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Tejun Heo
bcce3de1be block: implement extended dev numbers
Implement extended device numbers.  A block driver can tell block
layer that it wants to use extended device numbers.  After the usual
minor space is used up, block layer automatically allocates devt's
from EXT_BLOCK_MAJOR.

Currently only one major number is allocated for this but as the
allocation is strictly on-demand, ~1mil minor space under it should
suffice unless the system actually has more than ~1mil partitions and
if that ever happens adding more majors to the extended devt area is
easy.

Due to internal implementation issues, the first partition can't be
allocated on the extended area.  In other words, genhd->minors should
at least be 1.  This limitation will be lifted by later changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:06 +02:00
Tejun Heo
c995905916 block: fix diskstats access
There are two variants of stat functions - ones prefixed with double
underbars which don't care about preemption and ones without which
disable preemption before manipulating per-cpu counters.  It's unclear
whether the underbarred ones assume that preemtion is disabled on
entry as some callers don't do that.

This patch unifies diskstats access by implementing disk_stat_lock()
and disk_stat_unlock() which take care of both RCU (for partition
access) and preemption (for per-cpu counter access).  diskstats access
should always be enclosed between the two functions.  As such, there's
no need for the versions which disables preemption.  They're removed
and double underbars ones are renamed to drop the underbars.  As an
extra argument is added, there's no danger of using the old version
unconverted.

disk_stat_lock() uses get_cpu() and returns the cpu index and all
diskstat functions which access per-cpu counters now has @cpu
argument to help RT.

This change adds RCU or preemption operations at some places but also
collapses several preemption ops into one at others.  Overall, the
performance difference should be negligible as all involved ops are
very lightweight per-cpu ones.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:06 +02:00
Tejun Heo
e71bf0d0ee block: fix disk->part[] dereferencing race
disk->part[] is protected by its matching bdev's lock.  However,
non-critical accesses like collecting stats and printing out sysfs and
proc information used to be performed without any locking.  As
partitions can come and go dynamically, partitions can go away
underneath those non-critical accesses.  As some of those accesses are
writes, this theoretically can lead to silent corruption.

This patch fixes the race by using RCU for the partition array and dev
reference counter to hold partitions.

* Rename disk->part[] to disk->__part[] to make sure no one outside
  genhd layer proper accesses it directly.

* Use RCU for disk->__part[] dereferencing.

* Implement disk_{get|put}_part() which can be used to get and put
  partitions from gendisk respectively.

* Iterators are implemented to help iterate through all partitions
  safely.

* Functions which require RCU readlock are marked with _rcu suffix.

* Use disk_put_part() in __blkdev_put() instead of directly putting
  the contained kobject.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:06 +02:00
Tejun Heo
f331c0296f block: don't depend on consecutive minor space
* Implement disk_devt() and part_devt() and use them to directly
  access devt instead of computing it from ->major and ->first_minor.

  Note that all references to ->major and ->first_minor outside of
  block layer is used to determine devt of the disk (the part0) and as
  ->major and ->first_minor will continue to represent devt for the
  disk, converting these users aren't strictly necessary.  However,
  convert them for consistency.

* Implement disk_max_parts() to avoid directly deferencing
  genhd->minors.

* Update bdget_disk() such that it doesn't assume consecutive minor
  space.

* Move devt computation from register_disk() to add_disk() and make it
  the only one (all other usages use the initially determined value).

These changes clean up the code and will help disk->part dereference
fix and extended block device numbers.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:05 +02:00
Tejun Heo
cf771cb5a7 block: make variable and argument names more consistent
In hd_struct, @partno is used to denote partition number and a number
of other places use @part to denote hd_struct.  Functions use @part
and @index instead.  This causes confusion and makes it difficult to
use consistent variable names for hd_struct.  Always use @partno if a
variable represents partition number.

Also, print out functions use @f or @part for seq_file argument.  Use
@seqf uniformly instead.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:05 +02:00
Tejun Heo
310a2c1012 block: misc updates
This patch makes the following misc updates in preparation for
disk->part dereference fix and extended block devt support.

* implment part_to_disk()

* fix comment about gendisk->part indexing

* rename get_part() to disk_map_sector()

* don't use n which is always zero while printing disk information in
  diskstats_show()

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:04 +02:00
Tejun Heo
5a3ceb8616 driver-core: use klist for class device list and implement iterator
Iterating over entries using callback usually isn't too fun especially
when the entry being iterated over can't be manipulated freely.  This
patch converts class->p->class_devices to klist and implements class
device iterator so that the users can freely build their own control
structure.  The users are also free to call back into class code
without worrying about locking.

class_for_each_device() and class_find_device() are converted to use
the new iterators, so their users don't have to worry about locking
anymore either.

Note: This depends on klist-dont-iterate-over-deleted-entries patch
because class_intf->add/remove_dev() depends on proper synchronization
with device removal.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:04 +02:00
Tejun Heo
a1ed5b0cff klist: don't iterate over deleted entries
A klist entry is kept on the list till all its current iterations are
finished; however, a new iteration after deletion also iterates over
deleted entries as long as their reference count stays above zero.
This causes problems for cases where there are users which iterate
over the list while synchronized against list manipulations and
natuarally expect already deleted entries to not show up during
iteration.

This patch implements dead flag which gets set on deletion so that
iteration can skip already deleted entries.  The dead flag piggy backs
on the lowest bit of knode->n_klist and only visible to klist
implementation proper.

While at it, drop klist_iter->i_head as it's redundant and doesn't
offer anything in semantics or performance wise as klist_iter->i_klist
is dereferenced on every iteration anyway.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:04 +02:00
Jens Axboe
5b99c2ffa9 block: make bi_phys_segments an unsigned int instead of short
raid5 can overflow with more than 255 stripes, and we can increase it
to an int for free on both 32 and 64-bit archs due to the padding.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:03 +02:00
Mikulas Patocka
5df97b91b5 drop vmerge accounting
Remove hw_segments field from struct bio and struct request. Without virtual
merge accounting they have no purpose.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:03 +02:00
Mikulas Patocka
b8b3e16cfe block: drop virtual merging accounting
Remove virtual merge accounting.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:03 +02:00
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
766ca4428d virtio_blk: use a wrapper function to access io context information of IO requests
struct request has an ioprio member but it is never updated because
currently bios do not hold io context information. The implication of
this is that virtio_blk ends up passing useless information to the
backend driver.

That said, some IO schedulers such as CFQ do store io context
information in struct request, but use private members for that, which
means that that information cannot be directly accessed in a IO
scheduler-independent way.

This patch adds a function to obtain the ioprio of a request. We should
avoid accessing ioprio directly and use this function instead, so that
its users do not have to care about future changes in block layer
structures or what the currently active IO controller is.

This patch does not introduce any functional changes but paves the way
for future clean-ups and enhancements.

Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:02 +02:00
David Woodhouse
1a8e2bddd5 Kill REQ_TYPE_FLUSH
It was only used by ps3disk, and it should probably have been
REQ_TYPE_LINUX_BLOCK + REQ_LB_OP_FLUSH.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:02 +02:00
David Woodhouse
e17fc0a1cc Allow elevators to sort/merge discard requests
But blkdev_issue_discard() still emits requests which are interpreted as
soft barriers, because naïve callers might otherwise issue subsequent
writes to those same sectors, which might cross on the queue (if they're
reallocated quickly enough).

Callers still _can_ issue non-barrier discard requests, but they have to
take care of queue ordering for themselves.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:02 +02:00
David Woodhouse
d30a2605be Add BLKDISCARD ioctl to allow userspace to discard sectors
We may well want mkfs tools to use this to mark the whole device as
unwanted before they format it, for example.

The ioctl takes a pair of uint64_ts, which are start offset and length
in _bytes_. Although at the moment it might make sense for them both to
be in 512-byte sectors, I don't want to limit the ABI to that.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:02 +02:00
David Woodhouse
27b29e86bf blktrace: support discard requests
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:01 +02:00
David Woodhouse
eae9acd13a Support 'discard sectors' operation in translation layer support core
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:01 +02:00
David Woodhouse
fb2dce862d Add 'discard' request handling
Some block devices benefit from a hint that they can forget the contents
of certain sectors. Add basic support for this to the block core, along
with a 'blkdev_issue_discard()' helper function which issues such
requests.

The caller doesn't get to provide an end_io functio, since
blkdev_issue_discard() will automatically split the request up into
multiple bios if appropriate. Neither does the function wait for
completion -- it's expected that callers won't care about when, or even
_if_, the request completes. It's only a hint to the device anyway. By
definition, the file system doesn't _care_ about these sectors any more.

[With feedback from OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> and
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com]

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:01 +02:00
David Woodhouse
d628eaef31 Fix up comments about matching flags between bio and rq
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:01 +02:00
Jens Axboe
a9c701e594 block: use bio_has_data() to check for data carrying bio
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:00 +02:00
Jens Axboe
7a67f63b32 block: add bio_has_data() to detect whether a bio carries data or not
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:00 +02:00
Borislav Petkov
f20f258603 ide-cd: temporary tray close fix
This one fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11602.

A more generic fix for drives which cannot autoclose tray will follow.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
[bart: add an extra parentheses for consistency with the rest of kernel code]
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-10-05 18:23:27 +02:00
Andrew Morton
897312bd24 include/linux/stacktrace.h: declare struct task_struct
include/linux/stacktrace.h:13: warning:
 'struct task_struct' declared inside parameter list

(This might be a hard error on sparc64, which uses this header and has
-Werror)

Reported-by: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-03 18:22:18 -07:00
Nick Piggin
4b19de6d1c mm: tiny-shmem nommu fix
The previous patch db203d53d4 ("mm:
tiny-shmem fix lock ordering: mmap_sem vs i_mutex") to fix the lock
ordering in tiny-shmem breaks shared anonymous and IPC memory on NOMMU
architectures because it was using the expanding truncate to signal ramfs
to allocate a physically contiguous RAM backing the inode (otherwise it is
unusable for "memory mapping" it to userspace).

However do_truncate is what caused the lock ordering error, due to it
taking i_mutex.  In this case, we can actually just call ramfs directly to
allocate memory for the mapping, rather than go via truncate.

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-02 15:53:13 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
ccc7dadf73 hrtimer: prevent migration of per CPU hrtimers
Impact: per CPU hrtimers can be migrated from a dead CPU

The hrtimer code has no knowledge about per CPU timers, but we need to
prevent the migration of such timers and warn when such a timer is
active at migration time.

Explicitely mark the timers as per CPU and use a more understandable
mode descriptor for the interrupts safe unlocked callback mode, which
is used by hrtimer_sleeper and the scheduler code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-29 17:09:14 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
b00c1a99e7 hrtimer: mark migration state
Impact: during migration active hrtimers can be seen as inactive

The migration code removes the hrtimers from the queues of the dead
CPU and sets the state temporary to INACTIVE. The enqueue code sets it
to ACTIVE/PENDING again.

Prevent that the wrong state can be seen by using a separate migration
state bit.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-29 17:09:14 +02:00
David Howells
b4f151ff89 MN10300: Move asm-arm/cnt32_to_63.h to include/linux/
Move asm-arm/cnt32_to_63.h to include/linux/ so that MN10300 can make
use of it too.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-24 16:38:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e002bcc2f8 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI: fix compiler warnings in pci_get_subsys()
  PCI: Fix pcie_aspm=force
2008-09-23 12:15:50 -07:00
Kirill A. Shutemov
c32a162fd4 smb.h: do not include linux/time.h in userspace
linux/time.h conflicts with time.h from glibc

It breaks building smbmount from samba.  It's regression introduced by
commit 76308da (" smb.h: uses struct timespec but didn't include
linux/time.h").

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>             [2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23 08:09:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5a0cd4eb66 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
  IPoIB: Fix deadlock on RTNL between bcast join comp and ipoib_stop()
  RDMA/nes: Fix client side QP destroy
  IB/mlx4: Fix up fast register page list format
  mlx4_core: Set RAE and init mtt_sz field in FRMR MPT entries
2008-09-19 16:18:21 -07:00
David Miller
ef3d7714f6 Fix PNP build failure, bugzilla #11276
This fill fix the following regression list entry:

Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11276
Subject		: build error: CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y causes gcc 4.2 to do stupid things
Submitter	: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date		: 2008-08-06 17:18 (38 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121804329014332&w=4
		  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/22/353
Handled-By	: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Patch		: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/22/364

with what I believe is a better fix than the one referenced
in the regression entry above.

These PNP header interfaces try to work in such a way that
you can reference some of them even if PNP is not enabled,
and the compiler was expected to optimize everything away.

Which is mostly fine, except that there was one interface
for which there was not provided an inline "NOP" implementation.

Once we add that, all of these compile failures cannot handle
any more.

pnp: Provide NOP inline implementation of pnp_get_resource() when !PNP

Fixes kernel bugzilla #11276.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-16 19:35:05 -07:00
Greg KH
b08508c40a PCI: fix compiler warnings in pci_get_subsys()
pci_get_subsys() changed in 2.6.26 so that the from pointer is modified
when the call is being invoked, so fix up the 'const' marking of it that
the compiler is complaining about.

Reported-by: Rufus & Azrael <rufus-azrael@numericable.fr>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-09-16 15:52:08 -07:00
Vladimir Sokolovsky
29bdc88384 IB/mlx4: Fix up fast register page list format
Byte swap the addresses in the page list for fast register work requests
to big endian to match what the HCA expectx.  Also, the addresses must
have the "present" bit set so that the HCA knows it can access them.
Otherwise the HCA will fault the first time it accesses the memory
region.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sokolovsky <vlad@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2008-09-15 14:25:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
7c22a3d853 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
  [libata] LBA28/LBA48 off-by-one bug in ata.h
  sata_inic162x: enable LED blinking
  ata: duplicate variable sparse warning
2008-09-13 14:48:14 -07:00
Alex Dubov
8e82f8c34b memstick: fix MSProHG 8-bit interface mode support
- 8-bit interface mode never worked properly.  The only adapter I have
  which supports the 8b mode (the Jmicron) had some problems with its
  clock wiring and they discovered it only now.  We also discovered that
  ProHG media is more sensitive to the ordering of initialization
  commands.

- Make the driver fall back to highest supported mode instead of always
  falling back to serial.  The driver will attempt the switch to 8b mode
  for any new MSPro card, but not all of them support it.  Previously,
  these new cards ended up in serial mode, which is not the best idea
  (they work fine with 4b, after all).

- Edit some macros for better conformance to Sony documentation

Signed-off-by: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13 14:41:52 -07:00
Mel Gorman
5bead2a068 mm: mark the correct zone as full when scanning zonelists
The iterator for_each_zone_zonelist() uses a struct zoneref *z cursor when
scanning zonelists to keep track of where in the zonelist it is.  The
zoneref that is returned corresponds to the the next zone that is to be
scanned, not the current one.  It was intended to be treated as an opaque
list.

When the page allocator is scanning a zonelist, it marks elements in the
zonelist corresponding to zones that are temporarily full.  As the
zonelist is being updated, it uses the cursor here;

  if (NUMA_BUILD)
        zlc_mark_zone_full(zonelist, z);

This is intended to prevent rescanning in the near future but the zoneref
cursor does not correspond to the zone that has been found to be full.
This is an easy misunderstanding to make so this patch corrects the
problem by changing zoneref cursor to be the current zone being scanned
instead of the next one.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13 14:41:52 -07:00
Hiroshi DOYU
dea420ce0e include/linux/ioport.h: add missing macro argument for devm_release_* family
akpm: these have no callers at this time, but they shall soon, so let's
get them right.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi DOYU <Hiroshi.DOYU@nokia.com>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13 14:41:50 -07:00
Taisuke Yamada
97b697a11b [libata] LBA28/LBA48 off-by-one bug in ata.h
I recently bought 3 HGST P7K500-series 500GB SATA drives and
had trouble accessing the block right on the LBA28-LBA48 border.
Here's how it fails (same for all 3 drives):

  # dd if=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=1 skip=268435455 > /dev/null
  dd: reading `/dev/sdc': Input/output error
  0+0 records in
  0+0 records out
  0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.288033 seconds, 0.0 kB/s
  # dmesg
  ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
  ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
  ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:f8:ff:ff/00:00:00:00:00/ef tag 0 dma 4096 in
  res 51/04:08:f8:ff:ff/00:00:00:00:00/ef Emask 0x1 (device error)
  ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
  ata1.00: error: { ABRT }
  ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
  ata1: EH complete
  ...

After some investigations, it turned out this seems to be caused
by misinterpretation of the ATA specification on LBA28 access.
Following part is the code in question:

  === include/linux/ata.h ===
  static inline int lba_28_ok(u64 block, u32 n_block)
  {
    /* check the ending block number */
    return ((block + n_block - 1) < ((u64)1 << 28)) && (n_block <= 256);
  }

HGST drive (sometimes) fails with LBA28 access of {block = 0xfffffff,
n_block = 1}, and this behavior seems to be comformant. Other drives,
including other HGST drives are not that strict, through.

>From the ATA specification:
(http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/project/d1410r3b-ATA-ATAPI-6.pdf)

  8.15.29  Word (61:60): Total number of user addressable sectors
  This field contains a value that is one greater than the total number
  of user addressable sectors (see 6.2). The maximum value that shall
  be placed in this field is 0FFFFFFFh.

So the driver shouldn't use the value of 0xfffffff for LBA28 request
as this exceeds maximum user addressable sector. The logical maximum
value for LBA28 is 0xffffffe.

The obvious fix is to cut "- 1" part, and the patch attached just do
that. I've been using the patched kernel for about a month now, and
the same fix is also floating on the net for some time. So I believe
this fix works reliably.

Just FYI, many Windows/Intel platform users also seems to be struck
by this, and HGST has issued a note pointing to Intel ICH8/9 driver.

  "28-bit LBA command is being used to access LBAs 29-bits in length"
http://www.hitachigst.com/hddt/knowtree.nsf/cffe836ed7c12018862565b000530c74/b531b8bce8745fb78825740f00580e23

Also, *BSDs seems to have similar fix included sometime around ~2004,
through I have not checked out exact portion of the code.

Signed-off-by: Taisuke Yamada <tai@rakugaki.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-09-13 16:46:15 -04:00
Jens Axboe
2dc75d3c3b block: disable sysfs parts of the disk command filter
We still have life time issues with the sysfs command filter kobject,
so disable it for 2.6.27 release. We can revisit this and make it work
properly for 2.6.28, for 2.6.27 release it's too risky.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-09-11 14:20:23 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
e1d7bf1499 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: arch_reinit_sched_domains() must destroy domains to force rebuild
  sched, cpuset: rework sched domains and CPU hotplug handling (v4)
2008-09-08 15:47:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f532522565 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  clocksource, acpi_pm.c: check for monotonicity
  clocksource, acpi_pm.c: use proper read function also in errata mode
  ntp: fix calculation of the next jiffie to trigger RTC sync
  x86: HPET: read back compare register before reading counter
  x86: HPET fix moronic 32/64bit thinko
  clockevents: broadcast fixup possible waiters
  HPET: make minimum reprogramming delta useful
  clockevents: prevent endless loop lockup
  clockevents: prevent multiple init/shutdown
  clockevents: enforce reprogram in oneshot setup
  clockevents: prevent endless loop in periodic broadcast handler
  clockevents: prevent clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noop
2008-09-06 19:33:26 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
291c54ff76 Merge branch 'sched/cpuset' into sched/urgent 2008-09-06 21:03:16 +02:00
Max Krasnyansky
dfb512ec48 sched: arch_reinit_sched_domains() must destroy domains to force rebuild
What I realized recently is that calling rebuild_sched_domains() in
arch_reinit_sched_domains() by itself is not enough when cpusets are enabled.
partition_sched_domains() code is trying to avoid unnecessary domain rebuilds
and will not actually rebuild anything if new domain masks match the old ones.

What this means is that doing
     echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings
on a system with cpusets enabled will not take affect untill something changes
in the cpuset setup (ie new sets created or deleted).

This patch fixes restore correct behaviour where domains must be rebuilt in
order to enable MC powersaving flags.

Test on quad-core Core2 box with both CONFIG_CPUSETS and !CONFIG_CPUSETS.
Also tested on dual-core Core2 laptop. Lockdep is happy and things are working
as expected.

Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 19:22:15 +02:00
Roland McGrath
22f30168d2 tracehook: comment pasto fixes
Fix some pasto's in comments in the new linux/tracehook.h and
asm-generic/syscall.h files.

Reported-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-05 14:39:38 -07:00
Li Zefan
11d55d2cba res_counter: fix off-by-one bug in setting limit
I found we can no longer set limit to 0 with 2.6.27-rcX:
 # mount -t cgroup -omemory xxx /mnt
 # mkdir /mnt/0
 # echo 0 > /mnt/0/memory.limit_in_bytes
 bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy

It turned out 'limit' can't be set to 'usage', which is wrong IMO.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-05 14:39:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
7f621861fb Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: fix process time monotonicity
  sched_clock: fix NOHZ interaction
2008-09-05 14:37:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6f74b1849b Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/dwmw2-2.6.27
* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/dwmw2-2.6.27:
  Revert "[ARM] use the new byteorder headers"
  Fix conditional export of kvh.h and a.out.h to userspace.
  [MTD] [NAND] tmio_nand: fix base address programming
2008-09-05 14:31:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
14408c4f41 Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (98 commits)
  V4L/DVB (8881): gspca: After 'while (retry--) {...}', retry will be -1 but not 0.
  V4L/DVB (8880): PATCH: Fix parents on some webcam drivers
  V4L/DVB (8877): b2c2 and bt8xx: udelay to mdelay
  V4L/DVB (8876): budget: udelay changed to mdelay
  V4L/DVB (8874): gspca: Adjust hstart for sn9c103/ov7630 and update usb-id's.
  V4L/DVB (8873): gspca: Bad image offset with rev012a of spca561 and adjust exposure.
  V4L/DVB (8872): gspca: Bad image format and offset with rev072a of spca561.
  V4L/DVB (8870): gspca: Fix dark room problem with sonixb.
  V4L/DVB (8869): gspca: Move the Sonix webcams with TAS5110C1B from sn9c102 to gspca.
  V4L/DVB (8868): gspca: Support for vga modes with sif sensors in sonixb.
  V4L/DVB (8844): dabusb_fpga_download(): fix a memory leak
  V4L/DVB (8843): tda10048_firmware_upload(): fix a memory leak
  V4L/DVB (8842): vivi_release(): fix use-after-free
  V4L/DVB (8840): dib0700: add basic support for Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (84xxx)
  V4L/DVB (8839): dib0700: add comment to identify 35th USB id pair
  V4L/DVB (8837): dvb: fix I2C adapters name size
  V4L/DVB (8835): gspca: Same pixfmt as the sn9c102 driver and raw Bayer added in sonixb.
  V4L/DVB (8834): gspca: Have a bigger buffer for sn9c10x compressed images.
  V4L/DVB (8833): gspca: Cleanup the sonixb code.
  V4L/DVB (8832): gspca: Bad pixelformat of vc0321 webcams.
  ...
2008-09-05 14:29:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
54e2a3270f Merge branch 'core/debugobjects' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core/debugobjects' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  debugobjects: fix lockdep warning
2008-09-05 14:28:19 -07:00
Balbir Singh
49048622ea sched: fix process time monotonicity
Spencer reported a problem where utime and stime were going negative despite
the fixes in commit b27f03d4bd. The suspected
reason for the problem is that signal_struct maintains it's own utime and
stime (of exited tasks), these are not updated using the new task_utime()
routine, hence sig->utime can go backwards and cause the same problem
to occur (sig->utime, adds tsk->utime and not task_utime()). This patch
fixes the problem

TODO: using max(task->prev_utime, derived utime) works for now, but a more
generic solution is to implement cputime_max() and use the cputime_gt()
function for comparison.

Reported-by: spencer@bluehost.com
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 18:14:35 +02:00