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2011-08-04lockdep: Clear whole lockdep_map on initializationTejun Heo1-4/+1
lockdep_init_map() only initializes parts of lockdep_map and triggers kmemcheck warning when it is copied as a whole. There isn't anything to be gained by clearing selectively. memset() the whole structure and remove loop for ->class_cache[] clearing. Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35532 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-and-tested-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35532 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110714131909.GJ3455@htj.dyndns.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-04slab, lockdep: Annotate slab -> rcu -> debug_object -> slabPeter Zijlstra1-18/+68
Lockdep thinks there's lock recursion through: kmem_cache_free() cache_flusharray() spin_lock(&l3->list_lock) <----------------. free_block() | slab_destroy() | call_rcu() | debug_object_activate() | debug_object_init() | __debug_object_init() | kmem_cache_alloc() | cache_alloc_refill() | spin_lock(&l3->list_lock) --' Now debug objects doesn't use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU and hence there is no actual possibility of recursing. Luckily debug objects marks it slab with SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS so we can identify the thing. Mark all SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS (all one!) slab caches with a special lockdep key so that lockdep sees its a different cachep. Also add a WARN on trying to create a SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU | SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS cache, to avoid possible future trouble. Reported-and-tested-by: Sebastian Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> [ fixes to the initial patch ] Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1311341165.27400.58.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-04lockdep: Fix up warningPeter Zijlstra1-1/+1
On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 21:06 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > /src/linux/linux/kernel/lockdep.c: In function 'mark_held_locks': > /src/linux/linux/kernel/lockdep.c:2471:31: warning: comparison of > distinct pointer types lacks a cast The warning is harmless in this case, but the below makes it go away. Reported-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1311588599.2617.56.camel@laptop Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-04lockdep: Fix trace_hardirqs_on_caller()Peter Zijlstra1-14/+16
Commit dd4e5d3ac4a ("lockdep: Fix trace_[soft,hard]irqs_[on,off]() recursion") made a bit of a mess of the various checks and error conditions. In particular it moved the check for !irqs_disabled() before the spurious enable test, resulting in some warnings. Reported-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Reported-and-tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1311679697.24752.28.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-02MAINTAINERS: Add keyword match for of_match_table to device tree sectionMark Brown1-0/+1
If a patch is working with an of_match_table it's probably adding an OF binding to a driver in which case the binding ought to be reviewed by the device tree folks to make sure that things like the device matches are set up correctly. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2011-08-02of: constify property name parameters for helper functionsJamie Iles2-9/+13
The helper functions for reading u32 integers, u32 arrays and strings should have the property name as a const pointer. Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2011-08-02spi/pl022: remove function cannot exitLinus Walleij1-8/+3
The remove function in the PL022 driver cannot abort the remove function any way, so restructure the code so as not to make that assumption. Remove will now proceed no matter whether it can stop the transfer queue or not. Reported-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2011-08-02dm table: set flush capability based on underlying devicesMike Snitzer2-1/+43
DM has always advertised both REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA flush capabilities regardless of whether or not a given DM device's underlying devices also advertised a need for them. Block's flush-merge changes from 2.6.39 have proven to be more costly for DM devices. Performance regressions have been reported even when DM's underlying devices do not advertise that they have a write cache. Fix the performance regressions by configuring a DM device's flushing capabilities based on those of the underlying devices' capabilities. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm crypt: optionally support discard requestsMilan Broz2-5/+65
Add optional parameter field to dmcrypt table and support "allow_discards" option. Discard requests bypass crypt queue processing. Bio is simple remapped to underlying device. Note that discard will be never enabled by default because of security consequences. It is up to the administrator to enable it for encrypted devices. (Note that userspace cryptsetup does not understand new optional parameters yet. Support for this will come later. Until then, you should use 'dmsetup' to enable and disable this.) Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm raid: add md raid1 supportJonathan Brassow1-10/+39
Support the MD RAID1 personality through dm-raid. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm raid: support metadata devicesJonathan Brassow3-24/+412
Add the ability to parse and use metadata devices to dm-raid. Although not strictly required, without the metadata devices, many features of RAID are unavailable. They are used to store a superblock and bitmap. The role, or position in the array, of each device must be recorded in its superblock. This is to help with fault handling, array reshaping, and sanity checks. RAID 4/5/6 devices must be loaded in a specific order: in this way, the 'array_position' field helps validate the correctness of the mapping when it is loaded. It can be used during reshaping to identify which devices are added/removed. Fault handling is impossible without this field. For example, when a device fails it is recorded in the superblock. If this is a RAID1 device and the offending device is removed from the array, there must be a way during subsequent array assembly to determine that the failed device was the one removed. This is done by correlating the 'array_position' field and the bit-field variable 'failed_devices'. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm raid: add write_mostly parameterJonathan Brassow2-2/+28
Add the write_mostly parameter to RAID1 dm-raid tables. This allows the user to set the WriteMostly flag on a RAID1 device that should normally be avoided for read I/O. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm raid: add region_size parameterJonathan Brassow2-3/+83
Allow the user to specify the region_size. Ensures that the supplied value meets md's constraints, viz. the number of regions does not exceed 2^21. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm raid: improve table parameters documentationJonathan Brassow1-46/+78
Add more information about some dm-raid table parameters and clarify how parameters are printed when 'dmsetup table' is issued. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm ioctl: forbid multiple device specifiersMikulas Patocka1-0/+6
Exactly one of name, uuid or device must be specified when referencing an existing device. This removes the ambiguity (risking the wrong device being updated) if two conflicting parameters were specified. Previously one parameter got used and any others were ignored silently. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm ioctl: introduce __get_dev_cellMikulas Patocka1-17/+24
Move logic to find device based on major/minor number to a separate function __get_dev_cell (similar to __get_uuid_cell and __get_name_cell). This makes the function __find_device_hash_cell more straightforward. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm ioctl: fill in device parameters in more ioctlsMikulas Patocka2-29/+38
Move parameter filling from find_device to __find_device_hash_cell. This patch causes ioctls using __find_device_hash_cell (DM_DEV_REMOVE_CMD, DM_DEV_SUSPEND_CMD - resume, DM_TABLE_CLEAR_CMD) to return device parameters, bringing them into line with the other ioctls. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm flakey: add corrupt_bio_byte featureMike Snitzer2-15/+159
Add corrupt_bio_byte feature to simulate corruption by overwriting a byte at a specified position with a specified value during intervals when the device is "down". Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm flakey: add drop_writesMike Snitzer2-14/+78
Add 'drop_writes' option to drop writes silently while the device is 'down'. Reads are not touched. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm flakey: support feature argsMike Snitzer1-19/+64
Add the ability to specify arbitrary feature flags when creating a flakey target. This code uses the same target argument helpers that the multipath target does. Also remove the superfluous 'dm-flakey' prefixes from the error messages, as they already contain the prefix 'flakey'. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm flakey: use dm_target_offset and support discardsMike Snitzer1-1/+2
Use dm_target_offset() and support discards. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm table: share target argument parsing functionsMike Snitzer4-112/+147
Move multipath target argument parsing code into dm-table so other targets can share it. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm snapshot: skip reading origin when overwriting complete chunkMikulas Patocka3-3/+103
If we write a full chunk in the snapshot, skip reading the origin device because the whole chunk will be overwritten anyway. This patch changes the snapshot write logic when a full chunk is written. In this case: 1. allocate the exception 2. dispatch the bio (but don't report the bio completion to device mapper) 3. write the exception record 4. report bio completed Callbacks must be done through the kcopyd thread, because callbacks must not race with each other. So we create two new functions: dm_kcopyd_prepare_callback: allocate a job structure and prepare the callback. (This function must not be called from interrupt context.) dm_kcopyd_do_callback: submit callback. (This function may be called from interrupt context.) Performance test (on snapshots with 4k chunk size): without the patch: non-direct-io sequential write (dd): 17.7MB/s direct-io sequential write (dd): 20.9MB/s non-direct-io random write (mkfs.ext2): 0.44s with the patch: non-direct-io sequential write (dd): 26.5MB/s direct-io sequential write (dd): 33.2MB/s non-direct-io random write (mkfs.ext2): 0.27s Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm: ignore merge_bvec for snapshots when safeMikulas Patocka3-2/+64
Add a new flag DMF_MERGE_IS_OPTIONAL to struct mapped_device to indicate whether the device can accept bios larger than the size its merge function returns. When set, use this to send large bios to snapshots which can split them if necessary. Snapshot I/O may be significantly fragmented and this approach seems to improve peformance. Before the patch, dm_set_device_limits restricted bio size to page size if the underlying device had a merge function and the target didn't provide a merge function. After the patch, dm_set_device_limits restricts bio size to page size if the underlying device has a merge function, doesn't have DMF_MERGE_IS_OPTIONAL flag and the target doesn't provide a merge function. The snapshot target can't provide a merge function because when the merge function is called, it is impossible to determine where the bio will be remapped. Previously this led us to impose a 4k limit, which we can now remove if the snapshot store is located on a device without a merge function. Together with another patch for optimizing full chunk writes, it improves performance from 29MB/s to 40MB/s when writing to the filesystem on snapshot store. If the snapshot store is placed on a non-dm device with a merge function (such as md-raid), device mapper still limits all bios to page size. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm table: clean dm_get_device and move exportsMike Snitzer1-20/+13
There is no need for __table_get_device to be factored out. Also move the exports to the end of their respective functions. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm raid: tidy includesAlasdair G Kergon1-1/+2
A dm target only needs to use include/linux dm headers. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm ioctl: prevent empty messageAlasdair G Kergon1-0/+5
Detect invalid empty messages in core dm instead of requiring every target to check this. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm raid: cleanup parameter handlingJonathan Brassow1-19/+23
Re-order the parameters so they are handled consistently in the same order where defined, parsed and output. Only include rebuild parameters in the STATUSTYPE_TABLE output if they were supplied in the original table line. Correct the parameter count when outputting rebuild: there are two words, not one. Use case-independent checks for keywords (as in other device-mapper targets). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm snapshot: style cleanupsJonathan Brassow2-10/+8
Coding style cleanups. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm snapshot: remove unused definitionsMikulas Patocka1-10/+0
Remove a couple of unused #defines. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm kcopyd: remove nr_pages field from job structureMikulas Patocka1-4/+2
The nr_pages field in struct kcopyd_job is only used temporarily in run_pages_job() to count the number of required pages. We can use a local variable instead. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm kcopyd: remove offset field from job structureMikulas Patocka1-5/+2
The offset field in struct kcopyd_job is always zero so remove it. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm: use vzallocJoe Perches3-7/+3
Use vzalloc() instead of vmalloc()+memset(). Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm log: userspace use list_moveKirill A. Shutemov1-2/+1
Replace list_del() followed by list_add() with list_move(). Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm log: clean up bit little endian bitopsAkinobu Mita1-5/+4
Using __test_and_{set,clear}_bit_le() with ignoring its return value can be replaced with __{set,clear}_bit_le(). This also removes unnecessary casts. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm table: fix discard supportMike Snitzer2-9/+9
Remove 'discards_supported' from the dm_table structure. The same information can be easily discovered from the table's target(s) in dm_table_supports_discards(). Before this fix dm_table_supports_discards() would skip checking the individual targets' 'discards_supported' flag if any one target in the table didn't set num_discard_requests > 0. Now the per-target 'discards_supported' flag is effective at insuring the final DM device advertises discard support. But, to be clear, targets that don't support discards (!num_discard_requests) will not receive discard requests. Also DMWARN if a target sets 'discards_supported' override but forgets to set 'num_discard_requests'. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm: suppress endian warningsAlasdair G Kergon3-43/+54
Suppress sparse warnings about cpu_to_le32() by using __le32 types for on-disk data etc. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm: fix idr leak on module removalAlasdair G Kergon1-2/+8
Destroy _minor_idr when unloading the core dm module. (Found by kmemleak.) Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm io: flush cpu cache with vmapped ioMikulas Patocka1-2/+27
For normal kernel pages, CPU cache is synchronized by the dma layer. However, this is not done for pages allocated with vmalloc. If we do I/O to/from vmallocated pages, we must synchronize CPU cache explicitly. Prior to doing I/O on vmallocated page we must call flush_kernel_vmap_range to flush dirty cache on the virtual address. After finished read we must call invalidate_kernel_vmap_range to invalidate cache on the virtual address, so that accesses to the virtual address return newly read data and not stale data from CPU cache. This patch fixes metadata corruption on dm-snapshots on PA-RISC and possibly other architectures with caches indexed by virtual address. Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02dm mpath: fix potential NULL pointer in feature arg processingMike Snitzer1-0/+5
Avoid dereferencing a NULL pointer if the number of feature arguments supplied is fewer than indicated. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2011-08-02dm snapshot: flush disk cache when mergingMikulas Patocka1-1/+1
This patch makes dm-snapshot flush disk cache when writing metadata for merging snapshot. Without cache flushing the disk may reorder metadata write and other data writes and there is a possibility of data corruption in case of power fault. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02watchdog: Cleanup WATCHDOG_CORE help textJosh Boyer1-3/+0
The newly added WATCHDOG_CORE option is a bool, but the help text suggests it can be built as a module. Fix it up. Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2011-08-02watchdog: Fix POST failure on ASUS P5N32-E SLI and similar boardsMart Gerrits1-0/+8
At present the module does not unset the NO_REBOOT bit upon shutdown, this causes the BIOS to fail the POST once and reset. During the next boot it displays the following error message: ***** Warning: System BOOT Fail ***** Your system last boot fail or POST interrupted. Please enter setup to load default and reboot again. Press F1 to continue, DEL to enter SETUP With this patch the NO_REBOOT flag will be unset on shutdown and thus stop this failure from occurring. Tested on 'ASUS P5N32-E SLI with BIOS revision 1801' and 'ASUS P5N32-E SLI PLUS with BIOS revision 1502'. Signed-off-by: Mart Gerrits <mart1987@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2011-08-02watchdog: shwdt: fix usage of mod_timerDavid Engraf1-1/+1
Fix the usage of mod_timer() and make the driver usable. mod_timer() must be called with an absolute timeout in jiffies. The old implementation used a relative timeout thus the hardware watchdog was never triggered. Signed-off-by: David Engraf <david.engraf@sysgo.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Wim Van sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
2011-08-02ALSA: asihpi - Clarify adapter index validity checkEliot Blennerhassett1-7/+12
Avoids assigning possibly invalid address to pa, even if it is never dereferenced. Correct error response to reflect request object/function ids. Signed-off-by: Eliot Blennerhassett <eblennerhassett@audioscience.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2011-08-01oom: task->mm == NULL doesn't mean the memory was freedOleg Nesterov1-1/+3
exit_mm() sets ->mm == NULL then it does mmput()->exit_mmap() which frees the memory. However select_bad_process() checks ->mm != NULL before TIF_MEMDIE, so it continues to kill other tasks even if we have the oom-killed task freeing its memory. Change select_bad_process() to check ->mm after TIF_MEMDIE, but skip the tasks which have already passed exit_notify() to ensure a zombie with TIF_MEMDIE set can't block oom-killer. Alternatively we could probably clear TIF_MEMDIE after exit_mmap(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-01ext4: prevent memory leaks from ext4_mb_init_backend() on error pathYu Jian1-6/+6
In ext4_mb_init(), if the s_locality_group allocation fails it will currently cause the allocations made in ext4_mb_init_backend() to be leaked. Moving the ext4_mb_init_backend() allocation after the s_locality_group allocation avoids that problem. Signed-off-by: Yu Jian <yujian@whamcloud.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-08-01ext4: use EXT4_BAD_INO for buddy cache to avoid colliding with valid inode #Yu Jian1-1/+5
Signed-off-by: Yu Jian <yujian@whamcloud.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-08-01ext4: use ext4_msg() instead of printk in mballocTheodore Ts'o1-37/+42
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-08-01Btrfs: don't call writepages from within write_full_pageJosef Bacik1-10/+0
When doing a writepage we call writepages to try and write out any other dirty pages in the area. This could cause problems where we commit a transaction and then have somebody else dirtying metadata in the area as we could end up writing out a lot more than we care about, which could cause latency on anybody who is waiting for the transaction to completely finish committing. Thanks, Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>