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2005-06-17When cfq I/O scheduler is selected, get_request() in __make_request() callsKiyoshi Ueda
__cfq_get_queue(). __cfq_get_queue() finds an existing queue (struct cfq_queue) of the current process for the device and returns it. If it's not found, __cfq_get_queue() creates and returns a new one if __cfq_get_queue() is called with __GFP_WAIT flag, or __cfq_get_queue() returns NULL (this means that get_request() fails) if no __GFP_WAIT flag. On the other hand, in __make_request(), get_request() is called without __GFP_WAIT flag at the first time. Thus, the get_request() fails when there is no existing queue, typically when it's called for the first I/O request of the process to the device. Though it will be followed by get_request_wait() for general case, __make_request() will just end the I/O with an error (EWOULDBLOCK) when the request was for read-ahead. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
2005-06-16 This patch fixes q->unplug_thresh condition check inTejun Heo
__elv_add_request(). rq.count[READ] + rq.count[WRITE] can increase more than one if another thread has allocated a request after the current request is allocated or in_flight could have changed resulting in larger-than-one change of nrq, thus breaking the threshold mechanism. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
2005-06-16This patch kills elevator_global_init() in elevator.c which doesTejun Heo
nothing. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
2005-06-09[PATCH] USB: fix ub issuesPete Zaitcev
This smoothes two imperfections: - Increase number of LUNs per device from 4 to 9. The best solution would be to remove this limit altogether, but that has to wait until the time when more than 26 hosts are allowed. - Replace mdelay with msleep in a probing routine. Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-03[PATCH] USB: Support multiply-LUN devices in ubPete Zaitcev
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> diff -urp -X dontdiff linux-2.6.12-rc3/drivers/block/ub.c linux-2.6.12-rc3-lem/drivers/block/ub.c
2005-05-20[PATCH] packet driver permission checking fixPeter Osterlund
If you tried to open a packet device first in read-only mode and then a second time in read-write mode, the second open succeeded even though the device was not correctly set up for writing. If you then tried to write data to the device, the writes would fail with I/O errors. This patch prevents that problem by making the second open fail with -EBUSY. Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-17[PATCH] CDRW/DVD packet writing data corruption fixPeter Osterlund
I found a bug in the packet writing driver that could cause data corruption. The problem arised if the driver got a write request for a sector in a "zone" it was already working on. In that case it was supposed to queue the write request until it was done processing earlier requests for the same zone, and instead work on some other zone in the mean time. However, if there was no other zone to work on, the driver would initiate two packet_data objects for the same zone, causing unpredictable things to happen. Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-16[PATCH] Fix root hole in pktcdvdPeter Osterlund
ioctl_by_bdev may only be used INSIDE the kernel. If the "arg" argument refers to memory that is accessed by put_user/get_user in the ioctl function, the memory needs to be in the kernel address space (that's the set_fs(KERNEL_DS) doing in the ioctl_by_bdev). This works on i386 because even with set_fs(KERNEL_DS) the user space memory is still accessible with put_user/get_user. That is not true for s390. In short the ioctl implementation of the pktcdvd device driver is horribly broken. Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-05-16[PATCH] Fix root hole in raw deviceStephen Tweedie
[Patch] Fix raw device ioctl pass-through Raw character devices are supposed to pass ioctls through to the block devices they are bound to. Unfortunately, they are using the wrong function for this: ioctl_by_bdev(), instead of blkdev_ioctl(). ioctl_by_bdev() performs a set_fs(KERNEL_DS) before calling the ioctl, redirecting the user-space buffer access to the kernel address space. This is, needless to say, a bad thing. This was noticed first on s390, where raw IO was non-functioning. The s390 driver config does not actually allow raw IO to be enabled, which was the first part of the problem. Secondly, the s390 kernel address space is distinct from user, causing legal raw ioctls to fail. I've reproduced this on a kernel built with 4G:4G split on x86, which fails in the same way (-EFAULT if the address does not exist kernel-side; returns success without actually populating the user buffer if it does.) The patch below fixes both the config and address-space problems. It's based closely on a patch by Jan Glauber <jang@de.ibm.com>, which has been tested on s390 at IBM. I've tested it on x86 4G:4G (split address space) and x86_64 (common address space). Kernel-address-space access has been assigned CAN-2005-1264. Signed-off-by: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-05-06[PATCH] drivers/block/rd.c: rd_size shouldn't be staticAdrian Bunk
I somehow missed that there is external usage of rd_size on some architectures. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] make some things staticAdrian Bunk
This patch makes some needlessly global identifiers static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@infradead.org> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] remove do_sync parameter from __invalidate_deviceChristoph Hellwig
The only caller that ever sets it can call fsync_bdev itself easily. Also update some comments. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] DAC960: add support for Mylex AcceleRAID 4/5/600Christoph Hellwig
This patch adds support for a new class of DAC960 controllers. It's based on the GPLed idac320 driver from IBM for Linux 2.4.18. That driver is a fork of the 2.4.18 version of DAC960 that adds support for this new type of controllers (internally called "GEM Series"), that differ from other DAC960 V2 firmware controllers only in the register offsets and removes support for all others. This patch instead integrates support for these controllers into the DAC960 driver. Thanks to Anders Norrbring for pointing me to the idac320 driver and testing this patch. No Signed-Off: line because all code is either copy & pasted from IBM's idac320 driver or support for other controllers in the 2.6 DAC960 driver. Note: the really odd formating matches the rest of the DAC960 driver. Cc: Dave Olien <dmo@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-04[PATCH] ISA DMA Kconfig fixes - part 3Al Viro
Drivers that expect ISA DMA API are marked as such in Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-03[PATCH] aoe: update version number to 10Ed L Cashin
update version number to 10 Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-05-03[PATCH] aoe: add firmware version to info in sysfsEd L Cashin
add firmware version to info in sysfs Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-05-03[PATCH] aoe: allow multiple aoe devices to have the same macEd L Cashin
allow multiple aoe devices to have the same mac Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> diff -u b/drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c
2005-05-03[PATCH] aoe: improve allowed interfaces configurationEd L Cashin
improve allowed interfaces configuration Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> diff -uprN a/Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt b/Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt
2005-05-01[PATCH] nbd: Don't create all MAX_NBD devices by default all the timeLars Marowsky-Bree
This patches adds the "nbds_max" parameter to the nbd kernel module, which limits the number of nbds allocated. Previously, always all 128 entries were allocated unconditionally, which used to waste resources and needlessly flood the hotplug system with events. (Defaults to 16 now.) Signed-off-by: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] noop-iosched: kill O(N) merge scanJens Axboe
Profiling hit rates on merging shows that the last merge hint works extremely well for most work loads. So lets kill the linear merge scan in noop-iosched, so it provides O(1) run time for any operation. Testing credits go to Ken Chen from Intel. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-24[PATCH] broken dependency for floppy on ARMAl Viro
(!ARCH_S390 && !M68K && !IA64 && !UML) is obviously always true on ARM. Intended behaviour for ARM is "absent unless we are on RiscPC or EBSA285". So what we want is added && !ARM in the first term - without it the last part (|| ARCH_RPC || ARCH_EBSA285, that is) doesn't do anything. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-18[PATCH] aoe 12/12: send outgoing packets in orderecashin@coraid.com
I can't use list.h, since sk_buff doesn't have a list_head but instead has two struct sk_buff pointers, and I want to avoid any extra memory allocation. send outgoing packets in order Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18[PATCH] aoe 11/12: add support for disk statisticsecashin@coraid.com
add support for disk statistics Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18[PATCH] aoe 6/12: Alexey Dobriyan sparse cleanupecashin@coraid.com
Alexey Dobriyan sparse cleanup Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18[PATCH] aoe 5/12: don't try to free null bufpoolecashin@coraid.com
don't try to free null bufpool Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18[PATCH] aoe 3/12: update driver version to 6ecashin@coraid.com
update driver version to 6 Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18[PATCH] aoe 2/12: allow multiple aoe devices with same MACecashin@coraid.com
allow multiple aoe devices with same MAC addr Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18[PATCH] aoe 1/12: remove too-low cap on minor numberecashin@coraid.com
remove too-low cap on minor number Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18merge by hand (scsi_device.h)James Bottomley
2005-04-18[PATCH] consolidate timeout defintions in scsi.h
Adapted from a patch in SuSE's kernel SRPM. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-04-16[PATCH] fix NMI lockup with CFQ scheduler
The current problem seen is that the queue lock is actually in the SCSI device structure, so when that structure is freed on device release, we go boom if the queue tries to access the lock again. The fix here is to move the lock from the scsi_device to the queue. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-04-16[PATCH] arm: fix floppy disk dependenciesRussell King
Both the RiscPC and (optionally) EBSA285 have floppy disk support. Allow this option to be selected on these ARM platforms again. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16[PATCH] use cheaper elv_queue_empty when unplug a deviceKen Chen
In function __generic_unplug_device(), kernel can use a cheaper function elv_queue_empty() instead of more expensive elv_next_request to find whether the queue is empty or not. blk_run_queue can also made conditional on whether queue's emptiness before calling request_fn(). Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16[PATCH] possible use-after-free of bioJens Axboe
There is a possibility that a bio will be accessed after it has been freed on SCSI. It happens if you submit a bio with BIO_SYNC marked and the auto-unplugging kicks the request_fn, SCSI re-enables interrupts in-between so if the request completes between the add_request() in __make_request() and the bio_sync() call, we could be looking at a dead bio. It's a slim race, but it has been triggered in the Real World. So assign bio_sync() to a local variable instead. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!