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This is a re-revised patch to shorten freeze period.
This version include a fix of the bug Konishi-san mentioned last time.
When GC is runnning, GC moves live block to difference segments.
Copying live blocks into memory is done in a transaction,
however it is not necessarily to be in the transaction.
This patch will get the nilfs_ioctl_move_blocks() out from
transaction lock and put it before the transaction.
I ran sysbench fileio test against nilfs partition.
I copied some DVD/CD images and created snapshot to create live blocks
before starting the benchmark.
Followings are summary of rc8 and rc8 w/ the patch of per-request
statistics, which is min/max and avg. I ran each test three times and
bellow is average of those numers.
According to this benchmark result, average time is slightly degrated.
However, worstcase (max) result is significantly improved.
This can address a few seconds write freeze.
- random write per-request performance of rc8
min 0.843ms
max 680.406ms
avg 3.050ms
- random write per-request performance of rc8 w/ this patch
min 0.843ms -> 100.00%
max 380.490ms -> 55.90%
avg 3.233ms -> 106.00%
- sequential write per-request performance of rc8
min 0.736ms
max 774.343ms
avg 2.883ms
- sequential write per-request performance of rc8 w/ this patch
min 0.720ms -> 97.80%
max 644.280ms-> 83.20%
avg 3.130ms -> 108.50%
-----8<-----8<-----nilfs_cleanerd.conf-----8<-----8<-----
protection_period 150
selection_policy timestamp # timestamp in ascend order
nsegments_per_clean 2
cleaning_interval 2
retry_interval 60
use_mmap
log_priority info
-----8<-----8<-----nilfs_cleanerd.conf-----8<-----8<-----
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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nilfs2: Add more safeguard routines and protections in mount process,
which also makes nilfs2 report consistency error messages when
checkpoint number is invalid.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanhai <zhu.yanhai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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nilfs2: In procedure 'nilfs_get_sb()', when a nilfs filesysttem is
mounted for the first time, local variable 'nilfs->ns_last_cno' is
used before loading the latest checkpoint number from disk (in
'nilfs_fill_super'). 'nilfs->ns_last_cno' is assigned to 'sd.cno', but
'sd.cno' has never been used in the procedure.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Qiang <zhangqiang.buaa@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Alberto Bertogli advised me about bio_alloc() use in nilfs:
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:52:40 -0300, Alberto Bertogli wrote:
> By the way, those bio_alloc()s are using GFP_NOWAIT but it looks
> like they could use at least GFP_NOIO or GFP_NOFS, since the caller
> can (and sometimes do) sleep. The only caller is nilfs_submit_bh(),
> which calls nilfs_submit_seg_bio() which can sleep calling
> wait_for_completion().
This takes in the comment and replaces the use of GFP_NOWAIT flag with
GFP_NOIO.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This removes nilfs_write_super and commit super block in nilfs
internal thread, instead of periodic write_super callback.
VFS layer calls ->write_super callback periodically. However,
it looks like that calling back is ommited when disk I/O is busy.
And when cleanerd (nilfs GC) is runnig, disk I/O tend to be busy thus
nilfs superblock is not synchronized as nilfs designed.
To avoid it, syncing superblock by nilfs thread instead of pdflush.
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Separate conditions that check if syncing super block and alternative
super block are required as inline functions to reuse the conditions.
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This fixes disorder of nilfs_write_super in nilfs_sync_fs. Commiting
super block must be the end of the function so that every changes are
reflected.
->sync_fs() is not called frequently so this makes nilfs_sync_fs call
nilfs_commit_super instead of nilfs_write_super.
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This removes redundant super block commit.
nilfs_write_super will call nilfs_commit_super to store super block
into block device. However, nilfs_put_super will call
nilfs_commit_super right after calling nilfs_write_super. So calling
nilfs_write_super in nilfs_put_super would be redundant.
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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This is a patch to display mount options in procfs.
Mount options will show up in the /proc/mounts as other fs does.
...
/dev/sda6 /mnt nilfs2 ro,relatime,barrier=off,cp=3,order=strict 0 0
...
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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The current metadata file code skips disk address lookup for its data
block if the buffer has a mapped flag.
This has a potential risk to cause read request to be performed
against the stale block address that GC moved, and it may lead to meta
data corruption. The mapped flag is safe if the buffer has an
uptodate flag, otherwise it may prevent necessary update of disk
address in the next read.
This will avoid the potential problem by ensuring disk address lookup
before reading metadata block even for buffers with the mapped flag.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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will get rid of nilfs_get_writer() and nilfs_put_writer() pair used to
retain a writable FS-instance for a period.
The pair functions were making up some kind of recursive lock with a
mutex, but they became overkill since the commit
201913ed746c7724a40d33ee5a0b6a1fd2ef3193. Furthermore, they caused
the following lockdep warning because the mutex can be released by a
task which didn't lock it:
=====================================
[ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ]
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kswapd0/422 is trying to release lock (&nilfs->ns_writer_mutex) at:
[<c1359ff5>] mutex_unlock+0x8/0xa
but there are no more locks to release!
other info that might help us debug this:
no locks held by kswapd0/422.
stack backtrace:
Pid: 422, comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 2.6.31-rc4-nilfs #51
Call Trace:
[<c1358f97>] ? printk+0xf/0x18
[<c104fea7>] print_unlock_inbalance_bug+0xcc/0xd7
[<c11578de>] ? prop_put_global+0x3/0x35
[<c1050195>] lock_release+0xed/0x1dc
[<c1359ff5>] ? mutex_unlock+0x8/0xa
[<c1359f83>] __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0xaf/0x119
[<c1359ff5>] mutex_unlock+0x8/0xa
[<d1284add>] nilfs_mdt_write_page+0xd8/0xe1 [nilfs2]
[<c1092653>] shrink_page_list+0x379/0x68d
[<c109171b>] ? isolate_pages_global+0xb4/0x18c
[<c1092bd2>] shrink_list+0x26b/0x54b
[<c10930be>] shrink_zone+0x20c/0x2a2
[<c10936b7>] kswapd+0x407/0x591
[<c1091667>] ? isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x18c
[<c1040603>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x33
[<c10932b0>] ? kswapd+0x0/0x591
[<c104033b>] kthread+0x69/0x6e
[<c10402d2>] ? kthread+0x0/0x6e
[<c1003e33>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x1a
This patch uses a reader/writer semaphore instead of the own lock and
kills this warning.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Unlike on most other architectures ino_t is an unsigned int on s390.
So add an explicit cast to avoid this compile warning:
fs/nilfs2/recovery.c: In function 'recover_dsync_blocks':
fs/nilfs2/recovery.c:555: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'ino_t'
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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The __nilfs_read_inode function is ignoring the error code returned
from nilfs_read_inode_common(), and wrongly delivers a success code
(zero) when it escapes from the function in erroneous cases.
This adds the missing error handling.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Andy Whitcroft reported an oops in aoe triggered by use of an
incorrectly initialised request_queue object:
[ 2645.959090] kobject '<NULL>' (ffff880059ca22c0): tried to add
an uninitialized object, something is seriously wrong.
[ 2645.959104] Pid: 6, comm: events/0 Not tainted 2.6.31-5-generic #24-Ubuntu
[ 2645.959107] Call Trace:
[ 2645.959139] [<ffffffff8126ca2f>] kobject_add+0x5f/0x70
[ 2645.959151] [<ffffffff8125b4ab>] blk_register_queue+0x8b/0xf0
[ 2645.959155] [<ffffffff8126043f>] add_disk+0x8f/0x160
[ 2645.959161] [<ffffffffa01673c4>] aoeblk_gdalloc+0x164/0x1c0 [aoe]
The request queue of an aoe device is not used but can be allocated in
code that does not sleep.
Bruno bisected this regression down to
cd43e26f071524647e660706b784ebcbefbd2e44
block: Expose stacked device queues in sysfs
"This seems to generate /sys/block/$device/queue and its contents for
everyone who is using queues, not just for those queues that have a
non-NULL queue->request_fn."
Addresses http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410198
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13942
Note that embedding a queue inside another object has always been
an illegal construct, since the queues are reference counted and
must persist until the last reference is dropped. So aoe was
always buggy in this respect (Jens).
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Bruno Premont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Reinette Chatre reports a frozen system (with blinking keyboard LEDs)
when switching from graphics mode to the text console, or when
suspending (which does the same thing). With netconsole, the oops
turned out to be
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000084
IP: [<ffffffffa03ecaab>] i915_driver_irq_handler+0x26b/0xd20 [i915]
and it's due to the i915_gem.c code doing drm_irq_uninstall() after
having done i915_gem_idle(). And the i915_gem_idle() path will do
i915_gem_idle() ->
i915_gem_cleanup_ringbuffer() ->
i915_gem_cleanup_hws() ->
dev_priv->hw_status_page = NULL;
but if an i915 interrupt comes in after this stage, it may want to
access that hw_status_page, and gets the above NULL pointer dereference.
And since the NULL pointer dereference happens from within an interrupt,
and with the screen still in graphics mode, the common end result is
simply a silently hung machine.
Fix it by simply uninstalling the irq handler before idling rather than
after. Fixes
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13819
Reported-and-tested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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eDP is exclusive connector too, and add missing crtc_mask
setting for TV.
This fixes
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14139
Signed-off-by: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Carlos R. Mafra <crmafra2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6
* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
drm/radeon/kms: add LTE/GTE discard + rv515 two sided stencil register.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
IMA: update ima_counts_put
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
gianfar: Fix build.
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/ide-2.6:
pcmcia: add CNF-CDROM-ID for ide
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel:
agp/intel: support for new chip variant of IGDNG mobile
drm/i915: Unref old_obj on get_fence_reg() error path
drm/i915: increase default latency constant (v2 w/comment)
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This adds some rv350+ register for LTE/GTE discard,
and enables the rv515 two sided stencil register.
It also disables the DEPTHXY_OFFSET register which
can be used to workaround the CS checker.
Moves rs690 to proper place in rs600 and uses correct
table on rs600.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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- As ima_counts_put() may be called after the inode has been freed,
verify that the inode is not NULL, before dereferencing it.
- Maintain the IMA file counters in may_open() properly, decrementing
any counter increments on subsequent errors.
Reported-by: Ciprian Docan <docan@eden.rutgers.edu>
Reported-by: J.R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Reported by Michael Guntsche <mike@it-loops.com>
--------------------
Commit
38bddf04bcfe661fbdab94888c3b72c32f6873b3 gianfar: gfar_remove needs to call unregister_netdev()
breaks the build of the gianfar driver because "dev" is undefined in
this function. To quickly test rc9 I changed this to priv->ndev but I do
not know if this is the correct one.
--------------------
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
firewire: sbp2: fix freeing of unallocated memory
firewire: ohci: fix Ricoh R5C832, video reception
firewire: ohci: fix Agere FW643 and multiple cameras
firewire: core: fix crash in iso resource management
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This patch fixes a null pointer exception caused by removal of
'ack()' for level interrupts in the Xilinx interrupt driver. A recent
change to the xilinx interrupt controller removed the ack hook for
level irqs.
Signed-off-by: Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/mtd-2.6.31:
JFFS2: add missing verify buffer allocation/deallocation
mtd: nftl: fix offset alignments
mtd: nftl: write support is broken
mtd: m25p80: fix null pointer dereference bug
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
block: Allow changing max_sectors_kb above the default 512
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
* 'fix/oxygen' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
sound: oxygen: handle cards with missing EEPROM
sound: oxygen: fix MCLK rate for 192 kHz playback
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
tc: Fix unitialized kernel memory leak
pkt_sched: Revert tasklet_hrtimer changes.
net: sk_free() should be allowed right after sk_alloc()
gianfar: gfar_remove needs to call unregister_netdev()
ipw2200: firmware DMA loading rework
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6:
crypto: skcipher - Fix skcipher_dequeue_givcrypt NULL test
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] Re-enable cpufreq suspend and resume code
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] fix csum_ipv6_magic()
[IA64] Fix warning in dma-mapping.c
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* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
xfs: actually enable the swapext compat handler
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2:
nilfs2: fix preempt count underflow in nilfs_btnode_prepare_change_key
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
percpu: don't assume existence of cpu0
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'slab/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
slub: Fix kmem_cache_destroy() with SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm:
dm snapshot: fix on disk chunk size validation
dm exception store: split set_chunk_size
dm snapshot: fix header corruption race on invalidation
dm snapshot: refactor zero_disk_area to use chunk_io
dm log: userspace add luid to distinguish between concurrent log instances
dm raid1: do not allow log_failure variable to unset after being set
dm log: remove incorrect field from userspace table output
dm log: fix userspace status output
dm stripe: expose correct io hints
dm table: add more context to terse warning messages
dm table: fix queue_limit checking device iterator
dm snapshot: implement iterate devices
dm multipath: fix oops when request based io fails when no paths
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
PCI SR-IOV: correct broken resource alignment calculations
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
sparc64: Fix bootup with mcount in some configs.
sparc64: Kill spurious NMI watchdog triggers by increasing limit to 30 seconds.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf_counter/powerpc: Fix cache event codes for POWER7
perf_counter: Fix /0 bug in swcounters
perf_counters: Increase paranoia level
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
Input: atkbd - add Compaq Presario R4000-series repeat quirk
Input: i8042 - add Acer Aspire 5536 to the nomux list
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In ext2_rename(), dir_page is acquired through ext2_dotdot(). It is
then released through ext2_set_link() but only if old_dir != new_dir.
Failing that, the pkmap reference count is never decremented and the
page remains pinned forever. Repeat that a couple times with highmem
pages and all pkmap slots get exhausted, and every further kmap() calls
end up stalling on the pkmap_map_wait queue at which point the whole
system comes to a halt.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2:
ocfs2: ocfs2_write_begin_nolock() should handle len=0
ocfs2: invalidate dentry if its dentry_lock isn't initialized.
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The whole write-room thing is something that is up to the _caller_ to
worry about, not the pty layer itself. The total buffer space will
still be limited by the buffering routines themselves, so there is no
advantage or need in having pty_write() artificially limit the size
somehow.
And what happened was that the caller (the n_tty line discipline, in
this case) may have verified that there is room for 2 bytes to be
written (for NL -> CRNL expansion), and it used to then do those writes
as two single-byte writes. And if the first byte written (CR) then
caused a new tty buffer to be allocated, pty_space() may have returned
zero when trying to write the second byte (LF), and then incorrectly
failed the write - leading to a lost newline character.
This should finally fix
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14015
Reported-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When translating CR to CRNL in the n_tty line discipline, we did it as
two tty_put_char() calls. Which works, but is stupid, and has caused
problems before too with bad interactions with the write_room() logic.
The generic USB serial driver had that problem, for example.
Now the pty layer had similar issues after being moved to the generic
tty buffering code (in commit d945cb9cce20ac7143c2de8d88b187f62db99bdc:
"pty: Rework the pty layer to use the normal buffering logic").
So stop doing the silly separate two writes, and do it as a single write
instead. That's what the n_tty layer already does for the space
expansion of tabs (XTABS), and it means that we'll now always have just
a single write for the CRNL to match the single 'tty_write_room()' test,
which hopefully means that the next time somebody screws up buffering,
it won't cause weeks of debugging.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tom Horsley reports that his debugger hangs when it tries to read
/proc/pid_of_tracee/maps, this happens since
"mm_for_maps: take ->cred_guard_mutex to fix the race with exec"
04b836cbf19e885f8366bccb2e4b0474346c02d
commit in 2.6.31.
But the root of the problem lies in the fact that do_execve() path calls
tracehook_report_exec() which can stop if the tracer sets PT_TRACE_EXEC.
The tracee must not sleep in TASK_TRACED holding this mutex. Even if we
remove ->cred_guard_mutex from mm_for_maps() and proc_pid_attr_write(),
another task doing PTRACE_ATTACH should not hang until it is killed or the
tracee resumes.
With this patch do_execve() does not use ->cred_guard_mutex directly and
we do not hold it throughout, instead:
- introduce prepare_bprm_creds() helper, it locks the mutex
and calls prepare_exec_creds() to initialize bprm->cred.
- install_exec_creds() drops the mutex after commit_creds(),
and thus before tracehook_report_exec()->ptrace_stop().
or, if exec fails,
free_bprm() drops this mutex when bprm->cred != NULL which
indicates install_exec_creds() was not called.
Reported-by: Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@att.net>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On low-memory systems, anti-fragmentation gets disabled as fragmentation
cannot be avoided on a sufficiently large boundary to be worthwhile. Once
disabled, there is a period of time when all the pageblocks are marked
MOVABLE and the expectation is that they get marked UNMOVABLE at each call
to __rmqueue_fallback().
However, when MAX_ORDER is large the pageblocks do not change ownership
because the normal criteria are not met. This has the effect of
prematurely breaking up too many large contiguous blocks. This is most
serious on NOMMU systems which depend on high-order allocations to boot.
This patch causes pageblocks to change ownership on every fallback when
anti-fragmentation is disabled. This prevents the large blocks being
prematurely broken up.
This is a fix to commit 49255c619fbd482d704289b5eb2795f8e3b7ff2e [page
allocator: move check for disabled anti-fragmentation out of fastpath] and
the problem affects 2.6.31-rc8.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Tested-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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