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[Xen-devel] Prepping a bugfix push



I'm preparing a general bugfix push for Linus, targeted at both current
linux-2.6.git and stable.  The list of patches I have lined up (in the
"bugfix" branch) are below.  Is there anything I've overlooked?  Are
there any patches I've forgotten to apply altogether?

(Note, this is all domU stuff; dom0 things will need to mature a bit.)

Thanks,
    J

commit b4606f2165153833247823e8c04c5e88cb3d298b
Author: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Dec 1 11:47:15 2009 +0000

    xen: explicitly create/destroy stop_machine workqueues outside 
suspend/resume region.
    
    I have observed cases where the implicit stop_machine_destroy() done by
    stop_machine() hangs while destroying the workqueues, specifically in
    kthread_stop(). This seems to be because timer ticks are not restarted
    until after stop_machine() returns.
    
    Fortunately stop_machine provides a facility to pre-create/post-destroy
    the workqueues so use this to ensure that workqueues are only destroyed
    after everything is really up and running again.
    
    I only actually observed this failure with 2.6.30. It seems that newer
    kernels are somehow more robust against doing kthread_stop() without timer
    interrupts (I tried some backports of some likely looking candidates but
    did not track down the commit which added this robustness). However this
    change seems like a reasonable belt&braces thing to do.
    
    Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 65f63384b391bf4d384327d8a7c6de9860290b5c
Author: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Dec 1 11:47:14 2009 +0000

    xen: improve error handling in do_suspend.
    
    The existing error handling has a few issues:
    - If freeze_processes() fails it exits with shutting_down = 
SHUTDOWN_SUSPEND.
    - If dpm_suspend_noirq() fails it exits without resuming xenbus.
    - If stop_machine() fails it exits without resuming xenbus or calling
      dpm_resume_end().
    - xs_suspend()/xs_resume() and dpm_suspend_noirq()/dpm_resume_noirq() were 
not
      nested in the obvious way.
    
    Fix by ensuring each failure case goto's the correct label. Treat a failure 
of
    stop_machine() as a cancelled suspend in order to follow the correct resume
    path.
    
    Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit fed5ea87e02aaf902ff38c65b4514233db03dc09
Author: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Dec 1 16:15:30 2009 +0000

    xen: don't leak IRQs over suspend/resume.
    
    On resume irq_info[*].evtchn is reset to 0 since event channel mappings
    are not preserved over suspend/resume. The other contents of irq_info
    is preserved to allow rebind_evtchn_irq() to function.
    
    However when a device resumes it will try to unbind from the
    previous IRQ (e.g.  blkfront goes blkfront_resume() -> blkif_free() ->
    unbind_from_irqhandler() -> unbind_from_irq()). This will fail due to the
    check for VALID_EVTCHN in unbind_from_irq() and the IRQ is leaked. The
    device will then continue to resume and allocate a new IRQ, eventually
    leading to find_unbound_irq() panic()ing.
    
    Fix this by changing unbind_from_irq() to handle teardown of interrupts
    which have type!=IRQT_UNBOUND but are not currently bound to a specific
    event channel.
    
    Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit f6eafe3665bcc374c66775d58312d1c06c55303f
Author: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Wed Nov 25 14:12:08 2009 +0000

    xen: call clock resume notifier on all CPUs
    
    tick_resume() is never called on secondary processors. Presumably this
    is because they are offlined for suspend on native and so this is
    normally taken care of in the CPU onlining path. Under Xen we keep all
    CPUs online over a suspend.
    
    This patch papers over the issue for me but I will investigate a more
    generic, less hacky, way of doing to the same.
    
    tick_suspend is also only called on the boot CPU which I presume should
    be fixed too.
    
    Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 6aaf5d633bb6cead81b396d861d7bae4b9a0ba7e
Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Wed Nov 25 13:15:38 2009 -0800

    xen: use iret for return from 64b kernel to 32b usermode
    
    If Xen wants to return to a 32b usermode with sysret it must use the
    right form.  When using VCGF_in_syscall to trigger this, it looks at
    the code segment and does a 32b sysret if it is FLAT_USER_CS32.
    However, this is different from __USER32_CS, so it fails to return
    properly if we use the normal Linux segment.
    
    So avoid the whole mess by dropping VCGF_in_syscall and simply use
    plain iret to return to usermode.
    
    Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 922cc38ab71d1360978e65207e4a4f4988987127
Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Nov 24 09:58:49 2009 -0800

    xen: don't call dpm_resume_noirq() with interrupts disabled.
    
    dpm_resume_noirq() takes a mutex, so it can't be called from a no-interrupt
    context.  Don't call it from within the stop-machine function, but just
    afterwards, since we're resuming anyway, regardless of what happened.
    
    Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 499d19b82b586aef18727b9ae1437f8f37b66e91
Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Nov 24 09:38:25 2009 -0800

    xen: register runstate info for boot CPU early
    
    printk timestamping uses sched_clock, which in turn relies on runstate
    info under Xen.  So make sure we set it up before any printks can
    be called.
    
    Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 028896721ac04f6fa0697f3ecac3f98761746363
Author: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Nov 24 09:32:48 2009 -0800

    xen: register runstate on secondary CPUs
    
    The commit "xen: re-register runstate area earlier on resume" caused us
    to never try and setup the runstate area for secondary CPUs. Ensure that
    we do this...
    
    Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit f350c7922faad3397c98c81a9e5658f5a1ef0214
Author: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Nov 24 10:16:23 2009 +0000

    xen: register timer interrupt with IRQF_TIMER
    
    Otherwise the timer is disabled by dpm_suspend_noirq() which in turn 
prevents
    correct operation of stop_machine on multi-processor systems and breaks
    suspend.
    
    Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit fa24ba62ea2869308ffc9f0b286ac9650b4ca6cb
Author: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Sat Nov 21 11:32:49 2009 +0000

    xen: correctly restore pfn_to_mfn_list_list after resume
    
    pvops kernels >= 2.6.30 can currently only be saved and restored once. The
    second attempt to save results in:
    
        ERROR Internal error: Frame# in pfn-to-mfn frame list is not in 
pseudophys
        ERROR Internal error: entry 0: p2m_frame_list[0] is 0xf2c2c2c2, max 
0x120000
        ERROR Internal error: Failed to map/save the p2m frame list
    
    I finally narrowed it down to:
    
        commit cdaead6b4e657f960d6d6f9f380e7dfeedc6a09b
            Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
            Date:   Fri Feb 27 15:34:59 2009 -0800
    
                xen: split construction of p2m mfn tables from registration
    
                Build the p2m_mfn_list_list early with the rest of the p2m 
table, but
                register it later when the real shared_info structure is in 
place.
    
                Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
<jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
    
    The unforeseen side-effect of this change was to cause the mfn list list to 
not
    be rebuilt on resume. Prior to this change it would have been rebuilt via
    xen_post_suspend() -> xen_setup_shared_info() -> xen_setup_mfn_list_list().
    
    Fix by explicitly calling xen_build_mfn_list_list() from xen_post_suspend().
    
    Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 3905bb2aa7bb801b31946b37a4635ebac4009051
Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Sat Nov 21 08:46:29 2009 +0800

    xen: restore runstate_info even if !have_vcpu_info_placement
    
    Even if have_vcpu_info_placement is not set, we still need to set up
    the runstate area on each resumed vcpu.
    
    Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit be012920ecba161ad20303a3f6d9e96c58cf97c7
Author: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Sat Nov 21 08:35:55 2009 +0800

    xen: re-register runstate area earlier on resume.
    
    This is necessary to ensure the runstate area is available to
    xen_sched_clock before any calls to printk which will require it in
    order to provide a timestamp.
    
    I chose to pull the xen_setup_runstate_info out of xen_time_init into
    the caller in order to maintain parity with calling
    xen_setup_runstate_info separately from calling xen_time_resume.
    
    Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit ae7888012969355a548372e99b066d9e31153b62
Author: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Wed Jul 8 12:27:39 2009 +0200

    xen: wait up to 5 minutes for device connetion
    
    Increases the device timeout from 10s to 5 minutes, giving the user a
    visual indication during that time in case there are problems.  The patch
    is a backport of changesets 144 and 150 in the Xenbits tree.
    
    Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit f8dc33088febc63286b7a60e6b678de8e064de8e
Author: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Wed Jul 8 12:27:38 2009 +0200

    xen: improvement to wait_for_devices()
    
    When printing a warning about a timed-out device, print the
    current state of both ends of the device connection (i.e., backend as
    well as frontend).  This backports half of changeset 146 from the
    Xenbits tree.
    
    Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit c6e1971139be1342902873181f3b80a979bfb33b
Author: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Wed Jul 8 12:27:37 2009 +0200

    xen: fix is_disconnected_device/exists_disconnected_device
    
    The logic of is_disconnected_device/exists_disconnected_device is wrong
    in that they are used to test whether a device is trying to connect (i.e.
    connecting).  For this reason the patch fixes them to not consider a
    Closing or Closed device to be connecting.  At the same time the patch
    also renames the functions according to what they really do; you could
    say a closed device is "disconnected" (the old name), but not "connecting"
    (the new name).
    
    This patch is a backport of changeset 909 from the Xenbits tree.
    
    Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit db05fed0ad72f264e39bcb366795f7367384ec92
Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Nov 24 16:41:47 2009 -0800

    xen/xenbus: make DEVICE_ATTR()s static
    
    They don't need to be global, and may cause linker clashes.
    
    Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>


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