6000) Unit masks (default 0x41) ---------- 0x41: No unit mask LLC_REFS: (counter: all) Last level cache demand requests from this core (min count: 6000) Unit masks (default 0x4f) ---------- 0x4f: No unit mask BR_MISS_PRED_RETIRED: (counter: all) number of mispredicted branches retired (precise) (min count: 500) + opcontrol --shutdown Tested using oprofile 0.9.6. Signed-off-by:
Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com> Reviewed-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by:
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John Villalovos authored
commit 45c34e05 upstream. Back when the patch was submitted for "Add Xeon 7500 series support to oprofile", Robert Richter had asked for a followon patch that converted all the CPU ID values to hex. I have done that here for the "i386/core_i7" and "i386/atom" class processors in the ppro_init() function and also added some comments on where to find documentation on the Intel processors. Signed-off-by:
John L. Villalovos <john.l.villalovos@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Akinobu Mita authored
commit 731eb1a0 upstream. There are duplicate macro definitions of in_range() in mballoc.h and balloc.c. This consolidates these two definitions into ext4.h, and changes extents.c to use in_range() as well. Signed-off-by:
Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dominik Brodowski authored
commit 127c03cd upstream. NR_IRQS may be as low as 16, causing a (harmless?) buffer overflow in pcmcia_setup_isa_irq(): static u8 pcmcia_used_irq[NR_IRQS]; ... if ((try < 32) && pcmcia_used_irq[irq]) continue; This is read-only, so if this address would be non-zero, it would just mean we would not attempt an IRQ >= NR_IRQS -- which would fail anyway! And as request_irq() fails for an irq >= NR_IRQS, the setting code path: pcmcia_used_irq[irq]++; is never reached as well. Reported-by:
Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by:
Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by:
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Wu Fengguang authored
commit e31f3698 upstream. Fix "system goes unresponsive under memory pressure and lots of dirty/writeback pages" bug. http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/4/86 In the above thread, Andreas Mohr described that Invoking any command locked up for minutes (note that I'm talking about attempted additional I/O to the _other_, _unaffected_ main system HDD - such as loading some shell binaries -, NOT the external SSD18M!!). This happens when the two conditions are both meet: - under memory pressure - writing heavily to a slow device OOM also happens in Andreas' system. The OOM trace shows that 3 processes are stuck in wait_on_page_writeback() in the direct reclaim path. One in do_fork() and the other two in unix_stream_sendmsg(). They are blocked on this condition: (sc->order && priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2) which was introduced in commit 78dc583d (vmscan: low order lumpy reclaim also should use PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC) one year ago. That condition may be too permissive. In Andreas' case, 512MB/1024 = 512KB. If the direct reclaim for the order-1 fork() allocation runs into a range of 512KB hard-to-reclaim LRU pages, it will be stalled. It's a severe problem in three ways. Firstly, it can easily happen in daily desktop usage. vmscan priority can easily go below (DEF_PRIORITY - 2) on _local_ memory pressure. Even if the system has 50% globally reclaimable pages, it still has good opportunity to have 0.1% sized hard-to-reclaim ranges. For example, a simple dd can easily create a big range (up to 20%) of dirty pages in the LRU lists. And order-1 to order-3 allocations are more than common with SLUB. Try "grep -v '1 :' /proc/slabinfo" to get the list of high order slab caches. For example, the order-1 radix_tree_node slab cache may stall applications at swap-in time; the order-3 inode cache on most filesystems may stall applications when trying to read some file; the order-2 proc_inode_cache may stall applications when trying to open a /proc file. Secondly, once triggered, it will stall unrelated processes (not doing IO at all) in the system. This "one slow USB device stalls the whole system" avalanching effect is very bad. Thirdly, once stalled, the stall time could be intolerable long for the users. When there are 20MB queued writeback pages and USB 1.1 is writing them in 1MB/s, wait_on_page_writeback() will stuck for up to 20 seconds. Not to mention it may be called multiple times. So raise the bar to only enable PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC when priority goes below DEF_PRIORITY/3, or 6.25% LRU size. As the default dirty throttle ratio is 20%, it will hardly be triggered by pure dirty pages. We'd better treat PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC as some last resort workaround -- its stall time is so uncomfortably long (easily goes beyond 1s). The bar is only raised for (order < PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) allocations, which are easy to satisfy in 1TB memory boxes. So, although 6.25% of memory could be an awful lot of pages to scan on a system with 1TB of memory, it won't really have to busy scan that much. Andreas tested an older version of this patch and reported that it mostly fixed his problem. Mel Gorman helped improve it and KOSAKI Motohiro will fix it further in the next patch. Reported-by:
Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Reviewed-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by:
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Changli Gao authored
[ Upstream commit 3a3dfb06 ] after updating the value of the ICMP payload, inet_proto_csum_replace4() should be called with zero pseudohdr. Signed-off-by:
Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by:
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