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2009-01-13Fix timeouts in sys_pselect7Bernd Schmidt
Since we (Analog Devices) updated our Blackfin kernel to 2.6.28, we've seen occasional 5-second hangs from telnet. telnetd calls select with a NULL timeout, but with the new kernel, the system call occasionally returns 0, which causes telnet to call sleep (5). This did not happen with earlier kernels. The code in sys_pselect7 looks a bit strange, in particular the variable "to" is initialized to NULL, then changed if a non-null timeout was passed in, but not used further. It needs to be passed to core_sys_select instead of &end_time. This bug was introduced by 8ff3e8e85fa6c312051134b3953e397feb639f51 ("select: switch select() and poll() over to hrtimers"). Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernd.schmidt@analog.com> Reviewed-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Tested-by: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-12Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/teigland/dlm * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/teigland/dlm: dlm: change rsbtbl rwlock to spinlock dlm: fix seq_file usage in debugfs lock dump
2009-01-10btrfs: fix for write_super_lockfs/unlockfs error handlingLinus Torvalds
Commit c4be0c1dc4cdc37b175579be1460f15ac6495e9a added the ability for write_super_lockfs to return errors, and renamed them to match. But btrfs didn't get converted. Do the minimal conversion to make it compile again. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-10filesystem freeze: remove XFS specific ioctl interfaces for freeze featureTakashi Sato
It removes XFS specific ioctl interfaces and request codes for freeze feature. This patch has been supplied by David Chinner. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-10filesystem freeze: implement generic freeze featureTakashi Sato
The ioctls for the generic freeze feature are below. o Freeze the filesystem int ioctl(int fd, int FIFREEZE, arg) fd: The file descriptor of the mountpoint FIFREEZE: request code for the freeze arg: Ignored Return value: 0 if the operation succeeds. Otherwise, -1 o Unfreeze the filesystem int ioctl(int fd, int FITHAW, arg) fd: The file descriptor of the mountpoint FITHAW: request code for unfreeze arg: Ignored Return value: 0 if the operation succeeds. Otherwise, -1 Error number: If the filesystem has already been unfrozen, errno is set to EINVAL. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_BLOCK=n] Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Masayuki Hamaguchi <m-hamaguchi@ys.jp.nec.com> Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-10filesystem freeze: add error handling of write_super_lockfs/unlockfsTakashi Sato
Currently, ext3 in mainline Linux doesn't have the freeze feature which suspends write requests. So, we cannot take a backup which keeps the filesystem's consistency with the storage device's features (snapshot and replication) while it is mounted. In many case, a commercial filesystem (e.g. VxFS) has the freeze feature and it would be used to get the consistent backup. If Linux's standard filesystem ext3 has the freeze feature, we can do it without a commercial filesystem. So I have implemented the ioctls of the freeze feature. I think we can take the consistent backup with the following steps. 1. Freeze the filesystem with the freeze ioctl. 2. Separate the replication volume or create the snapshot with the storage device's feature. 3. Unfreeze the filesystem with the unfreeze ioctl. 4. Take the backup from the separated replication volume or the snapshot. This patch: VFS: Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void" to "int" so that they can return an error. Rename write_super_lockfs and unlockfs of the super block operation freeze_fs and unfreeze_fs to avoid a confusion. ext3, ext4, xfs, gfs2, jfs: Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void" to "int" so that write_super_lockfs returns an error if needed, and unlockfs always returns 0. reiserfs: Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void" to "int" so that they always return 0 (success) to keep a current behavior. Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Masayuki Hamaguchi <m-hamaguchi@ys.jp.nec.com> Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-10CORE_DUMP_DEFAULT_ELF_HEADERS depends on ELF_COREDavid Brownell
