linux-toradex.git/drivers/md/Kconfig, branch v4.1.10

Merge tag 'md/4.1' of git://neil.brown.name/md

2015-04-24T16:28:01+00:00

Pull md updates from Neil Brown:
"More updates that usual this time. A few have performance impacts
which hould mostly be positive, but RAID5 (in particular) can be very
work-load ensitive... We'll have to wait and see.

Highlights:

- "experimental" code for managing md/raid1 across a cluster using
DLM. Code is not ready for general use and triggers a WARNING if
used. However it is looking good and mostly done and having in
mainline will help co-ordinate development.

- RAID5/6 can now batch multiple (4K wide) stripe_heads so as to
handle a full (chunk wide) stripe as a single unit.

- RAID6 can now perform read-modify-write cycles which should help
performance on larger arrays: 6 or more devices.

- RAID5/6 stripe cache now grows and shrinks dynamically. The value
set is used as a minimum.

- Resync is now allowed to go a little faster than the 'mininum' when
there is competing IO. How much faster depends on the speed of the
devices, so the effective minimum should scale with device speed to
some extent"

* tag 'md/4.1' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (58 commits)
md/raid5: don't do chunk aligned read on degraded array.
md/raid5: allow the stripe_cache to grow and shrink.
md/raid5: change ->inactive_blocked to a bit-flag.
md/raid5: move max_nr_stripes management into grow_one_stripe and drop_one_stripe
md/raid5: pass gfp_t arg to grow_one_stripe()
md/raid5: introduce configuration option rmw_level
md/raid5: activate raid6 rmw feature
md/raid6 algorithms: xor_syndrome() for SSE2
md/raid6 algorithms: xor_syndrome() for generic int
md/raid6 algorithms: improve test program
md/raid6 algorithms: delta syndrome functions
raid5: handle expansion/resync case with stripe batching
raid5: handle io error of batch list
RAID5: batch adjacent full stripe write
raid5: track overwrite disk count
raid5: add a new flag to track if a stripe can be batched
raid5: use flex_array for scribble data
md raid0: access mddev->queue (request queue member) conditionally because it is not set when accessed from dm-raid
md: allow resync to go faster when there is competing IO.
md: remove 'go_faster' option from ->sync_request()
...

dm: add log writes target

2015-04-15T16:10:24+00:00

Introduce a new target that is meant for file system developers to test file
system integrity at particular points in the life of a file system.  We capture
all write requests and associated data and log them to a separate device
for later replay.  There is a userspace utility to do this replay.  The
idea behind this is to give file system developers a tool to verify that
the file system is always consistent.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik 
Reviewed-by: Zach Brown 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: add 'use_blk_mq' module param and expose in per-device ro sysfs attr

2015-04-15T16:10:17+00:00

Request-based DM's blk-mq support defaults to off; but a user can easily
change the default using the dm_mod.use_blk_mq module/boot option.

Also, you can check what mode a given request-based DM device is using
with: cat /sys/block/dm-X/dm/use_blk_mq

This change enabled further cleanup and reduced work (e.g. the
md->io_pool and md->rq_pool isn't created if using blk-mq).

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

Create a separate module for clustering support

2015-02-23T13:28:42+00:00

Tagged as EXPERIMENTAL for now.

Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues

Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild

2015-02-19T18:36:45+00:00

Pull kconfig updates from Michal Marek:
 "Yann E Morin was supposed to take over kconfig maintainership, but
  this hasn't happened.  So I'm sending a few kconfig patches that I
  collected:

   - Fix for missing va_end in kconfig
   - merge_config.sh displays used if given too few arguments
   - s/boolean/bool/ in Kconfig files for consistency, with the plan to
     only support bool in the future"

* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kconfig: use va_end to match corresponding va_start
  merge_config.sh: Display usage if given too few arguments
  kconfig: use bool instead of boolean for type definition attributes

Merge tag 'dm-3.20-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm

2015-02-13T00:36:31+00:00

Pull device mapper changes from Mike Snitzer:

 - The most significant change this cycle is request-based DM now
   supports stacking ontop of blk-mq devices.  This blk-mq support
   changes the model request-based DM uses for cloning a request to
   relying on calling blk_get_request() directly from the underlying
   blk-mq device.

   An early consumer of this code is Intel's emerging NVMe hardware;
   thanks to Keith Busch for working on, and pushing for, these changes.

 - A few other small fixes and cleanups across other DM targets.

* tag 'dm-3.20-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm: inherit QUEUE_FLAG_SG_GAPS flags from underlying queues
  dm snapshot: remove unnecessary NULL checks before vfree() calls
  dm mpath: simplify failure path of dm_multipath_init()
  dm thin metadata: remove unused dm_pool_get_data_block_size()
  dm ioctl: fix stale comment above dm_get_inactive_table()
  dm crypt: update url in CONFIG_DM_CRYPT help text
  dm bufio: fix time comparison to use time_after_eq()
  dm: use time_in_range() and time_after()
  dm raid: fix a couple integer overflows
  dm table: train hybrid target type detection to select blk-mq if appropriate
  dm: allocate requests in target when stacking on blk-mq devices
  dm: prepare for allocating blk-mq clone requests in target
  dm: submit stacked requests in irq enabled context
  dm: split request structure out from dm_rq_target_io structure
  dm: remove exports for request-based interfaces without external callers

dm crypt: update url in CONFIG_DM_CRYPT help text

2015-02-09T18:06:48+00:00

Update the obsolete url in the CONFIG_DM_CRYPT help text.

Signed-off-by: Loic Pefferkorn 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

kconfig: use bool instead of boolean for type definition attributes

2015-01-07T12:08:04+00:00

Support for keyword 'boolean' will be dropped later on.

No functional change.

Reference: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1418003065.git.cj@linux.com
Signed-off-by: Christoph Jaeger 
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek

rcu: Make SRCU optional by using CONFIG_SRCU

2015-01-06T19:04:29+00:00

SRCU is not necessary to be compiled by default in all cases. For tinification
efforts not compiling SRCU unless necessary is desirable.

The current patch tries to make compiling SRCU optional by introducing a new
Kconfig option CONFIG_SRCU which is selected when any of the components making
use of SRCU are selected.

If we do not select CONFIG_SRCU, srcu.o will not be compiled at all.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   2007       0       0    2007     7d7 kernel/rcu/srcu.o

Size of arch/powerpc/boot/zImage changes from

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 831552   64180   23944  919676   e087c arch/powerpc/boot/zImage : before
 829504   64180   23952  917636   e0084 arch/powerpc/boot/zImage : after

so the savings are about ~2000 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar 
CC: Paul E. McKenney 
CC: Josh Triplett 
CC: Lai Jiangshan 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
[ paulmck: resolve conflict due to removal of arch/ia64/kvm/Kconfig. ]

dm: add era target

2014-03-27T20:56:23+00:00

dm-era is a target that behaves similar to the linear target.  In
addition it keeps track of which blocks were written within a user
defined period of time called an 'era'.  Each era target instance
maintains the current era as a monotonically increasing 32-bit
counter.

Use cases include tracking changed blocks for backup software, and
partially invalidating the contents of a cache to restore cache
coherency after rolling back a vendor snapshot.

dm-era is primarily expected to be paired with the dm-cache target.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer