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  1. Aug 28, 2006
    • Rafael J. Wysocki's avatar
      [PATCH] swsusp: Fix swap_type_of · b6b5bce3
      Rafael J. Wysocki authored 
      

There is a bug in mm/swapfile.c#swap_type_of() that makes swsusp only be
able to use the first active swap partition as the resume device.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      b6b5bce3
    • Daniel Kobras's avatar
      [PATCH] dm: Fix deadlock under high i/o load in raid1 setup. · c06aad85
      Daniel Kobras authored 
      On an nForce4-equipped machine with two SATA disk in raid1 setup using dmraid,
we experienced frequent deadlock of the system under high i/o load.  'cat
/dev/zero > ~/zero' was the most reliable way to reproduce them: Randomly
after a few GB, 'cp' would be left in 'D' state along with kjournald and
kmirrord.  The functions cp and kjournald were blocked in did vary, but
kmirrord's wchan always pointed to 'mempool_alloc()'.  We've seen this pattern
on 2.6.15 and 2.6.17 kernels.  http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/20/142

 indicates
that this problem has been around even before.

So much for the facts, here's my interpretation: mempool_alloc() first tries
to atomically allocate the requested memory, or falls back to hand out
preallocated chunks from the mempool.  If both fail, it puts the calling
process (kmirrord in this case) on a private waitqueue until somebody refills
the pool.  Where the only 'somebody' is kmirrord itself, so we have a
deadlock.

I worked around this problem by falling back to a (blocking) kmalloc when
before kmirrord would have ended up on the waitqueue.  This defeats part of
the benefits of using the mempool, but at least keeps the system running.  And
it could be done with a two-line change.  Note that mempool_alloc() clears the
GFP_NOIO flag internally, and only uses it to decide whether to wait or return
an error if immediate allocation fails, so the attached patch doesn't change
behaviour in the non-deadlocking case.  Path is against current git
(2.6.18-rc4), but should apply to earlier versions as well.  I've tested on
2.6.15, where this patch makes the difference between random lockup and a
stable system.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Kobras <kobras@linux.de>
Acked-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      c06aad85
    • Ben Dooks's avatar
      [PATCH] drivers/rtc: fix rtc-s3c.c · 9a654518
      Ben Dooks authored 
      

In the cleanups of drivers/rtc/s3c-rtc.c, the base address for the
registers got broken.  This patch fixes that by ensuring the readb/writeb
are all prefixed with the base returned from ioremap()ing the registers.

Also fix check for valid year range, which was the wrong way around.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      9a654518
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