If a user has booted with 'quiet', some important messages don't
get displayed which really should. We've seen at least one case
where powernow-k8 stopped working, and the user needed a BIOS update
that they didn't know about.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Thanks to LinuxICC (http://linuxicc.sf.net), a comparison of a u32 less
than 0 was found, this patch changes the variable to a signed int so that
comparison is meaningful.
Signed-off-by: Gabriel A. Devenyi <ace@staticwave.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Added a more verbose entry for the 'ondemend' governor and an entry for the
'conservative' governor to the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex-kernel@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
The use of the 'ignore_nice' sysfs file is confusing to anyone using it.
This removes the sysfs file 'ignore_nice' and in its place creates a
'ignore_nice_load' entry that defaults to '0'; meaning nice'd processes
_are_ counted towards the 'business' calculation.
WARNING: this obvious breaks any userland tools that expected ignore_nice'
to exist, to draw attention to this fact it was concluded on the mailing
list that the entry should be removed altogether so the userland app breaks
and so the author can build simple to detect workaround. Having said that
it seems currently very few tools even make use of this functionality; all
I could find was a Gentoo Wiki entry.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex-kernel@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Future versions of the Opteron processor may support
frequency transitions of 100 MHz, instead of the=20
current 200 MHz. This patch enables the powernow-k8
driver to transition to an odd FID code, indicating
a multiple of 100 MHz frequency.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
The system call gate area handling called vm_normal_page() with the
wrong vma (which was always NULL, and caused an oops).
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ensure to update hiscore.rule in dummy rule 4 in ipv6_dev_get_saddr().
Pointed out by Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com>.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Both 32-bit and 64-bit use the same inline flush_icache_range definition
now, so both need to export __flush_icache_range, not just 64-bit.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Export symbol needed to allow MOL to run. This was changed to be inline
in past and forgot to be change here.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Check for invalid node ID values in the new atomic create+open method.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Check the created directory inode for aliases in the mkdir() method.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
With Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
The slab scanning code tries to balance the scanning rate of slabs versus the
scanning rate of LRU pages. To do this, it retains state concerning how many
slabs have been scanned - if a particular slab shrinker didn't scan enough
objects, we remember that for next time, and scan more objects on the next
pass.
The problem with this is that with (say) a huge number of GFP_NOIO
direct-reclaim attempts, the number of objects which are to be scanned when we
finally get a GFP_KERNEL request can be huge. Because some shrinker handlers
just bail out if !__GFP_FS.
So the patch clamps the number of objects-to-be-scanned to 2* the total number
of objects in the slab cache.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When quota file specified in mount options did not exist, we tried to
dereference NULL pointer later. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If you have an array with a write-intent-bitmap, and you remove a device, then
re-add it, a full recovery isn't needed. We detect a re-add by looking at
saved_raid_disk. For raid1, it doesn't matter which disk it was, only whether
or not it was an active device. The old code being removed set a value of
'mirror' which was then ignored, so it can go. The changed code performs the
correct check.
For raid6, if there are two missing devices, make sure we chose the right slot
on --re-add rather than always the first slot.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If an array is created using set_array_info, default_bitmap_offset isn't set
properly meaning that an internal bitmap cannot be hot-added until the array
is stopped and re-assembled.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When doing a recovery, we need to know whether the array will still be
degraded after the recovery has finished, so we can know whether bits can be
clearred yet or not. This patch performs the required check.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
bitmap_unplug actually writes data (bits) to storage, so we shouldn't be
holding a spinlock...
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
raid10 has two different layouts. One uses near-copies (so multiple
copies of a block are at the same or similar offsets of different
devices) and the other uses far-copies (so multiple copies of a block
are stored a greatly different offsets on different devices). The point
of far-copies is that it allows the first section (normally first half)
to be layed out in normal raid0 style, and thus provide raid0 sequential
read performance.
Unfortunately, the read balancing in raid10 makes some poor decisions
for far-copies arrays and you don't get the desired performance. So
turn off that bad bit of read_balance for far-copies arrays.
With this patch, read speed of an 'f2' array is comparable with a raid0
with the same number of devices, though write speed is ofcourse still
very slow.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Some users (hi Zwane) have seen a problem when running a workload that
eats nearly all of physical memory - th system does an OOM kill, even
when there is still a lot of swap free.
The problem appears to be a very big task that is holding the swap
token, and the VM has a very hard time finding any other page in the
system that is swappable.
