use the rates ERP flag to derive CCK or OFDM modulation for the radiotap
header.
(it might be more correct to get this information from the hardware itself, but it
seems safe to assume this in most practical cases.)
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
cleanup the rates structures used by ath5k. instead of separate driver and
mac80211 rate structures we now setup a static ieee80211_rate array and use it
directly. no conversion between two different rate structures has to be done
any more. a lot of unused and confusing junk was deleted.
renamed ath5k_getchannels into ath5k_setup_bands because this is what it does.
rewrote it to copy the bitrates correctly for each band. this is necessary for
running different hardware with the same driver (e.g. 5211 and 5212 based
cards).
add special handling of rates for AR5211 chipsets: it uses different rate codes
for CCK rates (which are actually like the other chips but with a 0xF mask).
setup a hardware code to rate index reverse mapping table for getting the rate
index of received frames.
the rates for control frames which have to be set in
ath5k_hw_write_rate_duration are now in one single array.
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/ath5k.h: Changes-licensed-under: ISC
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.h: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/hw.c: Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds ieee80211_queue_stopped that let drivers to query
queue status
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use "menuconfig" to make wireless support one-click selectable.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There were 3 code copy and pastes of reset. Unify the resets and place
in separate function.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It is not allowed to use NETDEV_TX_BUSY in tx path anymore.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>
Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This enables draft-802.11s Mesh Point operation. For that we need mesh
beaconing. Tested with AR5212/AR5213 PCI card against Zydas and b43 mesh
nodes.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Converts a test in error handling code to a sequence of labels.
The semantic match that found the problem is:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
// <smpl>
@@
expression E,E1,E2;
@@
E = alloc_etherdev(...)
... when != E = E1
if (...) { ... free_netdev(E); ... return ...; }
... when != E = E2
(
if (...)
{
... when != free_netdev(E);
return dev; }
|
* if (...)
{
... when != free_netdev(E);
return ...; }
|
register_netdev(E)
)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To use these features, copy the boot2 and firmware images to /lib/firmware and:
echo <boot2_image_name> > /sys/class/net/ethX/lbs_flash_boot2
echo <firmware_image_name> > /sys/class/net/ethX/lbs_flash_fw
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add locking and non-locking versions of if_usb_prog_firmware to support
programming firmware after and before driver bring-up respectively. Add more
suitable error codes for firmware programming process. Add capability checks
for persistent features before attempting to use them.
Based on patches from Brajesh Dave and Priyank Singh.
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tx/Rx descriptor flags are common between rtl818x devices, only with
additions for newer chips, thus use same flags in the code.
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
dev_deactivate() can skip rescheduling of a qdisc by qdisc_watchdog()
or other timer calling netif_schedule() after dev_queue_deactivate().
We prevent this checking aliveness before scheduling the timer. Since
during deactivation the root qdisc is available only as qdisc_sleeping
additional accessor qdisc_root_sleeping() is created.
With feedback from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
All of the SCTP-AUTH socket options could cause a panic
if the extension is disabled and the API is envoked.
Additionally, there were some additional assumptions that
certain pointers would always be valid which may not
always be the case.
This patch hardens the API and address all of the crash
scenarios.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
After commit a97c9bf33f (fix cramfs
making duplicate entries in inode cache) in kernel 2.6.14, named-pipe
on cramfs does not work properly.
It seems the commit make all named-pipe on cramfs share their inode
(and named-pipe buffer).
Make ..._test() refuse to merge inodes with ->i_ino == 1, take inode setup
back to get_cramfs_inode() and make ->drop_inode() evict ones with ->i_ino
== 1 immediately.
Reported-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.14 and later]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes kernel BUG at lib/radix-tree.c:473.
Previously the handler was incidentally provided by tmpfs but this was
removed with:
commit 14fcc23fdc
Author: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Date: Mon Jul 28 15:46:19 2008 -0700
tmpfs: fix kernel BUG in shmem_delete_inode
relying on this behaviour was incorrect in any case and the BUG also
appeared when the device node was on an ext3 filesystem.
v2: override a_ops at open() time rather than mmap() time to minimise
races per AKPM's concerns.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [14fcc23fd is in 2.6.25.14 and 2.6.26.1]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
On a PowerPC board with ds1374 RTC I'm getting this error while RTC tries
to probe:
rtc-ds1374 0-0068: unable to request IRQ
This happens because I2C probing code (drivers/of/of_i2c.c) is specifying
IRQ0 for 'no irq' case, which is correct.
