kernel/include/asm-generic, branch linux-2.6.34.y

mutex: Place lock in contended state after fastpath_lock failure

2013-01-16T21:45:08Z

commit 0bce9c46bf3b15f485d82d7e81dabed6ebcc24b1 upstream. ARM recently moved to asm-generic/mutex-xchg.h for its mutex implementation after the previous implementation was found to be missing some crucial memory barriers. However, this has revealed some problems running hackbench on SMP platforms due to the way in which the MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER code operates. The symptoms are that a bunch of hackbench tasks are left waiting on an unlocked mutex and therefore never get woken up to claim it. This boils down to the following sequence of events: Task A Task B Task C Lock value 0 1 1 lock() 0 2 lock() 0 3 spin(A) 0 4 unlock() 1 5 lock() 0 6 cmpxchg(1,0) 0 7 contended() -1 8 lock() 0 9 spin(C) 0 10 unlock() 1 11 cmpxchg(1,0) 0 12 unlock() 1 At this point, the lock is unlocked, but Task B is in an uninterruptible sleep with nobody to wake it up. This patch fixes the problem by ensuring we put the lock into the contended state if we fail to acquire it on the fastpath, ensuring that any blocked waiters are woken up when the mutex is released. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6e9lrw2avczr0617fzl5vqb8@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

bug.h: Add WARN_RATELIMIT

2012-05-17T15:21:05Z

commit b3eec79b0776e5340a3db75b34953977c7e5086e upstream. Add a generic mechanism to ratelimit WARN(foo, fmt, ...) messages using a hidden per call site static struct ratelimit_state. Also add an __WARN_RATELIMIT variant to be able to use a specific struct ratelimit_state. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

dma-mapping: fix dma_sync_single_range_*

2010-05-12T00:33:41Z

dma_sync_single_range_for_cpu() and dma_sync_single_range_for_device() use a wrong address with a partial synchronization. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

dma-mapping: pci: move pci_set_dma_mask and pci_set_consistent_dma_mask to pci-dma-compat.h

2010-03-12T23:52:42Z

We can use pci-dma-compat.h to implement pci_set_dma_mask and pci_set_consistent_dma_mask as we do with the other PCI DMA API. We can remove HAVE_ARCH_PCI_SET_DMA_MASK too. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori Cc: Jesse Barnes Cc: Greg KH Cc: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

gpio: introduce gpio_request_one() and friends

2010-03-06T19:26:48Z

gpio_request() without initial configuration of the GPIO is normally useless, introduce gpio_request_one() together with GPIOF_ flags for input/output direction and initial output level. gpio_{request,free}_array() for multiple GPIOs. Signed-off-by: Eric Miao Cc: David Brownell Cc: Ben Nizette Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

local_t: Remove cpu_local_xx macros

2010-01-05T06:34:49Z

These macros have not been used for awhile now. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

Merge branch 'master' into percpu

2010-01-05T00:17:33Z

Conflicts: arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall.S include/linux/percpu.h

fix up O_SYNC comments

2009-12-17T16:03:24Z

Proper Posix O_SYNC handling only made it into 2.6.33, not 2.6.32. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6

2009-12-16T20:36:49Z

* 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (34 commits) HWPOISON: Remove stray phrase in a comment HWPOISON: Try to allocate migration page on the same node HWPOISON: Don't do early filtering if filter is disabled HWPOISON: Add a madvise() injector for soft page offlining HWPOISON: Add soft page offline support HWPOISON: Undefine short-hand macros after use to avoid namespace conflict HWPOISON: Use new shake_page in memory_failure HWPOISON: Use correct name for MADV_HWPOISON in documentation HWPOISON: mention HWPoison in Kconfig entry HWPOISON: Use get_user_page_fast in hwpoison madvise HWPOISON: add an interface to switch off/on all the page filters HWPOISON: add memory cgroup filter memcg: add accessor to mem_cgroup.css memcg: rename and export try_get_mem_cgroup_from_page() HWPOISON: add page flags filter mm: export stable page flags HWPOISON: limit hwpoison injector to known page types HWPOISON: add fs/device filters HWPOISON: return 0 to indicate success reliably HWPOISON: make semantics of IGNORED/DELAYED clear ...

Merge branch 'module' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus

2009-12-16T18:47:24Z

* 'module' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: modpost: fix segfault with short symbol names module: handle ppc64 relocating kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y Kbuild: clear marker out of modpost module: make MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX into a CONFIG option ARM: unexport symbols used to implement floating point emulation ARM: use unified discard definition in linker script x86: don't export inline function sparc64: don't export static inline pci_ functions