Seiji Aguchi [Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:28:18 +0000 (20:28 +0000)]
efi_pstore: Add a sequence counter to a variable name
[Issue]
Currently, a variable name, which identifies each entry, consists of type, id and ctime.
But if multiple events happens in a short time, a second/third event may fail to log because
efi_pstore can't distinguish each event with current variable name.
[Solution]
A reasonable way to identify all events precisely is introducing a sequence counter to
the variable name.
The sequence counter has already supported in a pstore layer with "oopscount".
So, this patch adds it to a variable name.
Also, it is passed to read/erase callbacks of platform drivers in accordance with
the modification of the variable name.
<before applying this patch>
a variable name of first event: dump-type0-1-12345678
a variable name of second event: dump-type0-1-12345678
In case of a write callback executed in pstore_console_write(), "0" is added to
an argument of the write callback because it just logs all kernel messages and
doesn't need to care about multiple events.
Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Seiji Aguchi [Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:27:28 +0000 (20:27 +0000)]
efi_pstore: Add ctime to argument of erase callback
[Issue]
Currently, a variable name, which is used to identify each log entry, consists of type,
id and ctime. But an erase callback does not use ctime.
If efi_pstore supported just one log, type and id were enough.
However, in case of supporting multiple logs, it doesn't work because
it can't distinguish each entry without ctime at erasing time.
<Example>
As you can see below, efi_pstore can't differentiate first event from second one without ctime.
a variable name of first event: dump-type0-1-12345678
a variable name of second event: dump-type0-1-23456789
This patch adds ctime to an argument of an erase callback.
It works across reboots because ctime of pstore means the date that the record was originally stored.
To do this, efi_pstore saves the ctime to variable name at writing time and passes it to pstore
at reading time.
Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Seiji Aguchi [Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:26:46 +0000 (20:26 +0000)]
efi_pstore: Remove a logic erasing entries from a write callback to hold multiple logs
[Issue]
Currently, efi_pstore driver simply overwrites existing panic messages in NVRAM.
So, in the following scenario, we will lose 1st panic messages.
1. kernel panics.
2. efi_pstore is kicked and writes panic messages to NVRAM.
3. system reboots.
4. kernel panics again before a user checks the 1st panic messages in NVRAM.
[Solution]
A reasonable solution to fix the issue is just holding multiple logs without erasing
existing entries.
This patch removes a logic erasing existing entries in a write callback
because the logic is not needed in the write callback to support holding multiple logs.
Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Seiji Aguchi [Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:26:21 +0000 (20:26 +0000)]
efi_pstore: Add a logic erasing entries to an erase callback
[Issue]
Currently, efi_pstore driver simply overwrites existing panic messages in NVRAM.
So, in the following scenario, we will lose 1st panic messages.
1. kernel panics.
2. efi_pstore is kicked and writes panic messages to NVRAM.
3. system reboots.
4. kernel panics again before a user checks the 1st panic messages in NVRAM.
[Solution]
A reasonable solution to fix the issue is just holding multiple logs without erasing
existing entries.
This patch freshly adds a logic erasing existing entries, which shared with a write callback,
to an erase callback.
To support holding multiple logs, the write callback doesn't need to erase any entries and
it will be removed in a subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Seiji Aguchi [Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:25:37 +0000 (20:25 +0000)]
efi_pstore: Check remaining space with QueryVariableInfo() before writing data
[Issue]
As discussed in a thread below, Running out of space in EFI isn't a well-tested scenario.
And we wouldn't expect all firmware to handle it gracefully.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=134305325801789&w=2
On the other hand, current efi_pstore doesn't check a remaining space of storage at writing time.
Therefore, efi_pstore may not work if it tries to write a large amount of data.
[Patch Description]
To avoid handling the situation above, this patch checks if there is a space enough to log with
QueryVariableInfo() before writing data.
Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:46:40 +0000 (13:46 -0800)]
Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux
Pull power tools fixes from Len Brown:
"A pair of power tools patches -- a 3.7 regression fix plus a bug fix."
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux:
tools/power turbostat: graceful fail on garbage input
tools/power turbostat: Repair Segmentation fault when using -i option
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:45:23 +0000 (13:45 -0800)]
Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus
Pull MIPS update from Ralf Baechle:
"To avoid unnecessary risk and work the preemption fixes are combined
with some preparatory work that isn't strictly required. So it's
really just 3 fixes:
- Get is_compat_task() to do the right thing while simplifying it.
The unnecessary complexity hid a rarely striking bug which could be
triggered by ext3/ext4 under certain circumstances.
- Resolve a preemption issue in the irqflags.h functions for kernels
built to support pre-MIPS32 / pre-MIPS64 Release 2 processors.
- Fix the interrupt number of the MIPS Malta's CBUS UART."
* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus:
MIPS: Malta: Fix interupt number of CBUS UART.
MIPS: Make irqflags.h functions preempt-safe for non-mipsr2 cpus
MIPS: Remove irqflags.h dependency from bitops.h
MIPS: bitops.h: Change use of 'unsigned short' to 'int'
MIPS: compat: Delete now unused TIF_32BIT.
MIPS: compat: Implement is_compat_task() by testing for 32-bit address space.
MIPS: compat: Fix use of TIF_32BIT_ADDR vs _TIF_32BIT_ADDR
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:44:04 +0000 (13:44 -0800)]
Merge branch 'for-3.7-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:
"This contains two fix patches for device_cgroup. One fixes a
regression introduced earlier in 3.7 cycle where device_cgroup could
try to dereference the NULL parent of the root cgroup. The other one
is RCU usage fix."
Dave Chinner [Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:53:57 +0000 (22:53 +1100)]
xfs: remove xfs_flushinval_pages
It's just a simple wrapper around VFS functionality, and is actually
bugging in that it doesn't remove mappings before invalidating the
page cache. Remove it and replace it with the correct VFS
functionality.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Dahl <adahl@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Dave Chinner [Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:53:56 +0000 (22:53 +1100)]
xfs: remove xfs_flush_pages
It is a complex wrapper around VFS functions, but there are VFS
functions that provide exactly the same functionality. Call the VFS
functions directly and remove the unnecessary indirection and
complexity.
We don't need to care about clearing the XFS_ITRUNCATED flag, as
that is done during .writepages. Hence is cleared by the VFS
writeback path if there is anything to write back during the flush.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Dahl <adahl@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Dave Chinner [Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:53:55 +0000 (22:53 +1100)]
xfs: remove xfs_wait_on_pages()
It's just a simple wrapper around a VFS function that is only called
by another function in xfs_fs_subr.c. Remove it and call the VFS
function directly.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Dahl <adahl@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Dave Chinner [Wed, 14 Nov 2012 06:42:47 +0000 (17:42 +1100)]
xfs: remove xfs_tosspages
It's a buggy, unnecessary wrapper that is duplicating
truncate_pagecache_range().
When replacing the call in xfs_change_file_space(), also ensure that
the length being allocated/freed is always positive before making
any changes. These checks are done in the lower extent manipulation
functions, too, but we need to do them before any page cache
operations.
Reported-by: Andrew Dahl <adahl@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-By: Andrew Dahl <adahl@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Paul Mackerras [Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:15:47 +0000 (19:15 +1100)]
TTY: hvc_console, fix port reference count going to zero prematurely
Commit bdb498c20040 "TTY: hvc_console, add tty install" took the port
refcounting out of hvc_open()/hvc_close(), but failed to remove the
kref_put() and tty_kref_put() calls in hvc_hangup() that were there to
remove the extra references that hvc_open() had taken.
The result was that doing a vhangup() when the current terminal was
a hvc_console, then closing the current terminal, would end up calling
destroy_hvc_struct() and making the port disappear entirely. This
meant that Fedora 17 systems would boot up but then not display the
login prompt on the console, and attempts to open /dev/hvc0 would
give a "No such device" error.
This fixes it by removing the extra kref_put() and tty_kref_put() calls.
Len Brown [Thu, 8 Nov 2012 05:48:57 +0000 (00:48 -0500)]
tools/power turbostat: print Watts
Intel's Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processor generations support RAPL (Run-Time-Average-Power-Limiting).
Per the Intel SDM (Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer Manual)
RAPL provides hardware power information and control via MSRs (Model Specific Registers).
RAPL MSRs are designed primarily as a method to implement power capping.
However, even if power capping is not enabled, the RAPL regsiters
are useful for monitoring system power and operation.
Turbostat now displays the information provided by reading RAPL MSRs.
As always, turbostat never writes any MSRs.
turbostat's default display now includes Watts for hardware that
supports RAPL:
The Pkg_W column shows Watts for each package (socket) in the system.
On multi-socket systems, the system summary on the 1st row shows the total.
The Cor_W column shows Watts due to processors cores.
Core_W is included in Pkg_W.
The optional GFX_W column shows Watts due to the graphics "un-core".
GFX_W is included in Pkg_W.
The optional PKG_% column shows the % of time in the measurement interval that
RAPL power limiting is in effect.
Note that the RAPL energy counters have some limitations.
First hardware updates the countesr about once every milli-second.
This is fine for typical turbostat measurement intervals > 1 sec.
However, when turbostat is used to measure events that approach
1ms, the counters are less useful.
Second, the energy counters are 32-bits long and subject to wrapping.
For example, the counter increments in 15 micro-Joule units on my
local server, and the part could (in theory) consume energy at
its TDP specification of 130 Watts. Here the 32-bit Joule counter
coult wrap as soon as 8 minutes.
Turbostat detects and handles up to 1 counter overflow per interval.
But when the measurement interval exceeds the guaranteed
counter range, we can't detect if more than 1 overflow occured.
So in this case turbostat indicates that the results are
in question by replacing the fractional part of the result
with "**":
Pkg_W Cor_W GFX_W
3** 0** 0**
Third, the RAPL counters are energy (Joule) counters -- they sum up
weighted events in the package to estimate energy consumed. They are
not analong power (Watt) meters. In practice, they tend to under-count
because they don't cover every possible use of energy in the package.
Also, the accuracy of the RAPL counters will vary between product generations,
and between SKU's in the same product generation.
turbostat's -v option now displays per-Package Thermal Design Power (TDP).
This is the specification for the part's maximum power consumption.
eg. on a 2-package SNB-Xeon system:
mwl8k: Set packet timestamp to 0 when life time expiry is not used
Set tx packet timestamp to 0 in following scenarios:-
- All packets in STA mode
- Mgmt packets in AP mode
- Eapol packets in AP mode
In STA mode, this field is unused in the firmware. In AP
mode, we should not be expiring mgmt and eapol frames.
Setting timestamp to 0 will ensure that.
Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We have 6.5 Mbps is minimum rate of the link
as the criterion for creation of BA.
Although we check this before creating the BA
stream, by the time amdpu_action is called from
the workqueue, the link can get affected in the
meantime.
Hence, add an additional check in amdpu_action.
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Bing Zhao [Tue, 6 Nov 2012 00:59:15 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
mwifiex: process RX packets in SDIO IRQ thread directly
ksdioirqd has higher priority than kworker. Process RX packets
in SDIO IRQ thread (ksdioirqd/mmcX) directly instead of deferring
the work to kworker to avoid the extra latency.
This improves TCP throughput 15~20% on an ARM platform with SDIO
2.0 controller.
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
brcmfmac: use struct brcmf_if parameter in firmware event callbacks
Firmware events are passed to wl_cfg80211 module associated with
the primary net device. With virtual interface support events can
be received for different interfaces, ie. struct brcmf_if instances.
Pass it in the event to determine appropriate net device associated
with the event.
Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Franky Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Hante Meuleman [Tue, 6 Nov 2012 00:22:31 +0000 (16:22 -0800)]
brcmfmac: add dedicated USB log level.
Add USB log level and update and add log messages in usb module.
Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Franky Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Hante Meuleman [Tue, 6 Nov 2012 00:22:30 +0000 (16:22 -0800)]
brcmfmac: on halting driver check before release or free.
brcmf_netdev_stop shall first check bus_if status before bringing
down cfg80211. brcmf_detach shall first check if driver is
allocated.
Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Franky Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Hante Meuleman [Tue, 6 Nov 2012 00:22:29 +0000 (16:22 -0800)]
brcmfmac: check bus state to be data before sending data.
brcmf_netdev_start_xmit and brcmf_fil_cmd_data are checking
bus state for down. These functions should check for data
state.
Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Franky Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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