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Author SHA1 Message Date
Jens Axboe 01840f9c9d [PATCH] blk: Fix SG_IO ioctl failure retry looping
When issuing an SG_IO ioctl through sd that resulted in an unrecoverable
error, a nearly infinite retry loop was discovered. This is due to the
fact that the block layer SG_IO code is not setting up rq->retries. This
patch also fixes up the sg_scsi_ioctl path.

Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-02-08 10:07:13 +01:00
Randy.Dunlap c59ede7b78 [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h
- Move capable() from sched.h to capability.h;

- Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used
	(in include/, block/, ipc/, kernel/, a few drivers/,
	mm/, security/, & sound/;
	many more drivers/ to go)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
Jens Axboe 5a57be8d10 [BLOCK] scsi_ioctl: file can be NULL from ioctl_by_bdev()
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-09 14:52:21 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven 64100099ed [BLOCK] mark some block/ variables cons
the patch below marks various read-only variables in block/* as const,
so that gcc can optimize the use of them; eg gcc will replace the use by
the value directly now and will even remove the memory usage of these.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-06 09:46:02 +01:00
Linus Torvalds f61ea1b0c8 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2006-01-04 16:30:12 -08:00
Ben Collins f98d2dfd02 [PATCH] block: Cleanup CDROMEJECT ioctl
This is just a basic cleanup. No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-12-19 16:47:50 -08:00
Mike Christie defd94b754 [SCSI] seperate max_sectors from max_hw_sectors
- export __blk_put_request and blk_execute_rq_nowait
needed for async REQ_BLOCK_PC requests
- seperate max_hw_sectors and max_sectors for block/scsi_ioctl.c and
SG_IO bio.c helpers per Jens's last comments. Since block/scsi_ioctl.c SG_IO was
already testing against max_sectors and SCSI-ml was setting max_sectors and
max_hw_sectors to the same value this does not change any scsi SG_IO behavior. It only
prepares ll_rw_blk.c, scsi_ioctl.c and bio.c for when SCSI-ml begins to set
a valid max_hw_sectors for all LLDs. Today if a LLD does not set it
SCSI-ml sets it to a safe default and some LLDs set it to a artificial low
value to overcome memory and feedback issues.

Note: Since we now cap max_sectors to BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS, which is 1024,
drivers that used to call blk_queue_max_sectors with a large value of
max_sectors will now see the fs requests capped to BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-12-15 15:11:40 -08:00
Jens Axboe 3a65dfe8c0 [BLOCK] Move all core block layer code to new block/ directory
drivers/block/ is right now a mix of core and driver parts. Lets move
the core parts to a new top level directory. Al will move the fs/
related block parts to block/ next.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-04 08:43:35 +01:00