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Jeff Dike a0044bdf60 uml: batch I/O requests
Send as many I/O requests to the I/O thread as possible, even though it will
still only handle one at a time.  This provides an opportunity to reduce
latency by starting one request before the previous one has been finished in
the driver.

Request handling is somewhat modernized by requesting sg pieces of a request
and handling them separately, finishing off the entire request after all the
pieces are done.

When a request queue stalls, normally because its pipe to the I/O thread is
full, it is put on the restart list.  This list is processed by starting up
the queues on it whenever there is some indication that progress might be
possible again.  Currently, this happens in the driver interrupt routine.
Some requests have been finished, so there is likely to be room in the pipe
again.

This almost doubles throughput when copying data between devices, but made no
noticable difference on anything else I tried.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:13:03 -07:00
Jeff Dike 3d564047a5 uml: start fixing os_read_file and os_write_file
This patch starts the removal of a very old, very broken piece of code.  This
stems from the problem of passing a userspace buffer into read() or write() on
the host.  If that buffer had not yet been faulted in, read and write will
return -EFAULT.

To avoid this problem, the solution was to fault the buffer in before the
system call by touching the pages that hold the buffer by doing a copy-user of
a byte to each page.  This is obviously bogus, but it does usually work, in tt
mode, since the kernel and process are in the same address space and userspace
addresses can be accessed directly in the kernel.

In skas mode, where the kernel and process are in separate address spaces, it
is completely bogus because the userspace address, which is invalid in the
kernel, is passed into the system call instead of the corresponding physical
address, which would be valid.  Here, it appears that this code, on every host
read() or write(), tries to fault in a random process page.  This doesn't seem
to cause any correctness problems, but there is a performance impact.  This
patch, and the ones following, result in a 10-15% performance gain on a kernel
build.

This code can't be immediately tossed out because when it is, you can't log
in.  Apparently, there is some code in the console driver which depends on
this somehow.

However, we can start removing it by switching the code which does I/O using
kernel addresses to using plain read() and write().  This patch introduces
os_read_file_k and os_write_file_k for use with kernel buffers and converts
all call locations which use obvious kernel buffers to use them.  These
include I/O using buffers which are local variables which are on the stack or
kmalloc-ed.  Later patches will handle the less obvious cases, followed by a
mass conversion back to the original interface.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:13:03 -07:00
Jeff Dike 2e3f5251ac uml: drivers get release methods
Define release methods for the ubd and net drivers.  They contain as much of
the remove methods as make sense.  All error checking must have already been
done as well as anything else that might be holding a reference on the device
kobject.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:13:02 -07:00
Jeff Dike 9218b17149 uml: remove user_util.h
user_util.h isn't needed any more, so delete it and remove all includes of it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:13:01 -07:00
Jeff Dike b47d2debf2 uml: handle block device hotplug errors
If a disk fails to open, i.e.  its host file doesn't exist, it won't be
removable because the hot-unplug code checks the existence of its gendisk.
This won't exist because it is only allocated for successfully opened disks.
Thus, a typo on the command line can result in a unusable and unfixable disk.

This is fixed by freeing the gendisk if it's there, but not letting that
affect the removal.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:13:00 -07:00
Jeff Dike 2a9529a0c8 [PATCH] uml: fix I/O hang when multiple devices are in use
Commit 62f96cb01e introduced per-devices
queues and locks, which was fine as far as it went, but left in place a
global which controlled access to submitting requests to the host.  This
should have been made per-device as well, since it causes I/O hangs when
multiple block devices are in use.

This patch fixes that by replacing the global with an activity flag in the
device structure in order to tell whether the queue is currently being run.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-29 08:22:24 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan b653d081c1 [PATCH] proc: remove useless (and buggy) ->nlink settings
Bug: pnx8550 code creates directory but resets ->nlink to 1.

create_proc_entry() et al will correctly set ->nlink for you.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
Jeff Dike b8831a1d2c [PATCH] uml: locking fixes in the ubd driver
Some small locking and formatting fixes in the ubd driver.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:23 -08:00
Jeff Dike 62f96cb01e [PATCH] uml: add per-device queues and locks to ubd driver
Replace global queue and lock with per-device queues and locks.  Mostly a
straightforward replacement of ubd_io_lock with dev->lock and ubd_queue with
dev->queue.

Complications -
	There was no way to get a request struct (and queue) from the
structure sent to the io_thread, so a pointer to the request was
added.  This is needed in ubd_handler in order to kick do_ubd_request
to process another request.
	Queue initialization is moved from ubd_init to ubd_add.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:23 -08:00
Jeff Dike 84f48d4f2b [PATCH] uml: mconsole locking
Locking fixes.  Locking was totally lacking for the mconsole_devices, which
got a spin lock, and the unplugged pages data, which got a mutex.

The locking of the mconsole console output code was confused.  Now, the
console_lock (renamed to client_lock) protects the clients list.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:21 -08:00
Jeff Dike f28169d200 [PATCH] uml: return hotplug errors to host
I noticed that errors happening while hotplugging devices from the host were
never returned back to the mconsole client.  In some cases, success was
returned instead of even an information-free error.

This patch cleans that up by having the low-level configuration code pass back
an error string along with an error code.  At the top level, which knows
whether it is early boot time or responding to an mconsole request, the string
is printk'd or returned to the mconsole client.

There are also whitespace and trivial code cleanups in the surrounding code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:21 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso d8d7c28ec0 [PATCH] uml ubd driver: various little changes
Fix a small memory leak in ubd_config, and clearify the confusion which lead
to it.

Then, some little changes not affecting operations -
* move init functions together,
* add a comment about a potential problem in case of some evolution in the block layer,
* mark all initcalls as static __init functions
* mark an used once little function as inline
* document that mconsole methods are all called in process context (was
  triggered when checking ubd mconsole methods).

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-31 08:07:00 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 0bf16bffee [PATCH] uml ubd driver: do not store error codes as ->fd
To simplify error handling, make sure fd is saved into ubd_dev->fd only when
we are sure it is an fd and not an error code.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-31 08:07:00 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 84e945e399 [PATCH] uml ubd driver: use bitfields where possible
Use bitfields for boolean fields in ubd data structure.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-31 08:07:00 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso e7f6552f23 [PATCH] uml ubd driver: reformat ubd_config
Pure whitespace and style fixes split out from subsequent patch.  Some changes
(err -> ret) don't make sense now, only later, but I split them out anyway
since they cluttered the patch.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-31 08:07:00 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 2fe30a34a1 [PATCH] uml ubd driver: convert do_ubd to a boolean variable
do_ubd is actually just a boolean variable - the way it is used currently is a
leftover from the old 2.4 block layer, but it is still used; its use is
suspicious, but removing it would be too intrusive for now and needs more
thinking.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-31 08:06:59 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 33f775eea1 [PATCH] uml ubd driver: ubd_io_lock usage fixup
Add some comments about requirements for ubd_io_lock and expand its use.

When an irq signals that the "controller" (i.e.  another thread on the host,
which does the actual requests and is the only one blocked on I/O on the host)
has done some work, we call again the request function ourselves
(do_ubd_request).

We now do that with ubd_io_lock held - that's useful to protect against
concurrent calls to elv_next_request and so on.

XXX: Maybe we shouldn't call at all the request function.  Input needed on
this.  Are we supposed to plug and unplug the queue?  That code "indirectly"
does that by setting a flag, called do_ubd, which makes the request function
return (it's a residual of 2.4 block layer interface).

Meanwhile, however, merge this patch, which improves things.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-31 08:06:59 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso d7fb2c3865 [PATCH] uml ubd driver: change ubd_lock to be a mutex
This lock protects ubd setup and teardown, so is only used in process context;
beyond that, during such setup memory allocations must be performed and some
generic functions which can sleep must be called (such as add_disk()).  So the
only correct solution is to make it a mutex instead of a spin_lock.  No other
change is done - this lock must be acquired in different places but it's done
afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-31 08:06:59 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 5f75a4f887 [PATCH] uml ubd driver: give better names to some functions.
To rethink locking, I needed to understand well what each function does.
While doing this I renamed some:

* ubd_close -> ubd_close_dev (since it pairs with ubd_open_dev)

* ubd_new_disk -> ubd_disk_register (it handles registration with the block
  layer - one hopes this makes clearer the difference with ubd_add())

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-31 08:06:59 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 7d314e346d [PATCH] uml ubd driver: var renames
Rename the ubd_dev array to ubd_devs and then call any "struct ubd" ubd_dev
instead of dev, which doesn't make clear what we're treating (and no, it's not
hungarian notation - not any more than calling all vm_area_struct vma or all
inodes inode).

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-31 08:06:59 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 2a9d32f682 [PATCH] uml ubd driver: document some struct fields
Add documentation about some fields in struct ubd, whose meaning is
non-obvious due to struct names (should change names altogether, I agree).

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-31 08:06:59 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 97d88ac835 [PATCH] uml ubd driver: allow using up to 16 UBD devices
With 256 minors and 16 minors used per each UBD device, we can allow the use
of up to 16 UBD devices per UML.

Also chnage parse_unit and leave to the caller (which already do it) the check
for excess numbers, since this is just supposed to do raw parsing.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-31 08:06:59 -08:00
Al Viro 7bea96fd22 [PATCH] uml pt_regs fixes
Real fix for UML pt_regs stuff.  Note set_irq_regs() logics in there...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-08 16:34:08 -07:00
Dave Jones 038b0a6d8d Remove all inclusions of <linux/config.h>
kbuild explicitly includes this at build time.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-10-04 03:38:54 -04:00
Jens Axboe cdd6026217 [PATCH] Remove ->rq_status from struct request
After Christophs SCSI change, the only usage left is RQ_ACTIVE
and RQ_INACTIVE. The block layer sets RQ_INACTIVE right before freeing
the request, so any check for RQ_INACTIVE in a driver is a bug and
indicates use-after-free.

So kill/clean the remaining users, straight forward.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:29:23 +02:00
Jeff Dike 80c1374914 [PATCH] uml: close file descriptor leaks
Close two file descriptor leaks, one in the ubd driver and one to
/proc/mounts.  The ubd driver bug also leaked some vmalloc space.  The
/proc/mounts leak was a descriptor that was just never closed.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:04 -07:00
Jeff Dike 03a3f824ea [PATCH] uml: remove unused variable
The dedevfsification of UML left an unused variable behind.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10 13:24:24 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner bd6aa6502e [PATCH] irq-flags: UM: Use the new IRQF_ constants
Use the new IRQF_ constants and remove the SA_INTERRUPT define

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-02 13:58:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 602cada851 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6: (22 commits)
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove it from the feature_removal.txt file
  [PATCH] devfs: Last little devfs cleanups throughout the kernel tree.
  [PATCH] devfs: Rename TTY_DRIVER_NO_DEVFS to TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEV
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the tty_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the line_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the videodevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the gendisk devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the miscdevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_remove() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_cdev() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_bdev() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_symlink() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_dir() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_*_tape() functions from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the sound subsystem
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the ide subsystem.
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the serial subsystem
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init code
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the partition code
  ...
2006-06-29 14:19:21 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman ce7b0f46bb [PATCH] devfs: Remove the gendisk devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
And remove the now unneeded number field.
Also fixes all drivers that set these fields.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26 12:25:08 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman ff23eca3e8 [PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree
Also fixes up all files that #include it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26 12:25:08 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 79021a625c [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_symlink() function from the kernel tree
Removes the devfs_mk_symlink() function and all callers of it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26 12:25:06 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 95dc112a57 [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_dir() function from the kernel tree
Removes the devfs_mk_dir() function and all callers of it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26 12:25:06 -07:00
Andreas Mohr d6e05edc59 spelling fixes
acquired (aquired)
contiguous (contigious)
successful (succesful, succesfull)
surprise (suprise)
whether (weather)
some other misspellings

Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-26 18:35:02 +02:00
Jeff Dike f4c57a78e2 [PATCH] uml: fix initcall return values
A number of UML initcalls were improperly returning 1.  Also removed any
nearby emacs formatting comments.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:50 -08:00
Jeff Dike 6c29256c57 [PATCH] uml: allow ubd devices to be shared in a cluster
This adds a 'c' option to the ubd switch which turns off host file locking so
that the device can be shared, as with a cluster.  There's also some
whitespace cleanup while I was in this file.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27 08:44:38 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso fe1db50c72 [PATCH] uml: tidying COW code
Improve (especially for coherence) some prototypes, and return code of
init_cow_file in error case - for a short write return -EINVAL, otherwise
return the error we got!

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-24 14:31:37 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso a374a48ffb [PATCH] uml ubd code: fix a bit of whitespace
Correct a bit of whitespace problems while working here.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:21 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 4833aff757 [PATCH] uml: allow again to move backing file and to override saved location
When the user specifies both a COW file and its backing file, if the previous
backing file is not found, currently UML tries again to use it and fails.

This can be corrected by changing same_backing_files() return value in that
case, so that the caller will try to change the COW file to point to the new
location, as already done in other cases.

Additionally, given the change in the meaning of the func, change its name,
invert its return value, so all values are inverted except when
stat(from_cow,&buf2) fails.  And add some comments and two minor bugfixes -
remove a fd leak (return err rather than goto out) and a repeated check.

Tested well.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:21 -08:00
Jeff Dike beb25c6e27 [PATCH] uml: kill an unused variable
The HDIO_GETGEO patch left an unused variable in the UML block driver.  This
gets rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:10 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig a885c8c431 [PATCH] Add block_device_operations.getgeo block device method
HDIO_GETGEO is implemented in most block drivers, and all of them have to
duplicate the code to copy the structure to userspace, as well as getting
the start sector.  This patch moves that to common code [1] and adds a
->getgeo method to fill out the raw kernel hd_geometry structure.  For many
drivers this means ->ioctl can go away now.

[1] the s390 block drivers are odd in this respect.  xpram sets ->start
    to 4 always which seems more than odd, and the dasd driver shifts
    the start offset around, probably because of it's non-standard
    sector size.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:54 -08:00
Jeff Dike 1b57e9c278 [PATCH] uml: non-void functions should return something
There are a few functions which are declared to return something, but don't.
These are actually infinite loops which are forced to be declared as non-void.
 This makes them all return 0.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:45 -08:00
Jeff Dike 970d6e3a34 [PATCH] uml: use kstrdup
There were a bunch of calls to uml_strdup dating from before kstrdup was
introduced.  This changes those calls.  It doesn't eliminate the definition
since there is still a couple of calls in userspace code (which should
probably call the libc strdup).

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:45 -08:00
Russell King 3ae5eaec1d [DRIVER MODEL] Convert platform drivers to use struct platform_driver
This allows us to eliminate the casts in the drivers, and eventually
remove the use of the device_driver function pointer methods for
platform device drivers.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-09 22:32:44 +00:00
Russell King d052d1beff Create platform_device.h to contain all the platform device details.
Convert everyone who uses platform_bus_type to include
linux/platform_device.h.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-29 19:07:23 +01:00
Jeff Dike 91acb21f08 [PATCH] uml: revert block driver use of host AIO
The patch to use host AIO support that I submitted early after 2.6.13 exposed
some problems in the block driver.  I have fixes for these, but am not
comfortable putting them into 2.6.14 at this late date.  So, this patch reverts
the use of host AIO.

I will resubmit the original patch, plus fixes to the driver after 2.6.14
in order to get a reasonable amount of testing before they're exposed to
the general public.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-12 08:22:26 -07:00
Jeff Dike 09ace81c1d [PATCH] uml: add host AIO support to block driver
This adds AIO support to the ubd driver.

The driver breaks a struct request into IO requests to the host, based on the
hardware segments in the request and on any COW blocks covered by the request.

The ubd IO thread is gone, since there is now an equivalent thread in the AIO
module.

There is provision for multiple outstanding requests now.  Requests aren't
retired until all pieces of it have been completed.  The AIO requests have a
shared count, which is decremented as IO operations come in until it reaches
0.  This can be possibly moved to the request struct - haven't looked at this
yet.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:23 -07:00
Jeff Dike ec7cf783dd [PATCH] uml: error path cleanup
This cleans up the error path in ubd_open, causing it now to call ubd_close
appropriately when something fails.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:21 -07:00
Jeff Dike 29d56cfe3c [PATCH] uml: hot-unplug code cleanup
Clean up the hot-unplugging code.  There is now an id procedure which is
called to figure out what device we're talking to.  The error messages from
that are now done from mconsole_remove instead of the driver.  remove is now
called with the device number, after it has been checked, so doesn't need to
do sanity checking on it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:24:36 -07:00
Jeff Dike 0894e27e79 [PATCH] uml: single-space a help message
One of the ubd driver help strings was bust.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-28 16:46:11 -07:00