Use the symbolic name where appropriate and add a comment to the
disk_stats structure.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

Instead of having ->read_sectors and ->write_sectors, combine the two
into ->sectors[2] and similar for the other fields. This saves a branch
several places in the io path, since we don't have to care for what the
actual io direction is. On my x86-64 box, that's 200 bytes less text in
just the core (not counting the various drivers).

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

A "coldplug + udevstart" can be simple like this:
  for i in /sys/block/*/*/uevent; do echo 1 > $i; done
  for i in /sys/class/*/*/uevent; do echo 1 > $i; done
  for i in /sys/bus/*/devices/*/uevent; do echo 1 > $i; done

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

struct gendisk has these two fields: stamp, stamp_idle.  Update to
stamp_idle is always in sync with stamp and they are always the same.
Therefore, it does not add any value in having two fields tracking
same timestamp.  Suggest to remove it.

Also, we should only update gendisk stats with non-zero value.
Advantage is that we don't have to needlessly calculate memory address,
and then add zero to the content.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

Patch to add check to get_chrdev_list and get_blkdev_list to prevent reads
of /proc/devices from spilling over the provided page if more than 4096
bytes of string data are generated from all the registered character and
block devices in a system

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Patch to allocate the control structures for for ide devices on the node of
the device itself (for NUMA systems).  The patch depends on the Slab API
change patch by Manfred and me (in mm) and the pcidev_to_node patch that I
posted today.

Does some realignment too.

Signed-off-by: Justin M. Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin Shelar <pravin@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!