When the system has too many timers or too many aggregate
queued signals, the EAGAIN error is returned to application
from kernel, including timer_create() [POSIX.1b].
It means that the app exceeded the limit of pending signals,
but in general application writers do not expect this
outcome and the current silent failure can cause rare app
failures under very high load.
This patch adds a new message when we reach the limit
and if print_fatal_signals is enabled:
task/1234: reached RLIMIT_SIGPENDING, dropping signal
If you see this message and your system behaved unexpectedly,
you can run following command to lift the limit:
# ulimit -i unlimited
With help from Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>.
Signed-off-by: Naohiro Ooiwa <nooiwa@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <4AF6E7E2.9080406@miraclelinux.com>
[ Modified a few small details, gave surrounding code some love. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This reverts commit d0646f7b63, as
requested by Eric Sandeen.
It can basically cause an ext4 filesystem to miss recovery (and thus get
mounted with errors) if the journal checksum does not match.
Quoth Eric:
"My hand-wavy hunch about what is happening is that we're finding a
bad checksum on the last partially-written transaction, which is
not surprising, but if we have a wrapped log and we're doing the
initial scan for head/tail, and we abort scanning on that bad
checksum, then we are essentially running an unrecovered filesystem.
But that's hand-wavy and I need to go look at the code.
We lived without journal checksums on by default until now, and at
this point they're doing more harm than good, so we should revert
the default-changing commit until we can fix it and do some good
power-fail testing with the fixes in place."
See
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14354
for all the gory details.
Requested-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Alexey Fisher <bug-track@fisher-privat.net>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathias Burén <mathias.buren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
ALSA: hda - Don't check invalid HP pin
ALSA: dummy - Fix descriptions of pcm_substreams parameter
ALSA: pcmcia: use dynamic debug infrastructure, deprecate CS_CHECK (sound)
ALSA: hda: Use quirk mask for Dell Inspiron Mini9/Vostro A90 using ALC268
sound: via82xx: deactivate DXS controls of inactive streams
ALSA: snd-usb-caiaq: Bump version number to 1.3.20
ALSA: snd-usb-caiaq: Lock on stream start/unpause
ALSA: snd-usb-caiaq: Missing lock around use of buffer positions
ALSA: sound/parisc: Move dereference after NULL test
ALSA: sound: Move dereference after NULL test and drop unnecessary NULL tests
ALSA: hda_intel: Add the Linux device ID for NVIDIA HDA controller
ALSA: pcsp - Fix nforce workaround
ALSA: SND_CS5535AUDIO: Remove the X86 platform dependency
ASoC: Amstrad Delta: add info about the line discipline requirement to Kconfig help text
ASoC: Fix possible codec_dai->ops NULL pointer problems
ALSA: hda - Fix capture source checks for ALC662/663 codecs
ASoC: Serialize access to dapm_power_widgets()
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing: Remove cpu arg from the rb_time_stamp() function
tracing: Fix comment typo and documentation example
tracing: Fix trace_seq_printf() return value
tracing: Update *ppos instead of filp->f_pos
Describe NUMA node symlink created for CPUs when CONFIG_NUMA is set.
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add brief descriptions for the following sysfs files:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/topology/core_id
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/topology/core_siblings
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/topology/core_siblings_list
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/topology/physical_package_id
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/topology/thread_siblings
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/topology/thread_siblings_list
The descriptions in Documentation/cputopology.txt weren't very
informative, so I attempted a better description based on code
reading and hopeful guessing.
Updated Documentation/cputopology.txt with the better descriptions and
fixed some style issues.
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add brief descriptions for the following sysfs files:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/kernel_max
/sys/devices/system/cpu/offline
/sys/devices/system/cpu/online
/sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
/sys/devices/system/cpu/present
Excerpted the relevant information from Documentation/cputopology.txt
and pointed back to cputopology.txt as the authoritative source of
information.
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This interface has been around for a long time, but hasn't been
officially documented.
Document the top level sysfs directory for CPU attributes.
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Rename sysfs-devices-cache_disable to sysfs-devices-system-cpu, in
order to keep a stricter correlation between a sysfs directory and
its documentation.
Reported-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'hwpoison-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6:
HWPOISON: fix invalid page count in printk output
HWPOISON: Allow schedule_on_each_cpu() from keventd
HWPOISON: fix/proc/meminfo alignment
HWPOISON: fix oops on ksm pages
HWPOISON: Fix page count leak in hwpoison late kill in do_swap_page
HWPOISON: return early on non-LRU pages
HWPOISON: Add brief hwpoison description to Documentation
HWPOISON: Clean up PR_MCE_KILL interface
Augment the documentation of the hwmon sysfs API to accomodate ACPI power
meters and the current desired behavior of power capping hardware drivers.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Trivial patch to fix a documentation example and to fix a
comment.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.871719877@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
move virtrng_remove to .devexit.text
move virtballoon_remove to .devexit.text
virtio_blk: Revert serial number support
virtio: let header files include virtio_ids.h
virtio_blk: revert QUEUE_FLAG_VIRT addition
Rusty,
commit 3ca4f5ca73
virtio: add virtio IDs file
moved all device IDs into a single file. While the change itself is
a very good one, it can break userspace applications. For example
if a userspace tool wanted to get the ID of virtio_net it used to
include virtio_net.h. This does no longer work, since virtio_net.h
does not include virtio_ids.h.
This patch moves all "#include <linux/virtio_ids.h>" from the C
files into the header files, making the header files compatible with
the old ones.
In addition, this patch exports virtio_ids.h to userspace.
CC: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
In 2.6.33 there will be no users of the inotify interface. Mark it for
removal as fsnotify is more generic and is easier to use.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6:
USB: gadget: Fix EEM driver comments and VID/PID
usb-storage: Workaround devices with bogus sense size
USB: ehci: Fix IST boundary checking interval math.
USB: option: Support for AIRPLUS MCD650 Datacard
USB: whci-hcd: always do an update after processing a halted qTD
USB: whci-hcd: handle early deletion of endpoints
USB: wusb: don't use the stack to read security descriptor
USB: rename Documentation/ABI/.../sysfs-class-usb_host
The 2.6.32 merge window brought a number of changes to the flexible array
API; this patch updates the documentation to match the new state of
affairs.
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
firewire: sbp2: provide fallback if mgt_ORB_timeout is missing
ieee1394: add documentation entry to MAINTAINERS
ieee1394: update URLs in debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86/paravirt: Use normal calling sequences for irq enable/disable
x86: fix kernel panic on 32 bits when profiling
x86: Fix Suspend to RAM freeze on Acer Aspire 1511Lmi laptop
x86, vmi: Mark VMI deprecated and schedule it for removal
The usb_host class is no more. Rename its documentation file (which
only contained WUSB specific files) to .../sysfs-class-uwb_rc-wusbhc.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
ALSA: hda - Allow all formats as default for Nvidia HDMI
ALSA: aaci: ARM1176 aaci-pl041 AC97 register read timeout
ALSA: hda - Fix volume-knob setup for Dell laptops with STAC9228
ALSA: hda - Fix mute sound with STAC9227/9228 codecs
ALSA: bt87x - Add a whitelist for Pinnacle PCTV (11bd:0012)
ALSA: hda - Fix overflow of spec->init_verbs in patch_realtek.c
ALSA: ice1724 - Make call to set hw params succeed on ESI Juli@
ALSA: ice1724: Fix surround on Chaintech AV-710
ALSA: hda - Add full rates/formats support for Nvidia HDMI
On FSC laptops, the sound gets muted gradually when the volume is chnaged.
This is due to the wrong volume-knob widget setup. The delta bit (bit 7)
shouldn't be set for these devices.
This patch adds a new quirk to set the value 0x7f to the widget 0x24
instead of 0xff.
Reference: Novell bnc#546006
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546006
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: (34 commits)
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Fix NULL ptr deref bug in fail path during queue create
[SCSI] st: fix possible memory use after free after MTSETBLK ioctl
[SCSI] be2iscsi: Moving to pci_pools v3
[SCSI] libiscsi: iscsi_session_setup to allow for private space
[SCSI] be2iscsi: add 10Gbps iSCSI - BladeEngine 2 driver
[SCSI] zfcp: Fix hang when offlining device with offline chpid
[SCSI] zfcp: Fix lockdep warning when offlining device with offline chpid
[SCSI] zfcp: Fix oops during shutdown of offline device
[SCSI] zfcp: Fix initial device and cfdc for delayed adapter allocation
[SCSI] zfcp: correctly initialize unchained requests
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Bump version 02.100.03.00
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Support dev remove when phy status is MPI2_EVENT_SAS_TOPO_PHYSTATUS_VACANT
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Timeout occurred within the HANDSHAKE logic while waiting on firmware to ACK.
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Call init_completion on a per request basis.
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Target Reset will be issued from Interrupt context.
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Added SCSIIO, Internal and high priority memory pools to support multiple TM
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Copyright change to 2009.
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Added mpi2_history.txt for MPI2 headers.
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Update driver to MPI2 REV K headers.
[SCSI] bfa: Brocade BFA FC SCSI driver
...
Add text in feature-removal.txt indicating that VMI will be removed in
the 2.6.37 timeframe.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
LKML-Reference: <1254193238.13456.48.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com>
[ removed a bogus Kconfig change, marked (DEPRECATED) in Kconfig ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (40 commits)
ethoc: limit the number of buffers to 128
ethoc: use system memory as buffer
ethoc: align received packet to make IP header at word boundary
ethoc: fix buffer address mapping
ethoc: fix typo to compute number of tx descriptors
au1000_eth: Duplicate test of RX_OVERLEN bit in update_rx_stats()
netxen: Fix Unlikely(x) > y
pasemi_mac: ethtool get settings fix
add maintainer for network drop monitor kernel service
tg3: Fix phylib locking strategy
rndis_host: support ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR
ipv4: arp_notify address list bug
gigaset: add kerneldoc comments
gigaset: correct debugging output selection
gigaset: improve error recovery
gigaset: fix device ERROR response handling
gigaset: announce if built with debugging
gigaset: handle isoc frame errors more gracefully
gigaset: linearize skb
gigaset: fix reject/hangup handling
...
For hwpoison stress testing. The debugfs mount point is assumed to be
/debug/.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Refactor the code to be more modular and easier to reuse.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This helps merge duplicate code (now and future) and outstand the main
logic.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It indicates to the system admin that processes mapping such pages may be
eating less physical memory than the reported numbers by legacy tools.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This flag indicates a hardware detected memory corruption on the page.
Any future access of the page data may bring down the machine.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Update documentation of cgroups tasks and procs files
Document the cgroup.procs file.
Clarify the semantics of the cgroup.procs and tasks files. Although the
current cgroup.procs interface returns a sorted and uniqified list of
pids, potential future performance enhancements could result in those
properties being removed - explicitly document this aspect of the API.
There are no existing users of cgroup.procs, so compatibility isn't an
issue. There are users of the "tasks" file, but none that would appear to
break in the event of the sorted property being broken. The standard
"libcpuset" explicitly sorts the results of reading from the tasks file,
and "libcg" and other users don't appear to care about ordering.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adjust the max_kernel_pages default to a quarter of totalram_pages,
instead of nr_free_buffer_pages() / 4: the KSM pages themselves come from
highmem, and even on a 16GB PAE machine, 4GB of KSM pages would only be
pinning 32MB of lowmem with their rmap_items, so no need for the more
obscure calculation (nor for its own special init function).
There is no way for the user to switch KSM on if CONFIG_SYSFS is not
enabled, so in that case default run to KSM_RUN_MERGE.
Update KSM Documentation and Kconfig to reflect the new defaults.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The proper syntax for udev rules is KERNEL==... instead of KERNEL=...
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Lukasz Jurewicz <lukasz.jurewicz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
- Note that send_message() may be called in interrupt context.
- Describe the storage of CAPI messages and payload data in SKBs.
- Add more details to the description of the _cmsg structure.
- Describe kernelcapi debugging output.
Impact: documentation
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
It is not currently possible to instruct pktgen to use one selected tx queue.
When Robert added multiqueue support in commit 45b270f8, he added
an interval (queue_map_min, queue_map_max), and his code doesnt take
into account the case of min = max, to select one tx queue exactly.
I suspect a high performance setup on a eight txqueue device wants
to use exactly eight cpus, and assign one tx queue to each sender.
This patchs makes pktgen select the right tx queue, not the first one.
Also updates Documentation to reflect Robert changes.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There is no point in implementing a detect callback for the LTC4215
and LTC4245, as these devices can't be detected. It was there solely
to handle "force" module parameters to instantiate devices, but now
we have a better sysfs interface that can do the same.
So we can get rid of the ugly module parameters and the detect
callbacks. This shrinks the binary module sizes by 36% and 46%,
respectively.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
There is no point in implementing a detect callback for the DS2482, as
this device can't be detected. It was there solely to handle "force"
module parameters to instantiate devices, but now we have a better sysfs
interface that can do the same.
So we can get rid of the ugly module parameters and the detect callback.
This shrinks the binary module size by 21%.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Ben Gardner <gardner.ben@gmail.com>
