linux.git/block, branch v2.6.22-rc4

genhd: send async notification on media change

2007-05-24T03:14:12+00:00

Send an uevent to user space to indicate that a media change event has
occurred.

Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

genhd: expose AN to user space

2007-05-24T03:14:11+00:00

Allow user space to determine if a disk supports Asynchronous Notification of
media changes.  This is done by adding a new sysfs file "capability_flags",
which is documented in (insert file name).  This sysfs file will export all
disk capabilities flags to user space.  We also define a new flag to define
the media change notification capability.

Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ll_rw_blk: fix gcc 4.2 warning on current_io_context()

2007-05-15T17:44:15+00:00

current_io_context() is both static and exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL().
As there are no users outside of ll_rw_blk.c itself, just kill the
export.

Problem reported by Martin Michlmayr 

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

When stacked block devices are in-use (e.g. md or dm), the recursive calls

2007-05-11T11:28:37+00:00

to generic_make_request can use up a lot of space, and we would rather they
didn't.

As generic_make_request is a void function, and as it is generally not
expected that it will have any effect immediately, it is safe to delay any
call to generic_make_request until there is sufficient stack space
available.

As ->bi_next is reserved for the driver to use, it can have no valid value
when generic_make_request is called, and as __make_request implicitly
assumes it will be NULL (ELEVATOR_BACK_MERGE fork of switch) we can be
certain that all callers set it to NULL.  We can therefore safely use
bi_next to link pending requests together, providing we clear it before
making the real call.

So, we choose to allow each thread to only be active in one
generic_make_request at a time.  If a subsequent (recursive) call is made,
the bio is linked into a per-thread list, and is handled when the active
call completes.

As the list of pending bios is per-thread, there are no locking issues to
worry about.

I say above that it is "safe to delay any call...".  There are, however,
some behaviours of a make_request_fn which would make it unsafe.  These
include any behaviour that assumes anything will have changed after a
recursive call to generic_make_request.

These could include:
 - waiting for that call to finish and call it's bi_end_io function.
   md use to sometimes do this (marking the superblock dirty before
   completing a write) but doesn't any more
 - inspecting the bio for fields that generic_make_request might
   change, such as bi_sector or bi_bdev.  It is hard to see a good
   reason for this, and I don't think anyone actually does it.
 - inspecing the queue to see if, e.g. it is 'full' yet.  Again, I
   think this is very unlikely to be useful, or to be done.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: 

Alasdair G Kergon  said:

 I can see nothing wrong with this in principle.

 For device-mapper at the moment though it's essential that, while the bio
 mappings may now get delayed, they still get processed in exactly
 the same order as they were passed to generic_make_request().

 My main concern is whether the timing changes implicit in this patch
 will make the rare data-corrupting races in the existing snapshot code
 more likely. (I'm working on a fix for these races, but the unfinished
 patch is already several hundred lines long.)

 It would be helpful if some people on this mailing list would test
 this patch in various scenarios and report back.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial

2007-05-09T19:54:17+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits)
  sound: convert "sound" subdirectory to UTF-8
  MAINTAINERS: Add cxacru website/mailing list
  include files: convert "include" subdirectory to UTF-8
  general: convert "kernel" subdirectory to UTF-8
  documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8
  Convert the toplevel files CREDITS and MAINTAINERS to UTF-8.
  remove broken URLs from net drivers' output
  Magic number prefix consistency change to Documentation/magic-number.txt
  trivial: s/i_sem /i_mutex/
  fix file specification in comments
  drivers/base/platform.c: fix small typo in doc
  misc doc and kconfig typos
  Remove obsolete fat_cvf help text
  Fix occurrences of "the the "
  Fix minor typoes in kernel/module.c
  Kconfig: Remove reference to external mqueue library
  Kconfig: A couple of grammatical fixes in arch/i386/Kconfig
  Correct comments in genrtc.c to refer to correct /proc file.
  Fix more "deprecated" spellos.
  Fix "deprecated" typoes.
  ...

Fix trivial comment conflict in kernel/relay.c.

Add suspend-related notifications for CPU hotplug

2007-05-09T19:30:56+00:00

Since nonboot CPUs are now disabled after tasks and devices have been
frozen and the CPU hotplug infrastructure is used for this purpose, we need
special CPU hotplug notifications that will help the CPU-hotplug-aware
subsystems distinguish normal CPU hotplug events from CPU hotplug events
related to a system-wide suspend or resume operation in progress.  This
patch introduces such notifications and causes them to be used during
suspend and resume transitions.  It also changes all of the
CPU-hotplug-aware subsystems to take these notifications into consideration
(for now they are handled in the same way as the corresponding "normal"
ones).

[oleg@tv-sign.ru: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy 
Cc: Pavel Machek 
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

unify flush_work/flush_work_keventd and rename it to cancel_work_sync

2007-05-09T19:30:53+00:00

flush_work(wq, work) doesn't need the first parameter, we can use cwq->wq
(this was possible from the very beginnig, I missed this).  So we can unify
flush_work_keventd and flush_work.

Also, rename flush_work() to cancel_work_sync() and fix all callers.
Perhaps this is not the best name, but "flush_work" is really bad.

(akpm: this is why the earlier patches bypassed maintainers)

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Jeff Garzik 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Auke Kok ,
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kblockd: use flush_work

2007-05-09T19:30:51+00:00

Switch the kblockd flushing from a global flush to a more specific
flush_work().

(akpm: bypassed maintainers, sorry.  There are other patches which depend on
this)

Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Display all possible partitions when the root filesystem failed to mount

2007-05-09T19:30:48+00:00

Display all possible partitions when the root filesystem is not mounted.
This helps to track spell'o's and missing drivers.

Updated to work with newer kernels.

Example output:

VFS: Cannot open root device "foobar" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
0800    8388608 sda driver: sd
  0801     192748 sda1
  0802    8193150 sda2
0810    4194304 sdb driver: sd
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, fix printk warnings]
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt 
Cc: Dave Gilbert 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Fix occurrences of "the the "

2007-05-09T06:57:56+00:00

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk