lwn.git/include/linux, branch v3.13.5

compiler/gcc4: Make quirk for asm_volatile_goto() unconditional

2014-02-22T21:34:57+00:00

commit a9f180345f5378ac87d80ed0bea55ba421d83859 upstream. I started noticing problems with KVM guest destruction on Linux 3.12+, where guest memory wasn't being cleaned up. I bisected it down to the commit introducing the new 'asm goto'-based atomics, and found this quirk was later applied to those. Unfortunately, even with GCC 4.8.2 (which ostensibly fixed the known 'asm goto' bug) I am still getting some kind of miscompilation. If I enable the asm_volatile_goto quirk for my compiler, KVM guests are destroyed correctly and the memory is cleaned up. So make the quirk unconditional for now, until bug is found and fixed. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Jakub Jelinek Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Oleg Nesterov Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392274867-15236-1-git-send-email-steven@uplinklabs.net Link: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58670 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "usb: xhci: Link TRB must not occur within a USB payload burst"

2014-02-22T21:34:56+00:00

commit 3d4b81eda2211f32886e2978daf6f39885042fc4 upstream. This reverts commit 35773dac5f862cb1c82ea151eba3e2f6de51ec3e. It's a hack that caused regressions in the usb-storage and userspace USB drivers that use usbfs and libusb. Commit 70cabb7d992f "xhci 1.0: Limit arbitrarily-aligned scatter gather." should fix the issues seen with the ax88179_178a driver on xHCI 1.0 hosts, without causing regressions. Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Drivers: hv: vmbus: Specify the target CPU that should receive notification

2014-02-22T21:34:53+00:00

commit e28bab4828354583bb66ac09021ca69b341a7db4 upstream. During the initial VMBUS connect phase, starting with WS2012 R2, we should specify the VPCU in the guest that should receive the notification. Fix this issue. This fix is required to properly connect to the host in the kexeced kernel. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

NFSv4: Fix memory corruption in nfs4_proc_open_confirm

2014-02-20T19:10:07+00:00

commit 17ead6c85c3d0ef57a14d1373f1f1cee2ce60ea8 upstream. nfs41_wake_and_assign_slot() relies on the task->tk_msg.rpc_argp and task->tk_msg.rpc_resp always pointing to the session sequence arguments. nfs4_proc_open_confirm tries to pull a fast one by reusing the open sequence structure, thus causing corruption of the NFSv4 slot table. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

numa: add a sysctl for numa_balancing

2014-02-13T21:55:36+00:00

commit 54a43d54988a3731d644fdeb7a1d6f46b4ac64c7 upstream. Add a working sysctl to enable/disable automatic numa memory balancing at runtime. This allows us to track down performance problems with this feature and is generally a good idea. This was possible earlier through debugfs, but only with special debugging options set. Also fix the boot message. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/sched_numa_balancing/sysctl_numa_balancing/] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

percpu_ida: Make percpu_ida_alloc + callers accept task state bitmask

2014-02-13T21:55:36+00:00

commit 6f6b5d1ec56acdeab0503d2b823f6f88a0af493e upstream. This patch changes percpu_ida_alloc() + callers to accept task state bitmask for prepare_to_wait() for code like target/iscsi that needs it for interruptible sleep, that is provided in a subsequent patch. It now expects TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE when the caller is able to sleep waiting for a new tag, or TASK_RUNNING when the caller cannot sleep, and is forced to return a negative value when no tags are available. v2 changes: - Include blk-mq + tcm_fc + vhost/scsi + target/iscsi changes - Drop signal_pending_state() call v3 changes: - Only call prepare_to_wait() + finish_wait() when != TASK_RUNNING (PeterZ) Reported-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs/compat: fix lookup_dcookie() parameter handling

2014-02-13T21:55:31+00:00

commit d8d14bd09cddbaf0168d61af638455a26bd027ff upstream. Commit d5dc77bfeeab ("consolidate compat lookup_dcookie()") coverted all architectures to the new compat_sys_lookup_dcookie() syscall. The "len" paramater of the new compat syscall must have the type compat_size_t in order to enforce zero extension for architectures where the ABI requires that the caller of a function performed zero and/or sign extension to 64 bit of all parameters. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Cc: Al Viro Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Hendrik Brueckner Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs/compat: fix parameter handling for compat readv/writev syscalls

2014-02-13T21:55:31+00:00

commit dfd948e32af2e7b28bcd7a490c0a30d4b8df2a36 upstream. We got a report that the pwritev syscall does not work correctly in compat mode on s390. It turned out that with commit 72ec35163f9f ("switch compat readv/writev variants to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE") we lost the zero extension of a couple of syscall parameters because the some parameter types haven't been converted from unsigned long to compat_ulong_t. This is needed for architectures where the ABI requires that the caller of a function performed zero and/or sign extension to 64 bit of all parameters. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Cc: Al Viro Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Hendrik Brueckner Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/page-writeback.c: do not count anon pages as dirtyable memory

2014-02-13T21:55:29+00:00

commit a1c3bfb2f67ef766de03f1f56bdfff9c8595ab14 upstream. The VM is currently heavily tuned to avoid swapping. Whether that is good or bad is a separate discussion, but as long as the VM won't swap to make room for dirty cache, we can not consider anonymous pages when calculating the amount of dirtyable memory, the baseline to which dirty_background_ratio and dirty_ratio are applied. A simple workload that occupies a significant size (40+%, depending on memory layout, storage speeds etc.) of memory with anon/tmpfs pages and uses the remainder for a streaming writer demonstrates this problem. In that case, the actual cache pages are a small fraction of what is considered dirtyable overall, which results in an relatively large portion of the cache pages to be dirtied. As kswapd starts rotating these, random tasks enter direct reclaim and stall on IO. Only consider free pages and file pages dirtyable. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Reported-by: Tejun Heo Tested-by: Tejun Heo Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Wu Fengguang Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

audit: correct a type mismatch in audit_syscall_exit()

2014-02-13T21:55:28+00:00

commit 06bdadd7634551cfe8ce071fe44d0311b3033d9e upstream. audit_syscall_exit() saves a result of regs_return_value() in intermediate "int" variable and passes it to __audit_syscall_exit(), which expects its second argument as a "long" value. This will result in truncating the value returned by a system call and making a wrong audit record. I don't know why gcc compiler doesn't complain about this, but anyway it causes a problem at runtime on arm64 (and probably most 64-bit archs). Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro Cc: Al Viro Cc: Eric Paris Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Eric Paris Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman