Since per-BDI flusher threads were introduced in 2.6, the pdflush
mechanism is not used any more. But the old interface exported through
/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads still exists and is obviously useless.
For back-compatibility, printk warning information and return 2 to notify
the users that the interface is removed.
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, function should_fail() has "bool" for its return value, so it's
reasonable to change the return value of function should_fail_alloc_page()
into "bool" as well.
The patch does cleanup on function should_fail_alloc_page() to have "bool"
for its return value.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
vm_stat_account() accounts the shared_vm, stack_vm and reserved_vm now.
But we can also account for total_vm in the vm_stat_account() which makes
the code tidy.
Even for mprotect_fixup(), we can get the right result in the end.
Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix of the documentation of /proc/sys/vm/page-cluster to match the
behavior of the code and add some comments about what the tunable will
change in that behavior.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Swap readahead works fine, but the I/O to disk is almost always done in
page size requests, despite the fact that readahead submits
1<<page-cluster pages at a time.
On older kernels the old per device plugging behavior might have captured
this and merged the requests, but currently all comes down to much more
I/Os than required.
On a single device this might not be an issue, but as soon as a server
runs on shared san resources savin I/Os not only improves swapin
throughput but also provides a lower resource utilization.
With a load running KVM in a lot of memory overcommitment (the hot memory
is 1.5 times the host memory) swapping throughput improves significantly
and the lead feels more responsive as well as achieves more throughput.
In a test setup with 16 swap disks running blocktrace on one of those disks
shows the improved merging:
Prior:
Reads Queued: 560,888, 2,243MiB Writes Queued: 226,242, 904,968KiB
Read Dispatches: 544,701, 2,243MiB Write Dispatches: 159,318, 904,968KiB
Reads Requeued: 0 Writes Requeued: 0
Reads Completed: 544,716, 2,243MiB Writes Completed: 159,321, 904,980KiB
Read Merges: 16,187, 64,748KiB Write Merges: 61,744, 246,976KiB
IO unplugs: 149,614 Timer unplugs: 2,940
With the patch:
Reads Queued: 734,315, 2,937MiB Writes Queued: 300,188, 1,200MiB
Read Dispatches: 214,972, 2,937MiB Write Dispatches: 215,176, 1,200MiB
Reads Requeued: 0 Writes Requeued: 0
Reads Completed: 214,971, 2,937MiB Writes Completed: 215,177, 1,200MiB
Read Merges: 519,343, 2,077MiB Write Merges: 73,325, 293,300KiB
IO unplugs: 337,130 Timer unplugs: 11,184
I got ~10% to ~40% more throughput in my cases and at the same time much
lower cpu consumption when broken down per transferred kilobyte (the
majority of that due to saved interrupts and better cache handling). In a
shared SAN others might get an additional benefit as well, because this
now causes less protocol overhead.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are no users since commit b24028572f ("memcg: remove PCG_CACHE").
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now, in memcg, 2 "MAPPED" enum/macro are found
MEM_CGROUP_CHARGE_TYPE_MAPPED
MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_MAPPED
Thier names looks similar to each other but the former is used for
accounting anonymous memory. rename it as TYPE_ANON.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAPOUT represents the usage of swap rather than
the number of swap-out events. Rename it to be MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAP.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If someone calls vb_alloc() (or vm_map_ram() for that matter) to allocate
0 bytes (0 pages), get_order() returns BITS_PER_LONG - PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
and interesting stuff happens. So make debugging such problems easier and
warn about 0-size allocation.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use WARN_ON-return-value feature]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There's a walk by repeating rb_next to find a suitable hole. Could be
simply replaced by walk on the sorted vmap_area_list. More simpler and
efficient.
Mutation of the list and tree only happens in pair within
__insert_vmap_area and __free_vmap_area, under protection of
vmap_area_lock. The patch code is also under vmap_area_lock, so the list
walk is safe, and consistent with the tree walk.
Tested on SMP by repeating batch of vmalloc anf vfree for random sizes and
rounds for hours.
Signed-off-by: Hong Zhiguo <honkiko@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix zillions of these:
drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c:1848: error: unknown field 'func' specified in initializer
drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c:1848: warning: missing braces around initializer
drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c:1848: warning: (near initialization for 'v4l2_ioctls[0].<anonymous>')
drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c:1848: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c:1848: error: initializer element is not computable at load time
drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c:1848: error: (near initialization for 'v4l2_ioctls[0].<anonymous>.offset')
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This will fix build errors:
block/blk-cgroup.c:609:2: error: unknown type name 'atomic64_t'
block/blk-cgroup.c:609:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'ATOMIC64_INIT' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
"fault-injection: add tool to run command with failslab or
fail_page_alloc" added tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh to make it
easier to inject slab/page allocation failures by fault injection.
failcmd.sh prints the following warning when running with arguments
for command.
# ./failcmd.sh echo aaa
failcmd.sh: line 209: [: echo: binary operator expected
aaa
This warning is caused by an improper check whether at least one
parameter is left after parsing command options.
Fix it by testing the length of $1 instead of $@
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
which can adapt equally well to fast/slow devices.
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Merge tag 'writeback-proportions' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux
Pull writeback updates from Wu Fengguang:
"Use time based periods to age the writeback proportions, which can
adapt equally well to fast/slow devices."
Fix up trivial conflict in comment in fs/sync.c
* tag 'writeback-proportions' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
writeback: Fix some comment errors
block: Convert BDI proportion calculations to flexible proportions
lib: Fix possible deadlock in flexible proportion code
lib: Proportions with flexible period
Features include:
- More preparatory patches for modularising NFSv2/v3/v4.
Split out the various NFSv2/v3/v4-specific code into separate
files
- More preparation for the NFSv4 migration code
- Ensure that OPEN(O_CREATE) observes the pNFS mds threshold parameters
- pNFS fast failover when the data servers are down
- Various cleanups and debugging patches
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Merge tag 'nfs-for-3.6-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs
Pull NFS client updates from Trond Myklebust:
"Features include:
- More preparatory patches for modularising NFSv2/v3/v4. Split out
the various NFSv2/v3/v4-specific code into separate files
- More preparation for the NFSv4 migration code
- Ensure that OPEN(O_CREATE) observes the pNFS mds threshold
parameters
- pNFS fast failover when the data servers are down
- Various cleanups and debugging patches"
* tag 'nfs-for-3.6-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: (67 commits)
nfs: fix fl_type tests in NFSv4 code
NFS: fix pnfs regression with directio writes
NFS: fix pnfs regression with directio reads
sunrpc: clnt: Add missing braces
nfs: fix stub return type warnings
NFS: exit_nfs_v4() shouldn't be an __exit function
SUNRPC: Add a missing spin_unlock to gss_mech_list_pseudoflavors
NFS: Split out NFS v4 client functions
NFS: Split out the NFS v4 filesystem types
NFS: Create a single nfs_clone_super() function
NFS: Split out NFS v4 server creating code
NFS: Initialize the NFS v4 client from init_nfs_v4()
NFS: Move the v4 getroot code to nfs4getroot.c
NFS: Split out NFS v4 file operations
NFS: Initialize v4 sysctls from nfs_init_v4()
NFS: Create an init_nfs_v4() function
NFS: Split out NFS v4 inode operations
NFS: Split out NFS v3 inode operations
NFS: Split out NFS v2 inode operations
NFS: Clean up nfs4_proc_setclientid() and friends
...
This one fixes an s5m8767 regulator build breakage due to a merge conflict
caused by the MFD s5m API changes.
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Merge tag 'mfd-for-linus-3.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/mfd-2.6
Pull MFD fix from Samuel Ortiz:
"This one fixes an s5m8767 regulator build breakage due to a merge
conflict caused by the MFD s5m API changes."
* tag 'mfd-for-linus-3.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/mfd-2.6:
regulator: Fix an s5m8767 build failure
Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
"This is the first part of the media patches for v3.6.
This patch series contain:
- new DVB frontend: rtl2832
- new video drivers: adv7393
- some unused files got removed
- a selection API cleanup between V4L2 and V4L2 subdev API's
- a major redesign at v4l-ioctl2, in order to clean it up
- several driver fixes and improvements."
