Curt Wohlgemuth [Sat, 8 Oct 2011 03:54:10 +0000 (21:54 -0600)]
writeback: Add a 'reason' to wb_writeback_work
This creates a new 'reason' field in a wb_writeback_work
structure, which unambiguously identifies who initiates
writeback activity. A 'wb_reason' enumeration has been
added to writeback.h, to enumerate the possible reasons.
The 'writeback_work_class' and tracepoint event class and
'writeback_queue_io' tracepoints are updated to include the
symbolic 'reason' in all trace events.
And the 'writeback_inodes_sbXXX' family of routines has had
a wb_stats parameter added to them, so callers can specify
why writeback is being started.
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Curt Wohlgemuth [Sat, 8 Oct 2011 03:51:56 +0000 (21:51 -0600)]
writeback: send work item to queue_io, move_expired_inodes
Instead of sending ->older_than_this to queue_io() and
move_expired_inodes(), send the entire wb_writeback_work
structure. There are other fields of a work item that are
useful in these routines and in tracepoints.
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 6 Oct 2011 23:15:10 +0000 (16:15 -0700)]
Merge git://github.com/davem330/net
* git://github.com/davem330/net:
net: fix typos in Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
bridge: leave carrier on for empty bridge
netfilter: Use proper rwlock init function
tcp: properly update lost_cnt_hint during shifting
tcp: properly handle md5sig_pool references
macvlan/macvtap: Fix unicast between macvtap interfaces in bridge mode
Paul Menzel [Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:07:10 +0000 (17:07 +0200)]
x86/PCI: use host bridge _CRS info on ASUS M2V-MX SE
In summary, this DMI quirk uses the _CRS info by default for the ASUS
M2V-MX SE by turning on `pci=use_crs` and is similar to the quirk
added by commit 2491762cfb47 ("x86/PCI: use host bridge _CRS info on
ASRock ALiveSATA2-GLAN") whose commit message should be read for further
information.
Since commit 3e3da00c01d0 ("x86/pci: AMD one chain system to use pci
read out res") Linux gives the following oops:
Trusting the ACPI _CRS information (`pci=use_crs`) fixes this problem.
$ dmesg | grep -i crs # with the quirk
PCI: Using host bridge windows from ACPI; if necessary, use "pci=nocrs" and report a bug
The match has to be against the DMI board entries though since the vendor entries are not populated.
DMI: System manufacturer System Product Name/M2V-MX SE, BIOS 0304 10/30/2007
This quirk should be removed when `pci=use_crs` is enabled for machines
from 2006 or earlier or some other solution is implemented.
Using coreboot [1] with this board the problem does not exist but this
quirk also does not affect it either. To be safe though the check is
tightened to only take effect when the BIOS from American Megatrends is
used.
15:13 < ruik> but coreboot does not need that
15:13 < ruik> because i have there only one root bus
15:13 < ruik> the audio is behind a bridge
$ sudo dmidecode
BIOS Information
Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
Version: 0304
Release Date: 10/30/2007
This resolves a regression seen by some users of bridging.
Some users use the bridge like a dummy device.
They expect to be able to put an IPv6 address on the device
with no ports attached. Although there are better ways of doing
this, there is no reason to not allow it.
Note: the bridge still will reflect the state of ports in the
bridge if there are any added.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thomas Gleixner [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 03:24:43 +0000 (03:24 +0000)]
netfilter: Use proper rwlock init function
Replace the open coded initialization with the init function.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* git://bedivere.hansenpartnership.com/git/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6:
[SCSI] libsas: fix panic when single phy is disabled on a wide port
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Fix crash in qla2x00_abort_all_cmds() on unload
Yan, Zheng [Sun, 2 Oct 2011 04:21:50 +0000 (04:21 +0000)]
tcp: properly update lost_cnt_hint during shifting
lost_skb_hint is used by tcp_mark_head_lost() to mark the first unhandled skb.
lost_cnt_hint is the number of packets or sacked packets before the lost_skb_hint;
When shifting a skb that is before the lost_skb_hint, if tcp_is_fack() is ture,
the skb has already been counted in the lost_cnt_hint; if tcp_is_fack() is false,
tcp_sacktag_one() will increase the lost_cnt_hint. So tcp_shifted_skb() does not
need to adjust the lost_cnt_hint by itself. When shifting a skb that is equal to
lost_skb_hint, the shifted packets will not be counted by tcp_mark_head_lost().
So tcp_shifted_skb() should adjust the lost_cnt_hint even tcp_is_fack(tp) is true.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yan <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
tcp_v4_clear_md5_list() assumes that multiple tcp md5sig peers
only hold one reference to md5sig_pool. but tcp_v4_md5_do_add()
increases use count of md5sig_pool for each peer. This patch
makes tcp_v4_md5_do_add() only increases use count for the first
tcp md5sig peer.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yan <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
David Ward [Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:53:20 +0000 (12:53 +0000)]
macvlan/macvtap: Fix unicast between macvtap interfaces in bridge mode
Packets should always be forwarded to the lowerdev using dev_forward_skb.
vlan->forward is for packets being forwarded directly to another macvlan/
macvtap device (used for multicast in bridge mode).
Reported-and-tested-by: Shlomo Pongratz <shlomop@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David Ward <david.ward@ll.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 4 Oct 2011 17:37:06 +0000 (10:37 -0700)]
Merge git://github.com/davem330/net
* git://github.com/davem330/net:
pch_gbe: Fixed the issue on which a network freezes
pch_gbe: Fixed the issue on which PC was frozen when link was downed.
make PACKET_STATISTICS getsockopt report consistently between ring and non-ring
net: xen-netback: correctly restart Tx after a VM restore/migrate
bonding: properly stop queuing work when requested
can bcm: fix incomplete tx_setup fix
RDSRDMA: Fix cleanup of rds_iw_mr_pool
net: Documentation: Fix type of variables
ibmveth: Fix oops on request_irq failure
ipv6: nullify ipv6_ac_list and ipv6_fl_list when creating new socket
cxgb4: Fix EEH on IBM P7IOC
can bcm: fix tx_setup off-by-one errors
MAINTAINERS: tehuti: Alexander Indenbaum's address bounces
dp83640: reduce driver noise
ptp: fix L2 event message recognition
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 4 Oct 2011 16:59:22 +0000 (09:59 -0700)]
Merge branch 'fix/asoc' of git://github.com/tiwai/sound
* 'fix/asoc' of git://github.com/tiwai/sound:
ASoC: omap_mcpdm_remove cannot be __devexit
ASoC: Fix setting update bits for WM8753_LADC and WM8753_RADC
ASoC: use a valid device for dev_err() in Zylonite
Jon Mason [Mon, 3 Oct 2011 14:50:20 +0000 (09:50 -0500)]
PCI: Disable MPS configuration by default
Add the ability to disable PCI-E MPS turning and using the BIOS
configured MPS defaults. Due to the number of issues recently
discovered on some x86 chipsets, make this the default behavior.
Also, add the option for peer to peer DMA MPS configuration. Peer to
peer DMA is outside the scope of this patch, but MPS configuration could
prevent it from working by having the MPS on one root port different
than the MPS on another. To work around this, simply make the system
wide MPS the smallest possible value (128B).
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <mason@myri.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Alex Deucher [Tue, 4 Oct 2011 14:46:34 +0000 (10:46 -0400)]
drm/radeon/kms: fix channel_remap setup (v2)
Most asics just use the hw default value which requires
no explicit programming. For those that need a different
value, the vbios will program it properly. As such,
there's no need to program these registers explicitly
in the driver. Changing MC_SHARED_CHREMAP requires a reload
of all data in vram otherwise its contents will be scambled.
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer@amd.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
We found that adding load, Rx data sometimes drops.(with DMA transfer mode)
The cause is that before starting Rx-DMA processing, Tx-DMA processing starts.
This causes FIFO overrun occurs.
This patch fixes the issue by modifying FIFO tx-threshold and DMA descriptor
size like below.
Current this patch
Rx-descriptor 4Byte+12Byte*341 --> 12Byte*340-4Byte-12Byte
Rx-threshold (Not modified)
Tx-descriptor 4Byte+12Byte*341 --> 16Byte-12Byte*340
Rx-threshold 12Byte --> 2Byte
Signed-off-by: Tomoya MORINAGA <tomoya-linux@dsn.okisemi.com> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
spi-topcliff-pch: add tx-memory clear after complete transmitting
Currently, in case of reading date from SPI flash,
command is sent twice.
The cause is that tx-memory clear processing is missing .
This patch adds the tx-momory clear processing.
Signed-off-by: Tomoya MORINAGA <tomoya-linux@dsn.okisemi.com> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Takashi Iwai [Tue, 4 Oct 2011 01:09:14 +0000 (18:09 -0700)]
lis3: fix regression of HP DriveGuard with 8bit chip
Commit 2a7fade7e03 ("hwmon: lis3: Power on corrections") caused a
regression on HP laptops with 8bit chip. Writing CTRL2_BOOT_8B bit seems
clearing the BIOS setup, and no proper interrupt for DriveGuard will be
triggered any more.
Since the init code there is basically only for embedded devices, put a
pdata check so that the problematic initialization will be skipped for
hp_accel stuff.
Borislav Petkov [Mon, 3 Oct 2011 18:28:18 +0000 (14:28 -0400)]
ide-disk: Fix request requeuing
Simon Kirby reported that on his RAID setup with idedisk underneath
the box OOMs after a couple of days of runtime. Running with
CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK pointed to idedisk_prep_fn() which unconditionally
allocates an ide_cmd struct. However, ide_requeue_and_plug() can be
called more than once per request, either from the request issue or the
IRQ handler path and do blk_peek_request() ends up in idedisk_prep_fn()
repeatedly, allocating a struct ide_cmd everytime and "forgetting" the
previous pointer.
Make sure the code reuses the old allocated chunk.
pch_gbe: Fixed the issue on which a network freezes
The pch_gbe driver has an issue which a network stops,
when receiving traffic is high.
In the case, The link down and up are necessary to return a network.
This patch fixed this issue.
Signed-off-by: Toshiharu Okada <toshiharu-linux@dsn.okisemi.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Willem de Bruijn [Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:38:28 +0000 (10:38 +0000)]
make PACKET_STATISTICS getsockopt report consistently between ring and non-ring
This is a minor change.
Up until kernel 2.6.32, getsockopt(fd, SOL_PACKET, PACKET_STATISTICS,
...) would return total and dropped packets since its last invocation. The
introduction of socket queue overflow reporting [1] changed drop
rate calculation in the normal packet socket path, but not when using a
packet ring. As a result, the getsockopt now returns different statistics
depending on the reception method used. With a ring, it still returns the
count since the last call, as counts are incremented in tpacket_rcv and
reset in getsockopt. Without a ring, it returns 0 if no drops occurred
since the last getsockopt and the total drops over the lifespan of
the socket otherwise. The culprit is this line in packet_rcv, executed
on a drop:
As it shows, the new drop number it taken from the socket drop counter,
which is not reset at getsockopt. I put together a small example
that demonstrates the issue [2]. It runs for 10 seconds and overflows
the queue/ring on every odd second. The reported drop rates are:
ring: 16, 0, 16, 0, 16, ...
non-ring: 0, 15, 0, 30, 0, 46, 0, 60, 0 , 74.
Note how the even ring counts monotonically increase. Because the
getsockopt adds tp_drops to tp_packets, total counts are similarly
reported cumulatively. Long story short, reinstating the original code, as
the below patch does, fixes the issue at the cost of additional per-packet
cycles. Another solution that does not introduce per-packet overhead
is be to keep the current data path, record the value of sk_drops at
getsockopt() at call N in a new field in struct packetsock and subtract
that when reporting at call N+1. I'll be happy to code that, instead,
it's just more messy.
David Vrabel [Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:37:51 +0000 (06:37 +0000)]
net: xen-netback: correctly restart Tx after a VM restore/migrate
If a VM is saved and restored (or migrated) the netback driver will no
longer process any Tx packets from the frontend. xenvif_up() does not
schedule the processing of any pending Tx requests from the front end
because the carrier is off. Without this initial kick the frontend
just adds Tx requests to the ring without raising an event (until the
ring is full).
This was caused by 47103041e91794acdbc6165da0ae288d844c820b (net:
xen-netback: convert to hw_features) which reordered the calls to
xenvif_up() and netif_carrier_on() in xenvif_connect().
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Andy Gospodarek [Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:53:34 +0000 (10:53 +0000)]
bonding: properly stop queuing work when requested
During a test where a pair of bonding interfaces using ARP monitoring
were both brought up and torn down (with an rmmod) repeatedly, a panic
in the timer code was noticed. I tracked this down and determined that
any of the bonding functions that ran as workqueue handlers and requeued
more work might not properly exit when the module was removed.
There was a flag protected by the bond lock called kill_timers that is
set when the interface goes down or the module is removed, but many of
the functions that monitor link status now unlock the bond lock to take
rtnl first. There is a chance that another CPU running the rmmod could
get the lock and set kill_timers after the first check has passed.
This patch does not allow any function to queue work that will make
itself run unless kill_timers is not set. I also noticed while doing
this work that bond_resend_igmp_join_requests did not have a check for
kill_timers, so I added the needed call there as well.
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Reported-by: Liang Zheng <lzheng@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Michel Dänzer [Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:16:53 +0000 (17:16 +0200)]
drm/radeon: Set cursor x/y to 0 when x/yorigin > 0.
Apart from the obvious cleanup, this should make the line
cursor_end = x - xorigin + w;
correct now.
Signed-off-by: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Michel Dänzer [Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:16:52 +0000 (17:16 +0200)]
drm/radeon: Update AVIVO cursor coordinate origin before x/yorigin calculation.
Fixes cursor disappearing prematurely when moving off a top/left edge which
is not located at the desktop top/left edge.
Signed-off-by: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer@amd.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net> Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Alex Deucher [Mon, 3 Oct 2011 13:13:46 +0000 (09:13 -0400)]
drm/radeon/kms: add retry limits for native DP aux defer
The previous code could potentially loop forever. Limit
the number of DP aux defer retries to 4 for native aux
transactions, same as i2c over aux transactions.
Alex Deucher [Mon, 3 Oct 2011 13:13:45 +0000 (09:13 -0400)]
drm/radeon/kms: fix regression in DP aux defer handling
An incorrect ordering in the error checking code lead
to DP aux defer being skipped in the aux native write
path. Move the bytes transferred check (ret == 0)
below the defer check.
Tracked down by: Brad Campbell <brad@fnarfbargle.com>
Wu Fengguang [Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:38:33 +0000 (14:38 -0600)]
writeback: per-bdi background threshold
One thing puzzled me is that in JBOD case, the per-disk writeout
performance is smaller than the corresponding single-disk case even
when they have comparable bdi_thresh. Tracing shows find that in single
disk case, bdi_writeback is always kept high while in JBOD case, it
could drop low from time to time and correspondingly bdi_reclaimable
could sometimes rush high.
The fix is to watch bdi_reclaimable and kick background writeback as
soon as it goes high. This resembles the global background threshold
but in per-bdi manner. The trick is, as long as bdi_reclaimable does
not go high, bdi_writeback naturally won't go low because
bdi_reclaimable+bdi_writeback ~= bdi_thresh.
With less fluctuated writeback pages, JBOD performance is observed to
increase noticeably in various cases.
Wu Fengguang [Fri, 5 Aug 2011 04:16:46 +0000 (22:16 -0600)]
writeback: dirty position control - bdi reserve area
Keep a minimal pool of dirty pages for each bdi, so that the disk IO
queues won't underrun. Also gently increase a small bdi_thresh to avoid
it stuck in 0 for some light dirtied bdi.
It's particularly useful for JBOD and small memory system.
It may result in (pos_ratio > 1) at the setpoint and push the dirty
pages high. This is more or less intended because the bdi is in the
danger of IO queue underflow.
Here dirty_ratelimit is preferred over task_ratelimit because it's
more stable.
It's also important to limit possible large transitional errors:
- bw is changing quickly
- pages_dirtied << nr_dirtied_pause on entering dirty exceeded area
- pages_dirtied >> nr_dirtied_pause on btrfs (to be improved by a
separate fix, but still expect non-trivial errors)
So we end up using the above formula inside clamp_val().
The best test case for this code is to run 100 "dd bs=4M" tasks on
btrfs and check its pause time distribution.
Wu Fengguang [Sun, 12 Jun 2011 01:21:43 +0000 (19:21 -0600)]
writeback: limit max dirty pause time
Apply two policies to scale down the max pause time for
1) small number of concurrent dirtiers
2) small memory system (comparing to storage bandwidth)
MAX_PAUSE=200ms may only be suitable for high end servers with lots of
concurrent dirtiers, where the large pause time can reduce much overheads.
Otherwise, smaller pause time is desirable whenever possible, so as to
get good responsiveness and smooth user experiences. It's actually
required for good disk utilization in the case when all the dirty pages
can be synced to disk within MAX_PAUSE=200ms.
Wu Fengguang [Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:45:12 +0000 (18:45 -0600)]
writeback: IO-less balance_dirty_pages()
As proposed by Chris, Dave and Jan, don't start foreground writeback IO
inside balance_dirty_pages(). Instead, simply let it idle sleep for some
time to throttle the dirtying task. In the mean while, kick off the
per-bdi flusher thread to do background writeback IO.
RATIONALS
=========
- disk seeks on concurrent writeback of multiple inodes (Dave Chinner)
If every thread doing writes and being throttled start foreground
writeback, it leads to N IO submitters from at least N different
inodes at the same time, end up with N different sets of IO being
issued with potentially zero locality to each other, resulting in
much lower elevator sort/merge efficiency and hence we seek the disk
all over the place to service the different sets of IO.
OTOH, if there is only one submission thread, it doesn't jump between
inodes in the same way when congestion clears - it keeps writing to
the same inode, resulting in large related chunks of sequential IOs
being issued to the disk. This is more efficient than the above
foreground writeback because the elevator works better and the disk
seeks less.
- lock contention and cache bouncing on concurrent IO submitters (Dave Chinner)
With this patchset, the fs_mark benchmark on a 12-drive software RAID0 goes
from CPU bound to IO bound, freeing "3-4 CPUs worth of spinlock contention".
* "CPU usage has dropped by ~55%", "it certainly appears that most of
the CPU time saving comes from the removal of contention on the
inode_wb_list_lock" (IMHO at least 10% comes from the reduction of
cacheline bouncing, because the new code is able to call much less
frequently into balance_dirty_pages() and hence access the global
page states)
* the user space "App overhead" is reduced by 20%, by avoiding the
cacheline pollution by the complex writeback code path
* "for a ~5% throughput reduction", "the number of write IOs have
dropped by ~25%", and the elapsed time reduced from 41:42.17 to
40:53.23.
* On a simple test of 100 dd, it reduces the CPU %system time from 30% to 3%,
and improves IO throughput from 38MB/s to 42MB/s.
- IO size too small for fast arrays and too large for slow USB sticks
The write_chunk used by current balance_dirty_pages() cannot be
directly set to some large value (eg. 128MB) for better IO efficiency.
Because it could lead to more than 1 second user perceivable stalls.
Even the current 4MB write size may be too large for slow USB sticks.
The fact that balance_dirty_pages() starts IO on itself couples the
IO size to wait time, which makes it hard to do suitable IO size while
keeping the wait time under control.
Now it's possible to increase writeback chunk size proportional to the
disk bandwidth. In a simple test of 50 dd's on XFS, 1-HDD, 3GB ram,
the larger writeback size dramatically reduces the seek count to 1/10
(far beyond my expectation) and improves the write throughput by 24%.
- long block time in balance_dirty_pages() hurts desktop responsiveness
Many of us may have the experience: it often takes a couple of seconds
or even long time to stop a heavy writing dd/cp/tar command with
Ctrl-C or "kill -9".
- IO pipeline broken by bumpy write() progress
There are a broad class of "loop {read(buf); write(buf);}" applications
whose read() pipeline will be under-utilized or even come to a stop if
the write()s have long latencies _or_ don't progress in a constant rate.
The current threshold based throttling inherently transfers the large
low level IO completion fluctuations to bumpy application write()s,
and further deteriorates with increasing number of dirtiers and/or bdi's.
For example, when doing 50 dd's + 1 remote rsync to an XFS partition,
the rsync progresses very bumpy in legacy kernel, and throughput is
improved by 67% by this patchset. (plus the larger write chunk size,
it will be 93% speedup).
The new rate based throttling can support 1000+ dd's with excellent
smoothness, low latency and low overheads.
For the above reasons, it's much better to do IO-less and low latency
pauses in balance_dirty_pages().
Jan Kara, Dave Chinner and me explored the scheme to let
balance_dirty_pages() wait for enough writeback IO completions to
safeguard the dirty limit. However it's found to have two problems:
- in large NUMA systems, the per-cpu counters may have big accounting
errors, leading to big throttle wait time and jitters.
- NFS may kill large amount of unstable pages with one single COMMIT.
Because NFS server serves COMMIT with expensive fsync() IOs, it is
desirable to delay and reduce the number of COMMITs. So it's not
likely to optimize away such kind of bursty IO completions, and the
resulted large (and tiny) stall times in IO completion based throttling.
So here is a pause time oriented approach, which tries to control the
pause time in each balance_dirty_pages() invocations, by controlling
the number of pages dirtied before calling balance_dirty_pages(), for
smooth and efficient dirty throttling:
- avoid useless (eg. zero pause time) balance_dirty_pages() calls
- avoid too small pause time (less than 4ms, which burns CPU power)
- avoid too large pause time (more than 200ms, which hurts responsiveness)
- avoid big fluctuations of pause times
It can control pause times at will. The default policy (in a followup
patch) will be to do ~10ms pauses in 1-dd case, and increase to ~100ms
in 1000-dd case.
BEHAVIOR CHANGE
===============
(1) dirty threshold
Users will notice that the applications will get throttled once crossing
the global (background + dirty)/2=15% threshold, and then balanced around
17.5%. Before patch, the behavior is to just throttle it at 20% dirtyable
memory in 1-dd case.
Since the task will be soft throttled earlier than before, it may be
perceived by end users as performance "slow down" if his application
happens to dirty more than 15% dirtyable memory.
(2) smoothness/responsiveness
Users will notice a more responsive system during heavy writeback.
"killall dd" will take effect instantly.
Wu Fengguang [Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:10:12 +0000 (18:10 -0600)]
writeback: per task dirty rate limit
Add two fields to task_struct.
1) account dirtied pages in the individual tasks, for accuracy
2) per-task balance_dirty_pages() call intervals, for flexibility
The balance_dirty_pages() call interval (ie. nr_dirtied_pause) will
scale near-sqrt to the safety gap between dirty pages and threshold.
The main problem of per-task nr_dirtied is, if 1k+ tasks start dirtying
pages at exactly the same time, each task will be assigned a large
initial nr_dirtied_pause, so that the dirty threshold will be exceeded
long before each task reached its nr_dirtied_pause and hence call
balance_dirty_pages().
The solution is to watch for the number of pages dirtied on each CPU in
between the calls into balance_dirty_pages(). If it exceeds ratelimit_pages
(3% dirty threshold), force call balance_dirty_pages() for a chance to
set bdi->dirty_exceeded. In normal situations, this safeguarding
condition is not expected to trigger at all.
On the sqrt in dirty_poll_interval():
It will serve as an initial guess when dirty pages are still in the
freerun area.
When dirty pages are floating inside the dirty control scope [freerun,
limit], a followup patch will use some refined dirty poll interval to
get the desired pause time.
The above table means, given 1MB (or 1GB) gap and the dd tasks polling
balance_dirty_pages() on every 16 (or 512) pages, the dirty limit won't
be exceeded as long as there are less than 16 (or 512) concurrent dd's.
So sqrt naturally leads to less overheads and more safe concurrent tasks
for large memory servers, which have large (thresh-freerun) gaps.
peter: keep the per-CPU ratelimit for safeguarding the 1k+ tasks case
CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Wu Fengguang [Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:53:24 +0000 (15:53 -0600)]
writeback: stabilize bdi->dirty_ratelimit
There are some imperfections in balanced_dirty_ratelimit.
1) large fluctuations
The dirty_rate used for computing balanced_dirty_ratelimit is merely
averaged in the past 200ms (very small comparing to the 3s estimation
period for write_bw), which makes rather dispersed distribution of
balanced_dirty_ratelimit.
It's pretty hard to average out the singular points by increasing the
estimation period. Considering that the averaging technique will
introduce very undesirable time lags, I give it up totally. (btw, the 3s
write_bw averaging time lag is much more acceptable because its impact
is one-way and therefore won't lead to oscillations.)
The more practical way is filtering -- most singular
balanced_dirty_ratelimit points can be filtered out by remembering some
prev_balanced_rate and prev_prev_balanced_rate. However the more
reliable way is to guard balanced_dirty_ratelimit with task_ratelimit.
2) due to truncates and fs redirties, the (write_bw <=> dirty_rate)
match could become unbalanced, which may lead to large systematical
errors in balanced_dirty_ratelimit. The truncates, due to its possibly
bumpy nature, can hardly be compensated smoothly. So let's face it. When
some over-estimated balanced_dirty_ratelimit brings dirty_ratelimit
high, dirty pages will go higher than the setpoint. task_ratelimit will
in turn become lower than dirty_ratelimit. So if we consider both
balanced_dirty_ratelimit and task_ratelimit and update dirty_ratelimit
only when they are on the same side of dirty_ratelimit, the systematical
errors in balanced_dirty_ratelimit won't be able to bring
dirty_ratelimit far away.
The balanced_dirty_ratelimit estimation may also be inaccurate near
@limit or @freerun, however is less an issue.
3) since we ultimately want to
- keep the fluctuations of task ratelimit as small as possible
- keep the dirty pages around the setpoint as long time as possible
the update policy used for (2) also serves the above goals nicely:
if for some reason the dirty pages are high (task_ratelimit < dirty_ratelimit),
and dirty_ratelimit is low (dirty_ratelimit < balanced_dirty_ratelimit),
there is no point to bring up dirty_ratelimit in a hurry only to hurt
both the above two goals.
So, we make use of task_ratelimit to limit the update of dirty_ratelimit
in two ways:
1) avoid changing dirty rate when it's against the position control target
(the adjusted rate will slow down the progress of dirty pages going
back to setpoint).
2) limit the step size. task_ratelimit is changing values step by step,
leaving a consistent trace comparing to the randomly jumping
balanced_dirty_ratelimit. task_ratelimit also has the nice smaller
errors in stable state and typically larger errors when there are big
errors in rate. So it's a pretty good limiting factor for the step
size of dirty_ratelimit.
Note that bdi->dirty_ratelimit is always tracking balanced_dirty_ratelimit.
task_ratelimit is merely used as a limiting factor.
Estimation of balanced bdi->dirty_ratelimit
===========================================
balanced task_ratelimit
-----------------------
balance_dirty_pages() needs to throttle tasks dirtying pages such that
the total amount of dirty pages stays below the specified dirty limit in
order to avoid memory deadlocks. Furthermore we desire fairness in that
tasks get throttled proportionally to the amount of pages they dirty.
IOW we want to throttle tasks such that we match the dirty rate to the
writeout bandwidth, this yields a stable amount of dirty pages:
dirty_rate == write_bw (1)
The fairness requirement gives us:
task_ratelimit = balanced_dirty_ratelimit
== write_bw / N (2)
where N is the number of dd tasks. We don't know N beforehand, but
still can estimate balanced_dirty_ratelimit within 200ms.
Start by throttling each dd task at rate
task_ratelimit = task_ratelimit_0 (3)
(any non-zero initial value is OK)
After 200ms, we measured
dirty_rate = # of pages dirtied by all dd's / 200ms
write_bw = # of pages written to the disk / 200ms
For the aggressive dd dirtiers, the equality holds
dirty_rate == N * task_rate
== N * task_ratelimit_0 (4)
Or
task_ratelimit_0 == dirty_rate / N (5)
Now we conclude that the balanced task ratelimit can be estimated by
Then using the balanced task ratelimit we can compute task pause times like:
task_pause = task->nr_dirtied / task_ratelimit
task_ratelimit with position control
------------------------------------
However, while the above gives us means of matching the dirty rate to
the writeout bandwidth, it at best provides us with a stable dirty page
count (assuming a static system). In order to control the dirty page
count such that it is high enough to provide performance, but does not
exceed the specified limit we need another control.
The dirty position control works by extending (2) to
where pos_ratio is a negative feedback function that subjects to
1) f(setpoint) = 1.0
2) df/dx < 0
That is, if the dirty pages are ABOVE the setpoint, we throttle each
task a bit more HEAVY than balanced_dirty_ratelimit, so that the dirty
pages are created less fast than they are cleaned, thus DROP to the
setpoints (and the reverse).
Based on (7) and the assumption that both dirty_ratelimit and pos_ratio
remains CONSTANT for the past 200ms, we get
Wu Fengguang [Wed, 2 Mar 2011 22:04:18 +0000 (16:04 -0600)]
writeback: dirty position control
bdi_position_ratio() provides a scale factor to bdi->dirty_ratelimit, so
that the resulted task rate limit can drive the dirty pages back to the
global/bdi setpoints.
Old scheme is,
|
free run area | throttle area
----------------------------------------+---------------------------->
thresh^ dirty pages
1) large enough to pull the dirty pages to setpoint reasonably fast
2) small enough to avoid big fluctuations in the resulted pos_ratio and
hence task ratelimit
Since the fluctuation range of the bdi dirty pages is typically observed
to be within 1-second worth of data, the bdi control line's slope is
selected to be a linear function of bdi write bandwidth, so that it can
adapt to slow/fast storage devices well.
Assume the bdi control line
pos_ratio = 1.0 + k * (dirty - bdi_setpoint)
where k is the negative slope.
If targeting for 12.5% fluctuation range in pos_ratio when dirty pages
are fluctuating in range
Let pos_ratio(x_intercept) = 0, we get the parameter used in code:
x_intercept = bdi_setpoint + 8 * write_bw
The global/bdi slopes are nicely complementing each other when the
system has only one major bdi (indicated by bdi_thresh ~= thresh):
1) slope of global control line => scaling to the control scope size
2) slope of main bdi control line => scaling to the writeout bandwidth
so that
- in memory tight systems, (1) becomes strong enough to squeeze dirty
pages inside the control scope
- in large memory systems where the "gravity" of (1) for pulling the
dirty pages to setpoint is too weak, (2) can back (1) up and drive
dirty pages to bdi_setpoint ~= setpoint reasonably fast.
Unfortunately in JBOD setups, the fluctuation range of bdi threshold
is related to memory size due to the interferences between disks. In
this case, the bdi slope will be weighted sum of write_bw and bdi_thresh.
Introduce the BDI_DIRTIED counter. It will be used for estimating the
bdi's dirty bandwidth.
CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> CC: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
The following patch is admittedly a band-aid, and does not solve the
root cause, but it still is a good candidate for hardening as a pointer
check before reference.
Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <mark_salyzyn@us.xyratex.com> Tested-by: Jack Wang <jack_wang@usish.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Roland Dreier [Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:06:05 +0000 (00:06 -0700)]
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Fix crash in qla2x00_abort_all_cmds() on unload
I hit a crash in qla2x00_abort_all_cmds() if the qla2xxx module is
unloaded right after it is loaded. I debugged this down to the abort
handling improperly treating a command of type SRB_ADISC_CMD as if it
had a bsg_job to complete when that command actually uses the iocb_cmd
part of the union. (I guess to hit this one has to unload the module
while the async FC initialization is still in progress)
It seems we should only look for a bsg_job if type is SRB_ELS_CMD_RPT,
SRB_ELS_CMD_HST or SRB_CT_CMD, so switch the test to make that explicit.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> Acked-by: Chad Dupuis <chad.dupuis@qlogic.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 1 Oct 2011 15:37:25 +0000 (08:37 -0700)]
Merge branches 'irq-urgent-for-linus', 'x86-urgent-for-linus' and 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip:
irq: Fix check for already initialized irq_domain in irq_domain_add
irq: Add declaration of irq_domain_simple_ops to irqdomain.h
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip:
x86/rtc: Don't recursively acquire rtc_lock
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip:
posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP wobbles
sched: Fix up wchan borkage
sched/rt: Migrate equal priority tasks to available CPUs
Josef Bacik [Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:23:54 +0000 (15:23 -0400)]
Btrfs: force a page fault if we have a shorty copy on a page boundary
A user reported a problem where ceph was getting into 100% cpu usage while doing
some writing. It turns out it's because we were doing a short write on a not
uptodate page, which means we'd fall back at one page at a time and fault the
page in. The problem is our position is on the page boundary, so our fault in
logic wasn't actually reading the page, so we'd just spin forever or until the
page got read in by somebody else. This will force a readpage if we end up
doing a short copy. Alexandre could reproduce this easily with ceph and reports
it fixes his problem. I also wrote a reproducer that no longer hangs my box
with this patch. Thanks,
Reported-and-tested-by: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Peter Zijlstra [Thu, 1 Sep 2011 10:42:04 +0000 (12:42 +0200)]
posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP wobbles
David reported:
Attached below is a watered-down version of rt/tst-cpuclock2.c from
GLIBC. Just build it with "gcc -o test test.c -lpthread -lrt" or
similar.
Run it several times, and you will see cases where the main thread
will measure a process clock difference before and after the nanosleep
which is smaller than the cpu-burner thread's individual thread clock
difference. This doesn't make any sense since the cpu-burner thread
is part of the top-level process's thread group.
I've reproduced this on both x86-64 and sparc64 (using both 32-bit and
64-bit binaries).
The diff of 'process' should always be >= the diff of 'thread'.
I make sure to wrap the 'thread' clock measurements the most tightly
around the nanosleep() call, and that the 'process' clock measurements
are the outer-most ones.
This is due to us using p->se.sum_exec_runtime in
thread_group_cputime() where we iterate the thread group and sum all
data. This does not take time since the last schedule operation (tick
or otherwise) into account. We can cure this by using
task_sched_runtime() at the cost of having to take locks.
This also means we can (and must) do away with
thread_group_sched_runtime() since the modified thread_group_cputime()
is now more accurate and would deadlock when called from
thread_group_sched_runtime().
Aside of that it makes the function safe on 32 bit systems. The old
code added t->se.sum_exec_runtime unprotected. sum_exec_runtime is a
64bit value and could be changed on another cpu at the same time.
Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1314874459.7945.22.camel@twins Tested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
ALSA: hda - Fix a regression of the position-buffer check
The commit a810364a0424c297242c6c66071a42f7675a5568
ALSA: hda - Handle -1 as invalid position, too
caused a regression on some machines that require the position-buffer
instead of LPIB, e.g. resulting in noises with mic recording with
PulseAudio.
This patch fixes the detection by delaying the test at the timing as
same as 3.0, i.e. doing the position check only when requested in
azx_position_ok().
Ram Pai [Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:48:58 +0000 (15:48 +0800)]
Resource: fix wrong resource window calculation
__find_resource() incorrectly returns a resource window which overlaps
an existing allocated window. This happens when the parent's
resource-window spans 0x00000000 to 0xffffffff and is entirely allocated
to all its children resource-windows.
__find_resource() looks for gaps in resource allocation among the
children resource windows. When it encounters the last child window it
blindly tries the range next to one allocated to the last child. Since
the last child's window ends at 0xffffffff the calculation overflows,
leading the algorithm to believe that any window in the range 0x0000000
to 0xfffffff is available for allocation. This leads to a conflicting
window allocation.
Michal Ludvig reported this issue seen on his platform. The following
patch fixes the problem and has been verified by Michal. I believe this
bug has been there for ages. It got exposed by git commit 2bbc6942273b
("PCI : ability to relocate assigned pci-resources")
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Michal Ludvig <mludvig@logix.net.nz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://linuxtv.org/mchehab/for_linus
* 'v4l_for_linus' of git://linuxtv.org/mchehab/for_linus:
[media] omap3isp: Fix build error in ispccdc.c
[media] uvcvideo: Fix crash when linking entities
[media] v4l: Make sure we hold a reference to the v4l2_device before using it
[media] v4l: Fix use-after-free case in v4l2_device_release
[media] uvcvideo: Set alternate setting 0 on resume if the bus has been reset
[media] OMAP_VOUT: Fix build break caused by update_mode removal in DSS2
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
[S390] cio: fix cio_tpi ignoring adapter interrupts
[S390] gmap: always up mmap_sem properly
[S390] Do not clobber personality flags on exec
* git://github.com/davem330/sparc:
sparc64: Force the execute bit in OpenFirmware's translation entries.
sparc: Make '-p' boot option meaningful again.
sparc, exec: remove redundant addr_limit assignment
sparc64: Future proof Niagara cpu detection.
Merge branch 'drm-intel-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~keithp/linux
* 'drm-intel-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~keithp/linux:
drm/i915: FBC off for ironlake and older, otherwise on by default
drm/i915: Enable SDVO hotplug interrupts for HDMI and DVI
drm/i915: Enable dither whenever display bpc < frame buffer bpc
powerpc: Fix device-tree matching for Apple U4 bridge
Apple Quad G5 has some oddity in it's device-tree which causes the new
generic matching code to fail to relate nodes for PCI-E devices below U4
with their respective struct pci_dev. This breaks graphics on those
machines among others.
This fixes it using a quirk which copies the node pointer from the host
bridge for the root complex, which makes the generic code work for the
children afterward.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' a little earlier
Commit d5767c53535a ("bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' to the end
of do_basic_setup()") moved 'usermodehelper_enable()' to end of
do_basic_setup() to after the initcalls. But then I get failed to let
uvesafb work on my computer, and lose the splash boot.
So maybe we could start usermodehelper_enable a little early to make
some task work that need eary init with the help of user mode.
[ I would *really* prefer that initcalls not call into user space - even
the real 'init' hasn't been execve'd yet, after all! But for uvesafb
it really does look like we don't have much choice.
I considered doing this when we mount the root filesystem, but
depending on config options that is in multiple places. We could do
the usermode helper enable as a rootfs_initcall()..
So I'm just using wang yanqing's trivial patch. It's not wonderful,
but it's simple and should work. We should revisit this some day,
though. - Linus ]
Oliver Hartkopp [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:33:47 +0000 (15:33 -0400)]
can bcm: fix incomplete tx_setup fix
The commit aabdcb0b553b9c9547b1a506b34d55a764745870 ("can bcm: fix tx_setup
off-by-one errors") fixed only a part of the original problem reported by
Andre Naujoks. It turned out that the original code needed to be re-ordered
to reduce complexity and to finally fix the reported frame counting issues.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jiri Olsa [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:05:08 +0000 (17:05 +0200)]
perf tools: Fix raw sample reading
Wrong pointer is being passed for raw data sanity checking, when parsing
sample event.
This ends up with invalid event and perf record being stuck in
__perf_session__process_events function during processing build IDs
(process_buildids function).
Following command hangs up in my setup:
./perf record -e raw_syscalls:sys_enter ls
The fix is to use proper pointer to the raw data instead of the 'u'
union.
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1317308709-9474-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
David S. Miller [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:18:59 +0000 (12:18 -0700)]
sparc64: Force the execute bit in OpenFirmware's translation entries.
In the OF 'translations' property, the template TTEs in the mappings
never specify the executable bit. This is the case even though some
of these mappings are for OF's code segment.
Therefore, we need to force the execute bit on in every mapping.
This problem can only really trigger on Niagara/sun4v machines and the
history behind this is a little complicated.
Previous to sun4v, the sun4u TTE entries lacked a hardware execute
permission bit. So OF didn't have to ever worry about setting
anything to handle executable pages. Any valid TTE loaded into the
I-TLB would be respected by the chip.
But sun4v Niagara chips have a real hardware enforced executable bit
in their TTEs. So it has to be set or else the I-TLB throws an
instruction access exception with type code 6 (protection violation).
We've been extremely fortunate to not get bitten by this in the past.
The best I can tell is that the OF's mappings for it's executable code
were mapped using permanent locked mappings on sun4v in the past.
Therefore, the fact that we didn't have the exec bit set in the OF
translations we would use did not matter in practice.
Thanks to Greg Onufer for helping me track this down.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In the rds_iw_mr_pool struct the free_pinned field keeps track of
memory pinned by free MRs. While this field is incremented properly
upon allocation, it is never decremented upon unmapping. This would
cause the rds_rdma module to crash the kernel upon unloading, by
triggering the BUG_ON in the rds_iw_destroy_mr_pool function.
This change keeps track of the MRs that become unpinned, so that
free_pinned can be decremented appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Lallinger <jonathan@ogc.us> Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise@ogc.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Brian King [Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:33:43 +0000 (05:33 +0000)]
ibmveth: Fix oops on request_irq failure
If request_irq fails, the ibmveth driver will overwrite
the rc and end up returning a successful rc on its open
function, resulting in an oops later when a packet gets
sent and buffers are not allocated due to the failed open.
Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Oliver Hartkopp [Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:23:47 +0000 (08:23 +0000)]
can bcm: fix tx_setup off-by-one errors
This patch fixes two off-by-one errors that canceled each other out.
Checking for the same condition two times in bcm_tx_timeout_tsklet() reduced
the count of frames to be sent by one. This did not show up the first time
tx_setup is invoked as an additional frame is sent due to TX_ANNONCE.
Invoking a second tx_setup on the same item led to a reduced (by 1) number of
sent frames.
Reported-by: Andre Naujoks <nautsch@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ian Campbell [Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:08:26 +0000 (22:08 +0000)]
MAINTAINERS: tehuti: Alexander Indenbaum's address bounces
I got:
Generating server: Tehuti.onmicrosoft.com
baum@tehutinetworks.net
#< #5.1.1 smtp;550 5.1.1 RESOLVER.ADR.RecipNotFound; not found> #SMTP#
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Cc: Alexander Indenbaum <baum@tehutinetworks.net> Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Richard Cochran [Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:25:42 +0000 (01:25 +0000)]
dp83640: reduce driver noise
The driver has two warning messages that might be triggered
by normal use cases. When they appear, the messages give the
impression of a never ending series of errors.
This commit changes them to debug messages instead.
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Richard Cochran [Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:25:41 +0000 (01:25 +0000)]
ptp: fix L2 event message recognition
The IEEE 1588 standard defines two kinds of messages, event and general
messages. Event messages require time stamping, and general do not. When
using UDP transport, two separate ports are used for the two message
types.
The BPF designed to recognize event messages incorrectly classifies L2
general messages as event messages. This commit fixes the issue by
extending the filter to check the message type field for L2 PTP packets.
Event messages are be distinguished from general messages by testing
the "general" bit.
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' to the end of do_basic_setup()
Doing it just before starting to call into cpu_idle() made a sick kind
of sense only because the original bug we fixed (see commit 288d5abec831: "Boot up with usermodehelper disabled") was about problems
with some scheduler data structures not being initialized, and they had
better be initialized at that point.
But it really didn't make any other conceptual sense, and doing it after
the initial "schedule()" call for the idle thread actually opened up a
race: what if the main initialization thread did everything without
needing to sleep, and got all the way into user land too? Without
actually having scheduled back to the idle thread?
Now, in normal circumstances that doesn't ever happen, but it looks like
Richard Cochran triggered exactly that on his ARM IXP4xx machines:
"I have some ARM IXP4xx based machines that use the two on chip MAC
ports (aka NPEs). The NPE needs a firmware in order to function.
Ever since the following commit [that 288d5abec831 one], it is no
longer possible to bring up the interfaces during the init scripts."
with a call trace showing an ioctl coming from user space. Richard says:
"The init is busybox, and the startup script does mount, syslogd, and
then ifup, so that all can go by quickly."
The fix is to move the usermodehelper_enable() into the main 'init'
thread, and just put it after we've done all our initcalls. By then,
everything really should be up, but we've obviously not actually started
the user-mode portion of init yet.
Reported-and-tested-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sage Weil [Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:11:04 +0000 (10:11 -0700)]
libceph: fix pg_temp mapping update
The incremental map updates have a record for each pg_temp mapping that is
to be add/updated (len > 0) or removed (len == 0). The old code was
written as if the updates were a complete enumeration; that was just wrong.
Update the code to remove 0-length entries and drop the rbtree traversal.
This avoids misdirected (and hung) requests that manifest as server
errors like
[WRN] client4104 10.0.1.219:0/275025290 misdirected client4104.1:129 0.1 to osd0 not [1,0] in e11/11
Sage Weil [Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:08:27 +0000 (10:08 -0700)]
libceph: fix pg_temp mapping calculation
We need to apply the modulo pg_num calculation before looking up a pgid in
the pg_temp mapping rbtree. This fixes pg_temp mappings, and fixes
(some) misdirected requests that result in messages like
[WRN] client4104 10.0.1.219:0/275025290 misdirected client4104.1:129 0.1 to osd0 not [1,0] in e11/11
on the server and stall make the client block without getting a reply (at
least until the pg_temp mapping goes way, but that can take a long long
time).
* git://github.com/davem330/net:
ipv6-multicast: Fix memory leak in IPv6 multicast.
ipv6: check return value for dst_alloc
net: check return value for dst_alloc
ipv6-multicast: Fix memory leak in input path.
bnx2x: add missing break in bnx2x_dcbnl_get_cap
bnx2x: fix WOL by enablement PME in config space
bnx2x: fix hw attention handling
net: fix a typo in Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
ath9k: Fix a dma warning/memory leak
rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix unitialized struct
iwlagn: fix dangling scan request
batman-adv: do_bcast has to be true for broadcast packets only
cfg80211: Fix validation of AKM suites
iwlegacy: do not use interruptible waits
iwlegacy: fix command queue timeout
ath9k_hw: Fix Rx DMA stuck for AR9003 chips
* git://bedivere.hansenpartnership.com/git/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6:
[SCSI] 3w-9xxx: fix iommu_iova leak
[SCSI] cxgb3i: convert cdev->l2opt to use rcu to prevent NULL dereference
[SCSI] scsi: qla4xxx needs libiscsi.o
[SCSI] libsas: fix failure to revalidate domain for anything but the first expander child.
[SCSI] aacraid: reset should disable MSI interrupt
hwmon: (coretemp) Avoid leaving around dangling pointer
Storing the struct temp_data pointer allocated from create_core_data()
when returning an error has the potential of leaving around a pointer
to freed memory. Reset it to NULL for error returns.
Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Jean Delvare [Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:11:00 +0000 (08:11 -0700)]
hwmon: (coretemp) Fixup platform device ID change
With recent change "hwmon: (coretemp) don't use kernel assigned CPU
number as platform device ID", the microcode check is now running on
random CPU. Fix that by checking the microcode before creating the
platform device rather than at probe time.
Also avoid calling TO_PHYS_ID(cpu) twice in the same function, it's
expensive.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Cc: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Hannes Reinecke [Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:07:01 +0000 (08:07 -0600)]
block: Free queue resources at blk_release_queue()
A kernel crash is observed when a mounted ext3/ext4 filesystem is
physically removed. The problem is that blk_cleanup_queue() frees up
some resources eg by calling elevator_exit(), which are not checked for
in normal operation. So we should rather move these calls to the
destructor function blk_release_queue() as at that point all remaining
references are gone. However, in doing so we have to ensure that any
externally supplied queue_lock is disconnected as the driver might free
up the lock after the call of blk_cleanup_queue(),
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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