The Linux Kernel Performance project guys have reported that commit
4e7ea81db5 introduces a performance regression for the following fio
workload:
[global]
direct=0
ioengine=mmap
size=1500M
bs=4k
pre_read=1
numjobs=1
overwrite=1
loops=5
runtime=300
group_reporting
invalidate=0
directory=/mnt/
file_service_type=random:36
file_service_type=random:36
[job0]
startdelay=0
rw=randrw
filename=data0/f1:data0/f2
[job1]
startdelay=0
rw=randrw
filename=data0/f2:data0/f1
...
[job7]
startdelay=0
rw=randrw
filename=data0/f2:data0/f1
The culprit of the problem is that after the commit ext4_writepages()
are more aggressive in writing back pages. Thus we have less consecutive
dirty pages resulting in more seeking.
This increased aggressivity is caused by a bug in the condition
terminating ext4_writepages(). We start writing from the beginning of
the file even if we should have terminated ext4_writepages() because
wbc->nr_to_write <= 0.
After fixing the condition the throughput of the fio workload is about 20%
better than before writeback reorganization.
Reported-by: "Yan, Zheng" <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
It's always been a hassle that if an external journal's
device number changes, the filesystem won't mount.
And since boot-time enumeration can change, device number
changes aren't unusual.
The current mechanism to update the journal location is by
passing in a mount option w/ a new devnum, but that's a hassle;
it's a manual approach, fixing things after the fact.
Adding a mount option, "-o journal_path=/dev/$DEVICE" would
help, since then we can do i.e.
# mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/$JOURNAL_LABEL ...
and it'll mount even if the devnum has changed, as shown here:
# losetup /dev/loop0 journalfile
# mke2fs -L mylabel-journal -O journal_dev /dev/loop0
# mkfs.ext4 -L mylabel -J device=/dev/loop0 /dev/sdb1
Change the journal device number:
# losetup -d /dev/loop0
# losetup /dev/loop1 journalfile
And today it will fail:
# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
# dmesg | tail -n 1
[17343.240702] EXT4-fs (sdb1): error: couldn't read superblock of external journal
But with this new mount option, we can specify the new path:
# mount -o journal_path=/dev/loop1 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
#
(which does update the encoded device number, incidentally):
# umount /dev/sdb1
# dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdb1 | grep "Journal device"
dumpe2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Journal device: 0x0701
But best of all we can just always mount by journal-path, and
it'll always work:
# mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/mylabel-journal /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
#
So the journal_path option can be specified in fstab, and as long as
the disk is available somewhere, and findable by label (or by UUID),
we can mount.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
If the group descriptor fails validation, mark the whole blockgroup
corrupt so that the inode/block allocators skip this group. The
previous approach takes the risk of writing to a damaged group
descriptor; hopefully it was never the case that the [ib]bitmap fields
pointed to another valid block and got dirtied, since the memset would
fill the page with 1s.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
If we detect either a discrepancy between the inode bitmap and the
inode counts or the inode bitmap fails to pass validation checks, mark
the block group corrupt and refuse to allocate or deallocate inodes
from the group.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When we notice a block-bitmap corruption (because of device failure or
something else), we should mark this group as corrupt and prevent
further block allocations/deallocations from it. Currently, we end up
generating one error message for every block in the bitmap. This
potentially could make the system unstable as noticed in some
bugs. With this patch, the error will be printed only the first time
and mark the entire block group as corrupted. This prevents future
access allocations/deallocations from it.
Also tested by corrupting the block
bitmap and forcefully introducing the mb_free_blocks error:
(1) create a largefile (2Gb)
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=largefile oflag=direct bs=10485760 count=200
(2) umount filesystem. use dumpe2fs to see which block-bitmaps
are in use by largefile and note their block numbers
(3) use dd to zero-out the used block bitmaps
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc4 bs=4096 seek=14 count=8 oflag=direct
(4) mount the FS and delete the largefile.
(5) recreate the largefile. verify that the new largefile does not
get any blocks from the groups marked as bad.
Without the patch, we will see mb_free_blocks error for each bit in
each zero'ed out bitmap at (4). With the patch, we only see the error
once per blockgroup:
[ 309.706803] EXT4-fs error (device sdb4): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:735: group 15: 32768 clusters in bitmap, 0 in gd. blk grp corrupted.
[ 309.720824] EXT4-fs error (device sdb4): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:735: group 14: 32768 clusters in bitmap, 0 in gd. blk grp corrupted.
[ 309.732858] EXT4-fs error (device sdb4) in ext4_free_blocks:4802: IO failure
[ 309.748321] EXT4-fs error (device sdb4): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:735: group 13: 32768 clusters in bitmap, 0 in gd. blk grp corrupted.
[ 309.760331] EXT4-fs error (device sdb4) in ext4_free_blocks:4802: IO failure
[ 309.769695] EXT4-fs error (device sdb4): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:735: group 12: 32768 clusters in bitmap, 0 in gd. blk grp corrupted.
[ 309.781721] EXT4-fs error (device sdb4) in ext4_free_blocks:4802: IO failure
[ 309.798166] EXT4-fs error (device sdb4): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:735: group 11: 32768 clusters in bitmap, 0 in gd. blk grp corrupted.
[ 309.810184] EXT4-fs error (device sdb4) in ext4_free_blocks:4802: IO failure
[ 309.819532] EXT4-fs error (device sdb4): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:735: group 10: 32768 clusters in bitmap, 0 in gd. blk grp corrupted.
Google-Bug-Id: 7258357
[darrick.wong@oracle.com]
Further modifications (by Darrick) to make more obvious that this corruption
bit applies to blocks only. Set the corruption flag if the block group bitmap
verification fails.
Original-author: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The block_group parameter to ext4_validate_block_bitmap is both used
as a ext4_group_t inside the function and the same type is passed in
by all callers. We might as well use the typedef consistently instead
of open-coding the 'unsigned int'.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The block bitmap verification code assumes that calling ext4_error()
either panics the system or makes the fs readonly. However, this is
not always true: when 'errors=continue' is specified, an error is
printed but we don't return any indication of error to the caller,
which is (probably) the block allocator, which pretends that the crud
we read in off the disk is a usable bitmap. Yuck.
A block bitmap that fails the check should at least return no bitmap
to the caller. The block allocator should be told to go look in a
different group, but that's a separate issue.
The easiest way to reproduce this is to modify bg_block_bitmap (on a
^flex_bg fs) to point to a block outside the block group; or you can
create a metadata_csum filesystem and zero out the block bitmaps.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
In the jbd2 checksumming code, explicitly declare separate variables with
endianness information so that we don't get confused and screw things up again.
Also fixes sparse warnings.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
After applied the commit (4a092d73), we have reduced the number of
source files that need to #include ext4_extents.h. But we can do
better.
This commit defines ext4_zeroout_es() in extents.c and move
EXT_MAX_BLOCKS into ext4.h in order not to include ext4_extents.h in
indirect.c and ioctl.c. Meanwhile we just need to include this file in
extent_status.c when ES_AGGRESSIVE_TEST is defined. Otherwise, this
commit removes a duplicated declaration in trace/events/ext4.h.
After applied this patch, we just need to include ext4_extents.h file
in {super,migrate,move_extents,extents}.c, and it is easy for us to
define a new extent disk layout.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Use wait_for_stable_page() instead of wait_on_page_writeback()
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
If ext_debugging is enabled and path[depth].p_ext is NULL, len
and lblock are printed non initialized
Signed-off-by: Andi Shyti <andi@etezian.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The following race can lead to a loss of i_disksize update from truncate
thus resulting in a wrong inode size if the inode size isn't updated
again before inode is reclaimed:
ext4_setattr() mpage_map_and_submit_extent()
EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize = attr->ia_size;
... ...
disksize = ((loff_t)mpd->first_page) << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
/* False because i_size isn't
* updated yet */
if (disksize > i_size_read(inode))
/* True, because i_disksize is
* already truncated */
if (disksize > EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize)
/* Overwrite i_disksize
* update from truncate */
ext4_update_i_disksize()
i_size_write(inode, attr->ia_size);
For other places updating i_disksize such race cannot happen because
i_mutex prevents these races. Writeback is the only place where we do
not hold i_mutex and we cannot grab it there because of lock ordering.
We fix the race by doing both i_disksize and i_size update in truncate
atomically under i_data_sem and in mpage_map_and_submit_extent() we move
the check against i_size under i_data_sem as well.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Merge conditions in ext4_setattr() handling inode size changes, also
move ext4_begin_ordered_truncate() call somewhat earlier because it
simplifies error recovery in case of failure. Also add error handling in
case i_disksize update fails.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Inode size can arbitrarily change while writeback is in progress. When
ext4_writepages() has prepared a long extent for mapping and truncate
then reduces i_size, mpage_map_and_submit_buffers() will always map just
one buffer in a page instead of all of them due to lblk < blocks check.
So we end up not using all blocks we've allocated (thus leaking them)
and also delalloc accounting goes wrong manifesting as a warning like:
ext4_da_release_space:1333: ext4_da_release_space: ino 12, to_free 1
with only 0 reserved data blocks
Note that the problem can happen only when blocksize < pagesize because
otherwise we have only a single buffer in the page.
Fix the problem by removing the size check from the mapping loop. We
have an extent allocated so we have to use it all before checking for
i_size. We also rename add_page_bufs_to_extent() to
mpage_process_page_bufs() and make that function submit the page for IO
if all buffers (upto EOF) in it are mapped.
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Currently the logic whether the current buffer can be added to an extent
of buffers to map is split between mpage_add_bh_to_extent() and
add_page_bufs_to_extent(). Move the whole logic to
mpage_add_bh_to_extent() which makes things a bit more straightforward
and make following i_size fixes easier.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
reaim workfile.dbase test easily triggers warning in
ext4_da_update_reserve_space():
EXT4-fs warning (device ram0): ext4_da_update_reserve_space:365:
ino 12, allocated 1 with only 0 reserved metadata blocks (releasing 1
blocks with reserved 9 data blocks)
The problem is that (one of) tests creates file and then randomly writes
to it with O_SYNC. That results in writing back pages of the file in
random order so we create extents for written blocks say 0, 2, 4, 6, 8
- this last allocation also allocates new block for extents. Then we
writeout block 1 so we have extents 0-2, 4, 6, 8 and we release
indirect extent block because extents fit in the inode again. Then we
writeout block 10 and we need to allocate indirect extent block again
which triggers the warning because we don't have the reservation
anymore.
Fix the problem by giving back freed metadata blocks resulting from
extent merging into inode's reservation pool.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
ext4 needs to convert allocated (metadata) blocks back into blocks
reserved for delayed allocation. Add functions into quota code for
supporting such operation.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
In no journal mode, if an inode has recently been deleted, we
shouldn't reuse it right away. Otherwise it's possible, after an
unclean shutdown, to hit a situation where a recently deleted inode
gets reused for some other purpose before the inode table block has
been written to disk. However, if the directory entry has been
updated, then the directory entry will be pointing at the old inode
contents.
E2fsck will make sure the file system is consistent after the
unclean shutdown. However, if the recently deleted inode is a
character mode device, or an inode with the immutable bit set, even
after the file system has been fixed up by e2fsck, it can be
possible for a *.pyc file to be pointing at a character mode
device, and when python tries to open the *.pyc file, Hilarity
Ensues. We could change all of userspace to be very suspicious
about stat'ing files before opening them, and clearing the
immutable flag if necessary --- or we can just avoid reusing an
inode number if it has been recently deleted.
Google-Bug-Id: 10017573
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When ext4_rename() overwrites an already existing file, call
ext4_alloc_da_blocks() before starting the journal handle which
actually does the rename, instead of doing this afterwards. This
improves the likelihood that the contents will survive a crash if an
application replaces a file using the sequence:
1) write replacement contents to foo.new
2) <omit fsync of foo.new>
3) rename foo.new to foo
It is still not a guarantee, since ext4_alloc_da_blocks() is *not*
doing a file integrity sync; this means if foo.new is a very large
file, it may not be completely flushed out to disk.
However, for files smaller than a megabyte or so, any dirty pages
should be flushed out before we do the rename operation, and so at the
next journal commit, the CACHE FLUSH command will make sure al of
these pages are safely on the disk platter.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
In ext4_rename(), don't start the journal handle until the the
directory entries have been successfully looked up.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Add a new fiemap flag which forces the all of the extents in an inode
to be cached in the extent_status tree. This is critically important
when using AIO to a preallocated file, since if we need to read in
blocks from the extent tree, the io_submit(2) system call becomes
synchronous, and the AIO is no longer "A", which is bad.
In addition, for most files which have an external leaf tree block,
the cost of caching the information in the extent status tree will be
less than caching the entire 4k block in the buffer cache. So it is
generally a win to keep the extent information cached.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When we read in an extent tree leaf block from disk, arrange to have
all of its entries cached. In nearly all cases the in-memory
representation will be more compact than the on-disk representation in
the buffer cache, and it allows us to get the information without
having to traverse the extent tree for successive extents.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Don't use an unsigned long long for the es_status flags; this requires
that we pass 64-bit values around which is painful on 32-bit systems.
Instead pass the extent status flags around using the low 4 bits of an
unsigned int, and shift them into place when we are reading or writing
es_pblk.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
When we find an invalid extent tree block, report the block number of
the bad block for debugging purposes.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Refactor out the code needed to read the extent tree block into a
single read_extent_tree_block() function. In addition to simplifying
the code, it also makes sure that we call the ext4_ext_load_extent
tracepoint whenever we need to read an extent tree block from disk.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Commit 0713ed0cde added
jbd2_journal_file_inode() call into ext4_block_zero_page_range().
However that function gets called from truncate path and thus inode
needn't have jinode attached - that happens in ext4_file_open() but
the file needn't be ever open since mount. Calling
jbd2_journal_file_inode() without jinode attached results in the oops.
We fix the problem by attaching jinode to inode also in ext4_truncate()
and ext4_punch_hole() when we are going to zero out partial blocks.
Reported-by: majianpeng <majianpeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() returns error,
__ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() stops the handle. However callers of this
function do not count with that fact and still happily used now freed
handle. This use after free can result in various issues but very likely
we oops soon.
The motivation of adding __ext4_journal_stop() into
__ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() in commit 9ea7a0df seems to be only to
improve error reporting. So replace __ext4_journal_stop() with
ext4_journal_abort_handle() which was there before that commit and add
WARN_ON_ONCE() to dump stack to provide useful information.
Reported-by: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.2+
Previously we weren't swapping only some of the extent_status LRU
fields during the processing of the EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT ioctl. The
much safer thing to do is to just completely flush the extent status
tree when doing the swap.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Commit 5688978 ("ext4: improve handling of conflicting mount options")
introduced incorrect messages shown while choosing wrong mount options.
First of all, both cases of incorrect mount options,
"data=journal,delalloc" and "data=journal,dioread_nolock" result in
the same error message.
Secondly, the problem above isn't solved for remount option: the
mismatched parameter is simply ignored. Moreover, ext4_msg states
that remount with options "data=journal,delalloc" succeeded, which is
not true.
To fix it up, I added a simple check after parse_options() call to
ensure that data=journal and delalloc/dioread_nolock parameters are
not present at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Sarna <p.sarna@partner.samsung.com>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Commit 26092bf ("ext4: use a table-driven handler for mount options")
wrongly disallows the specifying the mount options nodelalloc and
data=journal simultaneously. This is incorrect; it should have only
disallowed the combination of delalloc and data=journal
simultaneously.
Reported-by: Piotr Sarna <p.sarna@partner.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
In commit 921f266b: ext4: add self-testing infrastructure to do a
sanity check, some sanity checks were added in map_blocks to make sure
'retval == map->m_len'.
Enable these checks by default and report any assertion failures using
ext4_warning() and WARN_ON() since they can help us to figure out some
bugs that are otherwise hard to hit.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When we try to allocate an inode, and there is a race between two
CPU's trying to grab the same inode, _and_ this inode is the last free
inode in the block group, make sure the group number is bumped before
we continue searching the rest of the block groups. Otherwise, we end
up searching the current block group twice, and we end up skipping
searching the last block group. So in the unlikely situation where
almost all of the inodes are allocated, it's possible that we will
return ENOSPC even though there might be free inodes in that last
block group.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
- Change from Aaron Lu makes ACPICA export a variable which can be
used by driver code to determine whether or not the BIOS believes
that we are compatible with Windows 8.
- Change from Matthew Garrett makes the ACPI video driver initialize
the ACPI backlight even if it is not going to be used afterward
(that is needed for backlight control to work on Thinkpads).
- Fix from Rafael J Wysocki implements Windows 8 backlight support
workaround making i915 take over bakclight control if the firmware
thinks it's dealing with Windows 8. Based on the work of multiple
developers including Matthew Garrett, Chun-Yi Lee, Seth Forshee,
and Aaron Lu.
- Fix from Aaron Lu makes the kernel follow Windows 8 by informing
the firmware through the _DOS method that it should not carry out
automatic brightness changes, so that brightness can be controlled
by GUI.
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Merge tag 'acpi-video-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull ACPI video support fixes from Rafael Wysocki:
"I'm sending a separate pull request for this as it may be somewhat
controversial. The breakage addressed here is not really new and the
fixes may not satisfy all users of the affected systems, but we've had
so much back and forth dance in this area over the last several weeks
that I think it's time to actually make some progress.
The source of the problem is that about a year ago we started to tell
BIOSes that we're compatible with Windows 8, which we really need to
do, because some systems shipping with Windows 8 are tested with it
and nothing else, so if we tell their BIOSes that we aren't compatible
with Windows 8, we expose our users to untested BIOS/AML code paths.
However, as it turns out, some Windows 8-specific AML code paths are
not tested either, because Windows 8 actually doesn't use the ACPI
methods containing them, so if we declare Windows 8 compatibility and
attempt to use those ACPI methods, things break. That occurs mostly
in the backlight support area where in particular the _BCM and _BQC
methods are plain unusable on some systems if the OS declares Windows
8 compatibility.
[ The additional twist is that they actually become usable if the OS
says it is not compatible with Windows 8, but that may cause
problems to show up elsewhere ]
Investigation carried out by Matthew Garrett indicates that what
Windows 8 does about backlight is to leave backlight control up to
individual graphics drivers. At least there's evidence that it does
that if the Intel graphics driver is used, so we've decided to follow
Windows 8 in that respect and allow i915 to control backlight (Daniel
likes that part).
The first commit from Aaron Lu makes ACPICA export the variable from
which we can infer whether or not the BIOS believes that we are
compatible with Windows 8.
The second commit from Matthew Garrett prepares the ACPI video driver
by making it initialize the ACPI backlight even if it is not going to
be used afterward (that is needed for backlight control to work on
Thinkpads).
The third commit implements the actual workaround making i915 take
over backlight control if the firmware thinks it's dealing with
Windows 8 and is based on the work of multiple developers, including
Matthew Garrett, Chun-Yi Lee, Seth Forshee, and Aaron Lu.
The final commit from Aaron Lu makes us follow Windows 8 by informing
the firmware through the _DOS method that it should not carry out
automatic brightness changes, so that brightness can be controlled by
GUI.
Hopefully, this approach will allow us to avoid using blacklists of
systems that should not declare Windows 8 compatibility just to avoid
backlight control problems in the future.
- Change from Aaron Lu makes ACPICA export a variable which can be
used by driver code to determine whether or not the BIOS believes
that we are compatible with Windows 8.
- Change from Matthew Garrett makes the ACPI video driver initialize
the ACPI backlight even if it is not going to be used afterward
(that is needed for backlight control to work on Thinkpads).
