linux-toradex.git/mm, branch v3.16-rc1

fix __swap_writepage() compile failure on old gcc versions

2014-06-15T00:30:48+00:00

Tetsuo Handa wrote:
 "Commit 62a8067a7f35 ("bio_vec-backed iov_iter") introduced an unnamed
  union inside a struct which gcc-4.4.7 cannot handle.  Name the unnamed
   union as u in order to fix build failure"

Let's do this instead: there is only one place in the entire tree that
steps into this breakage.  Anon structs and unions work in older gcc
versions; as the matter of fact, we have those in the tree - see e.g.
struct ieee80211_tx_info in include/net/mac80211.h

What doesn't work is handling their initializers:

struct {
	int a;
	union {
		int b;
		char c;
	};
} x[2] = {{.a = 1, .c = 'a'}, {.a = 0, .b = 1}};

is the obvious syntax for initializer, perfectly fine for C11 and
handled correctly by gcc-4.7 or later.

Earlier versions, though, break on it - declaration is fine and so's
access to fields (i.e.  x[0].c = 'a'; would produce the right code), but
members of the anon structs and unions are not inserted into the right
namespace.  Tellingly, those older versions will not barf on struct {int
a; struct {int a;};}; - looks like they just have it hacked up somewhere
around the handling of .  and -> instead of doing the right thing.

The easiest way to deal with that crap is to turn initialization of
those fields (in the only place where we have such initializer of
iov_iter) into plain assignment.

Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa 
Reported-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2014-06-12T17:30:18+00:00

Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "This the bunch that sat in -next + lock_parent() fix.  This is the
  minimal set; there's more pending stuff.

  In particular, I really hope to get acct.c fixes merged this cycle -
  we need that to deal sanely with delayed-mntput stuff.  In the next
  pile, hopefully - that series is fairly short and localized
  (kernel/acct.c, fs/super.c and fs/namespace.c).  In this pile: more
  iov_iter work.  Most of prereqs for ->splice_write with sane locking
  order are there and Kent's dio rewrite would also fit nicely on top of
  this pile"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (70 commits)
  lock_parent: don't step on stale ->d_parent of all-but-freed one
  kill generic_file_splice_write()
  ceph: switch to iter_file_splice_write()
  shmem: switch to iter_file_splice_write()
  nfs: switch to iter_splice_write_file()
  fs/splice.c: remove unneeded exports
  ocfs2: switch to iter_file_splice_write()
  ->splice_write() via ->write_iter()
  bio_vec-backed iov_iter
  optimize copy_page_{to,from}_iter()
  bury generic_file_aio_{read,write}
  lustre: get rid of messing with iovecs
  ceph: switch to ->write_iter()
  ceph_sync_direct_write: stop poking into iov_iter guts
  ceph_sync_read: stop poking into iov_iter guts
  new helper: copy_page_from_iter()
  fuse: switch to ->write_iter()
  btrfs: switch to ->write_iter()
  ocfs2: switch to ->write_iter()
  xfs: switch to ->write_iter()
  ...

Merge commit '9f12600fe425bc28f0ccba034a77783c09c15af4' into for-linus

2014-06-12T04:28:09+00:00

Backmerge of dcache.c changes from mainline.  It's that, or complete
rebase...

Conflicts:
	fs/splice.c

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

shmem: switch to iter_file_splice_write()

2014-06-12T04:21:12+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2014-06-09T22:03:33+00:00

Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
 "A lot of activities on cgroup side.  Heavy restructuring including
  locking simplification took place to improve the code base and enable
  implementation of the unified hierarchy, which currently exists behind
  a __DEVEL__ mount option.  The core support is mostly complete but
  individual controllers need further work.  To explain the design and
  rationales of the the unified hierarchy

        Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt

  is added.

  Another notable change is css (cgroup_subsys_state - what each
  controller uses to identify and interact with a cgroup) iteration
  update.  This is part of continuing updates on css object lifetime and
  visibility.  cgroup started with reference count draining on removal
  way back and is now reaching a point where csses behave and are
  iterated like normal refcnted objects albeit with some complexities to
  allow distinguishing the state where they're being deleted.  The css
  iteration update isn't taken advantage of yet but is planned to be
  used to simplify memcg significantly"

* 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (77 commits)
  cgroup: disallow disabled controllers on the default hierarchy
  cgroup: don't destroy the default root
  cgroup: disallow debug controller on the default hierarchy
  cgroup: clean up MAINTAINERS entries
  cgroup: implement css_tryget()
  device_cgroup: use css_has_online_children() instead of has_children()
  cgroup: convert cgroup_has_live_children() into css_has_online_children()
  cgroup: use CSS_ONLINE instead of CGRP_DEAD
  cgroup: iterate cgroup_subsys_states directly
  cgroup: introduce CSS_RELEASED and reduce css iteration fallback window
  cgroup: move cgroup->serial_nr into cgroup_subsys_state
  cgroup: link all cgroup_subsys_states in their sibling lists
  cgroup: move cgroup->sibling and ->children into cgroup_subsys_state
  cgroup: remove cgroup->parent
  device_cgroup: remove direct access to cgroup->children
  memcg: update memcg_has_children() to use css_next_child()
  memcg: remove tasks/children test from mem_cgroup_force_empty()
  cgroup: remove css_parent()
  cgroup: skip refcnting on normal root csses and cgrp_dfl_root self css
  cgroup: use cgroup->self.refcnt for cgroup refcnting
  ...

Don't trigger congestion wait on dirty-but-not-writeout pages

2014-06-08T21:17:00+00:00

shrink_inactive_list() used to wait 0.1s to avoid congestion when all
the pages that were isolated from the inactive list were dirty but not
under active writeback.  That makes no real sense, and apparently causes
major interactivity issues under some loads since 3.11.

The ostensible reason for it was to wait for kswapd to start writing
pages, but that seems questionable as well, since the congestion wait
code seems to trigger for kswapd itself as well.  Also, the logic behind
delaying anything when we haven't actually started writeback is not
clear - it only delays actually starting that writeback.

We'll still trigger the congestion waiting if

 (a) the process is kswapd, and we hit pages flagged for immediate
     reclaim

 (b) the process is not kswapd, and the zone backing dev writeback is
     actually congested.

This probably needs to be revisited, but as it is this fixes a reported
regression.

Reported-by: Felipe Contreras 
Pinpointed-by: Hillf Danton 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

2014-06-08T20:03:35+00:00

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Clean ups and miscellaneous bug fixes, in particular for the new
  collapse_range and zero_range fallocate functions.  In addition,
  improve the scalability of adding and remove inodes from the orphan
  list"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (25 commits)
  ext4: handle symlink properly with inline_data
  ext4: fix wrong assert in ext4_mb_normalize_request()
  ext4: fix zeroing of page during writeback
  ext4: remove unused local variable "stored" from ext4_readdir(...)
  ext4: fix ZERO_RANGE test failure in data journalling
  ext4: reduce contention on s_orphan_lock
  ext4: use sbi in ext4_orphan_{add|del}()
  ext4: use EXT_MAX_BLOCKS in ext4_es_can_be_merged()
  ext4: add missing BUFFER_TRACE before ext4_journal_get_write_access
  ext4: remove unnecessary double parentheses
  ext4: do not destroy ext4_groupinfo_caches if ext4_mb_init() fails
  ext4: make local functions static
  ext4: fix block bitmap validation when bigalloc, ^flex_bg
  ext4: fix block bitmap initialization under sparse_super2
  ext4: find the group descriptors on a 1k-block bigalloc,meta_bg filesystem
  ext4: avoid unneeded lookup when xattr name is invalid
  ext4: fix data integrity sync in ordered mode
  ext4: remove obsoleted check
  ext4: add a new spinlock i_raw_lock to protect the ext4's raw inode
  ext4: fix locking for O_APPEND writes
  ...

Merge branch 'next' (accumulated 3.16 merge window patches) into master

2014-06-08T18:31:16+00:00

Now that 3.15 is released, this merges the 'next' branch into 'master',
bringing us to the normal situation where my 'master' branch is the
merge window.

* accumulated work in next: (6809 commits)
  ufs: sb mutex merge + mutex_destroy
  powerpc: update comments for generic idle conversion
  cris: update comments for generic idle conversion
  idle: remove cpu_idle() forward declarations
  nbd: zero from and len fields in NBD_CMD_DISCONNECT.
  mm: convert some level-less printks to pr_*
  MAINTAINERS: adi-buildroot-devel is moderated
  MAINTAINERS: add linux-api for review of API/ABI changes
  mm/kmemleak-test.c: use pr_fmt for logging
  fs/dlm/debug_fs.c: replace seq_printf by seq_puts
  fs/dlm/lockspace.c: convert simple_str to kstr
  fs/dlm/config.c: convert simple_str to kstr
  mm: mark remap_file_pages() syscall as deprecated
  mm: memcontrol: remove unnecessary memcg argument from soft limit functions
  mm: memcontrol: clean up memcg zoneinfo lookup
  mm/memblock.c: call kmemleak directly from memblock_(alloc|free)
  mm/mempool.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for mempool allocations
  lib/radix-tree.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for radix tree allocations
  mm: introduce kmemleak_update_trace()
  mm/kmemleak.c: use %u to print ->checksum
  ...

mm: convert some level-less printks to pr_*

2014-06-06T23:08:18+00:00

printk is meant to be used with an associated log level.  There are some
instances of printk scattered around the mm code where the log level is
missing.  Add a log level and adhere to suggestions by
scripts/checkpatch.pl by moving to the pr_* macros.

Also add the typical pr_fmt definition so that print statements can be
easily traced back to the modules where they occur, correlated one with
another, etc.  This will require the removal of some (now redundant)
prefixes on a few print statements.

Signed-off-by: Mitchel Humpherys 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/kmemleak-test.c: use pr_fmt for logging

2014-06-06T23:08:18+00:00

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick 
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds