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* [PATCH] aoe [1/2]: support 16 AoE slot addresses per AoE shelfEd L Cashin2005-09-09
| | | | | | | | 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>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-for-linus-2.6 Linus Torvalds2005-09-07
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| * fix mismerge in ll_rw_blk.cJames Bottomley2005-08-28
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| | * [PATCH] ll_rw_blk.c kerneldoc updatesChristoph Hellwig2005-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The recent mapping changes didn't update the kerneldoc appropriately. Original from Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
| | * [PATCH] update blk_execute_rq to take an at_head parameterJames Bottomley2005-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Original From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Modified to split out block changes (this patch) and SCSI pieces. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | * [PATCH] kill 'reading' variable in sg_io(), it isn't used anymore.Jens Axboe2005-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
| | * [PATCH] The blk_rq_map_user() change missed an update in scsi_ioctl.cJames Bottomley2005-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
| | * [PATCH] Add scatter-gather support for the block layer SG_IOJames Bottomley2005-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
| | * [PATCH] Cleanup blk_rq_map_* interfacesJens Axboe2005-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change the blk_rq_map_user() and blk_rq_map_kern() interface to require a previously allocated request to be passed in. This is both more efficient for multiple iterations of mapping data to the same request, and it is also a much nicer API. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
| | * [PATCH] Keep the bio end_io parts inside of bio.c for blk_rq_map_kern()Jens Axboe2005-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
| | * [PATCH] Add blk_rq_map_kern()Mike Christie2005-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add blk_rq_map_kern which takes a kernel buffer and maps it into a request and bio. This can be used by the dm hw_handlers, old sg_scsi_ioctl, and one day scsi special requests so all requests comming into scsi will have bios. All requests having bios should allow scsi to use scatter lists for all IO and allow it to use block layer functions. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* | | [PATCH] Kconfig fix (BLK_DEV_FD dependencies)viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sanitized and fixed floppy dependencies: split the messy dependencies for BLK_DEV_FD by introducing a new symbol (ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC), making BLK_DEV_FD depend on that one and taking declarations of ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC to arch/*/Kconfig. While we are at it, fixed several obvious cases when BLK_DEV_FD should have been excluded (architectures lacking asm/floppy.h are *not* going to have floppy.c compile, let alone work). If you can come up with better name for that ("this architecture might have working PC-compatible floppy disk controller"), you are more than welcome - just s/ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC/your_prefered_name/g in the patch below... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] drivers: convert kcalloc to kzallocPekka Enberg2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch converts kcalloc(1, ...) calls to use the new kzalloc() function. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] block: CFQ refcounting fixBrian King2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I ran across a memory leak related to the cfq scheduler. The cfq init function increments the refcnt of the associated request_queue. This refcount gets decremented in cfq's exit function. Since blk_cleanup_queue only calls the elevator exit function when its refcnt goes to zero, the request_q never gets cleaned up. It didn't look like other io schedulers were incrementing this refcnt, so I removed the refcnt increment and it fixed the memory leak for me. To reproduce the problem, simply use cfq and use the scsi_host scan sysfs attribute to scan "- - -" repeatedly on a scsi host and watch the memory vanish. Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] blk: Use blk_queue_xxx functions to set parametersStuart McLaren2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Per-queue parameters should be updated using the appropriate blk_queue_xxx functions. Signed-off-by: Stuart McLaren <stuart.mclaren@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] Add missing overflow check in get_blkdev_listNeil Horman2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch to clean up missing overflow check in get_blkdev_list. The printf which adds the "Block Devices" string in /proc/devices can overflow the presented page if get_chrdev_list eats up the entire 4k space. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] cleanup of deadline_dispatch_requests()Nikita Danilov2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cleanup of deadline_dispatch_requests(): - replace drq selection with hopefully clearer while semantically the same construct: take write request, if there is any, otherwise take read one, or NULL if none exist. - kill unused other_dir. Signed-off-by: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild Linus Torvalds2005-09-06
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| * | | kconfig: move initramfs options to General SetupSam Ravnborg2005-08-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move initramfs options from Device Drivers | Block Drivers to General Setup This is a more natural place for this option. Furthermore separate out intramfs options to usr/Kconfig Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* | | | [PATCH] Floppy: add cmos attribute to floppy driver tidyAndrew Morton2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fiddle with coding style a bit. Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | | [PATCH] Floppy: Add cmos attribute to floppy driverHannes Reinecke2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently only a device 'fdX' shows up in sysfs; the other possible device for this drive (like fd0h1440 etc) must be guessed from there. This patch corrects the floppy driver to create a platform device for each floppy found; each platform device also has an attribute 'cmos' which represents the cmos type for this drive. From this attribute the other possible device types can be computed. From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Linus Torvalds2005-09-05
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| * | | | [CRYPTO]: Use CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP where appropriateHerbert Xu2005-09-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch goes through the current users of the crypto layer and sets CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP at crypto_alloc_tfm() where all crypto operations are performed in process context. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | | | [PATCH] mips: clean up 32/64-bit configurationRalf Baechle2005-09-05
|/ / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Start cleaning 32-bit vs. 64-bit configuration. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | Merge HEAD from master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/ppc64-2.6 Linus Torvalds2005-08-30
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| * | | | [PATCH] Make MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE work for vio devicesStephen Rothwell2005-08-29
| | |/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE work for vio devices. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* / | | [NET]: Kill skb->real_devDavid S. Miller2005-08-29
|/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bonding just wants the device before the skb_bond() decapsulation occurs, so simply pass that original device into packet_type->func() as an argument. It remains to be seen whether we can use this same exact thing to get rid of skb->input_dev as well. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | [PATCH] cfq-iosched.c: minor fixesJens Axboe2005-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | One critical fix and two minor fixes for 2.6.13-rc7: - Max depth must currently be 2 to allow barriers to function on SCSI - Prefer sync request over async in choosing the next request - Never allow async request to preempt or disturb the "anticipation" for a single cfq process context. This is as-designed, the code right now is buggy in that area. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] blk: fix tag shrinking (revive real_max_size)Tejun Heo2005-08-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | My patch in commit fa72b903f75e4f0f0b2c2feed093005167da4023 incorrectly removed blk_queue_tag->real_max_depth. The original resize implementation was incorrect in the following points. * actual allocation size of tag_index was shorter than real_max_size, but assumed to be of the same size, possibly causing memory access beyond the allocated area. * bits in tag_map between max_deptn and real_max_depth were initialized to 1's, making the tags permanently reserved. In an attempt to fix above two bugs, I had removed allocation optimization in init_tag_map and real_max_size. Tag map/index were allocated and freed immediately during resize. Unfortunately, I wasn't considering that tag map/index can be resized dynamically with tags beyond new_depth active. This led to accessing freed area after shrinking tags and led to the following bug reporting thread on linux-scsi. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=112319898111885&w=2 To fix the problem, I've revived real_max_depth without allocation optimization in init_tag_map, and Andrew Vasquez confirmed that the problem was fixed. As Jens is not going to be available for a week, he asked me to make sure that this patch reaches you. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=112325778530886&w=2 Also, a comment was added to make sure that real_max_size is needed for dynamic shrinking. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] cfq-iosched: fix problem with barriers and max_depth == 1Jens Axboe2005-08-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | CFQ will currently stall when using write barriers and the default max_depth setting of 1, since we artificially need a depth of 2 when pre-pending the first flush. So never deny the barrier request going to the device. This is a regression since 2.6.12, it was found in SUSE testing. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] cciss per disk queueMike Miller2005-07-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds per disk queue functionality to cciss. Sometime back I submitted a patch but it looks like only part of what I needed. In the 2.6 kernel if we have more than one logical volume the driver will Oops during rmmod. It seems all of the queues actually point back to the same queue. So after deleting the first volume you hit a null pointer on the second one. This has been tested in our labs. There is no difference in performance, it just fixes the Oops. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] turn many #if $undefined_string into #ifdef $undefined_stringOlaf Hering2005-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | turn many #if $undefined_string into #ifdef $undefined_string to fix some warnings after -Wno-def was added to global CFLAGS Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] ub: fix for blank CDsPete Zaitcev2005-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a microcode lockup in my CD-ROM adapters when a blank CD is inserted. However, do not try to burn CDs yet! I'm pretty sure that trying it will end in coasters. - Fix a few cases where we were unable to resynchronize with replies for previous commands. The main thing is to keep reading replies in case of a stall. This is done with the new state CLRRS. - Since I am forgetting the basic state machine already, document it. - Move counter increments in the looping path in its own function. - Fix a harmless buglet in case CSW read fails to submit: do not override state. - Implement the Alan Stern's idea for adaptive signature checking. Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@yahoo.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] as-iosched tunable encoding fixJens Axboe2005-07-27
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | AS is doing internal msec<->jiffies conversions twice, so the sysfs tunables which represent time are coming out wrong. The switch from HZ=1000 exposed this. Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Fix get_request nastinessHugh Dickins2005-06-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | get_request is now expected to be holding on to queue_lock, with interrupts disabled, when it returns NULL; but one path forgot that, causing all kinds of nastiness under swap load - badness backtraces, strange failures, BUGs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] blk: light iocontext opsNick Piggin2005-06-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | get_io_context needlessly turned off interrupts and checked for racing io context creations. Both of which aren't needed, because the io context can only be created while in process context of the current process. Also, split the function in 2. A light version, current_io_context does not elevate the reference count specifically, but can be used when in process context, because the process holds a reference itself. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] blk: reduce lockingNick Piggin2005-06-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change around locking a bit for a result of 1-2 less spin lock unlock pairs in request submission paths. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] blk: __make_request efficiencyNick Piggin2005-06-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the case where the request is not able to be merged by the elevator, don't retake the lock and retry the merge mechanism after allocating a new request. Instead assume that the chance of a merge remains slim, and now that we've done most of the work allocating a request we may as well just go with it. Also be rid of the GFP_ATOMIC allocation: we've got working mempools for the block layer now, so let's save atomic memory for things like networking. Lastly, in get_request_wait, do an initial get_request call before going into the waitqueue. This is reported to help efficiency. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] ll_rw_blk: prevent huge request allocationsJens Axboe2005-06-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently we cap request allocations at q->nr_requests, but we allow a batching io context to allocate up to 32 more (default setting). This can flood the queue with request allocations, with only a few batching processes. The real fix would be to limit the number of batchers, but as that isn't currently tracked, I suggest we just cap the maximum number of allocated requests to eg 50% over the limit. This was observed in real life, users typically see this as vmstat bo numbers going off the wall with seconds of no queueing afterwards. Behaviour this bursty is not beneficial. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] cciss_ioctl() warning fixAndrew Morton2005-06-28
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] cfq build fixAndrew Morton2005-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c: In function 'cfq_put_queue': drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c:303: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'cfq_pending_requests': function body not available drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c:1080: sorry, unimplemented: called from here drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c: In function '__cfq_may_queue': drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c:1955: warning: the address of 'cfq_cfqq_must_alloc_slice', will always evaluate as 'true' make[1]: *** [drivers/block/cfq-iosched.o] Error 1 make: *** [drivers/block/cfq-iosched.o] Error 2 Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] cciss: remove partition info from CCISS_GETLUNINFOMike Miller2005-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fulfills a promise I made to Christoph sometime back. I am removing the partition info from the CCISS_GETLUNINFO ioctl as I was informed my "driver had no damn business reading that structure." ;) The application folks are to use /proc or /sys for partition info from now on. I am only aware of a few apps that use this ioctl and I'm not sure they ever used the partition info. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] cciss: pci domain info pass 2Mike Miller2005-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is pass 2 of my patch to add pci domain info to an existing ioctl. This time I insert the domain between dev_fn and board_id as Willy suggested and change the var to unsigned short to ease Christoph's concerns. Although I thought unsigned int was the correct var type for this. I also thought it didn't matter where I inserted it in the structure. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] cciss: pci id fixMike Miller2005-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a PCI ID I got wrong before. It also adds support for another new SAS controller due out this summer. I didn't have a marketing name prior to my last submission. Also modifies the copyright date range. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] ppc32: Remove CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOKBenjamin Herrenschmidt2005-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOK (PowerBook support). This is now split into CONFIG_PMAC_MEDIABAY for the actual hotswap bay that some powerbooks have, CONFIG_PM for power management related code, and just left out of any CONFIG_* option for some generally useful stuff that can be used on non-laptops as well. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | Merge 'upstream' branch of ↵Linus Torvalds2005-06-27
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| * | [PATCH] drivers/block/sx8.c: Use the DMA_{64, 32}BIT_MASK constantsTobias Klauser2005-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use the DMA_{64,32}BIT_MASK constants from dma-mapping.h when calling pci_set_dma_mask() or pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() These patches include dma-mapping.h explicitly because it caused errors on some architectures otherwise. See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108001993000001&r=1&w=2 for details Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
* | | [PATCH] CFQ io scheduler: scheduler switch oopsJens Axboe2005-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If cfq is managing a queue and a new scheduler is later selected, it is possible for the cfqd unplug_work work to be queued after the kblockd work struct has been flushed. The problem is the ordering of cfq_shutdown_timer_wq() and blk_put_queue() in cfq_put_cfqd(). The latter may rearm the work, leaving cfq_kick_queue() with dead data. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] CFQ io scheduler updatesJens Axboe2005-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Adjust slice values - Instead of one async queue, one is defined per priority level. This prevents kernel threads (such as reiserfs/x and others) that run at higher io priority from conflicting with others. Previously, it was a coin toss what io prio the async queue got, it was defined by who first set up the queue. - Let a time slice only begin, when the previous slice is completely done. Previously we could be somewhat unfair to a new sync slice, if the previous slice was async and had several ios queued. This might need a little tweaking if throughput suffers a little due to this, allowing perhaps an overlap of a single request or so. - Optimize the calling of kblockd_schedule_work() by doing it only when it is strictly necessary (no requests in driver and work left to do). - Correct sync vs async logic. A 'normal' process can be purely async as well, and a flusher can be purely sync as well. Sync or async is now a property of the class defined and requests pending. Previously writers could be considered sync, when they were really async. - Get rid of the bit fields in cfqq and crq, use flags instead. - Various other cleanups and fixes Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] Fix cfq_find_next_crq()Jens Axboe2005-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In cfq_find_next_crq(), cfq tries to find the next request by choosing one of two requests before and after the current one. Currently, when choosing the next request, if there's no next request, the next candidate is NULL, resulting in selection of the previous request. This results in weird scheduling. Once we reach the end, we always seek backward. The correct behavior is using the first request as the next candidate. cfq_choose_req() already has logics for handling wrapped requests. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>