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* [PATCH] lockdep: annotate idescsi_pc_intr()Ingo Molnar2006-08-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | idescsi_pc_intr() uses local_irq_enable() in IRQ context: annotate it. (this has no effect on kernels with lockdep disabled. On kernels with lockdep enabled this means that we wont actually disable interrupts, and the warning message will go away as well.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] CONFIG_ACPI_SRAT NUMA build fixKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2006-08-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | In file included from include/asm/mmzone.h:18, from include/linux/mmzone.h:439, <snip> include/asm/srat.h:31:2: error: #error CONFIG_ACPI_SRAT not defined, and srat.h header has been included make[1]: *** [arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1 This can happen with CONFIG_NUMA && !CONFIG_ACPI && !CONFIG_X86_NUMAQ Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpuset: oom panic fixNick Piggin2006-08-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cpuset_excl_nodes_overlap always returns 0 if current is exiting. This caused customer's systems to panic in the OOM killer when processes were having trouble getting memory for the final put_user in mm_release. Even though there were lots of processes to kill. Change to returning 1 in this case. This achieves parity with !CONFIG_CPUSETS case, and was observed to fix the problem. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] register_one_node() compile fixKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2006-08-271-1/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | register_one_node()'s should be defined under CONFIG_NUMA=n. fixes following bug. CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 mm/built-in.o: In function `add_memory': undefined reference to `register_one_node' Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Manage jbd allocations from its own slabsBadari Pulavarty2006-08-274-13/+97
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | JBD currently allocates commit and frozen buffers from slabs. With CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG, its possible for an allocation to cross the page boundary causing IO problems. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200127 So, instead of allocating these from regular slabs - manage allocation from its own slabs and disable slab debug for these slabs. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpuset: top_cpuset tracks hotplug changes to cpu_online_mapPaul Jackson2006-08-272-0/+39
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change the list of cpus allowed to tasks in the top (root) cpuset to dynamically track what cpus are online, using a CPU hotplug notifier. Make this top cpus file read-only. On systems that have cpusets configured in their kernel, but that aren't actively using cpusets (for some distros, this covers the majority of systems) all tasks end up in the top cpuset. If that system does support CPU hotplug, then these tasks cannot make use of CPUs that are added after system boot, because the CPUs are not allowed in the top cpuset. This is a surprising regression over earlier kernels that didn't have cpusets enabled. In order to keep the behaviour of cpusets consistent between systems actively making use of them and systems not using them, this patch changes the behaviour of the 'cpus' file in the top (root) cpuset, making it read only, and making it automatically track the value of cpu_online_map. Thus tasks in the top cpuset will have automatic use of hot plugged CPUs allowed by their cpuset. Thanks to Anton Blanchard and Nathan Lynch for reporting this problem, driving the fix, and earlier versions of this patch. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] md: fix recent breakage of md/raid1 array checkingNeilBrown2006-08-271-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | A recent patch broke the ability to do a user-request check of a raid1. This patch fixes the breakage and also moves a comment that was dislocated by the same patch. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] md: avoid backward event updates in md superblock when degraded.NeilBrown2006-08-271-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we - shut down a clean array, - restart with one (or more) drive(s) missing - make some changes - pause, so that they array gets marked 'clean', the event count on the superblock of included drives will be the same as that of the removed drives. So adding the removed drive back in will cause it to be included with no resync. To avoid this, we only update the eventcount backwards when the array is not degraded. In this case there can (should) be no non-connected drives that we can get confused with, and this is the particular case where updating-backwards is valuable. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] eventpoll.c compile fixMasoud Asgharifard Sharbiani2006-08-271-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Fix two compile failures in eventpoll.c code which would happen if DEBUG_EPOLL is bigger than zero. Signed-off-by: Masoud Sharbiani <masouds@google.com> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Documentation update for relay interfaceTom Zanussi2006-08-273-444/+481
