linux/kernel, branch v3.5

Merge branch 'anton-kgdb' (kgdb dmesg fixups)

2012-07-21T17:34:13Z

Merge emailed kgdb dmesg fixups patches from Anton Vorontsov: "The dmesg command appears to be broken after the printk rework. The old logic in the kdb code makes no sense in terms of current printk/logging storage format, and KDB simply hangs forever upon entering 'dmesg' command. The first patch revives the command by switching to kmsg_dumper iterator. As a side-effect, the code is now much more simpler. A few changes were needed in the printk.c: we needed unlocked variant of the kmsg_dumper iterator, but these can surely wait for 3.6. It's probably too late even for the first patch to go to 3.5, but I'll try to convince otherwise. :-) Here we go: - The current code is broken for sure, and has no hope to work at all. It is a regression - The new code works for me, and probably works for everyone else; - If it compiles (and I urge everyone to compile-test it on your setup), it hardly can make things worse." * Merge emailed patches from Anton Vorontsov: (4 commits) kdb: Switch to nolock variants of kmsg_dump functions printk: Implement some unlocked kmsg_dump functions printk: Remove kdb_syslog_data kdb: Revive dmesg command

kdb: Switch to nolock variants of kmsg_dump functions

2012-07-21T17:34:00Z

The locked variants are prone to deadlocks (suppose we got to the debugger w/ the logbuf lock held), so let's switch to nolock variants. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk: Implement some unlocked kmsg_dump functions

2012-07-21T17:34:00Z

If used from KDB, the locked variants are prone to deadlocks (suppose we got to the debugger w/ the logbuf lock held). So, we have to implement a few routines that grab no logbuf lock. Yet we don't need these functions in modules, so we don't export them. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk: Remove kdb_syslog_data

2012-07-21T17:34:00Z

The function is no longer needed, so remove it. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kdb: Revive dmesg command

2012-07-21T17:34:00Z

The kgdb dmesg command is broken after the printk rework. The old logic in kdb code makes no sense in terms of current printk/logging storage format, and KDB simply hangs forever. This patch revives the command by switching to kmsg_dumper iterator. The code is now much more simpler and shorter. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Make wait_for_device_probe() also do scsi_complete_async_scans()

2012-07-19T01:15:46Z

Commit a7a20d103994 ("sd: limit the scope of the async probe domain") make the SCSI device probing run device discovery in it's own async domain. However, as a result, the partition detection was no longer synchronized by async_synchronize_full() (which, despite the name, only synchronizes the global async space, not all of them). Which in turn meant that "wait_for_device_probe()" would not wait for the SCSI partitions to be parsed. And "wait_for_device_probe()" was what the boot time init code relied on for mounting the root filesystem. Now, most people never noticed this, because not only is it timing-dependent, but modern distributions all use initrd. So the root filesystem isn't actually on a disk at all. And then before they actually mount the final disk filesystem, they will have loaded the scsi-wait-scan module, which not only does the expected wait_for_device_probe(), but also does scsi_complete_async_scans(). [ Side note: scsi_complete_async_scans() had also been partially broken, but that was fixed in commit 43a8d39d0137 ("fix async probe regression"), so that same commit a7a20d103994 had actually broken setups even if you used scsi-wait-scan explicitly ] Solve this problem by just moving the scsi_complete_async_scans() call into wait_for_device_probe(). Everybody who wants to wait for device probing to finish really wants the SCSI probing to complete, so there's no reason not to do this. So now "wait_for_device_probe()" really does what the name implies, and properly waits for device probing to finish. This also removes the now unnecessary extra calls to scsi_complete_async_scans(). Reported-and-tested-by: Artem S. Tashkinov Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Alan Stern Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: linux-scsi Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-07-18T17:36:02Z

One more time/ntp fix pulled from Ingo Molnar. * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: ntp: Fix STA_INS/DEL clearing bug

timekeeping: Add missing update call in timekeeping_resume()

2012-07-16T17:02:17Z

The leap second rework unearthed another issue of inconsistent data. On timekeeping_resume() the timekeeper data is updated, but nothing calls timekeeping_update(), so now the update code in the timer interrupt sees stale values. This has been the case before those changes, but then the timer interrupt was using stale data as well so this went unnoticed for quite some time. Add the missing update call, so all the data is consistent everywhere. Reported-by: Andreas Schwab Reported-and-tested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Reported-and-tested-by: Martin Steigerwald Cc: LKML Cc: Linux PM list Cc: John Stultz Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ntp: Fix STA_INS/DEL clearing bug

2012-07-15T07:48:49Z

In commit 6b43ae8a619d17c4935c3320d2ef9e92bdeed05d, I introduced a bug that kept the STA_INS or STA_DEL bit from being cleared from time_status via adjtimex() without forcing STA_PLL first. Usually once the STA_INS is set, it isn't cleared until the leap second is applied, so its unlikely this affected anyone. However during testing I noticed it took some effort to cancel a leap second once STA_INS was set. Signed-off-by: John Stultz Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Richard Cochran Cc: Prarit Bhargava CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.4 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342156917-25092-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

Merge branches 'core-urgent-for-linus', 'perf-urgent-for-linus' and 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-07-14T18:16:24Z

Pull RCU, perf, and scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar. The RCU fix is a revert for an optimization that could cause deadlocks. One of the scheduler commits (164c33c6adee "sched: Fix fork() error path to not crash") is correct but not complete (some architectures like Tile are not covered yet) - the resulting additional fixes are still WIP and Ingo did not want to delay these pending fixes. See this thread on lkml: [PATCH] fork: fix error handling in dup_task() The perf fixes are just trivial oneliners. * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: Revert "rcu: Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf kvm: Fix segfault with report and mixed guestmount use perf kvm: Fix regression with guest machine creation perf script: Fix format regression due to libtraceevent merge ring-buffer: Fix accounting of entries when removing pages ring-buffer: Fix crash due to uninitialized new_pages list head * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: MAINTAINERS/sched: Update scheduler file pattern sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again sched: Fix fork() error path to not crash