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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2014-03-07T17:59:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-07T17:59:44+00:00</published>
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Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "Small collection of fixes for 3.14-rc. It contains:

   - Three minor update to blk-mq from Christoph.

   - Reduce number of unaligned (&lt; 4kb) in-flight writes on mtip32xx to
     two.  From Micron.

   - Make the blk-mq CPU notify spinlock raw, since it can't be a
     sleeper spinlock on RT.  From Mike Galbraith.

   - Drop now bogus BUG_ON() for bio iteration with blk integrity.  From
     Nic Bellinger.

   - Properly propagate the SYNC flag on requests. From Shaohua"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  blk-mq: add REQ_SYNC early
  rt,blk,mq: Make blk_mq_cpu_notify_lock a raw spinlock
  bio-integrity: Drop bio_integrity_verify BUG_ON in post bip-&gt;bip_iter world
  blk-mq: support partial I/O completions
  blk-mq: merge blk_mq_insert_request and blk_mq_run_request
  blk-mq: remove blk_mq_alloc_rq
  mtip32xx: Reduce the number of unaligned writes to 2
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Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "Small collection of fixes for 3.14-rc. It contains:

   - Three minor update to blk-mq from Christoph.

   - Reduce number of unaligned (&lt; 4kb) in-flight writes on mtip32xx to
     two.  From Micron.

   - Make the blk-mq CPU notify spinlock raw, since it can't be a
     sleeper spinlock on RT.  From Mike Galbraith.

   - Drop now bogus BUG_ON() for bio iteration with blk integrity.  From
     Nic Bellinger.

   - Properly propagate the SYNC flag on requests. From Shaohua"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  blk-mq: add REQ_SYNC early
  rt,blk,mq: Make blk_mq_cpu_notify_lock a raw spinlock
  bio-integrity: Drop bio_integrity_verify BUG_ON in post bip-&gt;bip_iter world
  blk-mq: support partial I/O completions
  blk-mq: merge blk_mq_insert_request and blk_mq_run_request
  blk-mq: remove blk_mq_alloc_rq
  mtip32xx: Reduce the number of unaligned writes to 2
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<entry>
<title>zram: avoid null access when fail to alloc meta</title>
<updated>2014-03-04T15:55:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Minchan Kim</name>
<email>minchan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-03T23:38:34+00:00</published>
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zram_meta_alloc could fail so caller should check it.  Otherwise, your
system will hang.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand &lt;jmarchan@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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zram_meta_alloc could fail so caller should check it.  Otherwise, your
system will hang.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand &lt;jmarchan@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: close PageTail race</title>
<updated>2014-03-04T15:55:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Rientjes</name>
<email>rientjes@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-03T23:38:18+00:00</published>
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Commit bf6bddf1924e ("mm: introduce compaction and migration for
ballooned pages") introduces page_count(page) into memory compaction
which dereferences page-&gt;first_page if PageTail(page).

This results in a very rare NULL pointer dereference on the
aforementioned page_count(page).  Indeed, anything that does
compound_head(), including page_count() is susceptible to racing with
prep_compound_page() and seeing a NULL or dangling page-&gt;first_page
pointer.

This patch uses Andrea's implementation of compound_trans_head() that
deals with such a race and makes it the default compound_head()
implementation.  This includes a read memory barrier that ensures that
if PageTail(head) is true that we return a head page that is neither
NULL nor dangling.  The patch then adds a store memory barrier to
prep_compound_page() to ensure page-&gt;first_page is set.

This is the safest way to ensure we see the head page that we are
expecting, PageTail(page) is already in the unlikely() path and the
memory barriers are unfortunately required.

Hugetlbfs is the exception, we don't enforce a store memory barrier
during init since no race is possible.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Holger Kiehl &lt;Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit bf6bddf1924e ("mm: introduce compaction and migration for
ballooned pages") introduces page_count(page) into memory compaction
which dereferences page-&gt;first_page if PageTail(page).

This results in a very rare NULL pointer dereference on the
aforementioned page_count(page).  Indeed, anything that does
compound_head(), including page_count() is susceptible to racing with
prep_compound_page() and seeing a NULL or dangling page-&gt;first_page
pointer.

This patch uses Andrea's implementation of compound_trans_head() that
deals with such a race and makes it the default compound_head()
implementation.  This includes a read memory barrier that ensures that
if PageTail(head) is true that we return a head page that is neither
NULL nor dangling.  The patch then adds a store memory barrier to
prep_compound_page() to ensure page-&gt;first_page is set.

This is the safest way to ensure we see the head page that we are
expecting, PageTail(page) is already in the unlikely() path and the
memory barriers are unfortunately required.

Hugetlbfs is the exception, we don't enforce a store memory barrier
during init since no race is possible.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Holger Kiehl &lt;Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mtip32xx: Reduce the number of unaligned writes to 2</title>
<updated>2014-02-18T22:49:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Asai Thambi S P</name>
<email>asamymuthupa@micron.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-18T22:49:17+00:00</published>
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After several experiments, deduced the the optimal number of unaligned
writes to be 2. Changing the value accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Asai Thambi S P &lt;asamymuthupa@micron.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sam Bradshaw &lt;sbradshaw@micron.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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After several experiments, deduced the the optimal number of unaligned
writes to be 2. Changing the value accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Asai Thambi S P &lt;asamymuthupa@micron.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sam Bradshaw &lt;sbradshaw@micron.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2014-02-14T18:45:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-14T18:45:18+00:00</published>
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Pull block IO fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "Second round of updates and fixes for 3.14-rc2.  Most of this stuff
  has been queued up for a while.  The notable exception is the blk-mq
  changes, which are naturally a bit more in flux still.

  The pull request contains:

   - Two bug fixes for the new immutable vecs, causing crashes with raid
     or swap.  From Kent.

   - Various blk-mq tweaks and fixes from Christoph.  A fix for
     integrity bio's from Nic.

   - A few bcache fixes from Kent and Darrick Wong.

   - xen-blk{front,back} fixes from David Vrabel, Matt Rushton, Nicolas
     Swenson, and Roger Pau Monne.

   - Fix for a vec miscount with integrity vectors from Martin.

   - Minor annotations or fixes from Masanari Iida and Rashika Kheria.

   - Tweak to null_blk to do more normal FIFO processing of requests
     from Shlomo Pongratz.

   - Elevator switching bypass fix from Tejun.

   - Softlockup in blkdev_issue_discard() fix when !CONFIG_PREEMPT from
     me"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (31 commits)
  block: add cond_resched() to potentially long running ioctl discard loop
  xen-blkback: init persistent_purge_work work_struct
  blk-mq: pair blk_mq_start_request / blk_mq_requeue_request
  blk-mq: dont assume rq-&gt;errors is set when returning an error from -&gt;queue_rq
  block: Fix cloning of discard/write same bios
  block: Fix type mismatch in ssize_t_blk_mq_tag_sysfs_show
  blk-mq: rework flush sequencing logic
  null_blk: use blk_complete_request and blk_mq_complete_request
  virtio_blk: use blk_mq_complete_request
  blk-mq: rework I/O completions
  fs: Add prototype declaration to appropriate header file include/linux/bio.h
  fs: Mark function as static in fs/bio-integrity.c
  block/null_blk: Fix completion processing from LIFO to FIFO
  block: Explicitly handle discard/write same segments
  block: Fix nr_vecs for inline integrity vectors
  blk-mq: Add bio_integrity setup to blk_mq_make_request
  blk-mq: initialize sg_reserved_size
  blk-mq: handle dma_drain_size
  blk-mq: divert __blk_put_request for MQ ops
  blk-mq: support at_head inserations for blk_execute_rq
  ...
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Pull block IO fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "Second round of updates and fixes for 3.14-rc2.  Most of this stuff
  has been queued up for a while.  The notable exception is the blk-mq
  changes, which are naturally a bit more in flux still.

  The pull request contains:

   - Two bug fixes for the new immutable vecs, causing crashes with raid
     or swap.  From Kent.

   - Various blk-mq tweaks and fixes from Christoph.  A fix for
     integrity bio's from Nic.

   - A few bcache fixes from Kent and Darrick Wong.

   - xen-blk{front,back} fixes from David Vrabel, Matt Rushton, Nicolas
     Swenson, and Roger Pau Monne.

   - Fix for a vec miscount with integrity vectors from Martin.

   - Minor annotations or fixes from Masanari Iida and Rashika Kheria.

   - Tweak to null_blk to do more normal FIFO processing of requests
     from Shlomo Pongratz.

   - Elevator switching bypass fix from Tejun.

   - Softlockup in blkdev_issue_discard() fix when !CONFIG_PREEMPT from
     me"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (31 commits)
  block: add cond_resched() to potentially long running ioctl discard loop
  xen-blkback: init persistent_purge_work work_struct
  blk-mq: pair blk_mq_start_request / blk_mq_requeue_request
  blk-mq: dont assume rq-&gt;errors is set when returning an error from -&gt;queue_rq
  block: Fix cloning of discard/write same bios
  block: Fix type mismatch in ssize_t_blk_mq_tag_sysfs_show
  blk-mq: rework flush sequencing logic
  null_blk: use blk_complete_request and blk_mq_complete_request
  virtio_blk: use blk_mq_complete_request
  blk-mq: rework I/O completions
  fs: Add prototype declaration to appropriate header file include/linux/bio.h
  fs: Mark function as static in fs/bio-integrity.c
  block/null_blk: Fix completion processing from LIFO to FIFO
  block: Explicitly handle discard/write same segments
  block: Fix nr_vecs for inline integrity vectors
  blk-mq: Add bio_integrity setup to blk_mq_make_request
  blk-mq: initialize sg_reserved_size
  blk-mq: handle dma_drain_size
  blk-mq: divert __blk_put_request for MQ ops
  blk-mq: support at_head inserations for blk_execute_rq
  ...
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<entry>
<title>xen-blkback: init persistent_purge_work work_struct</title>
<updated>2014-02-12T03:34:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roger Pau Monne</name>
<email>roger.pau@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-12T03:34:03+00:00</published>
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Initialize persistent_purge_work work_struct on xen_blkif_alloc (and
remove the previous initialization done in purge_persistent_gnt). This
prevents flush_work from complaining even if purge_persistent_gnt has
not been used.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné &lt;roger.pau@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sander Eikelenboom &lt;linux@eikelenboom.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Initialize persistent_purge_work work_struct on xen_blkif_alloc (and
remove the previous initialization done in purge_persistent_gnt). This
prevents flush_work from complaining even if purge_persistent_gnt has
not been used.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné &lt;roger.pau@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sander Eikelenboom &lt;linux@eikelenboom.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'stable/for-jens-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip into for-linus</title>
<updated>2014-02-10T19:52:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-10T19:52:34+00:00</published>
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Konrad writes:

Please git pull the following branch:

 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip.git stable/for-jens-3.14

which is based off v3.13-rc6. If you would like me to rebase it on
a different branch/tag I would be more than happy to do so.

The patches are all bug-fixes and hopefully can go in 3.14.

They deal with xen-blkback shutdown and cause memory leaks
as well as shutdown races. They should go to stable tree and if you
are OK with I will ask them to backport those fixes.

There is also a fix to xen-blkfront to deal with unexpected state
transition. And lastly a fix to the header where it was using the
__aligned__ unnecessarily.
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Konrad writes:

Please git pull the following branch:

 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip.git stable/for-jens-3.14

which is based off v3.13-rc6. If you would like me to rebase it on
a different branch/tag I would be more than happy to do so.

The patches are all bug-fixes and hopefully can go in 3.14.

They deal with xen-blkback shutdown and cause memory leaks
as well as shutdown races. They should go to stable tree and if you
are OK with I will ask them to backport those fixes.

There is also a fix to xen-blkfront to deal with unexpected state
transition. And lastly a fix to the header where it was using the
__aligned__ unnecessarily.
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<entry>
<title>null_blk: use blk_complete_request and blk_mq_complete_request</title>
<updated>2014-02-10T16:27:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-10T11:24:40+00:00</published>
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Use the block layer helpers for CPU-local completions instead of
reimplementing them locally.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Use the block layer helpers for CPU-local completions instead of
reimplementing them locally.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>virtio_blk: use blk_mq_complete_request</title>
<updated>2014-02-10T16:27:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-10T11:24:39+00:00</published>
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Make sure to complete requests on the submitting CPU.  Previously this
was done in blk_mq_end_io, but the responsibility shifted to the drivers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Make sure to complete requests on the submitting CPU.  Previously this
was done in blk_mq_end_io, but the responsibility shifted to the drivers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block/null_blk: Fix completion processing from LIFO to FIFO</title>
<updated>2014-02-07T20:56:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shlomo Pongratz</name>
<email>shlomop@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-06T16:33:17+00:00</published>
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The completion queue is implemented using lockless list.

The llist_add is adds the events to the list head which is a push operation.
The processing of the completion elements is done by disconnecting all the
pushed elements and iterating over the disconnected list. The problem is
that the processing is done in reverse order w.r.t order of the insertion
i.e. LIFO processing. By reversing the disconnected list which is done in
linear time the desired FIFO processing is achieved.

Signed-off-by: Shlomo Pongratz &lt;shlomop@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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The completion queue is implemented using lockless list.

The llist_add is adds the events to the list head which is a push operation.
The processing of the completion elements is done by disconnecting all the
pushed elements and iterating over the disconnected list. The problem is
that the processing is done in reverse order w.r.t order of the insertion
i.e. LIFO processing. By reversing the disconnected list which is done in
linear time the desired FIFO processing is achieved.

Signed-off-by: Shlomo Pongratz &lt;shlomop@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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