The discard ioctl is used by mkfs utilities to clear a block device
prior to putting metadata down. However, not all devices return zeroed
blocks after a discard. Some drives return stale data, potentially
containing old superblocks. It is therefore important to know whether
discarded blocks are properly zeroed.
Both ATA and SCSI drives have configuration bits that indicate whether
zeroes are returned after a discard operation. Implement a block level
interface that allows this information to be bubbled up the stack and
queried via a new block device ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
There seems to be a regression in direct write path due to following
commit in for-2.6.33 branch of block tree.
commit 1af60fbd75
Author: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Date: Fri Oct 2 18:56:53 2009 -0400
block: get rid of the WRITE_ODIRECT flag
Marking direct writes as WRITE_SYNC_PLUG instead of WRITE_ODIRECT, sets
the NOIDLE flag in bio and hence in request. This tells CFQ to not expect
more request from the queue and not idle on it (despite the fact that
queue's think time is less and it is not seeky).
So direct writers lose big time when competing with sequential readers.
Using fio, I have run one direct writer and two sequential readers and
following are the results with 2.6.32-rc7 kernel and with for-2.6.33
branch.
Test
====
1 direct writer and 2 sequential reader running simultaneously.
[global]
directory=/mnt/sdc/fio/
runtime=10
[seqwrite]
rw=write
size=4G
direct=1
[seqread]
rw=read
size=2G
numjobs=2
2.6.32-rc7
==========
direct writes: aggrb=2,968KB/s
readers : aggrb=101MB/s
for-2.6.33 branch
=================
direct write: aggrb=19KB/s
readers aggrb=137MB/s
This patch brings back the WRITE_ODIRECT flag, with the difference that we
don't set the BIO_RW_UNPLUG flag so that device is not unplugged after
submission of request and an explicit unplug from submitter is required.
That way we fix the jeff's issue of not enough merging taking place in aio
path as well as make sure direct writes get their fair share.
After the fix
=============
for-2.6.33 + fix
----------------
direct writes: aggrb=2,728KB/s
reads: aggrb=103MB/s
Thanks
Vivek
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request. So,
this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from
the dcache or with dcache aliases. The patch fixes this.
The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid
pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which
flush_dcache_page() is a no-op. Every architecture was provided with this
flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is
equal 1 or do nothing otherwise.
See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion
on LKML for more information.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
While SSDs track block usage on a per-sector basis, RAID arrays often
have allocation blocks that are bigger. Allow the discard granularity
and alignment to be set and teach the topology stacking logic how to
handle them.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
So remove both the comment and the inline requirement, going back to the
inline hint.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Bertogli <albertito@blitiri.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Platform drivers registered via platform_driver_probe() can be bound
to devices only once, upon registration, because discard their probe()
routines to save memory. Unbinding the driver through sysfs 'unbind'
leaves the device stranded and confuses users so let's not create
bind and unbind attributes for such drivers.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Éric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-param-fixes:
param: fix setting arrays of bool
param: fix NULL comparison on oom
param: fix lots of bugs with writing charp params from sysfs, by leaking mem.
* 'hwpoison-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6:
HWPOISON: fix invalid page count in printk output
HWPOISON: Allow schedule_on_each_cpu() from keventd
HWPOISON: fix/proc/meminfo alignment
HWPOISON: fix oops on ksm pages
HWPOISON: Fix page count leak in hwpoison late kill in do_swap_page
HWPOISON: return early on non-LRU pages
HWPOISON: Add brief hwpoison description to Documentation
HWPOISON: Clean up PR_MCE_KILL interface
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
futex: Move drop_futex_key_refs out of spinlock'ed region
rcu: Fix TREE_PREEMPT_RCU CPU_HOTPLUG bad-luck hang
rcu: Stopgap fix for synchronize_rcu_expedited() for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
rcu: Prevent RCU IPI storms in presence of high call_rcu() load
futex: Check for NULL keys in match_futex
futex: Handle spurious wake up
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: Do less agressive buddy clearing
sched: Disable SD_PREFER_LOCAL for MC/CPU domains
The IBM Saturn serial card has only one port. Without that fixup,
the kernel thinks it has two, which confuses userland setup and
admin tools as well.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix pci-ids.h layout]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michael Reed <mreed10@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
strstrip() can return a modified value of its input argument, when
removing elading whitesapce. So it is surely bug for this function's
return value to be ignored. The caller is probably going to use the
incorrect original pointer.
So mark it __must_check to prevent this frm happening (as it has before).
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When CONFIG_CPU_FREQ is disabled, cpufreq_get() needs a stub. Used by kvm
(although it looks like a bit of the kvm code could be omitted when
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ is disabled).
arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `kvm_arch_init':
(.text+0x10de7): undefined reference to `cpufreq_get'
(Needed in linux-next's KVM tree, but it's correct in 2.6.32).
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There's nothing block related about them, the backing device
is used by things like NFS etc as well. This gets rid of the
need to protect such calls by CONFIG_BLOCK.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
e180a6b775 "param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs" fixed the case
where charp parameters written via sysfs were freed, leaving drivers
accessing random memory.
Unfortunately, storing a flag in the kparam struct was a bad idea: it's
rodata so setting it causes an oops on some archs. But that's not all:
1) module_param_array() on charp doesn't work reliably, since we use an
uninitialized temporary struct kernel_param.
2) there's a fundamental race if a module uses this parameter and then
it's changed: they will still access the old, freed, memory.
The simplest fix (ie. for 2.6.32) is to never free the memory. This
prevents all these problems, at cost of a memory leak. In practice, there
are only 18 places where a charp is writable via sysfs, and all are
root-only writable.
Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Hi,
The WRITE_ODIRECT flag is only used in one place, and that code path
happens to also call blk_run_address_space. The introduction of this
flag, then, could result in the device being unplugged twice for every
I/O.
Further, with the batching changes in the next patch, we don't want an
O_DIRECT write to imply a queue unplug.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
async cfq_queue's are already shared between processes within the same
priority, and forthcoming patches will change the mapping of cic to sync
cfq_queue from 1:1 to 1:N. So, calculate the seekiness of a process
based on the cfq_queue instead of the cfq_io_context.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
move virtrng_remove to .devexit.text
move virtballoon_remove to .devexit.text
virtio_blk: Revert serial number support
virtio: let header files include virtio_ids.h
virtio_blk: revert QUEUE_FLAG_VIRT addition
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (21 commits)
niu: VLAN_ETH_HLEN should be used to make sure that the whole MAC header was copied to the head buffer in the Vlan packets case
KS8851: Fix ks8851_set_rx_mode() for IFF_MULTICAST
KS8851: Fix MAC address write order
KS8851: Add soft reset at probe time
net: fix section mismatch in fec.c
net: Fix struct inet_timewait_sock bitfield annotation
tcp: Try to catch MSG_PEEK bug
net: Fix IP_MULTICAST_IF
bluetooth: static lock key fix
bluetooth: scheduling while atomic bug fix
tcp: fix TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT retrans calculation
tcp: reduce SYN-ACK retrans for TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT
tcp: accept socket after TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT period
Revert "tcp: fix tcp_defer_accept to consider the timeout"
AF_UNIX: Fix deadlock on connecting to shutdown socket
ethoc: clear only pending irqs
ethoc: inline regs access
vmxnet3: use dev_dbg, fix build for CONFIG_BLOCK=n
virtio_net: use dev_kfree_skb_any() in free_old_xmit_skbs()
be2net: fix support for PCI hot plug
...
This reverts "Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a".
Turns out that virtio_pci, lguest and s/390 all have an 8 bit limit
on virtio config space, so noone could ever use this.
This is coming back later in a cleaner form.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: john cooper <john.cooper@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Rusty,
commit 3ca4f5ca73
virtio: add virtio IDs file
moved all device IDs into a single file. While the change itself is
a very good one, it can break userspace applications. For example
if a userspace tool wanted to get the ID of virtio_net it used to
include virtio_net.h. This does no longer work, since virtio_net.h
does not include virtio_ids.h.
This patch moves all "#include <linux/virtio_ids.h>" from the C
files into the header files, making the header files compatible with
the old ones.
In addition, this patch exports virtio_ids.h to userspace.
CC: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
commit 9e337b0f (net: annotate inet_timewait_sock bitfields)
added 4/8 bytes in struct inet_timewait_sock.
Fix this by declaring tw_ipv6_offset in the 'flags' bitfield
The 14 bits hole is named tw_pad to make it cleary apparent.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
sata_mv: Prevent PIO commands to be defered too long if traffic in progress.
pata_sc1200: Fix crash on boot
libata: fix internal command failure handling
libata: fix PMP initialization
sata_nv: make sure link is brough up online when skipping hardreset
ahci / atiixp / pci quirks: rename AMD SB900 into Hudson-2
ahci: Add the AHCI controller Linux Device ID for NVIDIA chipsets.
pata_via: extend the rev_max for VT6330
Yanmin reported that both tbench and hackbench were significantly
hurt by trying to keep tasks local on these domains, esp on small
cache machines.
So disable it in order to promote spreading outside of the cache
domains.
Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1255083400.8802.15.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
cciss: Add cciss_allow_hpsa module parameter
cciss: Fix multiple calls to pci_release_regions
blk-settings: fix function parameter kernel-doc notation
writeback: kill space in debugfs item name
writeback: account IO throttling wait as iowait
elv_iosched_store(): fix strstrip() misuse
cfq-iosched: avoid probable slice overrun when idling
cfq-iosched: apply bool value where we return 0/1
cfq-iosched: fix think time allowed for seekers
cfq-iosched: fix the slice residual sign
cfq-iosched: abstract out the 'may this cfqq dispatch' logic
block: use proper BLK_RW_ASYNC in blk_queue_start_tag()
block: Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests v2
block: get rid of kblock_schedule_delayed_work()
cfq-iosched: fix possible problem with jiffies wraparound
cfq-iosched: fix issue with rq-rq merging and fifo list ordering
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes:
kbuild: revert "save ARCH & CROSS_COMPILE ..."
warn about use of uninstalled kernel headers
kbuild: mkcompile_h: trivial cleanups
kbuild: fix warning when domainname is not available
kbuild: Fix size_append issue for bzip2/lzma kernel
kbuild,scripts: use non-builtin echo for '-e'
kbuild: fix the binrpm-pkg target to work with KBUILD_OUTPUT set
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
PCI: Prevent AER driver from being loaded on non-root port PCIE devices
PCI: get larger bridge ranges when space is available
PCI: pci.c: fix kernel-doc notation
PCI quirk: TI XIO200a erroneously reports support for fast b2b transfers
PCI PM: Read device power state from register after updating it
PCI: remove pci_assign_resource_fixed()
PCI: PCIe portdrv: remove "-driver" from driver name
ieee80211_rx() must be called with softirqs disabled
since the networking stack requires this for netif_rx()
and some code in mac80211 can assume that it can not
be processing its own tasklet and this call at the same
time.
It may be possible to remove this requirement after a
careful audit of mac80211 and doing any needed locking
improvements in it along with disabling softirqs around
netif_rx(). An alternative might be to push all packet
processing to process context in mac80211, instead of
to the tasklet, and add other synchronisation.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since commit a98b65a3 (net: annotate struct sock bitfield), we lost
8 bytes in struct sock on 64bit arches because of
kmemcheck_bitfield_end(flags) misplacement.
Fix this by putting together sk_shutdown, sk_no_check, sk_userlocks,
sk_protocol and sk_type in the 'flags' 32bits bitfield
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
User applications frequently hit problems when they try to use
the kernel headers directly, rather than the exported headers.
This adds an explicit warning for this case, and points to
a URL holding an explanation of why this is wrong and what
to do about it.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (32 commits)
USB: serial: no unnecessary GFP_ATOMIC in oti6858
USB: serial: fix race between unthrottle and completion handler in visor
USB: serial: fix assumption that throttle/unthrottle cannot sleep
USB: serial: fix race between unthrottle and completion handler in symbolserial
USB: serial: fix race between unthrottle and completion handler in opticon
USB: ehci: Fix isoc scheduling boundary checking.
USB: storage: When a device returns no sense data, call it a Hardware Error
USB: small fix in error case of suspend in generic usbserial code
USB: visor: fix trivial accounting bug in visor driver
USB: Fix throttling in generic usbserial driver
USB: cp210x: Add support for the DW700 UART
USB: ipaq: fix oops when device is plugged in
USB: isp1362: fix build warnings on 64-bit systems
USB: gadget: imx_udc: Use resource size
USB: storage: iRiver P7 UNUSUAL_DEV patch
USB: musb: make HAVE_CLK support optional
USB: xhci: Fix dropping endpoints from the xHC schedule.
USB: xhci: Don't wait for a disable slot cmd when HC dies.
USB: xhci: Handle canceled URBs when HC dies.
USB: xhci: Stop debugging polling loop when HC dies.
...
After m68k's task_thread_info() doesn't refer to current,
it's possible to remove sched.h from interrupt.h and not break m68k!
Many thanks to Heiko Carstens for allowing this.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: (34 commits)
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Fix NULL ptr deref bug in fail path during queue create
[SCSI] st: fix possible memory use after free after MTSETBLK ioctl
[SCSI] be2iscsi: Moving to pci_pools v3
[SCSI] libiscsi: iscsi_session_setup to allow for private space
[SCSI] be2iscsi: add 10Gbps iSCSI - BladeEngine 2 driver
[SCSI] zfcp: Fix hang when offlining device with offline chpid
[SCSI] zfcp: Fix lockdep warning when offlining device with offline chpid
[SCSI] zfcp: Fix oops during shutdown of offline device
[SCSI] zfcp: Fix initial device and cfdc for delayed adapter allocation
[SCSI] zfcp: correctly initialize unchained requests
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Bump version 02.100.03.00
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Support dev remove when phy status is MPI2_EVENT_SAS_TOPO_PHYSTATUS_VACANT
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Timeout occurred within the HANDSHAKE logic while waiting on firmware to ACK.
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Call init_completion on a per request basis.
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Target Reset will be issued from Interrupt context.
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Added SCSIIO, Internal and high priority memory pools to support multiple TM
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Copyright change to 2009.
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Added mpi2_history.txt for MPI2 headers.
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Update driver to MPI2 REV K headers.
[SCSI] bfa: Brocade BFA FC SCSI driver
...
This patch (as1295) fixes a recently-added bug in the USB serial core.
If certain kinds of errors occur during probing, the core may call a
serial driver's release method without previously calling the attach
method. This causes some drivers (io_ti in particular) to perform an
invalid memory access.
The patch adds a new flag to keep track of whether or not attach has
been called.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Tested-by: Jean-Denis Girard <jd.girard@sysnux.pf>
CC: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
