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Linus Torvalds
6de71484cf Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next-2.6: (98 commits)
  sparc: move select of ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI
  sparc: drop SUN_IO
  sparc: unify sections.h
  sparc: use .data.init_task section for init_thread_union
  sparc: fix array overrun check in of_device_64.c
  sparc: unify module.c
  sparc64: prepare module_64.c for unification
  sparc64: use bit neutral Elf symbols
  sparc: unify module.h
  sparc: introduce CONFIG_BITS
  sparc: fix hardirq.h removal fallout
  sparc64: do not export pus_fs_struct
  sparc: use sparc64 version of scatterlist.h
  sparc: Commonize memcmp assembler.
  sparc: Unify strlen assembler.
  sparc: Add asm/asm.h
  sparc: Kill memcmp_32.S code which has been ifdef'd out for centuries.
  sparc: replace for_each_cpu_mask_nr with for_each_cpu
  sparc: fix sparse warnings in irq_32.c
  sparc: add include guards to kernel.h
  ...
2008-12-30 17:23:31 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
1dff81f20c Merge branch 'for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits)
  bio: get rid of bio_vec clearing
  bounce: don't rely on a zeroed bio_vec list
  cciss: simplify parameters to deregister_disk function
  cfq-iosched: fix race between exiting queue and exiting task
  loop: Do not call loop_unplug for not configured loop device.
  loop: Flush possible running bios when loop device is released.
  alpha: remove dead BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY
  Get rid of CONFIG_LSF
  block: make blk_softirq_init() static
  block: use min_not_zero in blk_queue_stack_limits
  block: add one-hit cache for disk partition lookup
  cfq-iosched: remove limit of dispatch depth of max 4 times quantum
  nbd: tell the block layer that it is not a rotational device
  block: get rid of elevator_t typedef
  aio: make the lookup_ioctx() lockless
  bio: add support for inlining a number of bio_vecs inside the bio
  bio: allow individual slabs in the bio_set
  bio: move the slab pointer inside the bio_set
  bio: only mempool back the largest bio_vec slab cache
  block: don't use plugging on SSD devices
  ...
2008-12-30 17:20:05 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
179475a3b4 Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, sparseirq: clean up Kconfig entry
  x86: turn CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ off by default
  sparseirq: fix numa_migrate_irq_desc dependency and comments
  sparseirq: add kernel-doc notation for new member in irq_desc, -v2
  locking, irq: enclose irq_desc_lock_class in CONFIG_LOCKDEP
  sparseirq, xen: make sure irq_desc is allocated for interrupts
  sparseirq: fix !SMP building, #2
  x86, sparseirq: move irq_desc according to smp_affinity, v7
  proc: enclose desc variable of show_stat() in CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ
  sparse irqs: add irqnr.h to the user headers list
  sparse irqs: handle !GENIRQ platforms
  sparseirq: fix !SMP && !PCI_MSI && !HT_IRQ build
  sparseirq: fix Alpha build failure
  sparseirq: fix typo in !CONFIG_IO_APIC case
  x86, MSI: pass irq_cfg and irq_desc
  x86: MSI start irq numbering from nr_irqs_gsi
  x86: use NR_IRQS_LEGACY
  sparse irq_desc[] array: core kernel and x86 changes
  genirq: record IRQ_LEVEL in irq_desc[]
  irq.h: remove padding from irq_desc on 64bits
2008-12-30 16:20:19 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
bb758e9637 Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  hrtimers: fix warning in kernel/hrtimer.c
  x86: make sure we really have an hpet mapping before using it
  x86: enable HPET on Fujitsu u9200
  linux/timex.h: cleanup for userspace
  posix-timers: simplify de_thread()->exit_itimers() path
  posix-timers: check ->it_signal instead of ->it_pid to validate the timer
  posix-timers: use "struct pid*" instead of "struct task_struct*"
  nohz: suppress needless timer reprogramming
  clocksource, acpi_pm.c: put acpi_pm_read_slow() under CONFIG_PCI
  nohz: no softirq pending warnings for offline cpus
  hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes, fix
  hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes, fix hotplug
  hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes
  x86: correct link to HPET timer specification
  rtc-cmos: export second NVRAM bank

Fixed up conflicts in sound/drivers/pcsp/pcsp.c and sound/core/hrtimer.c
manually.
2008-12-30 16:16:21 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
5f34fe1cfc Merge branch 'core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (63 commits)
  stacktrace: provide save_stack_trace_tsk() weak alias
  rcu: provide RCU options on non-preempt architectures too
  printk: fix discarding message when recursion_bug
  futex: clean up futex_(un)lock_pi fault handling
  "Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation
  futex: rename field in futex_q to clarify single waiter semantics
  x86/swiotlb: add default swiotlb_arch_range_needs_mapping
  x86/swiotlb: add default phys<->bus conversion
  x86: unify pci iommu setup and allow swiotlb to compile for 32 bit
  x86: add swiotlb allocation functions
  swiotlb: consolidate swiotlb info message printing
  swiotlb: support bouncing of HighMem pages
  swiotlb: factor out copy to/from device
  swiotlb: add arch hook to force mapping
  swiotlb: allow architectures to override phys<->bus<->phys conversions
  swiotlb: add comment where we handle the overflow of a dma mask on 32 bit
  rcu: fix rcutorture behavior during reboot
  resources: skip sanity check of busy resources
  swiotlb: move some definitions to header
  swiotlb: allow architectures to override swiotlb pool allocation
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in
  arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
  arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
  include/linux/hardirq.h
as per Ingo's suggestions.
2008-12-30 16:10:19 -08:00
Jens Axboe
d3f761104b bio: get rid of bio_vec clearing
We don't need to clear the memory used for adding bio_vec entries,
since nobody should be looking at members unitialized. Any valid
use should be below bio->bi_vcnt, and that members up until that count
must be valid since they were added through bio_add_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:53 +01:00
Jens Axboe
f735b5eeb9 bounce: don't rely on a zeroed bio_vec list
__blk_queue_bounce() relies on a zeroed bio_vec list, since it looks
up arbitrary indexes in the allocated bio. The block layer only
guarentees that added entries are valid, so clear memory after alloc.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:52 +01:00
Stephen M. Cameron
a0ea862291 cciss: simplify parameters to deregister_disk function
Simplify parameters to deregister_disk function.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:52 +01:00
Jens Axboe
62c1fe9d9f cfq-iosched: fix race between exiting queue and exiting task
Original patch from Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>

When a queue exits the queue lock is taken and cfq_exit_queue() would free all
the cic's associated with the queue.

But when a task exits, cfq_exit_io_context() gets cic one by one and then
locks the associated queue to call __cfq_exit_single_io_context. It looks like
between getting a cic from the ioc and locking the queue, the queue might have
exited on another cpu.

Fix this by rechecking the cfq_io_context queue key inside the queue lock
again, and not calling into __cfq_exit_single_io_context() if somebody
beat us to it.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:52 +01:00
Milan Broz
8ae30b8958 loop: Do not call loop_unplug for not configured loop device.
In loop_unplug() function is expected that mapping is set
and lo->lo_backing_file is not NULL.

Unfortunately loop_set_fd() set the request queue unplug function,
but loop_clr_fd() doesn't clear that.

Loop device allows open of non-configured loop in some situations.
If the unplug on request queue is called, loop module oopses because
of missing lo_backing_file.

Simple reproducer:
	losetup /dev/loop0 /xxx
	losetup -d /dev/loop0
	dmsetup create x --table "0 1 linear /dev/loop0 0"

 EIP is at loop_unplug+0x1d/0x3b
 ...
  Call Trace:
   blk_unplug+0x57/0x5e
   dm_table_unplug_all+0x34/0x77 [dm_mod]
   destroy_inode+0x27/0x38
   generic_delete_inode+0xd5/0xd9
   iput+0x4b/0x4e
   dm_resume+0xca/0xfe [dm_mod]
   dev_suspend+0x143/0x165 [dm_mod]
   dm_ctl_ioctl+0x18e/0x1cf [dm_mod]
   dev_suspend+0x0/0x165 [dm_mod]
   dm_ctl_ioctl+0x0/0x1cf [dm_mod]
   vfs_ioctl+0x22/0x69
   do_vfs_ioctl+0x39d/0x3c7
   trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0xd
   remove_vma+0x50/0x56
   do_munmap+0x21c/0x237
   sys_ioctl+0x2c/0x45
   sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x31

Several reports here
http://www.kerneloops.org/search.php?search=loop_unplug

Fix it by simply clear unplug function together with
removing of backing file.

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:52 +01:00
Milan Broz
14f2793958 loop: Flush possible running bios when loop device is released.
When there are still queued bios and reference count
drops to zero, loop device must flush all queued bios.

Otherwise it can lead to situation that caller
closes the device, but some bios are still running
and endio() function call later OOpses when uses
unallocated mempool.

This happens for example when running dm-crypt over loop,
here is typical oops backtrace:

 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 EIP is at mempool_free+0x12/0x6b
...
 crypt_dec_pending+0x50/0x54 [dm_crypt]
 crypt_endio+0x9f/0xa7 [dm_crypt]
 crypt_endio+0x0/0xa7 [dm_crypt]
 bio_endio+0x2b/0x2e
 loop_thread+0x37a/0x3b1
 do_lo_send_aops+0x0/0x165
 autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x33
 loop_thread+0x0/0x3b1
 kthread+0x3b/0x61
 kthread+0x0/0x61
 kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10

(But crash is reproducible with different dm targets
running over loop device too.)

Patch fixes it by flushing the bios in release call,
reusing the flush mechanism for switching backing store.

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:52 +01:00
FUJITA Tomonori
10e5b64415 alpha: remove dead BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY
The block layer dropped the virtual merge feature
(b8b3e16cfe). BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY
definition is meaningless now.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:51 +01:00
Jens Axboe
b3a6ffe16b Get rid of CONFIG_LSF
We have two seperate config entries for large devices/files. One
is CONFIG_LBD that guards just the devices, the other is CONFIG_LSF
that handles large files. This doesn't make a lot of sense, you typically
want both or none. So get rid of CONFIG_LSF and change CONFIG_LBD wording
to indicate that it covers both.

Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:51 +01:00
Roel Kluin
3c18ce71af block: make blk_softirq_init() static
Sparse asked whether these could be static.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:51 +01:00
FUJITA Tomonori
18af8b2ca3 block: use min_not_zero in blk_queue_stack_limits
zero is invalid for max_phys_segments, max_hw_segments, and
max_segment_size. It's better to use use min_not_zero instead of
min. min() works though (because the commit 0e435ac makes sure that
these values are set to the default values, non zero, if a queue is
initialized properly).

With this patch, blk_queue_stack_limits does the almost same thing
that dm's combine_restrictions_low() does. I think that it's easy to
remove dm's combine_restrictions_low.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:51 +01:00
Jens Axboe
a6f23657d3 block: add one-hit cache for disk partition lookup
disk_map_sector_rcu() returns a partition from a sector offset,
which we use for IO statistics on a per-partition basis. The
lookup itself is an O(N) list lookup, where N is the number of
partitions. This actually hurts performance quite a bit, even
on the lower end partitions. On higher numbered partitions,
it can get pretty bad.

Solve this by adding a one-hit cache for partition lookup.
This makes the lookup O(1) for the case where we do most IO to
one partition. Even for mixed partition workloads, amortized cost
is pretty close to O(1) since the natural IO batching makes the
one-hit cache last for lots of IOs.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:51 +01:00
Jens Axboe
30e0dc28bf cfq-iosched: remove limit of dispatch depth of max 4 times quantum
This basically limits the hardware queue depth to 4*quantum at any
point in time, which is 16 with the default settings. As CFQ uses
other means to shrink the hardware queue when necessary in the first
place, there's really no need for this extra heuristic. Additionally,
it ends up hurting performance in some cases.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:51 +01:00
Jens Axboe
31dcfab0ae nbd: tell the block layer that it is not a rotational device
Then we can get rid of that manual elevator type fiddling.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:50 +01:00
Jens Axboe
b374d18a4b block: get rid of elevator_t typedef
Just use struct elevator_queue everywhere instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:50 +01:00
Jens Axboe
abf137dd77 aio: make the lookup_ioctx() lockless
The mm->ioctx_list is currently protected by a reader-writer lock,
so we always grab that lock on the read side for doing ioctx
lookups. As the workload is extremely reader biased, turn this into
an rcu hlist so we can make lookup_ioctx() lockless. Get rid of
the rwlock and use a spinlock for providing update side exclusion.

There's usually only 1 entry on this list, so it doesn't make sense
to look into fancier data structures.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:50 +01:00
Jens Axboe
392ddc3298 bio: add support for inlining a number of bio_vecs inside the bio
When we go and allocate a bio for IO, we actually do two allocations.
One for the bio itself, and one for the bi_io_vec that holds the
actual pages we are interested in.

This feature inlines a definable amount of io vecs inside the bio
itself, so we eliminate the bio_vec array allocation for IO's up
to a certain size. It defaults to 4 vecs, which is typically 16k
of IO.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:50 +01:00
Jens Axboe
bb799ca020 bio: allow individual slabs in the bio_set
Instead of having a global bio slab cache, add a reference to one
in each bio_set that is created. This allows for personalized slabs
in each bio_set, so that they can have bios of different sizes.

This means we can personalize the bios we return. File systems may
want to embed the bio inside another structure, to avoid allocation
more items (and stuffing them in ->bi_private) after the get a bio.
Or we may want to embed a number of bio_vecs directly at the end
of a bio, to avoid doing two allocations to return a bio. This is now
possible.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:23 +01:00
Jens Axboe
1b43449869 bio: move the slab pointer inside the bio_set
In preparation for adding differently sized bios.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:46 +01:00
Jens Axboe
7ff9345ffa bio: only mempool back the largest bio_vec slab cache
We only very rarely need the mempool backing, so it makes sense to
get rid of all but one of the mempool in a bio_set. So keep the
largest bio_vec count mempool so we can always honor the largest
allocation, and "upgrade" callers that fail.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:46 +01:00
Jens Axboe
a31a97381c block: don't use plugging on SSD devices
We just want to hand the first bits of IO to the device as fast
as possible. Gains a few percent on the IOPS rate.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:45 +01:00
Tejun Heo
a185eb4bc8 block: fix empty barrier on write-through w/ ordered tag
Empty barrier on write-through (or no cache) w/ ordered tag has no
command to execute and without any command to execute ordered tag is
never issued to the device and the ordering is never achieved.  Force
draining for such cases.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:45 +01:00
Tejun Heo
58eea927d2 block: simplify empty barrier implementation
Empty barrier required special handling in __elv_next_request() to
complete it without letting the low level driver see it.

With previous changes, barrier code is now flexible enough to skip the
BAR step using the same barrier sequence selection mechanism.  Drop
the special handling and mask off q->ordered from start_ordered().

Remove blk_empty_barrier() test which now has no user.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:45 +01:00
Tejun Heo
8f11b3e99a block: make barrier completion more robust
Barrier completion had the following assumptions.

* start_ordered() couldn't finish the whole sequence properly.  If all
  actions are to be skipped, q->ordseq is set correctly but the actual
  completion was never triggered thus hanging the barrier request.

* Drain completion in elv_complete_request() assumed that there's
  always at least one request in the queue when drain completes.

Both assumptions are true but these assumptions need to be removed to
improve empty barrier implementation.  This patch makes the following
changes.

* Make start_ordered() use blk_ordered_complete_seq() to mark skipped
  steps complete and notify __elv_next_request() that it should fetch
  the next request if the whole barrier has completed inside
  start_ordered().

* Make drain completion path in elv_complete_request() check whether
  the queue is empty.  Empty queue also indicates drain completion.

* While at it, convert 0/1 return from blk_do_ordered() to false/true.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:45 +01:00
Tejun Heo
f671620e7d block: make every barrier action optional
In all barrier sequences, the barrier write itself was always assumed
to be issued and thus didn't have corresponding control flag.  This
patch adds QUEUE_ORDERED_DO_BAR and unify action mask handling in
start_ordered() such that any barrier action can be skipped.

This patch doesn't introduce any visible behavior changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:45 +01:00
Tejun Heo
a7384677b2 block: remove duplicate or unused barrier/discard error paths
* Because barrier mode can be changed dynamically, whether barrier is
  supported or not can be determined only when actually issuing the
  barrier and there is no point in checking it earlier.  Drop barrier
  support check in generic_make_request() and __make_request(), and
  update comment around the support check in blk_do_ordered().

* There is no reason to check discard support in both
  generic_make_request() and __make_request().  Drop the check in
  __make_request().  While at it, move error action block to the end
  of the function and add unlikely() to q existence test.

* Barrier request, be it empty or not, is never passed to low level
  driver and thus it's meaningless to try to copy back req->sector to
  bio->bi_sector on error.  In addition, the notion of failed sector
  doesn't make any sense for empty barrier to begin with.  Drop the
  code block from __end_that_request_first().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:44 +01:00
Tejun Heo
313e42999d block: reorganize QUEUE_ORDERED_* constants
Separate out ordering type (drain,) and action masks (preflush,
postflush, fua) from visible ordering mode selectors
(QUEUE_ORDERED_*).  Ordering types are now named QUEUE_ORDERED_BY_*
while action masks are named QUEUE_ORDERED_DO_*.

This change is necessary to add QUEUE_ORDERED_DO_BAR and make it
optional to improve empty barrier implementation.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:44 +01:00
Richard Kennedy
ba744d5e29 block: reorder struct bio to remove padding on 64bit
Remove 8 bytes of padding from struct bio which also removes 16 bytes from
struct bio_pair to make it 248 bytes.  bio_pair then fits into one fewer
cache lines & into a smaller slab.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:44 +01:00
Cheng Renquan
64d01dc9e1 block: use cancel_work_sync() instead of kblockd_flush_work()
After many improvements on kblockd_flush_work, it is now identical to
cancel_work_sync, so a direct call to cancel_work_sync is suggested.

The only difference is that cancel_work_sync is a GPL symbol,
so no non-GPL modules anymore.

Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:44 +01:00
Keith Mannthey
08bafc0341 block: Supress Buffer I/O errors when SCSI REQ_QUIET flag set
Allow the scsi request REQ_QUIET flag to be propagated to the buffer
file system layer. The basic ideas is to pass the flag from the scsi
request to the bio (block IO) and then to the buffer layer.  The buffer
layer can then suppress needless printks.

This patch declutters the kernel log by removed the 40-50 (per lun)
buffer io error messages seen during a boot in my multipath setup . It
is a good chance any real errors will be missed in the "noise" it the
logs without this patch.

During boot I see blocks of messages like
"
__ratelimit: 211 callbacks suppressed
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242847
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 1
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242878
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242872
"
in my logs.

My disk environment is multipath fiber channel using the SCSI_DH_RDAC
code and multipathd.  This topology includes an "active" and "ghost"
path for each lun. IO's to the "ghost" path will never complete and the
SCSI layer, via the scsi device handler rdac code, quick returns the IOs
to theses paths and sets the REQ_QUIET scsi flag to suppress the scsi
layer messages.

 I am wanting to extend the QUIET behavior to include the buffer file
system layer to deal with these errors as well. I have been running this
patch for a while now on several boxes without issue.  A few runs of
bonnie++ show no noticeable difference in performance in my setup.

Thanks for John Stultz for the quiet_error finalization.

Submitted-by:  Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:44 +01:00
Wu Fengguang
7c239517d9 block: don't take lock on changing ra_pages
There's no need to take queue_lock or kernel_lock when modifying
bdi->ra_pages. So remove them. Also remove out of date comment for
queue_max_sectors_store().

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:43 +01:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
4236469099 Documentation: remove reference to ll_rw_blk.c and moved drivers/block/elevator.c
The drivers/block/ll_rw_block.c has been split and organized in the block/
directory, and also drivers/block/elevator.c has been moved to the block/
directory. Update Documentation/block/biodoc.txt accordingly

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:43 +01:00
Qinghuang Feng
c6a06f707c block/blk-tag.c: cleanup kernel-doc
There is no argument named @tags in blk_init_tags,
remove its' comment.

Signed-off-by: Qinghuang Feng <qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:43 +01:00
Jens Axboe
8a3173de4a cciss: switch to using hlist for command list management
This both cleans up the code and also helps detect the spurious case
of a command attempted being removed from a queue it doesn't belong
to.

Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:43 +01:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
7c0990c7ee Do not free io context when taking recursive faults in do_exit
When taking recursive faults in do_exit, if the io_context is not null,
exit_io_context() is being called. But it might decrement the refcount
more than once. It is better to leave this task alone.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:43 +01:00
Marcin Slusarz
d194139c18 cdrom: reduce stack usage of mmc_ioctl_dvd_read_struct
1. kmalloc 192 bytes in dvd_read_bca (which is inlined into dvd_read_struct)
2. Pass struct packet_command to all dvd_read_* functions.

Checkstack output:
Before: mmc_ioctl_dvd_read_struct:         280
After:  mmc_ioctl_dvd_read_struct:         56

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:43 +01:00
Marcin Slusarz
3147c531b6 cdrom: split mmc_ioctl to lower stack usage
Checkstack output:

Before:
mmc_ioctl:                  584

After:
mmc_ioctl_dvd_read_struct:  280
mmc_ioctl_cdrom_subchannel: 152
mmc_ioctl_cdrom_read_data:  120
mmc_ioctl_cdrom_volume:     104
mmc_ioctl_cdrom_read_audio: 104
(mmc_ioctl is inlined into cdrom_ioctl - 104 bytes)

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:42 +01:00
Milton Miller
2b91bafcc0 scsi-ioctl: use clock_t <> jiffies
Convert the timeout ioctl scalling to use the clock_t functions
which are much more accurate with some USER_HZ vs HZ combinations.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:42 +01:00
Jens Axboe
70ed28b92a block: leave the request timeout timer running even on an empty list
For sync IO, we'll often do them serialized. This means we'll be touching
the queue timer for every IO, as opposed to only occasionally like we
do for queued IO. Instead of deleting the timer when the last request
is removed, just let continue running. If a new request comes up soon
we then don't have to readd the timer again. If no new requests arrive,
the timer will expire without side effect later.

This improves high iops sync IO by ~1%.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:42 +01:00
Jens Axboe
65d3618ccf block: add comment in blk_rq_timed_out() about why next can not be 0
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:42 +01:00
malahal@us.ibm.com
565e411d76 block: optimizations in blk_rq_timed_out_timer()
Now the rq->deadline can't be zero if the request is in the
timeout_list, so there is no need to have next_set. There is no need to
access a request's deadline field if blk_rq_timed_out is called on it.

Signed-off-by: Malahal Naineni <malahal@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:42 +01:00
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
66d352e1e4 xen-blkfront: set queue paravirt flag
Xen's blkfront sets noop as the default I/O scheduler at initialization
time to avoid elevator overheads such as idling, but with the advent of
basic disk profiling capabilities this is not necessary anymore. We
should just tell the block layer that we are a paravirt front-end driver
and the elevator will automatically make the necessary adjustments.

Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:41 +01:00
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
7d116b626b virtio_blk: set queue paravirt flag
As a paravirt front-end driver, virtio_blk is not a rotational device so
we want do avoid idling in AS/CFQ. Tell the block layer about this.

Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:41 +01:00
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
88e740f165 block: add queue flag for paravirt frontend drivers
As is the case with SSD devices, we do not want to idle in AS/CFQ when
the block device is a paravirt front-end driver. This patch adds a flag
(QUEUE_FLAG_VIRT) which should be used by front-end drivers such as
virtio_blk and xen-blkfront to indicate a paravirtualized device.

Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:41 +01:00
David S. Miller
e3c6d4ee54 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
	arch/sparc64/kernel/idprom.c
2008-12-28 20:19:47 -08:00
David Howells
eca1bf5b4f KEYS: Fix variable uninitialisation warnings
Fix variable uninitialisation warnings introduced in:

	commit 8bbf4976b5
	Author: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
	Date:   Fri Nov 14 10:39:14 2008 +1100

	KEYS: Alter use of key instantiation link-to-keyring argument

As:

  security/keys/keyctl.c: In function 'keyctl_negate_key':
  security/keys/keyctl.c:976: warning: 'dest_keyring' may be used uninitialized in this function
  security/keys/keyctl.c: In function 'keyctl_instantiate_key':
  security/keys/keyctl.c:898: warning: 'dest_keyring' may be used uninitialized in this function

Some versions of gcc notice that get_instantiation_key() doesn't always set
*_dest_keyring, but fail to observe that if this happens then *_dest_keyring
will not be read by the caller.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-12-29 14:24:43 +11:00