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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c, branch v2.6.25.4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>[S390] dasd: add hyper PAV support to DASD device driver, part 1</title>
<updated>2008-01-26T13:11:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Weinhuber</name>
<email>wein@de.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2008-01-26T13:11:23+00:00</published>
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Parallel access volumes (PAV) is a storage server feature, that allows
to start multiple channel programs on the same DASD in parallel. It
defines alias devices which can be used as alternative paths to the
same disk. With the old base PAV support we only needed rudimentary
functionality in the DASD device driver. As the mapping between base
and alias devices was static, we just had to export an identifier
(uid) and could leave the combining of devices to external layers
like a device mapper multipath.
Now hyper PAV removes the requirement to dedicate alias devices to
specific base devices. Instead each alias devices can be combined with
multiple base device on a per request basis. This requires full
support by the DASD device driver as now each channel program itself
has to identify the target base device.
The changes to the dasd device driver and the ECKD discipline are:
- Separate subchannel device representation (dasd_device) from block
  device representation (dasd_block). Only base devices are block
  devices.
- Gather information about base and alias devices and possible
  combinations.
- For each request decide which dasd_device should be used (base or
  alias) and build specific channel program.
- Support summary unit checks, which allow the storage server to
  upgrade / downgrade between base and hyper PAV at runtime (support
  is mandatory).

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber &lt;wein@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Parallel access volumes (PAV) is a storage server feature, that allows
to start multiple channel programs on the same DASD in parallel. It
defines alias devices which can be used as alternative paths to the
same disk. With the old base PAV support we only needed rudimentary
functionality in the DASD device driver. As the mapping between base
and alias devices was static, we just had to export an identifier
(uid) and could leave the combining of devices to external layers
like a device mapper multipath.
Now hyper PAV removes the requirement to dedicate alias devices to
specific base devices. Instead each alias devices can be combined with
multiple base device on a per request basis. This requires full
support by the DASD device driver as now each channel program itself
has to identify the target base device.
The changes to the dasd device driver and the ECKD discipline are:
- Separate subchannel device representation (dasd_device) from block
  device representation (dasd_block). Only base devices are block
  devices.
- Gather information about base and alias devices and possible
  combinations.
- For each request decide which dasd_device should be used (base or
  alias) and build specific channel program.
- Support summary unit checks, which allow the storage server to
  upgrade / downgrade between base and hyper PAV at runtime (support
  is mandatory).

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber &lt;wein@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[S390] drivers/s390/: Spelling fixes</title>
<updated>2008-01-26T13:11:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
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<published>2008-01-26T13:11:20+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Fixup rq_for_each_segment() indentation</title>
<updated>2007-10-10T07:25:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jens.axboe@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-16T11:43:12+00:00</published>
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Remove one level of nesting where appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Remove one level of nesting where appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>Introduce rq_for_each_segment replacing rq_for_each_bio</title>
<updated>2007-10-10T07:25:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-09-25T10:35:59+00:00</published>
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Every usage of rq_for_each_bio wraps a usage of
bio_for_each_segment, so these can be combined into
rq_for_each_segment.

We define "struct req_iterator" to hold the 'bio' and 'index' that
are needed for the double iteration.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;

Various compile fixes by me...

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Every usage of rq_for_each_bio wraps a usage of
bio_for_each_segment, so these can be combined into
rq_for_each_segment.

We define "struct req_iterator" to hold the 'bio' and 'index' that
are needed for the double iteration.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;

Various compile fixes by me...

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Typo fixes errror -&gt; error</title>
<updated>2007-07-31T22:39:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gabriel Craciunescu</name>
<email>nix.or.die@googlemail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-31T07:39:19+00:00</published>
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Typo fixes errror -&gt; error

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Craciunescu &lt;nix.or.die@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Typo fixes errror -&gt; error

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Craciunescu &lt;nix.or.die@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[S390] Avoid sparse warnings.</title>
<updated>2007-05-10T13:45:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-10T13:45:46+00:00</published>
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Monthly sparse warning avoidance patch. Sigh.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Monthly sparse warning avoidance patch. Sigh.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[S390] dasd: New read device characteristics and read configuration data.</title>
<updated>2007-05-04T16:48:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cornelia Huck</name>
<email>cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-04T16:47:51+00:00</published>
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Instead of the deprecated read_dev_chars() and read_conf_data_lpm(),
implement dasd_generic_read_dev_chars() and dasd_eckd_read_conf_lpm().
These should even recover better from error than the original cio
functions.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Instead of the deprecated read_dev_chars() and read_conf_data_lpm(),
implement dasd_generic_read_dev_chars() and dasd_eckd_read_conf_lpm().
These should even recover better from error than the original cio
functions.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[S390] Avoid excessive inlining.</title>
<updated>2007-02-05T20:18:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-02-05T20:18:53+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>[S390] ETR support.</title>
<updated>2007-02-05T20:18:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-02-05T20:18:19+00:00</published>
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This patch adds support for clock synchronization to an external time
reference (ETR). The external time reference sends an oscillator
signal and a synchronization signal every 2^20 microseconds to keep
the TOD clocks of all connected servers in sync. For availability
two ETR units can be connected to a machine. If the clock deviates
for more than the sync-check tolerance all cpus get a machine check
that indicates that the clock is out of sync. For the lovely details
how to get the clock back in sync see the code below.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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This patch adds support for clock synchronization to an external time
reference (ETR). The external time reference sends an oscillator
signal and a synchronization signal every 2^20 microseconds to keep
the TOD clocks of all connected servers in sync. For availability
two ETR units can be connected to a machine. If the clock deviates
for more than the sync-check tolerance all cpus get a machine check
that indicates that the clock is out of sync. For the lovely details
how to get the clock back in sync see the code below.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>[S390] dasd: fix unconditional reserve handling.</title>
<updated>2007-02-05T20:17:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Horst Hummel</name>
<email>horst.hummel@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-02-05T20:17:24+00:00</published>
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The reserve/release IOCTLs sometimes do not work. If second system
does a 'steal lock' the pending unit check (Format 3 Msg F) is
delivered. Since ERP is disabled for reserve/release, the IOCTL call
fails. We have to allow basic ERP (retries) for reserve/release IOCTLs.

Signed-off-by: Horst Hummel &lt;horst.hummel@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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The reserve/release IOCTLs sometimes do not work. If second system
does a 'steal lock' the pending unit check (Format 3 Msg F) is
delivered. Since ERP is disabled for reserve/release, the IOCTL call
fails. We have to allow basic ERP (retries) for reserve/release IOCTLs.

Signed-off-by: Horst Hummel &lt;horst.hummel@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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