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2009-01-06sysrq: more explicit, less terse help messagesRandy Dunlap1-10/+10
Eliminate sysrq terse help mode; make sysrq help messages more meaningful (more explicit/verbose). Make the sysrq action letter clearer by listing it explicitly in more sysrq help messages (when it is not simple/clear). The SysRq help message now looks like this: SysRq : HELP : loglevel(0-9) reBoot terminate-all-tasks(E) memory-full-oom-kill(F) kill-all-tasks(I) saK show-backtrace-all-active-cpus(L) show-memory-usage(M) nice-all-RT-tasks(N) powerOff show-registers(P) show-all-timers(Q) unRaw Sync show-task-states(T) Unmount show-blocked-tasks(W) Addresses http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=330403. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: <jidanni@jidanni.org> Cc: <330403@bugs.debian.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06fs/inode: fix kernel-doc notationRandy Dunlap1-4/+4
Fix kernel-doc notation: Warning(linux-2.6.28-git3//fs/inode.c:120): No description found for parameter 'sb' Warning(linux-2.6.28-git3//fs/inode.c:120): No description found for parameter 'inode' Warning(linux-2.6.28-git3//fs/inode.c:588): No description found for parameter 'sb' Warning(linux-2.6.28-git3//fs/inode.c:588): No description found for parameter 'inode' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06Remove obsolete CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BITGeert Uytterhoeven1-6/+0
commit 8308c54d7e312f7a03e2ce2057d0837e6fe3843f ("generic: redefine resource_size_t as phys_addr_t") made CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT obsolete, but didn't remove it. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06do_coredump(): check return from argv_split()Tetsuo Handa1-0/+5
do_coredump() accesses helper_argv[0] without checking helper_argv != NULL. This can happen if page allocation failed. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06profile: don't include <asm/ptrace.h> twice.KOSAKI Motohiro1-1/+0
Currently, kernel/profile.c include <asm/ptrace.h> twice. It can be removed. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06init/main.c: mark late_time_init as __initdataJan Beulich1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06add missing accounting calls to compat_sys_{readv,writev}Gerd Hoffmann1-0/+6
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06fs: fix name overwrite in __register_chrdev_region()Cyrill Gorcunov1-1/+1
It's possible to register a chrdev with a name size exactly the same as was allocated in structure. It seems it was not intended behaviour. At least chrdev_show does not like it. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06remove linux/hardirq.h from asm-generic/local.hRussell King4-1/+3
While looking at reducing the amount of architecture namespace pollution in the generic kernel, I found that asm/irq.h is included in the vast majority of compilations on ARM (around 650 files.) Since asm/irq.h includes a sub-architecture include file on ARM, this causes a negative impact on the ccache's ability to re-use the build results from other sub-architectures, so we have a desire to reduce the dependencies on asm/irq.h. It turns out that a major cause of this is the needless include of linux/hardirq.h into asm-generic/local.h. The patch below removes this include, resulting in some 250 to 300 files (around half) of the kernel then omitting asm/irq.h. My test builds still succeed, provided two ARM files are fixed (arch/arm/kernel/traps.c and arch/arm/mm/fault.c) - so there may be negative impacts for this on other architectures. Note that x86 does not include asm/irq.h nor linux/hardirq.h in its asm/local.h, so this patch can be viewed as bringing the generic version into line with the x86 version. [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: add #include <linux/irqflags.h> to acpi/processor_idle.c] [adobriyan@gmail.com: fix sparc64] Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06ioc4: automatically load sgiioc4 subordinate moduleBrent Casavant1-0/+36
Modify ioc4 to always load the sgiioc4 IDE module if the board carrying the IOC4 hardware actually implements the IDE interface (not all boards bring this functionality off the IOC4 chip). A drive hosted on the IDE interface may contain the root filesystem, and sgiioc4 doesn't load automatically as ioc4 owns the PCI device ID, not sgiioc4. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Michael Reed <mdr@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06Dmitry has been renamedDmitry Eremin-Solenikov2-1/+2
My surname has changed due to marriage. Change MAINTAINERS entry and add .mailmap entry to reflect that. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06percpu_counter: FBC_BATCH should be a variableEric Dumazet4-14/+20
For NR_CPUS >= 16 values, FBC_BATCH is 2*NR_CPUS Considering more and more distros are using high NR_CPUS values, it makes sense to use a more sensible value for FBC_BATCH, and get rid of NR_CPUS. A sensible value is 2*num_online_cpus(), with a minimum value of 32 (This minimum value helps branch prediction in __percpu_counter_add()) We already have a hotcpu notifier, so we can adjust FBC_BATCH dynamically. We rename FBC_BATCH to percpu_counter_batch since its not a constant anymore. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06Allow times and time system calls to return small negative valuesPaul Mackerras3-2/+9
At the moment, the times() system call will appear to fail for a period shortly after boot, while the value it want to return is between -4095 and -1. The same thing will also happen for the time() system call on 32-bit platforms some time in 2106 or so. On some platforms, such as x86, this is unavoidable because of the system call ABI, but other platforms such as powerpc have a separate error indication from the return value, so system calls can in fact return small negative values without indicating an error. On those platforms, force_successful_syscall_return() provides a way to indicate that the system call return value should not be treated as an error even if it is in the range which would normally be taken as a negative error number. This adds a force_successful_syscall_return() call to the time() and times() system calls plus their 32-bit compat versions, so that they don't erroneously indicate an error on those platforms whose system call ABI has a separate error indication. This will not affect anything on other platforms. Joakim Tjernlund added the fix for time() and the compat versions of time() and times(), after I did the fix for times(). Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06documentation: when to BUG(), and when to not BUG()David Brownell1-0/+17
Provide some basic advice about when to use BUG()/BUG_ON(): never, unless there's really no better option. This matches my understanding of the standard policy ... which seems not to be written down so far, outside of LKML messages that I haven't bookmarked. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06poll: allow f_op->poll to sleepTejun Heo4-21/+76
f_op->poll is the only vfs operation which is not allowed to sleep. It's because poll and select implementation used task state to synchronize against wake ups, which doesn't have to be the case anymore as wait/wake interface can now use custom wake up functions. The non-sleep restriction can be a bit tricky because ->poll is not called from an atomic context and the result of accidentally sleeping in ->poll only shows up as temporary busy looping when the timing is right or rather wrong. This patch converts poll/select to use custom wake up function and use separate triggered variable to synchronize against wake up events. The only added overhead is an extra function call during wake up and negligible. This patch removes the one non-sleep exception from vfs locking rules and is beneficial to userland filesystem implementations like FUSE, 9p or peculiar fs like spufs as it's very difficult for those to implement non-sleeping poll method. While at it, make the following cosmetic changes to make poll.h and select.c checkpatch friendly. * s/type * symbol/type *symbol/ : three places in poll.h * remove blank line before EXPORT_SYMBOL() : two places in select.c Oleg: spotted missing barrier in poll_schedule_timeout() Davide: spotted missing write barrier in pollwake() Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06fs: use menuconfig to control the Misc. filesystems menuRandy Dunlap1-2/+15
Have one option to control Miscellaneous filesystems. This makes it easy to disable all of them at one time. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06scripts: script from kerneloops.org to pretty print oops dumpsArjan van de Ven1-0/+162
We're struggling all the time to figure out where the code came from that oopsed.. The script below (a adaption from a script used by kerneloops.org) can help developers quite a bit, at least for non-module cases. It works and looks like this: [/home/arjan/linux]$ dmesg | perl scripts/markup_oops.pl vmlinux { struct agp_memory *memory; memory = agp_allocate_memory(agp_bridge, pg_count, type); c055c10f: 89 c2 mov %eax,%edx if (memory == NULL) c055c111: 74 19 je c055c12c <agp_allocate_memory_wrap+0x30> /* This function must only be called when current_controller != NULL */ static void agp_insert_into_pool(struct agp_memory * temp) { struct agp_memory *prev; prev = agp_fe.current_controller->pool; c055c113: a1 ec dc 8f c0 mov 0xc08fdcec,%eax *c055c118: 8b 40 10 mov 0x10(%eax),%eax <----- faulting instruction if (prev != NULL) { c055c11b: 85 c0 test %eax,%eax c055c11d: 74 05 je c055c124 <agp_allocate_memory_wrap+0x28> prev->prev = temp; c055c11f: 89 50 04 mov %edx,0x4(%eax) temp->next = prev; c055c122: 89 02 mov %eax,(%edx) } agp_fe.current_controller->pool = temp; c055c124: a1 ec dc 8f c0 mov 0xc08fdcec,%eax c055c129: 89 50 10 mov %edx,0x10(%eax) if (memory == NULL) return NULL; agp_insert_into_pool(memory); so in this case, we faulted while dereferencing agp_fe.current_controller pointer, and we get to see exactly which function and line it affects... Personally I find this very useful, and I can see value for having this script in the kernel for more-than-just-me to use. Caveats: * It only works for oopses not-in-modules * It only works nicely for kernels compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO * It's not very fast. * It only works on x86 Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06oops: increment the oops UUID every time we oopsArjan van de Ven1-0/+2
... because we do want repeated same-oops to be seen by automated tools like kerneloops.org Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06strict_strto* is not strict enoughPavel Machek1-0/+4
It decodes "\n" as 0, which is bad, because stray echo into backlight will turn your backlight off, etc... Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Cc: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06autodetect_raid: add missing __init markingMike Frysinger1-1/+1
The function autodetect_raid is only used by __init functions, and it refers to __initdata, so it needs __init markings. Fixes this error: The function autodetect_raid() references the variable __initdata raid_noautodetect. This is often because autodetect_raid lacks a __initdata annotation or the annotation of raid_noautodetect is wrong. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06samples: mark {static|__init|__exit} for {init|exit} functionsQinghuang Feng7-13/+13
None of these (init|exit) functions is called from other functions which is outside the kernel module mechanism or kernel itself, so mark them as {static|__init|__exit}. Signed-off-by: Qinghuang Feng <qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06Create a DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST macro to do division with roundingDarrick J. Wong1-0/+6
Create a helper macro to divide two numbers and round the result to the nearest whole number. This is a helper macro for hwmon drivers that want to convert incoming sysfs values per standard hwmon practice, though the macro itself can be used by anyone. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06lib: proportions.c trivial sparse lock annotationHarvey Harrison1-0/+2
Suppresses sparse warning: lib/proportions.c:159:16: warning: context imbalance in 'prop_get_global': wrong count at exit lib/proportions.c:159:16: context 'RCU': wanted 0, got 1 lib/proportions.c:164:2: warning: context imbalance in 'prop_put_global': unexpected unlock lib/proportions.c:164:2: context 'RCU': wanted 0, got -1 Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06lib: radix_tree.c make percpu variable staticHarvey Harrison1-1/+1
radix_tree_preloads is unused outside of this file, make it static. Noticed by sparse: lib/radix-tree.c:84:1: warning: symbol 'per_cpu__radix_tree_preloads' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06lib: fix sparse shadowed variable warningHarvey Harrison1-1/+1
pos is always set before being used, no need to declare a second one inside the if() block. lib/prio_heap.c:34:7: warning: symbol 'pos' shadows an earlier one lib/prio_heap.c:30:6: originally declared here Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06fork.c: cleanup for copy_sighand()Zhaolei1-1/+1
Check CLONE_SIGHAND only is enough, because combination of CLONE_THREAD and CLONE_SIGHAND is already done in copy_process(). Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06Remove remaining unwinder codeAlexey Dobriyan7-105/+0
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06fs/exec.c:__bprm_mm_init(): clean up error handlingLuiz Fernando N. Capitulino1-14/+6
Untangle the error unwinding in this function, saving a test of local variable `vma'. Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06do_mounts: add device info to mount messageMarton Balint1-2/+2
In the past, I used the root=... command line parameter to specify the root filesystem to the kernel. Now it seems that specifying it is not necessary. The kernel detects the root filesystem even if the kernel command line is empty. My root fs is on a raid1 device by the way, and I am not using initrd for the boot process. If the kernel detects the root filesystem somehow, I think it should print out the result of this detection, otherwise I will not know which device has the root filesystem. Or is there an easy way to get this information on a running system? I had a quick look at the /proc and /sys filesystems, but haven't found anything useful there. Signed-off-by: Marton Balint <cus@fazekas.hu> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06oops handling: ensure that any oops is flushed to the mtdoops consoleViktor Rosendahl1-0/+2
This used to work unpatched with older kernels, during the development phase of mtdoops. Before commit e3e8a75d2acfc61ebf25524666a0a2c6abb0620c a space was printed with console_loglevel set to 15, which probably flushed the oops message as a side effect. This is another patch from the Nokia N810 kernel. Signed-off-by: Viktor Rosendahl <viktor.rosendahl@nokia.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06Check fops_get() return valueLaurent Pinchart3-0/+13
Several subsystem open handlers dereference the fops_get() return value without checking it for nullness. This opens a race condition between the open handler and module unloading. A module can be marked as being unloaded (MODULE_STATE_GOING) before its exit function is called and gets the chance to unregister the driver. During that window open handlers can still be called, and fops_get() will fail in try_module_get() and return a NULL pointer. This change checks the fops_get() return value and returns -ENODEV if NULL. Reported-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@skynet.be> Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06pci: use pci_ioremap_bar() in drivers/miscArjan van de Ven2-4/+2
Use the newly introduced pci_ioremap_bar() function in drivers/misc. pci_ioremap_bar() just takes a pci device and a bar number, with the goal of making it really hard to get wrong, while also having a central place to stick sanity checks. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06atomic_t: unify all arch definitionsMatthew Wilcox23-104/+33
The atomic_t type cannot currently be used in some header files because it would create an include loop with asm/atomic.h. Move the type definition to linux/types.h to break the loop. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06init: properly placing noinline keywordRakib Mullick1-2/+2
checkpatch warns about 'static void noinline'. It wants `static noinline void'. Both are permissible, but the kernel consistently uses `static inline' and `static noinline', and consistency is good. Hence let's keep the checkpatch warning and fix up this code site. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: rewrote changelog] Signed-off-by: Md.Rakib H. Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: hugetlb: remove redundant `if' operationCyrill Gorcunov1-3/+2
At this point we already know that 'addr' is not NULL so get rid of redundant 'if'. Probably gcc eliminate it by optimization pass. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use __weak, too] Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: stop kswapd's infinite loop at high order allocationKOSAKI Motohiro1-0/+17
Wassim Dagash reported following kswapd infinite loop problem. kswapd runs in some infinite loop trying to swap until order 10 of zone highmem is OK.... kswapd will continue to try to balance order 10 of zone highmem forever (or until someone release a very large chunk of highmem). For non order-0 allocations, the system may never be balanced due to fragmentation but kswapd should not infinitely loop as a result. Instead, recheck all watermarks at order-0 as they are the most important. If watermarks are ok, kswapd will go back to sleep. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment] Reported-by: wassim dagash <wassim.dagash@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06bootmem: print request details before BUG_ON(them)Johannes Weiner1-4/+4
Moving the request details print-out before the sanity checks that might panic() enables us to analyse invalid requests without having access to the line information of the stack dump. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: check for no mmaps in exit_mmap()Johannes Weiner1-0/+3
When dup_mmap() ooms we can end up with mm->mmap == NULL. The error path does mmput() and unmap_vmas() gets a NULL vma which it dereferences. In exit_mmap() there is nothing to do at all for this case, we can cancel the callpath right there. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sorely-needed comment] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: kill page_queue_congested()KOSAKI Motohiro1-20/+0
page_queue_congested() was introduced in 2002, but it was never used Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: remove CONFIG_OUT_OF_LINE_PFN_TO_PAGEKOSAKI Motohiro2-20/+0
No architectures use CONFIG_OUT_OF_LINE_PFN_TO_PAGE - it can be removed. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: introduce get_mm_hiwater_xxx(), fix taskstats->hiwater_xxx accountingOleg Nesterov4-7/+7
xacct_add_tsk() relies on do_exit()->update_hiwater_xxx() and uses mm->hiwater_xxx directly, this leads to 2 problems: - taskstats_user_cmd() can call fill_pid()->xacct_add_tsk() at any moment before the task exits, so we should check the current values of rss/vm anyway. - do_exit()->update_hiwater_xxx() calls are racy. An exiting thread can be preempted right before mm->hiwater_xxx = new_val, and another thread can use A_LOT of memory and exit in between. When the first thread resumes it can be the last thread in the thread group, in that case we report the wrong hiwater_xxx values which do not take A_LOT into account. Introduce get_mm_hiwater_rss() and get_mm_hiwater_vm() helpers and change xacct_add_tsk() to use them. The first helper will also be used by rusage->ru_maxrss accounting. Kill do_exit()->update_hiwater_xxx() calls. Unless we are going to decrease rss/vm there is no point to update mm->hiwater_xxx, and nobody can look at this mm_struct when exit_mmap() actually unmaps the memory. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: pagecache gfp flags fixNick Piggin1-2/+9
Frustratingly, gfp_t is really divided into two classes of flags. One are the context dependent ones (can we sleep? can we enter filesystem? block subsystem? should we use some extra reserves, etc.). The other ones are the type of memory required and depend on how the algorithm is implemented rather than the point at which the memory is allocated (highmem? dma memory? etc). Some of the functions which allocate a page and add it to page cache take a gfp_t, but sometimes those functions or their callers aren't really doing the right thing: when allocating pagecache page, the memory type should be mapping_gfp_mask(mapping). When allocating radix tree nodes, the memory type should be kernel mapped (not highmem) memory. The gfp_t argument should only really be needed for context dependent options. This patch doesn't really solve that tangle in a nice way, but it does attempt to fix a couple of bugs. - find_or_create_page changes its radix-tree allocation to only include the main context dependent flags in order so the pagecache page may be allocated from arbitrary types of memory without affecting the radix-tree. In practice, slab allocations don't come from highmem anyway, and radix-tree only uses slab allocations. So there isn't a practical change (unless some fs uses GFP_DMA for pages). - grab_cache_page_nowait() is changed to allocate radix-tree nodes with GFP_NOFS, because it is not supposed to reenter the filesystem. This bug could cause lock recursion if a filesystem is not expecting the function to reenter the fs (as-per documentation). Filesystems should be careful about exactly what semantics they want and what they get when fiddling with gfp_t masks to allocate pagecache. One should be as liberal as possible with the type of memory that can be used, and same for the the context specific flags. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06fs: sys_sync fixNick Piggin2-20/+1
s_syncing livelock avoidance was breaking data integrity guarantee of sys_sync, by allowing sys_sync to skip writing or waiting for superblocks if there is a concurrent sys_sync happening. This livelock avoidance is much less important now that we don't have the get_super_to_sync() call after every sb that we sync. This was replaced by __put_super_and_need_restart. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06fs: sync_sb_inodes fixNick Piggin1-7/+53
Fix data integrity semantics required by sys_sync, by iterating over all inodes and waiting for any writeback pages after the initial writeout. Comments explain the exact problem. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06fs: remove WB_SYNC_HOLDNick Piggin2-11/+2
Remove WB_SYNC_HOLD. The primary motiviation is the design of my anti-starvation code for fsync. It requires taking an inode lock over the sync operation, so we could run into lock ordering problems with multiple inodes. It is possible to take a single global lock to solve the ordering problem, but then that would prevent a future nice implementation of "sync multiple inodes" based on lock order via inode address. Seems like a backward step to remove this, but actually it is busted anyway: we can't use the inode lists for data integrity wait: an inode can be taken off the dirty lists but still be under writeback. In order to satisfy data integrity semantics, we should wait for it to finish writeback, but if we only search the dirty lists, we'll miss it. It would be possible to have a "writeback" list, for sys_sync, I suppose. But why complicate things by prematurely optimise? For unmounting, we could avoid the "livelock avoidance" code, which would be easier, but again premature IMO. Fixing the existing data integrity problem will come next. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06UBIFS: do not use WB_SYNC_HOLDArtem Bityutskiy1-1/+8
WB_SYNC_HOLD is going to be zapped so we should not use it. Use %WB_SYNC_NONE instead. Here is what akpm said: "I think I'll just switch that to WB_SYNC_NONE. The `wait==0' mode is just an advisory thing to help the fs shove lots of data into the queues. If some gets missed then it'll be picked up on the second ->sync_fs call, with wait==1." Thanks to Randy Dunlap for catching this. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: direct IO starvation improvementNick Piggin1-11/+5
Direct IO can invalidate and sync a lot of pagecache pages in the mapping. A 4K direct IO will actually try to sync and/or invalidate the pagecache of the entire file, for example (which might be many GB or TB large). Improve this by doing range syncs. Also, memory no longer has to be unmapped to catch the dirty bits for syncing, as dirty bits would remain coherent due to dirty mmap accounting. This fixes the immediate DM deadlocks when doing direct IO reads to block device with a mounted filesystem, if only by papering over the problem somewhat rather than addressing the fsync starvation cases. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm/mmap.c: fix coding styleZhenwenXu1-9/+8
Fix a little of the coding style in mm/mmap.c [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: ZhenwenXu <helight.xu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06shmem: unify regular and tiny shmemMatt Mackall4-151/+72
tiny-shmem shares most of its 130 lines of code with shmem and tends to break when particular bits of shmem get modified. Unifying saves code and makes keeping these two in sync much easier. before: 14367 392 24 14783 39bf mm/shmem.o 396 72 8 476 1dc mm/tiny-shmem.o after: 14367 392 24 14783 39bf mm/shmem.o 412 72 8 492 1ec mm/shmem.o tiny Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06block_write_begin(): remove useless gotoFranck Bui-Huu1-1/+0
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>