linux-toradex.git/include/linux, branch v2.6.33.1 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules sched: Fix sched_mv_power_savings for !SMT 2010-03-15T16:07:12+00:00 Vaidyanathan Srinivasan svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com 2010-02-08T10:05:55+00:00 39226dabf8fe6cbd07ce5c5155f43c25b48abbd1 commit 28f5318167adf23b16c844b9c2253f355cb21796 upstream. Fix for sched_mc_powersavigs for pre-Nehalem platforms. Child sched domain should clear SD_PREFER_SIBLING if parent will have SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE because they are contradicting. Sets the flags correctly based on sched_mc_power_savings. Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100208100555.GD2931@dirshya.in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 
commit 28f5318167adf23b16c844b9c2253f355cb21796 upstream.

Fix for sched_mc_powersavigs for pre-Nehalem platforms.
Child sched domain should clear SD_PREFER_SIBLING if parent will have
SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE because they are contradicting.

Sets the flags correctly based on sched_mc_power_savings.

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100208100555.GD2931@dirshya.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
x86: Avoid race condition in pci_enable_msix() 2010-03-15T16:06:51+00:00 Brandon Phiilps bphilips@suse.de 2010-02-10T09:20:06+00:00 3f3880ca4a2fdfcfe6b69ce0b79e0b2a964a6147 commit ced5b697a76d325e7a7ac7d382dbbb632c765093 upstream. Keep chip_data in create_irq_nr and destroy_irq. When two drivers are setting up MSI-X at the same time via pci_enable_msix() there is a race. See this dmesg excerpt: [ 85.170610] ixgbe 0000:02:00.1: irq 97 for MSI/MSI-X [ 85.170611] alloc irq_desc for 99 on node -1 [ 85.170613] igb 0000:08:00.1: irq 98 for MSI/MSI-X [ 85.170614] alloc kstat_irqs on node -1 [ 85.170616] alloc irq_2_iommu on node -1 [ 85.170617] alloc irq_desc for 100 on node -1 [ 85.170619] alloc kstat_irqs on node -1 [ 85.170621] alloc irq_2_iommu on node -1 [ 85.170625] ixgbe 0000:02:00.1: irq 99 for MSI/MSI-X [ 85.170626] alloc irq_desc for 101 on node -1 [ 85.170628] igb 0000:08:00.1: irq 100 for MSI/MSI-X [ 85.170630] alloc kstat_irqs on node -1 [ 85.170631] alloc irq_2_iommu on node -1 [ 85.170635] alloc irq_desc for 102 on node -1 [ 85.170636] alloc kstat_irqs on node -1 [ 85.170639] alloc irq_2_iommu on node -1 [ 85.170646] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000088 As you can see igb and ixgbe are both alternating on create_irq_nr() via pci_enable_msix() in their probe function. ixgbe: While looping through irq_desc_ptrs[] via create_irq_nr() ixgbe choses irq_desc_ptrs[102] and exits the loop, drops vector_lock and calls dynamic_irq_init. Then it sets irq_desc_ptrs[102]->chip_data = NULL via dynamic_irq_init(). igb: Grabs the vector_lock now and starts looping over irq_desc_ptrs[] via create_irq_nr(). It gets to irq_desc_ptrs[102] and does this: cfg_new = irq_desc_ptrs[102]->chip_data; if (cfg_new->vector != 0) continue; This hits the NULL deref. Another possible race exists via pci_disable_msix() in a driver or in the number of error paths that call free_msi_irqs(): destroy_irq() dynamic_irq_cleanup() which sets desc->chip_data = NULL ...race window... desc->chip_data = cfg; Remove the save and restore code for cfg in create_irq_nr() and destroy_irq() and take the desc->lock when checking the irq_cfg. Reported-and-analyzed-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1265793639-15071-3-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Brandon Phililps <bphilips@suse.de> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 
commit ced5b697a76d325e7a7ac7d382dbbb632c765093 upstream.

Keep chip_data in create_irq_nr and destroy_irq.

When two drivers are setting up MSI-X at the same time via
pci_enable_msix() there is a race.  See this dmesg excerpt:

[   85.170610] ixgbe 0000:02:00.1: irq 97 for MSI/MSI-X
[   85.170611]   alloc irq_desc for 99 on node -1
[   85.170613] igb 0000:08:00.1: irq 98 for MSI/MSI-X
[   85.170614]   alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
[   85.170616] alloc irq_2_iommu on node -1
[   85.170617]   alloc irq_desc for 100 on node -1
[   85.170619]   alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
[   85.170621] alloc irq_2_iommu on node -1
[   85.170625] ixgbe 0000:02:00.1: irq 99 for MSI/MSI-X
[   85.170626]   alloc irq_desc for 101 on node -1
[   85.170628] igb 0000:08:00.1: irq 100 for MSI/MSI-X
[   85.170630]   alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
[   85.170631] alloc irq_2_iommu on node -1
[   85.170635]   alloc irq_desc for 102 on node -1
[   85.170636]   alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
[   85.170639] alloc irq_2_iommu on node -1
[   85.170646] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
at 0000000000000088

As you can see igb and ixgbe are both alternating on create_irq_nr()
via pci_enable_msix() in their probe function.

ixgbe: While looping through irq_desc_ptrs[] via create_irq_nr() ixgbe
choses irq_desc_ptrs[102] and exits the loop, drops vector_lock and
calls dynamic_irq_init. Then it sets irq_desc_ptrs[102]->chip_data =
NULL via dynamic_irq_init().

igb: Grabs the vector_lock now and starts looping over irq_desc_ptrs[]
via create_irq_nr(). It gets to irq_desc_ptrs[102] and does this:

	cfg_new = irq_desc_ptrs[102]->chip_data;
	if (cfg_new->vector != 0)
		continue;

This hits the NULL deref.

Another possible race exists via pci_disable_msix() in a driver or in
the number of error paths that call free_msi_irqs():

destroy_irq()
dynamic_irq_cleanup() which sets desc->chip_data = NULL
...race window...
desc->chip_data = cfg;

Remove the save and restore code for cfg in create_irq_nr() and
destroy_irq() and take the desc->lock when checking the irq_cfg.

Reported-and-analyzed-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1265793639-15071-3-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Phililps <bphilips@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
netdevice.h: check for CONFIG_WLAN instead of CONFIG_WLAN_80211 2010-03-15T16:06:35+00:00 John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com 2010-02-25T17:02:45+00:00 f50debe647a919581ecb6667010124e1cc52a685 commit caf66e581172dc5032bb84841a91bc7b77ad9876 upstream. In "wireless: remove WLAN_80211 and WLAN_PRE80211 from Kconfig" I inadvertantly missed a line in include/linux/netdevice.h. I thereby effectively reverted "net: Set LL_MAX_HEADER properly for wireless." by accident. :-( Now we should check there for CONFIG_WLAN instead. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Reported-by: Christoph Egger <siccegge@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 
commit caf66e581172dc5032bb84841a91bc7b77ad9876 upstream.

In "wireless: remove WLAN_80211 and WLAN_PRE80211 from Kconfig" I
inadvertantly missed a line in include/linux/netdevice.h.  I thereby
effectively reverted "net: Set LL_MAX_HEADER properly for wireless." by
accident. :-(  Now we should check there for CONFIG_WLAN instead.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Reported-by: Christoph Egger <siccegge@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
skbuff: align sk_buff::cb to 64 bit and close some potential holes 2010-03-15T16:06:34+00:00 Felix Fietkau nbd@openwrt.org 2010-02-23T11:45:51+00:00 7992f7313286abb36c49b65ad90a8b0c824e3a66 commit da3f5cf1f8ebb0fab5c5fd09adb189166594ad6c upstream. The alignment requirement for 64-bit load/store instructions on ARM is implementation defined. Some CPUs (such as Marvell Feroceon) do not generate an exception, if such an instruction is executed with an address that is not 64 bit aligned. In such a case, the Feroceon corrupts adjacent memory, which showed up in my tests as a crash in the rx path of ath9k that only occured with CONFIG_XFRM set. This crash happened, because the first field of the mac80211 rx status info in the cb is an u64, and changing it corrupted the skb->sp field. This patch also closes some potential pre-existing holes in the sk_buff struct surrounding the cb[] area. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 
commit da3f5cf1f8ebb0fab5c5fd09adb189166594ad6c upstream.

The alignment requirement for 64-bit load/store instructions on ARM is
implementation defined. Some CPUs (such as Marvell Feroceon) do not
generate an exception, if such an instruction is executed with an
address that is not 64 bit aligned. In such a case, the Feroceon
corrupts adjacent memory, which showed up in my tests as a crash in the
rx path of ath9k that only occured with CONFIG_XFRM set.

This crash happened, because the first field of the mac80211 rx status
info in the cb is an u64, and changing it corrupted the skb->sp field.

This patch also closes some potential pre-existing holes in the sk_buff
struct surrounding the cb[] area.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
tracing: Fix ftrace_event_call alignment for use with gcc 4.5 2010-03-15T16:06:17+00:00 Jeff Mahoney jeffm@suse.com 2010-02-24T18:59:23+00:00 89a724c83c09eb2d28df4dc150b6d17954f25d7b 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. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> LKML-Reference: <4B85770B.6010901@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 
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.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B85770B.6010901@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
perf: Reimplement frequency driven sampling 2010-03-15T16:06:17+00:00 Peter Zijlstra a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl 2010-01-26T17:50:16+00:00 21a6adcde06e129b055caa3256e65a97a2986770 commit abd50713944c8ea9e0af5b7bffa0aacae21cc91a upstream. There was a bug in the old period code that caused intel_pmu_enable_all() or native_write_msr_safe() to show up quite high in the profiles. In staring at that code it made my head hurt, so I rewrote it in a hopefully simpler fashion. Its now fully symetric between tick and overflow driven adjustments and uses less data to boot. The only complication is that it basically wants to do a u128 division. The code approximates that in a rather simple truncate until it fits fashion, taking care to balance the terms while truncating. This version does not generate that sampling artefact. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 
commit abd50713944c8ea9e0af5b7bffa0aacae21cc91a upstream.

There was a bug in the old period code that caused intel_pmu_enable_all()
or native_write_msr_safe() to show up quite high in the profiles.

In staring at that code it made my head hurt, so I rewrote it in a
hopefully simpler fashion. Its now fully symetric between tick and
overflow driven adjustments and uses less data to boot.

The only complication is that it basically wants to do a u128 division.
The code approximates that in a rather simple truncate until it fits
fashion, taking care to balance the terms while truncating.

This version does not generate that sampling artefact.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
readahead: introduce FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM 2010-03-15T16:05:54+00:00 Wu Fengguang fengguang.wu@intel.com 2010-03-05T21:42:03+00:00 f6bbb1be3901ce3c9166ef541bee8d47cba5d3fc commit 0141450f66c3c12a3aaa869748caa64241885cdf upstream. This fixes inefficient page-by-page reads on POSIX_FADV_RANDOM. POSIX_FADV_RANDOM used to set ra_pages=0, which leads to poor performance: a 16K read will be carried out in 4 _sync_ 1-page reads. In other places, ra_pages==0 means - it's ramfs/tmpfs/hugetlbfs/sysfs/configfs - some IO error happened where multi-page read IO won't help or should be avoided. POSIX_FADV_RANDOM actually want a different semantics: to disable the *heuristic* readahead algorithm, and to use a dumb one which faithfully submit read IO for whatever application requests. So introduce a flag FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM. Note that the random hint is not likely to help random reads performance noticeably. And it may be too permissive on huge request size (its IO size is not limited by read_ahead_kb). In Quentin's report (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/24/145), the overall (NFS read) performance of the application increased by 313%! Tested-by: Quentin Barnes <qbarnes+nfs@yahoo-inc.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: <qbarnes+nfs@yahoo-inc.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 
commit 0141450f66c3c12a3aaa869748caa64241885cdf upstream.

This fixes inefficient page-by-page reads on POSIX_FADV_RANDOM.

POSIX_FADV_RANDOM used to set ra_pages=0, which leads to poor performance:
a 16K read will be carried out in 4 _sync_ 1-page reads.

In other places, ra_pages==0 means
- it's ramfs/tmpfs/hugetlbfs/sysfs/configfs
- some IO error happened
where multi-page read IO won't help or should be avoided.

POSIX_FADV_RANDOM actually want a different semantics: to disable the
*heuristic* readahead algorithm, and to use a dumb one which faithfully
submit read IO for whatever application requests.

So introduce a flag FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM.

Note that the random hint is not likely to help random reads performance
noticeably.  And it may be too permissive on huge request size (its IO
size is not limited by read_ahead_kb).

In Quentin's report (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/24/145), the overall
(NFS read) performance of the application increased by 313%!

Tested-by: Quentin Barnes <qbarnes+nfs@yahoo-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: <qbarnes+nfs@yahoo-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Revert "block: improve queue_should_plug() by looking at IO depths" 2010-02-23T07:40:43+00:00 Jens Axboe jens.axboe@oracle.com 2010-02-23T07:40:43+00:00 79da0644a8e0838522828f106e4049639eea6baf This reverts commit fb1e75389bd06fd5987e9cda1b4e0305c782f854. "Benjamin S." <sbenni@gmx.de> reports that the patch in question causes a big drop in sequential throughput for him, dropping from 200MB/sec down to only 70MB/sec. Needs to be investigated more fully, for now lets just revert the offending commit. Conflicts: include/linux/blkdev.h Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> 
This reverts commit fb1e75389bd06fd5987e9cda1b4e0305c782f854.

"Benjamin S." <sbenni@gmx.de> reports that the patch in question
causes a big drop in sequential throughput for him, dropping from
200MB/sec down to only 70MB/sec.

Needs to be investigated more fully, for now lets just revert the
offending commit.

Conflicts:

	include/linux/blkdev.h

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2010-02-21T00:58:03+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2010-02-21T00:58:03+00:00 aea187c46f7d03ce985e55eb1398d0776a15b928 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: CacheFiles: Fix a race in cachefiles_delete_object() vs rename vfs: don't call ima_file_check() unconditionally in nfsd_open() fs: inode - remove 8 bytes of padding on 64bits allowing 1 more objects/slab under slub Switch proc/self to nd_set_link() fix LOOKUP_FOLLOW on automount "symlinks" 
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  CacheFiles: Fix a race in cachefiles_delete_object() vs rename
  vfs: don't call ima_file_check() unconditionally in nfsd_open()
  fs: inode - remove 8 bytes of padding on 64bits allowing 1 more objects/slab under slub
  Switch proc/self to nd_set_link()
  fix LOOKUP_FOLLOW on automount "symlinks"
ARM: 5951/1: ARM: fix documentation of the PrimeCell bus 2010-02-20T14:10:48+00:00 Linus Walleij linus.walleij@stericsson.com 2010-02-20T08:41:30+00:00 4e10ae11317b238609fc3ec9d50a5dee9473e045 This fixes the filepath encoded in <linux/amba/bus.h> and adds some documentation as to what this bus really means. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> 
This fixes the filepath encoded in <linux/amba/bus.h> and adds
some documentation as to what this bus really means.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>