When writing hardware monitoring drivers, there are some common pitfalls which
keep coming up in code reviews. This patch provides a document describing all
those pitfalls and how to avoid them.
Signed-off-by: NGuenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

* 'for-39-rc4' of git://codeaurora.org/quic/kernel/davidb/linux-msm:
  msm: timer: fix missing return value
  msm: Remove extraneous ffa device check

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
  Input: xen-kbdfront - fix mouse getting stuck after save/restore
  Input: estimate number of events per packet
  Input: evdev - indicate buffer overrun with SYN_DROPPED
  Input: document event types and codes and their intended use
  Input: add KEY_IMAGES specifically for AL Image Browser
  Input: twl4030_keypad - fix potential NULL dereference in twl4030_kp_probe()
  Input: h3600_ts - fix error handling at connect
  Input: twl4030_keypad - avoid potential NULL-pointer dereference

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  block: add blk_run_queue_async
  block: blk_delay_queue() should use kblockd workqueue
  md: fix up raid1/raid10 unplugging.
  md: incorporate new plugging into raid5.
  md: provide generic support for handling unplug callbacks.
  md - remove old plugging code.
  md/dm - remove remains of plug_fn callback.
  md: use new plugging interface for RAID IO.
  block: drop queue lock before calling __blk_run_queue() for kblockd punt
  Revert "block: add callback function for unplug notification"
  block: Enhance new plugging support to support general callbacks

* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc/powermac: Build fix with SMP and CPU hotplug
  powerpc/perf_event: Skip updating kernel counters if register value shrinks
  powerpc: Don't write protect kernel text with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE enabled
  powerpc: Fix oops if scan_dispatch_log is called too early
  powerpc/pseries: Use a kmem cache for DTL buffers
  powerpc/kexec: Fix regression causing compile failure on UP
  powerpc/85xx: disable Suspend support if SMP enabled
  powerpc/e500mc: Remove CPU_FTR_MAYBE_CAN_NAP/CPU_FTR_MAYBE_CAN_DOZE
  powerpc/book3e: Fix CPU feature handling on 64-bit e5500
  powerpc: Check device status before adding serial device
  powerpc/85xx: Don't add disabled PCIe devices

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (24 commits)
  Btrfs: fix free space cache leak
  Btrfs: avoid taking the chunk_mutex in do_chunk_alloc
  Btrfs end_bio_extent_readpage should look for locked bits
  Btrfs: don't force chunk allocation in find_free_extent
  Btrfs: Check validity before setting an acl
  Btrfs: Fix incorrect inode nlink in btrfs_link()
  Btrfs: Check if btrfs_next_leaf() returns error in btrfs_real_readdir()
  Btrfs: Check if btrfs_next_leaf() returns error in btrfs_listxattr()
  Btrfs: make uncache_state unconditional
  btrfs: using cached extent_state in set/unlock combinations
  Btrfs: avoid taking the trans_mutex in btrfs_end_transaction
  Btrfs: fix subvolume mount by name problem when default mount subvolume is set
  fix user annotation in ioctl.c
  Btrfs: check for duplicate iov_base's when doing dio reads
  btrfs: properly handle overlapping areas in memmove_extent_buffer
  Btrfs: fix memory leaks in btrfs_new_inode()
  Btrfs: check for duplicate iov_base's when doing dio reads
  Btrfs: reuse the extent_map we found when calling btrfs_get_extent
  Btrfs: do not use async submit for small DIO io's
  Btrfs: don't split dio bios if we don't have to
  ...

Rather than pass in some random truncated offset to the pid-related
functions, check that the offset is in range up-front.

This is just cleanup, the previous commit fixed the real problem.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

next_pidmap() just quietly accepted whatever 'last' pid that was passed
in, which is not all that safe when one of the users is /proc.

Admittedly the proc code should do some sanity checking on the range
(and that will be the next commit), but that doesn't mean that the
helper functions should just do that pidmap pointer arithmetic without
checking the range of its arguments.

