- 28 Sep, 2012 13 commits
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Rusty Russell authored
It is not experimental in any vaguely-sane sense. Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Michael S. Tsirkin authored
Devices should depend on virtio, not select it. It's supposed to be selected by the particular driver, e.g. VIRTIO_PCI. Make balloon depend on VIRTIO and EXPERIMENTAL (to match description). Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Dan Carpenter authored
Smatch complains about the inconsistent NULL checking here. Fix it to return NULL on failure. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (fixed accidental deletion)
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Asias He authored
We need to support both REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA for bio based path since it does not get the sequencing of REQ_FUA into REQ_FLUSH that request based drivers can request. REQ_FLUSH is emulated by: A) If the bio has no data to write: 1. Send VIRTIO_BLK_T_FLUSH to device, 2. In the flush I/O completion handler, finish the bio B) If the bio has data to write: 1. Send VIRTIO_BLK_T_FLUSH to device 2. In the flush I/O completion handler, send the actual write data to device 3. In the write I/O completion handler, finish the bio REQ_FUA is emulated by: 1. Send the actual write data to device 2. In the write I/O completion handler, send VIRTIO_BLK_T_FLUSH to device 3. In the flush I/O completion handler, finish the bio Changes in v7: - Using vbr->flags to trace request type - Dropped unnecessary struct virtio_blk *vblk parameter - Reuse struct virtblk_req in bio done function Cahnges in v6: - Reworked REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA emulatation order Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Asias He authored
This patch introduces bio-based IO path for virtio-blk. Compared to request-based IO path, bio-based IO path uses driver provided ->make_request_fn() method to bypasses the IO scheduler. It handles the bio to device directly without allocating a request in block layer. This reduces the IO path in guest kernel to achieve high IOPS and lower latency. The downside is that guest can not use the IO scheduler to merge and sort requests. However, this is not a big problem if the backend disk in host side uses faster disk device. When the bio-based IO path is not enabled, virtio-blk still uses the original request-based IO path, no performance difference is observed. Using a slow device e.g. normal SATA disk, the bio-based IO path for sequential read and write are slower than req-based IO path due to lack of merge in guest kernel. So we make the bio-based path optional. Performance evaluation: ----------------------------- 1) Fio test is performed in a 8 vcpu guest with ramdisk based guest using kvm tool. Short version: With bio-based IO path, sequential read/write, random read/write IOPS boost : 28%, 24%, 21%, 16% Latency improvement: 32%, 17%, 21%, 16% Long version: With bio-based IO path: seq-read : io=2048.0MB, bw=116996KB/s, iops=233991 , runt= 17925msec seq-write : io=2048.0MB, bw=100829KB/s, iops=201658 , runt= 20799msec rand-read : io=3095.7MB, bw=112134KB/s, iops=224268 , runt= 28269msec rand-write: io=3095.7MB, bw=96198KB/s, iops=192396 , runt= 32952msec clat (usec): min=0 , max=2631.6K, avg=58716.99, stdev=191377.30 clat (usec): min=0 , max=1753.2K, avg=66423.25, stdev=81774.35 clat (usec): min=0 , max=2915.5K, avg=61685.70, stdev=120598.39 clat (usec): min=0 , max=1933.4K, avg=76935.12, stdev=96603.45 cpu : usr=74.08%, sys=703.84%, ctx=29661403, majf=21354, minf=22460954 cpu : usr=70.92%, sys=702.81%, ctx=77219828, majf=13980, minf=27713137 cpu : usr=72.23%, sys=695.37%, ctx=88081059, majf=18475, minf=28177648 cpu : usr=69.69%, sys=654.13%, ctx=145476035, majf=15867, minf=26176375 With request-based IO path: seq-read : io=2048.0MB, bw=91074KB/s, iops=182147 , runt= 23027msec seq-write : io=2048.0MB, bw=80725KB/s, iops=161449 , runt= 25979msec rand-read : io=3095.7MB, bw=92106KB/s, iops=184211 , runt= 34416msec rand-write: io=3095.7MB, bw=82815KB/s, iops=165630 , runt= 38277msec clat (usec): min=0 , max=1932.4K, avg=77824.17, stdev=170339.49 clat (usec): min=0 , max=2510.2K, avg=78023.96, stdev=146949.15 clat (usec): min=0 , max=3037.2K, avg=74746.53, stdev=128498.27 clat (usec): min=0 , max=1363.4K, avg=89830.75, stdev=114279.68 cpu : usr=53.28%, sys=724.19%, ctx=37988895, majf=17531, minf=23577622 cpu : usr=49.03%, sys=633.20%, ctx=205935380, majf=18197, minf=27288959 cpu : usr=55.78%, sys=722.40%, ctx=101525058, majf=19273, minf=28067082 cpu : usr=56.55%, sys=690.83%, ctx=228205022, majf=18039, minf=26551985 2) Fio test is performed in a 8 vcpu guest with Fusion-IO based guest using kvm tool. Short version: With bio-based IO path, sequential read/write, random read/write IOPS boost : 11%, 11%, 13%, 10% Latency improvement: 10%, 10%, 12%, 10% Long Version: With bio-based IO path: read : io=2048.0MB, bw=58920KB/s, iops=117840 , runt= 35593msec write: io=2048.0MB, bw=64308KB/s, iops=128616 , runt= 32611msec read : io=3095.7MB, bw=59633KB/s, iops=119266 , runt= 53157msec write: io=3095.7MB, bw=62993KB/s, iops=125985 , runt= 50322msec clat (usec): min=0 , max=1284.3K, avg=128109.01, stdev=71513.29 clat (usec): min=94 , max=962339 , avg=116832.95, stdev=65836.80 clat (usec): min=0 , max=1846.6K, avg=128509.99, stdev=89575.07 clat (usec): min=0 , max=2256.4K, avg=121361.84, stdev=82747.25 cpu : usr=56.79%, sys=421.70%, ctx=147335118, majf=21080, minf=19852517 cpu : usr=61.81%, sys=455.53%, ctx=143269950, majf=16027, minf=24800604 cpu : usr=63.10%, sys=455.38%, ctx=178373538, majf=16958, minf=24822612 cpu : usr=62.04%, sys=453.58%, ctx=226902362, majf=16089, minf=23278105 With request-based IO path: read : io=2048.0MB, bw=52896KB/s, iops=105791 , runt= 39647msec write: io=2048.0MB, bw=57856KB/s, iops=115711 , runt= 36248msec read : io=3095.7MB, bw=52387KB/s, iops=104773 , runt= 60510msec write: io=3095.7MB, bw=57310KB/s, iops=114619 , runt= 55312msec clat (usec): min=0 , max=1532.6K, avg=142085.62, stdev=109196.84 clat (usec): min=0 , max=1487.4K, avg=129110.71, stdev=114973.64 clat (usec): min=0 , max=1388.6K, avg=145049.22, stdev=107232.55 clat (usec): min=0 , max=1465.9K, avg=133585.67, stdev=110322.95 cpu : usr=44.08%, sys=590.71%, ctx=451812322, majf=14841, minf=17648641 cpu : usr=48.73%, sys=610.78%, ctx=418953997, majf=22164, minf=26850689 cpu : usr=45.58%, sys=581.16%, ctx=714079216, majf=21497, minf=22558223 cpu : usr=48.40%, sys=599.65%, ctx=656089423, majf=16393, minf=23824409 3) Fio test is performed in a 8 vcpu guest with normal SATA based guest using kvm tool. Short version: With bio-based IO path, sequential read/write, random read/write IOPS boost : -10%, -10%, 4.4%, 0.5% Latency improvement: -12%, -15%, 2.5%, 0.8% Long Version: With bio-based IO path: read : io=124812KB, bw=36537KB/s, iops=9060 , runt= 3416msec write: io=169180KB, bw=24406KB/s, iops=6065 , runt= 6932msec read : io=256200KB, bw=2089.3KB/s, iops=520 , runt=122630msec write: io=257988KB, bw=1545.7KB/s, iops=384 , runt=166910msec clat (msec): min=1 , max=1527 , avg=28.06, stdev=89.54 clat (msec): min=2 , max=344 , avg=41.12, stdev=38.70 clat (msec): min=8 , max=1984 , avg=490.63, stdev=207.28 clat (msec): min=33 , max=4131 , avg=659.19, stdev=304.71 cpu : usr=4.85%, sys=17.15%, ctx=31593, majf=0, minf=7 cpu : usr=3.04%, sys=11.45%, ctx=39377, majf=0, minf=0 cpu : usr=0.47%, sys=1.59%, ctx=262986, majf=0, minf=16 cpu : usr=0.47%, sys=1.46%, ctx=337410, majf=0, minf=0 With request-based IO path: read : io=150120KB, bw=40420KB/s, iops=10037 , runt= 3714msec write: io=194932KB, bw=27029KB/s, iops=6722 , runt= 7212msec read : io=257136KB, bw=2001.1KB/s, iops=498 , runt=128443msec write: io=258276KB, bw=1537.2KB/s, iops=382 , runt=168028msec clat (msec): min=1 , max=1542 , avg=24.84, stdev=32.45 clat (msec): min=3 , max=628 , avg=35.62, stdev=39.71 clat (msec): min=8 , max=2540 , avg=503.28, stdev=236.97 clat (msec): min=41 , max=4398 , avg=653.88, stdev=302.61 cpu : usr=3.91%, sys=15.75%, ctx=26968, majf=0, minf=23 cpu : usr=2.50%, sys=10.56%, ctx=19090, majf=0, minf=0 cpu : usr=0.16%, sys=0.43%, ctx=20159, majf=0, minf=16 cpu : usr=0.18%, sys=0.53%, ctx=81364, majf=0, minf=0 How to use: ----------------------------- Add 'virtio_blk.use_bio=1' to kernel cmdline or 'modprobe virtio_blk use_bio=1' to enable ->make_request_fn() based I/O path. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Alexey Khoroshilov authored
If register_virtio_driver() fails, virtio-ports class is not destroyed. The patch adds error handling of register_virtio_driver(). Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru> Acked-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Yoshihiro YUNOMAE authored
pthread flag should not be -lpthread but -pthread using gcc. The -lpthread links the external multithread library. On the other hand, the -pthread manages both the gcc's preprocessor and linker to be able to compile with pthread. Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro YUNOMAE <yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Yoshihiro YUNOMAE authored
This patch adds a user tool, "trace agent" for sending trace data of a guest to a Host in low overhead. This agent has the following functions: - splice a page of ring-buffer to read_pipe without memory copying - splice the page from write_pipe to virtio-console without memory copying - write trace data to stdout by using -o option - controlled by start/stop orders from a Host Changes in v2: - Cleanup (change fprintf() to pr_err() and an include guard) Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro YUNOMAE <yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@hitachi.com> Acked-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Masami Hiramatsu authored
Allocate scatterlist according to the current pipe size. This allows splicing bigger buffer if the pipe size has been changed by fcntl. Changes in v2: - Just a minor fix for avoiding a confliction with previous patch. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Acked-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Masami Hiramatsu authored
Use generic steal operation on pipe buffer to allow stealing ring buffer's read page from pipe buffer. Note that this could reduce the performance of splice on the splice_write side operation without affinity setting. Since the ring buffer's read pages are allocated on the tracing-node, but the splice user does not always execute splice write side operation on the same node. In this case, the page will be accessed from the another node. Thus, it is strongly recommended to assign the splicing thread to corresponding node. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Masami Hiramatsu authored
Wait if the port is not connected or full on splice like as write is doing. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Acked-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Masami Hiramatsu authored
Add a failback memcpy path for unstealable pipe buffer. If buf->ops->steal() fails, virtio-serial tries to copy the page contents to an allocated page, instead of just failing splice(). Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Acked-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Masami Hiramatsu authored
Enable to use splice_write from pipe to virtio-console port. This steals pages from pipe and directly send it to host. Note that this may accelerate only the guest to host path. Changes in v2: - Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC in syscall context function. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Acked-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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- 18 Sep, 2012 2 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ohad/hwspinlockLinus Torvalds authored
Pull hwspinlock fix from Ohad Ben-Cohen: "A single hwspinlock fix by Wei Yongjun, which prevents potential NULL dereferences" * tag 'hwspinlock-3.6-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ohad/hwspinlock: hwspinlock/core: move the dereference below the NULL test
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Miklos Szeredi authored
IBM reported a soft lockup after applying the fix for the rename_lock deadlock. Commit c83ce989 ("VFS: Fix the nfs sillyrename regression in kernel 2.6.38") was found to be the culprit. The nfs sillyrename fix used DCACHE_DISCONNECTED to indicate that the dentry was killed. This flag can be set on non-killed dentries too, which results in infinite retries when trying to traverse the dentry tree. This patch introduces a separate flag: DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED, which is only set in d_kill() and makes try_to_ascend() test only this flag. IBM reported successful test results with this patch. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 17 Sep, 2012 18 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds authored
Pull another workqueue fix from Tejun Heo: "Unfortunately, yet another late fix. This too is discovered and fixed by Lai. This bug was introduced during this merge window by commit 25511a47 ("workqueue: reimplement CPU online rebinding to handle idle workers") which started using WORKER_REBIND flag for idle rebind too. The bug is relatively easy to trigger if the CPU rapidly goes through off, on and then off (and stay off). The fix is on the safer side. This hasn't been on linux-next yet but I'm pushing early so that it can get more exposure before v3.6 release." * 'for-3.6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: always clear WORKER_REBIND in busy_worker_rebind_fn()
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Lai Jiangshan authored
busy_worker_rebind_fn() didn't clear WORKER_REBIND if rebinding failed (CPU is down again). This used to be okay because the flag wasn't used for anything else. However, after 25511a47 "workqueue: reimplement CPU online rebinding to handle idle workers", WORKER_REBIND is also used to command idle workers to rebind. If not cleared, the worker may confuse the next CPU_UP cycle by having REBIND spuriously set or oops / get stuck by prematurely calling idle_worker_rebind(). WARNING: at /work/os/wq/kernel/workqueue.c:1323 worker_thread+0x4cd/0x5 00() Hardware name: Bochs Modules linked in: test_wq(O-) Pid: 33, comm: kworker/1:1 Tainted: G O 3.6.0-rc1-work+ #3 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8109039f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [<ffffffff810903fa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff810b3f1d>] worker_thread+0x4cd/0x500 [<ffffffff810bc16e>] kthread+0xbe/0xd0 [<ffffffff81bd2664>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 ---[ end trace e977cf20f4661968 ]--- BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [<ffffffff810b3db0>] worker_thread+0x360/0x500 PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Modules linked in: test_wq(O-) CPU 0 Pid: 33, comm: kworker/1:1 Tainted: G W O 3.6.0-rc1-work+ #3 Bochs Bochs RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810b3db0>] [<ffffffff810b3db0>] worker_thread+0x360/0x500 RSP: 0018:ffff88001e1c9de0 EFLAGS: 00010086 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88001e633e00 RCX: 0000000000004140 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000009 RBP: ffff88001e1c9ea0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88001fc8d580 R13: ffff88001fc8d590 R14: ffff88001e633e20 R15: ffff88001e1c6900 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88001fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000130e8000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process kworker/1:1 (pid: 33, threadinfo ffff88001e1c8000, task ffff88001e1c6900) Stack: ffff880000000000 ffff88001e1c9e40 0000000000000001 ffff88001e1c8010 ffff88001e519c78 ffff88001e1c9e58 ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001fc8d340 ffff88001fc8d340 Call Trace: [<ffffffff810bc16e>] kthread+0xbe/0xd0 [<ffffffff81bd2664>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 Code: b1 00 f6 43 48 02 0f 85 91 01 00 00 48 8b 43 38 48 89 df 48 8b 00 48 89 45 90 e8 ac f0 ff ff 3c 01 0f 85 60 01 00 00 48 8b 53 50 <8b> 02 83 e8 01 85 c0 89 02 0f 84 3b 01 00 00 48 8b 43 38 48 8b RIP [<ffffffff810b3db0>] worker_thread+0x360/0x500 RSP <ffff88001e1c9de0> CR2: 0000000000000000 There was no reason to keep WORKER_REBIND on failure in the first place - WORKER_UNBOUND is guaranteed to be set in such cases preventing incorrectly activating concurrency management. Always clear WORKER_REBIND. tj: Updated comment and description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge fixes from Andrew Morton: "13 patches. 12 are fixes and one is a little preparatory thing for Andi." * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (13 commits) memory hotplug: fix section info double registration bug mm/page_alloc: fix the page address of higher page's buddy calculation drivers/rtc/rtc-twl.c: ensure all interrupts are disabled during probe compiler.h: add __visible pid-namespace: limit value of ns_last_pid to (0, max_pid) include/net/sock.h: squelch compiler warning in sk_rmem_schedule() slub: consider pfmemalloc_match() in get_partial_node() slab: fix starting index for finding another object slab: do ClearSlabPfmemalloc() for all pages of slab nbd: clear waiting_queue on shutdown MAINTAINERS: fix TXT maintainer list and source repo path mm/ia64: fix a memory block size bug memory hotplug: reset pgdat->kswapd to NULL if creating kernel thread fails
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qiuxishi authored
There may be a bug when registering section info. For example, on my Itanium platform, the pfn range of node0 includes the other nodes, so other nodes' section info will be double registered, and memmap's page count will equal to 3. node0: start_pfn=0x100, spanned_pfn=0x20fb00, present_pfn=0x7f8a3, => 0x000100-0x20fc00 node1: start_pfn=0x80000, spanned_pfn=0x80000, present_pfn=0x80000, => 0x080000-0x100000 node2: start_pfn=0x100000, spanned_pfn=0x80000, present_pfn=0x80000, => 0x100000-0x180000 node3: start_pfn=0x180000, spanned_pfn=0x80000, present_pfn=0x80000, => 0x180000-0x200000 free_all_bootmem_node() register_page_bootmem_info_node() register_page_bootmem_info_section() When hot remove memory, we can't free the memmap's page because page_count() is 2 after put_page_bootmem(). sparse_remove_one_section() free_section_usemap() free_map_bootmem() put_page_bootmem() [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add code comment] Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Li Haifeng authored
The heuristic method for buddy has been introduced since commit 43506fad ("mm/page_alloc.c: simplify calculation of combined index of adjacent buddy lists"). But the page address of higher page's buddy was wrongly calculated, which will lead page_is_buddy to fail for ever. IOW, the heuristic method would be disabled with the wrong page address of higher page's buddy. Calculating the page address of higher page's buddy should be based higher_page with the offset between index of higher page and index of higher page's buddy. Signed-off-by: Haifeng Li <omycle@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KyongHo Cho <pullip.cho@samsung.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [2.6.38+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kevin Hilman authored
On some platforms, bootloaders are known to do some interesting RTC programming. Without going into the obscurities as to why this may be the case, suffice it to say the the driver should not make any assumptions about the state of the RTC when the driver loads. In particular, the driver probe should be sure that all interrupts are disabled until otherwise programmed. This was discovered when finding bursty I2C traffic every second on Overo platforms. This I2C overhead was keeping the SoC from hitting deep power states. The cause was found to be the RTC firing every second on the I2C-connected TWL PMIC. Special thanks to Felipe Balbi for suggesting to look for a rogue driver as the source of the I2C traffic rather than the I2C driver itself. Special thanks to Steve Sakoman for helping track down the source of the continuous RTC interrups on the Overo boards. Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Tested-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Tested-by: Shubhrajyoti Datta <omaplinuxkernel@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andi Kleen authored
gcc 4.6+ has support for a externally_visible attribute that prevents the optimizer from optimizing unused symbols away. Add a __visible macro to use it with that compiler version or later. This is used (at least) by the "Link Time Optimization" patchset. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Vagin authored
The kernel doesn't check the pid for negative values, so if you try to write -2 to /proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid, you will get a kernel panic. The crash happens because the next pid is -1, and alloc_pidmap() will try to access to a nonexistent pidmap. map = &pid_ns->pidmap[pid/BITS_PER_PAGE]; Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Chuck Lever authored
This warning: In file included from linux/include/linux/tcp.h:227:0, from linux/include/linux/ipv6.h:221, from linux/include/net/ipv6.h:16, from linux/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h:26, from linux/net/sunrpc/stats.c:22: linux/include/net/sock.h: In function `sk_rmem_schedule': linux/nfs-2.6/include/net/sock.h:1339:13: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions [-Wsign-compare] is seen with gcc (GCC) 4.6.3 20120306 (Red Hat 4.6.3-2) using the -Wextra option. Commit c76562b6 ("netvm: prevent a stream-specific deadlock") accidentally replaced the "size" parameter of sk_rmem_schedule() with an unsigned int. This changes the semantics of the comparison in the return statement. In sk_wmem_schedule we have syntactically the same comparison, but "size" is a signed integer. In addition, __sk_mem_schedule() takes a signed integer for its "size" parameter, so there is an implicit type conversion in sk_rmem_schedule() anyway. Revert the "size" parameter back to a signed integer so that the semantics of the expressions in both sk_[rw]mem_schedule() are exactly the same. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joonsoo Kim authored
get_partial() is currently not checking pfmemalloc_match() meaning that it is possible for pfmemalloc pages to leak to non-pfmemalloc users. This is a problem in the following situation. Assume that there is a request from normal allocation and there are no objects in the per-cpu cache and no node-partial slab. In this case, slab_alloc enters the slow path and new_slab_objects() is called which may return a PFMEMALLOC page. As the current user is not allowed to access PFMEMALLOC page, deactivate_slab() is called ([5091b74a: mm: slub: optimise the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks]) and returns an object from PFMEMALLOC page. Next time, when we get another request from normal allocation, slab_alloc() enters the slow-path and calls new_slab_objects(). In new_slab_objects(), we call get_partial() and get a partial slab which was just deactivated but is a pfmemalloc page. We extract one object from it and re-deactivate. "deactivate -> re-get in get_partial -> re-deactivate" occures repeatedly. As a result, access to PFMEMALLOC page is not properly restricted and it can cause a performance degradation due to frequent deactivation. deactivation frequently. This patch changes get_partial_node() to take pfmemalloc_match() into account and prevents the "deactivate -> re-get in get_partial() scenario. Instead, new_slab() is called. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joonsoo Kim authored
In array cache, there is a object at index 0, check it. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored
Right now, we call ClearSlabPfmemalloc() for first page of slab when we clear SlabPfmemalloc flag. This is fine for most swap-over-network use cases as it is expected that order-0 pages are in use. Unfortunately it is possible that that __ac_put_obj() checks SlabPfmemalloc on a tail page and while this is harmless, it is sloppy. This patch ensures that the head page is always used. This problem was originally identified by Joonsoo Kim. [js1304@gmail.com: Original implementation and problem identification] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Paul Clements authored
Fix a serious but uncommon bug in nbd which occurs when there is heavy I/O going to the nbd device while, at the same time, a failure (server, network) or manual disconnect of the nbd connection occurs. There is a small window between the time that the nbd_thread is stopped and the socket is shutdown where requests can continue to be queued to nbd's internal waiting_queue. When this happens, those requests are never completed or freed. The fix is to clear the waiting_queue on shutdown of the nbd device, in the same way that the nbd request queue (queue_head) is already being cleared. Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Gang Wei authored
Signed-off-by: Gang Wei <gang.wei@intel.com> Cc: Richard L Maliszewski <richard.l.maliszewski@intel.com> Cc: Gang Wei <gang.wei@intel.com> Cc: Shane Wang <shane.wang@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jianguo Wu authored
I found following definition in include/linux/memory.h, in my IA64 platform, SECTION_SIZE_BITS is equal to 32, and MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE will be 0. #define MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE (1 << SECTION_SIZE_BITS) Because MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE is int type and length of 32bits, so MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE(1 << 32) will will equal to 0. Actually when SECTION_SIZE_BITS >= 31, MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE will be wrong. This will cause wrong system memory infomation in sysfs. I think it should be: #define MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE (1UL << SECTION_SIZE_BITS) And "echo offline > memory0/state" will cause following call trace: kernel BUG at mm/memory_hotplug.c:885! sh[6455]: bugcheck! 0 [1] Pid: 6455, CPU 0, comm: sh psr : 0000101008526030 ifs : 8000000000000fa4 ip : [<a0000001008c40f0>] Not tainted (3.6.0-rc1) ip is at offline_pages+0x210/0xee0 Call Trace: show_stack+0x80/0xa0 show_regs+0x640/0x920 die+0x190/0x2c0 die_if_kernel+0x50/0x80 ia64_bad_break+0x3d0/0x6e0 ia64_native_leave_kernel+0x0/0x270 offline_pages+0x210/0xee0 alloc_pages_current+0x180/0x2a0 Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Wen Congyang authored
If kthread_run() fails, pgdat->kswapd contains errno. When we stop this thread, we only check whether pgdat->kswapd is NULL and access it. If it contains errno, it will cause page fault. Reset pgdat->kswapd to NULL when creating kernel thread fails can avoid this problem. Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infinibandLinus Torvalds authored
Pull InfiniBand/RDMA fixes from Roland Dreier: - A couple more IPoIB fixes for regressions introduced by path database conversion - Minor other fixes to low-level drivers (cxgb4, mlx4, qib, ocrdma) * tag 'rdma-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: IB/qib: Fix failure of compliance test C14-024#06_LocalPortNum RDMA/ocrdma: Fix CQE expansion of unsignaled WQE mlx4_core: Fix integer overflows so 8TBs of memory registration works IPoIB: Fix AB-BA deadlock when deleting neighbours IPoIB: Fix memory leak in the neigh table deletion flow RDMA/cxgb4: Move dereference below NULL test
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Francesco Ruggeri authored
The unregister_sysctl_table() function hangs if all references to its ctl_table_header structure are not dropped. This can happen sometimes because of a leak in proc_sys_lookup(): proc_sys_lookup() gets a reference to the table via lookup_entry(), but it does not release it when a subsequent call to sysctl_follow_link() fails. This patch fixes this leak by making sure the reference is always dropped on return. See also commit 076c3eed ("sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_lookup introducing find_entry and lookup_entry") which reorganized this code in 3.4. Tested in Linux 3.4.4. Signed-off-by: Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@aristanetworks.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/mfd-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
Pull mfd fixes from Samuel Ortiz: "This is the remaining MFD fixes for 3.6, with 5 pending fixes: - A tps65217 build error fix. - A lcp_ich regression fix caused by the MFD driver failing to initialize the watchdog sub device due to ACPI conflicts. - 2 MAX77693 interrupt handling bug fixes. - An MFD core fix, adding an IRQ domain argument to the MFD device addition API in order to prevent silent and potentially harmful remapping behaviour changes for drivers supporting non-DT platforms." * tag 'mfd-for-linus-3.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/mfd-2.6: mfd: MAX77693: Fix NULL pointer error when initializing irqs mfd: MAX77693: Fix interrupt handling bug mfd: core: Push irqdomain mapping out into devices mfd: lpc_ich: Fix a 3.5 kernel regression for iTCO_wdt driver mfd: Move tps65217 regulator plat data handling to regulator
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git://gitorious.org/linux-pwm/linux-pwmLinus Torvalds authored
Pull pwm fixes from Thierry Reding: "While this comes a bit later than I had wished, both patches are rather minor and touch only new drivers so I think these are still safe for merging." * tag 'for-3.6-rc6' of git://gitorious.org/linux-pwm/linux-pwm: pwm: pwm-tiehrpwm: Fix conflicting channel period setting pwm: pwm-tiecap: Disable APWM mode after configure
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pendingLinus Torvalds authored
Pull scsi target fixes from Nicholas Bellinger: "Here is the current set of target-pending fixes headed for v3.6-final The main parts of this series include bug-fixes from Paolo Bonzini to address an use-after-free bug in pSCSI sense exception handling, along with addressing some long-standing bugs wrt the handling of zero- length SCSI CDB payloads also specific to pSCSI pass-through device backends." * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: target: go through normal processing for zero-length REQUEST_SENSE target: support zero allocation length in REQUEST SENSE target: support zero-size allocation lengths in transport_kmap_data_sg target: fail REPORT LUNS with less than 16 bytes of payload target: report too-small parameter lists everywhere target: go through normal processing for zero-length PSCSI commands target: fix use-after-free with PSCSI sense data target: simplify code around transport_get_sense_data target: move transport_get_sense_data target: Check idr_get_new return value in iscsi_login_zero_tsih_s1 target: Fix ->data_length re-assignment bug with SCSI overflow
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pmLinus Torvalds authored
Pull power management fixes from Rafael J. Wysocki: "Three ACPI device power management fixes related to checking and setting device power states." * tag 'pm-for-3.6-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: ACPI / PM: Use KERN_DEBUG when no power resources are found ACPI / PM: Fix resource_lock dead lock in acpi_power_on_device ACPI / PM: Infer parent power state from child if unknown, v2
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull a btrfs revert from Chris Mason: "My for-linus branch has one revert in the new quota code. We're building up more fixes at etc for the next merge window, but I'm keeping them out unless they are bigger regressions or have a huge impact." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs: Revert "Btrfs: fix some error codes in btrfs_qgroup_inherit()"
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/soundLinus Torvalds authored
Pull more sound fixes from Takashi Iwai: "Yet more (a bunch of) small fixes that slipped from the previous pull request. Most of commits are pending ASoC fixes, all of which are fairly trivial commits." * tag 'sound-3.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound: ASoC: wm8904: correct the index ALSA: hda - Yet another position_fix quirk for ASUS machines ASoC: tegra: fix maxburst settings in dmaengine code ASoC: samsung dma - Don't indicate support for pause/resume. ASoC: mc13783: Remove mono support ASoC: arizona: Fix typo in 44.1kHz rates ASoC: spear: correct the check for NULL dma_buffer pointer sound: tegra_alc5632: remove HP detect GPIO inversion ASoC: atmel-ssc: include linux/io.h for raw io ASoC: dapm: Don't force card bias level to be updated ASoC: dapm: Make sure we update the bias level for CODECs with no op ASoC: am3517evm: fix error return code ASoC: ux500_msp_i2s: better use devm functions and fix error return code ASoC: imx-sgtl5000: fix error return code
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