This is the remaining misc drivers/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch.
Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in misc files in
drivers/.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho <aris@cathedrallabs.org>
Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Acked-by: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Convert to proper kernel-doc format.
Some have extra blank lines (not allowed immed. after the function name)
or need blank lines (after all parameters). Function summary must be only
one line.
Colon (":") in a function description does weird things (causes kernel-doc
to think that it's a new section head sadly).
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Introduce the notion of cooperating processes (those that submit requests
close to one another), and use these statistics to make better choices about
whether or not to do anticipatory waiting.
Help and analysis from Seetharami Seelam <seelam@cs.utep.edu>
Performance testing from Seelam:
I set up my system and executed a couple of tests that I used for OLS. I
tested with AS, cooperative process patch merged in -mm tree (which I called
Nick, below) and the cooperative patch with modifications to as_update_iohist
(which I called Seelam).
I used a dual-processor (2.28GHz Pentium 4 Xeon) system, with 1 GB main memory
and 1 MB L2 cache, running Linux 2.6.9. Only a single processor is used for
the experiments. I used 7.2K RPM Maxtor 10GB drive configured with ext2 file
system.
Experiment 1 (ex1) consists of reading one Linux source trees using
find . -type f -exec cat '{}' ';' > /dev/null.
Experiment 2 (ex2) consists of reading two disjoint Linux source trees
using
find . -type f -exec cat '{}' ';' > /dev/null.
Experiment 3 (ex3) consists of streaming read of a 2GB file in the background
and 1 instance of the chunk reads in Experiment 1.
Timings for reading the Linux source are shown below:
AS Nick Seelam
ex1: 0m25.813s 0m27.859s 0m27.640s
ex2: 1m11.468s 1m13.918s 1m5.869s
ex3: 81m44.352s 10m38.572s 6m47.994s
The difference between the numbers in Experiment 3 must be due to the code in
as_update_iohist. (akpm: that's not part of this patch. So this patch is
"Nick").
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds SCSI error handling code to the SCSI portion
of the cciss driver.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
drivers/block/ is right now a mix of core and driver parts. Lets move
the core parts to a new top level directory. Al will move the fs/
related block parts to block/ next.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
cfq's add_req_fn callback may invoke q->request_fn directly and
depending on low-level driver used and timing, a queued request may be
finished & deallocated before add_req_fn callback returns. So,
__elv_add_request must not access rq after it's passed to add_req_fn
callback.
This patch moves rq_mergeable test above add_req_fn(). This may
result in q->last_merge pointing to REQ_NOMERGE request if add_req_fn
callback sets it but as RQ_NOMERGE is checked again when blk layer
actually tries to merge requests, this does not cause any problem.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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>
Right now we do it at queueing time, which works alright for reads
(since they are usually sync), but not for async writes since we can
queue io a lot faster than we can complete it. This makes the vmstat
output look extremely bursty.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Tejun Heo notes:
"I'm currently debugging this. The problem is that we are using the
generic dispatch queue directly in the noop sched and merging is NOT
allowed on dispatch queues but generic handling of last_merge tries
to merge requests. I'm still trying to verify this, so I'll be back
with results soon."
In the meantime, disable merging for noop by setting REQ_NOMERGE in
elevator_noop_add_request().
Eventually, we should add a noop_list and do the dispatching like in the
other io schedulers. Merging is still beneficial for noop (and it has
always done it).
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Don't clear ->elevator_data on exit, if we are switching queues we are
overwriting the data of the new io scheduler.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I recently picked up my older work to remove unnecessary #includes of
sched.h, starting from a patch by Dave Jones to not include sched.h
from module.h. This reduces the number of indirect includes of sched.h
by ~300. Another ~400 pointless direct includes can be removed after
this disentangling (patch to follow later).
However, quite a few indirect includes need to be fixed up for this.
In order to feed the patches through -mm with as little disturbance as
possible, I've split out the fixes I accumulated up to now (complete for
i386 and x86_64, more archs to follow later) and post them before the real
patch. This way this large part of the patch is kept simple with only
adding #includes, and all hunks are independent of each other. So if any
hunk rejects or gets in the way of other patches, just drop it. My scripts
will pick it up again in the next round.
Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If the requested I/O scheduler is already in place, elevator_switch simply
leaves the queue alone, and returns. However, it forgets to call
elevator_put, so
'echo [current_sched] > /sys/block/[dev]/queue/scheduler'
will leak a reference, causing the current_sched module to be permanently
pinned in memory.
Signed-off-by: Nate Diller <nate@namesys.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add a kconfig submenu to select the default I/O scheduler, in case
anticipatory is not compiled in or another default is preferred. Also,
since no-op is always available, we should use it whenever the selected
default is not.
Signed-off-by: Nate Diller <nate@namesys.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The last patch from Jens Axboe for drivers/block/paride/pf.c introduced
pf_end_request() which sets pf_req to NULL.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We're trying to get rid of as much as possible tasklist walks, or at
least moving them to core code. This patch falls into the second
category.
Instead of walking the tasklist in cfq-iosched move that into
elv_unregister. The added benefit is that with this change the as
ioscheduler might be might unloadable more easily aswell.
The new code uses read_lock instead of read_lock_irq because the
tasklist_lock only needs irq disabling for writers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Convert everyone who uses platform_bus_type to include
linux/platform_device.h.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
as-iosched deals with aliased requests differently from other ioscheds.
It links together aliased requests using rq->queuelist instead of
spilling alises to dispatch queue like other ioscheds do. Requests
linked in this way cannot be merged.
Unfortunately, generic q->last_merge handling patch didn't take this
into account and q->last_merge could be set to an aliased request
resulting in Badness, corrupt list and eventually panic.
This explicitly marks aliased requests to be unmergeable.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When building on a 64-bit platform, gcc produces a warning
"cast of a pointer to an integer of a different size".
The scatterlist.offset on the LHS is unsigned int, so I used
that originally.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/block/ub.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
The previous patch adding the ability to nest struct class_device
changed the paramaters to the call class_device_create(). This patch
fixes up all in-kernel users of the function.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@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>
Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Use get_unaligned for possibly-unaligned multi-byte accesses to the
ATA device identify response buffer.
- 100msec sleep is a little excessive, lots of requests can complete
in that timeframe. Use 10msec instead.
- Rename QUEUE_FLAG_BYPASS to QUEUE_FLAG_ELVSWITCH to indicate what
is going on.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
This patch reimplements elevator switch. This patch assumes generic
dispatch queue patchset is applied.
* Each request is tagged with REQ_ELVPRIV flag if it has its elevator
private data set.
* Requests which doesn't have REQ_ELVPRIV flag set never enter
iosched. They are always directly back inserted to dispatch queue.
Of course, elevator_put_req_fn is called only for requests which
have its REQ_ELVPRIV set.
* Request queue maintains the current number of requests which have
its elevator data set (elevator_set_req_fn called) in
q->rq->elvpriv.
* If a request queue has QUEUE_FLAG_BYPASS set, elevator private data
is not allocated for new requests.
To switch to another iosched, we set QUEUE_FLAG_BYPASS and wait until
elvpriv goes to zero; then, we attach the new iosched and clears
QUEUE_FLAG_BYPASS. New implementation is much simpler and main code
paths are less cluttered, IMHO.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
This patch kills max_back_kb handling from elv_dispatch_sort() and
kills max_back_kb field from struct request_queue.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Currently, both generic elevator code and specific ioscheds
participate in the management and usage of last_merge. This
and the following patches move last_merge handling into
generic elevator code.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
This patch updates all four ioscheds to use generic dispatch
queue. There's one behavior change in as-iosched.
* In as-iosched, when force dispatching
(ELEVATOR_INSERT_BACK), batch_data_dir is reset to REQ_SYNC
and changed_batch and new_batch are cleared to zero. This
prevernts AS from doing incorrect update_write_batch after
the forced dispatched requests are finished.
* In cfq-iosched, cfqd->rq_in_driver currently counts the
number of activated (removed) requests to determine
whether queue-kicking is needed and cfq_max_depth has been
reached. With generic dispatch queue, I think counting
the number of dispatched requests would be more appropriate.
* cfq_max_depth can be lowered to 1 again.
Original from Tejun Heo, modified version applied.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Implements generic dispatch queue which can replace all
dispatch queues implemented by each iosched. This reduces
code duplication, eases enforcing semantics over dispatch
queue, and simplifies specific ioscheds.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
This patch removes try_module_get race in elevator_find.
try_module_get should always be called with the spinlock protecting
what the module init/cleanup routines register/unregister to held. In
the case of elevators, we should be holding elv_list to avoid it going
away between spin_unlock_irq and try_module_get.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
disk stat when "now" is different from disk->stamp. Otherwise, we
are again needlessly adding zero to the stats.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@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>
Just set the name field directly in the device_driver structure
contained in the vio_driver struct.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
* Newer hardware doesn't corrupt data when the queue depth
is greater than one. Rather than force the user to recompile
with a greater queue depth, make it a module parameter.
* update copyright date
* add MODULE_VERSION()
* trim trailing whitespace
* move CARM_SG_BOUNDARY to a separate enum, since its unsigned long
* bump to version 1.0
- added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;
- replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
typedef) and documents what's going on far better.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We should not be warning about commands that we allow, even if they are
unknown. So move the if-root-allow check up a notch.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This code appears to be more trouble than it's worth, considering that
no normal users reload drivers. So, we comment it for now. It is not
removed outright for the benefit of hackers (that is, myself).
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch fixes a few problems with ub and cleans up a couple of things:
- Bump UB_MAX_REQ_SG, this allows to burn CDs
- Drop initialization of urb.transfer_flags,
now that URB_UNLINK_ASYNC is gone
- Add forgotten processing of stalls at GetMaxLUN
- Remove a few more P3-tagged printks whose time has come
- Correct comment about ZIP-100
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
drivers/block/ub.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
This function was removed a while ago, but crept in again via a recent
scsi merge.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch fixes the problem Bjorn reported. The busy_initializing flag
should have cleared before going into the for loop.
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Here's the patch from
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4853
It is a feeble attempt at fixing the request handling in pf, it is totally
foobar right now.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add WRITE_LONG_2 as write safe commands, which which allows normal users to
make a c1-, c2- and cu-scan (so called cxscan) with readcd on
cxscan-capable cd/dvd-writers
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove some redundant BUG_ON() statements in pktcdvd and move one run-time
check to compile-time.
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Use kcalloc and kzalloc in pktcdvd.
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In the /proc statistics, only count writes that upper layers have requested.
Don't count additional writes created inside the packet driver to satisfy the
requirement to only write full packets.
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Update the "theory of operation" description.
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In the packet writing driver, if the drive reports a packet size larger than
the driver can handle, bail out safely instead of triggering a BUG_ON.
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add SCSI host and device info not elsewhere available to /proc/scsi/cciss/*
Namely, connect cciss device instance with scsi host number, and give scsi
host number, bus, target, lun, devicetype, and 8-byte cciss LUNID for each
tapedrive/medium changer attached to a controller
For instance:
# cat /proc/scsi/cciss/2
cciss0: SCSI host: 2
c2b0t0l0 01 0x0000000000000001
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds support for "One Button Disaster Recovery" devices to the
cciss driver. (OBDR devices are tape drives which can pretend to be cd-rom
devices temporarily. Once booted the device can be reverted to a tape drive
and data recovery operations can be automatically begun.)
This is an enhancement request by a vendor/partner working on One Button
Disaster Recovery.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The CCISS driver seems to loose track of DMA mappings created by it's
fill_cmd() routine. Neither callers of this routine are extracting the DMA
address created in order to do the unmap.
Instead, they simply try to unmap 0x0. It's easy to see this problem on an
x86_64 system when using the "swiotlb=force" boot option. In this case, the
driver is leaking resources of the swiotlb and not causing a sync of the
bounce buffer.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch fixes a bug in cciss_remove_one. A set of braces was missing for
the if statement causing an Oops on driver unload.
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch changes the way we complete commands. In the old method when we
got a completion we searched our command list from the top until we find it.
This method uses a tag associated with each command (not SCSI command tagging)
to index us directly to the completed command. This helps performance.
Signed-off-by: Don Brace <dab@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch removes a couple of functions dealing with configuration and
replaces them with new functions. This implementation fixes some bugs
associated with the ACUXE. It also allows a logical volume to be removed from
the middle without deleting all volumes behind it.
If a user has 5 logical volumes and decides he wants to reconfigure volume
number 3, he can now do that without removing volumes 4 & 5 first. This code
has been tested in our labs against all application software.
Signed-off-by: Chase Maupin <chase.maupin@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds a flag called busy_initializing. If there are multiple
controllers in a server AND the HP agents are running it's possible the agents
may try to poll a card that is still initializing if the driver is removed and
then added again.
Signed-off-by: Don Brace <dab@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds new PCI and subsystem ID's that finally made the spec. It
also include a name change for one controller. I know there's a lot of
duplicat names but the fw folks wanted this for the different implementations.
Even though the same ASIC is used it may be embedded on some platforms,
standup card in others, and a mezzanine in other servers.
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The reference count fix merged isn't fully bug free. It doesn't leak
now, but instead it crashes due to looking at freed memory. So for now,
lets reverse the change and I'll fix it for real next week.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Use msleep() or msleep_interruptible() [as appropriate] instead of
schedule_timeout() to gurantee the task delays as expected. As a result
changed the units of the timeout variable from jiffies to msecs.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Maximilian Attems <janitor@sternwelten.at>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch does a full cleanup of 'NULL checks before vfree', and a partial
cleanup of calls to kfree for all of drivers/ - the kfree bit is partial in
that I only did the files that also had vfree calls in them. The patch
also gets rid of some redundant (void *) casts of pointers being passed to
[vk]free, and a some tiny whitespace corrections also crept in.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The soon to be released smartmontools 5.34 uses the
READ DEFECT DATA command on SCSI disks. A disk that
has defect list entries (or worse, an increasing number
of them) is at risk.
Currently the first invocation of smartctl causes this:
scsi: unknown opcode 0x37
message to appear the console and in the log.
The READ DEFECT DATA SCSI command does not change
the state of a disk. Its opcode (0x37) is valid for
SBC devices (e.g. disks) and SMC-2 devices (media
changers) where it is called INITIALIZE STATUS ELEMENT
WITH RANGE and again doesn't change the external state
of the device.
Changelog:
- mark SCSI opcode 0x37 (READ DEFECT DATA) as
safe_for_read
Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Change the number of supported AoE slot addresses per AoE shelf
address to 16.
Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Clean up timer initialization by introducing DEFINE_TIMER a'la
DEFINE_SPINLOCK. Build and boot-tested on x86. A similar patch has been
been in the -RT tree for some time.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
That ?: trick gives us the creeps.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
29 July 2005, Cambridge, MA:
This afternoon Alan Stern submitted a patch to remove the URB_ASYNC_UNLINK
flag from the Linux kernel. Mr. Stern explained, "This flag is a relic
from an earlier, less-well-designed system. For over a year it hasn't
been used for anything other than printing warning messages."
An anonymous spokesman for the Linux kernel development community
commented, "This is exactly the sort of thing we see happening all the
time. As the kernel evolves, support for old techniques and old code can
be jettisoned and replaced by newer, better approaches. Proprietary
operating systems do not have the freedom or flexibility to change so
quickly."
Mr. Stern, a staff member at Harvard University's Rowland Institute who
works on Linux only as a hobby, noted that the patch (labelled as548) did
not update two files, keyspan.c and option.c, in the USB drivers' "serial"
subdirectory. "Those files need more extensive changes," he remarked.
"They examine the status field of several URBs at times when they're not
supposed to. That will need to be fixed before the URB_ASYNC_UNLINK flag
is removed."
Greg Kroah-Hartman, the kernel maintainer responsible for overseeing all
of Linux's USB drivers, did not respond to our inquiries or return our
calls. His only comment was "Applied, thanks."
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Back out Axboe-style quasi-S/G and replace it with one command and
repeated URBs. This is similar to what usb-storage does, only instead
of a few URBs allocated together, one URB is reused.
Jens's idea was very nice, but it collapsed when I had to support
packet commads for CD burning. I cannot issue two or more packet
commands where application expected only one.
However, burning does not work completely yet. The cdrecord starts,
recognizes the device, then aborts without writing a TOC.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
When Al Viro saw the ub.c, he observed that it was a proof positive of
Linus not reading patches anymore: names like fo_ob_ar_ba_2 used to
cause serious fireworks. In my defence, any good scheme can be pushed
to the realm of absurd if pushed far enough.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Evidently, Yani Ioannou's display is wider than mine.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This the quasi-S/G patch for ub as suggested by Jens Axboe at OLS and
implemented that night before 4 a.m. Surprisingly, it worked right away...
Alas, I had to skip some OLS partying, but it was for the good cause.
Now the speed of ub is quite acceptable even on partitions with small
block size.
The ub does not really support S/G. Instead, it just tells the block
layer that it does. Then, most of the time, the block layer merges
requests and passes single-segmnent requests down to ub; everything
works as before. Very rarely ub gets an unmerged S/G request. In such
case, it issues several commands to the device.
I added a small array of counters to monitor the merging (sg_stat).
This may be dropped later.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
