drivers/char/rtc.c:116: warning: 'hpet_rtc_interrupt' defined but not used
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ran into BUG() while doing madvise(REMOVE) testing. If we are punching a
hole into shared memory segment using madvise(REMOVE) and the entire hole
is below the indirect blocks, we hit following assert.
BUG_ON(limit <= SHMEM_NR_DIRECT);
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Commit 2d7d253548 ("fix cond_resched() fix")
introduced an 'expected_preempt_count' parameter to __resched_legal() to
fix a bug where it was returning a false negative when called from
cond_resched_lock() and preemption was enabled.
Unfortunately this broke things for when preemption is disabled.
preempt_count() will always return zero, thus failing the check against any
value of expected_preempt_count not equal to zero. cond_resched_lock() for
example, passes an expected_preempt_count value of 1.
So fix the fix for the cond_resched() fix by skipping the check of
preempt_count() against expected_preempt_count when preemption is disabled.
Credit should go to Sunil Mushran for spotting the bug during testing.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The VM event counters, enabled by CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS, which provides
VM event counters in /proc/vmstat, has become more essential to
non-EMBEDDED kernel configurations than they were in the past. Comments in
the code and the Kconfig configuration explanation were stale, downplaying
their role excessively.
Refresh those comments to correctly reflect the current role of VM event
counters.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add compile-time and run-time API versioning.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Some msrs, such as MSR_STAR, are not available on all processors. Exporting
them causes qemu to try to fetch them, which will fail.
So, check all msrs for validity at module load time.
Signed-off-by: Michael Riepe <michael@mr511.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Consolidate the logic for checking whether a vcpu index is valid. Also, use
likely(), as a valid value should be the overwhelmingly common case.
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Only (un)account for IO and page-dirtying for devices which have real backing
store (ie: not tmpfs or ramdisks).
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The recent io scheduler allow_merge commit left the block layer with
no merging, oops. This patch fixes that up.
That means the CFQ change needs to be verified again, it might not fix
the original bug now. But that's a seperate thing, I'll double check
that tomorrow.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
truncate presently invalidates the dirty page's buffer_heads then shoots down
the page. But try_to_free_buffers() will now bale out because the page is
dirty.
Net effect: the LRU gets filled with dirty pages which have invalidated
buffer_heads attached. They have no ->mapping and hence cannot be cleaned.
The machine leaks memory at an enormous rate.
Fix this by cleaning the page before running try_to_free_buffers(), so
try_to_free_buffers() can do its work.
Also, remember to do dirty-page-acoounting in cancel_dirty_page() so the
machine won't wedge up trying to write non-existent dirty pages.
Probably still wrong, but now less so.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
XFS appears to call clear_page_dirty to get the mapping tree dirty tag
set correctly at the same time the page dirty flag is cleared. I note
that this can be done by set_page_writeback() if we clear the dirty flag
on the page first when we are writing back the entire page.
Hence it seems to me that the XFS call to clear_page_dirty() could
easily be substituted by clear_page_dirty_for_io() followed by a call to
set_page_writeback() to get the mapping tree tags set correctly after
the page has been marked clean.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The use by FUSE was just a remnant of an optimization from the time
when writable mappings were supported.
Now FUSE never actually allows the creation of dirty pages, so this
invocation of clear_page_dirty() is effectively a no-op.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch removes some questionable code that attempted to make a
no-longer-used page easier to reclaim.
Calling metapage_writepage against such a page will not result in any
I/O being performed, so removing this code shouldn't be a big deal.
[ It's likely that we could have just replaced the "clear_page_dirty()"
call with a call to "cancel_dirty_page()" instead, but in the
meantime this is cleaner and simpler anyway, so unless there is some
overriding reason (and Dave implies there isn't) I'll just use this
patch as-is. - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
They were horribly easy to mis-use because of their tempting naming, and
they also did way more than any users of them generally wanted them to
do.
A dirty page can become clean under two circumstances:
(a) when we write it out. We have "clear_page_dirty_for_io()" for
this, and that function remains unchanged.
In the "for IO" case it is not sufficient to just clear the dirty
bit, you also have to mark the page as being under writeback etc.
(b) when we actually remove a page due to it becoming inaccessible to
users, notably because it was truncate()'d away or the file (or
metadata) no longer exists, and we thus want to cancel any
outstanding dirty state.
For the (b) case, we now introduce "cancel_dirty_page()", which only
touches the page state itself, and verifies that the page is not mapped
(since cancelling writes on a mapped page would be actively wrong as it
is still accessible to users).
Some filesystems need to be fixed up for this: CIFS, FUSE, JFS,
ReiserFS, XFS all use the old confusing functions, and will be fixed
separately in subsequent commits (with some of them just removing the
offending logic, and others using clear_page_dirty_for_io()).
This was confirmed by Martin Michlmayr to fix the apt database
corruption on ARM.
Cc: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrei Popa <andrei.popa@i-neo.ro>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is preparatory work in our continuing saga on some hard-to-trigger
file corruption with shared writable mmap() after the dirty page
tracking changes (commit d08b3851da etc)
were merged.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
fix the schedule_on_each_cpu() implementation: __queue_work() is now
stricter, hence set the work-pending bit before passing in the new work.
(found in the -rt tree, using Peter Zijlstra's files-lock scalability
patchset)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Problem:
sched_fork() has always called scheduler_tick() in some (unlikely)
circumstances in order to update the current task in light of those
circumstances. It has always been the case that the work done by
scheduler_tick() was more than was required to handle the problem in
hand but no harm was done except for the waste of a few CPU cycles.
However, the splitting of scheduler_tick() into two procedures in
2.6.20-rc1 enables the wasted cycles to be saved as the new procedure
task_running_tick() does all the work that is required to rectify the
problem being handled.
Solution:
Replace the call to scheduler_tick() in sched_fork() with a call to
task_running_tick().
Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.com.au>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
if CONFIG_CALGARY_IOMMU is built into the kernel via
CONFIG_CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT, or is enabled via the
iommu=calgary boot option, then the detect_calgary() function runs to
detect the presence of a Calgary IOMMU.
detect_calgary() first searches the BIOS EBDA area for a "rio_table_hdr"
BIOS table. It has this parsing algorithm for the EBDA:
while (offset) {
...
/* The next offset is stored in the 1st word. 0 means no more */
offset = *((unsigned short *)(ptr + offset));
}
got that? Lets repeat it slowly: we've got a BIOS-supplied data
structure, plus Linux kernel code that will only break out of an
infinite parsing loop once the BIOS gives a zero offset. Ok?
Translation: what an excellent opportunity for BIOS writers to lock up
the Linux boot process in an utterly hard to debug place! Indeed the
BIOS jumped on that opportunity on my box, which has the following EBDA
chaining layout:
384, 65282, 65535, 65535, 65535, 65535, 65535, 65535 ...
see the pattern? So my, definitely non-Calgary system happily locks up
in detect_calgary()!
the patch below fixes the boot hang by trusting the BIOS-supplied data
structure a bit less: the parser always has to make forward progress,
and if it doesnt, we break out of the loop and i get the expected kernel
message:
Calgary: Unable to locate Rio Grande Table in EBDA - bailing!
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton
Badari Pulavarty
Mark Fasheh
Paul Jackson
Avi Kivity
Michael Riepe
James Morris
Jens Axboe
David Chinner
Miklos Szeredi
Dave Kleikamp
Linus Torvalds
Ingo Molnar
Al Viro
Peter Williams