linux-toradex.git/fs/partitions, branch v2.6.30-rc8

Merge branch 'tracing/core-v2' into tracing-for-linus

2009-04-01T22:49:02+00:00

Conflicts:
	include/linux/slub_def.h
	lib/Kconfig.debug
	mm/slob.c
	mm/slub.c

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6

2009-03-26T23:04:22+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (81 commits)
  [S390] remove duplicated #includes
  [S390] cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper
  [S390] cpumask: Use accessors code.
  [S390] cpumask: prepare for iterators to only go to nr_cpu_ids/nr_cpumask_bits.
  [S390] cpumask: remove cpu_coregroup_map
  [S390] fix clock comparator save area usage
  [S390] Add hwcap flag for the etf3 enhancement facility
  [S390] Ensure that ipl panic notifier is called late.
  [S390] fix dfp elf hwcap/facility bit detection
  [S390] smp: perform initial cpu reset before starting a cpu
  [S390] smp: fix memory leak on __cpu_up
  [S390] ipl: Improve checking logic and remove switch defaults.
  [S390] s390dbf: Remove needless check for NULL pointer.
  [S390] s390dbf: Remove redundant initilizations.
  [S390] use kzfree()
  [S390] BUG to BUG_ON changes
  [S390] zfcpdump: Prevent zcore from beeing built as a kernel module.
  [S390] Use csum_partial in checksum.h
  [S390] cleanup lowcore.h
  [S390] eliminate ipl_device from lowcore
  ...

[S390] dasd: add large volume support

2009-03-26T14:24:05+00:00

The dasd device driver will now support ECKD devices with more then
65520 cylinders.
In the traditional ECKD adressing scheme each track is addressed
by a 16-bit cylinder and 16-bit head number. The new addressing
scheme makes use of the fact that the actual number of heads is
never larger then 15, so 12 bits of the head number can be redefined
to be part of the cylinder address.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

Driver core: implement uevent suppress in kobject

2009-03-24T23:38:26+00:00

This patch implements uevent suppress in kobject and removes it
from struct device, based on the following ideas:

1,Uevent sending should be one attribute of kobject, so suppressing it
in kobject layer is more natural than in device layer. By this way,
we can do it for other objects embedded with kobject.

2,It may save several bytes for each instance of struct device.(On my
omap3(32bit ARM) based box, can save 8bytes per device object)

This patch also introduces dev_set|get_uevent_suppress() helpers to
set and query uevent_suppress attribute in case to help kobject
as private part of struct device in future.

[This version is against the latest driver-core patch set of Greg,please
ignore the last version.]

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing/blktrace: fix up checkpatch reported problems in ftrace plugin patch

2009-01-26T17:30:01+00:00

Also make sure sparse (make C=2 block/blktrace.o) is happy too.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

blktrace: add ftrace plugin

2009-01-26T13:40:53+00:00

Impact: New way of using the blktrace infrastructure

This drops the requirement of userspace utilities to use the blktrace
facility.

Configuration is done thru sysfs, adding a "trace" directory to the
partition directory where blktrace can be enabled for the associated
request_queue.

The same filters present in the IOCTL interface are present as sysfs
device attributes.

The /sys/block/sdX/sdXN/trace/enable file allows tracing without any
filters.

The other files in this directory: pid, act_mask, start_lba and end_lba
can be used with the same meaning as with the IOCTL interface.

Using the sysfs interface will only setup the request_queue->blk_trace
fields, tracing will only take place when the "blk" tracer is selected
via the ftrace interface, as in the following example:

To see the trace, one can use the /d/tracing/trace file or the
/d/tracign/trace_pipe file, with semantics defined in the ftrace
documentation in Documentation/ftrace.txt.

[root@f10-1 ~]# cat /t/trace
       kjournald-305   [000]  3046.491224:   8,1    A WBS 6367 + 8 <- (8,1) 6304
       kjournald-305   [000]  3046.491227:   8,1    Q   R 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
       kjournald-305   [000]  3046.491236:   8,1    G  RB 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
       kjournald-305   [000]  3046.491239:   8,1    P  NS [kjournald]
       kjournald-305   [000]  3046.491242:   8,1    I RBS 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
       kjournald-305   [000]  3046.491251:   8,1    D  WB 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
       kjournald-305   [000]  3046.491610:   8,1    U  WS [kjournald] 1
          -0     [000]  3046.511914:   8,1    C  RS 6367 + 8 [6367]
[root@f10-1 ~]#

The default line context (prefix) format is the one described in the ftrace
documentation, with the blktrace specific bits using its existing format,
described in blkparse(8).

If one wants to have the classic blktrace formatting, this is possible by
using:

[root@f10-1 ~]# echo blk_classic > /t/trace_options
[root@f10-1 ~]# cat /t/trace
  8,1    0  3046.491224   305  A WBS 6367 + 8 <- (8,1) 6304
  8,1    0  3046.491227   305  Q   R 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
  8,1    0  3046.491236   305  G  RB 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
  8,1    0  3046.491239   305  P  NS [kjournald]
  8,1    0  3046.491242   305  I RBS 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
  8,1    0  3046.491251   305  D  WB 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
  8,1    0  3046.491610   305  U  WS [kjournald] 1
  8,1    0  3046.511914     0  C  RS 6367 + 8 [6367]
[root@f10-1 ~]#

Using the ftrace standard format allows more flexibility, such
as the ability of asking for backtraces via trace_options:

[root@f10-1 ~]# echo noblk_classic > /t/trace_options
[root@f10-1 ~]# echo stacktrace > /t/trace_options

[root@f10-1 ~]# cat /t/trace
       kjournald-305   [000]  3318.826779:   8,1    A WBS 6375 + 8 <- (8,1) 6312
       kjournald-305   [000]  3318.826782:
 <= submit_bio
 <= submit_bh
 <= sync_dirty_buffer
 <= journal_commit_transaction
 <= kjournald
 <= kthread
 <= child_rip
       kjournald-305   [000]  3318.826836:   8,1    Q   R 6375 + 8 [kjournald]
       kjournald-305   [000]  3318.826837:
 <= generic_make_request
 <= submit_bio
 <= submit_bh
 <= sync_dirty_buffer
 <= journal_commit_transaction
 <= kjournald
 <= kthread

Please read the ftrace documentation to use aditional, standardized
tracing filters such as /d/tracing/trace_cpumask, etc.

See also /d/tracing/trace_mark to add comments in the trace stream,
that is equivalent to the /d/block/sdaN/msg interface.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

block: fix bug in ptbl lookup cache

2009-01-09T20:46:13+00:00

Neil writes:

   Hi Jens,

    I've found a little bug for you.  It was introduced by
        a6f23657d3072bde6844055bbc2290e497f33fbc

        block: add one-hit cache for disk partition lookup

    and has the effect of killing my machine whenever I try to assemble
    an md array :-(
    One of the devices in the array has partitions, and mdadm always
    deletes partitions before putting a whole-device in an array (as it
    can cause confusion).  The next IO to that device locks the machine.
    I don't really understand exactly why it locks up, but it happens in
    disk_map_sector_rcu().  This patch fixes it.

Which is due to a missing clear of the (now) stale partition lookup
data. So clear that when we delete a partition.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()

2009-01-06T18:44:43+00:00

Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

block/md: fix md autodetection

2008-11-18T14:08:56+00:00

Block ext devt conversion missed md_autodetect_dev() call in
rescan_partitions() leaving md autodetect unable to see partitions.
Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: make add_partition() return pointer to hd_struct

2008-11-18T14:08:56+00:00

Make add_partition() return pointer to the new hd_struct on success
and ERR_PTR() value on failure.  This change will be used to fix md
autodetection bug.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe