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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>ftrace: Fix warning when CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER is not defined</title>
<updated>2011-10-16T21:14:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-11T14:12:59+00:00</published>
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commit 04da85b86188f224cc9b391b5bdd92a3ba20ffcf upstream.

The struct ftrace_hash was declared within CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
but was referenced outside of it.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;

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commit 04da85b86188f224cc9b391b5bdd92a3ba20ffcf upstream.

The struct ftrace_hash was declared within CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
but was referenced outside of it.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Fix regression of :mod:module function enabling</title>
<updated>2011-10-16T21:14:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-07T15:09:22+00:00</published>
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commit 43dd61c9a09bd413e837df829e6bfb42159be52a upstream.

The new code that allows different utilities to pick and choose
what functions they trace broke the :mod: hook that allows users
to trace only functions of a particular module.

The reason is that the :mod: hook bypasses the hash that is setup
to allow individual users to trace their own functions and uses
the global hash directly. But if the global hash has not been
set up, it will cause a bug:

echo '*:mod:radeon' &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/set_ftrace_filter

produces:

 [drm:drm_mode_getfb] *ERROR* invalid framebuffer id
 [drm:radeon_crtc_page_flip] *ERROR* failed to reserve new rbo buffer before flip
 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffff8160ec90
 IP: [&lt;ffffffff810d9136&gt;] add_hash_entry+0x66/0xd0
 PGD 1a05067 PUD 1a09063 PMD 80000000016001e1
 Oops: 0003 [#1] SMP Jul  7 04:02:28 phyllis kernel: [55303.858604] CPU 1
 Modules linked in: cryptd aes_x86_64 aes_generic binfmt_misc rfcomm bnep ip6table_filter hid radeon r8169 ahci libahci mii ttm drm_kms_helper drm video i2c_algo_bit intel_agp intel_gtt

 Pid: 10344, comm: bash Tainted: G        WC  3.0.0-rc5 #1 Dell Inc. Inspiron N5010/0YXXJJ
 RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff810d9136&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff810d9136&gt;] add_hash_entry+0x66/0xd0
 RSP: 0018:ffff88003a96bda8  EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: ffff8801301735c0 RBX: ffffffff8160ec80 RCX: 0000000000306ee0
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff880137c92940
 RBP: ffff88003a96bdb8 R08: ffff880137c95680 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff81c9df78
 R13: ffff8801153d1000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 FS: 00007f329c18a700(0000) GS:ffff880137c80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: ffffffff8160ec90 CR3: 000000003002b000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Process bash (pid: 10344, threadinfo ffff88003a96a000, task ffff88012fcfc470)
 Stack:
  0000000000000fd0 00000000000000fc ffff88003a96be38 ffffffff810d92f5
  ffff88011c4c4e00 ffff880000000000 000000000b69f4d0 ffffffff8160ec80
  ffff8800300e6f06 0000000081130295 0000000000000282 ffff8800300e6f00
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff810d92f5&gt;] match_records+0x155/0x1b0
  [&lt;ffffffff810d940c&gt;] ftrace_mod_callback+0xbc/0x100
  [&lt;ffffffff810dafdf&gt;] ftrace_regex_write+0x16f/0x210
  [&lt;ffffffff810db09f&gt;] ftrace_filter_write+0xf/0x20
  [&lt;ffffffff81166e48&gt;] vfs_write+0xc8/0x190
  [&lt;ffffffff81167001&gt;] sys_write+0x51/0x90
  [&lt;ffffffff815c7e02&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
 Code: 48 8b 33 31 d2 48 85 f6 75 33 49 89 d4 4c 03 63 08 49 8b 14 24 48 85 d2 48 89 10 74 04 48 89 42 08 49 89 04 24 4c 89 60 08 31 d2
 RIP [&lt;ffffffff810d9136&gt;] add_hash_entry+0x66/0xd0
  RSP &lt;ffff88003a96bda8&gt;
 CR2: ffffffff8160ec90
 ---[ end trace a5d031828efdd88e ]---

Reported-by: Brian Marete &lt;marete@toshnix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 43dd61c9a09bd413e837df829e6bfb42159be52a upstream.

The new code that allows different utilities to pick and choose
what functions they trace broke the :mod: hook that allows users
to trace only functions of a particular module.

The reason is that the :mod: hook bypasses the hash that is setup
to allow individual users to trace their own functions and uses
the global hash directly. But if the global hash has not been
set up, it will cause a bug:

echo '*:mod:radeon' &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/set_ftrace_filter

produces:

 [drm:drm_mode_getfb] *ERROR* invalid framebuffer id
 [drm:radeon_crtc_page_flip] *ERROR* failed to reserve new rbo buffer before flip
 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffff8160ec90
 IP: [&lt;ffffffff810d9136&gt;] add_hash_entry+0x66/0xd0
 PGD 1a05067 PUD 1a09063 PMD 80000000016001e1
 Oops: 0003 [#1] SMP Jul  7 04:02:28 phyllis kernel: [55303.858604] CPU 1
 Modules linked in: cryptd aes_x86_64 aes_generic binfmt_misc rfcomm bnep ip6table_filter hid radeon r8169 ahci libahci mii ttm drm_kms_helper drm video i2c_algo_bit intel_agp intel_gtt

 Pid: 10344, comm: bash Tainted: G        WC  3.0.0-rc5 #1 Dell Inc. Inspiron N5010/0YXXJJ
 RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff810d9136&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff810d9136&gt;] add_hash_entry+0x66/0xd0
 RSP: 0018:ffff88003a96bda8  EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: ffff8801301735c0 RBX: ffffffff8160ec80 RCX: 0000000000306ee0
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff880137c92940
 RBP: ffff88003a96bdb8 R08: ffff880137c95680 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff81c9df78
 R13: ffff8801153d1000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 FS: 00007f329c18a700(0000) GS:ffff880137c80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: ffffffff8160ec90 CR3: 000000003002b000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Process bash (pid: 10344, threadinfo ffff88003a96a000, task ffff88012fcfc470)
 Stack:
  0000000000000fd0 00000000000000fc ffff88003a96be38 ffffffff810d92f5
  ffff88011c4c4e00 ffff880000000000 000000000b69f4d0 ffffffff8160ec80
  ffff8800300e6f06 0000000081130295 0000000000000282 ffff8800300e6f00
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff810d92f5&gt;] match_records+0x155/0x1b0
  [&lt;ffffffff810d940c&gt;] ftrace_mod_callback+0xbc/0x100
  [&lt;ffffffff810dafdf&gt;] ftrace_regex_write+0x16f/0x210
  [&lt;ffffffff810db09f&gt;] ftrace_filter_write+0xf/0x20
  [&lt;ffffffff81166e48&gt;] vfs_write+0xc8/0x190
  [&lt;ffffffff81167001&gt;] sys_write+0x51/0x90
  [&lt;ffffffff815c7e02&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
 Code: 48 8b 33 31 d2 48 85 f6 75 33 49 89 d4 4c 03 63 08 49 8b 14 24 48 85 d2 48 89 10 74 04 48 89 42 08 49 89 04 24 4c 89 60 08 31 d2
 RIP [&lt;ffffffff810d9136&gt;] add_hash_entry+0x66/0xd0
  RSP &lt;ffff88003a96bda8&gt;
 CR2: ffffffff8160ec90
 ---[ end trace a5d031828efdd88e ]---

Reported-by: Brian Marete &lt;marete@toshnix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ptp: fix L2 event message recognition</title>
<updated>2011-10-16T21:14:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Cochran</name>
<email>richardcochran@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-20T01:25:41+00:00</published>
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commit f75159e9936143177b442afc78150b7a7ad8aa07 upstream.

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 &lt;richard.cochran@omicron.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit f75159e9936143177b442afc78150b7a7ad8aa07 upstream.

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 &lt;richard.cochran@omicron.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP wobbles</title>
<updated>2011-10-16T21:14:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-01T10:42:04+00:00</published>
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commit d670ec13178d0fd8680e6742a2bc6e04f28f87d8 upstream.

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).

  For example:

  [davem@boricha build-x86_64-linux]$ ./test
  process: before(0.001221967) after(0.498624371) diff(497402404)
  thread:  before(0.000081692) after(0.498316431) diff(498234739)
  self:    before(0.001223521) after(0.001240219) diff(16698)
  [davem@boricha build-x86_64-linux]$

  The diff of 'process' should always be &gt;= 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.

  ---
  #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
  #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
  #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
  #include &lt;time.h&gt;
  #include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
  #include &lt;string.h&gt;
  #include &lt;errno.h&gt;
  #include &lt;pthread.h&gt;

  static pthread_barrier_t barrier;

  static void *chew_cpu(void *arg)
  {
	  pthread_barrier_wait(&amp;barrier);
	  while (1)
		  __asm__ __volatile__("" : : : "memory");
	  return NULL;
  }

  int main(void)
  {
	  clockid_t process_clock, my_thread_clock, th_clock;
	  struct timespec process_before, process_after;
	  struct timespec me_before, me_after;
	  struct timespec th_before, th_after;
	  struct timespec sleeptime;
	  unsigned long diff;
	  pthread_t th;
	  int err;

	  err = clock_getcpuclockid(0, &amp;process_clock);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = pthread_getcpuclockid(pthread_self(), &amp;my_thread_clock);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  pthread_barrier_init(&amp;barrier, NULL, 2);
	  err = pthread_create(&amp;th, NULL, chew_cpu, NULL);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = pthread_getcpuclockid(th, &amp;th_clock);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  pthread_barrier_wait(&amp;barrier);

	  err = clock_gettime(process_clock, &amp;process_before);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = clock_gettime(my_thread_clock, &amp;me_before);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = clock_gettime(th_clock, &amp;th_before);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  sleeptime.tv_sec = 0;
	  sleeptime.tv_nsec = 500000000;
	  nanosleep(&amp;sleeptime, NULL);

	  err = clock_gettime(th_clock, &amp;th_after);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = clock_gettime(my_thread_clock, &amp;me_after);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = clock_gettime(process_clock, &amp;process_after);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  diff = process_after.tv_nsec - process_before.tv_nsec;
	  printf("process: before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n",
		 process_before.tv_sec, process_before.tv_nsec,
		 process_after.tv_sec, process_after.tv_nsec, diff);
	  diff = th_after.tv_nsec - th_before.tv_nsec;
	  printf("thread:  before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n",
		 th_before.tv_sec, th_before.tv_nsec,
		 th_after.tv_sec, th_after.tv_nsec, diff);
	  diff = me_after.tv_nsec - me_before.tv_nsec;
	  printf("self:    before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n",
		 me_before.tv_sec, me_before.tv_nsec,
		 me_after.tv_sec, me_after.tv_nsec, diff);

	  return 0;
  }

This is due to us using p-&gt;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-&gt;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 &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1314874459.7945.22.camel@twins
Tested-by: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit d670ec13178d0fd8680e6742a2bc6e04f28f87d8 upstream.

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).

  For example:

  [davem@boricha build-x86_64-linux]$ ./test
  process: before(0.001221967) after(0.498624371) diff(497402404)
  thread:  before(0.000081692) after(0.498316431) diff(498234739)
  self:    before(0.001223521) after(0.001240219) diff(16698)
  [davem@boricha build-x86_64-linux]$

  The diff of 'process' should always be &gt;= 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.

  ---
  #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
  #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
  #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
  #include &lt;time.h&gt;
  #include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
  #include &lt;string.h&gt;
  #include &lt;errno.h&gt;
  #include &lt;pthread.h&gt;

  static pthread_barrier_t barrier;

  static void *chew_cpu(void *arg)
  {
	  pthread_barrier_wait(&amp;barrier);
	  while (1)
		  __asm__ __volatile__("" : : : "memory");
	  return NULL;
  }

  int main(void)
  {
	  clockid_t process_clock, my_thread_clock, th_clock;
	  struct timespec process_before, process_after;
	  struct timespec me_before, me_after;
	  struct timespec th_before, th_after;
	  struct timespec sleeptime;
	  unsigned long diff;
	  pthread_t th;
	  int err;

	  err = clock_getcpuclockid(0, &amp;process_clock);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = pthread_getcpuclockid(pthread_self(), &amp;my_thread_clock);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  pthread_barrier_init(&amp;barrier, NULL, 2);
	  err = pthread_create(&amp;th, NULL, chew_cpu, NULL);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = pthread_getcpuclockid(th, &amp;th_clock);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  pthread_barrier_wait(&amp;barrier);

	  err = clock_gettime(process_clock, &amp;process_before);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = clock_gettime(my_thread_clock, &amp;me_before);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = clock_gettime(th_clock, &amp;th_before);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  sleeptime.tv_sec = 0;
	  sleeptime.tv_nsec = 500000000;
	  nanosleep(&amp;sleeptime, NULL);

	  err = clock_gettime(th_clock, &amp;th_after);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = clock_gettime(my_thread_clock, &amp;me_after);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = clock_gettime(process_clock, &amp;process_after);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  diff = process_after.tv_nsec - process_before.tv_nsec;
	  printf("process: before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n",
		 process_before.tv_sec, process_before.tv_nsec,
		 process_after.tv_sec, process_after.tv_nsec, diff);
	  diff = th_after.tv_nsec - th_before.tv_nsec;
	  printf("thread:  before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n",
		 th_before.tv_sec, th_before.tv_nsec,
		 th_after.tv_sec, th_after.tv_nsec, diff);
	  diff = me_after.tv_nsec - me_before.tv_nsec;
	  printf("self:    before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n",
		 me_before.tv_sec, me_before.tv_nsec,
		 me_after.tv_sec, me_after.tv_nsec, diff);

	  return 0;
  }

This is due to us using p-&gt;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-&gt;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 &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1314874459.7945.22.camel@twins
Tested-by: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>writeback: introduce .tagged_writepages for the WB_SYNC_NONE sync stage</title>
<updated>2011-10-03T18:40:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wu Fengguang</name>
<email>fengguang.wu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-06T16:38:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=ac693061b11c33d5a5c5ec1925de7abd3fcb0971'/>
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commit 6e6938b6d3130305a5960c86b1a9b21e58cf6144 upstream.

sync(2) is performed in two stages: the WB_SYNC_NONE sync and the
WB_SYNC_ALL sync. Identify the first stage with .tagged_writepages and
do livelock prevention for it, too.

Jan's commit f446daaea9 ("mm: implement writeback livelock avoidance
using page tagging") is a partial fix in that it only fixed the
WB_SYNC_ALL phase livelock.

Although ext4 is tested to no longer livelock with commit f446daaea9,
it may due to some "redirty_tail() after pages_skipped" effect which
is by no means a guarantee for _all_ the file systems.

Note that writeback_inodes_sb() is called by not only sync(), they are
treated the same because the other callers also need livelock prevention.

Impact:  It changes the order in which pages/inodes are synced to disk.
Now in the WB_SYNC_NONE stage, it won't proceed to write the next inode
until finished with the current inode.

Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
CC: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 6e6938b6d3130305a5960c86b1a9b21e58cf6144 upstream.

sync(2) is performed in two stages: the WB_SYNC_NONE sync and the
WB_SYNC_ALL sync. Identify the first stage with .tagged_writepages and
do livelock prevention for it, too.

Jan's commit f446daaea9 ("mm: implement writeback livelock avoidance
using page tagging") is a partial fix in that it only fixed the
WB_SYNC_ALL phase livelock.

Although ext4 is tested to no longer livelock with commit f446daaea9,
it may due to some "redirty_tail() after pages_skipped" effect which
is by no means a guarantee for _all_ the file systems.

Note that writeback_inodes_sb() is called by not only sync(), they are
treated the same because the other callers also need livelock prevention.

Impact:  It changes the order in which pages/inodes are synced to disk.
Now in the WB_SYNC_NONE stage, it won't proceed to write the next inode
until finished with the current inode.

Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
CC: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mfd: Fix value of WM8994_CONFIGURE_GPIO</title>
<updated>2011-10-03T18:40:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Brown</name>
<email>broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-03T09:04:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=7edcab441920647c6ffec304451e11bc18ff1b11'/>
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commit 8efcc57dedfebc99c3cd39564e3fc47cd1a24b75 upstream.

This needs to be an out of band value for the register and on this device
registers are 16 bit so we must shift left one to the 17th bit.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz &lt;sameo@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 8efcc57dedfebc99c3cd39564e3fc47cd1a24b75 upstream.

This needs to be an out of band value for the register and on this device
registers are 16 bit so we must shift left one to the 17th bit.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz &lt;sameo@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rtc: Fix RTC PIE frequency limit</title>
<updated>2011-10-03T18:40:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Stultz</name>
<email>john.stultz@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-22T09:12:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=1ed2053563d4d0bf70864a9df53c7a5dce7724e9'/>
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commit 938f97bcf1bdd1b681d5d14d1d7117a2e22d4434 upstream.

Thomas earlier submitted a fix to limit the RTC PIE freq, but
picked 5000Hz out of the air. Willy noticed that we should
instead use the 8192Hz max from the rtc man documentation.

Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 938f97bcf1bdd1b681d5d14d1d7117a2e22d4434 upstream.

Thomas earlier submitted a fix to limit the RTC PIE freq, but
picked 5000Hz out of the air. Willy noticed that we should
instead use the 8192Hz max from the rtc man documentation.

Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>TTY: pty, fix pty counting</title>
<updated>2011-10-03T18:39:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-10T12:59:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=a38df1a01320298198c7cb2e3e8a61fc54459d6a'/>
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commit 24d406a6bf736f7aebdc8fa0f0ec86e0890c6d24 upstream.

tty_operations-&gt;remove is normally called like:
queue_release_one_tty
 -&gt;tty_shutdown
   -&gt;tty_driver_remove_tty
     -&gt;tty_operations-&gt;remove

However tty_shutdown() is called from queue_release_one_tty() only if
tty_operations-&gt;shutdown is NULL. But for pty, it is not.
pty_unix98_shutdown() is used there as -&gt;shutdown.

So tty_operations-&gt;remove of pty (i.e. pty_unix98_remove()) is never
called. This results in invalid pty_count. I.e. what can be seen in
/proc/sys/kernel/pty/nr.

I see this was already reported at:
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/5/370
But it was not fixed since then.

This patch is kind of a hackish way. The problem lies in -&gt;install. We
allocate there another tty (so-called tty-&gt;link). So -&gt;install is
called once, but -&gt;remove twice, for both tty and tty-&gt;link. The fix
here is to count both tty and tty-&gt;link and divide the count by 2 for
user.

And to have -&gt;remove called, let's make tty_driver_remove_tty() global
and call that from pty_unix98_shutdown() (tty_operations-&gt;shutdown).

While at it, let's document that when -&gt;shutdown is defined,
tty_shutdown() is not called.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 24d406a6bf736f7aebdc8fa0f0ec86e0890c6d24 upstream.

tty_operations-&gt;remove is normally called like:
queue_release_one_tty
 -&gt;tty_shutdown
   -&gt;tty_driver_remove_tty
     -&gt;tty_operations-&gt;remove

However tty_shutdown() is called from queue_release_one_tty() only if
tty_operations-&gt;shutdown is NULL. But for pty, it is not.
pty_unix98_shutdown() is used there as -&gt;shutdown.

So tty_operations-&gt;remove of pty (i.e. pty_unix98_remove()) is never
called. This results in invalid pty_count. I.e. what can be seen in
/proc/sys/kernel/pty/nr.

I see this was already reported at:
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/5/370
But it was not fixed since then.

This patch is kind of a hackish way. The problem lies in -&gt;install. We
allocate there another tty (so-called tty-&gt;link). So -&gt;install is
called once, but -&gt;remove twice, for both tty and tty-&gt;link. The fix
here is to count both tty and tty-&gt;link and divide the count by 2 for
user.

And to have -&gt;remove called, let's make tty_driver_remove_tty() global
and call that from pty_unix98_shutdown() (tty_operations-&gt;shutdown).

While at it, let's document that when -&gt;shutdown is defined,
tty_shutdown() is not called.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rapidio: fix use of non-compatible registers</title>
<updated>2011-10-03T18:39:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexandre Bounine</name>
<email>alexandre.bounine@idt.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-25T22:59:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=ae0250b118d5b55392264accf72a0a3d658e0da9'/>
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commit 284fb68d00c56e971ed01e0b4bac5ddd4d1b74ab upstream.

Replace/remove use of RIO v.1.2 registers/bits that are not
forward-compatible with newer versions of RapidIO specification.

RapidIO specification v.1.3 removed Write Port CSR, Doorbell CSR,
Mailbox CSR and Mailbox and Doorbell bits of the PEF CAR.

Use of removed (since RIO v.1.3) register bits affects users of
currently available 1.3 and 2.x compliant devices who may use not so
recent kernel versions.

Removing checks for unsupported bits makes corresponding routines
compatible with all versions of RapidIO specification.  Therefore,
backporting makes stable kernel versions compliant with RIO v.1.3 and
later as well.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine &lt;alexandre.bounine@idt.com&gt;
Cc: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Porter &lt;mporter@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Li Yang &lt;leoli@freescale.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Moll &lt;thomas.moll@sysgo.com&gt;
Cc: Chul Kim &lt;chul.kim@idt.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 284fb68d00c56e971ed01e0b4bac5ddd4d1b74ab upstream.

Replace/remove use of RIO v.1.2 registers/bits that are not
forward-compatible with newer versions of RapidIO specification.

RapidIO specification v.1.3 removed Write Port CSR, Doorbell CSR,
Mailbox CSR and Mailbox and Doorbell bits of the PEF CAR.

Use of removed (since RIO v.1.3) register bits affects users of
currently available 1.3 and 2.x compliant devices who may use not so
recent kernel versions.

Removing checks for unsupported bits makes corresponding routines
compatible with all versions of RapidIO specification.  Therefore,
backporting makes stable kernel versions compliant with RIO v.1.3 and
later as well.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine &lt;alexandre.bounine@idt.com&gt;
Cc: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Porter &lt;mporter@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Li Yang &lt;leoli@freescale.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Moll &lt;thomas.moll@sysgo.com&gt;
Cc: Chul Kim &lt;chul.kim@idt.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers</title>
<updated>2011-08-29T20:29:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
<email>ak@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-19T23:15:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=512228f0be3af44bf5cf6cc5750ddd279bbedaf3'/>
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commit be27425dcc516fd08245b047ea57f83b8f6f0903 upstream.

I ran into a couple of programs which broke with the new Linux 3.0
version.  Some of those were binary only.  I tried to use LD_PRELOAD to
work around it, but it was quite difficult and in one case impossible
because of a mix of 32bit and 64bit executables.

For example, all kind of management software from HP doesnt work, unless
we pretend to run a 2.6 kernel.

  $ uname -a
  Linux svivoipvnx001 3.0.0-08107-g97cd98f #1062 SMP Fri Aug 12 18:11:45 CEST 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

  $ hpacucli ctrl all show

  Error: No controllers detected.

  $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/hpacucli
  hpacucli-8.75-12.0

Another notable case is that Python now reports "linux3" from
sys.platform(); which in turn can break things that were checking
sys.platform() == "linux2":

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664564

It seems pretty clear to me though it's a bug in the apps that are using
'==' instead of .startswith(), but this allows us to unbreak broken
programs.

This patch adds a UNAME26 personality that makes the kernel report a
2.6.40+x version number instead.  The x is the x in 3.x.

I know this is somewhat ugly, but I didn't find a better workaround, and
compatibility to existing programs is important.

Some programs also read /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease.  This can be worked
around in user space with mount --bind (and a mount namespace)

To use:

  wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ak/uname26/uname26.c
  gcc -o uname26 uname26.c
  ./uname26 program

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit be27425dcc516fd08245b047ea57f83b8f6f0903 upstream.

I ran into a couple of programs which broke with the new Linux 3.0
version.  Some of those were binary only.  I tried to use LD_PRELOAD to
work around it, but it was quite difficult and in one case impossible
because of a mix of 32bit and 64bit executables.

For example, all kind of management software from HP doesnt work, unless
we pretend to run a 2.6 kernel.

  $ uname -a
  Linux svivoipvnx001 3.0.0-08107-g97cd98f #1062 SMP Fri Aug 12 18:11:45 CEST 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

  $ hpacucli ctrl all show

  Error: No controllers detected.

  $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/hpacucli
  hpacucli-8.75-12.0

Another notable case is that Python now reports "linux3" from
sys.platform(); which in turn can break things that were checking
sys.platform() == "linux2":

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664564

It seems pretty clear to me though it's a bug in the apps that are using
'==' instead of .startswith(), but this allows us to unbreak broken
programs.

This patch adds a UNAME26 personality that makes the kernel report a
2.6.40+x version number instead.  The x is the x in 3.x.

I know this is somewhat ugly, but I didn't find a better workaround, and
compatibility to existing programs is important.

Some programs also read /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease.  This can be worked
around in user space with mount --bind (and a mount namespace)

To use:

  wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ak/uname26/uname26.c
  gcc -o uname26 uname26.c
  ./uname26 program

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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