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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type</title>
<updated>2010-03-08T01:04:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Emese Revfy</name>
<email>re.emese@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2010-01-19T01:58:23+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matt Domsch &lt;Matt_Domsch@dell.com&gt;
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski &lt;maciej.sosnowski@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch &lt;hjk@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Acked-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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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 &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matt Domsch &lt;Matt_Domsch@dell.com&gt;
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski &lt;maciej.sosnowski@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch &lt;hjk@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Acked-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>driver-core: Add attribute argument to class_attribute show/store</title>
<updated>2010-03-08T01:04:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
<email>andi@firstfloor.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-05T11:48:07+00:00</published>
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Passing the attribute to the low level IO functions allows all kinds
of cleanups, by sharing low level IO code without requiring
an own function for every piece of data.

Also drivers can extend the attributes with own data fields
and use that in the low level function.

This makes the class attributes the same as sysdev_class attributes
and plain attributes.

This will allow further cleanups in drivers.

Full tree sweep converting all users.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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Passing the attribute to the low level IO functions allows all kinds
of cleanups, by sharing low level IO code without requiring
an own function for every piece of data.

Also drivers can extend the attributes with own data fields
and use that in the low level function.

This makes the class attributes the same as sysdev_class attributes
and plain attributes.

This will allow further cleanups in drivers.

Full tree sweep converting all users.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-2.6.34' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block</title>
<updated>2010-03-01T17:00:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-01T17:00:29+00:00</published>
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* 'for-2.6.34' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (38 commits)
  block: don't access jiffies when initialising io_context
  cfq: remove 8 bytes of padding from cfq_rb_root on 64 bit builds
  block: fix for "Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits"
  cfq-iosched: quantum check tweak
  blktrace: perform cleanup after setup error
  blkdev: fix merge_bvec_fn return value checks
  cfq-iosched: requests "in flight" vs "in driver" clarification
  cciss: Fix problem with scatter gather elements in the scsi half of the driver
  cciss: eliminate unnecessary pointer use in cciss scsi code
  cciss: do not use void pointer for scsi hba data
  cciss: factor out scatter gather chain block mapping code
  cciss: fix scatter gather chain block dma direction kludge
  cciss: simplify scatter gather code
  cciss: factor out scatter gather chain block allocation and freeing
  cciss: detect bad alignment of scsi commands at build time
  cciss: clarify command list padding calculation
  cfq-iosched: rethink seeky detection for SSDs
  cfq-iosched: rework seeky detection
  block: remove padding from io_context on 64bit builds
  block: Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits
  ...
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* 'for-2.6.34' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (38 commits)
  block: don't access jiffies when initialising io_context
  cfq: remove 8 bytes of padding from cfq_rb_root on 64 bit builds
  block: fix for "Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits"
  cfq-iosched: quantum check tweak
  blktrace: perform cleanup after setup error
  blkdev: fix merge_bvec_fn return value checks
  cfq-iosched: requests "in flight" vs "in driver" clarification
  cciss: Fix problem with scatter gather elements in the scsi half of the driver
  cciss: eliminate unnecessary pointer use in cciss scsi code
  cciss: do not use void pointer for scsi hba data
  cciss: factor out scatter gather chain block mapping code
  cciss: fix scatter gather chain block dma direction kludge
  cciss: simplify scatter gather code
  cciss: factor out scatter gather chain block allocation and freeing
  cciss: detect bad alignment of scsi commands at build time
  cciss: clarify command list padding calculation
  cfq-iosched: rethink seeky detection for SSDs
  cfq-iosched: rework seeky detection
  block: remove padding from io_context on 64bit builds
  block: Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits
  ...
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<entry>
<title>block: fix for "Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits"</title>
<updated>2010-03-01T09:43:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Rothwell</name>
<email>sfr@canb.auug.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-01T08:21:01+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cciss: Fix problem with scatter gather elements in the scsi half of the driver</title>
<updated>2010-02-28T18:42:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen M. Cameron</name>
<email>scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-26T22:01:53+00:00</published>
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cciss: Fix problem with scatter gather elements in the scsi half of the driver
When support for more than 31 scatter gather elements was added to the block
half of the driver, the SCSI half of the driver was not addressed, and the bump
from 31 to 32 scatter gather elements in the command block itself (not chained)
actually broke the SCSI half of the driver, so that any transfer requiring 32
scatter gather elements wouldn't work.  This fix also increases the max transfer
size and size of the scatter gather table to the limit supported by the controller

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron &lt;scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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cciss: Fix problem with scatter gather elements in the scsi half of the driver
When support for more than 31 scatter gather elements was added to the block
half of the driver, the SCSI half of the driver was not addressed, and the bump
from 31 to 32 scatter gather elements in the command block itself (not chained)
actually broke the SCSI half of the driver, so that any transfer requiring 32
scatter gather elements wouldn't work.  This fix also increases the max transfer
size and size of the scatter gather table to the limit supported by the controller

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron &lt;scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cciss: eliminate unnecessary pointer use in cciss scsi code</title>
<updated>2010-02-28T18:42:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen M. Cameron</name>
<email>scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-26T22:01:47+00:00</published>
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cciss: eliminate unnecessary pointer use in cciss scsi code
An extra level of indirection was being used in some places
for no real reason.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron &lt;scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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cciss: eliminate unnecessary pointer use in cciss scsi code
An extra level of indirection was being used in some places
for no real reason.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron &lt;scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cciss: do not use void pointer for scsi hba data</title>
<updated>2010-02-28T18:42:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen M. Cameron</name>
<email>scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-26T22:01:42+00:00</published>
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cciss: do not use void pointer for scsi hba data
and get rid of related unnecessary type casting
and delete some superfluous and misleading comments nearby.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron &lt;scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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cciss: do not use void pointer for scsi hba data
and get rid of related unnecessary type casting
and delete some superfluous and misleading comments nearby.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron &lt;scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cciss: factor out scatter gather chain block mapping code</title>
<updated>2010-02-28T18:42:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen M. Cameron</name>
<email>scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-26T22:01:37+00:00</published>
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cciss: factor out scatter gather chain block mapping code
Rationale is I want to use this code from the scsi half of the
driver.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron &lt;scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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cciss: factor out scatter gather chain block mapping code
Rationale is I want to use this code from the scsi half of the
driver.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron &lt;scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cciss: fix scatter gather chain block dma direction kludge</title>
<updated>2010-02-28T18:42:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen M. Cameron</name>
<email>scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-26T22:01:32+00:00</published>
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cciss: fix scatter gather chain block dma direction kludge
The data direction for the chained block of scatter gather
elements should always be PCI_DMA_TODEVICE, but was mistakenly
set to the direction of the data transfer, then a kludge to
fix it was added, in which pci_dma_sync_single_for_device or
pci_dma_sync_single_for_cpu was called.  If the correct direction
is used in the first place, the kludge isn't needed.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron &lt;scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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cciss: fix scatter gather chain block dma direction kludge
The data direction for the chained block of scatter gather
elements should always be PCI_DMA_TODEVICE, but was mistakenly
set to the direction of the data transfer, then a kludge to
fix it was added, in which pci_dma_sync_single_for_device or
pci_dma_sync_single_for_cpu was called.  If the correct direction
is used in the first place, the kludge isn't needed.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron &lt;scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cciss: simplify scatter gather code</title>
<updated>2010-02-28T18:42:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen M. Cameron</name>
<email>scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-26T22:01:27+00:00</published>
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cciss: simplify scatter gather code.
Instead of allocating an array of pointers to a structure
containing an SGDescriptor structure, and two other elements
that aren't really used, just allocate SGDescriptor structs.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron &lt;scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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cciss: simplify scatter gather code.
Instead of allocating an array of pointers to a structure
containing an SGDescriptor structure, and two other elements
that aren't really used, just allocate SGDescriptor structs.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron &lt;scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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