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<updated>2011-09-21T20:39:59+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>XZ: Fix incorrect XZ_BUF_ERROR</title>
<updated>2011-09-21T20:39:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lasse Collin</name>
<email>lasse.collin@tukaani.org</email>
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<published>2011-09-21T14:30:50+00:00</published>
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xz_dec_run() could incorrectly return XZ_BUF_ERROR if all of the
following was true:

 - The caller knows how many bytes of output to expect and only provides
   that much output space.

 - When the last output bytes are decoded, the caller-provided input
   buffer ends right before the LZMA2 end of payload marker.  So LZMA2
   won't provide more output anymore, but it won't know it yet and thus
   won't return XZ_STREAM_END yet.

 - A BCJ filter is in use and it hasn't left any unfiltered bytes in the
   temp buffer.  This can happen with any BCJ filter, but in practice
   it's more likely with filters other than the x86 BCJ.

This fixes &lt;https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735408&gt; where
Squashfs thinks that a valid file system is corrupt.

This also fixes a similar bug in single-call mode where the uncompressed
size of a block using BCJ + LZMA2 was 0 bytes and caller provided no
output space.  Many empty .xz files don't contain any blocks and thus
don't trigger this bug.

This also tweaks a closely related detail: xz_dec_bcj_run() could call
xz_dec_lzma2_run() to decode into temp buffer when it was known to be
useless.  This was harmless although it wasted a minuscule number of CPU
cycles.

Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin &lt;lasse.collin@tukaani.org&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lib/sha1.c: quiet sparse noise about symbol not declared</title>
<updated>2011-09-13T23:09:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H Hartley Sweeten</name>
<email>hartleys@visionengravers.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-09T18:30:27+00:00</published>
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Include &lt;linux/cryptohash.h&gt; to pickup the declarations for sha_transform
and sha_init to quite the sparse noise:

  warning: symbol 'sha_transform' was not declared. Should it be static?
  warning: symbol 'sha_init' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten &lt;hsweeten@visionengravers.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mandeep Singh Baines &lt;msb@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bitops: Move find_next_bit.o from lib-y to obj-y</title>
<updated>2011-08-30T17:12:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert@linux-m68k.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-30T13:17:03+00:00</published>
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If there are no builtin users of find_next_bit_le() and
find_next_zero_bit_le(), these functions are not present in the kernel
image, causing m68k allmodconfig to fail with:

  ERROR: "find_next_zero_bit_le" [fs/ufs/ufs.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "find_next_bit_le" [fs/udf/udf.ko] undefined!
  ...

This started to happen after commit 171d809df189 ("m68k: merge mmu and
non-mmu bitops.h"), as m68k had its own inline versions before.

commit 63e424c84429 ("arch: remove CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_{NEXT_BIT,
BIT_LE, LAST_BIT}") added find_last_bit.o to obj-y (so it's always
included), but find_next_bit.o to lib-y (so it gets removed by the
linker if there are no builtin users).

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@uclinux.org&gt;
Cc: 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>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2011-08-07T05:12:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-07T05:12:37+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net:
  net: Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5.
  crypto: Move md5_transform to lib/md5.c
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<entry>
<title>crypto: Move md5_transform to lib/md5.c</title>
<updated>2011-08-07T01:32:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-04T02:45:10+00:00</published>
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We are going to use this for TCP/IP sequence number and fragment ID
generation.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>lib/sha1: use the git implementation of SHA-1</title>
<updated>2011-08-06T18:26:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mandeep Singh Baines</name>
<email>msb@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-06T01:46:27+00:00</published>
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For ChromiumOS, we use SHA-1 to verify the integrity of the root
filesystem.  The speed of the kernel sha-1 implementation has a major
impact on our boot performance.

To improve boot performance, we investigated using the heavily optimized
sha-1 implementation used in git.  With the git sha-1 implementation, we
see a 11.7% improvement in boot time.

10 reboots, remove slowest/fastest.

Before:

  Mean: 6.58 seconds Stdev: 0.14

After (with git sha-1, this patch):

  Mean: 5.89 seconds Stdev: 0.07

The other cool thing about the git SHA-1 implementation is that it only
needs 64 bytes of stack for the workspace while the original kernel
implementation needed 320 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines &lt;msb@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Ramsay Jones &lt;ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@cam.org&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'apei-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6</title>
<updated>2011-08-04T07:53:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-04T07:53:27+00:00</published>
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* 'apei-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
  ACPI, APEI, EINJ Param support is disabled by default
  APEI GHES: 32-bit buildfix
  ACPI: APEI build fix
  ACPI, APEI, GHES: Add hardware memory error recovery support
  HWPoison: add memory_failure_queue()
  ACPI, APEI, GHES, Error records content based throttle
  ACPI, APEI, GHES, printk support for recoverable error via NMI
  lib, Make gen_pool memory allocator lockless
  lib, Add lock-less NULL terminated single list
  Add Kconfig option ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
  ACPI, APEI, Add WHEA _OSC support
  ACPI, APEI, Add APEI bit support in generic _OSC call
  ACPI, APEI, GHES, Support disable GHES at boot time
  ACPI, APEI, GHES, Prevent GHES to be built as module
  ACPI, APEI, Use apei_exec_run_optional in APEI EINJ and ERST
  ACPI, APEI, Add apei_exec_run_optional
  ACPI, APEI, GHES, Do not ratelimit fatal error printk before panic
  ACPI, APEI, ERST, Fix erst-dbg long record reading issue
  ACPI, APEI, ERST, Prevent erst_dbg from loading if ERST is disabled
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<entry>
<title>tmpfs radix_tree: locate_item to speed up swapoff</title>
<updated>2011-08-04T00:25:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-03T23:21:27+00:00</published>
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We have already acknowledged that swapoff of a tmpfs file is slower than
it was before conversion to the generic radix_tree: a little slower
there will be acceptable, if the hotter paths are faster.

But it was a shock to find swapoff of a 500MB file 20 times slower on my
laptop, taking 10 minutes; and at that rate it significantly slows down
my testing.

Now, most of that turned out to be overhead from PROVE_LOCKING and
PROVE_RCU: without those it was only 4 times slower than before; and
more realistic tests on other machines don't fare as badly.

I've tried a number of things to improve it, including tagging the swap
entries, then doing lookup by tag: I'd expected that to halve the time,
but in practice it's erratic, and often counter-productive.

The only change I've so far found to make a consistent improvement, is
to short-circuit the way we go back and forth, gang lookup packing
entries into the array supplied, then shmem scanning that array for the
target entry.  Scanning in place doubles the speed, so it's now only
twice as slow as before (or three times slower when the PROVEs are on).

So, add radix_tree_locate_item() as an expedient, once-off,
single-caller hack to do the lookup directly in place.  #ifdef it on
CONFIG_SHMEM and CONFIG_SWAP, as much to document its limited
applicability as save space in other configurations.  And, sadly,
#include sched.h for cond_resched().

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&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>radix_tree: exceptional entries and indices</title>
<updated>2011-08-04T00:25:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-03T23:21:18+00:00</published>
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A patchset to extend tmpfs to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE by abandoning its
peculiar swap vector, instead keeping a file's swap entries in the same
radix tree as its struct page pointers: thus saving memory, and
simplifying its code and locking.

This patch:

The radix_tree is used by several subsystems for different purposes.  A
major use is to store the struct page pointers of a file's pagecache for
memory management.  But what if mm wanted to store something other than
page pointers there too?

The low bit of a radix_tree entry is already used to denote an indirect
pointer, for internal use, and the unlikely radix_tree_deref_retry()
case.

Define the next bit as denoting an exceptional entry, and supply inline
functions radix_tree_exception() to return non-0 in either unlikely
case, and radix_tree_exceptional_entry() to return non-0 in the second
case.

If a subsystem already uses radix_tree with that bit set, no problem: it
does not affect internal workings at all, but is defined for the
convenience of those storing well-aligned pointers in the radix_tree.

The radix_tree_gang_lookups have an implicit assumption that the caller
can deduce the offset of each entry returned e.g.  by the page-&gt;index of
a struct page.  But that may not be feasible for some kinds of item to
be stored there.

radix_tree_gang_lookup_slot() allow for an optional indices argument,
output array in which to return those offsets.  The same could be added
to other radix_tree_gang_lookups, but for now keep it to the only one
for which we need it.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&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>ida: simplified functions for id allocation</title>
<updated>2011-08-04T00:25:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-03T23:21:06+00:00</published>
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The current hyper-optimized functions are overkill if you simply want to
allocate an id for a device.  Create versions which use an internal
lock.

In followup patches, numerous drivers are converted to use this
interface.

Thanks to Tejun for feedback.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;jic23@cam.ac.uk&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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