linux-toradex.git/block/blk-sysfs.c, branch v2.6.35.8

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

2010-04-09T18:50:29+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (34 commits)
  cfq-iosched: Fix the incorrect timeslice accounting with forced_dispatch
  loop: Update mtime when writing using aops
  block: expose the statistics in blkio.time and blkio.sectors for the root cgroup
  backing-dev: Handle class_create() failure
  Block: Fix block/elevator.c elevator_get() off-by-one error
  drbd: lc_element_by_index() never returns NULL
  cciss: unlock on error path
  cfq-iosched: Do not merge queues of BE and IDLE classes
  cfq-iosched: Add additional blktrace log messages in CFQ for easier debugging
  i2o: Remove the dangerous kobj_to_i2o_device macro
  block: remove 16 bytes of padding from struct request on 64bits
  cfq-iosched: fix a kbuild regression
  block: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP visible
  Remove GENHD_FL_DRIVERFS
  block: Export max number of segments and max segment size in sysfs
  block: Finalize conversion of block limits functions
  block: Fix overrun in lcm() and move it to lib
  vfs: improve writeback_inodes_wb()
  paride: fix off-by-one test
  drbd: fix al-to-on-disk-bitmap for 4k logical_block_size
  ...

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

Merge branch 'master' into for-linus

2010-03-19T07:05:10+00:00

Conflicts:
	block/Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Export max number of segments and max segment size in sysfs

2010-03-15T11:48:00+00:00

These two values are useful when debugging issues surrounding maximum
I/O size.  Put them in sysfs with the rest of the queue limits.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type

2010-03-08T01:04:49+00:00

Constify struct sysfs_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy 
Acked-by: David Teigland 
Acked-by: Matt Domsch 
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski 
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch 
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg 
Acked-by: Jens Axboe 
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

block: Added in stricter no merge semantics for block I/O

2010-01-29T08:04:08+00:00

Updated 'nomerges' tunable to accept a value of '2' - indicating that _no_
merges at all are to be attempted (not even the simple one-hit cache).

The following table illustrates the additional benefit - 5 minute runs of
a random I/O load were applied to a dozen devices on a 16-way x86_64 system.

nomerges        Throughput      %System         Improvement (tput / %sys)
--------        ------------    -----------     -------------------------
0               12.45 MB/sec    0.669365609
1               12.50 MB/sec    0.641519199     0.40% / 2.71%
2               12.52 MB/sec    0.639849750     0.56% / 2.96%

Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Allow devices to indicate whether discarded blocks are zeroed

2009-12-03T08:24:48+00:00

The discard ioctl is used by mkfs utilities to clear a block device
prior to putting metadata down.  However, not all devices return zeroed
blocks after a discard.  Some drives return stale data, potentially
containing old superblocks.  It is therefore important to know whether
discarded blocks are properly zeroed.

Both ATA and SCSI drives have configuration bits that indicate whether
zeroes are returned after a discard operation.  Implement a block level
interface that allows this information to be bubbled up the stack and
queried via a new block device ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Expose discard granularity

2009-11-10T10:50:21+00:00

While SSDs track block usage on a per-sector basis, RAID arrays often
have allocation blocks that are bigger.  Allow the discard granularity
and alignment to be set and teach the topology stacking logic how to
handle them.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfs

2009-10-01T19:15:46+00:00

Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfs
introduced in commit 1d54ad6da9192fed5dd3b60224d9f2dfea0dcd82.
Release kobject also in case the request_fn is NULL.

Problem was noticed via kmemleak backtrace when some sysfs entries were
note properly destroyed during  device removal:

unreferenced object 0xffff88001aa76640 (size 80):
  comm "lvcreate", pid 2120, jiffies 4294885144
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0 65 a7 1a 00 88 ff ff  .........e......
    90 66 a7 1a 00 88 ff ff 86 1d 53 81 ff ff ff ff  .f........S.....
  backtrace:
    [] kmemleak_alloc+0x26/0x60
    [] kmem_cache_alloc+0x133/0x1c0
    [] sysfs_new_dirent+0x41/0x120
    [] sysfs_add_file_mode+0x3c/0xb0
    [] internal_create_group+0xc1/0x1a0
    [] sysfs_create_group+0x13/0x20
    [] blk_trace_init_sysfs+0x14/0x20
    [] blk_register_queue+0x3c/0xf0
    [] add_disk+0x94/0x160
    [] dm_create+0x598/0x6e0 [dm_mod]
    [] dev_create+0x51/0x350 [dm_mod]
    [] ctl_ioctl+0x1a3/0x240 [dm_mod]
    [] dm_compat_ctl_ioctl+0x12/0x20 [dm_mod]
    [] compat_sys_ioctl+0xcd/0x4f0
    [] sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x2c
    [] 0xffffffffffffffff

Signed-off-by: Zdenek Kabelac 
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: don't assume device has a request list backing in nr_requests store

2009-09-14T06:24:53+00:00

Stacked devices do not. For now, just error out with -EINVAL. Later
we could make the limit apply on stacked devices too, for throttling
reasons.

This fixes

5a54cd13353bb3b88887604e2c980aa01e314309

and should go into 2.6.31 stable as well.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe