Merge branch 'for-2.6.40/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

* 'for-2.6.40/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (110 commits)
  loop: handle on-demand devices correctly
  loop: limit 'max_part' module param to DISK_MAX_PARTS
  drbd: fix warning
  drbd: fix warning
  drbd: Fix spelling
  drbd: fix schedule in atomic
  drbd: Take a more conservative approach when deciding max_bio_size
  drbd: Fixed state transitions after async outdate-peer-handler returned
  drbd: Disallow the peer_disk_state to be D_OUTDATED while connected
  drbd: Fix for the connection problems on high latency links
  drbd: fix potential activity log refcount imbalance in error path
  drbd: Only downgrade the disk state in case of disk failures
  drbd: fix disconnect/reconnect loop, if ping-timeout == ping-int
  drbd: fix potential distributed deadlock
  lru_cache.h: fix comments referring to ts_ instead of lc_
  drbd: Fix for application IO with the on-io-error=pass-on policy
  xen/p2m: Add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to the M2P override functions.
  xen/p2m/m2p/gnttab: Support GNTMAP_host_map in the M2P override.
  xen/blkback: don't fail empty barrier requests
  xen/blkback: fix xenbus_transaction_start() hang caused by double xenbus_transaction_end()
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diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt
index 89698e8df7d4..c00c6a5ab21f 100644
--- a/Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt
+++ b/Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt
@@ -169,3 +169,18 @@ is issued which positions the tape to a known position.  Typically you
 must rewind the tape (by issuing "mt -f /dev/st0 rewind" for example)
 before i/o can proceed again to a tape drive which was reset.
 
+There is a cciss_tape_cmds module parameter which can be used to make cciss
+allocate more commands for use by tape drives.  Ordinarily only a few commands
+(6) are allocated for tape drives because tape drives are slow and
+infrequently used and the primary purpose of Smart Array controllers is to
+act as a RAID controller for disk drives, so the vast majority of commands
+are allocated for disk devices.  However, if you have more than a few tape
+drives attached to a smart array, the default number of commands may not be
+enought (for example, if you have 8 tape drives, you could only rewind 6
+at one time with the default number of commands.)  The cciss_tape_cmds module
+parameter allows more commands (up to 16 more) to be allocated for use by
+tape drives.  For example:
+
+        insmod cciss.ko cciss_tape_cmds=16
+
+Or, as a kernel boot parameter passed in via grub:  cciss.cciss_tape_cmds=8