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David Howells
d6e43f751f AFS: Use i_generation not i_version for the vnode uniquifier
Store the AFS vnode uniquifier in the i_generation field, not the i_version
field of the inode struct.  i_version can then be given the AFS data version
number.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-16 11:44:48 -04:00
David Howells
2e41ae225f AFS: Set s_id in the superblock to the volume name
Set s_id in the superblock to the name of the AFS volume that this superblock
corresponds to.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-16 11:44:47 -04:00
Jan Kara
f9f07b6c13 vfs: Fix data corruption after failed write in __block_write_begin()
I've got a report of a file corruption from fsxlinux on ext3. The important
operations to the page were:
mapwrite to a hole
partial write to the page
read - found the page zeroed from the end of the normal write

The culprit seems to be that if get_block() fails in __block_write_begin()
(e.g. transient ENOSPC in ext3), the function does ClearPageUptodate(page).
Thus when we retry the write, the logic in __block_write_begin() thinks zeroing
of the page is needed and overwrites old data.  In fact, I don't see why we
should ever need to zero the uptodate bit here - either the page was uptodate
when we entered __block_write_begin() and it should stay so when we leave it,
or it was not uptodate and noone had right to set it uptodate during
__block_write_begin() so it remains !uptodate when we leave as well. So just
remove clearing of the bit.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-16 11:44:46 -04:00
Anton Blanchard
5e7f23373b afs: afs_fill_page reads too much, or wrong data
afs_fill_page should read the page that is about to be written but
the current implementation has a number of issues. If we aren't
extending the file we always read PAGE_CACHE_SIZE at offset 0. If we
are extending the file we try to read the entire file.

Change afs_fill_page to read PAGE_CACHE_SIZE at the right offset,
clamped to i_size.

While here, avoid calling afs_fill_page when we are doing a
PAGE_CACHE_SIZE write.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-16 11:44:46 -04:00
Randy Dunlap
e1d76719ea staging: fix iio builds when IIO_RING_BUFFER is not enabled
Fix build by moving enum list outside of
#ifdef CONFIG_IIO_RING_BUFFER.

  drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16201_core.c:413: error: 'ADIS16201_SCAN_SUPPLY' undeclared here (not in a function)
  drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16201_core.c:417: error: 'ADIS16201_SCAN_TEMP' undeclared here (not in a function)
  ..

  drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16203_core.c:374: error: 'ADIS16203_SCAN_SUPPLY' undeclared here (not in a function)
  drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16203_core.c:378: error: 'ADIS16203_SCAN_AUX_ADC' undeclared here (not in a function)
  ..

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-16 08:29:00 -07:00
Al Viro
8aef188452 VFS: Fix vfsmount overput on simultaneous automount
[Kudos to dhowells for tracking that crap down]

If two processes attempt to cause automounting on the same mountpoint at the
same time, the vfsmount holding the mountpoint will be left with one too few
references on it, causing a BUG when the kernel tries to clean up.

The problem is that lock_mount() drops the caller's reference to the
mountpoint's vfsmount in the case where it finds something already mounted on
the mountpoint as it transits to the mounted filesystem and replaces path->mnt
with the new mountpoint vfsmount.

During a pathwalk, however, we don't take a reference on the vfsmount if it is
the same as the one in the nameidata struct, but do_add_mount() doesn't know
this.

The fix is to make sure we have a ref on the vfsmount of the mountpoint before
calling do_add_mount().  However, if lock_mount() doesn't transit, we're then
left with an extra ref on the mountpoint vfsmount which needs releasing.
We can handle that in follow_managed() by not making assumptions about what
we can and what we cannot get from lookup_mnt() as the current code does.

The callers of follow_managed() expect that reference to path->mnt will be
grabbed iff path->mnt has been changed.  follow_managed() and follow_automount()
keep track of whether such reference has been grabbed and assume that it'll
happen in those and only those cases that'll have us return with changed
path->mnt.  That assumption is almost correct - it breaks in case of
racing automounts and in even harder to hit race between following a mountpoint
and a couple of mount --move.  The thing is, we don't need to make that
assumption at all - after the end of loop in follow_manage() we can check
if path->mnt has ended up unchanged and do mntput() if needed.

