I introduced "is_partially_uptodate" aops for GFS2.
A page can have multiple buffers and even if a page is not uptodate, some buffers
can be uptodate on pagesize != blocksize environment.
This aops checks that all buffers which correspond to a part of a file
that we want to read are uptodate. If so, we do not have to issue actual
read IO to HDD even if a page is not uptodate because the portion we
want to read are uptodate.
"block_is_partially_uptodate" function is already used by ext2/3/4.
With the following patch random read/write mixed workloads or random read after
random write workloads can be optimized and we can get performance improvement.
I did a performance test using the sysbench.
#sysbench --num-threads=16 --max-requests=200000 --test=fileio --file-num=1
--file-block-size=8K --file-total-size=2G --file-test-mode=rndrw --file-fsync-freq=0
--file-rw-ratio=1 run
-2.6.29-rc6
Test execution summary:
total time: 202.6389s
total number of events: 200000
total time taken by event execution: 2580.0480
per-request statistics:
min: 0.0000s
avg: 0.0129s
max: 49.5852s
approx. 95 percentile: 0.0462s
-2.6.29-rc6-patched
Test execution summary:
total time: 177.8639s
total number of events: 200000
total time taken by event execution: 2419.0199
per-request statistics:
min: 0.0000s
avg: 0.0121s
max: 52.4306s
approx. 95 percentile: 0.0444s
arch: ia64
pagesize: 16k
blocksize: 4k
Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Impact: Make symbol static.
Fix this sparse warning:
fs/gfs2/rgrp.c:188:5: warning: symbol 'gfs2_bitfit' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Fix this sparse warnings:
fs/gfs2/rgrp.c:156:23: warning: constant 0xffffffffffffffff is so big it is unsigned long long
fs/gfs2/rgrp.c:157:23: warning: constant 0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa is so big it is unsigned long long
fs/gfs2/rgrp.c:158:23: warning: constant 0x5555555555555555 is so big it is long long
fs/gfs2/rgrp.c:194:20: warning: constant 0x5555555555555555 is so big it is long long
fs/gfs2/rgrp.c:204:44: warning: constant 0x5555555555555555 is so big it is long long
Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This adds support for "quota" and "noquota" mount options in addition to the
existing "quota=on/off/account" so that we are compatible with the names by
which these options are more generally known.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
An alignment issue with the existing bitfit algorithm was reported
on IA64. This patch attempts to fix that, and also to tidy up the
code a bit. There is now more documentation about how this works
and it has survived a number of different tests.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This adds a sysfs file called demote_rq to GFS2's
per filesystem directory. Its possible to use this
file to demote arbitrary glocks in exactly the same
way as if a request had come in from a remote node.
This is intended for testing issues relating to caching
of data under glocks. Despite that, the interface is
generic enough to send requests to any type of glock,
but be careful as its not always safe to send an
arbitrary message to an arbitrary glock. For that reason
and to prevent DoS, this interface is restricted to root
only.
The messages look like this:
<type>:<glocknumber> <mode>
Example:
echo -n "2:13324 EX" >/sys/fs/gfs2/unity:myfs/demote_rq
Which means "please demote inode glock (type 2) number 13324 so that
I can get an EX (exclusive) lock". The lock modes are those which
would normally be sent by a remote node in its callback so if you
want to unlock a glock, you use EX, to demote to shared, use SH or PR
(depending on whether you like GFS2 or DLM lock modes better!).
If the glock doesn't exist, you'll get -ENOENT returned. If the
arguments don't make sense, you'll get -EINVAL returned.
The plan is that this interface will be used in combination with
the blktrace patch which I recently posted for comments although
it is, of course, still useful in its own right.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Since we have a UUID, we ought to expose it to the user via sysfs
and uevents. We already have the fs name in both of these places
(a combination of the lock proto and lock table name) so if we add
the UUID as well, we have a full set.
For older filesystems (i.e. those created before mkfs.gfs2 was writing
UUIDs by default) the sysfs file will appear zero length, and no UUID
env var will be added to the uevents.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch allows GFS2 to generate discard requests for blocks which are
no longer useful to the filesystem (i.e. those which have been freed as
the result of an unlink operation). The requests are generated at the
time which those blocks become available for reuse in the filesystem.
In order to use this new feature, you have to specify the "discard"
mount option. The code coalesces adjacent blocks into a single extent
when generating the discard requests, thus generating the minimum
number.
If an error occurs when the request has been sent to the block device,
then it will print a message and turn off the requests for that
filesystem. If the problem is temporary, then you can use remount to
turn the option back on again. There is also a nodiscard mount option
so that you can use remount to turn discard requests off, if required.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch fixes a deadlock when the journal is flushed and there
are dirty inodes other than the one which caused the journal flush.
Originally the journal flushing code was trying to obtain the
transaction glock while running the flush code for an inode glock.
We no longer require the transaction glock at this point in time
since we know that any attempt to get the transaction glock from
another node will result in a journal flush. So if we are flushing
the journal, we can be sure that the transaction lock is still
cached from when the transaction was started.
By inlining a version of gfs2_trans_begin() (minus the bit which
gets the transaction glock) we can avoid the deadlock problems
caused if there is a demote request queued up on the transaction
glock.
In addition I've also moved the umount rwsem so that it covers
the glock workqueue, since it all demotions are done by this
workqueue now. That fixes a bug on umount which I came across
while fixing the original problem.
Reported-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
We were keeping hold of an extra ref to the root inode in one
of the error paths, that resulted in a hang.
Reported-by: Nate Straz <nstraz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Robert Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
The time stamp field is unused in the glock now that we are
using a shrinker, so that we can remove it and save sizeof(unsigned long)
bytes in each glock.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This is the big patch that I've been working on for some time
now. There are many reasons for wanting to make this change
such as:
o Reducing overhead by eliminating duplicated fields between structures
o Simplifcation of the code (reduces the code size by a fair bit)
o The locking interface is now the DLM interface itself as proposed
some time ago.
o Fewer lookups of glocks when processing replies from the DLM
o Fewer memory allocations/deallocations for each glock
o Scope to do further optimisations in the future (but this patch is
more than big enough for now!)
Please note that (a) this patch relates to the lock_dlm module and
not the DLM itself, that is still a separate module; and (b) that
we retain the ability to build GFS2 as a standalone single node
filesystem with out requiring the DLM.
This patch needs a lot of testing, hence my keeping it I restarted
my -git tree after the last merge window. That way, this has the maximum
exposure before its merged. This is (modulo a few minor bug fixes) the
same patch that I've been posting on and off the the last three months
and its passed a number of different tests so far.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
We only really need a single spin lock for the quota data, so
lets just use the lru lock for now.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
Deallocation of gfs2_quota_data objects now happens on-demand through a
shrinker instead of routinely deallocating through the quotad daemon.
Signed-off-by: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The quota code uses lvbs and this is currently not implemented in
lock_nolock, thereby causing panics when quota is enabled with
lock_nolock. This patch adds the relevant bits.
Signed-off-by: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The following patch fixes an issue relating to remount and argument
parsing. After this fix is applied, remount becomes atomic in that
it either succeeds changing the mount to the new state, or it fails
and leaves it in the old state. Previously it was possible for the
parsing of options to fail part way though and for the fs to be left
in a state where some of the new arguments had been applied, but some
had not.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
With a sufficiently new compiler and binutils, code which wasn't
previously generating .eh_frame sections has begun to. Certain
architectures (powerpc, in this case) may generate unexpected relocation
formats in response to this, preventing modules from loading.
While the new relocation types should probably be handled, revert to the
previous behaviour with regards to generation of .eh_frame sections.
(This was reported against Fedora, which appears to be the only distro
doing any building against gcc-4.4 at present: RH bz#486545.)
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Revert the change to the orphan dates of Windows 95, DOS, compression.
Add a new orphan date for OS/2.
Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@sun.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (32 commits)
ucc_geth: Fix oops when using fixed-link support
dm9000: locking bugfix
net: update dnet.c for bus_id removal
dnet: DNET should depend on HAS_IOMEM
dca: add missing copyright/license headers
nl80211: Check that function pointer != NULL before using it
sungem: missing net_device_ops
be2net: fix to restore vlan ids into BE2 during a IF DOWN->UP cycle
be2net: replenish when posting to rx-queue is starved in out of mem conditions
bas_gigaset: correctly allocate USB interrupt transfer buffer
smsc911x: reset last known duplex and carrier on open
sh_eth: Fix mistake of the address of SH7763
sh_eth: Change handling of IRQ
netns: oops in ip[6]_frag_reasm incrementing stats
net: kfree(napi->skb) => kfree_skb
net: fix sctp breakage
ipv6: fix display of local and remote sit endpoints
net: Document /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_budget
tulip: fix crash on iface up with shirq debug
virtio_net: Make virtio_net support carrier detection
...
This patch fixes bug #12208:
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12208
Subject : uml is very slow on 2.6.28 host
This turned out to be not a scheduler regression, but an already
existing problem in ptrace being triggered by subtle scheduler
changes.
The problem is this:
- task A is ptracing task B
- task B stops on a trace event
- task A is woken up and preempts task B
- task A calls ptrace on task B, which does ptrace_check_attach()
- this calls wait_task_inactive(), which sees that task B is still on the runq
- task A goes to sleep for a jiffy
- ...
Since UML does lots of the above sequences, those jiffies quickly add
up to make it slow as hell.
This patch solves this by not rescheduling in read_unlock() after
ptrace_stop() has woken up the tracer.
Thanks to Oleg Nesterov and Ingo Molnar for the feedback.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Grant picked up the wrong version of "Respect _PAGE_COHERENT on classic
ppc32 SW" (commit a4bd6a93c3)
It was missing the code to actually deal with the fixup of
_PAGE_COHERENT based on the CPU feature.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
commit b1c4a9dddf ("ucc_geth: Change
uec phy id to the same format as gianfar's") introduced a regression
in the ucc_geth driver that causes this oops when fixed-link is used:
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000000
Faulting instruction address: 0xc0151270
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
TMCUTU
NIP: c0151270 LR: c0151270 CTR: c0017760
REGS: cf81fa60 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (2.6.29-rc8)
MSR: 00009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR> CR: 24024042 XER: 20000000
DAR: 00000000, DSISR: 20000000
TASK = cf81cba0[1] 'swapper' THREAD: cf81e000
GPR00: c0151270 cf81fb10 cf81cba0 00000000 c0272e20 c025f354 00001e80
cf86b08c
GPR08: d1068200 cffffb74 06000000 d106c200 42024042 10085148 0fffd000
0ffc81a0
GPR16: 00000001 00000001 00000000 007ffeb0 00000000 0000c000 cf83f36c
cf83f000
GPR24: 00000030 cf83f360 cf81fb20 00000000 d106c200 20000000 00001e80
cf83f360
NIP [c0151270] ucc_geth_open+0x330/0x1efc
LR [c0151270] ucc_geth_open+0x330/0x1efc
Call Trace:
[cf81fb10] [c0151270] ucc_geth_open+0x330/0x1efc (unreliable)
[cf81fba0] [c0187638] dev_open+0xbc/0x12c
[cf81fbc0] [c0187e38] dev_change_flags+0x8c/0x1b0
This patch fixes the issue by removing offending (and somewhat
duplicate) code from init_phy() routine, and changes _probe()
function to use uec_mdio_bus_name().
Also, since we fully construct phy_bus_id in the _probe() routine,
we no longer need ->phy_address and ->mdio_bus fields in
ucc_geth_info structure.
I wish the patch would be a bit shorter, but it seems like the only
way to fix the issue in a sane way. Luckily, the patch has been
tested with real PHYs and fixed-link, so no further regressions
expected.
Reported-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Tested-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This fixes a locking bug in the dm9000 driver. It calls
request_irq() without setting IRQF_DISABLED ... which is
correct for handlers that support IRQ sharing, since that
behavior is not guaranteed for shared IRQs. However, its
IRQ handler then wrongly assumes that IRQs are blocked.
So the fix just uses the right spinlock primitives in the
IRQ handler.
NOTE: this is a classic example of the type of bug which
lockdep currently masks by forcibly setting IRQF_DISABLED
on IRQ handlers that did not request that flag.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'fix-includes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu:
m68k: merge the non-MMU and MMU versions of siginfo.h
m68k: use the MMU version of unistd.h for all m68k platforms
m68k: merge the non-MMU and MMU versions of signal.h
m68k: merge the non-MMU and MMU versions of ptrace.h
m68k: use MMU version of setup.h for both MMU and non-MMU
m68k: merge the non-MMU and MMU versions of sigcontext.h
m68k: merge the non-MMU and MMU versions of swab.h
m68k: merge the non-MMU and MMU versions of param.h
Update all previous incarnations of my email address to the correct one.
Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If ecryptfs_encrypted_view or ecryptfs_xattr_metadata were being
specified as mount options, a NULL pointer dereference of crypt_stat
was possible during lookup.
This patch moves the crypt_stat assignment into
ecryptfs_lookup_and_interpose_lower(), ensuring that crypt_stat
will not be NULL before we attempt to dereference it.
Thanks to Dan Carpenter and his static analysis tool, smatch, for
finding this bug.
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When allocating the memory used to store the eCryptfs header contents, a
single, zeroed page was being allocated with get_zeroed_page().
However, the size of an eCryptfs header is either PAGE_CACHE_SIZE or
ECRYPTFS_MINIMUM_HEADER_EXTENT_SIZE (8192), whichever is larger, and is
stored in the file's private_data->crypt_stat->num_header_bytes_at_front
field.
ecryptfs_write_metadata_to_contents() was using
num_header_bytes_at_front to decide how many bytes should be written to
the lower filesystem for the file header. Unfortunately, at least 8K
was being written from the page, despite the chance of the single,
zeroed page being smaller than 8K. This resulted in random areas of
kernel memory being written between the 0x1000 and 0x1FFF bytes offsets
in the eCryptfs file headers if PAGE_SIZE was 4K.
This patch allocates a variable number of pages, calculated with
num_header_bytes_at_front, and passes the number of allocated pages
along to ecryptfs_write_metadata_to_contents().
Thanks to Florian Streibelt for reporting the data leak and working with
me to find the problem. 2.6.28 is the only kernel release with this
vulnerability. Corresponds to CVE-2009-0787
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Florian Streibelt <florian@f-streibelt.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This fixes a regression introduced when we switched to using the core
pci_set_power_state(). The chip seems to need the state to be written
over and over again until it sticks, so we do that.
Note that the code is a bit blunt, without timeout, etc... but that's
pretty much because I put back in there the code exactly as it used to
be before the regression. I still add a call to pci_set_power_state()
at the end so that ACPI gets called appropriately on x86.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tested-by: Raymond Wooninck <tittiatcoke@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In two dca files copyright and license headers are missing.
This patch adds them there.
Signed-off-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
NL80211_CMD_GET_MESH_PARAMS and NL80211_CMD_SET_MESH_PARAMS handlers
did not verify whether a function pointer is NULL (not supported by
the driver) before trying to call the function. The former nl80211
command is available for unprivileged users, too, so this can
potentially allow normal users to kill networking (or worse..) if
mac80211 is built without CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH=y.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sungem driver only got partially converted to net_device_ops.
Since this could cause bugs, please push this to 2.6.29
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is a patch to reconfigure vlan-ids during an i/f down/up cycle
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathyap@serverengines.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is a patch to replenish the rx-queue when it is in a starved
state (due to out-of-mem conditions)
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathyap@serverengines.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The libaio test harness turned up a problem whereby lookup_ioctx on a
bogus io context was returning the 1 valid io context from the list
(harness/cases/3.p).
Because of that, an extra put_iocontext was done, and when the process
exited, it hit a BUG_ON in the put_iocontext macro called from exit_aio
(since we expect a users count of 1 and instead get 0).
The problem was introduced by "aio: make the lookup_ioctx() lockless"
(commit abf137dd77).
Thanks to Zach for pointing out that hlist_for_each_entry_rcu will not
return with a NULL tpos at the end of the loop, even if the entry was
not found.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove a source of fput() call from inside IRQ context. Myself, like Eric,
wasn't able to reproduce an fput() call from IRQ context, but Jeff said he was
able to, with the attached test program. Independently from this, the bug is
conceptually there, so we might be better off fixing it. This patch adds an
optimization similar to the one we already do on ->ki_filp, on ->ki_eventfd.
Playing with ->f_count directly is not pretty in general, but the alternative
here would be to add a brand new delayed fput() infrastructure, that I'm not
sure is worth it.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sam Ravnborg says:
"We have several architectures that plays strange games with $(CC) and
$(CROSS_COMPILE).
So we need to postpone any use of $(call cc-option..) until we have
included the arch specific Makefile so we try with the correct $(CC)
version."
Requested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
[S390] make page table upgrade work again
[S390] make page table walking more robust
[S390] Dont check for pfn_valid() in uaccess_pt.c
[S390] ftrace/mcount: fix kernel stack backchain
[S390] topology: define SD_MC_INIT to fix performance regression
[S390] __div64_31 broken for CONFIG_MARCH_G5
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable:
Btrfs: Clear space_info full when adding new devices
Btrfs: Fix locking around adding new space_info
Nick Piggin noticed this (very unlikely) race between setting a page
dirty and creating the buffers for it - we need to hold the mapping
private_lock until we've set the page dirty bit in order to make sure
that create_empty_buffers() might not build up a set of buffers without
the dirty bits set when the page is dirty.
I doubt anybody has ever hit this race (and it didn't solve the issue
Nick was looking at), but as Nick says: "Still, it does appear to solve
a real race, which we should close."
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This makes sure that gcc doesn't try to optimize away wrapping
arithmetic, which the kernel occasionally uses for overflow testing, ie
things like
if (ptr + offset < ptr)
which technically is undefined for non-unsigned types. See
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12597
for details.
Not all versions of gcc support it, so we need to make it conditional
(it looks like it was introduced in gcc-3.4).
Reminded-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When you compile kernel on Sparc64 with heap memory checking and type
"cat /proc/iomem", you get a crash, because pointers in struct
resource are uninitialized.
Most code fills struct resource with zeros, so I assume that it is
responsibility of the caller of request_resource to initialized it,
not the responsibility of request_resource functuion.
After 2.6.29 is out, there could be a check for uninitialized fields
added to request_resource to avoid crashes like this.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
