linux-toradex.git/Documentation/blockdev, branch v4.14-rc5 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi 2017-09-08T04:11:05+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2017-09-08T04:11:05+00:00 572c01ba19ef150e98aea0b45ca17d43356521b5 Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley: "This is mostly updates of the usual suspects: lpfc, qla2xxx, hisi_sas, megaraid_sas, zfcp and a host of minor updates. The major driver change here is the elimination of the block based cciss driver in favour of the SCSI based hpsa driver (which now drives all the legacy cases cciss used to be required for). Plus a reset handler clean up and the redo of the SAS SMP handler to use bsg lib" * tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (279 commits) scsi: scsi-mq: Always unprepare before requeuing a request scsi: Show .retries and .jiffies_at_alloc in debugfs scsi: Improve requeuing behavior scsi: Call scsi_initialize_rq() for filesystem requests scsi: qla2xxx: Reset the logo flag, after target re-login. scsi: qla2xxx: Fix slow mem alloc behind lock scsi: qla2xxx: Clear fc4f_nvme flag scsi: qla2xxx: add missing includes for qla_isr scsi: qla2xxx: Fix an integer overflow in sysfs code scsi: aacraid: report -ENOMEM to upper layer from aac_convert_sgraw2() scsi: aacraid: get rid of one level of indentation scsi: aacraid: fix indentation errors scsi: storvsc: fix memory leak on ring buffer busy scsi: scsi_transport_sas: switch to bsg-lib for SMP passthrough scsi: smartpqi: remove the smp_handler stub scsi: hpsa: remove the smp_handler stub scsi: bsg-lib: pass the release callback through bsg_setup_queue scsi: Rework handling of scsi_device.vpd_pg8[03] scsi: Rework the code for caching Vital Product Data (VPD) scsi: rcu: Introduce rcu_swap_protected() ... 
Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "This is mostly updates of the usual suspects: lpfc, qla2xxx, hisi_sas,
  megaraid_sas, zfcp and a host of minor updates.

  The major driver change here is the elimination of the block based
  cciss driver in favour of the SCSI based hpsa driver (which now drives
  all the legacy cases cciss used to be required for). Plus a reset
  handler clean up and the redo of the SAS SMP handler to use bsg lib"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (279 commits)
  scsi: scsi-mq: Always unprepare before requeuing a request
  scsi: Show .retries and .jiffies_at_alloc in debugfs
  scsi: Improve requeuing behavior
  scsi: Call scsi_initialize_rq() for filesystem requests
  scsi: qla2xxx: Reset the logo flag, after target re-login.
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix slow mem alloc behind lock
  scsi: qla2xxx: Clear fc4f_nvme flag
  scsi: qla2xxx: add missing includes for qla_isr
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix an integer overflow in sysfs code
  scsi: aacraid: report -ENOMEM to upper layer from aac_convert_sgraw2()
  scsi: aacraid: get rid of one level of indentation
  scsi: aacraid: fix indentation errors
  scsi: storvsc: fix memory leak on ring buffer busy
  scsi: scsi_transport_sas: switch to bsg-lib for SMP passthrough
  scsi: smartpqi: remove the smp_handler stub
  scsi: hpsa: remove the smp_handler stub
  scsi: bsg-lib: pass the release callback through bsg_setup_queue
  scsi: Rework handling of scsi_device.vpd_pg8[03]
  scsi: Rework the code for caching Vital Product Data (VPD)
  scsi: rcu: Introduce rcu_swap_protected()
  ...
zram: add config and doc file for writeback feature 2017-09-07T00:27:25+00:00 Minchan Kim minchan@kernel.org 2017-09-06T23:20:10+00:00 5a47074f0279421778f97b1b1e75686696a5f42a This patch adds document and kconfig for using of writeback feature. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498459987-24562-10-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Juneho Choi <juno.choi@lge.com> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
This patch adds document and kconfig for using of writeback feature.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498459987-24562-10-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Juneho Choi <juno.choi@lge.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
scsi: cciss: Drop obsolete driver 2017-08-25T02:28:57+00:00 Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.de 2017-08-15T06:58:08+00:00 253d2464df446456c0bba5ed4137a7be0b278aa8 The hpsa driver now has support for all boards the cciss driver used to support, so this patch removes the cciss driver and make hpsa an alias to cciss. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Acked-by: Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> 
The hpsa driver now has support for all boards the cciss driver
used to support, so this patch removes the cciss driver and
make hpsa an alias to cciss.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Acked-by: Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
remove the mg_disk driver 2017-04-14T20:00:49+00:00 Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de 2017-04-06T11:28:46+00:00 84253394927c4352652d0b118ad9583f5646959b This drivers was added in 2008, but as far as a I can tell we never had a single platform that actually registered resources for the platform driver. It's also been unmaintained for a long time and apparently has a ATA mode that can be driven using the IDE/libata subsystem. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> 
This drivers was added in 2008, but as far as a I can tell we never had a
single platform that actually registered resources for the platform driver.

It's also been unmaintained for a long time and apparently has a ATA mode
that can be driven using the IDE/libata subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
scripts/spelling.txt: add "followings" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-02-28T02:43:47+00:00 Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com 2017-02-27T22:29:56+00:00 4091fb95b5f8dea37568d1a94c8227244bade891 Fix typos and add the following to the scripts/spelling.txt: followings||following While we are here, add a missing colon in the boilerplate in DT binding documents. The "you SoC" in allwinner,sunxi-pinctrl.txt was fixed as well. I reworded "as the followings:" to "as follows:" for drivers/usb/gadget/udc/renesas_usb3.c. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481573103-11329-32-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Fix typos and add the following to the scripts/spelling.txt:

  followings||following

While we are here, add a missing colon in the boilerplate in DT binding
documents.  The "you SoC" in allwinner,sunxi-pinctrl.txt was fixed as
well.

I reworded "as the followings:" to "as follows:" for
drivers/usb/gadget/udc/renesas_usb3.c.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481573103-11329-32-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
zram: extend zero pages to same element pages 2017-02-25T01:46:56+00:00 zhouxianrong zhouxianrong@huawei.com 2017-02-24T22:59:27+00:00 8e19d540d107ee897eb9a874844060c94e2376c0 The idea is that without doing more calculations we extend zero pages to same element pages for zram. zero page is special case of same element page with zero element. 1. the test is done under android 7.0 2. startup too many applications circularly 3. sample the zero pages, same pages (none-zero element) and total pages in function page_zero_filled the result is listed as below: ZERO SAME TOTAL 36214 17842 598196 ZERO/TOTAL SAME/TOTAL (ZERO+SAME)/TOTAL ZERO/SAME AVERAGE 0.060631909 0.024990816 0.085622726 2.663825038 STDEV 0.00674612 0.005887625 0.009707034 2.115881328 MAX 0.069698422 0.030046087 0.094975336 7.56043956 MIN 0.03959586 0.007332205 0.056055193 1.928985507 from the above data, the benefit is about 2.5% and up to 3% of total swapout pages. The defect of the patch is that when we recovery a page from non-zero element the operations are low efficient for partial read. This patch extends zero_page to same_page so if there is any user to have monitored zero_pages, he will be surprised if the number is increased but it's not harmful, I believe. [minchan@kernel.org: do not free same element pages in zram_meta_free] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170207065741.GA2567@bbox Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483692145-75357-1-git-send-email-zhouxianrong@huawei.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486307804-27903-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: zhouxianrong <zhouxianrong@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
The idea is that without doing more calculations we extend zero pages to
same element pages for zram.  zero page is special case of same element
page with zero element.

1. the test is done under android 7.0
2. startup too many applications circularly
3. sample the zero pages, same pages (none-zero element)
   and total pages in function page_zero_filled

the result is listed as below:

ZERO	SAME	TOTAL
36214	17842	598196

		ZERO/TOTAL	 SAME/TOTAL	  (ZERO+SAME)/TOTAL ZERO/SAME
AVERAGE	0.060631909	 0.024990816  0.085622726		2.663825038
STDEV	0.00674612	 0.005887625  0.009707034		2.115881328
MAX		0.069698422	 0.030046087  0.094975336		7.56043956
MIN		0.03959586	 0.007332205  0.056055193		1.928985507

from the above data, the benefit is about 2.5% and up to 3% of total
swapout pages.

The defect of the patch is that when we recovery a page from non-zero
element the operations are low efficient for partial read.

This patch extends zero_page to same_page so if there is any user to
have monitored zero_pages, he will be surprised if the number is
increased but it's not harmful, I believe.

[minchan@kernel.org: do not free same element pages in zram_meta_free]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170207065741.GA2567@bbox
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483692145-75357-1-git-send-email-zhouxianrong@huawei.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486307804-27903-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: zhouxianrong <zhouxianrong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
zram: remove obsolete sysfs attrs 2017-02-23T00:41:30+00:00 Sergey Senozhatsky sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com 2017-02-22T23:46:45+00:00 c87d1655c29500b459fb135258a93f8309ada9c7 We had a deprecated_attr_warn() warning for 2 years and now the time has come and we finally can do the cleanup. The plan was as follows: : per-stat sysfs attributes are considered to be deprecated. : The basic strategy is: : -- the existing RW nodes will be downgraded to WO nodes (in linux 4.11) : -- deprecated RO sysfs nodes will eventually be removed (in linux 4.11) : : The list of deprecated attributes can be found here: : Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-block-zram : : Basically, every attribute that has its own read accessible sysfs : node (e.g. num_reads) *AND* is accessible via one of the stat files : (zram<id>/stat or zram<id>/io_stat or zram<id>/mm_stat) is considered : to be deprecated. The patch also removes `obsolete/sysfs-block-zram', clean ups `testing/sysfs-block-zram' and tweaks zram.txt files. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118035838.11090-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
We had a deprecated_attr_warn() warning for 2 years and now the time has
come and we finally can do the cleanup.

The plan was as follows:

: per-stat sysfs attributes are considered to be deprecated.
: The basic strategy is:
: -- the existing RW nodes will be downgraded to WO nodes (in linux 4.11)
: -- deprecated RO sysfs nodes will eventually be removed (in linux 4.11)
:
: The list of deprecated attributes can be found here:
: Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-block-zram
:
: Basically, every attribute that has its own read accessible sysfs
: node (e.g. num_reads) *AND* is accessible via one of the stat files
: (zram<id>/stat or zram<id>/io_stat or zram<id>/mm_stat) is considered
: to be deprecated.

The patch also removes `obsolete/sysfs-block-zram', clean ups
`testing/sysfs-block-zram' and tweaks zram.txt files.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118035838.11090-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved 2016-10-24T10:12:35+00:00 Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab@s-opensource.com 2016-10-18T12:12:27+00:00 8c27ceff3604b249a9efafbd1bd8b141b79e619d The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to the right places. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> 
The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced
along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to
the right places.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Doc: cciss: Fix a typo in cciss.txt 2016-10-21T21:17:39+00:00 Masanari Iida standby24x7@gmail.com 2016-10-20T19:59:32+00:00 5d812b47a668f539f763a9e95167fd2bdf488a7a This patch fix a spelling typo in cciss.txt Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> 
This patch fix a spelling typo in cciss.txt

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
zram: cosmetic: cleanup documentation 2016-07-26T23:19:19+00:00 Sergey Senozhatsky sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com 2016-07-26T22:22:51+00:00 69a30a8d2ac17c8080cf6ebfc91149fd6c2648b3 zram documentation is a mix of different styles: spaces, tabs, tabs + spaces, etc. Clean it up. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160531122017.2878-6-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
zram documentation is a mix of different styles: spaces, tabs, tabs +
spaces, etc.  Clean it up.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160531122017.2878-6-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>