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2012-09-25lib/flex_proportions.c: fix corruption of denominator in flexible proportionsJan Kara1-1/+1
When racing with CPU hotplug, percpu_counter_sum() can return negative values for the number of observed events. This confuses fprop_new_period(), which uses unsigned type and as a result number of events is set to big *positive* number. From that moment on, things go pear shaped and can result e.g. in division by zero as denominator is later truncated to 32-bits. This bug causes a divide-by-zero oops in bdi_dirty_limit() in Borislav's 3.6.0-rc6 based kernel. Fix the issue by using a signed type in fprop_new_period(). That makes us bail out from the function without doing anything (mistakenly) thinking there are no events to age. That makes aging somewhat inaccurate but getting accurate data would be rather hard. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org> Reported-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-09lib: Fix possible deadlock in flexible proportion codeJan Kara1-2/+8
When percpu counter function in fprop_new_period() is interrupted by an interrupt while holding counter lock, it can cause deadlock when the interrupt wants to take the lock as well. Fix the problem by disabling interrupts when calling percpu counter functions. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-06-09lib: Proportions with flexible periodJan Kara1-0/+266
Implement code computing proportions of events of different type (like code in lib/proportions.c) but allowing periods to have different lengths. This allows us to have aging periods of fixed wallclock time which gives better proportion estimates given the hugely varying throughput of different devices - previous measuring of aging period by number of events has the problem that a reasonable period length for a system with low-end USB stick is not a reasonable period length for a system with high-end storage array resulting either in too slow proportion updates or too fluctuating proportion updates. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>