So clamp 'last' to PID_MAX_LIMIT.  The fact that we then do "last+1"
doesn't really matter, the for-loop does check against the end of the
pidmap array properly (it's only the actual pointer arithmetic overflow
case we need to worry about, and going one bit beyond isn't going to
overflow).

[ Use PID_MAX_LIMIT rather than pid_max as per Eric Biederman ]
Reported-by: NTavis Ormandy <taviso@cmpxchg8b.com>
Analyzed-by: NRobert Święcki <robert@swiecki.net>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Mouse gets "stuck" after restore of PV guest but buttons are in working
condition.

If driver has been configured for ABS coordinates at start it will get
XENKBD_TYPE_POS events and then suddenly after restore it'll start getting
XENKBD_TYPE_MOTION events, that will be dropped later and they won't get
into user-space.

Regression was introduced by hunk 5 and 6 of
5ea5254aa0ad269cfbd2875c973ef25ab5b5e9db
("Input: xen-kbdfront - advertise either absolute or relative
coordinates").

Driver on restore should ask xen for request-abs-pointer again if it is
available. So restore parts that did it before 5ea5254.
Acked-by: NOlaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: NIgor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
[v1: Expanded the commit description]
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>

Calculate a default based on the number of ABS axes, REL axes,
and MT slots for the device during input device registration.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Brown <jeffbrown@android.com>
Reviewed-by: NHenrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>

The free space caching code was recently reworked to
cache all the pages it needed instead of using find_get_page everywhere.

One loop was missed though, so it ended up leaking pages.  This fixes
it to use our page array instead of find_get_page.
Signed-off-by: NChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>

Instead of overloading __blk_run_queue to force an offload to kblockd
add a new blk_run_queue_async helper to do it explicitly.  I've kept
the blk_queue_stopped check for now, but I suspect it's not needed
as the check we do when the workqueue items runs should be enough.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Reported-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

We just need to make sure that an unplug event wakes up the md
thread, which is exactly what mddev_check_plugged does.

Also remove some plug-related code that is no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

In raid5 plugging is used for 2 things:
 1/ collecting writes that require a bitmap update
 2/ collecting writes in the hope that we can create full
    stripes - or at least more-full.

We now release these different sets of stripes when plug_cnt
is zero.

Also in make_request, we call mddev_check_plug to hopefully increase
plug_cnt, and wake up the thread at the end if plugging wasn't
achieved for some reason.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

When an md device adds a request to a queue, it can call
mddev_check_plugged.
If this succeeds then we know that the md thread will be woken up
shortly, and ->plug_cnt will be non-zero until then, so some
processing can be delayed.

If it fails, then no unplug callback is expected and the make_request
function needs to do whatever is required to make the request happen.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

md has some plugging infrastructure for RAID5 to use because the
normal plugging infrastructure required a 'request_queue', and when
called from dm, RAID5 doesn't have one of those available.

This relied on the ->unplug_fn callback which doesn't exist any more.

So remove all of that code, both in md and raid5.  Subsequent patches
with restore the plugging functionality.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

Now that unplugging is done differently, the unplug_fn callback is
never called, so it can be completely discarded.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

md/raid submits a lot of IO from the various raid threads.
So adding start/finish plug calls to those so that some
plugging happens.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

If we know we are going to punt to kblockd, we can drop the queue
lock before calling into __blk_run_queue() since it only does a
safe bit test and a workqueue call. Since kblockd needs to grab
this very lock as one of the first things it does, it's a good
optimization to drop the lock before waking kblockd.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

MD can't use this since it really requires us to be able to
keep more than a single piece of state for the unplug. Commit
048c9374 added the required support for MD, so get rid of this
now unused code.

This reverts commit f7566457.

Conflicts:

	block/blk-core.c
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

md/raid requires an unplug callback, but as it does not uses
requests the current code cannot provide one.

So allow arbitrary callbacks to be attached to the blk_plug.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Because of speculative event roll back, it is possible for some event coutners
to decrease between reads on POWER7.  This causes a problem with the way that
counters are updated.  Delta calues are calculated in a 64 bit value and the
top 32 bits are masked.  If the register value has decreased, this leaves us
with a very large positive value added to the kernel counters.  This patch
protects against this by skipping the update if the delta would be negative.
This can lead to a lack of precision in the coutner values, but from my testing
the value is typcially fewer than 10 samples at a time.
Signed-off-by: NEric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

This problem was noticed on an MPC855T platform. Ftrace did oops
when trying to write to the kernel text segment.

Many thanks to Joakim for finding the root cause of this problem.
Signed-off-by: NStefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Cc: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

We currently enable interrupts before the dispatch log for the boot
cpu is setup. If a timer interrupt comes in early enough we oops in
scan_dispatch_log:

Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000010

...

.scan_dispatch_log+0xb0/0x170
.account_system_vtime+0xa0/0x220
.irq_enter+0x88/0xc0
.do_IRQ+0x48/0x230

The patch below adds a check to scan_dispatch_log to ensure the
dispatch log has been allocated.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

PAPR specifies that DTL buffers can not cross AMS environments (aka CMO
in the PAPR) and can not cross a memory entitlement granule boundary
(4k). This is found in section 14.11.3.2 H_REGISTER_VPA of the PAPR.
kmalloc does not guarantee an alignment of the allocation, though,
beyond 8 bytes (at least in my understanding). Create a special kmem
cache for DTL buffers with the alignment requirement.
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Recent commit b987812b caused
a compile failure on UP because a considerably large block
of the file was included within CONFIG_SMP, hence making a stub
function not exposed on UP builds when it needed to be.

Relocate the stub to the #else /* ! CONFIG_SMP */ section
and also annotate the relevant else/endif so that nobody
else falls into the same trap I did.
Reported-by: NMichael Guntsche <mike@it-loops.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging:
  i2c-algo-bit: Call pre/post_xfer for bit_test
  i2c: Improve deprecation warnings

Merge branch 's5p-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kgene/linux-samsung

* 's5p-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kgene/linux-samsung:
  ARM: SAMSUNG: Fix warning 's3c_pm_show_resume_irqs' defined but not used
  ARM: SAMSUNG: Fix build failure in PM CRC check code
  ARM: S5P: Remove unused s3c_pm_check_resume_pin

Signed-off-by: NRichard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Following commit 091738a2 ("genirq: Remove real old transition
functions") we removed an automatic conversion of no_irq_chip to
dummy_irq_chip.  This change needs to be propagated back into the alpha
backend.
Signed-off-by: NRichard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This is a new warning in gcc 4.6.  Several of these variables are
used within #if 0 code, which probably ought to be removed.  Most
of the changes are legitimate cleanups.
Signed-off-by: NRichard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

There are outstanding gcc 4.6 warnings that need to be cleaned up
in the subdirectory.  No sense forcing the issue immediately.
Signed-off-by: NRichard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

While checking unregister_filesystem for saftey vs extra calls for
"ext4: register ext2 and ext3 alias after ext4" I realized that
the synchronize_rcu() was called on the error path but not on
the success path.

Cc: stable (2.6.38)
Signed-off-by: NMilton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
[ This probably won't really make a difference since commit d863b50a
  ("vfs: call rcu_barrier after ->kill_sb()"), but it's the right thing
  to do.  - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Apparently some distros set i2c-algo-bit.bit_test to 1 by
default.  In some cases this causes i2c_bit_add_bus
to fail and prevents the i2c bus from being added.  In the
radeon case, we fail to add the ddc i2c buses which prevents
the driver from being able to detect attached monitors.
The i2c bus works fine even if bit_test fails.  This is likely
due to gpio switching that is required and handled in the
pre/post_xfer hooks, so call the pre/post_xfer hooks in the
bit test as well.

Fixes:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36221Signed-off-by: NAlex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [.38 down to .34]

When warning on the use of deprecated i2c_driver methods
attach_adapter and detach_adapter, mention the name of the driver
which needs to be updated.
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  block: make unplug timer trace event correspond to the schedule() unplug
  block: let io_schedule() flush the plug inline