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2006-01-06Merge branch 'post-2.6.15' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
Manual fixup for merge with Jens' "Suspend support for libata", commit ID 9b847548663ef1039dd49f0eb4463d001e596bc3. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] parport: Kconfig dependency fixesMarko Kohtala
Make drivers that use directly PC parport HW depend on PARPORT_PC rather than HW independent PARPORT. Signed-off-by: Marko Kohtala <marko.kohtala@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] nbd: fix TX/RX race conditionHerbert Xu
Janos Haar of First NetCenter Bt. reported numerous crashes involving the NBD driver. With his help, this was tracked down to bogus bio vectors which in turn was the result of a race condition between the receive/transmit routines in the NBD driver. The bug manifests itself like this: CPU0 CPU1 do_nbd_request add req to queuelist nbd_send_request send req head for each bio kmap send nbd_read_stat nbd_find_request nbd_end_request kunmap When CPU1 finishes nbd_end_request, the request and all its associated bio's are freed. So when CPU0 calls kunmap whose argument is derived from the last bio, it may crash. Under normal circumstances, the race occurs only on the last bio. However, if an error is encountered on the remote NBD server (such as an incorrect magic number in the request), or if there were a bug in the server, it is possible for the nbd_end_request to occur any time after the request's addition to the queuelist. The following patch fixes this problem by making sure that requests are not added to the queuelist until after they have been completed transmission. In order for the receiving side to be ready for responses involving requests still being transmitted, the patch introduces the concept of the active request. When a response matches the current active request, its processing is delayed until after the tranmission has come to a stop. This has been tested by Janos and it has been successful in curing this race condition. From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Here is an updated patch which removes the active_req wait in nbd_clear_queue and the associated memory barrier. I've also clarified this in the comment. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: <djani22@dynamicweb.hu> Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[BLOCK] add @uptodate to end_that_request_last() and @error to rq_end_io_fn()Tejun Heo
add @uptodate argument to end_that_request_last() and @error to rq_end_io_fn(). there's no generic way to pass error code to request completion function, making generic error handling of non-fs request difficult (rq->errors is driver-specific and each driver uses it differently). this patch adds @uptodate to end_that_request_last() and @error to rq_end_io_fn(). for fs requests, this doesn't really matter, so just using the same uptodate argument used in the last call to end_that_request_first() should suffice. imho, this can also help the generic command-carrying request jens is working on. Signed-off-by: tejun heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-Off-By: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-05Merge http://oss.oracle.com/git/ocfs2Linus Torvalds
2006-01-04[PATCH] USB: ub 02 Removed unused variableDaniel Marjamaki
Removed an unused variable Signed-off-by: Daniel Marjamaki <daniel.marjamaki@comhem.se> Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04[PATCH] USB: ub 01 renamePete Zaitcev
Rename misleading UB_MINORS_PER_MAJOR into UB_PARTS_PER_LUN. Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04[PATCH] USB: ub 00 implement retries and resetsPete Zaitcev
Implement command retries and resets in ub. It is advantageous for users to know if their devices are getting bad. However, failing every I/O is not practical if you have a external USB enclosure with a hard drive. Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04[PATCH] USB: remove .owner field from struct usb_driverGreg Kroah-Hartman
It is no longer needed, so let's remove it, saving a bit of memory. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04[PATCH] USB: drivers/usb/storage/libusualPete Zaitcev
This patch adds a shim driver libusual, which routes devices between usb-storage and ub according to the common table, based on unusual_devs.h. The help and example syntax is in Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-03[PATCH] add AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE, prepend AOP_ to WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATEZach Brown
readpage(), prepare_write(), and commit_write() callers are updated to understand the special return code AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE in the style of writepage() and WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE. AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE tells the caller that the callee has unlocked the page and that the operation should be tried again with a new page. OCFS2 uses this to detect and work around a lock inversion in its aop methods. There should be no change in behaviour for methods that don't return AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE. WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE is also prepended with AOP_ for consistency and they are made enums so that kerneldoc can be used to document their semantics. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
2005-12-12[PATCH] cciss: fix for deregister_diskMike Miller
This patch adds setting our drv->queue = NULL back in deregister_disk. The drv->queue is part of our controller struct. blk_cleanup_queue works only on the queue in the gendisk struct. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-12-12[PATCH] cciss: double put_disk()Jens Axboe
This undoes the put_disk patch I sent in before. If I had been paying attention I would have seen that we call put_disk from free_hba during driver unload. That's the only time we want to call it. If it's called from deregister disk we may remove the controller (cNd0) unintentionally. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] revert floppy-fix-read-only-handlingAndrew Morton
This fix causes problems on the very first floppy access - we haven't yet talked to the FDC so we don't know which state the write-protect tab is in. Revert for now. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-18[PATCH 3/3] cciss: add put_disk into cleanup routinesmikem
Jeff Garzik pointed me to his code to see how to remove a disk from the system _properly_. Well, here it is... Every place we remove disks we are now testing before calling del_gendisk or blk_cleanup_queue and then call put_disk. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-18[PATCH 2/3] cciss: bug fix for BIG_PASS_THRUJens Axboe
Applications using CCISS_BIG_PASSTHRU complained that the data written was zeros. The problem is that the buffer is being cleared after the user copy, unless the user copy has failed... Correct that logic. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-15[PATCH] cciss_scsi warning fixGrant Coady
drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c:264: warning: `print_bytes' defined but not used drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c:298: warning: `print_cmd' defined but not used Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13[PATCH] packet writing oops fixPeter Osterlund
There is an old bug in the pkt_count_states() function that causes stack corruption. When compiling with gcc 3.x or 2.x it is harmless, but gcc 4 allocates local variables differently, which makes the bug visible. Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-11Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivialLinus Torvalds
2005-11-10Merge by hand (whitespace conflicts in libata.h)James Bottomley
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-11-09[SCSI] remove Scsi_Device typedefChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-11-09[PATCH] add a file_permission helperChristoph Hellwig
A few more callers of permission() just want to check for a different access pattern on an already open file. This patch adds a wrapper for permission() that takes a file in preparation of per-mount read-only support and to clean up the callers a little. The helper is not intended for new code, everything without the interface set in stone should use vfs_permission() Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09[PATCH] drivers/block/pktcdvd.c: remove write-only variable in ↵Gabriel A. Devenyi
pkt_iosched_process_queue() Found this on Coverty's linux bug database (http://linuxbugsdb.coverity.com). The function pkt_iosched_process_queue makes a call to bdev_get_queue and stores the result but never uses it, so it looks like it can be safely removed. Signed-off-by: Gabriel A. Devenyi <ace@staticwave.ca> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09[PATCH] changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no good reasonOlaf Hering
This patch removes almost all inclusions of linux/version.h. The 3 #defines are unused in most of the touched files. A few drivers use the simple KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) macro, which is unfortunatly in linux/version.h. There are also lots of #ifdef for long obsolete kernels, this was not touched. In a few places, the linux/version.h include was move to where the LINUX_VERSION_CODE was used. quilt vi `find * -type f -name "*.[ch]"|xargs grep -El '(UTS_RELEASE|LINUX_VERSION_CODE|KERNEL_VERSION|linux/version.h)'|grep -Ev '(/(boot|coda|drm)/|~$)'` search pattern: /UTS_RELEASE\|LINUX_VERSION_CODE\|KERNEL_VERSION\|linux\/\(utsname\|version\).h Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09[PATCH] fix floppy.c to store correct ro/rw status in underlying gendiskJon Masters
Evgeny Stambulchik found that doing the following always worked: # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy/ mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only # mount -o remount,rw /mnt/floppy # echo $? 0 This is the case because the block device /dev/fd0 is writeable but the floppy disk is marked protected. A fix is to simply have floppy_open mark the underlying gendisk policy according to reality (since the VFS doesn't provide a way for do_remount_sb to inquire as to the current device status). Signed-off-by: Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-08Merge by hand (conflicts between pending drivers and kfree cleanups)James Bottomley
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-11-08floppy: relocate devfs commentJames Nelson
Signed-off-by: James Nelson <james4765@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2005-11-08powermac: Use a spinlock in swim3.c (floppy driver) instead of cliPaul Mackerras
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-07Merge branch 'block-dir' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
2005-11-07[PATCH] kfree cleanup: misc remaining driversJesper Juhl
This is the remaining misc drivers/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch. Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in misc files in drivers/. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho <aris@cathedrallabs.org> Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Acked-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Acked-by: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] kernel-docs: fix kernel-doc format problemsRandy Dunlap
Convert to proper kernel-doc format. Some have extra blank lines (not allowed immed. after the function name) or need blank lines (after all parameters). Function summary must be only one line. Colon (":") in a function description does weird things (causes kernel-doc to think that it's a new section head sadly). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] as: cooperating processesNick Piggin
Introduce the notion of cooperating processes (those that submit requests close to one another), and use these statistics to make better choices about whether or not to do anticipatory waiting. Help and analysis from Seetharami Seelam <seelam@cs.utep.edu> Performance testing from Seelam: I set up my system and executed a couple of tests that I used for OLS. I tested with AS, cooperative process patch merged in -mm tree (which I called Nick, below) and the cooperative patch with modifications to as_update_iohist (which I called Seelam). I used a dual-processor (2.28GHz Pentium 4 Xeon) system, with 1 GB main memory and 1 MB L2 cache, running Linux 2.6.9. Only a single processor is used for the experiments. I used 7.2K RPM Maxtor 10GB drive configured with ext2 file system. Experiment 1 (ex1) consists of reading one Linux source trees using find . -type f -exec cat '{}' ';' > /dev/null. Experiment 2 (ex2) consists of reading two disjoint Linux source trees using find . -type f -exec cat '{}' ';' > /dev/null. Experiment 3 (ex3) consists of streaming read of a 2GB file in the background and 1 instance of the chunk reads in Experiment 1. Timings for reading the Linux source are shown below: AS Nick Seelam ex1: 0m25.813s 0m27.859s 0m27.640s ex2: 1m11.468s 1m13.918s 1m5.869s ex3: 81m44.352s 10m38.572s 6m47.994s The difference between the numbers in Experiment 3 must be due to the code in as_update_iohist. (akpm: that's not part of this patch. So this patch is "Nick"). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-06[SCSI] cciss: scsi error handlingmike.miller@hp.com
This patch adds SCSI error handling code to the SCSI portion of the cciss driver. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com> Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-11-04Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-mergeLinus Torvalds
2005-11-04[BLOCK] Move all core block layer code to new block/ directoryJens Axboe
drivers/block/ is right now a mix of core and driver parts. Lets move the core parts to a new top level directory. Al will move the fs/ related block parts to block/ next. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-02Merge git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
2005-11-02Merge Paulus' treeStephen Rothwell
2005-11-01[PATCH] blk: fix dangling pointer access in __elv_add_requestTejun Heo
cfq's add_req_fn callback may invoke q->request_fn directly and depending on low-level driver used and timing, a queued request may be finished & deallocated before add_req_fn callback returns. So, __elv_add_request must not access rq after it's passed to add_req_fn callback. This patch moves rq_mergeable test above add_req_fn(). This may result in q->last_merge pointing to REQ_NOMERGE request if add_req_fn callback sets it but as RQ_NOMERGE is checked again when blk layer actually tries to merge requests, this does not cause any problem. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-02merge filename and modify references to iseries/vio.hKelly Daly
Signed-off-by: Kelly Daly <kelly@au.ibm.com>
2005-11-02merge filename and modify references to iseries/hv_types.hKelly Daly
Signed-off-by: Kelly Daly <kelly@au.ibm.com>
2005-11-02merge filename and modify references to iseries/hv_lp_event.hKelly Daly
Signed-off-by: Kelly Daly <kelly@au.ibm.com>
2005-11-02merge filename and modify reference to iseries/hv_lp_config.hKelly Daly
Signed-off-by: Kelly Daly <kelly@au.ibm.com>
2005-11-01[BLOCK] aoe: update for combined io statisticsJens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-01[BLOCK] Unify the seperate read/write io stat fields into arraysJens Axboe
Instead of having ->read_sectors and ->write_sectors, combine the two into ->sectors[2] and similar for the other fields. This saves a branch several places in the io path, since we don't have to care for what the actual io direction is. On my x86-64 box, that's 200 bytes less text in just the core (not counting the various drivers). Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-01[BLOCK] Update read/write block io statistics at completion timeJens Axboe
Right now we do it at queueing time, which works alright for reads (since they are usually sync), but not for async writes since we can queue io a lot faster than we can complete it. This makes the vmstat output look extremely bursty. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-10-31[PATCH] noop-iosched: avoid corrupted request mergingJens Axboe
Tejun Heo notes: "I'm currently debugging this. The problem is that we are using the generic dispatch queue directly in the noop sched and merging is NOT allowed on dispatch queues but generic handling of last_merge tries to merge requests. I'm still trying to verify this, so I'll be back with results soon." In the meantime, disable merging for noop by setting REQ_NOMERGE in elevator_noop_add_request(). Eventually, we should add a noop_list and do the dispatching like in the other io schedulers. Merging is still beneficial for noop (and it has always done it). Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-31[PATCH] Fix on-the-fly switch from cfq i/o schedulerJens Axboe
Don't clear ->elevator_data on exit, if we are switching queues we are overwriting the data of the new io scheduler. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-31Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-drvmodelLinus Torvalds
Manual #include fixups for clashes - there may be some unnecessary
2005-10-31Merge ../linux-2.6 by handPaul Mackerras
2005-10-30[PATCH] fix missing includesTim Schmielau
I recently picked up my older work to remove unnecessary #includes of sched.h, starting from a patch by Dave Jones to not include sched.h from module.h. This reduces the number of indirect includes of sched.h by ~300. Another ~400 pointless direct includes can be removed after this disentangling (patch to follow later). However, quite a few indirect includes need to be fixed up for this. In order to feed the patches through -mm with as little disturbance as possible, I've split out the fixes I accumulated up to now (complete for i386 and x86_64, more archs to follow later) and post them before the real patch. This way this large part of the patch is kept simple with only adding #includes, and all hunks are independent of each other. So if any hunk rejects or gets in the way of other patches, just drop it. My scripts will pick it up again in the next round. Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>