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    • Olof Johansson's avatar
      mm/filemap: fix parameters to test_bit() · 98473f9f
      Olof Johansson authored 
      

 mm/filemap.c: In function 'clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte':
  mm/filemap.c:933:9: error: too few arguments to function 'test_bit'
    return test_bit(PG_waiters);
         ^~~~~~~~

Fixes: b91e1302 ('mm: optimize PageWaiters bit use for unlock_page()')
Signed-off-by: default avatarOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Brown-paper-bag-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <dummy@duh.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      98473f9f
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      mm: optimize PageWaiters bit use for unlock_page() · b91e1302
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      

In commit 62906027 ("mm: add PageWaiters indicating tasks are
waiting for a page bit") Nick Piggin made our page locking no longer
unconditionally touch the hashed page waitqueue, which not only helps
performance in general, but is particularly helpful on NUMA machines
where the hashed wait queues can bounce around a lot.

However, the "clear lock bit atomically and then test the waiters bit"
sequence turns out to be much more expensive than it needs to be,
because you get a nasty stall when trying to access the same word that
just got updated atomically.

On architectures where locking is done with LL/SC, this would be trivial
to fix with a new primitive that clears one bit and tests another
atomically, but that ends up not working on x86, where the only atomic
operations that return the result end up being cmpxchg and xadd.  The
atomic bit operations return the old value of the same bit we changed,
not the value of an unrelated bit.

On x86, we could put the lock bit in the high bit of the byte, and use
"xadd" with that bit (where the overflow ends up not touching other
bits), and look at the other bits of the result.  However, an even
simpler model is to just use a regular atomic "and" to clear the lock
bit, and then the sign bit in eflags will indicate the resulting state
of the unrelated bit #7.

So by moving the PageWaiters bit up to bit #7, we can atomically clear
the lock bit and test the waiters bit on x86 too.  And architectures
with LL/SC (which is all the usual RISC suspects), the particular bit
doesn't matter, so they are fine with this approach too.

This avoids the extra access to the same atomic word, and thus avoids
the costly stall at page unlock time.

The only downside is that the interface ends up being a bit odd and
specialized: clear a bit in a byte, and test the sign bit.  Nick doesn't
love the resulting name of the new primitive, but I'd rather make the
name be descriptive and very clear about the limitation imposed by
trying to work across all relevant architectures than make it be some
generic thing that doesn't make the odd semantics explicit.

So this introduces the new architecture primitive

    clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte();

and adds the trivial implementation for x86.  We have a generic
non-optimized fallback (that just does a "clear_bit()"+"test_bit(7)"
combination) which can be overridden by any architecture that can do
better.  According to Nick, Power has the same hickup x86 has, for
example, but some other architectures may not even care.

All these optimizations mean that my page locking stress-test (which is
just executing a lot of small short-lived shell scripts: "make test" in
the git source tree) no longer makes our page locking look horribly bad.
Before all these optimizations, just the unlock_page() costs were just
over 3% of all CPU overhead on "make test".  After this, it's down to
0.66%, so just a quarter of the cost it used to be.

(The difference on NUMA is bigger, but there this micro-optimization is
likely less noticeable, since the big issue on NUMA was not the accesses
to 'struct page', but the waitqueue accesses that were already removed
by Nick's earlier commit).

Acked-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b91e1302
  15. Dec 28, 2016
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 · 2d706e79
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull crypto fix from Herbert Xu:
 "This fixes a hash corruption bug in the marvell driver"

* 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6:
  crypto: marvell - Copy IVDIG before launching partial DMA ahash requests
      2d706e79
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net · 8f18e4d0
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Various ipvlan fixes from Eric Dumazet and Mahesh Bandewar.

    The most important is to not assume the packet is RX just because
    the destination address matches that of the device. Such an
    assumption causes problems when an interface is put into loopback
    mode.

 2) If we retry when creating a new tc entry (because we dropped the
    RTNL mutex in order to load a module, for example) we end up with
    -EAGAIN and then loop trying to replay the request. But we didn't
    reset some state when looping back to the top like this, and if
    another thread meanwhile inserted the same tc entry we were trying
    to, we re-link it creating an enless loop in the tc chain. Fix from
    Daniel Borkmann.

 3) There are two different WRITE bits in the MDIO address register for
    the stmmac chip, depending upon the chip variant. Due to a bug we
    could set them both, fix from Hock Leong Kweh.

 4) Fix mlx4 bug in XDP_TX handling, from Tariq Toukan.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net:
  net: stmmac: fix incorrect bit set in gmac4 mdio addr register
  r8169: add support for RTL8168 series add-on card.
  net: xdp: remove unused bfp_warn_invalid_xdp_buffer()
  openvswitch: upcall: Fix vlan handling.
  ipv4: Namespaceify tcp_tw_reuse knob
  net: korina: Fix NAPI versus resources freeing
  net, sched: fix soft lockup in tc_classify
  net/mlx4_en: Fix user prio field in XDP forward
  tipc: don't send FIN message from connectionless socket
  ipvlan: fix multicast processing
  ipvlan: fix various issues in ipvlan_process_multicast()
      8f18e4d0
    • Cihangir Akturk's avatar
      Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt: fix incorrect comparison operator · 36f671be
      Cihangir Akturk authored 
      

In the actual implementation ether_addr_equal function tests for equality to 0
when returning. It seems in commit 0d74c4 it is somehow overlooked to change
this operator to reflect the actual function.

Signed-off-by: default avatarCihangir Akturk <cakturk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
      36f671be
    • John Brooks's avatar
      docs: Fix build failure · 66115335
      John Brooks authored 
      

The 80211.tmpl DocBook file was removed in commit 819bf593 ("docs-rst:
sphinxify 802.11 documentation"), but the 80211.xml target was re-added to
the Makefile by commit 7ddedebb ("ALSA: doc: ReSTize
writing-an-alsa-driver document"), leading to a failure when building the
documentation:

*** No rule to make target 'Documentation/DocBook/80211.xml', needed by
'Documentation/DocBook/80211.aux.xml'.

cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Brooks <john@fastquake.com>
Mea-culpa-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
      66115335
    • Jonathan Corbet's avatar
      Merge tag 'v4.10-rc1' into docs-next · 54ab6db0
      Jonathan Corbet authored 
      Linux 4.10-rc1
      54ab6db0