Nick Piggin discovered that lwsync barriers around locks were faster than isync
on 970. That was a long time ago and I completely dropped the ball in testing
his patches across other ppc64 processors.

Turns out the idea helps on other chips. Using a microbenchmark that
uses a lot of threads to contend on a global pthread mutex (and therefore a
global futex), POWER6 improves 8% and POWER7 improves 2%. I checked POWER5
and while I couldn't measure an improvement, there was no regression.

This patch uses the lwsync patching code to replace the isyncs with lwsyncs
on CPUs that support the instruction. We were marking POWER3 and RS64 as lwsync
capable but in reality they treat it as a full sync (ie slow). Remove the
CPU_FTR_LWSYNC bit from these CPUs so they continue to use the faster isync
method.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

do_lwsync_fixups doesn't work on 64bit, we end up writing lwsyncs to the
wrong addresses:

0:mon> di c0000001000bfacc
c0000001000bfacc  7c2004ac      lwsync

Since the lwsync section has negative offsets we need to use a signed int
pointer so we sign extend the value.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

For performance reasons we are about to change ISYNC_ON_SMP to sometimes be
lwsync. Now that the macro name doesn't make sense, change it and LWSYNC_ON_SMP
to better explain what the barriers are doing.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Now we have real bit locks use them instead of open coding it.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

* 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

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  [IA64] preserve personality flag bits across exec

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable:
  Btrfs: btrfs_mark_extent_written uses the wrong slot

* '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

* 'fix/hda' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
  ALSA: hda - Correct ASUA blacklist for MSI brokenness

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>

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

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

* '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.

* 'sh/for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
  sh64: fix tracing of signals.

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

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

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>

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>

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>

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>