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* Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-08-25
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: perf, x86, Pentium4: Clear the P4_CCCR_FORCE_OVF flag tracing/trace_stack: Fix stack trace on ppc64
| * perf, x86, Pentium4: Clear the P4_CCCR_FORCE_OVF flagLin Ming2010-08-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If on Pentium4 CPUs the FORCE_OVF flag is set then an NMI happens on every event, which can generate a flood of NMIs. Clear it. Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * tracing/trace_stack: Fix stack trace on ppc64Anton Blanchard2010-08-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | save_stack_trace() stores the instruction pointer, not the function descriptor. On ppc64 the trace stack code currently dereferences the instruction pointer and shows 8 bytes of instructions in our backtraces: # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace Depth Size Location (26 entries) ----- ---- -------- 0) 5424 112 0x6000000048000004 1) 5312 160 0x60000000ebad01b0 2) 5152 160 0x2c23000041c20030 3) 4992 240 0x600000007c781b79 4) 4752 160 0xe84100284800000c 5) 4592 192 0x600000002fa30000 6) 4400 256 0x7f1800347b7407e0 7) 4144 208 0xe89f0108f87f0070 8) 3936 272 0xe84100282fa30000 Since we aren't dealing with function descriptors, use %pS instead of %pF to fix it: # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace Depth Size Location (26 entries) ----- ---- -------- 0) 5424 112 ftrace_call+0x4/0x8 1) 5312 160 .current_io_context+0x28/0x74 2) 5152 160 .get_io_context+0x48/0xa0 3) 4992 240 .cfq_set_request+0x94/0x4c4 4) 4752 160 .elv_set_request+0x60/0x84 5) 4592 192 .get_request+0x2d4/0x468 6) 4400 256 .get_request_wait+0x7c/0x258 7) 4144 208 .__make_request+0x49c/0x610 8) 3936 272 .generic_make_request+0x390/0x434 Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com LKML-Reference: <20100825013238.GE28360@kryten> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds2010-08-25
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: Eliminate sparse warning - bad constant expression cifs: check for NULL session password missing changes during ntlmv2/ntlmssp auth and sign [CIFS] Fix ntlmv2 auth with ntlmssp cifs: correction of unicode header files cifs: fix NULL pointer dereference in cifs_find_smb_ses cifs: consolidate error handling in several functions cifs: clean up error handling in cifs_mknod
| * | Eliminate sparse warning - bad constant expressionshirishpargaonkar@gmail.com2010-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Eliminiate sparse warning during usage of crypto_shash_* APIs error: bad constant expression Allocate memory for shash descriptors once, so that we do not kmalloc/kfree it for every signature generation (shash descriptor for md5 hash). From ed7538619817777decc44b5660b52268077b74f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:47:43 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] eliminate sparse warnings during crypto_shash_* APis usage Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
| * | cifs: check for NULL session passwordJeff Layton2010-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's possible for a cifsSesInfo struct to have a NULL password, so we need to check for that prior to running strncmp on it. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
| * | missing changes during ntlmv2/ntlmssp auth and signShirish Pargaonkar2010-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
| * | [CIFS] Fix ntlmv2 auth with ntlmsspSteve French2010-08-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make ntlmv2 as an authentication mechanism within ntlmssp instead of ntlmv1. Parse type 2 response in ntlmssp negotiation to pluck AV pairs and use them to calculate ntlmv2 response token. Also, assign domain name from the sever response in type 2 packet of ntlmssp and use that (netbios) domain name in calculation of response. Enable cifs/smb signing using rc4 and md5. Changed name of the structure mac_key to session_key to reflect the type of key it holds. Use kernel crypto_shash_* APIs instead of the equivalent cifs functions. Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@gmail.com> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
| * | cifs: correction of unicode header filesIgor Druzhinin2010-08-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch corrects a problem of compilation errors at removal of UNIUPR_NOLOWER definition and adds include guards to cifs_unicode.h. Signed-off-by: Igor Druzhinin <jaxbrigs@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
| * | cifs: fix NULL pointer dereference in cifs_find_smb_sesJeff Layton2010-08-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cifs_find_smb_ses assumes that the vol->password field is a valid pointer, but that's only the case if a password was passed in via the options string. It's possible that one won't be if there is no mount helper on the box. Reported-by: diabel <gacek-2004@wp.pl> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
| * | cifs: consolidate error handling in several functionsJeff Layton2010-08-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cifs has a lot of complicated functions that have to clean up things on error, but some of them don't have all of the cleanup code well-consolidated. Clean up and consolidate error handling in several functions. This is in preparation of later patches that will need to put references to the tcon link container. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
| * | cifs: clean up error handling in cifs_mknodJeff Layton2010-08-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Get rid of some nesting and add a label we can goto on error. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
* | | Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-08-25
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging * 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging: MAINTAINERS: hwmon/coretemp: Change maintainers hwmon: (k8temp) Differentiate between AM2 and ASB1 hwmon: (ads7871) Fix ads7871_probe error paths hwmon: (coretemp) Fix harmless build warning
| * | | MAINTAINERS: hwmon/coretemp: Change maintainersFenghua Yu2010-08-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Huaxu and Rudolf want me to be the hwmon coretemp driver maintainer and remove their names from the coretemp maintainer entry. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Acked-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz> Acked-by: Huaxu Wan <huaxu.wan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
| * | | hwmon: (k8temp) Differentiate between AM2 and ASB1Andreas Herrmann2010-08-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 8bf0223ed515be24de0c671eedaff49e78bebc9c (hwmon, k8temp: Fix temperature reporting for ASB1 processor revisions) fixed temperature reporting for ASB1 CPUs. But those CPU models (model 0x6b, 0x6f, 0x7f) were packaged both as AM2 (desktop) and ASB1 (mobile). Thus the commit leads to wrong temperature reporting for AM2 CPU parts. The solution is to determine the package type for models 0x6b, 0x6f, 0x7f. This is done using BrandId from CPUID Fn8000_0001_EBX[15:0]. See "Constructing the processor Name String" in "Revision Guide for AMD NPT Family 0Fh Processors" (Rev. 3.46). Cc: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz> Cc: stable@kernel.org [.32.x, .33.x, .34.x, .35.x] Reported-by: Vladislav Guberinic <neosisani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
| * | | hwmon: (ads7871) Fix ads7871_probe error pathsAxel Lin2010-08-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1. remove 'status' variable 2. remove unneeded initialization of 'err' variable 3. return missing error code if sysfs_create_group fail. 4. fix the init sequence as: - check hardware existence - kzalloc for ads7871_data - sysfs_create_group - hwmon_device_register Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
| * | | hwmon: (coretemp) Fix harmless build warningJean Delvare2010-08-25
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix the following build warning: CC [M] drivers/hwmon/coretemp.o drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c: In function "coretemp_init": drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c:521: warning: unused variable "n" drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c:521: warning: unused variable "p" Introduced by commit 851b29cb3b196cb66452ec964ab5f66c9c9cd1ed. When you drop code, you also have to drop the variables this code was using. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz> Cc: Huaxu Wan <huaxu.wan@intel.com>
* | | Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-08-25
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, tsc, sched: Recompute cyc2ns_offset's during resume from sleep states sched: Fix rq->clock synchronization when migrating tasks
| * | | x86, tsc, sched: Recompute cyc2ns_offset's during resume from sleep statesSuresh Siddha2010-08-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | TSC's get reset after suspend/resume (even on cpu's with invariant TSC which runs at a constant rate across ACPI P-, C- and T-states). And in some systems BIOS seem to reinit TSC to arbitrary large value (still sync'd across cpu's) during resume. This leads to a scenario of scheduler rq->clock (sched_clock_cpu()) less than rq->age_stamp (introduced in 2.6.32). This leads to a big value returned by scale_rt_power() and the resulting big group power set by the update_group_power() is causing improper load balancing between busy and idle cpu's after suspend/resume. This resulted in multi-threaded workloads (like kernel-compilation) go slower after suspend/resume cycle on core i5 laptops. Fix this by recomputing cyc2ns_offset's during resume, so that sched_clock() continues from the point where it was left off during suspend. Reported-by: Florian Pritz <flo@xssn.at> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # [v2.6.32+] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1282262618.2675.24.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | sched: Fix rq->clock synchronization when migrating tasksPeter Zijlstra2010-08-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sched_fork() -- we do task placement in ->task_fork_fair() ensure we update_rq_clock() so we work with current time. We leave the vruntime in relative state, so the time delay until wake_up_new_task() doesn't matter. wake_up_new_task() -- Since task_fork_fair() left p->vruntime in relative state we can safely migrate, the activate_task() on the remote rq will call update_rq_clock() and causes the clock to be synced (enough). Tested-by: Jack Daniel <wanders.thirst@gmail.com> Tested-by: Philby John <pjohn@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1281002322.1923.1708.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | | Merge branch 'upstream/core' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-08-25
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen * 'upstream/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen: xen: handle events as edge-triggered xen: use percpu interrupts for IPIs and VIRQs
| * | | | xen: handle events as edge-triggeredJeremy Fitzhardinge2010-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Xen events are logically edge triggered, as Xen only calls the event upcall when an event is newly set, but not continuously as it remains set. As a result, use handle_edge_irq rather than handle_level_irq. This has the important side-effect of fixing a long-standing bug of events getting lost if: - an event's interrupt handler is running - the event is migrated to a different vcpu - the event is re-triggered The most noticable symptom of these lost events is occasional lockups of blkfront. Many thanks to Tom Kopec and Daniel Stodden in tracking this down. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Tom Kopec <tek@acm.org> Cc: Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@citrix.com> Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
| * | | | xen: use percpu interrupts for IPIs and VIRQsJeremy Fitzhardinge2010-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | IPIs and VIRQs are inherently per-cpu event types, so treat them as such: - use a specific percpu irq_chip implementation, and - handle them with handle_percpu_irq This makes the path for delivering these interrupts more efficient (no masking/unmasking, no locks), and it avoid problems with attempts to migrate them. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
* | | | | Merge branch '2.6.36-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-08-25
|\ \ \ \ \ | |_|_|/ / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/xfsdev * '2.6.36-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/xfsdev: xfs: do not discard page cache data on EAGAIN xfs: don't do memory allocation under the CIL context lock xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed logging xfs: dummy transactions should not dirty VFS state xfs: ensure f_ffree returned by statfs() is non-negative xfs: handle negative wbc->nr_to_write during sync writeback writeback: write_cache_pages doesn't terminate at nr_to_write <= 0 xfs: fix untrusted inode number lookup xfs: ensure we mark all inodes in a freed cluster XFS_ISTALE xfs: unlock items before allowing the CIL to commit
| * | | | xfs: do not discard page cache data on EAGAINChristoph Hellwig2010-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If xfs_map_blocks returns EAGAIN because of lock contention we must redirty the page and not disard the pagecache content and return an error from writepage. We used to do this correctly, but the logic got lost during the recent reshuffle of the writepage code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reported-by: Mike Gao <ygao.linux@gmail.com> Tested-by: Mike Gao <ygao.linux@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
| * | | | xfs: don't do memory allocation under the CIL context lockDave Chinner2010-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Formatting items requires memory allocation when using delayed logging. Currently that memory allocation is done while holding the CIL context lock in read mode. This means that if memory allocation takes some time (e.g. enters reclaim), we cannot push on the CIL until the allocation(s) required by formatting complete. This can stall CIL pushes for some time, and once a push is stalled so are all new transaction commits. Fix this splitting the item formatting into two steps. The first step which does the allocation and memcpy() into the allocated buffer is now done outside the CIL context lock, and only the CIL insert is done inside the CIL context lock. This avoids the stall issue. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
| * | | | xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed loggingDave Chinner2010-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not. As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly slower with delayed logging than without. To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry about dereferencing context structures that may have already been freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing code and only call into the push code if the current context matches the sequence we need to force. By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls. The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away - this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
| * | | | xfs: dummy transactions should not dirty VFS stateDave Chinner2010-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we need to cover the log, we issue dummy transactions to ensure the current log tail is on disk. Unfortunately we currently use the root inode in the dummy transaction, and the act of committing the transaction dirties the inode at the VFS level. As a result, the VFS writeback of the dirty inode will prevent the filesystem from idling long enough for the log covering state machine to complete. The state machine gets stuck in a loop issuing new dummy transactions to cover the log and never makes progress. To avoid this problem, the dummy transactions should not cause externally visible state changes. To ensure this occurs, make sure that dummy transactions log an unchanging field in the superblock as it's state is never propagated outside the filesystem. This allows the log covering state machine to complete successfully and the filesystem now correctly enters a fully idle state about 90s after the last modification was made. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
