Remove the old show_attribute and store_attribute methods and update
the documentation. Also replace the two C samples with a single new
one in the proper samples directory where people expect to find it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This also allows to remove the target-specific old configfs macros, and
gets rid of the target_core_fabric_configfs.h header which only had one
function declaration left that could be moved to a better place.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Acked-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
To simplify the configfs interface and remove boilerplate code that also
causes binary bloat.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Add methods to struct configfs_attribute to directly show and store
attributes without adding boilerplate code to every user. In addition
to the methods this also adds 3 helper macros to define read/write,
read-only and write-only attributes with a single line of code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
rq_data_dir() returns either READ or WRITE (0 == READ, 1 == WRITE), not
a boolean value.
Now, admittedly the "!= 0" doesn't really change the value (0 stays as
zero, 1 stays as one), but it's not only redundant, it confuses gcc, and
causes gcc to warn about the construct
switch (rq_data_dir(req)) {
case READ:
...
case WRITE:
...
that we have in a few drivers.
Now, the gcc warning is silly and stupid (it seems to warn not about the
switch value having a different type from the case statements, but about
_any_ boolean switch value), but in this case the code itself is silly
and stupid too, so let's just change it, and get rid of warnings like
this:
drivers/block/hd.c: In function ‘hd_request’:
drivers/block/hd.c:630:11: warning: switch condition has boolean value [-Wswitch-bool]
switch (rq_data_dir(req)) {
The odd '!= 0' came in when "cmd_flags" got turned into a "u64" in
commit 5953316dbf ("block: make rq->cmd_flags be 64-bit") and is
presumably because the old code (that just did a logical 'and' with 1)
would then end up making the type of rq_data_dir() be u64 too.
But if we want to retain the old regular integer type, let's just cast
the result to 'int' rather than use that rather odd '!= 0'.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge fourth patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- sys_membarier syscall
- seq_file interface changes
- a few misc fixups
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
revert "ocfs2/dlm: use list_for_each_entry instead of list_for_each"
mm/early_ioremap: add explicit #include of asm/early_ioremap.h
fs/seq_file: convert int seq_vprint/seq_printf/etc... returns to void
selftests: enhance membarrier syscall test
selftests: add membarrier syscall test
sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86)
MODSIGN: fix a compilation warning in extract-cert
improvements, and adding a mailing list to MAINTAINERS for NTB.
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Merge tag 'ntb-4.3' of git://github.com/jonmason/ntb
Pull NTB fixes from Jon Mason:
"NTB bug and documentation fixes, new device IDs, performance
improvements, and adding a mailing list to MAINTAINERS for NTB"
* tag 'ntb-4.3' of git://github.com/jonmason/ntb:
NTB: Fix range check on memory window index
NTB: Improve index handling in B2B MW workaround
NTB: Fix documentation for ntb_peer_db_clear.
NTB: Fix documentation for ntb_link_is_up
NTB: Use unique DMA channels for TX and RX
NTB: Remove dma_sync_wait from ntb_async_rx
NTB: Clean up QP stats info
NTB: Make the transport list in order of discovery
NTB: Add PCI Device IDs for Broadwell Xeon
NTB: Add flow control to the ntb_netdev
NTB: Add list to MAINTAINERS
- Build fix for the new Mediatek MT8173 cpufreq driver (Guenter Roeck).
- Generic power domains framework fixes (power on error code
path, subdomain removal) and cleanup of a deprecated API user
(Geert Uytterhoeven, Jon Hunter, Ulf Hansson).
- cpufreq-dt driver fixes including two fixes for bugs related to
the new Operating Performance Points Device Tree bindings
introduced recently (Viresh Kumar).
- Suspend frequency support for the cpufreq-dt driver
(Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Viresh Kumar).
- cpufreq core cleanups (Viresh Kumar).
- intel_pstate driver fixes (Chen Yu, Kristen Carlson Accardi).
- Additional sanity check in the cpuidle core (Xunlei Pang).
- Fix for a comment related to CPU power management (Lina Iyer).
/
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Merge tag 'pm+acpi-4.3-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull more power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"These are mostly fixes and cleanups on top of the previous PM+ACPI
pull request (cpufreq core and drivers, cpuidle, generic power domains
framework). Some of them didn't make to that pull request and some
fix issues introduced by it.
The only really new thing is the support for suspend frequency in the
cpufreq-dt driver, but it is needed to fix an issue with Exynos
platforms.
Specifics:
- build fix for the new Mediatek MT8173 cpufreq driver (Guenter
Roeck).
- generic power domains framework fixes (power on error code path,
subdomain removal) and cleanup of a deprecated API user (Geert
Uytterhoeven, Jon Hunter, Ulf Hansson).
- cpufreq-dt driver fixes including two fixes for bugs related to the
new Operating Performance Points Device Tree bindings introduced
recently (Viresh Kumar).
- suspend frequency support for the cpufreq-dt driver (Bartlomiej
Zolnierkiewicz, Viresh Kumar).
- cpufreq core cleanups (Viresh Kumar).
- intel_pstate driver fixes (Chen Yu, Kristen Carlson Accardi).
- additional sanity check in the cpuidle core (Xunlei Pang).
- fix for a comment related to CPU power management (Lina Iyer)"
* tag 'pm+acpi-4.3-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
intel_pstate: fix PCT_TO_HWP macro
intel_pstate: Fix user input of min/max to legal policy region
PM / OPP: Return suspend_opp only if it is enabled
cpufreq-dt: add suspend frequency support
cpufreq: allow cpufreq_generic_suspend() to work without suspend frequency
PM / OPP: add dev_pm_opp_get_suspend_opp() helper
staging: board: Migrate away from __pm_genpd_name_add_device()
cpufreq: Use __func__ to print function's name
cpufreq: staticize cpufreq_cpu_get_raw()
PM / Domains: Ensure subdomain is not in use before removing
cpufreq: Add ARM_MT8173_CPUFREQ dependency on THERMAL
cpuidle/coupled: Add sanity check for safe_state_index
PM / Domains: Try power off masters in error path of __pm_genpd_poweron()
cpufreq: dt: Tolerance applies on both sides of target voltage
cpufreq: dt: Print error on failing to mark OPPs as shared
cpufreq: dt: Check OPP count before marking them shared
kernel/cpu_pm: fix cpu_cluster_pm_exit comment
Pull SCSI target updates from Nicholas Bellinger:
"Here are the outstanding target-pending updates for v4.3-rc1.
Mostly bug-fixes and minor changes this round. The fallout from the
big v4.2-rc1 RCU conversion have (thus far) been minimal.
The highlights this round include:
- Move sense handling routines into scsi_common code (Sagi)
- Return ABORTED_COMMAND sense key for PI errors (Sagi)
- Add tpg_enabled_sendtargets attribute for disabled iscsi-target
discovery (David)
- Shrink target struct se_cmd by rearranging fields (Roland)
- Drop iSCSI use of mutex around max_cmd_sn increment (Roland)
- Replace iSCSI __kernel_sockaddr_storage with sockaddr_storage (Andy +
Chris)
- Honor fabric max_data_sg_nents I/O transfer limit (Arun + Himanshu +
nab)
- Fix EXTENDED_COPY >= v4.1 regression OOPsen (Alex + nab)"
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (37 commits)
target: use stringify.h instead of own definition
target/user: Fix UFLAG_UNKNOWN_OP handling
target: Remove no-op conditional
target/user: Remove unused variable
target: Fix max_cmd_sn increment w/o cmdsn mutex regressions
target: Attach EXTENDED_COPY local I/O descriptors to xcopy_pt_sess
target/qla2xxx: Honor max_data_sg_nents I/O transfer limit
target/iscsi: Replace __kernel_sockaddr_storage with sockaddr_storage
target/iscsi: Replace conn->login_ip with login_sockaddr
target/iscsi: Keep local_ip as the actual sockaddr
target/iscsi: Fix np_ip bracket issue by removing np_ip
target: Drop iSCSI use of mutex around max_cmd_sn increment
qla2xxx: Update tcm_qla2xxx module description to 24xx+
iscsi-target: Add tpg_enabled_sendtargets for disabled discovery
drivers: target: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
target: check DPO/FUA usage for COMPARE AND WRITE
target: Shrink struct se_cmd by rearranging fields
target: Remove cmd->se_ordered_id (unused except debug log lines)
target: add support for START_STOP_UNIT SCSI opcode
target: improve unsupported opcode message
...
The major pieces of this patch are a set patches facilitating better
integration between scsi and scsi_dh (the device handling layer used by
multi-path; all the dm parts are acked by Mike Snitzer). It also includes
driver updates for mp3sas, scsi_debug and an assortment of bug fixes.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
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Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi
Pull second round of SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
"There's one late arriving patch here (added today), fixing a build
issue which the scsi_dh patch set in here uncovered. Other than that,
everything has been incubated in -next and the checkers for a week.
The major pieces of this patch are a set patches facilitating better
integration between scsi and scsi_dh (the device handling layer used
by multi-path; all the dm parts are acked by Mike Snitzer).
This also includes driver updates for mp3sas, scsi_debug and an
assortment of bug fixes"
* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (50 commits)
scsi_dh: fix randconfig build error
scsi: fix scsi_error_handler vs. scsi_host_dev_release race
fcoe: Convert use of __constant_htons to htons
mpt2sas: setpci reset kernel oops fix
pm80xx: Don't override ts->stat on IO_OPEN_CNX_ERROR_HW_RESOURCE_BUSY
lpfc: Fix possible use-after-free and double free in lpfc_mbx_cmpl_rdp_page_a2()
bfa: Fix incorrect de-reference of pointer
bfa: Fix indentation
scsi_transport_sas: Remove check for SAS expander when querying bay/enclosure IDs.
scsi_debug: resp_request: remove unused variable
scsi_debug: fix REPORT LUNS Well Known LU
scsi_debug: schedule_resp fix input variable check
scsi_debug: make dump_sector static
scsi_debug: vfree is null safe so drop the check
scsi_debug: use SCSI_W_LUN_REPORT_LUNS instead of SAM2_WLUN_REPORT_LUNS;
scsi_debug: define pr_fmt() for consistent logging
mpt2sas: Refcount fw_events and fix unsafe list usage
mpt2sas: Refcount sas_device objects and fix unsafe list usage
scsi_dh: return SCSI_DH_NOTCONN in scsi_dh_activate()
scsi_dh: don't allow to detach device handlers at runtime
...
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Merge tag 'media/v4.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media
Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
"A series of patches that move part of the code used to allocate memory
from the media subsystem to the mm subsystem"
[ The mm parts have been acked by VM people, and the series was
apparently in -mm for a while - Linus ]
* tag 'media/v4.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media:
[media] drm/exynos: Convert g2d_userptr_get_dma_addr() to use get_vaddr_frames()
[media] media: vb2: Remove unused functions
[media] media: vb2: Convert vb2_dc_get_userptr() to use frame vector
[media] media: vb2: Convert vb2_vmalloc_get_userptr() to use frame vector
[media] media: vb2: Convert vb2_dma_sg_get_userptr() to use frame vector
[media] vb2: Provide helpers for mapping virtual addresses
[media] media: omap_vout: Convert omap_vout_uservirt_to_phys() to use get_vaddr_pfns()
[media] mm: Provide new get_vaddr_frames() helper
[media] vb2: Push mmap_sem down to memops
Pull thermal updates from Zhang Rui:
- use int instead of unsigned long to represent temperature to avoid
bogus overheat detection when negative temperature reported. From
Sascha Hauer.
- export available thermal governors information to user space via
sysfs. From Wei Ni.
- introduce new thermal driver for Wildcat Point platform controller
hub, which uses PCH thermal sensor and associated critical and hot
trip points. From Tushar Dave.
- add suuport for Intel Skylake and Denlow platforms in powerclamp
driver.
- some small cleanups in thermal core.
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux:
thermal: Add Intel PCH thermal driver
thermal: Add comment explaining test for critical temperature
thermal: Use IS_ENABLED instead of #ifdef
thermal: remove unnecessary call to thermal_zone_device_set_polling
thermal: trivial: fix typo in comment
thermal: consistently use int for temperatures
thermal: add available policies sysfs attribute
thermal/powerclamp: add cpu id for denlow platform
thermal/powerclamp: add cpu id for Skylake u/y
thermal/powerclamp: add cpu id for skylake h/s
The seq_<foo> function return values were frequently misused.
See: commit 1f33c41c03 ("seq_file: Rename seq_overflow() to
seq_has_overflowed() and make public")
All uses of these return values have been removed, so convert the
return types to void.
Miscellanea:
o Move seq_put_decimal_<type> and seq_escape prototypes closer the
other seq_vprintf prototypes
o Reorder seq_putc and seq_puts to return early on overflow
o Add argument names to seq_vprintf and seq_printf
o Update the seq_escape kernel-doc
o Convert a couple of leading spaces to tabs in seq_escape
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Here is an implementation of a new system call, sys_membarrier(), which
executes a memory barrier on all threads running on the system. It is
implemented by calling synchronize_sched(). It can be used to
distribute the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by
transforming pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of
sys_membarrier() and a compiler barrier. For synchronization primitives
that distinguish between read-side and write-side (e.g. userspace RCU
[1], rwlocks), the read-side can be accelerated significantly by moving
the bulk of the memory barrier overhead to the write-side.
The existing applications of which I am aware that would be improved by
this system call are as follows:
* Through Userspace RCU library (http://urcu.so)
- DNS server (Knot DNS) https://www.knot-dns.cz/
- Network sniffer (http://netsniff-ng.org/)
- Distributed object storage (https://sheepdog.github.io/sheepdog/)
- User-space tracing (http://lttng.org)
- Network storage system (https://www.gluster.org/)
- Virtual routers (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/DPDK_RCU_0MQ.pdf)
- Financial software (https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/23/189)
Those projects use RCU in userspace to increase read-side speed and
scalability compared to locking. Especially in the case of RCU used by
libraries, sys_membarrier can speed up the read-side by moving the bulk of
the memory barrier cost to synchronize_rcu().
* Direct users of sys_membarrier
- core dotnet garbage collector (https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/198)
Microsoft core dotnet GC developers are planning to use the mprotect()
side-effect of issuing memory barriers through IPIs as a way to implement
Windows FlushProcessWriteBuffers() on Linux. They are referring to
sys_membarrier in their github thread, specifically stating that
sys_membarrier() is what they are looking for.
To explain the benefit of this scheme, let's introduce two example threads:
Thread A (non-frequent, e.g. executing liburcu synchronize_rcu())
Thread B (frequent, e.g. executing liburcu
rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock())
In a scheme where all smp_mb() in thread A are ordering memory accesses
with respect to smp_mb() present in Thread B, we can change each
smp_mb() within Thread A into calls to sys_membarrier() and each
smp_mb() within Thread B into compiler barriers "barrier()".
Before the change, we had, for each smp_mb() pairs:
Thread A Thread B
previous mem accesses previous mem accesses
smp_mb() smp_mb()
following mem accesses following mem accesses
After the change, these pairs become:
Thread A Thread B
prev mem accesses prev mem accesses
sys_membarrier() barrier()
follow mem accesses follow mem accesses
As we can see, there are two possible scenarios: either Thread B memory
accesses do not happen concurrently with Thread A accesses (1), or they
do (2).
1) Non-concurrent Thread A vs Thread B accesses:
Thread A Thread B
prev mem accesses
sys_membarrier()
follow mem accesses
prev mem accesses
barrier()
follow mem accesses
In this case, thread B accesses will be weakly ordered. This is OK,
because at that point, thread A is not particularly interested in
ordering them with respect to its own accesses.
2) Concurrent Thread A vs Thread B accesses
Thread A Thread B
prev mem accesses prev mem accesses
sys_membarrier() barrier()
follow mem accesses follow mem accesses
In this case, thread B accesses, which are ensured to be in program
order thanks to the compiler barrier, will be "upgraded" to full
smp_mb() by synchronize_sched().
* Benchmarks
On Intel Xeon E5405 (8 cores)
(one thread is calling sys_membarrier, the other 7 threads are busy
looping)
1000 non-expedited sys_membarrier calls in 33s =3D 33 milliseconds/call.
* User-space user of this system call: Userspace RCU library
Both the signal-based and the sys_membarrier userspace RCU schemes
permit us to remove the memory barrier from the userspace RCU
rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() primitives, thus significantly
accelerating them. These memory barriers are replaced by compiler
barriers on the read-side, and all matching memory barriers on the
write-side are turned into an invocation of a memory barrier on all
active threads in the process. By letting the kernel perform this
synchronization rather than dumbly sending a signal to every process
threads (as we currently do), we diminish the number of unnecessary wake
ups and only issue the memory barriers on active threads. Non-running
threads do not need to execute such barrier anyway, because these are
implied by the scheduler context switches.
Results in liburcu:
Operations in 10s, 6 readers, 2 writers:
memory barriers in reader: 1701557485 reads, 2202847 writes
signal-based scheme: 9830061167 reads, 6700 writes
sys_membarrier: 9952759104 reads, 425 writes
sys_membarrier (dyn. check): 7970328887 reads, 425 writes
The dynamic sys_membarrier availability check adds some overhead to
the read-side compared to the signal-based scheme, but besides that,
sys_membarrier slightly outperforms the signal-based scheme. However,
this non-expedited sys_membarrier implementation has a much slower grace
period than signal and memory barrier schemes.
Besides diminishing the number of wake-ups, one major advantage of the
membarrier system call over the signal-based scheme is that it does not
need to reserve a signal. This plays much more nicely with libraries,
and with processes injected into for tracing purposes, for which we
cannot expect that signals will be unused by the application.
An expedited version of this system call can be added later on to speed
up the grace period. Its implementation will likely depend on reading
the cpu_curr()->mm without holding each CPU's rq lock.
This patch adds the system call to x86 and to asm-generic.
[1] http://urcu.so
membarrier(2) man page:
MEMBARRIER(2) Linux Programmer's Manual MEMBARRIER(2)
NAME
membarrier - issue memory barriers on a set of threads
SYNOPSIS
#include <linux/membarrier.h>
int membarrier(int cmd, int flags);
DESCRIPTION
The cmd argument is one of the following:
MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY
Query the set of supported commands. It returns a bitmask of
supported commands.
MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED
Execute a memory barrier on all threads running on the system.
Upon return from system call, the caller thread is ensured that
all running threads have passed through a state where all memory
accesses to user-space addresses match program order between
entry to and return from the system call (non-running threads
are de facto in such a state). This covers threads from all pro=E2=80=90
cesses running on the system. This command returns 0.
The flags argument needs to be 0. For future extensions.
All memory accesses performed in program order from each targeted
thread is guaranteed to be ordered with respect to sys_membarrier(). If
we use the semantic "barrier()" to represent a compiler barrier forcing
memory accesses to be performed in program order across the barrier,
and smp_mb() to represent explicit memory barriers forcing full memory
ordering across the barrier, we have the following ordering table for
each pair of barrier(), sys_membarrier() and smp_mb():
The pair ordering is detailed as (O: ordered, X: not ordered):
barrier() smp_mb() sys_membarrier()
barrier() X X O
smp_mb() X O O
sys_membarrier() O O O
RETURN VALUE
On success, these system calls return zero. On error, -1 is returned,
and errno is set appropriately. For a given command, with flags
argument set to 0, this system call is guaranteed to always return the
same value until reboot.
ERRORS
ENOSYS System call is not implemented.
EINVAL Invalid arguments.
Linux 2015-04-15 MEMBARRIER(2)
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull Ceph update from Sage Weil:
"There are a few fixes for snapshot behavior with CephFS and support
for the new keepalive protocol from Zheng, a libceph fix that affects
both RBD and CephFS, a few bug fixes and cleanups for RBD from Ilya,
and several small fixes and cleanups from Jianpeng and others"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client:
ceph: improve readahead for file holes
ceph: get inode size for each append write
libceph: check data_len in ->alloc_msg()
libceph: use keepalive2 to verify the mon session is alive
rbd: plug rbd_dev->header.object_prefix memory leak
rbd: fix double free on rbd_dev->header_name
libceph: set 'exists' flag for newly up osd
ceph: cleanup use of ceph_msg_get
ceph: no need to get parent inode in ceph_open
ceph: remove the useless judgement
ceph: remove redundant test of head->safe and silence static analysis warnings
ceph: fix queuing inode to mdsdir's snaprealm
libceph: rename con_work() to ceph_con_workfn()
libceph: Avoid holding the zero page on ceph_msgr_slab_init errors
libceph: remove the unused macro AES_KEY_SIZE
ceph: invalidate dirty pages after forced umount
ceph: EIO all operations after forced umount
Pull drm fixes from Dave Airlie:
"Just a bunch of fixes to squeeze in before -rc1:
- three nouveau regression fixes
- one qxl regression fix
- a bunch of i915 fixes
... and some core displayport/atomic fixes"
* 'drm-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux:
drm/nouveau/device: enable c800 quirk for tecra w50
drm/nouveau/clk/gt215: Unbreak engine pausing for GT21x/MCP7x
drm/nouveau/gr/nv04: fix big endian setting on gr context
drm/qxl: validate monitors config modes
drm/i915: Allow DSI dual link to be configured on any pipe
drm/i915: Don't try to use DDR DVFS on CHV when disabled in the BIOS
drm/i915: Fix CSR MMIO address check
drm/i915: Limit the number of loops for reading a split 64bit register
drm/i915: Fix broken mst get_hw_state.
drm/i915: Pass hpd_status_i915[] to intel_get_hpd_pins() in pre-g4x
uapi/drm/i915_drm.h: fix userspace compilation.
drm/i915: Always mark the object as dirty when used by the GPU
drm/dp: Add dp_aux_i2c_speed_khz module param to set the assume i2c bus speed
drm/dp: Adjust i2c-over-aux retry count based on message size and i2c bus speed
drm/dp: Define AUX_RETRY_INTERVAL as 500 us
drm/atomic: Fix bookkeeping with TEST_ONLY, v3.
This patch adds an optional fabric driver provided SGL limit
that target-core will honor as it's own internal I/O maximum
transfer length limit, as exposed by EVPD=0xb0 block limits
parameters.
This is required for handling cases when host I/O transfer
length exceeds the requested EVPD block limits maximum
transfer length. The initial user of this logic is qla2xxx,
so that we can avoid having to reject I/Os from some legacy
FC hosts where EVPD=0xb0 parameters are not honored.
When se_cmd payload length exceeds the provided limit in
target_check_max_data_sg_nents() code, se_cmd->data_length +
se_cmd->prot_length are reset with se_cmd->residual_count
plus underflow bit for outgoing TFO response callbacks.
It also checks for existing CDB level underflow + overflow
and recalculates final residual_count as necessary.
Note this patch currently assumes 1:1 mapping of PAGE_SIZE
per struct scatterlist entry.
Reported-by: Craig Watson <craig.watson@vanguard-rugged.com>
Cc: Craig Watson <craig.watson@vanguard-rugged.com>
Tested-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@qlogic.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Arun Easi <arun.easi@qlogic.com>
Cc: Giridhar Malavali <giridhar.malavali@qlogic.com>
Cc: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Pull blk-cg updates from Jens Axboe:
"A bit later in the cycle, but this has been in the block tree for a a
while. This is basically four patchsets from Tejun, that improve our
buffered cgroup writeback. It was dependent on the other cgroup
changes, but they went in earlier in this cycle.
Series 1 is set of 5 patches that has cgroup writeback updates:
- bdi_writeback iteration fix which could lead to some wb's being
skipped or repeated during e.g. sync under memory pressure.
- Simplification of wb work wait mechanism.
- Writeback tracepoints updated to report cgroup.
Series 2 is is a set of updates for the CFQ cgroup writeback handling:
cfq has always charged all async IOs to the root cgroup. It didn't
have much choice as writeback didn't know about cgroups and there
was no way to tell who to blame for a given writeback IO.
writeback finally grew support for cgroups and now tags each
writeback IO with the appropriate cgroup to charge it against.
This patchset updates cfq so that it follows the blkcg each bio is
tagged with. Async cfq_queues are now shared across cfq_group,
which is per-cgroup, instead of per-request_queue cfq_data. This
makes all IOs follow the weight based IO resource distribution
implemented by cfq.
- Switched from GFP_ATOMIC to GFP_NOWAIT as suggested by Jeff.
- Other misc review points addressed, acks added and rebased.
Series 3 is the blkcg policy cleanup patches:
This patchset contains assorted cleanups for blkcg_policy methods
and blk[c]g_policy_data handling.
- alloc/free added for blkg_policy_data. exit dropped.
- alloc/free added for blkcg_policy_data.
- blk-throttle's async percpu allocation is replaced with direct
allocation.
- all methods now take blk[c]g_policy_data instead of blkcg_gq or
blkcg.
And finally, series 4 is a set of patches cleaning up the blkcg stats
handling:
blkcg's stats have always been somwhat of a mess. This patchset
tries to improve the situation a bit.
- The following patches added to consolidate blkcg entry point and
blkg creation. This is in itself is an improvement and helps
colllecting common stats on bio issue.
- per-blkg stats now accounted on bio issue rather than request
completion so that bio based and request based drivers can behave
the same way. The issue was spotted by Vivek.
- cfq-iosched implements custom recursive stats and blk-throttle
implements custom per-cpu stats. This patchset make blkcg core
support both by default.
- cfq-iosched and blk-throttle keep track of the same stats
multiple times. Unify them"
* 'for-4.3/blkcg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (45 commits)
blkcg: use CGROUP_WEIGHT_* scale for io.weight on the unified hierarchy
blkcg: s/CFQ_WEIGHT_*/CFQ_WEIGHT_LEGACY_*/
blkcg: implement interface for the unified hierarchy
blkcg: misc preparations for unified hierarchy interface
blkcg: separate out tg_conf_updated() from tg_set_conf()
blkcg: move body parsing from blkg_conf_prep() to its callers
blkcg: mark existing cftypes as legacy
blkcg: rename subsystem name from blkio to io
blkcg: refine error codes returned during blkcg configuration
blkcg: remove unnecessary NULL checks from __cfqg_set_weight_device()
blkcg: reduce stack usage of blkg_rwstat_recursive_sum()
blkcg: remove cfqg_stats->sectors
blkcg: move io_service_bytes and io_serviced stats into blkcg_gq
blkcg: make blkg_[rw]stat_recursive_sum() to be able to index into blkcg_gq
blkcg: make blkcg_[rw]stat per-cpu
blkcg: add blkg_[rw]stat->aux_cnt and replace cfq_group->dead_stats with it
blkcg: consolidate blkg creation in blkcg_bio_issue_check()
blk-throttle: improve queue bypass handling
blkcg: move root blkg lookup optimization from throtl_lookup_tg() to __blkg_lookup()
blkcg: inline [__]blkg_lookup()
...
Merge third patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- even more of the rest of MM
- lib/ updates
- checkpatch updates
- small changes to a few scruffy filesystems
- kmod fixes/cleanups
- kexec updates
- a dma-mapping cleanup series from hch
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (81 commits)
dma-mapping: consolidate dma_set_mask
dma-mapping: consolidate dma_supported
dma-mapping: cosolidate dma_mapping_error
dma-mapping: consolidate dma_{alloc,free}_noncoherent
dma-mapping: consolidate dma_{alloc,free}_{attrs,coherent}
mm: use vma_is_anonymous() in create_huge_pmd() and wp_huge_pmd()
mm: make sure all file VMAs have ->vm_ops set
mm, mpx: add "vm_flags_t vm_flags" arg to do_mmap_pgoff()
mm: mark most vm_operations_struct const
namei: fix warning while make xmldocs caused by namei.c
ipc: convert invalid scenarios to use WARN_ON
zlib_deflate/deftree: remove bi_reverse()
lib/decompress_unlzma: Do a NULL check for pointer
lib/decompressors: use real out buf size for gunzip with kernel
fs/affs: make root lookup from blkdev logical size
sysctl: fix int -> unsigned long assignments in INT_MIN case
kexec: export KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE to vmcoreinfo
kexec: align crash_notes allocation to make it be inside one physical page
kexec: remove unnecessary test in kimage_alloc_crash_control_pages()
kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code
...
This is a collection of a few late fixes and other misc. stuff that
had dependencies on things being merged from other trees.
The bulk of the changes are for samsung/exynos SoCs for some changes
that needed a few minor reworks so ended up a bit late. The others
are mainly for qcom SoCs: a couple fixes and some DTS updates.
There's one conflict with drivers/cpufreq/exynos-cpufreq.c because
it's now been completely removed, but there were some fixes that hit
mainline in the meantime.
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Merge tag 'armsoc-late' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Pull late ARM SoC updates from Kevin Hilman:
"This is a collection of a few late fixes and other misc stuff that had
dependencies on things being merged from other trees.
The bulk of the changes are for samsung/exynos SoCs for some changes
that needed a few minor reworks so ended up a bit late. The others
are mainly for qcom SoCs: a couple fixes and some DTS updates"
* tag 'armsoc-late' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (37 commits)
ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable PBIAS regulator
soc: qcom: smd: Correct fBLOCKREADINTR handling
soc: qcom: smd: Use correct remote processor ID
soc: qcom: smem: Fix errant private access
ARM: dts: qcom: msm8974-sony-xperia-honami: Use stdout-path
ARM: dts: qcom: msm8960-cdp: Use stdout-path
ARM: dts: qcom: msm8660-surf: Use stdout-path
ARM: dts: qcom: ipq8064-ap148: Use stdout-path
ARM: dts: qcom: apq8084-mtp: Use stdout-path
ARM: dts: qcom: apq8084-ifc6540: Use stdout-path
ARM: dts: qcom: apq8074-dragonboard: Use stdout-path
ARM: dts: qcom: apq8064-ifc6410: Use stdout-path
ARM: dts: qcom: apq8064-cm-qs600: Use stdout-path
ARM: dts: qcom: Label serial nodes for aliasing and stdout-path
reset: ath79: Fix missing spin_lock_init
reset: Add (devm_)reset_control_get stub functions
ARM: EXYNOS: switch to using generic cpufreq driver for exynos4x12
cpufreq: exynos: Remove unselectable rule for arm-exynos-cpufreq.o
ARM: dts: add iommu property to JPEG device for exynos4
ARM: dts: enable SPI1 for exynos4412-odroidu3
...
Fixes headed for v4.3-rc1, including Maarten's DP MST state checker fix
you requested.
* tag 'drm-intel-next-fixes-2015-09-10' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel:
drm/i915: Allow DSI dual link to be configured on any pipe
drm/i915: Don't try to use DDR DVFS on CHV when disabled in the BIOS
drm/i915: Fix CSR MMIO address check
drm/i915: Limit the number of loops for reading a split 64bit register
drm/i915: Fix broken mst get_hw_state.
drm/i915: Pass hpd_status_i915[] to intel_get_hpd_pins() in pre-g4x
uapi/drm/i915_drm.h: fix userspace compilation.
drm/i915: Always mark the object as dirty when used by the GPU
- Use the correct GFN/BFN terms more consistently.
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Merge tag 'for-linus-4.3-rc0b-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull xen terminology fixes from David Vrabel:
"Use the correct GFN/BFN terms more consistently"
* tag 'for-linus-4.3-rc0b-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen/xenbus: Rename the variable xen_store_mfn to xen_store_gfn
xen/privcmd: Further s/MFN/GFN/ clean-up
hvc/xen: Further s/MFN/GFN clean-up
video/xen-fbfront: Further s/MFN/GFN clean-up
xen/tmem: Use xen_page_to_gfn rather than pfn_to_gfn
xen: Use correctly the Xen memory terminologies
arm/xen: implement correctly pfn_to_mfn
xen: Make clear that swiotlb and biomerge are dealing with DMA address
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
1) Fix out-of-bounds array access in netfilter ipset, from Jozsef
Kadlecsik.
2) Use correct free operation on netfilter conntrack templates, from
Daniel Borkmann.
3) Fix route leak in SCTP, from Marcelo Ricardo Leitner.
4) Fix sizeof(pointer) in mac80211, from Thierry Reding.
5) Fix cache pointer comparison in ip6mr leading to missed unlock of
mrt_lock. From Richard Laing.
6) rds_conn_lookup() needs to consider network namespace in key
comparison, from Sowmini Varadhan.
7) Fix deadlock in TIPC code wrt broadcast link wakeups, from Kolmakov
Dmitriy.
8) Fix fd leaks in bpf syscall, from Daniel Borkmann.
9) Fix error recovery when installing ipv6 multipath routes, we would
delete the old route before we would know if we could fully commit
to the new set of nexthops. Fix from Roopa Prabhu.
10) Fix run-time suspend problems in r8152, from Hayes Wang.
11) In fec, don't program the MAC address into the chip when the clocks
are gated off. From Fugang Duan.
12) Fix poll behavior for netlink sockets when using rx ring mmap, from
Daniel Borkmann.
13) Don't allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL from get_stats64 in r8169
driver, from Corinna Vinschen.
14) In TCP Cubic congestion control, handle idle periods better where we
are application limited, in order to keep cwnd from growing out of
control. From Eric Dumzet.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (65 commits)
tcp_cubic: better follow cubic curve after idle period
tcp: generate CA_EVENT_TX_START on data frames
xen-netfront: respect user provided max_queues
xen-netback: respect user provided max_queues
r8169: Fix sleeping function called during get_stats64, v2
ether: add IEEE 1722 ethertype - TSN
netlink, mmap: fix edge-case leakages in nf queue zero-copy
netlink, mmap: don't walk rx ring on poll if receive queue non-empty
cxgb4: changes for new firmware 1.14.4.0
net: fec: add netif status check before set mac address
r8152: fix the runtime suspend issues
r8152: split DRIVER_VERSION
ipv6: fix ifnullfree.cocci warnings
add microchip LAN88xx phy driver
stmmac: fix check for phydev being open
net: qlcnic: delete redundant memsets
net: mv643xx_eth: use kzalloc
net: jme: use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc+memset
net: cavium: liquidio: use kzalloc in setup_glist()
net: ipv6: use common fib_default_rule_pref
...
Almost everyone implements dma_set_mask the same way, although some time
that's hidden in ->set_dma_mask methods.
This patch consolidates those into a common implementation that either
calls ->set_dma_mask if present or otherwise uses the default
implementation. Some architectures used to only call ->set_dma_mask
after the initial checks, and those instance have been fixed to do the
full work. h8300 implemented dma_set_mask bogusly as a no-ops and has
been fixed.
Unfortunately some architectures overload unrelated semantics like changing
the dma_ops into it so we still need to allow for an architecture override
for now.
[jcmvbkbc@gmail.com: fix xtensa]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Most architectures just call into ->dma_supported, but some also return 1
if the method is not present, or 0 if no dma ops are present (although
that should never happeb). Consolidate this more broad version into
common code.
Also fix h8300 which inorrectly always returned 0, which would have been
a problem if it's dma_set_mask implementation wasn't a similarly buggy
noop.
As a few architectures have much more elaborate implementations, we
still allow for arch overrides.
[jcmvbkbc@gmail.com: fix xtensa]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently there are three valid implementations of dma_mapping_error:
(1) call ->mapping_error
(2) check for a hardcoded error code
(3) always return 0
This patch provides a common implementation that calls ->mapping_error
if present, then checks for DMA_ERROR_CODE if defined or otherwise
returns 0.
[jcmvbkbc@gmail.com: fix xtensa]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Most architectures do not support non-coherent allocations and either
define dma_{alloc,free}_noncoherent to their coherent versions or stub
them out.
Openrisc uses dma_{alloc,free}_attrs to implement them, and only Mips
implements them directly.
This patch moves the Openrisc version to common code, and handles the
DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT case in the mips dma_map_ops instance.
Note that actual non-coherent allocations require a dma_cache_sync
implementation, so if non-coherent allocations didn't work on
an architecture before this patch they still won't work after it.
[jcmvbkbc@gmail.com: fix xtensa]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since 2009 we have a nice asm-generic header implementing lots of DMA API
functions for architectures using struct dma_map_ops, but unfortunately
it's still missing a lot of APIs that all architectures still have to
duplicate.
This series consolidates the remaining functions, although we still need
arch opt outs for two of them as a few architectures have very
non-standard implementations.
This patch (of 5):
The coherent DMA allocator works the same over all architectures supporting
dma_map operations.
This patch consolidates them and converges the minor differences:
- the debug_dma helpers are now called from all architectures, including
those that were previously missing them
- dma_alloc_from_coherent and dma_release_from_coherent are now always
called from the generic alloc/free routines instead of the ops
dma-mapping-common.h always includes dma-coherent.h to get the defintions
for them, or the stubs if the architecture doesn't support this feature
- checks for ->alloc / ->free presence are removed. There is only one
magic instead of dma_map_ops without them (mic_dma_ops) and that one
is x86 only anyway.
Besides that only x86 needs special treatment to replace a default devices
if none is passed and tweak the gfp_flags. An optional arch hook is provided
for that.
[linux@roeck-us.net: fix build]
[jcmvbkbc@gmail.com: fix xtensa]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add the additional "vm_flags_t vm_flags" argument to do_mmap_pgoff(),
rename it to do_mmap(), and re-introduce do_mmap_pgoff() as a simple
wrapper on top of do_mmap(). Perhaps we should update the callers of
do_mmap_pgoff() and kill it later.
This way mpx_mmap() can simply call do_mmap(vm_flags => VM_MPX) and do not
play with vm internals.
After this change mmap_region() has a single user outside of mmap.c,
arch/tile/mm/elf.c:arch_setup_additional_pages(). It would be nice to
change arch/tile/ and unexport mmap_region().
[kirill@shutemov.name: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are two kexec load syscalls, kexec_load another and kexec_file_load.
kexec_file_load has been splited as kernel/kexec_file.c. In this patch I
split kexec_load syscall code to kernel/kexec.c.
And add a new kconfig option KEXEC_CORE, so we can disable kexec_load and
use kexec_file_load only, or vice verse.
The original requirement is from Ted Ts'o, he want kexec kernel signature
being checked with CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG enabled. But kexec-tools use
kexec_load syscall can bypass the checking.
Vivek Goyal proposed to create a common kconfig option so user can compile
in only one syscall for loading kexec kernel. KEXEC/KEXEC_FILE selects
KEXEC_CORE so that old config files still work.
Because there's general code need CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, so I updated all the
architecture Kconfig with a new option KEXEC_CORE, and let KEXEC selects
KEXEC_CORE in arch Kconfig. Also updated general kernel code with to
kexec_load syscall.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Split kexec_file syscall related code to another file kernel/kexec_file.c
so that the #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE in kexec.c can be dropped.
Sharing variables and functions are moved to kernel/kexec_internal.h per
suggestion from Vivek and Petr.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix bisectability]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: declare the various arch_kexec functions]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This introduces a new helper and switches current users to use it. All
patches are compiled tested. kmemleak is tested via its own test suite.
This patch (of 6):
The new seq_hex_dump() is a complete analogue of print_hex_dump().
We have few users of this functionality already. It allows to reduce their
codebase.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Tuchscherer <ingo.tuchscherer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We need to launch the usermodehelper kernel threads with the widest
affinity and this is partly why we use khelper. This workqueue has
unbound properties and thus a wide affinity inherited by all its children.
Now khelper also has special properties that we aren't much interested in:
ordered and singlethread. There is really no need about ordering as all
we do is creating kernel threads. This can be done concurrently. And
singlethread is a useless limitation as well.
The workqueue engine already proposes generic unbound workqueues that
don't share these useless properties and handle well parallel jobs.
The only worrysome specific is their affinity to the node of the current
CPU. It's fine for creating the usermodehelper kernel threads but those
inherit this affinity for longer jobs such as requesting modules.
This patch proposes to use these node affine unbound workqueues assuming
that a node is sufficient to handle several parallel usermodehelper
requests.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To further clarify the purpose of the "esc" argument, rename it to "only"
to reflect that it is a limit, not a list of additional characters to
escape.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
print_hex_dump_debug() is likely supposed to be analogous to pr_debug() or
dev_dbg() & friends. Currently it will adhere to dynamic debug, but will
not stub out prints if CONFIG_DEBUG is not set. Let's make it do the
right thing, because I am tired of having my dmesg buffer full of hex
dumps on production systems.
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The other two implementations of pr_debug_ratelimited include pr_fmt,
along with every other pr_* function. But pr_debug_ratelimited forgot to
add it with the CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG implementation.
This patch unifies the behavior.
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Poison pointer values should be small enough to find a room in
non-mmap'able/hardly-mmap'able space. E.g. on x86 "poison pointer space"
is located starting from 0x0. Given unprivileged users cannot mmap
anything below mmap_min_addr, it should be safe to use poison pointers
lower than mmap_min_addr.
The current poison pointer values of LIST_POISON{1,2} might be too big for
mmap_min_addr values equal or less than 1 MB (common case, e.g. Ubuntu
uses only 0x10000). There is little point to use such a big value given
the "poison pointer space" below 1 MB is not yet exhausted. Changing it
to a smaller value solves the problem for small mmap_min_addr setups.
The values are suggested by Solar Designer:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/02/6
Signed-off-by: Vasily Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As noted by Minchan, a benefit of reading idle flag from /proc/kpageflags
is that one can easily filter dirty and/or unevictable pages while
estimating the size of unused memory.
Note that idle flag read from /proc/kpageflags may be stale in case the
page was accessed via a PTE, because it would be too costly to iterate
over all page mappings on each /proc/kpageflags read to provide an
up-to-date value. To make sure the flag is up-to-date one has to read
/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap first.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Knowing the portion of memory that is not used by a certain application or
memory cgroup (idle memory) can be useful for partitioning the system
efficiently, e.g. by setting memory cgroup limits appropriately.
Currently, the only means to estimate the amount of idle memory provided
by the kernel is /proc/PID/{clear_refs,smaps}: the user can clear the
access bit for all pages mapped to a particular process by writing 1 to
clear_refs, wait for some time, and then count smaps:Referenced. However,
this method has two serious shortcomings:
- it does not count unmapped file pages
- it affects the reclaimer logic
To overcome these drawbacks, this patch introduces two new page flags,
Idle and Young, and a new sysfs file, /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap.
A page's Idle flag can only be set from userspace by setting bit in
/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap at the offset corresponding to the page,
and it is cleared whenever the page is accessed either through page tables
(it is cleared in page_referenced() in this case) or using the read(2)
system call (mark_page_accessed()). Thus by setting the Idle flag for
pages of a particular workload, which can be found e.g. by reading
/proc/PID/pagemap, waiting for some time to let the workload access its
working set, and then reading the bitmap file, one can estimate the amount
of pages that are not used by the workload.
The Young page flag is used to avoid interference with the memory
reclaimer. A page's Young flag is set whenever the Access bit of a page
table entry pointing to the page is cleared by writing to the bitmap file.
If page_referenced() is called on a Young page, it will add 1 to its
return value, therefore concealing the fact that the Access bit was
cleared.
Note, since there is no room for extra page flags on 32 bit, this feature
uses extended page flags when compiled on 32 bit.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: kpageidle requires an MMU]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: decouple from page-flags rework]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In the scope of the idle memory tracking feature, which is introduced by
the following patch, we need to clear the referenced/accessed bit not only
in primary, but also in secondary ptes. The latter is required in order
to estimate wss of KVM VMs. At the same time we want to avoid flushing
tlb, because it is quite expensive and it won't really affect the final
result.
Currently, there is no function for clearing pte young bit that would meet
our requirements, so this patch introduces one. To achieve that we have
to add a new mmu-notifier callback, clear_young, since there is no method
for testing-and-clearing a secondary pte w/o flushing tlb. The new method
is not mandatory and currently only implemented by KVM.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It is only used in mem_cgroup_try_charge, so fold it in and zap it.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patchset introduces a new user API for tracking user memory pages
that have not been used for a given period of time. The purpose of this
is to provide the userspace with the means of tracking a workload's
working set, i.e. the set of pages that are actively used by the
workload. Knowing the working set size can be useful for partitioning the
system more efficiently, e.g. by tuning memory cgroup limits
appropriately, or for job placement within a compute cluster.
==== USE CASES ====
The unified cgroup hierarchy has memory.low and memory.high knobs, which
are defined as the low and high boundaries for the workload working set
size. However, the working set size of a workload may be unknown or
change in time. With this patch set, one can periodically estimate the
amount of memory unused by each cgroup and tune their memory.low and
memory.high parameters accordingly, therefore optimizing the overall
memory utilization.
Another use case is balancing workloads within a compute cluster. Knowing
how much memory is not really used by a workload unit may help take a more
optimal decision when considering migrating the unit to another node
within the cluster.
Also, as noted by Minchan, this would be useful for per-process reclaim
(https://lwn.net/Articles/545668/). With idle tracking, we could reclaim idle
pages only by smart user memory manager.
==== USER API ====
The user API consists of two new files:
* /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap. This file implements a bitmap where each
bit corresponds to a page, indexed by PFN. When the bit is set, the
corresponding page is idle. A page is considered idle if it has not been
accessed since it was marked idle. To mark a page idle one should set the
bit corresponding to the page by writing to the file. A value written to the
file is OR-ed with the current bitmap value. Only user memory pages can be
marked idle, for other page types input is silently ignored. Writing to this
file beyond max PFN results in the ENXIO error. Only available when
CONFIG_IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING is set.
This file can be used to estimate the amount of pages that are not
used by a particular workload as follows:
1. mark all pages of interest idle by setting corresponding bits in the
/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap
2. wait until the workload accesses its working set
3. read /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap and count the number of bits set
* /proc/kpagecgroup. This file contains a 64-bit inode number of the
memory cgroup each page is charged to, indexed by PFN. Only available when
CONFIG_MEMCG is set.
This file can be used to find all pages (including unmapped file pages)
accounted to a particular cgroup. Using /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap, one
can then estimate the cgroup working set size.
For an example of using these files for estimating the amount of unused
memory pages per each memory cgroup, please see the script attached
below.
==== REASONING ====
The reason to introduce the new user API instead of using
/proc/PID/{clear_refs,smaps} is that the latter has two serious
drawbacks:
- it does not count unmapped file pages
- it affects the reclaimer logic
The new API attempts to overcome them both. For more details on how it
is achieved, please see the comment to patch 6.
==== PATCHSET STRUCTURE ====
The patch set is organized as follows:
- patch 1 adds page_cgroup_ino() helper for the sake of
/proc/kpagecgroup and patches 2-3 do related cleanup
- patch 4 adds /proc/kpagecgroup, which reports cgroup ino each page is
charged to
- patch 5 introduces a new mmu notifier callback, clear_young, which is
a lightweight version of clear_flush_young; it is used in patch 6
- patch 6 implements the idle page tracking feature, including the
userspace API, /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap
- patch 7 exports idle flag via /proc/kpageflags
==== SIMILAR WORKS ====
Originally, the patch for tracking idle memory was proposed back in 2011
by Michel Lespinasse (see http://lwn.net/Articles/459269/). The main
difference between Michel's patch and this one is that Michel implemented
a kernel space daemon for estimating idle memory size per cgroup while
this patch only provides the userspace with the minimal API for doing the
job, leaving the rest up to the userspace. However, they both share the
same idea of Idle/Young page flags to avoid affecting the reclaimer logic.
==== PERFORMANCE EVALUATION ====
SPECjvm2008 (https://www.spec.org/jvm2008/) was used to evaluate the
performance impact introduced by this patch set. Three runs were carried
out:
- base: kernel without the patch
- patched: patched kernel, the feature is not used
- patched-active: patched kernel, 1 minute-period daemon is used for
tracking idle memory
For tracking idle memory, idlememstat utility was used:
https://github.com/locker/idlememstat
testcase base patched patched-active
compiler 537.40 ( 0.00)% 532.26 (-0.96)% 538.31 ( 0.17)%
compress 305.47 ( 0.00)% 301.08 (-1.44)% 300.71 (-1.56)%
crypto 284.32 ( 0.00)% 282.21 (-0.74)% 284.87 ( 0.19)%
derby 411.05 ( 0.00)% 413.44 ( 0.58)% 412.07 ( 0.25)%
mpegaudio 189.96 ( 0.00)% 190.87 ( 0.48)% 189.42 (-0.28)%
scimark.large 46.85 ( 0.00)% 46.41 (-0.94)% 47.83 ( 2.09)%
scimark.small 412.91 ( 0.00)% 415.41 ( 0.61)% 421.17 ( 2.00)%
serial 204.23 ( 0.00)% 213.46 ( 4.52)% 203.17 (-0.52)%
startup 36.76 ( 0.00)% 35.49 (-3.45)% 35.64 (-3.05)%
sunflow 115.34 ( 0.00)% 115.08 (-0.23)% 117.37 ( 1.76)%
xml 620.55 ( 0.00)% 619.95 (-0.10)% 620.39 (-0.03)%
composite 211.50 ( 0.00)% 211.15 (-0.17)% 211.67 ( 0.08)%
time idlememstat:
17.20user 65.16system 2:15:23elapsed 1%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 8476maxresident)k
448inputs+40outputs (1major+36052minor)pagefaults 0swaps
==== SCRIPT FOR COUNTING IDLE PAGES PER CGROUP ====
#! /usr/bin/python
#
import os
import stat
import errno
import struct
CGROUP_MOUNT = "/sys/fs/cgroup/memory"
BUFSIZE = 8 * 1024 # must be multiple of 8
def get_hugepage_size():
with open("/proc/meminfo", "r") as f:
for s in f:
k, v = s.split(":")
if k == "Hugepagesize":
return int(v.split()[0]) * 1024
PAGE_SIZE = os.sysconf("SC_PAGE_SIZE")
HUGEPAGE_SIZE = get_hugepage_size()
def set_idle():
f = open("/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap", "wb", BUFSIZE)
while True:
try:
f.write(struct.pack("Q", pow(2, 64) - 1))
except IOError as err:
if err.errno == errno.ENXIO:
break
raise
f.close()
def count_idle():
f_flags = open("/proc/kpageflags", "rb", BUFSIZE)
f_cgroup = open("/proc/kpagecgroup", "rb", BUFSIZE)
with open("/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap", "rb", BUFSIZE) as f:
while f.read(BUFSIZE): pass # update idle flag
idlememsz = {}
while True:
s1, s2 = f_flags.read(8), f_cgroup.read(8)
if not s1 or not s2:
break
flags, = struct.unpack('Q', s1)
cgino, = struct.unpack('Q', s2)
unevictable = (flags >> 18) & 1
huge = (flags >> 22) & 1
idle = (flags >> 25) & 1
if idle and not unevictable:
idlememsz[cgino] = idlememsz.get(cgino, 0) + \
(HUGEPAGE_SIZE if huge else PAGE_SIZE)
f_flags.close()
f_cgroup.close()
return idlememsz
if __name__ == "__main__":
print "Setting the idle flag for each page..."
set_idle()
raw_input("Wait until the workload accesses its working set, "
"then press Enter")
print "Counting idle pages..."
idlememsz = count_idle()
for dir, subdirs, files in os.walk(CGROUP_MOUNT):
ino = os.stat(dir)[stat.ST_INO]
print dir + ": " + str(idlememsz.get(ino, 0) / 1024) + " kB"
==== END SCRIPT ====
This patch (of 8):
Add page_cgroup_ino() helper to memcg.
This function returns the inode number of the closest online ancestor of
the memory cgroup a page is charged to. It is required for exporting
information about which page is charged to which cgroup to userspace,
which will be introduced by a following patch.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This series makes creation of the zpool and compressor dynamic, so that
they can be changed at runtime. This makes using/configuring zswap
easier, as before this zswap had to be configured at boot time, using boot
params.
This uses a single list to track both the zpool and compressor together,
although Seth had mentioned an alternative which is to track the zpools
and compressors using separate lists. In the most common case, only a
single zpool and single compressor, using one list is slightly simpler
than using two lists, and for the uncommon case of multiple zpools and/or
compressors, using one list is slightly less simple (and uses slightly
more memory, probably) than using two lists.
This patch (of 4):
Add zpool_has_pool() function, indicating if the specified type of zpool
is available (i.e. zsmalloc or zbud). This allows checking if a pool is
available, without actually trying to allocate it, similar to
crypto_has_alg().
This is used by a following patch to zswap that enables the dynamic
runtime creation of zswap zpools.
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
IEEE 1722 describes AVB (later renamed to TSN - Time Sensitive
Networking), a protocol, encapsualtion and synchronization to utilize
standard networks for audio/video (and later other time-sensitive)
streams.
This standard uses ethertype 0x22F0.
http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/ethertype/eth.txt
This is a respin of a previous patch ("ether: add AVB frame type
ETH_P_AVB")
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The linux/audit.h header uses EM_MICROBLAZE in order to define
AUDIT_ARCH_MICROBLAZE, but it's only available in the microblaze
asm headers. Move it to the common elf-em.h header so that the
define can be used on non-microblaze systems. Otherwise we get
build errors that EM_MICROBLAZE isn't defined when we try to use
the AUDIT_ARCH_MICROBLAZE symbol.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Christoph Hellwig