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This BUG_ON() triggered for me once at shutdown, and I don't see a
reason for the check. The code correctly checks whether the swap slot
cache is usable or not, so an uninitialized swap slot cache is not
actually problematic afaik.
I've temporarily just switched the BUG_ON() to a WARN_ON_ONCE(), since
I'm not sure why that seemingly pointless check was there. I suspect
the real fix is to just remove it entirely, but for now we'll warn about
it but not bring the machine down.
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull more powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
"A couple of minor powerpc fixes for 4.11:
- wire up statx() syscall
- don't print a warning on memory hotplug when HPT resizing isn't
available
Thanks to: David Gibson, Chandan Rajendra"
* tag 'powerpc-4.11-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
powerpc/pseries: Don't give a warning when HPT resizing isn't available
powerpc: Wire up statx() syscall
Pull parisc fixes from Helge Deller:
- Mikulas Patocka added support for R_PARISC_SECREL32 relocations in
modules with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS.
- Dave Anglin optimized the cache flushing for vmap ranges.
- Arvind Yadav provided a fix for a potential NULL pointer dereference
in the parisc perf code (and some code cleanups).
- I wired up the new statx system call, fixed some compiler warnings
with the access_ok() macro and fixed shutdown code to really halt a
system at shutdown instead of crashing & rebooting.
* 'parisc-4.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
parisc: Fix system shutdown halt
parisc: perf: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
parisc: Avoid compiler warnings with access_ok()
parisc: Wire up statx system call
parisc: Optimize flush_kernel_vmap_range and invalidate_kernel_vmap_range
parisc: support R_PARISC_SECREL32 relocation in modules
As of commit 438cc81a41e8 ("powerpc/pseries: Automatically resize HPT
for memory hot add/remove"), when running on the pseries platform, we
always attempt to use the PAPR extension to resize the hashed page
table (HPT) when we add or remove memory.
This is fine, but when the extension is not available we'll give a
harmless, but scary warning. Instead check if the firmware supports HPT
resizing before populating the mmu_hash_ops.resize_hpt pointer.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Pull SCSI target fixes from Nicholas Bellinger:
"The bulk of the changes are in qla2xxx target driver code to address
various issues found during Cavium/QLogic's internal testing (stable
CC's included), along with a few other stability and smaller
miscellaneous improvements.
There are also a couple of different patch sets from Mike Christie,
which have been a result of his work to use target-core ALUA logic
together with tcm-user backend driver.
Finally, a patch to address some long standing issues with
pass-through SCSI export of TYPE_TAPE + TYPE_MEDIUM_CHANGER devices,
which will make folks using physical (or virtual) magnetic tape happy"
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (28 commits)
qla2xxx: Update driver version to 9.00.00.00-k
qla2xxx: Fix delayed response to command for loop mode/direct connect.
qla2xxx: Change scsi host lookup method.
qla2xxx: Add DebugFS node to display Port Database
qla2xxx: Use IOCB interface to submit non-critical MBX.
qla2xxx: Add async new target notification
qla2xxx: Export DIF stats via debugfs
qla2xxx: Improve T10-DIF/PI handling in driver.
qla2xxx: Allow relogin to proceed if remote login did not finish
qla2xxx: Fix sess_lock & hardware_lock lock order problem.
qla2xxx: Fix inadequate lock protection for ABTS.
qla2xxx: Fix request queue corruption.
qla2xxx: Fix memory leak for abts processing
qla2xxx: Allow vref count to timeout on vport delete.
tcmu: Convert cmd_time_out into backend device attribute
tcmu: make cmd timeout configurable
tcmu: add helper to check if dev was configured
target: fix race during implicit transition work flushes
target: allow userspace to set state to transitioning
target: fix ALUA transition timeout handling
...
On those parisc machines which don't provide a software power off
function, the system currently kills the init process at the end of a
shutdown and unexpectedly restarts insteads of halting.
Fix it by adding a loop which will not return.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.9+
Test runs on a ppc64 BE guest succeeded. linux/samples/statx/test-statx
program was executed on the following file types,
1. Regular file
2. Directory
3. device file
4. symlink
5. Named pipe
The test run also included invoking test-statx with the runtime options
provided in the main() function of test-statx.c
Signed-off-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Pull device-dax fixes from Dan Williams:
"The device-dax driver was not being careful to handle falling back to
smaller fault-granularity sizes.
The driver already fails fault attempts that are smaller than the
device's alignment, but it also needs to handle the cases where a
larger page mapping could be established. For simplicity of the
immediate fix the implementation just signals VM_FAULT_FALLBACK until
fault-size == device-alignment.
One fix is for -stable to address pmd-to-pte fallback from the
original implementation, another fix is for the new (introduced in
4.11-rc1) pud-to-pmd regression, and a typo fix comes along for the
ride.
These have received a build success notification from the kbuild
robot"
* 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
device-dax: fix debug output typo
device-dax: fix pud fault fallback handling
device-dax: fix pmd/pte fault fallback handling
Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@cavium.com>
signed-off-by: Giridhar Malavali <giridhar.malavali@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Fix potential NULL pointer dereference and clean up
coding style errors (code indent, trailing whitespaces).
Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Pull some more powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
"The main item is the addition of the Power9 Machine Check handler.
This was delayed to make sure some details were correct, and is as
minimal as possible.
The rest is small fixes, two for the Power9 PMU, two dealing with
obscure toolchain problems, two for the PowerNV IOMMU code (used by
VFIO), and one to fix a crash on 32-bit machines with macio devices
due to missing dma_ops.
Thanks to:
Alexey Kardashevskiy, Cyril Bur, Larry Finger, Madhavan Srinivasan,
Nicholas Piggin"
* tag 'powerpc-4.11-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
powerpc/64s: POWER9 machine check handler
powerpc/64s: allow machine check handler to set severity and initiator
powerpc/64s: fix handling of non-synchronous machine checks
powerpc/pmac: Fix crash in dma-mapping.h with NULL dma_ops
powerpc/powernv/ioda2: Update iommu table base on ownership change
powerpc/powernv/ioda2: Gracefully fail if too many TCE levels requested
selftests/powerpc: Replace stxvx and lxvx with stxvd2x/lxvd2x
powerpc/perf: Handle sdar_mode for marked event in power9
powerpc/perf: Fix perf_get_data_addr() for power9 DD1
powerpc/boot: Fix zImage TOC alignment
Pull OpenRISC fixes from Stafford Horne:
"OpenRISC fixes for build issues that were exposed by kbuild robots
after 4.11 merge. All from allmodconfig builds. This includes:
- bug in the handling of 8-byte get_user() calls
- module build failure due to multile missing symbol exports"
* tag 'openrisc-for-linus' of git://github.com/openrisc/linux:
openrisc: Export symbols needed by modules
openrisc: fix issue handling 8 byte get_user calls
openrisc: xchg: fix `computed is not used` warning
The debug output for return the return data of pgoff_to_phys() in the
fault handlers has 'phys' and 'pgoff' incorrectly swapped.
Reported-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>