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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2014-03-25T00:07:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-25T00:07:24+00:00</published>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) OpenVswitch's lookup_datapath() returns error pointers, so don't
    check against NULL.  From Jiri Pirko.

 2) pfkey_compile_policy() code path tries to do a GFP_KERNEL allocation
    under RCU locks, fix by using GFP_ATOMIC when necessary.  From
    Nikolay Aleksandrov.

 3) phy_suspend() indirectly passes uninitialized data into the ethtool
    get wake-on-land implementations.  Fix from Sebastian Hesselbarth.

 4) CPSW driver unregisters CPTS twice, fix from Benedikt Spranger.

 5) If SKB allocation of reply packet fails, vxlan's arp_reduce() defers
    a NULL pointer.  Fix from David Stevens.

 6) IPV6 neigh handling in vxlan doesn't validate the destination
    address properly, and it builds a packet with the src and dst
    reversed.  Fix also from David Stevens.

 7) Fix spinlock recursion during subscription failures in TIPC stack,
    from Erik Hugne.

 8) Revert buggy conversion of davinci_emac to devm_request_irq, from
    Chrstian Riesch.

 9) Wrong flags passed into forwarding database netlink notifications,
    from Nicolas Dichtel.

10) The netpoll neighbour soliciation handler checks wrong ethertype,
    needs to be ETH_P_IPV6 rather than ETH_P_ARP.  Fix from Li RongQing.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (34 commits)
  tipc: fix spinlock recursion bug for failed subscriptions
  vxlan: fix nonfunctional neigh_reduce()
  net: davinci_emac: Fix rollback of emac_dev_open()
  net: davinci_emac: Replace devm_request_irq with request_irq
  netpoll: fix the skb check in pkt_is_ns
  net: micrel : ks8851-ml: add vdd-supply support
  ip6mr: fix mfc notification flags
  ipmr: fix mfc notification flags
  rtnetlink: fix fdb notification flags
  tcp: syncookies: do not use getnstimeofday()
  netlink: fix setsockopt in mmap examples in documentation
  openvswitch: Correctly report flow used times for first 5 minutes after boot.
  via-rhine: Disable device in error path
  ATHEROS-ATL1E: Convert iounmap to pci_iounmap
  vxlan: fix potential NULL dereference in arp_reduce()
  cnic: Update version to 2.5.20 and copyright year.
  cnic,bnx2i,bnx2fc: Fix inconsistent use of page size
  cnic: Use proper ulp_ops for per device operations.
  net: cdc_ncm: fix control message ordering
  ipv6: ip6_append_data_mtu do not handle the mtu of the second fragment properly
  ...
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) OpenVswitch's lookup_datapath() returns error pointers, so don't
    check against NULL.  From Jiri Pirko.

 2) pfkey_compile_policy() code path tries to do a GFP_KERNEL allocation
    under RCU locks, fix by using GFP_ATOMIC when necessary.  From
    Nikolay Aleksandrov.

 3) phy_suspend() indirectly passes uninitialized data into the ethtool
    get wake-on-land implementations.  Fix from Sebastian Hesselbarth.

 4) CPSW driver unregisters CPTS twice, fix from Benedikt Spranger.

 5) If SKB allocation of reply packet fails, vxlan's arp_reduce() defers
    a NULL pointer.  Fix from David Stevens.

 6) IPV6 neigh handling in vxlan doesn't validate the destination
    address properly, and it builds a packet with the src and dst
    reversed.  Fix also from David Stevens.

 7) Fix spinlock recursion during subscription failures in TIPC stack,
    from Erik Hugne.

 8) Revert buggy conversion of davinci_emac to devm_request_irq, from
    Chrstian Riesch.

 9) Wrong flags passed into forwarding database netlink notifications,
    from Nicolas Dichtel.

10) The netpoll neighbour soliciation handler checks wrong ethertype,
    needs to be ETH_P_IPV6 rather than ETH_P_ARP.  Fix from Li RongQing.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (34 commits)
  tipc: fix spinlock recursion bug for failed subscriptions
  vxlan: fix nonfunctional neigh_reduce()
  net: davinci_emac: Fix rollback of emac_dev_open()
  net: davinci_emac: Replace devm_request_irq with request_irq
  netpoll: fix the skb check in pkt_is_ns
  net: micrel : ks8851-ml: add vdd-supply support
  ip6mr: fix mfc notification flags
  ipmr: fix mfc notification flags
  rtnetlink: fix fdb notification flags
  tcp: syncookies: do not use getnstimeofday()
  netlink: fix setsockopt in mmap examples in documentation
  openvswitch: Correctly report flow used times for first 5 minutes after boot.
  via-rhine: Disable device in error path
  ATHEROS-ATL1E: Convert iounmap to pci_iounmap
  vxlan: fix potential NULL dereference in arp_reduce()
  cnic: Update version to 2.5.20 and copyright year.
  cnic,bnx2i,bnx2fc: Fix inconsistent use of page size
  cnic: Use proper ulp_ops for per device operations.
  net: cdc_ncm: fix control message ordering
  ipv6: ip6_append_data_mtu do not handle the mtu of the second fragment properly
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v3.14-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2014-03-21T05:09:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-21T05:09:30+00:00</published>
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Pull trace fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "Vaibhav Nagarnaik discovered that since 3.10 a clean-up patch made the
  array index in the trace event format bogus.

  He supplied an elegant solution that uses __stringify() and also
  removes the need for the event_storage and event_storage_mutex and
  also cuts off a few K of overhead from the trace events"

* tag 'trace-fixes-v3.14-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Fix array size mismatch in format string
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Pull trace fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "Vaibhav Nagarnaik discovered that since 3.10 a clean-up patch made the
  array index in the trace event format bogus.

  He supplied an elegant solution that uses __stringify() and also
  removes the need for the event_storage and event_storage_mutex and
  also cuts off a few K of overhead from the trace events"

* tag 'trace-fixes-v3.14-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Fix array size mismatch in format string
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<entry>
<title>mm: fix swapops.h:131 bug if remap_file_pages raced migration</title>
<updated>2014-03-21T05:09:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-21T04:52:17+00:00</published>
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Add remove_linear_migration_ptes_from_nonlinear(), to fix an interesting
little include/linux/swapops.h:131 BUG_ON(!PageLocked) found by trinity:
indicating that remove_migration_ptes() failed to find one of the
migration entries that was temporarily inserted.

The problem comes from remap_file_pages()'s switch from vma_interval_tree
(good for inserting the migration entry) to i_mmap_nonlinear list (no good
for locating it again); but can only be a problem if the remap_file_pages()
range does not cover the whole of the vma (zap_pte() clears the range).

remove_migration_ptes() needs a file_nonlinear method to go down the
i_mmap_nonlinear list, applying linear location to look for migration
entries in those vmas too, just in case there was this race.

The file_nonlinear method does need rmap_walk_control.arg to do this;
but it never needed vma passed in - vma comes from its own iteration.

Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Add remove_linear_migration_ptes_from_nonlinear(), to fix an interesting
little include/linux/swapops.h:131 BUG_ON(!PageLocked) found by trinity:
indicating that remove_migration_ptes() failed to find one of the
migration entries that was temporarily inserted.

The problem comes from remap_file_pages()'s switch from vma_interval_tree
(good for inserting the migration entry) to i_mmap_nonlinear list (no good
for locating it again); but can only be a problem if the remap_file_pages()
range does not cover the whole of the vma (zap_pte() clears the range).

remove_migration_ptes() needs a file_nonlinear method to go down the
i_mmap_nonlinear list, applying linear location to look for migration
entries in those vmas too, just in case there was this race.

The file_nonlinear method does need rmap_walk_control.arg to do this;
but it never needed vma passed in - vma comes from its own iteration.

Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix array size mismatch in format string</title>
<updated>2014-03-20T17:21:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vaibhav Nagarnaik</name>
<email>vnagarnaik@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-14T03:51:48+00:00</published>
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In event format strings, the array size is reported in two locations.
One in array subscript and then via the "size:" attribute. The values
reported there have a mismatch.

For e.g., in sched:sched_switch the prev_comm and next_comm character
arrays have subscript values as [32] where as the actual field size is
16.

name: sched_switch
ID: 301
format:
        field:unsigned short common_type;       offset:0;       size:2; signed:0;
        field:unsigned char common_flags;       offset:2;       size:1; signed:0;
        field:unsigned char common_preempt_count;       offset:3;       size:1;signed:0;
        field:int common_pid;   offset:4;       size:4; signed:1;

        field:char prev_comm[32];       offset:8;       size:16;        signed:1;
        field:pid_t prev_pid;   offset:24;      size:4; signed:1;
        field:int prev_prio;    offset:28;      size:4; signed:1;
        field:long prev_state;  offset:32;      size:8; signed:1;
        field:char next_comm[32];       offset:40;      size:16;        signed:1;
        field:pid_t next_pid;   offset:56;      size:4; signed:1;
        field:int next_prio;    offset:60;      size:4; signed:1;

After bisection, the following commit was blamed:
92edca0 tracing: Use direct field, type and system names

This commit removes the duplication of strings for field-&gt;name and
field-&gt;type assuming that all the strings passed in
__trace_define_field() are immutable. This is not true for arrays, where
the type string is created in event_storage variable and field-&gt;type for
all array fields points to event_storage.

Use __stringify() to create a string constant for the type string.

Also, get rid of event_storage and event_storage_mutex that are not
needed anymore.

also, an added benefit is that this reduces the overhead of events a bit more:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
8424787 2036472 1302528 11763787         b3804b vmlinux
8420814 2036408 1302528 11759750         b37086 vmlinux.patched

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392349908-29685-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com

Cc: Laurent Chavey &lt;chavey@google.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik &lt;vnagarnaik@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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In event format strings, the array size is reported in two locations.
One in array subscript and then via the "size:" attribute. The values
reported there have a mismatch.

For e.g., in sched:sched_switch the prev_comm and next_comm character
arrays have subscript values as [32] where as the actual field size is
16.

name: sched_switch
ID: 301
format:
        field:unsigned short common_type;       offset:0;       size:2; signed:0;
        field:unsigned char common_flags;       offset:2;       size:1; signed:0;
        field:unsigned char common_preempt_count;       offset:3;       size:1;signed:0;
        field:int common_pid;   offset:4;       size:4; signed:1;

        field:char prev_comm[32];       offset:8;       size:16;        signed:1;
        field:pid_t prev_pid;   offset:24;      size:4; signed:1;
        field:int prev_prio;    offset:28;      size:4; signed:1;
        field:long prev_state;  offset:32;      size:8; signed:1;
        field:char next_comm[32];       offset:40;      size:16;        signed:1;
        field:pid_t next_pid;   offset:56;      size:4; signed:1;
        field:int next_prio;    offset:60;      size:4; signed:1;

After bisection, the following commit was blamed:
92edca0 tracing: Use direct field, type and system names

This commit removes the duplication of strings for field-&gt;name and
field-&gt;type assuming that all the strings passed in
__trace_define_field() are immutable. This is not true for arrays, where
the type string is created in event_storage variable and field-&gt;type for
all array fields points to event_storage.

Use __stringify() to create a string constant for the type string.

Also, get rid of event_storage and event_storage_mutex that are not
needed anymore.

also, an added benefit is that this reduces the overhead of events a bit more:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
8424787 2036472 1302528 11763787         b3804b vmlinux
8420814 2036408 1302528 11759750         b37086 vmlinux.patched

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392349908-29685-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com

Cc: Laurent Chavey &lt;chavey@google.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik &lt;vnagarnaik@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: cdc_ncm: fix control message ordering</title>
<updated>2014-03-18T19:32:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjørn Mork</name>
<email>bjorn@mork.no</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-17T15:25:18+00:00</published>
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This is a context modified revert of commit 6a9612e2cb22
("net: cdc_ncm: remove ncm_parm field") which introduced
a NCM specification violation, causing setup errors for
some devices. These errors resulted in the device and
host disagreeing about shared settings, with complete
failure to communicate as the end result.

The NCM specification require that many of the NCM specific
control reuests are sent only while the NCM Data Interface
is in alternate setting 0. Reverting the commit ensures that
we follow this requirement.

Fixes: 6a9612e2cb22 ("net: cdc_ncm: remove ncm_parm field")
Reported-and-tested-by: Pasi Kärkkäinen &lt;pasik@iki.fi&gt;
Reported-by: Thomas Schäfer &lt;tschaefer@t-online.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork &lt;bjorn@mork.no&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This is a context modified revert of commit 6a9612e2cb22
("net: cdc_ncm: remove ncm_parm field") which introduced
a NCM specification violation, causing setup errors for
some devices. These errors resulted in the device and
host disagreeing about shared settings, with complete
failure to communicate as the end result.

The NCM specification require that many of the NCM specific
control reuests are sent only while the NCM Data Interface
is in alternate setting 0. Reverting the commit ensures that
we follow this requirement.

Fixes: 6a9612e2cb22 ("net: cdc_ncm: remove ncm_parm field")
Reported-and-tested-by: Pasi Kärkkäinen &lt;pasik@iki.fi&gt;
Reported-by: Thomas Schäfer &lt;tschaefer@t-online.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork &lt;bjorn@mork.no&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec</title>
<updated>2014-03-18T16:42:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-18T16:42:33+00:00</published>
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Steffen Klassert says:

====================
1) Fix a sleep in atomic when pfkey_sadb2xfrm_user_sec_ctx()
   is called from pfkey_compile_policy().
   Fix from Nikolay Aleksandrov.

2) security_xfrm_policy_alloc() can be called in process and atomic
   context. Add an argument to let the callers choose the appropriate
   way. Fix from Nikolay Aleksandrov.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Steffen Klassert says:

====================
1) Fix a sleep in atomic when pfkey_sadb2xfrm_user_sec_ctx()
   is called from pfkey_compile_policy().
   Fix from Nikolay Aleksandrov.

2) security_xfrm_policy_alloc() can be called in process and atomic
   context. Add an argument to let the callers choose the appropriate
   way. Fix from Nikolay Aleksandrov.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2014-03-11T17:17:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-11T17:17:50+00:00</published>
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Pull audit namespace fixes from Eric Biederman:
 "Starting with 3.14-rc1 the audit code is faulty (think oopses and
  races) with respect to how it computes the network namespace of which
  socket to reply to, and I happened to notice by chance when reading
  through the code.

  My testing and the automated build bots don't find any problems with
  these fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  audit: Update kdoc for audit_send_reply and audit_list_rules_send
  audit: Send replies in the proper network namespace.
  audit: Use struct net not pid_t to remember the network namespce to reply in
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Pull audit namespace fixes from Eric Biederman:
 "Starting with 3.14-rc1 the audit code is faulty (think oopses and
  races) with respect to how it computes the network namespace of which
  socket to reply to, and I happened to notice by chance when reading
  through the code.

  My testing and the automated build bots don't find any problems with
  these fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  audit: Update kdoc for audit_send_reply and audit_list_rules_send
  audit: Send replies in the proper network namespace.
  audit: Use struct net not pid_t to remember the network namespce to reply in
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)</title>
<updated>2014-03-11T00:26:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-11T00:26:36+00:00</published>
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Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "Nine fixes"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;:
  cris: convert ffs from an object-like macro to a function-like macro
  hfsplus: add HFSX subfolder count support
  tools/testing/selftests/ipc/msgque.c: handle msgget failure return correctly
  MAINTAINERS: blackfin: add git repository
  revert "kallsyms: fix absolute addresses for kASLR"
  mm/Kconfig: fix URL for zsmalloc benchmark
  fs/proc/base.c: fix GPF in /proc/$PID/map_files
  mm/compaction: break out of loop on !PageBuddy in isolate_freepages_block
  mm: fix GFP_THISNODE callers and clarify
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Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "Nine fixes"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;:
  cris: convert ffs from an object-like macro to a function-like macro
  hfsplus: add HFSX subfolder count support
  tools/testing/selftests/ipc/msgque.c: handle msgget failure return correctly
  MAINTAINERS: blackfin: add git repository
  revert "kallsyms: fix absolute addresses for kASLR"
  mm/Kconfig: fix URL for zsmalloc benchmark
  fs/proc/base.c: fix GPF in /proc/$PID/map_files
  mm/compaction: break out of loop on !PageBuddy in isolate_freepages_block
  mm: fix GFP_THISNODE callers and clarify
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: fix GFP_THISNODE callers and clarify</title>
<updated>2014-03-11T00:26:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-10T22:49:43+00:00</published>
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GFP_THISNODE is for callers that implement their own clever fallback to
remote nodes.  It restricts the allocation to the specified node and
does not invoke reclaim, assuming that the caller will take care of it
when the fallback fails, e.g.  through a subsequent allocation request
without GFP_THISNODE set.

However, many current GFP_THISNODE users only want the node exclusive
aspect of the flag, without actually implementing their own fallback or
triggering reclaim if necessary.  This results in things like page
migration failing prematurely even when there is easily reclaimable
memory available, unless kswapd happens to be running already or a
concurrent allocation attempt triggers the necessary reclaim.

Convert all callsites that don't implement their own fallback strategy
to __GFP_THISNODE.  This restricts the allocation a single node too, but
at the same time allows the allocator to enter the slowpath, wake
kswapd, and invoke direct reclaim if necessary, to make the allocation
happen when memory is full.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Stancek &lt;jstancek@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&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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GFP_THISNODE is for callers that implement their own clever fallback to
remote nodes.  It restricts the allocation to the specified node and
does not invoke reclaim, assuming that the caller will take care of it
when the fallback fails, e.g.  through a subsequent allocation request
without GFP_THISNODE set.

However, many current GFP_THISNODE users only want the node exclusive
aspect of the flag, without actually implementing their own fallback or
triggering reclaim if necessary.  This results in things like page
migration failing prematurely even when there is easily reclaimable
memory available, unless kswapd happens to be running already or a
concurrent allocation attempt triggers the necessary reclaim.

Convert all callsites that don't implement their own fallback strategy
to __GFP_THISNODE.  This restricts the allocation a single node too, but
at the same time allows the allocator to enter the slowpath, wake
kswapd, and invoke direct reclaim if necessary, to make the allocation
happen when memory is full.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Stancek &lt;jstancek@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&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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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2014-03-10T19:57:26+00:00</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2014-03-10T19:57:26+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro.

Clean up file table accesses (get rid of fget_light() in favor of the
fdget() interface), add proper file position locking.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  get rid of fget_light()
  sockfd_lookup_light(): switch to fdget^W^Waway from fget_light
  vfs: atomic f_pos accesses as per POSIX
  ocfs2 syncs the wrong range...
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Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro.

Clean up file table accesses (get rid of fget_light() in favor of the
fdget() interface), add proper file position locking.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  get rid of fget_light()
  sockfd_lookup_light(): switch to fdget^W^Waway from fget_light
  vfs: atomic f_pos accesses as per POSIX
  ocfs2 syncs the wrong range...
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