I recently bought 3 HGST P7K500-series 500GB SATA drives and
had trouble accessing the block right on the LBA28-LBA48 border.
Here's how it fails (same for all 3 drives):
# dd if=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=1 skip=268435455 > /dev/null
dd: reading `/dev/sdc': Input/output error
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.288033 seconds, 0.0 kB/s
# dmesg
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:f8:ff:ff/00:00:00:00:00/ef tag 0 dma 4096 in
res 51/04:08:f8:ff:ff/00:00:00:00:00/ef Emask 0x1 (device error)
ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata1.00: error: { ABRT }
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
ata1: EH complete
...
After some investigations, it turned out this seems to be caused
by misinterpretation of the ATA specification on LBA28 access.
Following part is the code in question:
=== include/linux/ata.h ===
static inline int lba_28_ok(u64 block, u32 n_block)
{
/* check the ending block number */
return ((block + n_block - 1) < ((u64)1 << 28)) && (n_block <= 256);
}
HGST drive (sometimes) fails with LBA28 access of {block = 0xfffffff,
n_block = 1}, and this behavior seems to be comformant. Other drives,
including other HGST drives are not that strict, through.
>From the ATA specification:
(http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/project/d1410r3b-ATA-ATAPI-6.pdf)
8.15.29 Word (61:60): Total number of user addressable sectors
This field contains a value that is one greater than the total number
of user addressable sectors (see 6.2). The maximum value that shall
be placed in this field is 0FFFFFFFh.
So the driver shouldn't use the value of 0xfffffff for LBA28 request
as this exceeds maximum user addressable sector. The logical maximum
value for LBA28 is 0xffffffe.
The obvious fix is to cut "- 1" part, and the patch attached just do
that. I've been using the patched kernel for about a month now, and
the same fix is also floating on the net for some time. So I believe
this fix works reliably.
Just FYI, many Windows/Intel platform users also seems to be struck
by this, and HGST has issued a note pointing to Intel ICH8/9 driver.
"28-bit LBA command is being used to access LBAs 29-bits in length"
b531b8bce8
Also, *BSDs seems to have similar fix included sometime around ~2004,
through I have not checked out exact portion of the code.
Signed-off-by: Taisuke Yamada <tai@rakugaki.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
This new action will have the ability to change the priority and/or
queue_mapping fields on an sk_buff.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch is intended to add a qdisc to support the new tx multiqueue
architecture by providing a band for each hardware queue. By doing
this it is possible to support a different qdisc per physical hardware
queue.
This qdisc uses the skb->queue_mapping to select which band to place
the traffic onto. It then uses a round robin w/ a check to see if the
subqueue is stopped to determine which band to dequeue the packet from.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Some of the HT code in mlme.c is misplaced:
* constants/definitions belong to the ieee80211.h header
* code being used in other modes as well shouldn't be there
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch follows 11n spec naming more rigorously replacing MIMO_PS
with SM_PS (Spatial Multiplexing Power Save).
(Originally submitted as 4 patches, "mac80211: change MIMO_PS to SM_PS",
"iwlwifi: change MIMO_PS to SM_PS", "ath9k: change MIMO_PS to SM_PS",
and "iwlwifi: remove double definition of SM PS". -- JWL)
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As part of going idle, we already look at the time of the next timer event to determine
which C-state to select etc.
This patch adds functionality that causes the timers that are past their
soft expire time, to fire at this time, before we calculate the next wakeup
time. This functionality will thus avoid wakeups by running timers before
going idle rather than specially waking up for it.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
We still have life time issues with the sysfs command filter kobject,
so disable it for 2.6.27 release. We can revisit this and make it work
properly for 2.6.28, for 2.6.27 release it's too risky.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The GPIO connected to ADS7846 nPENIRQ signal is usually used to get
the pendown state as well. Introduce a .gpio_pendown, and use this
to decide the pendown state if .get_pendown_state is NULL.
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Define USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS as a constant expression rather than repeating
"NR_CPUS >= CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS" all over the place.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
is_buffer_dma_capable helper function is to see if a memory region is
DMA-capable or not. The arugments are the dma_mask (or
coherent_dma_mask) of a device and the address and size of a memory
region.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Now that we can configure smc91x leds from its platform data,
it seems rather useful to move the led definitions to the
externally visible header file.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@altran.com>
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: arch_reinit_sched_domains() must destroy domains to force rebuild
sched, cpuset: rework sched domains and CPU hotplug handling (v4)
Fix compile error:
arch/x86/mm/init_32.c: In function 'mem_init':
arch/x86/mm/init_32.c:908: error: implicit declaration of function 'start_periodic_check_for_corruption'
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Right now, there is no notifier that is called on a new cpu, before the new
cpu begins processing interrupts/softirqs.
Various kernel function would need that notification, e.g. kvm works around
by calling smp_call_function_single(), rcu polls cpu_online_map.
The patch adds a CPU_STARTING notification. It also adds a helper function
that sends the message to all cpu_chain handlers.
Tested on x86-64.
All other archs are untested. Especially on sparc, I'm not sure if I got
it right.
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Calculate the journal device name once and stash it away in the
journal_s structure. This avoids needing to call bdevname()
everywhere and reduces stack usage by not needing to allocate an
on-stack buffer. In addition, we eliminate the '/' that can appear in
device names (e.g. "cciss/c0d0p9" --- see kernel bugzilla #11321) that
can cause problems when creating proc directory names, and include the
inode number to support ocfs2 which creates multiple journals with
different inode numbers.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
this patch adds a _range version of hrtimer_start() so that range timers
can be created; the hrtimer_start() function is just a wrapper around this.
In addition, hrtimer_start_expires() will now preserve existing ranges.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
This patch provides a mechanism for platforms to be able to supply the
LED configuration via platform data, rather than having to hard code
it in smc91x.h.
Acked-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Perodically check for corruption in low phusical memory. Don't bother
checking at fault time, since it won't show anything useful.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Some BIOSes have been observed to corrupt memory in the low 64k. This
change:
- Reserves all memory which does not have to be in that area, to
prevent it from being used as general memory by the kernel. Things
like the SMP trampoline are still in the memory, however.
- Clears the reserved memory so we can observe changes to it.
- Adds a function check_for_bios_corruption() which checks and reports on
memory becoming unexpectedly non-zero. Currently it's called in the
x86 fault handler, and the powermanagement debug output.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We don't need whole 32 of them, only NR_SOFTIRQS.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
What I realized recently is that calling rebuild_sched_domains() in
arch_reinit_sched_domains() by itself is not enough when cpusets are enabled.
partition_sched_domains() code is trying to avoid unnecessary domain rebuilds
and will not actually rebuild anything if new domain masks match the old ones.
What this means is that doing
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings
on a system with cpusets enabled will not take affect untill something changes
in the cpuset setup (ie new sets created or deleted).
This patch fixes restore correct behaviour where domains must be rebuilt in
order to enable MC powersaving flags.
Test on quad-core Core2 box with both CONFIG_CPUSETS and !CONFIG_CPUSETS.
Also tested on dual-core Core2 laptop. Lockdep is happy and things are working
as expected.
Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
in some randconfig configurations, hrtimers are used even though
the hrtimer config if off; and it broke the build due to some of
the new functions being on the wrong side of the ifdef.
This patch moves the functions to the other side of the ifdef, fixing
the build bug.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
We want to be able to control the default "rounding" that is used by
select() and poll() and friends. This is a per process property
(so that we can have a "nice" like program to start certain programs with
a looser or stricter rounding) that can be set/get via a prctl().
For this purpose, a field called "timer_slack_ns" is added to the task
struct. In addition, a field called "default_timer_slack"ns" is added
so that tasks easily can temporarily to a more/less accurate slack and then
back to the default.
The default value of the slack is set to 50 usec; this is significantly less
than 2.6.27's average select() and poll() timing error but still allows
the kernel to group timers somewhat to preserve power behavior. Applications
and admins can override this via the prctl()
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
this patch turns hrtimers into range timers; they have 2 expire points
1) the soft expire point
2) the hard expire point
the kernel will do it's regular best effort attempt to get the timer run
at the hard expire point. However, if some other time fires after the soft
expire point, the kernel now has the freedom to fire this timer at this point,
and thus grouping the events and preventing a power-expensive wakeup in the
future.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To catch code that still touches the "expires" memory directly, rename it
to have the compiler complain rather than get nasty, hard to explain,
runtime behavior
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
In order to be able to turn hrtimers into range based, we need to provide
accessor functions for getting to the "expires" ktime_t member of the
struct hrtimer.
This patch adds a set of accessors for this purpose:
* hrtimer_set_expires
* hrtimer_set_expires_tv64
* hrtimer_add_expires
* hrtimer_add_expires_ns
* hrtimer_get_expires
* hrtimer_get_expires_tv64
* hrtimer_get_expires_ns
* hrtimer_expires_remaining
* hrtimer_start_expires
No users of these new accessors are added yet; these follow in later patches.
Hopefully this patch can even go into 2.6.27-rc so that the conversions will
not have a bottleneck in -next
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
With lots of help, input and cleanups from Thomas Gleixner
This patch switches select() and poll() over to hrtimers.
The core of the patch is replacing the "s64 timeout" with a
"struct timespec end_time" in all the plumbing.
But most of the diffstat comes from using the just introduced helpers:
poll_select_set_timeout
poll_select_copy_remaining
timespec_add_safe
which make manipulating the timespec easier and less error-prone.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
with hrtimer poll/select, the signal restart data no longer is a single
long representing a jiffies count, but it becomes a second/nanosecond pair
that also needs to encode if there was a timeout at all or not.
This patch adds a struct to the restart_block union for this purpose
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
This patch adds 2 helpers that will be used for the hrtimer based select/poll:
poll_select_set_timeout() is a helper that takes a timeout (as a second, nanosecond
pair) and turns that into a "struct timespec" that represents the absolute end time.
This is a common operation in the many select() and poll() variants and needs various,
common, sanity checks.
poll_select_copy_remaining() is a helper that takes care of copying the remaining
time to userspace, as select(), pselect() and ppoll() do. This function comes in
both a natural and a compat implementation (due to datastructure differences).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
For the select() rework, it's important to be able to add timespec
structures in an overflow-safe manner.
This patch adds a timespec_add_safe() function for this which is similar in
operation to ktime_add_safe(), but works on a struct timespec.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
This patch adds a schedule_hrtimeout() function, to be used by select() and
poll() in a later patch. This function works similar to schedule_timeout()
in most ways, but takes a timespec rather than jiffies.
With a lot of contributions/fixes from Thomas
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fix some pasto's in comments in the new linux/tracehook.h and
asm-generic/syscall.h files.
Reported-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I found we can no longer set limit to 0 with 2.6.27-rcX:
# mount -t cgroup -omemory xxx /mnt
# mkdir /mnt/0
# echo 0 > /mnt/0/memory.limit_in_bytes
bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy
It turned out 'limit' can't be set to 'usage', which is wrong IMO.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
