16 Jun, 2011
1 commit
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This patch #ifdefs RCU kthreads out of the kernel unless RCU_BOOST=y,
thus eliminating context-switch overhead if RCU priority boosting has
not been configured.Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
15 Jun, 2011
2 commits
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Commit a26ac2455ffcf3(rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread)
introduced performance regression. In an AIM7 test, this commit degraded
performance by about 40%.The commit runs rcu callbacks in a kthread instead of softirq. We observed
high rate of context switch which is caused by this. Out test system has
64 CPUs and HZ is 1000, so we saw more than 64k context switch per second
which is caused by RCU's per-CPU kthread. A trace showed that most of
the time the RCU per-CPU kthread doesn't actually handle any callbacks,
but instead just does a very small amount of work handling grace periods.
This means that RCU's per-CPU kthreads are making the scheduler do quite
a bit of work in order to allow a very small amount of RCU-related
processing to be done.Alex Shi's analysis determined that this slowdown is due to lock
contention within the scheduler. Unfortunately, as Peter Zijlstra points
out, the scheduler's real-time semantics require global action, which
means that this contention is inherent in real-time scheduling. (Yes,
perhaps someone will come up with a workaround -- otherwise, -rt is not
going to do well on large SMP systems -- but this patch will work around
this issue in the meantime. And "the meantime" might well be forever.)This patch therefore re-introduces softirq processing to RCU, but only
for core RCU work. RCU callbacks are still executed in kthread context,
so that only a small amount of RCU work runs in softirq context in the
common case. This should minimize ksoftirqd execution, allowing us to
skip boosting of ksoftirqd for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y kernels.Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li
Tested-by: "Alex,Shi"
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney -
Make the functions creating the kthreads wake them up. Leverage the
fact that the per-node and boost kthreads can run anywhere, thus
dispensing with the need to wake them up once the incoming CPU has
gone fully online.Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Tested-by: Daniel J Blueman
06 Jun, 2011
5 commits
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Al Viro observes that in the hugetlb case, handle_mm_fault() may return
a value of the kind ENOSPC when its caller is expecting a value of the
kind VM_FAULT_SIGBUS: fix alloc_huge_page()'s failure returns.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Acked-by: Al Viro
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
ALSA: usb - turn off de-emphasis in s/pdif for cm6206
ALSA: asihpi: Use angle brackets for system includes
ALSA: fm801: add error handling if auto-detect fails
ALSA: hda - Check pin support EAPD in ad198x_power_eapd_write
ALSA: hda - Fix HP and Front pins of ad1988/ad1989 in ad198x_power_eapd()
ALSA: 6fire: Don't leak firmware in error path
ASoC: Fix wm_hubs input PGA ZC bits
ASoC: Fix dapm_is_shared_kcontrol so everything isn't shared -
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/staging:
hwmon: (max6642): Better chip detection schema
hwmon: (coretemp) Further relax temperature range checks
hwmon: (coretemp) Fix TjMax detection for older CPUs
hwmon: (coretemp) Relax target temperature range check
hwmon: (max6642) Rename temp_fault sysfs attribute to temp2_fault
05 Jun, 2011
4 commits
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* 'for-linus' of git://android.git.kernel.org/kernel/tegra:
ARM: Tegra: Harmony: Fix conflicting GPIO numbering -
Currently, both the WM8903 and TPS6586x chips attempt to register with
gpiolib using the same GPIO numbers. This causes the audio driver to
fail to initialize.To solve this, add a define to board-harmony.h for the TPS6586x, and make
board-harmony-power.c use this define, instead of directly referencing
TEGRA_NR_GPIOS.This fixes a regression introduced by commit
6f168f2fa60f87e85e0df25e87e2372f22f5eb7c.
ARM: tegra: harmony: initialize the TPS65862 PMICSigned-off-by: Stephen Warren
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross -
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (25 commits)
btrfs: fix uninitialized variable warning
btrfs: add helper for fs_info->closing
Btrfs: add mount -o inode_cache
btrfs: scrub: add explicit plugging
btrfs: use btrfs_ino to access inode number
Btrfs: don't save the inode cache if we are deleting this root
btrfs: false BUG_ON when degraded
Btrfs: don't save the inode cache in non-FS roots
Btrfs: make sure we don't overflow the free space cache crc page
Btrfs: fix uninit variable in the delayed inode code
btrfs: scrub: don't reuse bios and pages
Btrfs: leave spinning on lookup and map the leaf
Btrfs: check for duplicate entries in the free space cache
Btrfs: don't try to allocate from a block group that doesn't have enough space
Btrfs: don't always do readahead
Btrfs: try not to sleep as much when doing slow caching
Btrfs: kill BTRFS_I(inode)->block_group
Btrfs: don't look at the extent buffer level 3 times in a row
Btrfs: map the node block when looking for readahead targets
Btrfs: set range_start to the right start in count_range_bits
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Improve detection of MAX6642 by reading non existing registers (0x04, 0x06
and 0xff). Reading those registers returns the previously read value.Signed-off-by: Per Dalen
[guenter.roeck@ericsson.com: added second set of register reads]
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck
04 Jun, 2011
24 commits
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6:
[SCSI] Fix oops caused by queue refcounting failure -
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (40 commits)
tg3: Fix tg3_skb_error_unmap()
net: tracepoint of net_dev_xmit sees freed skb and causes panic
drivers/net/can/flexcan.c: add missing clk_put
net: dm9000: Get the chip in a known good state before enabling interrupts
drivers/net/davinci_emac.c: add missing clk_put
af-packet: Add flag to distinguish VID 0 from no-vlan.
caif: Fix race when conditionally taking rtnl lock
usbnet/cdc_ncm: add missing .reset_resume hook
vlan: fix typo in vlan_dev_hard_start_xmit()
net/ipv4: Check for mistakenly passed in non-IPv4 address
iwl4965: correctly validate temperature value
bluetooth l2cap: fix locking in l2cap_global_chan_by_psm
ath9k: fix two more bugs in tx power
cfg80211: don't drop p2p probe responses
Revert "net: fix section mismatches"
drivers/net/usb/catc.c: Fix potential deadlock in catc_ctrl_run()
sctp: stop pending timers and purge queues when peer restart asoc
drivers/net: ks8842 Fix crash on received packet when in PIO mode.
ip_options_compile: properly handle unaligned pointer
iwlagn: fix incorrect PCI subsystem id for 6150 devices
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With Linus' tree, today's linux-next build (powercp ppc64_defconfig)
produced this warning:fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c: In function 'btrfs_delayed_update_inode':
fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:1598:6: warning: 'ret' may be used
uninitialized in this functionIntroduced by commit 16cdcec736cd ("btrfs: implement delayed inode items
operation").This fixes a bug in btrfs_update_inode(): if the returned value from
btrfs_delayed_update_inode is a nonzero garbage, inode stat data are not
updated and several call paths may hit a BUG_ON or fail with strange
code.Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: David Sterba -
wrap checking of filesystem 'closing' flag and fix a few missing memory
barriers.Signed-off-by: David Sterba
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This makes the inode map cache default to off until we
fix the overflow problem when the free space crcs don't fit
inside a single page.Signed-off-by: Chris Mason
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With the removal of the implicit plugging scrub ends up doing more and
smaller I/O than necessary. This patch adds explicit plugging per chunk.Signed-off-by: Arne Jansen
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason -
commit 4cb5300bc ("Btrfs: add mount -o auto_defrag") accesses inode
number directly while it should use the helper with the new inode
number allocator.Signed-off-by: David Sterba
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason -
With xfstest 254 I can panic the box every time with the inode number caching
stuff on. This is because we clean the inodes out when we delete the subvolume,
but then we write out the inode cache which adds an inode to the subvolume inode
tree, and then when it gets evicted again the root gets added back on the dead
roots list and is deleted again, so we have a double free. To stop this from
happening just return 0 if refs is 0 (and we're not the tree root since tree
root always has refs of 0). With this fix 254 no longer panics. Thanks,Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik
Tested-by: David Sterba
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason -
In degraded mode the struct btrfs_device of missing devs don't have
device->name set. A kstrdup of NULL correctly returns NULL. Don't
BUG in this case.Signed-off-by: Arne Jansen
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason -
This adds extra checks to make sure the inode map we are caching really
belongs to a FS root instead of a special relocation tree. It
prevents crashes during balancing operations.Signed-off-by: Liu Bo
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason -
The free space cache uses only one page for crcs right now,
which means we can't have a cache file bigger than the
crcs we can fit in the first page. This adds a check to
enforce that restriction.Signed-off-by: Chris Mason
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The nitems counter needs to start at zero
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason
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The current scrub implementation reuses bios and pages as often as possible,
allocating them only on start and releasing them when finished. This leads
to more problems with the block layer than it's worth. The elevator gets
confused when there are more pages added to the bio than bi_size suggests.
This patch completely rips out the reuse of bios and pages and allocates
them freshly for each submit.Signed-off-by: Arne Jansen
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
block: Use hlist_entry() for io_context.cic_list.first
cfq-iosched: Remove bogus check in queue_fail path
xen/blkback: potential null dereference in error handling
xen/blkback: don't call vbd_size() if bd_disk is NULL
block: blkdev_get() should access ->bd_disk only after success
CFQ: Fix typo and remove unnecessary semicolon
block: remove unwanted semicolons
Revert "block: Remove extra discard_alignment from hd_struct."
nbd: adjust 'max_part' according to part_shift
nbd: limit module parameters to a sane value
nbd: pass MSG_* flags to kernel_recvmsg()
block: improve the bio_add_page() and bio_add_pc_page() descriptions -
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vapier/blackfin:
Blackfin: strncpy: fix handling of zero lengths -
* 'stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
asm-generic/unistd.h: support sendmmsg syscall
tile: enable CONFIG_BUGVERBOSE -
* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6:
UBIFS: fix-up free space earlier
UBIFS: intialize LPT earlier
UBIFS: assert no fixup when writing a node
UBIFS: fix clean znode counter corruption in error cases
UBIFS: fix memory leak on error path
UBIFS: fix shrinker object count reports
UBIFS: fix recovery broken by the previous recovery fix
UBIFS: amend ubifs_recover_leb interface
UBIFS: introduce a "grouped" journal head flag
UBIFS: supress false error messages -
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-ktest:
ktest: Ignore unset values of the minconfig in config_bisect
ktest: Fix result of rebooting the kernel
ktest: Fix off-by-one in config bisect result -
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* 'rmobile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
ARM: mach-shmobile: add DMAC clock definitions on SH7372
ARM: arch-shmobile: support SDHI card detection on mackerel, using a GPIO
sh_mobile_meram: MERAM platform data for LCDC -
* 'sh-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
dmaengine: shdma: fix a regression: initialise DMA channels for memcpy
dmaengine: shdma: Fix up fallout from runtime PM changes.
Revert "clocksource: sh_cmt: Runtime PM support"
Revert "clocksource: sh_tmu: Runtime PM support"
sh: Fix up asm-generic/ptrace.h fallout.
sh64: Move from P1SEG to CAC_ADDR for consistent sync.
sh64: asm/pgtable.h needs asm/mmu.h
sh: asm/tlb.h needs linux/swap.h
sh: mark DMA slave ID 0 as invalid
sh: Update shmin to reflect PIO dependency.
sh: arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c needs linux/prefetch.h.
sh: add MMCIF runtime PM support on ecovec
sh: switch ap325rxa to dynamically manage the platform camera -
This reverts commit ed0bd2333cffc3d856db9beb829543c1dfc00982.
Since we reverted the TTY API change, we should revert the ASoC update
to it too.Cc: Mark Brown
Cc: Liam Girdwood
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This reverts commit b1c43f82c5aa265442f82dba31ce985ebb7aa71c.
It was broken in so many ways, and results in random odd pty issues.
It re-introduced the buggy schedule_work() in flush_to_ldisc() that can
cause endless work-loops (see commit a5660b41af6a: "tty: fix endless
work loop when the buffer fills up").It also used an "unsigned int" return value fo the ->receive_buf()
function, but then made multiple functions return a negative error code,
and didn't actually check for the error in the caller.And it didn't actually work at all. BenH bisected down odd tty behavior
to it:
"It looks like the patch is causing some major malfunctions of the X
server for me, possibly related to PTYs. For example, cat'ing a
large file in a gnome terminal hangs the kernel for -minutes- in a
loop of what looks like flush_to_ldisc/workqueue code, (some ftrace
data in the quoted bits further down)....
Some more data: It -looks- like what happens is that the
flush_to_ldisc work queue entry constantly re-queues itself (because
the PTY is full ?) and the workqueue thread will basically loop
forver calling it without ever scheduling, thus starving the consumer
process that could have emptied the PTY."which is pretty much exactly the problem we fixed in a5660b41af6a.
Milton Miller pointed out the 'unsigned int' issue.
Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Reported-by: Milton Miller
Cc: Stefan Bigler
Cc: Toby Gray
Cc: Felipe Balbi
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: Alan Cox
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
…wireless-2.6 into for-davem
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CM6206: Turn off de-emphasis channel status bit in S/PDIF output.
Signed-off-by: Eric Lammerts
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai
03 Jun, 2011
4 commits
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The free space fixup is currently initiated during mount after the call to
ubifs_write_master() which results in a write to PEBs; this has been observed
with the patch 'assert no fixup when writing a node' applied:Move the free space fixup on mount to before the calls to
ubifs_recover_inl_heads() and ubifs_write_master(). This results in no
assertions with the previously mentioned patch applied.Artem: tweaked the patch a bit
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardiner
Reviewed-by: Matthew L. Creech
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy -
The current 'mount_ubifs()' implementation does not initialize the LPT until the
the master node is marked dirty. Move the LPT initialization to before marking
the master node dirty. This is a preparation for the next patch which will move
the free-space-fixup check to before marking the master node dirty, because we
have to fix-up the free space before doing any writes.Artem: massaged the patch and commit message.
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardiner
Reviewed-by: Matthew L. Creech
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy -
The current free space fixup can result in some writing to the UBI volume
when the space_fixup flag is set.To catch instances where UBIFS is writing to the NAND while the space_fixup
flag is set, add an assert to ubifs_write_node().Artem: tweaked the patch, added similar assertion to the write buffer
write path.Signed-off-by: Ben Gardiner
Reviewed-by: Matthew L. Creech
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy -
UBIFS maintains per-filesystem and global clean znode counters
('c->clean_zn_cnt' and 'ubifs_clean_zn_cnt'). It is important to maintain
correct values there since the shrinker relies on 'ubifs_clean_zn_cnt'.However, in case of failures during commit the counters were corrupted. E.g.,
if a failure happens in the middle of 'write_index()', then some nodes in the
commit list ('c->cnext') are marked as clean, and some are marked as dirty. And
the 'ubifs_destroy_tnc_subtree()' frees does not retrun correct count, and we
end up with non-zero 'c->clean_zn_cnt' when unmounting. This means that if we
have 2 file-sytem and one of them fails, and we unmount it,
'ubifs_clean_zn_cnt' stays incorrect and confuses the shrinker.Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy
