- 17 Feb, 2010 10 commits
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Anton Blanchard authored
This patch implements the lwarx/ldarx hint bit for bit locks. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Anton Blanchard authored
Recent versions of the PowerPC architecture added a hint bit to the larx instructions to differentiate between an atomic operation and a lock operation: > 0 Other programs might attempt to modify the word in storage addressed by EA > even if the subsequent Store Conditional succeeds. > > 1 Other programs will not attempt to modify the word in storage addressed by > EA until the program that has acquired the lock performs a subsequent store > releasing the lock. To avoid a binutils dependency this patch create macros for the extended lwarx format and uses it in the spinlock code. To test this change I used a simple test case that acquires and releases a global pthread mutex: pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex); pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex); On a 32 core POWER6, running 32 test threads we spend almost all our time in the futex spinlock code: 94.37% perf [kernel] [k] ._raw_spin_lock | |--99.95%-- ._raw_spin_lock | | | |--63.29%-- .futex_wake | | | |--36.64%-- .futex_wait_setup Which is a good test for this patch. The results (in lock/unlock operations per second) are: before: 1538203 ops/sec after: 2189219 ops/sec An improvement of 42% A 32 core POWER7 improves even more: before: 1279529 ops/sec after: 2282076 ops/sec An improvement of 78% Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Anton Blanchard authored
I often get asked if BAD interrupts are really bad. On some boxes (eg IBM machines running a hypervisor) there are valid cases where are presented with an interrupt that is not for us. These cases are common enough to show up as thousands of BAD interrupts a day. Tone them down by calling them spurious. Since they can be a significant cause of OS jitter, we may as well log them per cpu so we know where they are occurring. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Anton Blanchard authored
With NO_HZ it is useful to know how often the decrementer is going off. The patch below adds an entry for it and also adds it into the /proc/stat summaries. While here, I added performance monitoring and machine check exceptions. I found it useful to keep an eye on the PMU exception rate when using the perf tool. Since it's possible to take a completely handled machine check on a System p box it also sounds like a good idea to keep a machine check summary. The event naming matches x86 to keep gratuitous differences to a minimum. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Anton Blanchard authored
Now we use printf style alignment there is no need to manually space these fields. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Anton Blanchard authored
On a large machine I noticed the columns of /proc/interrupts failed to line up with the header after CPU9. At sufficiently large numbers of CPUs it becomes impossible to line up the CPU number with the counts. While fixing this I noticed x86 has a number of updates that we may as well pull in. On PowerPC we currently omit an interrupt completely if there is no active handler, whereas on x86 it is printed if there is a non zero count. The x86 code also spaces the first column correctly based on nr_irqs. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Anton Blanchard authored
Right now we allocate a cacheline sized NR_CPUS array for xics IPI communication. Use DECLARE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED to put it in percpu data in its own cacheline since it is written to by other cpus. On a kernel with NR_CPUS=1024, this saves quite a lot of memory: text data bss dec hex filename 8767779 2944260 1505724 13217763 c9afe3 vmlinux.irq_cpustat 8767555 2813444 1505724 13086723 c7b003 vmlinux.xics A saving of around 128kB. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Anton Blanchard authored
PowerPC is currently using asm-generic/hardirq.h which statically allocates an NR_CPUS irq_stat array. Switch to an arch specific implementation which uses per cpu data: On a kernel with NR_CPUS=1024, this saves quite a lot of memory: text data bss dec hex filename 8767938 2944132 1636796 13348866 cbb002 vmlinux.baseline 8767779 2944260 1505724 13217763 c9afe3 vmlinux.irq_cpustat A saving of around 128kB. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Breno Leitao authored
During a EEH recover, the pci_dev structure can be null, mainly if an eeh event is detected during cpi config operation. In this case, the pci_dev will not be known (and will be null) the kernel will crash with the following message: Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x000000a0 Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000006b8b4 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] NIP [c00000000006b8b4] .eeh_event_handler+0x10c/0x1a0 LR [c00000000006b8a8] .eeh_event_handler+0x100/0x1a0 Call Trace: [c0000003a80dff00] [c00000000006b8a8] .eeh_event_handler+0x100/0x1a0 [c0000003a80dff90] [c000000000031f1c] .kernel_thread+0x54/0x70 The bug occurs because pci_name() tries to access a null pointer. This patch just guarantee that pci_name() is not called on Null pointers. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Corey Minyard authored
DMA ops requires that coherent_dma_mask be set properly for a device, but this was not being done for devices on the MV64x60 that use DMA. Both the serial and ethernet devices need this or they won't be able to allocate memory. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 16 Feb, 2010 22 commits
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dmLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm: dm: sysfs revert add empty release function to avoid debug warning dm mpath: fix stall when requeueing io dm raid1: fix null pointer dereference in suspend dm raid1: fail writes if errors are not handled and log fails dm log: userspace fix overhead_size calcuations dm snapshot: persistent annotate work_queue as on stack dm stripe: avoid divide by zero with invalid stripe count
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] preserve personality flag bits across exec
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Alasdair G Kergon authored
Revert commit d2bb7df8 at Greg's request. Author: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Date: Thu Dec 10 23:51:53 2009 +0000 dm: sysfs add empty release function to avoid debug warning This patch just removes an unnecessary warning: kobject: 'dm': does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. The kobject is embedded in mapped device struct, so code does not need to release memory explicitly here. Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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Kiyoshi Ueda authored
This patch fixes the problem that system may stall if target's ->map_rq returns DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE in map_request(). E.g. stall happens on 1 CPU box when a dm-mpath device with queue_if_no_path bounces between all-paths-down and paths-up on I/O load. When target's ->map_rq returns DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE, map_request() requeues the request and returns to dm_request_fn(). Then, dm_request_fn() doesn't exit the I/O dispatching loop and continues processing the requeued request again. This map and requeue loop can be done with interrupt disabled, so 1 CPU system can be stalled if this situation happens. For example, commands below can stall my 1 CPU box within 1 minute or so: # dmsetup table mp mp: 0 2097152 multipath 1 queue_if_no_path 0 1 1 service-time 0 1 2 8:144 1 1 # while true; do dd if=/dev/mapper/mp of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100; done & # while true; do \ > dmsetup message mp 0 "fail_path 8:144" \ > dmsetup suspend --noflush mp \ > dmsetup resume mp \ > dmsetup message mp 0 "reinstate_path 8:144" \ > done To fix the problem above, this patch changes dm_request_fn() to exit the I/O dispatching loop once if a request is requeued in map_request(). Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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Takahiro Yasui authored
When suspending a failed mirror, bios are completed by mirror_end_io() and __rh_lookup() in dm_rh_dec() returns NULL where a non-NULL return value is required by design. Fix this by not changing the state of the recovery failed region from DM_RH_RECOVERING to DM_RH_NOSYNC in dm_rh_recovery_end(). Issue On 2.6.33-rc1 kernel, I hit the bug when I suspended the failed mirror by dmsetup command. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000020 IP: [<f94f38e2>] dm_rh_dec+0x35/0xa1 [dm_region_hash] ... EIP: 0060:[<f94f38e2>] EFLAGS: 00010046 CPU: 0 EIP is at dm_rh_dec+0x35/0xa1 [dm_region_hash] EAX: 00000286 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000286 EDX: 00000000 ESI: eff79eac EDI: eff79e80 EBP: f6915cd4 ESP: f6915cc4 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 Process dmsetup (pid: 2849, ti=f6914000 task=eff03e80 task.ti=f6914000) ... Call Trace: [<f9530af6>] ? mirror_end_io+0x53/0x1b1 [dm_mirror] [<f9413104>] ? clone_endio+0x4d/0xa2 [dm_mod] [<f9530aa3>] ? mirror_end_io+0x0/0x1b1 [dm_mirror] [<f94130b7>] ? clone_endio+0x0/0xa2 [dm_mod] [<c02d6bcb>] ? bio_endio+0x28/0x2b [<f952f303>] ? hold_bio+0x2d/0x62 [dm_mirror] [<f952f942>] ? mirror_presuspend+0xeb/0xf7 [dm_mirror] [<c02aa3e2>] ? vmap_page_range+0xb/0xd [<f9414c8d>] ? suspend_targets+0x2d/0x3b [dm_mod] [<f9414ca9>] ? dm_table_presuspend_targets+0xe/0x10 [dm_mod] [<f941456f>] ? dm_suspend+0x4d/0x150 [dm_mod] [<f941767d>] ? dev_suspend+0x55/0x18a [dm_mod] [<c0343762>] ? _copy_from_user+0x42/0x56 [<f9417fb0>] ? dm_ctl_ioctl+0x22c/0x281 [dm_mod] [<f9417628>] ? dev_suspend+0x0/0x18a [dm_mod] [<f9417d84>] ? dm_ctl_ioctl+0x0/0x281 [dm_mod] [<c02c3c4b>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x22/0x85 [<c02c422c>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x4cb/0x516 [<c02c42b7>] ? sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5a [<c0202858>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28 Analysis When recovery process of a region failed, dm_rh_recovery_end() function changes the state of the region from RM_RH_RECOVERING to DM_RH_NOSYNC. When recovery_complete() is executed between dm_rh_update_states() and dm_writes() in do_mirror(), bios are processed with the region state, DM_RH_NOSYNC. However, the region data is freed without checking its pending count when dm_rh_update_states() is called next time. When bios are finished by mirror_end_io(), __rh_lookup() in dm_rh_dec() returns NULL even though a valid return value are expected. Solution Remove the state change of the recovery failed region from DM_RH_RECOVERING to DM_RH_NOSYNC in dm_rh_recovery_end(). We can remove the state change because: - If the region data has been released by dm_rh_update_states(), a new region data is created with the state of DM_RH_NOSYNC, and bios are processed according to the DM_RH_NOSYNC state. - If the region data has not been released by dm_rh_update_states(), a state of the region is DM_RH_RECOVERING and bios are put in the delayed_bio list. The flag change from DM_RH_RECOVERING to DM_RH_NOSYNC in dm_rh_recovery_end() was added in the following commit: dm raid1: handle resync failures author Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:29:04 +0000 (17:29 +0100) http://git.kernel.org/linus/f44db678edcc6f4c2779ac43f63f0b9dfa28b724Signed-off-by: Takahiro Yasui <tyasui@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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Mikulas Patocka authored
If the mirror log fails when the handle_errors option was not selected and there is no remaining valid mirror leg, writes return success even though they weren't actually written to any device. This patch completes them with EIO instead. This code path is taken: do_writes: bio_list_merge(&ms->failures, &sync); do_failures: if (!get_valid_mirror(ms)) (false) else if (errors_handled(ms)) (false) else bio_endio(bio, 0); The logic in do_failures is based on presuming that the write was already tried: if it succeeded at least on one leg (without handle_errors) it is reported as success. Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555197Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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Jonathan Brassow authored
This patch fixes two bugs that revolve around the miscalculation and misuse of the variable 'overhead_size'. 'overhead_size' is the size of the various header structures used during communication. The first bug is the use of 'sizeof' with the pointer of a structure instead of the structure itself - resulting in the wrong size being computed. This is then used in a check to see if the payload (data_size) would be to large for the preallocated structure. Since the bug produces a smaller value for the overhead, it was possible for the structure to be breached. (Although the current users of the code do not currently send enough data to trigger this bug.) The second bug is that the 'overhead_size' value is used to compute how much of the preallocated space should be cleared before populating it with fresh data. This should have simply been 'sizeof(struct cn_msg)' not overhead_size. The fact that 'overhead_size' was computed incorrectly made this problem "less bad" - leaving only a pointer's worth of space at the end uncleared. Thus, this bug was never producing a bad result, but still needs to be fixed - especially now that the value is computed correctly. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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Mike Snitzer authored
chunk_io() declares its 'struct mdata_req' on the stack and then initializes its 'struct work_struct' member. Annotate the initialization of this workqueue with INIT_WORK_ON_STACK to suppress a debugobjects warning seen when CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK is enabled. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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Nikanth Karthikesan authored
If a table containing zero as stripe count is passed into stripe_ctr the code attempts to divide by zero. This patch changes DM_TABLE_LOAD to return -EINVAL if the stripe count is zero. We now get the following error messages: device-mapper: table: 253:0: striped: Invalid stripe count device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
The 64-bit version of ELF_PLAT_INIT() clears TIF_IA32, but at this point it has already been cleared by SET_PERSONALITY == set_personality_64bit. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
05d43ed8 "x86: get rid of the insane TIF_ABI_PENDING bit" forgot about force_personality32. Fix. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstableLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: Btrfs: btrfs_mark_extent_written uses the wrong slot
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6: firewire: ohci: retransmit isochronous transmit packets on cycle loss firewire: net: fix panic in fwnet_write_complete
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'fix/hda' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: ALSA: hda - Correct ASUA blacklist for MSI brokenness
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Chuck Lever authored
The cached read and write paths initialize fattr->time_start in their setup procedures. The value of fattr->time_start is propagated to read_cache_jiffies by nfs_update_inode(). Subsequent calls to nfs_attribute_timeout() will then use a good time stamp when computing the attribute cache timeout, and squelch unneeded GETATTR calls. Since the direct I/O paths erroneously leave the inode's fattr->time_start field set to zero, read_cache_jiffies for that inode is set to zero after any direct read or write operation. This triggers an otw GETATTR or ACCESS call to update the file's attribute and access caches properly, even when the NFS READ or WRITE replies have usable post-op attributes. Make sure the direct read and write setup code performs the same fattr initialization as the cached I/O paths to prevent unnecessary GETATTR calls. This was likely introduced by commit 0e574af1 in 2.6.15, which appears to add new nfs_fattr_init() call sites in the cached read and write paths, but not in the equivalent places in fs/nfs/direct.c. A subsequent commit in the same series, 33801147, introduces the fattr->time_start field. Interestingly, the direct write reschedule path already has a call to nfs_fattr_init() in the right place. Reported-by: Quentin Barnes <qbarnes@yahoo-inc.com> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: hrtimer, softirq: Fix hrtimer->softirq trampoline
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'reiserfs/kill-bkl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing * 'reiserfs/kill-bkl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing: reiserfs: Fix softlockup while waiting on an inode
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'drm-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: drm/radeon/kms: make sure retry count increases. drm/radeon/kms/atom: use get_unaligned_le32() for ctx->ps drm/ttm: Fix a bug occuring when validating a buffer object in a range. drm: Fix a bug in the range manager.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'sh/for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: sh64: fix tracing of signals.
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing/kprobes: Fix probe parsing tracing: Fix circular dead lock in stack trace
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf top: Fix help text alignment perf: Fix hypervisor sample reporting perf: Make bp_len type to u64 generic across the arch
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- 15 Feb, 2010 6 commits
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Takashi Iwai authored
The MSI blacklist entry for ASUS mobo added in the commit 8ce28d6a was based on the alsa-info output wrongly posted. Fix the id to the right one now. Reported-by: Sid Boyce <sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Dave Airlie authored
In testing I've never seen it go past 1 retry anyways but better safe than sorry. Reported by Droste on irc. Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Paul Mundt authored
This follows the parisc change to ensure that tracehook_signal_handler() is aware of when we are single-stepping in order to ptrace_notify() appropriately. While this was implemented for 32-bit SH, sh64 neglected to make use of TIF_SINGLESTEP when it was folded in with the 32-bit code, resulting in ptrace_notify() never being called. As sh64 uses all of the other abstractions already, this simply plugs in the thread flag in the appropriate enable/disable paths and fixes up the tracehook notification accordingly. With this in place, sh64 is brought in line with what 32-bit is already doing. Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Matt Turner authored
Noticed on a DEC Alpha. Start up into console mode caused 15 unaligned accesses, and starting X caused another 48. Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> CC: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> CC: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Thomas Hellstrom authored
If the buffer object was already in the requested memory type, but outside of the requested range it was never moved into the requested range. Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Thomas Hellstrom authored
When searching for free space in a range, the function could return a node extending outside of the given range. Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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- 14 Feb, 2010 2 commits
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
When we wait for an inode through reiserfs_iget(), we hold the reiserfs lock. And waiting for an inode may imply waiting for its writeback. But the inode writeback path may also require the reiserfs lock, which leads to a deadlock. We just need to release the reiserfs lock from reiserfs_iget() to fix this. Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Tested-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Clemens Ladisch authored
In isochronous transmit DMA descriptors, link the skip address pointer back to the descriptor itself. When a cycle is lost, the controller will send the packet in the next cycle, instead of terminating the entire DMA program. There are two reasons for this: * This behaviour is compatible with the old IEEE1394 stack. Old applications would not expect the DMA program to stop in this case. * Since the OHCI driver does not report any uncompleted packets, the context would stop silently; clients would not have any chance to detect and handle this error without a watchdog timer. Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Pieter Palmers notes: "The reason I added this retry behavior to the old stack is because some cards now and then fail to send a packet (e.g. the o2micro card in my dell laptop). I couldn't figure out why exactly this happens, my best guess is that the card cannot fetch the payload data on time. This happens much more frequently when sending large packets, which leads me to suspect that there are some contention issues with the DMA that fills the transmit FIFO. In the old stack it was a pretty critical issue as it resulted in a freeze of the userspace application. The omission of a packet doesn't necessarily have to be an issue. E.g. in IEC61883 streams the DBC field can be used to detect discontinuities in the stream. So as long as the other side doesn't bail when no [packet] is present in a cycle, there is not really a problem. I'm not convinced though that retrying is the proper solution, but it is simple and effective for what it had to do. And I think there are no reasons not to do it this way. Userspace can still detect this by checking the cycle the descriptor was sent in." Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (changelog, comment)
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