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* bio: move the slab pointer inside the bio_setJens Axboe2008-12-29
| | | | | | In preparation for adding differently sized bios. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* bio: only mempool back the largest bio_vec slab cacheJens Axboe2008-12-29
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* blktrace: port to tracepoints, updateIngo Molnar2008-11-26
| | | | | | | | | Port to the new tracepoints API: split DEFINE_TRACE() and DECLARE_TRACE() sites. Spread them out to the usage sites, as suggested by Mathieu Desnoyers. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
* blktrace: port to tracepointsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2008-11-26
| | | | | | | | | | | This was a forward port of work done by Mathieu Desnoyers, I changed it to encode the 'what' parameter on the tracepoint name, so that one can register interest in specific events and not on classes of events to then check the 'what' parameter. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* block: mark bio_split_pool staticDenis ChengRq2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | Since all bio_split calls refer the same single bio_split_pool, the bio_split function can use bio_split_pool directly instead of the mempool_t parameter; then the mempool_t parameter can be removed from bio_split param list, and bio_split_pool is only referred in fs/bio.c file, can be marked static. Signed-off-by: Denis ChengRq <crquan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: Find bio sector offset given idx and offsetMartin K. Petersen2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | Helper function to find the sector offset in a bio given bvec index and page offset. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: add bio_kmalloc()Jens Axboe2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | Not all callers need (or want!) the mempool backing guarentee, it essentially means that you can only use bio_alloc() for short allocations and not for preallocating some bio's at setup or init time. So add bio_kmalloc() which does the same thing as bio_alloc(), except it just uses kmalloc() as the backing instead of the bio mempools. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: make blk_rq_map_user take a NULL user-space bufferFUJITA Tomonori2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch changes blk_rq_map_user to accept a NULL user-space buffer with a READ command if rq_map_data is not NULL. Thus a caller can pass page frames to lk_rq_map_user to just set up a request and bios with page frames propely. bio_uncopy_user (called via blk_rq_unmap_user) doesn't copy data to user space with such request. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* bio: convert bio_copy_kern to use bio_copy_userFUJITA Tomonori2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | bio_copy_kern and bio_copy_user are very similar. This converts bio_copy_kern to use bio_copy_user. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: introduce struct rq_map_data to use reserved pagesFUJITA Tomonori2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces struct rq_map_data to enable bio_copy_use_iov() use reserved pages. Currently, bio_copy_user_iov allocates bounce pages but drivers/scsi/sg.c wants to allocate pages by itself and use them. struct rq_map_data can be used to pass allocated pages to bio_copy_user_iov. The current users of bio_copy_user_iov simply passes NULL (they don't want to use pre-allocated pages). Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: add gfp_mask argument to blk_rq_map_user and blk_rq_map_user_iovFUJITA Tomonori2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, blk_rq_map_user and blk_rq_map_user_iov always do GFP_KERNEL allocation. This adds gfp_mask argument to blk_rq_map_user and blk_rq_map_user_iov so sg can use it (sg always does GFP_ATOMIC allocation). Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: add support for IO CPU affinityJens Axboe2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds support for controlling the IO completion CPU of either all requests on a queue, or on a per-request basis. We export a sysfs variable (rq_affinity) which, if set, migrates completions of requests to the CPU that originally submitted it. A bio helper (bio_set_completion_cpu()) is also added, so that queuers can ask for completion on that specific CPU. In testing, this has been show to cut the system time by as much as 20-40% on synthetic workloads where CPU affinity is desired. This requires a little help from the architecture, so it'll only work as designed for archs that are using the new generic smp helper infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* drop vmerge accountingMikulas Patocka2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | 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>
* block: drop virtual merging accountingMikulas Patocka2008-10-09
| | | | | | | Remove virtual merge accounting. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* bio: fix __bio_copy_iov() handling of bio->bv_lenFUJITA Tomonori2008-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The commit c5dec1c3034f1ae3503efbf641ff3b0273b64797 introduced __bio_copy_iov() to add bounce support to blk_rq_map_user_iov. __bio_copy_iov() uses bio->bv_len to copy data for READ commands after the completion but it doesn't work with a request that partially completed. SCSI always completes a PC request as a whole but seems some don't. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* bio: fix bio_copy_kern() handling of bio->bv_lenFUJITA Tomonori2008-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The commit 68154e90c9d1492d570671ae181d9a8f8530da55 introduced bio_copy_kern() to add bounce support to blk_rq_map_kern. bio_copy_kern() uses bio->bv_len to copy data for READ commands after the completion but it doesn't work with a request that partially completed. SCSI always completes a PC request as a whole but seems some don't. This patch fixes bio_copy_kern to handle the above case. As bio_copy_user does, bio_copy_kern uses struct bio_map_data to store struct bio_vec. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Reported-by: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk> Tested-by: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* bio: make use of bvec_nr_vecsDenis ChengRq2008-08-06
| | | | | | | Since introduced in 7ba1ba12eee, it should be made use of. Signed-off-by: Denis ChengRq <crquan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* dio: use get_user_pages_fastNick Piggin2008-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use get_user_pages_fast in the common/generic block and fs direct IO paths. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Add bvec_merge_data to handle stacked devices and ->merge_bvec()Alasdair G Kergon2008-07-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When devices are stacked, one device's merge_bvec_fn may need to perform the mapping and then call one or more functions for its underlying devices. The following bio fields are used: bio->bi_sector bio->bi_bdev bio->bi_size bio->bi_rw using bio_data_dir() This patch creates a new struct bvec_merge_data holding a copy of those fields to avoid having to change them directly in the struct bio when going down the stack only to have to change them back again on the way back up. (And then when the bio gets mapped for real, the whole exercise gets repeated, but that's a problem for another day...) Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: Block layer data integrity supportMartin K. Petersen2008-07-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some block devices support verifying the integrity of requests by way of checksums or other protection information that is submitted along with the I/O. This patch implements support for generating and verifying integrity metadata, as well as correctly merging, splitting and cloning bios and requests that have this extra information attached. See Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt for more information. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: Globalize bio_set and bio_vec_slabMartin K. Petersen2008-07-03
| | | | | | | | | Move struct bio_set and biovec_slab definitions to bio.h so they can be used outside of bio.c. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* docbook: fix bio missing parameterRandy Dunlap2008-05-07
| | | | | | | | Fix fs/bio.c kernel-doc parameter warning: Warning(linux-2.6.25-git14//fs/bio.c:972): No description found for parameter 'reading' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: use unitialized_var() in bio_alloc_bioset()Jens Axboe2008-05-07
| | | | | | | Better than setting idx to some random value and it silences the same bogus gcc warning. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: add dma alignment and padding support to blk_rq_map_kernFUJITA Tomonori2008-04-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds bio_copy_kern similar to bio_copy_user. blk_rq_map_kern uses bio_copy_kern instead of bio_map_kern if necessary. bio_copy_kern uses temporary pages and the bi_end_io callback frees these pages. bio_copy_kern saves the original kernel buffer at bio->bi_private it doesn't use something like struct bio_map_data to store the information about the caller. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: convert bio_copy_user to bio_copy_user_iovFUJITA Tomonori2008-04-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch enables bio_copy_user to take struct sg_iovec (renamed bio_copy_user_iov). bio_copy_user uses bio_copy_user_iov internally as bio_map_user uses bio_map_user_iov. The major changes are: - adds sg_iovec array to struct bio_map_data - adds __bio_copy_iov that copy data between bio and sg_iovec. bio_copy_user_iov and bio_uncopy_user use it. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* Revert "unexport bio_{,un}map_user"Jens Axboe2008-03-17
| | | | | | | | Outside users like asmlib uses the mapping functions. API wise, the export is definitely sane. It's a better idea to keep this export than to require external users to open-code this piece of code instead. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* fs/block_dev.c: remove #if 0'ed codeAdrian Bunk2008-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit b2e895dbd80c420bfc0937c3729b4afe073b3848 #if 0'ed this code stating: <-- snip --> [PATCH] revert blockdev direct io back to 2.6.19 version Andrew Vasquez is reporting as-iosched oopses and a 65% throughput slowdown due to the recent special-casing of direct-io against blockdevs. We don't know why either of these things are occurring. The patch minimally reverts us back to the 2.6.19 code for a 2.6.20 release. <-- snip --> It has since been dead code, and unless someone wants to revive it now it's time to remove it. This patch also makes bio_release_pages() static again and removes the ki_bio_count member from struct kiocb, reverting changes that had been done for this dead code. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@carl.home.kernel.dk>
* __bio_clone: don't calculate hw/phys segment countsJens Axboe2008-01-28
| | | | | | | | | If the users sets a new ->bi_bdev on the bio after __bio_clone() has returned it, the "segment counts valid" flag still remains even though it may be different with the new target. So don't calculate segment counts in __bio_clone(). Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* bio: make freeing of ->bi_io_vec conditional in bio_free()Jens Axboe2007-10-16
| | | | | | | The empty barrier patches do not carry data, so they have no iovec attached. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* bio: use memset() in bio_init()Jens Axboe2007-10-16
| | | | | | Use memset() to clear the bio, instead of doing each field manually. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* Drop 'size' argument from bio_endio and bi_end_ioNeilBrown2007-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | As bi_end_io is only called once when the reqeust is complete, the 'size' argument is now redundant. Remove it. Now there is no need for bio_endio to subtract the size completed from bi_size. So don't do that either. While we are at it, change bi_end_io to return void. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* Don't decrement bi_size in bio_endioNeilBrown2007-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The only caller of bio_endio that does not pass the full bi_size is end_that_request_first. Also, no ->bi_end_io method is really interested in bi_size being decremented. So move the decrement and related code into ll_rw_blk and merge it with order_bio_endio to form req_bio_endio which does endio functionality specific to request completion. As some ->bi_end_io methods do check bi_size of 0, we set it thus for now, but that will go in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> ### Diffstat output ./block/ll_rw_blk.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- ./fs/bio.c | 23 +++++++++++------------ 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) diff .prev/block/ll_rw_blk.c ./block/ll_rw_blk.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* Only call bi_end_io once for any bioNeilBrown2007-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently bi_end_io can be called multiple times as sub-requests complete. However no ->bi_end_io function wants to know about that. So only call when the bio is complete. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> ### Diffstat output ./fs/bio.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff .prev/fs/bio.c ./fs/bio.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* [BLOCK] Get rid of request_queue_t typedefJens Axboe2007-07-24
| | | | | | | | | Some of the code has been gradually transitioned to using the proper struct request_queue, but there's lots left. So do a full sweet of the kernel and get rid of this typedef and replace its uses with the proper type. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().Paul Mundt2007-07-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's c59def9f222d44bb7e2f0a559f2906191a0862d7 change. They've been BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them either. This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create() completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves, or the documentation references). Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
* unexport bio_{,un}map_userAdrian Bunk2007-07-10
| | | | | | | bio_{,un}map_user no longer have any modular users. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* KMEM_CACHE(): simplify slab cache creationChristoph Lameter2007-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch provides a new macro KMEM_CACHE(<struct>, <flags>) to simplify slab creation. KMEM_CACHE creates a slab with the name of the struct, with the size of the struct and with the alignment of the struct. Additional slab flags may be specified if necessary. Example struct test_slab { int a,b,c; struct list_head; } __cacheline_aligned_in_smp; test_slab_cache = KMEM_CACHE(test_slab, SLAB_PANIC) will create a new slab named "test_slab" of the size sizeof(struct test_slab) and aligned to the alignment of test slab. If it fails then we panic. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [BLOCK] Don't pin lots of memory in mempoolsJens Axboe2007-04-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently we scale the mempool sizes depending on memory installed in the machine, except for the bio pool itself which sits at a fixed 256 entry pre-allocation. There's really no point in "optimizing" this OOM path, we just need enough preallocated to make progress. A single unit is enough, lets scale it down to 2 just to be on the safe side. This patch saves ~150kb of pinned kernel memory on a 32-bit box. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* [PATCH] optimize o_direct on block devicesChen, Kenneth W2006-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement block device specific .direct_IO method instead of going through generic direct_io_worker for block device. direct_io_worker() is fairly complex because it needs to handle O_DIRECT on file system, where it needs to perform block allocation, hole detection, extents file on write, and tons of other corner cases. The end result is that it takes tons of CPU time to submit an I/O. For block device, the block allocation is much simpler and a tight triple loop can be written to iterate each iovec and each page within the iovec in order to construct/prepare bio structure and then subsequently submit it to the block layer. This significantly speeds up O_D on block device. [akpm@osdl.org: small speedup] Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_tChristoph Lameter2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache. The patch was generated using the following script: #!/bin/sh # # Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources. # set -e for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do quilt add $file sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$ mv /tmp/$$ $file quilt refresh done The script was run like this sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache" Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Howells2006-12-05
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c drivers/usb/core/hub.h drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c net/core/netpoll.c Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
| * [PATCH] block: support larger block pc requestsMike Christie2006-12-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch modifies blk_rq_map/unmap_user() and the cdrom and scsi_ioctl.c users so that it supports requests larger than bio by chaining them together. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
| * [PATCH] block: kill length alignment test in bio_map_user()Mike Christie2006-12-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The target mode support is mapping in bios using bio_map_user. The current targets do not need their len to be aligned with a queue limit so this check is causing some problems. Note: pointers passed into the kernel are properly aligned by usersapace tgt code so the uaddr check in bio_map_user is ok. The major user, blk_bio_map_user checks for the len before mapping so it is not affected by this patch. And the semi-newly added user blk_rq_map_user_iov has been failing out when the len is not aligned properly so maybe people have been good and not sending misaligned lens or that path is not used very often and this change will not be very dangerous. st and sg do not check the length and we have not seen any problem reports from those wider used paths so this patch should be fairly safe - for mm and wider testing at least. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context dataDavid Howells2006-11-22
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pass the work_struct pointer to the work function rather than context data. The work function can use container_of() to work out the data. For the cases where the container of the work_struct may go away the moment the pending bit is cleared, it is made possible to defer the release of the structure by deferring the clearing of the pending bit. To make this work, an extra flag is introduced into the management side of the work_struct. This governs auto-release of the structure upon execution. Ordinarily, the work queue executor would release the work_struct for further scheduling or deallocation by clearing the pending bit prior to jumping to the work function. This means that, unless the driver makes some guarantee itself that the work_struct won't go away, the work function may not access anything else in the work_struct or its container lest they be deallocated.. This is a problem if the auxiliary data is taken away (as done by the last patch). However, if the pending bit is *not* cleared before jumping to the work function, then the work function *may* access the work_struct and its container with no problems. But then the work function must itself release the work_struct by calling work_release(). In most cases, automatic release is fine, so this is the default. Special initiators exist for the non-auto-release case (ending in _NAR). Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
* [PATCH] fs/bio.c: tweaksAndreas Mohr2006-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Calculate a variable in bvec_alloc_bs() only once needed, not earlier (bio.o down from 18408 to 18376 Bytes, 32 Bytes saved, probably due to data locality improvements). - Init variable idx to silence a gcc warning which already existed in the unmodified original base file (bvec_alloc_bs() handles idx correctly, so there's no need for the warning): fs/bio.c: In function `bio_alloc_bioset': fs/bio.c:169: warning: `idx' may be used uninitialized in this function Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Update axboe@suse.de email addressJens Axboe2006-09-30
| | | | | | | As people often look for the copyright in files to see who to mail, update the link to a neutral one. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* [PATCH] fix creating zero sized bio mempools in low memory systemMilan Broz2006-09-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the very low memory systems is in the init_bio call scale parameter set to zero and it leads to creating zero sized mempool. This patch prevents pool_entries parameter become zero, so the created pool have at least 1 entry. Mempool with 0 entries lead to incorrect behaviour of mempool_free. (Alloc requests are not waken up and system stalls in mempool_alloc->ioschedule). Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* [PATCH] Fix missing ret assignment in __bio_map_user() error pathJens Axboe2006-06-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | If get_user_pages() returns less pages than what we asked for, we jump to out_unmap which will return ERR_PTR(ret). But ret can contain a positive number just smaller than local_nr_pages, so be sure to set it to -EFAULT always. Problem found and diagnosed by Damien Le Moal <damien@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] md: Make sure bi_max_vecs is set properly in bio_splitNeilBrown2006-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | Else a subsequent bio_clone might make a mess. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "Don Dupuis" <dondster@gmail.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] mempool: use mempool_create_slab_pool()Matthew Dobson2006-03-26
| | | | | | | | | | Modify well over a dozen mempool users to call mempool_create_slab_pool() rather than calling mempool_create() with extra arguments, saving about 30 lines of code and increasing readability. Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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