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For the glocks and glstats seq_files, which are exposed via debugfs
we should cache the most recent hash bucket, along with the offset
into that bucket. This allows us to restart from that point, rather
than having to begin at the beginning each time.
This is an idea from Eric Dumazet, however I've slightly extended it
so that if the position from which we are due to start is at any
point beyond the last cached point, we start from the last cached
point, plus whatever is the appropriate offset. I don't really expect
people to be lseeking around these files, but if they did so with only
positive offsets, then we'd still get some of the benefit of using a
cached offset.
With my simple test of around 200k entries in the file, I'm seeing
an approx 10x speed up.
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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As per Al Viro's suggestion, this increases the buffer size used
for these two files. This provides a speed up of slightly less than
8x (i.e. proportional to the buffer size) for cases when we have
large numbers of glocks.
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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When we read an invalid block from the journal, we should not call
withdraw, but simply print a message and return an error. It is
up to the caller to then handle that error. In the case of mount
that means a failed mount, rather than a withdraw (requiring a
reboot). In the case of recovering another nodes journal then
we return an error via the uevent.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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This patch adds support for the "top dir" flag. Currently this is unused
but a subsequent patch is planned which will add support for the
Orlov allocation policy when allocating subdirectories in a parent
with this flag set.
In order to ensure backward compatible behaviour, mkfs.gfs2 does
not currently tag the root directory with this flag, it must always be
set manually.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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This patch moves the ancillary quota data structures into the
block reservations structure. This saves GFS2 some time and
effort in allocating and deallocating the qadata structure.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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This patch lengthens the lifespan of the reservations structure for
inodes. Before, they were allocated and deallocated for every write
operation. With this patch, they are allocated when the first write
occurs, and deallocated when the last process closes the file.
It's more efficient to do it this way because it saves GFS2 a lot of
unnecessary allocates and frees. It also gives us more flexibility
for the future: (1) we can now fold the qadata structure back into
the structure and save those alloc/frees, (2) we can use this for
multi-block reservations.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ras/ras
Pull MCE regression fix from Tony Luck:
"Typo/thinko in a cleanup caused a semantic change. Fix it."
* tag 'please-pull-mce' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ras/ras:
x86/mce: Fix the MCE poll timer logic
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git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping
Pull arm CMA fix from Marek Szyprowski:
"This removes the ARMv6+ CMA dependency and lets one use old, well-
tested dma-mapping implementation also on ARMv6+ systems without the
need to use EXPERIMENTAL stuff."
Russell King complained (rightly) about the experimental feature being
forced on by the ARM config.
Here CMA is "continuous memory allocator", not "cross-memory attach".
We really neet to stop using insane TLA's for things that aren't big
industry standards.
* 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping:
ARM: dma-mapping: remove unconditional dependency on CMA
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Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending
Pull two scsi target fixes from Nicholas Bellinger:
"The first is a small name-space collision fix from Stefan for the new
sbp-target / ieee-1394 code, and second is the FILEIO backend
conversion patch to always use O_DSYNC by default instead of O_SYNC as
recommended by hch. Note the latter is CC'ed stable."
* '3.5-merge-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending:
target/file: Use O_DSYNC by default for FILEIO backends
sbp-target: rename a variable to avoid name clash
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup fix from Tejun Heo:
"This fixes the possible premature superblock release on umount bug
mentioned during v3.5-rc1 pull request.
Originally, cgroup dentry destruction path assumed that cgroup dentry
didn't have any reference left after cgroup removal thus put super
during dentry removal. Now that there can be lingering dentry
references, this led to super being put with live dentries. This
patch fixes the problem by putting super ref on dentry release instead
of removal."
* 'for-3.5-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
cgroup: superblock can't be released with active dentries
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git://git.pengutronix.de/git/wsa/linux
Pull embedded i2c update from Wolfram Sang:
"This only contains one new driver which had multiple dependencies
(pinctrl, i2c-mux-rework, new devm_* functions), so I decided to wait
for rc1. Plus, it had to wait a little for the ack of a devicetree
maintainer since the bindings were not trivial enough for me to pass
through.
So, given that, I hope there is still something like the "new driver
rule", so we could have the driver in 3.5 and people can start using
it. That would make merging support for some boards easier for 3.6
since the dependency on this driver is gone then."
* 'i2c-embedded/for-current' of git://git.pengutronix.de/git/wsa/linux:
i2c: Add generic I2C multiplexer using pinctrl API
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Pull kvm fix from Avi Kivity:
"A one-liner fix for a buffer overflow"
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: Fix buffer overflow in kvm_set_irq()
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Pull drm radeon fixes from Dave Airlie:
"This is just radeon fixes and a bunch of new PCI ids. The fixes are
for a deadlock, an audio regression, and a couple of audio fixes."
* 'drm-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux:
drm/radeon/kms: add new SI PCI ids
drm/radeon/kms: add new BTC PCI ids
drm/radeon/kms: add new Palm, Sumo PCI ids
drm/radeon/kms: add new Trinity PCI ids
drm/radeon: fix vm deadlocks on cayman
drm/radeon: fix gpu_init on si
drm/radeon/hdmi: don't set SEND_MAX_PACKETS bit
drm/radeon/audio: don't hardcode CRTC id
drm/radeon: make audio_init consistent across asics
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This patch fixes bug in macro radix_tree_for_each_contig().
If radix_tree_next_slot() sees NULL in next slot it returns NULL, but following
radix_tree_next_chunk() switches iterating into next chunk. As result iterating
becomes non-contiguous and breaks vfs "splice" and all its users.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Reported-and-bisected-by: Hans de Bruin <jmdebruin@xmsnet.nl>
Reported-and-bisected-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
Reported-bisected-and-tested-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/5/64
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.4.x
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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In commit 82f7af09 (x86/mce: Cleanup timer mess), Thomas just forgot
the "/ 2" there while cleaning up.
Signed-off-by: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
fuse: fix blksize calculation
fuse: fix stat call on 32 bit platforms
fuse: optimize fallocate on permanent failure
fuse: add FALLOCATE operation
fuse: Convert to kstrtoul_from_user
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar.
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched: Remove NULL assignment of dattr_cur
sched: Remove the last NULL entry from sched_feat_names
sched: Make sched_feat_names const
sched/rt: Fix SCHED_RR across cgroups
sched: Move nr_cpus_allowed out of 'struct sched_rt_entity'
sched: Make sure to not re-read variables after validation
sched: Fix SD_OVERLAP
sched: Don't try allocating memory from offline nodes
sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load calculations some more
sched/x86: Use cpu_llc_shared_mask(cpu) for coregroup_mask
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Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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kvm_set_irq() has an internal buffer of three irq routing entries, allowing
connecting a GSI to three IRQ chips or on MSI. However setup_routing_entry()
does not properly enforce this, allowing three irqchip routes followed by
an MSI route to overflow the buffer.
Fix by ensuring that an MSI entry is added to an empty list.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Locking mutex in different orders just screams for
deadlocks, and some testing showed that it is actually
quite easy to trigger them.
Signed-off-by: Christian König <deathsimple@vodafone.de>
Reviewed-by: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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- Properly set up the RBs
- Properly set up the SPI
- Properly set up gb_addr_config
This should fix rendering issues on certain cards.
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Many TVs and A/V receivers don't work with this bit set. Problem was
confirmed using: Onkyo TX-SR605, Sony BRAVIA KDL-52X3500, Sony BRAVIA
KDL-40S40xx. In theory this bit shouldn't affect audio engine when
feeding it with data, however it seems it does. Driver fglrx doesn't set
that bit in any of the above cases.
This fixes a regression introduced by 3.5-rc1.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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This is based on info released by AMD, should allow using audio in much
more cases.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Call it in the asic startup callback on all asics.
Previously r600 and rv770 called it in the startup
and resume callbacks while all the other asics called
it in the startup callback.
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/{signal,vfs}
Pull signal and vfs compile breakage fixes from Al Viro.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
fixups for signal breakage
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
nommu: fix compilation of nommu.c
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Pull cifs fixes from Steve French.
* 'for-next' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
CIFS: Move get_next_mid to ops struct
CIFS: Make accessing is_valid_oplock/dump_detail ops struct field safe
CIFS: Improve identation in cifs_unlock_range
CIFS: Fix possible wrong memory allocation
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Obvious brainos spotted by Geert.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Compiling 3.5-rc1 for nommu targets gives:
CC mm/nommu.o
mm/nommu.c: In function ‘sys_mmap_pgoff’:
mm/nommu.c:1489:2: error: ‘ret’ undeclared (first use in this function)
mm/nommu.c:1489:2: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
It is trivially fixed by replacing 'ret' with the local variable that is
already defined for the return value 'retval'.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/mm
Pull frontswap feature from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
"Frontswap provides a "transcendent memory" interface for swap pages.
In some environments, dramatic performance savings may be obtained
because swapped pages are saved in RAM (or a RAM-like device) instead
of a swap disk. This tag provides the basic infrastructure along with
some changes to the existing backends."
Fix up trivial conflict in mm/Makefile due to removal of swap token code
changing a line next to the new frontswap entry.
This pull request came in before the merge window even opened, it got
delayed to after the merge window by me just wanting to make sure it had
actual users. Apparently IBM is using this on their embedded side, and
Jan Beulich says that it's already made available for SLES and OpenSUSE
users.
Also acked by Rik van Riel, and Konrad points to other people liking it
too. So in it goes.
By Dan Magenheimer (4) and Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (2)
via Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
* tag 'stable/frontswap.v16-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/mm:
frontswap: s/put_page/store/g s/get_page/load
MAINTAINER: Add myself for the frontswap API
mm: frontswap: config and doc files
mm: frontswap: core frontswap functionality
mm: frontswap: core swap subsystem hooks and headers
mm: frontswap: add frontswap header file
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull irq and smpboot updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Just cleanup patches with no functional change and a fix for suspend
issues."
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
genirq: Introduce irq_do_set_affinity() to reduce duplicated code
genirq: Add IRQS_PENDING for nested and simple irq
* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
smpboot, idle: Fix comment mismatch over idle_threads_init()
smpboot, idle: Optimize calls to smp_processor_id() in idle_threads_init()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"The clocksource driver is pure hardware enablement and the skew option
is default off, well tested and non dangerous."
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
tick: Move skew_tick option into the HIGH_RES_TIMER section
clocksource: em_sti: Add DT support
clocksource: em_sti: Emma Mobile STI driver
clockevents: Make clockevents_config() a global symbol
tick: Add tick skew boot option
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Cyrill Gorcunov reports that I broke the fdinfo files with commit
30a08bf2d31d ("proc: move fd symlink i_mode calculations into
tid_fd_revalidate()"), and he's quite right.
The tid_fd_revalidate() function is not just used for the <tid>/fd
symlinks, it's also used for the <tid>/fdinfo/<fd> files, and the
permission model for those are different.
So do the dynamic symlink permission handling just for symlinks, making
the fdinfo files once more appear as the proper regular files they are.
Of course, Al Viro argued (probably correctly) that we shouldn't do the
symlink permission games at all, and make the symlinks always just be
the normal 'lrwxrwxrwx'. That would have avoided this issue too, but
since somebody noticed that the permissions had changed (which was the
reason for that original commit 30a08bf2d31d in the first place), people
do apparently use this feature.
[ Basically, you can use the symlink permission data as a cheap "fdinfo"
replacement, since you see whether the file is open for reading and/or
writing by just looking at st_mode of the symlink. So the feature
does make sense, even if the pain it has caused means we probably
shouldn't have done it to begin with. ]
Reported-and-tested-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This is useful for SoCs whose I2C module's signals can be routed to
different sets of pins at run-time, using the pinctrl API.
+-----+ +-----+
| dev | | dev |
+------------------------+ +-----+ +-----+
| SoC | | |
| /----|------+--------+
| +---+ +------+ | child bus A, on first set of pins
| |I2C|---|Pinmux| |
| +---+ +------+ | child bus B, on second set of pins
| \----|------+--------+--------+
| | | | |
+------------------------+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+
| dev | | dev | | dev |
+-----+ +-----+ +-----+
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
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CMA has been enabled unconditionally on all ARMv6+ systems to solve the
long standing issue of double kernel mappings for all dma coherent
buffers. This however created a dependency on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL for
the whole ARM architecture what should be really avoided. This patch
removes this dependency and lets one use old, well-tested dma-mapping
implementation also on ARMv6+ systems without the need to use
EXPERIMENTAL stuff.
Reported-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
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Should be 'exynos5_xxx' instead of 'exonys5_xxx'.
It happened at the commit 30b842889eea ("Merge tag 'soc2' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc")
during v3.5 merge window.
Signed-off-by: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
[ My bad - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull some left-over PM patches from Rafael J. Wysocki.
* 'pm-acpi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
ACPI / PM: Make acpi_pm_device_sleep_state() follow the specification
ACPI / PM: Make __acpi_bus_get_power() cover D3cold correctly
ACPI / PM: Fix error messages in drivers/acpi/bus.c
rtc-cmos / PM: report wakeup event on ACPI RTC alarm
ACPI / PM: Generate wakeup events on fixed power button
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This reverts commit 5ceb9ce6fe9462a298bb2cd5c9f1ca6cb80a0199.
That commit seems to be the cause of the mm compation list corruption
issues that Dave Jones reported. The locking (or rather, absense
there-of) is dubious, as is the use of the 'page' variable once it has
been found to be outside the pageblock range.
So revert it for now, we can re-visit this for 3.6. If we even need to:
as Minchan Kim says, "The patch wasn't a bug fix and even test workload
was very theoretical".
Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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New tmpfs use of !PageUptodate pages for fallocate() is triggering the
WARNING: at mm/page-writeback.c:1990 when __set_page_dirty_nobuffers()
is called from migrate_page_copy() for compaction.
It is anomalous that migration should use __set_page_dirty_nobuffers()
on an address_space that does not participate in dirty and writeback
accounting; and this has also been observed to insert surprising dirty
tags into a tmpfs radix_tree, despite tmpfs not using tags at all.
We should probably give migrate_page_copy() a better way to preserve the
tag and migrate accounting info, when mapping_cap_account_dirty(). But
that needs some more work: so in the interim, avoid the warning by using
a simple SetPageDirty on PageSwapBacked pages.
Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The comment above it says "Stat data, not accessed from path walking",
but in fact some of inode fields we use for the common stat data was way
down at the end of the inode, causing unnecessary cache misses for the
common stat operations.
The inode structure is pretty big, and this can change padding depending
on field width, but at least on the common 64-bit configurations this
doesn't change the size. Some of our inode layout has historically been
to tro to avoid unnecessary padding fields, but cache locality is at
least as important for layout, if not more.
Noticed by looking at kernel profiles, and noticing that the "i_blkbits"
access stood out like a sore thumb.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Convert to use O_DSYNC for all cases at FILEIO backend creation time to
avoid the extra syncing of pure timestamp updates with legacy O_SYNC during
default operation as recommended by hch. Continue to do this independently of
Write Cache Enable (WCE) bit, as WCE=0 is currently the default for all backend
devices and enabled by user on per device basis via attrib/emulate_write_cache.
This patch drops the now unnecessary fd_buffered_io= token usage that was
originally signalling when to explictly disable O_SYNC at backend creation
time for buffered I/O operation. This can end up being dangerous for a number
of reasons during physical node failure, so go ahead and drop this option
for now when O_DSYNC is used as the default.
Also allow explict FUA WRITEs -> vfs_fsync_range() call to function in
fd_execute_cmd() independently of WCE bit setting.
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm
Pull device-mapper updates from Alasdair G Kergon:
"Improve multipath's retrying mechanism in some defined circumstances
and provide a simple reserve/release mechanism for userspace tools to
access thin provisioning metadata while the pool is in use."
* tag 'dm-3.5-changes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm:
dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata
dm thin: use slab mempools
dm mpath: allow ioctls to trigger pg init
dm mpath: delay retry of bypassed pg
dm mpath: reduce size of struct multipath
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This patch implements two new messages that can be sent to the thin
pool target allowing it to take a snapshot of the _metadata_. This,
read-only snapshot can be accessed by userland, concurrently with the
live target.
Only one metadata snapshot can be held at a time. The pool's status
line will give the block location for the current msnap.
Since version 0.1.5 of the userland thin provisioning tools, the
thin_dump program displays the msnap as follows:
thin_dump -m <msnap root> <metadata dev>
Available here: https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools
Now that userland can access the metadata we can do various things
that have traditionally been kernel side tasks:
i) Incremental backups.
By using metadata snapshots we can work out what blocks have
changed over time. Combined with data snapshots we can ensure
the data doesn't change while we back it up.
A short proof of concept script can be found here:
https://github.com/jthornber/thinp-test-suite/blob/master/incremental_backup_example.rb
ii) Migration of thin devices from one pool to another.
iii) Merging snapshots back into an external origin.
iv) Asyncronous replication.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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Use dedicated caches prefixed with a "dm_" name rather than relying on
kmalloc mempools backed by generic slab caches so the memory usage of
thin provisioning (and any leaks) can be accounted for independently.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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After the failure of a group of paths, any alternative paths that
need initialising do not become available until further I/O is sent to
the device. Until this has happened, ioctls return -EAGAIN.
With this patch, new paths are made available in response to an ioctl
too. The processing of the ioctl gets delayed until this has happened.
Instead of returning an error, we submit a work item to kmultipathd
(that will potentially activate the new path) and retry in ten
milliseconds.
Note that the patch doesn't retry an ioctl if the ioctl itself fails due
to a path failure. Such retries should be handled intelligently by the
code that generated the ioctl in the first place, noting that some SCSI
commands should not be retried because they are not idempotent (XOR write
commands). For commands that could be retried, there is a danger that
if the device rejected the SCSI command, the path could be errorneously
marked as failed, and the request would be retried on another path which
might fail too. It can be determined if the failure happens on the
device or on the SCSI controller, but there is no guarantee that all
SCSI drivers set these flags correctly.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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