* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] state info wrong after resume
[CPUFREQ] allow use of the powersave governor as the default one
[CPUFREQ] document the currently undocumented parts of the sysfs interface
[CPUFREQ] expose cpufreq coordination requirements regardless of coordination mechanism
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
block: Skip I/O merges when disabled
block: add large command support
block: replace sizeof(rq->cmd) with BLK_MAX_CDB
ide: use blk_rq_init() to initialize the request
block: use blk_rq_init() to initialize the request
block: rename and export rq_init()
block: no need to initialize rq->cmd with blk_get_request
block: no need to initialize rq->cmd in prepare_flush_fn hook
block/blk-barrier.c:blk_ordered_cur_seq() mustn't be inline
block/elevator.c:elv_rq_merge_ok() mustn't be inline
block: make queue flags non-atomic
block: add dma alignment and padding support to blk_rq_map_kern
unexport blk_max_pfn
ps3disk: Remove superfluous cast
block: make rq_init() do a full memset()
relay: fix splice problem
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:01:02 +0000 (12:01 +0200)]
bitops: remove "optimizations"
The mapsize optimizations which were moved from x86 to the generic
code in commit 64970b68d2b3ed32b964b0b30b1b98518fde388e increased the
binary size on non x86 architectures.
Looking into the real effects of the "optimizations" it turned out
that they are not used in find_next_bit() and find_next_zero_bit().
The ones in find_first_bit() and find_first_zero_bit() are used in a
couple of places but none of them is a real hot path.
Remove the "optimizations" all together and call the library functions
unconditionally.
Boot-tested on x86 and compile tested on every cross compiler I have.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ppc/powerpc: use kbuild.h instead of defining macros in asm-offsets.c
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
sparc: use kbuild.h instead of defining macros in asm-offsets.c
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arm: use kbuild.h instead of macros in asm-offsets.c
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
alpha: use kbuild.h instead of macros in asm-offsets.c
Use the macros in kbuild.h
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Jay Estabrook <jay.estabrook@hp.com> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use vmalloc() and memset() instead of kcalloc() to allocate a page* array when
the array size is bigger than one page. This enables relayfs to support
bigger relay buffers than 64MB on 4k-page system, 512MB on 16k-page system.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@comcast.net> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Harvey Harrison [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:03:44 +0000 (01:03 -0700)]
isofs: use get/put_unaligned_* helpers
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Harvey Harrison [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:03:44 +0000 (01:03 -0700)]
hfsplus: use get/put_unaligned_* helpers
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Harvey Harrison [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:03:36 +0000 (01:03 -0700)]
wireless: use get/put_unaligned_* helpers
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Harvey Harrison [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:03:34 +0000 (01:03 -0700)]
mmc: use get/put_unaligned_* helpers
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de> Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Harvey Harrison [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:03:30 +0000 (01:03 -0700)]
drivers/block: use get_unaligned_* helpers
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Harvey Harrison [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:03:30 +0000 (01:03 -0700)]
kernel: Move arches to use common unaligned access
Unaligned access is ok for the following arches:
cris, m68k, mn10300, powerpc, s390, x86
Arches that use the memmove implementation for native endian, and
the byteshifting for the opposite endianness.
h8300, m32r, xtensa
Packed struct for native endian, byteshifting for other endian:
alpha, blackfin, ia64, parisc, sparc, sparc64, mips, sh
m86knommu is generic_be for Coldfire, otherwise unaligned access is ok.
frv, arm chooses endianness based on compiler settings, uses the byteshifting
versions. Remove the unaligned trap handler from frv as it is now unused.
v850 is le, uses the byteshifting versions for both be and le.
Remove the now unused asm-generic implementation.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Harvey Harrison [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:03:27 +0000 (01:03 -0700)]
kernel: add common infrastructure for unaligned access
Create a linux/unaligned directory similar in spirit to the linux/byteorder
folder to hold generic implementations collected from various arches.
Currently there are five implementations:
1) packed_struct.h: C-struct based, from asm-generic/unaligned.h
2) le_byteshift.h: Open coded byte-swapping, heavily based on asm-arm
3) be_byteshift.h: Open coded byte-swapping, heavily based on asm-arm
4) memmove.h: taken from multiple implementations in tree
5) access_ok.h: taken from x86 and others, unaligned access is ok.
All of the new implementations checks for sizes not equal to 1,2,4,8
and will fail to link.
API additions:
get_unaligned_{le16|le32|le64|be16|be32|be64}(p) which is meant to replace
code of the form:
le16_to_cpu(get_unaligned((__le16 *)p));
put_unaligned_{le16|le32|le64|be16|be32|be64}(val, pointer) which is meant to
replace code of the form:
put_unaligned(cpu_to_le16(val), (__le16 *)p);
The headers that arches should include from their asm/unaligned.h:
access_ok.h : Wrappers of the byteswapping functions in asm/byteorder
Choose a particular implementation for little-endian access:
le_byteshift.h
le_memmove.h (arch must be LE)
le_struct.h (arch must be LE)
Choose a particular implementation for big-endian access:
be_byteshift.h
be_memmove.h (arch must be BE)
be_struct.h (arch must be BE)
After including as needed from the above, include unaligned/generic.h and
define your arch's get/put_unaligned as (for LE):
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Robert P. J. Day [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:03:26 +0000 (01:03 -0700)]
sysv fs: remove superfluous check for __GNUC__ compiler
Since <linux/sysv_fs.h> isn't exported to userspace, there is little
point checking that this is a GNU-compatible compiler.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
tpm: change Kconfig dependencies from PNPACPI to PNP
There is no "PNPACPI" driver interface as such. PNPACPI is an internal
backend of PNP, and drivers just use the generic PNP interface.
The drivers should depend on CONFIG_PNP, not CONFIG_PNPACPI.
tpm_nsc.c doesn't use PNP at all, so we can just remove the dependency
completely. It probably *should* use PNP to discover the device, but until it
does, there's no point in depending on PNP.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Kylene Jo Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com> Cc: Marcel Selhorst <tpm@selhorst.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sam Ravnborg [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:03:23 +0000 (01:03 -0700)]
tpm: fix section mismatch warning
Fix following warning:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text+0x32804): Section mismatch in reference from the function init_nsc() to the function .devexit.text:tpm_nsc_remove()
The function tpm_nsc_remove() are used outside __exit, so remove the __exit
annotation to make sure the function is always avilable.
Note: Trying to compare this module with other users of platform_device gve me
the impression that this driver needs some work to match other users.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com> Cc: Marcel Selhorst <tpm@selhorst.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parport_pc: wrap PNP probe code in #ifdef CONFIG_PNP
Wrap PNP probe code in #ifdef CONFIG_PNP. We already do the same for
CONFIG_PCI.
Without this change, we'll have unresolved references to pnp_get_resource()
function when CONFIG_PNP=n. (This is a new interface that's not in mainline
yet.)
Robert P. J. Day [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:03:20 +0000 (01:03 -0700)]
afs: use the shorter LIST_HEAD for brevity
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
edac: fix module initialization on several modules 2nd time
I implemented opstate_init() as a inline function in linux/edac.h.
added calling opstate_init() to:
i82443bxgx_edac.c
i82860_edac.c
i82875p_edac.c
i82975x_edac.c
I wrote a fixed patch of
edac-fix-module-initialization-on-several-modules.patch,
and tested building 2.6.25-rc7 with applying this. It was succeed.
I think the patch is now correct.
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:03:18 +0000 (01:03 -0700)]
edac: remove unneeded functions and add static accessor
Collection of patches, merged into one, from Adrian that do the following:
1) This patch makes the following needlessly global functions static:
- edac_pci_get_log_pe()
- edac_pci_get_log_npe()
- edac_pci_get_panic_on_pe()
- edac_pci_unregister_sysfs_instance_kobj()
- edac_pci_main_kobj_setup()
2) Remove unneeded function edac_device_find()
3) Added #if 0 around function edac_pci_find()
4) make the needlessly global edac_pci_generic_check() static
5) Removed function edac_check_mc_devices()
Doug Thompson modified Adrian's patches, to bettern represent
the direction of EDAC, and make them one patch.
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Robert P. J. Day [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:03:17 +0000 (01:03 -0700)]
edac: use the shorter LIST_HEAD for brevity
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Acked-by: Doug Thompson <norsk5@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Peter Tyser [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:03:15 +0000 (01:03 -0700)]
edac: add e752x parameter for sysbus_parity selection
Add a module parameter "sysbus_parity" to allow forcing system bus parity
error checking on or off. Also add support to automatically disable system
bus parity errors for processors which do not support it.
If the sysbus_parity parameter is specified, sysbus parity detection will be
forced on or off. If it is not specified, the driver will attempt to look at
the CPU identifier string and determine if the CPU supports system bus parity.
A blacklist was used instead of a whitelist so that system bus parity would
be enabled by default and to minimize the chances of breaking things for those
people already using the driver which for some reason have a processor that
does not have a valid CPU identifier string.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Akinobu Mita [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:03:13 +0000 (01:03 -0700)]
idr: create idr_layer_cache at boot time
Avoid a possible kmem_cache_create() failure by creating idr_layer_cache
unconditionary at boot time rather than creating it on-demand when idr_init()
is called the first time.
This change also enables us to eliminate the check every time idr_init() is
called.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rename init_id_cache() to idr_init_cache()]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alpha build] Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some drivers have duplicated unlikely() macros. IS_ERR() already has
unlikely() in itself.
This patch cleans up such pointless code.
Signed-off-by: Hirofumi Nakagawa <hnakagawa@miraclelinux.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
printf("Drained the pool\n");
read(fd, &n, sizeof(n));
printf("Found more randomness\n");
return(0);
}
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:03:05 +0000 (01:03 -0700)]
random: make mixing interface byte-oriented
Switch add_entropy_words to a byte-oriented interface, eliminating numerous
casts and byte/word size rounding issues. This also reduces the overall
bit/byte/word confusion in this code.
We now mix a byte at a time into the word-based pool. This takes four times
as many iterations, but should be negligible compared to hashing overhead.
This also increases our pool churn, which adds some depth against some
theoretical failure modes.
The function name is changed to emphasize pool mixing and deemphasize entropy
(the samples mixed in may not contain any). extract is added to the core
function to make it clear that it extracts from the pool.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:03:03 +0000 (01:03 -0700)]
random: remove some prefetch logic
The urandom output pool (ie the fast path) fits in one cacheline, so
this is pretty unnecessary. Further, the output path has already
fetched the entire pool to hash it before calling in here.
(This was the only user of prefetch_range in the kernel, and it passed
in words rather than bytes!)
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:03:00 +0000 (01:03 -0700)]
random: make backtracking attacks harder
At each extraction, we change (poolbits / 16) + 32 bits in the pool,
or 96 bits in the case of the secondary pools. Thus, a brute-force
backtracking attack on the pool state is less difficult than breaking
the hash. In certain cases, this difficulty may be is reduced to 2^64
iterations.
Instead, hash the entire pool in one go, then feedback the whole hash
(160 bits) in one go. This will make backtracking at least as hard as
inverting the hash.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Robert P. J. Day [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:02:54 +0000 (01:02 -0700)]
generalize asm-generic/ioctl.h to allow overriding values
In the spirit of a number of other asm-generic header files,
generalize asm-generic/ioctl.h to allow arch-specific ioctl.h headers
to simply override _IOC_SIZEBITS and/or _IOC_DIRBITS before including
this header file, allowing a number of ioctl.h header files to be
shortened considerably.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Robert P. J. Day [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:02:52 +0000 (01:02 -0700)]
nbd: delete superfluous test for __GNUC__
Since <linux/compiler.h> already tests for __GNUC__, there's no point in nbd.h
repeating that test.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Permit the use of partitions with network block devices (NBD).
A new parameter is introduced to define how many partition we want to be able
to manage per network block device. This parameter is "max_part".
For instance, to manage 63 partitions / loop device, we will do:
[on the server side]
# nbd-server 1234 /dev/sdb
[on the client side]
# modprobe nbd max_part=63
# ls -l /dev/nbd*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 0 2008-03-25 11:14 /dev/nbd0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 64 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 640 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd10
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 704 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd11
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 768 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd12
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 832 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd13
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 896 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd14
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 960 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd15
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 128 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 192 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 256 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 320 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 384 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 448 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd7
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 512 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd8
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 576 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd9
# nbd-client localhost 1234 /dev/nbd0
Negotiation: ..size = 80418240KB
bs=1024, sz=80418240
-------NOTE, RFC: partition table is not automatically read.
The driver sets bdev->bd_invalidated to 1 to force the read of the partition
table of the device, but this is done only on an open of the device.
So we have to do a "touch /dev/nbdX" or something like that.
It can't be done from the nbd-client or nbd driver because at this
level we can't ask to read the partition table and to serve the request
at the same time (-> deadlock)
If someone has a better idea, I'm open to any suggestion.
-------NOTE, RFC
# fdisk -l /dev/nbd0
Disk /dev/nbd0: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/nbd0p1 * 1 9965 80043831 83 Linux
/dev/nbd0p2 9966 10011 369495 5 Extended
/dev/nbd0p5 9966 10011 369463+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
# ls -l /dev/nbd0*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 0 2008-03-25 11:16 /dev/nbd0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 1 2008-03-25 11:16 /dev/nbd0p1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 2 2008-03-25 11:16 /dev/nbd0p2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 5 2008-03-25 11:16 /dev/nbd0p5
# mount /dev/nbd0p1 /mnt
# ls /mnt
bin dev initrd lost+found opt sbin sys var
boot etc initrd.img media proc selinux tmp vmlinuz
cdrom home lib mnt root srv usr
# umount /mnt
# nbd-client -d /dev/nbd0
# ls -l /dev/nbd0*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 0 2008-03-25 11:16 /dev/nbd0
-------NOTE
On "nbd-client -d", we can do an iocl(BLKRRPART) to update partition table:
as the size of the device is 0, we don't have to serve the partition manager
request (-> no deadlock).
-------NOTE
Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch allows Network Block Device to be mounted locally (nbd-client to
nbd-server over 127.0.0.1).
It creates a kthread to avoid the deadlock described in NBD tools
documentation. So, if nbd-client hangs waiting for pages, the kblockd thread
can continue its work and free pages.
I have tested the patch to verify that it avoids the hang that always occurs
when writing to a localhost nbd connection. I have also tested to verify that
no performance degradation results from the additional thread and queue.
Patch originally from Laurent Vivier.
Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tim Gardner [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:02:45 +0000 (01:02 -0700)]
edd: add default mode CONFIG_EDD_OFF=n, override with edd={on,off}
Add a kernel parameter option to 'edd' to enable/disable BIOS Enhanced Disk
Drive Services. CONFIG_EDD_OFF disables EDD while still compiling EDD into
the kernel. Default behavior can be forced using 'edd=on' or 'edd=off' as
a kernel parameter.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kernel-parameters.txt] Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pavel Emelyanov [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:02:44 +0000 (01:02 -0700)]
sysctl: add the ->permissions callback on the ctl_table_root
When reading from/writing to some table, a root, which this table came from,
may affect this table's permissions, depending on who is working with the
table.
The core hunk is at the bottom of this patch. All the rest is just pushing
the ctl_table_root argument up to the sysctl_perm() function.
This will be mostly (only?) used in the net sysctls.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Cc: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pavel Emelyanov [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:02:41 +0000 (01:02 -0700)]
sysctl: clean from unneeded extern and forward declarations
The do_sysctl_strategy isn't used outside kernel/sysctl.c, so this can be
static and without a prototype in header.
Besides, move this one and parse_table() above their callers and drop the
forward declarations of the latter call.
One more "besides" - fix two checkpatch warnings: space before a ( and an
extra space at the end of a line.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Cc: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pavel Emelyanov [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:02:40 +0000 (01:02 -0700)]
sysctl: merge equal proc_sys_read and proc_sys_write
Many (most of) sysctls do not have a per-container sense. E.g.
kernel.print_fatal_signals, vm.panic_on_oom, net.core.netdev_budget and so on
and so forth. Besides, tuning then from inside a container is not even
secure. On the other hand, hiding them completely from the container's tasks
sometimes causes user-space to stop working.
When developing net sysctl, the common practice was to duplicate a table and
drop the write bits in table->mode, but this approach was not very elegant,
lead to excessive memory consumption and was not suitable in general.
Here's the alternative solution. To facilitate the per-container sysctls
ctl_table_root-s were introduced. Each root contains a list of
ctl_table_header-s that are visible to different namespaces. The idea of this
set is to add the permissions() callback on the ctl_table_root to allow ctl
root limit permissions to the same ctl_table-s.
The main user of this functionality is the net-namespaces code, but later this
will (should) be used by more and more namespaces, containers and control
groups.
Actually, this idea's core is in a single hunk in the third patch. First two
patches are cleanups for sysctl code, while the third one mostly extends the
arguments set of some sysctl functions.
This patch:
These ->read and ->write callbacks act in a very similar way, so merge these
paths to reduce the number of places to patch later and shrink the .text size
(a bit).
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Cc: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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