lwn.git/include/linux, branch v3.2.17

Fix __read_seqcount_begin() to use ACCESS_ONCE for sequence value read

2012-05-11T12:14:50+00:00

commit 2f624278626677bfaf73fef97f86b37981621f5c upstream. We really need to use a ACCESS_ONCE() on the sequence value read in __read_seqcount_begin(), because otherwise the compiler might end up reloading the value in between the test and the return of it. As a result, it might end up returning an odd value (which means that a write is in progress). If the reader is then fast enough that that odd value is still the current one when the read_seqcount_retry() is done, we might end up with a "successful" read sequence, even despite the concurrent write being active. In practice this probably never really happens - there just isn't anything else going on around the read of the sequence count, and the common case is that we end up having a read barrier immediately afterwards. So the code sequence in which gcc might decide to reaload from memory is small, and there's no reason to believe it would ever actually do the reload. But if the compiler ever were to decide to do so, it would be incredibly annoying to debug. Let's just make sure. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

efi: Add new variable attributes

2012-05-11T12:14:47+00:00

commit 41b3254c93acc56adc3c4477fef7c9512d47659e upstream. More recent versions of the UEFI spec have added new attributes for variables. Add them. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

pipes: add a "packetized pipe" mode for writing

2012-05-11T12:14:43+00:00

commit 9883035ae7edef3ec62ad215611cb8e17d6a1a5d upstream. The actual internal pipe implementation is already really about individual packets (called "pipe buffers"), and this simply exposes that as a special packetized mode. When we are in the packetized mode (marked by O_DIRECT as suggested by Alan Cox), a write() on a pipe will not merge the new data with previous writes, so each write will get a pipe buffer of its own. The pipe buffer is then marked with the PIPE_BUF_FLAG_PACKET flag, which in turn will tell the reader side to break the read at that boundary (and throw away any partial packet contents that do not fit in the read buffer). End result: as long as you do writes less than PIPE_BUF in size (so that the pipe doesn't have to split them up), you can now treat the pipe as a packet interface, where each read() system call will read one packet at a time. You can just use a sufficiently big read buffer (PIPE_BUF is sufficient, since bigger than that doesn't guarantee atomicity anyway), and the return value of the read() will naturally give you the size of the packet. NOTE! We do not support zero-sized packets, and zero-sized reads and writes to a pipe continue to be no-ops. Also note that big packets will currently be split at write time, but that the size at which that happens is not really specified (except that it's bigger than PIPE_BUF). Currently that limit is the system page size, but we might want to explicitly support bigger packets some day. The main user for this is going to be the autofs packet interface, allowing us to stop having to care so deeply about exact packet sizes (which have had bugs with 32/64-bit compatibility modes). But user space can create packetized pipes with "pipe2(fd, O_DIRECT)", which will fail with an EINVAL on kernels that do not support this interface. Tested-by: Michael Tokarev Cc: Alan Cox Cc: David Miller Cc: Ian Kent Cc: Thomas Meyer Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

USB: EHCI: fix crash during suspend on ASUS computers

2012-05-11T12:14:42+00:00

commit 151b61284776be2d6f02d48c23c3625678960b97 upstream. This patch (as1545) fixes a problem affecting several ASUS computers: The machine crashes or corrupts memory when going into suspend if the ehci-hcd driver is bound to any controllers. Users have been forced to unbind or unload ehci-hcd before putting their systems to sleep. After extensive testing, it was determined that the machines don't like going into suspend when any EHCI controllers are in the PCI D3 power state. Presumably this is a firmware bug, but there's nothing we can do about it except to avoid putting the controllers in D3 during system sleep. The patch adds a new flag to indicate whether the problem is present, and avoids changing the controller's power state if the flag is set. Runtime suspend is unaffected; this matters only for system suspend. However as a side effect, the controller will not respond to remote wakeup requests while the system is asleep. Hence USB wakeup is not functional -- but of course, this is already true in the current state of affairs. This fixes Bugzilla #42728. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern Tested-by: Steven Rostedt Tested-by: Andrey Rahmatullin Tested-by: Oleksij Rempel (fishor) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

tcp: avoid order-1 allocations on wifi and tx path

2012-05-11T12:14:22+00:00

[ This combines upstream commit a21d45726acacc963d8baddf74607d9b74e2b723 and the follow-on bug fix commit 22b4a4f22da4b39c6f7f679fd35f3d35c91bf851 ] Marc Merlin reported many order-1 allocations failures in TX path on its wireless setup, that dont make any sense with MTU=1500 network, and non SG capable hardware. After investigation, it turns out TCP uses sk_stream_alloc_skb() and used as a convention skb_tailroom(skb) to know how many bytes of data payload could be put in this skb (for non SG capable devices) Note : these skb used kmalloc-4096 (MTU=1500 + MAX_HEADER + sizeof(struct skb_shared_info) being above 2048) Later, mac80211 layer need to add some bytes at the tail of skb (IEEE80211_ENCRYPT_TAILROOM = 18 bytes) and since no more tailroom is available has to call pskb_expand_head() and request order-1 allocations. This patch changes sk_stream_alloc_skb() so that only sk->sk_prot->max_header bytes of headroom are reserved, and use a new skb field, avail_size to hold the data payload limit. This way, order-0 allocations done by TCP stack can leave more than 2 KB of tailroom and no more allocation is performed in mac80211 layer (or any layer needing some tailroom) avail_size is unioned with mark/dropcount, since mark will be set later in IP stack for output packets. Therefore, skb size is unchanged. Reported-by: Marc MERLIN Tested-by: Marc MERLIN Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [bwh: Correct commit hash for follow-on bug fix] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO packets

2012-05-11T12:14:17+00:00

[ This combines upstream commit 2f53384424251c06038ae612e56231b96ab610ee and the follow-on bug fix commit 35f9c09fe9c72eb8ca2b8e89a593e1c151f28fc2 ] vmsplice()/splice(pipe, socket) call do_tcp_sendpages() one page at a time, adding at most 4096 bytes to an skb. (assuming PAGE_SIZE=4096) The call to tcp_push() at the end of do_tcp_sendpages() forces an immediate xmit when pipe is not already filled, and tso_fragment() try to split these skb to MSS multiples. 4096 bytes are usually split in a skb with 2 MSS, and a remaining sub-mss skb (assuming MTU=1500) This makes slow start suboptimal because many small frames are sent to qdisc/driver layers instead of big ones (constrained by cwnd and packets in flight of course) In fact, applications using sendmsg() (adding an additional memory copy) instead of vmsplice()/splice()/sendfile() are a bit faster because of this anomaly, especially if serving small files in environments with large initial [c]wnd. Call tcp_push() only if MSG_MORE is not set in the flags parameter. This bit is automatically provided by splice() internals but for the last page, or on all pages if user specified SPLICE_F_MORE splice() flag. In some workloads, this can reduce number of sent logical packets by an order of magnitude, making zero-copy TCP actually faster than one-copy :) Reported-by: Tom Herbert Cc: Nandita Dukkipati Cc: Neal Cardwell Cc: Tom Herbert Cc: Yuchung Cheng Cc: H.K. Jerry Chu Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski Cc: Mahesh Bandewar Cc: Ilpo Järvinen Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

net: fix /proc/net/dev regression

2012-05-11T12:14:16+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2def16ae6b0c77571200f18ba4be049b03d75579 ] Commit f04565ddf52 (dev: use name hash for dev_seq_ops) added a second regression, as some devices are missing from /proc/net/dev if many devices are defined. When seq_file buffer is filled, the last ->next/show() method is canceled (pos value is reverted to value prior ->next() call) Problem is after above commit, we dont restart the lookup at right position in ->start() method. Fix this by removing the internal 'pos' pointer added in commit, since we need to use the 'loff_t *pos' provided by seq_file layer. This also reverts commit 5cac98dd0 (net: Fix corruption in /proc/*/net/dev_mcast), since its not needed anymore. Reported-by: Ben Greear Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Mihai Maruseac Tested-by: Ben Greear Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

KVM: unmap pages from the iommu when slots are removed

2012-05-11T12:14:07+00:00

commit 32f6daad4651a748a58a3ab6da0611862175722f upstream. We've been adding new mappings, but not destroying old mappings. This can lead to a page leak as pages are pinned using get_user_pages, but only unpinned with put_page if they still exist in the memslots list on vm shutdown. A memslot that is destroyed while an iommu domain is enabled for the guest will therefore result in an elevated page reference count that is never cleared. Additionally, without this fix, the iommu is only programmed with the first translation for a gpa. This can result in peer-to-peer errors if a mapping is destroyed and replaced by a new mapping at the same gpa as the iommu will still be pointing to the original, pinned memory address. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

sched/x86: Fix overflow in cyc2ns_offset

2012-04-13T15:33:50+00:00

commit 9993bc635d01a6ee7f6b833b4ee65ce7c06350b1 upstream. When a machine boots up, the TSC generally gets reset. However, when kexec is used to boot into a kernel, the TSC value would be carried over from the previous kernel. The computation of cycns_offset in set_cyc2ns_scale is prone to an overflow, if the machine has been up more than 208 days prior to the kexec. The overflow happens when we multiply *scale, even though there is enough room to store the final answer. We fix this issue by decomposing tsc_now into the quotient and remainder of division by CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR and then performing the multiplication separately on the two components. Refactor code to share the calculation with the previous fix in __cycles_2_ns(). Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi Acked-by: John Stultz Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Turner Cc: john stultz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120310004027.19291.88460.stgit@dungbeetle.mtv.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mike Galbraith Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

CIFS: Fix VFS lock usage for oplocked files

2012-04-13T15:33:48+00:00

commit 66189be74ff5f9f3fd6444315b85be210d07cef2 upstream. We can deadlock if we have a write oplock and two processes use the same file handle. In this case the first process can't unlock its lock if the second process blocked on the lock in the same time. Fix it by using posix_lock_file rather than posix_lock_file_wait under cinode->lock_mutex. If we request a blocking lock and posix_lock_file indicates that there is another lock that prevents us, wait untill that lock is released and restart our call. Acked-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky Signed-off-by: Steve French Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman