- 09 Oct, 2008 34 commits
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Tejun Heo authored
In hd_struct, @partno is used to denote partition number and a number of other places use @part to denote hd_struct. Functions use @part and @index instead. This causes confusion and makes it difficult to use consistent variable names for hd_struct. Always use @partno if a variable represents partition number. Also, print out functions use @f or @part for seq_file argument. Use @seqf uniformly instead. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
This patch makes the following misc updates in preparation for disk->part dereference fix and extended block devt support. * implment part_to_disk() * fix comment about gendisk->part indexing * rename get_part() to disk_map_sector() * don't use n which is always zero while printing disk information in diskstats_show() Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
d805dda4 tried to fix error case handling in add_partition() but had a few problems. * disk->part[] entry is set early and left dangling if operation fails. * Once device initialized, the last put_device() is responsible for freeing all the resources. The failure path freed part_stats and p regardless of put_device() causing double free. * holders subdir holds reference to the disk device, so failure path should remove it to release resources properly which was missing. This patch fixes the above problems and while at it move partition slot busy check into add_partition() for completeness and inlines holders subdirectory creation. Using separate function for it just obfuscates the code. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Abdel Benamrouche <draconux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
delete_partition() was noop for zero length partition. As the addition code allows creating zero lenght partition and deletion is assumed to always succeed, this causes memory leak for zero length partitions. Allow zero length partitions to end their meaningless lives. While at it, allow deleting zero lenght partition via BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION ioctl too. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
Recent block_class iteration updates 5c6f35c5..27f30251 converted all class device iteration to class_for_each_device() and class_find_device(), which are correct but pain in the ass to use. This pach converts them to newly introduced class_dev_iterator so that they can use more natural control structures instead of separate callbacks and struct to pass parameters to them. This results in smaller and easier code. This patch also restores the original behavior of not printing header in /proc/partitions if there's no partition to print. This is trivial but still user-visible behavior. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
block_class_lock protects major_names array and bdev_map and doesn't have anything to do with block class devices. Don't grab them while iterating over block class devices. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
Recent block_class iteration updates 5c6f35c5..27f30251 broke partition info printouts. * printk_all_partitions(): Partition print out stops when it meets a partition hole. Partition printing inner loop should continue instead of exiting on empty partition slot. * /proc/partitions and /proc/diskstats: If all information can't be read in single read(), the information is truncated. This is because find_start() doesn't actually update the counter containing the initial seek. It runs to the end and ends up always reporting EOF on the second read. This patch fixes both problems. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
Iterating over entries using callback usually isn't too fun especially when the entry being iterated over can't be manipulated freely. This patch converts class->p->class_devices to klist and implements class device iterator so that the users can freely build their own control structure. The users are also free to call back into class code without worrying about locking. class_for_each_device() and class_find_device() are converted to use the new iterators, so their users don't have to worry about locking anymore either. Note: This depends on klist-dont-iterate-over-deleted-entries patch because class_intf->add/remove_dev() depends on proper synchronization with device removal. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
A klist entry is kept on the list till all its current iterations are finished; however, a new iteration after deletion also iterates over deleted entries as long as their reference count stays above zero. This causes problems for cases where there are users which iterate over the list while synchronized against list manipulations and natuarally expect already deleted entries to not show up during iteration. This patch implements dead flag which gets set on deletion so that iteration can skip already deleted entries. The dead flag piggy backs on the lowest bit of knode->n_klist and only visible to klist implementation proper. While at it, drop klist_iter->i_head as it's redundant and doesn't offer anything in semantics or performance wise as klist_iter->i_klist is dereferenced on every iteration anyway. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Add some block/ source files to the kernel-api docbook. Fix kernel-doc notation in them as needed. Fix changed function parameter names. Fix typos/spellos. In comments, change REQ_SPECIAL to REQ_TYPE_SPECIAL and REQ_BLOCK_PC to REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
raid5 can overflow with more than 255 stripes, and we can increase it to an int for free on both 32 and 64-bit archs due to the padding. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Mikulas Patocka authored
Remove hw_segments field from struct bio and struct request. Without virtual merge accounting they have no purpose. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Mikulas Patocka authored
Remove virtual merge accounting. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Aaron Carroll authored
Update the description of fifo_batch to match the current implementation, and include a description of how to tune it. Signed-off-by: Aaron Carroll <aaronc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Aaron Carroll authored
* convert goto to simpler while loop; * use rq_end_sector() instead of computing manually; * fix false comments; * remove spurious whitespace; * convert rq_rb_root macro to an inline function. Signed-off-by: Aaron Carroll <aaronc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Aaron Carroll authored
Deadline currently only batches sector-contiguous requests, so except for a few circumstances (e.g. requests in a single direction), it is essentially first come first served. This is bad for throughput, so change it to CSCAN, which means requests in a batch do not need to be sequential and are issued in increasing sector order. Signed-off-by: Aaron Carroll <aaronc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao authored
struct request has an ioprio member but it is never updated because currently bios do not hold io context information. The implication of this is that virtio_blk ends up passing useless information to the backend driver. That said, some IO schedulers such as CFQ do store io context information in struct request, but use private members for that, which means that that information cannot be directly accessed in a IO scheduler-independent way. This patch adds a function to obtain the ioprio of a request. We should avoid accessing ioprio directly and use this function instead, so that its users do not have to care about future changes in block layer structures or what the currently active IO controller is. This patch does not introduce any functional changes but paves the way for future clean-ups and enhancements. Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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David Woodhouse authored
It was only used by ps3disk, and it should probably have been REQ_TYPE_LINUX_BLOCK + REQ_LB_OP_FLUSH. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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David Woodhouse authored
But blkdev_issue_discard() still emits requests which are interpreted as soft barriers, because naïve callers might otherwise issue subsequent writes to those same sectors, which might cross on the queue (if they're reallocated quickly enough). Callers still _can_ issue non-barrier discard requests, but they have to take care of queue ordering for themselves. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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David Woodhouse authored
We may well want mkfs tools to use this to mark the whole device as unwanted before they format it, for example. The ioctl takes a pair of uint64_ts, which are start offset and length in _bytes_. Although at the moment it might make sense for them both to be in 512-byte sectors, I don't want to limit the ABI to that. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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OGAWA Hirofumi authored
Barriers should be submitted with the WRITE flag set. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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David Woodhouse authored
Let the compiler see what's going on, and it can all get a lot simpler. On PPC64 this reduces the size of the code calculating these bits by about 60%. On x86_64 it's less of a win -- only 40%. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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David Woodhouse authored
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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David Woodhouse authored
We can benefit from knowing that the file system no longer cares about the contents of certain sectors, by throwing them away immediately and then never having to garbage collect them, and using the extra free space to make our operations more efficient. Do so. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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David Woodhouse authored
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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David Woodhouse authored
[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: discard _after_ checking for corrupt chains] Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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David Woodhouse authored
Some block devices benefit from a hint that they can forget the contents of certain sectors. Add basic support for this to the block core, along with a 'blkdev_issue_discard()' helper function which issues such requests. The caller doesn't get to provide an end_io functio, since blkdev_issue_discard() will automatically split the request up into multiple bios if appropriate. Neither does the function wait for completion -- it's expected that callers won't care about when, or even _if_, the request completes. It's only a hint to the device anyway. By definition, the file system doesn't _care_ about these sectors any more. [With feedback from OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> and Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com] Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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David Woodhouse authored
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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xiphmont@xiph.org authored
I have another request for the block filter SG_IO command whitelist, specifically the MMC streaming command set SET READ AHEAD command. The command applies only to MMC CDROM/DVDROM drives with the streaming optional feature set. The command is useful to cdparanoia in that it allows explicit cache control side effects that are, on many drives, cdparanoia's most efficient way to flush/disable the media cache on cdrom drives. I am aware of no reason why it should not be accessible from usespace. Also note that the command is already fully accessible through the SCSI-native version of the SG_IO ioctl as well as the traditional SG interface. The command is only being refused on block devices. That means that on a typical stock distro, the command is available through /dev/sg* but not /dev/scd* although both are typically available and accessible. Filtering the command is not providing any protection, only a confusing inconsistency. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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- 08 Oct, 2008 3 commits
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git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: [MIPS] Sibyte: Register PIO PATA device only for Swarm and Litte Sur
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: tcp: Fix tcp_hybla zero congestion window growth with small rho and large cwnd. net: Fix netdev_run_todo dead-lock tcp: Fix possible double-ack w/ user dma net: only invoke dev->change_rx_flags when device is UP netrom: Fix sock_orphan() use in nr_release ax25: Quick fix for making sure unaccepted sockets get destroyed. Revert "ax25: Fix std timer socket destroy handling." [Bluetooth] Add reset quirk for A-Link BlueUSB21 dongle [Bluetooth] Add reset quirk for new Targus and Belkin dongles [Bluetooth] Fix double frees on error paths of btusb and bpa10x drivers
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Ralf Baechle authored
Symbol name spaghetti which is too complicated to cleanup on this stage of the release cycle breaks the build on BCM1480 platforms. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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- 07 Oct, 2008 3 commits
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Daniele Lacamera authored
Because of rounding, in certain conditions, i.e. when in congestion avoidance state rho is smaller than 1/128 of the current cwnd, TCP Hybla congestion control starves and the cwnd is kept constant forever. This patch forces an increment by one segment after #send_cwnd calls without increments(newreno behavior). Signed-off-by: Daniele Lacamera <root@danielinux.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Herbert Xu authored
Benjamin Thery tracked down a bug that explains many instances of the error unregister_netdevice: waiting for %s to become free. Usage count = %d It turns out that netdev_run_todo can dead-lock with itself if a second instance of it is run in a thread that will then free a reference to the device waited on by the first instance. The problem is really quite silly. We were trying to create parallelism where none was required. As netdev_run_todo always follows a RTNL section, and that todo tasks can only be added with the RTNL held, by definition you should only need to wait for the very ones that you've added and be done with it. There is no need for a second mutex or spinlock. This is exactly what the following patch does. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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