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here's updated documentation for the relay interface, rewritten to match the relayfs->relay changes. It also moves relayfs.txt to relay.txt in the process. It includes the changes to relayfs.txt previously posted by Randy Dunlap, thanks for those. The relay-apps examples have also been updated to match, and can be found on the sourceforge relayfs website. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Remove redundant up() in stop_machine()Yingchao Zhou2006-08-271-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | An up() is called in kernel/stop_machine.c on failure, and also in the caller (unconditionally). Signed-off-by: Zhou Yingchao <yingchao.zhou@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ufs: truncate correctionEvgeniy Dushistov2006-08-271-52/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1) When we allocated last fragment in ufs_truncate, we read page, check if block mapped to address, and if not trying to allocate it. This is wrong behaviour, fragment may be NOT allocated, but mapped, this happened because of "block map" function not checked allocated fragment or not, it just take address of the first fragment in the block, add offset of fragment and return result, this is correct behaviour in almost all situation except call from ufs_truncate. 2) Almost all implementation of UFS, which I can investigate have such "defect": if you have full disk, and try truncate file, for example 3GB to 2MB, and have hole in this region, truncate return -ENOSPC. I tried evade from this problem, but "block allocation" algorithm is tied to right value of i_lastfrag, and fix of this corner case may slow down of ordinaries scenarios, so this patch makes behavior of "truncate" operations similar to what other UFS implementations do. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ufs: write to hole in big fileEvgeniy Dushistov2006-08-271-14/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On UFS, this scenario: open(O_TRUNC) lseek(1024 * 1024 * 80) write("A") lseek(1024 * 2) write("A") may cause access to invalid address. This happened because of "goal" is calculated in wrong way in block allocation path, as I see this problem exists also in 2.4. We use construction like this i_data[lastfrag], i_data array of pointers to direct blocks, indirect and so on, it has ceratain size ~20 elements, and lastfrag may have value for example 40000. Also this patch fixes related to handling such scenario issues, wrong zeroing metadata, in case of block(not fragment) allocation, and wrong goal calculation, when we allocate block Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ext3 filesystem bogus ENOSPC with reservation fixMingming Cao2006-08-271-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | To handle the earlier bogus ENOSPC error caused by filesystem full of block reservation, current code falls back to non block reservation, starts to allocate block(s) from the goal allocation block group as if there is no block reservation. Current code needs to re-load the corresponding block group descriptor for the initial goal block group in this case. The patch fixes this. Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ext2: prevent div-by-zero on corrupted fsAndries Brouwer2006-08-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Mounting an ext2 filesystem with zero s_inodes_per_group will cause a divide error. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Fix for minix crashAndries Brouwer2006-08-271-3/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | Mounting a (corrupt) minix filesystem with zero s_zmap_blocks gives a spectacular crash on my 2.6.17.8 system, no doubt because minix/inode.c does an unconditional minix_set_bit(0,sbi->s_zmap[0]->b_data); [akpm@osdl.org: make labels conistent while we're there] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] MTD NAND: Fix ams-delta after core conversionJonathan McDowell2006-08-271-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | The recent hwctrl core conversion for MTD NAND devices broke the Amstrad Delta driver. This fixes it up and uses the existing control line defines rather than unclear magic numbers. Signed-off-by: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] futex_find_get_task(): remove an obscure EXIT_ZOMBIE checkOleg Nesterov2006-08-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | futex_find_get_task: if (p->state == EXIT_ZOMBIE || p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE) return NULL; I can't understand this. First, p->state can't be EXIT_ZOMBIE. The ->exit_state check looks strange too. Sub-threads or tasks whose ->parent ignores SIGCHLD go directly to EXIT_DEAD state (I am ignoring a ptrace case). Why EXIT_DEAD tasks should be ok? Yes, EXIT_ZOMBIE is more important (a task may stay zombie for a long time), but this doesn't mean we should explicitely ignore other EXIT_XXX states. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] vcsa attribute bits -> ioctl(VT_GETHIFONTMASK)Samuel Thibault2006-08-273-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When reading /dev/vcsa while a font with more than 256 characters is loaded, one of the attribute bits records the 9th bit of the character. But depending on the console driver (vgacon or fbcon for instance), that's bit 3 or bit 0. And there is no way for userland to know that, thus no way for userland to safely grab the screen content. So here is a (tested) patch: Add a VT_GETHIFONTMASK ioctl for knowing which bit is the 9th bit for VC text (vc_hi_font_mask field of the vc_data structure). Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] matroxfb: fix jittery display on non-ppc systemsPaul A. Clarke2006-08-271-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I wish I was happier about this patch. It'll serve as a placeholder for the moment. I'm still trying to get a G550 working in order to even reproduce the problem this patch introduces. I find that the G450 has jitter even without this patch, so it won't show me what the patch changed. At this point, I'll continue trying to get the G550 to work, and in parallel work with the G450 to work out the kinks. The patch is below. Set XDVICLKCTRL only on PPC, as doing this apparently introduces jitter on the G550, at least on x86 architectures. Signed-off-by: Paul A. Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] char/moxa.c: fix endianess and multiple-card issuesDirk Eibach2006-08-271-2/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While testing Moxa C218T/PCI on PowerPC 405EP I found that loading firmware using the linux kernel driver fails because calculation of the checksum is not endianess independent in the original code. After I fixed this I found that uploading firmware in a system with multiple cards causes a kernel oops. I had a look in the recent moxa sources and found that they do some kind of locking there. Applying this lock fixed the problem. Alan sayeth: Checksum changes are clearly correct. Other changes is an improvement but not I think enough to handle malicious firmware attacks. That said such an attacker has CAP_SYS_RAWIO anyway so that part is irrelevant except for neatness. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Dirk Eibach <eibach@gdsys.de> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpufreq: acpi-cpufreq: Ignore failure from acpi_cpufreq_early_init_acpiDave Jones2006-08-271-7/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ignore the return value of early_init_acpi(), as it can give false error messages. If there is something really wrong, then register_driver will fail cleanly with EINVAL later. [ background: modprobe acpi-cpufreq on systems not capable of speed-scaling started failing with 'invalid argument', where previously it would only ever -ENODEV I'm not 100% happy with the solution. It'd be better to handle failure properly, but this is a low-impact change for 2.6.18 We can always revisit doing this better in .19 --davej.] Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] revert "Drop tasklist lock in do_sched_setscheduler"Oleg Nesterov2006-08-271-3/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | sched_setscheduler() looks at ->signal->rlim[]. It is unsafe do dereference ->signal unless tasklist_lock or ->siglock is held (or p == current). We pin the task structure, but this can't prevent from release_task()->__exit_signal() which sets ->signal = NULL. Restore tasklist_lock across the setscheduler call. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: Fix dmi detection of MacBookPro and iMacThomas Meyer2006-08-271-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Commit b64ef8afa58f397e1eaba2bd9ecaa6812064d464 ("[PATCH] add imacfb documentation and detection") contained a wrong DMI_MATCH. Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mtd corruption fixRichard Purdie2006-08-271-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | Read the return value before we release the nand device otherwise the value can become corrupted by another user of chip->ops, ultimately resulting in filesystem corruption. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] lockdep: fix blkdev_open() warningPeter Zijlstra2006-08-271-58/+56
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 07:57 +0200, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > ============================================= > [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] > --------------------------------------------- > parted/7929 is trying to acquire lock: > (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c105eb8d>] __blkdev_put+0x1e/0x13c > > but task is already holding lock: > (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c105eec6>] do_open+0x72/0x3a8 > > other info that might help us debug this: > 1 lock held by parted/7929: > #0: (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c105eec6>] do_open+0x72/0x3a8 > stack backtrace: > [<c1003aad>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x58/0x15b > [<c100495f>] show_trace+0xd/0x10 > [<c1004979>] dump_stack+0x17/0x1a > [<c102dee5>] __lock_acquire+0x753/0x99c > [<c102e3b0>] lock_acquire+0x4a/0x6a > [<c1204501>] mutex_lock_nested+0xc8/0x20c > [<c105eb8d>] __blkdev_put+0x1e/0x13c > [<c105ecc4>] blkdev_put+0xa/0xc > [<c105f18a>] do_open+0x336/0x3a8 > [<c105f21b>] blkdev_open+0x1f/0x4c > [<c1057b40>] __dentry_open+0xc7/0x1aa > [<c1057c91>] nameidata_to_filp+0x1c/0x2e > [<c1057cd1>] do_filp_open+0x2e/0x35 > [<c1057dd7>] do_sys_open+0x38/0x68 > [<c1057e33>] sys_open+0x16/0x18 > [<c1002845>] sysenter_past_esp+0x56/0x8d OK, I'm having a look here; its all new to me so bear with me. blkdev_open() calls do_open(bdev, ...,BD_MUTEX_NORMAL) and takes mutex_lock_nested(&bdev->bd_mutex, BD_MUTEX_NORMAL) then something fails, and we're thrown to: out_first: where if (bdev != bdev->bd_contains) blkdev_put(bdev->bd_contains) which is __blkdev_put(bdev->bd_contains, BD_MUTEX_NORMAL) which does mutex_lock_nested(&bdev->bd_contains->bd_mutex, BD_MUTEX_NORMAL) <--- lockdep trigger When going to out_first, dbev->bd_contains is either bdev or whole, and since we take the branch it must be whole. So it seems to me the following patch would be the right one: [akpm@osdl.org: compile fix] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] 1394: fix for recently added firewire patch that breaks things on ppcDanny Tholen2006-08-271-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Recently a patch was added for preliminary suspend/resume handling on !PPC_PMAC. However, this broke both suspend and firewire on powerpc because it saves the pci state after the device has already been disabled. This moves the save state to before the pmac specific code. Signed-off-by: Danny Tholen <obiwan@mailmij.org> Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com> Cc: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Fix docs for fs.suid_dumpableAlexey Dobriyan2006-08-272-20/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | Sergey Vlasov noticed that there is not kernel.suid_dumpable, but fs.suid_dumpable. How KERN_SETUID_DUMPABLE ended up in fs_table[]? Hell knows... Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] tty: remove bogus call to cdev_del()Rolf Eike Beer2006-08-271-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | When cdev_add() failed there is no reason to call cdev_del(). Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] rtc-s3c.c: fix time setting checksBen Dooks2006-08-271-7/+8
| | | | | | | | | Fix the year check on setting the time with the S3C24XX RTC driver. Also move the debug to before the set to see what is going on if it does fail. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] swsusp: Fix swap_type_ofRafael J. Wysocki2006-08-271-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | There is a bug in mm/swapfile.c#swap_type_of() that makes swsusp only be able to use the first active swap partition as the resume device. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] dm: Fix deadlock under high i/o load in raid1 setup.Daniel Kobras2006-08-271-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On an nForce4-equipped machine with two SATA disk in raid1 setup using dmraid, we experienced frequent deadlock of the system under high i/o load. 'cat /dev/zero > ~/zero' was the most reliable way to reproduce them: Randomly after a few GB, 'cp' would be left in 'D' state along with kjournald and kmirrord. The functions cp and kjournald were blocked in did vary, but kmirrord's wchan always pointed to 'mempool_alloc()'. We've seen this pattern on 2.6.15 and 2.6.17 kernels. http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/20/142 indicates that this problem has been around even before. So much for the facts, here's my interpretation: mempool_alloc() first tries to atomically allocate the requested memory, or falls back to hand out preallocated chunks from the mempool. If both fail, it puts the calling process (kmirrord in this case) on a private waitqueue until somebody refills the pool. Where the only 'somebody' is kmirrord itself, so we have a deadlock. I worked around this problem by falling back to a (blocking) kmalloc when before kmirrord would have ended up on the waitqueue. This defeats part of the benefits of using the mempool, but at least keeps the system running. And it could be done with a two-line change. Note that mempool_alloc() clears the GFP_NOIO flag internally, and only uses it to decide whether to wait or return an error if immediate allocation fails, so the attached patch doesn't change behaviour in the non-deadlocking case. Path is against current git (2.6.18-rc4), but should apply to earlier versions as well. I've tested on 2.6.15, where this patch makes the difference between random lockup and a stable system. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kobras <kobras@linux.de> Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] drivers/rtc: fix rtc-s3c.cBen Dooks2006-08-272-55/+68
| | | | | | | | | | | | In the cleanups of drivers/rtc/s3c-rtc.c, the base address for the registers got broken. This patch fixes that by ensuring the readb/writeb are all prefixed with the base returned from ioremap()ing the registers. Also fix check for valid year range, which was the wrong way around. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [DCCP]: Fix CCID3Ian McDonald2006-08-266-193/+154
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes CCID3 to give much closer performance to RFC4342. CCID3 is meant to alter sending rate based on RTT and loss. The performance was verified against: http://wand.net.nz/~perry/max_download.php For example I tested with netem and had the following parameters: Delayed Acks 1, MSS 256 bytes, RTT 105 ms, packet loss 5%. This gives a theoretical speed of 71.9 Kbits/s. I measured across three runs with this patch set and got 70.1 Kbits/s. Without this patchset the average was 232 Kbits/s which means Linux can't be used for CCID3 research properly. I also tested with netem turned off so box just acting as router with 1.2 msec RTT. The performance with this is the same with or without the patch at around 30 Mbit/s. Signed off by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [BRIDGE] netfilter: memory corruption fixStephen Hemminger2006-08-262-5/+19
| | | | | | | | | The bridge-netfilter code will overwrite memory if there is not headroom in the skb to save the header. This first showed up when using Xen with sky2 driver that doesn't allocate the extra space. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-08-2613-18/+253
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [DCCP]: Introduce dccp_rx_hist_find_entry [DCCP]: Introduces follows48 function [DCCP]: Update contact details and copyright [DCCP]: Fix typo [IPV6]: Segmentation offload not set correctly on TCP children [CONNECTOR]: Add userspace example code into Documentation/connector/
| * [DCCP]: Introduce dccp_rx_hist_find_entryIan McDonald2006-08-262-0/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a new function dccp_rx_hist_find_entry. Signed off by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * [DCCP]: Introduces follows48 functionIan McDonald2006-08-261-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a new function to see if two sequence numbers follow each other. Signed off by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * [DCCP]: Update contact details and copyrightIan McDonald2006-08-2611-16/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Just updating copyright and contacts Signed off by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * [DCCP]: Fix typoIan McDonald2006-08-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes a small typo in net/dccp/libs/packet_history.c Signed off by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * [IPV6]: Segmentation offload not set correctly on TCP childrenStephen Hemminger2006-08-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | TCP over IPV6 would incorrectly inherit the GSO settings. This would cause kernel to send Tcp Segmentation Offload packets for IPV6 data to devices that can't handle it. It caused the sky2 driver to lock http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7050 and the e1000 would generate bogus packets. I can't blame the hardware for gagging if the upper layers feed it garbage. This was a new bug in 2.6.18 introduced with GSO support. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * [CONNECTOR]: Add userspace example code into Documentation/connector/Evgeniy Polyakov2006-08-261-0/+206
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I was asked several times to include userspace example code into Documentation, so if there is no policy against it, consider attached patch for 2.6.18. This program works with included Documentation/connector/cn_test.c connector module. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | [DISKLABEL] SUN: Fix signed int usage for sector countJeff Mahoney2006-08-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current sun disklabel code uses a signed int for the sector count. When partitions larger than 1 TB are used, the cast to a sector_t causes the partition sizes to be invalid: # cat /proc/paritions | grep sdan 66 112 2146435072 sdan 66 115 9223372036853660736 sdan3 66 120 9223372036853660736 sdan8 This patch switches the sector count to an unsigned int to fix this. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | [SPARC]: Small smp cleanup.Krzysztof Helt2006-08-263-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | It moves the smp_procesors_ready variable to sun4d_smp.c only. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt (krzysztof.h1@wp.pl) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | [SPARC]: enabling of the 2nd CPU in 2.6.18-rc4Krzysztof Helt2006-08-261-2/+2
|/ | | | | | | | smp_setup_cpu_possible_map() needs to run after paging_init() so that the in-kernel device tree is setup. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] unusual_devs update for UCR-61S2BAlan Stern2006-08-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The existing unusual_devs entry for the UCR-61S2B appears to have too wide a revision range. It matches at least one device that doesn't respond to the initialization sequence. Perhaps the sequence needs to be updated, or perhaps something else can be done. For now, this patch (as764) restricts the range to include only the revision mentioned in the original comment. This resolves (for now!) Bugzilla entry #6950. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] USB: pl2303: removed support for OTi's DKU-5 clone cableTomasz Kazmierczak2006-08-262-5/+0
| | | | | | | | | This patch removes support for a clone of Nokia DKU-5 cable made by Ours Technology Inc, as it turned out that the cable does not use the pl2303 chip, but OTI-6858 chip which is not compatible with the pl2303. Signed-off-by: Tomasz Kazmierczak <tomek.fizyk@op.pl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] USB: fix bug in cypress_cy7c63.c driverGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-08-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | This was pointed out by Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, as found by the Coverity Checker. Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Oliver Bock <o.bock@fh-wolfenbuettel.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] PCI: kerneldoc correction in pci-driverHenrik Kretzschmar2006-08-261-2/+1
| | | | | | | | Removes an unused kerneldoc entry from pci_match_device and put the others into correct order. Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] CPCI hotplug: fix resource assignmentScott Murray2006-08-261-12/+42
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here is a patch against the CPCI hotplug core to fix up PCI resource assignment such that things will actually work when a hot inserted device is enabled. I mentioned this patch to you way back in April at ELC, but am only now out from under things enough to clean it up and submit it. I've basically cribbed the corresponding code from shpchp_pci.c, so there are no big surprises. If it's still possible, I wouldn't mind this going into 2.6.18, but it wouldn't be the end of the world if it went into 2.6.19. Signed-off-by: Scott Murray <scottm@somanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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