1. 15 Jan, 2013 6 commits
  2. 14 Jan, 2013 1 commit
  3. 11 Jan, 2013 1 commit
  4. 07 Jan, 2013 1 commit
    • Rafael J. Wysocki's avatar
      ACPI / scan: Treat power resources in a special way · f95988de
      Rafael J. Wysocki authored
      Commit 805d410 (ACPI: Separate adding ACPI device objects from
      probing ACPI drivers) introduced an ACPI power resources management
      regression, because it didn't ensure that the power resources
      driver bind to the struct acpi_device objects corresponding
      to power resources as soon as they were created.  As a result,
      ACPI power management routines may attempt to access power resource
      objects before they are ready to use.
      
      To fix this problem, tell the acpi_add_single_object() in
      acpi_bus_check_add() to probe the driver for objects of type
      ACPI_BUS_TYPE_POWER.  This fix has been verified to work on
      HP nx6325 where the problem was first observed.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarToshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
      f95988de
  5. 03 Jan, 2013 27 commits
  6. 02 Jan, 2013 4 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 · 5439ca6b
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull ext4 bug fixes from Ted Ts'o:
       "Various bug fixes for ext4.  Perhaps the most serious bug fixed is one
        which could cause file system corruptions when performing file punch
        operations."
      
      * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
        ext4: avoid hang when mounting non-journal filesystems with orphan list
        ext4: lock i_mutex when truncating orphan inodes
        ext4: do not try to write superblock on ro remount w/o journal
        ext4: include journal blocks in df overhead calcs
        ext4: remove unaligned AIO warning printk
        ext4: fix an incorrect comment about i_mutex
        ext4: fix deadlock in journal_unmap_buffer()
        ext4: split off ext4_journalled_invalidatepage()
        jbd2: fix assertion failure in jbd2_journal_flush()
        ext4: check dioread_nolock on remount
        ext4: fix extent tree corruption caused by hole punch
      5439ca6b
    • Hugh Dickins's avatar
      mempolicy: remove arg from mpol_parse_str, mpol_to_str · a7a88b23
      Hugh Dickins authored
      Remove the unused argument (formerly no_context) from mpol_parse_str()
      and from mpol_to_str().
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a7a88b23
    • Hugh Dickins's avatar
      tmpfs mempolicy: fix /proc/mounts corrupting memory · f2a07f40
      Hugh Dickins authored
      Recently I suggested using "mount -o remount,mpol=local /tmp" in NUMA
      mempolicy testing.  Very nasty.  Reading /proc/mounts, /proc/pid/mounts
      or /proc/pid/mountinfo may then corrupt one bit of kernel memory, often
      in a page table (causing "Bad swap" or "Bad page map" warning or "Bad
      pagetable" oops), sometimes in a vm_area_struct or rbnode or somewhere
      worse.  "mpol=prefer" and "mpol=prefer:Node" are equally toxic.
      
      Recent NUMA enhancements are not to blame: this dates back to 2.6.35,
      when commit e17f74af "mempolicy: don't call mpol_set_nodemask() when
      no_context" skipped mpol_parse_str()'s call to mpol_set_nodemask(),
      which used to initialize v.preferred_node, or set MPOL_F_LOCAL in flags.
      With slab poisoning, you can then rely on mpol_to_str() to set the bit
      for node 0x6b6b, probably in the next page above the caller's stack.
      
      mpol_parse_str() is only called from shmem_parse_options(): no_context
      is always true, so call it unused for now, and remove !no_context code.
      Set v.nodes or v.preferred_node or MPOL_F_LOCAL as mpol_to_str() might
      expect.  Then mpol_to_str() can ignore its no_context argument also,
      the mpol being appropriately initialized whether contextualized or not.
      Rename its no_context unused too, and let subsequent patch remove them
      (that's not needed for stable backporting, which would involve rejects).
      
      I don't understand why MPOL_LOCAL is described as a pseudo-policy:
      it's a reasonable policy which suffers from a confusing implementation
      in terms of MPOL_PREFERRED with MPOL_F_LOCAL.  I believe this would be
      much more robust if MPOL_LOCAL were recognized in switch statements
      throughout, MPOL_F_LOCAL deleted, and MPOL_PREFERRED use the (possibly
      empty) nodes mask like everyone else, instead of its preferred_node
      variant (I presume an optimization from the days before MPOL_LOCAL).
      But that would take me too long to get right and fully tested.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f2a07f40
    • Eric Wong's avatar
      epoll: prevent missed events on EPOLL_CTL_MOD · 128dd175
      Eric Wong authored
      EPOLL_CTL_MOD sets the interest mask before calling f_op->poll() to
      ensure events are not missed.  Since the modifications to the interest
      mask are not protected by the same lock as ep_poll_callback, we need to
      ensure the change is visible to other CPUs calling ep_poll_callback.
      
      We also need to ensure f_op->poll() has an up-to-date view of past
      events which occured before we modified the interest mask.  So this
      barrier also pairs with the barrier in wq_has_sleeper().
      
      This should guarantee either ep_poll_callback or f_op->poll() (or both)
      will notice the readiness of a recently-ready/modified item.
      
      This issue was encountered by Andreas Voellmy and Junchang(Jason) Wang in:
      http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1408782/Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
      Cc: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
      Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
      Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
      Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Andreas Voellmy <andreas.voellmy@yale.edu>
      Tested-by: default avatar"Junchang(Jason) Wang" <junchang.wang@yale.edu>
      Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      128dd175