The BUG can be reproduced with the following test program:

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <sys/types.h>
	#include <sys/stat.h>
	#include <unistd.h>
	#include <sys/wait.h>
	int main(int argc, char **argv)
	{
		int pid, ws;
		struct stat buf;
		pid = fork();
		stat(argv[1], &buf);
		if (pid > 0) wait(&ws);
		return 0;
	}

and the following procedure:

 (1) Mount an NFS volume that on the server has something else mounted on a
     subdirectory.  For instance, I can mount / from my server:

	mount warthog:/ /mnt -t nfs4 -r

     On the server /data has another filesystem mounted on it, so NFS will see
     a change in FSID as it walks down the path, and will mark /mnt/data as
     being a mountpoint.  This will cause the automount code to be triggered.

     !!! Do not look inside the mounted fs at this point !!!

 (2) Run the above program on a file within the submount to generate two
     simultaneous automount requests:

	/tmp/forkstat /mnt/data/testfile

 (3) Unmount the automounted submount:

	umount /mnt/data

 (4) Unmount the original mount:

	umount /mnt

     At this point the kernel should throw a BUG with something like the
     following:

	BUG: Dentry ffff880032e3c5c0{i=2,n=} still in use (1) [unmount of nfs4 0:12]

Note that the bug appears on the root dentry of the original mount, not the
mountpoint and not the submount because sys_umount() hasn't got to its final
mntput_no_expire() yet, but this isn't so obvious from the call trace:

 [<ffffffff8117cd82>] shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x69/0x82
 [<ffffffff8116160e>] generic_shutdown_super+0x37/0x15b
 [<ffffffffa00fae56>] ? nfs_super_return_all_delegations+0x2e/0x1b1 [nfs]
 [<ffffffff811617f3>] kill_anon_super+0x1d/0x7e
 [<ffffffffa00d0be1>] nfs4_kill_super+0x60/0xb6 [nfs]
 [<ffffffff81161c17>] deactivate_locked_super+0x34/0x83
 [<ffffffff811629ff>] deactivate_super+0x6f/0x7b
 [<ffffffff81186261>] mntput_no_expire+0x18d/0x199
 [<ffffffff811862a8>] mntput+0x3b/0x44
 [<ffffffff81186d87>] release_mounts+0xa2/0xbf
 [<ffffffff811876af>] sys_umount+0x47a/0x4ba
 [<ffffffff8109e1ca>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x1fd/0x22f
 [<ffffffff816ea86b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

as do_umount() is inlined.  However, you can see release_mounts() in there.

Note also that it may be necessary to have multiple CPU cores to be able to
trigger this bug.

Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-16 11:28:16 -04:00
Török Edwin
50338b889d fix wrong iput on d_inode introduced by e6bc45d65d
Git bisection shows that commit e6bc45d65d causes
BUG_ONs under high I/O load:

kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:1368!
[ 2862.501007] Call Trace:
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff811691d8>] d_kill+0xf8/0x140
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff81169c19>] dput+0xc9/0x190
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff8115577f>] fput+0x15f/0x210
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff81152171>] filp_close+0x61/0x90
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff81152251>] sys_close+0xb1/0x110
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff814c14fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

A reliable way to reproduce this bug is:
Login to KDE, run 'rsnapshot sync', and apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk,
and apt-get remove openjdk-6-jdk.

The buggy part of the patch is this:
	struct inode *inode = NULL;
.....
-               if (nd.last.name[nd.last.len])
-                       goto slashes;
                inode = dentry->d_inode;
-               if (inode)
-                       ihold(inode);
+               if (nd.last.name[nd.last.len] || !inode)
+                       goto slashes;
+               ihold(inode)
...
	if (inode)
		iput(inode);	/* truncate the inode here */

If nd.last.name[nd.last.len] is nonzero (and thus goto slashes branch is taken),
and dentry->d_inode is non-NULL, then this code now does an additional iput on
the inode, which is wrong.

Fix this by only setting the inode variable if nd.last.name[nd.last.len] is 0.

Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/15/50
Reported-by: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Reported-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-16 11:27:39 -04:00
Randy Dunlap
c001fb72a7 gpio: add GPIOF_ values regardless on kconfig settings
Make GPIOF_ defined values available even when GPIOLIB nor GENERIC_GPIO
is enabled by moving them to <linux/gpio.h>.

