- 11 Feb, 2009 26 commits
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Jan Kara authored
journal_start_commit() returns 1 if either a transaction is committing or the function has queued a transaction commit. But it returns 0 if we raced with somebody queueing the transaction commit as well. This resulted in ext3_sync_fs() not functioning correctly (description from Arthur Jones): In the case of a data=ordered umount with pending long symlinks which are delayed due to a long list of other I/O on the backing block device, this causes the buffer associated with the long symlinks to not be moved to the inode dirty list in the second phase of fsync_super. Then, before they can be dirtied again, kjournald exits, seeing the UMOUNT flag and the dirty pages are never written to the backing block device, causing long symlink corruption and exposing new or previously freed block data to userspace. This can be reproduced with a script created by Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>: #!/bin/bash umount /mnt/test2 mount /dev/sdb4 /mnt/test2 rm -f /mnt/test2/* dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test2/bigfile bs=1M count=512 touch /mnt/test2/thisisveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryverylongfilename ln -s /mnt/test2/thisisveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryverylongfilename /mnt/test2/link umount /mnt/test2 mount /dev/sdb4 /mnt/test2 ls /mnt/test2/ This patch fixes journal_start_commit() to always return 1 when there's a transaction committing or queued for commit. Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@gmail.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Sven Wegener authored
We need to pass an unsigned long as the minimum, because it gets casted to an unsigned long in the sysctl handler. If we pass an int, we'll access four more bytes on 64bit arches, resulting in a random minimum value. [rientjes@google.com: fix type of `old_bytes'] Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andres Salomon authored
We weren't properly allocating the cmap for depths greater than 8bpp, which caused pain for things like DirectFB. Also, we never freed the cmap memory upon module unload.. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Cc: Marco La Porta <marco-laporta@tiscali.it> Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan@cosmicpenguin.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andres Salomon authored
We weren't properly allocating the cmap for depths greater than 8bpp, which caused pain for things like DirectFB. Also, we never freed the cmap memory upon module unload.. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Cc: Marco La Porta <marco-laporta@tiscali.it> Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan@cosmicpenguin.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Marco La Porta authored
We weren't properly allocating the cmap for depths greater than 8bpp, which caused pain for things like DirectFB. Also, we never freed the cmap memory upon module unload.. [dilinger@debian.org: dropped unnecessary code and clean up patch] [dilinger@debian.org: add error checking and handling] Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan@cosmicpenguin.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Robert Jarzmik authored
Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Daisuke Nishimura authored
migrate_vmas() should check "vma" not "vma->vm_next" for for-loop condition. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.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
Commit 5a6fe125 brought hugetlbfs more in line with the core VM by obeying VM_NORESERVE and not reserving hugepages for both shared and private mappings when [SHM|MAP]_NORESERVE are specified. However, it is still taking filesystem quota unconditionally. At fault time, if there are no reserves and attempt is made to allocate the page and account for filesystem quota. If either fail, the fault fails. The impact is that quota is getting accounted for twice. This patch partially reverts 5a6fe125. To help prevent this mistake happening again, it improves the documentation of hugetlb_reserve_pages() Reported-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: revert recent sync wakeup changes
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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: timers: fix TIMER_ABSTIME for process wide cpu timers timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, fix x86: clean up hpet timer reinit timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, remove spurious warning timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers signal: re-add dead task accumulation stats. x86: fix hpet timer reinit for x86_64 sched: fix nohz load balancer on cpu offline
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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: ptrace, x86: fix the usage of ptrace_fork() i8327: fix outb() parameter order x86: fix math_emu register frame access x86: math_emu info cleanup x86: include correct %gs in a.out core dump x86, vmi: put a missing paravirt_release_pmd in pgd_dtor x86: find nr_irqs_gsi with mp_ioapic_routing x86: add clflush before monitor for Intel 7400 series x86: disable intel_iommu support by default x86: don't apply __supported_pte_mask to non-present ptes x86: fix grammar in user-visible BIOS warning x86/Kconfig.cpu: make Kconfig help readable in the console x86, 64-bit: print DMI info in the oops trace
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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, x86: fix constraint for parent variable tracing, x86: fix fixup section to return to original code profiling: fix broken profiling regression
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git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] Update default configuration. [S390] dasd: fix race in dasd timer handling [S390] dasd: bus_id -> dev_name() conversion. [S390] Fix init irq proc build break. [S390] vdso: fix per cpu vdso pointer in lowcore
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpcLinus Torvalds authored
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: powerpc/mm: Fix _PAGE_COHERENT support on classic ppc32 HW
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Intel reported a 10% regression (mysql+sysbench) on a 16-way machine with these patches: 1596e297: sched: symmetric sync vs avg_overlap d942fb6c: sched: fix sync wakeups Revert them. Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Bisected-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
The POSIX timer interface allows for absolute time expiry values through the TIMER_ABSTIME flag, therefore we have to synchronize the timer to the clock every time we start it. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
To decrease the chance of a missed enable, always enable the timer when we sample it, we'll always disable it when we find that there are no active timers in the jiffy tick. This fixes a flood of warnings reported by Mike Galbraith. Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Martin Schwidefsky authored
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Stefan Weinhuber authored
In dasd_device_set_timer and dasd_block_set_timer we interpret the return value of mod_timer in a wrong way. If the timer expires in the small window between our check of timer_pending and the call to mod_timer, then the timer will be set, mod_timer returns zero and we will call add_timer for a timer that is already pending. As del_timer and mod_timer do all the necessary checking themselves, we can simplify our code and remove the race a the same time. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Cornelia Huck authored
bus_id usage crept in again; fix it. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Sachin Sant authored
Embed init_irq_proc(s390) within CONFIG_PROC_FS to fix a build break. Signed-off-by : Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
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Martin Schwidefsky authored
The vdso_per_cpu_data entry in the lowcore structure uses __u32 instead of __u64. If the data page is above 4GB the pointer is truncated and the kernel crashes. Reported-by: Mijo Safradin <mijo@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
I noticed by pure accident we have ptrace_fork() and friends. This was added by "x86, bts: add fork and exit handling", commit bf53de90. I can't test this, ds_request_bts() returns -EOPNOTSUPP, but I strongly believe this needs the fix. I think something like this program int main(void) { int pid = fork(); if (!pid) { ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0, NULL, NULL); kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP); fork(); } else { struct ptrace_bts_config bts = { .flags = PTRACE_BTS_O_ALLOC, .size = 4 * 4096, }; wait(NULL); ptrace(PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, pid, NULL, PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK); ptrace(PTRACE_BTS_CONFIG, pid, &bts, sizeof(bts)); ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, NULL, NULL); sleep(1); } return 0; } should crash the kernel. If the task is traced by its natural parent ptrace_reparented() returns 0 but we should clear ->btsxxx anyway. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
The constraint used for retrieving and restoring the parent function pointer is incorrect. The parent variable is a pointer, and the address of the pointer is modified by the asm statement and not the pointer itself. It is incorrect to pass it in as an output constraint since the asm will never update the pointer. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'tip/tracing/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/urgent
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Kumar Gala authored
The following commit: commit 64b3d0e8 Author: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Date: Thu Dec 18 19:13:51 2008 +0000 powerpc/mm: Rework usage of _PAGE_COHERENT/NO_CACHE/GUARDED broke setting of the _PAGE_COHERENT bit in the PPC HW PTE. Since we now actually set _PAGE_COHERENT in the Linux PTE we shouldn't be clearing it out before we propogate it to the PPC HW PTE. Reported-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@gefanuc.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 10 Feb, 2009 14 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] AACI: timeout will reach -1 [ARM] Storage class should be before const qualifier [ARM] pxa: stop and disable IRQ for each DMA channels at startup [ARM] pxa: make more SSCR0 bit definitions visible on multiple processors [ARM] pxa: fix missing of __REG() definition for ac97 registers access [ARM] pxa: fix NAND and MMC clock initialization for pxa3xx
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Stefan Richter authored
Fix regression due to 5a6fe125, "Do not account for the address space used by hugetlbfs using VM_ACCOUNT" which added an argument to the function hugetlb_file_setup() but not to the macro hugetlb_file_setup(). Reported-by: Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpcLinus Torvalds authored
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: powerpc: Add missing sparsemem.h include powerpc/pci: mmap anonymous memory when legacy_mem doesn't exist powerpc/cell: Add missing #include for oprofile powerpc/ftrace: Fix math to calculate offset in TOC powerpc: Don't emulate mr. instructions powerpc/fsl-booke: Fix mapping functions to use phys_addr_t arch/powerpc: Eliminate double sizeof powerpc/cpm2: Fix set interrupt type powerpc/83xx: Fix TSEC0 workability on MPC8313E-RDB boards powerpc/83xx: Fix missing #{address,size}-cells in mpc8313erdb.dts powerpc/83xx: Build breakage for CONFIG_PM but no CONFIG_SUSPEND
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: sparc64: Fix probe_kernel_{read,write}(). sparc64: Kill .fixup section bloat. sparc64: Don't hook up pcr_ops on spitfire chips. sparc64: Call dump_stack() in die_nmi().
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (23 commits) bridge: Fix LRO crash with tun IPv6: fix to set device name when new IPv6 over IPv6 tunnel device is created. gianfar: Fix boot hangs while bringing up gianfar ethernet netfilter: xt_sctp: sctp chunk mapping doesn't work netfilter: ctnetlink: fix echo if not subscribed to any multicast group netfilter: ctnetlink: allow changing NAT sequence adjustment in creation netfilter: nf_conntrack_ipv6: don't track ICMPv6 negotiation message netfilter: fix tuple inversion for Node information request netxen: fix msi-x interrupt handling de2104x: force correct order when writing to rx ring tun: Fix unicast filter overflow drivers/isdn: introduce missing kfree drivers/atm: introduce missing kfree sunhme: Don't match PCI devices in SBUS probe. 9p: fix endian issues [attempt 3] net_dma: call dmaengine_get only if NET_DMA enabled 3c509: Fix resume from hibernation for PnP mode. sungem: Soft lockup in sungem on Netra AC200 when switching interface up RxRPC: Fix a potential NULL dereference r8169: Don't update statistics counters when interface is down ...
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Mel Gorman authored
When overcommit is disabled, the core VM accounts for pages used by anonymous shared, private mappings and special mappings. It keeps track of VMAs that should be accounted for with VM_ACCOUNT and VMAs that never had a reserve with VM_NORESERVE. Overcommit for hugetlbfs is much riskier than overcommit for base pages due to contiguity requirements. It avoids overcommiting on both shared and private mappings using reservation counters that are checked and updated during mmap(). This ensures (within limits) that hugepages exist in the future when faults occurs or it is too easy to applications to be SIGKILLed. As hugetlbfs makes its own reservations of a different unit to the base page size, VM_ACCOUNT should never be set. Even if the units were correct, we would double account for the usage in the core VM and hugetlbfs. VM_NORESERVE may be set because an application can request no reserves be made for hugetlbfs at the risk of getting killed later. With commit fc8744ad, VM_NORESERVE and VM_ACCOUNT are getting unconditionally set for hugetlbfs-backed mappings. This breaks the accounting for both the core VM and hugetlbfs, can trigger an OOM storm when hugepage pools are too small lockups and corrupted counters otherwise are used. This patch brings hugetlbfs more in line with how the core VM treats VM_NORESERVE but prevents VM_ACCOUNT being set. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: fix to prevent a kernel crash on fault If for some reason the pointer to the parent function on the stack takes a fault, the fix up code will not return back to the original faulting code. This can lead to unpredictable results and perhaps even a kernel panic. A fault should not happen, but if it does, we should simply disable the tracer, warn, and continue running the kernel. It should not lead to a kernel crash. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Clemens Ladisch authored
In i8237A_resume(), when resetting the DMA controller, the parameters to dma_outb() were mixed up. Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> [ cleaned up the file a tiny bit. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Roel Kluin authored
With a postfix decrement the timeout will reach -1 rather than 0, so the warning will not be issued. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Tobias Klauser authored
The C99 specification states in section 6.11.5: The placement of a storage-class specifier other than at the beginning of the declaration specifiers in a declaration is an obsolescent feature. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Michael Neuling authored
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c uses remove_section_mapping() but doesn't include sparsemem.h which defines it. This can cause compilation fails for some configs. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
The new legacy_mem file in sysfs is causing problems with X on machines that don't support legacy memory access. The way I initially implemented it, we would fail with -ENXIO when trying to mmap it, thus exposing to X that we do support the API but there is no legacy memory. Unfortunately, X poor error handling is causing it to fail to start when it gets this error. This implements a workaround hack that instead maps anonymous memory instead (using shmem if VM_SHARED is set, just like /dev/zero does). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Michael Neuling authored
arch/powerpc/oprofile/cell/spu_profiler.c is missing a asm/time.h include which is required for ppc_proc_freq. This can cause compile failures for some config combinations. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: fix dynamic ftrace with large modules in PPC64 The math to calculate the offset into the TOC that is taken from reading the trampoline is incorrect. The bottom half of the offset is a signed extended short. The current code was using an OR to create the offset when it should have been using an addition. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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