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Dan Carpenter 14e45c15e1 sata_sil24: memset() overflow
cb->atapi.cdb is an array of 16 u8 elements.  The call too memset()
would set the first part of the sge array to zero as well.  It's not
a packed struct.

This one has been around for five years.  I found it with Smatch.  I
think the reason no one has seen it before is because we normally call
sil24_fill_sg() and that overwrites sge with proper information?

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2010-06-10 16:06:33 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 7908a9e5fc Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.35' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.35' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: read apic->irr with ioapic lock held
  KVM: ia64: Add missing spin_unlock in kvm_arch_hardware_enable()
  KVM: Fix order passed to iommu_unmap
  KVM: MMU: Remove user access when allowing kernel access to gpte.w=0 page
  KVM: MMU: invalidate and flush on spte small->large page size change
  KVM: SVM: Implement workaround for Erratum 383
  KVM: SVM: Handle MCEs early in the vmexit process
  KVM: powerpc: fix init/exit annotation
2010-06-10 10:53:14 -07:00
Marcelo Tosatti 07dc7263b9 KVM: read apic->irr with ioapic lock held
Read ioapic->irr inside ioapic->lock protected section.

KVM-Stable-Tag
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-06-10 20:29:03 +03:00
Linus Torvalds 8fade6aff7 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  pipe: fix check in "set size" fcntl
  pipe: fix pipe buffer resizing
  block: remove duplicate BUG_ON() in bd_finish_claiming()
  block: bd_start_claiming cleanup
  block: bd_start_claiming fix module refcount
2010-06-10 10:26:42 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi 6db40cf047 pipe: fix check in "set size" fcntl
As it stands this check compares the number of pages to the page size.
This makes no sense and makes the fcntl fail in almost any sane case.

Fix it by checking if nr_pages is not zero (it can become zero only if
arg is too big and round_pipe_size() overflows).

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-10 19:08:34 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi 1d862f4122 pipe: fix pipe buffer resizing
pipe_set_size() needs to copy pipe bufs from the old circular buffer
to the new.

The current code gets this wrong in multiple ways, resulting in oops.

Test program is available here:
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mszeredi/piperesize/

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-10 19:08:34 +02:00
Jens Axboe 3e6c05052c block: remove duplicate BUG_ON() in bd_finish_claiming()
We do the same BUG_ON() just a line later when calling into
__bd_abort_claiming().

Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-10 19:08:34 +02:00
Nick Piggin b0018361c3 block: bd_start_claiming cleanup
I don't like the subtle multi-context code in bd_claim (ie.  detects where it
has been called based on bd_claiming). It seems clearer to just require a new
function to finish a 2-part claim.

Also improve commentary in bd_start_claiming as to how it should
be used.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-10 19:08:34 +02:00
Nick Piggin cf3425707e block: bd_start_claiming fix module refcount
bd_start_claiming has an unbalanced module_put introduced in 6b4517a79.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-10 19:08:34 +02:00
Linus Torvalds e1f38e2cea Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
  ALSA: sound/spi: patch for the unuseful variable removal
  ALSA: hda - Add SSID table for iMac7,1.
  ALSA: hda - Add SSID table for MacBookAir1,1
  ALSA: hda - Add SSID table for MacBookAir2,1
  ALSA: atmel: set "channel A event" output to debug
2010-06-10 09:34:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 85ca7886f5 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:
  tracing: Fix null pointer deref with SEND_SIG_FORCED
  perf: Fix signed comparison in perf_adjust_period()
  powerpc/oprofile: fix potential buffer overrun in op_model_cell.c
  perf symbols: Set the DSO long name when using symbol_conf.vmlinux_name
2010-06-10 09:30:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 7c8d20d40f Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
  ARM: 6164/1: Add kto and kfrom to input operands list.
  ARM: 6166/1: Proper prefetch abort handling on pre-ARMv6
  ARM: 6165/1: trap overflows on highmem pages from kmap_atomic when debugging
  ARM: 6152/1: ux500 make it possible to disable localtimers
  [ARM] pxa/spitz: Correctly register WM8750
  [ARM] pxa/palmtc: storage class should be before const qualifier
  ARM: 6146/1: sa1111: Prevent deadlock in resume path
  ARM: 6145/1: ux500 MTU clockrate correction
  ARM: 6144/1: TCM memory bug freeing bug
  ARM: VFP: Fix vfp_put_double() for d16-d31
2010-06-10 07:35:41 -07:00
Michal Marek 607b30fcf2 kbuild: Create output directory in Makefile.modbuiltin
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-06-10 12:23:08 +02:00
Takashi Iwai 2d0a1dbf57 Merge branch 'fix/misc' into for-linus 2010-06-10 11:08:53 +02:00
Eric Dumazet 00d9d6a185 ipv6: fix ICMP6_MIB_OUTERRORS
In commit 1f8438a853 (icmp: Account for ICMP out errors), I did a typo
on IPV6 side, using ICMP6_MIB_OUTMSGS instead of ICMP6_MIB_OUTERRORS

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-09 18:39:27 -07:00
Timo Teräs 81a95f0499 r8169: fix mdio_read and update mdio_write according to hw specs
Realtek confirmed that a 20us delay is needed after mdio_read and
mdio_write operations. Reduce the delay in mdio_write, and add it
to mdio_read too. Also add a comment that the 20us is from hw specs.

Signed-off-by: Timo Teräs <timo.teras@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-09 17:31:48 -07:00
David S. Miller ebedb22d2b Merge branch 'num_rx_queues' of git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/net-2.6 2010-06-09 16:28:25 -07:00
Anton Vorontsov 619baba195 gianfar: Revive the driver for eTSEC devices (disable timestamping)
Since commit cc772ab7cd ("gianfar: Add
hardware RX timestamping support"), the driver no longer works on
at least MPC8313ERDB and MPC8568EMDS boards (and possibly much more
boards as well).

That's how MPC8313 Reference Manual describes RCTRL_TS_ENABLE bit:

  Timestamp incoming packets as padding bytes. PAL field is set
  to 8 if the PAL field is programmed to less than 8. Must be set
  to zero if TMR_CTRL[TE]=0.

I see that the commit above sets this bit, but it doesn't handle
TMR_CTRL. Manfred probably had this bit set by the firmware for
his boards. But obviously this isn't true for all boards in the
wild.

Also, I recall that Freescale BSPs were explicitly disabling the
timestamping because of a performance drop.

For now, the best way to deal with this is just disable the
timestamping, and later we can discuss proper device tree bindings
and implement enabling this feature via some property.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-09 16:27:08 -07:00
Dan Carpenter aea34e7ae7 caif: fix a couple range checks
The extra ! character means that these conditions are always false.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sjur Braendeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-09 16:18:53 -07:00
Richard Cochran e13647c158 phylib: Add support for the LXT973 phy.
This patch implements a work around for Erratum 5, "3.3 V Fiber Speed
Selection." If the hardware wiring does not respect this erratum, then
fiber optic mode will not work properly.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-09 16:17:02 -07:00
Michal Marek 2da30e703c kbuild: Generate modules.builtin in make modules
Generating the file in make modules_install was broken as well, because
it didn't work in a readonly filesystem and otherwise it generated a
root-owned file which is not wanted.

Reported-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-06-09 22:40:05 +02:00
Tim Gardner 08c801f8d4 net: Print num_rx_queues imbalance warning only when there are allocated queues
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/591416

There are a number of network drivers (bridge, bonding, etc) that are not yet
receive multi-queue enabled and use alloc_netdev(), so don't print a
num_rx_queues imbalance warning in that case.

Also, only print the warning once for those drivers that _are_ multi-queue
enabled.

Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
2010-06-09 13:46:03 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 63a07cb64c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (21 commits)
  mac80211: fix deauth before assoc
  iwlwifi: add missing rcu_read_lock
  mac80211: fix function pointer check
  wireless: remove my name from the maintainer list
  ath5k: fix NULL pointer in antenna configuration
  p54usb: Add device ID for Dell WLA3310 USB
  wl1251: fix a memory leak in probe
  ipmr: dont corrupt lists
  8139too: fix buffer overrun in rtl8139_init_board
  asix: check packet size against mtu+ETH_HLEN instead of ETH_FRAME_LEN
  r8169: fix random mdio_write failures
  ip6mr: fix a typo in ip6mr_for_each_table()
  iwlwifi: move sysfs_create_group to post request firmware
  iwlwifi: add name to Maintainers list
  iwl3945: fix internal scan
  iwl3945: enable stuck queue detection on 3945
  ipv6: avoid high order allocations
  ath5k: retain promiscuous setting
  ath5k: depend on CONFIG_PM_SLEEP for suspend/resume functions
  mac80211: process station blockack action frames from work
  ...
2010-06-09 12:44:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b95a568093 Merge branch 'for-2.6.35' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'for-2.6.35' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux:
  nfsd4: shut down callback queue outside state lock
  nfsd: nfsd_setattr needs to call commit_metadata
2010-06-09 12:43:04 -07:00
David Howells a7f5378e24 FRV: Reinstate null behaviour for the GDB remote protocol 'p' command
Reinstate the null behaviour that the in-kernel gdbstub had for the GDB
remote protocol 'p' command (retrieve a single register value) prior to
commit 7ca8b9c0da ("frv: extend gdbstub to support more features of
gdb").

Before that, the 'p' command just returned an empty reply, which causes
gdb to then go and use the 'g' command.  However, since that commit, the
'p' command returns an error string, which causes gdb to abort its
connection to the target.

Not all gdb versions are affected, some use try 'g' first, and if that
works, don't bother with 'p', and so don't see the error.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-09 12:42:44 -07:00
David S. Miller 327723edeb Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2010-06-09 11:13:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 9aad9c0d93 Merge branch 'msm-urgent' of git://codeaurora.org/quic/kernel/dwalker/linux-msm
* 'msm-urgent' of git://codeaurora.org/quic/kernel/dwalker/linux-msm:
  mmc: msm: fix compile error on MSM7x30
  msm: dma: add completion.h header
2010-06-09 09:45:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e411f2dda4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze
* 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze:
  microblaze: Fix sg_dma_len() regression
  microblaze: Define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN to fix slab crash
2010-06-09 08:52:03 -07:00
Daniel Walker f3d56144c8 mmc: msm: fix compile error on MSM7x30
MSM7x30 isn't supported in this driver yet. If ones tried to compile it in
with MSM7x30 configure you get,

linux-2.6/drivers/mmc/host/msm_sdcc.c: In function 'msmsdcc_fifo_addr':
linux-2.6/drivers/mmc/host/msm_sdcc.c:165: error: 'MSM_SDC1_PHYS' undeclared (first use in this function)
linux-2.6/drivers/mmc/host/msm_sdcc.c:165: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
linux-2.6/drivers/mmc/host/msm_sdcc.c:165: error: for each function it appears in.)
linux-2.6/drivers/mmc/host/msm_sdcc.c:167: error: 'MSM_SDC2_PHYS' undeclared (first use in this function)
linux-2.6/drivers/mmc/host/msm_sdcc.c:169: error: 'MSM_SDC3_PHYS' undeclared (first use in this function)
linux-2.6/drivers/mmc/host/msm_sdcc.c:171: error: 'MSM_SDC4_PHYS' undeclared (first use in this function)

So we add a Kconfig check to prevent this.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>
2010-06-09 08:51:31 -07:00
Alan Cox 79907d89c3 misc: Fix allocation 'borrowed' by vhost_net
10, 233 is allocated officially to /dev/kmview which is shipping in
Ubuntu and Debian distributions.  vhost_net seem to have borrowed it
without making a proper request and this causes regressions in the other
distributions.

vhost_net can use a dynamic minor so use that instead.  Also update the
file with a comment to try and avoid future misunderstandings.

cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <device@lanana.org>
[ We should have caught this before 2.6.34 got released.  - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-09 08:50:31 -07:00
Julia Lawall 3499f4d0d1 KVM: ia64: Add missing spin_unlock in kvm_arch_hardware_enable()
Add a spin_unlock missing on the error path.

The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression E1;
@@

* spin_lock(E1,...);
  <+... when != E1
  if (...) {
    ... when != E1
*   return ...;
  }
  ...+>
* spin_unlock(E1,...);
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-06-09 18:48:40 +03:00
Jan Kiszka 05b782ab95 KVM: Fix order passed to iommu_unmap
This is obviously a left-over from the the old interface taking the
size. Apparently a mostly harmless issue with the current iommu_unmap
implementation.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-06-09 18:48:38 +03:00
Avi Kivity 69325a1225 KVM: MMU: Remove user access when allowing kernel access to gpte.w=0 page
If cr0.wp=0, we have to allow the guest kernel access to a page with pte.w=0.
We do that by setting spte.w=1, since the host cr0.wp must remain set so the
host can write protect pages.  Once we allow write access, we must remove
user access otherwise we mistakenly allow the user to write the page.

Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-06-09 18:48:37 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti 3be2264be3 KVM: MMU: invalidate and flush on spte small->large page size change
Always invalidate spte and flush TLBs when changing page size, to make
sure different sized translations for the same address are never cached
in a CPU's TLB.

Currently the only case where this occurs is when a non-leaf spte pointer is
overwritten by a leaf, large spte entry. This can happen after dirty
logging is disabled on a memslot, for example.

Noticed by Andrea.

KVM-Stable-Tag
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-06-09 18:48:36 +03:00
Joerg Roedel 67ec660777 KVM: SVM: Implement workaround for Erratum 383
This patch implements a workaround for AMD erratum 383 into
KVM. Without this erratum fix it is possible for a guest to
kill the host machine. This patch implements the suggested
workaround for hypervisors which will be published by the
next revision guide update.

[jan: fix overflow warning on i386]
[xiao: fix unused variable warning]

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-06-09 18:47:20 +03:00
Joerg Roedel fe5913e4e1 KVM: SVM: Handle MCEs early in the vmexit process
This patch moves handling of the MC vmexits to an earlier
point in the vmexit. The handle_exit function is too late
because the vcpu might alreadry have changed its physical
cpu.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-06-09 18:39:10 +03:00
Jean Delvare a06cdb5676 KVM: powerpc: fix init/exit annotation
kvmppc_e500_exit() is a module_exit function, so it should be tagged
with __exit, not __init. The incorrect annotation was added by commit
2986b8c72c.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-06-09 18:39:09 +03:00
FUJITA Tomonori fcdcddbcbb microblaze: Fix sg_dma_len() regression
The commit "asm-generic: add NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH to define sg_dma_len()"
18e98307de broke microblaze compilation.

dma_direct_map_sg() sets sg->dma_length, however microblaze doesn't
set NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH so scatterlist strcutres doesn't include
dma_length.

sg->dma_length is always equal to sg->length on microblaze. So we
don't need to set set dma_length, that is, microblaze can simply use
sg->length.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
2010-06-09 16:20:54 +02:00
Michal Simek ffe57d02b2 microblaze: Define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN to fix slab crash
The commit "mm: Move ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN and
ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to <linux/slab_def.h>"
1f0ce8b3dd which moved the ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN
default into the global header broke FLAT for Microblaze.

Error message:
slab error in verify_redzone_free(): cache `idr_layer_cache':
memory outside object was overwritten

Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
2010-06-09 16:20:43 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 84f7586eda Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  firewire: core: check for 1394a compliant IRM, fix inaccessibility of Sony camcorder
2010-06-08 20:52:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 8d86dc6a5b Revert "drm/i915: Don't enable pipe/plane/VCO early (wait for DPMS on)."
This reverts commit cfecde435d, since it
seems to cause some systems to not come up with any video output at all
(or video that only comes on when X starts up).

Fixes bugzilla:

    http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16163

Reported-and-tested-by: David John <davidjon@xenontk.org>
Tested-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Acked-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-08 20:16:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f5c98a4094 Merge branch 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6
* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: (23 commits)
  drm/radeon: don't poll tv dac if crtc2 is in use.
  drm/radeon: reset i2c valid to avoid incorrect tv-out polling.
  drm/nv50: fix iommu errors caused by device reading from address 0
  drm/nouveau: off by one in init_i2c_device_find()
  nouveau: off by one in nv50_gpio_location()
  drm/nouveau: completely fail init if we fail to map the PRAMIN BAR
  drm/nouveau: match U/DP script against SOR link
  drm/radeon/kms/pm: resurrect printing power states
  drm/radeon/kms: add trivial debugging for voltage
  drm/radeon/kms/r600+: use voltage from requested clock mode (v3)
  drm/radeon/kms/pm: track current voltage (v2)
  drm/radeon/kms/pm: Disable voltage adjust on RS780/RS880
  drm/radeon/kms: fix typo in printing the HPD info
  drm/radeon/kms/pm: add mid profile
  drm/radeon/kms/pm: Misc fixes
  drm/radeon/kms/combios: fix typo in voltage fix
  drm/radeon/kms/evergreen: set accel_enabled
  drm/vmwgfx: return -EFAULT for copy_to_user errors
  drm/drm_crtc: return -EFAULT on copy_to_user errors
  drm/fb: use printk to print out the switching to text mode error.
  ...
2010-06-08 19:48:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds fbe33a7c3f Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
  [S390] Update default configuration.
  [S390] arch/s390/kvm: Use GFP_ATOMIC when a lock is held
  [S390] kprobes: add parameter check to module_free()
  [S390] appldata/extmem/kvm: add missing GFP_KERNEL flag
2010-06-08 18:13:24 -07:00
Dave Chinner d87815cb20 writeback: limit write_cache_pages integrity scanning to current EOF
sync can currently take a really long time if a concurrent writer is
extending a file. The problem is that the dirty pages on the address
space grow in the same direction as write_cache_pages scans, so if
the writer keeps ahead of writeback, the writeback will not
terminate until the writer stops adding dirty pages.

For a data integrity sync, we only need to write the pages dirty at
the time we start the writeback, so we can stop scanning once we get
to the page that was at the end of the file at the time the scan
started.

This will prevent operations like copying a large file preventing
sync from completing as it will not write back pages that were
dirtied after the sync was started. This does not impact the
existing integrity guarantees, as any dirty page (old or new)
within the EOF range at the start of the scan will still be
captured.

This patch will not prevent sync from blocking on large writes into
holes. That requires more complex intervention while this patch only
addresses the common append-case of this sync holdoff.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-08 18:12:44 -07:00
Dave Chinner 254c8c2dbf xfs: remove nr_to_write writeback windup.
Now that the background flush code has been fixed, we shouldn't need to
silently multiply the wbc->nr_to_write to get good writeback. Remove
that code.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-08 18:12:44 -07:00
Dave Chinner 0b5649278e writeback: pay attention to wbc->nr_to_write in write_cache_pages
If a filesystem writes more than one page in ->writepage, write_cache_pages
fails to notice this and continues to attempt writeback when wbc->nr_to_write
has gone negative - this trace was captured from XFS:

    wbc_writeback_start: towrt=1024
    wbc_writepage: towrt=1024
    wbc_writepage: towrt=0
    wbc_writepage: towrt=-1
    wbc_writepage: towrt=-5
    wbc_writepage: towrt=-21
    wbc_writepage: towrt=-85

This has adverse effects on filesystem writeback behaviour. write_cache_pages()
needs to terminate after a certain number of pages are written, not after a
certain number of calls to ->writepage are made.  This is a regression
introduced by 17bc6c30cf ("vfs: Add
no_nrwrite_index_update writeback control flag"), but cannot be reverted
directly due to subsequent bug fixes that have gone in on top of it.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-08 18:12:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 8d7458daea Merge branch 'bkl/fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing
* 'bkl/fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing:
  hp_sdc_rtc: fix broken ioctl conversion
2010-06-08 18:05:09 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields 44b56603c4 Merge branch 'for-2.6.34-incoming' into for-2.6.35-incoming 2010-06-08 20:05:18 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields c3935e3049 nfsd4: shut down callback queue outside state lock
This reportedly causes a lockdep warning on nfsd shutdown.  That looks
like a false positive to me, but there's no reason why this needs the
state lock anyway.

Reported-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2010-06-08 19:33:52 -04:00
Ingo Molnar 16106822b6 Merge branch 'perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/urgent 2010-06-09 00:45:53 +02:00