pm24.git, branch v4.10-rc2

Linux 4.10-rc2

2017-01-01T22:31:53Z

Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2017-01-01T20:27:05Z

Pull DAX updates from Dan Williams: "The completion of Jan's DAX work for 4.10. As I mentioned in the libnvdimm-for-4.10 pull request, these are some final fixes for the DAX dirty-cacheline-tracking invalidation work that was merged through the -mm, ext4, and xfs trees in -rc1. These patches were prepared prior to the merge window, but we waited for 4.10-rc1 to have a stable merge base after all the prerequisites were merged. Quoting Jan on the overall changes in these patches: "So I'd like all these 6 patches to go for rc2. The first three patches fix invalidation of exceptional DAX entries (a bug which is there for a long time) - without these patches data loss can occur on power failure even though user called fsync(2). The other three patches change locking of DAX faults so that ->iomap_begin() is called in a more relaxed locking context and we are safe to start a transaction there for ext4" These have received a build success notification from the kbuild robot, and pass the latest libnvdimm unit tests. There have not been any -next releases since -rc1, so they have not appeared there" * 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: ext4: Simplify DAX fault path dax: Call ->iomap_begin without entry lock during dax fault dax: Finish fault completely when loading holes dax: Avoid page invalidation races and unnecessary radix tree traversals mm: Invalidate DAX radix tree entries only if appropriate ext2: Return BH_New buffers for zeroed blocks

Merge tag 'docs-4.10-rc1-fix' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2016-12-30T17:32:26Z

Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "Two small fixes: - A merge error on my part broke the DocBook build. I've requisitioned one of tglx's frozen sharks for appropriate disciplinary action and resolved to be more careful about testing the DocBook stuff as long as it's still around. - Fix an error in unaligned-memory-access.txt" * tag 'docs-4.10-rc1-fix' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt: fix incorrect comparison operator docs: Fix build failure

Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6

2016-12-30T17:29:50Z

Pull crypto fix from Herbert Xu: "This fixes a boot failure on some platforms when crypto self test is enabled along with the new acomp interface" * 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: crypto: testmgr - Use heap buffer for acomp test input

mm/filemap: fix parameters to test_bit()

2016-12-29T22:46:39Z

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: b91e1302ad9b ('mm: optimize PageWaiters bit use for unlock_page()') Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson Brown-paper-bag-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: optimize PageWaiters bit use for unlock_page()

2016-12-29T19:03:15Z

In commit 62906027091f ("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: Nick Piggin Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Bob Peterson Cc: Steven Whitehouse Cc: Andrew Lutomirski Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6

2016-12-28T01:51:36Z

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

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2016-12-28T00:04:37Z

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()

Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt: fix incorrect comparison operator

2016-12-27T20:08:42Z

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: Cihangir Akturk Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

docs: Fix build failure

2016-12-27T20:05:36Z

The 80211.tmpl DocBook file was removed in commit 819bf593767c ("docs-rst: sphinxify 802.11 documentation"), but the 80211.xml target was re-added to the Makefile by commit 7ddedebb03b7 ("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: John Brooks Mea-culpa-by: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet