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  1. Apr 29, 2014
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc · 838b4c02
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull powerpc fixes from Ben Herrenschmidt:
       "Here is a bunch of post-merge window fixes that have been accumulating
        in patchwork while I was on vacation or buried under other stuff last
        week.
      
        We have the now usual batch of LE fixes from Anton (sadly some new
        stuff that went into this merge window had endian issues, we'll try to
        make sure we do better next time)
      
        Some fixes and cleanups to the new 24x7 performance monitoring stuff
        (mostly typos and cleaning up printk's)
      
        A series of fixes for an issue with our runlatch bit, which wasn't set
        properly for offlined threads/cores and under KVM, causing potentially
        some counters to misbehave along with possible power management
        issues.
      
        A fix for kexec nasty race where the new kernel wouldn't "see" the
        secondary processors having reached back into firmware in time.
      
        And finally a few other misc (and pretty simple) bug fixes"
      
      * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (33 commits)
        powerpc/4xx: Fix section mismatch in ppc4xx_pci.c
        ppc/kvm: Clear the runlatch bit of a vcpu before napping
        ppc/kvm: Set the runlatch bit of a CPU just before starting guest
        ppc/powernv: Set the runlatch bits correctly for offline cpus
        powerpc/pseries: Protect remove_memory() with device hotplug lock
        powerpc: Fix error return in rtas_flash module init
        powerpc: Bump BOOT_COMMAND_LINE_SIZE to 2048
        powerpc: Bump COMMAND_LINE_SIZE to 2048
        powerpc: Rename duplicate COMMAND_LINE_SIZE define
        powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Catalog version number is be64, not be32
        powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Remove [static 4096], sparse chokes on it
        powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Use (unsigned long) not (u32) values when calling plpar_hcall_norets()
        powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: Make device attr static
        powerpc/perf/hv_gpci: Probe failures use pr_debug(), and padding reduced
        powerpc/perf/hv_24x7: Probe errors changed to pr_debug(), padding fixed
        powerpc/mm: Fix tlbie to add AVAL fields for 64K pages
        powerpc/powernv: Fix little endian issues in OPAL dump code
        powerpc/powernv: Create OPAL sglist helper functions and fix endian issues
        powerpc/powernv: Fix little endian issues in OPAL error log code
        powerpc/powernv: Fix little endian issues with opal_do_notifier calls
        ...
      838b4c02
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      mm: don't pointlessly use BUG_ON() for sanity check · 50f5aa8a
      Linus Torvalds authored
      
      
      BUG_ON() is a big hammer, and should be used _only_ if there is some
      major corruption that you cannot possibly recover from, making it
      imperative that the current process (and possibly the whole machine) be
      terminated with extreme prejudice.
      
      The trivial sanity check in the vmacache code is *not* such a fatal
      error.  Recovering from it is absolutely trivial, and using BUG_ON()
      just makes it harder to debug for no actual advantage.
      
      To make matters worse, the placement of the BUG_ON() (only if the range
      check matched) actually makes it harder to hit the sanity check to begin
      with, so _if_ there is a bug (and we just got a report from Srivatsa
      Bhat that this can indeed trigger), it is harder to debug not just
      because the machine is possibly dead, but because we don't have better
      coverage.
      
      BUG_ON() must *die*.  Maybe we should add a checkpatch warning for it,
      because it is simply just about the worst thing you can ever do if you
      hit some "this cannot happen" situation.
      
      Reported-by: default avatarSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      50f5aa8a
  2. Apr 28, 2014