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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/md/Kconfig, branch v4.10</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>dm block manager: make block locking optional</title>
<updated>2016-11-14T20:17:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Thornber</name>
<email>ejt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-19T13:50:32+00:00</published>
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The block manager's locking is useful for catching cycles that may
result from certain btree metadata corruption.  But in general it serves
as a developer tool to catch bugs in code.  Unless you're finding that
DM thin provisioning is hanging due to infinite loops within the block
manager's access to btree nodes you can safely disable this feature.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber &lt;ejt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt; # do/while(0) macro fix
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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The block manager's locking is useful for catching cycles that may
result from certain btree metadata corruption.  But in general it serves
as a developer tool to catch bugs in code.  Unless you're finding that
DM thin provisioning is hanging due to infinite loops within the block
manager's access to btree nodes you can safely disable this feature.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber &lt;ejt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt; # do/while(0) macro fix
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: add missing newline between DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_STACK_TRACING and DM_BUFIO</title>
<updated>2016-03-10T22:12:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-04T19:37:16+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm cache: make the 'mq' policy an alias for 'smq'</title>
<updated>2016-03-10T22:12:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Thornber</name>
<email>ejt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-10T10:18:10+00:00</published>
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smq seems to be performing better than the old mq policy in all
situations, as well as using a quarter of the memory.

Make 'mq' an alias for 'smq' when choosing a cache policy.  The tunables
that were present for the old mq are faked, and have no effect.  mq
should be considered deprecated now.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber &lt;ejt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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smq seems to be performing better than the old mq policy in all
situations, as well as using a quarter of the memory.

Make 'mq' an alias for 'smq' when choosing a cache policy.  The tunables
that were present for the old mq are faked, and have no effect.  mq
should be considered deprecated now.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber &lt;ejt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm verity: add support for forward error correction</title>
<updated>2015-12-10T15:39:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sami Tolvanen</name>
<email>samitolvanen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-03T14:26:30+00:00</published>
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Add support for correcting corrupted blocks using Reed-Solomon.

This code uses RS(255, N) interleaved across data and hash
blocks. Each error-correcting block covers N bytes evenly
distributed across the combined total data, so that each byte is a
maximum distance away from the others. This makes it possible to
recover from several consecutive corrupted blocks with relatively
small space overhead.

In addition, using verity hashes to locate erasures nearly doubles
the effectiveness of error correction. Being able to detect
corrupted blocks also improves performance, because only corrupted
blocks need to corrected.

For a 2 GiB partition, RS(255, 253) (two parity bytes for each
253-byte block) can correct up to 16 MiB of consecutive corrupted
blocks if erasures can be located, and 8 MiB if they cannot, with
16 MiB space overhead.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Add support for correcting corrupted blocks using Reed-Solomon.

This code uses RS(255, N) interleaved across data and hash
blocks. Each error-correcting block covers N bytes evenly
distributed across the combined total data, so that each byte is a
maximum distance away from the others. This makes it possible to
recover from several consecutive corrupted blocks with relatively
small space overhead.

In addition, using verity hashes to locate erasures nearly doubles
the effectiveness of error correction. Being able to detect
corrupted blocks also improves performance, because only corrupted
blocks need to corrected.

For a 2 GiB partition, RS(255, 253) (two parity bytes for each
253-byte block) can correct up to 16 MiB of consecutive corrupted
blocks if erasures can be located, and 8 MiB if they cannot, with
16 MiB space overhead.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm bufio: store stacktrace in buffers to help find buffer leaks</title>
<updated>2015-12-10T15:38:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-24T00:20:06+00:00</published>
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The option DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_STACK_TRACING is moved from persistent-data
directory to device mapper directory because it will now be used by
persistent-data and bufio.  When the option is enabled, each bufio buffer
stores the stacktrace of the last dm_bufio_get(), dm_bufio_read() or
dm_bufio_new() call that increased the hold count to 1.  The buffer's
stacktrace is printed if the buffer was not released before the bufio
client is destroyed.

When DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_STACK_TRACING is enabled, any bufio buffer leaks are
considered warnings - i.e. the kernel continues afterwards.  If not
enabled, buffer leaks are considered BUGs and the kernel with crash.
Reasoning on this disposition is: if we only ever warned on buffer leaks
users would generally ignore them and the problematic code would never
get fixed.

Successfully used to find source of bufio leaks fixed with commit
fce079f63c3 ("dm btree: fix bufio buffer leaks in dm_btree_del() error
path").

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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The option DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_STACK_TRACING is moved from persistent-data
directory to device mapper directory because it will now be used by
persistent-data and bufio.  When the option is enabled, each bufio buffer
stores the stacktrace of the last dm_bufio_get(), dm_bufio_read() or
dm_bufio_new() call that increased the hold count to 1.  The buffer's
stacktrace is printed if the buffer was not released before the bufio
client is destroyed.

When DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_STACK_TRACING is enabled, any bufio buffer leaks are
considered warnings - i.e. the kernel continues afterwards.  If not
enabled, buffer leaks are considered BUGs and the kernel with crash.
Reasoning on this disposition is: if we only ever warned on buffer leaks
users would generally ignore them and the problematic code would never
get fixed.

Successfully used to find source of bufio leaks fixed with commit
fce079f63c3 ("dm btree: fix bufio buffer leaks in dm_btree_del() error
path").

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>raid5-cache: add crc32c Kconfig dependency</title>
<updated>2015-11-08T22:09:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-03T14:12:01+00:00</published>
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The recent change of the raid5-cache code to use crc32c instead
of crc32 causes link errors when CONFIG_LIBCRC32C is disabled:

drivers/built-in.o: In function crc32c'
core.c:(.text+0x1c6060): undefined reference to `crc32c'

This adds an explicit 'select' statement like all other users
of this function do.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Fixes: 5cb2fbd6ea0d ("raid5-cache: use crc32c checksum")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
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The recent change of the raid5-cache code to use crc32c instead
of crc32 causes link errors when CONFIG_LIBCRC32C is disabled:

drivers/built-in.o: In function crc32c'
core.c:(.text+0x1c6060): undefined reference to `crc32c'

This adds an explicit 'select' statement like all other users
of this function do.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Fixes: 5cb2fbd6ea0d ("raid5-cache: use crc32c checksum")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi</title>
<updated>2015-09-12T01:15:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-12T01:15:18+00:00</published>
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Pull second round of SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "There's one late arriving patch here (added today), fixing a build
  issue which the scsi_dh patch set in here uncovered.  Other than that,
  everything has been incubated in -next and the checkers for a week.

  The major pieces of this patch are a set patches facilitating better
  integration between scsi and scsi_dh (the device handling layer used
  by multi-path; all the dm parts are acked by Mike Snitzer).

  This also includes driver updates for mp3sas, scsi_debug and an
  assortment of bug fixes"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (50 commits)
  scsi_dh: fix randconfig build error
  scsi: fix scsi_error_handler vs. scsi_host_dev_release race
  fcoe: Convert use of __constant_htons to htons
  mpt2sas: setpci reset kernel oops fix
  pm80xx: Don't override ts-&gt;stat on IO_OPEN_CNX_ERROR_HW_RESOURCE_BUSY
  lpfc: Fix possible use-after-free and double free in lpfc_mbx_cmpl_rdp_page_a2()
  bfa: Fix incorrect de-reference of pointer
  bfa: Fix indentation
  scsi_transport_sas: Remove check for SAS expander when querying bay/enclosure IDs.
  scsi_debug: resp_request: remove unused variable
  scsi_debug: fix REPORT LUNS Well Known LU
  scsi_debug: schedule_resp fix input variable check
  scsi_debug: make dump_sector static
  scsi_debug: vfree is null safe so drop the check
  scsi_debug: use SCSI_W_LUN_REPORT_LUNS instead of SAM2_WLUN_REPORT_LUNS;
  scsi_debug: define pr_fmt() for consistent logging
  mpt2sas: Refcount fw_events and fix unsafe list usage
  mpt2sas: Refcount sas_device objects and fix unsafe list usage
  scsi_dh: return SCSI_DH_NOTCONN in scsi_dh_activate()
  scsi_dh: don't allow to detach device handlers at runtime
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Pull second round of SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "There's one late arriving patch here (added today), fixing a build
  issue which the scsi_dh patch set in here uncovered.  Other than that,
  everything has been incubated in -next and the checkers for a week.

  The major pieces of this patch are a set patches facilitating better
  integration between scsi and scsi_dh (the device handling layer used
  by multi-path; all the dm parts are acked by Mike Snitzer).

  This also includes driver updates for mp3sas, scsi_debug and an
  assortment of bug fixes"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (50 commits)
  scsi_dh: fix randconfig build error
  scsi: fix scsi_error_handler vs. scsi_host_dev_release race
  fcoe: Convert use of __constant_htons to htons
  mpt2sas: setpci reset kernel oops fix
  pm80xx: Don't override ts-&gt;stat on IO_OPEN_CNX_ERROR_HW_RESOURCE_BUSY
  lpfc: Fix possible use-after-free and double free in lpfc_mbx_cmpl_rdp_page_a2()
  bfa: Fix incorrect de-reference of pointer
  bfa: Fix indentation
  scsi_transport_sas: Remove check for SAS expander when querying bay/enclosure IDs.
  scsi_debug: resp_request: remove unused variable
  scsi_debug: fix REPORT LUNS Well Known LU
  scsi_debug: schedule_resp fix input variable check
  scsi_debug: make dump_sector static
  scsi_debug: vfree is null safe so drop the check
  scsi_debug: use SCSI_W_LUN_REPORT_LUNS instead of SAM2_WLUN_REPORT_LUNS;
  scsi_debug: define pr_fmt() for consistent logging
  mpt2sas: Refcount fw_events and fix unsafe list usage
  mpt2sas: Refcount sas_device objects and fix unsafe list usage
  scsi_dh: return SCSI_DH_NOTCONN in scsi_dh_activate()
  scsi_dh: don't allow to detach device handlers at runtime
  ...
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<entry>
<title>scsi_dh: fix randconfig build error</title>
<updated>2015-09-11T18:54:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-09T16:04:18+00:00</published>
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It looks like the Kconfig check that was meant to fix this (commit
fe9233fb6914a0eb20166c967e3020f7f0fba2c9 [SCSI] scsi_dh: fix kconfig related
build errors) was actually reversed, but no-one noticed until the new set of
patches which separated DM and SCSI_DH).

Fixes: fe9233fb6914a0eb20166c967e3020f7f0fba2c9
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Tested-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Odin.com&gt;
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It looks like the Kconfig check that was meant to fix this (commit
fe9233fb6914a0eb20166c967e3020f7f0fba2c9 [SCSI] scsi_dh: fix kconfig related
build errors) was actually reversed, but no-one noticed until the new set of
patches which separated DM and SCSI_DH).

Fixes: fe9233fb6914a0eb20166c967e3020f7f0fba2c9
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Tested-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Odin.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: Spelling s/consitent/consistent/</title>
<updated>2015-08-07T12:36:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert@linux-m68k.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-06T13:39:17+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm crypt: update wiki page URL</title>
<updated>2015-07-27T11:58:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Baruch Siach</name>
<email>baruch@tkos.co.il</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-05T06:55:44+00:00</published>
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Cryptsetup moved to gitlab.  This is a leftover from commit e44f23b32dc7
(dm crypt: update URLs to new cryptsetup project page, 2015-04-05).

Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach &lt;baruch@tkos.co.il&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Cryptsetup moved to gitlab.  This is a leftover from commit e44f23b32dc7
(dm crypt: update URLs to new cryptsetup project page, 2015-04-05).

Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach &lt;baruch@tkos.co.il&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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