pm24.git, branch v3.17-rc5

Linux 3.17-rc5

2014-09-15T00:50:12Z

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2014-09-15T00:37:36Z

Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro: "double iput() on failure exit in lustre, racy removal of spliced dentries from ->s_anon in __d_materialise_dentry() plus a bunch of assorted RCU pathwalk fixes" The RCU pathwalk fixes end up fixing a couple of cases where we incorrectly dropped out of RCU walking, due to incorrect initialization and testing of the sequence locks in some corner cases. Since dropping out of RCU walk mode forces the slow locked accesses, those corner cases slowed down quite dramatically. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: be careful with nd->inode in path_init() and follow_dotdot_rcu() don't bugger nd->seq on set_root_rcu() from follow_dotdot_rcu() fix bogus read_seqretry() checks introduced in b37199e move the call of __d_drop(anon) into __d_materialise_unique(dentry, anon) [fix] lustre: d_make_root() does iput() on dentry allocation failure

vfs: avoid non-forwarding large load after small store in path lookup

2014-09-15T00:28:32Z

The performance regression that Josef Bacik reported in the pathname lookup (see commit 99d263d4c5b2 "vfs: fix bad hashing of dentries") made me look at performance stability of the dcache code, just to verify that the problem was actually fixed. That turned up a few other problems in this area. There are a few cases where we exit RCU lookup mode and go to the slow serializing case when we shouldn't, Al has fixed those and they'll come in with the next VFS pull. But my performance verification also shows that link_path_walk() turns out to have a very unfortunate 32-bit store of the length and hash of the name we look up, followed by a 64-bit read of the combined hash_len field. That screws up the processor store to load forwarding, causing an unnecessary hickup in this critical routine. It's caused by the ugly calling convention for the "hash_name()" function, and easily fixed by just making hash_name() fill in the whole 'struct qstr' rather than passing it a pointer to just the hash value. With that, the profile for this function looks much smoother. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'parisc-3.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux

2014-09-14T19:28:08Z

Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller: "The most important patch is a new Light Weigth Syscall (LWS) for 8, 16, 32 and 64 bit atomic CAS operations which is required in order to be able to implement the atomic gcc builtins on our platform. Other than that, we wire up the seccomp, getrandom and memfd_create syscalls, fixes a minor off-by-one bug and a wrong printk string" * 'parisc-3.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux: parisc: Implement new LWS CAS supporting 64 bit operations. parisc: Wire up seccomp, getrandom and memfd_create syscalls parisc: dino: fix %d confusingly prefixed with 0x in format string parisc: sys_hpux: NUL terminator is one past the end

be careful with nd->inode in path_init() and follow_dotdot_rcu()

2014-09-14T18:24:47Z

in the former we simply check if dentry is still valid after picking its ->d_inode; in the latter we fetch ->d_inode in the same places where we fetch dentry and its ->d_seq, under the same checks. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.38+ Signed-off-by: Al Viro

don't bugger nd->seq on set_root_rcu() from follow_dotdot_rcu()

2014-09-14T18:19:44Z

return the value instead, and have path_init() do the assignment. Broken by "vfs: Fix absolute RCU path walk failures due to uninitialized seq number", which was Cc-stable with 2.6.38+ as destination. This one should go where it went. To avoid dummy value returned in case when root is already set (it would do no harm, actually, since the only caller that doesn't ignore the return value is guaranteed to have nd->root *not* set, but it's more obvious that way), lift the check into callers. And do the same to set_root(), to keep them in sync. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.38+ Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge tag 'ntb-3.17' of git://github.com/jonmason/ntb

2014-09-14T17:54:12Z

Pull ntb driver bugfixes from Jon Mason: "NTB driver fixes for queue spread and buffer alignment. Also, update to MAINTAINERS to reflect new e-mail address" * tag 'ntb-3.17' of git://github.com/jonmason/ntb: ntb: Add alignment check to meet hardware requirement MAINTAINERS: update NTB info NTB: correct the spread of queues over mw's

Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-09-14T17:37:10Z

Pull ARM irq chip fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "Another pile of ARM specific irq chip fixlets: - off by one bugs in the crossbar driver - missing annotations - a bunch of "make it compile" updates I pulled the lot today from Jason, but it has been in -next for at least a week" * 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: irqchip: gic-v3: Declare rdist as __percpu pointer to __iomem pointer irqchip: gic: Make gic_default_routable_irq_domain_ops static irqchip: exynos-combiner: Fix compilation error on ARM64 irqchip: crossbar: Off by one bugs in init irqchip: gic-v3: Tag all low level accessors __maybe_unused irqchip: gic-v3: Only define gic_peek_irq() when building SMP

Merge tag 'irqchip-urgent-3.17' of git://git.infradead.org/users/jcooper/linux into irq/urgent

2014-09-14T13:20:54Z

irqchip fixes for v3.17 from Jason Cooper - GIC/GICV3: Various fixlets - crossbar: Fix off-by-one bug - exynos-combiner: Fix arm64 build error

ntb: Add alignment check to meet hardware requirement

2014-09-14T04:10:38Z

The NTB translate register must have the value to be BAR size aligned. This alignment check make sure that the DMA memory allocated has the proper alignment. Another requirement for NTB to function properly with memory window BAR size greater or equal to 4M is to use the CMA feature in 3.16 kernel with the appropriate CONFIG_CMA_ALIGNMENT and CONFIG_CMA_SIZE_MBYTES set. Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang Signed-off-by: Jon Mason