| * | | | xfs: ensure f_ffree returned by statfs() is non-negativeStuart Brodsky2010-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because of delayed updates to sb_icount field in the super block, it is possible to allocate over maxicount number of inodes. This causes the arithmetic to calculate a negative number of free inodes in user commands like df or stat -f. Since maxicount is a somewhat arbitrary number, a slight over allocation is not critical but user commands should be displayed as 0 or greater and never go negative. To do this the value in the stats buffer f_ffree is capped to never go negative. [ Modified to use max_t as per Christoph's comment. ] Signed-off-by: Stu Brodsky <sbrodsky@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
| * | | | xfs: handle negative wbc->nr_to_write during sync writebackDave Chinner2010-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | During data integrity (WB_SYNC_ALL) writeback, wbc->nr_to_write will go negative on inodes with more than 1024 dirty pages due to implementation details of write_cache_pages(). Currently XFS will abort page clustering in writeback once nr_to_write drops below zero, and so for data integrity writeback we will do very inefficient page at a time allocation and IO submission for inodes with large numbers of dirty pages. Fix this by only aborting the page clustering code when wbc->nr_to_write is negative and the sync mode is WB_SYNC_NONE. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
| * | | | writeback: write_cache_pages doesn't terminate at nr_to_write <= 0Dave Chinner2010-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I noticed XFS writeback in 2.6.36-rc1 was much slower than it should have been. Enabling writeback tracing showed: flush-253:16-8516 [007] 1342952.351608: wbc_writepage: bdi 253:16: towrt=1024 skip=0 mode=0 kupd=0 bgrd=1 reclm=0 cyclic=1 more=0 older=0x0 start=0x0 end=0x0 flush-253:16-8516 [007] 1342952.351654: wbc_writepage: bdi 253:16: towrt=1023 skip=0 mode=0 kupd=0 bgrd=1 reclm=0 cyclic=1 more=0 older=0x0 start=0x0 end=0x0 flush-253:16-8516 [000] 1342952.369520: wbc_writepage: bdi 253:16: towrt=0 skip=0 mode=0 kupd=0 bgrd=1 reclm=0 cyclic=1 more=0 older=0x0 start=0x0 end=0x0 flush-253:16-8516 [000] 1342952.369542: wbc_writepage: bdi 253:16: towrt=-1 skip=0 mode=0 kupd=0 bgrd=1 reclm=0 cyclic=1 more=0 older=0x0 start=0x0 end=0x0 flush-253:16-8516 [000] 1342952.369549: wbc_writepage: bdi 253:16: towrt=-2 skip=0 mode=0 kupd=0 bgrd=1 reclm=0 cyclic=1 more=0 older=0x0 start=0x0 end=0x0 Writeback is not terminating in background writeback if ->writepage is returning with wbc->nr_to_write == 0, resulting in sub-optimal single page writeback on XFS. Fix the write_cache_pages loop to terminate correctly when this situation occurs and so prevent this sub-optimal background writeback pattern. This improves sustained sequential buffered write performance from around 250MB/s to 750MB/s for a 100GB file on an XFS filesystem on my 8p test VM. Cc:<stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
| * | | | xfs: fix untrusted inode number lookupDave Chinner2010-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 7124fe0a5b619d65b739477b3b55a20bf805b06d ("xfs: validate untrusted inode numbers during lookup") changes the inode lookup code to do btree lookups for untrusted inode numbers. This change made an invalid assumption about the alignment of inodes and hence incorrectly calculated the first inode in the cluster. As a result, some inode numbers were being incorrectly considered invalid when they were actually valid. The issue was not picked up by the xfstests suite because it always runs fsr and dump (the two utilities that utilise the bulkstat interface) on cache hot inodes and hence the lookup code in the cold cache path was not sufficiently exercised to uncover this intermittent problem. Fix the issue by relaxing the btree lookup criteria and then checking if the record returned contains the inode number we are lookup for. If it we get an incorrect record, then the inode number is invalid. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
| * | | | xfs: ensure we mark all inodes in a freed cluster XFS_ISTALEDave Chinner2010-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Under heavy load parallel metadata loads (e.g. dbench), we can fail to mark all the inodes in a cluster being freed as XFS_ISTALE as we skip inodes we cannot get the XFS_ILOCK_EXCL or the flush lock on. When this happens and the inode cluster buffer has already been marked stale and freed, inode reclaim can try to write the inode out as it is dirty and not marked stale. This can result in writing th metadata to an freed extent, or in the case it has already been overwritten trigger a magic number check failure and return an EUCLEAN error such as: Filesystem "ram0": inode 0x442ba1 background reclaim flush failed with 117 Fix this by ensuring that we hoover up all in memory inodes in the cluster and mark them XFS_ISTALE when freeing the cluster. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
| * | | | xfs: unlock items before allowing the CIL to commitDave Chinner2010-08-23
