hwmon: Add submitting-patches checklist to documentation
When writing hardware monitoring drivers, there are some common pitfalls which
keep coming up in code reviews. This patch provides a document describing all
those pitfalls and how to avoid them.
ALSA: hda - Add a fix-up for Acer dmic with ALC271x codec
Acer laptops with ALC271x needs a magic initialization for digital-mic
to make it working with mono streams (and PulseAudio).
Added a fix-up applied to Acer with ALC271x generically.
netfilter: ipset: Fix the order of listing of sets
A restoreable saving of sets requires that list:set type of sets
come last and the code part which should have taken into account
the ordering was broken. The patch fixes the listing order.
Tao Ma [Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:50:40 +0000 (13:50 +0200)]
block: Remove the extra check in queue_requests_store
In queue_requests_store, the code looks like
if (rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC] >= q->nr_requests) {
blk_set_queue_full(q, BLK_RW_SYNC);
} else if (rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC]+1 <= q->nr_requests) {
blk_clear_queue_full(q, BLK_RW_SYNC);
wake_up(&rl->wait[BLK_RW_SYNC]);
}
If we don't satify the situation of "if", we can get that
rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC} < q->nr_quests. It is the same as
rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC]+1 <= q->nr_requests.
All the "else" should satisfy the "else if" check so it isn't
needed actually.
We are currently using this flag to check whether it's safe
to call into ->request_fn(). If it is set, we punt to kblockd.
But we get a lot of false positives and excessive punts to
kblockd, which hurts performance.
The only real abuser of this infrastructure is SCSI. So export
the async queue run and convert SCSI over to use that. There's
room for improvement in that SCSI need not always use the async
call, but this fixes our performance issue and they can fix that
up in due time.
Andre Przywara [Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:27:53 +0000 (02:27 +0200)]
perf, x86: Fix pre-defined cache-misses event for AMD family 15h cpus
With AMD cpu family 15h a unit mask was introduced for the Data Cache
Miss event (0x041/L1-dcache-load-misses). We need to enable bit 0
(first data cache miss or streaming store to a 64 B cache line) of
this mask to proper count data cache misses.
Now we set this bit for all families and models. In case a PMU does
not implement a unit mask for event 0x041 the bit is ignored.
cfq-iosched: read_lock() does not always imply rcu_read_lock()
For some configurations of CONFIG_PREEMPT that is not true. So
get rid of __call_for_each_cic() and always uses the explicitly
rcu_read_lock() protected call_for_each_cic() instead.
This fixes a potential bug related to IO scheduler removal or
online switching.
PM: Fix error code paths executed after failing syscore_suspend()
If syscore_suspend() fails in suspend_enter(), create_image() or
resume_target_kernel(), it is necessary to call sysdev_resume(),
because sysdev_suspend() has been called already and succeeded
and we are going to abort the transition.
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
Input: xen-kbdfront - fix mouse getting stuck after save/restore
Input: estimate number of events per packet
Input: evdev - indicate buffer overrun with SYN_DROPPED
Input: document event types and codes and their intended use
Input: add KEY_IMAGES specifically for AL Image Browser
Input: twl4030_keypad - fix potential NULL dereference in twl4030_kp_probe()
Input: h3600_ts - fix error handling at connect
Input: twl4030_keypad - avoid potential NULL-pointer dereference
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
block: add blk_run_queue_async
block: blk_delay_queue() should use kblockd workqueue
md: fix up raid1/raid10 unplugging.
md: incorporate new plugging into raid5.
md: provide generic support for handling unplug callbacks.
md - remove old plugging code.
md/dm - remove remains of plug_fn callback.
md: use new plugging interface for RAID IO.
block: drop queue lock before calling __blk_run_queue() for kblockd punt
Revert "block: add callback function for unplug notification"
block: Enhance new plugging support to support general callbacks
Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
powerpc/powermac: Build fix with SMP and CPU hotplug
powerpc/perf_event: Skip updating kernel counters if register value shrinks
powerpc: Don't write protect kernel text with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE enabled
powerpc: Fix oops if scan_dispatch_log is called too early
powerpc/pseries: Use a kmem cache for DTL buffers
powerpc/kexec: Fix regression causing compile failure on UP
powerpc/85xx: disable Suspend support if SMP enabled
powerpc/e500mc: Remove CPU_FTR_MAYBE_CAN_NAP/CPU_FTR_MAYBE_CAN_DOZE
powerpc/book3e: Fix CPU feature handling on 64-bit e5500
powerpc: Check device status before adding serial device
powerpc/85xx: Don't add disabled PCIe devices
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (24 commits)
Btrfs: fix free space cache leak
Btrfs: avoid taking the chunk_mutex in do_chunk_alloc
Btrfs end_bio_extent_readpage should look for locked bits
Btrfs: don't force chunk allocation in find_free_extent
Btrfs: Check validity before setting an acl
Btrfs: Fix incorrect inode nlink in btrfs_link()
Btrfs: Check if btrfs_next_leaf() returns error in btrfs_real_readdir()
Btrfs: Check if btrfs_next_leaf() returns error in btrfs_listxattr()
Btrfs: make uncache_state unconditional
btrfs: using cached extent_state in set/unlock combinations
Btrfs: avoid taking the trans_mutex in btrfs_end_transaction
Btrfs: fix subvolume mount by name problem when default mount subvolume is set
fix user annotation in ioctl.c
Btrfs: check for duplicate iov_base's when doing dio reads
btrfs: properly handle overlapping areas in memmove_extent_buffer
Btrfs: fix memory leaks in btrfs_new_inode()
Btrfs: check for duplicate iov_base's when doing dio reads
Btrfs: reuse the extent_map we found when calling btrfs_get_extent
Btrfs: do not use async submit for small DIO io's
Btrfs: don't split dio bios if we don't have to
...
next_pidmap() just quietly accepted whatever 'last' pid that was passed
in, which is not all that safe when one of the users is /proc.
Admittedly the proc code should do some sanity checking on the range
(and that will be the next commit), but that doesn't mean that the
helper functions should just do that pidmap pointer arithmetic without
checking the range of its arguments.
So clamp 'last' to PID_MAX_LIMIT. The fact that we then do "last+1"
doesn't really matter, the for-loop does check against the end of the
pidmap array properly (it's only the actual pointer arithmetic overflow
case we need to worry about, and going one bit beyond isn't going to
overflow).
[ Use PID_MAX_LIMIT rather than pid_max as per Eric Biederman ]
Igor Mammedov [Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:17:17 +0000 (10:17 -0700)]
Input: xen-kbdfront - fix mouse getting stuck after save/restore
Mouse gets "stuck" after restore of PV guest but buttons are in working
condition.
If driver has been configured for ABS coordinates at start it will get
XENKBD_TYPE_POS events and then suddenly after restore it'll start getting
XENKBD_TYPE_MOTION events, that will be dropped later and they won't get
into user-space.
Regression was introduced by hunk 5 and 6 of 5ea5254aa0ad269cfbd2875c973ef25ab5b5e9db
("Input: xen-kbdfront - advertise either absolute or relative
coordinates").
Driver on restore should ask xen for request-abs-pointer again if it is
available. So restore parts that did it before 5ea5254.
The DISTLBWALKPRB bit must be set for the GART because the
gatt table is mapped UC. But the current code does not set
the bit at boot when the BIOS setup the aperture correctly.
Fix that by setting this bit when enabling the GART instead
of the other places.
Bob Peterson [Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:19:58 +0000 (16:19 -0400)]
GFS2: filesystem hang caused by incorrect lock order
This patch fixes a deadlock in GFS2 where two processes are trying
to reclaim an unlinked dinode:
One holds the inode glock and calls gfs2_lookup_by_inum trying to look
up the inode, which it can't, due to I_FREEING. The other has set
I_FREEING from vfs and is at the beginning of gfs2_delete_inode
waiting for the glock, which is held by the first. The solution is to
add a new non_block parameter to the gfs2_iget function that causes it
to return -ENOENT if the inode is being freed.
GFS2 was relying on the writepage code to write out the zeroed data for
fallocate. However, with FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE set, this may be past i_size.
If it is, it will be ignored. To work around this, gfs2 now calls
write_dirty_buffer directly on the buffer_heads when FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE
is set, and it's writing past i_size.
Bob Peterson [Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:32:39 +0000 (16:32 -0400)]
GFS2: write_end error path fails to unlock transaction lock
I did an audit of gfs2's transaction glock for bugzilla bug
658619 and ran across this:
In function gfs2_write_end, in the unlikely event that
gfs2_meta_inode_buffer returns an error, the code may forget
to unlock the transaction lock because the "failed" label
appears after the call to function gfs2_trans_end.
Instead of overloading __blk_run_queue to force an offload to kblockd
add a new blk_run_queue_async helper to do it explicitly. I've kept
the blk_queue_stopped check for now, but I suspect it's not needed
as the check we do when the workqueue items runs should be enough.
Richard Cochran [Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:24:21 +0000 (15:24 +0200)]
posix clocks: Replace mutex with reader/writer semaphore
A dynamic posix clock is protected from asynchronous removal by a mutex.
However, using a mutex has the unwanted effect that a long running clock
operation in one process will unnecessarily block other processes.
For example, one process might call read() to get an external time stamp
coming in at one pulse per second. A second process calling clock_gettime
would have to wait for almost a whole second.
This patch fixes the issue by using a reader/writer semaphore instead of
a mutex.
In raid5 plugging is used for 2 things:
1/ collecting writes that require a bitmap update
2/ collecting writes in the hope that we can create full
stripes - or at least more-full.
We now release these different sets of stripes when plug_cnt
is zero.
Also in make_request, we call mddev_check_plug to hopefully increase
plug_cnt, and wake up the thread at the end if plugging wasn't
achieved for some reason.
md: provide generic support for handling unplug callbacks.
When an md device adds a request to a queue, it can call
mddev_check_plugged.
If this succeeds then we know that the md thread will be woken up
shortly, and ->plug_cnt will be non-zero until then, so some
processing can be delayed.
If it fails, then no unplug callback is expected and the make_request
function needs to do whatever is required to make the request happen.
md has some plugging infrastructure for RAID5 to use because the
normal plugging infrastructure required a 'request_queue', and when
called from dm, RAID5 doesn't have one of those available.
This relied on the ->unplug_fn callback which doesn't exist any more.
So remove all of that code, both in md and raid5. Subsequent patches
with restore the plugging functionality.
block: drop queue lock before calling __blk_run_queue() for kblockd punt
If we know we are going to punt to kblockd, we can drop the queue
lock before calling into __blk_run_queue() since it only does a
safe bit test and a workqueue call. Since kblockd needs to grab
this very lock as one of the first things it does, it's a good
optimization to drop the lock before waking kblockd.
Revert "block: add callback function for unplug notification"
MD can't use this since it really requires us to be able to
keep more than a single piece of state for the unplug. Commit 048c9374 added the required support for MD, so get rid of this
now unused code.
ip6_pol_route panic: Do not allow VLAN on loopback
Several tests in the ipv6 routing code check IFF_LOOPBACK, and
allowing stacking such as VLAN'ing on top of loopback results in a
netdevice which reports IFF_LOOPBACK but really isn't the loopback
device.
Instead of spamming the ipv6 routing code with even more special tests,
simply disallow VLAN over loopback.
The result of this patch is:
# modprobe 8021q
# vconfig add lo 43
ERROR: trying to add VLAN #43 to IF -:lo:- error: Operation not supported
Eric B Munson [Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:12:30 +0000 (08:12 +0000)]
powerpc/perf_event: Skip updating kernel counters if register value shrinks
Because of speculative event roll back, it is possible for some event coutners
to decrease between reads on POWER7. This causes a problem with the way that
counters are updated. Delta calues are calculated in a 64 bit value and the
top 32 bits are masked. If the register value has decreased, this leaves us
with a very large positive value added to the kernel counters. This patch
protects against this by skipping the update if the delta would be negative.
This can lead to a lack of precision in the coutner values, but from my testing
the value is typcially fewer than 10 samples at a time.
Anton Blanchard [Thu, 7 Apr 2011 21:44:21 +0000 (21:44 +0000)]
powerpc: Fix oops if scan_dispatch_log is called too early
We currently enable interrupts before the dispatch log for the boot
cpu is setup. If a timer interrupt comes in early enough we oops in
scan_dispatch_log:
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000010
PAPR specifies that DTL buffers can not cross AMS environments (aka CMO
in the PAPR) and can not cross a memory entitlement granule boundary
(4k). This is found in section 14.11.3.2 H_REGISTER_VPA of the PAPR.
kmalloc does not guarantee an alignment of the allocation, though,
beyond 8 bytes (at least in my understanding). Create a special kmem
cache for DTL buffers with the alignment requirement.
Paul Gortmaker [Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:30:08 +0000 (06:30 +0000)]
powerpc/kexec: Fix regression causing compile failure on UP
Recent commit b987812b3fcaf70fdf0037589e5d2f5f2453e6ce caused
a compile failure on UP because a considerably large block
of the file was included within CONFIG_SMP, hence making a stub
function not exposed on UP builds when it needed to be.
Relocate the stub to the #else /* ! CONFIG_SMP */ section
and also annotate the relevant else/endif so that nobody
else falls into the same trap I did.
Merge branch 's5p-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kgene/linux-samsung
* 's5p-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kgene/linux-samsung:
ARM: SAMSUNG: Fix warning 's3c_pm_show_resume_irqs' defined but not used
ARM: SAMSUNG: Fix build failure in PM CRC check code
ARM: S5P: Remove unused s3c_pm_check_resume_pin
Following commit 091738a266fc ("genirq: Remove real old transition
functions") we removed an automatic conversion of no_irq_chip to
dummy_irq_chip. This change needs to be propagated back into the alpha
backend.
This is a new warning in gcc 4.6. Several of these variables are
used within #if 0 code, which probably ought to be removed. Most
of the changes are legitimate cleanups.
Milton Miller [Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:30:08 +0000 (10:30 -0500)]
fs: synchronize_rcu when unregister_filesystem success not failure
While checking unregister_filesystem for saftey vs extra calls for
"ext4: register ext2 and ext3 alias after ext4" I realized that
the synchronize_rcu() was called on the error path but not on
the success path.
Cc: stable (2.6.38) Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <[email protected]>
[ This probably won't really make a difference since commit d863b50ab013
("vfs: call rcu_barrier after ->kill_sb()"), but it's the right thing
to do. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Alex Deucher [Sun, 17 Apr 2011 08:20:19 +0000 (10:20 +0200)]
i2c-algo-bit: Call pre/post_xfer for bit_test
Apparently some distros set i2c-algo-bit.bit_test to 1 by
default. In some cases this causes i2c_bit_add_bus
to fail and prevents the i2c bus from being added. In the
radeon case, we fail to add the ddc i2c buses which prevents
the driver from being able to detect attached monitors.
The i2c bus works fine even if bit_test fails. This is likely
due to gpio switching that is required and handled in the
pre/post_xfer hooks, so call the pre/post_xfer hooks in the
bit test as well.
Jonathan Cameron [Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:11:42 +0000 (12:11 +0100)]
ARM: 6881/1: cputype.h uses __attribute_const__ which requires including kernel.h
Issue manifests as:
In file included from arch/arm/mach-pxa/include/mach/hardware.h:62,
from arch/arm/mach-pxa/include/mach/gpio.h:28,
from /home/jic23/src/kernel/temp-remove/arch/arm/include/asm/gpio.h:5,
from include/linux/gpio.h:7,
from drivers/staging/iio/gyro/adis16080_core.c:8:
/home/jic23/src/kernel/temp-remove/arch/arm/include/asm/cputype.h:57: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'read_cpuid_id'
...
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
block: make unplug timer trace event correspond to the schedule() unplug
block: let io_schedule() flush the plug inline
Merge branch 'usb-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6
* 'usb-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (43 commits)
Revert "USB: isp1760-hcd: move imask clear after pending work is done"
xHCI: Implement AMD PLL quirk
xhci: Tell USB core both roothubs lost power.
usbcore: Bug fix: system can't suspend with USB3.0 device connected to USB3.0 hub
USB: Fix unplug of device with active streams
USB: xhci - also free streams when resetting devices
xhci: Fix NULL pointer deref in handle_port_status()
USB: xhci - fix math in xhci_get_endpoint_interval()
USB: xhci: simplify logic of skipping missed isoc TDs
USB: xhci - remove excessive 'inline' markings
USB: xhci: unsigned char never equals -1
USB: xhci - fix unsafe macro definitions
USB: fix formatting of SuperSpeed endpoints in /proc/bus/usb/devices
USB: isp1760-hcd: move imask clear after pending work is done
USB: fsl_qe_udc: send ZLP when zero flag and length % maxpacket == 0
usb: qcserial add missing errorpath kfrees
usb: qcserial avoid pointing to freed memory
usb: Fix qcserial memory leak on rmmod
USB: ftdi_sio: add ids for Hameg HO720 and HO730
USB: option: Added support for Samsung GT-B3730/GT-B3710 LTE USB modem.
...
Merge branches 'core-fixes-for-linus', 'perf-fixes-for-linus', 'sched-fixes-for-linus', 'timer-fixes-for-linus' and 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of 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:
futex: Set FLAGS_HAS_TIMEOUT during futex_wait restart setup
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf_event: Fix cgrp event scheduling bug in perf_enable_on_exec()
perf: Fix a build error with some GCC versions
* 'timer-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
RTC: rtc-mrst: follow on to the change of rtc_device_register()
RTC: add missing "return 0" in new alarm func for rtc-bfin.c
RTC: Fix s3c compile error due to missing s3c_rtc_setpie
RTC: Fix early irqs caused by calling rtc_set_alarm too early
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, amd: Disable GartTlbWlkErr when BIOS forgets it
x86, NUMA: Fix fakenuma boot failure
x86/mrst: Fix boot crash caused by incorrect pin to irq mapping
x86/ce4100: Add reg property to bridges
block: make unplug timer trace event correspond to the schedule() unplug
It's a pretty close match to what we had before - the timer triggering
would mean that nobody unplugged the plug in due time, in the new
scheme this matches very closely what the schedule() unplug now is.
It's essentially the difference between an explicit unplug (IO unplug)
or an implicit unplug (timer unplug, we scheduled with pending IO
queued).
Linus correctly observes that the most important dispatch cases
are now done from kblockd, this isn't ideal for latency reasons.
The original reason for switching dispatches out-of-line was to
avoid too deep a stack, so by _only_ letting the "accidental"
flush directly in schedule() be guarded by offload to kblockd,
we should be able to get the best of both worlds.
So add a blk_schedule_flush_plug() that offloads to kblockd,
and only use that from the schedule() path.
Josef Bacik [Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:20:11 +0000 (20:20 -0400)]
Btrfs: avoid taking the chunk_mutex in do_chunk_alloc
Everytime we try to allocate disk space we try and see if we can pre-emptively
allocate a chunk, but in the common case we don't allocate anything, so there is
no sense in taking the chunk_mutex at all. So instead if we are allocating a
chunk, mark it in the space_info so we don't get two people trying to allocate
at the same time. Thanks,
Chris Mason [Sat, 16 Apr 2011 10:55:39 +0000 (06:55 -0400)]
Btrfs end_bio_extent_readpage should look for locked bits
A recent commit caches the extent state in end_bio_extent_readpage,
but the search it does should look for locked extents. This
fixes things to make it more effective.
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs:
net/9p: nwname should be an unsigned int
9p: Fix sparse error
fs/9p: Fix error reported by coccicheck
9p: revert tsyncfs related changes
fs/9p: Use write_inode for data sync on server
fs/9p: Fix revalidate to return correct value
Merge branch 'fixes' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* 'fixes' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
ARM: 6879/1: fix personality test wrt usage of domain handlers
ARM: 6878/1: fix personality flag propagation across an exec
ARM: 6877/1: the ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE personality flag should be honored with mmap()
ARM: 6876/1: Kconfig.debug: Remove unused CONFIG_DEBUG_ERRORS
ARM: pxa: convert incorrect IRQ_TO_IRQ() to irq_to_gpio()
ARM: mmp: align NR_BUILTIN_GPIO with gpio interrupt number
ARM: pxa: align NR_BUILTIN_GPIO with GPIO interrupt number
ARM: pxa: always clear LPM bits for PXA168 MFPR
pcmcia: limit pxa2xx_trizeps4 subdriver to trizeps4 platform
pcmcia: limit pxa2xx_balloon3 subdriver to balloon3 platform
ARM: pxafb: Fix access to nonexistent member of pxafb_info
ARM: 6872/1: arch:common:Makefile Remove unused config in the Makefile.
ARM: 6868/1: Preserve the VFP state during fork
ARM: 6867/1: Introduce THREAD_NOTIFY_COPY for copy_thread() hooks
ARM: 6866/1: Do not restrict HIGHPTE to !OUTER_CACHE
ARM: 6865/1: perf: ensure pass through zero is counted on overflow
ARM: 6864/1: hw_breakpoint: clear DBGVCR out of reset
ARM: Only allow PM_SLEEP with CPUs which support suspend
ARM: Make consolidated PM sleep code depend on PM_SLEEP
x86, amd: Disable GartTlbWlkErr when BIOS forgets it
This patch disables GartTlbWlk errors on AMD Fam10h CPUs if
the BIOS forgets to do is (or is just too old). Letting
these errors enabled can cause a sync-flood on the CPU
causing a reboot.
The AMD BKDG recommends disabling GART TLB Wlk Error completely.
Tim Chen [Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:39:29 +0000 (11:39 -0700)]
vfs: Fix absolute RCU path walk failures due to uninitialized seq number
During RCU walk in path_lookupat and path_openat, the rcu lookup
frequently failed if looking up an absolute path, because when root
directory was looked up, seq number was not properly set in nameidata.
We dropped out of RCU walk in nameidata_drop_rcu due to mismatch in
directory entry's seq number. We reverted to slow path walk that need
to take references.
With the following patch, I saw a 50% increase in an exim mail server
benchmark throughput on a 4-socket Nehalem-EX system.
Now that we use write_inode to flush server
cache related to fid, we don't need tsyncfs either fort dotl or dotu
protocols. For dotu this helps to do a more efficient server flush.
Chris Mason [Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:05:44 +0000 (16:05 -0400)]
Btrfs: don't force chunk allocation in find_free_extent
find_free_extent likes to allocate in contiguous clusters,
which makes writeback faster, especially on SSD storage. As
the FS fragments, these clusters become harder to find and we have
to decide between allocating a new chunk to make more clusters
or giving up on the cluster to allocate from the free space
we have.
Right now it creates too many chunks, and you can end up with
a whole FS that is mostly empty metadata chunks. This commit
changes the allocation code to be more strict and only
allocate new chunks when we've made good use of the chunks we
already have.
The divede by zero is caused by the following line,
group->cpu_power==0:
kernel/sched_fair.c::update_sg_lb_stats()
/* Adjust by relative CPU power of the group */
sgs->avg_load = (sgs->group_load * SCHED_LOAD_SCALE) / group->cpu_power;
This regression was caused by commit e23bba6044 ("x86-64, NUMA: Unify
emulated distance mapping") because it changes cpu -> node
mapping in the process of dropping fake_physnodes().
old) all cpus are assinged node 0
now) cpus are assigned round robin
(the logic is implemented by numa_init_array())
Note: The change in behavior only happens if the system doesn't
have neither ACPI SRAT table nor AMD northbridge NUMA
information.
Round robin assignment doesn't work because init_numa_sched_groups_power()
assumes all logical cpus in the same physical cpu share the same node
(then it only accounts for group_first_cpu()), and the simple round robin
breaks the above assumption.
Thus, this patch implements a reassignment of node-ids if buggy firmware
or numa emulation makes wrong cpu node map. Tt enforce all logical cpus
in the same physical cpu share the same node.
Lin Ming [Fri, 8 Apr 2011 06:31:26 +0000 (14:31 +0800)]
perf hists browser: Fix seg fault when annotate null symbol
In hists browser, press hotkey 'a' to annotate current symbol.
Now it causes segment fault if 'a' is pressed on a null symbol.
Here are 2 small bugs:
- In perf_evsel__hists_browse, the condition check after 'a' is pressed
is not correct, we should check ->sym instead of ->map.
- In symbol__tui_annotate we must check whether sym is NULL or not
before getting annotation structure.
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
block: only force kblockd unplugging from the schedule() path
block: cleanup the block plug helper functions
block, blk-sysfs: Use the variable directly instead of a function call
block: move queue run on unplug to kblockd
block: kill queue_sync_plugs()
block: readd plug trace event
block: add callback function for unplug notification
block: add comment on why we save and disable interrupts in flush_plug_list()
block: fixup block IO unplug trace call
block: remove block_unplug_timer() trace point
block: splice plug list to local context
Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6
* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6:
UBIFS: fix compilation warnings when compiling with gcc 4.5
UBIFS: fix oops when R/O file-system is fsync'ed
Darren Hart [Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:41:57 +0000 (15:41 -0700)]
futex: Set FLAGS_HAS_TIMEOUT during futex_wait restart setup
The FLAGS_HAS_TIMEOUT flag was not getting set, causing the restart_block to
restart futex_wait() without a timeout after a signal.
Commit b41277dc7a18ee332d in 2.6.38 introduced the regression by accidentally
removing the the FLAGS_HAS_TIMEOUT assignment from futex_wait() during the setup
of the restart block. Restore the originaly behavior.
vfs: fix incorrect dentry_update_name_case() BUG_ON() test
The case we should be verifying when updating the dentry name is that
the _parent_ inode (the directory) semaphore is held, not the semaphore
for the dentry itself. It's the directory locking that rename and
readdir() etc all care about.
The comment just above even says so - but then the BUG_ON() still
checked the dentry inode itself.
Very few people noticed, because this helper function really isn't used
for very much, so you had to be using ncpfs to ever hit it.
I think I should just remove the BUG_ON (the function really has just
one user), but let's run with it fixed for a while before getting rid of
it entirely.
block: only force kblockd unplugging from the schedule() path
For the explicit unplugging, we'd prefer to kick things off
immediately and not pay the penalty of the latency to switch
to kblockd. So let blk_finish_plug() do the run inline, while
the implicit-on-schedule-out unplug will punt to kblockd.
It's a bit of a mess currently. task->plug is being cleared
and reset in __blk_finish_plug(), and blk_finish_plug() is
testing for a NULL plug which cannot happen even from schedule()
anymore since it uses blk_needs_flush_plug() to determine
whether to call into this function at all.
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