Kernels that don't support ELF coredumps at all surely can't be supporting new partial-segment flavored ELF coredumps ... don't make folk answer Kconfig questions about that flavor. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-09Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-async-2Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-async-2: async: make async a command line option for now partial revert of asynchronous inode delete
2009-01-09Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: [JFFS2] remove junk prototypes
2009-01-09Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linusLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus: MAINTAINERS: squashfs entry Squashfs: documentation Squashfs: initrd support Squashfs: Kconfig entry Squashfs: Makefiles Squashfs: header files Squashfs: block operations Squashfs: cache operations Squashfs: uid/gid lookup operations Squashfs: fragment block operations Squashfs: export operations Squashfs: super block operations Squashfs: symlink operations Squashfs: regular file operations Squashfs: directory readdir operations Squashfs: directory lookup operations Squashfs: inode operations
2009-01-09Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-nommuLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-nommu: NOMMU: Support XIP on initramfs NOMMU: Teach kobjsize() about VMA regions. FLAT: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated FDPIC: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated NOMMU: Improve procfs output using per-MM VMAs NOMMU: Make mmap allocation page trimming behaviour configurable. NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux NOMMU: Delete askedalloc and realalloc variables NOMMU: Rename ARM's struct vm_region NOMMU: Fix cleanup handling in ramfs_nommu_get_umapped_area()
2009-01-09partial revert of asynchronous inode deleteArjan van de Ven
let the core of this one bake in -next as well, but leave some of the infrastructure in place. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2009-01-09[JFFS2] remove junk prototypesArtem Bityutskiy
'rb_prev()', 'rb_next()' and 'rb_replace_node()' are declared in include/linux/rbtree.h, no need for JFFS2 to re-declare them. I believe these are left-overs from the old days when the common RB tree code did not have those call and JFFS2 had private implementation. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-01-09Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstableLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (864 commits) Btrfs: explicitly mark the tree log root for writeback Btrfs: Drop the hardware crc32c asm code Btrfs: Add Documentation/filesystem/btrfs.txt, remove old COPYING Btrfs: kmap_atomic(KM_USER0) is safe for btrfs_readpage_end_io_hook Btrfs: Don't use kmap_atomic(..., KM_IRQ0) during checksum verifies Btrfs: tree logging checksum fixes Btrfs: don't change file extent's ram_bytes in btrfs_drop_extents Btrfs: Use btrfs_join_transaction to avoid deadlocks during snapshot creation Btrfs: drop remaining LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION checks and compat code Btrfs: drop EXPORT symbols from extent_io.c Btrfs: Fix checkpatch.pl warnings Btrfs: Fix free block discard calls down to the block layer Btrfs: avoid orphan inode caused by log replay Btrfs: avoid potential super block corruption Btrfs: do not call kfree if kmalloc failed in btrfs_sysfs_add_super Btrfs: fix a memory leak in btrfs_get_sb Btrfs: Fix typo in clear_state_cb Btrfs: Fix memset length in btrfs_file_write Btrfs: update directory's size when creating subvol/snapshot Btrfs: add permission checks to the ioctls ...
2009-01-09Merge branch 'for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: block: fix bug in ptbl lookup cache
2009-01-09block: fix bug in ptbl lookup cacheNeil Brown
Neil writes: Hi Jens, I've found a little bug for you. It was introduced by a6f23657d3072bde6844055bbc2290e497f33fbc block: add one-hit cache for disk partition lookup and has the effect of killing my machine whenever I try to assemble an md array :-( One of the devices in the array has partitions, and mdadm always deletes partitions before putting a whole-device in an array (as it can cause confusion). The next IO to that device locks the machine. I don't really understand exactly why it locks up, but it happens in disk_map_sector_rcu(). This patch fixes it. Which is due to a missing clear of the (now) stale partition lookup data. So clear that when we delete a partition. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-09Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (67 commits) [MTD] [MAPS] Fix printk format warning in nettel.c [MTD] [NAND] add cmdline parsing (mtdparts=) support to cafe_nand [MTD] CFI: remove major/minor version check for command set 0x0002 [MTD] [NAND] ndfc driver [MTD] [TESTS] Fix some size_t printk format warnings [MTD] LPDDR Makefile and KConfig [MTD] LPDDR extended physmap driver to support LPDDR flash [MTD] LPDDR added new pfow_base parameter [MTD] LPDDR Command set driver [MTD] LPDDR PFOW definition [MTD] LPDDR QINFO records definitions [MTD] LPDDR qinfo probing. [MTD] [NAND] pxa3xx: convert from ns to clock ticks more accurately [MTD] [NAND] pxa3xx: fix non-page-aligned reads [MTD] [NAND] fix nandsim sched.h references [MTD] [NAND] alauda: use USB API functions rather than constants [MTD] struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() [MTD] fix m25p80 64-bit divisions [MTD] fix dataflash 64-bit divisions [MTD] [NAND] Set the fsl elbc ECCM according the settings in bootloader. ... Fixed up trivial debug conflicts in drivers/mtd/devices/{m25p80.c,mtd_dataflash.c}
2009-01-09Btrfs: explicitly mark the tree log root for writebackChris Mason
Each subvolume has an extent_state_tree used to mark metadata that needs to be sent to disk while syncing the tree. This is used in addition to the dirty bits on the pages themselves so that a single subvolume can be sent to disk efficiently in disk order. Normally this marking happens in btrfs_alloc_free_block, which also does special recording of dirty tree blocks for the tree log roots. Yan Zheng noticed that when the root of the log tree is allocated, it is added to the wrong writeback list. The fix used here is to explicitly set it dirty as part of tree log creation. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-01-09Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (57 commits) jbd2: Fix oops in jbd2_journal_init_inode() on corrupted fs ext4: Remove "extents" mount option block: Add Kconfig help which notes that ext4 needs CONFIG_LBD ext4: Make printk's consistently prefixed with "EXT4-fs: " ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem ext4: Add mount option to set kjournald's I/O priority jbd2: Submit writes to the journal using WRITE_SYNC jbd2: Add pid and journal device name to the "kjournald2 starting" message ext4: Add markers for better debuggability ext4: Remove code to create the journal inode ext4: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure ext3: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure add releasepage hooks to block devices which can be used by file systems ext4: Fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc ext4: Init the complete page while building buddy cache ext4: Don't allow new groups to be added during block allocation ext4: mark the blocks/inode bitmap beyond end of group as used ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap() and ext4_new_inode() ext4: code cleanup ...
2009-01-09Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (45 commits) [SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.03.00-k1. [SCSI] qla2xxx: Add ISP81XX support. [SCSI] qla2xxx: Use proper request/response queues with MQ instantiations. [SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct MQ-chain information retrieval during a firmware dump. [SCSI] qla2xxx: Collapse EFT/FCE copy procedures during a firmware dump. [SCSI] qla2xxx: Don't pollute kernel logs with ZIO/RIO status messages. [SCSI] qla2xxx: Don't fallback to interrupt-polling during re-initialization with MSI-X enabled. [SCSI] qla2xxx: Remove support for reading/writing HW-event-log. [SCSI] cxgb3i: add missing include [SCSI] scsi_lib: fix DID_RESET status problems [SCSI] fc transport: restore missing dev_loss_tmo callback to LLDD [SCSI] aha152x_cs: Fix regression that keeps driver from using shared interrupts [SCSI] sd: Correctly handle 6-byte commands with DIX [SCSI] sd: DIF: Fix tagging on platforms with signed char [SCSI] sd: DIF: Show app tag on error [SCSI] Fix error handling for DIF/DIX [SCSI] scsi_lib: don't decrement busy counters when inserting commands [SCSI] libsas: fix test for negative unsigned and typos [SCSI] a2091, gvp11: kill warn_unused_result warnings [SCSI] fusion: Move a dereference below a NULL test ... Fixed up trivial conflict due to moving the async part of sd_probe around in the async probes vs using dev_set_name() in naming.
2009-01-08Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/mdLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: md: don't retry recovery of raid1 that fails due to error on source drive. md: Allow md devices to be created by name. md: make devices disappear when they are no longer needed. md: centralise all freeing of an 'mddev' in 'md_free' md: move allocation of ->queue from mddev_find to md_probe md: need another print_sb for mdp_superblock_1 md: use list_for_each_entry macro directly md: raid0: make hash_spacing and preshift sector-based. md: raid0: Represent the size of strip zones in sectors. md: raid0 create_strip_zones(): Add KERN_INFO/KERN_ERR to printk's. md: raid0 create_strip_zones(): Make two local variables sector-based. md: raid0: Represent zone->zone_offset in sectors. md: raid0: Represent device offset in sectors. md: raid0_make_request(): Replace local variable block by sector. md: raid0_make_request(): Remove local variable chunk_size. md: raid0_make_request(): Replace chunksize_bits by chunksect_bits. md: use sysfs_notify_dirent to notify changes to md/sync_action. md: fix bitmap-on-external-file bug.
2009-01-08md: make devices disappear when they are no longer needed.NeilBrown
Currently md devices, once created, never disappear until the module is unloaded. This is essentially because the gendisk holds a reference to the mddev, and the mddev holds a reference to the gendisk, this a circular reference. If we drop the reference from mddev to gendisk, then we need to ensure that the mddev is destroyed when the gendisk is destroyed. However it is not possible to hook into the gendisk destruction process to enable this. So we drop the reference from the gendisk to the mddev and destroy the gendisk when the mddev gets destroyed. However this has a complication. Between the call __blkdev_get->get_gendisk->kobj_lookup->md_probe and the call __blkdev_get->md_open there is no obvious way to hold a reference on the mddev any more, so unless something is done, it will disappear and gendisk will be destroyed prematurely. Also, once we decide to destroy the mddev, there will be an unlockable moment before the gendisk is unlinked (blk_unregister_region) during which a new reference to the gendisk can be created. We need to ensure that this reference can not be used. i.e. the ->open must fail. So: 1/ in md_probe we set a flag in the mddev (hold_active) which indicates that the array should be treated as active, even though there are no references, and no appearance of activity. This is cleared by md_release when the device is closed if it is no longer needed. This ensures that the gendisk will survive between md_probe and md_open. 2/ In md_open we check if the mddev we expect to open matches the gendisk that we did open. If there is a mismatch we return -ERESTARTSYS and modify __blkdev_get to retry from the top in that case. In the -ERESTARTSYS sys case we make sure to wait until the old gendisk (that we succeeded in opening) is really gone so we loop at most once. Some udev configurations will always open an md device when it first appears. If we allow an md device that was just created by an open to disappear on an immediate close, then this can race with such udev configurations and result in an infinite loop the device being opened and closed, then re-open due to the 'ADD' even from the first open, and then close and so on. So we make sure an md device, once created by an open, remains active at least until some md 'ioctl' has been made on it. This means that all normal usage of md devices will allow them to disappear promptly when not needed, but the worst that an incorrect usage will do it cause an inactive md device to be left in existence (it can easily be removed). As an array can be stopped by writing to a sysfs attribute echo clear > /sys/block/mdXXX/md/array_state we need to use scheduled work for deleting the gendisk and other kobjects. This allows us to wait for any pending gendisk deletion to complete by simply calling flush_scheduled_work(). Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-01-08dlm: change rsbtbl rwlock to spinlockDavid Teigland
The rwlock is almost always used in write mode, so there's no reason to not use a spinlock instead. Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
2009-01-08dlm: fix seq_file usage in debugfs lock dumpDavid Teigland
The old code would leak iterators and leave reference counts on rsbs because it was ignoring the "stop" seq callback. The code followed an example that used the seq operations differently. This new code is based on actually understanding how the seq operations work. It also improves things by saving the hash bucket in the position to avoid cycling through completed buckets in start. Siged-off-by: Davd Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
2009-01-08fix similar typos to successfullColy Li
When I review ocfs2 code, find there are 2 typos to "successfull". After doing grep "successfull " in kernel tree, 22 typos found totally -- great minds always think alike :) This patch fixes all the similar typos. Thanks for Randy's ack and comments. Signed-off-by: Coly Li <coyli@suse.de> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08generic swap(): dcache: use swap() instead of private do_switch()Wu Fengguang
Use the new generic implementation. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08generic swap(): ext4: remove local swap() macroWu Fengguang
Use the new generic implementation. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08generic swap(): ext3: remove local swap() macroWu Fengguang
Use the new generic implementation. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08remove lots of double-semicolonsFernando Carrijo
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08romfs: romfs_iget() - unsigned ino >= 0 is always trueroel kluin
romfs_strnlen() returns int unsigned X >= 0 is always true [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: roel kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08vmcore: remove saved_max_pfn checkMagnus Damm
Remove the saved_max_pfn check from the /proc/vmcore function read_from_oldmem(). No need to verify, we should be able to just trust that "elfcorehdr=" is correctly passed to the crash kernel on the kernel command line like we do with other parameters. The read_from_oldmem() function in fs/proc/vmcore.c is quite similar to read_from_oldmem() in drivers/char/mem.c, but only in the latter it makes sense to use saved_max_pfn. For oldmem it is used to determine when to stop reading. For vmcore we already have the elf header info pointing out the physical memory regions, no need to pass the end-of- old-memory twice. Removing the saved_max_pfn check from vmcore makes it possible for architectures to skip oldmem but still support crash dump through vmcore - without the need for the old saved_max_pfn cruft. Architectures that want to play safe can do the saved_max_pfn check in copy_oldmem_page(). Not sure why anyone would want to do that, but that's even safer than today - the saved_max_pfn check in vmcore removed by this patch only checks the first page. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08ELF: implement AT_RANDOM for glibc PRNG seedingKees Cook
While discussing[1] the need for glibc to have access to random bytes during program load, it seems that an earlier attempt to implement AT_RANDOM got stalled. This implements a random 16 byte string, available to every ELF program via a new auxv AT_RANDOM vector. [1] http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2008-10/msg00006.html Ulrich said: glibc needs right after startup a bit of random data for internal protections (stack canary etc). What is now in upstream glibc is that we always unconditionally open /dev/urandom, read some data, and use it. For every process startup. That's slow. ... The solution is to provide a limited amount of random data to the starting process in the aux vector. I suggested 16 bytes and this is what the patch implements. If we need only 16 bytes or less we use the data directly. If we need more we'll use the 16 bytes to see a PRNG. This avoids the costly /dev/urandom use and it allows the kernel to use the most adequate source of random data for this purpose. It might not be the same pool as that for /dev/urandom. Concerns were expressed about the depletion of the randomness pool. But this patch doesn't make the situation worse, it doesn't deplete entropy more than happens now. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: synchronized LRUKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
A big patch for changing memcg's LRU semantics. Now, - page_cgroup is linked to mem_cgroup's its own LRU (per zone). - LRU of page_cgroup is not synchronous with global LRU. - page and page_cgroup is one-to-one and statically allocated. - To find page_cgroup is on what LRU, you have to check pc->mem_cgroup as - lru = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc, nid_of_pc, zid_of_pc); - SwapCache is handled. And, when we handle LRU list of page_cgroup, we do following. pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page); lock_page_cgroup(pc); .....................(1) mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc); spin_lock(&mz->lru_lock); .....add to LRU spin_unlock(&mz->lru_lock); unlock_page_cgroup(pc); But (1) is spin_lock and we have to be afraid of dead-lock with zone->lru_lock. So, trylock() is used at (1), now. Without (1), we can't trust "mz" is correct. This is a trial to remove this dirty nesting of locks. This patch changes mz->lru_lock to be zone->lru_lock. Then, above sequence will be written as spin_lock(&zone->lru_lock); # in vmscan.c or swap.c via global LRU mem_cgroup_add/remove/etc_lru() { pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page); mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc); if (PageCgroupUsed(pc)) { ....add to LRU } spin_lock(&zone->lru_lock); # in vmscan.c or swap.c via global LRU This is much simpler. (*) We're safe even if we don't take lock_page_cgroup(pc). Because.. 1. When pc->mem_cgroup can be modified. - at charge. - at account_move(). 2. at charge the PCG_USED bit is not set before pc->mem_cgroup is fixed. 3. at account_move() the page is isolated and not on LRU. Pros. - easy for maintenance. - memcg can make use of laziness of pagevec. - we don't have to duplicated LRU/Active/Unevictable bit in page_cgroup. - LRU status of memcg will be synchronized with global LRU's one. - # of locks are reduced. - account_move() is simplified very much. Cons. - may increase cost of LRU rotation. (no impact if memcg is not configured.) Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08quota: don't set grace time when user isn't above softlimitJan Kara
do_set_dqblk() allowed SETDQBLK quotactl to set user's grace time even if user was not above his softlimit. This does not make much sence and by coincidence causes quota code to omit softlimit warning when user really exceeds softlimit. This patch makes do_set_dqblk() reset user's grace time if he has not exceeded softlimit. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08coda: fix fs/coda/sysctl.c build warnings when !CONFIG_SYSCTLRichard A. Holden III
Fix fs/coda/sysctl.c:14: warning: 'fs_table_header' defined but not used fs/coda/sysctl.c:44: warning: 'fs_table' defined but not used these are only used when CONFIG_SYSCTL is defined. Signed-off-by: Richard A. Holden III <aciddeath@gmail.com> Cc: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08jbd: remove excess kernel-doc notationRandy Dunlap
Remove excess kernel-doc from fs/jbd/transaction.c: Warning(linux-2.6.28-git5//fs/jbd/transaction.c:764): Excess function parameter 'credits' description in 'journal_get_write_access' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08ext3: tighten restrictions on inode flagsDuane Griffin
At the moment there are few restrictions on which flags may be set on which inodes. Specifically DIRSYNC may only be set on directories and IMMUTABLE and APPEND may not be set on links. Tighten that to disallow TOPDIR being set on non-directories and only NODUMP and NOATIME to be set on non-regular file, non-directories. Introduces a flags masking function which masks flags based on mode and use it during inode creation and when flags are set via the ioctl to facilitate future consistency. Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com> Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08ext3: don't inherit inappropriate inode flags from parentDuane Griffin
At present INDEX is the only flag that new ext3 inodes do NOT inherit from their parent. In addition prevent the flags DIRTY, ECOMPR, IMAGIC and TOPDIR from being inherited. List inheritable flags explicitly to prevent future flags from accidentally being inherited. This fixes the TOPDIR flag inheritance bug reported at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9866. Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com> Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08ext3: allocate ->s_blockgroup_lock separatelyPekka Enberg
As spotted by kmemtrace, struct ext3_sb_info is 17152 bytes on 64-bit which makes it a very bad fit for SLAB allocators. The culprit of the wasted memory is ->s_blockgroup_lock which can be as big as 16 KB when NR_CPUS >= 32. To fix that, allocate ->s_blockgroup_lock, which fits nicely in a order 2 page in the worst case, separately. This shinks down struct ext3_sb_info enough to fit a 1 KB slab cache so now we allocate 16 KB + 1 KB instead of 32 KB saving 15 KB of memory. Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08jbd: improve fsync batchingJosef Bacik
There is a flaw with the way jbd handles fsync batching. If we fsync() a file and we were not the last person to run fsync() on this fs then we automatically sleep for 1 jiffie in order to wait for new writers to join into the transaction before forcing the commit. The problem with this is that with really fast storage (ie a Clariion) the time it takes to commit a transaction to disk is way faster than 1 jiffie in most cases, so sleeping means waiting longer with nothing to do than if we just committed the transaction and kept going. Ric Wheeler noticed this when using fs_mark with more than 1 thread, the throughput would plummet as he added more threads. This patch attempts to fix this problem by recording the average time in nanoseconds that it takes to commit a transaction to disk, and what time we started the transaction. If we run an fsync() and we have been running for less time than it takes to commit the transaction to disk, we sleep for the delta amount of time and then commit to disk. We acheive sub-jiffie sleeping using schedule_hrtimeout. This means that the wait time is auto-tuned to the speed of the underlying disk, instead of having this static timeout. I weighted the average according to somebody's comments (Andreas Dilger I think) in order to help normalize random outliers where we take way longer or way less time to commit than the average. I also have a min() check in there to make sure we don't sleep longer than a jiffie in case our storage is super slow, this was requested by Andrew. I unfortunately do not have access to a Clariion, so I had to use a ramdisk to represent a super fast array. I tested with a SATA drive with barrier=1 to make sure there was no regression with local disks, I tested with a 4 way multipathed Apple Xserve RAID array and of course the ramdisk. I ran the following command fs_mark -d /mnt/ext3-test -s 4096 -n 2000 -D 64 -t $i where $i was 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32. I mkfs'ed the fs each time. Here are my results type threads with patch without patch sata 2 24.6 26.3 sata 4 49.2 48.1 sata 8 70.1 67.0 sata 16 104.0 94.1 sata 32 153.6 142.7 xserve 2 246.4 222.0 xserve 4 480.0 440.8 xserve 8 829.5 730.8 xserve 16 1172.7 1026.9 xserve 32 1816.3 1650.5 ramdisk 2 2538.3 1745.6 ramdisk 4 2942.3 661.9 ramdisk 8 2882.5 999.8 ramdisk 16 2738.7 1801.9 ramdisk 32 2541.9 2394.0 Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08ext2: tighten restrictions on inode flagsDuane Griffin
At the moment there are few restrictions on which flags may be set on which inodes. Specifically DIRSYNC may only be set on directories and IMMUTABLE and APPEND may not be set on links. Tighten that to disallow TOPDIR being set on non-directories and only NODUMP and NOATIME to be set on non-regular file, non-directories. Introduces a flags masking function which masks flags based on mode and use it during inode creation and when flags are set via the ioctl to facilitate future consistency. Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com> Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08ext2: don't inherit inappropriate inode flags from parentDuane Griffin
At present BTREE/INDEX is the only flag that new ext2 inodes do NOT inherit from their parent. In addition prevent the flags DIRTY, ECOMPR, INDEX, IMAGIC and TOPDIR from being inherited. List inheritable flags explicitly to prevent future flags from accidentally being inherited. This fixes the TOPDIR flag inheritance bug reported at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9866. Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com> Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08ext2: allocate ->s_blockgroup_lock separatelyPekka J Enberg
As spotted by kmemtrace, struct ext2_sb_info is 17024 bytes on 64-bit which makes it a very bad fit for SLAB allocators. The culprit of the wasted memory is ->s_blockgroup_lock which can be as big as 16 KB when NR_CPUS >= 32. To fix that, allocate ->s_blockgroup_lock, which fits nicely in a order 2 page in the worst case, separately. This shinks down struct ext2_sb_info enough to fit a 1 KB slab cache so now we allocate 16 KB + 1 KB instead of 32 KB saving 15 KB of memory. Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08ext2: fix ext2_splice_branch() commentsQinghuang Feng
There is no argument named @chain in ext2_splice_branch, remove references to it. Signed-off-by: Qinghuang Feng <qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08async: Don't call async_synchronize_full_special() while holding sb_lockDave Kleikamp
sync_filesystems() shouldn't be calling async_synchronize_full_special while holding a spinlock. The second while loop in that function is the right place for this anyway. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Reported-by: Grissiom <chaos.proton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08FLAT: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocatedDavid Howells
Stop the FLAT binfmt from attempting to expand the userspace stack and brk segments to fill the space actually allocated for it. The space allocated may be rounded up by mmap(), and may be wasted. However, finding out how much space we actually obtained uses the contentious kobjsize() function which we'd like to get rid of as it doesn't necessarily work for all slab allocators. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-01-08FDPIC: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocatedDavid Howells
Stop the ELF-FDPIC binfmt from attempting to expand the userspace stack and brk segments to fill the space actually allocated for it. The space allocated may be rounded up by mmap(), and may be wasted. However, finding out how much space we actually obtained uses the contentious kobjsize() function which we'd like to get rid of as it doesn't necessarily work for all slab allocators. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-01-08NOMMU: Improve procfs output using per-MM VMAsDavid Howells
Improve procfs output using per-MM VMAs for process memory accounting. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-01-08NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linuxDavid Howells
Make VMAs per mm_struct as for MMU-mode linux. This solves two problems: (1) In SYSV SHM where nattch for a segment does not reflect the number of shmat's (and forks) done. (2) In mmap() where the VMA's vm_mm is set to point to the parent mm by an exec'ing process when VM_EXECUTABLE is specified, regardless of the fact that a VMA might be shared and already have its vm_mm assigned to another process or a dead process. A new struct (vm_region) is introduced to track a mapped region and to remember the circumstances under which it may be shared and the vm_list_struct structure is discarded as it's no longer required. This patch makes the following additional changes: (1) Regions are now allocated with alloc_pages() rather than kmalloc() and with no recourse to __GFP_COMP, so the pages are not composite. Instead, each page has a reference on it held by the region. Anything else that is interested in such a page will have to get a reference on it to retain it. When the pages are released due to unmapping, each page is passed to put_page() and will be freed when the page usage count reaches zero. (2) Excess pages are trimmed after an allocation as the allocation must be made as a power-of-2 quantity of pages. (3) VMAs are added to the parent MM's R/B tree and mmap lists. As an MM may end up with overlapping VMAs within the tree, the VMA struct address is appended to the sort key. (4) Non-anonymous VMAs are now added to the backing inode's prio list. (5) Holes may be punched in anonymous VMAs with munmap(), releasing parts of the backing region. The VMA and region structs will be split if necessary. (6) sys_shmdt() only releases one attachment to a SYSV IPC shared memory segment instead of all the attachments at that addresss. Multiple shmat()'s return the same address under NOMMU-mode instead of different virtual addresses as under MMU-mode. (7) Core dumping for ELF-FDPIC requires fewer exceptions for NOMMU-mode. (8) /proc/maps is now the global list of mapped regions, and may list bits that aren't actually mapped anywhere. (9) /proc/meminfo gains a line (tagged "MmapCopy") that indicates the amount of RAM currently allocated by mmap to hold mappable regions that can't be mapped directly. These are copies of the backing device or file if not anonymous. These changes make NOMMU mode more similar to MMU mode. The downside is that NOMMU mode requires some extra memory to track things over NOMMU without this patch (VMAs are no longer shared, and there are now region structs). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-01-08NOMMU: Fix cleanup handling in ramfs_nommu_get_umapped_area()David Howells
Fix cleanup handling in ramfs_nommu_get_umapped_area() by only freeing the number of pages that find_get_pages() said it had returned (nr) rather than attempting to free the number of pages we asked for (lpages) - thus avoiding the situation whereby put_page() may be handed NULL pointers if find_get_pages() returned fewer pages that were requested. Also avoid a warning about nr being uninitialised and the need for an if-statement in the cleanup path by using appropriate gotos. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>