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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'parisc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/parisc-2.6 · d6c77973
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull PA-RISC fixes from James Bottomley:
 "This is a set of three bug fixes that gets parisc running again on
  systems with PA1.1 processors.

  Two fix regressions introduced in 2.6.39 and one fixes a prefetch bug
  that only affects PA7300LC processors.  We also have another pending
  fix to do with the sectional arrangement of vmlinux.lds, but there's a
  query on it during testing on one particular system type, so I'll hold
  off sending it in for now."

* tag 'parisc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/parisc-2.6:
  [PARISC] fix panic on prefetch(NULL) on PA7300LC
  [PARISC] fix crash in flush_icache_page_asm on PA1.1
  [PARISC] fix PA1.1 oops on boot
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'x86/ld-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 5d120458
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull x86 linker bug workarounds from Peter Anvin.

GNU ld-2.22.52.0.[12] (*) has an unfortunate bug where it incorrectly
turns certain relocation entries absolute.  Section-relative symbols
that are part of otherwise empty sections are silently changed them to
absolute.  We rely on section-relative symbols staying section-relative,
and actually have several sections in the linker script solely for this
purpose.

See for example

   http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14052

We could just black-list the buggy linker, but it appears that it got
shipped in at least F17, and possibly other distros too, so it's sadly
not some rare unusual case.

This backports the workaround from the x86/trampoline branch, and as
Peter says: "This is not a minimal fix, not at all, but it is a tested
code base."

* 'x86/ld-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, relocs: When printing an error, say relative or absolute
  x86, relocs: Workaround for binutils 2.22.52.0.1 section bug
  x86, realmode: 16-bit real-mode code support for relocs tool

(*) That's a manly release numbering system. Stupid, sure. But manly.
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block · 14e931a2
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull block layer fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "A few small, but important fixes.  Most of them are marked for stable
  as well

   - Fix failure to release a semaphore on error path in mtip32xx.
   - Fix crashable condition in bio_get_nr_vecs().
   - Don't mark end-of-disk buffers as mapped, limit it to i_size.
   - Fix for build problem with CONFIG_BLOCK=n on arm at least.
   - Fix for a buffer overlow on UUID partition printing.
   - Trivial removal of unused variables in dac960."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block: fix buffer overflow when printing partition UUIDs
  Fix blkdev.h build errors when BLOCK=n
  bio allocation failure due to bio_get_nr_vecs()
  block: don't mark buffers beyond end of disk as mapped
  mtip32xx: release the semaphore on an error path
  dac960: Remove unused variables from DAC960_CreateProcEntries()
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net · a2ae9787
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull one more networking bug-fix from David Miller:
 "One last straggler.

  Eric Dumazet's pktgen unload oops fix was not entirely complete, but
  all the cases should be handled properly now....  fingers crossed."

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net:
  pktgen: fix module unload for good
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    • Hugh Dickins's avatar
      memcg,thp: fix res_counter:96 regression · 62ade86a
      Hugh Dickins authored 
      Occasionally, testing memcg's move_charge_at_immigrate on rc7 shows
a flurry of hundreds of warnings at kernel/res_counter.c:96, where
res_counter_uncharge_locked() does WARN_ON(counter->usage < val).

The first trace of each flurry implicates __mem_cgroup_cancel_charge()
of mc.precharge, and an audit of mc.precharge handling points to
mem_cgroup_move_charge_pte_range()'s THP handling in commit 12724850
("memcg: avoid THP split in task migration").

Checking !mc.precharge is good everywhere else, when a single page is to
be charged; but here the "mc.precharge -= HPAGE_PMD_NR" likely to
follow, is liable to result in underflow (a lot can change since the
precharge was estimated).

Simply check against HPAGE_PMD_NR: there's probably a better
alternative, trying precharge for more, splitting if unsuccessful; but
this one-liner is safer for now - no kernel/res_counter.c:96 warnings
seen in 26 hours.
Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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    • H. Peter Anvin's avatar
      x86, relocs: When printing an error, say relative or absolute · 24ab82bd
      H. Peter Anvin authored 
      When the relocs tool throws an error, let the error message say if it
is an absolute or relative symbol.  This should make it a lot more
clear what action the programmer needs to take and should help us find
the reason if additional symbol bugs show up.
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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    • H. Peter Anvin's avatar
      x86, relocs: Workaround for binutils 2.22.52.0.1 section bug · a3e854d9
      H. Peter Anvin authored 
      GNU ld 2.22.52.0.1 has a bug that it blindly changes symbols from
section-relative to absolute if they are in a section of zero length.
This turns the symbols __init_begin and __init_end into absolute
symbols.  Let the relocs program know that those should be treated as
relative symbols.
Reported-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com>
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    • H. Peter Anvin's avatar
      x86, realmode: 16-bit real-mode code support for relocs tool · 6520fe55
      H. Peter Anvin authored 
      A new option is added to the relocs tool called '--realmode'.
This option causes the generation of 16-bit segment relocations
and 32-bit linear relocations for the real-mode code. When
the real-mode code is moved to the low-memory during kernel
initialization, these relocation entries can be used to
relocate the code properly.

In the assembly code 16-bit segment relocations must be relative
to the 'real_mode_seg' absolute symbol. Linear relocations must be
relative to a symbol prefixed with 'pa_'.

16-bit segment relocation is used to load cs:ip in 16-bit code.
Linear relocations are used in the 32-bit code for relocatable
data references. They are declared in the linker script of the
real-mode code.

The relocs tool is moved to arch/x86/tools/relocs.c, and added new
target archscripts that can be used to build scripts needed building
an architecture.  be compiled before building the arch/x86 tree.

[ hpa: accelerating this because it detects invalid absolute
  relocations, a serious bug in binutils 2.22.52.0.x which currently
  produces bad kernels. ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336501366-28617-2-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@intel.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
      6520fe55
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