* 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (174 commits)
v4l: Export v4l2-common.h in include/linux/Kbuild
media: Revert "[media] Terratec Cinergy S2 USB HD Rev.2"
[media] media: Use pr_info not homegrown pr_reg macro
[media] Terratec Cinergy S2 USB HD Rev.2
[media] v4l: Correct conflicting V4L2 subdev selection API documentation
[media] Feature removal: V4L2 selections API target and flag definitions
[media] v4l: Unify selection flags documentation
[media] v4l: Unify selection flags
[media] v4l: Common documentation for selection targets
[media] v4l: Unify selection targets across V4L2 and V4L2 subdev interfaces
[media] v4l: Remove "_ACTUAL" from subdev selection API target definition names
[media] V4L: Remove "_ACTIVE" from the selection target name definitions
[media] media: dvb-usb: print mac address via native %pM
[media] s5p-tv: Use module_i2c_driver in sii9234_drv.c file
[media] media: gpio-ir-recv: add allowed_protos for platform data
[media] s5p-jpeg: Use module_platform_driver in jpeg-core.c file
[media] saa7134: fix spelling of detach in label
[media] cx88-blackbird: replace ioctl by unlocked_ioctl
[media] cx88: don't use current_norm
[media] cx88: fix a number of v4l2-compliance violations
...
Merge Andrew's first set of patches:
"Non-MM patches:
- lots of misc bits
- tree-wide have_clk() cleanups
- quite a lot of printk tweaks. I draw your attention to "printk:
convert the format for KERN_<LEVEL> to a 2 byte pattern" which
looks a bit scary. But afaict it's solid.
- backlight updates
- lib/ feature work (notably the addition and use of memweight())
- checkpatch updates
- rtc updates
- nilfs updates
- fatfs updates (partial, still waiting for acks)
- kdump, proc, fork, IPC, sysctl, taskstats, pps, etc
- new fault-injection feature work"
* Merge emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (128 commits)
drivers/misc/lkdtm.c: fix missing allocation failure check
lib/scatterlist: do not re-write gfp_flags in __sg_alloc_table()
fault-injection: add tool to run command with failslab or fail_page_alloc
fault-injection: add selftests for cpu and memory hotplug
powerpc: pSeries reconfig notifier error injection module
memory: memory notifier error injection module
PM: PM notifier error injection module
cpu: rewrite cpu-notifier-error-inject module
fault-injection: notifier error injection
c/r: fcntl: add F_GETOWNER_UIDS option
resource: make sure requested range is included in the root range
include/linux/aio.h: cpp->C conversions
fs: cachefiles: add support for large files in filesystem caching
pps: return PTR_ERR on error in device_create
taskstats: check nla_reserve() return
sysctl: suppress kmemleak messages
ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION
ipc: compat: use signed size_t types for msgsnd and msgrcv
ipc: allow compat IPC version field parsing if !ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
ipc: add COMPAT_SHMLBA support
...
We are seeing a lot of sg_alloc_table allocation failures using the new
drm prime infrastructure. We isolated the cause to code in
__sg_alloc_table that was re-writing the gfp_flags.
There is a comment in the code that suggest that there is an assumption
about the allocation coming from a memory pool. This was likely true
when sg lists were primarily used for disk I/O.
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Rob Clark <rob.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Cc: Inki Dae <inki.dae@samsung.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olofj@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh to run a command while
injecting slab/page allocation failures via fault injection.
Example:
Run a command "make -C tools/testing/selftests/ run_tests" with
injecting slab allocation failure.
# ./tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh \
-- make -C tools/testing/selftests/ run_tests
Same as above except to specify 100 times failures at most instead of
one time at most by default.
# ./tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh --times=100 \
-- make -C tools/testing/selftests/ run_tests
Same as above except to inject page allocation failure instead of slab
allocation failure.
# env FAILCMD_TYPE=fail_page_alloc \
./tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh --times=100 \
-- make -C tools/testing/selftests/ run_tests
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds two selftests
* tools/testing/selftests/cpu-hotplug/on-off-test.sh is testing script
for CPU hotplug
1. Online all hot-pluggable CPUs
2. Offline all hot-pluggable CPUs
3. Online all hot-pluggable CPUs again
4. Exit if cpu-notifier-error-inject.ko is not available
5. Offline all hot-pluggable CPUs in preparation for testing
6. Test CPU hot-add error handling by injecting notifier errors
7. Online all hot-pluggable CPUs in preparation for testing
8. Test CPU hot-remove error handling by injecting notifier errors
* tools/testing/selftests/memory-hotplug/on-off-test.sh is doing the
similar thing for memory hotplug.
1. Online all hot-pluggable memory
2. Offline 10% of hot-pluggable memory
3. Online all hot-pluggable memory again
4. Exit if memory-notifier-error-inject.ko is not available
5. Offline 10% of hot-pluggable memory in preparation for testing
6. Test memory hot-add error handling by injecting notifier errors
7. Online all hot-pluggable memory in preparation for testing
8. Test memory hot-remove error handling by injecting notifier errors
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This provides the ability to inject artifical errors to pSeries reconfig
notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs interface
under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pSeries-reconfig
If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This provides the ability to inject artifical errors to memory hotplug
notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs interface
under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events notified,
write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
# echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
# echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This provides the ability to inject artifical errors to PM notifier chain
callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs interface under
/sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
Each of the files in "error" directory represents an event which can be
failed and contains the error code. If the notifier call chain should be
failed with some events notified, write the error code to the files.
If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events notified,
write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
# echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
# echo mem > /sys/power/state
bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Rewrite existing cpu-notifier-error-inject module to use debugfs based new
framework.
This change removes cpu_up_prepare_error and cpu_down_prepare_error module
parameters which were used to specify error code to be injected. We could
keep these module parameters for backward compatibility by module_param_cb
but it seems overkill for this module.
This provides the ability to inject artifical errors to CPU notifier chain
callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs interface under
/sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events notified,
write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".
Example1: inject CPU offline error (-1 == -EPERM)
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
# echo -1 > actions/CPU_DOWN_PREPARE/error
# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted
Example2: inject CPU online error (-2 == -ENOENT)
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
# echo -2 > actions/CPU_UP_PREPARE/error
# echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
bash: echo: write error: No such file or directory
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patchset provides kernel modules that can be used to test the error
handling of notifier call chain failures by injecting artifical errors to
the following notifier chain callbacks.
* CPU notifier
* PM notifier
* memory hotplug notifier
* powerpc pSeries reconfig notifier
Example: Inject CPU offline error (-1 == -EPERM)
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
# echo -1 > actions/CPU_DOWN_PREPARE/error
# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted
The patchset also adds cpu and memory hotplug tests to
tools/testing/selftests These tests first do simple online and offline
test and then do fault injection tests if notifier error injection
module is available.
This patch:
The notifier error injection provides the ability to inject artifical
errors to specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the
error handling of notifier call chain failures.
This adds common basic functions to define which type of events can be
fail and to initialize the debugfs interface to control what error code
should be returned and which event should be failed.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When we restore file descriptors we would like them to look exactly as
they were at dumping time.
With help of fcntl it's almost possible, the missing snippet is file
owners UIDs.
To be able to read their values the F_GETOWNER_UIDS is introduced.
This option is valid iif CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE is turned on, otherwise
returning -EINVAL.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When the requested range is outside of the root range the logic in
__reserve_region_with_split will cause an infinite recursion which will
overflow the stack as seen in the warning bellow.
This particular stack overflow was caused by requesting the
(100000000-107ffffff) range while the root range was (0-ffffffff). In
this case __request_resource would return the whole root range as
conflict range (i.e. 0-ffffffff). Then, the logic in
__reserve_region_with_split would continue the recursion requesting the
new range as (conflict->end+1, end) which incidentally in this case
equals the originally requested range.
This patch aborts looking for an usable range when the request does not
intersect with the root range. When the request partially overlaps with
the root range, it ajust the request to fall in the root range and then
continues with the new request.
When the request is modified or aborted errors and a stack trace are
logged to allow catching the errors in the upper layers.
[ 5.968374] WARNING: at kernel/sched.c:4129 sub_preempt_count+0x63/0x89()
[ 5.975150] Modules linked in:
[ 5.978184] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.0.22-mid27-00004-gb72c817 #46
[ 5.985324] Call Trace:
[ 5.987759] [<c1039dfc>] ? console_unlock+0x17b/0x18d
[ 5.992891] [<c1039620>] warn_slowpath_common+0x48/0x5d
[ 5.998194] [<c1031758>] ? sub_preempt_count+0x63/0x89
[ 6.003412] [<c1039644>] warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x13
[ 6.008453] [<c1031758>] sub_preempt_count+0x63/0x89
[ 6.013499] [<c14d60c4>] _raw_spin_unlock+0x27/0x3f
[ 6.018453] [<c10c6349>] add_partial+0x36/0x3b
[ 6.022973] [<c10c7c0a>] deactivate_slab+0x96/0xb4
[ 6.027842] [<c14cf9d9>] __slab_alloc.isra.54.constprop.63+0x204/0x241
[ 6.034456] [<c103f78f>] ? kzalloc.constprop.5+0x29/0x38
[ 6.039842] [<c103f78f>] ? kzalloc.constprop.5+0x29/0x38
[ 6.045232] [<c10c7dc9>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x51/0xb0
[ 6.050710] [<c103f78f>] ? kzalloc.constprop.5+0x29/0x38
[ 6.056100] [<c103f78f>] kzalloc.constprop.5+0x29/0x38
[ 6.061320] [<c17b45e9>] __reserve_region_with_split+0x1c/0xd1
[ 6.067230] [<c17b4693>] __reserve_region_with_split+0xc6/0xd1
...
[ 7.179057] [<c17b4693>] __reserve_region_with_split+0xc6/0xd1
[ 7.184970] [<c17b4779>] reserve_region_with_split+0x30/0x42
[ 7.190709] [<c17a8ebf>] e820_reserve_resources_late+0xd1/0xe9
[ 7.196623] [<c17c9526>] pcibios_resource_survey+0x23/0x2a
[ 7.202184] [<c17cad8a>] pcibios_init+0x23/0x35
[ 7.206789] [<c17ca574>] pci_subsys_init+0x3f/0x44
[ 7.211659] [<c1002088>] do_one_initcall+0x72/0x122
[ 7.216615] [<c17ca535>] ? pci_legacy_init+0x3d/0x3d
[ 7.221659] [<c17a27ff>] kernel_init+0xa6/0x118
[ 7.226265] [<c17a2759>] ? start_kernel+0x334/0x334
[ 7.231223] [<c14d7482>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Convert init_sync_kiocb() from a nasty macro into a nice C function. The
struct assignment trick takes care of zeroing all unmentioned fields.
Shrinks fs/read_write.o's .text from 9857 bytes to 9714.
Also demacroize is_sync_kiocb() and aio_ring_avail(). The latter fixes an
arg-referenced-multiple-times hand grenade.
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We should return PTR_ERR if the call to the device_create function fails.
Without this patch we instead return the value from a successful call to
cdev_add if the call to device_create fails.
Signed-off-by: Emil Goode <emilgoode@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
register_sysctl_table() is a strange function, as it makes internal
allocations (a header) to register a sysctl_table. This header is a
handle to the table that is created, and can be used to unregister the
table. But if the table is permanent and never unregistered, the header
acts the same as a static variable.
Unfortunately, this allocation of memory that is never expected to be
freed fools kmemleak in thinking that we have leaked memory. For those
sysctl tables that are never unregistered, and have no pointer referencing
them, kmemleak will think that these are memory leaks:
unreferenced object 0xffff880079fb9d40 (size 192):
comm "swapper/0", pid 0, jiffies 4294667316 (age 12614.152s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffff8146b590>] kmemleak_alloc+0x73/0x98
[<ffffffff8110a935>] kmemleak_alloc_recursive.constprop.42+0x16/0x18
[<ffffffff8110b852>] __kmalloc+0x107/0x153
[<ffffffff8116fa72>] kzalloc.constprop.8+0xe/0x10
[<ffffffff811703c9>] __register_sysctl_paths+0xe1/0x160
[<ffffffff81170463>] register_sysctl_paths+0x1b/0x1d
[<ffffffff8117047d>] register_sysctl_table+0x18/0x1a
[<ffffffff81afb0a1>] sysctl_init+0x10/0x14
[<ffffffff81b05a6f>] proc_sys_init+0x2f/0x31
[<ffffffff81b0584c>] proc_root_init+0xa5/0xa7
[<ffffffff81ae5b7e>] start_kernel+0x3d0/0x40a
[<ffffffff81ae52a7>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xae/0xb2
[<ffffffff81ae53ad>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x102/0x111
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
The sysctl_base_table used by sysctl itself is one such instance that
registers the table to never be unregistered.
Use kmemleak_not_leak() to suppress the kmemleak false positive.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Rather than #define the options manually in the architecture code, add
Kconfig options for them and select them there instead. This also allows
us to select the compat IPC version parsing automatically for platforms
using the old compat IPC interface.
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The msgsnd and msgrcv system calls use size_t to represent the size of the
message being transferred. POSIX states that values of msgsz greater than
SSIZE_MAX cause the result to be implementation-defined. On Linux, this
equates to returning -EINVAL if (long) msgsz < 0.
For compat tasks where !CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC and compat_size_t
is smaller than size_t, negative size values passed from userspace will be
interpreted as positive values by do_msg{rcv,snd} and will fail to exit
early with -EINVAL.
This patch changes the compat prototypes for msg{rcv,snd} so that the
message size is represented as a compat_ssize_t, which we cast to the
native ssize_t type for the core IPC code.
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 48b25c43e6 ("ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC
syscalls") added a new ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC config option for
architectures to select if their compat target requires the old IPC
syscall interface.
For architectures (such as AArch64) that do not require the internal
calling conventions provided by this option, but have a compat target
where the C library passes the IPC_64 flag explicitly,
compat_ipc_parse_version no longer strips out the flag before calling
the native system call implementation, resulting in unknown SHM/IPC
commands and -EINVAL being returned to userspace.
This patch separates the selection of the internal calling conventions
for the IPC syscalls from the version parsing, allowing architectures to
select __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION if they want to use version
parsing whilst retaining the newer syscall calling conventions.
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If the SHMLBA definition for a native task differs from the definition for
a compat task, the do_shmat() function would need to handle both.
This patch introduces COMPAT_SHMLBA, which is used by the compat shmat
syscall when calling the ipc code and allows architectures such as AArch64
(where the native SHMLBA is 64k but the compat (AArch32) definition is
16k) to provide the correct semantics for compat IPC system calls.
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The last line of vmcoreinfo note does not end with \n. Parsing all the
lines in note becomes easier if all lines end with \n instead of trying to
special case the last line.
I know at least one tool, vmcore-dmesg in kexec-tools tree which made the
assumption that all lines end with \n. I think it is a good idea to fix
it.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The function dup_task() may fail at the following function calls in the
following order.
0) alloc_task_struct_node()
1) alloc_thread_info_node()
2) arch_dup_task_struct()
Error by 0) is not a matter, it can just return. But error by 1) requires
releasing task_struct allocated by 0) before it returns. Likewise, error
by 2) requires releasing task_struct and thread_info allocated by 0) and
1).
The existing error handling calls free_task_struct() and
free_thread_info() which do not only release task_struct and thread_info,
but also call architecture specific arch_release_task_struct() and
arch_release_thread_info().
The problem is that task_struct and thread_info are not fully initialized
yet at this point, but arch_release_task_struct() and
arch_release_thread_info() are called with them.
For example, x86 defines its own arch_release_task_struct() that releases
a task_xstate. If alloc_thread_info_node() fails in dup_task(),
arch_release_task_struct() is called with task_struct which is just
allocated and filled with garbage in this error handling.
This actually happened with tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh
# env FAILCMD_TYPE=fail_page_alloc \
./tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh --times=100 \
--min-order=0 --ignore-gfp-wait=0 \
-- make -C tools/testing/selftests/ run_tests
In order to fix this issue, make free_{task_struct,thread_info}() not to
call arch_release_{task_struct,thread_info}() and call
arch_release_{task_struct,thread_info}() implicitly where needed.
Default arch_release_task_struct() and arch_release_thread_info() are
defined as empty by default. So this change only affects the
architectures which implement their own arch_release_task_struct() or
arch_release_thread_info() as listed below.
arch_release_task_struct(): x86, sh
arch_release_thread_info(): mn10300, tile
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To make way for "fork: fix error handling in dup_task()", which fixes the
errors more completely.
Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The current code can be replaced by vma_pages(). So use it to simplify
the code.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: initialise `len' at its definition site]
Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__mem_open() which is called by both /proc/<pid>/environ and
/proc/<pid>/mem ->open() handlers will allow the use of negative offsets.
/proc/<pid>/mem has negative offsets but not /proc/<pid>/environ.
Clean this by moving the 'force FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET flag' to mem_open()
to allow negative offsets only on /proc/<pid>/mem.
Signed-off-by: Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@opendz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently the following offset and environment address range check in
environ_read() of /proc/<pid>/environ is buggy:
int this_len = mm->env_end - (mm->env_start + src);
if (this_len <= 0)
break;
Large or negative offsets on /proc/<pid>/environ converted to 'unsigned
long' may pass this check since '(mm->env_start + src)' can overflow and
'this_len' will be positive.
This can turn /proc/<pid>/environ to act like /proc/<pid>/mem since
(mm->env_start + src) will point and read from another VMA.
There are two fixes here plus some code cleaning:
1) Fix the overflow by checking if the offset that was converted to
unsigned long will always point to the [mm->env_start, mm->env_end]
address range.
2) Remove the truncation that was made to the result of the check,
storing the result in 'int this_len' will alter its value and we can
not depend on it.
For kernels that have commit b409e578d ("proc: clean up
/proc/<pid>/environ handling") which adds the appropriate ptrace check and
saves the 'mm' at ->open() time, this is not a security issue.
This patch is taken from the grsecurity patch since it was just made
available.
Signed-off-by: Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@opendz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In commit 898b374af6 ("exec: replace call_usermodehelper_pipe with use
of umh init function and resolve limit"), the core limits recursive
check value was changed from 0 to 1, but the corresponding comments were
not updated.
Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The system deadlocks (at least since 2.6.10) when
call_usermodehelper(UMH_WAIT_EXEC) request triggers
call_usermodehelper(UMH_WAIT_PROC) request.
This is because "khelper thread is waiting for the worker thread at
wait_for_completion() in do_fork() since the worker thread was created
with CLONE_VFORK flag" and "the worker thread cannot call complete()
because do_execve() is blocked at UMH_WAIT_PROC request" and "the khelper
thread cannot start processing UMH_WAIT_PROC request because the khelper
thread is waiting for the worker thread at wait_for_completion() in
do_fork()".
The easiest example to observe this deadlock is to use a corrupted
/sbin/hotplug binary (like shown below).
# : > /tmp/dummy
# chmod 755 /tmp/dummy
# echo /tmp/dummy > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
# modprobe whatever
call_usermodehelper("/tmp/dummy", UMH_WAIT_EXEC) is called from
kobject_uevent_env() in lib/kobject_uevent.c upon loading/unloading a
module. do_execve("/tmp/dummy") triggers a call to
request_module("binfmt-0000") from search_binary_handler() which in turn
calls call_usermodehelper(UMH_WAIT_PROC).
In order to avoid deadlock, as a for-now and easy-to-backport solution, do
not try to call wait_for_completion() in call_usermodehelper_exec() if the
worker thread was created by khelper thread with CLONE_VFORK flag. Future
and fundamental solution might be replacing singleton khelper thread with
some workqueue so that recursive calls up to max_active dependency loop
can be handled without deadlock.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment to kmod_thread_locker]
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Nearly identical shortname parsing is performed in fat_search_long() and
__fat_readdir(). Extract this code into a function that may be called by
both.
Signed-off-by: Steven J. Magnani <steve@digidescorp.com>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Simplify code by providing accessor functions for the directory entry
start cluster fields.
Signed-off-by: Steven J. Magnani <steve@digidescorp.com>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use -ENOMEM return value instead of -EINVAL when kzalloc() fails.
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