The driver handles this incorrectly, though. This patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
XIP can call into get_xip_mem concurrently with the same file,offset with
create=1. This usually maps down to get_block, which expects the page
lock to prevent such a situation. This causes ext2 to explode for one
reason or another.
Serialise those calls for the moment. For common usages today, I suspect
get_xip_mem rarely is called to create new blocks. In future as XIP
technologies evolve we might need to look at which operations require
scalability, and rework the locking to suit.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@freenet.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
XIP has a race between sparse pages being inserted into page tables, and
sparse pages being zapped when its time to put a non-sparse page in.
What can happen is that a process can be left with a dangling sparse page
in a MAP_SHARED mapping, while the rest of the world sees the non-sparse
version. Ie. data corruption.
Guard these operations with a seqlock, making fault-in-sparse-pages the
slowpath, and try-to-unmap-sparse-pages the fastpath.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@freenet.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is a race with dirty page accounting where a page may not properly
be accounted for.
clear_page_dirty_for_io() calls page_mkclean; then TestClearPageDirty.
page_mkclean walks the rmaps for that page, and for each one it cleans and
write protects the pte if it was dirty. It uses page_check_address to
find the pte. That function has a shortcut to avoid the ptl if the pte is
not present. Unfortunately, the pte can be switched to not-present then
back to present by other code while holding the page table lock -- this
should not be a signal for page_mkclean to ignore that pte, because it may
be dirty.
For example, powerpc64's set_pte_at will clear a previously present pte
before setting it to the desired value. There may also be other code in
core mm or in arch which do similar things.
The consequence of the bug is loss of data integrity due to msync, and
loss of dirty page accounting accuracy. XIP's __xip_unmap could easily
also be unreliable (depending on the exact XIP locking scheme), which can
lead to data corruption.
Fix this by having an option to always take ptl to check the pte in
page_check_address.
It's possible to retain this optimization for page_referenced and
try_to_unmap.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@freenet.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: 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>
When user calls sys_setpriority(PRIO_PGRP ...) on a NPTL style multi-LWP
process, only the task leader of the process is affected, all other
sibling LWP threads didn't receive the setting. The problem was that the
iterator used in sys_setpriority() only iteartes over one task for each
process, ignoring all other sibling thread.
Introduce a new macro do_each_pid_thread / while_each_pid_thread to walk
each thread of a process. Convert 4 call sites in {set/get}priority and
ioprio_{set/get}.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix bug: does nor properply resume after suspend mem
Fix for PM_SUSPEND_MEM: Save and restore peripheral base and DMA registers
Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Absolute alignment requirements may never be applied to node-relative
offsets. Andreas Herrmann spotted this flaw when a bootmem allocation on
an unaligned node was itself not aligned because the combination of an
unaligned node with an aligned offset into that node is not garuanteed to
be aligned itself.
This patch introduces two helper functions that align a node-relative
index or offset with respect to the node's starting address so that the
absolute PFN or virtual address that results from combining the two
satisfies the requested alignment.
Then all the broken ALIGN()s in alloc_bootmem_core() are replaced by these
helpers.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Reported-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Debugged-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Release cmap memory allocated in the probe function.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With commit 5ad31a5751 ("rtc: remove BKL
for ioctl()"), RTC_UIE_ON ioctl cause double lock on rtc->ops_lock.
The ops_lock must not be held while set_uie() calls rtc_read_time()
which takes the lock. Also clear_uie() does not need ops_lock. This
patch fixes return value of RTC_UIE_OFF ioctl too.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In case the binfmt_misc binary handler is registered *before* the e.g.
script one (when for example being compiled as a module) the following
situation may occur:
1. user launches a script, whose interpreter is a misc binary;
2. the load_misc_binary sets the misc_bang and returns -ENOEVEC,
since the binary is a script;
3. the load_script_binary loads one and calls for search_binary_hander
to run the interpreter;
4. the load_misc_binary is called again, but refuses to load the
binary due to misc_bang bit set.
The fix is to move the misc_bang setting lower - prior to the actual
call to the search_binary_handler.
Caused by the commit 3a2e7f47 (binfmt_misc.c: avoid potential kernel
stack overflow)
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Tested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The name of brd block device is "ramdisk", it's not "brd".
(The block device is registered by register_blkdev(RAMDISK_MAJOR, "ramdisk")
So it should be unregistered by unregister_blkdev(RAMDISK_MAJOR, "ramdisk")
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We leak the memory allocated for the nbd_dev array at multiple places.
Fix them by either adding a kfree() or by rearranging code to return
before we allocate the memory.
Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mminit_loglevel is now used from mminit_verify_zonelist <- build_all_zonelists <-
1. online_pages <- memory_block_action <- memory_block_change_state <- store_mem_state (sys handler)
2. numa_zonelist_order_handler (proc handler)
so it cannot be annotated __meminit - drop it
fixes following section mismatch warning:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x71628): Section mismatch in reference from the function mminit_verify_zonelist() to the variable .meminit.data:mminit_loglevel
The function mminit_verify_zonelist() references
the variable __meminitdata mminit_loglevel.
This is often because mminit_verify_zonelist lacks a __meminitdata
annotation or the annotation of mminit_loglevel is wrong.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adjust <Alt><SysRq>m show_swap_cache_info() to show "Free swap" as a
signed long: the signed format is preferable, because during swapoff
nr_swap_pages can legitimately go negative, so makes more sense thus
(it used to be shown redundantly, once as signed and once as unsigned).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a comment to s390's page_test_dirty/page_clear_dirty/page_set_dirty
dance in page_remove_rmap(): I was wrong to think the PageSwapCache test
could be avoided, and would like a comment in there to remind me. And
mention s390, to help us remember that this block is not really common.
Also move down the "It would be tidy to reset PageAnon" comment: it does
not belong to s390's block, and it would be unwise to reset PageAnon
before we're done with testing it.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
"bootmem_debug" is not mentioned in kernel-parameters.txt. Recently I
had to use that kernel option and I think it should be documented.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
eeepc-laptop uses the hwmon struct after unregistering the device, causing
an oops on module unload. Flip the ordering to fix.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Cc: Karol Kozimor <sziwan@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Purely cosmetic for now, but we might as well get it merged ASAP.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I won't say 'fix', because they still look broken, although this will at
least allow 'make ARCH=CRIS headers_install' to _complete_.
For headers which are exported, we should probably choose between
asm/arch-v10 and asm/arch-v32 by something that GCC defines -- we can't
rely on a generated symlink. And we certainly can't export an arch/
directory which doesn't even exist.
And the only thing that we seem to include from the arch/ directory is
<asm/arch/ptrace.h> from <asm/ptrace.h> ... and that isn't exported in
either arch-v10 or arch-v32 _anyway_.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
powerpc: Fix vio_bus_probe oops on probe error
powerpc/ibmebus: Restore "name" sysfs attribute on ibmebus devices
powerpc: Fix /dev/oldmem interface for kdump
powerpc/spufs: Remove invalid semicolon after if statement
powerpc/spufs: reference context while dropping state mutex in scheduler
powerpc/spufs: fix npc setting for NOSCHED contexts
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: (22 commits)
[SCSI] ibmvfc: Driver version 1.0.2
[SCSI] ibmvfc: Add details to async event log
[SCSI] ibmvfc: Sanitize response lengths
[SCSI] ibmvfc: Fix for lost async events
[SCSI] ibmvfc: Fixup host state during reinit
[SCSI] ibmvfc: Fix another hang on module removal
[SCSI] ibmvscsi: Fixup desired DMA value for shared memory partitions
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: remove sysfs dbg_lvl world writeable permissions
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.02.01-k7.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Explicitly tear-down vports during PCI remove_one().
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Reference proper ha during SBR handling.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Set npiv_supported flag for FCoE HBAs.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Don't leak SG-DMA mappings while aborting commands.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct vport-state management issues during ISP-ABORT.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct synchronization of software/firmware fcport states.
[SCSI] scsi_dh: Initialize lun_state in check_ownership()
[SCSI] scsi_dh: Do not use scsilun in rdac hardware handler
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: version and Documentation Update
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: add new controllers (0x78 0x79)
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: add the shutdown DCMD cmd to driver shutdown routine
...
There was another FAT BKL conversion deadlock reported by Bart
Trojanowski due to the BKL being used as a recursive lock by FAT, which
was missed because it only triggers with 'sync' (or 'dirsync') mounts.
The recursion worked for the BKL, but after the conversion to lock_super
(which uses a mutex), it just deadlocks.
Thanks to Bart for debugging this and testing the fix. The lock
debugging information from the original report:
=============================================
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
2.6.27-rc3-bisect-00448-ga7f5aaf #16
---------------------------------------------
mv/4020 is trying to acquire lock:
(&type->s_lock_key#9){--..}, at: [<c01a90fe>] lock_super+0x1e/0x20
but task is already holding lock:
(&type->s_lock_key#9){--..}, at: [<c01a90fe>] lock_super+0x1e/0x20
other info that might help us debug this:
3 locks held by mv/4020:
#0: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9/1){--..}, at: [<c01b2336>] do_unlinkat+0x66/0x140
#1: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9){--..}, at: [<c01b0954>] vfs_unlink+0x84/0x110
#2: (&type->s_lock_key#9){--..}, at: [<c01a90fe>] lock_super+0x1e/0x20
stack backtrace:
Pid: 4020, comm: mv Not tainted 2.6.27-rc3-bisect-00448-ga7f5aaf #16
[<c014e694>] validate_chain+0x984/0xea0
[<c0108d70>] ? native_sched_clock+0x0/0xf0
[<c014ee9c>] __lock_acquire+0x2ec/0x9b0
[<c014f5cf>] lock_acquire+0x6f/0x90
[<c01a90fe>] ? lock_super+0x1e/0x20
[<c044e5fd>] mutex_lock_nested+0xad/0x300
[<c01a90fe>] ? lock_super+0x1e/0x20
[<c01a90fe>] ? lock_super+0x1e/0x20
[<c01a90fe>] lock_super+0x1e/0x20
[<f8b3a700>] fat_write_inode+0x60/0x2b0 [fat]
[<c0450878>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x48/0x80
[<f8b3a953>] ? fat_sync_inode+0x3/0x20 [fat]
[<f8b3a962>] fat_sync_inode+0x12/0x20 [fat]
[<f8b37c7e>] fat_remove_entries+0xbe/0x120 [fat]
[<f8b422ef>] vfat_unlink+0x5f/0x90 [vfat]
[<f8b42290>] ? vfat_unlink+0x0/0x90 [vfat]
[<c01b0968>] vfs_unlink+0x98/0x110
[<c01b2400>] do_unlinkat+0x130/0x140
[<c016a8f5>] ? audit_syscall_entry+0x105/0x150
[<c01b253b>] sys_unlinkat+0x3b/0x40
[<c01040d3>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x3f
=======================
where the deadlock is due to the nesting of lock_super from vfat_unlink
to fat_write_inode:
- do_unlinkat
- vfs_unlink
- vfat_unlink
* lock_super
- fat_remove_entries
- fat_sync_inode
- fat_write_inode
* lock_super
and the fix is to simply remove the use of lock_super() in fat_write_inode.
The lock_super() there had been just an automatic conversion of the
kernel lock to the superblock lock, but no locking was actually needed
there, since the code in fat_write_inode already protected all relevant
accesses with a spinlock (sbi->inode_hash_lock to be exact). The only
code inside the BKL (and thus the superblock lock) was accesses tp local
variables or calls to functions that have long been SMP-safe (i.e.
sb_bread, mark_buffe_dirty and brlese).
Bart reports:
"Looks good. I ran 10 parallel processes creating 1M files truncating
them, writing to them again and then deleting them. This patch fixes
the issue I ran into.
Signed-off-by: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>"
Reported-and-tested-by: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I outwitted myself again in commit 2b2a1ff64a,
and broke the SA_NOCLDWAIT behavior so it leaks zombies. This fixes it.
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
