linux-toradex.git/include/linux, branch v2.6.32.15

revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads" and its fixup commits

2010-05-26T21:29:19+00:00

commit 34441427aab4bdb3069a4ffcda69a99357abcb2e upstream.

Originally, commit d899bf7b ("procfs: provide stack information for
threads") attempted to introduce a new feature for showing where the
threadstack was located and how many pages are being utilized by the
stack.

Commit c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") was
applied to fix the NO_MMU case.

Commit 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on
64-bit") was applied to fix a bug in ia32 executables being loaded.

Commit 9ebd4eba7 ("procfs: fix /proc//stat stack pointer for kernel
threads") was applied to fix a bug which had kernel threads printing a
userland stack address.

Commit 1306d603f ('proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack
information for threads"') was then applied to revert the stack pages
being used to solve a significant performance regression.

This patch nearly undoes the effect of all these patches.

The reason for reverting these is it provides an unusable value in
field 28.  For x86_64, a fork will result in the task->stack_start
value being updated to the current user top of stack and not the stack
start address.  This unpredictability of the stack_start value makes
it worthless.  That includes the intended use of showing how much stack
space a thread has.

Other architectures will get different values.  As an example, ia64
gets 0.  The do_fork() and copy_process() functions appear to treat the
stack_start and stack_size parameters as architecture specific.

I only partially reverted c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage
on NOMMU") .  If I had completely reverted it, I would have had to change
mm/Makefile only build pagewalk.o when CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR is
configured.  Since I could not test the builds without significant effort,
I decided to not change mm/Makefile.

I only partially reverted 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack
information for threads on 64-bit") .  I left the KSTK_ESP() change in
place as that seemed worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt 
Cc: Stefani Seibold 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "module: fix __module_ref_addr()"

2010-05-12T22:11:42+00:00

This reverts commit d150a2b96558a7349cbf3a72a279c37bc67d50fb.

Thanks to Jiri Benc for finding the problem that this patch is
not correct for the 2.6.32-stable series.

Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Fix ftrace_event_call alignment for use with gcc 4.5

2010-05-12T21:57:14+00:00

commit 86c38a31aa7f2dd6e74a262710bf8ebf7455acc5 upstream.

GCC 4.5 introduces behavior that forces the alignment of structures to
 use the largest possible value. The default value is 32 bytes, so if
 some structures are defined with a 4-byte alignment and others aren't
 declared with an alignment constraint at all - it will align at 32-bytes.

 For things like the ftrace events, this results in a non-standard array.
 When initializing the ftrace subsystem, we traverse the _ftrace_events
 section and call the initialization callback for each event. When the
 structures are misaligned, we could be treating another part of the
 structure (or the zeroed out space between them) as a function pointer.

 This patch forces the alignment for all the ftrace_event_call structures
 to 4 bytes.

 Without this patch, the kernel fails to boot very early when built with
 gcc 4.5.

 It's trivial to check the alignment of the members of the array, so it
 might be worthwhile to add something to the build system to do that
 automatically. Unfortunately, that only covers this case. I've asked one
 of the gcc developers about adding a warning when this condition is seen.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney 
LKML-Reference: <4B85770B.6010901@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Andreas Radke 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ACPI: introduce kernel parameter acpi_sleep=sci_force_enable

2010-05-12T21:57:11+00:00

commit d7f0eea9e431e1b8b0742a74db1a9490730b2a25 upstream.

Introduce kernel parameter acpi_sleep=sci_force_enable

some laptop requires SCI_EN being set directly on resume,
or else they hung somewhere in the resume code path.

We already have a blacklist for these laptops but we still need
this option, especially when debugging some suspend/resume problems,
in case there are systems that need this workaround and are not yet
in the blacklist.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui 
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Signed-off-by: Len Brown 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

libata: Fix accesses at LBA28 boundary (old bug, but nasty) (v2)

2010-05-12T21:57:10+00:00

commit 45c4d015a92f72ec47acd0c7557abdc0c8a6499d upstream.

Most drives from Seagate, Hitachi, and possibly other brands,
do not allow LBA28 access to sector number 0x0fffffff (2^28 - 1).
So instead use LBA48 for such accesses.

This bug could bite a lot of systems, especially when the user has
taken care to align partitions to 4KB boundaries. On misaligned systems,
it is less likely to be encountered, since a 4KB read would end at
0x10000000 rather than at 0x0fffffff.

Signed-off-by: Mark Lord 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

hugetlb: fix infinite loop in get_futex_key() when backed by huge pages

2010-05-12T21:57:01+00:00

commit 23be7468e8802a2ac1de6ee3eecb3ec7f14dc703 upstream.

If a futex key happens to be located within a huge page mapped
MAP_PRIVATE, get_futex_key() can go into an infinite loop waiting for a
page->mapping that will never exist.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552257 for more details
about the problem.

This patch makes page->mapping a poisoned value that includes
PAGE_MAPPING_ANON mapped MAP_PRIVATE.  This is enough for futex to
continue but because of PAGE_MAPPING_ANON, the poisoned value is not
dereferenced or used by futex.  No other part of the VM should be
dereferencing the page->mapping of a hugetlbfs page as its page cache is
not on the LRU.

This patch fixes the problem with the test case described in the bugzilla.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: mel cant spel]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Acked-by: Darren Hart 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

core, x86: make LIST_POISON less deadly

2010-05-12T21:57:00+00:00

commit a29815a333c6c6e677294bbe5958e771d0aad3fd upstream.

The list macros use LIST_POISON1 and LIST_POISON2 as undereferencable
pointers in order to trap erronous use of freed list_heads.  Unfortunately
userspace can arrange for those pointers to actually be dereferencable,
potentially turning an oops to an expolit.

To avoid this allow architectures (currently x86_64 only) to override
the default values for these pointers with truly-undereferencable values.
This is easy on x86_64 as the virtual address space is large and contains
areas that cannot be mapped.

Other 64-bit architectures will likely find similar unmapped ranges.

[ingo: switch to 0xdead000000000000 as the unmapped area]
[ingo: add comments, cleanup]
[jaswinder: eliminate sparse warnings]

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: Increase NR_IOBUS_DEVS limit to 200

2010-04-26T14:41:37+00:00

(Cherry-picked from commit e80e2a60ff7914dae691345a976c80bbbff3ec74)

This patch increases the current hardcoded limit of NR_IOBUS_DEVS
from 6 to 200. We are hitting this limit when creating a guest with more
than 1 virtio-net device using vhost-net backend. Each virtio-net
device requires 2 such devices to service notifications from rx/tx queues.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala 
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: fix the handling of dirty bitmaps to avoid overflows

2010-04-26T14:41:37+00:00

(Cherry-picked from commit 87bf6e7de1134f48681fd2ce4b7c1ec45458cb6d)

Int is not long enough to store the size of a dirty bitmap.

This patch fixes this problem with the introduction of a wrapper
function to calculate the sizes of dirty bitmaps.

Note: in mark_page_dirty(), we have to consider the fact that
  __set_bit() takes the offset as int, not long.

Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa 
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs-writeback: Add helper function to start writeback if idle

2010-04-26T14:41:36+00:00

commit 17bd55d037a02b04d9119511cfd1a4b985d20f63 upstream.

ext4, at least, would like to start pushing on writeback if it starts
to get close to ENOSPC when reserving worst-case blocks for delalloc
writes.  Writing out delalloc data will convert those worst-case
predictions into usually smaller actual usage, freeing up space
before we hit ENOSPC based on this speculation.

Thanks to Jens for the suggestion for the helper function,
& the naming help.

I've made the helper return status on whether writeback was
started even though I don't plan to use it in the ext4 patch;
it seems like it would be potentially useful to test this
in some cases.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen 
Acked-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: maximilian attems 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman