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device_create() is race-prone, so use the race-free
device_create_drvdata() instead as device_create() is going away.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Why?:
There are occasions where userspace would like to access sysfs
attributes for a device but it may not know how sysfs has named the
device or the path. For example what is the sysfs path for
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3160827AS_5MT004CK? With this change a call to
stat(2) returns the major:minor then userspace can see that
/sys/dev/block/8:32 links to /sys/block/sdc.
What are the alternatives?:
1/ Add an ioctl to return the path: Doable, but sysfs is meant to reduce
the need to proliferate ioctl interfaces into the kernel, so this
seems counter productive.
2/ Use udev to create these symlinks: Also doable, but it adds a
udev dependency to utilities that might be running in a limited
environment like an initramfs.
3/ Do a full-tree search of sysfs.
[kay.sievers@vrfy.org: fix duplicate registrations]
[kay.sievers@vrfy.org: cleanup suggestions]
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Reviewed-by: SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (102 commits)
[SCSI] scsi_dh: fix kconfig related build errors
[SCSI] sym53c8xx: Fix bogus sym_que_entry re-implementation of container_of
[SCSI] scsi_cmnd.h: remove double inclusion of linux/blkdev.h
[SCSI] make struct scsi_{host,target}_type static
[SCSI] fix locking in host use of blk_plug_device()
[SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup external header file
[SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup code in zfcp_erp.c
[SCSI] zfcp: zfcp_fsf cleanup.
[SCSI] zfcp: consolidate sysfs things into one file.
[SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup of code in zfcp_aux.c
[SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup of code in zfcp_scsi.c
[SCSI] zfcp: Move status accessors from zfcp to SCSI include file.
[SCSI] zfcp: Small QDIO cleanups
[SCSI] zfcp: Adapter reopen for large number of unsolicited status
[SCSI] zfcp: Fix error checking for ELS ADISC requests
[SCSI] zfcp: wait until adapter is finished with ERP during auto-port
[SCSI] ibmvfc: IBM Power Virtual Fibre Channel Adapter Client Driver
[SCSI] sg: Add target reset support
[SCSI] lib: Add support for the T10 (SCSI) Data Integrity Field CRC
[SCSI] sd: Move scsi_disk() accessor function to sd.h
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (80 commits)
ide-floppy: fix unfortunate function naming
ide-tape: unify idetape_create_read/write_cmd
ide: add ide_pc_intr() helper
ide-{floppy,scsi}: read Status Register before stopping DMA engine
ide-scsi: add more debugging to idescsi_pc_intr()
ide-scsi: use pc->callback
ide-floppy: add more debugging to idefloppy_pc_intr()
ide-tape: always log debug info in idetape_pc_intr() if debugging is enabled
ide-tape: add ide_tape_io_buffers() helper
ide-tape: factor out DSC handling from idetape_pc_intr()
ide-{floppy,tape}: move checking of ->failed_pc to ->callback
ide: add ide_issue_pc() helper
ide: add PC_FLAG_DRQ_INTERRUPT pc flag
ide-scsi: move idescsi_map_sg() call out from idescsi_issue_pc()
ide: add ide_transfer_pc() helper
ide-scsi: set drive->scsi flag for devices handled by the driver
ide-{cd,floppy,tape}: remove checking for drive->scsi
ide: add PC_FLAG_ZIP_DRIVE pc flag
ide-tape: factor out waiting for good ireason from idetape_transfer_pc()
ide-tape: set PC_FLAG_DMA_IN_PROGRESS flag in idetape_transfer_pc()
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All the users of blk_end_sync_rq has gone (they are converted to use
blk_execute_rq). This unexports blk_end_sync_rq.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Some uses blk_put_request asymmetrically, that is, they uses it with
requests that not allocated by blk_get_request. As a result,
blk_put_request has a hack to catch a NULL request_queue. Now such
callers are fixed (they use blk_get_request properly). So we can
safely remove the hack in blk_put_request.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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For blk_pm_resume_request() requests (which are used only by IDE subsystem
currently) the queue is stopped so we need to call ->request_fn explicitly.
Thanks to:
- Rafael for reporting/bisecting the bug
- Borislav/Rafael for testing the fix
This is a preparation for converting IDE to use blk_execute_rq().
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core/softirq' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
softirq: remove irqs_disabled warning from local_bh_enable
softirq: remove initialization of static per-cpu variable
Remove argument from open_softirq which is always NULL
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* 'bkl-removal' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: (146 commits)
IB/umad: BKL is not needed for ib_umad_open()
IB/uverbs: BKL is not needed for ib_uverbs_open()
bf561-coreb: BKL unneeded for open()
Call fasync() functions without the BKL
snd/PCM: fasync BKL pushdown
ipmi: fasync BKL pushdown
ecryptfs: fasync BKL pushdown
Bluetooth VHCI: fasync BKL pushdown
tty_io: fasync BKL pushdown
tun: fasync BKL pushdown
i2o: fasync BKL pushdown
mpt: fasync BKL pushdown
Remove BKL from remote_llseek v2
Make FAT users happier by not deadlocking
x86-mce: BKL pushdown
vmwatchdog: BKL pushdown
vmcp: BKL pushdown
via-pmu: BKL pushdown
uml-random: BKL pushdown
uml-mmapper: BKL pushdown
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (37 commits)
splice: fix generic_file_splice_read() race with page invalidation
ramfs: enable splice write
drivers/block/pktcdvd.c: avoid useless memset
cdrom: revert commit 22a9189 (cdrom: use kmalloced buffers instead of buffers on stack)
scsi: sr avoids useless buffer allocation
block: blk_rq_map_kern uses the bounce buffers for stack buffers
block: add blk_queue_update_dma_pad
DAC960: push down BKL
pktcdvd: push BKL down into driver
paride: push ioctl down into driver
block: use get_unaligned_* helpers
block: extend queue_flag bitops
block: request_module(): use format string
Add bvec_merge_data to handle stacked devices and ->merge_bvec()
block: integrity flags can't use bit ops on unsigned short
cmdfilter: extend default read filter
sg: fix odd style (extra parenthesis) introduced by cmd filter patch
block: add bounce support to blk_rq_map_user_iov
cfq-iosched: get rid of enable_idle being unused warning
allow userspace to modify scsi command filter on per device basis
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If you do a modremove of any sas driver, you run into an oops on
shutdown when the host is removed (coming from the host bsg device).
The root cause seems to be that there's a use after free of the
bsg_class_device: In bsg_kref_release_function, this is used (to do a
put_device(bcg->parent) after bcg->release has been called. In sas (and
possibly many other things) bcd->release frees the queue which contains
the bsg_class_device, so we get a put_device on unreferenced memory.
Fix this by taking a copy of the pointer to the parent before releasing
bsg.
Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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We don't need to hold bsg_mutex during bsg_complete_all_commands(). It
leads to a problem that we block bsg_unregister_queue during
bsg_complete_all_commands (untill all the outstanding commands
complete).
Thanks to Pete Wyckoff for finding the bug and testing the patch.
The detailed bug report is:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=121182137132145&w=2
Tested-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@osc.edu>
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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blk_rq_map_kern is used for kernel internal I/Os. Some callers use
this function with stack buffers but DMA to/from the stack buffers
leads to memory corruption on a non-coherent platform.
This patch make blk_rq_map_kern uses the bounce buffers if a caller
passes a stack buffer (on the all platforms for simplicity).
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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This adds blk_queue_update_dma_pad to prevent LLDs from overwriting
the dma pad mask wrongly (we added blk_queue_update_dma_alignment due
to the same reason).
This also converts libata to use blk_queue_update_dma_pad instead of
blk_queue_dma_pad.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Add test_and_clear and test_and_set.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Avoid bad things happening if the module has a printk control string in
its name.
Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Just use normal open coded bit operations instead, they need not be
atomic.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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This patch adds the commands that the former sg filter allowed for read
access to the cmdfilter to keep userspace apps that rely on them working.
Signed-off-by: Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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blk_rq_map_user_iov can't handle the bounce buffer (it means that the
bio_map_user_iov path doesn't work with a LLD that needs GFP_DMA).
This patch fixes blk_rq_map_user_iov to support the bounce buffer.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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This patch exports the per-gendisk command filter to user space through
sysfs, so it can be changed by the system administrator.
All users of the old cmd filter have been converted to use the new one.
Original patch from Peter Jones.
Signed-off-by: Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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> 80 char lines and that sort of thing.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Some block devices support verifying the integrity of requests by way
of checksums or other protection information that is submitted along
with the I/O.
This patch implements support for generating and verifying integrity
metadata, as well as correctly merging, splitting and cloning bios and
requests that have this extra information attached.
See Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt for more information.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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This allows a user to annotate the blk trace stream: writing a suitable
message to {/sys/kernel/debug}/block/<dsf>/msg will have it propagated
into the trace stream.
Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Now that blktrace has the ability to carry arbitrary messages in
its stream, use that for some CFQ logging.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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If we have multiple tasks freeing io contexts when as-iosched
is being unloaded, we could complete() ioc_gone twice. Fix that by
protecting ioc_gone complete() and clearing with a spinlock for
just that purpose. Doesn't matter from a performance perspective,
since it'll only enter that path when ioc_gone != NULL (when as-iosched
is being rmmod'ed).
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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If we have multiple tasks freeing cfq_io_contexts when cfq-iosched
is being unloaded, we could complete() ioc_gone twice. Fix that by
protecting ioc_gone complete() and clearing with a spinlock for
just that purpose. Doesn't matter from a performance perspective,
since it'll only enter that path when ioc_gone != NULL (when cfq-iosched
is being rmmod'ed).
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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AS scheduler alternates between issuing read and write batches. It does
the batch switch only after all requests from the previous batch are
completed.
When switching to a write batch, if there is an on-going read request,
it waits for its completion and indicates its intention of switching by
setting ad->changed_batch and the new direction but does not update the
batch_expire_time for the new write batch which it does in the case of
no previous pending requests.
On completion of the read request, it sees that we were waiting for the
switch and schedules work for kblockd right away and resets the
ad->changed_data flag.
Now when kblockd enters dispatch_request where it is expected to pick
up a write request, it in turn ends the write batch because the
batch_expire_timer was not updated and shows the expire timestamp for
the previous batch.
This results in the write starvation for all the cases where there is
the intention for switching to a write batch, but there is a previous
in-flight read request and the batch gets reverted to a read_batch
right away.
This also holds true in the reverse case (switching from a write batch
to a read batch with an in-flight write request).
I've checked that this bug exists on 2.6.11, 2.6.18, 2.6.24 and
linux-2.6-block git HEAD. I've tested the fix on x86 platforms with
SCSI drives where the driver asks for the next request while a current
request is in-flight.
This patch is based off linux-2.6-block git HEAD.
Bug reproduction:
A simple scenario which reproduces this bug is:
- dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/dev/null &
- lilo
The lilo takes forever to complete.
This can also be reproduced fairly easily with the earlier dd and
another test
program doing msync().
The example test program below should print out a message after every
iteration
but it simply hangs forever. With this bugfix it makes forward progress.
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Example test program using msync() (thanks to suleiman AT google DOT
com)
inline uint64_t
rdtsc(void)
{
int64_t tsc;
__asm __volatile("rdtsc" : "=A" (tsc));
return (tsc);
}
int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
struct stat st;
uint64_t e, s, t;
char *p, q;
long i;
int fd;
if (argc < 2) {
printf("Usage: %s <file>\n", argv[0]);
return (1);
}
if ((fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR | O_NOATIME)) < 0)
err(1, "open");
if (fstat(fd, &st) < 0)
err(1, "fstat");
p = mmap(NULL, st.st_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
t = 0;
for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
*p = 0;
msync(p, 4096, MS_SYNC);
s = rdtsc();
*p = 0;
__asm __volatile(""::: "memory");
e = rdtsc();
if (argc > 2)
printf("%d: %lld cycles %jd %jd\n",
i, e - s, (intmax_t)s, (intmax_t)e);
t += e - s;
}
printf("average time: %lld cycles\n", t / 1000);
return (0);
}
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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As we may run relay_reserve from interrupt context we must always disable
IRQs. This is because a call to relay_reserve may expose previously written
data to use space.
Updated new message code and an old but related comment.
Signed-off-by: Carl Henrik Lunde <chlunde@ping.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit 30f2f0eb4bd2c43d10a8b0d872c6e5ad8f31c9a0 ("block: do_mounts -
accept root=<non-existant partition>") extended blk_lookup_devt() to be
able to look up partitions that had not yet been registered, but in the
process made the assumption that the '&block_class.devices' list only
contains disk devices and that you can do 'dev_to_disk(dev)' on them.
That isn't actually true. The block_class device list also contains the
partitions we've discovered so far, and you can't just do a
'dev_to_disk()' on those.
So make sure to only work on devices that block/genhd.c has registered
itself, something we can test by checking the 'dev->type' member. This
makes the loop in blk_lookup_devt() match the other such loops in this
file.
[ We may want to do an alternate version that knows to handle _either_
whole-disk devices or partitions, but for now this is the minimal fix
for a series of crashes reported by Mariusz Kozlowski in
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/25/25
and Ingo in
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/9/39 ]
Reported-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati <assirati@nonada.if.usp.br>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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cfq_cic_lookup() needs to properly protect ioc->ioc_data before
dereferencing it and also exclude updaters of ioc->ioc_data as well.
Also add a number of comments documenting why the existing RCU usage
is OK.
Thanks a lot to "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> for
review and comments!
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Currently it uses a single static char array, but that risks
being corrupted when multiple users issue message notes at the
same time. Make the buffers dynamically allocated when the trace
is setup and make them per-cpu instead.
The default max message size of 1k is also very large, the
interface is mainly for small text notes. So shrink it to 128 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Allows messages to be inserted into blktrace streams.
Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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saves 8 bytes of padding & increases objects/slab from 30 to 32 on my
AMD64 config
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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In function get_request_wait, the second call to get_request could be
moved to the end of the while loop, because if the first call to
get_request fails, the second call will fail without sleep.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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As git-grep shows, open_softirq() is always called with the last argument
being NULL
block/blk-core.c: open_softirq(BLOCK_SOFTIRQ, blk_done_softirq, NULL);
kernel/hrtimer.c: open_softirq(HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ, run_hrtimer_softirq, NULL);
kernel/rcuclassic.c: open_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ, rcu_process_callbacks, NULL);
kernel/rcupreempt.c: open_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ, rcu_process_callbacks, NULL);
kernel/sched.c: open_softirq(SCHED_SOFTIRQ, run_rebalance_domains, NULL);
kernel/softirq.c: open_softirq(TASKLET_SOFTIRQ, tasklet_action, NULL);
kernel/softirq.c: open_softirq(HI_SOFTIRQ, tasklet_hi_action, NULL);
kernel/timer.c: open_softirq(TIMER_SOFTIRQ, run_timer_softirq, NULL);
net/core/dev.c: open_softirq(NET_TX_SOFTIRQ, net_tx_action, NULL);
net/core/dev.c: open_softirq(NET_RX_SOFTIRQ, net_rx_action, NULL);
This observation has already been made by Matthew Wilcox in June 2002
(http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-25/0687.html)
"I notice that none of the current softirq routines use the data element
passed to them."
and the situation hasn't changed since them. So it appears we can safely
remove that extra argument to save 128 (54) bytes of kernel data (text).
Signed-off-by: Carlos R. Mafra <crmafra@ift.unesp.br>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Push the cdev lock_kernel call into bsg_open().
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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As setting and clearing queue flags now requires that we hold a spinlock
on the queue, and as blk_queue_stack_limits is called without that lock,
get the lock inside blk_queue_stack_limits.
For blk_queue_stack_limits to be able to find the right lock, each md
personality needs to set q->queue_lock to point to the appropriate lock.
Those personalities which didn't previously use a spin_lock, us
q->__queue_lock. So always initialise that lock when allocated.
With this in place, setting/clearing of the QUEUE_FLAG_PLUGGED bit will no
longer cause warnings as it will be clear that the proper lock is held.
Thanks to Dan Williams for review and fixing the silly bugs.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Alistair John Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Jacek Luczak <difrost.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Some devices, like md, may create partitions only at first access,
so allow root= to be set to a valid non-existant partition of an
existing disk. This applies only to non-initramfs root mounting.
This fixes a regression from 2.6.24 which did allow this to happen and
broke some users machines :(
Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Tested-by: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati <assirati@nonada.if.usp.br>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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bdevname() fills the buffer that it is given as a parameter, so calling
strcpy() or snprintf() on the returned value is redundant (and probably not
guaranteed to work - I don't think strcpy and snprintf support overlapping
buffers.)
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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get_part() is fairly expensive, as it O(N) loops over partitions
to find the right one. In lots of normal IO paths we end up looking
up the partition twice, to make matters even worse. Change the
stat add code to accept a passed in partition instead.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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We currently set all processes to the best-effort scheduling class,
regardless of what CPU scheduling class they belong to. Improve that
so that we correctly track idle and rt scheduling classes as well.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Original patch from Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Mike Anderson was doing an OLTP benchmark on a computer with 48 physical
disks mapped to one logical device via device mapper.
He found that there was a slowdown on request_queue->lock in function
generic_unplug_device. The slowdown is caused by the fact that when some
code calls unplug on the device mapper, device mapper calls unplug on all
physical disks. These unplug calls take the lock, find that the queue is
already unplugged, release the lock and exit.
With the below patch, performance of the benchmark was increased by 18%
(the whole OLTP application, not just block layer microbenchmarks).
So I'm submitting this patch for upstream. I think the patch is correct,
because when more threads call simultaneously plug and unplug, it is
unspecified, if the queue is or isn't plugged (so the patch can't make
this worse). And the caller that plugged the queue should unplug it
anyway. (if it doesn't, there's 3ms timeout).
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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They tend to depend a lot on the workload, so not a clear-cut
likely or unlikely fit.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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put_io_context() drops the RCU read lock before calling into cfq_dtor(),
however we need to hold off freeing there before grabbing and
dereferencing the first object on the list.
So extend the rcu_read_lock() scope to cover the calling of cfq_dtor(),
and optimize cfq_free_io_context() to use a new variant for
call_for_each_cic() that assumes the RCU read lock is already held.
Hit in the wild by Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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For most initialization purposes, calling blk_queue_init_tags() without
the queue lock held is OK. Only if called for resizing an existing map
must the lock be held. Ditto for tag cleanup, the maps are reference
counted.
So switch the general queue flag setting to the unlocked variant, but
retain the locked variant for resizing.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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