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Pull DMA mask updates from Russell King:
"This series cleans up the handling of DMA masks in a lot of drivers,
fixing some bugs as we go.
Some of the more serious errors include:
- drivers which only set their coherent DMA mask if the attempt to
set the streaming mask fails.
- drivers which test for a NULL dma mask pointer, and then set the
dma mask pointer to a location in their module .data section -
which will cause problems if the module is reloaded.
To counter these, I have introduced two helper functions:
- dma_set_mask_and_coherent() takes care of setting both the
streaming and coherent masks at the same time, with the correct
error handling as specified by the API.
- dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent() which resolves the problem of
drivers forcefully setting DMA masks. This is more a marker for
future work to further clean these locations up - the code which
creates the devices really should be initialising these, but to fix
that in one go along with this change could potentially be very
disruptive.
The last thing this series does is prise away some of Linux's addition
to "DMA addresses are physical addresses and RAM always starts at
zero". We have ARM LPAE systems where all system memory is above 4GB
physical, hence having DMA masks interpreted by (eg) the block layers
as describing physical addresses in the range 0..DMAMASK fails on
these platforms. Santosh Shilimkar addresses this in this series; the
patches were copied to the appropriate people multiple times but were
ignored.
Fixing this also gets rid of some ARM weirdness in the setup of the
max*pfn variables, and brings ARM into line with every other Linux
architecture as far as those go"
* 'for-linus-dma-masks' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (52 commits)
ARM: 7805/1: mm: change max*pfn to include the physical offset of memory
ARM: 7797/1: mmc: Use dma_max_pfn(dev) helper for bounce_limit calculations
ARM: 7796/1: scsi: Use dma_max_pfn(dev) helper for bounce_limit calculations
ARM: 7795/1: mm: dma-mapping: Add dma_max_pfn(dev) helper function
ARM: 7794/1: block: Rename parameter dma_mask to max_addr for blk_queue_bounce_limit()
ARM: DMA-API: better handing of DMA masks for coherent allocations
ARM: 7857/1: dma: imx-sdma: setup dma mask
DMA-API: firmware/google/gsmi.c: avoid direct access to DMA masks
DMA-API: dcdbas: update DMA mask handing
DMA-API: dma: edma.c: no need to explicitly initialize DMA masks
DMA-API: usb: musb: use platform_device_register_full() to avoid directly messing with dma masks
DMA-API: crypto: remove last references to 'static struct device *dev'
DMA-API: crypto: fix ixp4xx crypto platform device support
DMA-API: others: use dma_set_coherent_mask()
DMA-API: staging: use dma_set_coherent_mask()
DMA-API: usb: use new dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent()
DMA-API: usb: use dma_set_coherent_mask()
DMA-API: parport: parport_pc.c: use dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent()
DMA-API: net: octeon: use dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent()
DMA-API: net: nxp/lpc_eth: use dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent()
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blk_queue_bounce_limit()
The blk_queue_bounce_limit() API parameter 'dma_mask' is actually the
maximum address the device can handle rather than a dma_mask. Rename
it accordingly to avoid it being interpreted as dma_mask.
No functional change.
The idea is to fix the bad assumptions about dma_mask wherever it could
be miss-interpreted.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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In commit 27a7c642174e ("partitions/efi: account for pmbr size in lba")
we started treating bad sizes in lba field of the partition that has the
0xEE (GPT protective) as errors.
However, we may run into these "bad sizes" in the real world if someone
uses dd to copy an image from a smaller disk to a bigger disk. Since
this case used to work (even without using force_gpt), keep it working
and treat the size mismatch as a warning instead of an error.
Reported-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reported-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Recently commit bab55417b10c ("block: support embedded device command
line partition") introduced CONFIG_CMDLINE_PARSER. However, that name
is too generic and sounds like it enables/disables generic kernel boot
arg processing, when it really is block specific.
Before this option becomes a part of a full/final release, add the BLK_
prefix to it so that it is clear in absence of any other context that it
is block specific.
In addition, fix up the following less critical items:
- help text was not really at all helpful.
- index file for Documentation was not updated
- add the new arg to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
- clarify wording in source comments
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com>
Cc: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Pull block IO fixes from Jens Axboe:
"After merge window, no new stuff this time only a collection of neatly
confined and simple fixes"
* 'for-3.12/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
cfq: explicitly use 64bit divide operation for 64bit arguments
block: Add nr_bios to block_rq_remap tracepoint
If the queue is dying then we only call the rq->end_io callout. This leaves bios setup on the request, because the caller assumes when the blk_execute_rq_nowait/blk_execute_rq call has completed that the rq->bios have been cleaned up.
bio-integrity: Fix use of bs->bio_integrity_pool after free
blkcg: relocate root_blkg setting and clearing
block: Convert kmalloc_node(...GFP_ZERO...) to kzalloc_node(...)
block: trace all devices plug operation
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'samples' is 64bit operant, but do_div() second parameter is 32.
do_div silently truncates high 32 bits and calculated result
is invalid.
In case if low 32bit of 'samples' are zeros then do_div() produces
kernel crash.
Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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This leaves bios setup on the request, because the caller assumes when
the blk_execute_rq_nowait/blk_execute_rq call has completed that
the rq->bios have been cleaned up.
This patch has blk_execute_rq_nowait use __blk_end_request_all
to free bios and also call rq->end_io.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Matt found that commit 27a7c642174e ("partitions/efi: account for pmbr
size in lba") caused his GPT formatted eMMC device not to boot. The
reason is that this commit enforced Linux to always check the lesser of
the whole disk or 2Tib for the pMBR size in LBA. While most disk
partitioning tools out there create a pMBR with these characteristics,
Microsoft does not, as it always sets the entry to the maximum 32-bit
limitation - even though a drive may be smaller than that[1].
Loosen this check and only verify that the size is either the whole disk
or 0xFFFFFFFF. No tool in its right mind would set it to any value
other than these.
[1] http://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/mbr/GPT.htm#GPTPT
Reported-and-tested-by: Matt Porter <matt.porter@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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With users of radix_tree_preload() run from interrupt (block/blk-ioc.c is
one such possible user), the following race can happen:
radix_tree_preload()
...
radix_tree_insert()
radix_tree_node_alloc()
if (rtp->nr) {
ret = rtp->nodes[rtp->nr - 1];
<interrupt>
...
radix_tree_preload()
...
radix_tree_insert()
radix_tree_node_alloc()
if (rtp->nr) {
ret = rtp->nodes[rtp->nr - 1];
And we give out one radix tree node twice. That clearly results in radix
tree corruption with different results (usually OOPS) depending on which
two users of radix tree race.
We fix the problem by making radix_tree_node_alloc() always allocate fresh
radix tree nodes when in interrupt. Using preloading when in interrupt
doesn't make sense since all the allocations have to be atomic anyway and
we cannot steal nodes from process-context users because some users rely
on radix_tree_insert() succeeding after radix_tree_preload().
in_interrupt() check is somewhat ugly but we cannot simply key off passed
gfp_mask as that is acquired from root_gfp_mask() and thus the same for
all preload users.
Another part of the fix is to avoid node preallocation in
radix_tree_preload() when passed gfp_mask doesn't allow waiting. Again,
preallocation in such case doesn't make sense and when preallocation would
happen in interrupt we could possibly leak some allocated nodes. However,
some users of radix_tree_preload() require following radix_tree_insert()
to succeed. To avoid unexpected effects for these users,
radix_tree_preload() only warns if passed gfp mask doesn't allow waiting
and we provide a new function radix_tree_maybe_preload() for those users
which get different gfp mask from different call sites and which are
prepared to handle radix_tree_insert() failure.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Trivial coding style cleanups - still plenty left.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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I love emacs, but these settings for coding style are annoying when trying
to open the efi.h file. More important, we already have checkpatch for
that.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When verifying GPT header integrity, make sure that first usable LBA is
smaller than last usable LBA.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The partition that has the 0xEE (GPT protective), must have the size in
lba field set to the lesser of the size of the disk minus one or
0xFFFFFFFF for larger disks.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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One of the biggest problems with GPT is compatibility with older, non-GPT
systems. The problem is addressed by creating hybrid mbrs, an extension,
or variant, of the traditional protective mbr. This contains, apart from
the 0xEE partition, up three additional primary partitions that point to
the same space marked by up to three GPT partitions. The result is that
legacy OSs can see the three required MBR partitions and at the same time
ignore the GPT-aware partitions that protect the GPT structures.
While hybrid MBRs are hacks, workarounds and simply not part of the GPT
standard, they do exist and we have no way around them. For instance, by
default, OSX creates a hybrid scheme when using multi-OS booting.
In order for Linux to properly discover protective MBRs, it must be made
aware of devices that have hybrid MBRs. No functionality is changed by
this patch, just a debug message informing the user of the MBR scheme that
is being used.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When detecting a valid protective MBR, the Linux kernel isn't picky about
the partition (1-4) the 0xEE is at, but, unlike other operating systems,
it does require it to begin at the second sector (sector 1). This check,
apart from it not being enforced by UEFI, and causing Linux to potentially
fail to detect any *valid* partitions on the disk, can present problems
when dealing with hybrid MBRs[1].
For compatibility reasons, if the first partition is hybridized, the 0xEE
partition must be small enough to ensure that it only protects the GPT
data structures - as opposed to the the whole disk in a protective MBR.
This problem is very well described by Rod Smith[1]: where MBR-only
partitioning programs (such as older versions of fdisk) can see some of
the disk space as unallocated, thus loosing the purpose of the 0xEE
partition's protection of GPT data structures.
By dropping this check, this patch enables Linux to be more flexible when
probing for GPT disklabels.
[1] http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html#reactions
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Per the UEFI Specs 2.4, June 2013, the starting lba of the partition that
has the EFI GPT (0xEE) must be set to 0x00000001 - this is obviously the
LBA of the GPT Partition Header.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The kernel's GPT implementation currently uses the generic 'struct
partition' type for dealing with legacy MBR partition records. While this
is is useful for disklabels that we designed for CHS addressing, such as
msdos, it doesn't adapt well to newer standards that use LBA instead, such
as GUID partition tables. Furthermore, these generic partition structures
do not have all the required fields to properly follow the UEFI specs.
While a CHS address can be translated to LBA, it's much simpler and
cleaner to just replace the partition type. This patch adds a new
'gpt_record' type that is fully compliant with EFI and will allow, in the
next patches, to add more checks to properly verify a protective MBR,
which is paramount to probing a device that makes use of GPT.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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I found the following pattern that leads in to interesting findings:
grep -r "ret.*|=.*__put_user" *
grep -r "ret.*|=.*__get_user" *
grep -r "ret.*|=.*__copy" *
The __put_user() calls in compat_ioctl.c, ptrace compat, signal compat,
since those appear in compat code, we could probably expect the kernel
addresses not to be reachable in the lower 32-bit range, so I think they
might not be exploitable.
For the "__get_user" cases, I don't think those are exploitable: the worse
that can happen is that the kernel will copy kernel memory into in-kernel
buffers, and will fail immediately afterward.
The alpha csum_partial_copy_from_user() seems to be missing the
access_ok() check entirely. The fix is inspired from x86. This could
lead to information leak on alpha. I also noticed that many architectures
map csum_partial_copy_from_user() to csum_partial_copy_generic(), but I
wonder if the latter is performing the access checks on every
architectures.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Read block device partition table from command line. The partition used
for fixed block device (eMMC) embedded device. It is no MBR, save
storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed by absolute address of
data on the block device. Users can easily change the partition.
This code reference MTD partition, source "drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c"
About the partition verbose reference
"Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt"
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk text]
[yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn: fix error return code in parse_parts()]
Signed-off-by: Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: "Wanglin (Albert)" <albert.wanglin@huawei.com>
Cc: Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The usage of strict_strtoul() is not preferred, because strict_strtoul()
is obsolete. Thus, kstrtoul() should be used.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Hello, Jens.
The original thread can be read from
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cgroups/8937
While it leads to oops, given that it only triggers under specific
configurations which aren't common. I don't think it's necessary to
backport it through -stable and merging it during the coming merge
window should be enough.
Thanks!
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Currently, q->root_blkg and q->root_rl.blkg are set from
blkcg_activate_policy() and cleared from blkg_destroy_all(). This
doesn't necessarily coincide with the lifetime of the root blkcg_gq
leading to the following oops when blkcg is enabled but no policy is
activated because __blk_queue_next_rl() malfunctions expecting the
root_blkg pointers to be set.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [<ffffffff810c58cb>] __wake_up_common+0x2b/0x90
PGD 60f7a9067 PUD 60f4c9067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
gsmi: Log Shutdown Reason 0x03
Modules linked in: act_mirred cls_tcindex cls_prioshift sch_dsmark xt_multiport iptable_mangle sata_mv elephant elephant_dev_num cdc_acm uhci_hcd ehci_hcd i2c_d
CPU: 9 PID: 41382 Comm: iSCSI-write- Not tainted 3.11.0-dbg-DEV #19
Hardware name: Intel XXX
task: ffff88060d16eec0 ti: ffff88060d170000 task.ti: ffff88060d170000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810c58cb>] [<ffffffff810c58cb>] __wake_up_common+0x2b/0x90
RSP: 0000:ffff88060d171818 EFLAGS: 00010096
RAX: 0000000000000082 RBX: ffff880baa3dee60 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffff880baa3dee60
RBP: ffff88060d171858 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffff880baa3dee98
R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000003
FS: 00007f977cba6700(0000) GS:ffff880c79c60000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000060f7a5000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
Stack:
0000000000000082 0000000000000000 ffff88060d171858 ffff880baa3dee60
0000000000000082 0000000000000003 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
ffff88060d171898 ffffffff810c7848 ffff88060d171888 ffff880bde4bc4b8
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810c7848>] __wake_up+0x48/0x70
[<ffffffff8131da53>] __blk_drain_queue+0x123/0x190
[<ffffffff8131dbb5>] blk_cleanup_queue+0xf5/0x210
[<ffffffff8141877a>] __scsi_remove_device+0x5a/0xd0
[<ffffffff81418824>] scsi_remove_device+0x34/0x50
[<ffffffff814189cb>] scsi_remove_target+0x16b/0x220
[<ffffffff814210f1>] __iscsi_unbind_session+0xd1/0x1b0
[<ffffffff814212b2>] iscsi_remove_session+0xe2/0x1c0
[<ffffffff814213a6>] iscsi_destroy_session+0x16/0x60
[<ffffffff81423a59>] iscsi_session_teardown+0xd9/0x100
[<ffffffff8142b75a>] iscsi_sw_tcp_session_destroy+0x5a/0xb0
[<ffffffff81420948>] iscsi_if_rx+0x10e8/0x1560
[<ffffffff81573335>] netlink_unicast+0x145/0x200
[<ffffffff815736f3>] netlink_sendmsg+0x303/0x410
[<ffffffff81528196>] sock_sendmsg+0xa6/0xd0
[<ffffffff815294bc>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x38c/0x3a0
[<ffffffff811ea840>] ? fget_light+0x40/0x160
[<ffffffff811ea899>] ? fget_light+0x99/0x160
[<ffffffff811ea840>] ? fget_light+0x40/0x160
[<ffffffff8152bc79>] __sys_sendmsg+0x49/0x90
[<ffffffff8152bcd2>] SyS_sendmsg+0x12/0x20
[<ffffffff815fb642>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
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Fix it by moving r->root_blkg and q->root_rl.blkg setting to
blkg_create() and clearing to blkg_destroy() so that they area
initialized when a root blkg is created and cleared when destroyed.
Reported-and-tested-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Use the helper function instead of __GFP_ZERO.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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In func blk_queue_bio, if list of plug is empty,it will call
blk_trace_plug.
If process deal with a single device,it't ok.But if process deal with
multi devices,it only trace the first device.
Using request_count to judge, it can soleve this problem.
In addition, i modify the comment.
Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
"A lot of activities on the cgroup front. Most changes aren't visible
to userland at all at this point and are laying foundation for the
planned unified hierarchy.
- The biggest change is decoupling the lifetime management of css
(cgroup_subsys_state) from that of cgroup's. Because controllers
(cpu, memory, block and so on) will need to be dynamically enabled
and disabled, css which is the association point between a cgroup
and a controller may come and go dynamically across the lifetime of
a cgroup. Till now, css's were created when the associated cgroup
was created and stayed till the cgroup got destroyed.
Assumptions around this tight coupling permeated through cgroup
core and controllers. These assumptions are gradually removed,
which consists bulk of patches, and css destruction path is
completely decoupled from cgroup destruction path. Note that
decoupling of creation path is relatively easy on top of these
changes and the patchset is pending for the next window.
- cgroup has its own event mechanism cgroup.event_control, which is
only used by memcg. It is overly complex trying to achieve high
flexibility whose benefits seem dubious at best. Going forward,
new events will simply generate file modified event and the
existing mechanism is being made specific to memcg. This pull
request contains prepatory patches for such change.
- Various fixes and cleanups"
Fixed up conflict in kernel/cgroup.c as per Tejun.
* 'for-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (69 commits)
cgroup: fix cgroup_css() invocation in css_from_id()
cgroup: make cgroup_write_event_control() use css_from_dir() instead of __d_cgrp()
cgroup: make cgroup_event hold onto cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup
cgroup: implement CFTYPE_NO_PREFIX
cgroup: make cgroup_css() take cgroup_subsys * instead and allow NULL subsys
cgroup: rename cgroup_css_from_dir() to css_from_dir() and update its syntax
cgroup: fix cgroup_write_event_control()
cgroup: fix subsystem file accesses on the root cgroup
cgroup: change cgroup_from_id() to css_from_id()
cgroup: use css_get() in cgroup_create() to check CSS_ROOT
cpuset: remove an unncessary forward declaration
cgroup: RCU protect each cgroup_subsys_state release
cgroup: move subsys file removal to kill_css()
cgroup: factor out kill_css()
cgroup: decouple cgroup_subsys_state destruction from cgroup destruction
cgroup: replace cgroup->css_kill_cnt with ->nr_css
cgroup: bounce cgroup_subsys_state ref kill confirmation to a work item
cgroup: move cgroup->subsys[] assignment to online_css()
cgroup: reorganize css init / exit paths
cgroup: add __rcu modifier to cgroup->subsys[]
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When a medium error is detected the SCSI stack should return
ENODATA to the upper layers.
[jejb: fix whitespace error]
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
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When the thin provisioning hard threshold is reached we
should return ENOSPC to inform upper layers about this fact.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
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the iteration
Previously, all css descendant iterators didn't include the origin
(root of subtree) css in the iteration. The reasons were maintaining
consistency with css_for_each_child() and that at the time of
introduction more use cases needed skipping the origin anyway;
however, given that css_is_descendant() considers self to be a
descendant, omitting the origin css has become more confusing and
looking at the accumulated use cases rather clearly indicates that
including origin would result in simpler code overall.
While this is a change which can easily lead to subtle bugs, cgroup
API including the iterators has recently gone through major
restructuring and no out-of-tree changes will be applicable without
adjustments making this a relatively acceptable opportunity for this
type of change.
The conversions are mostly straight-forward. If the iteration block
had explicit origin handling before or after, it's moved inside the
iteration. If not, if (pos == origin) continue; is added. Some
conversions add extra reference get/put around origin handling by
consolidating origin handling and the rest. While the extra ref
operations aren't strictly necessary, this shouldn't cause any
noticeable difference.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
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cgroup is in the process of converting to css (cgroup_subsys_state)
from cgroup as the principal subsystem interface handle. This is
mostly to prepare for the unified hierarchy support where css's will
be created and destroyed dynamically but also helps cleaning up
subsystem implementations as css is usually what they are interested
in anyway.
cgroup_taskset which is used by the subsystem attach methods is the
last cgroup subsystem API which isn't using css as the handle. Update
cgroup_taskset_cur_cgroup() to cgroup_taskset_cur_css() and
cgroup_taskset_for_each() to take @skip_css instead of @skip_cgrp.
The conversions are pretty mechanical. One exception is
cpuset::cgroup_cs(), which lost its last user and got removed.
This patch shouldn't introduce any functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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cgroup is currently in the process of transitioning to using css
(cgroup_subsys_state) as the primary handle instead of cgroup in
subsystem API. For hierarchy iterators, this is beneficial because
* In most cases, css is the only thing subsystems care about anyway.
* On the planned unified hierarchy, iterations for different
subsystems will need to skip over different subtrees of the
hierarchy depending on which subsystems are enabled on each cgroup.
Passing around css makes it unnecessary to explicitly specify the
subsystem in question as css is intersection between cgroup and
subsystem
* For the planned unified hierarchy, css's would need to be created
and destroyed dynamically independent from cgroup hierarchy. Having
cgroup core manage css iteration makes enforcing deref rules a lot
easier.
Most subsystem conversions are straight-forward. Noteworthy changes
are
* blkio: cgroup_to_blkcg() is no longer used. Removed.
* freezer: cgroup_freezer() is no longer used. Removed.
* devices: cgroup_to_devcgroup() is no longer used. Removed.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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cgroup is currently in the process of transitioning to using struct
cgroup_subsys_state * as the primary handle instead of struct cgroup.
Please see the previous commit which converts the subsystem methods
for rationale.
This patch converts all cftype file operations to take @css instead of
@cgroup. cftypes for the cgroup core files don't have their subsytem
pointer set. These will automatically use the dummy_css added by the
previous patch and can be converted the same way.
Most subsystem conversions are straight forwards but there are some
interesting ones.
* freezer: update_if_frozen() is also converted to take @css instead
of @cgroup for consistency. This will make the code look simpler
too once iterators are converted to use css.
* memory/vmpressure: mem_cgroup_from_css() needs to be exported to
vmpressure while mem_cgroup_from_cont() can be made static.
Updated accordingly.
* cpu: cgroup_tg() doesn't have any user left. Removed.
* cpuacct: cgroup_ca() doesn't have any user left. Removed.
* hugetlb: hugetlb_cgroup_form_cgroup() doesn't have any user left.
Removed.
* net_cls: cgrp_cls_state() doesn't have any user left. Removed.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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cgroup is transitioning to using css (cgroup_subsys_state) instead of
cgroup as the primary subsystem handle. The cgroupfs file interface
will be converted to use css's which requires finding out the
subsystem from cftype so that the matching css can be determined from
the cgroup.
This patch adds cftype->ss which points to the subsystem the file
belongs to. The field is initialized while a cftype is being
registered. This makes it unnecessary to explicitly specify the
subsystem for other cftype handling functions. @ss argument dropped
from various cftype handling functions.
This patch shouldn't introduce any behavior differences.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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cgroup is currently in the process of transitioning to using struct
cgroup_subsys_state * as the primary handle instead of struct cgroup *
in subsystem implementations for the following reasons.
* With unified hierarchy, subsystems will be dynamically bound and
unbound from cgroups and thus css's (cgroup_subsys_state) may be
created and destroyed dynamically over the lifetime of a cgroup,
which is different from the current state where all css's are
allocated and destroyed together with the associated cgroup. This
in turn means that cgroup_css() should be synchronized and may
return NULL, making it more cumbersome to use.
* Differing levels of per-subsystem granularity in the unified
hierarchy means that the task and descendant iterators should behave
differently depending on the specific subsystem the iteration is
being performed for.
* In majority of the cases, subsystems only care about its part in the
cgroup hierarchy - ie. the hierarchy of css's. Subsystem methods
often obtain the matching css pointer from the cgroup and don't
bother with the cgroup pointer itself. Passing around css fits
much better.
This patch converts all cgroup_subsys methods to take @css instead of
@cgroup. The conversions are mostly straight-forward. A few
noteworthy changes are
* ->css_alloc() now takes css of the parent cgroup rather than the
pointer to the new cgroup as the css for the new cgroup doesn't
exist yet. Knowing the parent css is enough for all the existing
subsystems.
* In kernel/cgroup.c::offline_css(), unnecessary open coded css
dereference is replaced with local variable access.
This patch shouldn't cause any behavior differences.
v2: Unnecessary explicit cgrp->subsys[] deref in css_online() replaced
with local variable @css as suggested by Li Zefan.
Rebased on top of new for-3.12 which includes for-3.11-fixes so
that ->css_free() invocation added by da0a12caff ("cgroup: fix a
leak when percpu_ref_init() fails") is converted too. Suggested
by Li Zefan.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Currently, controllers have to explicitly follow the cgroup hierarchy
to find the parent of a given css. cgroup is moving towards using
cgroup_subsys_state as the main controller interface construct, so
let's provide a way to climb the hierarchy using just csses.
This patch implements css_parent() which, given a css, returns its
parent. The function is guarnateed to valid non-NULL parent css as
long as the target css is not at the top of the hierarchy.
freezer, cpuset, cpu, cpuacct, hugetlb, memory, net_cls and devices
are converted to use css_parent() instead of accessing cgroup->parent
directly.
* __parent_ca() is dropped from cpuacct and its usage is replaced with
parent_ca(). The only difference between the two was NULL test on
cgroup->parent which is now embedded in css_parent() making the
distinction moot. Note that eventually a css->parent field will be
added to css and the NULL check in css_parent() will go away.
This patch shouldn't cause any behavior differences.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
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css (cgroup_subsys_state) is usually embedded in a subsys specific
data structure. Subsystems either use container_of() directly to cast
from css to such data structure or has an accessor function wrapping
such cast. As cgroup as whole is moving towards using css as the main
interface handle, add and update such accessors to ease dealing with
css's.
All accessors explicitly handle NULL input and return NULL in those
cases. While this looks like an extra branch in the code, as all
controllers specific data structures have css as the first field, the
casting doesn't involve any offsetting and the compiler can trivially
optimize out the branch.
* blkio, freezer, cpuset, cpu, cpuacct and net_cls didn't have such
accessor. Added.
* memory, hugetlb and devices already had one but didn't explicitly
handle NULL input. Updated.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
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The names of the two struct cgroup_subsys_state accessors -
cgroup_subsys_state() and task_subsys_state() - are somewhat awkward.
The former clashes with the type name and the latter doesn't even
indicate it's somehow related to cgroup.
We're about to revamp large portion of cgroup API, so, let's rename
them so that they're less awkward. Most per-controller usages of the
accessors are localized in accessor wrappers and given the amount of
scheduled changes, this isn't gonna add any noticeable headache.
