user/sven/linux.git, branch v2.6.35.7

Linux 2.6.35.7

2010-09-29T01:09:08Z

Done at LinuxCon Tokyo 2010

Xen: fix typo in previous patch

2010-09-29T01:08:26Z

Correctly name the irq_chip structure to fix an immediate failure when booting as a xen pv_ops guest with a NULL pointer exception. The missing 'x' was introduced in commit [fb412a178502dc498430723b082a932f797e4763] applied to 2.6.3[25]-stable trees. The commit to mainline was [aaca49642b92c8a57d3ca5029a5a94019c7af69f] which did not have the problem. Signed-off-by: James Dingwall Reported-by: Pawel Zuzelski Tested-by: Pawel Zuzelski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Linux 2.6.35.6

2010-09-27T00:19:16Z

alpha: Fix printk format errors

2010-09-27T00:18:43Z

commit 3e073367a57d41e506f20aebb98e308387ce3090 upstream. When compiling alpha generic build get errors such as: arch/alpha/kernel/err_marvel.c: In function ‘marvel_print_err_cyc’: arch/alpha/kernel/err_marvel.c:119: error: format ‘%ld’ expects type ‘long int’, but argument 6 has type ‘u64’ Replaced a number of %ld format specifiers with %lld since u64 is unsigned long long. Signed-off-by: Michael Cree Signed-off-by: Matt Turner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drm/i915: Ensure that the crtcinfo is populated during mode_fixup()

2010-09-27T00:18:42Z

commit 897493504addc5609f04a2c4f73c37ab972c29b2 upstream. This should fix the mysterious mode setting failures reported during boot up and after resume, generally for i8xx class machines. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16478 Reported-and-tested-by: Xavier Chantry Buzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29413 Tested-by: Daniel Vetter Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sctp: Do not reset the packet during sctp_packet_config().

2010-09-27T00:18:42Z

commit 4bdab43323b459900578b200a4b8cf9713ac8fab upstream. sctp_packet_config() is called when getting the packet ready for appending of chunks. The function should not touch the current state, since it's possible to ping-pong between two transports when sending, and that can result packet corruption followed by skb overlfow crash. Reported-by: Thomas Dreibholz Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fix unprotected access to task credentials in waitid()

2010-09-27T00:18:41Z

commit f362b73244fb16ea4ae127ced1467dd8adaa7733 upstream. Using a program like the following: #include #include #include #include int main() { id_t id; siginfo_t infop; pid_t res; id = fork(); if (id == 0) { sleep(1); exit(0); } kill(id, SIGSTOP); alarm(1); waitid(P_PID, id, &infop, WCONTINUED); return 0; } to call waitid() on a stopped process results in access to the child task's credentials without the RCU read lock being held - which may be replaced in the meantime - eliciting the following warning: =================================================== [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] --------------------------------------------------- kernel/exit.c:1460 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1 2 locks held by waitid02/22252: #0: (tasklist_lock){.?.?..}, at: [] do_wait+0xc5/0x310 #1: (&(&sighand->siglock)->rlock){-.-...}, at: [] wait_consider_task+0x19a/0xbe0 stack backtrace: Pid: 22252, comm: waitid02 Not tainted 2.6.35-323cd+ #3 Call Trace: [] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xa4/0xc0 [] wait_consider_task+0xaf1/0xbe0 [] do_wait+0xf5/0x310 [] sys_waitid+0x86/0x1f0 [] ? child_wait_callback+0x0/0x70 [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b This is fixed by holding the RCU read lock in wait_task_continued() to ensure that the task's current credentials aren't destroyed between us reading the cred pointer and us reading the UID from those credentials. Furthermore, protect wait_task_stopped() in the same way. We don't need to keep holding the RCU read lock once we've read the UID from the credentials as holding the RCU read lock doesn't stop the target task from changing its creds under us - so the credentials may be outdated immediately after we've read the pointer, lock or no lock. Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

guard page for stacks that grow upwards

2010-09-27T00:18:41Z

commit 8ca3eb08097f6839b2206e2242db4179aee3cfb3 upstream. pa-risc and ia64 have stacks that grow upwards. Check that they do not run into other mappings. By making VM_GROWSUP 0x0 on architectures that do not ever use it, we can avoid some unpleasant #ifdefs in check_stack_guard_page(). Signed-off-by: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: dann frazier Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: page allocator: update free page counters after pages are placed on the free list

2010-09-27T00:18:41Z

commit 72853e2991a2702ae93aaf889ac7db743a415dd3 upstream. When allocating a page, the system uses NR_FREE_PAGES counters to determine if watermarks would remain intact after the allocation was made. This check is made without interrupts disabled or the zone lock held and so is race-prone by nature. Unfortunately, when pages are being freed in batch, the counters are updated before the pages are added on the list. During this window, the counters are misleading as the pages do not exist yet. When under significant pressure on systems with large numbers of CPUs, it's possible for processes to make progress even though they should have been stalled. This is particularly problematic if a number of the processes are using GFP_ATOMIC as the min watermark can be accidentally breached and in extreme cases, the system can livelock. This patch updates the counters after the pages have been added to the list. This makes the allocator more cautious with respect to preserving the watermarks and mitigates livelock possibilities. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: avoid modifying incoming args] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: page allocator: calculate a better estimate of NR_FREE_PAGES when memory is low and kswapd is awake

2010-09-27T00:18:40Z

commit aa45484031ddee09b06350ab8528bfe5b2c76d1c upstream. Ordinarily watermark checks are based on the vmstat NR_FREE_PAGES as it is cheaper than scanning a number of lists. To avoid synchronization overhead, counter deltas are maintained on a per-cpu basis and drained both periodically and when the delta is above a threshold. On large CPU systems, the difference between the estimated and real value of NR_FREE_PAGES can be very high. If NR_FREE_PAGES is much higher than number of real free page in buddy, the VM can allocate pages below min watermark, at worst reducing the real number of pages to zero. Even if the OOM killer kills some victim for freeing memory, it may not free memory if the exit path requires a new page resulting in livelock. This patch introduces a zone_page_state_snapshot() function (courtesy of Christoph) that takes a slightly more accurate view of an arbitrary vmstat counter. It is used to read NR_FREE_PAGES while kswapd is awake to avoid the watermark being accidentally broken. The estimate is not perfect and may result in cache line bounces but is expected to be lighter than the IPI calls necessary to continually drain the per-cpu counters while kswapd is awake. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman