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  1. 05 Jun, 2012 16 commits
  3. 04 Jun, 2012 13 commits
  5. 03 Jun, 2012 3 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      vfs: move inode stat information closer together · 2f9d3df8
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      The comment above it says "Stat data, not accessed from path walking",
but in fact some of inode fields we use for the common stat data was way
down at the end of the inode, causing unnecessary cache misses for the
common stat operations.

The inode structure is pretty big, and this can change padding depending
on field width, but at least on the common 64-bit configurations this
doesn't change the size.  Some of our inode layout has historically been
to tro to avoid unnecessary padding fields, but cache locality is at
least as important for layout, if not more.

Noticed by looking at kernel profiles, and noticing that the "i_blkbits"
access stood out like a sore thumb.
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2f9d3df8
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 3.5-rc1 · f8f5701b
      Linus Torvalds authored
      f8f5701b
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'dm-3.5-changes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm · 912afc36
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull device-mapper updates from Alasdair G Kergon:
 "Improve multipath's retrying mechanism in some defined circumstances
  and provide a simple reserve/release mechanism for userspace tools to
  access thin provisioning metadata while the pool is in use."

* tag 'dm-3.5-changes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm:
  dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata
  dm thin: use slab mempools
  dm mpath: allow ioctls to trigger pg init
  dm mpath: delay retry of bypassed pg
  dm mpath: reduce size of struct multipath
      912afc36
  7. 02 Jun, 2012 8 commits
    • Joe Thornber's avatar
      dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata · cc8394d8
      Joe Thornber authored 
      This patch implements two new messages that can be sent to the thin
pool target allowing it to take a snapshot of the _metadata_.  This,
read-only snapshot can be accessed by userland, concurrently with the
live target.

Only one metadata snapshot can be held at a time.  The pool's status
line will give the block location for the current msnap.

Since version 0.1.5 of the userland thin provisioning tools, the
thin_dump program displays the msnap as follows:

    thin_dump -m <msnap root> <metadata dev>

Available here: https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools

Now that userland can access the metadata we can do various things
that have traditionally been kernel side tasks:

     i) Incremental backups.

     By using metadata snapshots we can work out what blocks have
     changed over time.  Combined with data snapshots we can ensure
     the data doesn't change while we back it up.

     A short proof of concept script can be found here:

     https://github.com/jthornber/thinp-test-suite/blob/master/incremental_backup_example.rb

     ii) Migration of thin devices from one pool to another.

     iii) Merging snapshots back into an external origin.

     iv) Asyncronous replication.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      cc8394d8
    • Mike Snitzer's avatar
      dm thin: use slab mempools · a24c2569
      Mike Snitzer authored 
      Use dedicated caches prefixed with a "dm_" name rather than relying on
kmalloc mempools backed by generic slab caches so the memory usage of
thin provisioning (and any leaks) can be accounted for independently.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      a24c2569
    • Mikulas Patocka's avatar
      dm mpath: allow ioctls to trigger pg init · 35991652
      Mikulas Patocka authored 
      After the failure of a group of paths, any alternative paths that
need initialising do not become available until further I/O is sent to
the device.  Until this has happened, ioctls return -EAGAIN.

With this patch, new paths are made available in response to an ioctl
too.  The processing of the ioctl gets delayed until this has happened.

Instead of returning an error, we submit a work item to kmultipathd
(that will potentially activate the new path) and retry in ten
milliseconds.

Note that the patch doesn't retry an ioctl if the ioctl itself fails due
to a path failure.  Such retries should be handled intelligently by the
code that generated the ioctl in the first place, noting that some SCSI
commands should not be retried because they are not idempotent (XOR write
commands).  For commands that could be retried, there is a danger that
if the device rejected the SCSI command, the path could be errorneously
marked as failed, and the request would be retried on another path which
might fail too.  It can be determined if the failure happens on the
device or on the SCSI controller, but there is no guarantee that all
SCSI drivers set these flags correctly.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      35991652
    • Mike Christie's avatar
      dm mpath: delay retry of bypassed pg · f220fd4e
      Mike Christie authored 
      If I/O needs retrying and only bypassed priority groups are available,
set the pg_init_delay_retry flag to wait before retrying.

If, for example, the reason for the bypass is that the controller is
getting reset or there is a firmware upgrade happening, retrying right
away would cause a flood of log messages and retries for what could be a
few seconds or even several minutes.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Acked-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      f220fd4e
    • Mike Snitzer's avatar
      dm mpath: reduce size of struct multipath · 1fbdd2b3
      Mike Snitzer authored 
      Move multipath structure's 'lock' and 'queue_size' members to eliminate
two 4-byte holes.  Also use a bit within a single unsigned int for each
existing flag (saves 8-bytes).  This allows future flags to be added
without each consuming an unsigned int.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      1fbdd2b3
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net · 4fc3acf2
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Make syn floods consume significantly less resources by

    a) Not pre-COW'ing routing metrics for SYN/ACKs
    b) Mirroring the device queue mapping of the SYN for the SYN/ACK
       reply.

    Both from Eric Dumazet.

 2) Fix calculation errors in Byte Queue Limiting, from Hiroaki SHIMODA.

 3) Validate the length requested when building a paged SKB for a
    socket, so we don't overrun the page vector accidently.  From Jason
    Wang.

 4) When netlabel is disabled, we abort all IP option processing when we
    see a CIPSO option.  This isn't the right thing to do, we should
    simply skip over it and continue processing the remaining options
    (if any).  Fix from Paul Moore.

 5) SRIOV fixes for the mellanox driver from Jack orgenstein and Marcel
    Apfelbaum.

 6) 8139cp enables the receiver before the ring address is properly
    programmed, which potentially lets the device crap over random
    memory.  Fix from Jason Wang.

 7) e1000/e1000e fixes for i217 RST handling, and an improper buffer
    address reference in jumbo RX frame processing from Bruce Allan and
    Sebastian Andrzej Siewior, respectively.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net:
  fec_mpc52xx: fix timestamp filtering
  mcs7830: Implement link state detection
  e1000e: fix Rapid Start Technology support for i217
  e1000: look into the page instead of skb->data for e1000_tbi_adjust_stats()
  r8169: call netif_napi_del at errpaths and at driver unload
  tcp: reflect SYN queue_mapping into SYNACK packets
  tcp: do not create inetpeer on SYNACK message
  8139cp/8139too: terminate the eeprom access with the right opmode
  8139cp: set ring address before enabling receiver
  cipso: handle CIPSO options correctly when NetLabel is disabled
  net: sock: validate data_len before allocating skb in sock_alloc_send_pskb()
  bql: Avoid possible inconsistent calculation.
  bql: Avoid unneeded limit decrement.
  bql: Fix POSDIFF() to integer overflow aware.
  net/mlx4_core: Fix obscure mlx4_cmd_box parameter in QUERY_DEV_CAP
  net/mlx4_core: Check port out-of-range before using in mlx4_slave_cap
  net/mlx4_core: Fixes for VF / Guest startup flow
  net/mlx4_en: Fix improper use of "port" parameter in mlx4_en_event
  net/mlx4_core: Fix number of EQs used in ICM initialisation
  net/mlx4_core: Fix the slave_id out-of-range test in mlx4_eq_int
      4fc3acf2
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 63004afa
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull straggler x86 fixes from Peter Anvin:
 "Three groups of patches:

  - EFI boot stub documentation and the ability to print error messages;
  - Removal for PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL for x32 (obsolete interface which
    should never have been ported, and the port is broken and
    potentially dangerous.)
  - ftrace stack corruption fixes.  I'm not super-happy about the
    technical implementation, but it is probably the least invasive in
    the short term.  In the future I would like a single method for
    nesting the debug stack, however."

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, x32, ptrace: Remove PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL for x32
  x86, efi: Add EFI boot stub documentation
  x86, efi; Add EFI boot stub console support
  x86, efi: Only close open files in error path
  ftrace/x86: Do not change stacks in DEBUG when calling lockdep
  x86: Allow nesting of the debug stack IDT setting
  x86: Reset the debug_stack update counter
  ftrace: Use breakpoint method to update ftrace caller
  ftrace: Synchronize variable setting with breakpoints
      63004afa
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      tty: Revert the tty locking series, it needs more work · f309532b
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      This reverts the tty layer change to use per-tty locking, because it's
not correct yet, and fixing it will require some more deep surgery.

The main revert is d29f3ef3 ("tty_lock: Localise the lock"), but
there are several smaller commits that built upon it, they also get
reverted here. The list of reverted commits is:

  fde86d31 - tty: add lockdep annotations
  8f6576ad - tty: fix ldisc lock inversion trace
  d3ca8b64 - pty: Fix lock inversion
  b1d679af - tty: drop the pty lock during hangup
  abcefe5f - tty/amiserial: Add missing argument for tty_unlock()
  fd11b42e - cris: fix missing tty arg in wait_event_interruptible_tty call
  d29f3ef3 - tty_lock: Localise the lock

The revert had a trivial conflict in the 68360serial.c staging driver
that got removed in the meantime.
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f309532b
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