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Author SHA1 Message Date
Carsten Otte
fff7d05d83 KVM: s390: Make psw available on all exits, not just a subset
commit d7b0b5eb30 upstream.

This patch moves s390 processor status word into the base kvm_run
struct and keeps it up-to date on all userspace exits.

The userspace ABI is broken by this, however there are no applications
in the wild using this.  A capability check is provided so users can
verify the updated API exists.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-18 14:03:35 -08:00
Feng Tang
630d0a27ad hrtimer: Fix /proc/timer_list regression
commit 8629ea2eab upstream.

commit 507e1231 (timer stats: Optimize by adding quick check to avoid
function calls) introduced a regression in /proc/timer_list.

/proc/timer_list shows now
 #0: <c27d46b0>, tick_sched_timer, S:01, <(null)>, /-1
instead of
 #0: <c27d46b0>, tick_sched_timer, S:01, hrtimer_start, swapper/0

Revert the hrtimer quick check for now. The optimization needs more
thought, but this is neither 2.6.32-rc7 nor stable material.

[ tglx: - Removed unrelated changes from the original patch
  	- Prevent unneccesary call to timer_stats_update_stats
	- massaged the changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0911181933540.24119@localhost.localdomain>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-18 14:03:28 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
c64d2a3d2c perf_event: Fix invalid type in ioctl definition
commit 4c49b12853 upstream.

u64 is invalid in userspace headers, including ioctl
definitions; use __u64 instead

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091113214733.7cd76be9@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-18 14:03:07 -08:00
Martin Michlmayr
79daedf8b6 SCSI: osd_protocol.h: Add missing #include
commit 0899638688 upstream.

include/scsi/osd_protocol.h uses ALIGN() without an #include
<linux/kernel.h>, leading to:
| include/scsi/osd_protocol.h:362: error: implicit declaration of function 'ALIGN'

Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-14 09:44:45 -08:00
James Bottomley
d888b1a2d5 SCSI: scsi_lib_dma: fix bug with dma maps on nested scsi objects
commit d139b9bd0e upstream.

Some of our virtual SCSI hosts don't have a proper bus parent at the
top, which can be a problem for doing DMA on them

This patch makes the host device cache a pointer to the physical bus
device and provides an extra API for setting it (the normal API picks
it up from the parent).  This patch also modifies the qla2xxx and lpfc
vport logic to use the new DMA host setting API.

Acked-By: James Smart  <james.smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-14 09:44:44 -08:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
98d338a702 signal: Fix alternate signal stack check
commit 2a855dd01b upstream.

All architectures in the kernel increment/decrement the stack pointer
before storing values on the stack.

On architectures which have the stack grow down sas_ss_sp == sp is not
on the alternate signal stack while sas_ss_sp + sas_ss_size == sp is
on the alternate signal stack.

On architectures which have the stack grow up sas_ss_sp == sp is on
the alternate signal stack while sas_ss_sp + sas_ss_size == sp is not
on the alternate signal stack.

The current implementation fails for architectures which have the
stack grow down on the corner case where sas_ss_sp == sp.This was
reported as Debian bug #544905 on AMD64.
Simplified test case: http://download.breakpoint.cc/tc-sig-stack.c

The test case creates the following stack scenario:
   0xn0300	stack top
   0xn0200	alt stack pointer top (when switching to alt stack)
   0xn01ff	alt stack end
   0xn0100	alt stack start == stack pointer

If the signal is sent the stack pointer is pointing to the base
address of the alt stack and the kernel erroneously decides that it
has already switched to the alternate stack because of the current
check for "sp - sas_ss_sp < sas_ss_size"

On parisc (stack grows up) the scenario would be:
   0xn0200	stack pointer
   0xn01ff	alt stack end
   0xn0100	alt stack start = alt stack pointer base
   		    	  	  (when switching to alt stack)
   0xn0000	stack base

This is handled correctly by the current implementation.

[ tglx: Modified for archs which have the stack grow up (parisc) which
  	would fail with the correct implementation for stack grows
  	down. Added a check for sp >= current->sas_ss_sp which is
  	strictly not necessary but makes the code symetric for both
  	variants ]

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
LKML-Reference: <20091025143758.GA6653@Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-14 09:44:42 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
56f3f55cf9 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/mfd-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/mfd-2.6:
  mfd: Correct WM831X_MAX_ISEL_VALUE
2009-12-02 15:41:49 -08:00
David Howells
f13a48bd79 SLOW_WORK: Move slow_work's proc file to debugfs
Move slow_work's debugging proc file to debugfs.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Requested-and-acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-01 08:20:31 -08:00
Mark Brown
7716977b6a mfd: Correct WM831X_MAX_ISEL_VALUE
There was confusion between the array size and the highest ISEL
value possible.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
2009-12-01 11:24:19 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
29e553631b Merge branch 'security' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
* 'security' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6:
  mac80211: fix spurious delBA handling
  mac80211: fix two remote exploits
2009-11-30 16:47:16 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
ed9fd93e9a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6:
  [SCSI] fix crash when disconnecting usb storage
  [SCSI] fix async scan add/remove race resulting in an oops
  [SCSI] sd: Return correct error code for DIF
2009-11-30 15:21:50 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
cd79bf7b1c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (42 commits)
  b44: Fix wedge when using netconsole.
  wan: cosa: drop chan->wsem on error path
  ep93xx-eth: check for zero MAC address on probe, not on device open
  NET: smc91x: Fix irq flags
  smsc9420: prevent BUG() if ethtool is called with interface down
  r8169: restore mac addr in rtl8169_remove_one and rtl_shutdown
  ipv4: additional update of dev_net(dev) to struct *net in ip_fragment.c, NULL ptr OOPS
  e100: Use pci pool to work around GFP_ATOMIC order 5 memory allocation failure
  sctp: on T3_RTX retransmit all the in-flight chunks
  pktgen: Fix netdevice unregister
  macvlan: fix gso_max_size setting
  rfkill: fix miscdev ops
  ath9k: set ps_default as false
  hso: fix soft-lockup
  hso: fix debug routines
  pktgen: Fix device name compares
  stmmac: do not fail when the timer cannot be used.
  stmmac: fixed a compilation error when use the external timer
  netfilter: xt_limit: fix invalid return code in limit_mt_check()
  Au1x00: fix crash when trying register_netdev()
  ...
2009-11-30 14:01:36 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6e80133f7f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache: (31 commits)
  FS-Cache: Provide nop fscache_stat_d() if CONFIG_FSCACHE_STATS=n
  SLOW_WORK: Fix GFS2 to #include <linux/module.h> before using THIS_MODULE
  SLOW_WORK: Fix CIFS to pass THIS_MODULE to slow_work_register_user()
  CacheFiles: Don't log lookup/create failing with ENOBUFS
  CacheFiles: Catch an overly long wait for an old active object
  CacheFiles: Better showing of debugging information in active object problems
  CacheFiles: Mark parent directory locks as I_MUTEX_PARENT to keep lockdep happy
  CacheFiles: Handle truncate unlocking the page we're reading
  CacheFiles: Don't write a full page if there's only a partial page to cache
  FS-Cache: Actually requeue an object when requested
  FS-Cache: Start processing an object's operations on that object's death
  FS-Cache: Make sure FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP cleared on lookup failure
  FS-Cache: Add a retirement stat counter
  FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions
  FS-Cache: Handle read request vs lookup, creation or other cache failure
  FS-Cache: Don't delete pending pages from the page-store tracking tree
  FS-Cache: Fix lock misorder in fscache_write_op()
  FS-Cache: The object-available state can't rely on the cookie to be available
  FS-Cache: Permit cache retrieval ops to be interrupted in the initial wait phase
  FS-Cache: Use radix tree preload correctly in tracking of pages to be stored
  ...
2009-11-30 13:33:48 -08:00
Johannes Berg
827d42c9ac mac80211: fix spurious delBA handling
Lennert Buytenhek noticed that delBA handling in mac80211
was broken and has remotely triggerable problems, some of
which are due to some code shuffling I did that ended up
changing the order in which things were done -- this was

  commit d75636ef9c
  Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
  Date:   Tue Feb 10 21:25:53 2009 +0100

    mac80211: RX aggregation: clean up stop session

and other parts were already present in the original

  commit d92684e660
  Author: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
  Date:   Mon Jan 28 14:07:22 2008 +0200

      mac80211: A-MPDU Tx add delBA from recipient support

The first problem is that I moved a BUG_ON before various
checks -- thereby making it possible to hit. As the comment
indicates, the BUG_ON can be removed since the ampdu_action
callback must already exist when the state is != IDLE.

The second problem isn't easily exploitable but there's a
race condition due to unconditionally setting the state to
OPERATIONAL when a delBA frame is received, even when no
aggregation session was ever initiated. All the drivers
accept stopping the session even then, but that opens a
race window where crashes could happen before the driver
accepts it. Right now, a WARN_ON may happen with non-HT
drivers, while the race opens only for HT drivers.

For this case, there are two things necessary to fix it:
 1) don't process spurious delBA frames, and be more careful
    about the session state; don't drop the lock

 2) HT drivers need to be prepared to handle a session stop
    even before the session was really started -- this is
    true for all drivers (that support aggregation) but
    iwlwifi which can be fixed easily. The other HT drivers
    (ath9k and ar9170) are behaving properly already.

Reported-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-30 13:55:51 -05:00
Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul
5fdd4baef6 sctp: on T3_RTX retransmit all the in-flight chunks
When retransmitting due to T3 timeout, retransmit all the
in-flight chunks for the corresponding  transport/path, including
chunks sent less then 1 rto ago.
This is the correct behaviour according to rfc4960 section 6.3.3
E3 and
"Note: Any DATA chunks that were sent to the address for which the
 T3-rtx timer expired but did not fit in one MTU (rule E3 above)
 should be marked for retransmission and sent as soon as cwnd
 allows (normally, when a SACK arrives). ".

This fixes problems when more then one path is present and the T3
retransmission of the first chunk that timeouts stops the T3 timer
for the initial active path, leaving all the other in-flight
chunks waiting forever or until a new chunk is transmitted on the
same path and timeouts (and this will happen only if the cwnd
allows sending new chunks, but since cwnd was dropped to MTU by
the timeout => it will wait until the first heartbeat).

Example: 10 packets in flight, sent at 0.1 s intervals on the
primary path. The primary path is down and the first packet
timeouts. The first packet is retransmitted on another path, the
T3 timer for the primary path is stopped and cwnd is set to MTU.
All the other 9 in-flight packets will not be retransmitted
(unless more new packets are sent on the primary path which depend
on cwnd allowing it, and even in this case the 9 packets will be
retransmitted only after a new packet timeouts which even in the
best case would be more then RTO).

This commit reverts d0ce92910b and
also removes the now unused transport->last_rto, introduced in
 b6157d8e03.

p.s  The problem is not only when multiple paths are there.  It
can happen in a single homed environment.  If the application
stops sending data, it possible to have a hung association.

Signed-off-by: Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul <andrei@iptel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-29 00:14:02 -08:00
James Bottomley
860dc73608 [SCSI] fix async scan add/remove race resulting in an oops
Async scanning introduced a very wide window where the SCSI device is
up and running but has not yet been added to sysfs.  We delay the
adding until all scans have completed to retain the same ordering as
sync scanning.

This delay in visibility causes an oops if a device is removed before
we make it visible because the SCSI removal routines have an inbuilt
assumption that if a device is in SDEV_RUNNING state, it must be
visible (which is not necessarily true in the async scanning case).

Fix this by introducing an additional is_visible flag which we can use
to condition the tear down so we do the right thing for running but
not yet made visible.

Reported-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2009-11-26 09:43:39 -06:00
Kevin Wells
4ced24c897 i2c: i2c-pnx: Made buf type unsigned to prevent sign extension
Made buf type unsigned to prevent sign extension

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wells <kevin.wells@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
2009-11-20 00:25:42 +00:00
Alan Cox
308efab5e2 vt: Fix use of "new" in a struct field
As this struct is exposed to user space and the API was added for this
release it's a bit of a pain for the C++ world and we still have time to
fix it. Rename the fields before we end up with that pain in an actual
release.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Olivier Goffart
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-11-19 13:43:06 -08:00
David Howells
fee096deb4 CacheFiles: Catch an overly long wait for an old active object
Catch an overly long wait for an old, dying active object when we want to
replace it with a new one.  The probability is that all the slow-work threads
are hogged, and the delete can't get a look in.

What we do instead is:

 (1) if there's nothing in the slow work queue, we sleep until either the dying
     object has finished dying or there is something in the slow work queue
     behind which we can queue our object.

 (2) if there is something in the slow work queue, we return ETIMEDOUT to
     fscache_lookup_object(), which then puts us back on the slow work queue,
     presumably behind the deletion that we're blocked by.  We are then
     deferred for a while until we work our way back through the queue -
     without blocking a slow-work thread unnecessarily.

A backtrace similar to the following may appear in the log without this patch:

	INFO: task kslowd004:5711 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
	"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
	kslowd004     D 0000000000000000     0  5711      2 0x00000080
	 ffff88000340bb80 0000000000000046 ffff88002550d000 0000000000000000
	 ffff88002550d000 0000000000000007 ffff88000340bfd8 ffff88002550d2a8
	 000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff88002550d2a8
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffff81058e21>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
	 [<ffffffffa011c4d8>] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa011c4e1>] cachefiles_wait_bit+0x9/0xd [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffff81353153>] __wait_on_bit+0x43/0x76
	 [<ffffffff8111ae39>] ? ext3_xattr_get+0x1ec/0x270
	 [<ffffffff813531ef>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x69/0x74
	 [<ffffffffa011c4d8>] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffff8104c125>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x2e
	 [<ffffffffa011bc79>] cachefiles_mark_object_active+0x203/0x23b [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa011c209>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x558/0x827 [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa011a429>] cachefiles_lookup_object+0xac/0x12a [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa00aa1e9>] fscache_lookup_object+0x1c7/0x214 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa00aafc5>] fscache_object_state_machine+0xa5/0x52d [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa00ab4ac>] fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x5f/0xa0 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
	 [<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
	 [<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
	 [<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
	1 lock held by kslowd004/5711:
	 #0:  (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#7/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa011be64>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x1b3/0x827 [cachefiles]

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:12:05 +00:00
David Howells
a17754fb8c CacheFiles: Don't write a full page if there's only a partial page to cache
cachefiles_write_page() writes a full page to the backing file for the last
page of the netfs file, even if the netfs file's last page is only a partial
page.

This causes the EOF on the backing file to be extended beyond the EOF of the
netfs, and thus the backing file will be truncated by cachefiles_attr_changed()
called from cachefiles_lookup_object().

So we need to limit the write we make to the backing file on that last page
such that it doesn't push the EOF too far.

Also, if a backing file that has a partial page at the end is expanded, we
discard the partial page and refetch it on the basis that we then have a hole
in the file with invalid data, and should the power go out...  A better way to
deal with this could be to record a note that the partial page contains invalid
data until the correct data is written into it.

This isn't a problem for netfs's that discard the whole backing file if the
file size changes (such as NFS).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:52 +00:00
David Howells
60d543ca72 FS-Cache: Start processing an object's operations on that object's death
Start processing an object's operations when that object moves into the DYING
state as the object cannot be destroyed until all its outstanding operations
have completed.

Furthermore, make sure that read and allocation operations handle being woken
up on a dead object.  Such events are recorded in the Allocs.abt and
Retrvls.abt statistics as viewable through /proc/fs/fscache/stats.

The code for waiting for object activation for the read and allocation
operations is also extracted into its own function as it is much the same in
all cases, differing only in the stats incremented.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:45 +00:00
David Howells
201a15428b FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions
Handle netfs pages that the vmscan algorithm wants to evict from the pagecache
under OOM conditions, but that are waiting for write to the cache.  Under these
conditions, vmscan calls the releasepage() function of the netfs, asking if a
page can be discarded.

The problem is typified by the following trace of a stuck process:

	kslowd005     D 0000000000000000     0  4253      2 0x00000080
	 ffff88001b14f370 0000000000000046 ffff880020d0d000 0000000000000007
	 0000000000000006 0000000000000001 ffff88001b14ffd8 ffff880020d0d2a8
	 000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff880020d0d2a8
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffffa00782d8>] __fscache_wait_on_page_write+0x8b/0xa7 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffffa0078240>] ? __fscache_check_page_write+0x63/0x70 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa00b671d>] nfs_fscache_release_page+0x4e/0xc4 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffffa00927f0>] nfs_release_page+0x3c/0x41 [nfs]
	 [<ffffffff810885d3>] try_to_release_page+0x32/0x3b
	 [<ffffffff81093203>] shrink_page_list+0x316/0x4ac
	 [<ffffffff8109372b>] shrink_inactive_list+0x392/0x67c
	 [<ffffffff813532fa>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x100/0x10b
	 [<ffffffff81058df0>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x130
	 [<ffffffff8135330e>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0xb
	 [<ffffffff81093aa2>] shrink_list+0x8d/0x8f
	 [<ffffffff81093d1c>] shrink_zone+0x278/0x33c
	 [<ffffffff81052d6c>] ? ktime_get_ts+0xad/0xba
	 [<ffffffff81094b13>] try_to_free_pages+0x22e/0x392
	 [<ffffffff81091e24>] ? isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x212
	 [<ffffffff8108e743>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3dc/0x5cf
	 [<ffffffff81089529>] grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x65/0xaa
	 [<ffffffff8110f8c0>] ext3_write_begin+0x78/0x1eb
	 [<ffffffff81089ec5>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x109/0x28c
	 [<ffffffff8103cb69>] ? current_fs_time+0x22/0x29
	 [<ffffffff8108a509>] __generic_file_aio_write+0x350/0x385
	 [<ffffffff8108a588>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x4a/0xae
	 [<ffffffff8108a59e>] generic_file_aio_write+0x60/0xae
	 [<ffffffff810b2e82>] do_sync_write+0xe3/0x120
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffff810b18e1>] ? __dentry_open+0x1a5/0x2b8
	 [<ffffffff810b1a76>] ? dentry_open+0x82/0x89
	 [<ffffffffa00e693c>] cachefiles_write_page+0x298/0x335 [cachefiles]
	 [<ffffffffa0077147>] fscache_write_op+0x178/0x2c2 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffffa0075656>] fscache_op_execute+0x7a/0xd1 [fscache]
	 [<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
	 [<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
	 [<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
	 [<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
	 [<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
	 [<ffffffff8102ef83>] ? tg_shares_up+0x171/0x227
	 [<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
	 [<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20

In the above backtrace, the following is happening:

 (1) A page storage operation is being executed by a slow-work thread
     (fscache_write_op()).

 (2) FS-Cache farms the operation out to the cache to perform
     (cachefiles_write_page()).

 (3) CacheFiles is then calling Ext3 to perform the actual write, using Ext3's
     standard write (do_sync_write()) under KERNEL_DS directly from the netfs
     page.

 (4) However, for Ext3 to perform the write, it must allocate some memory, in
     particular, it must allocate at least one page cache page into which it
     can copy the data from the netfs page.

 (5) Under OOM conditions, the memory allocator can't immediately come up with
     a page, so it uses vmscan to find something to discard
     (try_to_free_pages()).

 (6) vmscan finds a clean netfs page it might be able to discard (possibly the
     one it's trying to write out).

 (7) The netfs is called to throw the page away (nfs_release_page()) - but it's
     called with __GFP_WAIT, so the netfs decides to wait for the store to
     complete (__fscache_wait_on_page_write()).

 (8) This blocks a slow-work processing thread - possibly against itself.

The system ends up stuck because it can't write out any netfs pages to the
cache without allocating more memory.

To avoid this, we make FS-Cache cancel some writes that aren't in the middle of
actually being performed.  This means that some data won't make it into the
cache this time.  To support this, a new FS-Cache function is added
fscache_maybe_release_page() that replaces what the netfs releasepage()
functions used to do with respect to the cache.

The decisions fscache_maybe_release_page() makes are counted and displayed
through /proc/fs/fscache/stats on a line labelled "VmScan".  There are four
counters provided: "nos=N" - pages that weren't pending storage; "gon=N" -
pages that were pending storage when we first looked, but weren't by the time
we got the object lock; "bsy=N" - pages that we ignored as they were actively
being written when we looked; and "can=N" - pages that we cancelled the storage
of.

What I'd really like to do is alter the behaviour of the cancellation
heuristics, depending on how necessary it is to expel pages.  If there are
plenty of other pages that aren't waiting to be written to the cache that
could be ejected first, then it would be nice to hold up on immediate
cancellation of cache writes - but I don't see a way of doing that.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:35 +00:00
David Howells
1bccf513ac FS-Cache: Fix lock misorder in fscache_write_op()
FS-Cache has two structs internally for keeping track of the internal state of
a cached file: the fscache_cookie struct, which represents the netfs's state,
and fscache_object struct, which represents the cache's state.  Each has a
pointer that points to the other (when both are in existence), and each has a
spinlock for pointer maintenance.

Since netfs operations approach these structures from the cookie side, they get
the cookie lock first, then the object lock.  Cache operations, on the other
hand, approach from the object side, and get the object lock first.  It is not
then permitted for a cache operation to get the cookie lock whilst it is
holding the object lock lest deadlock occur; instead, it must do one of two
things:

 (1) increment the cookie usage counter, drop the object lock and then get both
     locks in order, or

 (2) simply hold the object lock as certain parts of the cookie may not be
     altered whilst the object lock is held.

It is also not permitted to follow either pointer without holding the lock at
the end you start with.  To break the pointers between the cookie and the
object, both locks must be held.

fscache_write_op(), however, violates the locking rules: It attempts to get the
cookie lock without (a) checking that the cookie pointer is a valid pointer,
and (b) holding the object lock to protect the cookie pointer whilst it follows
it.  This is so that it can access the pending page store tree without
interference from __fscache_write_page().

This is fixed by splitting the cookie lock, such that the page store tracking
tree is protected by its own lock, and checking that the cookie pointer is
non-NULL before we attempt to follow it whilst holding the object lock.

The new lock is subordinate to both the cookie lock and the object lock, and so
should be taken after those.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:25 +00:00
David Howells
4fbf4291aa FS-Cache: Allow the current state of all objects to be dumped
Allow the current state of all fscache objects to be dumped by doing:

	cat /proc/fs/fscache/objects

By default, all objects and all fields will be shown.  This can be restricted
by adding a suitable key to one of the caller's keyrings (such as the session
keyring):

	keyctl add user fscache:objlist "<restrictions>" @s

The <restrictions> are:

	K	Show hexdump of object key (don't show if not given)
	A	Show hexdump of object aux data (don't show if not given)

And paired restrictions:

	C	Show objects that have a cookie
	c	Show objects that don't have a cookie
	B	Show objects that are busy
	b	Show objects that aren't busy
	W	Show objects that have pending writes
	w	Show objects that don't have pending writes
	R	Show objects that have outstanding reads
	r	Show objects that don't have outstanding reads
	S	Show objects that have slow work queued
	s	Show objects that don't have slow work queued

If neither side of a restriction pair is given, then both are implied.  For
example:

	keyctl add user fscache:objlist KB @s

shows objects that are busy, and lists their object keys, but does not dump
their auxiliary data.  It also implies "CcWwRrSs", but as 'B' is given, 'b' is
not implied.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:04 +00:00
David Howells
440f0affe2 FS-Cache: Annotate slow-work runqueue proc lines for FS-Cache work items
Annotate slow-work runqueue proc lines for FS-Cache work items.  Objects
include the object ID and the state.  Operations include the object ID, the
operation ID and the operation type and state.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:01 +00:00