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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6</title>
<updated>2008-05-02T20:52:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2008-05-02T20:52:35+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6:
  [SCSI] aic94xx: fix section mismatch
  [SCSI] u14-34f: Fix 32bit only problem
  [SCSI] dpt_i2o: sysfs code
  [SCSI] dpt_i2o: 64 bit support
  [SCSI] dpt_i2o: move from virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt to dma_alloc_coherent
  [SCSI] dpt_i2o: use standard __init / __exit code
  [SCSI] megaraid_sas: fix suspend/resume sections
  [SCSI] aacraid: Add Power Management support
  [SCSI] aacraid: Fix jbod operations scan issues
  [SCSI] aacraid: Fix warning about macro side-effects
  [SCSI] add support for variable length extended commands
  [SCSI] Let scsi_cmnd-&gt;cmnd use request-&gt;cmd buffer
  [SCSI] bsg: add large command support
  [SCSI] aacraid: Fix down_interruptible() to check the return value correctly
  [SCSI] megaraid_sas; Update the Version and Changelog
  [SCSI] ibmvscsi: Handle non SCSI error status
  [SCSI] bug fix for free list handling
  [SCSI] ipr: Rename ipr's state scsi host attribute to prevent collisions
  [SCSI] megaraid_mbox: fix Dell CERC firmware problem
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6:
  [SCSI] aic94xx: fix section mismatch
  [SCSI] u14-34f: Fix 32bit only problem
  [SCSI] dpt_i2o: sysfs code
  [SCSI] dpt_i2o: 64 bit support
  [SCSI] dpt_i2o: move from virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt to dma_alloc_coherent
  [SCSI] dpt_i2o: use standard __init / __exit code
  [SCSI] megaraid_sas: fix suspend/resume sections
  [SCSI] aacraid: Add Power Management support
  [SCSI] aacraid: Fix jbod operations scan issues
  [SCSI] aacraid: Fix warning about macro side-effects
  [SCSI] add support for variable length extended commands
  [SCSI] Let scsi_cmnd-&gt;cmnd use request-&gt;cmd buffer
  [SCSI] bsg: add large command support
  [SCSI] aacraid: Fix down_interruptible() to check the return value correctly
  [SCSI] megaraid_sas; Update the Version and Changelog
  [SCSI] ibmvscsi: Handle non SCSI error status
  [SCSI] bug fix for free list handling
  [SCSI] ipr: Rename ipr's state scsi host attribute to prevent collisions
  [SCSI] megaraid_mbox: fix Dell CERC firmware problem
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<entry>
<title>[SCSI] add support for variable length extended commands</title>
<updated>2008-05-02T16:33:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Boaz Harrosh</name>
<email>bharrosh@panasas.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-30T08:27:26+00:00</published>
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Add support for variable-length, extended, and vendor specific
CDBs to scsi-ml. It is now possible for initiators and ULD's
to issue these types of commands. LLDs need not change much.
All they need is to raise the .max_cmd_len to the longest command
they support (see iscsi patch).

- clean-up some code paths that did not expect commands to be
  larger than 16, and change cmd_len members' type to short as
  char is not enough.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh &lt;bharrosh@panasas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy &lt;bhalevy@panasas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
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Add support for variable-length, extended, and vendor specific
CDBs to scsi-ml. It is now possible for initiators and ULD's
to issue these types of commands. LLDs need not change much.
All they need is to raise the .max_cmd_len to the longest command
they support (see iscsi patch).

- clean-up some code paths that did not expect commands to be
  larger than 16, and change cmd_len members' type to short as
  char is not enough.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh &lt;bharrosh@panasas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy &lt;bhalevy@panasas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[SCSI] bsg: add large command support</title>
<updated>2008-05-02T15:17:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>FUJITA Tomonori</name>
<email>fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-30T04:16:21+00:00</published>
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This enables bsg to handle the request length larger than BLK_MAX_CDB
(mainly for the variable length CDB format).

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Acked-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
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This enables bsg to handle the request length larger than BLK_MAX_CDB
(mainly for the variable length CDB format).

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Acked-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: remove remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences</title>
<updated>2008-05-01T15:04:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Harvey Harrison</name>
<email>harvey.harrison@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-01T11:35:17+00:00</published>
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__FUNCTION__ is gcc specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison &lt;harvey.harrison@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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__FUNCTION__ is gcc specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison &lt;harvey.harrison@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: bdi: export BDI attributes in sysfs</title>
<updated>2008-04-30T15:29:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-30T07:54:32+00:00</published>
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Provide a place in sysfs (/sys/class/bdi) for the backing_dev_info object.
This allows us to see and set the various BDI specific variables.

In particular this properly exposes the read-ahead window for all relevant
users and /sys/block/&lt;block&gt;/queue/read_ahead_kb should be deprecated.

With patient help from Kay Sievers and Greg KH

[mszeredi@suse.cz]

 - split off NFS and FUSE changes into separate patches
 - document new sysfs attributes under Documentation/ABI
 - do bdi_class_init as a core_initcall, otherwise the "default" BDI
   won't be initialized
 - remove bdi_init_fmt macro, it's not used very much

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 warning]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Acked-by: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Provide a place in sysfs (/sys/class/bdi) for the backing_dev_info object.
This allows us to see and set the various BDI specific variables.

In particular this properly exposes the read-ahead window for all relevant
users and /sys/block/&lt;block&gt;/queue/read_ahead_kb should be deprecated.

With patient help from Kay Sievers and Greg KH

[mszeredi@suse.cz]

 - split off NFS and FUSE changes into separate patches
 - document new sysfs attributes under Documentation/ABI
 - do bdi_class_init as a core_initcall, otherwise the "default" BDI
   won't be initialized
 - remove bdi_init_fmt macro, it's not used very much

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 warning]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Acked-by: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: Skip I/O merges when disabled</title>
<updated>2008-04-29T12:48:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan D. Brunelle</name>
<email>Alan.Brunelle@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-29T12:44:19+00:00</published>
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The block I/O + elevator + I/O scheduler code spend a lot of time trying
to merge I/Os -- rightfully so under "normal" circumstances. However,
if one were to know that the incoming I/O stream was /very/ random in
nature, the cycles are wasted.

This patch adds a per-request_queue tunable that (when set) disables
merge attempts (beyond the simple one-hit cache check), thus freeing up
a non-trivial amount of CPU cycles.

Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle &lt;alan.brunelle@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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The block I/O + elevator + I/O scheduler code spend a lot of time trying
to merge I/Os -- rightfully so under "normal" circumstances. However,
if one were to know that the incoming I/O stream was /very/ random in
nature, the cycles are wasted.

This patch adds a per-request_queue tunable that (when set) disables
merge attempts (beyond the simple one-hit cache check), thus freeing up
a non-trivial amount of CPU cycles.

Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle &lt;alan.brunelle@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: add large command support</title>
<updated>2008-04-29T12:48:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>FUJITA Tomonori</name>
<email>fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-29T07:54:39+00:00</published>
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This patch changes rq-&gt;cmd from the static array to a pointer to
support large commands.

We rarely handle large commands. So for optimization, a struct request
still has a static array for a command. rq_init sets rq-&gt;cmd pointer
to the static array.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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This patch changes rq-&gt;cmd from the static array to a pointer to
support large commands.

We rarely handle large commands. So for optimization, a struct request
still has a static array for a command. rq_init sets rq-&gt;cmd pointer
to the static array.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: replace sizeof(rq-&gt;cmd) with BLK_MAX_CDB</title>
<updated>2008-04-29T12:48:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>FUJITA Tomonori</name>
<email>fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-29T12:37:52+00:00</published>
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This is a preparation for changing rq-&gt;cmd from the static array to a
pointer.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Boaz Harrosh &lt;bharrosh@panasas.com&gt;
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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This is a preparation for changing rq-&gt;cmd from the static array to a
pointer.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Boaz Harrosh &lt;bharrosh@panasas.com&gt;
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: rename and export rq_init()</title>
<updated>2008-04-29T12:48:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>FUJITA Tomonori</name>
<email>fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-29T07:54:36+00:00</published>
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This rename rq_init() blk_rq_init() and export it. Any path that hands
the request to the block layer needs to call it to initialize the
request.

This is a preparation for large command support, which needs to
initialize the request in a proper way (that is, just doing a memset()
will not work).

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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This rename rq_init() blk_rq_init() and export it. Any path that hands
the request to the block layer needs to call it to initialize the
request.

This is a preparation for large command support, which needs to
initialize the request in a proper way (that is, just doing a memset()
will not work).

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: no need to initialize rq-&gt;cmd with blk_get_request</title>
<updated>2008-04-29T12:48:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>FUJITA Tomonori</name>
<email>fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-29T07:54:36+00:00</published>
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blk_get_request initializes rq-&gt;cmd (rq_init does) so the users don't
need to do that.

The purpose of this patch is to remove sizeof(rq-&gt;cmd) and &amp;rq-&gt;cmd,
as a preparation for large command support, which changes rq-&gt;cmd from
the static array to a pointer. sizeof(rq-&gt;cmd) will not make sense and
&amp;rq-&gt;cmd won't work.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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blk_get_request initializes rq-&gt;cmd (rq_init does) so the users don't
need to do that.

The purpose of this patch is to remove sizeof(rq-&gt;cmd) and &amp;rq-&gt;cmd,
as a preparation for large command support, which changes rq-&gt;cmd from
the static array to a pointer. sizeof(rq-&gt;cmd) will not make sense and
&amp;rq-&gt;cmd won't work.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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