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2006-01-16[BLOCK] elevator: if specified scheduler is not found, fall back to defaultJens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-16[BLOCK] elevator: Make elevator=as work again for anticipatoryChuck Ebbert
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-14[PATCH] convert /proc/devices to use seq_file interfaceNeil Horman
A Christoph suggested that the /proc/devices file be converted to use the seq_file interface. This patch does that. I've obxerved one or two installation that had sufficiently large sans that they overran the 4k limit on /proc/devices. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12[PATCH] fix queue stalling while barrier sequencingTejun Heo
If ordered tag isn't supported, request ordering for barrier sequencing is performed by queue draining, which basically hangs the request queue until elv_completed_request() reports completion of all previous fs requests. The condition check in elv_completed_request() was only performed for fs requests. If a special request is queued between the last to-be-drained request and the barrier sequence, draining is never completed and the queue is stalled forever. This patch moves the end-of-draining condition check such that it's performed for all requests. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11[PATCH] move capable() to capability.hRandy.Dunlap
- Move capable() from sched.h to capability.h; - Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used (in include/, block/, ipc/, kernel/, a few drivers/, mm/, security/, & sound/; many more drivers/ to go) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-09Merge branch 'blk-softirq' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
Manual merge for trivial #include changes
2006-01-09[BLOCK] ll_rw_blk: Enable out-of-order request completions through softirqJens Axboe
Request completion can be a quite heavy process, since it needs to iterate through the entire request and complete the bio's it holds. This patch adds blk_complete_request() which moves this processing into a dedicated block softirq. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-09[BLOCK] Kill blk_attempt_remerge()Jens Axboe
It's a broken interface, it's done way too late. And apparently it triggers slab problems in recent kernels as well (most likely after the generic dispatch code was merged). So kill it, ide-cd is the only user of it. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-09[BLOCK] scsi_ioctl: file can be NULL from ioctl_by_bdev()Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-09make elv_try_merge() static, kill the dead declaration ofCoywolf Qi Hunt
elv_try_last_merge(). Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-09[BLOCK][TRIVIAL] ll_rw_blk: header included twiceNicolas Kaiser
linux/blkdev.h included twice Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-08[PATCH] Add block_device_operations.getgeo block device methodChristoph Hellwig
HDIO_GETGEO is implemented in most block drivers, and all of them have to duplicate the code to copy the structure to userspace, as well as getting the start sector. This patch moves that to common code [1] and adds a ->getgeo method to fill out the raw kernel hd_geometry structure. For many drivers this means ->ioctl can go away now. [1] the s390 block drivers are odd in this respect. xpram sets ->start to 4 always which seems more than odd, and the dasd driver shifts the start offset around, probably because of it's non-standard sector size. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Cc: <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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] s390: cleanup KconfigMartin Schwidefsky
Sanitize some s390 Kconfig options. We have ARCH_S390, ARCH_S390X, ARCH_S390_31, 64BIT, S390_SUPPORT and COMPAT. Replace these 6 options by S390, 64BIT and COMPAT. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[BLOCK] reimplement handling of barrier requestTejun Heo
Reimplement handling of barrier requests. * Flexible handling to deal with various capabilities of target devices. * Retry support for falling back. * Tagged queues which don't support ordered tag can do ordered. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-06[BLOCK] ll_rw_blk: separate out bio init part from __make_requestTejun Heo
Separate out bio initialization part from __make_request. It will be used by the following blk_ordered_reimpl. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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>
2006-01-06[BLOCK] mark some block/ variables consArjan van de Ven
the patch below marks various read-only variables in block/* as const, so that gcc can optimize the use of them; eg gcc will replace the use by the value directly now and will even remove the memory usage of these. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-06[BLOCK] ll_rw_blk: fastpath get_request()Jens Axboe
Originally from: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Move current_io_context out of the get_request fastpth. Also try to streamline a few other things in this area. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-06[BLOCK] as-iosched: update alias handlingTejun Heo
Unlike other ioscheds, as-iosched handles alias by chaing them using rq->queuelist. As aliased requests are very rare in the first place, this complicates merge/dispatch handling without meaningful performance improvement. This patch updates as-iosched to dump aliased requests into dispatch queue as other ioscheds do. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-04Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds
Trivial manual merge fixup for usb_find_interface clashes.
2006-01-04Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6Linus Torvalds
2006-01-04[PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent"Kay Sievers
Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports the state to userspace and generates events. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-12-19[PATCH] block: Cleanup CDROMEJECT ioctlBen Collins
This is just a basic cleanup. No change in functionality. Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-12-15[SCSI] seperate max_sectors from max_hw_sectorsMike Christie
- export __blk_put_request and blk_execute_rq_nowait needed for async REQ_BLOCK_PC requests - seperate max_hw_sectors and max_sectors for block/scsi_ioctl.c and SG_IO bio.c helpers per Jens's last comments. Since block/scsi_ioctl.c SG_IO was already testing against max_sectors and SCSI-ml was setting max_sectors and max_hw_sectors to the same value this does not change any scsi SG_IO behavior. It only prepares ll_rw_blk.c, scsi_ioctl.c and bio.c for when SCSI-ml begins to set a valid max_hw_sectors for all LLDs. Today if a LLD does not set it SCSI-ml sets it to a safe default and some LLDs set it to a artificial low value to overcome memory and feedback issues. Note: Since we now cap max_sectors to BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS, which is 1024, drivers that used to call blk_queue_max_sectors with a large value of max_sectors will now see the fs requests capped to BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-12-14[SCSI] export blk layer functions needed for blk_execute_rq_nowaitMike Christie
To send async requests we need these two functions exported. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-11-21[PATCH] as-iosched: remove state assertion in as_add_request()Jens Axboe
Kill the arq->state poison statement in as_add_request(), it can trigger for perfectly valid code that just reuses a request after io completion instead of freeing it and allocating a new one. We probably should introduce a blk_init_request() to start from scratch, but for now just kill it as we will be removing the as specific poisoning soon. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-18[BLOCK] new block/ directory comment tidyCoywolf Qi Hunt
Some leftover comments referring to drivers/block that are now block/. They don't add any information we don't already have, so kill them. Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12[BLOCK] elevator: elv_latter/former_request updateTejun Heo
With generic dispatch queue update, implicit former/latter request handling using rq->queuelist.prev/next doesn't work as expected anymore. Also, the only iosched dependent on this feature was noop-iosched and it has been reimplemented to have its own latter/former methods. This patch removes implicit former/latter handling. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12[BLOCK] noop-iosched: reimplementation of request dispatchingTejun Heo
The original implementation directly used dispatch queue. As new generic dispatch queue imposes stricter rules over ioscheds and dispatch queue usage, this direct use becomes somewhat problematic. This patch reimplements noop-iosched such that it complies to generic iosched model better. Request merging with q->last_merge and rq->queuelist.prev/next work again now. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de
2005-11-12[BLOCK] cfq-iosched: fix slice_left calculationTejun Heo
When cfq slice expires, remainder of slice is calculated and stored in cfqq->slice_left. Current code calculates the opposite of remainder - how many jiffies the cfqq has used past slice end. This patch fixes the bug. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12[BLOCK] fix string handling in elv_iosched_storeTejun Heo
elv_iosched_store doesn't terminate string passed from userspace if it's too long. Also, if the written length is zero (probably not possible), it accesses elevator_name[-1]. This patch fixes both bugs. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12[BLOCK] Implement elv_drain_elevator for improved switch error detectionTejun Heo
This patch adds request_queue->nr_sorted which keeps the number of requests in the iosched and implement elv_drain_elevator which performs forced dispatching. elv_drain_elevator checks whether iosched actually dispatches all requests it has and prints error message if it doesn't. As buggy forced dispatching can result in wrong barrier operations, I think this extra check is worthwhile. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12[BLOCK] cfq-iosched: cfq forced dispatching fixTejun Heo
cfq forced dispatching might not return all requests on the queue. This bug can hang elevator switchinig and corrupt request ordering during flush sequence. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12[BLOCK] elevator: run queue in elevator_switchTejun Heo
elevator_dispatch needs to run queue after forced dispatching; otherwise, the queue might stall. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12[BLOCK] Document the READ/WRITE splitup of the disk statsJens Axboe
Use the symbolic name where appropriate and add a comment to the disk_stats structure. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12[BLOCK] elevator init fixes #2Zachary Amsden
In addition to the first patch, which is probably goodness, I found the cause of my panic - applying this patch fixes it and now I am booting. If the chosen_elevator[] is not found, fall back to noop. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12[BLOCK] elevator init fixesZachary Amsden
I got a panic in the elevator code, backtrace : Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000060 .. EIP is at elevator_put+0x0/0x30 (null elevator_type passed) .. elevator_init+0x38 blk_init_queu_node+0xc9 floppy_init+0xdb do_initcalls+0x23 init+0x10a init+0x0 Clearly if the kmalloc here fails, e->elevator_type is not yet set; this appears to be the correct fix, but I think I probably hit the second case due to a race condition. Someone more familiar with the elevator code should look at this more closely until I can determine if I can reproduce. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-07Merge branch 'block-dir' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
2005-11-04[BLOCK] iosched: fix setting of default io schedulerJens Axboe
With the recent reorg of the io scheduler selection, it unfortunately became possible to select an io scheduler to be the default even if it wasn't builtin. Fix this by requiring the default scheduler to be builtin. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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>