powerpc/booke: Introduce new CONFIG options for advanced debug registers
From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Introduce new config options to simplify the ifdefs pertaining to the
advanced debug registers for booke and 40x processors:
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS - boolean: true for dac-based processors
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_IACS - number of IAC registers
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DACS - number of DAC registers
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DVCS - number of DVC registers
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DAC_RANGE - DAC ranges supported
Beginning conservatively, since I only have the facilities to test 440
hardware. I believe all 40x and booke platforms support at least 2 IAC
and 2 DAC registers. For 440, 4 IAC and 2 DVC registers are enabled, as
well as the DAC ranges.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Here is a patch from Paul Mackerras that improves the ppc64 copy_tofrom_user.
The loop now does 32 bytes at a time and as well as pairing loads and stores.
A quick test case that reads 8kB over and over shows the improvement:
POWER6: 53% faster
POWER7: 51% faster
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#define BUFSIZE (8 * 1024)
#define ITERATIONS 10000000
int main()
{
char tmpfile[] = "/tmp/copy_to_user_testXXXXXX";
int fd;
char *buf[BUFSIZE];
unsigned long i;
fd = mkstemp(tmpfile);
if (fd < 0) {
perror("open");
exit(1);
}
if (write(fd, buf, BUFSIZE) != BUFSIZE) {
perror("open");
exit(1);
}
for (i = 0; i < 10000000; i++) {
if (pread(fd, buf, BUFSIZE, 0) != BUFSIZE) {
perror("pread");
exit(1);
}
}
unlink(tmpfile);
return 0;
}
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Nick Piggin discovered that lwsync barriers around locks were faster than isync
on 970. That was a long time ago and I completely dropped the ball in testing
his patches across other ppc64 processors.
Turns out the idea helps on other chips. Using a microbenchmark that
uses a lot of threads to contend on a global pthread mutex (and therefore a
global futex), POWER6 improves 8% and POWER7 improves 2%. I checked POWER5
and while I couldn't measure an improvement, there was no regression.
This patch uses the lwsync patching code to replace the isyncs with lwsyncs
on CPUs that support the instruction. We were marking POWER3 and RS64 as lwsync
capable but in reality they treat it as a full sync (ie slow). Remove the
CPU_FTR_LWSYNC bit from these CPUs so they continue to use the faster isync
method.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
do_lwsync_fixups doesn't work on 64bit, we end up writing lwsyncs to the
wrong addresses:
0:mon> di c0000001000bfacc
c0000001000bfacc 7c2004ac lwsync
Since the lwsync section has negative offsets we need to use a signed int
pointer so we sign extend the value.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
For performance reasons we are about to change ISYNC_ON_SMP to sometimes be
lwsync. Now that the macro name doesn't make sense, change it and LWSYNC_ON_SMP
to better explain what the barriers are doing.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Now we have real bit locks use them instead of open coding it.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch implements the lwarx/ldarx hint bit for bit locks.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Recent versions of the PowerPC architecture added a hint bit to the larx
instructions to differentiate between an atomic operation and a lock operation:
> 0 Other programs might attempt to modify the word in storage addressed by EA
> even if the subsequent Store Conditional succeeds.
>
> 1 Other programs will not attempt to modify the word in storage addressed by
> EA until the program that has acquired the lock performs a subsequent store
> releasing the lock.
To avoid a binutils dependency this patch create macros for the extended lwarx
format and uses it in the spinlock code. To test this change I used a simple
test case that acquires and releases a global pthread mutex:
pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex);
pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);
On a 32 core POWER6, running 32 test threads we spend almost all our time in
the futex spinlock code:
94.37% perf [kernel] [k] ._raw_spin_lock
|
|--99.95%-- ._raw_spin_lock
| |
| |--63.29%-- .futex_wake
| |
| |--36.64%-- .futex_wait_setup
Which is a good test for this patch. The results (in lock/unlock operations per
second) are:
before: 1538203 ops/sec
after: 2189219 ops/sec
An improvement of 42%
A 32 core POWER7 improves even more:
before: 1279529 ops/sec
after: 2282076 ops/sec
An improvement of 78%
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
I often get asked if BAD interrupts are really bad. On some boxes (eg
IBM machines running a hypervisor) there are valid cases where are
presented with an interrupt that is not for us. These cases are common
enough to show up as thousands of BAD interrupts a day.
Tone them down by calling them spurious. Since they can be a significant cause
of OS jitter, we may as well log them per cpu so we know where they are
occurring.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
With NO_HZ it is useful to know how often the decrementer is going off. The
patch below adds an entry for it and also adds it into the /proc/stat
summaries.
While here, I added performance monitoring and machine check exceptions.
I found it useful to keep an eye on the PMU exception rate
when using the perf tool. Since it's possible to take a completely
handled machine check on a System p box it also sounds like a good idea to
keep a machine check summary.
The event naming matches x86 to keep gratuitous differences to a minimum.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Now we use printf style alignment there is no need to manually space
these fields.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On a large machine I noticed the columns of /proc/interrupts failed to line up
with the header after CPU9. At sufficiently large numbers of CPUs it becomes
impossible to line up the CPU number with the counts.
While fixing this I noticed x86 has a number of updates that we may as well
pull in. On PowerPC we currently omit an interrupt completely if there is no
active handler, whereas on x86 it is printed if there is a non zero count.
The x86 code also spaces the first column correctly based on nr_irqs.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Right now we allocate a cacheline sized NR_CPUS array for xics IPI
communication. Use DECLARE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED to put it in percpu
data in its own cacheline since it is written to by other cpus.
On a kernel with NR_CPUS=1024, this saves quite a lot of memory:
text data bss dec hex filename
8767779 2944260 1505724 13217763 c9afe3 vmlinux.irq_cpustat
8767555 2813444 1505724 13086723 c7b003 vmlinux.xics
A saving of around 128kB.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
PowerPC is currently using asm-generic/hardirq.h which statically allocates an
NR_CPUS irq_stat array. Switch to an arch specific implementation which uses
per cpu data:
On a kernel with NR_CPUS=1024, this saves quite a lot of memory:
text data bss dec hex filename
8767938 2944132 1636796 13348866 cbb002 vmlinux.baseline
8767779 2944260 1505724 13217763 c9afe3 vmlinux.irq_cpustat
A saving of around 128kB.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
During a EEH recover, the pci_dev structure can be null, mainly if an
eeh event is detected during cpi config operation. In this case, the
pci_dev will not be known (and will be null) the kernel will crash
with the following message:
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x000000a0
Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000006b8b4
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
NIP [c00000000006b8b4] .eeh_event_handler+0x10c/0x1a0
LR [c00000000006b8a8] .eeh_event_handler+0x100/0x1a0
Call Trace:
[c0000003a80dff00] [c00000000006b8a8] .eeh_event_handler+0x100/0x1a0
[c0000003a80dff90] [c000000000031f1c] .kernel_thread+0x54/0x70
The bug occurs because pci_name() tries to access a null pointer.
This patch just guarantee that pci_name() is not called on Null pointers.
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
DMA ops requires that coherent_dma_mask be set properly for a device,
but this was not being done for devices on the MV64x60 that use DMA.
Both the serial and ethernet devices need this or they won't be able
to allocate memory.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm:
dm: sysfs revert add empty release function to avoid debug warning
dm mpath: fix stall when requeueing io
dm raid1: fix null pointer dereference in suspend
dm raid1: fail writes if errors are not handled and log fails
dm log: userspace fix overhead_size calcuations
dm snapshot: persistent annotate work_queue as on stack
dm stripe: avoid divide by zero with invalid stripe count
Revert commit d2bb7df8ca at Greg's request.
Author: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Dec 10 23:51:53 2009 +0000
dm: sysfs add empty release function to avoid debug warning
This patch just removes an unnecessary warning:
kobject: 'dm': does not have a release() function,
it is broken and must be fixed.
The kobject is embedded in mapped device struct, so
code does not need to release memory explicitly here.
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch fixes the problem that system may stall if target's ->map_rq
returns DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE in map_request().
E.g. stall happens on 1 CPU box when a dm-mpath device with queue_if_no_path
bounces between all-paths-down and paths-up on I/O load.
When target's ->map_rq returns DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE, map_request() requeues
the request and returns to dm_request_fn(). Then, dm_request_fn()
doesn't exit the I/O dispatching loop and continues processing
the requeued request again.
This map and requeue loop can be done with interrupt disabled,
so 1 CPU system can be stalled if this situation happens.
For example, commands below can stall my 1 CPU box within 1 minute or so:
# dmsetup table mp
mp: 0 2097152 multipath 1 queue_if_no_path 0 1 1 service-time 0 1 2 8:144 1 1
# while true; do dd if=/dev/mapper/mp of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100; done &
# while true; do \
> dmsetup message mp 0 "fail_path 8:144" \
> dmsetup suspend --noflush mp \
> dmsetup resume mp \
> dmsetup message mp 0 "reinstate_path 8:144" \
> done
To fix the problem above, this patch changes dm_request_fn() to exit
the I/O dispatching loop once if a request is requeued in map_request().
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
When suspending a failed mirror, bios are completed by mirror_end_io() and
__rh_lookup() in dm_rh_dec() returns NULL where a non-NULL return value is
required by design. Fix this by not changing the state of the recovery failed
region from DM_RH_RECOVERING to DM_RH_NOSYNC in dm_rh_recovery_end().
Issue
On 2.6.33-rc1 kernel, I hit the bug when I suspended the failed
mirror by dmsetup command.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000020
IP: [<f94f38e2>] dm_rh_dec+0x35/0xa1 [dm_region_hash]
...
EIP: 0060:[<f94f38e2>] EFLAGS: 00010046 CPU: 0
EIP is at dm_rh_dec+0x35/0xa1 [dm_region_hash]
EAX: 00000286 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000286 EDX: 00000000
ESI: eff79eac EDI: eff79e80 EBP: f6915cd4 ESP: f6915cc4
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
Process dmsetup (pid: 2849, ti=f6914000 task=eff03e80 task.ti=f6914000)
...
Call Trace:
[<f9530af6>] ? mirror_end_io+0x53/0x1b1 [dm_mirror]
[<f9413104>] ? clone_endio+0x4d/0xa2 [dm_mod]
[<f9530aa3>] ? mirror_end_io+0x0/0x1b1 [dm_mirror]
[<f94130b7>] ? clone_endio+0x0/0xa2 [dm_mod]
[<c02d6bcb>] ? bio_endio+0x28/0x2b
[<f952f303>] ? hold_bio+0x2d/0x62 [dm_mirror]
[<f952f942>] ? mirror_presuspend+0xeb/0xf7 [dm_mirror]
[<c02aa3e2>] ? vmap_page_range+0xb/0xd
[<f9414c8d>] ? suspend_targets+0x2d/0x3b [dm_mod]
[<f9414ca9>] ? dm_table_presuspend_targets+0xe/0x10 [dm_mod]
[<f941456f>] ? dm_suspend+0x4d/0x150 [dm_mod]
[<f941767d>] ? dev_suspend+0x55/0x18a [dm_mod]
[<c0343762>] ? _copy_from_user+0x42/0x56
[<f9417fb0>] ? dm_ctl_ioctl+0x22c/0x281 [dm_mod]
[<f9417628>] ? dev_suspend+0x0/0x18a [dm_mod]
[<f9417d84>] ? dm_ctl_ioctl+0x0/0x281 [dm_mod]
[<c02c3c4b>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x22/0x85
[<c02c422c>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x4cb/0x516
[<c02c42b7>] ? sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5a
[<c0202858>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
Analysis
When recovery process of a region failed, dm_rh_recovery_end() function
changes the state of the region from RM_RH_RECOVERING to DM_RH_NOSYNC.
When recovery_complete() is executed between dm_rh_update_states() and
dm_writes() in do_mirror(), bios are processed with the region state,
DM_RH_NOSYNC. However, the region data is freed without checking its
pending count when dm_rh_update_states() is called next time.
When bios are finished by mirror_end_io(), __rh_lookup() in dm_rh_dec()
returns NULL even though a valid return value are expected.
Solution
Remove the state change of the recovery failed region from DM_RH_RECOVERING
to DM_RH_NOSYNC in dm_rh_recovery_end(). We can remove the state change
because:
- If the region data has been released by dm_rh_update_states(),
a new region data is created with the state of DM_RH_NOSYNC, and
bios are processed according to the DM_RH_NOSYNC state.
- If the region data has not been released by dm_rh_update_states(),
a state of the region is DM_RH_RECOVERING and bios are put in the
delayed_bio list.
The flag change from DM_RH_RECOVERING to DM_RH_NOSYNC in dm_rh_recovery_end()
was added in the following commit:
dm raid1: handle resync failures
author Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:29:04 +0000 (17:29 +0100)
http://git.kernel.org/linus/f44db678edcc6f4c2779ac43f63f0b9dfa28b724
Signed-off-by: Takahiro Yasui <tyasui@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
If the mirror log fails when the handle_errors option was not selected
and there is no remaining valid mirror leg, writes return success even
though they weren't actually written to any device. This patch
completes them with EIO instead.
This code path is taken:
do_writes:
bio_list_merge(&ms->failures, &sync);
do_failures:
if (!get_valid_mirror(ms)) (false)
else if (errors_handled(ms)) (false)
else bio_endio(bio, 0);
The logic in do_failures is based on presuming that the write was already
tried: if it succeeded at least on one leg (without handle_errors) it
is reported as success.
Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555197
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch fixes two bugs that revolve around the miscalculation and
misuse of the variable 'overhead_size'. 'overhead_size' is the size of
the various header structures used during communication.
The first bug is the use of 'sizeof' with the pointer of a structure
instead of the structure itself - resulting in the wrong size being
computed. This is then used in a check to see if the payload
(data_size) would be to large for the preallocated structure. Since the
bug produces a smaller value for the overhead, it was possible for the
structure to be breached. (Although the current users of the code do
not currently send enough data to trigger this bug.)
The second bug is that the 'overhead_size' value is used to compute how
much of the preallocated space should be cleared before populating it
with fresh data. This should have simply been 'sizeof(struct cn_msg)'
not overhead_size. The fact that 'overhead_size' was computed
incorrectly made this problem "less bad" - leaving only a pointer's
worth of space at the end uncleared. Thus, this bug was never producing
a bad result, but still needs to be fixed - especially now that the
value is computed correctly.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
chunk_io() declares its 'struct mdata_req' on the stack and then
initializes its 'struct work_struct' member. Annotate the
initialization of this workqueue with INIT_WORK_ON_STACK to suppress a
debugobjects warning seen when CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
If a table containing zero as stripe count is passed into stripe_ctr
the code attempts to divide by zero.
This patch changes DM_TABLE_LOAD to return -EINVAL if the stripe count
is zero.
We now get the following error messages:
device-mapper: table: 253:0: striped: Invalid stripe count
device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
The 64-bit version of ELF_PLAT_INIT() clears TIF_IA32, but at this point
it has already been cleared by SET_PERSONALITY == set_personality_64bit.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
firewire: ohci: retransmit isochronous transmit packets on cycle loss
firewire: net: fix panic in fwnet_write_complete
The cached read and write paths initialize fattr->time_start in their
setup procedures. The value of fattr->time_start is propagated to
read_cache_jiffies by nfs_update_inode(). Subsequent calls to
nfs_attribute_timeout() will then use a good time stamp when
computing the attribute cache timeout, and squelch unneeded GETATTR
calls.
Since the direct I/O paths erroneously leave the inode's
fattr->time_start field set to zero, read_cache_jiffies for that inode
is set to zero after any direct read or write operation. This
triggers an otw GETATTR or ACCESS call to update the file's attribute
and access caches properly, even when the NFS READ or WRITE replies
have usable post-op attributes.
Make sure the direct read and write setup code performs the same fattr
initialization as the cached I/O paths to prevent unnecessary GETATTR
calls.
This was likely introduced by commit 0e574af1 in 2.6.15, which appears
to add new nfs_fattr_init() call sites in the cached read and write
paths, but not in the equivalent places in fs/nfs/direct.c. A
subsequent commit in the same series, 33801147, introduces the
fattr->time_start field.
Interestingly, the direct write reschedule path already has a call to
nfs_fattr_init() in the right place.
Reported-by: Quentin Barnes <qbarnes@yahoo-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'drm-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
drm/radeon/kms: make sure retry count increases.
drm/radeon/kms/atom: use get_unaligned_le32() for ctx->ps
drm/ttm: Fix a bug occuring when validating a buffer object in a range.
drm: Fix a bug in the range manager.
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf top: Fix help text alignment
perf: Fix hypervisor sample reporting
perf: Make bp_len type to u64 generic across the arch
The MSI blacklist entry for ASUS mobo added in the commit
8ce28d6abf was based on the alsa-info
output wrongly posted. Fix the id to the right one now.
Reported-by: Sid Boyce <sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
In testing I've never seen it go past 1 retry anyways but better
safe than sorry.
Reported by Droste on irc.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
This follows the parisc change to ensure that tracehook_signal_handler()
is aware of when we are single-stepping in order to ptrace_notify()
appropriately. While this was implemented for 32-bit SH, sh64 neglected
to make use of TIF_SINGLESTEP when it was folded in with the 32-bit code,
resulting in ptrace_notify() never being called.
As sh64 uses all of the other abstractions already, this simply plugs in
the thread flag in the appropriate enable/disable paths and fixes up the
tracehook notification accordingly. With this in place, sh64 is brought
in line with what 32-bit is already doing.
Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Noticed on a DEC Alpha.
Start up into console mode caused 15 unaligned accesses, and starting X
caused another 48.
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
CC: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
CC: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
If the buffer object was already in the requested memory type, but
outside of the requested range it was never moved into the requested range.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
When searching for free space in a range, the function could return a node extending outside of the given range.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
When we wait for an inode through reiserfs_iget(), we hold
the reiserfs lock. And waiting for an inode may imply waiting
for its writeback. But the inode writeback path may also require
the reiserfs lock, which leads to a deadlock.
We just need to release the reiserfs lock from reiserfs_iget()
to fix this.
Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
In isochronous transmit DMA descriptors, link the skip address pointer
back to the descriptor itself. When a cycle is lost, the controller
will send the packet in the next cycle, instead of terminating the
entire DMA program.
There are two reasons for this:
* This behaviour is compatible with the old IEEE1394 stack. Old
applications would not expect the DMA program to stop in this case.
* Since the OHCI driver does not report any uncompleted packets, the
context would stop silently; clients would not have any chance to
detect and handle this error without a watchdog timer.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Pieter Palmers notes:
"The reason I added this retry behavior to the old stack is because some
cards now and then fail to send a packet (e.g. the o2micro card in my
dell laptop). I couldn't figure out why exactly this happens, my best
guess is that the card cannot fetch the payload data on time. This
happens much more frequently when sending large packets, which leads me
to suspect that there are some contention issues with the DMA that fills
the transmit FIFO.
In the old stack it was a pretty critical issue as it resulted in a
freeze of the userspace application.
The omission of a packet doesn't necessarily have to be an issue. E.g.
in IEC61883 streams the DBC field can be used to detect discontinuities
in the stream. So as long as the other side doesn't bail when no
[packet] is present in a cycle, there is not really a problem.
I'm not convinced though that retrying is the proper solution, but it is
simple and effective for what it had to do. And I think there are no
reasons not to do it this way. Userspace can still detect this by
checking the cycle the descriptor was sent in."
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (changelog, comment)
Trying to add a probe like:
echo p:myprobe 0x10000 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
will fail since the wrong pointer is passed to strict_strtoul
when trying to convert the address to an unsigned long.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100210162346.GA6933@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
My test do: fallocate a big file and do write. The file is 512M, but
after file write is done btrfs-debug-tree shows:
item 6 key (257 EXTENT_DATA 0) itemoff 3516 itemsize 53
extent data disk byte 1103101952 nr 536870912
extent data offset 0 nr 399634432 ram 536870912
extent compression 0
Looks like a regression introducted by
6c7d54ac87, where we set wrong slot.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
