Pull MTD update from David Woodhouse:
 "Fairly unexciting MTD merge for 3.9:

   - misc clean-ups in the MTD command-line partitioning parser
     (cmdlinepart)
   - add flash locking support for STmicro chips serial flash chips, as
     well as for CFI command set 2 chips.
   - new driver for the ELM error correction HW module found in various
     TI chips, enable the OMAP NAND driver to use the ELM HW error
     correction
   - added number of new serial flash IDs
   - various fixes and improvements in the gpmi NAND driver
   - bcm47xx NAND driver improvements
   - make the mtdpart module actually removable"

* tag 'for-linus-20130301' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (45 commits)
  mtd: map: BUG() in non handled cases
  mtd: bcm47xxnflash: use pr_fmt for module prefix in messages
  mtd: davinci_nand: Use managed resources
  mtd: mtd_torturetest can cause stack overflows
  mtd: physmap_of: Convert device allocation to managed devm_kzalloc()
  mtd: at91: atmel_nand: for PMECC, add code to check the ONFI parameter ECC requirement.
  mtd: atmel_nand: make pmecc-cap, pmecc-sector-size in dts is optional.
  mtd: atmel_nand: avoid to report an error when lookup table offset is 0.
  mtd: bcm47xxsflash: adjust names of bus-specific functions
  mtd: bcm47xxpart: improve probing of nvram partition
  mtd: bcm47xxpart: add support for other erase sizes
  mtd: bcm47xxnflash: register this as normal driver
  mtd: bcm47xxnflash: fix message
  mtd: bcm47xxsflash: register this as normal driver
  mtd: bcm47xxsflash: write number of written bytes
  mtd: gpmi: add sanity check for the ECC
  mtd: gpmi: set the Golois Field bit for mx6q's BCH
  mtd: devices: elm: Removes <xx> literals in elm DT node
  mtd: gpmi: fix a dereferencing freed memory error
  mtd: fix the wrong timeo for panic_nand_wait()
  ...

Pull device-mapper update from Alasdair G Kergon:
 "The main addition here is a long-desired target framework to allow an
  SSD to be used as a cache in front of a slower device.  Cache tuning
  is delegated to interchangeable policy modules so these can be
  developed independently of the mechanics needed to shuffle the data
  around.

  Other than that, kcopyd users acquire a throttling parameter, ioctl
  buffer usage gets streamlined, more mempool reliance is reduced and
  there are a few other bug fixes and tidy-ups."

* tag 'dm-3.9-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm: (30 commits)
  dm cache: add cleaner policy
  dm cache: add mq policy
  dm: add cache target
  dm persistent data: add bitset
  dm persistent data: add transactional array
  dm thin: remove cells from stack
  dm bio prison: pass cell memory in
  dm persistent data: add btree_walk
  dm: add target num_write_bios fn
  dm kcopyd: introduce configurable throttling
  dm ioctl: allow message to return data
  dm ioctl: optimize functions without variable params
  dm ioctl: introduce ioctl_flags
  dm: merge io_pool and tio_pool
  dm: remove unused _rq_bio_info_cache
  dm: fix limits initialization when there are no data devices
  dm snapshot: add missing module aliases
  dm persistent data: set some btree fn parms const
  dm: refactor bio cloning
  dm: rename bio cloning functions
  ...

Pull SCSI target patches from Nicholas Bellinger:
 "Here are the remaining target-pending patches for v3.9-rc1.

  The most important one here is the immediate queue starvation
  regression fix for iscsi-target, which addresses a bug that's
  effecting v3.5+ kernels under heavy sustained READ only workloads.
  Thanks alot to Benjamin Estrabaud for helping to track this down!

  Also included is a pSCSI exception bugfix from Asias, along with a
  handful of other minor changes.  Both bugfixes are CC'ed to stable."

* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending:
  target/pscsi: Rename sg_num to nr_vecs in pscsi_get_bio()
  target/pscsi: Fix page increment
  target/pscsi: Drop unnecessary NULL assignment to bio->bi_next
  target: Add __exit annotation for module_exit functions
  iscsi-target: Fix immediate queue starvation regression with DATAIN

Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "This is an assorted set of stragglers into the merge window with
  driver updates for qla2xxx, megaraid_sas, storvsc and ufs.

  It also includes pulls of the uapi tree (all the remaining SCSI
  pieces) and the fcoe tree (updates to fcoe and libfc)"

* tag 'scsi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (81 commits)
  [SCSI] ufs: Separate PCI code into glue driver
  [SCSI] ufs: Segregate PCI Specific Code
  [SCSI] scsi: fix lpfc build when wmb() is defined as mb()
  [SCSI] storvsc: Handle dynamic resizing of the device
  [SCSI] storvsc: Restructure error handling code on command completion
  [SCSI] storvsc: avoid usage of WRITE_SAME
  [SCSI] aacraid: suppress two GCC warnings
  [SCSI] hpsa: check for dma_mapping_error in hpsa_passthru ioctls
  [SCSI] hpsa: reorganize error handling in hpsa_passthru_ioctl
  [SCSI] hpsa: check for dma_mapping_error in hpsa_map_sg_chain_block
  [SCSI] hpsa: Check for dma_mapping_error for all code paths using fill_cmd
  [SCSI] hpsa: Check for dma_mapping_error in hpsa_map_one
  [SCSI] dc395x: uninitialized variable in device_alloc()
  [SCSI] Fix range check in scsi_host_dif_capable()
  [SCSI] storvsc: Initialize the sglist
  [SCSI] mpt2sas: Add support for OEM specific controller
  [SCSI] ipr: Fix oops while resetting an ipr adapter
  [SCSI] fnic: Fnic Trace Utility
  [SCSI] fnic: New debug flags and debug log messages
  [SCSI] fnic: fnic driver may hit BUG_ON on device reset
  ...

Tim found:

  WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:324 topology_sane.isra.2+0x6f/0x80()
  Hardware name: S2600CP
  sched: CPU #1's llc-sibling CPU #0 is not on the same node! [node: 1 != 0]. Ignoring dependency.
  smpboot: Booting Node   1, Processors  #1
  Modules linked in:
  Pid: 0, comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.9.0-0-generic #1
  Call Trace:
    set_cpu_sibling_map+0x279/0x449
    start_secondary+0x11d/0x1e5

Don Morris reproduced on a HP z620 workstation, and bisected it to
commit e8d19552 ("acpi, memory-hotplug: parse SRAT before memblock
is ready")

It turns out movable_map has some problems, and it breaks several things

1. numa_init is called several times, NOT just for srat. so those
	nodes_clear(numa_nodes_parsed)
	memset(&numa_meminfo, 0, sizeof(numa_meminfo))
   can not be just removed.  Need to consider sequence is: numaq, srat, amd, dummy.
   and make fall back path working.

2. simply split acpi_numa_init to early_parse_srat.
   a. that early_parse_srat is NOT called for ia64, so you break ia64.
   b.  for (i = 0; i < MAX_LOCAL_APIC; i++)
	     set_apicid_to_node(i, NUMA_NO_NODE)
     still left in numa_init. So it will just clear result from early_parse_srat.
     it should be moved before that....
   c.  it breaks ACPI_TABLE_OVERIDE...as the acpi table scan is moved
       early before override from INITRD is settled.

3. that patch TITLE is total misleading, there is NO x86 in the title,
   but it changes critical x86 code. It caused x86 guys did not
   pay attention to find the problem early. Those patches really should
   be routed via tip/x86/mm.

4. after that commit, following range can not use movable ram:
  a. real_mode code.... well..funny, legacy Node0 [0,1M) could be hot-removed?
  b. initrd... it will be freed after booting, so it could be on movable...
  c. crashkernel for kdump...: looks like we can not put kdump kernel above 4G
	anymore.
  d. init_mem_mapping: can not put page table high anymore.
  e. initmem_init: vmemmap can not be high local node anymore. That is
     not good.

If node is hotplugable, the mem related range like page table and
vmemmap could be on the that node without problem and should be on that
node.

We have workaround patch that could fix some problems, but some can not
be fixed.

So just remove that offending commit and related ones including:

 f7210e6c ("mm/memblock.c: use CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP to
    protect movablecore_map in memblock_overlaps_region().")

 01a178a9 ("acpi, memory-hotplug: support getting hotplug info from
    SRAT")

 27168d38 ("acpi, memory-hotplug: extend movablemem_map ranges to
    the end of node")

 e8d19552 ("acpi, memory-hotplug: parse SRAT before memblock is
    ready")

 fb06bc8e ("page_alloc: bootmem limit with movablecore_map")

 42f47e27 ("page_alloc: make movablemem_map have higher priority")

 6981ec31 ("page_alloc: introduce zone_movable_limit[] to keep
    movable limit for nodes")

 34b71f1e ("page_alloc: add movable_memmap kernel parameter")

 4d59a751 ("x86: get pg_data_t's memory from other node")

Later we should have patches that will make sure kernel put page table
and vmemmap on local node ram instead of push them down to node0.  Also
need to find way to put other kernel used ram to local node ram.
Reported-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Reported-by: Don Morris <don.morris@hp.com>
Bisected-by: Don Morris <don.morris@hp.com>
Tested-by: Don Morris <don.morris@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Pull signal/compat fixes from Al Viro:
 "Fixes for several regressions introduced in the last signal.git pile,
  along with fixing bugs in truncate and ftruncate compat (on just about
  anything biarch at least one of those two had been done wrong)."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  compat: restore timerfd settime and gettime compat syscalls
  [regression] braino in "sparc: convert to ksignal"
  fix compat truncate/ftruncate
  switch lseek to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  lseek() and truncate() on sparc really need sign extension

Pull KGDB/KDB fixes and cleanups from Jason Wessel:
 "For a change we removed more code than we added.  If people aren't
  using it we shouldn't be carrying it.  :-)

  Cleanups:
   - Remove kdb ssb command - there is no in kernel disassembler to
     support it

   - Remove kdb ll command - Always caused a kernel oops and there were
     no bug reports so no one was using this command

   - Use kernel ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of array computations

  Fixes:
   - Stop oops in kdb if user executes kdb_defcmd with args

   - kdb help command truncated text

   - ppc64 support for kgdbts

   - Add missing kconfig option from original kdb port for dealing with
     catastrophic kernel crashes such that you can reboot automatically
     on continue from kdb"

* tag 'for_linux-3.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb:
  kdb: Remove unhandled ssb command
  kdb: Prevent kernel oops with kdb_defcmd
  kdb: Remove the ll command
  kdb_main: fix help print
  kdb: Fix overlap in buffers with strcpy
  Fixed dead ifdef block by adding missing Kconfig option.
  kdb: Setup basic kdb state before invoking commands via kgdb
  kdb: use ARRAY_SIZE where possible
  kgdb/kgdbts: support ppc64
  kdb: A fix for kdb command table expansion

Pull new ARC architecture from Vineet Gupta:
 "Initial ARC Linux port with some fixes on top for 3.9-rc1:

  I would like to introduce the Linux port to ARC Processors (from
  Synopsys) for 3.9-rc1.  The patch-set has been discussed on the public
  lists since Nov and has received a fair bit of review, specially from
  Arnd, tglx, Al and other subsystem maintainers for DeviceTree, kgdb...

  The arch bits are in arch/arc, some asm-generic changes (acked by
  Arnd), a minor change to PARISC (acked by Helge).

  The series is a touch bigger for a new port for 2 main reasons:

   1. It enables a basic kernel in first sub-series and adds
      ptrace/kgdb/.. later

   2. Some of the fallout of review (DeviceTree support, multi-platform-
      image support) were added on top of orig series, primarily to
      record the revision history.

  This updated pull request additionally contains

   - fixes due to our GNU tools catching up with the new syscall/ptrace
     ABI

   - some (minor) cross-arch Kconfig updates."

* tag 'arc-v3.9-rc1-late' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: (82 commits)
  ARC: split elf.h into uapi and export it for userspace
  ARC: Fixup the current ABI version
  ARC: gdbserver using regset interface possibly broken
  ARC: Kconfig cleanup tracking cross-arch Kconfig pruning in merge window
  ARC: make a copy of flat DT
  ARC: [plat-arcfpga] DT arc-uart bindings change: "baud" => "current-speed"
  ARC: Ensure CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS is not enabled
  ARC: Fix pt_orig_r8 access
  ARC: [3.9] Fallout of hlist iterator update
  ARC: 64bit RTSC timestamp hardware issue
  ARC: Don't fiddle with non-existent caches
  ARC: Add self to MAINTAINERS
  ARC: Provide a default serial.h for uart drivers needing BASE_BAUD
  ARC: [plat-arcfpga] defconfig for fully loaded ARC Linux
  ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #8: platform registers SMP callbacks
  ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #7: SMP common code to use callbacks
  ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #6: cpu-to-dma-addr optional
  ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #5: NR_IRQS defined by ARC core
  ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #4: Isolate platform headers
  ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #3: switch to board callback
  ...

Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:

 o Add basic support for the Mediatek/Ralink Wireless SoC family.

 o The Qualcomm Atheros platform is extended by support for the new
   QCA955X SoC series as well as a bunch of patches that get the code
   ready for OF support.

 o Lantiq and BCM47XX platform have a few improvements and bug fixes.

 o MIPS has sent a few patches that get the kernel ready for the
   upcoming microMIPS support.

 o The rest of the series is made up of small bug fixes and cleanups
   that relate to various parts of the MIPS code.  The biggy in there is
   a whitespace cleanup.  After I was sent another set of whitespace
   cleanup patches I decided it was the time to clean the whitespace
   "issues" for once and and that touches many files below arch/mips/.

Fix up silly conflicts, mostly due to whitespace cleanups.

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (105 commits)
  MIPS: Quit exporting kernel internel break codes to uapi/asm/break.h
  MIPS: remove broken conditional inside vpe loader code
  MIPS: SMTC: fix implicit declaration of set_vi_handler
  MIPS: early_printk: drop __init annotations
  MIPS: Probe for and report hardware virtualization support.
  MIPS: ath79: add support for the Qualcomm Atheros AP136-010 board
  MIPS: ath79: add USB controller registration code for the QCA955X SoCs
  MIPS: ath79: add PCI controller registration code for the QCA955X SoCs
  MIPS: ath79: add WMAC registration code for the QCA955X SoCs
  MIPS: ath79: register UART for the QCA955X SoCs
  MIPS: ath79: add QCA955X specific glue to ath79_device_reset_{set, clear}
  MIPS: ath79: add GPIO setup code for the QCA955X SoCs
  MIPS: ath79: add IRQ handling code for the QCA955X SoCs
  MIPS: ath79: add clock setup code for the QCA955X SoCs
  MIPS: ath79: add SoC detection code for the QCA955X SoCs
  MIPS: ath79: add early printk support for the QCA955X SoCs
  MIPS: ath79: fix WMAC IRQ resource assignment
  mips: reserve elfcorehdr
  mips: Make sure kernel memory is in iomem
  MIPS: ath79: use dynamically allocated USB platform devices
  ...

The 'ssb' command can only be handled when we have a disassembler, to check for
branches, so remove the 'ssb' command for now.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Stehlé <vincent.stehle@laposte.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

The kdb_defcmd can only be used to display the available command aliases
while using the kernel debug shell.  If you try to define a new macro
while the kernel debugger is active it will oops.  The debug shell
macros must use pre-allocated memory set aside at the time kdb_init()
is run, and the kdb_defcmd is restricted to only working at the time
that the kdb_init sequence is being run, which only occurs if you
actually activate the kernel debugger.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

Recently some code inspection was done after fixing a problem with
kmalloc used while in the kernel debugger context (which is not
legal), and it turned up the fact that kdb ll command will oops the
kernel.

Given that there have been zero bug reports on the command combined
with the fact it will oops the kernel it is clearly not being used.
Instead of fixing it, it will be removed.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

The help command was chopping all the usage instructions such that
they were not readable.

Example:

bta             [D|R|S|T|C|Z|E|U|I| Backtrace all processes matching state flag
per_cpu         <sym> [<bytes>] [<c Display per_cpu variables

Where as it should look like:

bta             [D|R|S|T|C|Z|E|U|I|M|A]
                                    Backtrace all processes matching state flag
per_cpu         <sym> [<bytes>] [<cpu>]
                                    Display per_cpu variables

All that is needed is to check the how long the cmd_usage is and jump
to the next line when appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

Maxime reported that strcpy(s->usage, s->usage+1) has no definitive
guarantee that it will work on all archs the same way when you have
overlapping memory.  The fix is simple for the kdb code because we
still have the original string memory in the function scope, so we
just have to use that as the argument instead.
Reported-by: Maxime Villard <rustyBSD@gmx.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

Added missing Kconfig option KDB_CONTINUE_CATASTROPHIC which lead to a dead
ifdef block in kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c:73-75.

The code using KDB_CONTINUE_CATASTROPHIC was originally introduced in
commit '5d5314d6' by Jason Wessel.
This patchset ("kdb: core for kgdb back end (1 of 2)")
added platform independent part of kdb to the linux kernel.

The Kernel option however, even though it had the same options and
behaviour on all supported architectures, was part of the x86 and
ia64 patchset of KDB and therefore not pulled into the mainline kernel tree.

I actually took the originally written Kconfig by
Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> (2003-06-20 according to KDB changelog)
and changed it to reflect the correct behaviour,
as the KDUMP patchset is not part of the kernel and the expected
functionality is missing from it.
Signed-off-by: Robert Obermeier <obbi89@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

Although invasive kdb commands are not supported via kgdb, some useful
non-invasive commands like bt* require basic kdb state to be setup before
calling into the kdb code. Factor out some of this code and call it before
and after executing kdb commands via kgdb.
Signed-off-by: Matt Klein <mklein@twitter.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

We can't look up the address of the entry point of the function simply
via that function symbol for all architectures.

For PPC64 ABI, actually there is a function descriptors structure.

A function descriptor is a three doubleword data structure that contains
the following values:
	* The first doubleword contains the address of the entry point of
		the function.
	* The second doubleword contains the TOC base address for
		the function.
	* The third doubleword contains the environment pointer for
		languages such as Pascal and PL/1.

So we should call a wapperred dereference_function_descriptor() to get
the address of the entry point of the function.

Note this is also safe for other architecture after refer to
"include/asm-generic/sections.h" since:

dereference_function_descriptor(p) always is (p) if without arched definition.
Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

When locally adding in some additional kdb commands, I stumbled
across an issue with the dynamic expansion of the kdb command table.
When the number of kdb commands exceeds the size of the statically
allocated kdb_base_commands[] array, additional space is allocated in
the kdb_register_repeat() routine.

The unused portion of the newly allocated array was not being initialized
to zero properly and this would result in segfaults when help '?' was
executed or when a search for a non-existing command would traverse the
command table beyond the end of valid command entries and then attempt
to use the non-zeroed area as actual command entries.
Signed-off-by: John Blackwood <john.blackwood@ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

Both compat syscalls got lost with 9d94b9e2 "switch timerfd compat syscalls
to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE" because of a typo:
COMPAT instead of CONFIG_COMPAT.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

A simple cache policy that writes back all data to the origin.

This is used to decommission a dm cache by emptying it.
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

A cache policy that uses a multiqueue ordered by recent hit
count to select which blocks should be promoted and demoted.
This is meant to be a general purpose policy.  It prioritises
reads over writes.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

Add a target that allows a fast device such as an SSD to be used as a
cache for a slower device such as a disk.

A plug-in architecture was chosen so that the decisions about which data
to migrate and when are delegated to interchangeable tunable policy
modules.  The first general purpose module we have developed, called
"mq" (multiqueue), follows in the next patch.  Other modules are
under development.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

Add a persistent bitset as a wrapper around dm-array.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

Add a transactional array.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

This patch takes advantage of the new bio-prison interface where the
memory is now passed in rather than using a mempool in bio-prison.
This allows the map function to avoid performing potentially-blocking
allocations that could lead to deadlocks: We want to avoid the cell
allocation that is done in bio_detain.

(The potential for mempool deadlocks still remains in other functions
that use bio_detain.)
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

Change the dm_bio_prison interface so that instead of allocating memory
internally, dm_bio_detain is supplied with a pre-allocated cell each
time it is called.

This enables a subsequent patch to move the allocation of the struct
dm_bio_prison_cell outside the thin target's mapping function so it can
no longer block there.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

Add dm_btree_walk to iterate through the contents of a btree.
This will be used by the dm cache target.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

Add a num_write_bios function to struct target.

If an instance of a target sets this, it will be queried before the
target's mapping function is called on a write bio, and the response
controls the number of copies of the write bio that the target will
receive.

This provides a convenient way for a target to send the same data to
more than one device.  The new cache target uses this in writethrough
mode, to send the data both to the cache and the backing device.
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

This patch allows the administrator to reduce the rate at which kcopyd
issues I/O.

Each module that uses kcopyd acquires a throttle parameter that can be
set in /sys/module/*/parameters.

We maintain a history of kcopyd usage by each module in the variables
io_period and total_period in struct dm_kcopyd_throttle. The actual
kcopyd activity is calculated as a percentage of time equal to
"(100 * io_period / total_period)".  This is compared with the user-defined
throttle percentage threshold and if it is exceeded, we sleep.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

This patch introduces enhanced message support that allows the
device-mapper core to recognise messages that are common to all devices,
and for messages to return data to userspace.

Core messages are processed by the function "message_for_md".  If the
device mapper doesn't support the message, it is passed to the target
driver.

If the message returns data, the kernel sets the flag
DM_MESSAGE_OUT_FLAG.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

Device-mapper ioctls receive and send data in a buffer supplied
by userspace.  The buffer has two parts.  The first part contains
a 'struct dm_ioctl' and has a fixed size.  The second part depends
on the ioctl and has a variable size.

This patch recognises the specific ioctls that do not use the variable
part of the buffer and skips allocating memory for it.

In particular, when a device is suspended and a resume ioctl is sent,
this now avoid memory allocation completely.

The variable "struct dm_ioctl tmp" is moved from the function
copy_params to its caller ctl_ioctl and renamed to param_kernel.
It is used directly when the ioctl function doesn't need any arguments.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

This patch introduces flags for each ioctl function.

So far, one flag is defined, IOCTL_FLAGS_NO_PARAMS.  It is set if the
function processing the ioctl doesn't take or produce any parameters in
the section of the data buffer that has a variable size.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

This patch merges io_pool and tio_pool into io_pool and cleans up
related functions.

Though device-mapper used to have 2 pools of objects for each dm device,
the use of bioset frontbad for per-bio data has shrunk the number of
pools to 1 for both bio-based and request-based device types.
(See c0820cf5 "dm: introduce per_bio_data" and
 94818742 "dm: Use bioset's front_pad for dm_rq_clone_bio_info")

So dm no longer has to maintain 2 different pointers.

No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

Remove _rq_bio_info_cache, which is no longer used.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

dm_calculate_queue_limits will first reset the provided limits to
defaults using blk_set_stacking_limits; whereby defeating the purpose of
retaining the original live table's limits -- as was intended via commit
3ae70656 ("dm: retain table limits when
swapping to new table with no devices").

Fix this improper limits initialization (in the no data devices case) by
avoiding the call to dm_calculate_queue_limits.

[patch header revised by Mike Snitzer]
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.6+
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

Add module aliases so that autoloading works correctly if the user
tries to activate "snapshot-origin" or "snapshot-merge" targets.

Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/889973Reported-by: Chao Yang <chyang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

Mark some constant parameters constant in some dm-btree functions.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

Refactor part of the bio splitting and cloning code to try to make it
easier to understand.
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>