linux-toradex.git/drivers/block/nbd.c, branch tegra-10.11.4

Merge branch 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

2010-08-10T22:22:42+00:00

* 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (149 commits)
  block: make sure that REQ_* types are seen even with CONFIG_BLOCK=n
  xen-blkfront: fix missing out label
  blkdev: fix blkdev_issue_zeroout return value
  block: update request stacking methods to support discards
  block: fix missing export of blk_types.h
  writeback: fix bad _bh spinlock nesting
  drbd: revert "delay probes", feature is being re-implemented differently
  drbd: Initialize all members of sync_conf to their defaults [Bugz 315]
  drbd: Disable delay probes for the upcomming release
  writeback: cleanup bdi_register
  writeback: add new tracepoints
  writeback: remove unnecessary init_timer call
  writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeups
  writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeups
  writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker thread
  writeback: restructure bdi forker loop a little
  writeback: move last_active to bdi
  writeback: do not remove bdi from bdi_list
  writeback: simplify bdi code a little
  writeback: do not lose wake-ups in bdi threads
  ...

Fixed up pretty trivial conflicts in drivers/block/virtio_blk.c and
drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c as per Jens.

block: push down BKL into .locked_ioctl

2010-08-07T16:25:00+00:00

As a preparation for the removal of the big kernel
lock in the block layer, this removes the BKL
from the common ioctl handling code, moving it
into every single driver still using it.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove wrappers for request type/flags

2010-08-07T16:17:56+00:00

Remove all the trivial wrappers for the cmd_type and cmd_flags fields in
struct requests.  This allows much easier grepping for different request
types instead of unwinding through macros.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

update email address

2010-07-19T08:56:54+00:00

pavel@suse.cz no longer works, replace it with working address.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

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

const: make block_device_operations const

2009-09-22T14:17:25+00:00

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block: implement and enforce request peek/start/fetch

2009-05-11T07:52:18+00:00

Till now block layer allowed two separate modes of request execution.
A request is always acquired from the request queue via
elv_next_request().  After that, drivers are free to either dequeue it
or process it without dequeueing.  Dequeue allows elv_next_request()
to return the next request so that multiple requests can be in flight.

Executing requests without dequeueing has its merits mostly in
allowing drivers for simpler devices which can't do sg to deal with
segments only without considering request boundary.  However, the
benefit this brings is dubious and declining while the cost of the API
ambiguity is increasing.  Segment based drivers are usually for very
old or limited devices and as converting to dequeueing model isn't
difficult, it doesn't justify the API overhead it puts on block layer
and its more modern users.

Previous patches converted all block low level drivers to dequeueing
model.  This patch completes the API transition by...

* renaming elv_next_request() to blk_peek_request()

* renaming blkdev_dequeue_request() to blk_start_request()

* adding blk_fetch_request() which is combination of peek and start

* disallowing completion of queued (not started) requests

* applying new API to all LLDs

Renamings are for consistency and to break out of tree code so that
it's apparent that out of tree drivers need updating.

[ Impact: block request issue API cleanup, no functional change ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: Mike Miller 
Cc: unsik Kim 
Cc: Paul Clements 
Cc: Tim Waugh 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Laurent Vivier 
Cc: Jeff Garzik 
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Cc: Grant Likely 
Cc: Adrian McMenamin 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov 
Cc: Alex Dubov 
Cc: Pierre Ossman 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Markus Lidel 
Cc: Stefan Weinhuber 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Pete Zaitcev 
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: blk_rq_[cur_]_{sectors|bytes}() usage cleanup

2009-05-11T07:50:55+00:00

With the previous changes, the followings are now guaranteed for all
requests in any valid state.

* blk_rq_sectors() == blk_rq_bytes() >> 9
* blk_rq_cur_sectors() == blk_rq_cur_bytes() >> 9

Clean up accessor usages.  Notable changes are

* nbd,i2o_block: end_all used instead of explicit byte count
* scsi_lib: unnecessary conditional on request type removed

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Paul Clements 
Cc: Pete Zaitcev 
Cc: Alex Dubov 
Cc: Markus Lidel 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: Boaz Harrosh 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: convert to pos and nr_sectors accessors

2009-05-11T07:50:54+00:00

With recent cleanups, there is no place where low level driver
directly manipulates request fields.  This means that the 'hard'
request fields always equal the !hard fields.  Convert all
rq->sectors, nr_sectors and current_nr_sectors references to
accessors.

While at it, drop superflous blk_rq_pos() < 0 test in swim.c.

[ Impact: use pos and nr_sectors accessors ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Tested-by: Grant Likely 
Acked-by: Grant Likely 
Tested-by: Adrian McMenamin 
Acked-by: Adrian McMenamin 
Acked-by: Mike Miller 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov 
Cc: Eric Moore 
Cc: Alan Stern 
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori 
Cc: Pete Zaitcev 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Paul Clements 
Cc: Tim Waugh 
Cc: Jeff Garzik 
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Cc: Alex Dubov 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Dario Ballabio 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: unsik Kim 
Cc: Laurent Vivier 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

nbd: don't clear rq->sector and nr_sectors unnecessarily

2009-05-11T07:50:53+00:00

There's no reason to clear rq->sector and nr_sectors after calling
blk_rq_init().  They're guaranteed to be clear.  Drop unnecessary
clearing.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Paul Clements 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe