linux-toradex.git/block/compat_ioctl.c, branch v2.6.33.12

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: Topology ioctls

2009-10-03T18:52:01+00:00

Not all users of the topology information want to use libblkid.  Provide
the topology information through bdev ioctls.

Also clarify sector size comments for existing BLK ioctls.

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

Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

2009-06-11T18:10:35+00:00

* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits)
  block: add request clone interface (v2)
  floppy: fix hibernation
  ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter
  fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation
  block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow
  Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a
  block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments
  Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM"
  cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code
  cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled.
  cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core()
  cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions
  cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq()
  cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code
  block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
  Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"
  block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM
  Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
  ...

Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in:
	block/blk-sysfs.c
	drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
	drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
	drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
	drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
	include/trace/events/block.h
	kernel/trace/blktrace.c

block: Use accessor functions for queue limits

2009-05-22T21:22:54+00:00

Convert all external users of queue limits to using wrapper functions
instead of poking the request queue variables directly.

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

block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_size

2009-05-22T21:22:54+00:00

Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical
block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device.
With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case.  The
sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain
512-bytes.  Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size
and the logical ditto.

This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size.

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

blktrace: support per-partition tracing

2009-04-16T08:10:57+00:00

Though one can specify '-d /dev/sda1' when using blktrace, it still
traces the whole sda.

To support per-partition tracing, when we start tracing, we initialize
bt->start_lba and bt->end_lba to the start and end sector of that
partition.

Note some actions are per device, thus we don't filter 0-sector events.

The original patch and discussion can be found here:
	http://marc.info/?l=linux-btrace&m=122949374214540&w=2

Signed-off-by: Shawn Du 
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan 
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
LKML-Reference: <49E42620.4050701@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

block: don't take lock on changing ra_pages

2008-12-29T07:28:43+00:00

There's no need to take queue_lock or kernel_lock when modifying
bdi->ra_pages. So remove them. Also remove out of date comment for
queue_max_sectors_store().

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

[PATCH 1/2] kill FMODE_NDELAY_NOW

2008-12-04T09:22:57+00:00

Update FMODE_NDELAY before each ioctl call so that we can kill the
magic FMODE_NDELAY_NOW.  It would be even better to do this directly
in setfl(), but for that we'd need to have FMODE_NDELAY for all files,
not just block special files.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[PATCH] Fix block dev compat ioctl handling

2008-12-04T09:22:55+00:00

Commit 33c2dca4957bd0da3e1af7b96d0758d97e708ef6 (trim file propagation
in block/compat_ioctl.c) removed the handling of some ioctls from
compat_blkdev_driver_ioctl.  That caused them to be rejected as unknown
by the compat layer.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

compat_blkdev_driver_ioctl: Remove unused variable warning

2008-10-23T17:28:25+00:00

Variable 'ret' is no longer used. Don't declare it.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds