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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media
Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
- a new jpeg codec driver for Samsung Exynos (jpeg-hw-exynos4)
- a new dvb frontend for ds2103 chipset (m88ds2103)
- a new sensor driver for Samsung S5K5BAF UXGA (s5k5baf)
- new drivers for R-Car VSP1
- a new radio driver: radio-raremono
- a new tuner driver for ts2022 chipset (m88ts2022)
- the analog part of em28xx is now a separate module that only
load/runs if the device is not a pure digital TV device
- added a staging driver for bcm2048 radio devices
- the omap 2 video driver (omap24xx) was moved to staging. This driver
is for an old hardware and uses a deprecated Kernel internal API. If
nobody cares enough to fix it, it would be removed on a couple Kernel
releases
- the sn9c102 driver was moved to staging. This driver was replaced by
gspca, and disabled on some distros, as almost all devices are known
to work properly with gspca. It should be removed from kernel on a
couple Kernel releases
- lots of driver fixes, improvements and cleanups
* 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (421 commits)
[media] media: v4l2-dev: fix video device index assignment
[media] rc-core: reuse device numbers
[media] em28xx-cards: properly initialize the device bitmap
[media] Staging: media: Fix line length exceeding 80 characters in as102_drv.c
[media] Staging: media: Fix line length exceeding 80 characters in as102_fe.c
[media] Staging: media: Fix quoted string split across line in as102_fe.c
[media] media: st-rc: Add reset support
[media] m2m-deinterlace: fix allocated struct type
[media] radio-usb-si4713: fix sparse non static symbol warnings
[media] em28xx-audio: remove needless check before usb_free_coherent()
[media] au0828: Fix sparse non static symbol warning
Revert "[media] go7007-usb: only use go->dev after allocated"
[media] em28xx-audio: provide an error code when URB submit fails
[media] em28xx: fix check for audio only usb interfaces when changing the usb alternate setting
[media] em28xx: fix usb alternate setting for analog and digital video endpoints > 0
[media] em28xx: make 'em28xx_ctrl_ops' static
em28xx-alsa: Fix error patch for init/fini
[media] em28xx-audio: flush work at .fini
[media] drxk: remove the option to load firmware asynchronously
[media] em28xx: adjust period size at runtime
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull ACPI and power management fixes and cleanups from Rafael Wysocki:
- ACPI device hotplug fix preventing ACPI drivers from binding to device
objects that acpi_bus_trim() has been called for and the devices
represented by them may not be operational.
- Recent cpufreq changes related to the "boost" (turbo) feature broke
the acpi-cpufreq error code path causing a NULL pointer dereference
to occur on some systems. Fix from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk.
- The log level of a CPU initialization error message added recently
needs to be reduced, because the particular BIOS issue indicated by
it turns out to be widespread and doesn't really matter for the
majority of systems having it. From Jiang Liu.
- The regulator API needs to be told to stay away from things on systems
with ACPI BIOSes or it may conflict with the BIOS' own handling of
voltage regulators. Fix from Mark Brown that works around a 3.13
regression in lm90 on PCs occuring if the regulator API is enabled.
- Prevent the Exynos4 devfreq driver from being built on multiplatform,
because it depends on things that aren't available during such builds.
From Sachin Kamat.
- Upstream ACPICA doesn't use the bool type as defined in the kernel,
so modify the kernel's ACPICA code to follow the upstream in that
respect (only one variable definition is affected) to reduce
divergences between the two. From Lv Zheng.
- Make the ACPI device PM code use ACPI_COMPANION() instead of its own
routine doing the same thing (and invokng ACPI_COMPANION() in the
process).
- Modify some routines in the ACPI processor driver to follow the
common convention and return negative integers on errors. From
Hanjun Guo.
* tag 'pm+acpi-3.14-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
ACPI / scan: Clear match_driver flag in acpi_bus_trim()
ACPI / init: Flag use of ACPI and ACPI idioms for power supplies to regulator API
acpi-cpufreq: De-register CPU notifier and free struct msr on error.
ACPICA: Remove bool usage from ACPICA.
PM / devfreq: Disable Exynos4 driver build on multiplatform
ACPI / PM: Use ACPI_COMPANION() to get ACPI companions of devices
ACPI / scan: reduce log level of "ACPI: \_PR_.CPU4: failed to get CPU APIC ID"
ACPI / processor: Return specific error value when mapping lapic id
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer/dynticks updates from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree contains misc dynticks updates: a fix and three cleanups"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/nohz: Fix overflow error in scheduler_tick_max_deferment()
nohz_full: fix code style issue of tick_nohz_full_stop_tick
nohz: Get timekeeping max deferment outside jiffies_lock
tick: Rename tick_check_idle() to tick_irq_enter()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"A crash fix and documentation updates"
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched: Make sched_class::get_rr_interval() optional
sched/deadline: Add sched_dl documentation
sched: Fix docbook parameter annotation error in wait.h
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core debug changes from Ingo Molnar:
"This contains mostly kernel debugging related updates:
- make hung_task detection more configurable to distros
- add final bits for x86 UV NMI debugging, with related KGDB changes
- update the mailing-list of MAINTAINERS entries I'm involved with"
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
hung_task: Display every hung task warning
sysctl: Add neg_one as a standard constraint
x86/uv/nmi, kgdb/kdb: Fix UV NMI handler when KDB not configured
x86/uv/nmi: Fix Sparse warnings
kgdb/kdb: Fix no KDB config problem
MAINTAINERS: Restore "L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" entries
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull Xen bugfixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
"Bug-fixes for the new features that were added during this cycle.
There are also two fixes for long-standing issues for which we have a
solution: grant-table operations extra work that was not needed
causing performance issues and the self balloon code was too
aggressive causing OOMs.
Details:
- Xen ARM couldn't use the new FIFO events
- Xen ARM couldn't use the SWIOTLB if compiled as 32-bit with 64-bit PCIe devices.
- Grant table were doing needless M2P operations.
- Ratchet down the self-balloon code so it won't OOM.
- Fix misplaced kfree in Xen PVH error code paths"
* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-late-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen/pvh: Fix misplaced kfree from xlated_setup_gnttab_pages
drivers: xen: deaggressive selfballoon driver
xen/grant-table: Avoid m2p_override during mapping
xen/gnttab: Use phys_addr_t to describe the grant frame base address
xen: swiotlb: handle sizeof(dma_addr_t) != sizeof(phys_addr_t)
arm/xen: Initialize event channels earlier
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Pull more KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"Second batch of KVM updates. Some minor x86 fixes, two s390 guest
features that need some handling in the host, and all the PPC changes.
The PPC changes include support for little-endian guests and
enablement for new POWER8 features"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (45 commits)
x86, kvm: correctly access the KVM_CPUID_FEATURES leaf at 0x40000101
x86, kvm: cache the base of the KVM cpuid leaves
kvm: x86: move KVM_CAP_HYPERV_TIME outside #ifdef
KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Cope with doorbell interrupts
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add software abort codes for transactional memory
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add new state for transactional memory
powerpc/Kconfig: Make TM select VSX and VMX
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Basic little-endian guest support
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add support for DABRX register on POWER7
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Prepare for host using hypervisor doorbells
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Handle new LPCR bits on POWER8
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Handle guest using doorbells for IPIs
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Consolidate code that checks reason for wake from nap
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Implement architecture compatibility modes for POWER8
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add handler for HV facility unavailable
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Flush the correct number of TLB sets on POWER8
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Context-switch new POWER8 SPRs
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Align physical and virtual CPU thread numbers
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't set DABR on POWER8
kvm/ppc: IRQ disabling cleanup
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Pull jfs fix from David Kleikamp:
"Minor bug fix for linux-3.14"
* tag 'jfs-3.14' of git://github.com/kleikamp/linux-shaggy:
jfs: fix xattr value size overflow in __jfs_setxattr
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Add matching dput() for d_find_alias(). Move d_find_alias() down a bit
at Julia's suggestion.
[ Introduced by commit 72466d0b92e0: "ceph: fix posix ACL hooks" ]
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Reviewed-by: Ilya Dryomov <ilya.dryomov@inktank.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Passing a freed 'pages' to free_xenballooned_pages will end badly
on kernels with slub debug enabled.
This looks out of place between the rc assign and the check, but
we do want to kfree pages regardless of which path we take.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Current xen-selfballoon driver is too aggressive which may cause OOM be
triggered more often. Eg. this bug reported by James:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/21/158
There are two mainly reasons:
1) The original goal_page didn't consider some pages used by kernel space, like
slab pages and pages used by device drivers.
2) The balloon driver may not give back memory to guest OS fast enough when the
workload suddenly aquries a lot of physical memory.
In both cases, the guest OS will suffer from memory pressure and OOM may
be triggered.
The fix is make xen-selfballoon driver not that aggressive by adding extra 10%
of total ram pages to goal_page.
It's more valuable to keep the guest system reliable and response faster than
balloon out these 10% pages to XEN.
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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The grant mapping API does m2p_override unnecessarily: only gntdev needs it,
for blkback and future netback patches it just cause a lock contention, as
those pages never go to userspace. Therefore this series does the following:
- the original functions were renamed to __gnttab_[un]map_refs, with a new
parameter m2p_override
- based on m2p_override either they follow the original behaviour, or just set
the private flag and call set_phys_to_machine
- gnttab_[un]map_refs are now a wrapper to call __gnttab_[un]map_refs with
m2p_override false
- a new function gnttab_[un]map_refs_userspace provides the old behaviour
It also removes a stray space from page.h and change ret to 0 if
XENFEAT_auto_translated_physmap, as that is the only possible return value
there.
v2:
- move the storing of the old mfn in page->index to gnttab_map_refs
- move the function header update to a separate patch
v3:
- a new approach to retain old behaviour where it needed
- squash the patches into one
v4:
- move out the common bits from m2p* functions, and pass pfn/mfn as parameter
- clear page->private before doing anything with the page, so m2p_find_override
won't race with this
v5:
- change return value handling in __gnttab_[un]map_refs
- remove a stray space in page.h
- add detail why ret = 0 now at some places
v6:
- don't pass pfn to m2p* functions, just get it locally
Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
Suggested-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs
Pull btrfs updates from Chris Mason:
"This is a pretty big pull, and most of these changes have been
floating in btrfs-next for a long time. Filipe's properties work is a
cool building block for inheriting attributes like compression down on
a per inode basis.
Jeff Mahoney kicked in code to export filesystem info into sysfs.
Otherwise, lots of performance improvements, cleanups and bug fixes.
Looks like there are still a few other small pending incrementals, but
I wanted to get the bulk of this in first"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs: (149 commits)
Btrfs: fix spin_unlock in check_ref_cleanup
Btrfs: setup inode location during btrfs_init_inode_locked
Btrfs: don't use ram_bytes for uncompressed inline items
Btrfs: fix btrfs_search_slot_for_read backwards iteration
Btrfs: do not export ulist functions
Btrfs: rework ulist with list+rb_tree
Btrfs: fix memory leaks on walking backrefs failure
Btrfs: fix send file hole detection leading to data corruption
Btrfs: add a reschedule point in btrfs_find_all_roots()
Btrfs: make send's file extent item search more efficient
Btrfs: fix to catch all errors when resolving indirect ref
Btrfs: fix protection between walking backrefs and root deletion
btrfs: fix warning while merging two adjacent extents
Btrfs: fix infinite path build loops in incremental send
btrfs: undo sysfs when open_ctree() fails
Btrfs: fix snprintf usage by send's gen_unique_name
btrfs: fix defrag 32-bit integer overflow
btrfs: sysfs: list the NO_HOLES feature
btrfs: sysfs: don't show reserved incompat feature
btrfs: call permission checks earlier in ioctls and return EPERM
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Pull ubifs updates from Artem Bityutskiy:
- Improve the NOR erasure quirk - now it tries to do as little writes
as possible, because the eraseblock may be in an "unstable" state and
write operation sometimes causes NOR chip lock-ups.
- Both UBI and UBIFS changes are now maintainer in one single tree,
because the amount of changes dropped significantly.
* tag 'upstream-3.14-rc1' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-ubifs:
UBI: avoid program operation on NOR flash after erasure interrupted
MAINTAINERS: keep UBI and UBIFS stuff in the same tree
UBI: fix error return code
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client
Pull some further ceph acl cleanups from Sage Weil:
"I do have a couple patches on top of what's in your tree, though, that
clean up a couple duplicated lines in your fix and apply Christoph's
cleanup"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client:
ceph: simplify ceph_{get,init}_acl
ceph: remove duplicate declaration of ceph_setattr
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- ->get_acl only gets called after we checked for a cached ACL, so no
need to call get_cached_acl again.
- no need to check IS_POSIXACL in ->get_acl, without that it should
never get set as all the callers that set it already have the check.
- you should be able to use the full posix_acl_create in CEPH
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
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Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
"A few hotfixes and various leftovers which were awaiting other merges.
Mainly movement of zram into mm/"
* emailed patches fron Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (25 commits)
memcg: fix mutex not unlocked on memcg_create_kmem_cache fail path
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: update file_operations documentation
mm, oom: base root bonus on current usage
mm: don't lose the SOFT_DIRTY flag on mprotect
mm/slub.c: fix page->_count corruption (again)
mm/mempolicy.c: fix mempolicy printing in numa_maps
zram: remove zram->lock in read path and change it with mutex
zram: remove workqueue for freeing removed pending slot
zram: introduce zram->tb_lock
zram: use atomic operation for stat
zram: remove unnecessary free
zram: delay pending free request in read path
zram: fix race between reset and flushing pending work
zsmalloc: add maintainers
zram: add zram maintainers
zsmalloc: add copyright
zram: add copyright
zram: remove old private project comment
zram: promote zram from staging
zsmalloc: move it under mm
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The x32 case for the recvmsg() timout handling is broken:
asmlinkage long compat_sys_recvmmsg(int fd, struct compat_mmsghdr __user *mmsg,
unsigned int vlen, unsigned int flags,
struct compat_timespec __user *timeout)
{
int datagrams;
struct timespec ktspec;
if (flags & MSG_CMSG_COMPAT)
return -EINVAL;
if (COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME)
return __sys_recvmmsg(fd, (struct mmsghdr __user *)mmsg, vlen,
flags | MSG_CMSG_COMPAT,
(struct timespec *) timeout);
...
The timeout pointer parameter is provided by userland (hence the __user
annotation) but for x32 syscalls it's simply cast to a kernel pointer
and is passed to __sys_recvmmsg which will eventually directly
dereference it for both reading and writing. Other callers to
__sys_recvmmsg properly copy from userland to the kernel first.
The bug was introduced by commit ee4fa23c4bfc ("compat: Use
COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME in net/compat.c") and should affect all kernels
since 3.4 (and perhaps vendor kernels if they backported x32 support
along with this code).
Note that CONFIG_X86_X32_ABI gets enabled at build time and only if
CONFIG_X86_X32 is enabled and ld can build x32 executables.
Other uses of COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME seem fine.
This addresses CVE-2014-0038.
Signed-off-by: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.4+
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 asmlinkage (LTO) changes from Peter Anvin:
"This patchset adds more infrastructure for link time optimization
(LTO).
This patchset was pulled into my tree late because of a
miscommunication (part of the patchset was picked up by other
maintainers). However, the patchset is strictly build-related and
seems to be okay in testing"
* 'x86-asmlinkage-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, asmlinkage, xen: Fix type of NMI
x86, asmlinkage, xen, kvm: Make {xen,kvm}_lock_spinning global and visible
x86: Use inline assembler instead of global register variable to get sp
x86, asmlinkage, paravirt: Make paravirt thunks global
x86, asmlinkage, paravirt: Don't rely on local assembler labels
x86, asmlinkage, lguest: Fix C functions used by inline assembler
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 build bits from Peter Anvin:
"Various build-related minor bits.
Most of this is work by David Woodhouse to be able to compile the
early boot code with clang/llvm; we have also managed to push an
actual -m16 option into gcc 4.9 so this makes us use that option if
available instead of hacking it.
The balance is a patch from Michael Davidson to the relocs program to
help manual debugging.
None of these should change the actual compiled binary with currently
released compilers"
* 'x86-build-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, build: Build 16-bit code with -m16 where possible
x86, boot: Fix word-size assumptions in has_eflag() inline asm
x86, boot: Use __attribute__((used)) to ensure videocard structs are emitted
x86: Remove duplication of 16-bit CFLAGS
x86, relocs: Add manual debug mode
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Pull ARM SoC late changes from Kevin Hilman:
"These are changes that arrived a little late but were considered
self-contained enough to still go in for v3.14.
They are all device tree updtes this time around, and mainly for
Broadcom SoCs"
* tag 'late-dt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc:
ARM: moxart: move fixed rate clock child node to board level dts
clk: bcm281xx: define kona clock binding
ARM: dts: add usb udc support to bcm281xx
ARM: dts: Specify clocks for timer on bcm11351
Documentation: dt: kona-timer: Add clocks property
ARM: dts: Specify clocks for SDHCIs on bcm11351
Documentation: dt: kona-sdhci: Add clocks property
ARM: dts: Specify clocks for UARTs on bcm11351
ARM: dts: bcm281xx: Add i2c busses
ARM: dts: Declare clocks as fixed on bcm11351
ARM: dts: bcm28155-ap: Enable all the i2c busses
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Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
"The most notable new addition inside this pull request is the support
for MIPS's latest and greatest core called "inter/proAptiv". The
patch series describes this core as follows.
"The interAptiv is a power-efficient multi-core microprocessor
for use in system-on-chip (SoC) applications. The interAptiv combines
a multi-threading pipeline with a coherence manager to deliver improved
computational throughput and power efficiency. The interAptiv can
contain one to four MIPS32R3 interAptiv cores, system level
coherence manager with L2 cache, optional coherent I/O port,
and optional floating point unit."
The platform specific patches touch all 3 Broadcom families. It adds
support for the new Broadcom/Netlogix XLP9xx Soc, building a common
BCM63XX SMP kernel for all BCM63XX SoCs regardless of core type/count
and full gpio button/led descriptions for BCM47xx.
The rest of the series are cleanups and bug fixes that are MIPS
generic and consist largely of changes that Imgtec/MIPS had published
in their linux-mti-3.10.git stable tree. Random other cleanups and
patches preparing code to be merged in 3.15"
* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (139 commits)
mips: select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO
mips: delete non-required instances of include <linux/init.h>
MIPS: KVM: remove shadow_tlb code
MIPS: KVM: use common EHINV aware UNIQUE_ENTRYHI
mips/ide: flush dcache also if icache does not snoop dcache
MIPS: BCM47XX: fix position of cpu_wait disabling
MIPS: BCM63XX: select correct MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT value
MIPS: update MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT based on MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_<N>
MIPS: introduce MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_<N>
MIPS: ZBOOT: gather string functions into string.c
arch/mips/pci: don't check resource with devm_ioremap_resource
arch/mips/lantiq/xway: don't check resource with devm_ioremap_resource
bcma: gpio: don't cast u32 to unsigned long
ssb: gpio: add own IRQ domain
MIPS: BCM47XX: fix sparse warnings in board.c
MIPS: BCM47XX: add board detection for Linksys WRT54GS V1
MIPS: BCM47XX: fix detection for some boards
MIPS: BCM47XX: Enable buttons support on SSB
MIPS: BCM47XX: Convert WNDR4500 to new syntax
MIPS: BCM47XX: Use "timer" trigger for status LEDs
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Pull OpenRISC updates from Jonas Bonn:
"The interesting change here is a rework of the OpenRISC signal
handling to make it more like other architectures in the hopes that
this makes it easier for others to comment on and understand. This
rework fixes some real bugs, like the fact that syscall restart did
not work reliably"
* tag 'for-3.14' of git://openrisc.net/~jonas/linux:
openrisc: Use get_signal() signal_setup_done()
openrisc: Rework signal handling
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
Pull more powerpc bits from Ben Herrenschmidt:
"Here are a few more powerpc bits for this merge window. The bulk is
made of two pull requests from Scott and Anatolij that I had missed
previously (they arrived while I was away). Since both their branches
are in -next independently, and the content has been around for a
little while, they can still go in.
The rest is mostly bug and regression fixes, a small series of
cleanups to our pseries cpuidle code (including moving it to the right
place), and one new cpuidle bakend for the powernv platform. I also
wired up the new sched_attr syscalls"
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (37 commits)
powerpc: Wire up sched_setattr and sched_getattr syscalls
powerpc/hugetlb: Replace __get_cpu_var with get_cpu_var
powerpc: Make sure "cache" directory is removed when offlining cpu
powerpc/mm: Fix mmap errno when MAP_FIXED is set and mapping exceeds the allowed address space
powerpc/powernv/cpuidle: Back-end cpuidle driver for powernv platform.
powerpc/pseries/cpuidle: smt-snooze-delay cleanup.
powerpc/pseries/cpuidle: Remove MAX_IDLE_STATE macro.
powerpc/pseries/cpuidle: Make cpuidle-pseries backend driver a non-module.
powerpc/pseries/cpuidle: Use cpuidle_register() for initialisation.
powerpc/pseries/cpuidle: Move processor_idle.c to drivers/cpuidle.
powerpc: Fix 32-bit frames for signals delivered when transactional
powerpc/iommu: Fix initialisation of DART iommu table
powerpc/numa: Fix decimal permissions
powerpc/mm: Fix compile error of pgtable-ppc64.h
powerpc: Fix hw breakpoints on !HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT configurations
clk: corenet: Adds the clock binding
powerpc/booke64: Guard e6500 tlb handler with CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E
powerpc/512x: dts: add MPC5125 clock specs
powerpc/512x: clk: support MPC5121/5123/5125 SoC variants
powerpc/512x: clk: enforce even SDHC divider values
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull __TIME__/__DATE__ removal from Michal Marek:
"This series by Josh finishes the removal of __DATE__ and __TIME__ from
the kernel. The last patch adds -Werror=date-time to KBUILD_CFLAGS to
stop these from reappearing.
Part of the series went through Greg's trees during this merge window,
which is why this pull request is not based on v3.13-rc1"
* 'drop-time' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
Makefile: Build with -Werror=date-time if the compiler supports it
x86: math-emu: Drop already-disabled print of build date
net: wireless: brcm80211: Drop debug version with build date/time
mtd: denali: Drop print of build date/time
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kbuild changes from Michal Marek:
- fix make -s detection with make-4.0
- fix for scripts/setlocalversion when the kernel repository is a
submodule
- do not hardcode ';' in macros that expand to assembler code, as some
architectures' assemblers use a different character for newline
- Fix passing --gdwarf-2 to the assembler
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
frv: Remove redundant debugging info flag
mn10300: Remove redundant debugging info flag
kbuild: Fix debugging info generation for .S files
arch: use ASM_NL instead of ';' for assembler new line character in the macro
kbuild: Fix silent builds with make-4
Fix detectition of kernel git repository in setlocalversion script [take #2]
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Commit 842e2873697e ("memcg: get rid of kmem_cache_dup()") introduced a
mutex for memcg_create_kmem_cache() to protect the tmp_name buffer that
holds the memcg name. It failed to unlock the mutex if this buffer
could not be allocated.
This patch fixes the issue by appropriately unlocking the mutex if the
allocation fails.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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->readv, ->writev and ->sendfile have been removed while ->show_fdinfo
has been added. The documentation should reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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A 3% of system memory bonus is sometimes too excessive in comparison to
other processes.
With commit a63d83f427fb ("oom: badness heuristic rewrite"), the OOM
killer tries to avoid killing privileged tasks by subtracting 3% of
overall memory (system or cgroup) from their per-task consumption. But
as a result, all root tasks that consume less than 3% of overall memory
are considered equal, and so it only takes 33+ privileged tasks pushing
the system out of memory for the OOM killer to do something stupid and
kill dhclient or other root-owned processes. For example, on a 32G
machine it can't tell the difference between the 1M agetty and the 10G
fork bomb member.
The changelog describes this 3% boost as the equivalent to the global
overcommit limit being 3% higher for privileged tasks, but this is not
the same as discounting 3% of overall memory from _every privileged task
individually_ during OOM selection.
Replace the 3% of system memory bonus with a 3% of current memory usage
bonus.
By giving root tasks a bonus that is proportional to their actual size,
they remain comparable even when relatively small. In the example
above, the OOM killer will discount the 1M agetty's 256 badness points
down to 179, and the 10G fork bomb's 262144 points down to 183500 points
and make the right choice, instead of discounting both to 0 and killing
agetty because it's first in the task list.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: 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>
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The SOFT_DIRTY bit shows that the content of memory was changed after a
defined point in the past. mprotect() doesn't change the content of
memory, so it must not change the SOFT_DIRTY bit.
This bug causes a malfunction: on the first iteration all pages are
dumped. On other iterations only pages with the SOFT_DIRTY bit are
dumped. So if the SOFT_DIRTY bit is cleared from a page by mistake, the
page is not dumped and its content will be restored incorrectly.
This patch does nothing with _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY, becase pte_modify()
is called only for present pages.
Fixes commit 0f8975ec4db2 ("mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes
tracking").
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.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>
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Commit abca7c496584 ("mm: fix slab->page _count corruption when using
slub") notes that we can not _set_ a page->counters directly, except
when using a real double-cmpxchg. Doing so can lose updates to
->_count.
That is an absolute rule:
You may not *set* page->counters except via a cmpxchg.
Commit abca7c496584 fixed this for the folks who have the slub
cmpxchg_double code turned off at compile time, but it left the bad case
alone. It can still be reached, and the same bug triggered in two
cases:
1. Turning on slub debugging at runtime, which is available on
the distro kernels that I looked at.
2. On 64-bit CPUs with no CMPXCHG16B (some early AMD x86-64
cpus, evidently)
There are at least 3 ways we could fix this:
1. Take all of the exising calls to cmpxchg_double_slab() and
__cmpxchg_double_slab() and convert them to take an old, new
and target 'struct page'.
2. Do (1), but with the newly-introduced 'slub_data'.
3. Do some magic inside the two cmpxchg...slab() functions to
pull the counters out of new_counters and only set those
fields in page->{inuse,frozen,objects}.
I've done (2) as well, but it's a bunch more code. This patch is an
attempt at (3). This was the most straightforward and foolproof way
that I could think to do this.
This would also technically allow us to get rid of the ugly
#if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE) && \
defined(CONFIG_HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE)
in 'struct page', but leaving it alone has the added benefit that
'counters' stays 'unsigned' instead of 'unsigned long', so all the
copies that the slub code does stay a bit smaller.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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As a result of commit 5606e3877ad8 ("mm: numa: Migrate on reference
policy"), /proc/<pid>/numa_maps prints the mempolicy for any <pid> as
"prefer:N" for the local node, N, of the process reading the file.
This should only be printed when the mempolicy of <pid> is
MPOL_PREFERRED for node N.
If the process is actually only using the default mempolicy for local
node allocation, make sure "default" is printed as expected.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Robert Lippert <rlippert@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.7+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Finally, we separated zram->lock dependency from 32bit stat/ table
handling so there is no reason to use rw_semaphore between read and
write path so this patch removes the lock from read path totally and
changes rw_semaphore with mutex. So, we could do
old:
read-read: OK
read-write: NO
write-write: NO
Now:
read-read: OK
read-write: OK
write-write: NO
The below data proves mixed workload performs well 11 times and there is
also enhance on write-write path because current rw-semaphore doesn't
support SPIN_ON_OWNER. It's side effect but anyway good thing for us.
Write-related tests perform better (from 61% to 1058%) but read path has
good/bad(from -2.22% to 1.45%) but they are all marginal within stddev.
CPU 12
iozone -t -T -l 12 -u 12 -r 16K -s 60M -I +Z -V 0
==Initial write ==Initial write
records: 10 records: 10
avg: 516189.16 avg: 839907.96
std: 22486.53 (4.36%) std: 47902.17 (5.70%)
max: 546970.60 max: 909910.35
min: 481131.54 min: 751148.38
==Rewrite ==Rewrite
records: 10 records: 10
avg: 509527.98 avg: 1050156.37
std: 45799.94 (8.99%) std: 40695.44 (3.88%)
max: 611574.27 max: 1111929.26
min: 443679.95 min: 980409.62
==Read ==Read
records: 10 records: 10
avg: 4408624.17 avg: 4472546.76
std: 281152.61 (6.38%) std: 163662.78 (3.66%)
max: 4867888.66 max: 4727351.03
min: 4058347.69 min: 4126520.88
==Re-read ==Re-read
records: 10 records: 10
avg: 4462147.53 avg: 4363257.75
std: 283546.11 (6.35%) std: 247292.63 (5.67%)
max: 4912894.44 max: 4677241.75
min: 4131386.50 min: 4035235.84
==Reverse Read ==Reverse Read
records: 10 records: 10
avg: 4565865.97 avg: 4485818.08
std: 313395.63 (6.86%) std: 248470.10 (5.54%)
max: 5232749.16 max: 4789749.94
min: 4185809.62 min: 3963081.34
==Stride read ==Stride read
records: 10 records: 10
avg: 4515981.80 avg: 4418806.01
std: 211192.32 (4.68%) std: 212837.97 (4.82%)
max: 4889287.28 max: 4686967.22
min: 4210362.00 min: 4083041.84
==Random read ==Random read
records: 10 records: 10
avg: 4410525.23 avg: 4387093.18
std: 236693.22 (5.37%) std: 235285.23 (5.36%)
max: 4713698.47 max: 4669760.62
min: 4057163.62 min: 3952002.16
==Mixed workload ==Mixed workload
records: 10 records: 10
avg: 243234.25 avg: 2818677.27
std: 28505.07 (11.72%) std: 195569.70 (6.94%)
max: 288905.23 max: 3126478.11
min: 212473.16 min: 2484150.69
==Random write ==Random write
records: 10 records: 10
avg: 555887.07 avg: 1053057.79
std: 70841.98 (12.74%) std: 35195.36 (3.34%)
max: 683188.28 max: 1096125.73
min: 437299.57 min: 992481.93
==Pwrite ==Pwrite
records: 10 records: 10
avg: 501745.93 avg: 810363.09
std: 16373.54 (3.26%) std: 19245.01 (2.37%)
max: 518724.52 max: 833359.70
min: 464208.73 min: 765501.87
==Pread ==Pread
records: 10 records: 10
avg: 4539894.60 avg: 4457680.58
std: 197094.66 (4.34%) std: 188965.60 (4.24%)
max: 4877170.38 max: 4689905.53
min: 4226326.03 min: 4095739.72
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit a0c516cbfc74 ("zram: don't grab mutex in zram_slot_free_noity")
introduced free request pending code to avoid scheduling by mutex under
spinlock and it was a mess which made code lenghty and increased
overhead.
Now, we don't need zram->lock any more to free slot so this patch
reverts it and then, tb_lock should protect it.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently, the zram table is protected by zram->lock but it's rather
coarse-grained lock and it makes hard for scalibility.
Let's use own rwlock instead of depending on zram->lock. This patch
adds new locking so obviously, it would make slow but this patch is just
prepartion for removing coarse-grained rw_semaphore(ie, zram->lock)
which is hurdle about zram scalability.
Final patch in this patchset series will remove the lock from read-path
and change rw_semaphore with mutex in write path. With bonus, we could
drop pending slot free mess in next patch.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Some of fields in zram->stats are protected by zram->lock which is
rather coarse-grained so let's use atomic operation without explict
locking.
This patch is ready for removing dependency of zram->lock in read path
which is very coarse-grained rw_semaphore. Of course, this patch adds
new atomic operation so it might make slow but my 12CPU test couldn't
spot any regression. All gain/lose is marginal within stddev.
iozone -t -T -l 12 -u 12 -r 16K -s 60M -I +Z -V 0
==Initial write ==Initial write
records: 50 records: 50
avg: 412875.17 avg: 415638.23
std: 38543.12 (9.34%) std: 36601.11 (8.81%)
max: 521262.03 max: 502976.72
min: 343263.13 min: 351389.12
==Rewrite ==Rewrite
records: 50 records: 50
avg: 416640.34 avg: 397914.33
std: 60798.92 (14.59%) std: 46150.42 (11.60%)
max: 543057.07 max: 522669.17
min: 304071.67 min: 316588.77
==Read ==Read
records: 50 records: 50
avg: 4147338.63 avg: 4070736.51
std: 179333.25 (4.32%) std: 223499.89 (5.49%)
max: 4459295.28 max: 4539514.44
min: 3753057.53 min: 3444686.31
==Re-read ==Re-read
records: 50 records: 50
avg: 4096706.71 avg: 4117218.57
std: 229735.04 (5.61%) std: 171676.25 (4.17%)
max: 4430012.09 max: 4459263.94
min: 2987217.80 min: 3666904.28
==Reverse Read ==Reverse Read
records: 50 records: 50
avg: 4062763.83 avg: 4078508.32
std: 186208.46 (4.58%) std: 172684.34 (4.23%)
max: 4401358.78 max: 4424757.22
min: 3381625.00 min: 3679359.94
==Stride read ==Stride read
records: 50 records: 50
avg: 4094933.49 avg: 4082170.22
std: 185710.52 (4.54%) std: 196346.68 (4.81%)
max: 4478241.25 max: 4460060.97
min: 3732593.23 min: 3584125.78
==Random read ==Random read
records: 50 records: 50
avg: 4031070.04 avg: 4074847.49
std: 192065.51 (4.76%) std: 206911.33 (5.08%)
max: 4356931.16 max: 4399442.56
min: 3481619.62 min: 3548372.44
==Mixed workload ==Mixed workload
records: 50 records: 50
avg: 149925.73 avg: 149675.54
std: 7701.26 (5.14%) std: 6902.09 (4.61%)
max: 191301.56 max: 175162.05
min: 133566.28 min: 137762.87
==Random write ==Random write
records: 50 records: 50
avg: 404050.11 avg: 393021.47
std: 58887.57 (14.57%) std: 42813.70 (10.89%)
max: 601798.09 max: 524533.43
min: 325176.99 min: 313255.34
==Pwrite ==Pwrite
records: 50 records: 50
avg: 411217.70 avg: 411237.96
std: 43114.99 (10.48%) std: 33136.29 (8.06%)
max: 530766.79 max: 471899.76
min: 320786.84 min: 317906.94
==Pread ==Pread
records: 50 records: 50
avg: 4154908.65 avg: 4087121.92
std: 151272.08 (3.64%) std: 219505.04 (5.37%)
max: 4459478.12 max: 4435857.38
min: 3730512.41 min: 3101101.67
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit a0c516cbfc74 ("zram: don't grab mutex in zram_slot_free_noity")
introduced pending zram slot free in zram's write path in case of
missing slot free by memory allocation failure in zram_slot_free_notify
but it is not necessary because we have already freed the slot right
before overwriting.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Sergey reported we don't need to handle pending free request every I/O
so that this patch removes it in read path while we remain it in write
path.
Let's consider below example.
Swap subsystem ask to zram "A" block free by swap_slot_free_notify but
zram had been pended it without real freeing. Swap subsystem allocates
"A" block for new data but request pended for a long time just handled
and zram blindly free new data on the "A" block. :(
That's why we couldn't remove handle pending free request right before
zram-write.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dan and Sergey reported that there is a racy between reset and flushing
of pending work so that it could make oops by freeing zram->meta in
reset while zram_slot_free can access zram->meta if new request is
adding during the race window.
This patch moves flush after taking init_lock so it prevents new request
so that it closes the race.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@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>
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tAdd adds maintainer information for zsmalloc into the MAINTAINERS file.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add maintainer information for zram into the MAINTAINERS file.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add my copyright to the zsmalloc source code which I maintain.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add my copyright to the zram source code which I maintain.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove the old private compcache project address so upcoming patches
should be sent to LKML because we Linux kernel community will take care.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Zram has lived in staging for a LONG LONG time and have been
fixed/improved by many contributors so code is clean and stable now. Of
course, there are lots of product using zram in real practice.
The major TV companys have used zram as swap since two years ago and
recently our production team released android smart phone with zram
which is used as swap, too and recently Android Kitkat start to use zram
for small memory smart phone. And there was a report Google released
their ChromeOS with zram, too and cyanogenmod have been used zram long
time ago. And I heard some disto have used zram block device for tmpfs.
In addition, I saw many report from many other peoples. For example,
Lubuntu start to use it.
The benefit of zram is very clear. With my experience, one of the
benefit was to remove jitter of video application with backgroud memory
pressure. It would be effect of efficient memory usage by compression
but more issue is whether swap is there or not in the system. Recent
mobile platforms have used JAVA so there are many anonymous pages. But
embedded system normally are reluctant to use eMMC or SDCard as swap
because there is wear-leveling and latency issues so if we do not use
swap, it means we can't reclaim anoymous pages and at last, we could
encounter OOM kill. :(
Although we have real storage as swap, it was a problem, too. Because
it sometime ends up making system very unresponsible caused by slow swap
storage performance.
Quote from Luigi on Google
"Since Chrome OS was mentioned: the main reason why we don't use swap
to a disk (rotating or SSD) is because it doesn't degrade gracefully
and leads to a bad interactive experience. Generally we prefer to
manage RAM at a higher level, by transparently killing and restarting
processes. But we noticed that zram is fast enough to be competitive
with the latter, and it lets us make more efficient use of the
available RAM. " and he announced.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg57717.html
Other uses case is to use zram for block device. Zram is block device
so anyone can format the block device and mount on it so some guys on
the internet start zram as /var/tmp.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-838198-start-0.html
Let's promote zram and enhance/maintain it instead of removing.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch moves zsmalloc under mm directory.
Before that, description will explain why we have needed custom
allocator.
Zsmalloc is a new slab-based memory allocator for storing compressed
pages. It is designed for low fragmentation and high allocation success
rate on large object, but <= PAGE_SIZE allocations.
zsmalloc differs from the kernel slab allocator in two primary ways to
achieve these design goals.
zsmalloc never requires high order page allocations to back slabs, or
"size classes" in zsmalloc terms. Instead it allows multiple
single-order pages to be stitched together into a "zspage" which backs
the slab. This allows for higher allocation success rate under memory
pressure.
Also, zsmalloc allows objects to span page boundaries within the zspage.
This allows for lower fragmentation than could be had with the kernel
slab allocator for objects between PAGE_SIZE/2 and PAGE_SIZE. With the
kernel slab allocator, if a page compresses to 60% of it original size,
the memory savings gained through compression is lost in fragmentation
because another object of the same size can't be stored in the leftover
space.
This ability to span pages results in zsmalloc allocations not being
directly addressable by the user. The user is given an
non-dereferencable handle in response to an allocation request. That
handle must be mapped, using zs_map_object(), which returns a pointer to
the mapped region that can be used. The mapping is necessary since the
object data may reside in two different noncontigious pages.
The zsmalloc fulfills the allocation needs for zram perfectly
[sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com: borrow Seth's quote]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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After commit 9a46ad6d6df3 ("smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic
similar to smp_call_function_single()"), cfd->cpumask is accessed only
in smp_call_function_many(). So there is no more need to copy it into
cfd->cpumask_ipi before putting csd into the list. The cpumask_ipi
field is obsolete and can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
Cc: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Make smp_call_function_single and friends more efficient by using a
lockless list.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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It is required to call put_device() if device_register() fails, so that
we give up the last reference to the device. Calling put_device allows
for mdiobus_release to be executed, kfreeing the bus.
Signed-off-by: Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently we kfree the container of the device which failed to register.
This is wrong as the last reference is not given up with a put_device
call. Also, now that we have put_device() callen, we no longer need the
kfree as the new_ld->dev.release function will take care of kfreeing the
associated memory.
Signed-off-by: Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>
Acked-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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