Rename cgroup_subsys_state() to cgroup_css() and task_subsys_state()
to task_css(). This patch is pure rename.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
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The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.
After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.
This removes all the drivers/block uses of the __cpuinit macros
from all C files.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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Pull core block IO updates from Jens Axboe:
"Here are the core IO block bits for 3.11. It contains:
- A tweak to the reserved tag logic from Jan, for weirdo devices with
just 3 free tags. But for those it improves things substantially
for random writes.
- Periodic writeback fix from Jan. Marked for stable as well.
- Fix for a race condition in IO scheduler switching from Jianpeng.
- The hierarchical blk-cgroup support from Tejun. This is the grunt
of the series.
- blk-throttle fix from Vivek.
Just a note that I'm in the middle of a relocation, whole family is
flying out tomorrow. Hence I will be awal the remainder of this week,
but back at work again on Monday the 15th. CC'ing Tejun, since any
potential "surprises" will most likely be from the blk-cgroup work.
But it's been brewing for a while and sitting in my tree and
linux-next for a long time, so should be solid."
* 'for-3.11/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (36 commits)
elevator: Fix a race in elevator switching
block: Reserve only one queue tag for sync IO if only 3 tags are available
writeback: Fix periodic writeback after fs mount
blk-throttle: implement proper hierarchy support
blk-throttle: implement throtl_grp->has_rules[]
blk-throttle: Account for child group's start time in parent while bio climbs up
blk-throttle: add throtl_qnode for dispatch fairness
blk-throttle: make throtl_pending_timer_fn() ready for hierarchy
blk-throttle: make tg_dispatch_one_bio() ready for hierarchy
blk-throttle: make blk_throtl_bio() ready for hierarchy
blk-throttle: make blk_throtl_drain() ready for hierarchy
blk-throttle: dispatch from throtl_pending_timer_fn()
blk-throttle: implement dispatch looping
blk-throttle: separate out throtl_service_queue->pending_timer from throtl_data->dispatch_work
blk-throttle: set REQ_THROTTLED from throtl_charge_bio() and gate stats update with it
blk-throttle: implement sq_to_tg(), sq_to_td() and throtl_log()
blk-throttle: add throtl_service_queue->parent_sq
blk-throttle: generalize update_disptime optimization in blk_throtl_bio()
blk-throttle: dispatch to throtl_data->service_queue.bio_lists[]
blk-throttle: move bio_lists[] and friends to throtl_service_queue
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Graft AIX partitions enumeration into partitions/msdos.c
There is already a AIX disks detection logic in msdos.c. When an AIX disk
has been found, and if configured to, call the aix partitions recognizer.
This avoids removal of AIX disks protection from msdos.c, avoids code
duplication, and ensures that AIX partitions enumeration is called before
plain msdos partitions enumeration.
Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add partitions/aix.h and partitions/aix.c.
AIX LVM permits to make "logical volumes" which are made of multiple
slices of multiple disks. The new code allows only access to the
"logical volumes" which are made of one slice on the probed disk, a
slice being a contiguous disk area. The code also detects "logical
volumes" made of multiple slices on the probed disk, but can not
describe them to the partition layer, because the partition layer
generic code does not support that. When such non-contiguous "logical
volumes" are detected, a diagnostic message is printed.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- various misc bits
- I'm been patchmonkeying ocfs2 for a while, as Joel and Mark have been
distracted. There has been quite a bit of activity.
- About half the MM queue
- Some backlight bits
- Various lib/ updates
- checkpatch updates
- zillions more little rtc patches
- ptrace
- signals
- exec
- procfs
- rapidio
- nbd
- aoe
- pps
- memstick
- tools/testing/selftests updates
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (445 commits)
tools/testing/selftests: don't assume the x bit is set on scripts
selftests: add .gitignore for kcmp
selftests: fix clean target in kcmp Makefile
selftests: add .gitignore for vm
selftests: add hugetlbfstest
self-test: fix make clean
selftests: exit 1 on failure
kernel/resource.c: remove the unneeded assignment in function __find_resource
aio: fix wrong comment in aio_complete()
drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2408.c: add magic sequence to disable P0 test mode
drivers/memstick/host/r592.c: convert to module_pci_driver
drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms: convert to module_pci_driver
pps-gpio: add device-tree binding and support
drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to module_platform_driver
drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to devm_* helpers
drivers/parport/share.c: use kzalloc
Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: avoid strncpy in accounting tool
aoe: update internal version number to v83
aoe: update copyright date
aoe: perform I/O completions in parallel
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Disk names may contain arbitrary strings, so they must not be
interpreted as format strings. It seems that only md allows arbitrary
strings to be used for disk names, but this could allow for a local
memory corruption from uid 0 into ring 0.
CVE-2013-2851
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There is a hole in struct hd_geometry, so we have to zero the struct on
stack before copying it to user-space.
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
"This is the bulk of the s390 patches for the 3.11 merge window.
Notable enhancements are: the block timeout patches for dasd from
Hannes, and more work on the PCI support front. In addition some
cleanup and the usual bug fixing."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (42 commits)
s390/dasd: Fail all requests when DASD_FLAG_ABORTIO is set
s390/dasd: Add 'timeout' attribute
block: check for timeout function in blk_rq_timed_out()
block/dasd: detailed I/O errors
s390/dasd: Reduce amount of messages for specific errors
s390/dasd: Implement block timeout handling
s390/dasd: process all requests in the device tasklet
s390/dasd: make number of retries configurable
s390/dasd: Clarify comment
s390/hwsampler: Updated misleading member names in hws_data_entry
s390/appldata_net_sum: do not use static data
s390/appldata_mem: do not use static data
s390/vmwatchdog: do not use static data
s390/airq: simplify adapter interrupt code
s390/pci: remove per device debug attribute
s390/dma: remove gratuitous brackets
s390/facility: decompose test_facility()
s390/sclp: remove duplicated include from sclp_ctl.c
s390/irq: store interrupt information in pt_regs
s390/drivers: Cocci spatch "ptr_ret.spatch"
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There's a race between elevator switching and normal io operation.
Because the allocation of struct elevator_queue and struct elevator_data
don't in a atomic operation.So there are have chance to use NULL
->elevator_data.
For example:
Thread A: Thread B
blk_queu_bio elevator_switch
spin_lock_irq(q->queue_block) elevator_alloc
elv_merge elevator_init_fn
Because call elevator_alloc, it can't hold queue_lock and the
->elevator_data is NULL.So at the same time, threadA call elv_merge and
nedd some info of elevator_data.So the crash happened.
Move the elevator_alloc into func elevator_init_fn, it make the
operations in a atomic operation.
Using the follow method can easy reproduce this bug
1:dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null
2:while true;do echo noop > scheduler;echo deadline > scheduler;done
The test method also use this method.
Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
"Surprisingly, Lai and I didn't break too many things implementing
custom pools and stuff last time around and there aren't any follow-up
changes necessary at this point.
The only change in this pull request is Viresh's patches to make some
per-cpu workqueues to behave as unbound workqueues dependent on a boot
param whose default can be configured via a config option. This leads
to higher processing overhead / lower bandwidth as more work items are
bounced across CPUs; however, it can lead to noticeable powersave in
certain configurations - ~10% w/ idlish constant workload on a
big.LITTLE configuration according to Viresh.
This is because per-cpu workqueues interfere with how the scheduler
perceives whether or not each CPU is idle by forcing pinned tasks on
them, which makes the scheduler's power-aware scheduling decisions
less effective.
Its effectiveness is likely less pronounced on homogenous
configurations and this type of optimization can probably be made
automatic; however, the changes are pretty minimal and the affected
workqueues are clearly marked, so it's an easy gain for some
configurations for the time being with pretty unintrusive changes."
* 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
fbcon: queue work on power efficient wq
block: queue work on power efficient wq
PHYLIB: queue work on system_power_efficient_wq
workqueue: Add system wide power_efficient workqueues
workqueues: Introduce new flag WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT for power oriented workqueues
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rq_timed_out_fn might have been unset while the request
was in flight, so we need to check for it in blk_rq_timed_out().
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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The DASD driver is using FASTFAIL as an equivalent to the
transport errors in SCSI. And the 'steal lock' function maps
roughly to a reservation error. So we should be returning the
appropriate error codes when completing a request.
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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In case a device has three tags available we still reserve two of them
for sync IO. That leaves only a single tag for async IO such as
writeback from flusher thread which results in poor performance.
Allow async IO to consume two tags in case queue has three tag availabe
to get a decent async write performance.
This patch improves streaming write performance on a machine with such disk
from ~21 MB/s to ~52 MB/s. Also postmark throughput in presence of
streaming writer improves from 8 to 12 transactions per second so sync
IO doesn't seem to be harmed in presence of heavy async writer.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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