Instead of ignoring the swap token when sc->priority reaches 0, we could
simply take the swap token away from the memory hog and make sure we
don't give it back to the memory hog for a few seconds.
This patch resolves the problem Zwane ran into.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Assign the appropriate dentry operations to the dentry. Fixes memory leak.
Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Move the cpuset_fork() call below the write_unlock_irq call in
kernel/fork.c copy_process().
Since the cpuset-dual-semaphore-locking-overhaul.patch, the cpuset_fork()
routine acquires task_lock(), so cannot be called while holding the
tasklist_lock for write.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I believe this patch is required to fix breakage in the asynch reclaim
watermark logic introduced by this patch:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=7fb1d9fca5c6e3b06773b69165a73f3fb786b8ee
Just some background of the watermark logic in case it isn't clear...
Basically what we have is this:
--- pages_high
|
| (a)
|
--- pages_low
|
| (b)
|
--- pages_min
|
| (c)
|
--- 0
Now when pages_low is reached, we want to kick asynch reclaim, which gives us
an interval of "b" before we must start synch reclaim, and gives kswapd an
interval of "a" before it need go back to sleep.
When pages_min is reached, normal allocators must enter synch reclaim, but
PF_MEMALLOC, ALLOC_HARDER, and ALLOC_HIGH (ie. atomic allocations, recursive
allocations, etc.) get access to varying amounts of the reserve "c".
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch corrects the return value for the EXT3_IOC_GROUP_ADD in case it
fails due to the presence of multiple resizers at the filesystem.
The problem is a little bit more serious than a wrong return value in this
case, since the clause err=0 in the exit_journal path will lead to a call
to update_backups which in turns causes a NULL pointer dereference.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@br.ibm.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch is for supporting IDE interface for M3A-2170(Mappi-III) board.
Signed-off-by: Mamoru Sakugawa <sakugawa@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch fixes a deadlock problem of the m32r SMP kernel.
In the m32r kernel, sys_tas() system call is provided as a test-and-set
function for userspace, for backward compatibility.
In some multi-threading application program, deadlocks were rarely caused
at sys_tas() funcion. Such a deadlock was caused due to a collision of
__pthread_lock() and __pthread_unlock() operations.
The "tas" syscall is repeatedly called by pthread_mutex_lock() to get a
lock, while a lock variable's value is not 0. On the other hand,
pthead_mutex_unlock() sets the lock variable to 0 for unlocking.
In the previous implementation of sys_tas() routine, there was a
possibility that a unlock operation was ignored in the following case:
- Assume a lock variable (*addr) was equal to 1 before sys_tas() execution.
- __pthread_unlock() operation is executed by the other processor
and the lock variable (*addr) is set to 0, between a read operation
("oldval = *addr;") and the following write operation ("*addr = 1;")
during a execution of sys_tas().
In this case, the following write operation ("*addr = 1;") overwrites the
__pthread_unlock() result, and sys_tas() fails to get a lock in the next
turn and after that.
According to the attatched patch, sys_tas() returns 0 value in the next
turn and deadlocks never happen.
Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Yamamoto <Yamamoto.Hitoshi@ap.MitsubishiElectric.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tracked this down on an Ultra Enterprise 3000. It's a 6-way machine. Odd
thing about this machine (and it's good for finding bugs like this) is that
the CPU id's are not 0 based. For instance, on my machine the CPU's are
6/7/10/11/14/15.
This caused some NULL pointer dereference in kernel/workqueue.c because for
single_threaded workqueue's, it hardcoded the cpu to 0.
I changed the 0's to any_online_cpu(cpu_online_mask), which cpumask.h
claims is "First cpu in mask". So this fits the same usage.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
genalloc improperly stores the sizes of freed chunks, allocates overlapping
memory regions, and oopses after its in-band data is overwritten.
Signed-off-by: Chris Humbert <mahadri-kernel@drigon.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I now see another overflow in reiserfs that should lead to data corruptions
with files that are bigger than 4G under certain circumstances when using
mmap.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove bogus usage of test/set_bit() from fbcon rotation code and just
manipulate the bits directly. This fixes an oops on powerpc among others
and should be faster. Seems to work fine on the G5 here.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The attached patch implements a bunch of small changes to the FRV arch to
make it work again.
It deals with the following problems:
(1) SEM_DEBUG should be SEMAPHORE_DEBUG.
(2) The argument list to pcibios_penalize_isa_irq() has changed.
(3) CONFIG_HIGHMEM can't be used directly in #if as it may not be defined.
(4) page->private is no longer directly accessible.
(5) linux/hardirq.h assumes asm/hardirq.h will include linux/irq.h
(6) The IDE MMIO access functions are given pointers, not integers, and so
get type casting errors.
(7) __pa() is passed an explicit u64 type in drivers/char/mem.c, but that
can't be cast directly to a pointer on a 32-bit platform.
(8) SEMAPHORE_DEBUG should not be contingent on WAITQUEUE_DEBUG as that no
longer exists.
(9) PREEMPT_ACTIVE is too low a value.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Don't do that - it does GFP_KERNEL allocations, for a start.
(Reported by Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>)
Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
So don't define it as extern in the header file.
drivers/base/memory.c:28: error: static declaration of 'memory_sysdev_class' follows non-static declaration
include/linux/memory.h:88: error: previous declaration of 'memory_sysdev_class' was here
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
There are some callers in cpufreq hotplug notify path that the lowest
function calls lock_cpu_hotplug(). The lock is already held during
cpu_up() and cpu_down() calls when the notify calls are broadcast to
registered clients.
Ideally if possible, we could disable_preempt() at the highest caller and
make sure we dont sleep in the path down in cpufreq->driver_target() calls
but the calls are so intertwined and cumbersome to cleanup.
Hence we consistently use lock_cpu_hotplug() and unlock_cpu_hotplug() in
all places.
- Removed export of cpucontrol semaphore and made it static.
- removed explicit uses of up/down with lock_cpu_hotplug()
so we can keep track of the the callers in same thread context and
just keep refcounts without calling a down() that causes a deadlock.
- Removed current_in_hotplug() uses
- Removed PF_HOTPLUG_CPU in sched.h introduced for the current_in_hotplug()
temporary workaround.
Tested with insmod of cpufreq_stat.ko, and logical online/offline
to make sure we dont have any hang situations.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
mm/built-in.o(.text+0x100d6): In function `copy_page_range':
: undefined reference to `__pud_alloc'
mm/built-in.o(.text+0x1010b): In function `copy_page_range':
: undefined reference to `__pmd_alloc'
mm/built-in.o(.text+0x11ef4): In function `__handle_mm_fault':
: undefined reference to `__pud_alloc'
fs/built-in.o(.text+0xc930): In function `install_arg_page':
: undefined reference to `__pud_alloc'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
Those missing references in mm/memory.c arise from this code in
include/linux/mm.h, combined with the fact that __PGTABLE_PMD_FOLDED and
__PGTABLE_PUD_FOLDED are both set and __ARCH_HAS_4LEVEL_HACK is not:
/*
* The following ifdef needed to get the 4level-fixup.h header to work.
* Remove it when 4level-fixup.h has been removed.
*/
#if defined(CONFIG_MMU) && !defined(__ARCH_HAS_4LEVEL_HACK)
static inline pud_t *pud_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long address)
{
return (unlikely(pgd_none(*pgd)) && __pud_alloc(mm, pgd, address))?
NULL: pud_offset(pgd, address);
}
static inline pmd_t *pmd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud, unsigned long address)
{
return (unlikely(pud_none(*pud)) && __pmd_alloc(mm, pud, address))?
NULL: pmd_offset(pud, address);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_MMU && !__ARCH_HAS_4LEVEL_HACK */
With my configuration the pgd_none and pud_none routines are inlines
returning a constant 0. Apparently the old compiler avoids generating
calls to __pud_alloc and __pmd_alloc but still lists them as undefined
references in the module's symbol table.
I don't know which change caused this problem. I think it was added
somewhere between 2.6.14 and 2.6.15-rc1, because I remember building
several 2.6.14-rc kernels without difficulty. However I can't point to an
individual culprit.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This replaces the (in my opinion horrible) VM_UNMAPPED logic with very
explicit support for a "remapped page range" aka VM_PFNMAP. It allows a
VM area to contain an arbitrary range of page table entries that the VM
never touches, and never considers to be normal pages.
Any user of "remap_pfn_range()" automatically gets this new
functionality, and doesn't even have to mark the pages reserved or
indeed mark them any other way. It just works. As a side effect, doing
mmap() on /dev/mem works for arbitrary ranges.
Sparc update from David in the next commit.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch marks a few serial data structures const, moving them to
.rodata where they won't false-share cachelines with things that get
written to.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
A review against MMC/SD specifications found some errors in the current
implementation.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Sascha Hauer
This patch adds PORT_NETX for supporting the Hilscher netx embedded
UARTs.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>