- Jun 19, 2008
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Mikael Pettersson authored
Booting 2.6.26-rc6 on my 486 DX/4 fails with a "BUG: Int 6" (invalid opcode) and a kernel halt immediately after the kernel has been uncompressed. The BUG shows EIP pointing to an rdtsc instruction in native_read_tsc(), invoked from native_sched_clock(). (This error occurs so early that not even the serial console can capture it.) A bisection showed that this bug first occurs in 2.6.26-rc3-git7, via commit 9ccc906c : >x86: distangle user disabled TSC from unstable > >tsc_enabled is set to 0 from the command line switch "notsc" and from >the mark_tsc_unstable code. Seperate those functionalities and replace >tsc_enable with tsc_disable. This makes also the native_sched_clock() >decision when to use TSC understandable. > >Preparatory patch to solve the sched_clock() issue on 32 bit. > >Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> The core reason for this bug is that native_sched_clock() gets called before tsc_init(). Before the commit above, tsc_32.c used a "tsc_enabled" variable which defaulted to 0 == disabled, and which only got enabled late in tsc_init(). Thus early calls to native_sched_clock() would skip the TSC and use jiffies instead. After the commit above, tsc_32.c uses a "tsc_disabled" variable which defaults to 0, meaning that the TSC is Ok to use. Early calls to native_sched_clock() now erroneously try to use the TSC on !cpu_has_tsc processors, leading to invalid opcode exceptions. My proposed fix is to initialise tsc_disabled to a "soft disabled" state distinct from the hard disabled state set up by the "notsc" kernel option. This fixes the native_sched_clock() problem. It also allows tsc_init() to be simplified: instead of setting tsc_disabled = 1 on every error return, we just set tsc_disabled = 0 once when all checks have succeeded. I've verified that this lets my 486 boot again. I've also verified that a Core2 machine still uses the TSC as clocksource after the patch. Signed-off-by:
Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Suresh Siddha authored
Patrick McHardy reported a crash: > > I get this oops once a day, its apparently triggered by something > > run by cron, but the process is a different one each time. > > > > Kernel is -git from yesterday shortly before the -rc6 release > > (last commit is the usb-2.6 merge, the x86 patches are missing), > > .config is attached. > > > > I'll retry with current -git, but the patches that have gone in > > since I last updated don't look related. > > > > [62060.043009] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at > > 000001ff > > [62060.043009] IP: [<c0102a9b>] __switch_to+0x2f/0x118 > > [62060.043009] *pde = 00000000 > > [62060.043009] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT Vegard Nossum analyzed it: > This decodes to > > 0: 0f ae 00 fxsave (%eax) > > so it's related to the floating-point context. This is the exact > location of the crash: > > $ addr2line -e arch/x86/kernel/process_32.o -i ab0 > include/asm/i387.h:232 > include/asm/i387.h:262 > arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c:595 > > ...so it looks like prev_task->thread.xstate->fxsave has become NULL. > Or maybe it never had any other value. Somehow (as described below) TS_USEDFPU is set but the fpu is not allocated or freed. Another possible FPU pre-emption issue with the sleazy FPU optimization which was benign before but not so anymore, with the dynamic FPU allocation patch. New task is getting exec'd and it is prempted at the below point. flush_thread() { ... /* * Forget coprocessor state.. */ clear_fpu(tsk); <----- Preemption point clear_used_math(); ... } Now when it context switches in again, as the used_math() is still set and fpu_counter can be > 5, we will do a math_state_restore() which sets the task's TS_USEDFPU. After it continues from the above preemption point it does clear_used_math() and much later free_thread_xstate(). Now, at the next context switch, it is quite possible that xstate is null, used_math() is not set and TS_USEDFPU is still set. This will trigger unlazy_fpu() causing kernel oops. Fix this by clearing tsk's fpu_counter before clearing task's fpu. Reported-by:
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by:
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
When a 64-bit x86 processor runs in 32-bit PAE mode, a pte can potentially have the same number of physical address bits as the 64-bit host ("Enhanced Legacy PAE Paging"). This means, in theory, we could have up to 52 bits of physical address in a pte. The 32-bit kernel uses a 32-bit unsigned long to represent a pfn. This means that it can only represent physical addresses up to 32+12=44 bits wide. Rather than widening pfns everywhere, just set 2^44 as the Linux x86_32-PAE architectural limit for physical address size. This is a bugfix for two cases: 1. running a 32-bit PAE kernel on a machine with more than 64GB RAM. 2. running a 32-bit PAE Xen guest on a host machine with more than 64GB RAM In both cases, a pte could need to have more than 36 bits of physical, and masking it to 36-bits will cause fairly severe havoc. Signed-off-by:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Dave Airlie authored
Commit 62c96b9d ("agp/intel: cleanup some serious whitespace badness") didn't just fix whitespace. It also lost two lines. Noticed by Linus. No more whitespace diffs for me. Signed-off-by:
Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/agp-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'agp-patches' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/agp-2.6: agp/intel: cleanup some serious whitespace badness [AGP] intel_agp: Add support for Intel 4 series chipsets [AGP] intel_agp: extra stolen mem size available for IGD_GM chipset agp: more boolean conversions. drivers/char/agp - use bool agp: two-stage page destruction issue agp/via: fixup pci ids
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Dave Airlie authored
Signed-off-by:
Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Zhenyu Wang authored
Signed-off-by:
Zhenyu Wang <zhenyu.z.wang@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Zhenyu Wang authored
This adds missing stolen memory size detect for IGD_GM, be sure to detect right size as current X intel driver (2.3.2) which has already worked out. Signed-off-by:
Zhenyu Wang <zhenyu.z.wang@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Dave Airlie authored
Signed-off-by:
Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Joe Perches authored
Use boolean in AGP instead of having own TRUE/FALSE -- Signed-off-by:
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by:
Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Jan Beulich authored
besides it apparently being useful only in 2.6.24 (the changes in 2.6.25 really mean that it could be converted back to a single-stage mechanism), I'm seeing an issue in Xen Dom0 kernels, which is caused by the calling of gart_to_virt() in the second stage invocations of the destroy function. I think that besides this being a real issue with Xen (where unmap_page_from_agp() is not just a page table attribute change), this also is invalid from a theoretical perspective: One should not assume that gart_to_virt() is still valid after unmapping a page. So minimally (keeping the 2-stage mechanism) a patch like the one below would be needed. Jan Signed-off-by:
Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
add a new PCI ID and remove an old dodgy one, include the explaination in the commented code so nobody readds later. (davej also sent the pci id addition). Signed-off-by:
Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infinibandLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: IB/uverbs: Fix check of is_closed flag check in ib_uverbs_async_handler() RDMA/nes: Fix off-by-one in nes_reg_user_mr() error path
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Jack Morgenstein authored
Commit 1ae5c187 ("IB/uverbs: Don't store struct file * for event files") changed the way that closed files are handled in the uverbs code. However, after the conversion, is_closed flag is checked incorrectly in ib_uverbs_async_handler(). As a result, no async events are ever passed to applications. Found by: Ronni Zimmerman <ronniz@mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by:
Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by:
Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdogLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog: Revert "[WATCHDOG] hpwdt: Fix NMI handling." [WATCHDOG] hpwdt: Add CFLAGS to get driver working Revert "[WATCHDOG] make watchdog/hpwdt.c:asminline_call() static"
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: [SCSI] dpt_i2o: Add PROC_IA64 define [SCSI] scsi_host regression: fix scsi host leak [SCSI] sr: fix corrupt CD data after media change and delay
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpcLinus Torvalds authored
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: [POWERPC] Clear sub-page HPTE present bits when demoting page size [POWERPC] 4xx: Clear new TLB cache attribute bits in Data Storage vector
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-udf-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-udf-2.6: udf: restore UDFFS_DEBUG to being undefined by default
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (43 commits) netlink: genl: fix circular locking Revert "mac80211: Use skb_header_cloned() on TX path." af_unix: fix 'poll for write'/ connected DGRAM sockets tun: Proper handling of IPv6 header in tun driver when TUN_NO_PI is set atl1: relax eeprom mac address error check net/enc28j60: low power mode net/enc28j60: section fix sky2: 88E8040T pci device id netxen: download firmware in pci probe netxen: cleanup debug messages netxen: remove global physical_port array netxen: fix portnum for hp mezz cards ibm_newemac: select CRC32 in Kconfig xfrm: fix fragmentation for ipv4 xfrm tunnel netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: fix module unload crash netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: fix memory leak in module initialization error path netfilter: nf_nat: fix RCU races atm: [he] send idle cells instead of unassigned when in SDH mode atm: [he] limit queries to the device's register space atm: [br2864] fix routed vcmux support ...
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Wim Van Sebroeck authored
The old setup works better. Signed-off-by:
Thomas Mingarelli <Thomas.Mingarelli@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
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- Jun 18, 2008
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Paul Mackerras authored
When we demote a slice from 64k to 4k, and we are about to insert an HPTE for a 4k subpage and we notice that there is an existing 64k HPTE, we first invalidate that HPTE before inserting the new 4k subpage HPTE. Since the bits that encode which hash bucket the old HPTE was in overlap with the bits that encode which of the 16 subpages have HPTEs, we need to clear out the subpage HPTE-present bits before starting to insert HPTEs for the 4k subpages. If we don't do that, we can erroneously think that a subpage already has an HPTE when it doesn't. That in itself wouldn't be such a problem except that when we go to update the HPTE that we think is present on machines with a hypervisor, the hypervisor can tell us that the HPTE we think is there is actually there even though it isn't, which can lead to a process getting stuck in a loop, continually faulting. The reason for the confusion is that the AVPN (abbreviated virtual page number) we are looking for in the HPTE for a 4k subpage can actually match the AVPN in a stale HPTE for another 64k page. For example, the HPTE for the 4k subpage at 0x84000f000 will be in the same hash bucket and have the same AVPN as the HPTE for the 64k page at 0x8400f0000. This fixes the code to clear out the subpage HPTE-present bits. Signed-off-by:
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Josh Boyer authored
A recent commit added support for the new 440x6 and 464 cores that have the added WL1, IL1I, IL1D, IL2I, and ILD2 bits for the caching attributes in the TLBs. The new bits were cleared in the finish_tlb_load function, however a similar bit of code was missed in the DataStorage interrupt vector. Signed-off-by:
Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Patrick McHardy authored
genetlink has a circular locking dependency when dumping the registered families: - dump start: genl_rcv() : take genl_mutex genl_rcv_msg() : call netlink_dump_start() while holding genl_mutex netlink_dump_start(), netlink_dump() : take nlk->cb_mutex ctrl_dumpfamily() : try to detect this case and not take genl_mutex a second time - dump continuance: netlink_rcv() : call netlink_dump netlink_dump : take nlk->cb_mutex ctrl_dumpfamily() : take genl_mutex Register genl_lock as callback mutex with netlink to fix this. This slightly widens an already existing module unload race, the genl ops used during the dump might go away when the module is unloaded. Thomas Graf is working on a seperate fix for this. Signed-off-by:
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David S. Miller authored
This reverts commit 608961a5 . The problem is that the mac80211 stack not only needs to be able to muck with the link-level headers, it also might need to mangle all of the packet data if doing sw wireless encryption. This fixes kernel bugzilla #10903. Thanks to Didier Raboud (for the bugzilla report), Andrew Prince (for bisecting), Johannes Berg (for bringing this bisection analysis to my attention), and Ilpo (for trying to analyze this purely from the TCP side). In 2.6.27 we can take another stab at this, by using something like skb_cow_data() when the TX path of mac80211 ends up with a non-NULL tx->key. The ESP protocol code in the IPSEC stack can be used as a model for implementation. Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Rainer Weikusat authored
The unix_dgram_sendmsg routine implements a (somewhat crude) form of receiver-imposed flow control by comparing the length of the receive queue of the 'peer socket' with the max_ack_backlog value stored in the corresponding sock structure, either blocking the thread which caused the send-routine to be called or returning EAGAIN. This routine is used by both SOCK_DGRAM and SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets. The poll-implementation for these socket types is datagram_poll from core/datagram.c. A socket is deemed to be writeable by this routine when the memory presently consumed by datagrams owned by it is less than the configured socket send buffer size. This is always wrong for connected PF_UNIX non-stream sockets when the abovementioned receive queue is currently considered to be full. 'poll' will then return, indicating that the socket is writeable, but a subsequent write result in EAGAIN, effectively causing an (usual) application to 'poll for writeability by repeated send request with O_NONBLOCK set' until it has consumed its time quantum. The change below uses a suitably modified variant of the datagram_poll routines for both type of PF_UNIX sockets, which tests if the recv-queue of the peer a socket is connected to is presently considered to be 'full' as part of the 'is this socket writeable'-checking code. The socket being polled is additionally put onto the peer_wait wait queue associated with its peer, because the unix_dgram_sendmsg routine does a wake up on this queue after a datagram was received and the 'other wakeup call' is done implicitly as part of skb destruction, meaning, a process blocked in poll because of a full peer receive queue could otherwise sleep forever if no datagram owned by its socket was already sitting on this queue. Among this change is a small (inline) helper routine named 'unix_recvq_full', which consolidates the actual testing code (in three different places) into a single location. Signed-off-by:
Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David S. Miller authored
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Ang Way Chuang authored
By default, tun.c running in TUN_TUN_DEV mode will set the protocol of packet to IPv4 if TUN_NO_PI is set. My program failed to work when I assumed that the driver will check the first nibble of packet, determine IP version and set the appropriate protocol. Signed-off-by:
Ang Way Chuang <wcang@nav6.org> Acked-by:
Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Radu Cristescu authored
The atl1 driver tries to determine the MAC address thusly: - If an EEPROM exists, read the MAC address from EEPROM and validate it. - If an EEPROM doesn't exist, try to read a MAC address from SPI flash. - If that fails, try to read a MAC address directly from the MAC Station Address register. - If that fails, assign a random MAC address provided by the kernel. We now have a report of a system fitted with an EEPROM containing all zeros where we expect the MAC address to be, and we currently handle this as an error condition. Turns out, on this system the BIOS writes a valid MAC address to the NIC's MAC Station Address register, but we never try to read it because we return an error when we find the all- zeros address in EEPROM. This patch relaxes the error check and continues looking for a MAC address even if it finds an illegal one in EEPROM. Signed-off-by:
Radu Cristescu <advantis@gmx.net> Signed-off-by:
Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net> Signed-off-by:
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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David Brownell authored
Keep enc28j60 chips in low-power mode when they're not in use. At typically 120 mA, these chips run hot even when idle; this low power mode cuts that power usage by a factor of around 100. This version provides a generic routine to poll a register until its masked value equals some value ... e.g. bit set or cleared. It's basically what the previous wait_phy_ready() did, but this version is generalized to support the handshaking needed to enter and exit low power mode. Signed-off-by:
David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by:
Claudio Lanconelli <lanconelli.claudio@eptar.com> Signed-off-by:
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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David Brownell authored
Minor bugfixes to the enc28j60 driver ... wrong section marking, indentation, and bogus use of spi_bus_type. Signed-off-by:
David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by:
Claudio Lanconelli <lanconelli.claudio@eptar.com> Signed-off-by:
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Stephen Hemminger authored
Missed one pci id for 88E8040T. Signed-off-by:
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by:
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Dhananjay Phadke authored
Downloading firmware in pci probe allows recovery in case of firmware failure by reloading the driver. Also reduced delays in firmware load. Signed-off-by:
Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com> Signed-off-by:
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Dhananjay Phadke authored
o Remove unnecessary debug prints and functions. o Explicitly specify pci class (0x020000) to avoid enabling management function. Signed-off-by:
Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com> Signed-off-by:
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Dhananjay Phadke authored
Store physical port number in netxen_adapter structure. Signed-off-by:
Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com> Signed-off-by:
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Dhananjay Phadke authored
This fixes a the issue where logical port number is set incorrectly for HP blade mezz cards. Signed-off-by:
Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com> Signed-off-by:
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Josh Boyer authored
The ibm_newemac driver requires ether_crc to be defined. Apparently it is possible to generate a .config without CONFIG_CRC32 set which causes the following link errors if IBM_NEW_EMAC is selected: LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o: In function `emac_hash_mc': core.c:(.text+0x2f524): undefined reference to `crc32_le' core.c:(.text+0x2f528): undefined reference to `bitrev32' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 This patch has IBM_NEW_EMAC select CRC32 so we don't hit this error. Signed-off-by:
Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/inputLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: appletouch - implement reset-resume logic Input: i8042 - retry failed CTR writes when resuming Input: i8042 - add Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro V2030 to nomux table Input: pcspkr - remove negative dependency on snd-pcsp Manually fixed up trivial conflict in drivers/usb/core/quirks.c
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Miklos Szeredi authored
Use max not min to enforce a lower limit on the max I/O size. This bug was introduced by "fuse: fix max i/o size calculation" (commit e5d9a0df ). Thanks to Brian Wang for noticing. Reported-by:
Brian Wang <ywang221@hotmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Acked-by:
Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@ntfs-3g.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu authored
Added !vmlinux.lds.h to .gitignore because it would otherwise be ignored. Signed-off-by:
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Acked-by:
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Most users by far do not care about the exact return value (they only really care about whether the copy succeeded in its entirety or not), but a few special core routines actually care deeply about exactly how many bytes were copied from user space. And the unrolled versions of the x86-64 user copy routines would sometimes report that it had copied more bytes than it actually had. Very few uses actually have partial copies to begin with, but to make this bug even harder to trigger, most x86 CPU's use the "rep string" instructions for normal user copies, and that version didn't have this issue. To make it even harder to hit, the one user of this that really cared about the return value (and used the uncached version of the copy that doesn't use the "rep string" instructions) was the generic write routine, which pre-populated its source, once more hiding the problem by avoiding the exception case that triggers the bug. In other words, very special thanks to Bron Gondwana who not only triggered this, but created a test-program to show it, and bisected the behavior down to commit 08291429 ("mm: fix pagecache write deadlocks") which changed the access pattern just enough that you can now trigger it with 'writev()' with multiple iovec's. That commit itself was not the cause of the bug, it just allowed all the stars to align just right that you could trigger the problem. [ Side note: this is just the minimal fix to make the copy routines (with __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache as the particular version that was involved in showing this) have the right return values. We really should improve on the exceptional case further - to make the copy do a byte-accurate copy up to the exact page limit that causes it to fail. As it is, the callers have to do extra work to handle the limit case gracefully. ] Reported-by:
Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> (which didn't have this problem), and since most users that do the carethis was very hard to trigger, but
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