linux-toradex.git/drivers/block/rd.c, branch v2.6.23.12

Future of Linux 2.6.22.y series

2007-12-14T17:50:51+00:00

commit 5d0360ee96a5ef953dbea45873c2a8c87e77d59b upstream.

We have seen ramdisk based install systems, where some pages of mapped
libraries and programs were suddendly zeroed under memory pressure. This
should not happen, as the ramdisk avoids freeing its pages by keeping
them dirty all the time.

It turns out that there is a case, where the VM makes a ramdisk page
clean, without telling the ramdisk driver.  On memory pressure
shrink_zone runs and it starts to run shrink_active_list.  There is a
check for buffer_heads_over_limit, and if true, pagevec_strip is called.
pagevec_strip calls try_to_release_page. If the mapping has no
releasepage callback, try_to_free_buffers is called. try_to_free_buffers
has now a special logic for some file systems to make a dirty page
clean, if all buffers are clean. Thats what happened in our test case.

The simplest solution is to provide a noop-releasepage callback for the
ramdisk driver. This avoids try_to_free_buffers for ramdisk pages.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Acked-by: Nick Piggin 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[BLOCK] Get rid of request_queue_t typedef

2007-07-24T07:28:11+00:00

Some of the code has been gradually transitioned to using the proper
struct request_queue, but there's lots left. So do a full sweet of
the kernel and get rid of this typedef and replace its uses with
the proper type.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Fix occurrences of "the the "

2007-05-09T06:57:56+00:00

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

mm: remove destroy_dirty_buffers from invalidate_bdev()

2007-05-07T19:12:55+00:00

Remove the destroy_dirty_buffers argument from invalidate_bdev(), it hasn't
been used in 6 years (so akpm says).

find * -name \*.[ch] | xargs grep -l invalidate_bdev |
while read file; do
	quilt add $file;
	sed -ie 's/invalidate_bdev(\([^,]*\),[^)]*)/invalidate_bdev(\1)/g' $file;
done

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] rd: memory leak on rd_init() failure

2006-10-17T15:18:48+00:00

If RAM disk driver initialization fails due to blk_alloc_queue() faulure, the
gendisk structs stored in rd_disks[] will not be freed completely.

This patch resolves that memory leak case by doing alloc_disk() and
blk_alloc_queue() at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ramdisk blocksize Kconfig entry

2006-07-15T04:53:53+00:00

Make the ramdisk blocksize configurable at kernel compilation time rather
than only at boot or module load time, like a couple of the other ramdisk
options.  I found this handy awhile back but thought little of it, until
recently asked by a few of the testing folks here to be able to do the same
thing for their automated test setups.

The Kconfig comment is largely lifted from comments in rd.c, and hopefully
this will increase the chances of making folks aware that the default value
often isn't a great choice here (for increasing values of PAGE_SIZE, even
moreso).

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Remove obsolete #include

2006-06-30T17:25:36+00:00

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6

2006-06-29T21:19:21+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6: (22 commits)
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove it from the feature_removal.txt file
  [PATCH] devfs: Last little devfs cleanups throughout the kernel tree.
  [PATCH] devfs: Rename TTY_DRIVER_NO_DEVFS to TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEV
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the tty_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the line_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the videodevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the gendisk devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the miscdevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_remove() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_cdev() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_bdev() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_symlink() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_dir() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_*_tape() functions from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the sound subsystem
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the ide subsystem.
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the serial subsystem
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init code
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the partition code
  ...

[PATCH] mark address_space_operations const

2006-06-28T21:59:04+00:00

Same as with already do with the file operations: keep them in .rodata and
prevents people from doing runtime patching.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Steven French 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] devfs: Remove the gendisk devfs_name field as it's no longer needed

2006-06-26T19:25:08+00:00

And remove the now unneeded number field.
Also fixes all drivers that set these fields.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman