- 25 Apr, 2011 2 commits
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
While the tracer accesses ptrace breakpoints, the child task may concurrently exit due to a SIGKILL and thus release its breakpoints at the same time. We can then dereference some freed pointers. To fix this, hold a reference on the child breakpoints before manipulating them. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: v2.6.33.. <stable@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
When a task is traced and is in a stopped state, the tracer may execute a ptrace request to examine the tracee state and get its task struct. Right after, the tracee can be killed and thus its breakpoints released. This can happen concurrently when the tracer is in the middle of reading or modifying these breakpoints, leading to dereferencing a freed pointer. Hence, to prepare the fix, create a generic breakpoint reference holding API. When a reference on the breakpoints of a task is held, the breakpoints won't be released until the last reference is dropped. After that, no more ptrace request on the task's breakpoints can be serviced for the tracer. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: v2.6.33.. <stable@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
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- 22 Apr, 2011 4 commits
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Change the Nehalem cache events to use retired memory instruction counters (similar to Westmere), this greatly improves the provided stats. Using: main () { int i; for (i = 0; i < 1000000000; i++) { asm("mov (%%rsp), %%rbx;" "mov %%rbx, (%%rsp);" : : : "rbx"); } } We find: $ perf stat --repeat 10 -e instructions:u -e l1-dcache-loads:u -e l1-dcache-stores:u ./loop_1b_loads+stores Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_loads+stores' (10 runs): 4,000,081,056 instructions:u # 0.000 IPC ( +- 0.000% ) 4,999,502,846 l1-dcache-loads:u ( +- 0.008% ) 1,000,034,832 l1-dcache-stores:u ( +- 0.000% ) 1.565184942 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.005% ) The 5b is surprising - we'd expect 1b: $ perf stat --repeat 10 -e instructions:u -e r10b:u -e l1-dcache-stores:u ./loop_1b_loads+stores Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_loads+stores' (10 runs): 4,000,081,054 instructions:u # 0.000 IPC ( +- 0.000% ) 1,000,021,961 r10b:u ( +- 0.000% ) 1,000,030,951 l1-dcache-stores:u ( +- 0.000% ) 1.565055422 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.003% ) Which this patch thus fixes. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-q9rtru7b7840tws75xzboapv@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored
It's not enough to simply disable event on overflow the cpuc->active_mask should be cleared as well otherwise counter may stall in "active" even in real being already disabled (which potentially may lead to the situation that user may not use this counter further). Don pointed out that: " I also noticed this patch fixed some unknown NMIs on a P4 when I stressed the box". Tested-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303398203-2918-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Andi Kleen pointed out that the Intel offcore support patches were merged without user-space tool support to the functionality: | | The offcore_msr perf kernel code was merged into 2.6.39-rc*, but the | user space bits were not. This made it impossible to set the extra mask | and actually do the OFFCORE profiling | Andi submitted a preliminary patch for user-space support, as an extension to perf's raw event syntax: | | Some raw events -- like the Intel OFFCORE events -- support additional | parameters. These can be appended after a ':'. | | For example on a multi socket Intel Nehalem: | | perf stat -e r1b7:20ff -a sleep 1 | | Profile the OFFCORE_RESPONSE.ANY_REQUEST with event mask REMOTE_DRAM_0 | that measures any access to DRAM on another socket. | But this kind of usability is absolutely unacceptable - users should not be expected to type in magic, CPU and model specific incantations to get access to useful hardware functionality. The proper solution is to expose useful offcore functionality via generalized events - that way users do not have to care which specific CPU model they are using, they can use the conceptual event and not some model specific quirky hexa number. We already have such generalization in place for CPU cache events, and it's all very extensible. "Offcore" events measure general DRAM access patters along various parameters. They are particularly useful in NUMA systems. We want to support them via generalized DRAM events: either as the fourth level of cache (after the last-level cache), or as a separate generalization category. That way user-space support would be very obvious, memory access profiling could be done via self-explanatory commands like: perf record -e dram ./myapp perf record -e dram-remote ./myapp ... to measure DRAM accesses or more expensive cross-node NUMA DRAM accesses. These generalized events would work on all CPUs and architectures that have comparable PMU features. ( Note, these are just examples: actual implementation could have more sophistication and more parameter - as long as they center around similarly simple usecases. ) Now we do not want to revert *all* of the current offcore bits, as they are still somewhat useful for generic last-level-cache events, implemented in this commit: e994d7d2: perf: Fix LLC-* events on Intel Nehalem/Westmere But we definitely do not yet want to expose the unstructured raw events to user-space, until better generalization and usability is implemented for these hardware event features. ( Note: after generalization has been implemented raw offcore events can be supported as well: there can always be an odd event that is marginally useful but not useful enough to generalize. DRAM profiling is definitely *not* such a category so generalization must be done first. ) Furthermore, PERF_TYPE_RAW access to these registers was not intended to go upstream without proper support - it was a side-effect of the above e994d7d2 commit, not mentioned in the changelog. As v2.6.39 is nearing release we go for the simplest approach: disable the PERF_TYPE_RAW offcore hack for now, before it escapes into a released kernel and becomes an ABI. Once proper structure is implemented for these hardware events and users are offered usable solutions we can revisit this issue. Reported-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302658203-4239-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Andi Kleen authored
There's a new model number public, 47, for Xeon E7 (aka Westmere EX). Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303429715-10202-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 21 Apr, 2011 25 commits
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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: ide: unexport DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE for ide-gd and ide-cd block: don't propagate unlisted DISK_EVENTs to userland elevator: check for ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT_MERGE in !elvpriv case too
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Tejun Heo authored
check_events() implementations in both ide-gd and ide-cd are inadequate for in-kernel event polling. Both generate media change events continuously when certain conditions are met causing infinite event loop between the driver and userland event handler. As disk event now supports suppression of unlisted events, simply de-listing DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE from disk->events resolves the problem. Internal handling around media revalidation will behave the same while userland will fall back to userland event polling after detecting the device doesn't support disk events. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE is used for both userland visible event and internal event for revalidation of removeable devices. Some legacy drivers don't implement proper event detection and continuously generate events under certain circumstances. For example, ide-cd generates media changed continuously if there's no media in the drive, which can lead to infinite loop of events jumping back and forth between the driver and userland event handler. This patch updates disk event infrastructure such that it never propagates events not listed in disk->events to userland. Those events are processed the same for internal purposes but uevent generation is suppressed. This also ensures that userland only gets events which are advertised in the @events sysfs node lowering risk of confusion. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
The sort insert is the one that goes to the IO scheduler. With the SORT_MERGE addition, we could bypass IO scheduler setup but still ask the IO scheduler to insert the request. This would cause an oops on switching IO schedulers through the sysfs interface, unless the disk just happened to be idle while it occured. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfsLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: xfs: fix duplicate message output
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, numa: Fix cpu nodemasks for NUMA emulation and CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS Revert "x86, NUMA: Fix fakenuma boot failure"
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Randy Dunlap authored
Change <sectors> from unsigned long long to sector_t. This matches its source field. ERROR: "__udivdi3" [drivers/md/raid456.ko] undefined! Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linusLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: virtio: console: Enable call to hvc_remove() on console port remove virtio_pci: Prevent double-free of pci regions after device hot-unplug virtio: Decrement avail idx on buffer detach
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: agp: fix arbitrary kernel memory writes agp: fix OOM and buffer overflow drm/radeon/kms: fix IH writeback on r6xx+ on big endian machines
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/keithp/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'drm-intel-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/keithp/linux-2.6: drm/i915: Initialise g4x watermarks for disabled pipes drm/i915: Sanitize the output registers after resume drm/i915/tv: Fix modeset flickering introduced in 7f58aabc drm/i915/tv: Only poll for TV connections drm/i915/tv: Remember the detected TV type
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git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6: intel_iommu: disable all VT-d PMRs when TXT launched intel-iommu: Fix get_domain_for_dev() error path intel-iommu: Unlink domain from iommu intel-iommu: Fix use after release during device attach
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Jan Kara authored
For some reason generic_setxattr() did not pass flags (XATTR_CREATE, XATTR_REPLACE) to the filesystem specific helper. This caused that setxattr(2) syscall just ignored these flags. Fix the bug by passing flags correctly. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Amit Shah authored
This call was disabled as hot-unplugging one virtconsole port led to another virtconsole port freezing. Upon testing it again, this now works, so enable it. In addition, a bug was found in qemu wherein removing a port of one type caused the guest output from another port to stop working. I doubt it was just this bug that caused it (since disabling the hvc_remove() call did allow other ports to continue working), but since it's all solved now, we're fine with hot-unplugging of virtconsole ports. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Amit Shah authored
In the case where a virtio-console port is in use (opened by a program) and a virtio-console device is removed, the port is kept around but all the virtio-related state is assumed to be gone. When the port is finally released (close() called), we call device_destroy() on the port's device. This results in the parent device's structures to be freed as well. This includes the PCI regions for the virtio-console PCI device. Once this is done, however, virtio_pci_release_dev() kicks in, as the last ref to the virtio device is now gone, and attempts to do pci_iounmap(pci_dev, vp_dev->ioaddr); pci_release_regions(pci_dev); pci_disable_device(pci_dev); which results in a double-free warning. Move the code that releases regions, etc., to the virtio_pci_remove() function, and all that's now left in release_dev is the final freeing of the vp_dev. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Amit Shah authored
When detaching a buffer from a vq, the avail.idx value should be decremented as well. This was noticed by hot-unplugging a virtio console port and then plugging in a new one on the same number (re-using the vqs which were just 'disowned'). qemu reported 'Guest moved used index from 0 to 256' when any IO was attempted on the new port. CC: stable@kernel.org Reported-by: juzhang <juzhang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Joseph Cihula authored
Intel VT-d Protected Memory Regions (PMRs) are supposed to be disabled, on each VT-d engine, after DMA remapping is enabled on the engines. This is because the behavior of having both enabled is not deterministic and because, if TXT has been used to launch the kernel, the PMRs may be programmed to cover memory regions that will be used for DMA. Under some circumstances (certain quirks detected, lack of multiple devices, etc.), the current code does not set up DMA remapping on some VT-d engines. In such cases it also skips disabling the PMRs. This causes failures when the kernel is launched with TXT (most often this occurs on the graphics engine and results in colored vertical bars on the display). This patch detects when the kernel has been launched with TXT and then disables the PMRs on all VT-d engines. In some cases where the reason that remapping is not being enabled is due to possible ACPI DMAR table errors, the VT-d engine addresses may not be correct and thus not able to be safely programmed even to disable PMRs. Because part of the TXT launch process is the verification of these addresses, it will always be safe to disable PMRs if the TXT launch has succeeded and hence only doing this in such cases. Signed-off-by: Joseph Cihula <joseph.cihula@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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David Rientjes authored
The cpu<->node mappings under CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS=y when NUMA emulation is enabled is currently broken because it does not iterate through every emulated node and bind cpus that have affinity to it. NUMA emulation should bind each cpu to every local node to accurately represent the true NUMA topology of the underlying machine. debug_cpumask_set_cpu() needs to be fixed at the same time so that the debugging information that it emits shows the new cpumask of the node being assigned when the cpu is being added or removed. It can now take responsibility of setting or clearing the cpu itself to remove the need for duplicate code. Also change its last parameter, "enable", to have the correct bool type since it can only be true or false. -v2: Fix the return statements, by Kosaki Motohiro Acked-and-Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@googlemail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.00.1104201918470.12634@chino.kir.corp.google.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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David Rientjes authored
Andreas Herrmann reported that 7d6b4670 ("x86, NUMA: Fix fakenuma boot failure") causes certain physical NUMA topologies (for example AMD Magny-Cours) to move sibling cpus to a single node when in reality they are in separate domains. This may result in some nodes being completely void of cpus, which doesn't accurately represent the correct topology. The system will boot, but will have suboptimal NUMA performance. This commit was intended as a fix for NUMA emulation, but should not cause a regression for real NUMA machines as a side effect. ( There will be a separate fix for the numa-debug code, which will not affect physical topologies. ) Reported-by: Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.00.1104201918110.12634@chino.kir.corp.google.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Vasiliy Kulikov authored
pg_start is copied from userspace on AGPIOC_BIND and AGPIOC_UNBIND ioctl cmds of agp_ioctl() and passed to agpioc_bind_wrap(). As said in the comment, (pg_start + mem->page_count) may wrap in case of AGPIOC_BIND, and it is not checked at all in case of AGPIOC_UNBIND. As a result, user with sufficient privileges (usually "video" group) may generate either local DoS or privilege escalation. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Vasiliy Kulikov authored
page_count is copied from userspace. agp_allocate_memory() tries to check whether this number is too big, but doesn't take into account the wrap case. Also agp_create_user_memory() doesn't check whether alloc_size is calculated from num_agp_pages variable without overflow. This may lead to allocation of too small buffer with following buffer overflow. Another problem in agp code is not addressed in the patch - kernel memory exhaustion (AGPIOC_RESERVE and AGPIOC_ALLOCATE ioctls). It is not checked whether requested pid is a pid of the caller (no check in agpioc_reserve_wrap()). Each allocation is limited to 16KB, though, there is no per-process limit. This might lead to OOM situation, which is not even solved in case of the caller death by OOM killer - the memory is allocated for another (faked) process. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/stagingLinus Torvalds authored
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/staging: hwmon: (max34440) Add driver documentation hwmon: (max16064) Add driver documentation hwmon: (max8688) Add driver documentation hwmon: (pmbus) Documentation updates hwmon: (smm665) Fix spelling error in driver documentation hwmon: (pmbus) Removed unused variable from struct pmbus_data hwmon: Add submitting-patches checklist to documentation
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git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-2.6.39' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: Open with O_CREAT flag set fails to open existing files on non writable directories nfsd4: Fix filp leak nfsd4: fix struct file leak on delegation
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'fixes' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: ARM: 6881/1: cputype.h uses __attribute_const__ which requires including kernel.h ARM: Add new syscalls
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xenLinus Torvalds authored
* 'stable/bug-fixes-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen: xen: mask_rw_pte: do not apply the early_ioremap checks on x86_32 xen: do not create the extra e820 region at an addr lower than 4G
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git://neil.brown.name/mdLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: md: Update documentation for sync_min and sync_max entries md: Cleanup after raid45->raid0 takeover md: Fix dev_sectors on takeover from raid0 to raid4/5 md/raid5: remove setting of ->queue_lock
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- 20 Apr, 2011 9 commits
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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: block: Remove the extra check in queue_requests_store block, blk-sysfs: Fix an err return path in blk_register_queue() block: remove stale kerneldoc member from __blk_run_queue() block: get rid of QUEUE_FLAG_REENTER cfq-iosched: read_lock() does not always imply rcu_read_lock() block: kill blk_flush_plug_list() export
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Dave Chinner authored
Commit 957935dc ("xfs: fix xfs_debug warnings" broke the logic in __xfs_printk(). Instead of only printing one of two possible output strings based on whether the fs has a name or not, it outputs both. Fix it to only output one message again. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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Sachin Prabhu authored
An open on a NFS4 share using the O_CREAT flag on an existing file for which we have permissions to open but contained in a directory with no write permissions will fail with EACCES. A tcpdump shows that the client had set the open mode to UNCHECKED which indicates that the file should be created if it doesn't exist and encountering an existing flag is not an error. Since in this case the file exists and can be opened by the user, the NFS server is wrong in attempting to check create permissions on the parent directory. The patch adds a conditional statement to check for create permissions only if the file doesn't exist. Signed-off-by: Sachin S. Prabhu <sprabhu@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
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Stefano Stabellini authored
The two "is_early_ioremap_ptep" checks in mask_rw_pte are only used on x86_64, in fact early_ioremap is not used at all to setup the initial pagetable on x86_32. Moreover on x86_32 the two checks are wrong because the range pgt_buf_start..pgt_buf_end initially should be mapped RW because the pages in the range are not pagetable pages yet and haven't been cleared yet. Afterwards considering the pgt_buf_start..pgt_buf_end is part of the initial mapping, xen_alloc_pte is capable of turning the ptes RO when they become pagetable pages. Fix the issue and improve the readability of the code providing two different implementation of mask_rw_pte for x86_32 and x86_64. Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Stefano Stabellini authored
Do not add the extra e820 region at a physical address lower than 4G because it breaks e820_end_of_low_ram_pfn(). It is OK for us to move the xen_extra_mem_start up and down because this is the index of the memory that can be ballooned in/out - it is memory not available to the kernel during bootup. Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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CoolCold authored
linux/Documentation/md.txt is missing description for sync_min and sync_max entries. This patch adds description for sync_min and sync_max entries. Signed-off-by: Roman Ovchinnikov <coolthecold@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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Krzysztof Wojcik authored
Problem: After raid4->raid0 takeover operation, another takeover operation (e.g raid0->raid10) results "kernel oops". Root cause: Variables 'degraded' in mddev structure is not cleared on raid45->raid0 takeover. This patch reset this variable. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wojcik <krzysztof.wojcik@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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NeilBrown authored
A raid0 array doesn't set 'dev_sectors' as each device might contribute a different number of sectors. So when converting to a RAID4 or RAID5 we need to set dev_sectors as they need the number. We have already verified that in fact all devices do contribute the same number of sectors, so use that number. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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NeilBrown authored
We previously needed to set ->queue_lock to match the raid5 device_lock so we could safely use queue_flag_* operations (e.g. for plugging). which test the ->queue_lock is in fact locked. However that need has completely gone away and is unlikely to come back to remove this now-pointless setting. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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