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  1. Apr 26, 2011
    • Tyler Hicks's avatar
      eCryptfs: Flush dirty pages in setattr · 5be79de2
      Tyler Hicks authored 
      After 57db4e8d changed eCryptfs to
write-back caching, eCryptfs page writeback updates the lower inode
times due to the use of vfs_write() on the lower file.

To preserve inode metadata changes, such as 'cp -p' does with
utimensat(), we need to flush all dirty pages early in
ecryptfs_setattr() so that the user-updated lower inode metadata isn't
clobbered later in writeback.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33372



Reported-by: default avatarRocko <rockorequin@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      5be79de2
    • Tyler Hicks's avatar
      eCryptfs: Handle failed metadata read in lookup · 3aeb86ea
      Tyler Hicks authored 
      When failing to read the lower file's crypto metadata during a lookup,
eCryptfs must continue on without throwing an error. For example, there
may be a plaintext file in the lower mount point that the user wants to
delete through the eCryptfs mount.

If an error is encountered while reading the metadata in lookup(), the
eCryptfs inode's size could be incorrect. We must be sure to reread the
plaintext inode size from the metadata when performing an open() or
setattr(). The metadata is already being read in those paths, so this
adds minimal performance overhead.

This patch introduces a flag which will track whether or not the
plaintext inode size has been read so that an incorrect i_size can be
fixed in the open() or setattr() paths.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/509180



Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      3aeb86ea
    • Tyler Hicks's avatar
      eCryptfs: Add reference counting to lower files · 332ab16f
      Tyler Hicks authored 
      

For any given lower inode, eCryptfs keeps only one lower file open and
multiplexes all eCryptfs file operations through that lower file. The
lower file was considered "persistent" and stayed open from the first
lookup through the lifetime of the inode.

This patch keeps the notion of a single, per-inode lower file, but adds
reference counting around the lower file so that it is closed when not
currently in use. If the reference count is at 0 when an operation (such
as open, create, etc.) needs to use the lower file, a new lower file is
opened. Since the file is no longer persistent, all references to the
term persistent file are changed to lower file.

Locking is added around the sections of code that opens the lower file
and assign the pointer in the inode info, as well as the code the fputs
the lower file when all eCryptfs users are done with it.

This patch is needed to fix issues, when mounted on top of the NFSv3
client, where the lower file is left silly renamed until the eCryptfs
inode is destroyed.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      332ab16f
    • Tyler Hicks's avatar
      eCryptfs: dput dentries returned from dget_parent · dd55c898
      Tyler Hicks authored 
      

Call dput on the dentries previously returned by dget_parent() in
ecryptfs_rename(). This is needed for supported eCryptfs mounts on top
of the NFSv3 client.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      dd55c898
    • Tyler Hicks's avatar
      eCryptfs: Remove extra d_delete in ecryptfs_rmdir · 35ffa948
      Tyler Hicks authored 
      

vfs_rmdir() already calls d_delete() on the lower dentry. That was being
duplicated in ecryptfs_rmdir() and caused a NULL pointer dereference
when NFSv3 was the lower filesystem.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      35ffa948
  3. Apr 24, 2011
  5. Apr 23, 2011
  7. Apr 22, 2011
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf, x86: Update/fix Intel Nehalem cache events · f4929bd3
      Peter Zijlstra authored 
      

Change the Nehalem cache events to use retired memory instruction counters
(similar to Westmere), this greatly improves the provided stats.

Using:

main ()
{
        int i;

        for (i = 0; i < 1000000000; i++) {
                asm("mov (%%rsp), %%rbx;"
                    "mov %%rbx, (%%rsp);" : : : "rbx");
        }
}

We find:

 $ perf stat --repeat 10 -e instructions:u -e l1-dcache-loads:u -e l1-dcache-stores:u ./loop_1b_loads+stores
  Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_loads+stores' (10 runs):
      4,000,081,056 instructions:u           #      0.000 IPC ( +-   0.000% )
      4,999,502,846 l1-dcache-loads:u          ( +-   0.008% )
      1,000,034,832 l1-dcache-stores:u         ( +-   0.000% )
         1.565184942  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.005% )

The 5b is surprising - we'd expect 1b:

 $ perf stat --repeat 10 -e instructions:u -e r10b:u -e l1-dcache-stores:u ./loop_1b_loads+stores
  Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_loads+stores' (10 runs):
      4,000,081,054 instructions:u           #      0.000 IPC ( +-   0.000% )
      1,000,021,961 r10b:u                     ( +-   0.000% )
      1,000,030,951 l1-dcache-stores:u         ( +-   0.000% )
         1.565055422  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.003% )

Which this patch thus fixes.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-q9rtru7b7840tws75xzboapv@git.kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      f4929bd3
    • Cyrill Gorcunov's avatar
      perf, x86: P4 PMU - Don't forget to clear cpuc->active_mask on overflow · 1ea5a6af
      Cyrill Gorcunov authored 
      

It's not enough to simply disable event on overflow the
cpuc->active_mask should be cleared as well otherwise counter
may stall in "active" even in real being already disabled (which
potentially may lead to the situation that user may not use this
counter further).

Don pointed out that:

 " I also noticed this patch fixed some unknown NMIs
   on a P4 when I stressed the box".

Tested-by: default avatarLin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: default avatarDon Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDon Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303398203-2918-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      1ea5a6af
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      x86, perf event: Turn off unstructured raw event access to offcore registers · b52c55c6
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      Andi Kleen pointed out that the Intel offcore support patches were merged
without user-space tool support to the functionality:

 |
 | The offcore_msr perf kernel code was merged into 2.6.39-rc*, but the
 | user space bits were not. This made it impossible to set the extra mask
 | and actually do the OFFCORE profiling
 |

Andi submitted a preliminary patch for user-space support, as an
extension to perf's raw event syntax:

 |
 | Some raw events -- like the Intel OFFCORE events -- support additional
 | parameters. These can be appended after a ':'.
 |
 | For example on a multi socket Intel Nehalem:
 |
 |    perf stat -e r1b7:20ff -a sleep 1
 |
 | Profile the OFFCORE_RESPONSE.ANY_REQUEST with event mask REMOTE_DRAM_0
 | that measures any access to DRAM on another socket.
 |

But this kind of usability is absolutely unacceptable - users should not
be expected to type in magic, CPU and model specific incantations to get
access to useful hardware functionality.

The proper solution is to expose useful offcore functionality via
generalized events - that way users do not have to care which specific
CPU model they are using, they can use the conceptual event and not some
model specific quirky hexa number.

We already have such generalization in place for CPU cache events,
and it's all very extensible.

"Offcore" events measure general DRAM access patters along various
parameters. They are particularly useful in NUMA systems.

We want to support them via generalized DRAM events: either as the
fourth level of cache (after the last-level cache), or as a separate
generalization category.

That way user-space support would be very obvious, memory access
profiling could be done via self-explanatory commands like:

  perf record -e dram ./myapp
  perf record -e dram-remote ./myapp

... to measure DRAM accesses or more expensive cross-node NUMA DRAM
accesses.

These generalized events would work on all CPUs and architectures that
have comparable PMU features.

( Note, these are just examples: actual implementation could have more
  sophistication and more parameter - as long as they center around
  similarly simple usecases. )

Now we do not want to revert *all* of the current offcore bits, as they
are still somewhat useful for generic last-level-cache events, implemented
in this commit:

  e994d7d2: perf: Fix LLC-* events on Intel Nehalem/Westmere

But we definitely do not yet want to expose the unstructured raw events
to user-space, until better generalization and usability is implemented
for these hardware event features.

( Note: after generalization has been implemented raw offcore events can be
  supported as well: there can always be an odd event that is marginally
  useful but not useful enough to generalize. DRAM profiling is definitely
  *not* such a category so generalization must be done first. )

Furthermore, PERF_TYPE_RAW access to these registers was not intended
to go upstream without proper support - it was a side-effect of the above
e994d7d2

 commit, not mentioned in the changelog.

As v2.6.39 is nearing release we go for the simplest approach: disable
the PERF_TYPE_RAW offcore hack for now, before it escapes into a released
kernel and becomes an ABI.

Once proper structure is implemented for these hardware events and users
are offered usable solutions we can revisit this issue.

Reported-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302658203-4239-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      b52c55c6
    • Andi Kleen's avatar
      perf: Support Xeon E7's via the Westmere PMU driver · b2508e82
      Andi Kleen authored 
      

There's a new model number public, 47, for Xeon E7 (aka Westmere EX).

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303429715-10202-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      b2508e82
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block · 91e8549b
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  ide: unexport DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE for ide-gd and ide-cd
  block: don't propagate unlisted DISK_EVENTs to userland
  elevator: check for ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT_MERGE in !elvpriv case too
      91e8549b
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      ide: unexport DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE for ide-gd and ide-cd · 7eec77a1
      Tejun Heo authored 
      

check_events() implementations in both ide-gd and ide-cd are
inadequate for in-kernel event polling.  Both generate media change
events continuously when certain conditions are met causing infinite
event loop between the driver and userland event handler.

As disk event now supports suppression of unlisted events, simply
de-listing DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE from disk->events resolves the
problem.  Internal handling around media revalidation will behave the
same while userland will fall back to userland event polling after
detecting the device doesn't support disk events.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Acked-by: default avatar"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      7eec77a1
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      block: don't propagate unlisted DISK_EVENTs to userland · 7c88a168
      Tejun Heo authored 
      

DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE is used for both userland visible event and
internal event for revalidation of removeable devices.  Some legacy
drivers don't implement proper event detection and continuously
generate events under certain circumstances.  For example, ide-cd
generates media changed continuously if there's no media in the drive,
which can lead to infinite loop of events jumping back and forth
between the driver and userland event handler.

This patch updates disk event infrastructure such that it never
propagates events not listed in disk->events to userland.  Those
events are processed the same for internal purposes but uevent
generation is suppressed.

This also ensures that userland only gets events which are advertised
in the @events sysfs node lowering risk of confusion.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      7c88a168
    • Jens Axboe's avatar
      elevator: check for ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT_MERGE in !elvpriv case too · 3aa72873
      Jens Axboe authored 
      

The sort insert is the one that goes to the IO scheduler. With
the SORT_MERGE addition, we could bypass IO scheduler setup
but still ask the IO scheduler to insert the request. This would
cause an oops on switching IO schedulers through the sysfs
interface, unless the disk just happened to be idle while it
occured.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      3aa72873
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs · 37fc67c9
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      * 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
  xfs: fix duplicate message output
      37fc67c9
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of... · d20dc4d5
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, numa: Fix cpu nodemasks for NUMA emulation and CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
  Revert "x86, NUMA: Fix fakenuma boot failure"
      d20dc4d5
    • Randy Dunlap's avatar
      raid5: fix build error, sector_t usage · d76c8420
      Randy Dunlap authored 
      

Change <sectors> from unsigned long long to sector_t.
This matches its source field.

  ERROR: "__udivdi3" [drivers/md/raid456.ko] undefined!

Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d76c8420
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus · 83425eee
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  virtio: console: Enable call to hvc_remove() on console port remove
  virtio_pci: Prevent double-free of pci regions after device hot-unplug
  virtio: Decrement avail idx on buffer detach
      83425eee
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6 · 8ed54bd5
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      * 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
  agp: fix arbitrary kernel memory writes
  agp: fix OOM and buffer overflow
  drm/radeon/kms: fix IH writeback on r6xx+ on big endian machines
      8ed54bd5