| |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we commit a transaction using delayed logging, we need to unlock the items in the transaciton before we unlock the CIL context and allow it to be checkpointed. If we unlock them after we release the CIl context lock, the CIL can checkpoint and complete before we free the log items. This breaks stale buffer item unlock and unpin processing as there is an implicit assumption that the unlock will occur before the unpin. Also, some log items need to store the LSN of the transaction commit in the item (inodes and EFIs) and so can race with other transaction completions if we don't prevent the CIL from checkpointing before the unlock occurs. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
* | | | Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-08-24
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: watchdog: Don't throttle the watchdog tracing: Fix timer tracing
| * | | | watchdog: Don't throttle the watchdogPeter Zijlstra2010-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Stephane reported that when the machine locks up, the regular ticks, which are responsible to resetting the throttle count, stop too. Hence the NMI watchdog can end up being throttled before it reports on the locked up state, and we end up being sad.. Cure this by having the watchdog overflow reset its own throttle count. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Tested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1282215916.1926.4696.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | tracing: Fix timer tracingArjan van de Ven2010-08-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | PowerTOP would like to be able to trace timers. Unfortunately, the current timer tracing is not very useful: the actual timer function is not recorded in the trace at the start of timer execution. Although this is recorded for timer "start" time (when it gets armed), this is not useful; most timers get started early, and a tracer like PowerTOP will never see this event, but will only see the actual running of the timer. This patch just adds the function to the timer tracing; I've verified with PowerTOP that now it can get useful information about timers. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .35.x, .34.x, .33.x LKML-Reference: <4C6C5FA9.3000405@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | | | Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-08-24
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: mutex: Improve the scalability of optimistic spinning
| * | | | | mutex: Improve the scalability of optimistic spinningTim Chen2010-08-23
| | |_|/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is a scalability issue for current implementation of optimistic mutex spin in the kernel. It is found on a 8 node 64 core Nehalem-EX system (HT mode). The intention of the optimistic mutex spin is to busy wait and spin on a mutex if the owner of the mutex is running, in the hope that the mutex will be released soon and be acquired, without the thread trying to acquire mutex going to sleep. However, when we have a large number of threads, contending for the mutex, we could have the mutex grabbed by other thread, and then another ……, and we will keep spinning, wasting cpu cycles and adding to the contention. One possible fix is to quit spinning and put the current thread on wait-list if mutex lock switch to a new owner while we spin, indicating heavy contention (see the patch included). I did some testing on a 8 socket Nehalem-EX system with a total of 64 cores. Using Ingo's test-mutex program that creates/delete files with 256 threads (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/50) , I see the following speed up after putting in the mutex spin fix: ./mutex-test V 256 10 Ops/sec 2.6.34 62864 With fix 197200 Repeating the test with Aim7 fserver workload, again there is a speed up with the fix: Jobs/min 2.6.34 91657 With fix 149325 To look at the impact on the distribution of mutex acquisition time, I collected the mutex acquisition time on Aim7 fserver workload with some instrumentation. The average acquisition time is reduced by 48% and number of contentions reduced by 32%. #contentions Time to acquire mutex (cycles) 2.6.34 72973 44765791 With fix 49210 23067129 The histogram of mutex acquisition time is listed below. The acquisition time is in 2^bin cycles. We see that without the fix, the acquisition time is mostly around 2^26 cycles. With the fix, we the distribution get spread out a lot more towards the lower cycles, starting from 2^13. However, there is an increase of the tail distribution with the fix at 2^28 and 2^29 cycles. It seems a small price to pay for the reduced average acquisition time and also getting the cpu to do useful work. Mutex acquisition time distribution (acq time = 2^bin cycles): 2.6.34 With Fix bin #occurrence % #occurrence % 11 2 0.00% 120 0.24% 12 10 0.01% 790 1.61% 13 14 0.02% 2058 4.18% 14 86 0.12% 3378 6.86% 15 393 0.54% 4831 9.82% 16 710 0.97% 4893 9.94% 17 815 1.12% 4667 9.48% 18 790 1.08% 5147 10.46% 19 580 0.80% 6250 12.70% 20 429 0.59% 6870 13.96% 21 311 0.43% 1809 3.68% 22 255 0.35% 2305 4.68% 23 317 0.44% 916 1.86% 24 610 0.84% 233 0.47% 25 3128 4.29% 95 0.19% 26 63902 87.69% 122 0.25% 27 619 0.85% 286 0.58% 28 0 0.00% 3536 7.19% 29 0 0.00% 903 1.83% 30 0 0.00% 0 0.00% I've done similar experiments with 2.6.35 kernel on smaller boxes as well. One is on a dual-socket Westmere box (12 cores total, with HT). Another experiment is on an old dual-socket Core 2 box (4 cores total, no HT) On the 12-core Westmere box, I see a 250% increase for Ingo's mutex-test program with my mutex patch but no significant difference in aim7's fserver workload. On the 4-core Core 2 box, I see the difference with the patch for both mutex-test and aim7 fserver are negligible. So far, it seems like the patch has not caused regression on smaller systems. Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .35.x LKML-Reference: <1282168827.9542.72.camel@schen9-DESK> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | | | guard page for stacks that grow upwardsLuck, Tony2010-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pa-risc and ia64 have stacks that grow upwards. Check that they do not run into other mappings. By making VM_GROWSUP 0x0 on architectures that do not ever use it, we can avoid some unpleasant #ifdefs in check_stack_guard_page(). Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | drm/i915: fix vblank wait test conditionJesse Barnes2010-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When converting this to the new wait_for macro I inverted the wait condition, which causes all sorts of problems. So correct it to fix several failures caused by the bad wait (flickering, bad output detection, tearing, etc.). Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Tested-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2010-08-24
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] fix tlb flushing vs. concurrent /proc accesses [S390] s390: fix build error (sys_execve)
| * | | | | [S390] fix tlb flushing vs. concurrent /proc accessesMartin Schwidefsky2010-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The tlb flushing code uses the mm_users field of the mm_struct to decide if each page table entry needs to be flushed individually with IPTE or if a global flush for the mm_struct is sufficient after all page table updates have been done. The comment for mm_users says "How many users with user space?" but the /proc code increases mm_users after it found the process structure by pid without creating a new user process. Which makes mm_users useless for the decision between the two tlb flusing methods. The current code can be confused to not flush tlb entries by a concurrent access to /proc files if e.g. a fork is in progres. The solution for this problem is to make the tlb flushing logic independent from the mm_users field. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
| * | | | | [S390] s390: fix build error (sys_execve)Sebastian Ott2010-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | fix this build error: arch/s390/kernel/process.c:272: error: conflicting types for 'sys_execve' arch/s390/kernel/entry.h:45: error: previous declaration of 'sys_execve' was here make[1]: *** [arch/s390/kernel/process.o] Error 1 make: *** [arch/s390/kernel] Error 2 introduced by d7627467b7a8dd6944885290a03a07ceb28c10eb Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* | | | | | intel_scu_ipc: fix IPC i2c write bugJianwei Yang2010-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We should pass the data to the data register. Signed-off-by: Jianwei Yang <jianwei.yang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | | rar: Fix off by one errorOssama Othman2010-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It looks like there is an off-by-one error in one of your changes to drivers/staging/rar_register/rar_register.c: Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | | V4L/DVB: mantis: Fix IR_CORE dependencyIngo Molnar2010-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This build bug triggers: drivers/built-in.o: In function `mantis_exit': (.text+0x377413): undefined reference to `ir_input_unregister' drivers/built-in.o: In function `mantis_input_init': (.text+0x3774ff): undefined reference to `__ir_input_register' If MANTIS_CORE is enabled but IR_CORE is not. Add the correct dependency. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds2010-08-24
|\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: sparc64: Get rid of indirect p1275 PROM call buffer. sparc64: Fill a missing delay slot. sparc64: Make lock backoff really a NOP on UP builds. sparc64: simple microoptimizations for atomic functions sparc64: Make rwsems 64-bit. sparc64: Really fix atomic64_t interface types.
| * | | | | | sparc64: Get rid of indirect p1275 PROM call buffer.David S. Miller2010-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is based upon a report by Meelis Roos showing that it's possible that we'll try to fetch a property that is 32K in size with some devices. With the current fixed 3K buffer we use for moving data in and out of the firmware during PROM calls, that simply won't work. In fact, it will scramble random kernel data during bootup. The reasoning behind the temporary buffer is entirely historical. It used to be the case that we had problems referencing dynamic kernel memory (including the stack) early in the boot process before we explicitly told the firwmare to switch us over to the kernel trap table. So what we did was always give the firmware buffers that were locked into the main kernel image. But we no longer have problems like that, so get rid of all of this indirect bounce buffering. Besides fixing Meelis's bug, this also makes the kernel data about 3K smaller. It was also discovered during these conversions that the implementation of prom_retain() was completely wrong, so that was fixed here as well. Currently that interface is not in use. Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | | | | sparc64: Fill a missing delay slot.Mikulas Patocka2010-08-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the code were already aligned to 64 bytes, wr instruction would be executed twice --- once in delay slot and once in the jump target. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>