Fixes these build errors in linux-next:
sound/soc/codecs/ak4641.c:524: error: 'GPIOF_OUT_INIT_LOW' undeclared (first use in this function)
sound/soc/codecs/wm8915.c:2921: error: 'GPIOF_OUT_INIT_LOW' undeclared (first use in this function)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2011-06-16 08:40:52 -06:00
Randy Dunlap
158f1e9518 gpio: include linux/gpio.h where needed
Some files use GPIOF_ macros but don't include the header file
for them.  These macros are being moved to <linux/gpio.h>, so add
includes for <linux/gpio.h> where needed.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2011-06-16 08:40:44 -06:00
Ambresh K
55b220cafa gpio/omap4: Fix missing interrupts during device wakeup due to IOPAD.
If gpio pins from bank[2-5] are marked as wakeup enable and if the wake is
through gpio IO pad wakeup, then that wakeup gpio interrupt is lost.

In the current implementation, GPIO driver stores the context of DATAIN of
all the gpio in the bank. During GPIO resuming, it checks DATAIN with wakeup
enabled pins of gpio bank. If there is status change, then manually toggle
GPIO_LEVELDETECT to generate pseudo interrupt.

Reported-by: Philippe Mazet <p-mazet@ti.com>
Tested-by: Philippe Mazet <p-mazet@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Ambresh K <ambresh@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2011-06-16 08:40:43 -06:00
Jiri Kosina
c3a4924565 Revert "HID: magicmouse: ignore 'ivalid report id' while switching modes"
This reverts commit 23746a66d7.

It turned out that the actual reason for failure is not the device
firmware, but bug in Bluetooth stack, which will be fixed by
patch by Ville Tervo which corrects the mask handling for CSR 1.1
Dongles.

Reported-and-tested-by: Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>
Reported-and-tested-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-06-16 12:21:34 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
9be34c9d52 mm: get rid of the most spurious find_vma_prev() users
We have some users of this function that date back to before the vma
list was doubly linked, and just are silly.  These days, you can find
the previous vma by just following the vma->vm_prev pointer.

In some cases you don't need any find_vma() lookup at all, and in other
cases you're better off with the regular "find_vma()" that uses the vma
cache front-end lookup.

Some "find_vma_prev()" users are still valid, though.  For example, in
the case of a stack that grows up, it can be the case that we don't find
any 'vma' at all (because we're looking up an address that is past the
last vma), and that the stack that we want to grow is the 'prev' vma.

But that kind of special case aside, we generally should prefer to use
'find_vma()'.

Noticed due to a totally unrelated POWER memory corruption bug that just
happened to hit in 'find_vma_prev()' and made me go "Hmm - why are we
using that function here?".

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-16 00:35:09 -07:00
Christian Dietrich
cafe8d8413 drivers/gpu/drm: use printk_ratelimited instead of printk_ratelimit
Since printk_ratelimit() shouldn't be used anymore (see comment in
include/linux/printk.h), replace it with printk_ratelimited.

Signed-off-by: Christian Dietrich <christian.dietrich@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2011-06-16 16:32:15 +10:00
Dave Airlie
4a9a8b71e1 drm/radeon: workaround a hw bug on some radeon chipsets with all-0 EDIDs.
Some RS690 chipsets seem to end up with floating connectors, either
a DVI connector isn't actually populated, or an add-in HDMI card
is available but not installed. In this case we seem to get a NULL byte
response for each byte of the i2c transaction, so we detect this
case and if we see it we don't do anymore DDC transactions on this
connector.

I've tested this on my RS690 without the HDMI card installed and
it seems to work fine.

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
2011-06-16 16:30:54 +10:00
Dave Airlie
f49dadb82d drm: make debug levels match in edid failure code.
this puts the header and followup at the same loglevel as the
hex dump code.

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
2011-06-16 16:29:37 +10:00
Alex Deucher
e6ba759980 drm/radeon/kms: clear wb memory by default
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2011-06-16 16:28:43 +10:00
Alex Deucher
7c88d2b80b drm/radeon/kms: be more pedantic about the g5 quirk (v2)
I don't think Apple offered any other cards for
this mac, so I doubt this will be an issue, but just
to be on the safe side, check the pci ids as well.

v2: fix spelling in commit message

Reviewed-by: Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Cc: Joachim Henke <j-o@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2011-06-16 16:27:28 +10:00
Alex Deucher
1c88d74f3a drm/radeon/kms: signed fix for evergreen thermal
temperature is signed.

Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2011-06-16 16:27:20 +10:00
Wolfram Sang
45e97ab650 drm: populate irq_by_busid-member for pci
Commit 8410ea (drm: rework PCI/platform driver interface) implemented
drm_pci_irq_by_busid() but forgot to make it available in the
drm_pci_bus-struct.

This caused a freeze on my Radeon9600-equipped laptop when executing glxgears.
Thanks to Michel for noticing the flaw.

[airlied: made function static also]

Reported-by: Michel Dänzer <daenzer@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2011-06-16 16:26:45 +10:00
Kuninori Morimoto
261a9af671 sh: sh7724: Add USBHS DMAEngine support
Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <morimoto.kuninori@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2011-06-16 15:05:46 +09:00
Kuninori Morimoto
fb2e739474 sh: ecovec: Add renesas_usbhs support
Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <morimoto.kuninori@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2011-06-16 15:05:42 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
19a1166fa2 Merge branch 'fixes' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* 'fixes' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
  ARM: footbridge: fix clock event support
  ARM: footbridge: fix debug macros
  ARM: initrd: disable initrds outside of memory
  ARM: extend Code: line by one 16-bit quantity for Thumb instructions
  ARM: 6955/1: cmpxchg syscall should data abort if page not write
  ARM: 6954/1: zImage: fix Thumb2 breakage
  ARM: 6953/1: DT: don't try to access physical address zero
  ARM: 6949/2: mach-u300: fix compilaton warning in IO accessors
  Revert "ARM: 6944/1: mm: allow ASID 0 to be allocated to tasks"
  Revert "ARM: 6943/1: mm: use TTBR1 instead of reserved context ID"
  davinci: make PCM platform devices static
  arm: davinci: Fix fallout from generic irq chip conversion
  ARM: 6894/1: mmci: trigger card detect IRQs on falling and rising edges
  ARM: 6952/1: fix lockdep warning of "unannotated irqs-off"
  ARM: 6951/1: include .bss in memory layout information
  ARM: 6948/1: Fix .size directives for __arm{7,9}tdmi_proc_info
  ARM: 6947/2: mach-u300: fix compilation error in timer
  ARM: 6946/1: vexpress: move v2m clock init to init_early
  ARM: mx51/sdma: Check the chip revision in run-time
  arm: mxs: include asm/processor.h for cpu_relax()
2011-06-15 22:01:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
13fca640bb Revert "fs/exec.c: use BUILD_BUG_ON for VM_STACK_FLAGS & VM_STACK_INCOMPLETE_SETUP"
This reverts commit 7f81c8890c.

It turns out that it's not actually a build-time check on x86-64 UML,
which does some seriously crazy stuff with VM_STACK_FLAGS.

The VM_STACK_FLAGS define depends on the arch-supplied
VM_STACK_DEFAULT_FLAGS value, and on x86-64 UML we have

  arch/um/sys-x86_64/shared/sysdep/vm-flags.h:

	#define VM_STACK_DEFAULT_FLAGS \
		(test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32) ? vm_stack_flags32 : vm_stack_flags)

	#define VM_STACK_DEFAULT_FLAGS vm_stack_flags

(yes, seriously: two different #define's for that thing, with the first
one being inside an "#ifdef TIF_IA32")

It's possible that it is UML that should just be fixed in this area, but
for now let's just undo the (very small) optimization.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 21:53:52 -07:00
Jörg Sommer
67de0162fb Documentation: fix cgroup typos and formatting
Fix format and spelling.

Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 21:52:50 -07:00
Jörg Sommer
f6e07d3807 Documentation: update cgroupfs mount point
According to commit 676db4af04 ("cgroupfs: create /sys/fs/cgroup to
mount cgroupfs on") the canonical mountpoint for the cgroup filesystem
is /sys/fs/cgroup.  Hence, this should be used in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 21:52:50 -07:00
Maxin B. John
06a2c45d6b Documentation: update kmemleak supported archs
Instead of listing the architectures that are supported by
kmemleak in Documentation/kmemleak.txt, just refer people to
the list of supported architecutures in lib/Kconfig.debug so
that Documentation/kmemleak.txt does not need more updates
for this.

Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 21:52:50 -07:00
Andrew Murray
04c55715cb Documentation: update printk-formats.txt
This patch updates the incomplete documentation concerning the printk
extended format specifiers.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <amurray@mpc-data.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 21:52:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a1b6ae8ed0 Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: Check if lowest_mask is initialized in find_lowest_rq()
  sched: Fix need_resched() when checking peempt
2011-06-15 21:45:18 -07:00
Dan Rosenberg
21c5977a83 alpha: fix several security issues
Fix several security issues in Alpha-specific syscalls.  Untested, but
mostly trivial.

1. Signedness issue in osf_getdomainname allows copying out-of-bounds
kernel memory to userland.

2. Signedness issue in osf_sysinfo allows copying large amounts of
kernel memory to userland.

3. Typo (?) in osf_getsysinfo bounds minimum instead of maximum copy
size, allowing copying large amounts of kernel memory to userland.

4. Usage of user pointer in osf_wait4 while under KERNEL_DS allows
privilege escalation via writing return value of sys_wait4 to kernel
memory.

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
ec8f9ceace drivers/misc/apds990x.c: apds990x_chip_on() should depend on CONFIG_PM || CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME
Fixes this warning:

  drivers/misc/apds990x.c: At top level:
  drivers/misc/apds990x.c:613: warning: `apds990x_chip_on' defined but not used

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
2b472611a3 ksm: fix NULL pointer dereference in scan_get_next_rmap_item()
Andrea Righi reported a case where an exiting task can race against
ksmd::scan_get_next_rmap_item (http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/1/742) easily
triggering a NULL pointer dereference in ksmd.

ksm_scan.mm_slot == &ksm_mm_head with only one registered mm

CPU 1 (__ksm_exit)		CPU 2 (scan_get_next_rmap_item)
 				list_empty() is false
lock				slot == &ksm_mm_head
list_del(slot->mm_list)
(list now empty)
unlock
				lock
				slot = list_entry(slot->mm_list.next)
				(list is empty, so slot is still ksm_mm_head)
				unlock
				slot->mm == NULL ... Oops

Close this race by revalidating that the new slot is not simply the list
head again.

Andrea's test case:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>

#define BUFSIZE getpagesize()

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	void *ptr;

	if (posix_memalign(&ptr, getpagesize(), BUFSIZE) < 0) {
		perror("posix_memalign");
		exit(1);
	}
	if (madvise(ptr, BUFSIZE, MADV_MERGEABLE) < 0) {
		perror("madvise");
		exit(1);
	}
	*(char *)NULL = 0;

	return 0;
}

Reported-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
Wanlong Gao
c7cbb02222 rtc: fix build warnings in defconfigs
RTC_CLASS is changed to bool, so 'm' is invalid.

Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
Alexander Stein
fb139dfeef drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c: don't oops if dmi_get_system_info returns NULL
If dmi_get_system_info() returns NULL, pch_uart_init_port() will
dereferencea a zero pointer.

This oops was observed on an Atom based board which has no BIOS, but
a bootloder which doesn't provide DMI data.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
Nils Carlson
273ef9509b drivers/char/hpet.c: fix periodic-emulation for delayed interrupts
When interrupts are delayed due to interrupt masking or due to other
interrupts being serviced the HPET periodic-emuation would fail.  This
happened because given an interval t and a time for the current interrupt
m we would compute the next time as t + m.  This works until we are
delayed for > t, in which case we would be writing a new value which is in
fact in the past.

This can be solved by computing the next time instead as (k * t) + m where
k is large enough to be in the future.  The exact computation of k is
described in a comment to the code.

More detail:

Assuming an interval of 5 between each expected interrupt we have a normal
case of

t0: interrupt, read t0 from comparator, set next interrupt t0 + 5
t5: interrupt, read t5 from comparator, set next interrupt t5 + 5
t10: interrupt, read t10 from comparator, set next interrupt t10 + 5
...

So, what happens when the interrupt is serviced too late?

t0: interrupt, read t0 from comparator, set next interrupt t0 + 5
t11: delayed interrupt serviced, read t5 from comparator, set next
interrupt t5 + 5, which is in the past!
... counter loops ...
t10: Much much later, get the next interrupt.

This can happen either because we have interrupts masked for too long
(some stupid driver goes on a printk rampage) or just because we are
pushing the limits of the interval (too small a period), or both most
probably.

My solution is to read the main counter as well and set the next interrupt
to occur at the right interval, for example:

t0: interrupt, read t0 from comparator, set next interrupt t0 + 5
t11: delayed interrupt serviced, read t5 from comparator, set next
interrupt t15 as t10 has been missed.
t15: back on track.

Signed-off-by: Nils Carlson <nils.carlson@ericsson.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
akpm@linux-foundation.org
31b5f8eeec Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt: remove ns_cgroup from feature-removal-schedule.txt
Commit a77aea9201 ("cgroup: remove the ns_cgroup") removed the
ns_cgroup but it forgot to remove the related doc in
feature-removal-schedule.txt.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Cc: Serge E.  Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
Mel Gorman
f9e35b3b41 mm: compaction: abort compaction if too many pages are isolated and caller is asynchronous V2
Asynchronous compaction is used when promoting to huge pages.  This is all
very nice but if there are a number of processes in compacting memory, a
large number of pages can be isolated.  An "asynchronous" process can
stall for long periods of time as a result with a user reporting that
firefox can stall for 10s of seconds.  This patch aborts asynchronous
compaction if too many pages are isolated as it's better to fail a
hugepage promotion than stall a process.

[minchan.kim@gmail.com: return COMPACT_PARTIAL for abort]
Reported-and-tested-by: Ury Stankevich <urykhy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
Andrea Arcangeli
d179e84ba5 mm: vmscan: do not use page_count without a page pin
It is unsafe to run page_count during the physical pfn scan because
compound_head could trip on a dangling pointer when reading
page->first_page if the compound page is being freed by another CPU.

[mgorman@suse.de: split out patch]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
Mel Gorman
7454f4ba40 mm: compaction: ensure that the compaction free scanner does not move to the next zone
Compaction works with two scanners, a migration and a free scanner.  When
the scanners crossover, migration within the zone is complete.  The
location of the scanner is recorded on each cycle to avoid excesive
scanning.

When a zone is small and mostly reserved, it's very easy for the migration
scanner to be close to the end of the zone.  Then the following situation
can occurs

  o migration scanner isolates some pages near the end of the zone
  o free scanner starts at the end of the zone but finds that the
    migration scanner is already there
  o free scanner gets reinitialised for the next cycle as
    cc->migrate_pfn + pageblock_nr_pages
    moving the free scanner into the next zone
  o migration scanner moves into the next zone

When this happens, NR_ISOLATED accounting goes haywire because some of the
accounting happens against the wrong zone.  One zones counter remains
positive while the other goes negative even though the overall global
count is accurate.  This was reported on X86-32 with !SMP because !SMP
allows the negative counters to be visible.  The fact that it is the bug
should theoritically be possible there.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
Shaohua Li
a582a738c7 compaction: checks correct fragmentation index
fragmentation_index() returns -1000 when the allocation might succeed
This doesn't match the comment and code in compaction_suitable(). I
thought compaction_suitable should return COMPACT_PARTIAL in -1000
case, because in this case allocation could succeed depending on
watermarks.

The impact of this is that compaction starts and compact_finished() is
called which rechecks the watermarks and the free lists.  It should have
the same result in that compaction should not start but is more expensive.

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
Minchan Kim
5db8a73a8d mm/memory-failure.c: fix page isolated count mismatch
Pages isolated for migration are accounted with the vmstat counters
NR_ISOLATE_[ANON|FILE].  Callers of migrate_pages() are expected to
increment these counters when pages are isolated from the LRU.  Once the
pages have been migrated, they are put back on the LRU or freed and the
isolated count is decremented.

Memory failure is not properly accounting for pages it isolates causing
the NR_ISOLATED counters to be negative.  On SMP builds, this goes
unnoticed as negative counters are treated as 0 due to expected per-cpu
drift.  On UP builds, the counter is treated by too_many_isolated() as a
large value causing processes to enter D state during page reclaim or
compaction.  This patch accounts for pages isolated by memory failure
correctly.

[mel@csn.ul.ie: rewrote changelog]
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:01 -07:00
Josh Triplett
d2c3225879 gcov: disable CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS when not needed by CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL
CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS controls support for running constructor functions at
kernel init time.  According to commit b99b87f70c ("kernel:
constructor support"), gcov (CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL) needs this.  However,
CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS currently defaults to y, with no option to disable it,
and CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL depends on it.  Instead, default it to n and have
CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL select it, so that the normal case of
CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL=n will result in CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS=n.

Observed in the short list of =y values in a minimal kernel configuration.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:01 -07:00
Jean Delvare
b0461a44a2 MAINTAINERS: add entry for legacy eeprom driver
I shall maintain the legacy eeprom driver, until we finally get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:01 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
fbc29a25e4 memcg: avoid percpu cached charge draining at softlimit
Based on Michal Hocko's comment.

We are not draining per cpu cached charges during soft limit reclaim
because background reclaim doesn't care about charges.  It tries to free
some memory and charges will not give any.

Cached charges might influence only selection of the biggest soft limit
offender but as the call is done only after the selection has been already
done it makes no change.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:01 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
26fe616844 memcg: fix percpu cached charge draining frequency
For performance, memory cgroup caches some "charge" from res_counter into
per cpu cache.  This works well but because it's cache, it needs to be
flushed in some cases.  Typical cases are

   1. when someone hit limit.

   2. when rmdir() is called and need to charges to be 0.

But "1" has problem.

Recently, with large SMP machines, we see many kworker runs because of
flushing memcg's cache.  Bad things in implementation are that even if a
cpu contains a cache for memcg not related to a memcg which hits limit,
drain code is called.

This patch does
        A) check percpu cache contains a useful data or not.
        B) check other asynchronous percpu draining doesn't run.
        C) don't call local cpu callback.

(*)This patch avoid changing the calling condition with hard-limit.

When I run "cat 1Gfile > /dev/null" under 300M limit memcg,

[Before]
13767 kamezawa  20   0 98.6m  424  416 D 10.0  0.0   0:00.61 cat
   58 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.6  0.0   0:00.09 kworker/2:1
   60 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.6  0.0   0:00.08 kworker/4:1
    4 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:00.02 kworker/0:0
   57 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:00.05 kworker/1:1
   61 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:00.05 kworker/5:1
   62 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:00.05 kworker/6:1
   63 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:00.05 kworker/7:1

[After]
 2676 root      20   0 98.6m  416  416 D  9.3  0.0   0:00.87 cat
 2626 kamezawa  20   0 15192 1312  920 R  0.3  0.0   0:00.28 top
    1 root      20   0 19384 1496 1204 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.66 init
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
    4 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kworker/0:0

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make percpu_charge_mutex static, tweak comments]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:01 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
7ae534d074 memcg: fix wrong check of noswap with softlimit
Hierarchical reclaim doesn't swap out if memsw and resource limits are
thye same (memsw_is_minimum == true) because we would hit mem+swap limit
anyway (during hard limit reclaim).

If it comes to the soft limit we shouldn't consider memsw_is_minimum at
all because it doesn't make much sense.  Either the soft limit is bellow
the hard limit and then we cannot hit mem+swap limit or the direct reclaim
takes a precedence.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:01 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
733eda7ac3 memcg: clear mm->owner when last possible owner leaves
The following crash was reported:

> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff81139792>] mem_cgroup_from_task+0x15/0x17
> [<ffffffff8113a75a>] __mem_cgroup_try_charge+0x148/0x4b4
> [<ffffffff810493f3>] ? need_resched+0x23/0x2d
> [<ffffffff814cbf43>] ? preempt_schedule+0x46/0x4f
> [<ffffffff8113afe8>] mem_cgroup_charge_common+0x9a/0xce
> [<ffffffff8113b6d1>] mem_cgroup_newpage_charge+0x5d/0x5f
> [<ffffffff81134024>] khugepaged+0x5da/0xfaf
> [<ffffffff81078ea0>] ? __init_waitqueue_head+0x4b/0x4b
> [<ffffffff81133a4a>] ? add_mm_counter.constprop.5+0x13/0x13
> [<ffffffff81078625>] kthread+0xa8/0xb0
> [<ffffffff814d13e8>] ? sub_preempt_count+0xa1/0xb4
> [<ffffffff814d5664>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
> [<ffffffff814ce858>] ? retint_restore_args+0x13/0x13
> [<ffffffff8107857d>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x5a/0x5a

What happens is that khugepaged tries to charge a huge page against an mm
whose last possible owner has already exited, and the memory controller
crashes when the stale mm->owner is used to look up the cgroup to charge.

mm->owner has never been set to NULL with the last owner going away, but
nobody cared until khugepaged came along.

Even then it wasn't a problem because the final mmput() on an mm was
forced to acquire and release mmap_sem in write-mode, preventing an
exiting owner to go away while the mmap_sem was held, and until "692e0b3
mm: thp: optimize memcg charge in khugepaged", the memory cgroup charge
was protected by mmap_sem in read-mode.

Instead of going back to relying on the mmap_sem to enforce lifetime of a
task, this patch ensures that mm->owner is properly set to NULL when the
last possible owner is exiting, which the memory controller can handle
just fine.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:01 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
37573e8c71 memcg: fix init_page_cgroup nid with sparsemem
Commit 21a3c96468 ("memcg: allocate memory cgroup structures in local
nodes") makes page_cgroup allocation as NUMA aware.  But that caused a
problem https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36192.

The problem was getting a NID from invalid struct pages, which was not
initialized because it was out-of-node, out of [node_start_pfn,
node_end_pfn)

Now, with sparsemem, page_cgroup_init scans pfn from 0 to max_pfn.  But
this may scan a pfn which is not on any node and can access memmap which
is not initialized.

This makes page_cgroup_init() for SPARSEMEM node aware and remove a code
to get nid from page->flags.  (Then, we'll use valid NID always.)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: try to fix up comments]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:01 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
8957712710 mm: memory.numa_stat: fix file permission
Commit 406eb0c9ba ("memcg: add memory.numastat api for numa
statistics") adds memory.numa_stat file for memory cgroup.  But the file
permissions are wrong.

  [kamezawa@bluextal linux-2.6]$ ls -l /cgroup/memory/A/memory.numa_stat
  ---------- 1 root root 0 Jun  9 18:36 /cgroup/memory/A/memory.numa_stat

This patch fixes the permission as

  [root@bluextal kamezawa]# ls -l /cgroup/memory/A/memory.numa_stat
  -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 10 16:49 /cgroup/memory/A/memory.numa_stat

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:01 -07:00
Eric Miao
45d16f09dd leds: fix the incorrect display in menuconfig
Seems when a config option does not have a dependency of the menuconfig,
it messes the display of the rest configs, even if it's a hidden one.

Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:01 -07:00
Rafael Aquini
b0320c7b7d mm: fix negative commitlimit when gigantic hugepages are allocated
When 1GB hugepages are allocated on a system, free(1) reports less
available memory than what really is installed in the box.  Also, if the
total size of hugepages allocated on a system is over half of the total
memory size, CommitLimit becomes a negative number.

The problem is that gigantic hugepages (order > MAX_ORDER) can only be
allocated at boot with bootmem, thus its frames are not accounted to
'totalram_pages'.  However, they are accounted to hugetlb_total_pages()

What happens to turn CommitLimit into a negative number is this
calculation, in fs/proc/meminfo.c:

        allowed = ((totalram_pages - hugetlb_total_pages())
                * sysctl_overcommit_ratio / 100) + total_swap_pages;

A similar calculation occurs in __vm_enough_memory() in mm/mmap.c.

Also, every vm statistic which depends on 'totalram_pages' will render
confusing values, as if system were 'missing' some part of its memory.

Impact of this bug:

When gigantic hugepages are allocated and sysctl_overcommit_memory ==
OVERCOMMIT_NEVER.  In a such situation, __vm_enough_memory() goes through
the mentioned 'allowed' calculation and might end up mistakenly returning
-ENOMEM, thus forcing the system to start reclaiming pages earlier than it
would be ususal, and this could cause detrimental impact to overall
system's performance, depending on the workload.

Besides the aforementioned scenario, I can only think of this causing
annoyances with memory reports from /proc/meminfo and free(1).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: standardize comment layout]
Reported-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@linux.com>
Acked-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:01 -07:00