We run into system boot failure with kernel 2.6.28-rc. We found it on a
couple of machines, including T61 notebook, nehalem machine, and another
HPC NX6325 notebook. All the machines use FedoraCore 8 or FedoraCore 9.
With kernel prior to 2.6.28-rc, system boot doesn't fail.
I debug it and locate the root cause. Pls. see
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11899https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471517
As a matter of fact, there are 2 bugs.
1)root=/dev/sda1, system boot randomly fails. Mostly, boot for 5 times
and fails once. nash has a bug. Some of its functions misuse return
value 0. Sometimes, 0 means timeout and no uevent available. Sometimes,
0 means nash gets an uevent, but the uevent isn't block-related (for
exmaple, usb). If by coincidence, kernel tells nash that uevents are
available, but kernel also set timeout, nash might stops collecting
other uevents in queue if current uevent isn't block-related. I work
out a patch for nash to fix it.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=18858
2) root=LABEL=/, system always can't boot. initrd init reports
switchroot fails. Here is an executation branch of nash when booting:
(1) nash read /sys/block/sda/dev; Assume major is 8 (on my desktop)
(2) nash query /proc/devices with the major number; It found line
"8 sd";
(3) nash use 'sd' to search its own probe table to find device (DISK)
type for the device and add it to its own list;
(4) Later on, it probes all devices in its list to get filesystem
labels; scsi register "8 sd" always.
When major is 259, nash fails to find the device(DISK) type. I enables
CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT=y when compiling kernel, so 259 is picked up
for device /dev/sda1, which causes nash to fail to find device (DISK)
type.
To fixing issue 2), I create a patch for nash and another patch for
kernel.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=18859http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=18837
Below is the patch for kernel 2.6.28-rc4. It registers blkext, a new
block device in proc/devices.
With 2 patches on nash and 1 patch on kernel, I boot my machines for
dozens of times without failure.
Signed-off-by Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Block ext devt conversion missed md_autodetect_dev() call in
rescan_partitions() leaving md autodetect unable to see partitions.
Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Make add_partition() return pointer to the new hd_struct on success
and ERR_PTR() value on failure. This change will be used to fix md
autodetection bug.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
dma_mapping_error is an actual function, so fix broken define with a
real inline stub
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Fixed the GPIO mask and co initialization in patch_stac92hd71bxx()
so that the gpio_maks for HP_M4 model is set properly.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Impact: fix section mismatch warning in kernel/profile.c
Here, profile_nop function has been called from a non-init function
create_hash_tables(void). Which generetes a section mismatch warning.
Previously, create_hash_tables(void) was a init function. So, removing
__init from create_hash_tables(void) requires profile_nop to be
non-init.
This patch makes profile_nop function inline and fixes the
following warning:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x6ebb6): Section mismatch in reference from
the function create_hash_tables() to the function
.init.text:profile_nop()
The function create_hash_tables() references
the function __init profile_nop().
This is often because create_hash_tables lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of profile_nop is wrong.
Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: properly rebuild sched-domains on kmalloc() failure
When cpuset failed to generate sched domains due to kmalloc()
failure, the scheduler should fallback to the single partition
'fallback_doms' and rebuild sched domains, but now it only
destroys but not rebuilds sched domains.
The regression was introduced by:
| commit dfb512ec48
| Author: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
| Date: Fri Aug 29 13:11:41 2008 -0700
|
| sched: arch_reinit_sched_domains() must destroy domains to force rebuild
After the above commit, partition_sched_domains(0, NULL, NULL) will
only destroy sched domains and partition_sched_domains(1, NULL, NULL)
will create the default sched domain.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
prevent cifs_writepages() from skipping unwritten pages
Fixed parsing of mount options when doing DFS submount
[CIFS] Fix check for tcon seal setting and fix oops on failed mount from earlier patch
[CIFS] Fix build break
cifs: reinstate sharing of tree connections
[CIFS] minor cleanup to cifs_mount
cifs: reinstate sharing of SMB sessions sans races
cifs: disable sharing session and tcon and add new TCP sharing code
[CIFS] clean up server protocol handling
[CIFS] remove unused list, add new cifs sock list to prepare for mount/umount fix
[CIFS] Fix cifs reconnection flags
[CIFS] Can't rely on iov length and base when kernel_recvmsg returns error
Fixes a data corruption under heavy stress in which pages could be left
dirty after all open instances of a inode have been closed.
In order to write contiguous pages whenever possible, cifs_writepages()
asks pagevec_lookup_tag() for more pages than it may write at one time.
Normally, it then resets index just past the last page written before calling
pagevec_lookup_tag() again.
If cifs_writepages() can't write the first page returned, it wasn't resetting
index, and the next call to pagevec_lookup_tag() resulted in skipping all of
the pages it previously returned, even though cifs_writepages() did nothing
with them. This can result in data loss when the file descriptor is about
to be closed.
This patch ensures that index gets set back to the next returned page so
that none get skipped.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Shirish S Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Since these hit the same routines, and are relatively small, it is easier to review
them as one patch.
Fixed incorrect handling of the last option in some cases
Fixed prefixpath handling convert path_consumed into host depended string length (in bytes)
Use non default separator if it is provided in the original mount options
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <niallain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Impact: fix incorrectly marked unstable TSC clock
Patch (commit 0d12cdd "sched: improve sched_clock() performance") has
a regression on one of the test systems here.
With the patch, I see:
checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]:
Measured 28 cycles TSC warp between CPUs, turning off TSC clock.
Marking TSC unstable due to check_tsc_sync_source failed
Whereas, without the patch syncs pass fine on all CPUs:
checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]: passed.
Due to this, TSC is marked unstable, when it is not actually unstable.
This is because syncs in check_tsc_wrap() goes away due to this commit.
As per the discussion on this thread, correct way to fix this is to add
explicit syncs as below?
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
For some unknown reason at Steven Rostedt added in disabling of the SPE
instruction generation for e500 based PPC cores in commit
6ec562328f.
We are removing it because:
1. It generates e500 kernels that don't work
2. its not the correct set of flags to do this
3. we handle this in the arch/powerpc/Makefile already
4. its unknown in talking to Steven why he did this
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Tested-and-Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: fix guest kernel crash with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES=y
Jens noticed that scrub_page() has a buggy unmap of the wrong
thing. (virtual address instead of page)
Linus pointed out that the whole scrub_page() code is an unnecessary
reimplementation of clear_highpage() to begin with.
Just use clear_highpage() rather than reimplementing it poorly.
Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
set tcon->ses earlier
If the inital tree connect fails, we'll end up calling cifs_put_smb_ses
with a NULL pointer. Fix it by setting the tcon->ses earlier.
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (27 commits)
rtnetlink: propagate error from dev_change_flags in do_setlink()
isdn: remove extra byteswap in isdn_net_ciscohdlck_slarp_send_reply
Phonet: refuse to send bigger than MTU packets
e1000e: fix IPMI traffic
e1000e: fix warn_on reload after phy_id error
phy: fix phy address bug
e100: fix dma error in direction for mapping
igb: use dev_printk instead of printk
qla3xxx: Cleanup: Fix link print statements.
igb: Use device_set_wakeup_enable
e1000: Use device_set_wakeup_enable
e1000e: Use device_set_wakeup_enable
via-velocity: enable perfect filtering for multicast packets
phy: Add support for Marvell 88E1118 PHY
mlx4_en: Pause parameters per port
phylib: fix premature freeing of struct mii_bus
atl1: Do not enumerate options unsupported by chip
atl1e: fix broken multicast by removing unnecessary crc inversion
gianfar: Fix DMA unmap invocations
net/ucc_geth: Fix oops in uec_get_ethtool_stats()
...
Impact: fix potential NULL dereference
Contrary to ad474caca3 changelog, other
acct_group_xxx() helpers can be called after exit_notify() by timer tick.
Thanks to Roland for pointing out this. Somehow I missed this simple fact
when I read the original patch, and I am afraid I confused Frank during
the discussion. Sorry.
Fortunately, these helpers work with current, we can check ->exit_state
to ensure that ->signal can't go away under us.
Also, add the comment and compiler barrier to account_group_exec_runtime(),
to make sure we load ->signal only once.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch makes do_hw_reset the default reboot behavior when nothing
else matches. This restores reboot functionality on gumstix basix
devices where reboot=cold is the default boot argument.
Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Impact: fix DMA buffer allocation coherency bug in certain configs
This patch fixes swiotlb to use dev->coherent_dma_mask in
swiotlb_alloc_coherent().
coherent_dma_mask is a subset of dma_mask (equal to it most of
the time), enumerating the address range that a given device
is able to DMA to/from in a cache-coherent way.
But currently, swiotlb uses dev->dma_mask in alloc_coherent()
implicitly via address_needs_mapping(), but alloc_coherent is really
supposed to use coherent_dma_mask.
This bug could break drivers that uses smaller coherent_dma_mask than
dma_mask (though the current code works for the majority that use the
same mask for coherent_dma_mask and dma_mask).
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Unlike ifconfig, iproute doesn't report an error when setting
an interface up fails:
(example: put wireless network mac80211 interface into repeater mode
with iwconfig but do not set a peer MAC address, it should fail with
-ENOLINK)
without patch:
# ip link set wlan0 up ; echo $?
0
#
with patch:
# ip link set wlan0 up ; echo $?
RTNETLINK answers: Link has been severed
2
#
Propagate the return value from dev_change_flags() to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Tested-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
commit a144ea4b7a [IPV4]: annotate struct in_ifaddr
Missed this extra byteswap as the isdn inlines hide the htonl inside
put_u32 which causes an extra byteswap on little-endian arches.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When an I/O error occurs during an intermediate commit on a rolling
transaction, xfs_trans_commit() will free the transaction structure
and the related ticket. However, the duplicate transaction that
gets used as the transaction continues still contains a pointer
to the ticket. Hence when the duplicate transaction is cancelled
and freed, we free the ticket a second time.
Add reference counting to the ticket so that we hold an extra
reference to the ticket over the transaction commit. We drop the
extra reference once we have checked that the transaction commit
did not return an error, thus avoiding a double free on commit
error.
Credit to Nick Piggin for tripping over the problem.
SGI-PV: 989741
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Use a similar approach to the SMB session sharing. Add a list of tcons
attached to each SMB session. Move the refcount to non-atomic. Protect
all of the above with the cifs_tcp_ses_lock. Add functions to
properly find and put references to the tcons.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Some users reported that they have machines with BMCs enabled that cannot
receive IPMI traffic after e1000e is loaded.
http://marc.info/?l=e1000-devel&m=121909039127414&w=2http://marc.info/?l=e1000-devel&m=121365543823387&w=2
This fixes the issue if they load with the new parameter = 0 by disabling
crc stripping, but leaves the performance feature on for most users.
Based on work done by Hong Zhang.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If the driver fails to initialize the first time due to the failure in the
phy_id check the kernel triggers a warn_on on the second try to load the
driver because the driver did not free the msi/x resources in the first
load because of the previous failure in phy_id check.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix an unitialized return value when compiling on parisc (with CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU=y):
mm/mlock.c: In function `__mlock_vma_pages_range':
mm/mlock.c:165: warning: `ret' might be used uninitialized in this function
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
[ It isn't ever really used uninitialized, since no caller should ever
call this function with an empty range. But the compiler is correct
that from a local analysis standpoint that is impossible to see, and
fixing the warning is appropriate. ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Bug #11989: Suspend failure on NForce4-based boards due to chanes in
stop_machine
We should not access active.fnret outside the lock; in theory the next
stop_machine could overwrite it.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The vendor BSP used for the WM8350 development provided an I2C driver
which incorrectly returned zero on succesful sends rather than the
number of transmitted bytes, an error which was then propagated into the
WM8350 I2C accessors.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@openedhand.com>
Commit 0794469da3f7b2093575cbdfc1108308dd3641ce: ("ACPI: struct device -
replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()") introduced a bug by
testing 'dev_name(ldev)' instead of 'ldev->bus' for NULL when printing
out the bus information.
So if ldev->bus was NULL, we'd oops.
Reported-and-tested-by: Bruno Prmont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
PHYID returns 0xffff and not 0xffffffff when not found and in some
case(at91sam9263) 0x0. Maybe this patch could be useful.
Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@micronovasrl.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The e100 driver triggers BUG_ON(buf->direction != dir)
by doing pci_map_single(..., PCI_DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL)
and pci_dma_sync_single_for_device(..., PCI_DMA_TODEVICE).
Changing the DMA direction, especially with dmabounce will result
in unexpected behaviour.
Reported-by: Anders Grafstrom <grfstrm@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use dev_printk() instead of printk() to give a little more context
and use consistent format.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Removed debug print statements and improved conditionals around informational statements.
Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Since dev->power.should_wakeup bit is used by the PCI core to
decide whether the device should wake up the system from sleep
states, set/unset this bit whenever WOL is enabled/disabled using
igb_set_wol(). Accordingly, use device_can_wakeup() for checking
if wake-up is supported by the device.
Signed-off-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Since dev->power.should_wakeup bit is used by the PCI core to
decide whether the device should wake up the system from sleep
states, set/unset this bit whenever WOL is enabled/disabled using
e1000_set_wol(). Accordingly, use device_can_wakeup() for checking
if wake-up is supported by the device.
Signed-off-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Since dev->power.should_wakeup bit is used by the PCI core to
decide whether the device should wake up the system from sleep
states, set/unset this bit whenever WOL is enabled/disabled using
e1000_set_wol(). Accordingly, use device_can_wakeup() for checking
if wake-up is supported by the device.
Signed-off-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Impact: fix es7000 build
CC arch/x86/kernel/es7000_32.o
arch/x86/kernel/es7000_32.c: In function find_unisys_acpi_oem_table:
arch/x86/kernel/es7000_32.c:255: error: implicit declaration of function acpi_get_table_with_size
arch/x86/kernel/es7000_32.c:261: error: implicit declaration of function early_acpi_os_unmap_memory
arch/x86/kernel/es7000_32.c: In function unmap_unisys_acpi_oem_table:
arch/x86/kernel/es7000_32.c:277: error: implicit declaration of function __acpi_unmap_table
make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/es7000_32.o] Error 1
we applied one patch out of order...
| commit a73aaedd95
| Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
| Date: Sun Sep 14 02:33:14 2008 -0700
|
| x86: check dsdt before find oem table for es7000, v2
|
| v2: use __acpi_unmap_table()
that patch need:
x86: use early_ioremap in __acpi_map_table
x86: always explicitly map acpi memory
acpi: remove final __acpi_map_table mapping before setting acpi_gbl_permanent_mmap
acpi/x86: introduce __apci_map_table, v4
submitted to the ACPI tree but not upstream yet.
fix it until those patches applied, need to revert this one
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The original incorrect configuration caused GPIO79_nCS_3 being overriden,
thus resulted in the NAND flash not being detected. The real PSKTSEL pin
is on GPIO104 instead of GPIO79.
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Zhang, Yanmin