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Petr Tesarik 26defe34e4 fix brd allocation flags
While looking at the implementation of the Ram backed block device
driver, I stumbled across a write-only local variable, which makes
little sense, so I assume it should actually work like this:

Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-22 13:38:03 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 548453fd10 Merge branch 'for-2.6.26' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.26' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  block: fix blk_register_queue() return value
  block: fix memory hotplug and bouncing in block layer
  block: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
  Kconfig: clean up block/Kconfig help descriptions
  cciss: fix warning oops on rmmod of driver
  cciss: Fix race between disk-adding code and interrupt handler
  block: move the padding adjustment to blk_rq_map_sg
  block: add bio_copy_user_iov support to blk_rq_map_user_iov
  block: convert bio_copy_user to bio_copy_user_iov
  loop: manage partitions in disk image
  cdrom: use kmalloced buffers instead of buffers on stack
  cdrom: make unregister_cdrom() return void
  cdrom: use list_head for cdrom_device_info list
  cdrom: protect cdrom_device_info list by mutex
  cdrom: cleanup hardcoded error-code
  cdrom: remove ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
2008-04-21 16:03:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 9a64388d83 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (202 commits)
  [POWERPC] Fix compile breakage for 64-bit UP configs
  [POWERPC] Define copy_siginfo_from_user32
  [POWERPC] Add compat handler for PTRACE_GETSIGINFO
  [POWERPC] i2c: Fix build breakage introduced by OF helpers
  [POWERPC] Optimize fls64() on 64-bit processors
  [POWERPC] irqtrace support for 64-bit powerpc
  [POWERPC] Stacktrace support for lockdep
  [POWERPC] Move stackframe definitions to common header
  [POWERPC] Fix device-tree locking vs. interrupts
  [POWERPC] Make pci_bus_to_host()'s struct pci_bus * argument const
  [POWERPC] Remove unused __max_memory variable
  [POWERPC] Simplify xics direct/lpar irq_host setup
  [POWERPC] Use pseries_setup_i8259_cascade() in pseries_mpic_init_IRQ()
  [POWERPC] Turn xics_setup_8259_cascade() into a generic pseries_setup_i8259_cascade()
  [POWERPC] Move xics_setup_8259_cascade() into platforms/pseries/setup.c
  [POWERPC] Use asm-generic/bitops/find.h in bitops.h
  [POWERPC] 83xx: mpc8315 - fix USB UTMI Host setup
  [POWERPC] 85xx: Fix the size of qe muram for MPC8568E
  [POWERPC] 86xx: mpc86xx_hpcn - Temporarily accept old dts node identifier.
  [POWERPC] 86xx: mark functions static, other minor cleanups
  ...
2008-04-21 15:50:49 -07:00
Harvey Harrison cece933994 block: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-21 09:51:04 +02:00
scameron@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net 6195057f58 cciss: fix warning oops on rmmod of driver
* Fix oops on cciss rmmod due to calling pci_free_consistent with
  irqs disabled.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-21 09:50:09 +02:00
scameron@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net e14ac67026 cciss: Fix race between disk-adding code and interrupt handler
Fix race condition between cciss_init_one(), cciss_update_drive_info(),
and cciss_check_queues().

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-21 09:50:09 +02:00
Laurent Vivier 476a4813cf loop: manage partitions in disk image
This patch allows to use loop device with partitionned disk image.

Original behavior of loop is not modified.

A new parameter is introduced to define how many partition we want to be
able to manage per loop device. This parameter is "max_part".

For instance, to manage 63 partitions / loop device, we will do:
# modprobe loop max_part=63
# ls -l /dev/loop?*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   0 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  64 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 128 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 192 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 256 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 320 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 384 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 448 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop7

And to attach a raw partitionned disk image, the original losetup is used:

# losetup -f etch.img
# ls -l /dev/loop?*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   0 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   1 2008-03-05 14:57 /dev/loop0p1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   2 2008-03-05 14:57 /dev/loop0p2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   5 2008-03-05 14:57 /dev/loop0p5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  64 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 128 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 192 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 256 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 320 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 384 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 448 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop7
# mount /dev/loop0p1 /mnt
# ls /mnt
bench  cdrom  home        lib         mnt   root     srv  usr
bin    dev    initrd      lost+found  opt   sbin     sys  var
boot   etc    initrd.img  media       proc  selinux  tmp  vmlinuz
# umount /mnt
# losetup -d /dev/loop0

Of course, the same behavior can be done using kpartx on a loop device,
but modifying loop avoids to stack several layers of block device (loop +
device mapper), this is a very light modification (40% of modifications
are to manage the new parameter).

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-21 09:50:08 +02:00
Matthew Wilcox d3135846f6 drivers: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h
None of these files use any of the functionality promised by
asm/semaphore.h.  It's possible that they rely on it dragging in some
unrelated header file, but I can't build all these files, so we'll have
fix any build failures as they come up.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2008-04-18 22:16:32 -04:00
David S. Miller 1e42198609 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2008-04-17 23:56:30 -07:00
Paul Mackerras ac7c5353b1 Merge branch 'linux-2.6' 2008-04-14 21:11:02 +10:00
Mike Pagano 231bc2a222 cciss: error: implicit declaration of function 'sg_init_table'
This patch adds the missing include directive <linux/scatterlist.h> to the
cciss.c source file.    This was discovered by our release team when building
the kernel for the Alpha architecture.

Errors were found as references to functions 'sg_init_table' and 'sg_page' do
not exist without the include for Alpha.

Signed-off-by: Mike Pagano <mpagano@gentoo.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-11 08:06:44 -07:00
Pete Zaitcev ef45cb624b ub: remove BUG() after __blk_end_request and fix the condition causing it
When __blk_end_request returns nonzero, it means that the request was
not completely processed and some BIOs are still attached. Since we
have dequeued it by that time, it means leaking requests and hanging
processes, which is why BUG() was in there. In ub this happens if
a packet request ends normally, but with residue (e.g. when scsi_id
issues INQUIRY).

The fix is to make sure that arguments passed to __blk_end_request
are correct: the full request length and not just transferred length.
The transferred length is indicated to applications by adjusting
rq->data_len with old, unchanged code outside of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-08 18:25:52 -07:00
David S. Miller 3bb5da3837 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-04-03 14:33:42 -07:00
Mike Snitzer ffc41cf8db nbd: prevent sock_xmit from attempting to use a NULL socket
NBD does not protect the nbd_device's socket from becoming NULL during
receives.

This closes a race with the NBD_CLEAR_SOCK ioctl (nbd-client -d) setting
the nbd_device's socket to NULL right before NBD calls sock_xmit.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-02 15:28:19 -07:00
Julia Lawall ea6728c11f [POWERPC] Use FIELD_SIZEOF in drivers/block/viodasd.c
Robert P.J. Day proposed to use the macro FIELD_SIZEOF in replace of code
that matches its definition.

The modification was made using the following semantic patch
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@haskernel@
@@

#include <linux/kernel.h>

@depends on haskernel@
type t;
identifier f;
@@

- (sizeof(((t*)0)->f))
+ FIELD_SIZEOF(t, f)

@depends on haskernel@
type t;
identifier f;
@@

- sizeof(((t*)0)->f)
+ FIELD_SIZEOF(t, f)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-01 20:43:10 +11:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki c346dca108 [NET] NETNS: Omit net_device->nd_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.
Introduce per-net_device inlines: dev_net(), dev_net_set().
Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists.
Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-26 04:39:53 +09:00
Linus Torvalds 92f53c6f1e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  Revert "unexport bio_{,un}map_user"
  relay: fix subbuf_splice_actor() adding too many pages
  The ps2esdi driver was marked as BROKEN more than two years ago due to being
2008-03-18 07:43:14 -07:00
Jeremy Katz c483934670 virtio: Fix sysfs bits to have proper block symlink
Fix up so that the virtio_blk devices in sysfs link correctly to their
block device.  This then allows them to be detected by hal, etc

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-03-17 22:58:15 +11:00
Adrian Bunk 2af3e6017e The ps2esdi driver was marked as BROKEN more than two years ago due to being
no longer working for some time.

A driver that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seems to be
unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.

But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still present in
the older kernel releases.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-03-17 09:03:05 +01:00
Jiri Slaby f2005e1777 block: floppy: fix rmmod lockup
Floppy rmmod locks up when no such hardware was initialized, since there is
nobody to wake the remove code up.  Remove the completion, because release is
called during platform_unregister anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
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>
2008-03-13 13:11:43 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 25c0a7b832 [POWERPC] Fix viodasd driver with scatterlist debug
The iSeries viodasd drivers does some very strange things with
scatterlists, one of these causing a BUG_ON to trigger when
scatterlist debugging is enabled due to initializing the
scatterlist with memset instead of sg_init_table().

This fixes it by using sg_init_table().  The rest of the stuff
it does to that poor list is still pretty awful but it will work.

I may look into fixing things in a nicer way some other time.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-13 10:09:28 +11:00
Peter Osterlund 05680d86d2 pktcdvd: reduce stack consumption
On my system, pkt_open() consumes 584 bytes because the compiler decides to
inline lots of functions that would not normally be part of long call chains.
The following patch fixes that problem on my system.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-04 16:35:12 -08:00
Mike Miller 68d95b585f cciss: remove READ_AHEAD define and use block layer defaults
This patch removes the #define READ_AHEAD 1024 from the driver and uses the
block layer defaults, instead. We have found that under certain workloads
the setting can cause a disk connected to the e200 controller to go offline.
If the disk hiccups the link may try to downshift but the controller is
never notified that the link successfully completed the renegotiation.
We've also found that performance using the block layer default of 32 pages
was on par with the 1024 setting. We tried setting it to zero at one time
based on info from our firmware guys but that killed performance. Turns out
we were talking about 2 different read ahead settings.
Please consider this for inclusion.

Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-03-04 11:28:43 +01:00
Mike Miller 89b6e74378 resubmit: cciss: procfs updates to display info about many
volumes

This patch allows us to display information about all of the logical volumes
configured on a particular controller without stepping on memory even when
there are many volumes (128 or more) configured.
Please consider this for inclusion.

Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-03-04 11:14:39 +01:00
Paul Clements 48f15b93b2 NBD: make nbd default to deadline I/O scheduler
NBD doesn't work well with CFQ (or AS) schedulers, so let's default to
something else.

The two problems I have experienced with nbd and cfq are:

1) nbd hangs with cfq on RHEL 5 (2.6.18) -- this may well have been
   fixed

   There's a similar debian bug that has been filed as well:

   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=447638

   There have been posts to nbd-general mailing list about problems with
   cfq and nbd also.

2) nbd performs about 10% better (the last time I tested) with deadline
   vs.  cfq (the overhead of cfq doesn't provide much advantage to nbd [not
   being a real disk], and you end up going through the I/O scheduler on
   the nbd server anyway, so it makes sense that deadline is better with
   nbd)

Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
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>
2008-02-23 17:12:15 -08:00
Ian Campbell 597592d951 xen: Implement getgeo for Xen virtual block device.
The below implements the getgeo hook for Xen block devices. Extracted
from the xen-unstable tree where it has been used for ages.

It is useful to have because it allows things like grub2 (used by the
Debian installer images) to work in a guest domain without having to
sprinkle Xen specific hacks around the place.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-21 16:19:13 -08:00
Tony Breeds 2ebda63b09 Fix compile of swim3 as module
The current pmac32_defconfig fails to build with the following error:

  Building modules, stage 2.
ERROR: "check_media_bay" [drivers/block/swim3.ko] undefined!
WARNING: modpost: Found 23 section mismatch(es).
To see full details build your kernel with:
'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y'
make[2]: *** [__modpost] Error 1

This patch fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-14 20:58:04 -08:00
Pete Zaitcev 541645be8b ub: fix up the conversion to sg_init_table()
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: "Oliver Pinter" <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-09 11:08:33 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 03054de1e0 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  Enhanced partition statistics: documentation update
  Enhanced partition statistics: remove old partition statistics
  Enhanced partition statistics: procfs
  Enhanced partition statistics: sysfs
  Enhanced partition statistics: aoe fix
  Enhanced partition statistics: update partition statitics
  Enhanced partition statistics: core statistics
  block: fixup rq_init() a bit

Manually fixed conflict in drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c due to statistics
support.
2008-02-08 09:42:46 -08:00
Paul Clements 20a8143eaa NBD: remove limit on max number of nbd devices
Remove the arbitrary 128 device limit for NBD.  nbds_max can now be set to
any number.  In certain scenarios where devices are used sparsely we have
run into the 128 device limit.

Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:41 -08:00
Andrew Morton 476aed3870 aoe: statically initialise devlist_lock
I guess aoedev_init() can go away now.

Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:32 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin 52e112b3ab aoe: update copyright date
Update the year in the copyright notices.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:32 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin 578c4aa0b4 aoe: make error messages more specific
Andrew Morton pointed out that the "too many targets" message in patch 2 could
be printed for failing GFP_ATOMIC allocations.  This patch makes the messages
more specific.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:32 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin 1d75981a80 aoe: the aoeminor doesn't need a long format
The aoedev aoeminor member doesn't need a long format.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:32 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin 7df620d852 aoe: add module parameter for users who need more outstanding I/O
An AoE target provides an estimate of the number of outstanding commands that
the AoE initiator can send before getting a response.  The aoe_maxout
parameter provides a way to set an even lower limit.  It will not allow a user
to use more outstanding commands than the target permits.  If a user discovers
a problem with a large setting, this parameter provides a way for us to work
with them to debug the problem.  We expect to improve the dynamic window
sizing algorithm and drop this parameter.  For the time being, it is a
debugging aid.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:32 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin 6b9699bbd2 aoe: only install new AoE device once
An aoe driver user who had about 70 AoE targets found that he was hitting a
BUG in sysfs_create_file because the aoe driver was trying to tell the kernel
about an AoE device more than once.  Each AoE device was reachable by several
local network interfaces, and multiple ATA device indentify responses were
returning from that single device.

This patch eliminates a race condition so that aoe always informs the block
layer of a new AoE device once in the presence of multiple incoming ATA device
identify responses.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:32 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin 9bb237b6a6 aoe: dynamically allocate a capped number of skbs when necessary
What this Patch Does

  Even before this recent series of 12 patches to 2.6.22-rc4, the aoe
  driver was reusing a small set of skbs that were allocated once and
  were only used for outbound AoE commands.

  The network layer cannot be allowed to put_page on the data that is
  still associated with a bio we haven't returned to the block layer,
  so the aoe driver (even before the patch under discussion) is still
  the owner of skbs that have been handed to the network layer for
  transmission.  We need to keep track of these skbs so that we can
  free them, but by tracking them, we can also easily re-use them.

  The new patch was a response to the behavior of certain network
  drivers.  We cannot reuse an skb that the network driver still has
  in its transmit ring.  Network drivers can defer transmit ring
  cleanup and then use the state in the skb to determine how many data
  segments to clean up in its transmit ring.  The tg3 driver is one
  driver that behaves in this way.

  When the network driver defers cleanup of its transmit ring, the aoe
  driver can find itself in a situation where it would like to send an
  AoE command, and the AoE target is ready for more work, but the
  network driver still has all of the pre-allocated skbs.  In that
  case, the new patch just calls alloc_skb, as you'd expect.

  We don't want to get carried away, though.  We try not to do
  excessive allocation in the write path, so we cap the number of skbs
  we dynamically allocate.

  Probably calling it a "dynamic pool" is misleading.  We were already
  trying to use a small fixed-size set of pre-allocated skbs before
  this patch, and this patch just provides a little headroom (with a
  ceiling, though) to accomodate network drivers that hang onto skbs,
  by allocating when needed.  The d->skbpool_hd list of allocated skbs
  is necessary so that we can free them later.

  We didn't notice the need for this headroom until AoE targets got
  fast enough.

Alternatives

  If the network layer never did a put_page on the pages in the bio's
  we get from the block layer, then it would be possible for us to
  hand skbs to the network layer and forget about them, allowing the
  network layer to free skbs itself (and thereby calling our own
  skb->destructor callback function if we needed that).  In that case
  we could get rid of the pre-allocated skbs and also the
  d->skbpool_hd, instead just calling alloc_skb every time we wanted
  to transmit a packet.  The slab allocator would effectively maintain
  the list of skbs.

  Besides a loss of CPU cache locality, the main concern with that
  approach the danger that it would increase the likelihood of
  deadlock when VM is trying to free pages by writing dirty data from
  the page cache through the aoe driver out to persistent storage on
  an AoE device.  Right now we have a situation where we have
  pre-allocation that corresponds to how much we use, which seems
  ideal.

  Of course, there's still the separate issue of receiving the packets
  that tell us that a write has successfully completed on the AoE
  target.  When memory is low and VM is using AoE to flush dirty data
  to free up pages, it would be perfect if there were a way for us to
  register a fast callback that could recognize write command
  completion responses.  But I don't think the current problems with
  the receive side of the situation are a justification for
  exacerbating the problem on the transmit side.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:32 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin 262bf54144 aoe: user can ask driver to forget previously detected devices
When an AoE device is detected, the kernel is informed, and a new block device
is created.  If the device is unused, the block device corresponding to remote
device that is no longer available may be removed from the system by telling
the aoe driver to "flush" its list of devices.

Without this patch, software like GPFS and LVM may attempt to read from AoE
devices that were discovered earlier but are no longer present, blocking until
the I/O attempt times out.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin cf446f0dba aoe: eliminate goto and improve readability
Adam Richter suggested eliminating this goto.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin 1eb0da4cea aoe: mac_addr: avoid 64-bit arch compiler warnings
By returning unsigned long long, mac_addr does not generate compiler warnings
on 64-bit architectures.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin 68e0d42f39 aoe: handle multiple network paths to AoE device
A remote AoE device is something can process ATA commands and is identified by
an AoE shelf number and an AoE slot number.  Such a device might have more
than one network interface, and it might be reachable by more than one local
network interface.  This patch tracks the available network paths available to
each AoE device, allowing them to be used more efficiently.

Andrew Morton asked about the call to msleep_interruptible in the revalidate
function.  Yes, if a signal is pending, then msleep_interruptible will not
return 0.  That means we will not loop but will call aoenet_xmit with a NULL
skb, which is a noop.  If the system is too low on memory or the aoe driver is
too low on frames, then the user can hit control-C to interrupt the attempt to
do a revalidate.  I have added a comment to the code summarizing that.

Andrew Morton asked whether the allocation performed inside addtgt could use a
more relaxed allocation like GFP_KERNEL, but addtgt is called when the aoedev
lock has been locked with spin_lock_irqsave.  It would be nice to allocate the
memory under fewer restrictions, but targets are only added when the device is
being discovered, and if the target can't be added right now, we can try again
in a minute when then next AoE config query broadcast goes out.

Andrew Morton pointed out that the "too many targets" message could be printed
for failing GFP_ATOMIC allocations.  The last patch in this series makes the
messages more specific.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin 8911ef4dc9 aoe: bring driver version number to 47
Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
Nick Piggin 75acb9cd2e rd: support XIP
Support direct_access XIP method with brd.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:30 -08:00
Nick Piggin 9db5579be4 rewrite rd
This is a rewrite of the ramdisk block device driver.

The old one is really difficult because it effectively implements a block
device which serves data out of its own buffer cache.  It relies on the dirty
bit being set, to pin its backing store in cache, however there are non
trivial paths which can clear the dirty bit (eg.  try_to_free_buffers()),
which had recently lead to data corruption.  And in general it is completely
wrong for a block device driver to do this.

The new one is more like a regular block device driver.  It has no idea about
vm/vfs stuff.  It's backing store is similar to the buffer cache (a simple
radix-tree of pages), but it doesn't know anything about page cache (the pages
in the radix tree are not pagecache pages).

There is one slight downside -- direct block device access and filesystem
metadata access goes through an extra copy and gets stored in RAM twice.
However, this downside is only slight, because the real buffercache of the
device is now reclaimable (because we're not playing crazy games with it), so
under memory intensive situations, footprint should effectively be the same --
maybe even a slight advantage to the new driver because it can also reclaim
buffer heads.

The fact that it now goes through all the regular vm/fs paths makes it
much more useful for testing, too.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   2837     849     384    4070     fe6 drivers/block/rd.o
   3528     371      12    3911     f47 drivers/block/brd.o

Text is larger, but data and bss are smaller, making total size smaller.

A few other nice things about it:
- Similar structure and layout to the new loop device handlinag.
- Dynamic ramdisk creation.
- Runtime flexible buffer head size (because it is no longer part of the
  ramdisk code).
- Boot / load time flexible ramdisk size, which could easily be extended
  to a per-ramdisk runtime changeable size (eg. with an ioctl).
- Can use highmem for the backing store.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[byron.bbradley@gmail.com: make rd_size non-static]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Byron Bradley <byron.bbradley@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:30 -08:00
Jerome Marchand a890d62b9e Enhanced partition statistics: aoe fix
Updates the enhanced partition statistics in ATA over Ethernet driver
(not tested).

Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
2008-02-08 12:41:57 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 3796958130 Merge branch 'for-2.6.25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'for-2.6.25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (69 commits)
  [POWERPC] Add SPE registers to core dumps
  [POWERPC] Use regset code for compat PTRACE_*REGS* calls
  [POWERPC] Use generic compat_sys_ptrace
  [POWERPC] Use generic compat_ptrace_request
  [POWERPC] Use generic ptrace peekdata/pokedata
  [POWERPC] Use regset code for PTRACE_*REGS* requests
  [POWERPC] Switch to generic compat_binfmt_elf code
  [POWERPC] Switch to using user_regset-based core dumps
  [POWERPC] Add user_regset compat support
  [POWERPC] Add user_regset_view definitions
  [POWERPC] Use user_regset accessors for GPRs
  [POWERPC] ptrace accessors for special regs MSR and TRAP
  [POWERPC] Use user_regset accessors for SPE regs
  [POWERPC] Use user_regset accessors for altivec regs
  [POWERPC] Use user_regset accessors for FP regs
  [POWERPC] mpc52xx: fix compile error introduce when rebasing patch
  [POWERPC] 4xx: PCIe indirect DCR spinlock fix.
  [POWERPC] Add missing native dcr dcr_ind_lock spinlock
  [POWERPC] 4xx: Fix offset value on Warp board
  [POWERPC] 4xx: Add 440EPx Sequoia ehci dts entry
  ...
2008-02-07 09:02:26 -08:00
Josh Boyer 256ae6a720 Merge branch 'virtex-for-2.6.25' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6-virtex into for-2.6.25 2008-02-06 21:06:45 -06:00
Geert Uytterhoeven 5ceadd2a2a Atari floppy: Rename disk_type to atari_disk_type
Commit edfaa7c365

    Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices

    This moves the block devices to /sys/class/block. It will create a
    flat list of all block devices, with the disks and partitions in one
    directory. For compatibility /sys/block is created and contains symlinks
    to the disks.

introduced a global disk_type variable in <linux/genhd.h>, causing the
following compile error on Atari:

    drivers/block/ataflop.c:93: error: conflicting types for 'disk_type'
    include/linux/genhd.h:21: error: previous declaration of 'disk_type' was here

Rename the local disk_type variable in drivers/block/ataflop.c to
atari_disk_type, to avoid the conflict.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:10 -08:00
Randy Dunlap 582539e5a0 cciss: use upper_32_bits() macro to eliminate warnings
Use upper_32_bits(x) macro to handle shifts that may be >= the width of
the data type.

drivers/block/cciss.c: In function 'do_cciss_request':
drivers/block/cciss.c:2655: warning: right shift count >= width of type
drivers/block/cciss.c:2656: warning: right shift count >= width of type
drivers/block/cciss.c:2657: warning: right shift count >= width of type
drivers/block/cciss.c:2658: warning: right shift count >= width of type

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:03 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day 67a3b2b6ce rd: use is_power_of_2() in drivers/block/rd.c.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:03 -08:00