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Masami Hiramatsu ec8fc87015 virtio/console: Add a failback for unstealable pipe buffer
Add a failback memcpy path for unstealable pipe buffer.
If buf->ops->steal() fails, virtio-serial tries to
copy the page contents to an allocated page, instead
of just failing splice().

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-09-28 15:05:12 +09:30
Masami Hiramatsu eb5e89fc70 virtio/console: Add splice_write support
Enable to use splice_write from pipe to virtio-console port.
This steals pages from pipe and directly send it to host.

Note that this may accelerate only the guest to host path.

Changes in v2:
 - Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC in syscall context function.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-09-28 15:05:12 +09:30
Linus Torvalds 925a6f0bf8 Merge tag 'hwspinlock-3.6-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ohad/hwspinlock
Pull hwspinlock fix from Ohad Ben-Cohen:
 "A single hwspinlock fix by Wei Yongjun, which prevents potential NULL
  dereferences"

* tag 'hwspinlock-3.6-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ohad/hwspinlock:
  hwspinlock/core: move the dereference below the NULL test
2012-09-18 11:58:54 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi b161dfa693 vfs: dcache: use DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED instead of DCACHE_DISCONNECTED in d_kill()
IBM reported a soft lockup after applying the fix for the rename_lock
deadlock.  Commit c83ce989cb ("VFS: Fix the nfs sillyrename regression
in kernel 2.6.38") was found to be the culprit.

The nfs sillyrename fix used DCACHE_DISCONNECTED to indicate that the
dentry was killed.  This flag can be set on non-killed dentries too,
which results in infinite retries when trying to traverse the dentry
tree.

This patch introduces a separate flag: DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED, which is
only set in d_kill() and makes try_to_ascend() test only this flag.

IBM reported successful test results with this patch.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-18 11:23:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 4651afbbae Merge branch 'for-3.6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
Pull another workqueue fix from Tejun Heo:
 "Unfortunately, yet another late fix.  This too is discovered and fixed
  by Lai.  This bug was introduced during this merge window by commit
  25511a4776 ("workqueue: reimplement CPU online rebinding to handle
  idle workers") which started using WORKER_REBIND flag for idle rebind
  too.

  The bug is relatively easy to trigger if the CPU rapidly goes through
  off, on and then off (and stay off).  The fix is on the safer side.
  This hasn't been on linux-next yet but I'm pushing early so that it
  can get more exposure before v3.6 release."

* 'for-3.6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: always clear WORKER_REBIND in busy_worker_rebind_fn()
2012-09-17 16:05:23 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan 960bd11bf2 workqueue: always clear WORKER_REBIND in busy_worker_rebind_fn()
busy_worker_rebind_fn() didn't clear WORKER_REBIND if rebinding failed
(CPU is down again).  This used to be okay because the flag wasn't
used for anything else.

However, after 25511a477 "workqueue: reimplement CPU online rebinding
to handle idle workers", WORKER_REBIND is also used to command idle
workers to rebind.  If not cleared, the worker may confuse the next
CPU_UP cycle by having REBIND spuriously set or oops / get stuck by
prematurely calling idle_worker_rebind().

  WARNING: at /work/os/wq/kernel/workqueue.c:1323 worker_thread+0x4cd/0x5
 00()
  Hardware name: Bochs
  Modules linked in: test_wq(O-)
  Pid: 33, comm: kworker/1:1 Tainted: G           O 3.6.0-rc1-work+ #3
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff8109039f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
   [<ffffffff810903fa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
   [<ffffffff810b3f1d>] worker_thread+0x4cd/0x500
   [<ffffffff810bc16e>] kthread+0xbe/0xd0
   [<ffffffff81bd2664>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
  ---[ end trace e977cf20f4661968 ]---
  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
  IP: [<ffffffff810b3db0>] worker_thread+0x360/0x500
  PGD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
  Modules linked in: test_wq(O-)
  CPU 0
  Pid: 33, comm: kworker/1:1 Tainted: G        W  O 3.6.0-rc1-work+ #3 Bochs Bochs
  RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810b3db0>]  [<ffffffff810b3db0>] worker_thread+0x360/0x500
  RSP: 0018:ffff88001e1c9de0  EFLAGS: 00010086
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88001e633e00 RCX: 0000000000004140
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000009
  RBP: ffff88001e1c9ea0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
  R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88001fc8d580
  R13: ffff88001fc8d590 R14: ffff88001e633e20 R15: ffff88001e1c6900
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88001fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
  CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000130e8000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Process kworker/1:1 (pid: 33, threadinfo ffff88001e1c8000, task ffff88001e1c6900)
  Stack:
   ffff880000000000 ffff88001e1c9e40 0000000000000001 ffff88001e1c8010
   ffff88001e519c78 ffff88001e1c9e58 ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001e1c6900
   ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001fc8d340 ffff88001fc8d340
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff810bc16e>] kthread+0xbe/0xd0
   [<ffffffff81bd2664>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
  Code: b1 00 f6 43 48 02 0f 85 91 01 00 00 48 8b 43 38 48 89 df 48 8b 00 48 89 45 90 e8 ac f0 ff ff 3c 01 0f 85 60 01 00 00 48 8b 53 50 <8b> 02 83 e8 01 85 c0 89 02 0f 84 3b 01 00 00 48 8b 43 38 48 8b
  RIP  [<ffffffff810b3db0>] worker_thread+0x360/0x500
   RSP <ffff88001e1c9de0>
  CR2: 0000000000000000

There was no reason to keep WORKER_REBIND on failure in the first
place - WORKER_UNBOUND is guaranteed to be set in such cases
preventing incorrectly activating concurrency management.  Always
clear WORKER_REBIND.

tj: Updated comment and description.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-09-17 15:42:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 08077ca849 Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)
Merge fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "13 patches.  12 are fixes and one is a little preparatory thing for
  Andi."

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (13 commits)
  memory hotplug: fix section info double registration bug
  mm/page_alloc: fix the page address of higher page's buddy calculation
  drivers/rtc/rtc-twl.c: ensure all interrupts are disabled during probe
  compiler.h: add __visible
  pid-namespace: limit value of ns_last_pid to (0, max_pid)
  include/net/sock.h: squelch compiler warning in sk_rmem_schedule()
  slub: consider pfmemalloc_match() in get_partial_node()
  slab: fix starting index for finding another object
  slab: do ClearSlabPfmemalloc() for all pages of slab
  nbd: clear waiting_queue on shutdown
  MAINTAINERS: fix TXT maintainer list and source repo path
  mm/ia64: fix a memory block size bug
  memory hotplug: reset pgdat->kswapd to NULL if creating kernel thread fails
2012-09-17 15:01:14 -07:00
qiuxishi f14851af0e memory hotplug: fix section info double registration bug
There may be a bug when registering section info.  For example, on my
Itanium platform, the pfn range of node0 includes the other nodes, so
other nodes' section info will be double registered, and memmap's page
count will equal to 3.

  node0: start_pfn=0x100,    spanned_pfn=0x20fb00, present_pfn=0x7f8a3, => 0x000100-0x20fc00
  node1: start_pfn=0x80000,  spanned_pfn=0x80000,  present_pfn=0x80000, => 0x080000-0x100000
  node2: start_pfn=0x100000, spanned_pfn=0x80000,  present_pfn=0x80000, => 0x100000-0x180000
  node3: start_pfn=0x180000, spanned_pfn=0x80000,  present_pfn=0x80000, => 0x180000-0x200000

  free_all_bootmem_node()
	register_page_bootmem_info_node()
		register_page_bootmem_info_section()

When hot remove memory, we can't free the memmap's page because
page_count() is 2 after put_page_bootmem().

  sparse_remove_one_section()
	free_section_usemap()
		free_map_bootmem()
			put_page_bootmem()

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add code comment]
Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-17 15:00:38 -07:00
Li Haifeng 0ba8f2d593 mm/page_alloc: fix the page address of higher page's buddy calculation
The heuristic method for buddy has been introduced since commit
43506fad21 ("mm/page_alloc.c: simplify calculation of combined index
of adjacent buddy lists").  But the page address of higher page's buddy
was wrongly calculated, which will lead page_is_buddy to fail for ever.
IOW, the heuristic method would be disabled with the wrong page address
of higher page's buddy.

Calculating the page address of higher page's buddy should be based
higher_page with the offset between index of higher page and index of
higher page's buddy.

Signed-off-by: Haifeng Li <omycle@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KyongHo Cho <pullip.cho@samsung.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[2.6.38+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-17 15:00:38 -07:00
Kevin Hilman 8dcebaa9a0 drivers/rtc/rtc-twl.c: ensure all interrupts are disabled during probe
On some platforms, bootloaders are known to do some interesting RTC
programming.  Without going into the obscurities as to why this may be
the case, suffice it to say the the driver should not make any
assumptions about the state of the RTC when the driver loads.  In
particular, the driver probe should be sure that all interrupts are
disabled until otherwise programmed.

This was discovered when finding bursty I2C traffic every second on
Overo platforms.  This I2C overhead was keeping the SoC from hitting
deep power states.  The cause was found to be the RTC firing every
second on the I2C-connected TWL PMIC.

Special thanks to Felipe Balbi for suggesting to look for a rogue driver
as the source of the I2C traffic rather than the I2C driver itself.

Special thanks to Steve Sakoman for helping track down the source of the
continuous RTC interrups on the Overo boards.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Tested-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Tested-by: Shubhrajyoti Datta <omaplinuxkernel@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-17 15:00:38 -07:00
Andi Kleen 9a858dc7ce compiler.h: add __visible
gcc 4.6+ has support for a externally_visible attribute that prevents the
optimizer from optimizing unused symbols away.  Add a __visible macro to
use it with that compiler version or later.

This is used (at least) by the "Link Time Optimization" patchset.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-17 15:00:38 -07:00
Andrew Vagin 579035dc5d pid-namespace: limit value of ns_last_pid to (0, max_pid)
The kernel doesn't check the pid for negative values, so if you try to
write -2 to /proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid, you will get a kernel panic.

The crash happens because the next pid is -1, and alloc_pidmap() will
try to access to a nonexistent pidmap.

  map = &pid_ns->pidmap[pid/BITS_PER_PAGE];

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-17 15:00:38 -07:00
Chuck Lever 35c448a8a3 include/net/sock.h: squelch compiler warning in sk_rmem_schedule()
This warning:

  In file included from linux/include/linux/tcp.h:227:0,
                   from linux/include/linux/ipv6.h:221,
                   from linux/include/net/ipv6.h:16,
                   from linux/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h:26,
                   from linux/net/sunrpc/stats.c:22:
  linux/include/net/sock.h: In function `sk_rmem_schedule':
  linux/nfs-2.6/include/net/sock.h:1339:13: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions [-Wsign-compare]

is seen with gcc (GCC) 4.6.3 20120306 (Red Hat 4.6.3-2) using the
-Wextra option.

Commit c76562b670 ("netvm: prevent a stream-specific deadlock")
accidentally replaced the "size" parameter of sk_rmem_schedule() with an
unsigned int.  This changes the semantics of the comparison in the
return statement.

In sk_wmem_schedule we have syntactically the same comparison, but
"size" is a signed integer.  In addition, __sk_mem_schedule() takes a
signed integer for its "size" parameter, so there is an implicit type
conversion in sk_rmem_schedule() anyway.

Revert the "size" parameter back to a signed integer so that the
semantics of the expressions in both sk_[rw]mem_schedule() are exactly
the same.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-17 15:00:38 -07:00
Joonsoo Kim 8ba00bb68a slub: consider pfmemalloc_match() in get_partial_node()
get_partial() is currently not checking pfmemalloc_match() meaning that
it is possible for pfmemalloc pages to leak to non-pfmemalloc users.
This is a problem in the following situation.  Assume that there is a
request from normal allocation and there are no objects in the per-cpu
cache and no node-partial slab.

In this case, slab_alloc enters the slow path and new_slab_objects() is
called which may return a PFMEMALLOC page.  As the current user is not
allowed to access PFMEMALLOC page, deactivate_slab() is called
([5091b74a: mm: slub: optimise the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc
checks]) and returns an object from PFMEMALLOC page.

Next time, when we get another request from normal allocation,
slab_alloc() enters the slow-path and calls new_slab_objects().  In
new_slab_objects(), we call get_partial() and get a partial slab which
was just deactivated but is a pfmemalloc page.  We extract one object
from it and re-deactivate.

  "deactivate -> re-get in get_partial -> re-deactivate" occures repeatedly.

As a result, access to PFMEMALLOC page is not properly restricted and it
can cause a performance degradation due to frequent deactivation.
deactivation frequently.

This patch changes get_partial_node() to take pfmemalloc_match() into
account and prevents the "deactivate -> re-get in get_partial()
scenario.  Instead, new_slab() is called.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-17 15:00:38 -07:00
Joonsoo Kim d014dc2ed4 slab: fix starting index for finding another object
In array cache, there is a object at index 0, check it.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-17 15:00:38 -07:00
Mel Gorman 30c29bea6a slab: do ClearSlabPfmemalloc() for all pages of slab
Right now, we call ClearSlabPfmemalloc() for first page of slab when we
clear SlabPfmemalloc flag.  This is fine for most swap-over-network use
cases as it is expected that order-0 pages are in use.  Unfortunately it
is possible that that __ac_put_obj() checks SlabPfmemalloc on a tail
page and while this is harmless, it is sloppy.  This patch ensures that
the head page is always used.

This problem was originally identified by Joonsoo Kim.

[js1304@gmail.com: Original implementation and problem identification]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-17 15:00:38 -07:00
Paul Clements fded4e090c nbd: clear waiting_queue on shutdown
Fix a serious but uncommon bug in nbd which occurs when there is heavy
I/O going to the nbd device while, at the same time, a failure (server,
network) or manual disconnect of the nbd connection occurs.

There is a small window between the time that the nbd_thread is stopped
and the socket is shutdown where requests can continue to be queued to
nbd's internal waiting_queue.  When this happens, those requests are
never completed or freed.

The fix is to clear the waiting_queue on shutdown of the nbd device, in
the same way that the nbd request queue (queue_head) is already being
cleared.

Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-17 15:00:37 -07:00
Gang Wei e9b7d7c81d MAINTAINERS: fix TXT maintainer list and source repo path
Signed-off-by: Gang Wei <gang.wei@intel.com>
Cc: Richard L Maliszewski <richard.l.maliszewski@intel.com>
Cc: Gang Wei <gang.wei@intel.com>
Cc: Shane Wang <shane.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-17 15:00:37 -07:00
Jianguo Wu 05cf96398e mm/ia64: fix a memory block size bug
I found following definition in include/linux/memory.h, in my IA64
platform, SECTION_SIZE_BITS is equal to 32, and MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE
will be 0.

  #define MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE     (1 << SECTION_SIZE_BITS)

Because MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE is int type and length of 32bits,
so MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE(1 << 32) will will equal to 0.
Actually when SECTION_SIZE_BITS >= 31, MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE will be wrong.
This will cause wrong system memory infomation in sysfs.
I think it should be:

  #define MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE     (1UL << SECTION_SIZE_BITS)

And "echo offline > memory0/state" will cause following call trace:

  kernel BUG at mm/memory_hotplug.c:885!
  sh[6455]: bugcheck! 0 [1]
  Pid: 6455, CPU 0, comm:                   sh
  psr : 0000101008526030 ifs : 8000000000000fa4 ip  : [<a0000001008c40f0>]    Not tainted (3.6.0-rc1)
  ip is at offline_pages+0x210/0xee0
  Call Trace:
    show_stack+0x80/0xa0
    show_regs+0x640/0x920
    die+0x190/0x2c0
    die_if_kernel+0x50/0x80
    ia64_bad_break+0x3d0/0x6e0
    ia64_native_leave_kernel+0x0/0x270
    offline_pages+0x210/0xee0
    alloc_pages_current+0x180/0x2a0

Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-17 15:00:37 -07:00
Wen Congyang 18b48d5873 memory hotplug: reset pgdat->kswapd to NULL if creating kernel thread fails
If kthread_run() fails, pgdat->kswapd contains errno.  When we stop this
thread, we only check whether pgdat->kswapd is NULL and access it.  If
it contains errno, it will cause page fault.  Reset pgdat->kswapd to
NULL when creating kernel thread fails can avoid this problem.

Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-17 15:00:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 2ade0b7f79 Merge tag 'rdma-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband
Pull InfiniBand/RDMA fixes from Roland Dreier:
 - A couple more IPoIB fixes for regressions introduced by path database
   conversion
 - Minor other fixes to low-level drivers (cxgb4, mlx4, qib, ocrdma)

* tag 'rdma-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
  IB/qib: Fix failure of compliance test C14-024#06_LocalPortNum
  RDMA/ocrdma: Fix CQE expansion of unsignaled WQE
  mlx4_core: Fix integer overflows so 8TBs of memory registration works
  IPoIB: Fix AB-BA deadlock when deleting neighbours
  IPoIB: Fix memory leak in the neigh table deletion flow
  RDMA/cxgb4: Move dereference below NULL test
2012-09-17 13:21:02 -07:00
Francesco Ruggeri 6bf6104573 fs/proc: fix potential unregister_sysctl_table hang
The unregister_sysctl_table() function hangs if all references to its
ctl_table_header structure are not dropped.

This can happen sometimes because of a leak in proc_sys_lookup():
proc_sys_lookup() gets a reference to the table via lookup_entry(), but
it does not release it when a subsequent call to sysctl_follow_link()
fails.

This patch fixes this leak by making sure the reference is always
dropped on return.

See also commit 076c3eed2c ("sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_lookup
introducing find_entry and lookup_entry") which reorganized this code in
3.4.

Tested in Linux 3.4.4.

Signed-off-by: Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@aristanetworks.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-17 10:32:03 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5698bd757d Linux 3.6-rc6 2012-09-16 14:58:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 73f8be297e Merge tag 'mfd-for-linus-3.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/mfd-2.6
Pull mfd fixes from Samuel Ortiz:
 "This is the remaining MFD fixes for 3.6, with 5 pending fixes:

   - A tps65217 build error fix.
   - A lcp_ich regression fix caused by the MFD driver failing to
     initialize the watchdog sub device due to ACPI conflicts.
   - 2 MAX77693 interrupt handling bug fixes.
   - An MFD core fix, adding an IRQ domain argument to the MFD device
     addition API in order to prevent silent and potentially harmful
     remapping behaviour changes for drivers supporting non-DT
     platforms."

* tag 'mfd-for-linus-3.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/mfd-2.6:
  mfd: MAX77693: Fix NULL pointer error when initializing irqs
  mfd: MAX77693: Fix interrupt handling bug
  mfd: core: Push irqdomain mapping out into devices
  mfd: lpc_ich: Fix a 3.5 kernel regression for iTCO_wdt driver
  mfd: Move tps65217 regulator plat data handling to regulator
2012-09-16 13:22:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds c500ce38e5 Merge tag 'for-3.6-rc6' of git://gitorious.org/linux-pwm/linux-pwm
Pull pwm fixes from Thierry Reding:
 "While this comes a bit later than I had wished, both patches are
  rather minor and touch only new drivers so I think these are still
  safe for merging."

* tag 'for-3.6-rc6' of git://gitorious.org/linux-pwm/linux-pwm:
  pwm: pwm-tiehrpwm: Fix conflicting channel period setting
  pwm: pwm-tiecap: Disable APWM mode after configure
2012-09-16 13:20:43 -07:00