- Fix from Rafael J Wysocki implements Windows 8 backlight support
workaround making i915 take over bakclight control if the firmware
thinks it's dealing with Windows 8. Based on the work of multiple
developers including Matthew Garrett, Chun-Yi Lee, Seth Forshee,
and Aaron Lu.
- Fix from Aaron Lu makes the kernel follow Windows 8 by informing
the firmware through the _DOS method that it should not carry out
automatic brightness changes, so that brightness can be controlled
by GUI"
* tag 'acpi-video-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
ACPI / video: no automatic brightness changes by win8-compatible firmware
ACPI / video / i915: No ACPI backlight if firmware expects Windows 8
ACPI / video: Always call acpi_video_init_brightness() on init
ACPICA: expose OSI version
support (along with a similar fix for ext3)
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext[34] tmpfile bugfix from Ted Ts'o:
"Fix regression caused by commit af51a2ac36 which added ->tmpfile()
support (along with a similar fix for ext3)"
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext3: fix a BUG when opening a file with O_TMPFILE flag
ext4: fix a BUG when opening a file with O_TMPFILE flag
Here are a few iio driver fixes for 3.11-rc2. They are still spread
across drivers/iio and drivers/staging/iio so they are coming in through
this tree.
I've also removed the drivers/staging/csr/ driver as the developers who
originally sent it to me have moved on to other companies, and CSR still
will not send us the specs for the device, making the driver pretty much
obsolete and impossible to fix up. Deleting it now prevents people from
sending in lots of tiny codingsyle fixes that will never go anywhere.
It also helps to offset the large lustre filesystem merge that happened
in 3.11-rc1 in the overall 3.11.0 diffstat. :)
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'staging-3.11-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging
Pull staging tree fixes from Greg KH:
"Here are a few iio driver fixes for 3.11-rc2. They are still spread
across drivers/iio and drivers/staging/iio so they are coming in
through this tree.
I've also removed the drivers/staging/csr/ driver as the developers
who originally sent it to me have moved on to other companies, and CSR
still will not send us the specs for the device, making the driver
pretty much obsolete and impossible to fix up. Deleting it now
prevents people from sending in lots of tiny codingsyle fixes that
will never go anywhere.
It also helps to offset the large lustre filesystem merge that
happened in 3.11-rc1 in the overall 3.11.0 diffstat. :)"
* tag 'staging-3.11-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging:
staging: csr: remove driver
iio: lps331ap: Fix wrong in_pressure_scale output value
iio staging: fix lis3l02dq, read error handling
staging:iio:ad7291: add missing .driver_module to struct iio_info
iio: ti_am335x_adc: add missing .driver_module to struct iio_info
iio: mxs-lradc: Remove useless check in read_raw
iio: mxs-lradc: Fix misuse of iio->trig
iio: inkern: fix iio_convert_raw_to_processed_unlocked
iio: Fix iio_channel_has_info
iio:trigger: device_unregister->device_del to avoid double free
iio: dac: ad7303: fix error return code in ad7303_probe()
Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro:
"The sget() one is a long-standing bug and will need to go into -stable
(in fact, it had been originally caught in RHEL6), the other two are
3.11-only"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
vfs: constify dentry parameter in d_count()
livelock avoidance in sget()
allow O_TMPFILE to work with O_WRONLY
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 bugfixes from Ted Ts'o:
"Fixes for 3.11-rc2, sent at 5pm, in the professoinal style. :-)"
I'm not sure I like this new level of "professionalism".
9-5, people, 9-5.
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: call ext4_es_lru_add() after handling cache miss
ext4: yield during large unlinks
ext4: make the extent_status code more robust against ENOMEM failures
ext4: simplify calculation of blocks to free on error
ext4: fix error handling in ext4_ext_truncate()
- Fix a regression against NFSv4 FreeBSD servers when creating a new file
- Fix another regression in rpc_client_register()
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Merge tag 'nfs-for-3.11-3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs
Pull NFS client bugfixes from Trond Myklebust:
- Fix a regression against NFSv4 FreeBSD servers when creating a new
file
- Fix another regression in rpc_client_register()
* tag 'nfs-for-3.11-3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs:
NFSv4: Fix a regression against the FreeBSD server
SUNRPC: Fix another issue with rpc_client_register()
Pull btrfs fixes from Josef Bacik:
"I'm playing the role of Chris Mason this week while he's on vacation.
There are a few critical fixes for btrfs here, all regressions and
have been tested well"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josef/btrfs-next:
Btrfs: fix wrong write offset when replacing a device
Btrfs: re-add root to dead root list if we stop dropping it
Btrfs: fix lock leak when resuming snapshot deletion
Btrfs: update drop progress before stopping snapshot dropping
so that it can be used in places like d_compare/d_hash
without causing a compiler warning.
Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <tao.peng@emc.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Eric Sandeen has found a nasty livelock in sget() - take a mount(2) about
to fail. The superblock is on ->fs_supers, ->s_umount is held exclusive,
->s_active is 1. Along comes two more processes, trying to mount the same
thing; sget() in each is picking that superblock, bumping ->s_count and
trying to grab ->s_umount. ->s_active is 3 now. Original mount(2)
finally gets to deactivate_locked_super() on failure; ->s_active is 2,
superblock is still ->fs_supers because shutdown will *not* happen until
->s_active hits 0. ->s_umount is dropped and now we have two processes
chasing each other:
s_active = 2, A acquired ->s_umount, B blocked
A sees that the damn thing is stillborn, does deactivate_locked_super()
s_active = 1, A drops ->s_umount, B gets it
A restarts the search and finds the same superblock. And bumps it ->s_active.
s_active = 2, B holds ->s_umount, A blocked on trying to get it
... and we are in the earlier situation with A and B switched places.
The root cause, of course, is that ->s_active should not grow until we'd
got MS_BORN. Then failing ->mount() will have deactivate_locked_super()
shut the damn thing down. Fortunately, it's easy to do - the key point
is that grab_super() is called only for superblocks currently on ->fs_supers,
so it can bump ->s_count and grab ->s_umount first, then check MS_BORN and
bump ->s_active; we must never increment ->s_count for superblocks past
->kill_sb(), but grab_super() is never called for those.
The bug is pretty old; we would've caught it by now, if not for accidental
exclusion between sget() for block filesystems; the things like cgroup or
e.g. mtd-based filesystems don't have anything of that sort, so they get
bitten. The right way to deal with that is obviously to fix sget()...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull UML fixes from Richard Weinberger:
"Special thanks goes to Toralf Föster for continuously testing UML and
reporting issues!"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml:
um: remove dead code
um: siginfo cleanup
uml: Fix which_tmpdir failure when /dev/shm is a symlink, and in other edge cases
um: Fix wait_stub_done() error handling
um: Mark stub pages mapping with VM_PFNMAP
um: Fix return value of strnlen_user()
Pull MIPS fixes from Ralf Baechle:
"MIPS fixes for 3.11. Half of then is for Netlogic the remainder
touches things across arch/mips.
Nothing really dramatic and by rc1 standards MIPS will be in fairly
good shape with this applied. Tested by building all MIPS defconfigs
of which with this pull request four platforms won't build. And yes,
it boots also on my favorite test systems"
* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus:
MIPS: kvm: Kconfig: Drop HAVE_KVM dependency from VIRTUALIZATION
MIPS: Octeon: Fix DT pruning bug with pip ports
MIPS: KVM: Mark KVM_GUEST (T&E KVM) as BROKEN_ON_SMP
MIPS: tlbex: fix broken build in v3.11-rc1
MIPS: Netlogic: Add XLP PIC irqdomain
MIPS: Netlogic: Fix USB block's coherent DMA mask
MIPS: tlbex: Fix typo in r3000 tlb store handler
MIPS: BMIPS: Fix thinko to release slave TP from reset
MIPS: Delete dead invocation of exception_exit().
Jan Kara